# 2024-03-11

-   [[Listened]]: [[Brian Merchant, "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech"]]

-   [[Spam]].
    -   Our website is experiencing an uptick in spam over the last few days.
    -   Incredibly irritating.
    -   With comments like `1*if(now()=sysdate(),sleep(15),0)`.
    -   We have Akismet and a honepot enabled.  Adding a very noddy manual captcha (e.g. 4+8 = ?) helps.  But if it continues, we'll probably have to enable ReCaptcha.  Which I'd prefer to avoid if possible.
    -   Seemingly emanating from the same IP address.
    -   The host lists an abuse@ address.  But when I contact that address, the mailbox is reported as being full.