Over the last cal-three weeks, I’ve received quite a few emails from readers expressing concern over the recent spate of those irritating “Cloudflare” bloggus interreptus pages demanding that they establish their bona fides as actual human beings before being allowed to proceed to the CF main page. “Is this Cloudflare twipe legit,” most of my correspondents have asked, along with other such queries as “has the site been hacked,” and “is this malicious?”
Well, most unfortunately, after this weekend I can now assure you that this Cloudflare incursion is indeed malicious, and must therefore urge everyone: do NOT cick on any links, nor C&P any code urged upon you, nor comply with any other seemingly innocuous instruction presented by these imposters. That second diabolical stratagem is how they suckered me, resulting in the complete crippling of my trusty old iMac, which now won’t boot up at all—not into Safe mode, not into Rcovery mode, not nothing.
In short, my beloved iMac, along with every file stored thereupon–from blog-database backups, to archived emails, to registration/unlock codes for software I bought and paid for years ago, to all my locally-stored music, to my vast stockpile of memes going back several years–has now gone the way of the dodo thanks to the suckers of dead donkey dick behind this fecking great shower of shite, which malefactors I would cheerfully throttle with my bare hands if only I could.
I’m now stuck using a MacBook Pro laptop given to me by friend Chris a while back, whose whopping fifteen (15) inches of screen real estate is a far cry from the 27” monitor screen my elderly eyes are accustomed to. As you would probably assume, having to continually lean waaaay forward and squint to see what the fuck I’m doing has already become a real pain in the…back, neck, and shoulders, actually.
So again, I caution you all: Trust not in anything under the guise of “Cloudflare” trying to interpose itself between you and this site, or any other online destination for that matter.
In happier, albeit unrelated, news: thanks to the fine folks at OPC in Pineville, NC, (that’s Orthotic and Prosthetic Center to y’all non-cripples), looks like I might be up and walking again in another month or thereabouts. More on that as it develops…