Signal Boost: Return of the DDoS

Originally posted by deathpixie at Signal Boost: Return of the DDoS

For those wanting to know more about the recent DDoS attacks, yes, it looks like it was the Russian government trying to shut down the dissidents again.

As I said last time, while it's frustrating not to have access, LJ is a lot more than a social network platform. From the article:

"LiveJournal isn’t just a social network. It’s also a platform for organizing civic action. Dozens of network projects and groups mobilize people to solve specific problems — from defending the rights of political prisoners to saving endangered historic architecture in Moscow."

So while I know many are considering the move over to Dreamwidth and other such sites, supporting LJ is a way we can help support those who use it for more than a writing/roleplaying/social venue.


Also, as a FYI, LJ is giving paid users effected by the outage two weeks of paid time as compensation.

It's as if someone slipped something in my drink...

last night I had the weirdest dream that I've had in a long time.

Me, my parents, and siblings, their family, my dads siblings, and all their kids and so on and so forth, gathered at some house, that was familiar, but yet one that I've never been to, so I'm really thinking my brain mashed up pieces of houses I've been in to create a whole new one.

what was odd about it, was that we were all gathering together, to spend time with my grandmother, who'd been gone for just over 16 years.

We were gathering to spend time with her, because she was dying, but in a slow, but not really painful type of way, which would actually match up with the way that she did pass away, of cancer...

I'm not entirely sure what to make of it, and I'm not entirely sure where it came from, its not as if I've been thinking about her recently or anything....

The other part that struck me as odd was that she seemed to be acting very melodramatically to the fact that she didn't have long to live, and was making people do things that she could still have easily done for herself, and things like that, very outside of her character.


As you can see, this is one of those dreams that stuck with me well after waking up, and has stuck with me all day, and will probably hang around in the back of my mind for a few days as well.

and the fact that my neices and nephews seemed to be there as well as my other cousins who's kids are all under the age of 10...the only great grandchild to my grandparents that was around back then was my oldest nephew, who was only about a month or so when my grandmother passed away.

just weird, very very weird.