by Alan Langford | 2026-10-13 | Observations on Everything
[Satire]Officials are concerned about the welfare of at least 200 Alberta Separatists
Hundreds of social media accounts promoting the idea of Alberta separating from Canada have gone idle over the past few days, and officials are expressing concern.
“We have launched a full investigation,” said Danielle Quisling, allegedly a member of the government. “The preliminary indication is that they might have been at a conference where there was some kind of fire and explosion. We’ll seeking additional information but so far have been unable to confirm anything with the management of ‘Hotel Yandex’.”
This article will be updated as new details emerge.
by Alan Langford | 2026-10-13 | It's a Code, Code World, Observations on Everything
Although I’d love to see it gain wide acceptance, this is a mostly frivolous suggestion for a new HTTP error response code:
455 You are an Ass. Go away.
The code is derived from “l33t speak” where characters are mapped into numbers. 455 should be easy enough to figure out.
Use case: websites are inundated with a wide range of unwanted traffic, including aggressive bots, hackers (especially the script kiddies), brute force password attacks, credential harvesting, and a range of denial of service attacks. Many tools have been developed to combat these attacks, with the normal response to return a 4xx code (often 403 Forbidden) while tossing the request IP into a firewall.
The problem with the existing official codes is that there’s no way for the server to convey a sense of irritation. A 403 could be something more normal, like attempting to access a protected resource without logging in. In this scenario, insulting a regular user would be inappropriate, but we really want to tell the bored idiot trying to read your .env file to go get a life. Hence the need for a 455.
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