Flutterby™! : A report of abuse

A report of abuse

2025-12-10 21:45:54.01074+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

So this morning I woke up to an abuse report from Hetzner. Someone saw my back-link checker in their logs, and because the 2 query a day request that was respecting the 304 was the default Perl package log it triggered iocane (exchange here), and...

When we're at the point that people filing abuse reports are saying:

It wasn't hitting more than that, but "Python/3.9 aiohttp/3.10.6" only hit my site once and is still a bot request from Microsoft. I can't tell from the volume of the requests whether they are malicious or not.

Which... huh, but also yeah, AI scrapers have made everyone paranoid in non-specific ways.

And maybe the web as an experimental platform is kinda over?

I don't know, just all felt weird, and is making me do my usual "why am I even bothering?" whining.

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