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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 10:37:46 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   looking at these graphs (_especially_ with the "spectral" color scheme) reminds me of watching a waterfall on a spectrum analyzer

   nothing, noise, noise... _blip_ signal

   except here by "signal" we mean "someone's shitty AI scanner has encountered a website. rip website"

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 10:37:45 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     well not in this particular case because all of the 1160 requests were serviced without making a single backend call

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 10:38:49 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     genuinely no idea what the fuck is this scraper (?) trying to achieve

     did AI write this code

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 10:43:17 JST mcc

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     @whitequark ic ic ic

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 11:06:49 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • mcc

     @mcc https://www.icicibank.com/, apparently

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 14:07:32 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Kevin Riggle

     @kevinriggle this is basically what my annotation says :P

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     Kevin Riggle (kevinriggle@ioc.exchange)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 14:07:33 JST Kevin Riggle

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     @whitequark “wow!”

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 05:24:48 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦

     @grumpybozo oh, good call!

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     🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 (grumpybozo@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 05:24:49 JST 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦

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     @whitequark That or a simple Markov chain.

     I've seen bots use composed URLs that have plausible components (e.g. date fields) that do not actually exist but are close enough to correct that it takes multiple seconds to figure out otherwise.