npub1akgw...8c0s 2 months ago

Apparently it's #MusiciansDay which is nice. You can find a lot of rather lovely indie musicians on the #Faircamp #Webring here:

Directory of independent artists and labels on the Faircamp Webring

- all self-hosted and free of vested corporate interests. If you happen to notice

Key 13

Pretentious music made (badly) with virtual instruments

on your way around the ring, that one would be mine - all free to stream and download.

npub1akgw...8c0s 4 months ago

For those keeping track, I'm now up to 1.3 million hits on my robot website in the last five days. Those came from over 800,000 unique IP addresses. That's a staggering number. If it keeps up at this rate it will hit over a million unique devices sometime tomorrow. This is a giant #botnet, right? Like, one of the biggest out there? I'm currently doing some mapping to ASNs, to see if there's patterns. Previous reports (user-agents and country distributions):

Botnet Soap Opera

Analysis of botnet requests to the evilgeniusrobot websites

npub1akgw...8c0s 4 months ago

In the last three days, my tiny honeytrap robot has had *760,000* hits , nearly all unique URL paths, from *510,000* unique IP addresses and a wide range of user-agents. This doesn't appear to be malicious as far as I can tell - I think it's just crawling the site (which is effectively an infinite labyrinth) - although why anyone would use a #botnet for that is confusing to me. The site is handling it, for now, but the hit rate is increasing each day. Half a million devices.. yikes.

npub1akgw...8c0s 5 months ago

I got a little bit annoyed at a bot hoovering up all the large zip files of lossless music from various websites I run. I may have slightly overreacted...

An Evil Genius Robot

A honey trap for annoying web crawlers, especially AI bots

Still it's finally a good use of that domain name I've had for a few years now! #AlgorithmicSabotage #NoAI #ThinkBot

npub1akgw...8c0s 5 months ago

Remember folks, #gravy is just the US spelling. The rest of the English speaking world spells it "grevy".

npub1akgw...8c0s 6 months ago

Thank you @npub1nuua...gjr3 for introducing me to @npub1plhj...yrv6 ! [Edit to reference the right Mel!]

npub1akgw...8c0s 7 months ago

Many thanks to @npub10u0v...x5et for having me on their podcast! I've never done anything like that before, hopefully I managed to not sound too much like an idiot! If you want to hear me talking about stuff like the #Faircamp #Webring, #FairTradeMusicFriday, Image2Midi and of course #BonkWave and #NotBonkWave, you can find it hosted by the lovely @npub1htd4...fq0v folks here:

NHAM

Lorenzo’s Music Podcast Fedi Specials: #6 Keith Marshall

Lorenzo's Music Podcast Fedi Specials: No.6 Keith Marshall Tom from Lorenzo's Music (@lorenzosmusic@mastodon.social) meets Keith Marshall...

There's a bit about about Key 13 too...

npub1akgw...8c0s 8 months ago

Bonk Knob Records is very pleased to announce the release of "Not Bonk What I Call Wave: Remixes Vol 2"! You can find it for streaming and download at all these fine places: