Archive for December 2012 ⫶ Monkey Raptor V.2

How Thousands Rogue Bots Accidentally Forced Me to Rewrite My Front-End Search Engine

Hi, everybody. 👋 This stems from my curiosity over my statistics on Cloudflare. As I've observed from the dashboard — specifically on the Analytics ➡️ HTTP Traffic — the listed countries wildly varied each day. And also, very odd number of requests. Thus, I pulled the data from Cloudflare's GraphQL API — available for Free Tier, capped at 10k per 24h — to analyse it with a user interface (UI). I've been observing outside Cloudflare dashboard since March 2026. Built the UI from scratch. But in these few days, there's a more peculiar pattern. Well, not "more". "Peculiar" is indeed already with its own uniqueness — so perhaps, "different peculiarity". Well. Turned out, those were mostly rogue bots. I'd noticed the bombardments were more active since about 1-2 weeks ago. On my domain and subdomains. Those php , .env , credentials , and so forth scanning eggplants. You know, akin to those that just plonked their hindqua...

Elders Drinking Song

⬆️ As if your bones heard something familiar from before you were even born. That song is from the Amis (阿美族) people of Taiwan. 老人飲酒歌 or Elders Drinking Song is a traditional Amis chant, famously performed by Difang (郭英男) and Igay (郭秀珠) who were Amis from the Maran (馬蘭社) settlement. The vocals were lifted straight from a 1988 recording of Difang and Igay singing during a French government-backed ethnomusicology project — meant for research. With EMI as the outsourced vault. EMI (Electric and Musical Industries), a commercial British label. Because even "non-commercial" academic recordings were often pressed to vinyl/CD by big labels, just for reach or preservation. EMI probably saw it as just another folk catalogue item. The original singers never expected their voices to hit global charts — through Enigma. Enigma is a German musical project founded in 1990 by Michael Cretu. They were under Virgin Record...

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