Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Chris Siebenmann @cks@mastodon.social

8/23/2025, 8:16:24 PM

Public

Ah. The reason that scans of the Apache log files on my techblog's host are taking a really long time today is that one IP decided to hit my URLs 1,193,188 times today. So far.

Fortunately they used a generic user-agent that I am already having Apache redirect away from the actual techblog to a static page, so that didn't invoke my CGI ~596,594 times (which would have been many times more than typical volume).

Take a bow, 84.40.218.61 and python-requests/2.32.4. You are now off the island.

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