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Malus @malus.zone · 16/08/2026

Update: AI crawler requests Note: No distinction is made between content scrapers and AI-invoked crawlers. Some AIs seem to have made a lot of malicious requests in the last few days, but it's difficult to asses without more data. See alt text for more.

Histogram showing the total amount of requests to my old website made by AI crawlers. The data ranges from approximately mid-2020 to early 2025. The data shows an influx of requests over time.

Histogram showing the total amount of requests to my old website made by AI crawlers. The data ranges from approximately late 2023 to now (August of 2026). The data shows an influx of requests over time.
200, 301 and 304 requests are usually AI content scrapers because the requests are successful.
404 requests amount to "robots.txt", "sitemap.xml" (which are legitimate requests by content scrapers) and malicious requests (i.e. testing a lot of URLs in the hopes of finding a security vulnerability). The legitimate 404 requests have been filtered out in the "clean" version.

Histogram showing the amount of requests to my new website made by AI crawlers. This diagram is equivalent to the previous one except that requests to "robots.txt" and "sitemap.xml", both 404 requests, have been filtered out.
This means that most of the shown 404 requests are malicious, i.e. requests which test a multitude of URLs in the hopes of finding a security vulnerability.
The spike at the end shows data since approximately the 8th of August. According to the sent user agents, the top initiators of malicious requests in this time period are GrokBot (358 requests), Applebot (216 requests) and ChatGPT (174 requests).
Keep in mind that these are only approximate observations. For example, I'm not sure why Applebot would send malicious requests all of sudden, it could be user agent spoofing.

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Malus @malus.zone · 04/08/2025

This pup cannot WAIT for pride month!! #irl #pupplay

Colorful selfie of Malus looking happily into the camera in front of a big pride flag while wearing his orange pup hood. There are some smaller pride flags and other pride accessories attached to his head.

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Malus @malus.zone · 02/04/2025

Been polishing up this Blender geometry nodes setup that "minecraftifies" any object into a configurable Minecraft landscape which I made for a Uni project once :D #blender #b3d

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Malus @malus.zone · 14/03/2025

Meow- err, wruff :3

Selfie of Malus wearing an orange pup hood

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Malus @malus.zone · 05/02/2025

I still think about this photo of what I can only describe as a McDonalds crime scene

Photo of an empty McDonalds in Hannover main station at 6 am. There are three self-order kiosks visible, two of which show an "out of order" message while the other one is shut off. The screen of the center one is cracked. The floor and the tables in the background are littered with packaging waste. In front of the table area, there's a makeshift rope tied from what seems like packaging paper, spanning from wall to wall.

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Malus @malus.zone · 07/01/2025

Drew a bit yesterday and experimented with water soluble color pens :D Based heavily on a piece by Wavyrr

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Malus @malus.zone · 01/01/2025

Even though I travelled a greater total distance in 2023, my 2024 record includes only regional transportation and a *lot* of time in trains! I'm grateful to be living in a place and time where travelling is affordable and knows no borders 🚅

My 2024 train travel statistics:
1 Country visited (Germany)
9215 kilometers travelled
102 trains boarded
27 places visited
Travelled for 5 days, 14 hours and 58 minutes

My 2024 train travel map showing all the places in Germany I travelled to

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Malus @malus.zone · 24/11/2024

This is still one of my favorite photos of all time #photography

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Malus @malus.zone · 14/11/2024

Post a pic YOU took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

Photo of a river that has trees on both sides. The sky is cloudy and the water is very flat, mirroring the brick chimney in the distance on the river's surface.

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Malus @malus.zone · 17/10/2024

This is the only thing I can think of when hearing that word

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Malus @malus.zone · 07/10/2024

Made my access data classifier a lot more robust and now the resulting data is very precise – Here are some diagrams from the (anonymous) access logs from both of my websites that I've been collecting since April 2020.

Pie chart showing the ratio of request types (malicious, crawler, PC and smartphone). Malicious requests are by far the most common, making up about 64% of requests, followed by PC (23%), crawler (9%) and smartphone (3.7%)

Pie chart showing the browser usage ratio of all requests by real humans. Chrome is the most commonly used browser (54%), followed by Firefox (33%), Safari (13%) and various other browsers

Pie chart showing the operating system usage of all requests by real humans. Windows 10 is the most common item (59%), followed by Linux (16%), Android (13%), Mac OS X (10%), and various other operating systems

Histogram showing the total amount of requests by type (malicious, crawler, PC, smartphone). Malicious requests are by far the most common type, having increased significantly over the last two years. There's a data gap of about two months where access logs have not been recorded by accident TwT

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Malus @malus.zone · 07/09/2024

Photo with a menacing aura

Photo of several abandoned small shops that are placed inside a circular room. The doors are big and each one has several old signs and flyers attached to it. The only working contraption is a vending machine placed at one of the walls.

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Malus @malus.zone · 04/09/2024

Saluting my noname backpack of seven years that in the end even cable ties and super tape couldn't hold together anymore. I travelled about 40.000 km with it, only by foot and public transport 🫡

Photo of a battered urban backpack. It is held together by yellow construction tape and some cable ties.

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Malus @malus.zone · 30/07/2024

Gotta stick these in their faces

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Malus @malus.zone · 28/07/2024

Photos from the weekend

Photo of the historic city center and the Neckar river of Heidelberg, taken at the castle garden. Trees obstruct some of the view, creating a visual focal point towards the river and its surroundings.

Another photo from a different angle. This time, you can see the historic city center and the iconic bridge more clearly.

Up-close shoot of a pretty butterfly sitting ln a leaf.

Bench at Würzburg main station. The only thing lying on it are several empty (organic) egg cartons that are stacked together.

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Malus @malus.zone · 14/07/2024

Blatant copy of @latrans.bsky.social I did to study perspective and proportions (Check them out, not me)

Roller ball pen drawing of a big cat. ORIGINAL BY @latrans! I did forget to draw the left ear, oh well.

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Malus @malus.zone · 13/07/2024

Fear not to show your true colors.

Photo of the pride parade (CSD) in my city.

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Malus @malus.zone · 11/07/2024

Sketched a bit, dunno if this is good by any measure

Roller ball pen drawing of a punk cheetah

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Malus @malus.zone · 17/06/2024

If you see this, post a photo you took at sunset.

Photo of a sunset at the Oder river near Berlin, which forms part of the German-Polish border. The water is very flat and cleanly mirrors the coastline of Frankfurt (Oder).

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Malus @malus.zone · 08/06/2024

In the days prior to the European elections, thousands of people stand up for democracy. Today I was at a local demonstration against the right-wing 🏳️‍🌈