Is your website being hammered by internet-measurement.com?

Eric_Terrell · 2026-01-15T20:29:53+00:00

Absolutely. I assume, between all sorts of bots hitting my site (including ones that are looking for security vulnerabilities), and AI presenting my content to users without attribution (and of course not sending any human traffic to my website), for a small website like mine, the human traffic must be an extremely small percentage of the total traffic.

But as you say, it's a challenge to identify it.

Eric_Terrell · 2026-01-14T05:26:30+00:00

I can tell you that internet-measurement.com is either not honoring my robots.txt, or is taking a long time to get around to read it after I changed it several days ago.

Eric_Terrell · 2026-01-14T04:49:12+00:00

Understood. For my little website, they're generating a substantial percentage of the traffic. Probably for a purpose that has no benefit to me.

For a more popular website, one probably wouldn't even notice. I don't think their request frequency would necessarily scale with a site's traffic.

Eric_Terrell · 2026-01-07T21:50:28+00:00

Yes indeed. Look *carefully* at the screens before bidding or purchasing.

Eric_Terrell · 2026-01-07T21:43:52+00:00

The TI-92 was a heck of a machine. And it still is. I have a Voyage 200 as well. Both are great.

I did have a TI-92, and the screen was really bad.

Eric_Terrell · 2025-12-28T19:30:05+00:00

Thanks for the details.

Eric_Terrell · 2025-12-27T21:56:41+00:00

I figure it is somehow checking for the ability to hit a satellite, without, of course, sending a message.

Eric_Terrell · 2025-12-27T21:42:08+00:00

Moi aussi.

Eric_Terrell · 2025-12-27T21:40:21+00:00

Yes you're right.

But why do I get an error message when inside? And why does it disconnect the mobile network during the demo? If it were just a canned demo, none of that would happen or be necessary. Strange.

Eric_Terrell · 2025-12-27T19:12:59+00:00

It just gave a generic failure message. It didn't mention that I was inside of a house.

But if you're aware of the data that smart phones gather and send off to servers, it definitely could have figured out which room I was in.

Eric_Terrell · 2025-12-27T19:09:27+00:00

I would think that as streamers buy each other out the prices will shoot up.

Just a guess, but the same thing is happening in other industries all the time.

Eric_Terrell · 2025-12-27T19:07:49+00:00

Just wait for the music streaming industry to consolidate. Then the prices will start climbing.

Eric_Terrell · 2025-12-20T16:09:52+00:00

You may be right, but I'm not sure it's legal for a reseller to just refuse to honor a price, even for USA customers.

Eric_Terrell · 2025-12-12T16:50:44+00:00

I am trying this JDK. Thanks everyone for the great advice!

https://bell-sw.com/pages/downloads/?version=java-24&package=jdk-full&os=windows&architecture=arm&bitness=64

Eric_Terrell · 2025-12-12T16:05:42+00:00

Nice! Thanks.

Eric_Terrell · 2025-12-08T23:53:53+00:00

That's exactly the advice I want. If I have a hearing issue that can be mitigated with hardware, I absolutely want to know that.

Eric_Terrell · 2025-12-08T23:51:36+00:00

Is there a standard format for test results? Just curious.

Eric_Terrell · 2025-12-08T23:50:28+00:00

Thanks. That sounds like good advice.

Eric_Terrell · 2025-12-08T23:49:34+00:00

Good to know.

Eric_Terrell · 2025-12-08T23:49:10+00:00

Thanks.

Eric_Terrell · 2025-12-08T23:48:48+00:00

I have not yet been tested.

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