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No intent to badmouth from my side. I'm not trying to come from whatever angle it might look like to you that I'm coming from.

Many malicious people don't care if their target does good deeds. In some cases it makes them a bigger target, like hospitals are to ransomware.

I love the guy, I love mynoise, but he needs to chill out. Nobody "did this to him". This is almost certainly, like 99.99% certainly, just normal internet noise and he's just never noticed before. All sites get this sort of thing.

That doesn't make it ok or less impactful. He's been running MyNoise for years and it sounds like if he had been attacked before, this one was much worse, prompting a blog post about it.

A bored teenager doesn't care.

There are people in the world who are profoundly nihilistic [0]. They will do mean shit for no reasons, and move on without caring.

This has always been true throughout human history.

"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"

0: often without actually knowing what that word means