@benjedwards Even in the 56k era there was somewhat limited upload capacity compared to download for home users, it's just a much bigger disparity now. Of course, with cloudflare I actually do run some services out of my house via a tunnel.
30 years ago—on November 25, 1992—I started The Cave BBS in Raleigh, NC
I was only 11 years old, and after a devastating hack, I began to hide my age online
I wrote about my BBS for Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/my-secret-life-as-an-11-year-old-bbs-sysop/
@benjedwards Nice. I was 12 when I started up my BBS in Colorado. 1200 baud modem and a 286 with 114mb of hard disk space...
🦀📺 #rustlang has finally become mainstream: hackers in TV shows are now compiling Rust to look cool. 😁
(From Pantheon S1E5.)
@unascribed Or Furlongs per Firkin, if you want to use the mass of the fuel rather than the volume. With pints you're really hand-waving out an additional "at X temperature" factor.
ATTENTION EVERYONE WRINGING THEIR HANDS OVER “#MASTODON ADMINS CAN READ MY DIRECT MESSAGES”: #SysAdmins have *always* been able to read your #email and DMs unless encrypted, including at the big #SocialNetworks and Internet providers. We used to have t-shirts that said, “I READ YOUR EMAIL.”
It’s just hitting now because you got used to places where the admins were kept away in their cubicles and data centers instead of greeting you at the front door.
@survey Arch based Artix on my desktop, mix of Arch, Debian, and BSD for my other systems.
This is an old project, but by some miracle it's still working and I woke up this morning wanting to celebrate the things I love more.
This Inkplate e-ink screen shows Conway's Game of Life, seeded from tarpits I have on the Internet. The tarpits are programs on my computer that superficially look like insecure Telnet and Remote Desktop services, but actually exist to respond super slowly and make bots scanning the Internet 'get stuck'.
When a bot connects to the tarpit, the data it sends gets squished into a 5x5 grid and 'stamped' onto a Game of Life board. Data from a bot at the IP address 1.1.x.x will get stamped on the top left corner, data from a bot at 254.254.x.x will get stamped on the bottom right corner.
Conway's Game of Life, a set of simple rules that govern whether cells should turn on or off, updates the display once per second. The result is that bot attacks end up appearing as distinct 'creatures', that get bigger and more angry looking over time (as their centre is updated with new data). After the attack finishes, the 'creature' eventually burns itself out.
Despite that description, it's a really chill piece of art that doesn't draw too much attention but I can happily watch for a long time.
Credit for the idea goes to @_mattata, I had been wanting to make a real-life version of XKCD #350 for years before seeing his Botnet Fishbowl project.
#projects #inkplate #esp32 #eink #infosec #tarpit
This Inkplate e-ink screen shows Conway's Game of Life, seeded from tarpits I have on the Internet. The tarpits are programs on my computer that superficially look like insecure Telnet and Remote Desktop services, but actually exist to respond super slowly and make bots scanning the Internet 'get stuck'.
When a bot connects to the tarpit, the data it sends gets squished into a 5x5 grid and 'stamped' onto a Game of Life board. Data from a bot at the IP address 1.1.x.x will get stamped on the top left corner, data from a bot at 254.254.x.x will get stamped on the bottom right corner.
Conway's Game of Life, a set of simple rules that govern whether cells should turn on or off, updates the display once per second. The result is that bot attacks end up appearing as distinct 'creatures', that get bigger and more angry looking over time (as their centre is updated with new data). After the attack finishes, the 'creature' eventually burns itself out.
Despite that description, it's a really chill piece of art that doesn't draw too much attention but I can happily watch for a long time.
Credit for the idea goes to @_mattata, I had been wanting to make a real-life version of XKCD #350 for years before seeing his Botnet Fishbowl project.
#projects #inkplate #esp32 #eink #infosec #tarpit
@gat @ThatWouldBeTelling In this manga he actually takes a trip to the US at least to pick up the firearms, and to fulfill the requests of the isekaied american Hero character (from Utah.) Gives the hero's family money and collects some of his items from the hero's family (including his rifle and other weapons.) So it might make sense that he has US weapons. The thing that was dumb was that the guns were firing the entire cartridge out instead of just the bullet.
Was reading a manga called "Sen no Sukiru o Motsu Otoko" and chapter 41 is a definite "tell me you don't understand firearms without telling me you don't understand firearms" moment...
@iamtakingiteasy @nosherwan @pro I imagine if my storage started getting filled up, I'd slide into the "don't care" category more. Might be useful to find a way to archive them to an offline instance though that doesn't federate on its own, if such a thing were possible. My home internet connection isn't good enough to run an online instance on, but I have several terabytes of storage on my home network.
@union All about standing out to people. Online applications are automatically sorted and you have to be exceptional to stand out in them, or if they need to hire more people than they got applications. If you can't stand out in your resume, then you need to stand out in making personal connections instead.
@pro @nosherwan You might follow more people than I do then. I only have a handful of accounts and am only following ~50 people total I think. I imagine if you're following more active people and viewing more threads, it may be pulling and caching more data from other servers.
@jplebreton Perhaps a redirect private key that could be used to setup on a new instance, notify followers, and retrieve any cached messages still stored on other instances. Keeping a backup of your posts though is a useful thing to do in either case, even if an instance going down instantly can leave you without an easy way to redirect your followers.
@pro @nosherwan Also though, I just checked and the part of that attributable to Pleroma is maybe 700mb. About 400mb in /var where the database is, and 265ish mb in /opt where pleroma is installed. Half of the 4.3 gigs is /usr for distro-installed packages.