Irenes (many)this feels like a nice afternoon to just watch incoming traffic in the system log, flowing by quietly
it's interesting how the pace can be faster or slower. relaxing.
cthos 🐱@ireneista it might be fun to format the log output into a slowly winding river of text.
@cthos ooo..... yes! yes, that would be amazing
System's Twilight, by @zarfeblong had this virtual "place" within its computer-setting, the river of data. the metaphor has stuck with us through the years.
@cthos maybe the portion that's http traffic could be printed as its three-digit response code
and the portion that's attempts to brute-force the passwords of ssh accounts that don't exist despite the initial response clearly stating that password login is prohibited could be printed as * (denoting an asshole) or something like that
@cthos but hmmm it feels like a lot of it should be the
~ character and we don't know what to map that to@cthos oh, and we could map the IP spaces onto x-y. then the visualization would make it clear when a lot of traffic is coming from the same ASN, which would be an actual practical benefit lol
@ireneista everything about this idea sounds great. Maybe IP clusters are differently sized rocks that the request ~s flow around.
This might quickly become illegible but it is fun to think through
@cthos oh, yeah there's no way it would be legible, but that isn't really the point of it :)