Redwoods standing tall in Redwood Regional Park. Smells really nice. The pines rustling in the wind.
Deborah Yoon Zacharias
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A fellow passenger based in Oakland, CA. www.deborahyoon.com. Opinions are my own.
brettThis 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
I'm Deborah. I live in Oakland, CA with my family. Ex-NYC. I'm an artist, mama to toddler named Phoenix Oliver, I work in non-profit development for the Long Now Foundation, and my OS is Aikido.
I'm keenly interested in helping keep the art of aikido and letterpress alive and thriving for future generations. Deep music/book nerd. I believe that algorithms foster monoculture.
Community building is Everything.
Take care!
I've decided I definitely do not wish to replicate my birdsite experience here and that means I may have to silo a good number of media ppl. We have a chance to help make this place genuinely interesting!
Jeet Heer shared the following on the birdsite:
'The New York Times asked Alan Moore for an obituary statement about his longtime collaborator Kevin O'Neill. Moore being Moore, he wrote a lovely 800 words far too long to use. Here it is.'
'I'm going to miss him like I'd miss sunsets'
What a gentleman.
Exploring Port Costa, CA for the first time! The air smells of bonfire, sweet cigars, and November.
So far, it's nice here. I find myself having an aversion to RTs from the birdsite (where i post maybe twice a year) and am much more interested in original posts, especially if someone shares a link that comes from a website that is not a giant corp.
