Skyler! ❄️ 🦊The correct headline here would blame the system that allowed good-faith actors to easily break a high-impact nationwide production system by accident.
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Sam Lanning 
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❤️ Open-Source, Security, Privacy, Lighting - Oxford CompSci Grad 🎓 - Building software for Wise - Formerly GitHub and UNOCHA - queer 🏳️🌈 - rides 🏍️
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Dentist: So, do you floss?
Me: Do you use a unique password for every account?
Me: Do you use a unique password for every account?
Sam Lanning 🏳️🌈 🏍️Yes more 🏳️🌈 bikers pls! cc @ellie
Ellie Huxtable (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Bringing more 🏳️🌈 to the track #lgbt
@ellie thank fuck UPS didn't lose this one!!! 😳
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
Tim ChambersHope everyone who celebrates will have a #HappyThanksgiving.
Am very #thankful for what we have built and are building on this #Fediverse.
So I've had my first toot go (what feels like) viral, and it's a nice feeling!
It has highlighted that the default notification UIs could be much improved, by e.g. collapsing notifications of the same type (e.g. boosts and favs of the same toot). The filters (in Tusky) or mentions only tab in the web UI makes this less terrible than it would otherwise be, but it's certainly easy to be overwhelmed when a toot gets very popular!
Sam Lanning :verified_gay: (@[email protected])
Appreciate the prescience in @[email protected]'s toot about the imminent Musk era of twitter from back in April: https://mastodon.cloud/@anildash/108085146713739440
@anildash the #motorcyle analogy at the end spoke to me in particular as someone who rides! 😁
@anildash really really enjoyed this episode! I subscribe to the podcast so hear all the episodes, but really loved how conversational / back-and-forth this episode was! Was great listen, and great to hear everything contextualised in the wider industry! Will look forward to your next guest appearance!
AnilOkay, this was a fun one. I guested on John Gruber’s The Talk Show. Had a lot of fun being half-serious, half-absurd about Twitter, but also ranged over a ton of other topics. Please do check it out! https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2022/11/18/ep-362