Kai 'wusel' Siering @wusel@uu.org

»Ist X das neue Twitter?« »Ist Y das neue Twitter?« Vielleicht wollen wir kein neues Twitter, sondern einfach unsere Ruhe. Ohne sponsored posts. Ohne ekelhafte Milliardäre als Eigentümer. Ohne Diktaturen als Investoren. Ohne Botarmeen, Springerhetze, toxische Trends oder Datenhandel.

Klimawandel-Verharmloser: Wir müssen uns einfach an die Klimakrise anpassen.

Klimaschützer: Also habt ihr endlich kein Problem mehr, euch an Tempo 130 oder Windräder anzupassen

Klimawandel-Verharmloser: DAS IST UNSERE FREIHEIT

Wife: you need to prepare the turkey

Me: *sits turkey down* dude this isn't gonna be a good day for you

Schufa egal: Banken gewähren jedem Kredit, der auf Spanien-Sieg gegen Deutschland wetten will

https://www.der-postillon.com/2022/11/spanien.html

I was sharpening bunch of pencils for my daughter and realized I didn’t know how pencils are made. The automation for creating them is quite cool and even beautiful, as seen in this short explainer video.

https://youtu.be/qqs3fxfmWr4

About 2 hours exposure of the #Andromeda #Galaxy #M31 last night from my driveway.

#Fujifilm X-T4 through Meade 70mm APO. Stacked in Sequator.

#Astrophotography

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

Solange man auf allen Medienkanälen Meinungen hört, wie die ob man nicht besser beraten sei, sich an die Klimaerwärmung anzupassen statt hier so einen Larry zu machen, ist offensichtlich zu vielen noch nicht wirklich klar, warum die Skala von Fieberthermometern bei 42°C endet.

The EU website is down after voting to declare Russia a state sponsor of terrorism. Four hours ago "Anonymous Russia" and Killnet called for followers to DDoS that site, called the EU "sponsors of homosexuality."

Christmas decorations are going up! You’ve got the tree, lights, asbestos… Wait, what?

For decades, asbestos was sold as artificial snow. It could be bought in boxes to be sprinkled onto trees, ornaments, nativity scenes, etc. It was so popular, many older ornaments still have traces of asbestos.

It was also used in film. The most famous scene with asbestos snow is in Wizard of Oz (1939), when snow falls on Dorothy and her friends, waking them up.

#histodons @histodons #christmas

I wonder how many weird quirks of the email ecosystem are going to spread to the fediverse. Tarpitting, DNSBLs for residential IPs, that weird DNSWL thing, blocking instances that don't quite abide by the spec in spammer-like ways, hashcash (yes I know that's not really a popular thing), GPG or SMIME for end-to-end encryption, instances that rewrite every incoming link into one that goes through their untrusted outbound link gateway, people complaining to the ISPs of instances that completely ignore spam, eventually some AS gets disconnected by all their upstreams because they ignore reports about instances in their network ignoring spam reports?

Punk's not dead

Oh dear. I've just been informed that collecting the names of every person on the planet for my naughty and nice lists is, and I quote, “a significant and wholly irresponsible breach of #GDPR “.
I'm going to hand out about 8 billion consent forms soon. If you could all get them back to me ASAP that would be appreciated.

Das stille Sterben der #Flüsse, auch die #Lutter im Kreis #Gütersloh ist davon betroffen.
https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/panorama/abwaesser-fluesse-101.html
#Salz des Erdgasunternehmens #Wintershall Dea wird nach Gütersloh transportiert.

Ein Bild sagt mehr als tausend Worte.

Die Macht von Gianni #Infantino endet auf der Ehrentribüne.

Scheint ihm nicht zu gefallen.

#BoycottQatar2022
#WMderSchande

#GERJPN
#OneLove

Nicht schlecht.