Dusty 
@ChlorideCull@fuzzy.systems
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25, ace/aro(?), some form of enby, autism and add, I work as a software developer, ancom
on all levels except physical, i'm drgn
plural system copiloted by Dusty and Klor, you can find him at @Klor
random gifts are OK (as long as it's not sexually explicit) and will make me very flustered
admin of fuzzy.systems, chairperson of fuzzy systems
will generally approve all follow requests as long as your account has *anything* in it
backup: @ChlorideCull
Joined Oct 2020
I never got to use it because it shut down before it was done, but I wrote some software that listened for Torrent peer exchange broadcasts, requested the metadata, and then proceeded to read it out over the speaker, like "Seat 4A is currently downloading Godfather-2005-XviD, shame on them!" to let people know who to complain to if the network got bogged down, lol
For next year, we bought a couple small unmanaged switches. Had to keep the hubs, but they were connected to switches, so we didn't have any more packet storms.
I eventually added pfSense with a captive portal, where you'd get a voucher with your ticket, so we could connect MAC addresses to people. Used it twice, both times to tell people to stop torrenting shit.
Another thing was clear from Wireshark - the issue was that someone was torrenting something, and I had their MAC address.
At this point, I flagged down one of the staff, and explained the issue quickly. A quick discussion between them later, and I was given permission to knock them offline (I did some ARP poisoning) and an offer to join up as the "networking guy", which I accepted.
Well, as a teenager with no boundaries, and a dangerous interest in network security, I wasn't going to let this stand.
The issue was obvious once I opened Wireshark, and saw the amount of traffic coming to my machine - see, they mostly relied on donated equipment, which happened to be 24-port *hubs*. If you don't know what that means, it means that everyone's traffic was going to everyone, and network cards were just giving up under the load.
I don't think I've told the story here on how I ended up managing the network side on a local LAN party. It was a doozy.
So, I was 16 (I think), and me and some friends had booked some spots at a local LAN party, now on its third year. Rented out venue, you could buy snacks, so on.
By midnight, the network started performing really bad, but in a weird way - I got packet loss to my friend sitting right next to me, and I wasn't alone. You could see that people were getting annoyed.
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This is a *fascinating* concept for games studies - "quotes" of a game that don't just show you a clip of gameplay, but actually let you take control and try it out. It trims the ROM down to only what's needed to run the quote, so this might even pass a fair dealing/fair use test in court if it came down to it - just like quoting a passage of text, or a clip of a movie.
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neurodivergent people have been compiled with the --verbose flag enabled
I have another interest shift coming up I feel
Time to hyper focus on bookbinding for a couple of months
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The lockdown project for one of my parents neighbours was to build a scale model of the lake district from Lego. It’s now in the local museum.
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If anybody wants another hilarious online dispute issue, back in 2016 two teens had a dispute over Minecraft, so one DDoS’d the Minecraft server’s DNS server - that broke Dyn, which took down internet access across the US East Coast as they were such a key supplier.
I had to do a radio show on NPR about that one and the presenter kept asking me if it was Putin — and I was like, no, it’s teenagers. Advanced Persistent Teenagers. The show went on for an hour of me just saying ‘yo the net sucks’.
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An update on the Fediverse spam issue:
- It’s not just Mastodon.
- Most of the targets receiving the spam use Misskey, and are in Japan.
- Most Mastodon users aren’t being targeted, so aren’t seeing it.
- It is a dispute between two people over a social issue, after asking them about it.
- It is fully automated.
- The spam continues to be sent and probably won’t stop any time soon, these guys need to star in a BL drama and make up.
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AI AI AI
I'm a little butterfly
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multi-billion company naming servers:
cloud-eu-west-prod (runs critical infrastructure for the entire internet)
staging-prem-server-52513
queer people naming servers:
Hades, king of the underworld (literally just runs nginx)
Hythlodaeus (runs a small Minecraft server for friends)
Velociraptor (an old thinkpad that's now a server)
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mutual aid, goal met!! 💜💜
hi! cant have too much detail bc character limit but i need like £90 to top up my electricity meter and get food things; both things are getting low, the former being most concerning. i dont get paid until the end of the month so please help if you can thank you and sorry to have to make another one of these so soon after my last one 💜
UPDATE 19th Feb; sorted electricity meter but I misjudged how much I'd need for food and I really need to order it in today. I've changed the total goal counter accordingly. 🙏💜 thank you
£59.83/56 already aaa
tysmsmsmsmssmsmsm 💜💜💜💜💜💜
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@Dee would be a bigger issue if the functionality wasn't already broken out into proxy applications they maintain
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The Pokémon of the day is: Latias! 
Discuss! #PokemonOfTheDay
@PsyChuan sadly, DRM
i am trying to train this small network to detect bellybuttons in an image (yes really) but it's just cheating my loss function
Admin
25, ace/aro(?), some form of enby, autism and add, I work as a software developer, ancom
on all levels except physical, i'm drgn
plural system copiloted by Dusty and Klor, you can find him at @Klor
random gifts are OK (as long as it's not sexually explicit) and will make me very flustered
admin of fuzzy.systems, chairperson of fuzzy systems
will generally approve all follow requests as long as your account has *anything* in it
backup: @ChlorideCull
Joined Oct 2020
