Notices by Kenneth Finnegan (kwf@social.afront.org), page 2

I want to build a geoIP database, but instead of wasting my time with metrics like GPS coordinate or zip code or country, I want to build it based on connectivity.

I don't care which country an IP address is in, I care how well connected / far apart it is from other IP addresses. Give me the actual topology of the Internet, not the political topology of RIRs.

It doesn't photograph well at all out in sunlight, but a video of it gives you the general idea for what the 1100RPM fan makes the tachometer look like.

For his recent talk on the #MicroMirror project, @warthog9 was kind enough to go run the numbers and plot ALL of the traffic we're logged from these servers.

We have served, to this date, over the last 18 months, 18.6 FREAKING PETABYTES of Linux and free software updates.

All from a fleet of tiny servers funded by cash donations and ISPs which are willing to plug these silly things in for us.

https://liberapay.com/phirephly/

One thing I own which is cool as hell is a vibrating reed based tachometer.

Lots and lots of tiny reeds, each tuned for a specific frequency. Place it on a piece of equipment, and the reeds start to vibrate if they're the same frequency as the equipment.

This is... going as expected. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues

@N3VEM I'm a big fan of nginx for serving static files with no CGI. It just works out of the box and doesn't need a bunch of performance tuning like Apache does

#JohnMastodon really isn't getting the level of appreciation that he deserves, if we're all being honest with ourselves.

Anyone else remember that article where a guy ran an online gaming website and his users wanted "real" dice rolls for the game RNG, so he built a giant dice tower with thousands of dice and an elevator and computer vision to capture and store each dice roll?

Edit: @w8emv found it! Behold, in all of its glory!

http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic