One of my blog posts, the one about .git crawlers, got posted to Lobste.rs, a computers and computer science oriented link aggregator, and to Hacker News, a startup, venture capital ideology and occasional science/math link aggregator.

I’ve had another post make it to all three of Hacker News, Slashdot nd Lobste.rs before, but on that occasion I compared Hacker News to Slashdot humans. Here, I compare Hacker News to Lobste.rs humans.

The packaging of a ergonomic, “vertical” mouse I bought from Newegg was inadequate. The instructions are inscrutable.

My infinite web site generator caught a .git/config crawler.

Dodging snowballs: Geochronology of the Gaskiers glaciation and the first appearance of the Ediacaran biota
Judy P. Pu; Samuel A. Bowring; Jahandar Ramezani; Paul Myrow; Timothy D. Raub; Ed Landing; Andrea Mills; Eben Hodgin; Francis A. Macdonald
Geology (2016) 44 (11): 955–958.
https://doi.org/10.1130/G38284.1

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Robert A. Heinlein invented the Armored Suit for his 1959 military adventure, Starship Troopers.

Modern readers will see the Mobile Infantry’s armored suits through the lens of their own experience with microelectronics, and 60 years of experience and advances in guidance and control software.

I found a small series of odd HTTP requests from IPv4 address 104.244.79.113 while I was looking at Apache web server log files.

I used to live in a neighborhood with elderly power and phone infrastructure. The 120V, 60 Hz main power fluctuated during spring and summer. I bought an APC Back UPS 1500 uninterruptible power supply in early June, 2020 to get whatever server I was using back then through the inevitable series of short power losses.

Because of the simplicity of TFTP, and the difficulty I had using existing TFTP servers, I decided to write a honey pot TFTP server. This seemed like an easy, no consequences, way to try out my honey pot design principles.

The past occasionally shows up to bother us in the present.

I’ve run various honeypots for a long time. I ran a WordPress honeypot off and on from 2013 to 2018. I’ve run endlessh on my home server for years. Before that, I ran the cowrie ssh/telnet honey pot for a while.

Currently, this website runs a fake WordPress login that tells you that you’ve used the wrong password after a 5 second delay. Feel free to try it. This website’s contact page does nothing but wastes spammers time and effort.