Project Blinkenlights
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ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENSPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.
Has some nice photos. More welcome!
And on the modern computer, there is:
Blinkenlights: PC Binary Emulating Visualizer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31473846
I was always fascinated by stories from older professors about how they could hear when something had gone wrong with an algorithm, because the sound would be wrong.
In my case, I could hear when some Windows malware (its indexer, updates, etc.) was running, because the computer would make funny noises. These days, everything is so silent, and the LEDs are gone, I only notice from the lag!
I sometimes wish there were still sounds, and more besides (e.g. sounds for strange network packets, and so on).
You can do a lot "artificially"; I set it up so my computer makes a frog croak sound when the LLMs finish cooking, and I have a colored orb in my notification bar showing the packet loss.
ju'i ro tcurista .e ro naltekno lukpipyprenu
.i le kompymacni na se pilno fi lo nu selfingypoksi kei .e lo nu mijgrabi
.i va'onai frili fa lo nu cnapygau le spinyverka kei .e lo nu blovyfuzli kei .e lo nu popkorka sepi'o lo spici sparkeli
.i le kompymacni na se verka lo dumbystedu .i .ei le rubrynekti sairviska cu kipygau le kotnypikci xance lo pokta
.i ko relka gi'e vatci le blinkenlaiti
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nlI first ran across it over 30 years ago while I was still in school, and I'm sure it's been up longer than that.
The whole club is legendary. We need more of their spirit of the art of the possible and irreverent. Life is for the living, and computers are for the hackers.
Oh man, I think I remember that.
For a while, the SF Bay Bridge was. I once went to an Autodesk event in SF where the guy behind it was controlling the lights from his laptop.
Until it runs out of ram just from the tcp connections.
400-600 RPS should suffice given a default Debian install running Apache with a TLS cert, given 300MB of base OS and 1.7G of RAM on a 2GB vps. Being very generous here as many are 512MB... otherwise it takes far less.