At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.
Here's my favorite story from running OMCB :)
https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/
@eieio I remember tinkering about with that for a little bit, reminded me of an old MIT student project from the early 00s where people could draw little 8x8 1bit graphics with what was basically checkboxes.
This was a lovely write up to read!
@eieio we need to see your "I crashed the mail server" t-shirt
@eieio That reminds me of Pixelflut, which you can often find at (German? European?) chaos/hacker scene events!
Basically the same thing except with colored pixels, only bots and very fast. I don't know what typical bandwidths are, but here's a picture of the canvas at #GPN22 that shows 130GBit/s incoming on the server.
See https://entropia.de/GPN22:Pixelflut for info about the network they had at the event!
@eieio That is truly awesome, thank you so much for sharing.
A small typo, "the the" :)
@eieio holy, that is an amazing story on top of an amazing project ✨
@eieio @snowcrashmike This is amazing.
@eieio as soon as you said how you stored the checkboxes I was like “oh my gods” and this is 100% epic xD
@eieio I am getting a tad too old and brain weary to fully follow this but from what I did understand this is fucking amazing. I feel less worried about the world. Thanks.
@eieio awesome write up. Thanks for sharing the behind the scenes.
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This is the coolest good feel spontaneous collaboration I have seen. @dannotdaniel
