UPDATED: 23 June, 2014 (originally published on 5 April, 2013)

For a long time, I couldn’t figure out what Twitter was for. I’m not sure I’ve figured that out yet. It seems convenient for posting links to the physics and cryptography whitepapers I read, and then receiving the internet standard — inane feedback from people I’ve never even heard of.

At one point, because I couldn’t figure out what to do with Twitter, I decided to release a bytebeat album through tweets. I’ve seen people tweet links to their new songs or albums or whatever — that’s lame.

So I started creating algorithmic compositions in less than 140 characters in python. The album, fuck_your_bits (hashtag=’#fyb’), is about half done, but my friends Moxie and Emblem pointed out that not only would the search function for hashtags on twitter index only the songs in my album from the past three weeks, but also that tweets in my timeline were dropped from public view after a certain number of months, depending on some indeterminable number of other algorithms that calculated “tweet popularity”.

Because people have been asking for the full album, here it is. I’ll still keep tweeting it though, because the only other useful thing I can think of that impressively fits in less than 140 bytes is shellcode.

python -c'import sys;[sys.stdout.write(chr((~t&t>>3^(((t>>((t>>11)%7+6))%15)*t))%256))for t in xrange(2**19)]'|aplay python -c'import sys;[sys.stdout.write(chr(((~t>>2)*(2+(42&t*((7&t>>10)*2))<(24&t*((3&t>>14)+2))))%256))for t in xrange(2**18)]'|aplay python -c'import sys;[sys.stdout.write(chr((((t*5&t>>7|t*9&t>>4|t*18&t/1024)|((t|7)>>5|(t|4)>>9)))%256))for t in xrange(2**18)]'|aplay python -c'import sys;[sys.stdout.write(chr(((~t>>2)*((127&t*(7&t>>9))<(245&t*(4-(7&t>>13)))))%256))for t in xrange(2**20)]'|aplay -c 2 -r4444 python -c'import sys;[sys.stdout.write(chr((~t>>5>>(127&t*9&~t>>7<42&t*23^5&~t>>13)+3)%256))for t in xrange(2**18)]'|aplay -c2 -r2222 python -c'import sys;[sys.stdout.write(chr((((t>>(2|4)&((t%0x7369)|4|11|5))+(7|4|42)&t))%256))for t in xrange(2**18)]'|aplay -c2 -r4444 python -c'import sys;[sys.stdout.write(chr((((t*(t>>13|t>>8)|(t>>16)-t)-64))%256))for t in xrange(2**18)]'|aplay -r4444 python -c"import sys;[sys.stdout.write(chr(((0x7BB3+t>>11|(t>>(2|5)^(1515|42))|~t)|(2*t)>>6)%256))for t in xrange(2**20)]"|aplay -c2 x="if(t%2)else";python3 -c"[print(t>>15&(t>>(2$x 4))%(3+(t>>(8$x 11))%4)+(t>>10)|42&t>>7&t<<9,end='')for t in range(2**20)]"|aplay -c2 -r4

pyrsync: A pure Python module for the rsync algorithm

I quickly modified and packaged a pure Python implementation of the rsync algorithm today. It’s on Github and PyPi. It’s going to be used in the open-source, symmetrically-encrypted, bandwidth-efficient, cross-platform backup software that I’m writing. Because why, for fuck’s sake, would you trust *all the files* on your computer, plus your cryptographic scheme, and potentially, […]

Hivemind

So I hacked together this IRC bot to play oldschool text-based RPGs with multiple people in an IRC channel. The RPGs are pre-written and are run by a Z-Machine interpreter called Frotz, which runs on a server somewhere, and commands to Frotz are piped to stdin through a python program called pexpect.

I’m not going to say which channel this thing is is, because it’s hella insecure (Frotz uses multiple uses of strcpy(), wtf?!), but I will say that while looking into pexpect I found some old 1990s botnet C&C software when I totally wasn’t expecting it. Check out this file, hive.py, which comes with pexpect! So oldschool!

For some reason, this made me really happy.

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