Anders Pearson thraxil

last commit in 2012

I'm originally from Maine (for non-Americans, that is the very Northeastern tip of the US. Basically Canada. Americans will naturally associate it with Lobsters, Potatoes, and Stephen King). My parents were serious hippies who got into the "homesteading" movement and built a log cabin in the middle of the woods. So my early childhood was spent with no electricity or running water miles from the nearest neighbors. We eventually rejoined civilization and I mostly grew up in the small town of Dexter, but finished high school even further north at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics. I went to Bates College (a small liberal arts school still in Maine) majoring in

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The CTL Surveillance State

(for servers and applications)

Metrics and Monitoring at CTL

Once upon a time, we had a couple Dell servers living in the Mezzanine. All of our applications just ran on them.

We had a wiki page to keep track of which applications were running on which server, etc. the "Master Server Grid":

	// Sandbox approvals that you will need (at least):
	// staticMethod org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.DefaultGroovyMethods plus java.lang.Object[]
	// staticMethod org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.DefaultGroovyMethods getAt java.lang.Iterable int
	// java.lang.Object[]
	// staticMethod org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.DefaultGroovyMethods plus java.util.List java.lang.Object

	// check for required parameters. assign them to the env for
	// convenience and make sure that an exception is raised if any
	// are missing as a side-effect

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	import os.path
	import os

	from datetime import datetime, timedelta
	from pathlib import Path

	BASE = "/etc/letsencrypt/"

	package main

	import (
	"bufio"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"os"
	"strings"

	"github.com/thraxil/bcscrape"

	void ofApp::draw(){
	ofSetColor(ofColor::white);
	ofNoFill();

	const int size = 20;
	const int qs[7] = {0, 1, -1, 0, 1, -1, 0};
	const int rs[7] = {-1, -1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1};

	for (int i = 0; i < 7; i++) {
	int q = qs[i];

	{
	browser -> mediathread [label = "GET /explore/redirect?..."];
	browser <-- mediathread [label = "302 Location: http://wardenclyffe/mediathread/?..."];
	browser -> wardenclyffe [label = "GET /mediathread/?nonce=..uni=.."];
	wardenclyffe => wardenclyffe [label = "check credentials"];
	wardenclyffe -> postgresql [label = "get/create user/session"];
	wardenclyffe <-- postgresql [label = "user/session"];
	browser <-- wardenclyffe [label = "upload form"];

	browser -> wardenclyffe [label = "POST /mediathread w/ video file"] {

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	import json
	import os
	import subprocess
	import tempfile
	import yaml


	VAULT_BIN = "/usr/local/bin/vault"
	VAULT_PATH = "secret/salt/pillar_data"