{"id":52,"date":"2010-01-23T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2010-01-23T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T16:40:00","slug":"rise-lolho-the-squamous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/23\/rise-lolho-the-squamous\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise, Lolho the Squamous!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/rise-loltho-01.jpg\" alt=\"lenora and tachikoma\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/rise-loltho-01.jpg\" alt=\"lenora and tachikoma\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the world didn&#8217;t have enough evil already, dedicated computer engineers have figured out how to put it on tap.  Behold the terror that is the <a href=\"http:\/\/seventhsanctum.com\/generate.php?Genname=lcnamer\">Lovecraftian Name Generator<\/a>!  Go on, click on it, see what I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Back?  Ok, I admit, &#8220;Lolho&#8221; and &#8220;Ual&#8217;ke&#8221; aren&#8217;t the scariest <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H._P._Lovecraft\">Lovecraftian<\/a> names.  But it&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">programmatic<\/span>.  You can create more than one.  The current limit is 25, but by the unholy names of Anai, Bbhaaat, Bosaush, Cazagorarl, Ch-yos, H&#8217;eligthorteg, Han-dha, Ibhagugu, K&#8217;zaru, Kephoital, Mazazho, Mephangos, Mmililog,Nacharsar, Nali-yatl, Naquggo, Niquggolo, Phomasothugn, Ralellosaq, Rhub-harny, Rlakibha, Uga-urshu, Uggugakithu, Ygg-cyo and Yishotha, not even in Lovecraft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psy-q.ch\/lovecraft\/html\/\">coldest visions of an indifferent universe<\/a> could he have imagined you&#8217;d be able to create an entire pantheon with the click of a button!<\/p>\n<p>Even worse, that limit is no doubt arbitrary, designed to protect their computing infrastructure if not the fabric of space-time.  A truly evil black-hatter could use a sequence of queries to generate matched sets of Cthulukin at the upper limit of the <a href=\"http:\/\/arnoldit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/04\/yahoo-boss-queries-per-second\/\">QPS<\/a> (queries-per-second) their servers could handle!  Hopefully they have some kind of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Denial-of-service_attack\">DoS <\/a>(Denial of <a href=\"http:\/\/\">Shoggoths<\/a>) throttling on their servers to protect humanity.  If not-<\/p>\n<p>the mind reels.<br \/>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the world didn&#8217;t have enough evil already, dedicated computer engineers have figured out how to put it on tap. Behold the terror that is the Lovecraftian Name Generator! Go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,19,17],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-development","tag-hard-science","tag-the-dread-plush-cthulhu","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}