## 1st PEBCAK Competition

1st Prompt Execution Bitreich Competition Art King

People generated proposals. We had over 100 proposal during one week, due to
auto generation.

Thanks for everyone in participating!

## 1st PEBCAK Competition :: Winner

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## 1st PEBCAK Competition :: Winner

gophers://bitreich.org/I/emoji/photograph-of-a-gopher-lighting-a-rocket-fuse--face-closeup--smi.png

Thanks adc, you are the winner!

You receive the book:

   The UNIX Philosophy
   by Mike Gancarz

Have fun!

## Bitreich End Year Meeting 2023

Bitreich End Year Meeting 2023

We have come a long way.

by Christoph Lohmann <[email protected]>


## State of Bitreich 2023

* First see my talk from bitreichcon 2023
       * gophers://bitreich.org/0/con/2023/rec/state-of-bitreich.md


## Bitreich Member Statistics

* Athas is a new member!

* Members: 15 (+1)
* Council: 5

We all are working on new inspiring fun technology.

See the organigram for people in positions:

       gophers://bitreich.org/1/organigram

Thanks all!

## IRC

Netsplit.de max_users has grown to 64 from 52!

## Bitreich IdleRPG

#bitreich-idle

Join in and become a hacker striving between quests in groups to for
example defeat the end boss of the Internet!

Will you win or flee in despair?

14:34 <annna> The group \subline, adc, ROYGBYTE, parazyd, Yonle, test_,
       test__, stilbruch, surrounder went to Bitreich Con. They succeeded.
       Their idle time changed by 400.
17:45 <annna> Yonle attacked test__ with a soldering_iron, but test__
       defended so well with hardened_patches, that no damage occured.

## Bitreich IdleRPG

# .hacker    .idletime.class                 .hardware         .shield                     .weapon         .level.
1 .adc       .    4.4M.dos_developer         .android_phone    .hardened_patches           .annna          .   10.1
2 .Yonle     .    4.4M.squirrel_programmer   .thinkpad_R_laptop.snakeoil                   .soldering_iron .   10.1
3 .surrounder.    4.4M.gemdos_developer      .purism_librem_13 .cloud_security             .phrack_magazine.   10.1
4 .__20h__   .    4.4M.applescript_programmer.thinkpad_T_laptop.unix_permissions           .oscilloscope   .   10.1
5 .parazyd   .    4.4M.symbian_os_developer  .system76_adder   .cloud_security             .annna          .   10.1
6 .\subline  .    4.4M.javascript_programmer .purism_librem_15 .chroot                     .vim(1)         .   10.1
7 .stilbruch .    3.4M.sh_programmer         .fairphone        .hardened_patches           .oscilloscope   .    8.1
8 .ROYGBYTE  .    3.0M.ttcn3_programmer      .fairphone        .laughable_programming_style.joe(1)         .    7.0
9 .moth      .    924K.simula_programmer     .pinebook_pro     .pledge                     .ethernet_cable .    2.0

## Newyeard is better

20:30 <annna> 🎆 💣 🎆 ☃ Happy 28th December to Kabul! ☃ 🎆 💣 🎆
20:32 <annna>
       gophers://bitreich.org/I/emoji/Very-Beautiful-Cubism-Painting-28th-December-in-Kabul--with-happ.png

## IRC

Thanks to everyone joining in and giving interesting topics!

## Memes

                  annna meme count (total on 2023-12-27: 19456)
  20000 +------------------------------------------------------------------+
        |          +          +          +          +         TTT         +|
  18000 |-+total ***T***                                   TTTTMM        +-|
        |  memes ###M###                               TTTMMMMM            |
  16000 |-emojis $$$E$$$                             TTMMMM              +-|
  14000 |filters %%%F%%%                          TTMMMM                 +-|
        |                                      TMMMMM                      |
  12000 |-+                                 TTMMM                        +-|
        |                                TMMMMM                            |
  10000 |-+                           TMMMM                              +-|
        |                           MMMM                                   |
   8000 |-+                      MMMM                                    +-|
        |                      MMM                                         |
   6000 |-+                  MMM                                         +-|
   4000 |-+                MMM                                           +-|
        |                MMM                                               |
   2000 |-+            MMM                                               +-|
        |          + MMM      +          +       FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF         +|
      0 +------------------------------------------------------------------+
     2018-12    2019-12    2020-12    2021-12    2022-12    2023-12    2024-12

## Memes

                      +----- statistics (2023-12-27) ------+
                      | number of images:         9473     |
                      | number of movies:         7804     |
                      | number of emojis:          633     |
                      | number of filters:        1219     |
                      | average movie length:       76.1 s |
                      | total image viewing time:   14.0 h |
                      |   (assuming 5 s per image)         |
                      | total movie length:       1375.7 h |
                      +------------------------------------+

## Memes

               annna meme count (total on 2023-12-27: 19456) set log y
  100000 +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
         |+         +          +          +          +          +         +|
         |+ total ***T***                                                 +|
         |+ memes ###M###                 TMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM         +|
   10000 |-emojis $$$E$$$      MMMMMMMMMMMMM                             +-|
         |filters %%%F%%% MMMMMM                                          +|
         |+             MMM                                               +|
    1000 |-+          MMM                              FFFFFFFFFF        +-|
         |+          MM                      FFFFFFFFFFF       EE         +|
         |+     MMMMMM                   FFFFF                 E          +|
         |+  MMMM                       FF                    EE          +|
     100 |-MMM                        FFF                     E          +-|
         |MM                          F                       E           +|
         |M                          FF                       $           +|
      10 |M+                         F                        E          +-|
         |#                                                               +|
         |M                                                               +|
         |+         +          +          +          +          +         +|
       1 +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
      2018-12    2019-12    2020-12    2021-12    2022-12    2023-12   2024-12

## Meme Development

We increased growth rate again! See the curve!

+5227 memes/filters/emojis in one year!

Thanks to all contributors!

## The Gopher Times

We are now at opus7!

Thanks josuah for redacting this.

And we had our first printed edition

Everyone is welcome to contribute. It is as simple as a git commit.

We made it even simpler this year.

## Project Development

61 (+11) repositories are now hosted on bitreich.

Examples:

* git-porno(1)
       * git(1) as it should have been.

* vtv-tools
       * revolutionzing ads at brcon2024!

* sfeed-tools
       * pushing the sfeed revolution

* meme-tools
       * memes are the world

* teed(8)
       * our new media multiplexing system

* deodorant(1)
       * get clean, do not suck

much more ...

## New Services

* Nerd physical training programme

* Bitreich /home keepers association

* Gopher fediverse aggregator

* gemini2gopher proxy

* GPT2 and stable diffusion for annna

## GangBAN parties

We tried out new games, like go.

We had many of them -- four in 30 years Eternal September!

We had new game modes.

We had so much fun. :D

## Bitreichcon 2023

* First see my talk at bitreichcon 2023 for a summary
       * gopher://bitreich.org/0/con/2023/rec/closing.md

We had so much fun:
       * Talks
       * Drone flying
       * Live Acupuncture
       * Live Geo Hacking with adc
       * Live vtv 3d hacking
       * So many hackathons that brought us forwards

It activated the community again.

## Bitreichcon 2024

* Planned in Vitre, France.
       * Thanks Josuah!

* Perfect connection via TGV high speed train directly next to the venue.

* Beautiful French medieval town.

* Will be in August.
       * Best is first or third week.

Any proposals or objections?

## People are moving towards gopher.

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/de/wiki/Filesharing/

* Two gopher servers!


* emacs(1) will get gophers:// support!

## Future Plans For Bitreich

* Keep the fun in bitreich.

* Keep it unique to be at bitreich.

* Have a reason to come back to bitreich.

* Keep bitreich the distraction from some reality as it is.

* Allow fast adaptation through simplicity.
       * stable diffusion emojis as example

What are your plans for bitreich?

## Unix Philosophy

git://bitreich.org/bitreich-documents/unix-philosophy-*.txt

## Thanks!

Thank you for listening!

I wish everyone a successful and healthy year 2024.


Sincerely yours,

20h
Chief Community Manager (CCM)