That’s crazy @Xion4012!
I saw that white dot in Scandinavia very close to my physical location… so I just thought it automatically pinged according to my IP address… are you in west Africa by any chance??
Light flash off West Africa. Unfortunately, it was fading by the time I got the screenshot. You have to be very quick.
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@kliktrak if you do want to look into it, have a link!
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Does loop16 like tutus?
Just saw it blink in central Europe! So there goes my “IP address location” theory out the window 
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@bcatrek I’ve seen it a few places. I originally thought it appeared over california, which is what caught my attention. But I haven’t seen it there since. No, I do not live in west Africa.
@Polyphemus the dots are certainly not random. I find it highly unlikely that a specifically yellow dot would just happen to pass a few seconds after I access a decrypted file (yellow text box?). You are free to test this for yourself.
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Negative, not random. I suddenly remembered that I’m a software developer and have much better tools to analyse application behavior than just sitting in front of the screen making googly eyes 
I did some traffic logging, here’s what I found:
The dashboard does a poll to the server roughly every minute.
If no nodes were selected, the server returns 304, which means “content not modified” (since the last poll). So far I have not seen any dots appearing after a 304 answer. I take this to mean that “the state is unchanged, nobody has triggered any nodes”.
I have only seen this reply at times where I didn’t trigger any nodes in the meantime.
Whenever I do trigger a node, the server returns 200 (OK), and usually a blip appears sometime close after. THis is also why the timing appears to be random: the app only polls every minute, so depending on when you trigger a node, it can take longer or less long.
I cannot verify this behavior 100%, since there are more people at play than just me. WHat I can verify however is that 304s only ever happen when I did not trigger any nodes, and never when I did trigger any nodes. That’s the extent of what I’m capable of testing, really. There were plenty of occasions when a 200 was returned when I didn’t trigger anything, because somebody else presumably triggered a node. But the fact that the opposite never happens (i.e. whenever I trigger a node, 200 is returned), and the fact that a 200 seems always followed by a blip, suggests very strongly that the behavior is controlled by this poll.
The complete response usually consists of a list of objects with keys 1, 2 and 3 that carry numbers, but I can’t currently speculate on what the numbers represent. The list is usually two items long, except in some rare cases where it is empty. Don’t ask me to interpret that, I have no idea yet. Looking at the code of the page might offer more information, but I’ve got other things to do too…
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OK. Progress.
Be aware also that the five coloured buttons control whether or not the moving coloured dots appear.
The five buttons each have two states, highlighted and dim. The corresponding coloured balls will only appear if their particular button is highlighted.
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Perhaps there is a specific color pattern we need? We could use the color filters to make sure we get only the ones we want.
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If it’s not something like that, I can’t see any point in allowing us to switch them off. There must be a purpose to the buttons.
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Addendum:
Slight misinterpretations on my part: The 304 is a literal 304, meaning the exact same data is applied as after the last poll. Meaning, in extension, the same nodes, or at least node types, have been triggered 200 means the data in the response has changed.
I have however no doubt anymore that the number of items in the list is the number of dots that will apear during the next minute. I just succesfully predicted the appearance of several sequences of dots (only number, not type) by looking at the response. And one of them had four, and yet another had five, so a coincidence here seems highly unlikely.
Addendum: Succesfully predicted a sequence of 4 blips followed by a sequence of one blip during a two-minute interval. I’m 99.999% sure now that the response in this poll carries the information for the blips to be rendered during the next minute.
So I’m also 99.999% sure it’s not random. It is indeed the uplink activity, as it says on the tin.
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Ok. This is my first time getting a good look at the new Dashboard screen. Has it been noted yet that a cursor appears and you can highlight, as if to change, the numbers in the Altitude, Velocity and Deviation boxes?
Limitation of the browser… You can select pretty much any text, unless the developer pulls some quite tedious and ugly tricks to prevent it.
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Oh dear, don’t remind me of that!
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Oh no you didn’t…
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I think I’ve seen some of these pieces before on conceptships. Would bet money that it’s not linked to NMS. How did you make the link in the first place?
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I was researching the latin phrase highlighted on the Myriad Dasboard / Uplink site.
Type Search Myriad in the send box. You get a latin text of gibberish however the phrase ‘urna dictum consectetuer’ is highlighted. It has been puzzling me ever since. Why highlight that?
Yes, you said as much. I was asking how this led you to this site.
I was typing the phrase into internet search engines to see if it could lead to any clues. I am as puzzled as you and maybe this is all nothing.
Of course it nothing unless we’re looking at NMS 3