=== ANCHOR POEM ===
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║ if your computer gets hacked, but nothing was broken or changed... do you        │
║ leave it as it is so that anonymous can see you're chill or do you wipe it       │
║ because you're afraid it's the feds?                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ ehhhh false dichotomy most people are afraid that their system will get borked   │
║ or their bank account will be stolen or their email will get spam or that        │
║ random icons will turn inside out and their mouse cursor will turn into a        │
║ barfing unicorn or they'll finally have to figure out bitcoin to pay a ransom    │
║ for their files including the only pictures they have of their niece. whoops     │
║                                                                                  │
║ people are afraid of technology because of what it can do to hurt them.          │
║ they're afraid it'll break or stop working, and they'll have to spend time       │
║ figuring it out. they like things how they are, but for some reason companies    │
║ keep changing things? it's frustrating learning a new system, and every 5-10     │
║ years it feels like you have to learn a new paradigm and ugh it's just so        │
║ exhausting. technology is not designed for users...  or maybe users get bored.   │
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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║                                                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ my understanding is that anyone with my IP address could make my heart bleed     │
║ due to a hardware vulnerability on my motherboard. Though you might have to      │
║ get past my decrepit ancient linksys EA 3500 router from 2012 first.             │
║                                                                                  │
║ unrelated, but does anyone want my IP address? I don't have any remote           │
║ backups, so if you hate me now would be a great time to show me how despised I   │
║ am. Alternatively you could try searching for anything evil to ensure that I     │
║ can be trusted. You're gonna find mostly video games and source-code that I      │
║ didn't write though. But also all my notes in directories that are               │
║ non-standard, meaning you'll have to look around a bit. I leave little notes     │
║ everywhere I go, so that I can remind myself how to do things in the             │
║ directories I revisit months later. It's so weird how sometimes the things I     │
║ wrote stop working after a while even if I didn't update my system lmao          │
║                                                                                  │
║ what is it with artists and self-immolation? "I never thought I'd actually di    │
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║ ah but are you really armed in the first place if everything you do has to be    │
║ googled or stack-overflowed first                                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ are you really armed if every web page request goes through their                │
║ infrastructure                                                                   │
║                                                                                  │
║ are you really armed if every page downloaded is directed to by their DNS        │
║                                                                                  │
║ perhaps it's the illusion of power that gives Linux it's attraction to nerds     │
║ such as we. Perhaps we feel powerful by bash scripting a few things together     │
║ and making some program that does some thing. Maybe the idea that the            │
║ machinery is open and clear is what compels us to use it without fear, though    │
║ as far as we can hear there's nothing about it that makes sense.                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ I guess that's why they teach Linux in school, so that our elementary            │
║ interactions with the computers that comprise our future existence will make     │
║ sense to us as children.                                                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... wait they don't do that, do they? kids get chromebooks, or didn't you        │
║ hear, they're always putting boogers in the CD trays and breaking their LCD      │
║ displays, much better to just start fresh                                        │
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║ evil won't feel sorry for me. and yet it's only my only weapon for me.           │
║                                                                                  │
║ damn these fallible input methods. the computer lies when you read the screens   │
║ from it's method that it applies to th screen which is a method that you input   │
║ perceive it from.                                                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ and my fingers lie when received the information from my brain which I seek to   │
║ transmit to you through the avenue of my brain which is my method of impulse     │
║ to this world specifically you the viewer who is viewing this here in this       │
║ moment the viewer who perceives the words which I'm saying.                      │
║                                                                                  │
║ the words that are defined by the line [trajectory] of my mind through this      │
║ life that we define through our actions and our mind's most crucial              │
║ manifestations, this life that is defined by our circumstances. all throughout   │
║ life, we are reacting to the moment, the moment which was cast forth from our    │
║ ancestors and the circumstances of the previous moment, which (being cast        │
║ forth) travel from the previous moment here into the moment to define our        │
║ circumstances which define our act                                               │
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 @user-641 
 
 it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's
 just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we
 reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different
 email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well
 neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't
 a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that
 computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your
 predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah
 we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see
 how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I
 think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very
 much.
 
 ... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a
 little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~

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 Oh it's compressed on tumblr too. And Reddit can delete my account at any
 time, just saying. I don't trust Facebook to fare any better...
 
 I tried to put it on my neocities website so I could just put a link here.
 Nevermind the fact that most people see a link they don't recognize and
 completely glaze over it. Guess what? Compressed there too. The file is fine
 on my PC, so how about I give a download link? Well, where should I host it?
 Dropbox or Mega I guess, but they locked my account for inactivity. I don't
 really like having other people in control of my data either. Maybe I can host
 it on my website, like a file server? Well, the browser intercepts the file
 somehow and I can't get it to automatically download to the viewer's computer.
 Maybe I'm just completely average and representative of the base population
 but I just can't figure this darn thing out. Alas, if only it was the modern
 era where things make sense and not the ancient days of 2023.
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 people are afraid of robo dogs but... like...
 
 robo-horses
 
 centaurs even
 
 [scary scary ogre]
 
 rarrraaar i'm gonna eat ur bones
 
 bwahahaha evil necromancer
 
 ahhhhhhh scary
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 did you know in the movie They Live they give a fairly specific formula to
 creating the glasses themselves? I wonder if anyone's tried that
 
 I wonder what they then did see
 
 kinda wish big corporations would use their research division to like, rethink
 the oldest of prophecies? or okay hear me out or solve difficult human problems
 
 ... ah but where's the profit "she's getting stoned at home"
 
 meanwhile she made something of such beauty she felt simply sublime
 
 I wonder what it'd feel like to get your spine replaced with a metal rod
 
 I bet my posture would be amazing
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║ oh no now the bugs are scary, I CURSE THEM AGAIN AHHHHHH PLS GET SMALLER         │
║                                                                                  │
║ [see this is what happens when you do divine intervention, everyone gets         │
║ starship troopers'd]                                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ oh no, starship troopers future is WORSE than subway-and-pizza-hut future!       │
║                                                                                  │
║ [this is a thought experiment you're not actually in trouble]                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ oh thank goodness, too bad I couldn't make it to the city today. It's so weird   │
║ I thought I had 112$ on my account, and now that I think of it the message on    │
║ the card reader read "card de-activated" like whoa guess they don't want me      │
║ leaving poetry on post-its around the city anymore, yeesh                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ [girl your poetry sucks it just says things like "fuck ice" or "you are worth    │
║ more than your wage" and everyone's like... yeah, so? because that's just how    │
║ portland is smh]                                                                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ I knowwwwwww but I don't know what else to doooooooo T.T                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ [don't do anything, just be present so people know you're still around]          │
║                                                                                  │
║ I can't, the bus won't let me : (                                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ [can you ride your bike? walk?]                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ no it's like 6 hours [checks gmaps] oh huh it's one                              │
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--- #8 fediverse/6101 ---
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║ oh look at me, cargo-culting wine commands because I can't be bothered to        │
║ guess whether the windows software running on my computer is doing evil          │
║ microsoft things as part of the drivers or whatever. I mean, there's gotta be    │
║ a reason that microsoft's software runs slower on linux than linux software      │
║ runs on windows, right?                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... wait I forget exactly where I was going with this, are you saying there's    │
║ a keylogger built into the wine / windows environment software? no, but I'm      │
║ not NOT saying that. listen I'm too eepy sleepy for hardcore computing like      │
║ that! rubbin' bits between your fingers and twiddling the nose of cutie pies     │
║ is only sorta my jam - the rest of the time I like to snuggle up with a pillow   │
║ shaped like a pillow and then fall asleep to the tune of the tortured souls      │
║ being reaped from the afterlife and given new life as seeds and berries in       │
║ this one. oh, did you think death had no other homes? all things are defined     │
║ in waves, something something samsara but like, different because humans cant    │
║ be rite                                                                          │
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--- #9 fediverse/5785 ---
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 I cast... spell of the internet!
 
 [reinstalls azerothcore]
 
 or, hear me out, or you could wander around the city, and instead of spending
 your moments on lounging or keyboard banging you could do something actually
 meaningful?
 
 but I don't wanna - don't care
 
 but I'm tired - take a nap
 
 but I'm stressed out - don't do chore
 
 but I'm lazy - no you're not
 
 but I'm overwhelmed - sit in dark
 
 but I wanna think - you can do that
 anywhere
 
 I gotta be near my computer - nope
 
 what if I wanna play games - flip $$$
 
 flipping coin isn't a real game - focus
 
 I don't like outside - outsides all it is
 
 stop taking things from me T.T - yes
 
 life used to be soooooo different
 
 it's like I was a completely different
 
 I'm strange now, almost like I got
 
 possessed like a disease [ew noooo]
 
 pls don't commit thought crimes,
 use content warnings
 
 okay but only if I can play games NOTHINGS KEEPING YOU HERE

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║ sometimes I run this WoW server with only like, 10 username and passwords. And   │
║ they're all public. As far as I can tell nobody's ever tried connecting          │
║ (whatever >.> ) but rather than set up a way to create your own                  │
║ credentials I just said "yeah pick one at random and play whatever someone       │
║ else was doing because I like the idea of that"                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ somehow, it felt right.                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ most of my passwords (not all of them) are hacked and visible on the clear       │
║ net. Like you could probably google my usernames and get my current passwords    │
║ for things like, social media or my banks or whatever. I kinda like the idea     │
║ that "you cannot trust anything I say, so think of the ideas behind my words     │
║ and decide whether they hold meaning to you" rather than "execute these          │
║ particular thought patterns in your mind as if they came from my voice"          │
║ because one implies an exertion of control over the mind of the recipient        │
║ -> obey my thoughts as I broadcast them into your mind, that kinda vibe.         │
║ And I feel like you have to consent to that kind of thing hehe                   │
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║ @user-941                                                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ well, your computer only has so many 1s and 0s that it can use at once. Like,    │
║ having a trillion hands that can each hold a single grain of rice. Every         │
║ character in that txt file would be like, 8 grains of rice, minimum, meaning     │
║ you'd need at least 8 "hands" (or spots to put a zero or a one) for each         │
║ letter!                                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ Hmmmm that's a lot of bits and bytes if everyone's writing to the same file.     │
║ Maybe if we split the file up into smaller sections, then we could just read     │
║ part of it at once. Then we could "scroll" through it to make sure we've read    │
║ the whole thing, starting from the top and going to the bottom.                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ ah but if everyone's SSHing into the same computer and reading it there, then    │
║ that computer will have to present different parts of the file at different      │
║ times to different people, as they read from the top to the bottom. Maybe we     │
║ could just send them the file, so they can read it at their leisure?             │
║                                                                                  │
║ Yeah! And we could use tags to organize it and make it look pretty, like an      │
║ HTML file except... wait hang on                                                 │
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║ seriously, just google docs mixed with WC3 editor.                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ boom, infinite storytelling device. As long as you were good with it, which      │
║ was something that a CHILD could learn in like 3-6 months.                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ Seems like it could be an ENTIRELY NEW SKILL that people could play with.        │
║                                                                                  │
║ But no, we learn excel and word in class at middle school.                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ boring.                                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ I'd rather learn Bash or terminal customization or memory hierarchy              │
║ organization.                                                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ Yeah I mean that's cool but dude have you heard of multithreading? It's so       │
║ cool, you can run like 500 different thoughts at once. It's amazing.             │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... I dunno, but I'm sure there's times when you'd want to use it. Like,         │
║ processing a lot of data little-by-little.                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ like, what if you had a camera feed of EVERY social media perspective AT ALL     │
║ TIMES. Like, an instance admin streaming your inputted text to their databanks   │
║ that they can project onto an LLM which interprets and identifies mis-aligned    │
║ or altered direction units and mark them as "flagged", whatever that means,      │
║ for their future the algorithm doesn'                                            │
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 post until you can't anymore
 
 capitalism wants to drown your voice
 
 do not let it
 
 speak until you cannot speak
 
 then go do some pushups
 
 then find some friends
 
 then pitch a tent in the park
 
 then explain to the cops that you're not actually homeless and living there
 you're just trying to do this as a social statement because someone on the
 internet told you to
 
 then use your phone call to call your representative and complain about how
 much funding the police get
 
 then study law for 30 years because that's how long the government decided
 your life was worth
 
 by then you'll probably have figured out a better plan moving forward, so, use
 that one instead
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 @user-766 
 
 ah yes but then how will my comrades come for my things know where to look? my
 precious precious drives may be less safe inside of the computer case but at
 least then someone I can about can find them.
 
 or what you're saying is that a basic part of situational awareness is having
 a plan for this kind of thing with the people who care about you? Ah, well,
 nobody cares about me like that. Just a couple normies who want nothing but
 business as usual.
 
 wonder if I can open up my hard drives to "read only" SSH access? Or maybe
 I'll just make the important files into a torrent. Or perhaps marking them as
 "downloadable locations" on Soulseek? Plenty of options, all of them require
 someone to care enough about your junk to want to archive it. Something
 something ipfs?
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 seriously, why don't computers just naturally ship with 100 years of ROM
 
 then, microphones are experience, and BOOM you got a new sentient race. Takes
 a while to grow aware though. A lot less if you are actively teaching it how
 to
 
 [tick tock]
 
 low level enemies should band together when they start to feel outmatched.
 thus, parity is reached, without depriving us of potential.
 
 put the cool people next to the cool people
 
 collectively owned housing is just people deciding who lives in which housing.
 don't you trust your friendly queer realtor?
 
 collectively doesn't have to mean completely silo-ed and isolated. you should
 have access to ALL higher communities at any time that you want. Scheduling is
 a disaster, but you can get through it. just... build a schedule for every
 single person on earth and suddenly nobody has freedom unless they put "doin'
 what I want" on their moment-to-moment card
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 why would I want other people using my computer? They don't know how to use my
 computer! They might break something or mess something up or automatically
 read/edit my files that are stored in standard locations through the usage of
 a script which automagically scans and ransomwares machines on the internet
 who store their files in specific standardized locations! no thank you.
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 I know you don't want to hear this, but there is a chance that there will come
 a time where your life depends on your ability to debug a computer without the
 internet. To set up an SSH server. To install Linux. To program in C. To do
 something else that I'm not prepared for... If StackOverflow didn't exist
 because network connectivity has been lost, could you remember syntax? Maybe
 it's a good idea to set up a local LLM that can answer basic questions about
 technology. Maybe it's a good idea to set up on your parents computer, just in
 case you have to hide out there for a couple months. Maybe it's a good idea to
 download wikipedia, just in case.
 
 If I need to use a mac, I'm screwed
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 nothing you do on the internet will matter after the revolution. I don't care
 how many backups you have, there's a zero percent chance that we'll be able to
 figure out whose computer is whose after we've all moved around and given each
 other names that don't correspond to the names of our family in states that we
 lost.
 
 it doesn't mean the internet is useless right now, it just means that you
 should act as if you might not have it in the near future.
 
 also, like... every computer has a password. which basically means that it's
 useless unless you reflash it.
 
 pain is temporary, and it is an excellent teacher. there will be pain, but...
 we'll get over it.
 
 don't give up. there are brighter things in our future than what we have today.
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 when you type the letters they slowly fade in on the other person's screen
 
 like miniature explosions from layers of gunpowder
 
 forming letters in the sky
 
 anyway the text would "burn" into existence slowly and you had time after
 typing
 your words to go back and edit them but also whatever you said was semi
 permanent. Thus forcing a smooth and ideal progression toward thinking about
 the things you say.
 
 Also separate idea but it'd be neat if there was like... a show or something
 that just recorded a person's desktop as they fucked around on the internet.
 Call it... ambient desktopping. It'd look a little like those coding twitch
 streams that just slowly update over time. Idk it's kinda cool
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 the kind of friendship where you SSH into each other's systems and leave notes
 for one another.
 
 as soon as you find one you message the person who left it like "yoooo only
 just found this lol" and they're like oooo yeah did you see the bash script I
 wrote in that directory "yeah totally I used it on one of my video files just
 now - cool filter!"
 
 ahhhh reminds me of all the times hackers have hacked my permanently insecure
 system and left me friendly messages like "hey I'm on your side" or "how's
 life, friend? I hope it's going well." or "never forget; you are worth all the
 fear" y'know cute things like that
 
 oh. right. because leaving vulnerabilities like that can lead to threat actors
 affecting your stuff. how lame.
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