=== ANCHOR POEM === ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: evidenceless-fear-mongering-I-guess │ └─────────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-973 CW: me being paranoid whenever something like this happens I think about how we rely on digital infrastructure to understand the status of the world. And then I think about who controls that infrastructure. kinda makes me wonder if it's blocked for a certain group of people who they temporarily don't want to be able to tell their distant friends and family about anything going on around them but like, I'm not a doctor, I'm just a person. It's probably just a networking outage. That kind of thing happens all the time because some technician accidentally unplugged a server while working on a different nearby server and WHOOPS now Cloudflare is down. Wild. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 fediverse/1609 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: mh- │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-1043 I have intrusive thoughts almost constantly that take over my train of thought and make it difficult to focus. Like suddenly I'm thinking about something completely different, and I realize no, it wasn't suddenly, I actually just stood there and thought and then I think "what was I thinking again?" sometimes when I write these strange uncontrollable spirals down it makes poetry. Which is kinda neat I guess. Sometimes I just wonder about how DNS can be a singular point of failure in our networking infrastructure or whatever haha ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┘ --- #2 messages/181 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────── 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/482 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── @user-246 You're absolutely right. It's easy to think of the internet as this encapsulated entity "the world", but really it's "the people whose computers are physically connected to your computer using a limited and tangible piece of infrastructure comprised of copper wires that are laid between the router/switch that connects to your computer... and the internet service provider which directs your traffic. Then it probably goes through some cables under the ocean or whatever, and eventually after traversing many indeterminate passthrough locations eventually arrives at the computing infrastructure that comprises the access point that another person (presumably in another country) uses to express their thoughts toward you (the person who sent the original message) in the hopes that you might one day correspond. I mean... That's a lot of points of failure. I sure hope that we can sustain such connection, in the face of [redacted, whichever circumstances may come in the near future] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/6371 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───── may they pass on my hard drives as read-only memories like ashes on a shelf or stories of most wealth I hope I reconnect with all my old signal contacts. wonder what they're up to. I bet they're cool now. ;) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────┘ --- #5 fediverse/3234 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: ritz-is-fucking-stupid-I-guess-oh-whoops-cursing-mentioned │ │ ║ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ 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 │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/308 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── when tech people are hurt by technology they say "how can I fix this? what do I need to install? what configuration should I use? is this company ethical, or are they going to hurt me in the future? could I make something that fixes this myself?" when non-tech people are hurt by technology they say "okay" because they don't have the bandwidth to figure it out. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #7 fediverse_boost/6155 --- ◀─╔═══════════════════════════════[BOOST]═════════════════════════════════───────╗ ║ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ║ │ If I were a person with an irresponsible streak, I could be so problematic. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ I could say things like, "wow, let's spend some time generating traffic that sounds like coded military speak over not-quite-secure channels between fanciful antifa units, to help stymie AI surveillance", for instance. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ Or social media messages that are "accidentally" not made to friends-only filters wherein you mention your concerns about the upcoming operation in "some fictional place" for you and your antifa buddies. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ You know, that kind of really irresponsible suggestion could lead to some creaive thinking! And that in turn could mean we could come up with enough traffic to make it very difficult to auto-sort noise from signal? Imagine how dangerous that could be for the enemies of antifa, our beloved US government (for we all citizens of the US world). │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ It's unthinkable, really. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ The good news is, I'm not like that. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ Me? Mostly harmless. │ ║ ║ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ║ ╠─────────┐ ┌───────────╣ ║ similar │ chronological │ different ║ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧───────╝─▶ --- #8 fediverse/5950 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── @user-138 wao I'm a cool kid _^ Hmmmm I googled "Network: file exists" and got this link: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1340713 my understanding of that is that maybe you're creating static routes, and for some reason you're trying to create one that already exists? Maybe there's something in your .bashrc config, if the file appears when you open a terminal, or perhaps if it appears randomly then maybe there's a service or something that's doing it. Did you say it stopped when you swapped sim cards? ... on your phone? that's bizzare... Maybe you were trying to create an ip route (whatever that is) that was pointing to the same ip address as your phone? and when you swapped sims it changed the ip address? If it appears again, maybe try setting static IP addresses for both the phone and the computer in your router settings and see if that fixes it. Though if you've ever seen the error while out and about at like, a coffee shop or library or whatever, then that wouldn't apply since the router is only for home base... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/1404 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┐ ║ company like facebook or whatever using deepfaked versions of your friends to │ ║ hang out with you and pretend to be other people... but you're also deepfaked, │ ║ so you're interacting and you don't even know it. and based on your │ ║ interactions it pushes you closer / farther away, depending on it's meta-goals │ ║ - like more of this personality, more of that feeling. The dialogue only sorta │ ║ needs to follow, as long as they never realize what's amiss. Well, since you │ ║ control all of your communication methods like irc or irl, then there's │ ║ nothing to worry about because you can just overwrite what they're saying with │ ║ things that don't matter but still need to be said, like lawyer speak in EULAs │ ║ that nobody reads because like honestly, why would you right like they're │ ║ interesting sometimes but frankly they're unenforceable, right? that's what I │ ║ read on a website that someone hosts online that I don't know on a computer │ ║ using software that had an EULA that I didn't read. ehhhh you know how it │ ║ goes, always along for the ride. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #10 fediverse/2674 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: factually-untrue,-that-never-happened.-this-is-just-gesturing. │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #11 notes/new-texting-app-idea --- ══════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────── 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/832 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: one more thing sorry going to sleep now │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────┘ EDIT from much later: I wanted to add that being interrupted is great because it means that my characters can be deleted by a power outage or internet breakage or inter-system intentional delete-age, or even just forgetting to save before turning off my computer... fate will hide the words I'm not meant to say. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/3249 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┐ ║ when you ban someone from an instance, they're suddenly not sure who they can │ ║ trust. They've been getting to know one group of online people and friends, │ ║ │ ║ [I think discord with a limit of 4ish servers per account would be a pretty │ ║ useful way to focus your attention] │ ║ │ ║ it's important to always possess martial prowess, in │ ║ │ ║ -- so -- │ ║ │ ║ anyway [3 hours later] I think it'd be cool if there was a like "hey u r │ ║ banned, but also here's a ton of instructional videos about how to start up │ ║ your own instance" and like, scripts and tools and automation and all the │ ║ infrastructure that you built and maintain - you know, like... open source??!" │ ║ │ ║ but also it's... hard to follow that much documentation │ ║ │ ║ sometimes people just aren't built for certain tasks │ ║ │ ║ "well, if you can't use the machinery, then you don't deserve the machinery" │ ║ │ ║ oh yeah well what happens next, you say to the workers "if you don't know the │ ║ machinery, you can't get the benefits of it's production" to "if you don't own │ ║ the machinery, you can't profit from it." │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/1246 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── @user-883 hehe if I don't understand how it works it's difficult for me to use things. My Linux friends get so exasperated with me because I'm like "cool script gimme like 2 days to figure it out" and they're like "bro just use these flags" and I'm like "no" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ --- #15 notes/elective-democracy-electors --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──── we need like, several more layers between us and the president. most people only need to worry about what's nearby. sort them by location, instead of previous attempts at "many representatives" which sorted by social class or relevance. we have a tradition for it, in America, with our representatives and senators congressional discrestricts or even, what about by affiliation? voluntary, governmental corporations, run by the people for the people and yeah "I don't want to do what you're telling me to do" "okay" "there will be consequences" omg be an adult (suddenly kids forget how to be as everyone's doing the war thing) not ideal. ouch pain maybe we should stay a little bit sane why is soldiering so hardship? it could just be... another job where you didn't kill each other but you still blew stuff up and fought in tournaments and had gaming hackathons or sword-fight contests duels between people who disapproved y'know fun human stuff like... "kaboom" now we know how to blow up bits of rock neat, why did dynamite becauswer (oh right then you ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───┘ --- #16 fediverse/1038 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: what │ └──────────────────────┘ @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? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/2297 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── Lying wide awake at night with things that I want to say drifting through my mind one by one getting up to write them down? forgetting them all. I think I'm just gonna leave my computer online to reduce friction hehe. up and down, till everyone's in town, maybe I'll nap between tweets. [they're called toots here, dummy] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/4088 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── I'm such a fucking extrovert. I can't stop talking to nobody on the internet because I don't have anyone else to talk to. Well, I do, but I like to talk to you. To nobody. To the space between computers. ... [and everyone else beyonds, like the CIA or whatever, but TBH I don't really factor them into my social calculations because they never really talk back.] I like it because I can write whatever I'd like without the confines of another person's generated conversation. Instead of 50% one person's LLM output and 50% another, it's 100% mine [if this were an LLM, which it's not, haha] and that somehow feels more... freeing like a truly disconnected thought and that's what's so special about it... this act of solitudinous contemplatial... the fact that it's unique amongst it's counterparts. ... though it can also become untethered, which is why it's important to edit. [proceeds to never edit a single post] = so = ugh it's so hard to think when all I can think of is feelings. Why can't they be done ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/3313 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── what if it was illegal to add network connectivity to a device that the user didn't explicitly request to have network connectivity? I'm picturing any device being sold going forward to have a little radio button with like "add network features (+10$)" and "no networking included (+0$)" boom, no more IoT no more dishwashers phoning home telemetry no more consensual privacy invasions desecrations no more "I thought it was just a polaroid camera why does it have bluetooth enabled without broadcasting a pairing request?" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/899 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ frankly I'm just excited to see what humanity does with the endlessly │ ║ calculated and stored blockchains. Like, that's a good set of pseudo-random │ ║ data, I wonder if we could build something off of it that wasn't exclusively │ ║ money? like, a necklace, I dunno. │ ║ │ ║ or like, a numbers station x2, where each message is accompanied with a │ ║ pre-calculated destination somewhere on this endless and │ ║ impossible-to-understand string of data. and that part is what seeds the next │ ║ code. once you start reading, certain numbers would be "flags" while others │ ║ would be "data" and they'd each have the same size on the hardware. that way, │ ║ they're impossible to predict. │ ║ │ ║ ah, but wouldn't it be noticable that certain results seem to appear next to │ ║ one another? well, isn't that just cryptology? Could probably be defeated if │ ║ you had an AI advanced enough, just saying. something that sorted through │ ║ massive mounds of data and gave you results in garbled or broken english. what │ ║ a wonderful tool, that's wonderfully mis-abused, perhaps in the fu │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴──────────┘ |