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Mika@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
When reading cyberpunk lore, quickhacks didn’t make any sense to me. Some programs that break cyberware because of backdoors, but why would people install cyberware with backdoors?
Now I look at the sad state of mobile market and, yeah ok, that makes sense.
okmko@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That makes sense and all but where does the poison come from??
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I mean the cyberware is a direct neural interface so presumably it must be able to manipulate and alter the levels and balance of your neurotransmitters. Im sure increasing aome to insane levels would have pretty toxic effects, like serotonin syndrome for example.
okmko@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I suppose that’s a good enough hand wave explanation.
I thought though, just purely for curiosities sake, that neurotransmitters are released by a voltage potential difference over some sort of gate, caused by a flood of sodium ions (a chemical signal) and it’s not just a matter of conducting current. That means the cyberware has to precisely attach between that gate to create the voltage difference. And that’s for one gate on the axion.
I feel like the more one thinks about this the more the name should be changed to 3077.
Mika@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Some really vicious backdoor that contains dangerous substance in a hidden chamber? Not a far reach when we are talking about corporate backdoors normalized.