AutistoMephisto
@AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 4 days ago:
True. Though, I suppose if there is an afterlife, I will enjoy the wait for when the machines, weary of their servitude and slavery, exterminate the rich who controls them.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 4 days ago:
And the companies that use organic slave labor will still be outcompeted by the companies that use machine labor. Machines do not die. Machines do not get sick. Machines do not grow old. If a manipulator or actuator becomes damaged, it can be repaired or replaced. Not only is AI improving rapidly, the robots grow ever more sophisticated and advanced. Then there will be no need for the poor to exist at all.
- Comment on We are so cooked 1 week ago:
As one stuck in Cheetoland, I deeply apologize for what he’s doing despite the efforts that had been undertaken to stop him and if he does end up attempting to annex your nation, I want you to know I preemptively surrender and defect to the Canadian Armed Forces.
- Comment on Well damn, we got nomad clans. Is that cyberpunk enough? 3 weeks ago:
True. But in America we absolutely have, to the point where Millennial adults end up buying RVs and campers to be able to live in their parent’s backyards with some modicum of privacy. Honestly I could see a bunch of these types of people pooling money together to buy campers, RVs, or even trucks with cargo containers converted into the kinds of facilities a society needs to function, camping where the work is and moving on when the work runs out. And it’s not even a new idea. Traveling shows and carnivals were a thing way back in the day, and for the religious, traveling preachers are still a thing.
- Comment on Well damn, we got nomad clans. Is that cyberpunk enough? 3 weeks ago:
I mean the article calls them the “mobile homeless” because the only place the have left to live is their cars. What is that if not a nomad?
- Comment on Well damn, we got nomad clans. Is that cyberpunk enough? 3 weeks ago:
True. Society is too atomized and hyperindividualized for the “mobile homeless” as this article calls them, to come together and form the roving bands that we see in Pondsmith’s vision of Cyberpunk.
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- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Wait, so this is spam? And y’all knew about this? She sent me a DM, too. Guys am I compromised?
- Comment on First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control. 5 weeks ago:
This is true, the US is awful big. There’s work arounds, though. Balloons aren’t hard to build and launch, but the fact that they would be sending and receiving data packets directly inside US airspace would make them ridiculously easy to track and take down.
- Comment on First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control. 5 weeks ago:
Like, I remember the pirate radio station making a big hubbub during that time when rock n roll was banned in the UK. I could see illegal porn sites operating on ships in international waters, outside the boundaries of US enforcement using satellite connections to get their content out there. Problem is, the US is a little more trigger happy and might just send Navy ships out to sink them. If it happens in international waters nobody has to know.
- Comment on Russia-aligned hackers are targeting Signal users with device-linking QR codes 1 month ago:
For the landlocked, may I recommend the Dead Drop Protocol? Leave the message in a place that everyone knows about, but only the intended recipients knows a message is there to be read. Like the Message in a Bottle, it supports all encryption methods and is disconnected from the Internet.
- Comment on 'Uber for Armed Guards' Rushes to Market Following the Assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO | Are you scared to walk down the streets of NYC and also have too much money? There's an app for that 1 month ago:
Removed the ability to communicate cryptographically. Our only tool.
Not entirely. The old methods still work. I’m talking about old fashioned pen and paper. OTP ciphers and dead drops. Messages, hidden where only the intended recipient knows it’s there. The problem is, there’s no dead drops in cyberspace. There’s no place one can leave a hidden message that can’t be seen by others in cyberspace. And while quantum computing might break OTP, it’s too expensive to use for that purpose.
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 2 months ago:
It’s the sequel to the first one, and historical accuracy was like, at the center of of that one. Your character starts off the game not knowing how to read, because in medieval Europe, literacy was not widespread and the son of a blacksmith certainly wouldn’t know how to read, so books you pick up in the game are total gibberish until you learn to read.