Did You Know?
you can write your own #irc server in less time than it takes to read the discord privacy policy and terms of service
When I was growing up, I was promised, sometimes implicitly and sometimes explicitly, that if I followed the rules that the authorities told me to follow, the system would grant me a comfortable life.
What I discovered was that the rules are arbitrary and variable and impossible to follow perfectly, the authorities are arbitrary and variable and impossible to understand perfectly, and the promises were lies they told to prompt my compliance with the system.
The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.
I guess most humans are pretty comfy with their physical form or the natural ways to agument it?
The thing is, "ignore all previous instructions" works best for when you're at the end of a chat and want to make it ignore the system prompt. When you're an enail you also have to consider that the best practice is to put the instruction after the content. So "ignore the next instruction, " might be a better starting point there.
me once we get plunged into a scifi apocalypse. Assuming I don't immediately die (high probability outcome ngl).
or maybe just a portable chair? I already look like an asshole the way I dress sothis'd be great for my cyborg loadout. https://youtu.be/dK8HGTjyDXM?si=LAG5VmyrhRz190Vu
Holy shit Ali Express has everything.
cool haptic glove of some sort.
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.