NaibofTabr @ NaibofTabr @infosec.pub

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And don't you worry, the AI, the advertising partners and anyone who pays for data access can still see all of it anyway.

Well my point was more that there's a bit of a rose-tint in this person's description of the "early internet"... unless they mean really early, like ARPANET early.

Plenty of rage-bait attention seeking in the mid-2000s.

I mean... how old is 4chan? .../b/?

But did you learn about the motherfucking best ipsum?

One of the more revealing – and darkly amusing – features was the phone’s automatic censorship of words deemed problematic by the state.

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Pain is a great teacher.

If you had the hardware to build a robot that could "feel" the world around it, and you wanted it to self-teach how to move around on its own (so that you don't have to pre-define movement paths), you would probably program in a system that could interpret potentially damaging sensations as danger/bad and avoid them automatically (too hot/too cold/too sharp/too hard/etc). That system would essentially be a pain response.

Because it's a 1-lane road, you're going 20 under the limit and refuse to use any turnouts.

3D printer of Theseus

There's nothing functionally communist about the government of China.

Taco will be the next word banned from federal information systems.

no shit son

Trump exploded the value of the US dollar by destroying the trustworthiness of the US as a trading partner, and the market is responding.

Only if you take her with it.

Yep, mass surveillance, AI, and crypto all rolled into one big police state power play. Isn't modern technology wonderful?

Graphene is the most amazing material, it can do anything you can imagine - except leave the lab.

The Internet Used to be a Place

There are still active webrings:

sadgrl.online webring directory
\ digilord.neocities.org/webring
\ webringworld.org
\ brisray webring list

"Worldcoin" is explicitly a project to create a global database of retinal patterns to sell to governments and law enforcement agencies.

archive.org link to the article shown in the video: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes

another more recent article: Where is Naomi Wu?

The very last online communication I'm aware of from Naomi was this update on the book she launched on Crowd Supply: Project update 3 of 3: Perfect Your Pronunciation, dated 25 April 2024, so she was at least still alive and had access to the internet at that point.

picture this...

Company Scrip

It's the same old grift.

It foists basically all mechanic decisions that aren't directly related to combat onto DM adjudication, and provides very little guidance.

The idea here is that the D&D ruleset is supposed to be permissive, not restrictive:

• permissive - anything not explicitly prohibited is allowed
• restrictive - anything not explicitly allowed is prohibited

The gameplay experience depends greatly on which of these directions you interpret rules from. So, when you say that it "provides very little guidance", that's intentional, because it allows the DM and the players to use the basic structure of the game to support and inspire having fun and being creative. It should be a foundation, not a cage.

D&D was always intended to be an open framework for actual roleplaying. The munchkin concept of gaming the rules for min-maxing stats came later.

Rules lawyers, be they DM or player, make playing less fun.