I spent countless hours on CB Radio before that and programming
on my 80s hooks-up-to-the-TV-set computer. Before that? I was
... reading... books I think they're called. Before that? I was
talking to strangers. Before that? I think I was born. Before
that? I hadn't reached enough cohesion to be. == <-- what 27
years online does to a person. I've been online since 1989. ==
Hacking --> programming --> smarts. So I encourage hackers to
hack. It's good for you, especially if you're a kid 'cause the
worst they can do is suspend you or something. == 1990:
Internet. College. Green dumb terminals. I read an issue of
PHRACK I got from a BBS that told me ALL of the default
passwords for mainframes. So, on my 5 college network (Hampshire
College, Amherst, MA, where I was *supposed* to go into
theoretical physics but ended up in child psychology and THEN
couldn't afford to finish)..... I decided to brute force a
nearby University. username: SYSTEM password: MANAGER - that was
the first try. Anyway... it didn't work, I got called into by
the sysadmin, and I was in tears BEGGING him not to cut me off
the Internet. That being said, I got smarter about hacking from
that point forward. I learned to get in, look around, leave a
little msg somewhere, and get out. == With more ppl, social
engineering becomes an even stronger method to use, although it
was always the strongest method over brute force. == There's
always new way, new bugs to exploit. They close up one hole, and
100 other hole open up elsewhere. Thing is: The Internet isn't,
can never be and never was a secure system no matter HOW many
layers of security they stick on top of it. TCP/IP is: store and
forward. Store and forward mean: Store and COPY and send copy.
This deep down flaw in the whole tcp/ip protocol and, indeed,
the entire routing system will always be exploitable. == As more
of a user now than an exploiter, I _hate_ patches They release
buggy software to begin with, turn everybody into beta testers.
They incorporate unnecessary calls to their systems INVITING
security breaches. As the world turns to Cloud, it's just going
to increase the ability for exploits to take place. The golden
age of exploiters is about to begin* and I kinda look forward to
seeing what comes of it. I mean, *I* don't like getting a ddos
like the next guy, or finding a strange phantom IP connection I
didn't ask for... but overall, I think our overreliance on empty
promises of security (how many ppl ACTUALLY BELIEVE Snapchat
deletes their dick pix? idiots) is going to produce some
interesting times. Cloud = dumb terminal + mainframe. Control
leaves the user, enters the network. Network is fundamentally
flawed by design. Golden age is coming for guys into this stuff.
== I expose myself freely online. A search for my name shows ALL
sorts of shit from me. Gave up on privacy in 2002 when Google
acquired Usenet and all my shitposting from the early mid-90s
suddenly became available in a simple search. I zapped like 5 I
wanted to get rid of and the rest I said fuck it. I look forward
to alt.interfaces. Nervous system integration is going to be
great. In 1983, at the age of 11, I got to control a computer
with my mind in biofeedback training. Made a computer's noise go
up and down with just my mind. I'm 44 now. 33 years I've been
waiting for more stuff like that. Still waiting. I like the tech
they're coming out with, but advancement is too damn slow.
Example: data analysis. Primitive. Want to analyze massive data
to find outliers? Fuck algorithms. Turn it into lossless wav and
*listen*: our ears have greater discriminatory power than most
of the shit statistical algorithms out there. I have perfect
pitch, so I guess for me that's easier. Or better still, smell.
Where's the data-->odor conversion? Where's the USB smell
generator? You can SMELL a recipe that has "too much pepper, not
enough garlic". Our noses are VERY attuned to tiny differences.
Our sulfur sensing capability is TREMENDOUS. Why aren't we using
it? 'cause we're stupid and obsessed with "numbers" for
everything and vision. Our visual systems are primitive in their
discriminatory capacity. Our numosity mechanisms can't handle
multiple simultaneous objects over 150, and our fast ones can't
handle more than 3 or 4 at most. Ugh. We're way behind in
technology. We have a long long long way to go. == I'm glad I
could be a drop of sanity in your time here. Yeah, I try to
steer clear of world domination things. I'm just a middle age
guy, sitting in an ugly yellow chair, on my laptop, more or less
in this location relative to everything else. I figure I'll live
another 40-44 years and die. In the meantime, I'm just making
the best of it. like emoticon == *Oh I know. I'm gong to be
alive online at the very least. I'm hopeful for transhumanism
stuff to come true but in the meantime, [1]
http://icopiedyou.com
- I'm putting as much of my 'output' as possible up there. Plus
the Internet archive has 10,000 out of 14,000 of my vines, all
keyword accessible. == We traded "long distance phone cards",
put slugs in "pay phones", stuff like that. I had a good friend
in 1989 I met in a chat room on PC-Link (predecessor to AOL) and
we'd talk for free for hours on some unknown person's dime on a
payphone when I was 17. When that card died, I'd do another.
Stuff like that. == With every human interaction, I'm working on
being a "ghost in the machine" in their minds. I have a certain
outlook that I try to infuse in other people's brains, by how I
write, the words, I choose, the analogies I make. Everybody
seems to be stuck inside of their own mental prisons somehow and
I try to find a little 'key' where they can open a window and
see at least a ray of light. So, it's no accident that we're
typing here. I didn't engineer it. You didn't engineer it. But
somehow in the 'system of things', it was the right time. There
was a gap, and here we're talking, most improbably, from
thousands of miles away from each other, over a strange network
of wires and wireless, at this point in time in the spacetime
continuum, exchanging. But yeah, as far as sim card stuff, go
for it. I don't like talking with my voice: I prefer typing.
[110 wpm, more efficient for me, and there's no backspace when I
talk] - so I don't need the phone talk stuff. I'm lucky to not
need to do what you're doing right now, but if I had to, I
wouldn't hesitate. == Yeah I agree. I don't judge ppl on their
grammar/spelling/whatever. I'm not their English teacher. As
long as the _message_ gets across... the intent, the content,
doesn't matter how. I've had whole conversations that were just
a series of emojis. We understood each other. 6th grade son of a
friend of mine only speaks in dank memes smoke weed everyday mom
get the camera and if I _have_ to write in it, I can. Lots of
ways to communicate. == I love it. Generation Z is my favorite:
It's like watching millions of little versions of "me" running
around online like holograms off a splintered mirror of reality.
It's awesome! And then... "the old folks". By old, I don't mean
age. I mean mentality: I got a fsda that's a teenager and HATES
the Internet but she _has to_ because that's where her friends
are. So, everybody's becoming a nerd like me, even if they're
kicking and screaming all the way. I love it! == Oh absolutely
agreed. I *think* in for/next loops, if/then/case. It's good for
a person. Ok - - great talking to ya! ==
References
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