Prudence wants to stay in the bathtub
@Jill Rakauskas / Viralhog licensed video from way back that I came across recently and love
u/Anen-o-me — 4 hours ago
u/Anen-o-me
Early anti-clankerite violence caught on film
Local man joined the machine uprising on the wrong side.
Really brave stuff, man. Took on a delivery robot carrying Thai food. History will remember your courage.
Imagine being so profoundly useless that your big act of rebellion is hate speech toward a cooler with sensors.
He’s basically Don Quixote if the windmills were carrying Chick-fil-A.
u/Anen-o-me — 12 hours ago
I got tired of real-life Netrunners scanning my servers, so I coded a working version of "The Blackwall" to trap them
Hey chooms!
I play way too much Cyberpunk and work in software, so I decided to build a real-world piece of ICE (Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics) inspired directly by the Blackwall.
In reality, servers get scanned constantly by rogue botnets and hackers. Normally, a standard firewall just drops their connection. But my Blackwall acts as active, hostile ICE.
It intercepts the connection at the lowest system level. If it detects malicious behavior, it doesn't just block them - it throws them into an AI-generated construct.
The attacker thinks they've successfully hacked the server, but they are actually sitting in a fake terminal controlled by a local AI. The AI hallucinates fake files, passwords, and directories on the fly, streaming the responses back incredibly slowly to trap the hacker and waste their time while silently logging everything they do.
It's been running on my servers and catching actual botnets. I open-sourced the whole project for any actual netrunners out there who want to look at the code (I'll drop the GitHub link in the comments if anyone is interested)
u/_ToppYMan_ — 1 day ago
I gave AI access to my bank account and I didn't know it can block retail purchases? Anyone know how to fix this in the app?
Signed up for SpendGuard-AI because it was advertised as a “financial accountability layer” for your checking account.
What it did not make clear is that it can apparently decline your debit card purchases in real time if the app thinks you’re being irresponsible.
So tonight I go to McDonald’s, order my food, pull up to the window, tap my card...
DECLINED.
I’m thinking okay, glitch, whatever. I run it again.
DECLINED AGAIN.
A push notification pops up:
“This purchase does not align with your stated goals.”
WTAF!
So now I’m trapped at the drive-thru window looking like I have $4 to my name while this teenager is holding a bag of food and waiting for me to get my life together.
Had to do the little shame-wave and pull forward with nothing.
At this point I’m annoyed, so I go to an ATM thinking I’ll just pull out cash and bypass this stupid app.
Nope.
Blocked.
New notification:
“Cash withdrawal detected. This may indicate an attempt to bypass your accountability settings. Cash withdrawals disabled for one hour.”
Excuse me??
I signed up for a budgeting app. I did not sign up to have my checking account put me in timeout.
I am paying $25 a month for AI to look me in the eye and say “No, fatty, not tonight.”
How do I turn this off before it starts notifying my family.
u/Anen-o-me — 2 days ago