owlboy Feb 23
Jim Stormdancer
Remember when malware pretended to be a little guy? Why did they stop doing that? If Discord promised that you could be friends with a cartoon gorilla, people would be falling over themselves to give out their social security numbers
Feb 21 at 7:04amTusky
Show threadggnFeb 21
@mogwai_poet Perhaps Clippy ruined that chance!
Show threadJim StormdancerFeb 21
@ggn I think it's time for Clippy to come back too
Show threadsbszineFeb 21
@mogwai_poet I went to a friends place once to remove all the malware & viruses from her laptop and she got angry when Bonzi Buddy was one of the casualties. Genuinely useful apparently.
Show threadJim StormdancerFeb 21
@sbszine How else is she supposed to email or schedule or download??
Show threadDJ Tent ModeFeb 21

@mogwai_poet Remember when “downloading” was such a valuable feature it would be advertised in Comic Sans?

Wait… how did they get Bonzai Buddy in the first place?

Show threadJim StormdancerFeb 21
@DJTentMode Perhaps a Bonzi Acquaintance helped them out
Show threadDanielFeb 21
@mogwai_poet Now that I am thinking about it, I am surprised bad actors didn't try to scam info out of folk by saying it was part of the Frog Fractions ARG back in the day.
Show threadJim StormdancerFeb 21
@samitchdoo Yeah I can't believe nobody tried to ride those coattails
Show threadMaxFeb 21
@mogwai_poet Now we’re at the worse stage where all these apps pretend to be your sexy girlfriend or boyfriend. (Backed by ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, charging 7 cents a text message or $1 a photo, $5 if you want to pretend the virtual sex doll has nipples.) They’ve recreated the data rates of early 00s SMS sexting with more malware and even less coherent “porn” 😹