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Errr umm uh. Hi? Is this thing on? Weirdo from Web 1.0 and probably before that. (Compu$erve, anyone?) Just poking around the fediverse.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@lucasarts_places/116330904734309665

Not that this actually existed at the time, but people are doing it now.

FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".

Consequently, translating "nanotechnology" as "dwarven machinery" is arguably defensible.

sudo klaatu barada nikto
Monkey Island 2 - LeChuck's Revenge
The Secret of Monkey Island (DOS EGA)
I laughed harder than I should have at this:
Guybrush Threepwood - made with Hero Forge

This custom tabletop miniature character named Guybrush Threepwood, designed on Hero Forge. Hero Forge® is a free-to-use online character creator that empowers you to design and order your own custom miniatures.

I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another

But, the agents installed weren't given instructions to *do* anything yet.

Soon they will be. And when they are, the havoc will be massive. Unlike traditional worms, where you're looking for the typically byte-for-byte identical worm embedded in the system, an agent worm can do different, nondeterministic things on every install, and carry out a global action.

I suspect we're months away from seeing the first agent worm, *if* that. There may already be some happening right now in FOSS projects, undetected.

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines

A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into something new: one AI tool bootstrapping another.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

I know this #Discord nonsense has a lot of people searching for alternatives (like Matrix, Stoat, etc), and those alternatives have a chance to shine right now. BUT we need to go back to discussions and knowledge being searchable on the open web!

I say bring back the forums. It's time.