[HN Gopher] Reaching the Enchanted Forest
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       Reaching the Enchanted Forest
        
       Author : dansitu
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2024-06-21 14:52 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | card_zero wrote:
       | The ancient spirits of the enchanted forest, the Greek dryads,
       | the Shinto _kami,_ and Microsoft 's Clippy.
        
         | 082349872349872 wrote:
         | > _Microsoft 's Clippy_
         | 
         | How many hecatombs will we have to sacrifice to neo-Clippy to
         | make it go away?
         | 
         | Don't forget slavic Rusalki, or Phillip K. Dick's smart door:
         | 
         | > _"The door refused to open. It said, "Five cents, please." He
         | searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. "I'll pay you
         | tomorrow," he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it
         | remained locked tight. "What I pay you," he informed it, "is in
         | the nature of a gratuity; I don't have to pay you." "I think
         | otherwise," the door said. "Look in the purchase contract you
         | signed when you bought this conapt." In his desk drawer he
         | found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary
         | to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to
         | his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee.
         | Not a tip. "You discover I'm right," the door said. It sounded
         | smug. From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless
         | steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the
         | bolt assembly of his apt's money-gulping door. "I'll sue you,"
         | the door said as the first screw fell out._
        
       | advael wrote:
       | I like this idea for a lot of reasons, but I think the best
       | reason to like it is that it presents a compelling technological
       | vision of the future that motivates upending and destroying the
       | incumbent model of the world realized by the modern surveillance
       | state. It's way easier to know what you don't want than what you
       | want, but without even the edges of a goal state it's hard to
       | coordinate the monumental effort it takes to do hard stuff. I
       | don't know which way the causality arrow points, but the rise of
       | solarpunk aesthetics seems correlated and interconnected with
       | what some people are calling a revolution in green energy
       | technologies. As with that revolution, incumbent industries and
       | states supporting them serve as a significant obstacle to this
       | vision, as the network overseers will not withdraw from
       | surveilling our lives without a fight any more than the oil
       | barons are giving up the reins of their machines that poison the
       | earth to drive their "growth". I am a belligerent and easily
       | motivated by spite for tyrants, but most are actually not at the
       | end of the day, and revolutions (whether at the workshop, the
       | polls, the markets, or by the sword) require numbers. A positive
       | vision for what the world could be when the evil is defeated is
       | what motivates the mass of will needed for such an endeavor. And
       | also this particular vision is one I'd love to see realized
        
       | walterbell wrote:
       | To fulfill this inspiring vision of local autonomous private
       | sensing, we'll need optical ("Li-Fi") wireless networking, or
       | large-scale RF shielding for perimeter surfaces (wall, window,
       | floor, ceiling), as 2024-onward PCs and other devices ship with
       | human activity recognition radar a.k.a. Wi-Fi 7 Sensing.
       | 
       | We will also need robust network perimeter firewalls with 10+
       | years of security updates, preferably based on reproducible,
       | open-source, memory-safe software for all security-critical
       | functions, unlike existing consumer routers that are routinely
       | pwned.
        
       | davidw wrote:
       | As an Oregonian, I'm thinking "well, head towards Salem..."
        
         | tcmart14 wrote:
         | That is exact thing I am thinking. Funny enough, going there
         | next weekend, haha.
        
           | joeywas wrote:
           | Have fun! So many memories there. I can't wait to take my
           | kids there when they are old enough to appreciate it. :)
        
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