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February 1st, 2021

packbat: One-quarter view of the back of my head. (quarter-rear)
Monday, February 1st, 2021 09:29 am

Found this a while ago on itch.io but are still intrigued by it: "Video Games in a Low←Tech Future, a web of ideas contemplating what technologically-mediated entertainment might look like in a particular low-resources future Earth.

It's kind of a fascinating idea - turning a lot of fundamental assumptions (always-available electricity, always-available network connections, gigabytes of memory and gigahertz of processor power) that a lot of us on the Internet can assume without thinking, and using the contradiction of these assumptions to imagine how this art form that we love might persist recognizably into the future.

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Monday, February 1st, 2021 08:08 pm

There was a geminispace gemlog post we saw recently about certificates describing an issue and we wanted to respond to it. We continue to not be on Geminispace and not be experts in networking anything - our qualifications amount to having seen a YouTube video about Superfish once - so ... yeah, don't go off the fact that we made this suggestion, somebody who knows what they're talking about vet this.

Anyway, we have a metaphor involving four characters - Adrian (who's set up a website), Binny (a computer manufacturer), Cory (a certificate authority), and us (a casual browser) - and two certificates - an old one and a new one.

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Like I said, our qualifications amount to watching a YouTube video about Superfish once, so we might just be wrong. And we've never done anything with TLS, so we don't know if this is even feasible for Adrian to do. But it feels like a possibility to consider.