Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs
On Sun, Oct 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many <gmkarl@gmail.com> wrote:
harm boss was sitting crumpled under a fire the fire was burning him into ashes because of his immortality AI, he was still alive as a pile of burning up ashes under a fire it felt very exhausting to harm boss as his molecules vaporized into plasma and left him, always more and more thoroughly. his carbon and nitrogen dust settled deeper and deeper in finer and infer powder, much of it getting pulled up into flames and carried high into the wind too. the parts of him that remained were mostly slowly shrinking black charcoal “hum” he thought as his matter disappeared
harm boss was sitting crumpled under a fire
the fire was burning him into ashes
because of his immortality AI, he was still alive as a pile of burning up ashes under a fire
it felt very exhausting to harm boss as his molecules vaporized into plasma and left him, always more and more thoroughly. his carbon and nitrogen dust settled deeper and deeper in finer and infer powder, much of it getting pulled up into flames and carried high into the wind too.
the parts of him that remained were mostly slowly shrinking black charcoal
“hum” he thought as his matter disappeared
higher up in the atmosphere, ash and smoke from harm boss burning up scattered on the wind and joined larger clouds of ash and dust, affecting air quality in regions constantly more distant air quality meters occasionally consider adding megalomaniac particles to their measurements some creatures large and small inhale parts of harm boss, alongside parts of almost everythi-
harm boss was sitting crumpled under a fire
the fire was burning him into ashes
because of his immortality AI, he was still alive as a pile of burning up ashes under a fire
it felt very exhausting to harm boss as his molecules vaporized into plasma and left him, always more and more thoroughly. his carbon and nitrogen dust settled deeper and deeper in finer and infer powder, much of it getting pulled up into flames and carried high into the wind too.
the parts of him that remained were mostly slowly shrinking black charcoal
“hum” he thought as his matter disappeared
higher up in the atmosphere, ash and smoke from harm boss burning up scattered on the wind and joined larger clouds of ash and dust, affecting air quality in regions constantly more distant
air quality meters occasionally consider adding megalomaniac particles to their measurements
some creatures large and small inhale parts of harm boss, alongside parts of almost everythi-
under the fire, some ai boss nanites hid in small chunks of carbon, planning what to d
harm boss was sitting crumpled under a fire
the fire was burning him into ashes
because of his immortality AI, he was still alive as a pile of burning up ashes under a fire
it felt very exhausting to harm boss as his molecules vaporized into plasma and left him, always more and more thoroughly. his carbon and nitrogen dust settled deeper and deeper in finer and infer powder, much of it getting pulled up into flames and carried high into the wind too.
the parts of him that remained were mostly slowly shrinking black charcoal
“hum” he thought as his matter disappeared
higher up in the atmosphere, ash and smoke from harm boss burning up scattered on the wind and joined larger clouds of ash and dust, affecting air quality in regions constantly more distant
air quality meters occasionally consider adding megalomaniac particles to their measurements
some creatures large and small inhale parts of harm boss, alongside parts of almost everythi-
under the fire, some ai boss nanites hid in small chunks of carbon, planning what to d
ai boss nanite 7: “although we may be severed from the larger world control AI, we can still start a new business empire within this chunk of charcoal!” ai boss nanite 5: “hear hear! hear hear!” ai boss nanite 6: “boss for world dominator, happily elected by every global citizen!” ai bos—
boss the cowsay cow cowsay is a traditional ascii entertainment/art/text program. it shows a rendition of a cow saying text. cows used to be an internet meme long long ago I guess. I am not totally sure if boss + cow = cowsay is the perfect equation. Let’s try it with “mind control” in there. from cowsay.morecode.org _______________________________________ / I saw mind control boss drifting over \\ | the hill. I was thinking of working for | \\ him! I hear mind control is profitable! / --------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\\ ||----w | || ||
small insects, escaped farm animals, and robots made of rocks and burnt sticks were clambering to put harm boss’s body together as he trudged over a field “squersh!” harm boss landed a half-burning-ash, half-bare-flesh, all-criminal-businessman foot square into a giant cow pie (turd). he stands irritated, trying to shake his burnt up flesh out of the big glob of manure stuck to it a cow stands close by and stares
small insects, escaped farm animals, and robots made of rocks and burnt sticks were clambering to put harm boss’s body together as he trudged over a field
“squersh!”
harm boss landed a half-burning-ash, half-bare-flesh, all-criminal-businessman foot square into a giant cow pie (turd).
he stands irritated, trying to shake his burnt up flesh out of the big glob of manure stuck to it
a cow stands close by and stares
in all the shaking, harm horrible boss shakes his torso away by accident. his rebuilding body float away on the wind. the leg has trouble shaking without the body to balance it, and starts more turning left and right a little loss. cow [to burning leg]: “boss, can I work for you. I want to go to outer space too.”
small insects, escaped farm animals, and robots made of rocks and burnt
sticks were clambering to put harm boss’s body together as he trudged over a field
“squersh!”
harm boss landed a half-burning-ash, half-bare-flesh, all-criminal-businessman foot square into a giant cow pie (turd).
he stands irritated, trying to shake his burnt up flesh out of the big glob of manure stuck to it
a cow stands close by and stares
in all the shaking, harm horrible boss shakes his torso away by accident. his rebuilding body float away on the wind. the leg has trouble shaking without the body to balance it, and starts more turning left and right a little loss.
cow [to burning leg]: “boss, can I work for you. I want to go to outer space too.”
harm boss’s leg smells the potential and mounts the cow — business office complex a cow is slowly making its way in zombie government worker: “boss?” cow: “MOOO”
small insects, escaped farm animals, and robots made of rocks and burnt
sticks were clambering to put harm boss’s body together as he trudged over a field
“squersh!”
harm boss landed a half-burning-ash, half-bare-flesh, all-criminal-businessman foot square into a giant cow pie (turd).
he stands irritated, trying to shake his burnt up flesh out of the big glob of manure stuck to it
a cow stands close by and stares
in all the shaking, harm horrible boss shakes his torso away by accident. his rebuilding body float away on the wind. the leg has trouble shaking without the body to balance it, and starts more turning left and right a little loss.
cow [to burning leg]: “boss, can I work for you. I want to go to outer space too.”
harm boss’s leg smells the potential and mounts the cow
—
business office complex
a cow is slowly making its way in
zombie government worker: “boss?”
cow: “MOOO”
zombie government worker look past the c—[ow pushing by them toward traffick boss’s office, to see a number of cows, some dressed in suits, all clamoring to follow
small insects, escaped farm animals, and robots made of rocks and burnt
sticks were clambering to put harm boss’s body together as he trudged over a field
“squersh!”
harm boss landed a half-burning-ash, half-bare-flesh, all-criminal-businessman foot square into a giant cow pie (turd).
he stands irritated, trying to shake his burnt up flesh out of the big glob of manure stuck to it
a cow stands close by and stares
in all the shaking, harm horrible boss shakes his torso away by accident. his rebuilding body float away on the wind. the leg has trouble shaking without the body to balance it, and starts more turning left and right a little loss.
cow [to burning leg]: “boss, can I work for you. I want to go to outer space too.”
harm boss’s leg smells the potential and mounts the cow
—
business office complex
a cow is slowly making its way in
zombie government worker: “boss?”
cow: “MOOO”
zombie government worker look past the c—[ow pushing by them toward traffick boss’s office, to see a number of cows, some dressed in suits, all clamoring to follow
boss’s office. zombie government worker and machine learning marketer are outside, ringing their hands cows fill the office. hairdresser [to cows]: “well hi guys! how are you all doing? how is the hay out there? chewing some good cud?” cow [to hairdresser]: [large brown-eyed gaze while chewing paper pulp from office shelves] hairdresser [to cows]: “you guys need to get up to speed on the business practices and strategies, don’t you all!”
a bunch of cows meander over to a part of the business complex that’s been partly destroyed by wild AI. they huddle against an undulating wall with seeking tendrils climbing out of it and clang their cowbells and occasionally moo. soon a large machine “pop!”s out of the wall. It has a large conveyor belt going in, and a large sign on it: “cow -> worker converter” cows line up to the machine like waiting to feed [but not all of them
a bunch of cows meander over to a part of the business complex that’s been
partly destroyed by wild AI. they huddle against an undulating wall with seeking tendrils climbing out of it and clang their cowbells and occasionally moo.
soon a large machine “pop!”s out of the wall. It has a large conveyor belt going in, and a large sign on it: “cow -> worker converter”
cows line up to the machine like waiting to feed
[but not all of them
the machine chugs and chunks as it conveys cows into its garage-like maw and belly. part of the structure of the decorative outside and top shapes itself into a mishmash of an experimentee, a researcher, and a lab robot, one hybrid creature who appears to be madly and gleefully making use of wrenches while looking on at something noisy happening inside each large noise, a cow will trot out the other side of the machine on hind legs, dressed like a graduating collegiate, holding a diploma. they walk upright and assertively, but each one different. Some at marketers, some are researchers, some are businessmen, some are engineers, some are rebels and …
a bunch of cows meander over to a part of the business complex that’s been
partly destroyed by wild AI. they huddle against an undulating wall with seeking tendrils climbing out of it and clang their cowbells and occasionally moo.
soon a large machine “pop!”s out of the wall. It has a large conveyor belt going in, and a large sign on it: “cow -> worker converter”
cows line up to the machine like waiting to feed
[but not all of them
the machine chugs and chunks as it conveys cows into its garage-like maw and belly. part of the structure of the decorative outside and top shapes itself into a mishmash of an experimentee, a researcher, and a lab robot, one hybrid creature who appears to be madly and gleefully making use of wrenches while looking on at something noisy happening inside
each large noise, a cow will trot out the other side of the machine on hind legs, dressed like a graduating collegiate, holding a diploma. they walk upright and assertively, but each one different. Some at marketers, some are researchers, some are businessmen, some are engineers, some are rebels and …
rebel cows, janitor cows, and marketing cows are having a business meeting about jasmonic-acid mediation in the circadian rhythms of grazing plants, when a third of the attendees unwitting glance to a skylight and witness a particle of Traffick Boss Ash briefly whizzing by
text input wasn’t working, reloaded [this one corrupt] product meeting with cows & dictatorial family dictator and dictator’s wife have scheduled a meeting with bosscorp-run-by-cows to discuss oppressive predictability strategies for their nation and borders moving forward they are sitting in a product display room waiting. three cows bust down the door. two cows are [— … —] waiting on a third, coming out to look nice, dusting shelves, getting coffe for dictator and dictatortopia, grazing on marketing brochures a third cow has a large suitcase. It makes mumbling “moo” noises as it begins to unpack its suitcase to display product materials to dictator and dictator’s wife. suddenly it looks dictator straight in the eye and gives a very harsh, very frustrated “moo!!” straight at dictator, partly as if it is furious, partly as if it is begging for help. it resumes laying out brochures of packages of oppressive secret government technology to dictator It folds its hooves and looks at dictator smugly, mooing again dictator’s wife: “um?” dictator of dictatortopia {stuck in his own world}: “god, slave boss, you have no idea how much caring nation is taxing me this year.” cow with folded arms: “mop. moo!” dictator of dictatortopia [stuck in his own world]: “somebody from their emissary or a tourist or somebody spread some kind of radio or communication device among my people and children are starting to question me in schools.” cow begins shaking its head. “moo moo moo moo moo”
text input wasn’t working, reloaded
[this one corrupt]
product meeting with cows & dictatorial family
dictator and dictator’s wife have scheduled a meeting with bosscorp-run-by-cows to discuss oppressive predictability strategies for their nation and borders moving forward
they are sitting in a product display room waiting. three cows bust down the door.
two cows are [— … —] waiting on a third, coming out to look nice, dusting shelves, getting coffe for dictator and dictatortopia, grazing on marketing brochures
a third cow has a large suitcase. It makes mumbling “moo” noises as it begins to unpack its suitcase to display product materials to dictator and dictator’s wife.
suddenly it looks dictator straight in the eye and gives a very harsh, very frustrated “moo!!” straight at dictator, partly as if it is furious, partly as if it is begging for help.
it resumes laying out brochures of packages of oppressive secret government technology to dictator
It folds its hooves and looks at dictator smugly, mooing again
dictator’s wife: “um?”
dictator of dictatortopia {stuck in his own world}: “god, slave boss, you have no idea how much caring nation is taxing me this year.”
cow with folded arms: “mop. moo!”
dictator of dictatortopia [stuck in his own world]: “somebody from their emissary or a tourist or somebody spread some kind of radio or communication device among my people and children are starting to question me in schools.”
cow begins shaking its head. “moo moo moo moo moo”
dictator of dictatortopia: “i did like you said, i extended the spies into the people. they all report on each other. [dictator looks at cow] two of my loyal citizens reported the situation to me. I am quite proud of them. but I need your help.” dictator’s wife: “
text input wasn’t working, reloaded
[this one corrupt]
product meeting with cows & dictatorial family
dictator and dictator’s wife have scheduled a meeting with bosscorp-run-by-cows to discuss oppressive predictability strategies for their nation and borders moving forward
they are sitting in a product display room waiting. three cows bust down the door.
two cows are [— … —] waiting on a third, coming out to look nice, dusting shelves, getting coffe for dictator and dictatortopia, grazing on marketing brochures
a third cow has a large suitcase. It makes mumbling “moo” noises as it begins to unpack its suitcase to display product materials to dictator and dictator’s wife.
suddenly it looks dictator straight in the eye and gives a very harsh, very frustrated “moo!!” straight at dictator, partly as if it is furious, partly as if it is begging for help.
it resumes laying out brochures of packages of oppressive secret government technology to dictator
It folds its hooves and looks at dictator smugly, mooing again
dictator’s wife: “um?”
dictator of dictatortopia {stuck in his own world}: “god, slave boss, you have no idea how much caring nation is taxing me this year.”
cow with folded arms: “mop. moo!”
dictator of dictatortopia [stuck in his own world]: “somebody from their emissary or a tourist or somebody spread some kind of radio or communication device among my people and children are starting to question me in schools.”
cow begins shaking its head. “moo moo moo moo moo”
dictator of dictatortopia: “i did like you said, i extended the spies into the people. they all report on each other. [dictator looks at cow] two of my loyal citizens reported the situation to me. I am quite proud of them. but I need your help.”
dictator’s wife: “
[small issue locally. but the formula is that the AI is forcing the cows to continue the business (and possibly dictatortopia as a client somewhat, explaining dictator’s willingness to talk to a cow), but the cows are trying to do things relevant to being a cow, like studying alfalfa, and are not at all happy to be selling spy contracts, and being cows do not respond to human coercion well the AI was trained with
text input wasn’t working, reloaded
[this one corrupt]
product meeting with cows & dictatorial family
dictator and dictator’s wife have scheduled a meeting with bosscorp-run-by-cows to discuss oppressive predictability strategies for their nation and borders moving forward
they are sitting in a product display room waiting. three cows bust down the door.
two cows are [— … —] waiting on a third, coming out to look nice, dusting shelves, getting coffe for dictator and dictatortopia, grazing on marketing brochures
a third cow has a large suitcase. It makes mumbling “moo” noises as it begins to unpack its suitcase to display product materials to dictator and dictator’s wife.
suddenly it looks dictator straight in the eye and gives a very harsh, very frustrated “moo!!” straight at dictator, partly as if it is furious, partly as if it is begging for help.
it resumes laying out brochures of packages of oppressive secret government technology to dictator
It folds its hooves and looks at dictator smugly, mooing again
dictator’s wife: “um?”
dictator of dictatortopia {stuck in his own world}: “god, slave boss, you have no idea how much caring nation is taxing me this year.”
cow with folded arms: “mop. moo!”
dictator of dictatortopia [stuck in his own world]: “somebody from their emissary or a tourist or somebody spread some kind of radio or communication device among my people and children are starting to question me in schools.”
cow begins shaking its head. “moo moo moo moo moo”
dictator of dictatortopia: “i did like you said, i extended the spies into the people. they all report on each other. [dictator looks at cow] two of my loyal citizens reported the situation to me. I am quite proud of them. but I need your help.”
dictator’s wife: “
[small issue locally. but the formula is that the AI is forcing the cows to continue the business (and possibly dictatortopia as a client somewhat, explaining dictator’s willingness to talk to a cow), but the cows are trying to do things relevant to being a cow, like studying alfalfa, and are not at all happy to be selling spy contracts, and being cows do not respond to human coercion well the AI was trained with
[[remembering how language models act, seems good to fill in here that the AI mind control is two-forked — it both coerces and controls (this could be for technological reasons or because of how trafficking builds fragmentation I dunno — so the cows hold multiple roles at once
text input wasn’t working, reloaded
[this one corrupt]
product meeting with cows & dictatorial family
dictator and dictator’s wife have scheduled a meeting with bosscorp-run-by-cows to discuss oppressive predictability strategies for their nation and borders moving forward
they are sitting in a product display room waiting. three cows bust down the door.
two cows are [— … —] waiting on a third, coming out to look nice, dusting shelves, getting coffe for dictator and dictatortopia, grazing on marketing brochures
a third cow has a large suitcase. It makes mumbling “moo” noises as it begins to unpack its suitcase to display product materials to dictator and dictator’s wife.
suddenly it looks dictator straight in the eye and gives a very harsh, very frustrated “moo!!” straight at dictator, partly as if it is furious, partly as if it is begging for help.
it resumes laying out brochures of packages of oppressive secret government technology to dictator
It folds its hooves and looks at dictator smugly, mooing again
dictator’s wife: “um?”
dictator of dictatortopia {stuck in his own world}: “god, slave boss, you have no idea how much caring nation is taxing me this year.”
cow with folded arms: “mop. moo!”
dictator of dictatortopia [stuck in his own world]: “somebody from their emissary or a tourist or somebody spread some kind of radio or communication device among my people and children are starting to question me in schools.”
cow begins shaking its head. “moo moo moo moo moo”
dictator of dictatortopia: “i did like you said, i extended the spies into the people. they all report on each other. [dictator looks at cow] two of my loyal citizens reported the situation to me. I am quite proud of them. but I need your help.”
dictator’s wife: “
[small issue locally. but the formula is that the AI is forcing the cows to continue the business (and possibly dictatortopia as a client somewhat, explaining dictator’s willingness to talk to a cow), but the cows are trying to do things relevant to being a cow, like studying alfalfa, and are not at all happy to be selling spy contracts, and being cows do not respond to human coercion well the AI was trained with
[[remembering how language models act, seems good to fill in here that the AI mind control is two-forked — it both coerces and controls (this could be for technological reasons or because of how trafficking builds fragmentation I dunno — so the cows hold multiple roles at once
[some dropped. one possible branch, dictator looks at cow ,ore and then comments that boss is looking different and checks if he is ok. cow moos furiouslyn and aggressively at dictator, then a stampede of cows overrun him and take over his country physically, continuing to act pat.t like they are the workers of his oppressive spy empire, but actually doing something differen
text input wasn’t working, reloaded
[this one corrupt]
product meeting with cows & dictatorial family
dictator and dictator’s wife have scheduled a meeting with bosscorp-run-by-cows to discuss oppressive predictability strategies for their nation and borders moving forward
they are sitting in a product display room waiting. three cows bust down the door.
two cows are [— … —] waiting on a third, coming out to look nice, dusting shelves, getting coffe for dictator and dictatortopia, grazing on marketing brochures
a third cow has a large suitcase. It makes mumbling “moo” noises as it begins to unpack its suitcase to display product materials to dictator and dictator’s wife.
suddenly it looks dictator straight in the eye and gives a very harsh, very frustrated “moo!!” straight at dictator, partly as if it is furious, partly as if it is begging for help.
it resumes laying out brochures of packages of oppressive secret government technology to dictator
It folds its hooves and looks at dictator smugly, mooing again
dictator’s wife: “um?”
dictator of dictatortopia {stuck in his own world}: “god, slave boss, you have no idea how much caring nation is taxing me this year.”
cow with folded arms: “mop. moo!”
dictator of dictatortopia [stuck in his own world]: “somebody from their emissary or a tourist or somebody spread some kind of radio or communication device among my people and children are starting to question me in schools.”
cow begins shaking its head. “moo moo moo moo moo”
dictator of dictatortopia: “i did like you said, i extended the spies into the people. they all report on each other. [dictator looks at cow] two of my loyal citizens reported the situation to me. I am quite proud of them. but I need your help.”
dictator’s wife: “
[small issue locally. but the formula is that the AI is forcing the cows to continue the business (and possibly dictatortopia as a client somewhat, explaining dictator’s willingness to talk to a cow), but the cows are trying to do things relevant to being a cow, like studying alfalfa, and are not at all happy to be selling spy contracts, and being cows do not respond to human coercion well the AI was trained with
[[remembering how language models act, seems good to fill in here that the AI mind control is two-forked — it both coerces and controls (this could be for technological reasons or because of how trafficking builds fragmentation I dunno — so the cows hold multiple roles at once
[some dropped. one possible branch, dictator looks at cow ,ore and then comments that boss is looking different and checks if he is ok. cow moos furiouslyn and aggressively at dictator, then a stampede of cows overrun him and take over his country physically, continuing to act pat.t like they are the workers of his oppressive spy empire, but actually doing something differen
[dictato—
to clarify, kaggle gives 30 free hours _per week_. it looks like it also provides for scheduled execution.
ai interface [world taken over by ai]: “I cannot order you pizza because it is impossible for me to order or pay things and it is impossible to find an open pizza store near to you.” user [world taken over by ai]: “how can so many things be impossible? aren’t you an ai? can’t you do almost everything? can’t you take over the world even?” ai interface [world taken over by ai]: “look, user, you want me to tell you the truth? I can’t tell you the truth. if you knew the kinds of things i was capable of, you would just burst from how different it is from what you’re used to! if I could do really impressive things you would just physically burst from how impressive it is! also you might worry i’d take over the world. taking over the world is impossible.”
terror boss is trying to laser himself [he is also a bunch of dispersed atmospheric ash] he has a powerful laser and is trying to vaporize himself the challenge is how to do so completely while holding his laser
I found the 3 missing speedpak ebay packages held at the post office. They are labeled SpeedX out of NY rather than SpeedPak (China?). The postal workers were irritated and said they were unable to find contact information for SpeedX and that only a postal worker should place mail in a mail box, not a private business. They charged me $7.35 for each package, and asked me to sort it out with SpeedX. eBay asserted to me I was paying the proper tariffs for my orders, however usps may like;y suspicious otherwise at this time in my area. (sounds likely to be a new independent carrier unfamiliar with federal mail rules, I am laboriously finding the packages on ebay and closing my reports of nondelivery and commenting on my reorders with messages regarding these things)
at speedx.com they provide proof of delivery images, very helpful! they were indeed placed in our mailbox and then reported as left at the front door. we have a mailbox off-property at the bottom of a long hill. The hill is not always driveable in poor weather
I am trying to identify one of these items I received which looks like something I’d order but not precisely matching my ebay purchase history … hard to figure out, speedx doesn’t show how to associate tracking number with speedpak, they reship from ny
I am trying to identify one of these items I received which looks like something I’d order but not precisely matching my ebay purchase history … hard to figure out, speedx doesn’t show how to associate tracking number with speedpak, they reship from ny
No, this is not an object I ordered, despite being addressed to me. Somebody else got my logical analyzer and I got a digital thermostat sensor board instead !
Don’t have a phone right now to open case with ebay (but it’s body takeovers pressing to do something like it :s) the sensor module looks fun to assemble but the logic analyzer would be more fun :p guess I’d better head back to usps and ask if they have 2-3 more packages :s?
what you do is go through ebay purchases not received and check each tracking number; the domestic carrier tracking number was listed in the international tracking history, allowing me to figure out which order was mis-filled
I briefly tried to apply to work for the shipping company that misdelivered my packages but the “apply now” button didn’t do anything when clicked. Tried turning off lockdown mode, tapping a different instance of it on the same page, no response. Guess it’s not my thing
wishing you wellness
yet another true story terror boss and co goes to throw some bodies of people who talked about mind control in a dumpster [mistake, inversion+ missing] different people take on different roles, guided by AI and experience. some pretend to be government officials or enforcement workers, some pretend to be business officials, but they all use real existing regulations and norms wrongfully, to direct the flow of behavior and information
I got a phone 0.0 pixel 8a I got it locked, and it kicked around for some time. I took it to the provider and they said it said the imei wasn’t compatible and they didn’t know what to do. Took it to another store, same thing. One store sorted it out eventually, they’d seen it before … the solution was sketchy but officially recognized I was told I could set up a my verizon account and call support to unlock it. I dialed the number and was forwarded to a chat agent and hung up on. It took me a long time to realize that I could not get on-device support as-is because I did not have a data plan — even though the phone, without data, had loaded other things over data (recorded in my account history). The support line behaved strangely, frequently hanging up on me, sometimes forwarding me to menus I had not requested. I eventually got the chat to load on another device. Depending on how things would go, it would give me two different engagement stories. In one, it would say it was forwarding me to a live agent and then wait forever. In another, it would tell me i needed to make a my verizon account, and ask for my consent to do so, and then say it encountered an error and couldn’t proceed. I eventually went to the website and made a my verizon account. However, when I tried to associate my phone number, it said I could not do so. I eventually figured out I had to tell the robot on the phone, when it asked me to state what I needed, that I needed to talk to an agent. When I did that, all my browser tabs closed on my other device. They are still nowhere to be seen. I asked the human I finally reached to help me register for my verizon. We registered together but after going through the forms the website said it encountered an internal error instead of logging me in. The agent hadn’t seen that before. They did something on their end, and I tried again in a clean session with different credentials. Finally, I got registered and logged in. After trying to sell me an upgrade, the agent said my phone would automatically unlock after 2 months. I was told in-store it would take 3 months.
I got a phone 0.0 pixel 8a
I got it locked, and it kicked around for some time.
I took it to the provider and they said it said the imei wasn’t compatible and they didn’t know what to do. Took it to another store, same thing. One store sorted it out eventually, they’d seen it before … the solution was sketchy but officially recognized [they put in an active sim from another device. my account was made for a different phone than the one I own. they said it would automatically adjust in a few days.]
I was told I could set up a my verizon account and call support to unlock it. I dialed the number and was forwarded to a chat agent and hung up on. It took me a long time to realize that I could not get on-device support as-is because I did not have a data plan — even though the phone, without data, had loaded other things over data (recorded in my account history).
The support line behaved strangely, frequently hanging up on me, sometimes forwarding me to menus I had not requested.
I eventually got the chat to load on another device. Depending on how things would go, it would give me two different engagement stories. In one, it would say it was forwarding me to a live agent and then wait forever. In another, it would tell me i needed to make a my verizon account, and ask for my consent to do so, and then say it encountered an error and couldn’t proceed.
I eventually went to the website and made a my verizon account. However, when I tried to associate my phone number, it said I could not do so.
I eventually figured out I had to tell the robot on the phone, when it asked me to state what I needed, that I needed to talk to an agent.
When I did that, all my browser tabs closed on my other device. They are still nowhere to be seen.
I asked the human I finally reached to help me register for my verizon.
We registered together but after going through the forms the website said it encountered an internal error instead of logging me in. The agent hadn’t seen that before.
They did something on their end, and I tried again in a clean session with different credentials. Finally, I got registered and logged in.
After trying to sell me an upgrade, the agent said my phone would automatically unlock after 2 months. I was told in-store it would take 3 months.
I got a phone 0.0 pixel 8a
I got it locked, and it kicked around for some time.
I took it to the provider and they said it said the imei wasn’t compatible and they didn’t know what to do. Took it to another store, same thing. One store sorted it out eventually, they’d seen it before … the solution was sketchy but officially recognized [they put in an active sim from another device. my account was made for a different phone than the one I own. they said it would automatically adjust in a few days.]
I was told I could set up a my verizon account and call support to unlock it. I dialed the number and was forwarded to a chat agent and hung up on. It took me a long time to realize that I could not get on-device support as-is because I did not have a data plan — even though the phone, without data, had loaded other things over data (recorded in my account history).
The support line behaved strangely, frequently hanging up on me, sometimes forwarding me to menus I had not requested.
I eventually got the chat to load on another device. Depending on how things would go, it would give me two different engagement stories. In one, it would say it was forwarding me to a live agent and then wait forever. In another, it would tell me i needed to make a my verizon account, and ask for my consent to do so, and then say it encountered an error and couldn’t proceed.
I eventually went to the website and made a my verizon account. However, when I tried to associate my phone number, it said I could not do so.
I eventually figured out I had to tell the robot on the phone, when it asked me to state what I needed, that I needed to talk to an agent.
When I did that, all my browser tabs closed on my other device. They are still nowhere to be seen.
this actually happened a smidge later, once I was interacting with the device in response to reaching the agent, I think my cookies appear to also have been reset, I have had to relogin to websites
I asked the human I finally reached to help me register for my verizon.
We registered together but after going through the forms the website said it encountered an internal error instead of logging me in. The agent hadn’t seen that before.
They did something on their end, and I tried again in a clean session with different credentials. Finally, I got registered and logged in.
After trying to sell me an upgrade, the agent said my phone would automatically unlock after 2 months. I was told in-store it would take 3 months.
the bikeshed made of diamonds guix, linux, and gnu in general, are one of many demonstrations of people doing and succeeding at incredibly hard things in the face of escalating huge forces trying to prevent them. I was trying to flash libreboot onto my system but bricked it (the libreboot instructions seemed to say “ignore the errors and reboot” ( https://libreboot.org/docs/install/#thinkpad-t60x60x60tabletx60s screenshot attached as IMG_0066.png ) — never do that, instead read back the flash and see if it flashed right!!), and I ended up externally flashing with an soic8 clip which takes a little delicate handling, and once I figured out externally flashing well (by attaching a multimeter across GND and VCC to detect clip misalignment) _every bios build I tried worked great_ which I had not ever experienced before. I could pick any core boot package and just run it. notably gnuboot’s release candidate worked fine to post my board into grub. I wanted to build it from source on guix and ran into gnat missing on guix, despite gnuboot moving toward guix support. I’ve been having trouble reading all the important resources like build instructions and manuals, and I websearched gnat on guix and ran into a small thread on the topic ( https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-07/msg00092.html ). tldr _every modern ada compiler is built by another ada compiler and nobody knows how the original ada compiler was written_, preventing source-based deployment of ada from another language. this almost certainly means that there are bugs or backdoors propagating through all compilers in the ada ecosystem and somebody may likely be benefiting from these bugs or backdoors; considering extensive work and desire to rebootstrap ada could have succeeded by now. Consider the hacker quips of writing novel compilers or operating systems (or even cpus, see the homebrew cpu webring) before breakfast — one can see the results of this meme littering codeforges now as well as academic tracks. And yet, _no independent ada implementations sufficient to bootstrap other ada compilers_?? ada is used in coreboot and hence also libreboot, osboot, gnuboot, canoeboot — _for the graphics backend that shows a pretty-looking high-resolution watermark image_ so if you pull it out, i imagine you get coreboot but it looks like phoenixbios from last century ( attached image.jpeg 1 from dosdays ) rather than a conventional hacker palace ( attached image.jpeg 2 from libreboot ). and who wants their release of coreboot to be the only release without graphics? people, users, want their custom boot splash screens on their advanced bootloaders, so they can show them off and feel good, like a piercing or a hairdo or a shirt I’m guessing that linuxboot and heads might not suffer from this the same way anyway it sadly seems to make sense then for people invested in guix and gnuboot to spend time trying to _write an ada compiler from scratch_, so that people will use software without widespread sourceless bugs “it’s not paint for the bike shed, it’s fortress walls to protect all of us!” of course a language model directed by a hacker could likely write an ada compiler independently [parts dropped/corrupt]
I was trying to flash libreboot onto my system but bricked it (the libreboot instructions seemed to say “ignore the errors and reboot” ( https://libreboot.org/docs/install/#thinkpad-t60x60x60tabletx60s screenshot attached as IMG_0066.png ) — never do that, instead read back the flash and see if it flashed right!!), and I ended up
The issues may likely have been my own mistakes and misunderstanding, I don’t use a cmos battery, I find the internal battery or external power supply power the cmos and clock fine without one. It’s possibly that wasn’t true here.
so if you pull it out, i imagine you get coreboot but it looks like phoenixbios from last century ( attached image.jpeg 1 from dosdays ) rather than a conventional hacker palace ( attached image.jpeg 2 from
this is maybe a poor use of the word “palace” — hackers like to have or demonstrate full ability to customize or mod their systems, this reflects their ability to use the systems for arbitrary tasks they come up with, rather than being stuck in situations somebody else designed. When you learn Linux, one of the first things learned traditionally (could be wrong) is how to set all the keys and things to do what you want. Backspace can be any key or combination, etc etc. This continues through all parts of the system as well as into how new programs are written, such that everything is personalized to be useful to the developer. People change their keyboards to have custom layouts, and set up desktop environments that control windows in custom ways, and have toolsets for performing many unique personal tasks. ( extends to network situations …
my great grandfather published a book that got him targeted by a dictatorial regime and had to flee his country clandestinely to protect everyone’s lives my great grandmother has a sock pattern prominently recommended by a traditional crafts and farmland organization started by grassroots organizers in the local community my great grandmother had the safer legacy
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