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Post by madjack on Mar 24, 2023 7:14:24 GMT
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Mar 24, 2023 7:26:15 GMT
Is it just me or is Antimony a little more uncomfortable with the mere appearance of a keyboard than she should be, given the Court's education?
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Post by arf on Mar 24, 2023 7:33:12 GMT
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Post by jda on Mar 24, 2023 7:41:30 GMT
FORMAT C:
FORMAT K:
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Post by silicondream on Mar 24, 2023 7:59:46 GMT
Is it just me or is Antimony a little more uncomfortable with the mere appearance of a keyboard than she should be, given the Court's education? Maybe she cheated in those classes too. Or maybe computer operation is mostly the province of the robots, hence not part of general education. But...nah, I think Annie's just been slacking. |
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Post by aline on Mar 24, 2023 8:04:01 GMT
Is it just me or is Antimony a little more uncomfortable with the mere appearance of a keyboard than she should be, given the Court's education? Maybe she cheated in those classes too. Or maybe computer operation is mostly the province of the robots, hence not part of general education. But...nah, I think Annie's just been slacking. Lots of people who work with computers every day get really freaked out when you ask them to type a command in the console. She might be familiar with a couple of school-related software, but not at all with whatever Kat's computer is running. |
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Post by csj on Mar 24, 2023 8:56:00 GMT
kat kat hey why is the screen on this repurposed laptop twice as thick as the keyboard kat oh no did you do the diy oled trick on it you did didn't you |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Mar 24, 2023 9:02:25 GMT
I could understand if Antimony had heard Kat's voice, ran to the terminal, and then looked perplexed because she didn't know what to do from that point on. There's a few panels between the rush and the perturbation, though, and in them Kat says someone's going to have to type some stuff. Sure, Antimony may be unfamiliar with whatever Kat's computer runs on... but she doesn't have to be. So, on reflection I think what's happening is that Antimony thinks in panel 5 that Kat expects Antimony to know what commands to enter to make everything all right which is clearly unreasonable to even a filthy casual end-user such as myself. Kat talking her through the procedure should be common sense so I guess aline is correct and Antimony has more anxiety about what's going on than I thought and silicondream is correct in that Antimony has been mightily slacking in the computer literacy department; likely the latter because of the former. |
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Post by madjack on Mar 24, 2023 9:05:27 GMT
kat kat hey why is the screen on this repurposed laptop twice as thick as the keyboard It's not a repurposed laptop though, it's a proper rackmount screen/keyboard/possibly kvm switch combo similar to one of these. |
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Post by TBeholder on Mar 24, 2023 9:20:11 GMT
This does not sound like good package management at all. Just double check the rm -rf, Paz. Well, at least you cannot accidentally type rm -rf --no-preserve-root… why is the screen on this repurposed laptop twice as thick as the keyboard It's not a repurposed laptop though, it's a proper rackmount screen/keyboard/possibly kvm switch combo similar to one of these. Yup. Hence the fancy metal plate on top… Though it looks like top and bottom are not from the same kit. |
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Post by puntino on Mar 24, 2023 10:20:43 GMT
Huh. Kat uses Windows?
That's unexpected.
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Post by gpvos on Mar 24, 2023 10:55:12 GMT
Huh. Kat uses Windows? That's unexpected. While 'cmd' hints towards Windows, the rest of the command looks unfamiliar to me. It seems to be something of Kat's making anyway. Or an alternate universe version of Windows. I don't have a Windows machine handy to check though. |
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Post by guntherkrieg on Mar 24, 2023 11:23:24 GMT
"Morality blocks erased"
"What?"
"Thank you... Annie, you... pitiful monster"
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Post by madjack on Mar 24, 2023 11:56:59 GMT
Huh. Kat uses Windows? That's unexpected. While 'cmd' hints towards Windows, the rest of the command looks unfamiliar to me. It seems to be something of Kat's making anyway. Or an alternate universe version of Windows. I don't have a Windows machine handy to check though. It's probably a similar case to the flashback of Anthony teaching Annie judo, where the belts were grey because they are no specific colour. Just in this case, it's a mashup of several different OS command line syntax because it's no specific OS. Or Kat just rolled her own OS because none of the others really interfaced with the robot code well enough. She absolutely would do that. |
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Post by blahzor on Mar 24, 2023 12:32:41 GMT
hmm uninstalling some safety measures..nothing will go wrong when Kat forgets to install a new one
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Post by Polyhymnia on Mar 24, 2023 12:41:58 GMT
Really enjoying the Paz-Annie interaction here. Nice to see them interacting as equals on a team.
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Post by knowit on Mar 24, 2023 12:55:10 GMT
Listen, I can't speak for everyone, but "Incredibly simple thing that I know I'm almost certainly capable of, but I've never really done it before so I'm feeling incredible amounts of anxiety about messing it up anyway" is an incredibly relatable emotion to me. Usually with a dash of "I also feel foolish about even having anxiety about this in the first place" as well
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Post by maxptc on Mar 24, 2023 13:17:33 GMT
Did Kat just say "slash" with no other descriptor?
Dumb ways to die, coding by proxy edition.
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Post by ctso74 on Mar 24, 2023 13:17:51 GMT
Don't uninstall conscience.exe. That may not be stored in a backup.
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Post by leo on Mar 24, 2023 15:46:59 GMT
While 'cmd' hints towards Windows, the rest of the command looks unfamiliar to me. It seems to be something of Kat's making anyway. Or an alternate universe version of Windows. I don't have a Windows machine handy to check though. It's probably a similar case to the flashback of Anthony teaching Annie judo, where the belts were grey because they are no specific colour. Just in this case, it's a mashup of several different OS command line syntax because it's no specific OS. Or Kat just rolled her own OS because none of the others really interfaced with the robot code well enough. She absolutely would do that. So, CMD is a command console, clearly. Then -l marks a list. Uninst, of course, is a command for uninstalling. Issue is, in that order, instead of uninstalling a list, you're listing an uninstall, which doesn't make much sense... UNLESS, what you are actually listing is command consoles. It's a little bit out there, but perhaps this computer is connected to a bunch of servers, and Kat means to open a command console for all of them simultaneously, and then uninstalling everything that fulfills certain requirements. The upcoming command, after that dash will be a filter of the type of applications she wants to uninstall, namely whatever has locked her central server (namely, her physical body, and then she will almost certainly reference a superuser name/password combination as a safety measure (you don't want anyone barging in and deleting your whole fifth grade memories or something). The other option, if the first list reference a number of command lines, would be another -l to get a list of all applications, but regardless you certainly cannot assume that the command is over. |
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Post by rabbit on Mar 24, 2023 16:11:06 GMT
Or Kat just rolled her own OS because none of the others really interfaced with the robot code well enough. She absolutely would do that. So what would Kat's OS be called? KOS (pronounced "kay-oss")? MiOS? Donlanux? |
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Post by sosleepy on Mar 24, 2023 16:12:41 GMT
I guess Annie is one of those people who can be tricked with "press alt-F4 to..."
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Post by drmemory on Mar 24, 2023 16:18:14 GMT
For some reason, "uninst" seems ominous to me. What is Kat having Paz uninstall? Shouldn't we be seeing something more like a reboot command?
Also, are we 100% sure that this is Kat's computer, and not a court computer that she is having them remove protections from so she can take it over? If we were really in a court lab rather than Kat's lab, that might explain the huge amount of pricy manufacturing gear. We have no explanation at all for how a student with no job would be able to afford all of that stuff.
I'm not suggesting that Kat isn't really disembodied nor that she isn't controlling a bunch of IOT devices. I'm suggesting that we are just now seeing her going too far, by using her friends to help her take over the court's systems w/o her friends' knowledge or consent.
The ends justify the means... or so she is thinking, I bet.
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Post by wanderer on Mar 24, 2023 16:38:53 GMT
rm -rf /
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Post by rabbit on Mar 24, 2023 17:30:28 GMT
For some reason, "uninst" seems ominous to me. What is Kat having Paz uninstall? Shouldn't we be seeing something more like a reboot command? Also, are we 100% sure that this is Kat's computer, and not a court computer that she is having them remove protections from so she can take it over? If we were really in a court lab rather than Kat's lab, that might explain the huge amount of pricy manufacturing gear. We have no explanation at all for how a student with no job would be able to afford all of that stuff. I'm not suggesting that Kat isn't really disembodied nor that she isn't controlling a bunch of IOT devices. I'm suggesting that we are just now seeing her going too far, by using her friends to help her take over the court's systems w/o her friends' knowledge or consent. The ends justify the means... or so she is thinking, I bet. I think Kat is probably having them uninstall some pesky safety protocols that are conflicting. They would need to do that before the reboot. However, uninstalling safety protocols can lead to some less-than-optimal results. sorry if the CSB link sends any of you down a rabbit hole, hehehe. --apologies, rabbit is always a little loony loonier on Friday afternoons |
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Post by grahamf on Mar 24, 2023 17:36:49 GMT
For some reason, "uninst" seems ominous to me. What is Kat having Paz uninstall? Shouldn't we be seeing something more like a reboot command? Also, are we 100% sure that this is Kat's computer, and not a court computer that she is having them remove protections from so she can take it over? If we were really in a court lab rather than Kat's lab, that might explain the huge amount of pricy manufacturing gear. We have no explanation at all for how a student with no job would be able to afford all of that stuff. I'm not suggesting that Kat isn't really disembodied nor that she isn't controlling a bunch of IOT devices. I'm suggesting that we are just now seeing her going too far, by using her friends to help her take over the court's systems w/o her friends' knowledge or consent. The ends justify the means... or so she is thinking, I bet. I'm guessing Kat is getting Paz to only uninstall the safety feature that is making her paralyzed, so that she can rewrite the safety functions herself. |
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Post by bedinsis on Mar 24, 2023 17:39:20 GMT
Is it just me or is Antimony a little more uncomfortable with the mere appearance of a keyboard than she should be, given the Court's education? Most operative systems nowadays have a graphical user interface; this one appear to be command line only. Also, what does the "sv" on the building in your avatar stand for? |
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Post by pyradonis on Mar 24, 2023 17:44:12 GMT
Interesting that Kat is apparently able to control this terminal's output devices, but not its input devices, or else she could just input the command herself...
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Post by TBeholder on Mar 24, 2023 17:48:08 GMT
Huh. Kat uses Windows? That's unexpected. Well, maybe. If that’s what was available. Of course, under something POSIX she is free to create a script with entirely arbitrary argument syntax and write it into /usr/bin/cmd. I mean, wrapper scripts are just a fact of life, whether pre-packaged or custom. My own script running pdfgrep, for example, adds up to 44 lines (not counting magic marker "#!/bin/sh" and commented out debug lines). Lack of extensions is not the best practice, but widespread (checking my own /usr/bin/ — 683 out of 2896 files are identified as shell and perl scripts, but only 2 have extensions .sh and 2 .wrapper). rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on '/'
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe
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Post by bedinsis on Mar 24, 2023 17:55:03 GMT
Interesting that Kat is apparently able to control this terminal's output devices, but not its input devices, or else she could just input the command herself... The court is an institution of higher learning and mad science; there is probably a precaution in case an AI gains self awareness and tries to rebel. That or Kat has limited access/not figured out all the controls and it is more handy to have Paz do it. |
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