#Networking and Cloud

[tandeminformaticsmadurai]

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[gojosamasblog]

Print "Hello World"

Who I Am

My name is Emmanuel Igboanusi, and I’ve always had a passion for technology, particularly in the realm of security. Outside of tech, one of my biggest hobbies is riding motorcycles, which allows me to appreciate both speed and precision. I’m currently taking a technology program because I want to dive deeper into how we can protect sensitive data and improve cybersecurity systems. Through this class, I hope to gain valuable insights that will help me become a better security professional.

Areas of Interest and Strength

I’m especially interested in cybersecurity. My focus is on protecting data, analyzing potential threats, and ensuring that confidential information is safe from unauthorized access. I find it fascinating to explore different ways to confiscate compromised data and mitigate risks before they escalate. I also enjoy hands-on experiences like working with servers, configuring networks, and ensuring they meet compliance standards. I hope to develop my skills further, especially in the areas of ethical hacking and encryption technologies.

Emerging Technologies

Emerging technologies refer to cutting-edge developments that have the potential to disrupt industries and change the way we live and work. These can include advancements like artificial intelligence (AI), and blockchain. I believe staying up to date on these technologies is crucial, especially as they play a major role in enhancing security frameworks. Understanding and integrating these innovations will help to better protect systems and data in the future.

[notquiteaghost]

something ive not seen anyone else talk about with kevin r. free's perfomance in the murderbot audiobooks is if you listen to them in order you might not pick up on how he gradually gets more emotive with the narration. like, go straight from the first chapter of all systems red to the first chapter of network effect, there is a Difference. it's a subtle character thing, it works so well

[nixcraft]

[birdswhoownnothing]

What does storage mean to you?

[thefirstknife]

New Veil log is killing me (nothing new under the sun).

Chioma: Chioma Esi, research log: Exos. Maya and I have built a working theory around the deaths of our Exo crewmates after their exposure to the Veil. According to maya, Exominds contain a combination of Vex radiolaria and something known as "Clarity." Radiolaria are alien microorganism living within a hive mind state. Or, I suppose more accurately, a community. Clarity is... Maya described it as a paracausal power derived from an alien artifact. Something BrayTech had kept secret. Something Maya... Maya thinks that the Veil and this artifact are related. That the paracausal force from the Veil overloaded their Exominds. Unraveled them. It's like taking a powerful magnet to an archaic magnetic storage device. Full erasure. But Maya... she thinks we can reverse-engineer this phenomenon. Use it to write data to a Clarity-infused object. Fabricate consciousness. Scientifically, the process seems sound, but morally... [sighs] maya keeps saying that we're past the point of morality. She said that! She's convinced that our survival hinges on mastery of the Veil. It's like SHE'S the one unraveling. I feel like I'm losing her. But every time I try and push, I feel her move a little further away. I'm-I don't know if I can lose anything else. How much more can any of us lose before there's nothing left? Osiris: Nimbus... how much do you know about the Cloud Striders' creation? The technology used? Nimbus: You don't think... Osiris: I make no assertions yet. But I worry that your neon-lit city may have darker roots than either of us knew. Nimbus: Oh.

WILD.

First, more stuff about Exos. Immediately there's a problem: Maya should not know about Clarity. Clarity was a tightly kept secret that even Elsie took a long time to find out about. Clovis worked with the Ishtar Collective at some point, but most certainly wasn't on a personal and friendly terms with Maya Sundaresh and would most certainly not tell her about his most closely guarded secret. Why?

Well, there was a Maya Sundaresh at Braytech on Europa when he was working on solving the Exo billboarding problem (the problem that returns in proximity to the Veil). It was a Vex simulation Maya, not the real her. The Vex-Maya ended up being one of the sorest spots for Clovis, mostly for arguing with him all the time, disagreeing with him and annoying him in general, but especially after she viciously tortured him during his surgery. Vex-Maya was also insisting that he must show her Clarity Control. It was the only thing that she was interested in:

"I'm in these frames. I'm in your systems. I'm in your very bones, old man. Now take me to Clarity Control. Take me to the garden's seed. Take me. Take me. Take me. Take me. Take me. Take me. Take me. Take me—"

Vex-Maya continued to torment Clovis up until he finally uploaded himself. After that, we have no record of her whatsoever.

But even with all of this, at some point during or after this whole situation, Braytech collaborated with the Ishtar Collective on Soteria and the ECHO project. Clovis never would've accepted this if he was placed in any proximity to Maya Sundaresh. So I highly doubt that he would've even had the opportunity to tell her about Clarity, let alone that he would've actually told her about it. Maya was equally distrustful of Clovis as he was of her and she ended up resigning from the project with a very obvious "go fuck yourself" letter to Clovis. They absolutely despised each other. This makes it also super strange that Maya would dismiss scientific morality; that's what Clovis would do and she would never be like Clovis under normal circumstances.

When Chioma says "Something BrayTech had kept secret. Something Maya..." I believe she meant to add "Something Maya shouldn't have known about" perhaps.

So how did Maya know about Clarity? Pretty much the only connection here is the Vex-Maya, mostly because the situation presented here is heavily linked to the Vex and radiolaria. Maya Sundaresh somehow connected with the Veil when she first saw it; it showed her its own name by saying it to her in her own voice and since then, Chioma recounts, Maya has been acting strangely. This same Veil heavily negatively impacted the Exos who are made with radiolaria and Clarity and Maya insisted that the Veil and Clarity are connected too.

And Strand must be connected as well. Chioma says that a "paracausal force from the Veil" overloads the Exos and "unravels" them. We've already been told that the Neomuna founders knew that the Veil emits a paracausal force. It obviously didn't manifest for them in the same way, but they knew something was there and this is what erased the Exos. It erased their consciousness, reverting them back to the state when the radiolaria wasn't purified with Clarity.

And Maya believed that she can reverse engineer this effect. That she can use it to "fabricate consciousness."

The strangest part is Osiris' line of thinking at the end. He specifically asks Nimbus how Cloud Striders are made; which technology does it uses exactly. And after Nimbus is concerned about this line of questioning, Osiris definitely implies that he thinks that some of Maya's experiments with the Veil led to the Cloud Striders.

Intriguing, because the Cloud Striders are made by fusing highly advanced nanotechnology (which itself stems from SIVA brought on Exodus Indigo) with a human through a mysterious machine called the Sidereal. Extra intriguing to me because a while ago when I was analysing the lore we gained from the Winterbite quest, I made a very long post talking about past Cloud Striders and the Sidereal and I suggested that the Sidereal and the Cloud Striders are inherently linked to the Veil, Strand and possibly the Vex (via the Occlusion, a "loadbearing" Vex that has been living in the CloudArk since its inception). In my write-up on this, I wasn't sure about a lot of this stuff because that was just the beginning, but some of it did point me in the direction of the Cloud Striders being possibly very closely linked to the Veil. This is now very obviously directly implied. Wild.

If the Veil and its paracausal byproduct (Strand) were used to make the Cloud Striders, then we can now possibly construct a scenario where Maya's experiments with fabricating consciousness led to the advancing of the nanotechnology which is used to make the Cloud Striders. In the same way Clarity affected radiolaria, the Veil might be affecting the nanites, fabricating consciousness; giving the nanites incredibly advanced abilities, far surpassing what SIVA could do originally. This, alongside the creation of the Sidereal, led to Cloud Striders. And, curiously, possibly also to poukas.

I'm still unclear how do the Vex tie into this whole thing exactly, but they're a constant background noise when it comes to the Veil and Neomuna, as well as questions about consciousness and memory of the universe, which I also speculated about in this other long post.

My view of the situation right now is that Maya formed some sort of a strong and unique connection to the Veil, possibly tied to her previous experiments with mind-forking and consciousness displacement with the Device, as well as her research into the Vex and Vex simulations. When she came in proximity to it, she saw her own self talking back at her. We know at this point that the Veil has strange effects on consciousness and memory, as well as being able to give people glimpses into various points in time; upon connecting to the Veil, Maya was perhaps exposed to her other selves, her other consciousnesses, the simulated ones, letting her access knowledge she shouldn't have like the name of the Veil and the existence of Clarity Control.

All of Neomuna is built on the Veil somehow, and now it's heavily implied the Cloud Striders are instrinsically linked to it as well. Whatever happened after, we can definitely say that Maya continued with her experiments despite Chioma's best attempts to stop it. Eagerly waiting for more lore about Cloud Striders and the Veil, and at some point we'll most certainly also get some logs that will delve into the CloudArk. Even more exciting lore will be coming our way for weeks.

[butlerm]

Computer data Download/watch the looping video here: https://bit.ly/circuitBoard

[unpretty]

What's the RSS of a video podcast you watch? Mine tells me it supports video and it's very customizable otherwise.

this week in tech has been doing a video version since before video podcasts got trendy and long since every other one of them died in favor of youtube

unfortunately what i want is for people who have their own indie streamers or youtube channels to make video podcasts available instead, but the likelihood of anyone having the guts to do that is abysmally low

[cloudcyanide]

Mary Christmas!

[icewindandboringhorror]

Recent-ish things ~

[agapintheskin]

🥰

[varjopeura]

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[avaford2009]

It's Brad Swaile! He did voice acting of anime; such as Maxwell (Hamtaro), Ace (My Little Pony) Light Yagami (Death Note), Mano the eunuch (Like the Clouds, Like the Wind), Kimba (The New Adventures of Kimba the White Lion), and Lan Hikari (Mega Man Battle Network)!

[moltengarnet]

I just found some good WiiU Super Smash Bros. screenshots on an old SD card.

The BOIS before they added 2 more BOIS

I love pancake Pikachu

I'm not too old to think Cloud is cool

I don't actually have a caption for this one. It speaks for itself.

"OW my FUCKing ARM”

[merge-conflict]

ok. thought about it and my kneejerk dislike of the cyberpunk genre's obsession with 3D hacking is that it ignores everything that makes it actually cool or interesting. hacking is about removing layers of abstraction and using assumptions and lack of visibility against programmers and operators. 80% of my job is bodyslamming web apps and APIs and I'm not sure how many devs have actually seen a raw HTTP request or opened up wireshark and looked at a TCP stream. the whole point is that you're poking around under the hood. the whole point is that technological communication is so messy and unreliable and invisible that you can do weird shit without someone knowing what's going on. anyone who has ever troubleshot anything can tell you how much time they've wasted tracking down something Weird only to discover it's normal and happens 3000 times a second. the idea that you could somehow usefully abstract all the details and just operate like that is akin to saying people shoot more accurately with their eyes closed.

now I am most definitely not against simplifying or streamlining what hacking is or how it works or making it fun to play a game. i just think that reducing what is inherently an ugly and text-heavy operation into visual abstraction is a shame. I don't want alt to show her power by being a Giant Woman, I want to see her casually shutting v out of their body like flicking switches. I want to be able to track down the server racks she's squatting in and wonder how many backups of her mind she's made and where she keeps them safe. I want to look at an abstracted flow of network traffic and see how she hides herself in ways netwatch can't find, right under their noses. I want people to acknowledge there are no 'walls' in a network, just dark shapes passing under the ice. there's no quarantined network sitting off in some shed containing every scary monster the world has ever seen- they're right here and you can't see them by design, because hiding is what keeps them safe. a city's network is its nervous system and it's not like you can just section pieces of that off. you might as well claim the mediterranean has been walled off from the ocean because it's a sea.

[eshbaal]

If Cartoon Network has taught me anything, it is to never piss off a cloud woman.

Yeah, I continue to be obsessed with Sunshine. God I wish we got more of her.