TLV IC Contact

[junoit]

Hi, this is Hera, formerly of the U.S.S. Hephaestus. If you start to leave a message and I don’t reply immediately it’s probably because I’m asleep.

Which is apparently a thing now.

audio || video || text || etc

Comments

[way way more private] - right after she replied to Hilbert's narc post

[deuceoftears]

seriously though I don't know if your brain is accessible in this form for either hardware or software meddling, but if you want to set up a deadman's switch about 'my brain has not been meddled with' that you can simply fail to continue updating without actually telling anyone

you know just in case. him or anybody

let me know

[junoit]

Wait wait wait sorry hang on. Dead man's switch in what sense?

[She's not disinterested, but she absolutely wants more about what he's thinking.]

[deuceoftears]

Nothing elaborate, I feel like that introduces the fewest points of failure. Just like, once or twice a day you send my room grid or my augment a non-automated signal, to say 'i have not been fucked with'. And then if someone messes with your code and tells you not to tell anyone, you...don't. You just stop reporting your status. Even if they tell you to act normal, normally you respond truthfully, right?

And then if I don't get that ping for 24 hours I can enact whatever contingency plan you think would work best to identify and remove said fuckery.

Obviously if you aren't aware of the coding changes it might not work for every possible sabotage situation, but people doing mind control shit usually don't think they need to be subtle, right?

Anyway, could be handy.

audio;

[junoit]

[ She's too pleased with this possibility to reply by text. ]

Yes. Yes, absolutely, let's do it.

Re: audio;

[deuceoftears]

Obviously the first step in the contingency plan is just to check that you're still here and not in a barge coma or transformed into a penguin or somehow otherwise prevented from sending the normal signal by unrelated means - oh, and I should build in a subroutine for other people to alert if I'm incapacitated, Eiffel obviously, and I recommend Hakkai, but you can re-prioritize a list of names any time.

Do you want to use the communicators, or not? Communicators are a little more traceable but less vulnerable - they can be stolen, but not hacked. Thoughts?

[He's already starting to jot down the rough logic outlines of the code for his grid.]

[junoit]

...Transformed into a penguin? That can happen? That's... weird and specific-ic. Definitely want to loop Eiffel in, he'll probably be happy about this existing, and Hakkai seems like a good backup as well.

[A pause to ponder.] Communicators, I think? What's the alternative?

[deuceoftears]

It's usually about that disorienting but less light-hearted.

Radio signals propagate extremely weird and badly on the ship, but Hakkai lives here and Eiffel has to walk past level 5 to get to his maintenance shift, so a signal from my room grid to any electronics he's carrying should go through within 24 hours. Or we could build something into his version of Hephaestus to be a specific receiver for this. Or explore magic options.

[junoit]

This is the moment where I wish I had much greater processing capabilities in this chassis, body, frame, whatever. I think communicators for the primary set up, just to get something in operation, and then we can consider our options for backups and alterations.

[deuceoftears]

That makes sense.

Then there's the issue of...if the system trips, what are the first and second line responses. I don't know if there's anyone on board you'd trust to, ah, debug you. Although I suppose there must be a way to do it if someone's managed to implant a problematic clause in the first place.