Free Range Darkcast: Open-Source Mods
Sat, 2011-02-19 12:42
Axel_Chimeric@FreeRangeDarkcast
Friends! Martians! Spacemen! Lend me your ears! Or, for my Uplift friends swimming through cyberpsace, your statocysts will do just as well.
Now, all you well-wishers listenin' in, it's getting to that time of year when those of us up here on the ol' Coaggie are all starting to check out the latest fashions from the Skinaesthesia catalogue and get all starry-eyed over the latest things in making ourselves just that much prettier and pissing off the Jovians just that little bit more.
Being the Space Gypoes that we are, none of us buy anything. Most of our credits, what few we get, go to paying to keep this old flying blood clot in orbit. All the same, we've got a nanovat and a few engineers up here, so we have all the tech to deploy our own prepackaged biomod setup that we get off the mesh.
Still, I hate to say it, but what we've got ain't much. There's not much of a thriving open source community for those of us who have the Planetary Consortium breathing down our necks. PC brown shirts tend to shut down anyone putting up the good stuff under grounds of "violating copyright". Feh. Most of the fun stuff tends to come from Titan anyway, these days...
Anyway, before I start cryin' tears into my beer, let's hear some cheer! As someone whose very own tail was made using open source mods, I put the question out to you, the people: What's your experience with Open Source modding? Good? Bad? Ugly? Did you get what you paid for? And, hey, while we're at it, open up the floor to any other thoughts on mods. How far will you go with your morph?
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Sun, 2011-10-30 16:02
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Re: Free Range Darkcast: Open-Source Mods
Until you come to self-examine yourself a few centuries from now, realizing you're inhabiting a Luna-sized computronium node that's floating around a K-class main sequence star, having hit an evolutionary dead-end due to a simple error in self-modification today. Exhumanism's fraught with the potential for memetic subversion by more advanced or well-informed entities, because we transhumans can't even begin to fathom the potentially-dangerous results of "ascending" to a posthuman state through any given method. But, that's just my future shock syndrome talking.
I'd like to stay as the flat I am right now, and let others make the mistake of blindly leaping forward into the abyss of infinite states of being. If I have to wait a century for someone to design a proven method for systematic ascension to a stable posthuman state of existence, so be it. It's worth it.
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Tue, 2011-11-01 01:27
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Re: Free Range Darkcast: Open-Source Mods
Myrmidont@Δ.green.exonet.1a994d4gs9:1212131 To Axel_Chimeric@FreeRangeDarkcast
I am entirely satisfied with the various open-source hardware that I run. It pays to check the reps of the people who wrote the stuff - I find Argonaut authors do some of the best work. Oh, and don't get attached those user-friendly AR-GUIs most 'corp gear uses - get ready to fill your buffers with code tweaks and version updates. While OS gear may not be standardised, what it lacks in user-friendliness, it makes up for in flexibility: Someone, somewhere, (probably while bored out of their minds) has already written a recoil-minimising feedback routine for a smart-linked PeaceBreaker v1.1.5 handgun wielded by a Cyberarm+ with a Skinlink. You just have to find it.
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Thu, 2011-11-03 08:19
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Re: Free Range Darkcast: Open-Source Mods
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{Open}[source] preferable alternative to Hypercorp/Jovian/Common[RE:All other] external software. {Self-made}[Source] software leads to premium understanding of internal workings to engage controlled self-improvement optimization loop.
How far am I willing to go? As far as necessary. The ends justify the means.
Open source modding is just one of the many tools I can use to help advance my position, and take me that much closer to my stated goal of finding that second singularity. I modify my own morph through open source, to fit my own needs, to accomplish what I want it to. No modification is too extreme to justify becoming posthuman: you can't achieve godhood and a second singularity by depending upon hypercorp "benefactors" giving you hand out; dependence is anathema to the very concept of the singularity. That sort of complacency is why those transhumans in the inner system will never make anything of themselves.
"If we succeed, we're geniuses for doing it. If we fail, we're stupid for trying it. If we succeed beyond our goal and our dreams, we're insane for reaching so high and getting there."
"The quintessential goal is to achieve the singularity. We missed our chance at greatness the first time around. You'd impose yourself between humanity and potential godhood by screwing us out of a second chance?"