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   Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 09:07:40 JST Tim Chambers

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   • Chris Trottier

   @atomicpoet Yeah, it really did not age well….

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 09:07:41 JST Chris Trottier

     Watching Independence Day for the first time since I was a kid.

     And wow—it’s dumber than I remembered.

     Jeff Goldblum uploads a virus to an alien mothership… by connecting to their WiFi? These are alien invaders with tech centuries ahead of ours, and they didn’t think to install a firewall? No encryption? No protocol mismatch?

     Also, how exactly is he interfacing with their system? Are these aliens running Mac OS? Did the ship just handshake with TCP/IP like, “Sure, we’ll talk to this 1990s PowerBook”?

     Yeah, seems legit.