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    Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar (yngmar@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 23:41:46 JSTY⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarY⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar
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    • Forrest Brazeal

    @forrestbrazeal It's a subplot of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky where the ancient hacker can break all the new tech because he's such a relic that he still understands the underlying technology it's all built on, which the current generation of techies have completely detached themselves from, operating so many layers of abstraction higher than him that they can't begin to understand how he could have possibly undermined all their fancy gadgets so completely.

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      A Deepness in the Sky
      A Deepness in the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. Published in 1999, the novel is a loose prequel (set twenty thousand years earlier) to his earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992). The title is coined by one of the story's main characters in a debate, in a reference to the hibernating habits of his species and to the vastness of space. Background The plot begins with the discovery of an intelligent alien species on a planet orbiting an anomalous star, dubbed OnOff because for 215 of every 250 years it is dormant, releasing almost no detectable energy. During this period, the planet freezes and its fauna go into hibernation. The planet's inhabitants, called "Spiders" by the humans for their resemblance to arachnids, have reached a stage of technological development very similar to that of Earth's humans in the early 20th century, although humans believe that they may once have been capable of space travel. If this is true, then whoever can establish ties with the aliens first could reap unimaginable rewards; humans have made contact with only one other intelligent (but non-technological...
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