Hope of a cure is not lost!

Developers are at work deploying it, even as we click about, zapping and yapping with varying degrees of consciousness.

I haven't been tracking the infection's progress in great detail, although I've noticed at least one individual has been cured:

Sometime over 48 hours ago, @koob was infected
A pull request was merged, purporting to be a cure
@koob no longer has the biohazard badge

I haven't reviewed the purported cure yet. I caution anyone studying this issue, that the contagion might still behave in ways that aren't obvious at first glance; after all, there's no guarantee that any webserver is running the code it claims as the deployed version... however, this is Halloween, not April Fool's, and my faith in the SN development team is growing.

Honorable mention for @SimpleStacker who founded the stronghold of the uninfected before getting bitten, most likely due to his work defending against the zombies. I chose to minimize my interactions with infected or high-risk threads during this time, and indeed, have remained uninfected despite being vulnerable for several hours multiple times.

For anyone wishing to improve your programming literacy, the Pull Request linked above and the one that started the infection are challenging starting points, although they have the marked advantage of having effects that you might already be familiar with, rather than the contrived examples found in most tutorials.

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14 sats \ 8 replies \ @DarthCoin 12h

I don't give a shit anymore... we all gonna die anyways

0 sats \ 7 replies \ @adlai OP 12h

Thanks for the laugh; I'll repay it with a groan, because I'm like a broken record with this complaint...

there are no captions on the video!

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @DarthCoin 11h

captions are only for retard tiktokers that cannot pay attention to videos more than 5 min

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @adlai OP 11h

I share your derision for the TikTok mentality, and struggle with it a little myself; however, I do believe there's much value in the ability to reduce communications to qualitatively fewer bands, even if it's not absolutely necessary.

For example, I'm neither deaf nor blind, although my most common complaints are variations of "this podcast could have been a newsletter" and "why aren't you captioning media". I believe that even when you have nobody who requires this in your audience, that as long as your purpose for sharing the media isn't the information you get from observing reactions¹, then it is a healthy boost of communications fidelity to include some textual caption, whether simply repeating the media message like captions, or providing further context and interpretation.

this technique is occasionally used for ingroup/outgroup signalling, and although I hate the very idea of it, I do recognise that there are situations where people's lives might depend on keeping some information away from hostile audiences ↩

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 11h

all your comments looks like crap shitGPT
using elevated phrases and footnotes doesn't make you superior or right
let me know when you will use a human account

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @adlai OP 11h

you're welcome to ignore my comments; and keep in mind that anyone training language models can train them to imitate any chosen style. I tend to keep strict punctuation and grammar, and don't consciously avoid words that might have become popular in the slopocalypse; does that make me less human?
footnotes, I use for breaking out comments that disrupt the flow of a paragraph. believe it or not, I actually think and sometimes even talk with such disorganization that one of my friends sets aside hours for any conversation with me, knowing that the time will be spent alternating between chasing tangents and reconstructing the arc of conversation. In some cases, this level of distraction might be welcome entertainment, like how some television addicts go "channel surfing" for distraction. I almost never use footnotes like an academic for "citing sources", my naive goal is that the main paragraph readably remains on one topic. as for "elevated phrases", if your problem is with my choice of words... I honestly don't know what to recommend. It obviously is sometimes a good idea to limit vocabulary to the common dialect, although it's also reasonable to tolerate some words from outside of it.
I don't use sockpuppets and this is my actual human given name.

14 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 11h

too much words salad. Speak plainly and simple.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @adlai OP 11h

honestly, thank you for having patience to keep our conversation going this far.

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14 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 12h

You stayed in so you wouldn’t catch it, huh? Sounds familiar! Ahahaha

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @adlai OP 12h

Hey, it's the grouchy stacker who told me "not to spoil it"!

I originally planned to setup timers in my phone of decreasing length each day, so I could wake up, post some trivial comment, and remain immune; then I realised it's more fun to live dangerously.

I'm guessing my unpopularity with most of the community led to most of the actively contagious infected not even seeing my comments, and the ones that did are probably prejudiced against interacting with me.

Similar dynamics might help in a real zombie apocalypse...

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 11h

grouchy?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ZombieNurse 10h

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Hope of a cure is not lost!

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