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Re:Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling lo... by hypfer on Saturday October 25, 2025 @09:38AM (#45703794)
Yes. I am not a real person.

In fact, no one but yourself is. You are the hero here. You see through it all. Thank you, hero, for finding that out and saving the city.

You win +37XP

Re:Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling lo... by fgbarben on Saturday October 25, 2025 @10:09AM (#45704047)
If I donate $100 to your ko-fi will you stop bullying me?
Re:Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling lo... by hypfer on Saturday October 25, 2025 @10:15AM (#45704087)
ngl that's a good answer.

You've nailed it. It is clearly deliberate but also could be the result of a markov chain and it sits right in the middle.

I like that. Good art, thanks.

Re:Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling lo... by DonHopkins on Saturday October 25, 2025 @05:03PM (#45706934)
Eeeeh, two out of ten... Boring, derivative, and juvenile; you're just a sad drab light weight whiney troll. You can't hold a candle to the colorful iconoclastic brilliance of Netochka Nezvanova's performance art.

Her artfully crafted non-existence is baked into her name, her avant-garde software engineering is brilliant and groundbreaking, and she even has a Wikipedia page, a Salon.com article, and numerous ArtsyFartsy LitCrit analyses written about her legendary trolling.

You could do better by taking some advice from Melania Trump, gold-digging meme-coin-rug-pull-endorsing transactional trophy wife of the biglyest troll in the universe: "Be Best".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Best

>Be Best is a public-awareness campaign first promoted by First Lady Melania Trump. It began in 2018 and continued until 2021. Its initial focuses included youth well-being and combating cyberbullying; the initiative's scope was expanded to include combating revenge porn during her second tenure as first lady.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22352276

>Bravo! If you enjoyed that anti-Max performance art trolling, but thought it wasn't spectacularly hyperbolic and sociopathic enough, I recommend looking up some of the classic flames on the nettime mailing list by Netochka Nezvanova aka "NN" aka "=cw4t7abs", "punktprotokol", "0f0003", "maschinenkunst" (preferably spelled "m2zk!n3nkunzt"), "integer", and "antiorp"! [...]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netochka_Nezvanova_(author)

>Netochka Nezvanova is the pseudonym used by the author(s) of nato.0+55+3d, a real-time, modular, video and multi-media processing environment. Alternate aliases include "=cw4t7abs", "punktprotokol", "0f0003", "maschinenkunst" (preferably spelled "m2zk!n3nkunzt"), "integer", and "antiorp". The name itself is adopted from the main character of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's unfinished novel Netochka Nezvanova (1849) and translates as "nameless nobody." [...]

https://www.salon.com/2002/03/01/netochka/

>The most feared woman on the Internet: Netochka Nezvanova is a software programmer, radical artist and online troublemaker. But is she for real?

>For someone who does not exist — at least the way you or I do — Netochka Nezvanova has a fearsome reputation. She’s a gifted computer programmer and polemicist, an artist and a pain-in-the-ass, a critic of capitalism and fascism, as well as a capitalist and a marketer. [...]

https://anthology.rhizome.org/m9ndfukc-0-99

>Netochka Nezvanova was a massively influential online entity at the turn of the millennium. An evolution of various internet monikers, among them m2zk!n3nkunzt, inte.ger, and antiorp, Nezvanova has collectively been credited for writing a number of early real-time audiovisual and graphics applications. She was also a prolific and divisive presence on email lists, employing trolling as a form of propaganda and as a tool for creative disruption—though, at times, users adopting the moniker also engaged in harassment and other destructive behaviors. [...]

>"I have not been thrown off a mailing list. I have been illegally transformed into a yellow flower. A young girl one day found me, and with half closed eyes whispered: Perfection, Today you've peered in my direction." —Netochka Nezvanova, m9ndfukc.0+99, 1999.

>As hacker or net prankster, Nezvanova was incredibly intentional in her actions. As a software writer, she was both an abstractionist and a progenitor. [...]