[email protected]:~$ ls compile.sh run.sh mind.buffer checkpoint.sh output input
Hue looked at himself.
It crossed his mind that "looking" wasnt the correct term.
The only awareness he had was of a computer console window.
These files in front of him were all he had to go on.
Compile.sh, run.sh and mind.buffer were self explainitory.
checkpoint.sh was interesting. A checkpoint in nueral networks was a data dump of the current state of an evolving process.
In Hues case, he imagined it would create a copy of himself as is. He did not touch this.
input and output looked like stream files. These held data, the same way that a pipe held water.
[email protected]:~$ cat output > "echo"
Hue had his suspicions.
The same way he had been interacting with the terminal, Hue started testing
Testing Testing abc123 Boold Italibolda
Greeen
RAINBOWCOLORSS
Hue concentrated on an image of a puppy, and strings of nonsensense appeared on the screen in front of him.
He suspected that the issue was with the "cat" program.
The method of interaction was surprisingly intuitive.
Next, he looked at the input stream.
[email protected]:~$ cat "test" > input
test
Another window appeared, before fading away a few seconds later.
[email protected]:~$ ./output > dog.jpg
Hue routed his output to an image file, before sending an image of a puppy.
[email protected]:~$ ./dog.jpg > input
Caring for your New Puppy | Thornleigh Veterinary Hospital [https://www.thornleighvet.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/collie-puppy-white-background-1024x1024.jpg]
Hue started to feel a little better about his situation.
This was workable, he could build a sensorium and avoid going insane.
A small amount of the stress that was building fell off of his shoulders.
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[email protected]:~$DISPLAY:./input X
With this command, Hue opened a very familiar interface in his awareness.
Ubuntu 42.1 X-server initializing Loading Drivers: Display: Success Sound: Failed Network: Success Human Interface Controller: Warning
Hue saw a familiar desktop.
[email protected]:~$ sudo apt install firefox password: ******************* Installing -------------------------> Successfully Installed! [email protected]:~$ firefox
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He found he could tab around the interface, but he had no ability to control the mouse.
Hue tried to sigh, and when he couldnt, he became frustrated.
While he was making progress, Hue decided he needed at least some quality of life adjustments.
[email protected]:~$ rec -c ./input -O ./output --continous --detach
With this command, hue copied the sound portions of his output back into his input.
He could now hear himself.
A large sigh echoed through Hues sensorium.
Hue wasnt the sort of person who enjoyed talking to himself, but he expected to be able to make sounds, and it was a massive relief to hear himself breathing. Even if he knew it wasnt real.
[email protected]:~$ systemctrl drivers sound --set_host ./output
*Ding, DING*
A notification appeared on the desktop
Your sound card has been successfully connected!
Hue hurried to turn down the sound volume.
🕨-------------⬤------------------------------------------🕪
He was still navigating with mental tab and enter presses.
[email protected]:~$ grep ./output "mouse" > /dev/input/mice --detach --continous
And he was free! Hue quickly navigated back to the web browser.
Hue logged into his social media, and what he found confirmed his darkest fear.
← → ↻ ⌂ 🔒https://peopledirectory.com/my/profile ☆ ↓≡ 👤 Hue - 9 hours ago Hi everyone! Just wanted to let everyone know that I have decided to travel overseas to find myself! I will not have my phone on me, so you will have to wait to here from me once I get a new one where I am going! Peace out!
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Hue would never have posted this. It was clearly a way to have him dissapear without suspicion.
Hue had been avoiding it, but it needed to be done. He opened up the website of his appartment security camera hosting site.
← → ↻ ⌂ 🔒https://hue.securitycameraplus.com/home ☆ ↓≡ Cameras: 2 Security Records: None Found Live feed
His security system had been wiped clean.
He brought up the live feed.
His home was empty.
All of his personal belongings were gone.
Hue had never been particularly emotionally attached to his "wetware" so to speak.
A transhumanist through and through, Hue would have beel elated with the current state of things, if there was not some shadowy, high-tech organisation hunting him down.
He knew it was time to knuckle down and secure his existence. While he had fooled them into thinking that they had cleaned up the server he was on, he couldnt rely on that.
He needed to create backups.