There is a real Salad Fingers vibe.

You missed the entire point, the reality of the situation is that nobody “was social engineering of ID theft” - a person wanted to use wifi for a few minutes.

It takes nothing to act like a human being and share a wifi password. Instead here we are with you celebrating an automaton for blindly following rules and having no flexibility, because at least this guy wasn’t able to “steal his own identity”.

“Sure someone’s day was wasted, which could have been changed incredibly easily, but really what’s most important is blind adherence to The Rules.”

+1 for following protocol? 🤡

A person’s day was wasted after they couldn’t access a public service, which sounds bad, but I guess on the bright side at least a Rule was enforced against them.

All this for wifi access for a few minutes. Must enforce The Rule to the letter, can’t lapse for a moment and make a decision as a human being.

Very nice composition, the lines of the guard rail and of the highway trailing into the distance, the balance of the sky and the ground, mysterious beauty of the fog, the glowing sun, I really like it all. The bare trees in the near-distant fog are wonderful too.

Thank you for sharing.

Sam Zeloof (http://sam.zeloof.xyz/) has been working in the area of DIY semiconductor fabrication, and has successfully fabricated working ICs (from 6 - 100 transistors). He’s done an incredible job at reaching ~1970’s technology levels in a home lab.

Another example of DIY fabrication: https://hackaday.com/2010/03/10/jeri-makes-integrated-circuits/ Jeri Ellsworth made her own silicon inverter.

These examples are still very small-scale compared to even simple microprocessors, etc - but it’s fascinating to see this level of technology becoming more accessible.