One of my "hero memories" was a time when I was a master of Win95 - and a friend had accidentally changed ALL of her display options to black - so all the UI was black, but I knew Win95 so well I could navigate the entire OS via keyboard - and was able to from memory navigate through the start menu, to settings, knowing how many tabs to hit to get to display and change that back to default.
The people watching thought I was a magician.
(I also had several sealed original W95 boxes on floppies...(we shutdown an office, and as IT mgr - I had to go liquidate - and we had ~50 boxes of original release W95s there - so I took several home) and I held them for ~10+ years then sold them on eBay, I only got $25 for each - but I sold them as pieces of "computing history")
Oh, I vaguely remember this from when floppy disks were still around (though not by the name DMF) - I remember them having a 1.44MB capacity but some smart people reformatted their floppy disks to get it up to 1.68MB.
CDroms were a luxury addon when W95 was released - but every machine had a 3.5
I want to say it was in the ~20 disk range...
There were a lot of really fun things that happened with W95 - a lot of "mischevious" cyberwar...
Like taking image of desktop as background came out with that - so nothing was clickable as a prank.
There were several backdoor utils
There were several prank links to something that seemed serious/work -- but then switched to a really loud voice yelling "IM WATCHING P*RN"
(The backdoor utils were really powerful though, and they remind me of a thing I am doing with Cursor/Claude -- Agent mode access to a fresh windows laptop as admin and having the bot fully config my new windows machine to my specs.
Having gone through quite a number of compliance audits... the one thing that is good in that advice, is that many items in an audit are just a checklist of questions, such as
do you have a policy for XYZ?
or confirm you have a process for "thing"
So what ends up happeneing is if you feel stressed about an audit, just getting a list of the audit, you will realize how much you can just say "yes" to and feel less daunted by the audit.
So, its a good self-check even if youre just crossing out the things you should have already have a framework for.
The thing to take here is that this should be a function_callable *feature* of a bot.
Basically, when architecting a persona ; "USE THESE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT"
Also -- where my CheckListManifesto folks at -- While we are building Patterns/Personas/Purgatories for our bots... We need to be able to reference a central CODEX of :
"Do this task but imbue yourself with (XYZ) name places"
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AND LEARN FROM THE OTHERS
(so maybe a task marketplace of AI persona action?)
THe person's view to be scared of is peter thiel... hes the digital version of gorge soros. Meaning that this guys legacy is vast... and we have no clue how it will manifest over decades (especially after he is dead) -- but peter thiel is the leviathan of the digital future.
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he is scary AF. he basically weaponized what george soros was but is still active.
The people watching thought I was a magician.
(I also had several sealed original W95 boxes on floppies...(we shutdown an office, and as IT mgr - I had to go liquidate - and we had ~50 boxes of original release W95s there - so I took several home) and I held them for ~10+ years then sold them on eBay, I only got $25 for each - but I sold them as pieces of "computing history")