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4 january 2021

I was inspired by the poem at the end of this short story, which won some awards a while back. I'm not too much into reading anymore, not for any lack of trying to get back into it. Anyway, as I was saying. I was inspired by this poem, and decided to go back to writing some of my own. Here goes... something.

For all my tries to get the prize Of a healthy, painless life All I got was a tangled knot In my stomach, lined with strife. Time to reboot.

xen: Booting virtualized kernel under dom0... Virtual. Not real. Not exposed. So that it doesn't hurt. You virtualize to mitigate vulnerabilities. In a way... So do I. I am a virtual void(). No interface, no vulnerabilities. No interface, no point... Time to reboot.

xen: Booting virtualized kernel under dom0... systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Module social-firewall... The answer is in limitation. Social distancing at its literal. Allow-list: Three people. Drop all other traffic. ... Eight months later, someone on the allow-list undermines my kernel's integrity. Panic. CPU: 2 PID: 2 at drivers/emotion/love/uncond_love.c:483 - assert "significant_other.emotional_support != null" failed [emotion_engine] Time to reboot.

xen: Booting virtualized kernel under dom0... systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Module social-firewall... systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Module iface-fake-emotion... socialtables -t nat -A POSTROUTING --out-interface fake-emotion -j MASQUERADE socialtables -A FORWARD --in-interface emotion0 -j ACCEPT No one comes in anymore. ... No one comes in anymore. It's getting lonelier by the minute. Why do I have to make these stupid fucking hacks anyway? Time to reboot.

Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware... Broadcast message from person-f1a830b3df@outside-world (pts/1): Go find help, please. You need it. Broadcast message from person-1cedb817eb@outside-world (pts/1): You're acting really weird and you're creeping me the fuck out. Broadcast message from person-84dcfb24df@outside-world (pts/1): Dude, what the fuck is wrong with you?

Oh. Right. Now I remember. Time to power off.