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The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software (hackaday.com)
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[–] 74 points 1 year ago (1 child)

When reading cyberpunk lore, quickhacks didn't make any sense to me. Some programs that break cyberware because of backdoors, but why would people install cyberware with backdoors?

Now I look at the sad state of mobile market and, yeah ok, that makes sense.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That makes sense and all but where does the poison come from??

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean the cyberware is a direct neural interface so presumably it must be able to manipulate and alter the levels and balance of your neurotransmitters. Im sure increasing aome to insane levels would have pretty toxic effects, like serotonin syndrome for example.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I suppose that's a good enough hand wave explanation.

    I thought though, just purely for curiosities sake, that neurotransmitters are released by a voltage potential difference over some sort of gate caused by a flood of sodium ions (a chemical signal), and it's not just a matter of conducting current. That means the cyberware has to somehow attach inside the axon and on the outside, across the gate to create that voltage difference. And that's for one gate.

    I feel like the more one thinks about this the more the name should be changed to 3077.

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