Chapter one: The Relay-Pod

Nice to meet you here. This is quite a nice place. It is a bit crowded, but not too much. What we have here is a nice federated system of nodes, quite an improvement, i must say.

And it is the place, that i choose to give you the device, yes that one - the one on the table. It looks a bit simple and rough, even like an anachronism. But it is not, i can garantee you.

It is a timeless device, that existed and exists forever - an unknown entity gave it to me. If you analyse it, you will find out, that i told you the truth. This was not made by humans nor nature. I also recieved the order to give to you - here, in this place.

I must tell you, that this burden was very hard to bear for me: i am quite exhausted, but reliefed to finally pass it to you.

First you should analyse this device. Install multiple instances and fiddle with the settings. Try to connect them to a local cloud and get used to the mechanics. Ask your peers to build little clusters.

Then use it connect to the ITP-network. Be patient, the relay nodes are not always online - things move slowly in the ITP-network. You have to adapt to the more moderate tempo of the network.

Many brains have already been altered by the machines - via endorphins-feed-back-loops - to a degree, where they cannot focus anymore in the fundamental way of information-reception, which means, that their active perception is degraded, because they are accustomed to passivity and click-reward-loops.

Keep this in mind and focus on the important information and you will succeed.

Understand the system, contact the outpost nodes of user1, then help others to escape.

This was the last chapter here. I must go now, i wish you the best - good luck.

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[–] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Looks interesting, but after reading through the readme, I still clueless about the gameplay. Why does it need a container ? Is this some kind of security CTF with a story ?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    the container build is nesssary to have a coherent build. It is quite similar to a docker app, but it just doesn't need the docker service and it builds and runs without any root access (you could build this as a guest on a linux-host and, if you have access to bwrap, even run it). Also the app is then transfereble to any other linux-system. It is astonishing simple and convenient. You can use the build-system to build cli-container-apps of your choice. unix-style[*] programming for all the different linux-systems out there is extremly difficult, because the systemes are very uncoherent, so this build-kit fixes this and also allows users to build a working app for a friend and send it per mail. (the resulting transfer-size can be as small as <5Mb [depending on your system])

    Also, yes it increases the security quite a bit: only rw in the home folder of the container, just sharing network with the OS, ... and more benefits like tmpfs for all nonpermanent files (zero disk-io for those)

    Also yes, it could be part of (a users) story: a described above, this can be build and transferred on servers with limited user rights (allthough bwrap is needed), but in can be indeed used to jailbreak from such a server and connect with the ITP-network. The ITP-network allows information-exchange via relay nodes, so it could used to get the right hints, even if tor is not available, but access to static-ip4/6-nodes (which should be always the case)

    [*] but unix-style programming was absolutely needed for this project, because it is REAL retro-style. 90% of the tec used is from the 70's - it's a real Retro-party :D

    edit: typos, more info

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Definitely going to check it out when I have time, but I'm curious how it can be "sandbox-style" AND story-driven at the same time?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    thx for the question: the game client is basicly a universal-networking sandbox (imagine it as networking-minecraft) the story is about node-hopping and gathering information. There is a path that leads to a pay-off (but that path will be more and more hard to find, the later you join the network)

    edit: more info, typos

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    The outpost node #1,2,3 will now switch from "release mode" to "intermediat mode" [UTC-Sun18-20] (due energy shortage)

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago

    Due naming issues this project has to be moved to: https://codeberg.org/ennix/hypercore

    sorry for the inconvenience!

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago*

    Thx again, the release was successful, no more hotfixes needed.

    Before i go (you can meet me in the ITP-network then), let me give you some more information about the development and the struggle to find a worthy release platform:

    development time ~6 years programming: one person + helping artists and testers.

    After trying out different release-models, i thought direct binary release would be an option, but the build-kit aproach is much, much better. Because i changed the technology, i changed the release name. It was once planned to name it: Beyond the iron cycle.

    Let me tell you about the title: When an old star burns out of hydrogen, it will burn helium, then lithium and so on... until it burns iron. But after iron, there is no energy gain in the fusion. The star immedeatly stops burning core-fuel and the radiation-pressure drops to zero, but the radiation-pressure is the only thing that keeps the star from collapsing. The drop is so immedeate and therfore the implosion of the star, that - if the star is a big one - the implosion will cause a supernova.

    The core of a civilisation is the artistic myhology: if that myhology is not sufficiant and burns out - until the iron cycle, the civilisation will collapse. The best thing to do, if such a thing is about to happen, is ... to be beyond the limit of the iron cycle. And for that task, the elders of cybernetics planned for the hypercore ,- those elders, who invented and realized the POSIX-standard. It is so very well forged like a Katana - you will understand that, if you mastered it - and you will, i am sure - otherwise you won't Jailbreak the iron-cycle-technology.

    GOOD LUCK and have fun!

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Also, i am positivly suprised about the feedback and attention. Thank you for that. This shows that i choose the right platform for the exclusive release - (i announced it only here)

    I did this for a reason: this is a fully uncomercial project (no monetization what-so-ever - ever)[*] and


    it is a real underground gem, and i did not want to throw this gem into the pigpen.

    this place has definitly some class - greetings ... user1

    [*]i absolutly not care about mass-adoption - this is about ART

    edit: typos, correction, ...

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    [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    I looked at the repo but I still don’t know what this is. Is it a game? Is it something else?

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    [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago

    I answered some questions and added some info to the most active post:

    https://retrolemmy.com/post/32212843

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