✨Ben Hamill✨ @benhamill@octodon.social


“Now that we’re here, I get to wondering,” he says in an almost whisper, “if in the end it won’t be the brands that end us.”

He’s looking off to the west. You look in that direction, parsing his meaning. Off that way there are more towns. Towns where there are rumors of riots and bandit parties attacking other towns.

It dawns on you, and your mind completes his thought.

“I get to wondering if in the end it’ll be us that end ourselves”

“It took a long time to find this place.”

“We wandered for years, hiding, struggling, being alone. But we heard tales of a place where there weren’t brands. Where they were working on a cure. There was hope here”

He pulls at the hem of his shirt idly as the sun starts to set.

A tiny dust tornado whips up and spins along the ground, tossing dried leaves. The soil here is dry and empty of nutrients from over-farming in the desperate times before. At some point it was declared useless for crops and the town sprouted up. Looking at the dead earth below makes you wonder how long the town, and the people, can survive.

He sits on a bench, in octodon.social. Octodon is a mid-sized town in the confederation.

“Yea, I was there,” he starts, looking at nothing in particular.

“I was there when the brands came to Birdsite” He fidgets a little on the bench, obviously uncomfortable.

“They came, and the people started to turn. Turn into _them_.” He almost spits the word.

“Said they had to curate their personal brands.” His eyes have a deep sadness to them as he looks at the clear sky.

@deshipu @benhamill ugh dudes this is 100% inaccurate https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/24993/is-there-a-way-to-use-bcrypt-with-passwords-longer-than-72-bytes-securely

@benhamill Whenever I see a length limit on a password field this tells me one thing "we store your password, not its hash".

Telling angry people that being angry and shouting doesn't help will never make them less angry.

Also, it's incorrect. Sometimes turning the volume way up is the only way to get heard.

If you don't like being shouted at, practice listening at normal volumes.

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