@neil Open sheep only installable by experts, and then only compatible with tall sheep, Its a high Bar for the inexperienced.

@neil Electric Sheep has updated it's privacy policy (page 27) Write to us at this address to opt out of SheepAI.

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Install now or Maybe later

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Click... on the highlighted mutton?

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LibreSheep: no more fence, so the sheep wander away.

@neil puns intended on all this sheep comments? 🤔

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVy-LqD96O0

@neil we all know Opensheep isn't maintained and we should be using LibreSheep!

@neil firmware is only installable via a hub that also needs to be purchased and registered with the manufacturer who has gone out of business since your purchase so no longer exists.

@neil I.... think I never actually read the original story. been on my list for years. decades. for some reason I never got to it

@neil I feel like in that future it would actually be illegal to install a third party firmware.

Those androids are really living life on the edge now...

@neil *is clicking there* why is nothing happening?

@neil I bought this electric sheep before I knew the electric sheep maker was a Nazi

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Only a Dick would think of that.

@neil What is this woolly thinking.

@neil I don't know about the androids, but this makes me personally feel very fucking tired.

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Also, there's an ongoing lawsuit against OpenSheep by someone who bought a dubious share of the Electric Sheep I.P. Assets once.

@neil, … meh.

@neil meh, OpenSheep has 'ownership problems'. I use LibreSheep!

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@pluralistic

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This sounds more like a Phillip K. Dick novel than his novel did.

@neil @pluralistic @scalzi

@neil this might be one of my favorite #Mastodon posts so far, and that's really saying something

Tagged Cory Doctorow & John Scalzi bc they both need to get in this thread

@neil But do sheep dream of electric androids? #HighlyUnlikely

@neil Electric Sheep is fine but FreeGoats has a more permissive licence. It's pretty good once you get used to the UI quirks and spend a few hours to get your ~/.goatsrc dialled in.

@neil The unrealistic part is assuming OpenSheep will be even allowed to be installed on the Electric Sheep to begin with. Or whether the TPM cheep (couldn't avoid the pun) will break upon jailbreaking the firmware

@neil I like to put it this way... as a human, I've never dreamt about real sheep.

@neil Because of conflicts among the maintainers OpenSeep was forked as LibreSheep. Which shall I use? Oh and there is this incomplete reimplantation RustSheep. Is that any good?

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My Android dreams when it's in Sheep mode.

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By installing Open Sheep you may be breaching any warranty agreements. Any damage caused by installing Open Sheep the user does at their own risk.

@neil - as of June our Electric Sheep will be transferred to a subscription model costing only $89, billed to your credit card each year.

Or you can upgrade to our Electric Sheep Deluxe subscription, which entitles you to all the enjoyment of the basic Electric Sheep program plus 3 free games each month for only $139!

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baa as a service
Ensheepification

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ESaaS

@neil At Interactive Systems (first commercial Unix company) we had a story line:

A message is finally received from deep space.

After a massive decoding effort the message is found to say: "Life 1.0 has been found to have a fatal and non-repairable flaw. Life 2.0 is now available. All instances of Life 1.0 will be destroyed."

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Installing updates 0%...
Don't turn off your electric sheep

@neil You reminded me of this lovely story of a sheepdog who, confused by a robotic lawnmower, eventually decided this was a strange kind of sheep and learned to herd it:

https://www.tumblr.com/gallusrostromegalus/618714943606423552/while-i-cant-fault-your-reasoning-on-robot

@neil 'cept step 3 can be forgotten- the firmware update might be needed for safety reasons, but won't be available to existing devices, you must buy Electric Sheep V2 which will rely on 24/7 connection to a remote server to function. And which will then be discontinued and the server closed.

@neil To continue using Electric Sheep you will need to update your device so that it can run the latest version of Electric Sheep AI, a continuous Hypernet Connection, (no VPN's or Proxies), a monthly subscription to Electric Sheep Online and agree to provide us with access to your personal and usage data for the purposes of improving Electric Sheep AI.

@neil electric sheep dumped core

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@neil subscription required in order to activate electric sheep

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PhiPhilip K. Dick would approve.

@neil @catsalad If you steal an Electric Sheep you have to take it on the lamb.