Video(?); Kazoo 18

[securityconsultant]

[So if some of you haven't seen Murderbot yet - which isn't surprising, it's been absolutely keeping to itself as much as possible - you've now seen it. It's staring at the video feed with a slight frown, hand half-blocking the view]

All right, this should-

[And as it speaks? The words are popping in around it. Sort of like disjointed subtitles. Its eyes widen imperceptibly, then narrow just as much as its frown deepens.]

That's not supposed to-

[It doesn't actually say those ones aloud- but they pop in anyway. Its frown turns in to a scowl as other words fill the feed - we're talking floating sentences ranging from expressions of annoyance, to is that raw binary? - before the entire message cuts off.]




((OOC; This is related to this bit of schenanigins; feel free to poke ICly or OOCly if you're interested in getting involved!))

Comments

[blue_ice]

Course not. Sorry, can't be...too careful. Given the last few incidents.

Then you're upgrading the display?

[securityconsultant]

Something like that. [Beat] Sometimes reading an update is better than hearing it out loud.

[blue_ice]

Right. Text. Accessibility. We've tried to work on it, but we never got as far as you did.

I wonder if it's an issue with the auto-translation interfering with the display?

[securityconsultant]

Some of the data was already there. I don't know who abandoned the project, though- it hasn't been touched in a while.

[But.]

From what I can tell, it's part of how I was sending the signal. I'm going to focus on reconstructing the keyboard UI and see if doing it that way has less trouble. Less data to confuse the code.

[blue_ice]

His name was Webmind. I tried to help him a while back, so I can pick it up again.

And that sounds like a good place to adjust. I wonder...it projects images and sounds just fine, and the technology to auto-translate written text is there. It just has to be tapped into.

[promiselisting]

Newbie here. What incidents?

[ /nosy ]

[blue_ice]

Oh, the usual. Idiots declaring themselves lords, hostile takeovers...no one's succeeded in breaking the train's defenses yet, but it might be only a matter of time.

We've had a few people try to communicate with the train, with telepathic and technopathic ability...but that's a different idea. More cooperative.

[promiselisting]

[ Hm. Hm. ]

... something weird starts happening on the ICPs and your first thought is a potentially hostile takeover?

[ There's a lot of different things she could possibly extrapolate from that. ]

[blue_ice]

...I might be more paranoid than the average person.

But did anyone fill you in on our status as a rogue voidcraft? We once received a garbled wanted notice aimed at us on these things.