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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
lamafeeling

Hollow rock turns into a router full of survival info when you build a fire beside it

mostlysignssomeportents

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Keepalive is Aram Bartholl’s fake hollow boulder in the woods of Neuenkirchen, Germany. It conceals a thermoelectric generator that powers a router configured to serve documents related to wilderness survival. The router switches on if the rock is sufficiently warmed, say by a blazing campfire adjacent to it.

It’s based on Piratebox, a standalone Internet router project for file-sharing.

It’s not the only art/artificial boulder project, though: Ed Ruscha claims to have made an artificial boulder called “Rocky II” and hidden it somewhere in the Mojave, where it is visually indistinguishable from the surrounding rocks, making it all but impossible to find.

https://boingboing.net/2016/02/01/hollow-rock-turns-into-a-route.html

argumate

that magic rock in the Mojave is going to confuse the fuck out of our descendants one day.

ethnianmandarin

probably not. it’s just a rock. most rocks go unregarded

argumate

most rocks aren’t wifi access points!

ethnianmandarin

you need to regard a rock to find out if it is a wifi access point.

veequoi

w hat the fuck. did the world’s most sadistic text adventure game writer make this rock

You are lost in a woodland clearing. There is a large boulder and a pile of firewood nearby.
> check cell phone
You open your cell phone to google wilderness survival tips, but you don’t have any service.
> make campfire with firewood
You could light a fire here, but you’d still be lost.
> regard rock
It’s a large rock. The underside of the rock appears slightly charred.
> light campfire under rock
Pretty soon you have a blazing campfire going underneath the boulder.
> regard rock
The strange boulder, now warmed, has begun to emit a faint mechanical hum.
> check cell phone
You open your cell phone. There is one wifi network available, named “KeepAlive.”
> connect to rock wifi
The wifi router opens a webpage full of documents on wilderness survival.
> ?????
Invalid command.
> why
Invalid command.
> who hides secrets in a magic heat-activated rock
Invalid command.

Source: mostlysignssomeportents
eridone
ddlgcringe

When people say “end cringe culture” they mean “stop making fun of people who are having good, safe fun” not “never criticize or have negative opinions and stances on problematic things ever”

slimetentacle

id kill both problematic things and cringey shitty ocs in a fucking heartbeat dont test me bitch

ddlgcringe

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Originally posted by n-wordbelike

slimetentacle

black people are being killed but no lets all focus on making fun of peoples kins and interests cuz thats what REALLY matters.

“let kids have harmless fun” let black people live

astilbes

….. where’s the correlation ????? 

galexyvalkyrie
fleamontpotter

Something that really bothers me about people’s hatred towards Ron is that unless you grew up really poor you have no idea what it’s like and how much it affects you. Especially if you grow up poor surrounded by rich friends. The jealousy seriously eats you alive and the way Ron acted was perfectly understandable. 

lupinatic

Over twenty years later, I’ll still never forget the day one of my classmates told me to just ask my parents for more money, as though I was literally too thick to work out the obvious solution. Because in her world, it was that simple. Or the day my teacher gave me an ‘are you even trying for a believable lie’? look when I had to tell him my parents couldn’t afford to send me on a low-cost excursion. Or how for an entire school year, I had to wear a school uniform skirt so small it left angry marks on my waist every day, because my mother begged me to make it last just one more year. The day everyone thought it was hilarious to ruin my pencil case, and even more hilarious that I was so upset and claimed that my parents would be furious with me - LOL, that silly girl! They’ll just buy her a new one, it’s not that difficult! (Spoiler, they couldn’t and it was). And yeah, I had my fair share of second-hand underwear too, like another character who grew up in poverty. The utter shock I felt when I realized other families not only had air conditioning, but also used it regularly… the jealousy I felt when everyone else had nice formal wear and I had whatever my parents could manage to get… the list goes on and on. And that’s on top of a bunch of other struggles and disadvantages I had.

But to hear Ron critics talk, he was the worst person alive if he ever even dared to want nice things for himself instead of just nobly being happy other people had them. ‘Why is everything I own rubbish?’ is not a permissible attitude, not even for a moment.

rosalui

I see a lot of people making fun/disapproving of how Ron is always stuffing his face with food and it INFURIATES ME.

When you grow up fucking poor you learn to take advantage of free food when you have it.

Asshats.

ron-is-awesome-sauce

Also does anyone realize the sheer fortitude Ron had to have to invite Harry over to his house!?

I could not invite my better off friends over to my house because things were literally falling apart inside of it and my family didn’t have the means to fix it and it ate me up inside to not be able to have my best friend over to my house when I spent the better half of my teenage life sleeping over at her house because my parents and I didn’t want her to see how rundown the inside of our home was.

Ron was so nervous about what Harry would say about his house and was embrassed by the state of it but he saw Harry needed somewhere to stay and he opened up his home to him. People who have always been well off wouldn’t understand the magnitude of that action.

Ron is a damn treasure and anyone who hates him because of his jealousy can’t understand the deeper meaning behind it.

Source: fleamontpotter