"It was really just humans playing with an old library. It should be safe, using their own automation, clean and benign.

This library wasn't a living creature, or even possessed of automation (which here might mean something more, far more, than human)."

Link to the Prologue of Fire Upon the Deep: https://www.baen.com/Chapters/-0812515285/A_Fire_Upon_the_De...

It's very short and from one of my favorite books. Increasingly relevant.

Legitimately listening to this book for the first time after a coworker recommended it. It's rapidly becoming one of my favorite books that balances the truly alien with the familiar just right.

Not so ironically, it came up when we were discussing "software archeology".

＼(＾O＾)／ zones of thought mentioned ＼(＾O＾)／

I've only just heard of it. But, I already knew to not run random scripts under a privileged account. And thank you for the book suggestion - I'm into those kinds of tales.

I love that book