Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/02/digital-sigil-generator.html
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Eh… I played around with it… honestly it is a neat idea, but most of the things I entered came out looking uninteresting.
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This is 2020. Stop and think. Is this really the time to chance it?
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Never Trust A Tory
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My ‘sigil for protection against stupidity’ turned out ridiculously complex and unreproducible.
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Great. Now everything I look at is a banana.
You’ll be hearing from my attorney, who also happens to look like a banana.
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(file photo)
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Yep. That’s him.
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CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN inbound.
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I noticed that too. Again, neat idea, but I probably can do some random ones myself if needed.
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Yeah, this was disappointing. I was really hoping it’d be deterministic.
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This is covered in the FAQ - they use various metrics from your typing to ensure that sigils don’t repeat (similar to how the design of a hand-made sigil would vary if created at different times or in different states of mind).
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I dunno…the consequences of a bug in this program could be of Ghostbusters proportions…
For those playing around, note this:
- What will you do with all the Sigils that are created?
Eventually we plan to project them on to well known landmarks to hypercharge them. We collect the intentions and data points that make up the sigils. We do not collect any personal identifying information at all.
On that note
Erase this data:
NOW you’ve done it.
/me hits the “Keter class incident” alarm button
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I still wish they’d use the metrics from typing to modify it in subtle ways (shifting the circles in small amounts), rather than picking entirely new locations / order for the circles and lines. That’d give you a personal sigil that could still be recognized by others ‘in the know.’
This sounds eerily like what an uncomfortable number of people in charge of various projects think Visio is.
