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Seems like we have yet to really have the 9/11 moment, and the ease with which established practices can be catastrophically exploited has not been fully internalized. Or even internalized at all.
In December of 2021, three of us got together and connected our houses together in what we now call The Promised LAN. The idea is simple—fill the hole we feel is gone from our lives. Build our own always-on 24/7 nonstop LAN party. Build a space that is intrinsically social, even though we’re doing technical things. We can freely host insecure game servers or one-off side projects without worrying about what someone will do with it.
I've had a similar experience to this guy in some ways. I remember the weird intersection of hyper-social and hyper-tech. I never really thought about bringing it back; the default thing to drop into is to assume that all that stuff we did was in service of what we now have, in vastly improved form, instead of being for its own sake.
Sometimes, metaphorically, the barn-raising is for the act of shared work, and the fellowship and interdependence, not because you want a barn so bad. It was easy to miss that. It's still easy to miss.
I love these brief S&S anecdotes, it's like a serialized Dickens novel.
The absolute essential heart of btc is that it's non-governmental sound money. Is there a way to explain that in 30 seconds to a normie? Seems a bridge too far. But that would be my angle.
Sound money, not btc. Btc just looks like a shitty and over-complicated Venmo, otherwise.
When it rains it pours, I guess. Thanks v much. A good lesson as both a sender and receiver on the power of a kind word.
This comes as a very welcome message to me right now for reasons you will never know. (Ha, so meta!)
Thanks for taking the time.
I will certainly forget to watch this / be otherwise occupied, but I hope someone will post a follow-up once it's happened!
All of these context questions are equally interesting to consider wrt people. The power of what you try to bring to mind is significant in constructing reality.
Has it had more influence on how you act or how you view the actions of others?
Both. I view it kind of like a law of social physics, or socio-biology. I see it unfolding in myself intimately, and others coarsely.
But I think I'm not exaggerating wrt its power, and its pervasiveness in this new online reality.
There's something really important in this. I had a Gurwinder post on audience capture here someplace that gets at a similar idea, though this one has some more threads to pull.
The idea, regardless of what you call it, is one of the biggest influences on my thinking in the last five years. Hard to think of one that's had more impact.
A combo for me:
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I can curate more successfully, block noisy people, have my own territory where people who are anti-compatible don't generally go
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Btc selects for a certain inquisitive type, a certain counter-culture hunger (which can def go bad, but see above)
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I can get a surprising amount of engagement, not in the "millions of followers" sense, but in the "handful of people will read me closely and talk to me" sense; it feels like a bar where I'm one of the regulars, and though I am not really known in most ways, I feel deeply known in a few
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Zapping is just enough of an honest signal
It may be a smallish site, but I feel like it's still actively moving forward, really searching. Bullish on it becoming even more meaningful.
Listen to things outside your central interests, is my advice. W btc stuff esp it's easy to get spun up looking for hopium, confirmation of what you already think, evidence that you're awesome and soon to be rich. At least that's what happens to me.
Find podcasts on literature and philosophy or whatever. That can be joyous and you're unlikely to fall into euphoria loops.
Karlsson is a treasure and you beat me to posting this.
I assume he will eventually be broadly recognized and make it big and then I will be salty in classic hipster fashion.
Ugh, this is beautiful, Siggy. What a testament. And I love how you didn't do the normal thing that people do, make your friend sound like some kind of paragon. But rather a messy person, full of virtues and vices, wins and losses, all mixed together. Sounds like me, sounds like everyone I know. He is lucky to have been seen, over the years, with such attention.