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The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks

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#11
At the meta level, I think using a .md to host informational documents is cool. A step up from a blog, allowing a better way to discuss/propose additions.

I've been thinking of doing a piece of doing Defcon on the cheap (harder in recent years).

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Why call it secret when "It is intended for everyone and anyone"? I can't understand the idea behind it.

It creates enough mystery for someone to open the github page so they can read "intended for everyone"?

So it’s clickbait?

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Why call it secret when "It is intended for everyone and anyone"? I can't understand the idea behind it.

I chalk it up to wanting an attractive title. The information is not actually secret in that the reader or writer is bound to keep the information secret. Rather, the knowledge was previously difficult (to some degree) to come by, and is now co-located, thus lifting the shroud of secrecy (by obscurity).

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There's also https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome What's causing the rise of these curated lists? Some things I've been pondering: * quality decline of Google search results * less people using bookmark aggregators (del.icio.us) * the trend towards feeds or transient info (fb/twitter/reddit)

> What's causing the rise of these curated lists? People with good intentions that want a repo with a high star count. Getting over 500 stars on these readme-only/awesome/"curated" list is very easy. The problem is that curating these lists isn't easy work - people will throw 50+ PRs at you adding their random project. Most maintainers blindly accept them and then the list becomes useless. Sindre (original awesome li…

I do it only for stars... really man? Creating and maintaining such a list is not a simple thing. It's not awesome or other shit in the name.

This is a collection of my short notes, one-liners, useful links, tools and more. I added it to gh, to share with others and get other interesting things. Not for stars! The amount of them is obviously nice but not crucial.

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Why call it secret when "It is intended for everyone and anyone"? I can't understand the idea behind it.

Obviously because it alludes at the "books of secret knowledge" of yore, hard to find books, compiled by masters of some domain and filled with useful knowledge.

It's like calling your Chinese restaurant "Golden Palace". It's not golden and its not a palace. It's just meant to convey "typical chinese", "luxury", etc.

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