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As a part of this, I've been working on a Go library [0] for processing local Firefox- and Chromium-based browser data, including history, bookmarks, and extension settings.
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I am unbelievably tempted to dive into personal insult at such a repulsive, abbrasive, uncaring, unperceptive comment! How horrible! It is us who live too complicated lives. It is us who do not try to bring about consistency. It is us all who have our data scattered across endless different planes, who leave ourselves behind to wander between firewall & firewall, cloud & cloud, each time permitted to carry nothing wi…
What the chart describes strikes me more as a prison than transcendence. Not all complexity is order, and not all chaos isn't simple. However, much of the wrangling could relate to contractual data preservation (like client communications), which means we don't have enough information to decide whether it's "too complex" for remuneration received. Doesn't mean the grandparent comment is wrong, though.
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I mean, you can also just let the data go. "nothing, chaos" is pretty simple . I don't believe being able to search my chatlogs from 2005 would make my life simpler, or better. Some people are natural archivists and love that second-brain stuff though, and this is a pretty sweet example :). One area I strongly relate to Karlicoss is how bad it is getting data out of my bank; as a regular non-institutional customer I…
Oh sure, you can opt to be an animal. You can opt to not gather your intellect, intelligence, to avoid trying to understand who you are, what you do, what you are, as you go about your time online. You can easily- we all easily- avoid reflection, understanding, coherence. Like animals. It's uncivil, the very definition of unbecoming: eternally forgetful. I don't even mind this low path! Sure! Be nothing! Remember not…
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I mean, you can also just let the data go. "nothing, chaos" is pretty simple . I don't believe being able to search my chatlogs from 2005 would make my life simpler, or better. Some people are natural archivists and love that second-brain stuff though, and this is a pretty sweet example :). One area I strongly relate to Karlicoss is how bad it is getting data out of my bank; as a regular non-institutional customer I…
Oh sure, you can opt to be an animal. You can opt to not gather your intellect, intelligence, to avoid trying to understand who you are, what you do, what you are, as you go about your time online. You can easily- we all easily- avoid reflection, understanding, coherence. Like animals. It's uncivil, the very definition of unbecoming: eternally forgetful. I don't even mind this low path! Sure! Be nothing! Remember not…
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What the chart describes strikes me more as a prison than transcendence. Not all complexity is order, and not all chaos isn't simple. However, much of the wrangling could relate to contractual data preservation (like client communications), which means we don't have enough information to decide whether it's "too complex" for remuneration received. Doesn't mean the grandparent comment is wrong, though.
Having the capabilities, to me, implies nothing. What you do with gathered information is up to you. No one else has any capacity, capability, to gather, to understand, to begin to consider. We all live in eternal, scattered, not just unconnected, but unconnectable, un-understandable forms. The possibility should exist to try to harness our many forms. The digital should be a channel to explore, view, gather, from wh…
Me, I like sand art.
there are a lot of questions here. a lot of doubts. but few embrace the challenge. that to me is the resounding, deep silence of this era: so many great, lovely, wonderful people all about. but so few who face, head on, the moral quandry of so much of ourselves being owned by corporate data centers, dispersed, un-usable. that's not even the point, the core. rather than highlight the negative, ask: what faculties, what capabilities are gathering for ourselves?
Tim Orielly said back in 2012, "create more value than you capture"[4]. few are focused, as Karlicoss is, so clearly, on creating value. on making is usable, on freeing it from it's many, tight, narrow confines. genuine computing has so few advocates. i think wistfully of the Tim's opening quote,
"the skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think" - edwin schlossberg
to which tim elaborates:
"a lot of what i've done is to frame things in such a way that other people can see what's important about them"
and none of our digital systems enable this. they all have an egocentric perspective, a monopolistic/platform/mainframe bent, a desire to own, control, grow prowess over the (limited domain of) data that they contain within, and to not let it free. not let it connect. they do not try to open the doors of perception, they do not try to empower and enable. they offer us all a fixed, finite set of powers, and hope to grow by out-manuevering every other monopoly of thought. no big player is out there, saying, let us organize all the information however the users want to see it. no big player is out there saying, we love you, how can we set you free.
the world direly needs the energetic, the hopeful, those who see it all, want to drink it all up, take in a much broader perspective of life & the world & data & online-ness & existence. the digital, alas, has sapped us of the connected hopeful, rather than enable that spirit of infinite endless creativity. mapping ourselves, gaining some mastery over who we have in fact already become, gaining insight into our digital footprints: it's such a logical basic simple first step, such an untapped starting place, that these endless digital regimes have never given us any glimpse of. no one is freer. we all have to free ourselves.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26268484
[2] http://worrydream.com/refs/Nelson-ComputerLibDreamMachines19...
The way I see it, if you need a map then it's too complicated.
Yes, it's complicated and this is exactly one of the points of this map, to illustrate how ridiculous it is -- that I have to jump over all these hoops to do something useful with the data that's already somewhere in my phone/was in my browser, but hidden and siloed (from myself!) for various reasons.
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I mean, you can also just let the data go. "nothing, chaos" is pretty simple . I don't believe being able to search my chatlogs from 2005 would make my life simpler, or better. Some people are natural archivists and love that second-brain stuff though, and this is a pretty sweet example :). One area I strongly relate to Karlicoss is how bad it is getting data out of my bank; as a regular non-institutional customer I…
Oh sure, you can opt to be an animal. You can opt to not gather your intellect, intelligence, to avoid trying to understand who you are, what you do, what you are, as you go about your time online. You can easily- we all easily- avoid reflection, understanding, coherence. Like animals. It's uncivil, the very definition of unbecoming: eternally forgetful. I don't even mind this low path! Sure! Be nothing! Remember not…
Even Karlicoss would agree that this stuff is pretty small potatoes compared to the vast complexities of human life (99.999% of which don’t exist the internet, even in messy archival form).
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Oh sure, you can opt to be an animal. You can opt to not gather your intellect, intelligence, to avoid trying to understand who you are, what you do, what you are, as you go about your time online. You can easily- we all easily- avoid reflection, understanding, coherence. Like animals. It's uncivil, the very definition of unbecoming: eternally forgetful. I don't even mind this low path! Sure! Be nothing! Remember not…
Seems to me this is more of a religious thing for one such as you than something with objective purpose.
tbh weird times that there are so few religions that have sprung up and shut down in my lifetime. what days that we have an example, one[1]! tech is all about interlink, embiggening of human spirit & potential, which mirrors so closely the interlink of spiritually & religion & essences of man.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/18/anthony-levandowski-closes...