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Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by NetMageSCW »

delichon wrote: post #4

> But the difference is that you didn’t do anything. And in so much as there is a you, it isn’t steering. Now I realize that the non steering you is everywhere. Jesse: I was thinking about that thing you said about the universe. Going where the universe takes you? Right on. It's a cool philosophy. Jane: I was being metaphorical, it's a terrible philosophy. I've gone where the universe takes me my whole life. It's bet…

You choose the life you lead.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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skizm wrote: post #38

The only thing I will now remember this guy for is when he volunteered to work for Twitter/X after Elon took over. He failed to get twitter code building locally for about 4 weeks when attempting to change some placeholder text in the twitter search bar. He ultimately couldn't figure it out and then immediately quit lol. He even ran a poll on his twitter asking if he should quit, most people voted "NO" then he quit a…

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Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by NetMageSCW »

mellosouls wrote: post #24

For anybody misled by the title and still a bit confused by the article he's not referring to music. This is clever-clogs George Hotz of hacking, comma.ai and tinygrad etc fame. He used (?) to live stream hacker stuff like long running coding sessions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz Unofficial video archive: https://youtube.com/@geohotarchive/videos

From the title, I thought it was video. From the post, I thought it was gaming.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by ozozozd »

Oh god, George is getting old. Sounding like an old guy.

What does that say about me? I used to find him childish.

Jokes aside I also didn’t like him. Until I heard him on that podcast with the Russian-American dude whose name I can’t remember and can’t be bothered to search right now. I was surprised to start find that I would like George, because he said he was religious and I generally dislike people who capitalize god, etc.

I think he was one of the coolest hackers of the millennial generation.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by ludicrousdispla »

rmunn wrote: post #29

From the article: "... there is no other Internet, just a place with five corporate towns and some Chinese ones that are really hard to visit if you don’t speak Chinese." Yeah, that's only true if you don't hang out in the old-style Internet. I spend most of my time on blogs, reading and replying to discussions on wide-ranging topics, talking to interesting people who know a lot more than I do about many subjects (in…

Yeah, boredom is back and some of us are more used to dealing with that than others.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by everdrive »

NetMageSCW wrote: post #76
everdrive wrote: post #19

I really like this style of writing in short bursts, and I appreciate the author's tone and concerns. I do wonder if the author is very young. As much as I enjoyed his small essay, a few things stuck right out at me: >I tried having a flip phone once (2014), but you couldn’t find out what time the movies were playing because moviephone just redirected you to their app. This has been a solved problem for a long time:…

>This has been a solved problem for a long time: you look up the movie times and such prior to departing for the movies. No smartphone needed. Strangely, not everyone is at home when they decide to go to the movies.

Well, I guess our only choice is to own an expensive corporate surveillance device. There's no other option. The ancient polynesians managed to learn to navigate huge, open seas by memorizing the stars. The ancient Greeks managed to measure the size of the sun with trigonometry and grit alone. We've mapped the genome and soon we may even cure inherited illnesses, or bring extinct species back to live.

But I hear you. What if I wanted to know what movies were playing, but I was already at a restaurant? What could I possibly do? The only answer is a smart phone. There's no choice, and no escape.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by cma »

> Maybe the new tattoos are just like being racist or something, but that’s hard to do when your heart isn’t in it and they will eventually find some way to absorb that.

I think I'd rather read slop than edgelord.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by inigyou »

iamnothere wrote: post #60
inigyou wrote: post #12

geohot is lucky to have grown up in proper hacker culture, doing CTFs, poking at hardware. I've only touched the surface of this from the outside. One time I got root on my network switch, but that was about it. And now I feel like I've wasted my life. Geohot made a pretty big difference to the world with his hardware hacking. Separate thought: This new information world can be fought, but it's the war against capita…

The key, as I’ve been saying lately, is to begin building more local networks (meshes, IP over radio, sneakernets) that are totally disconnected from the normal internet. Put up a BBS that your friends can only get to by connecting over radio, or set up a private Reticulum chat with a functional non-Internet access path. Maybe set up a neighborhood wifi captive portal message board on an ESP32, hidden in a solar ligh…

But they're objectively inferior to the real internet and nobody uses them. People only use Meshtastic to say "hello, I'm using Meshtastic!"

A cool idea would be to build out an ISP to a small set of hub locations using leased lines or illegally placed fiber something, but that will get expensive.

I heard someone have an idea to use a drone to lay illegal fiber across city rooftops.

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