Distributed Everything
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Distributed Everything
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Re: Distributed Everything
#2Brilliant article. There's a great list of current-gen distributed things towards the end, but we still need people who make things to keep making non-centralized usable platforms. Get us out of gmail-istan and fadbook-istan and hn-monsterator-istans. Give us our nerdependence back.
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#3Brilliant article. There's a great list of current-gen distributed things towards the end, but we still need people who make things to keep making non-centralized usable platforms. Get us out of gmail-istan and fadbook-istan and hn-monsterator-istans. Give us our nerdependence back.
> Give us our nerdependence back.
Sure, that's a good first step. But then how do we get our families on board?
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#4I find it funny that the author chose to publish this on medium. Had he not, would I have ended up reading it? Which is better, reaching a large audience with mild incitement which is tolerated by the censors, or being able to be as provocative as you wish, but remaining unread?
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#5The founding fathers set up America as a distributed system. It's no accident that as the federal government has taken more power from the states that it has gone to shit.
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#6Brilliant article. There's a great list of current-gen distributed things towards the end, but we still need people who make things to keep making non-centralized usable platforms. Get us out of gmail-istan and fadbook-istan and hn-monsterator-istans. Give us our nerdependence back.
> Give us our nerdependence back. Sure, that's a good first step. But then how do we get our families on board?
I don't follow? I think you're thinking it means quitting jobs and working unsupported? It doesn't have to go that far. Try making things in your free time under fast-feedback constraints. Post half completed things to HN, tell the haters to fuckoff, and email your supporters to build up a coalition of the not willing to be datamined anymore.
We know they know more about us than we know they know. We need to truncate their abilities before they have mind penetrating radar.
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#7The author suggested Bitters for publishing a good web site. That may be a good option for us hackers. For our non-hacker family and friends, it seems to me that the best option is currently self-hosted WordPress. But WP is quite infamous for insecurity. Is there anything better?
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Give us our nerdependence back. Sure, that's a good first step. But then how do we get our families on board?
I don't follow? I think you're thinking it means quitting jobs and working unsupported? It doesn't have to go that far. Try making things in your free time under fast-feedback constraints. Post half completed things to HN, tell the haters to fuckoff, and email your supporters to build up a coalition of the not willing to be datamined anymore. We know they know more about us than we know they know. We need to truncate…
I wasn't clear. I mean that eventually, we'll want our non-hacker family and friends to leave Facebook, Gmail, etc. and join us on the decentralized Internet.
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#9This blog post is a threat to medium.com and maybe they'll delete his account? Please.
That said, cjdns and pump.io were interesting to read about. I don't see any practical benefit to using them now, but they look like fun hobby projects.
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#10you know the kind of solution you come up with when you just realized you made some terrible mistake and adrenaline keeps flowing no matter how much you try to stay calm? this is exactly how this post looks like to me.
Don't get me wrong, you are damned right.
But unfortunately it's nothing new, we saw similar trends in the past with other media and you know what.. people will read your piece, say you are brilliant, then forget about it and keep doing what feel more comfortable to them, which in the end it's just the way they learned to live.
Nodejs, HTML5 and CSS3.. seriously?
Well done catching the problem in its n-th instance, but encouraging people to develop tech skills to avoid something they don't fully understand is not really going to help. unfortunately.