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> Command center

> "Military"-looking font

This is larping as a prepper, not anything more.

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> > Command center

> > "Military"-looking font

> This is larping as a prepper

Preppers are often not "military"-type people, but rather distrusting of authorities (which is related to why the prep), including militaries.

This is just some guy's hobby project that he is sharing for free. I don't get why everyone is so keen to shit all over it.

They're annoyed at people shamelessly publishing low quality crap. Calling it out is a way to raise standards back up.

That is the way of the internet unfortunately. Instead of simply appreciating something, it's important to find a criticism and voice it. That way you're 'adding' to the conversation.

I mean look back at HN classic posts like the initial Dropbox announcement and the classic: this is nothing more than a wrapper over rsync, etc.

"This is like the HN dropbox post" is now a whole class off low-effort comment in itself.

This may be true, but I don't believe it makes it any less valid.

Perhaps the comment YOU made could also fall into that category? Pointing out a low-effort comment is ALSO a low-effort comment?

Larping or not, it seems useful. If they want to play prepper while providing a useful widget to the rest of us, let them

I don't see the problem with trying to make knowledge more decentralized, offline-ready and accessible in the case of catastrophe.

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