barrysteve

I don't understand this. We were free-to-play, but it was not unstructured. Quite the opposite, you had to be somewhere on time, in a heirarchy or school structure and there were teacher imposed rules.

I miss that heirarchy more than I'd care to admit. The endless cycles of milking the good while it's good, is an offensive and time wasting replacement for what used to be a well-timed culture.

It is deeply humorous to see fear of traffic and crime listed as a valid reason to keep kids inside. When you list fear of data leaks as a valid reason for privacy from surveillance, people discount you. So much emotional picking and choosing lately.

Parentalism is destroying the West, make no mistake, "security" is a massively overrated parasite, sucking the life out of it's inhabitants. Get off my back.

I mean food and maybe shelter.

There's massive overstating of this guy's mental health. He needs a decent meal and a hot shower and he'll be talking in straight sentences again.

I find your lack of faith.. disturbing.

His 'threat' is a desire for empathy and a call to action for intervention.

He can see the breakdown coming, it's self awareness and a fair warning of his feelings (to himself and others).

That's how it used to be.

Idk what everyone is saying. What you have written makes sense to me. They appear as if they don't want to be associated with you, something like that could be a little cruel..

I'd go to a Church that fits your beliefs and access their help.

It's worth noting that the culture changed, roughly in 2010ish. Anybody following sequential, ordered, rules, today, is being dragged down by it.

Your work to stop bad behaviour, is relatable to me, but the culture has dumped it.

Nobody said any of this, they just did it and then distanced themselves from everyone else.

Again I find what you're saying relatable, but that won't save you. Don't chase relationships (or social connections), people will choose family, friends and church over randoms, even known randoms.

It's basically the opposite culturally, of the world we grew up in.

You've done well to kick bad habits and stay sober while homeless. The upside is that you don't have anyone to pull you down... keep every last cent you make and get some 'housing' you can keep to yourself, like a car or a motorhome.

Memories will drag you down, into the depths, like an emotional vortex. Better memories can be painful.

I sell apples at the market. Someone took my apple for free and made a pie out of it. They said it was not theft, because my market stall was in the public.

I sold an apple with DRM. One person bought my apple and gave it to a Chinese hacker, whom stripped the DRM and duplicated my apple for everyone, for free. They said it was not theft.

I grew an apple and put it on a cloud provider's server. I sold access to many duplicated apples, until a technology update forced me to change providers. I found out I could not take back my apples from the cloud providet without paying exorbitant fees. They said it was not theft.

I made an encrypted apple, I sold it on an app store. The app store banned me and my apple, the virus software flagged my apple, the TPM chip stopped my apple from being played, the government cracked open the encryption and duplicated my apple for national security purposes. They said it was not theft.

The only way to sell apples, is through perfectly-black, 'black boxes'. Putting apples on computers, gets them stolen. End of story.

It's been forty years now. There's nothing to be 'unsure about'.

'Benefit of the doubt' for intellectual property theft is deader than a dodo.

It's pretty trivial to list reasons why you'd want a local chat app over a US created one.

It is just too difficult to make.

I don't think many people admit how differently we all think about software creation, all the tools that currently exist are shaped 100% around American big tech needs (cool i guess) and the American personality.

It is incredibly difficult to go off-piste and create a different paradigm on computing like Xerox did (which Jobs and Gates 'borrowed from').

The existing eco-system constantly updates/changes itself according to an American clock, so you get isolated and disconnected (from knowledge bases and relationships) if you try to go for a 'long shot'.

Even making small changes have to fit in with the existing eco-system.

99% of all the new ideas that could be made require radically different tooling and that is deeply expensive, constantly contentious with existing powers and disruptive to current services.

Sinply changing Google maps to list street names even when fully zoomed out OR to suggest vocaly three-moves-in-advance when driving.. is basically impossible.

Tech has clamped itself down and has no desire to allow anyone to tinker or tailor their own solutions.

It is deeply deeply frustrating to see what could be made better and to be arbitrarily locked out.

A policeman in France killed a teenager in cold blood and they set their city blocks on fire. Polticians are arguing over the presence (vaguely racist) of immigrants. There's a war in Ukraine flooding out Poland.

They have more local and pressing concerns, than this.

They already 'know everything' (or enough) to control my life.

You think I can rob a bank tomorrow and not be known? Past a certain 'crime threshold' and the three letter agencies take a keen interest in everything/anything I do... I'm out of trouble right now, that's all.

Let them control everything... in the long long term it will be flipped against them. 1984 oppressed the political class.

And when the political class flees visible power... the same 'cybersecurity' folks will occupy the power vacuum, trapping themselves in their own tech bubble.

I've never seen someone so Secure.. as someone who constantly preens his security cameras, his up-to-date door locks, his impenetrable garage walls....

The whole state of tech right now is a racket, designed to make those pigs 'more equal than others' feel emotionally safe in their data centres.

The only way to get the pigs off our back is to manualize tech and make all the average joes on this planet, able to control tech from top to bottom, completely transparently and completely separate from the System.

When my son can trivially modify the instruction set on the CPU in his Smart Chainsaw, and reconfigure every single bit of code and enter every abstraction layer - as easily as we change capacitors on a dishwasher - then the guy in the security bunker analyzing every single molecule entering his 'secure enviornment' is laughably 'secure'...

They want to overplay their hand.

An oppressive internet that they can bully, works for them.

An internet that withdraws into itself and the EU returns to pen and paper + dumb phones works for them.

The US is all on this. As long as the US owns the internet and big tech, they are happy to let other countries do the dirty work of setting boundaries.

The long term solution is to 'manualize' tech. Make all tech we touch, open and ready to modify, run at full capacity and be easily controlled by a single man.

The only way to keep tech free, is to take it out of the System's hands and put it into the hands of the average joe, for his control.

And feed the machines silence.

I said infinite energy, because that is exactly the phrase required to break people out of the limited mould that traps minds into erroneous thinking.

Neutrons are a problem in JET/Tokamaks. They are less of a problem in other fusion designs.

I feel like I'm the last person on this planet who actually enjoys being uncertain, and uncertain enough to see the big picture.

Most of the problems you have described are getting solved piece by piece in small scale projects, and then the evidence collected from their successes will be combined into a more effective solution that you are willing to discuss.

I'm so tired of the constant emotional vortex sucking the intellect out of the West. Get off my back.

What hogwash. People crave security more than they do anything else and it's completely toxic.

Space travel can use infinite energy.

Fusion works underground where many renewables do not.

Infinite energy can be used for climate control of the whole planet.

Fusion plants can fuel megafactories even in war conditions.

Fusion can enable more energy expensive technologies like hydrogen batteries, to be trivially affordable.

I'm starting to find the Western malaise that has come around this decade, to be offensive.

It's like the knees have given out and people are just begging for a comfortable death. Come on! We're better than this!

I love this concept, there's some older cars with an excellent driving experience and iconic shapes out there to electrify.

They're not worth spending big bucks on, but an EV retrofit kit that is 'good enough' would be worth it.

Extra points, if your middle class 'car enthusiast' type could do the majority of the retrofitting (or all of it) himself.

The aftermarket car culture has been waning a bit and safe electronics could be a big lift.

One of the first drawing skills people traditionally learn is perspective. Bob Ross knows it.

AI can't do it, doesn't understand it. Generative art makes excessively beautiful wallpaper, right now.

True. I was grasping at straws for the right word. Thank you.

The Greek/Latin/<jargon> structure should be standard or taught in schools in some capacity.

Basic programming concepts are popular, useful and should probably be taught as a sub category of English... given that programming is supposed to be a language, and pull its roots (somewhat) from English or "natural language".

Society would produce higher quality code if the basic concepts were considered as a literacy requirement for children.

Generating knowledge and novel concepts requires privacy and control over the concept.

Instant access to knowledge has cheapened and diluted the process of creating new concepts.

The guys who put knowledge on the 'internet shelf' are not the guys who made the valueable knowledge in the first place.

The best way to create knowledge is to isolate concepts, structures and relationships into the human mind.

As soon as a concept stops being literally secret, it becomes infintely less worthwhile. Nobody works on hard intellectual problems any more because they've been massively cheapened by CTRL C, and CTRL V functionality.

The James Bond-ian culture of spies fighting over a hidden concept, is not just a flight of fancy at the movie theatres, it is one of the best culturally visible examples of how to develop and keep secret, aka. a new concept.

Spying, duplicating and publicating knowledge into instant-access platforms, is way more dangerous than anyone publicly admits.

Personally addressing someone is not individually isolating content to their tastes.

Personally addressing someone is sculpting and interjecting/communicating with their subjective understanding of that topic.

The flat, objective heirarchy on the internet can never deliver it.

Well it can, but getting subjective structures into tech and tech teaching, is an uphill battle.

Not quite like your situation, left a comfortable office job to start my own..

Both can be boring. Solo can be boring when the thrill wears off and becomes a grind.

It's more, there's no attempt to structure information anymore.

All the settings menus are a nightmare of lists upon lists and each app has a completely random layout for it's menu-ing, often with links to external sites, for what could be set locally.

It is geniunely confusing to try and understand the designers intent. I can never tell if I missed a setting, or if it was never meant to exist in this menu at all.

The amount of times I've had to Google how to change basic settings is way too high, even for Games where the experience is half the ticket value.

CS2 has a settings menu with text buttons at the top (like a tab) that drag you down to an arbitrary point in a long list of settings. There is no tabs, it's impossible to mentally separate what the text button represents mentally, from every other option, because they all point to the same page anyway. Why bother with the buttons?

The semantic meaning of concepts don't relate to each other and are not structured accordingly. It is waaay too unnecessarily difficult to navigate around computing.

I miss Macromedia Flash's UI. I didn't use the program much, but it was so simple and easy to use.

One my biggest drives for privacy and self made solutions, is to get away from the experience and knowledge pollution we've been seeing lately.

Yeah English needs another vocab grouping.

Greek, Latin and <tech lingo>.

The 'illusion of endless progress' is the knowledge that built the internet in the first place. Many of the concepts were first established from the 1800s, and 1920s-1980s.

I am so, so tired of the constant ragging on the past as if it was another planet. And the persecution of brits and agnostics.

If the old world guys were geniunely a dangerous impact on the world, we wouldn't be so unknowing by default.

There's a constant thread of fate spun from The Past to today's technology and to say otherwise is a catastrophe.

You're going to get the complete removal of old world zombies, there's no choice. And it's going to create a vacuum that sucks you down with it.

You can be saved from fates worst than death. You're not forced to be saved from fates worse than death.

But you can be.

Faith is a failing concept in the West when people 'give up' to a predicted outcome.

Jons also said you have to start with the customer experience and work from there.

He said that trying to build the best tech ever and trying to market it, does not work, and he had the scar tissue to prove it. His NEXT experience echoes the truth.

Making a high-quality product requires an Entire Agreement, you cant buy from a supplier who only sells plywood for your chest of drawers.

Apple controls it's tech from top to bottom and that's the only way to effect serious change and uphold quality standards.

It is spirit-draining to pick up some off the shelf tech and find a million things with it that should be structured differently..... but we all do it and that's how it is.

We don't have top-to-bottom control and easy ways to change product designs, that Apple has, until we all get that ability, high quality is a failable target.

Relatable.

Imo the only way to deal with a wasted life trapped under a rock, is to imagine yourself lucky, you were under the rock.

The built up, stagnant feelings from being trapped are dangerous. Boredom is dangerous.

Black pilled is necessary these days, I honestly question people who don't know the black pill (and every colour pill).

People complain about 'imaginary problems' as a source of mental stress.. but honestly the category of 'unseen knowledge' is getting bigger everyday.

Individuals can know much more niche topics than ever before, one man's imaginary, is another man's unseen truth.

No, let's not talk about it.

Systems and tech bleed out concepts.

If you're a Dominic Monk, yes it's worth the conversation.

Serious discussion online is basically impossible, the shared frame of reference is orders of magnitude too weak.

People love to nitpick details on second-order concepts, but without a connection to first-order metaphysics, the conversation immediately dies on pre-requisite meanings that can't be communicated in 'one HN post'.

Mental health issues are a natural consequence of unbounded logic (machine supercharged),

unstructured knowledge (flat heirachy and chaos shaping the internet experience)

and 'public' relationships (random drop-ins trying to share common ground).

These problems will only get worse (sorry) and anyone who actually tries to fix it will take the blame for being mentally ill (unless they have serious prestige/support).

This post will not fix it.

I havent seen linkedin in forever, but I looked and it's become an emotional vortex.

Watching people plaster crying faces and poetry over the 'washing machine' sucking the negative emotions out them, is something else.

No wonder the rules about expression are strict, their getting stripped of real emotional security by engaging with that.

I still prefer shining my shoes, dusting up my personal website and putting on a nice suit to look good for a job.

No heart-slurping profilicity, thanks. Ugh I feel dirty even posting this...

Meaning is filtered by words. There are many meanings and feeings out there that don't have words to express themselves and can't spread.

Giving AI the ability to voice meanings and behaviours that should be illegal, is catastrophically weird.

Programmers (me included) will follow any logic that computers will process, even logic that leads off a cliff.

Every single day we get further away from understanding first-order truths. I'd honestly rather discuss social issues with a Dominican monk than tech people these days...

It is a seriously dangerous problem.

I sincerley doubt they are ideologically committed to a specific engine technology.

W. Edward Deming helped start the Toyota Way, by introducing high quality manufacturing processes after ww2.

I'm sure they laugh at Elon for being unable to produce a high quality and error-free product, with infinite money and all the latest technologies at his fingertips.

Toyota's unending crisis will continue, by design.

Computer security used as an adult babysitting tool, is ripe for abuse.

Fair. I apologize. My point remains though.

If he wants to lock work down to unions, the exact-opposite mirror comment... is to say 'as your peer and equal, I'm not going to work with unionists'.

Individual freedom is severly curtailed by unions.

Bad management is a cost worth paying to have individual freedom, sorry.

The 'network effect' of facebook started at prestigious universities.

When the educated are not pulling in your direction... it becomes much more expensive to get traction.

We already have experienced facebook, why would we re-experience facebook 1.0??

We need geniunely new concepts. We cannot share geniunely new concepts because the internet has locked itself down and any leaks of new concepts are stolen or blocked (at some point).

Big tech feels entitled to own the internet, and it has got exactly what it wants. The daytime TV of networks. First link clicked sells some product, high quality evidence and knowledge hard to find and moral culpability hidden behind complex laws.

It appears dark, because the light is trapped. Work on your new-ness in private, it is the only way.