[-] cwood@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

That startup founder. Is he okay?

[-] cwood@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

I think we've all walked by a giant important point.

These nearly-all-male network state fans have such compelling ideas that women outside their immediate circles would rather Xerox "bits of their bodies" than engage with those ideas. Their outreach "embassy" attracts even fewer women every day. Possibly even an average number rounding to zero.

Right now it seems like their polities will be remembered in the same religious studies lessons that teach about the Shakers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers

[-] cwood@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

It's probably good to situate in time when thinking about these things. The twin towers were how a lot of companies became examples of what location redundancy really means. These days people are keeping that lesson well in mind, but back then, not so much.

[-] cwood@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago

Even just saying it was mescaline would help it make more sense.

[-] cwood@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago

People who seem impressive until you listen to their ideas are a real theme around here.

[-] cwood@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago

A really good lesson on offline backups of things like issue trackers, though.

[-] cwood@awful.systems 7 points 11 months ago

Is this stuff deliberately written to be word salad?

[-] cwood@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

So pretty much like playing Hexen 2 on a P100 in 1997 huh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexen_II

[-] cwood@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I haven't read the book but the article is definitely in the list.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-project-new-hampshire-libertarians-matthew-hongoltz-hetling

Edit: Wait, turns out I had another article in the list. I will add this one above.

"If you've ever wondered about the Libertarian response to having one's neighbours killed by bears, it's about halfway down this article."

https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project

[-] cwood@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

"This brought back memories of the crush and electrical injuries I've heard of when there's insufficient datacentre safety."

Of course originally at: https://octodon.social/@cwood/111055481742842480

[-] cwood@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

That was a bit surprising to me too, apparently no floor scale in the airlock leading to the server floor, or not even an airlock just a door. Also no security supervision, or at least one which was letting things slide.

[-] cwood@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

(Assuming for the purposes of my post that this isn't just an updated instance of Poe's Law.)

Weird how these authors never think this through to the part where they're the scrawny whiners spending time posting annoying things on the internet, and the obvious targets of the people training for actual things (war, paramilitarism, martial arts, target shooting competitions, et cetera) to pick fights with so they have somebody to beat up.

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