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This entire website reads like the biggest caricature of a nerd that I have ever seen. Every opinion is that of gatekeeping and purity über alles. Signal's cre

This entire website reads like the biggest caricature of a nerd that I have ever seen. Every opinion is that of gatekeeping and purity über alles. Signal's creator has reasonable concerns about Web3 and NFTs? Better drop it, since "[Moxie has] very disturbing opinions on decentralization, [and] cryptocurrency..." 6+ paragraphs written about the print quality on various deskmats. Tables of every material possession they own, seemingly lacking only the UPC.

netr0ute 4y ago
> reads like the biggest caricature of a nerd that I have ever seen. The site never claimed to be otherwise, so there's that.
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hammyhavoc 4y ago
Some of the content is interesting on the rest of the site, but this post definitely screamed "out of touch", perhaps surprisingly so if you've followed the content for a while. Being on the ball with tech is an ever-moving target, and this feels very 2015.
the-anarchist 4y ago
This comment made me click the shady af looking link. If a person that (judging from their keybase avatar and their website's "about" page) appears to be a total caricature of a nerd accuses another nerd person of being "the biggest caricature of a nerd" it must be good. Sadly I was disappointed. It's just another of these "digital gardens" or whatever the term for the type of sites is, that one can find across various platforms like neocities these days. Not sure what the described homelab has to do with crypto or decentralization, though.
- sgarland 4y ago
  The homelab has nothing to do with those things, it's the other pages on the site, wherein the author discusses things like why they've eschewed Signal for XMPP due to Signal's author's feelings on crypto.
teejmya 4y ago
A while back I came across a site on HN with a very similar style, which went into similar detail on living "off the grid" on a sailboat. https://100r.co/site/about_us.html https://100r.co/site/about_us.html The posted website is the second time I've seen this, but I have to imagine it is a specific style or practice.

netr0ute 4y ago

> reads like the biggest caricature of a nerd that I have ever seen. The site never claimed to be otherwise, so there's that.

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hammyhavoc 4y ago

Some of the content is interesting on the rest of the site, but this post definitely screamed "out of touch", perhaps surprisingly so if you've followed the content for a while. Being on the ball with tech is an ever-moving target, and this feels very 2015.

the-anarchist 4y ago

This comment made me click the shady af looking link. If a person that (judging from their keybase avatar and their website's "about" page) appears to be a total caricature of a nerd accuses another nerd person of being "the biggest caricature of a nerd" it must be good. Sadly I was disappointed. It's just another of these "digital gardens" or whatever the term for the type of sites is, that one can find across various platforms like neocities these days. Not sure what the described homelab has to do with crypto or decentralization, though.

sgarland 4y ago
The homelab has nothing to do with those things, it's the other pages on the site, wherein the author discusses things like why they've eschewed Signal for XMPP due to Signal's author's feelings on crypto.

teejmya 4y ago

A while back I came across a site on HN with a very similar style, which went into similar detail on living "off the grid" on a sailboat. https://100r.co/site/about_us.html https://100r.co/site/about_us.html The posted website is the second time I've seen this, but I have to imagine it is a specific style or practice.