What worries me is how the HN groupthink mentions it at every possibility. If people on HN aren't capable/willing to run their own kit there's no hope. In the

What worries me is how the HN groupthink mentions it at every possibility. If people on HN aren't capable/willing to run their own kit there's no hope. In the slashdot days you'd never get such worship of tailscale and cloudflare. Even in the early days of HN you'd have people suggesting a bit of rsync rather than using dropbox. It feels like the modern tech zeitgest is either dripping in far-right memes, or it's "tech enthusiasts" from https://thecatholicdev.substack.com/p/tech-enthusiasts-vs-tech-workers https://thecatholicdev.substack.com/p/tech-enthusiasts-vs-te... It was probably ever so -- slashdot 20 year ago was full of Atlas Shrugged, Firefly, etc, I was just too young and naieve to understand it