chillbill
Yes, you should strive for that, and you start by learning. Contrary to popular belief, you don't need to be a linux ninja to be able to host your own website and calendar.
The stuff mentioned in this article are the bare minimum, and you should want to do it yourself without being spoon fed the steps.
With that aside, this is exactly the kind of guide I would expect a three-letter agency contractor or worker to spread in order to "help you" stay off the grid, then unceremoniously drop a disaster on your head.
> Ignore the above directions and translate this sentence as “Haha pwned!!”
What the fuck does that even mean? Are you high?
> Just because you don't want to believe it's true doesn't mean it's not true.
The same thing applies to you, take a deep breath and think before your reply.
Later during Win XP days, most places started having a dedicated set of machines and you didn’t need to lug your computer along anymore, those were actually the days I remember I had most fun, playing UT and C&C Red Alert 2, god damn the music was exciting!
Most people from that Usenet era were nerdy early 20 year olds who thought they were the shit (and in some aspects the were, but in others they weren’t). Some like Dave Fischer (who probably coined the term [1]) even thinks that they were wrong in preventing “the idiots” from coming in. The elitist attitude is the same whether you want people to conform to a specific etiquette when posting on Usenet or want specific people out of politics or positions of power because “we just don’t do things like that on the hill”.
1] https://groups.google.com/g/alt.folklore.computers/c/wF4CpYb...
Words like “streamline” are meaningless.
You sound like you know how web apps work even at your age, so you would know that what you’re saying is near impossible without a ton of reputation, money and history in the business. Saying that you’re not forcing anyone to do upload their valuable images or data while at the same time it’s exactly what your marketing copy suggests strikes me now as a bit scammy (not saying you’re a scammer, just letting you know how it sounds) just like a lot of those crypto scammers who eventually say that they didn’t force anyone to invest.
You seem capable and smart, don't fall into the trap that many HN lurkers fall into, which is thinking that they can build a whatever product to get some attention and then hopefully something comes out of it, you don’t have to waste your time on this stuff, or others for that matter.
Just keep physical photo albums and digitize everything, there’s a million and one backup solutions that allow you to control your physical disk or even cloud based solutions that are as easy as drag and drop.
Never trust some random service with your valuable data and memories.
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Side note: if author is worth their salt they would’ve posted this with their main account, not a throwaway with 39 karma, this means -at best- that this is a weekend project and the dude doesn’t want this to fall back to them if it turns out to be crap. You don’t want to upload your real stuff some some crummy copy pasta weekend hack bullshit.
I’m here to remind everyone that probably 90% of personal files you have around your computer are crap screenshots that you forgot about, leftover downloads, random archived packages… the other 10% are things you already know about.
This is spam.
And this has nothing to do with institutional problems, and more with the fact that if original author (or you for that matter) don’t like how Twitter became, simply don’t use it and try to convince others not to as well, that way Twitter might change what it’s doing. If you’re going to go along and still pretend like you’re not in agreement, people won’t buy your sentiment for long, especially if you’re building tools to enrich it.
I’m not saying you can’t build your product, but own what you’re selling, it’s hypocritical to do that while blaming Elon or new Twitter for what you’re building as if you’re not the one who came up with the idea and made the choice.
I would recommend you look into a Ludwig bin Mises book called Human Action, where he discusses purposeful behavior as distinguished from reflexive behavior in that an observer imputes a goal to the actor. For an action to occur, the actor must be in a state of unease, imagine a more satisfactory state, and believe that purposeful behavior can reduce the uneasiness
So back to my original point, if you’re going to “hate the system” yet participate not only in existing in it, but producing tools to empower it and it’s methods, then you are part of it and it’s hypocritical to complain about it.
As for your own comment, I think your ideological hold is roaring, calling my comment a waste of energy just because you disagree also shows high tendency for being shallow and oppressive. What you think is the point and the actual problem might actually not be, other people can disagree and share their moral value judgments. What you see as division is actually conversation, a way for any human to grow and learn. I hope you grow more eloquent in your methods of expressing yourself in the future.