Keep doing the work.
Do what you can, where you can, however you can, as much as you can, for as long as you can.
But keep doing the work.
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Keep doing the work.
Life isn't a tabletop RPG. You aren't born with a list of numbers and stats that decide your destiny. Skill comes from effort, time, and dedication alone. You stand there, punching trees, until you can knock them down; it's that simple.
Ignore the people who tell you you'll never be "a genius". Ignore the people who memorize trendy buzzwords and play language games with them. Ignore anyone who doesn't put in the effort and time; they're faking it anyway.
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Keep doing the work.
Nobody is coming to save us. There is no eschaton, no rapture or revolution or singularity or end of history or return to a mythical original paradise that will right all the wrongs. That's a long wait on a train that's not coming.
There is only the long, hard road out of darkness, with all of its setbacks, disappointments, hardships, and hopelessness. The only thing that has ever worked is to keep going, against all obstacles.
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Keep doing the work.
Things don't get better by appealing to some external force, be it gods or self-styled lords or masters or spirits or mystical forces or faults in our stars or inherent justice in the world. Justice exists because we make it, and only if we choose to. There are no demons, save the ones we choose to become.
The only magic, the only power to change things that ever has existed is in your hands and minds.
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Keep doing the work.
Talk and hype and fads and FOMO and the endless churn and outrage and influencers and celebrities and controversy and distractions don't move the needle. They don't change things; work does, effort does, persistence does, workers do.
One motivated, persistent person can do with their hands what no number of talkers ever could: they can change things. That we are here, on this platform, with these tools is conclusive proof.
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Fediverse suggestions request: I'm looking for platforms and likely hosting for blogging. I've heard of #ghost and I know WordPress is also supported.
I'm looking to do two things: first, write about likely tech politics and open source. This will likely be a conventional old school blog.
Second, possibly separately, I'm looking to write up notes from my physics studies. This will necessitate solid LaTeX support.
@FediTips
[#]Fediverse #FediverseHelp #OSS #FediHelp #FediTips #OpenSource
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Related, tentative method for coffee intake when recovering from nausea/vomiting: mix with cold almond milk at a high ratio (at least 40% almond milk), sip gently
Seems to be working well.
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It was somehow perfectly in character that 2024 ended with me getting a case of food poisoning
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Anyway, there's a whole essay that's been brewing in my head about this for some time now. I'll write it up at some point.
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So now imagine what this looks like, in an alternate economy where you have an entire set of open-source designs that can be remixed and adapted however much you like. You have a whole system of craftworkers who can help with this, and who can fab all this for you if you like.
My guess is this could produce plenty of demand to support a whole workforce.
(Like seriously, I would source all my clothes this way if I could; I'm too damn busy to make them myself)
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So there's a whole concept I might call an "anti-brand", or maybe a 'cobrand" (mathematical lingo). Rather than iron conformity, it's more the theme, but infinitely remixed.
Analogue: take something from OSS like, say, FreeBSD, or KDE, or whatever. OSS projects have evolved over time to support wide variations. Eric's KDE installation isn't exactly yours, isn't exactly Joe's, etc. But there's commonalities.
Now apply this to real, physical goods, and imagine the possibilities there.
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Alright, picking this thread back up again...
So I have a whole concept of an essay about this, but I'll summarize here.
The basic idea is there's a whole potential craftworker economy that can grow out of the maker movement. I don't see this being mainstream, certainly not outrunning the consumer economy, but that's not the point.
OSS never played by the rules of the mainsteram. It was never about being a monopoly. It was about being an option.
[#]maker #OSS #OpenSource
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(Context: I have never managed to be in Chicago for more than 20 hours even when interviewing for a job)
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@hacks4pancakes, I hope your exit plans will have panned out by then, but if they haven't....
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Alright squad. I can tell you all that I'm most likely going to be in Chicago for more than 20 hours in the first week of February, on business.
But I'm also interested in two things: physics PhD programs, and good drinks. I'll make the time for both.
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Similar effects have benefitted the OSS movement considerably over the years.
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Realization: the idiotic tendency to cram IoT/"AI" into every-fucking-thing may well end up creating the economic incentive to bootstrap an open-source/maker economy for household devices.
It doesn't take a while lot anymore to image a world where the most reliable way to get things that don't spy on you/lock you out is to pay someone at your local maker space to fab you something, or do it yourself.
[#]maker #OSS #OpenSource #DIY
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Completely unrelated to anything, I decided I've gone entirely too long not being a musician, so I decided to start learning violin- something I've been contemplating for some time. I bought beginning-tier instrument last week.
I should have done this a long time ago.
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Next year brings general relativity, electromagnetics, and hopefully quantum field theory.
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Came a long way this year, took on graduate-level courses in statistical mechanics, classical mechanics, and quantum mechanics, while working full-time and having no physics undergrad, landed solid A's in each.
Now I add three auspicious trophies to my bookshelf.
[#]physics #gradschool
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