We've collectively learned that besides the OPSEC concerns most of the "diary" type posting is very boring to consume (most people are boring) and therefore it's pretty likely your posts aren't that great either.
To make them interesting you must put effort, which we see some people doing, but anyone who has done it knows how the amount of effort needed detracts from the actual meaningful part of experiences/life/relationships.
In a way blogs are the worst medium now for this: Hard for people to consume casually, hard to meaningfully control the audience, and constantly scraped/archived by 3rd-parties. Most who still want to do this more causal, diary-type posting are better served by a private Instagram and posting occasionally, but mostly focusing on low-effort Stories. The key part/fix is the ephemeral nature of the majority of posts/content.
And there you see exactly how/why most people end up doing exactly that.
most of the "diary" type posting is very boring to consume
(most people are boring)
The "peak Livejournal era" (2001-2010?) was so much fun to me. I had a lot of friends with LJs. These were people I knew so their "boring" stuff was enjoyable to read. I had maybe a dozen or two friends who mutually followed me, plus there were some public figures with LJs I followed as well.
I really enjoyed the coziness and uncommercial-ness of it. People wrote so much more openly and thoughtfully.
I understand the OPSEC issues mentioned by the linked article, but the faux example he posted is kind of an unrealistic caricature. I don't remember people typically doing that kind of OPSEC-nightmare "live blogging" type stuff on noncommercial personal blogs.
Nah. Unless your benchmark is "interesting to every person on the planet", in which case, sure. But then, I'd say that following celebrity and politician gossip is far less productive than following the life of my family, friends, and relatives.
Almost every person is interesting to several dozen other people. Exceptions happen, but are relatively rare.
You're correct on the other count: writing takes effort. Not writing to make things interesting, just... writing in general. If you want to summarize your day, it's gonna cost you 30 minutes of brain work. If you want to post to your Instagram reel, Snapchat, or whatever, just point your phone at your surroundings and hold the record button down for 10 seconds or so.
iirc spiped uses TLS/OpenSSL for securing the connection, the symmetric key avoids the key-exchange and worrying about certificates, and therefore is better capable of efficiently using the connection than SSH by itself.
Because it's much simpler it's also a good way to expose a system to the internet, although Wireguard with a PSK is a very similar and possibly superior solution.
I used to heavily use Blink Shell, but a combination of changes to their application and also that ShellFish + Tailscale is so easy and reliable made me switch entirely to ShellFish as well.
I also enjoy the ability to quickly launch/manage Digital Ocean instances useful sometimes as well.
And really they didn't even do anything special. This was a killer reason we loved Wireguard at our company and pitched heavily to keep it around to he company who acquired us and wanted us to switch to their VPN Appliance instead.
The main thing a big company IT admin wants is control over the users. At a previous company, they would ship really crappy software, by our own admission, to "enterprise" customers and all we had to do to keep them happy was to give a fancy control-panel that make then feel like king.
Yes, flattery works, pandering-to-ego works. Too bad, you can only push it so far...at some point, CTO/CEO notices.
Agreed. In this company the IT team was being spread thin without their budget being increased so Tailscale was the obvious solution here, but a non-starter for them. "We already pay for a VPN. Let's just use that."
We managed to survive with our solution for a while thanks to it being super simple and "free" besides the instance running wireguard. Last I heard (I left), they shut that all down a few years ago.
Once iOS 26 drops Apple Notes will be much-much more useful with the combination of supported linking between notes and supporting Markdown.
Before it rapidly became untenable as a place to actually store my notes. I use it more as a "temporary note" that will be moved to the proper place later.
Seems neat project, but it is missing the most characteristic feature of keybase, public identity verification? I.e. the ability to link key-pairs with social media accounts etc.
Disconcerting amount of AI-slop images on that page... not good for one of the first things I notice about a web page to be "why are the images so weird".
(I'm also not keen to follow Max to another project... they fucked up OKCupid pretty badly, and Keybase never actually had a business model, with predictable results, so I have to imagine FOKS is going to get enshittified somehow as well.)
Yea doing it "right" and "yourself" by setting up your own server(s) is some work, but not a lot.
Downloading an app to your phone is easy. And it's crazy cheap for most of these services. If not free and they mine what you're visiting or use you as a node in their scraping system.
I've also heard something similar. That maybe the reason so many are diagnosed today[0] is they were self-medicating via smoking.
[0]: Which requires it to be affecting your life -- NOT that you actually do or don't have it and are dealing with it okay. Diagnostic criteria is that it must be hindering you in a job/school/relationships/etc.
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