Subnostr

Mister Flopp, the front man of CasaHoddle, b(sh)itcoin dealers, recently posted stuff about this:

well, from this link:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/12/veilid_privacy_data/

And of course, they are resurrecting the old hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow, something that I associate with BoingBoing, Xeni Jardin, and most especially R. U. Sirius. People whose time passed at the end of the 20th century, a nest of retarded cool kids.

So I just want to say that Veilid is from Cult of Cool Kids, since they used trendy Rust and Flutter, that all the cool open source kids go on about, the Mozilla Way.

C.o.C.K. developers of Failid, a hidden service overlay network over the already No Such Agency controlled "anonymization" system.

I was pretty chuffed to see that several of my ideas, and of my co-founder buddy are using in Indranet, but, we are not cool kids, and we certainly are part of no cult except in our own minds with ourselves as our only acolytes.

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shinohai 2y ago

Likely the USG has decided tor needs an update, so will make it appeal to the "Hacker" "News" crowd and those that write code in braindamaged hipsterlangs.

Loki 2y ago

"braindamaged hipsterlangs" I'm stealing that one. C++ was this when it came out... I remember the hype, even read one of the "woo c++ is so much better than c" books back in the day.

For sure, a substantial number of users of languages wear their affiliation like a badge of tribal membership. I know I feel a little of that myself with Go, but it's because everything that went into Go is also interesting to me, Wirth's Modula and Oberon package model, Newsqueak's CSP concurrency, Plan 9 OS, indeed, and indirectly, that whole thing with Ed Wood's famous movie, and how cute Rob Pike's wife's artwork is (and kinda creepy though also). And I always hated objects, header files, and computers repeating tasks that don't need to be repeated, ie the go build system. Which Rust copied after Go implemented it, btw.