This is the culture i grew up on 🤣
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Ah, the good old days!
i donated to their legal defense and got a sweet shirt. still wear it to this day.
Same
That warms my cockles... we need to bring that shiznit back.
Make The Internet Great Again
Oh snap! I thought Sweden the state was just north of Wisconsin and Minnesota !
Those were the days when internet still had a spirit
Sir, that spirit is alive and well. Maybe you haven't read the Nunchuk response to the Ontario government when demanding the names and freezing the accounts of those securing donations for the truckers 😄
Don't mistake the fact that there are huge amounts of normies who don't care, with the idea that the defiant cypherpunks aren't here anymore. They are more numerous and more empowered than ever, imo.
In addition, have you ever heard of Nostr? 😘
Nostr was good before all the corporate influencers and bad devs walked in
Also, plenty scammers that DM me about my trades
Bullish on #Nostr 🚀 ⛏️🎯🫂
i know i know, but the internet is undeniably different, lots of communities are lost/disappeared, some migrated to more hidden pastures. i know that I sound like an old man angry at the new generation but there was magic in the early days of internet and hacker communities who later somehow turned into leftist wokepit
i hope we manage to replicate the forum experience on nostr (there is lots of communities efforts but the question is if there is lots of interest in communities like that in the population anymore?)
i've seen more communities die that i'd like to remember, or at best turn into therapy outlet for 5 autists who went their frustrations there.
i've seen the nunchunk response and i welcome it, i've recently been on a 2h rant over dinner at the lightning summit about the fact that we're clearly not pushing the boundaries enough since very few people went to jail or were shut down.
At nostr:npub1s0veng2gvfwr62acrxhnqexq76sj6ldg3a5t935jy8e6w3shr5vsnwrmq5 SEC01 we came up with "if you build it right you won't go to jail" but the other side of it is - are we even trying if they are not hunting us down.
Laws of physics are the only law we should be following, and even that we should try to break frequently.
Reminds me of when I was young 😀.
Do you remember the Linotype case where they answered in their cease and desist letter with all the Linotype fonts mentioned? I cannot find the second letter though.
It's too bad Rick Falkvinge became a BCH stooge posting B.S. big block FUD on reddit.
Still sailing strong ⛵️
You kids had it easy! We had to record stuff from albums to tapes in real time... Like animals!
I didn't realize it at the time, but BitTorrent was a big part of the reason I saw so much potential in bitcoin in 2014.
I smoked a little weed, but I was never into any other illegal drugs.
I was more into distributed hash tables than hasish.