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Yeah it’s probably both at once though. At least my experience has been that spending some time away from alcohol made the negative effects more apparent, and simultaneously, time marches on, making the negative effects more pronounced.

One specific example: device attestation and Web Environment Integrity, combined with the internet being increasingly controlled or mediated by a handful of middlemen who would absolutely love to turn this on (Cloudflare, Apple, Google, etc) but if they do it too early there’ll be revolt.

It’s had a couple attempts that got shot down so far, but the pushback gets weaker as time goes on, and as the troublesome/less-compliant generations age out and get replaced by generations who’ve grown up accepting this stuff as the water they swim in.

Cloudflare could be the end of the open web and it seems crazy that more people aren’t worried about this.

Turnstile everywhere + device attestation required is the direction this all seems to be headed. Because of all the AI bots of course (it is an excellent scapegoat).

I wonder how much similarity there is between this and what people describe from awakening experiences.

The plastic parts almost definitely, but this seems like it has a couple springs and hinges that make it more of a pain.

I’m just gonna take this chance to drop a rec for Joe Hudson’s work for anyine interested in learning more about emotions and how to work with them in yourself and others. It’s been super impactful for me. (YouTube/podcast)

On this point in particular (that we’re broadcasting these signals), in one of the AoA courses I took there’s an exercise where you and a partner take turns guessing at the emotion the other person is feeling. You’re just staring into each others’ eyes on zoom, and one person is going “angry. sad. joyful. fear. Angry again.”

When I was the guesser I had no idea if I was even in the ballpark.

But when the other person was guessing my emotions, they were probably 70% accurate with what I was feeling. We discussed afterward and they had the same experience (I had apparently gotten most of them right). It was wild.

Handy is great. It exposes a bunch of open models beyond Whipser too, and though I haven’t tried too many of them, I’ll throw in a rec for the Parakeet model which feels pretty much on par with Whisper for accuracy and is way way faster.

As a solo dev, I’ve found myself spinning up little servers for various things and then just letting them run for months between needing to make changes.

At first (and for admittedly way too long), I used this as a way to try out fun new frameworks - Node+Express for one thing, Phoenix for another, SvelteKit for a third.

I noticed it was a huge pain to dive into these things once every 6 months. I’d forgotten how it worked, and for some of them at least, I could look up docs and examples.

My Node+Express thing was the worst because it was all homegrown. There’s very little convention in that world, and you have to make your own. No docs were coming to save me, and this was in the Before Times, like 3 years ago pre-LLM.

Anyway I ported everything to Rails and it’s wonderful. I know how it works, there’s almost 30 years of examples online and they even mostly still work, and LLMs are great at it too.

Lots of power in a good framework, in a situation that’s a good fit for it!

I resonate with a bunch of this. The idea that what I make is somehow not as good as the “real” version of whatever it is (where “real” is hard to define, but roughly just, always better than what I made).

You mention the emotional neglect and the connection to childhood, and I get the sense you’re interested in figuring it out. It made me think you might like Joe Hudson’s work on YouTube.

I was connected to a VPN and saw the same. Went away once I disconnected.

(Must say I'm not a fan of how, increasingly, taking any steps to preserve privacy is seen as deviant, or justified because bots)

> I'd like to experience my brain not thinking about anything at all for once

You can! While you’re alive and everything! I’ve had this experience of few times of it being very quiet, and overall my brain is a lot quieter since then (and I see reports from people who’ve gone further/deeper; I get the sense the path is never-ending).

There’s a ton of resources and people out there that basically point to the same thing in different ways. Meditation is one of the ways but it’s not the only one. Some keyword soup if you want to go searching: jhana states, Jhourney, Art of Accomplishment, Joe Hudson, Zen, Buddhism, awakening, Michael Singer, Loch Kelly

There are varying levels of “woo” in this, and if you’re on the woo-averse side, Joe Hudson’s stuff is a good way in.

Yeah, forgot when I wrote this comment that the thing about keychain was to pass that auth token into a Docker container, which I gave up on (Tauri desktop app needs to compile Rust and link against other stuff, different architecture inside the container blah blah)

More or less what it says in the README:

    fence -t code -- claude --dangerously-skip-permissions

Or wrap it in a function as an alias

    # cat prompt.md | ralph
    function ralph() {
      fence -t code -- \
        claude --verbose --dangerously-skip-permissions --output-format stream-json -p "$@" \
        | jq -r 'select(.type == "assistant") | .message.content[]? | select(.type? == "text") | .text'
    }