Welcome to hhvn's shitty gopherhole. It's not what it used to be, alright? | |
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Email: hhvn /AT/ hhvn /DOT/ uk | |
IRC: hhvn at #hlircnet on irc.libera.chat | |
PGP key | |
SSH key | |
Where's the old one? uhhhhh, here somewhere | |
How about some code instead? | |
Or my phlog, pershmaps? | |
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I'm a guy who used to really enjoy programming and tinkering with computers, | |
especially engaging in the use of obsoleted protocols for some reason. | |
There are a great many benefits of simplicity, the foremost one being the | |
ability to hold a field of related concepts entirely within the mind as a | |
network of interconnected processes to create one unified "object". | |
Life however is the opposite of simple. One can attempt to break it down into a | |
series of simple objects, but the more you try, the more understanding appears | |
to flee in the opposite direction. Reality and life are fractal in complexity. | |
In a roundabout way, this is all to say that the complexity caught up with me, | |
and I've changed from the person I was when I first created this gopherhole. | |
Most people on the web won't give a shit about any of this, but for explorers of | |
the gopherspace, perhaps it will. | |
I have a feeling that at the time of writing this (2023-06-06), the majority of | |
the visitors to this gopherhole over its lifetime saw the original gopherhole | |
(for now lost since 2023-09-??), and many of those who did shared the interests | |
that used to consume most of my free time. | |
That exploration is, I believe, a manefestation of curiosity. All people posses | |
curiosity, but only some posses enough of it to truly stand above the rest. | |
The relative simplicity of computers is the perfect prison for a curious mind. | |
It is comforting, and it allows you to escape from the seemingly intractable | |
conditions of the real world. It is a world easily shaped and moulded by | |
oneself, yet it is only a small part of all that exists. | |
That gives you freedom. There are many definitions of freedom, yet the | |
definition I have come up with is this - freedom is the ability to shape your | |
own world. | |
The real world too can be shaped. It seems daunting. You may only be a small | |
part of it. | |
For a man to truly be free he must learn the skills necessary to move through a | |
turbulent world with ease, like learning to avoid enemies in a videogame to get | |
to a destination unmolested, or making your way through a crowd of people in | |
order to arrive somewhere. The key distinction from said analogies is that there | |
is no destination. | |
There is no final achievement. There is nothing in life that will make it | |
complete. All "destinations" are simply landings in a never ending staircase. | |
And that's what makes it all so beautiful - we will always continue exploring. | |
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hhvn | |
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I would like to leave one last note on this page. If you feel the desire to | |
contact me, feel free to do so. I'm just a human being like anyone else. IRC, | |
email, whatever, I don't care - communication is another gift that whatever | |
process that created us gave us. Whatever you write, I won't judge. |