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
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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.