shy
『she hacked you』 is like a pokèmon, evolving into a larger + more complex community project
How could you possibly be bored at the end of the world?
Climate instability is a small component of impending total cascading ecological collapse.
In academia? Struggling for grants for what? Measuring the collapse in scientific papers that are ignored. Sooo then what?
Unfortunately, SHY is and can not be the solution; realistically, there probably isn't any solution. SHY is not proposing our goal is to fix the world, or stop impending ecological collapse
About Us
A community of scientists, and data shows mostly computer scientists
But also makers, hackers, academics, communists, eco-terrorists, anarchists, nurses, hardware and software engineers, socialists, ecologists, electrical engineers, lawyers, mycologists, programmers, journalists, artists, designers, arsonists, kopimists, nomads, writers, union organizers, educators, witches, musicians, environmentalists, arboreals, activists, narco-terrorists, luddites, night-timers, day-dreamers, exiles, and party-crashers
Ultimately, and Ideally a diverse group of people and skills bound together by similar goals: 1. Participate in a project larger than themselves 2. Collaborate on a project that seeks equitable treatment + dignity for all Terran life
All languages +cultures +nationalities +political-affiliations (including apolitical) +identities +religions +age-group are invited to participate
Unique perspectives divergent opinions presented in good faith are appreciated + will be discussed
Rules
Essentially none; you are free to be stupid, post about anything
SHY seeks to mimic the freedom of expression found on the early internet; but also includes freedom to endlessly ridicule, embarrass, insult, and shame stupid posts; it goes both ways
Preferably, cultivate Interpersonal communication skills, be comfortably wrong, and be able to learn from others
Racist, fascist, + classical to neo nazi- will wish they got banned; instead of consequences like oddly bricked devices Go ahead, post, put all your devices on the line to test if serious.
Origin Story
SHY originally was only free educational computer science courses streamed live weekly; it needed music for the stream, so a music project was created, needing students to avoid an empty stream, a social media presence on Mastodon+Reddit was created and grew rapidly.
Over time, the essence of SHY began to change. Always intended to be nucleation point for a community, but who was in it and shaped it, and so what it means are still open questions: it requires all of us to answer them.
Will this work? Who knows? Probably not, but we can only find out if we try
Contact
The founder and current administrator of the community is Mastodon.social@ekis
Until I regret this decision, anyone can contact directly + immediately via email:
Gladly accept love letters, but not fond of death threats; but don't censor yourself.
Use XMPP? Join our chat [email protected]
Or, Instant Message Ekis [email protected]
Support & Donations
Contributing financial support will speed up growth of this community via paypal or via ko-fi
SHY is already tied to an established CA non-profit with a dedicated bank account. Revenue and donations will be held in a dedicated business account, community audited, and control will rest with the SHY community; it may fund open source projects or other yet undefined community objectives.
Work will begin to convert the organization into a non-profit workers' cooperative; demonstrating how cooperatives can be operated democratically, and without C-Suite executives. Completely worker owned, operated, non-profit cooperative (but we will be designing our own instead of using the new standard California model).
Goal of a non-profit workers cooperative:
- Transparency
- Democracy
- Exerting force within the organizational ecosystem
Creating an organization within the current organizational ecosystem, explicitly with entirely different goals and motives combined with no board of directors, makes our design incredibly efficient by comparison; in addition, willing to lose profit for achieve other goals, will make SHY dangerous entity within the ecosystem*
Bitcoin Donations
Never buy & give them to SHY to sell:
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Give Me Your Coins!
And, of course, you can personally shower me (Ekis) with your cryptocurrency.
Made an obscene amount of money? And you haven't already sent some? I'm offended!
Will even take your esoteric fork-coin; but no regaling me with tales of extraordinary properties. Really don't care-
Interested In Leadership Roles?
SHY is an ambitious project that exist beyond this site; already connected to an established CA non-profit. Members wishing to have democratic control will be required to join the SHY non-profit cooperative.
We are looking for community organizers, and we need department leaders for different types of skills. If you have been doing UX design for a long time, and could help newer people getting into it, we would to hear from you. The same writing (technical writing, but not exclusively), 2D artists, 3D artists, etc. We want find people with talent in each field they can share with others and build "departments"(until we have a better word) around these individuals. They will have weighted voting during decision making votes, not massively but noticeable.
We will be building new federated platforms, while providing fixes for existing ones.
We require modifications to an existing CA non-profit structure; writing new articles of operation, to provide for a unique cooperative structure.
The goal of establishing a entirely worker owned and operated non-profit cooperative is a very rare; it will serve both as a demonstration while empowering the SHY community to be more than bystanders.
We will redefine economic disruption
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I was thinking about this today; and nested mutable torrents might be a way to scaffold the concept. Since the torrents cold be magnets, and if they were mutable; you could push data in and out of the tree quickly and have it replicated across network using standard torrent tools.
Though the torrent protocol is pretty bad, and really needs a rewrite.
It doesn't even support compression last I looked.
I've never looked at the torrent protocol. (That's going a bit deeper than I've ever done before.) If it doesn't support compression that could be done on the client side right? Or is there something else that goes on there?
You are right it could be done client side but it would have to then add a negotiation to determine if its even possible if your client is to be backwards compatible, youd probably have to use timeout as a failure; or maintain a list of clients but I think that method is messy. There are quite a few problems with the Torrent protocol, it could use a rewrite and I don't say that lightly; I mean I use xmpp and smtp and ssh all the time, I like to keep it simple but the person who runs the project too is a lil wacky.
But the protocol itself has tons of efficiency, they are very slow to add new features and ideally youd want there to be a negotation in place to ask about compression otherwise you have to rely on timeeouts; which is a viable strategy.
For example do mutable torrents exist yet? Because that would be very nice functionality, especially if mutability control was tied to keys, and then you could do some interesting multisignature stuff to control mutability of the torrent.
But another reason I think the protocol needs an update is their merkle tree design could be massively improved by simply not using a static block size; beyond the fact it creates a very noticeable fingerprint, I mean the key developer doesn't like pirates and a lot of kids had their lives fuckd because the developer never bothered to make the traffic difficult to find even when encrypted.
I been meaning to make a client with a tracker, to see how that works in this protocol. I'm thinking like it could make it so everyone could share their stuff easier; and would probably want an onion address for discovery (at least that would be easy.
I would like to be helpful to the leftist podcast listeners sometime and write a torrent downloader to download the kingdex podcasts in hard to get torrents and present it as an RSS for them; like a abstraction or a shim.
anyways im still not feeling all that well, take care