Welcome to my backalley of tilde.town!

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[minigame: read the writing on the wall, before it's too late!]

I am trying to deal with the cosmic constipation: having so much to say but being so introverted I don't want to say it while under surveillance...

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I'm new to town, so I'm still just exploring. These are my initial ponderings generated by my initial wanderings. May be useful to newcomers.

• I love botany. It encourages coming back often, and reinforces the idea that not only this virtual plant, but also this whole virtual town, is worth returning to regularly in order to nurture and sustain it. Thanks so much, ~curiouser!


• The chat is the watering hole around which everyone passes through at some point to say "hi". Simple, but effective. Friendly, accepting, and supportive.


• The bbj text-based forum, with the ability to post under different psuedonyms or no nym at all, is a perfectly simple but effective text replacement of 4chan or reddit. Very nicely styled as well. Very stylish!


• Thanks to ~troido for making cadastre. The resulting ascii town map is awesome!!!1


• I'm excited to experiment with this minimalistic encryption program partyline by ~elly. Test it here.

screen -d -r

screen creates a virtual terminal session in your terminal that can hold multiple terminal sessions inside it. You can also detach and re-attach screen sessions from/to your current terminal session. This is especially useful if your connection drops and ssh stops responding until you reconnect. A screen session will still be saved, and available to reattach to your current terminal. To start up the same screen session when you log back in, use the command screen -d -r, which detaches any existing ongoing session, and reattaches it to your current terminal session so you can pick up right where you left off before your session dropped.

vim -x

vim is the text editor I like to use. The vim -x command can be used to create an encrypted file.

• I'm pretty happy with holodeck as it is, but I'm still trying to improve it. One thing I would really like to add is a weekly or monthly database, (in addition to the ongoing permanent database), so that people can feel more free to go mess around in the temporary database and not feel the burden of permanence. Because I know some people out here hate to be the first to put footprints in the fresh snow, because they feel like they're ruining it for everyone else. amirite!?


• I plan to use the vaults to reveal my whole truth, including things I would rather lock away. A whistle-blower of the human experience. I believe the poetic tone my life has taken can help add context to the global awakening and the liberation of all of humanity from themselves. And, honestly, someone needs to be talking about #feederism, cause it's gone too far... and who better than someone like me who is into, albeit conflicted about it...


• I might try to make a simple platform that allows users to browse, bookmark, and share these computer-generated visualizations of the "game of life" more easily. That way this hit-or-miss generative art can be distilled by the Swarm to reveal the most beautiful art it can create. The code for creating the art has already been made by someone, I'm just trying to stream-line it into a platform where people help each other find the best images/animations. This ongoing mess of a project lives here.


• Figure out if my github is publicly available... my username is @jus_ne1 but since I've never logged on outside of Tor-Browser it seems to have put my account into a unaccessible state. I can still access it, luckily, but I don't know that I can get pull requests and everything...

If you have the answer to any of my unanswered questions, please contact me. Neighbors can contact me at: ne1 -at- tilde -dot- town. If you're from out-of-town you can reach me at ne1 -at- tutanota -dot- com.

• How does the "wiki" program work? Is it a totally decentralized infrastructure?


• What is the deal with minecraft? Is it really so popular? What is the thing about it thats so great? Is it just like Second Life, with a built in scripting language so you can do anything? Or something like that? Is there more to it? Or is it just some strange phenomenon, a self-perpetuating trend as superficial and inane as beanie babies?


• Anyone have a link to that video of the kid saying that he cant go out on sunny days because of drones? I think it was in a congressional hearing or something. It was a boy from Yemen, I think it was during Obama.


• Is "Amy Goodman" a made-up name playing off of "Emma Goldman"!?


• How common is it for people in tilde.town to stick to #OPSEC!? Just curious...