Something Different: Entry 9
Hello Everyone!
Fuck Layer 2. Fuck Ads. Fuck you wealthy fucking wankers... who are so poor that all you have is money... thinking you speak for folks.
Alright, it is once again that time to write something different. Even though I have been placing the bulk of my 'extra writing time' into those technical posts (as opposed to these entries) it looks like I am back here again... so lets see what emerges.
I should start by saying that I am in a rather dark mood after first having difficulties with falling asleep last night... and then only sleeping for a brief four hour stint that was filled with such vivid (and downright brutal) dreams... that I will probably never be able to forget the experiences and imagery of them.
There is nothing new in all of that for me and although I would not quite call them nightmares... the series of events would assuredly fit that description for the bulk of other folks. As wild as it may sound it takes much more than violence, gore, horror, mayhem, death and essentially spending every moment fighting for survival... for something to constitute giving it 'nightmare' status for me.
Thankfully, even that kind of (almost nightmarish) dreaming does not occur for me very often these days... but given my long history with it all... it is not like it would phase me very much if it did. In other words it is such 'familiar territory' that I just take it in stride, learn what I can learn and try not to become haunted by any of it.
All that said the sleep that I did get was at least 'something' and without it I would undoubtedly be in a wackier head-space than I am currently in. Well, I say 'wacky' but in all reality my mind is rather crystal clear, my emotions are subdued... and I have a clarity of focus about me irregardless of the fatigue.
So, the good question to ask would be what had me tossing and turning to the point where I could not fall asleep and then when I finally did... it was an utter shitshow. It is really a question that deserves a good answer and all I can do... is to do what I am doing... which is to spell things out as I see them... and let the chips fall as they may from there... and mayhaps we will all gain a semblance of understanding in the process.
Before I get going here and finish winding this preamble down... I want to say that I will probably take the 'kid gloves' off as I write the remainder of this post... so if strong opinions, profanity and folks speaking their personal truth bothers you (or just gets your knickers in a wad) then please stop reading now. That said, it is also worth noting that if you are a pretentious, self-centered, money grubbing turd who is so fucking poor that all you have is money (and maybe a big mouth) this post is directly aimed at you.
In other words, suck it up fuck-nut and pretend that you are a 'real person' for a bit... as in one that can take things on the chin... and not be a sniveling fucking child when faced with the reality of the 'shit you are putting out there' coming back at you tenfold. Another way to say that might be that if 'you can dish it out but you cannot take it' then you should have heeded the fucking warning given to you in the previous paragraph... and pissed off when instructed to like a good little boy or girl.
Maybe I should segue a wee bit first and say that by 'real person' I mean be someone that does not hide behind some false persona, fake name or deceptive digital identity like some fucking creep... while demanding that everyone else reveal who they really are. The sheer amount of folks on here operating under that exact modus operandi (while espousing to be some kind of authority) is fucking astounding. Grow the fuck up, quit being a chicken shit coward, be who you really are and put your name on the line like some of the rest of us do.
Yay! I finally got all that out of my system so lets move on to the important part of this entry... and explain how the fuck my mood went from enthusiastic optimism to 'lets burn this mother fucker down' without skipping a beat. For this great honor I would like to squarely place the blame on myself first and foremost... for having set my mind to the task of figuring a few things out... and the 'answers' finally clicking into place last night... after several months of mulling all the factors that I am aware of over and over again.
It all started long before those shitty Web 2 'Town Hall' meetings (masquerading as Web 3 Town Hall meetings) began but they assuredly tie into it at a later date. They (the meetings) were also the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back last night when those previously alluded to 'answers' happened to click into place... almost of their own accord.
There I was pleasantly zoned out for the evening... and I hate that I have to insert this... but knowing how many lushes are on this chain... I have to say I was sober and as a further side note... yeah I cannot quite remember the last time that I even drank any booze. Which yeah is all beside the point but it has to be said lest some shithead pipes up in an effort to discredit what I am saying.
So, there I was pleasantly zoned out for the evening, minding my own business and trying to piece together some things that had been eluding me for quite some time. Those things mainly being (but not limited to) why the big push to remove the Rewards Pool, why the big push to have all the rewards shifted onto Layer Two, why the push for running ads on content... and why the fuck not spend more time on developing base layer solutions... instead of more halfass Layer Two solutions... that never quite work the way they should... or amount to a big money grab for the developers of said halfass solutions.
Why... why... why... is the mantra my brain often repeats when faced with things that just make no fucking sense... and like a dog with a bone... once I have it in my teeth (or what remains of them) I just do not let go. Generally speaking the longer that kind of questioning goes on for me the heavier I lean into using Occam's razor to find the simplest answers possible... given that they are the ones that generally turn out to be true... or true enough as the case may be.
The funny thing is that I was not directly thinking about that stuff and per usual it was all running as a 'side process' in my mind while I was pondering something else that made even less sense to me. Which was the lack of interest that I have noticed in the base layer solutions that I myself have been looking into... to possibly solve some of Hive's shortcomings (like smart contracts) and also build out more services like decentralized LLM(s), an in house CDN (content delivery network) and secure virtual machines.
Now if you do not really know me it is probably hard to swallow that I do not get hung up on my own ideas as the best solution (just because they are mine... I mean come on I am not a two year old) and when I put ideas out there (that are my ideas) I generally take the approach of saying something akin to: Hey I do not really know if this is a great solution but I am hoping that brighter minds than mine can determine that one way or another. In other words I do not give a flying fuck about the origin of an idea... and if it is a bad idea... then it is a bad idea... period. No hangups, no being upset, no horseshit... just me going: Okay thanks, I will try a different tactic.
There are a heck of a lot of reasons that I have that attitude... but mainly I have it because being a dim witted twit who is ruled by their own vanity, ego, avarice and shallowness just is not my style. The deeper reason though is that I can bend my mind to learning almost anything (or just enough about anything) for a very peculiar thing to begin happening afterwards... ideas begin to emerge... one after another... and the longer I think on something the more the ideas flood in. They are like fucking air to me and I breathe them in and breathe them out... knowing full well that more will always occur... seemingly of their own volition once the process really starts going.
So yeah, the fella with the infinite supply of ideas does not get attached to them... and shares them freely... knowing they can never pursue them all and simultaneously knowing that they will never run out of ideas. Honestly, I personally pursue very few of my own ideas... because the ideas do not always align with the things that I am talented at doing... but occasionally they do... and sometimes I force the issue by broadening my skill-set to accommodate them... so go figure.
Anyways, what I was driving at there before inserting a gods damned disclaimer to thwart being accused of some horseshit attachment to my own ideas... or even worse being accused of having some kind of shady (materialistic) agenda... is that no matter how much I shared my aforementioned 'base layer solutions' no one really gave a fuck. Well, to be fair a few people might have liked them.
I am genuinely sorry that it took me so long to figure out that those kinds of solutions are not desirable... because they do not help others to keep sucking on the tit of the Developer Fund... or help further the agendas of those who would massively profit via Layer Two solutions. To be utterly clear here I have zero trust in anything not written directly to the blockchain at the base layer... and I have been around long enough to watch plenty of Layer Two projects vanish... along with all the 'promises' made along the way to gain other folks support, time, money or some combination of all three of those things.
Some of you that pulled such stunts over the years may in fact be reading this now... and to you I gotta say.... thanks for being the conniving shitheels that you are because you helped to prove the point as to why anything not truly 'on chain' is untrustworthy. Sure, some projects just fail, some get disrupted by life events and so forth and so on... and those are assuredly not the ones that I am referring to. You scammy deceptive mother fuckers know who you are... and I do too... and that may be something worth keeping in mind if at this point your knickers are in a total fucking wad... and my words have you fighting mad. Just imagine the feelings you left folks with after robbing them... and maybe do everyone a favor (including yourself) and fucking choke on it you slimy fucks.
I hope that I have not disappointed anyone in the warnings that I gave earlier in this post... about the usage of profanity and taking the kid gloves off... but if I have disappointed you there is more to come. The part ahead is the stuff that actually got me 'hot under the collar' and kept me up for much of the night... and while up until this point all I have done is clearly express my displeasure... I might let myself get a bit angry here just for good measure... because what I am going to say merits it.
This is aimed directly at the 'Town Hall' folks (maybe not all of them but some of them) and if I knew who was actually saying what (in the audio of said meeting) I would absolutely be naming names at this moment... and calling them the fuck out on it. Even without that knowledge though, I am absolutely not above blaming the entire group... because hey you are a group... and maybe you all deserve the blame since you have failed to regulate yourselves... and conduct yourselves in a manner befitting of the public role that you have appointed yourself to... whilst continuing to act as some kind of 'authority' in the capacity of (and for) the Hive community.
To be blunt you do not fucking represent me but your actions may well have unintended consequences of damaging not just my own interests in Hive... but other folks interests as well... and gods damn it something needs to be said... by someone. Maybe I am that person and maybe I am not... but either way I give more fucks about Hive itself (and its community) than any retaliatory actions that might be taken against me... for having the audacity to not stay in my 'peon lane' and speak up against what I see as something that is just flat out wrong on so many fucking levels.
By the way I always punch up... unlike you chicken shit mother fuckers that only know how to punch down... like the petty bullies that you are. I was brought into this gods damned world to break bullies... not be one... so if you are feeling bullied... threatened... or otherwise made to feel uncomfortable... good. That means that I have pierced that thick fucking skull of yours and finally got your gods damned attention long enough to put my foot in your ass... right where it belongs.
Now back to what I was getting at there. You all want to have your Web 2 Town Halls even after all the perils of doing so were spelled out for you... fine. You want to control the narrative about Hive... fine. You want to steer said narrative towards a direction that fills your coffers and ensures that your goals (schemes) for Hive are the future of Hive... fine.
None of those things fucking matter because ultimately I think they will all fail... but the moment you begin censoring what folks are saying by cutting their mic or simply refusing to answer their questions... because you cannot figure out how to twist it to your agenda... and/or narrative... not fine. It is actually so 'not fine' that I lost sleep over it... not just because it is wrong to do to folks... but it goes entirely against the grain of what Hive stands for.
So, here is my advice... keep playing your stupid games and see what fucking happens. Keep misrepresenting this community and see what happens. Keep censoring all the voices which either intelligently question the horseshit you all are espousing... or simply find themselves standing up to it... and see what happens. The ball is in your court... the kid gloves are off... and I am in the gods damned mood to play the fucking game... so if you wanna play... lets fucking do it.
Sincerely not-yours,
Jacob Wayne Peacock
https://peakd.com/c/hive-114308/created
Now you got me interested in attending the town hall. Where they hold this at?
And I'd love to invite you over to the free compliments community. We could always use a ton of help building that up to tackle the blockchain problems with positivity.
They have them on 'Twatter'. That is intentionally misspelled.
https://peakd.com/@town-hall
Why would it be on twatter....
This is stupid.... Wow.
That is what I keep saying.
Are they trying to exclude hive?
What was having the hive town hall on steam it too much work?
Lol absolutely crazy.
I brought up the exclusionary factor before and it was met with something akin to: We are trying to onboard new users.
Trying to recruit on Twitter is like trying to find a virgin in a brothel.
You got a bunch of people that don't know what they are doing, throwing their opinion around along with money and wasting both.
Ha!
Can you hit me up on discord?
About to head out for a hike. Ping me on there in an hour or so?
I'm not sure if I'm friends with you or not so yeah if we are hit me up when you get back.
We are not. I really do not use it much unless I have to.
Damn there was the fire of a Carolina reaper in this one hahaha.
I learned a long time ago - it’s best to salt your data online. It’s not impossible to figure things out but obfuscating it is a good way to deter those who would like to steal your info. Easy targets make easy money. Harder targets are often not worth the effort. I try to salt it more and more these days, to the point where I’m even confused hahaha.
I didnt look before reading the post but were you around for the whole SMT fiasco? That was the smart contract shit they dangled in front of the community for years as the solution to all our problems. It was a load of horse shit and still is not implemented lol. Layer 2 is good for some things but largely not too helpful for a lot of other things. I don’t think pushing the reward pool to that would do anything except just confuse people even more. We’ve got a considerable technical hurdle for new comers, so let’s make it worse? Lol. Logical.
I think it’s good to talk about these things though because we can beat it up and chew on it for a while and hopefully ultimately realize these things won’t work. Toss it in the bin with the SMT’s.
Hahaha! Ghost pepper stuffed in a Carolina reaper!
Yes I was around for the SMT
fiascoscam. What a ploy that was... it also showed me 'who and what' I was dealing with in the broader community.If memory serves the fella that coded it kept getting stonewalled on implementing it because it not existing 'yet' was a stronger 'lure' than a buggy/beta implementation of it.