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Author: hhvn <dev@hhvn.uk>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 19:43:10 +0100
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-Welcome to hhvn's temporarily shitty gopherhole.
+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.hlirc.net
-[1|hlircnet|/|hlirc.net|70]
+IRC: hhvn at #hlircnet on irc.libera.chat
+[0|PGP key|/pgp.asc|server|port]
+[0|SSH key|/ssh.pub|server|port]
[I|Where's the old one? uhhhhh, here somewhere|eight-small-disks.jpg|server|port]
[1|How about some code instead?|git/|server|port]
[1|Or my phlog, pershmaps?|phlog/|server|port]
-[0|PGP key|/pgp.asc|server|port]
-[0|SSH key|/ssh.pub|server|port]
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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.
+
+--
+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.
