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Show HN: Blackpage – A Social Network for the Command Line

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20 pointsMCrekt18 comments

If this is "by geeks for geeks" and distributed on GitHub, where is the source?

The GitHub page links to a Kickstarter which says "Become a contributor for Command Quarterly" which links to http://commandquarterly.com/ which is currently down/dead/non-existent?

Also, why does a social network need a crypto currency?

The platform supports any variation of cryptocurrency, there is no native coin and anyone who wants to partner with me just needs to ask. It supports crypto at all because I simply wondered if it could and now it can.

I hosted the files on Discord because it seems to be a standard form of distribution although I don’t have much experience with it yet and still learning the ropes. I do also intend to roll out components of the source, more info on that can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmdq/blackpage-a-social...

The idea sounds cool but it is perhaps too early for public launch. The github is just hosting a zip that contains executables, no source. (Do many projects (ab)use github this way??). I'm not going to run a random binary from an "anonymous" "darkweb" entity.

I miss the Free software movement. :(

It seems to be a common pattern in the cryptocurrency world.

Which is mind-bogglingly stupid considering how devastating it can be to run untrusted, unreproducible binaries on machines hosting things like crypto clients/wallets.

Fairly certain that's a feature, not a bug. (Obviously to hide other features which the end users would take offense to)

The original UNIX came with social networking tools: "mail" for sending messages to people, and "finger" for status updates. Later systems added "talk" and "ytalk" for live chat.

And this is THE WAY to go I think.

We need something like social networking, payment and communication as layers of our networks with open protocols to just use this service without bothering creating an account on FB and other malicious services.

Sometimes I'd wish our internet would be more like the network the computers in Star Trek use.

Of course, back then everyone using a computer was doing so in the course of their employment and abuse of the system could result in being fired. Systems have become more closed partly because the anti-abuse function benefits strongly from centralisation so you don't have to duplicate effort whacking the same abusers.

> Sometimes I'd wish our internet would be more like the network the computers in Star Trek use.

I'm not ready for that many holodeck accidents.

Related commandquarterly.com website currently presents namecheap's default site homepage... That said project seems cool but there should be more informations about it

Haven’t gotten around to sorting out the SSL so figured doing anything there is pointless right now.

Are there protocol documentations?

I'm fairly confused as to how this is a "Show HN" to begin with — essentially this is just a README file which links to Kickstarter. No one in their sane mind will download and run a random closed-source binary that's supposedly "anonymous social network crypto hacker board thing totally safe".

After seeing that link yesterday where you could buy Hackernews upvotes, posts like this one upvoted to the front page makes more sense.

> After seeing that link yesterday where you could buy Hackernews upvotes,

This is much harder to pull off more than once than you might think. Keep in mind that everyone who votes must have an account and HN has complete visibility to every user’s voting history, karma, etc. It’s not foolproof, but detecting votes by low/no karma users is not rocket science.

Using that service has gotten many posts killed, many accounts banned, and many sites blacklisted. Just because people are selling upvotes doesn't mean the buyers are actually getting onto the front page with them.

The votes on the OP look legit to me. Perhaps people were reacting just to the title and perhaps skimming the readme. That's a different kind of problem.

At least nominally, it appears to meet the guidelines for Show HN.

That's super cool. I feel like the terminal is the window to the soul of the machine and a gateway for exploration. This breathes life into that idea.

Thanks a lot!

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