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Always Already Programming

Everyone who interacts with computers has in important ways always already been programming them.

Every time you make a folder or rename a file on your computer, the actions you take through moving your mouse and clicking on buttons, translate into text-based commands or scripts which eventually translate into binary.

Why are the common conceptions of programmer and user so divorced from each other? The distinction between programmer and user is reinforced and maintained by a tech industry that benefits from a population rendered computationally passive. If we accept and adopt the role of less agency, we then make it harder for ourselves to come into more agency.

We've unpacked the "user" a little, now let's look at the "programmer." When a programmer is writing javascript, they are using prewritten, packaged functions and variables in order to carry out the actions they want their code to do. In this way, the programmer is also the user. Why is using pre-made scripts seen

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Running in Containers

In case you want to run radicle in containers, on the same host (e.g. your laptop), you can use the docker-compose.yml file provided within this repo.

1. Create a profile

1. Create a folder where you will store the data of your node. e.g. mkdir -p ~/radicle/profiles/bob/.radicle
2. Set RAD_HOME : export RAD_HOME=~/radicle/profiles/bob/.radicle
3. Create a key:

• Pick a good passphrase and store it in your password manager

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SMS and Privacy

There are a few problems with delivering alerts via SMS, but they mostly boil down to this: SMS is not very private.

For vulnerable audiences, it’s preferable to not collect any subscriber information at all. This isn’t possible with SMS, because you have to know the recipient’s phone number to deliver a message. Unless you’re talking about burners—which most people won’t have—that phone number is tied to a real identity. This is a vulnerability in at least these scenarios:

• If the alerting app itself gets targeted (whether by LE or other malicious actors), user-identifying information could be leaked.
• Phone companies cooperate with LE, through legal process (subpoenas) or otherwise, to find out which phone subscribers are receiving SMS alerts.
• LE , IC, or well-resourced hackers snoop on the SMS network.