I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1403 - My Four Tech-Domain Passions, and the Underlying Framework on Which They're Built - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, May 22, 2026

about 18 hours ago (Edited)

I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 7 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

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The tech-geek aspect of me has always been notable, and over the past several years, and especially in the past few months, it's become increasingly pronounced and focused within certain, specific tech domains. Linux caught my attention, and pulled me in first, and after more than a decade of battle-tested experience working with Ubuntu Linux, and then Arch Linux, and now also Arix Linux, my next tech passion beckoned and enticed me to dive in and exlplore. Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies was what grabbed me next, first with Bastyon, then Hive, and with Qortal and Blurt being added later. The most recent techy passion that set me on fire, and which has been taking up a lot of my time for researching, exploring, and experimenting with it, is agentic-AI frameworks and operating systems, and holy jumping fuckmuffins is it exciting!

One particular tech domain in which I've also always had deep interest is networking, even though I only just realized that (doh!). I've been building and managing networks and network infrastructure for many years now, and the more that I understand it, the more fascinated I become.

All of these tech-domain passions, especially in the community-driven and sovereignty-focused iterations on which I primarily focus, exist within, and are build upon, the underlying FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software) framework and communities. FOSS encompasses them all within its greater domain.

Although there are a great many very exciting possible uses and implementations of agentic-AI frameworks and operating systems, the most fascinating to me, and the one that I'm working to implement in the work that I'm doing with Hermes Agent, is to fully integrate blockchain interaction and operations, for Hive, Blurt, and Qortal to start, with the underlying Arch/Artix Linux installations in which I operate, and with diverse networking protocols and systems, especially mesh-network technologies. At the rate that I'm going, integrating these 3 tech domains fully into my AgentOS/agentic-AI operating system that I'm building with Hermes, will likely take quite some time, as I'm working with limited hardware resources, and there is a whole lot to take into account in the process.

To accelerate progress in these AgentOS integrations, I'm strongly considering setting up for Hermes to be able to use some more-capable cloud-based models, from various providers that offer free services. This an important step, and one that I want get rolling, though I do need to figure out how to make sure that no sensitive information is ever sent to cloud servers. I'll get there, one step at a time.

Yesterday, Friday, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks by about 1PM, I prepared for a session that was scheduled for 1:30PM. The session started a bit late, it went very well, and we wrapped it up my just after 6PM, after which I made a quick food-supply run to Tutu's to restock Wabisabi, then I made myself some food, collected my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and with those in hands, I headed back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by just after 10PM, and after some agentic-AI research, I went to bed by around 11:30PM. I woke up at 3:30AM, and unable to sleep, I did more agentic-AI research, before making another attempt at sleep. I woke up again around 7:30AM, having slept fairly well, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 2PM, so it's a wonderful time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on some photography for my posts, and then on some jungle-community/land work and tasks. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's edition of these poses! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2026 Life Goals

1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.

2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.

3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.

4.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon.

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.

Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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