Jake lived in Idaho - It's not a huge part of the book, but it's described as mentioned.
"Corvallis had, a few minutes ago, picked Jake Forthrast up at the train
station downtown. He was in his late forties—a straggler, much younger
than the other three Forthrast siblings. He lived in northern Idaho, in a
remote community of like-minded people, which was to say extreme
libertarians with a religious bent. He had a wife and a brood of kids there."
"Our security model is utterly game-changing. Olvid is the first and only messaging system whose security no longer relies on any trusted third party, either operators or their servers."
I bought a CD from an artist (The Burning Leaves) through Bandcamp. Even though the artist lives, like 500m from me and I could have just asked her. Just to give Bandcamp my business and their cut to help them along (also it would have been weird).
I've discovered so much through Bandcamp that I would have otherwise not known about, and bought so much I otherwise would have pirated.
I think it's the help the platform help the artist thing that gets me. It means nothing in the end.
Past experience with articles making it to HN FP show it can handle up to around 3K visits /hour without too much trouble. Maybe more, but my Matomo analytics instance tends to give up around then. Right now it's pulling maybe 700 visits/ hour.
If it starts looking bad, I'll move the site onto a VPS
"Corvallis had, a few minutes ago, picked Jake Forthrast up at the train station downtown. He was in his late forties—a straggler, much younger than the other three Forthrast siblings. He lived in northern Idaho, in a remote community of like-minded people, which was to say extreme libertarians with a religious bent. He had a wife and a brood of kids there."