Welcome to [Less Retarded Wiki](lrs_wiki.md), an [encyclopedia](encyclopedia.md) only I can edit. But you can [fork](fork.md) it, it is [public domain](public_domain.md) under [CC0](cc0.md) (see [wiki rights](wiki_rights.md)) :) Holy [shit](shit.md), I'm gonna get [cancelled](cancel_culture.md) hard as soon as [SJWs](sjw.md) find out about this (once this happens, read the [wiki post mortem](wiki_post_mortem.md)). Until then, let's enjoy the ride. THERE IS NO [MODERATION](moderation.md), I can do whatever I want here lol. I love this. INB4 "[hate speech](hate_speech.md)" website { [LMAO](lmao.md) [codeberg](codeberg.md) and [Gitlab](gitlab.md) have already banned us :D [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md)/WM Commons also now banned me globally for "opinions expressed on my website". ~drummyfish } CONGRATULATIONS, you have discovered the one true, undistorted and unbiased view of the world -- this is not a [joke](jokes.md), this wiki contains pure [truth](truth.md) and the solution to most of the issues that plague our current society. Do you have what it takes to [unretard](unretard.md) yourself? We wish you a nice journey :)
**We [love](love.md) all living beings. Even you.** (Not just all people but also animals and other life forms.) We want to create [technology](tech.md) that truly and maximally helps you, e.g. a completely [public domain computer](public_domain_computer.md). We do NOT [fight](fight_culture.md) anything or anyone and we don't have any [heroes](hero_culture.md) or leaders. We want to move peacefully towards [society](less_retarded_society.md) that's not based on [competition](competition.md) but rather on [collaboration](collaboration.md). We also **reject all [violence](violence.md)**.
{ I no longer see hope, good is practically non existent in this world. This is my last attempt at preserving pure good, I will continue to spread the truth and unconditional love of all life as long as I will be capable of, until the society lynches me for having loved too much. At this point I feel very alone, this work now exists mostly for myself in my isolated world. But I hope that once perhaps my love will be shared with a reader far away, in space or time, even if I will never know him. This is the only way I can continue living. I wish you happy reading, my dear friend. ~[drummyfish](drummyfish.md) }
This is a Wiki for [less retarded software](lrs.md), [less retarded society](less_retarded_society.md) (LRS) and related topics, mainly those of [society](society.md), its [culture](culture.md) and ideal [political views](politics.md) etc. -- LRS should help achieve ideal society with ideal technology. LRS Wiki is a new, refreshing wiki without [political correctness](political_correctness.md). It is neither [rightist](left_right.md) nor [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) which many will find confusing.
You ask how could people of the past have been so stupid, how could they have believed obviously nonsensical "[pseudoscience](pseudoscience.md)" and religious fairy tales, how could the past peasant take part in [witch hunts](witch_hunt.md), how could so many people support [Hitler](hitler.md) and let [Holocaust](holocaust.md) happen? Well, don't judge them too hard -- if you disagree with this wiki, you are just like them. No, there was no magical turn around of society from [evil](evil.md) to good just before your birth, times are still the same, except much worse; if you don't see the catastrophic state of the world, you are most likely blissfully brainwashed beyond the level of any medieval peasant. But don't worry, it's not your fault, you are just among the 99.9999%. We are here to help. Keep an open mind and the [truth](truth.md) will show. But beware, truth comes for the price of irreversible [depression](depression.md).
**Before contributing please read the [rules & style](wiki_style.md)! By contributing you agree to release your contribution under our [waiver](wiki_rights.md).** {But contributions aren't really accepted RN :) ~drummyfish }
Pay us a visit on the [Island](island.md) and pet our [dog](dog.md)! Come mourn to the [graveyard](graveyard.md) because **technology is dead**. Want a **muh [webring](webring.md)** experience? Come board our [boat](boat.md). [Modern](modern.md) age is a pile of [shit](shit.md) extending to another galaxy. The future is dark but we do our best to bring the light, even knowing it is futile.
LRS Wiki is [collapse](collapse.md) ready! Feel free to print it out (there is now a complete pdf book download up there), take it to your prep shelter. You may also print copies of this wiki and throw it from a plane into the streets. Thanks.
If you're new here, you may want to read answers to [frequently asked questions](faq.md) (**FAQ**), including "Are you a fascist?" (spoiler: no) and "Do you love Hitler?".
Well, we're trying to figure this out on this wiki, but less retarded software is greatly related to [suckless](suckless.md), [Unix](unix.md), [KISS](kiss.md), [free](free_software.md), selfless and sustainable software created to maximally help all living beings. This is so because we just [love](love.md) all living beings. LRS stands opposed to all [shittiness](shit.md) of so called ["modern"](modern.md) software (and society in general). We pursue heading towards an ideal society that is similar in spirit e.g. to that of the [Venus project](venus_project.md). For more details see the article about [LRS](lrs.md).
UPDATE by [drummyfish](drummyfish.md): now as I've been writing this wiki for a longer time myself, without much self censorship and thought "filtering", the wiki has also become something akin a snapshot of my brain averaged over time, for more see the article about the [wiki](lrs_wiki.md) itself.
- That [old](old.md) technology (such as toys or alerts in cars) could play prerecorded audio without using any electricity or needing batteries? This was done by [simply](kiss.md) using a plastic disc spinning on a needle (same principle as a vinyl record). There is a gramophone, called CardTalk, made purely of cardboard which plays vinyl records without any electricity (it used to be used by missionaries traveling to jungles etc.). [Phonograph](phonograph.md), invented around 1877, allowed people to easily record and play back sounds on a small cylinder covered with wax, the wax could later be smoothed out and rewritten with a new record.
- That the term "retarded" was actually made as a [politically correct](political_correctness.md) replacement for medical terms such as "idiot", "imbecile" and "moron" which became seen as derogatory.
- That all [Intel](intel.md) [processors](cpu.md) since 2008 (and [AMD](amd.md) processors since 2013) have a hardware [backdoor](backdoor.md) ([Intel ME](intel_me.md), [AMD PSP](amd_psp.md)) that run the [Minix](minix.md) operating system and allows spying on users of those processors no matter what operating system they run?
- That Wilhelm Rontgen, a Nobel laureate, did not [patent](patent.md) his groundbreaking discoveries, stating that they should be freely available to anyone without any charge?
- That brain size correlates with [intelligence](intelligence.md) and male brains are on average 10% larger than those of [women](woman.md)? Yep, this is still even on [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md), though the implications mustn't be mentioned there.
- Thanks to [quantum computing](quantum.md) you can use a computer to [carry out computation](counterfactual_computing.md) without actually running the computer?
- That in [capitalism](capitalism.md) low end [CPUs](cpu.md) are made by manufacturing a high end CPU and then purposefully crippling it, just for economic reasons? See e.g. [core unlocking](core_unlocking.md). This also goes for car engines etc.
- That back in the times of black and white TVs they sold colored transparent plastic sheets to put over the screen to add fake [color](color.md) to it? It was blue on top (for sky), green at the bottom (for grass) and orange in the middle (for people, which would nowadays be seen as "[racist](racism.md)").
- That a complement of a [formal language](formal_language.md) can be computationally simpler than the original -- for example that a [pushdown automaton](pushdown_automaton.md) cannot tell which strings are of form a^(n)b^(n)c^(n), but it can tell exactly which ones are not?
- That [LGBT](lgbt.md), [feminism](feminism.md) and similar movements are not truly leftist but rather [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) and therefore [fascist](fascism.md)?
- That there is a limit on how fast any [computable](computability.md) function can grow? There exist uncomputable functions growing so fast that they will eventually outgrow any function that any computer will ever be able to compute. Most famous such function is the [busy beaver](busy_beaver.md).
- In 3rd world [pigeons carrying SD cards](ip_over_pigeon.md) are still much faster and reliable way of transferring data than [internet service providers](isp.md)? This also avoids [censorship](censorship.md).
- That there is a light bulb in California that has been turned on since 1901 and as of writing this is still working? This shows that [old](old.md) things are better than those manufactured under more advanced [capitalism](capitalism.md) which pushes for more [consumerism](consumerism.md) and applies [artificial obsolescence](artificial_obscolescence.md). Many sowing machines made mode than 100 years ago still function perfectly fine as well as many other types of machines; anything created nowadays shouldn't be expected to last longer than 3 years.
- That there exist [numbers](number.md) that are not [computable](computability.md) or are otherwise [unknowable](knowability.md)? See e.g. Chaitin's constant.
- That throughout [history](history.md) one of the most common patterns is appearance of new lucrative technology or trend which is labeled safe by [science](soyence.md), then officially recommended, promoted, adopted by the industry and heavily utilized for many years to decades before being found harmful, which is almost always greatly delayed by the industry trying to hide this fact? This was the case e.g. with [asbestos](asbestos.md), [freons](freon.md) (responsible for ozone layer depletion), [x rays](x_ray.md), radioactive paint (see *radium girls*), some food preservatives, [plastics](plastic.md), smoking, car emissions and great many prescription drugs among which used to be even cocaine. Despite corporations denying it, there even appears evidence that cell phone radiation causes cancer (e.g. *Meta-analysis of long-term mobile phone use and the association with brain tumours*, 2008, even International Agency for Research on Cancer now holds that phones may pose such danger). Yet when you question safety of a new lucrative invention, such as [5G](5g.md), antidepressants or some quickly developed lucrative [vaccines](vax.md), you are labeled insane.
- That the [faggots](faggot.md) maintaining the debian `fortune` utility package started to [censor](censorship.md) "offensive" fortunes, moving them to a separate `fortunes-off` package that won't by default be installed, and which in the future will be removed completely? They also put some cringe disclaimers and apologies to man pages and so on.
- That [Kinora](kinora.md), invented around 1895, allowed people to view short videos with a simple, small, purely mechanical device? It used the flip-book principle.
Here there are quick directions to some of the important topics; for more see the links provided at the top that include the list of all articles as well as a single page HTML which is good for "fulltext search" via crtl+F :)
Feel free to ignore this. Here we'll put links to help them being promoted, to help small search engines connect the non-mainstream web and so on. Please note that we don't necessarily agree with or promote what's on these sites, we just feel it's good if they get a bump for whatever reason (e.g. being censored by mainstream, containing some useful stuff, having good web design, provoking thought, demonstrating something good, demonstrating something bad and so on). If you feel brave you can try randomly clicking something, we put quite interesting sites here. The links follow. { Let me know if you want to suggest addition or removal of some link. If some site turns 404, woke, capitalist or employs adds, I'll probably take it down. ~drummyfish }
