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analog.md

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+# Analog
+
+Analog is the opposite of [digital](digital.md).

atheism.md

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 An especially annoying kind is the **[reddit](reddit.md) atheist** who will DESTROY YOU WITH FACTS AND LOGIC^(TM). These atheists are 14 year old children who think they've discovered the secret of the universe and have to let the whole world know they're atheists who will destroy you with their 200 [IQ](iq.md) [logic](logic.md) and knowledge of all 10 [cognitive biases](cognitive_bias.md) and argument fallacies, while in fact they reside at the [mount stupid](mount_stupid.md) and many times involuntarily appear on other subreddits such as r/iamverysmart and r/cringe. They masturbate to [Richard Dawkins](richard_dawkins.md), love to read [soyentific](soyence.md) studiiiiiies about how race has no biological meaning and think that religion is literally [Hitler](hitler.md). They like to pick easy targets such as [flatearthers](flat_earth.md) and cyberbully them on [YouTube](youtube.md) with the power of SCIENCE and their enormously large thesaurus (they will never use a word that's among the 100000 most common English words). They are so [cringe](cringe.md) you want to [kill yourself](kys.md), but their discussions are sometimes entertaining to read with a bowl of popcorn.
 
+Such a specimen of atheist is one of the best quality examples of a [pseudosceptic](pseudoscepticism.md). See also this: https://www.debunkingskeptics.com/Contents.htm.
+
 On a bit more serious note: we've all been there, most people in their teens think they're literal [Einsteins](einstein.md) and then later in life cringe back on themselves. However, some don't grow out of it and stay arrogant, ignorant fucks for their whole lives. The principal mistake of the stance they retain is they try to apply "science" (or whatever it means in their world) to EVERYTHING and reject any other approach to solving problems -- of course, [science](science.md) (the real one) is great, but it's just a tool, and just like you can't fix every problem with a hammer, you can't approach every problem with science. In your daily life you make a million of unscientific decisions and it would be bad to try to apply science to them; you cross the street not because you've read a peer-reviewed paper about it being the most scientifically correct thing to do, but because you feel like doing it, because you believe the drivers will stop and won't run you over. Beliefs, intuition, emotion, non-rationality and even spirituality are and have to be part of life, and it's extremely stupid to oppose these concepts just out of principle. With that said, there's nothing wrong about being a well behaved man who just doesn't feel a belief in any god in his heart, just you know, don't be an idiot.
 
 Among the greatest minds it is hard to find true atheists, even though they typically have a personal and not easy to describe faith. [Newton](newton.md) was a Christian. [Einstein](einstein.md) often used the word "[God](god.md)" instead of "nature" or "universe"; even though he said he didn't believe in the traditional personal God, he also said that the laws of physics were like books in a library which must have obviously been written by someone or something we can't comprehend. [Nikola Tesla](tesla.md) said he was "deeply religious, though not in the orthodox sense". There are also very hardcore religious people such as [Larry Wall](larry_wall.md), the inventor of [Perl](perl.md) language, who even planned to be a Christian missionary. The "true atheists" are mostly second grade "scientists" who make career out of the pose and make living by writing books about atheism rather than being scientists.

bloat_monopoly.md

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 # Bloat Monopoly
 
-Bloat monopoly is an exclusive control over or [de-facto](de_facto.md) ownership of [software](software.md) not by legal means but by means of [bloat](bloat.md). I.e. even if given sofware is [FOSS](foss.md) (that is its source code is public and everyone has basic legal rights to it), it can still be made **practically** controlled exclusively by the developer because the developer is the only one with sufficient resources and/or know-how to be able to execute the basic rights such as meaningful modifications of the software.
+Bloat monopoly is an exclusive control over or [de-facto](de_facto.md) ownership of [software](software.md) or even a whole area of technology not by legal means but by means of [bloat](bloat.md), or generally just abusing bloat in ways that lead to gaining monopolies, e.g. by establishing standards or even legal requirements (such as the EU mandatory content filters) which only the richest may conform to. Even if given sofware is [FOSS](foss.md) (that is its source code is public and everyone has basic legal rights to it), it can be malicious due to bloat, for example it can still be made **practically** controlled exclusively by the developer because the developer is the only one with sufficient resources and/or know-how to be able to execute the basic rights such as meaningful modifications of the software, which goes against the very basic principle of [free software](free_software.md).
 
-Bloat monopoly is [capitalism](capitalism.md)'s circumvention of [free](free.md) licenses and taking advantage of their popularity. With bloat monopoly capitalists can stick a [FOSS](foss.md) license to their software, get an automatic approval ([openwashing](openwashing.md)) of most "open-source" fanbois as well as their free work time, while really staying in control almost to the same degree as with [proprietary](proprietary.md) software.
+**Example**: take a look at the [web](www.md) and how [Google](google.md) is gaining control over it by getting the search engine monopoly. It is very clear web along with web browsers has been becoming bloated to ridiculous levels -- this is not a coincidence, bloat is pushed by [corporations](corporation.md) such as Google to eliminate possible emerging competition. If practically all websites require [JavaScript](js.md), [CSS](css.md), [HTTPS](https.md) and similar nonsense, it is becoming much more difficult to crawl them and create a web index, leaving the possibility to crawl the web mostly to the rich, i.e. those who have enough money, time and know-how to do this. Alongside this there is the web browser bloat -- as websites have become extremely complex, it is also extremely complex to make and maintain a web browser, which is why there is only a few of them, all controlled (despite FOSS licenses) by corporations and malicious groups, one of which is Google itself. For these reasons Google loves bloat and encourages it, e.g. simply by ranking bloated webpages better in their search results, and of course by other means (sponsoring, lobbying, advertising, ...).
+
+Bloat monopoly is [capitalism](capitalism.md)'s circumvention of [free](free.md) licenses and taking advantage of their popularity. With bloat monopoly capitalists can stick a [FOSS](foss.md) license to their software, get an automatic approval (**[openwashing](openwashing.md)**) of most "open-source" fanbois as well as their free work time, while really staying in control almost to the same degree as with [proprietary](proprietary.md) software.
 
 Examples of bloat monopoly include mainstream web browsers ([furryfox](firefox.md), [chromium](chromium.md), ...), [Android](android.md), [Linux](linux.md), [Blender](blender.md) etc. This software is characteristic by its difficulty to be even compiled, yet alone understood, maintained and meaningfully modified by a lone average programmer, by its astronomical [maintenance](maintenance.md) cost that is hard to pay for volunteers, and by aggressive [update culture](update_culture.md).

corporation.md

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ The most basic fact to know about corporations is that **100% of everything a co
 
 **Corporation is not a human, it has no emotion and absolutely 0 sense of morality.** The most basic error committed by retards is to reply to this argument with "but corporations are run by humans". This is an extremely dangerous argument because somehow 99.999999999999999999% people believe this could be true and accept it as a comforting argument so that they can continue their daily lives and do absolutely nothing about the disastrous state of society. The argument is of course completely false for a number of reasons: firstly corporations exclusively hire psychopaths for manager roles -- any corporation that doesn't do this will be eliminated by natural selection of the market environment because it will be weaker in a [fight](fight_culture.md) against other corporations, and its place will be taken by the next aspiring corporation waiting in line. Secondly corporations are highly sophisticated machines that have strong mechanisms preventing any ethical behavior -- for example division of labor in the "[just doing my job](just_doing_my_job.md)"/"[everyone does it](everyone_does_it.md)" style allows for many people collaborating on something extremely harmful and unethical without any single one feeling responsibility for the whole, or sometimes without people even knowing what they are really collaborating on. Of course, most just don't care, and most don't even have a choice. Similar principles allowed for example the [Holocaust](holocaust.md) to happen. Anyone who has ever worked anywhere knows that managers always pressure workers just to make money, not to behave more ethically -- of course, such a manager would be fired on spot -- and indeed, workers that try to behave ethically are replaced by those who make more money, just as companies that try to behave ethically in the market are replaced by those that rather make money, i.e. corporations. This is nothing surprising, the definition of [capitalism](capitalism.md) implies existence of a system with Darwinian evolution that selects entities that are best at making money for any cost, and that is exactly what we are getting. To expect any other outcome in capitalism would be just trying to deny mathematics itself.
 
+A corporation is made to exploit people just as a gun is made to kill people. When a corporation commits a crime, it is not punished like a human would be, the corporation is left to exist and continue doing what it has been doing -- a supposed "punishment" for a corporation that has been caught red handed committing a crime is usually just replacing whoever is ruled to be "responsible", for example the CEO, which is of course ridiculous, the guy is just replaced with someone else who will do exactly the same. This is like trying to fix the lethal nature of a weapon by putting all the blame on a screw in the weapon, then replacing the screw with another one and expecting the weapon to no longer serve killing people.
+
 There is probably nothing we can do to stop corporations from taking over the world and eventually eliminating humans, we have probably passed the **[capitalist singularity](capitalist_singularity.md)**.
 
 TODO

cracker.md

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 # Cracker
 
-Crackers are the good people who in computer systems, with use of [hacking](hacking.md), remove artificial barriers to obtaining and sharing [infomration](information.md); for example they help remove [DRM](drm.md) from [games](game.md) or leak data from secret databases. This is normally illegal which makes the effort even more admirable.
+Crackers are either "bad [hackers](hacking.md)" that break into computer systems or the good people with the power of [hacking](hacking.md) remove artificial barriers to obtaining and sharing [infomration](information.md); for example they help remove [DRM](drm.md) from [games](game.md) or leak data from secret databases. This is normally illegal which makes the effort even more admirable.
 
 Cracker is also food.
 

cracking.md

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+# Cracking
+
+See [cracker](cracker.md).

digital.md

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 # Digital
 
-Digital [technology](tech.md) is that which works with whole numbers, i.e. discrete values, as opposed to [analog](analog.md) technology which works with real numbers, i.e. continuous values. The name *digital* is related to the word *digit* as digital computers store data by digits, e.g. in 1s and 0s if they work in [binary](binary.md).
+Digital [technology](tech.md) is that which works with whole numbers, i.e. discrete values, as opposed to [analog](analog.md) technology which works with [real numbers](real_number.md), i.e. continuous values. The name *digital* is related to the word *digit* as digital computers store data by digits, e.g. in 1s and 0s if they work in [binary](binary.md).
 
 Normies confuse digital with [electronic](electronic.md) or think that digital computers can only be electronic, that digital computers can only work in [binary](binary.md) or have other weird assumptions whatsoever. **This is indeed false!** An [abacus](abacus.md) is digital device. Fucking normies.
 
 The advantage of digital technology is its resilience to noise which prevents degradation of data and accumulation of error -- if a digital picture is copied a billion times, it will very likely remain unchanged, whereas performing the same operation with analog picture would probably erase most of the information it bears due to loss of quality in each copy. Digital technology also makes it easy and practically possible to create fully programmable general purpose [computers](computer.md) if great complexity.
+
+**Digital vs analog, simple example:** imagine you draw two pictures with a pencil: one in a normal fashion on a normal paper, the other one on a grid paper, by filling specific squares black. The first picture is analog, i.e. it records continuous curves and position of each point of these curves can be measured down to extremely small fractions of millimeters -- the advantage is that you are not limited by any grid and can draw any shape at any position on the paper, make any wild curves with very fine details, theoretically even microscopic ones. The other picture (on a square grid) is digital, it is composed of separate points whose position is described only by whole numbers (*x* and *y* coordinates of the filled grid squares), the disadvantage is that you are limited by only being able to fill squares on predefined positions so your picture will look blocky and limited in amount of detail it can capture (anything smaller than a single grid square can't be captured properly), the [resolution](resolution.md) of the grid is limited, but as we'll see, imposing this limitations has advantages. Consider e.g. the advantage of the grid paper image with regards to copying: if someone wants to copy your grid paper image, it will be relatively easy and he can copy it exactly, simply by filling the exact same squares you have filled -- small errors and noise such as imperfectly filled squares can be detected and corrected thanks to the fact that we have limited ourselves with the grid, we know that even if some square is not filled perfectly, it was probably meant to be filled and we can eliminate this kind of noise in the copy. This way we can copy the grid paper image a million times and it won't change. On the other hand the normal, non-grid image will become distorted with every copy and in fact even the original image will become distorted by aging; even if that who is copying the image tries to trace it extremely precisely, small errors will appear and these errors will accumulate in further copies, and any noise that appears in the image or in the copies is a problem because we don't know if it really is a noise or something that was meant to be in the image.
+
+Of course, digital data may become distorted too, it is just less likely and it's easier to deal with this. It for example happens that space particles (and similar physics phenomena, e.g. some quantum effects) flip bits in computer memory, i.e. there is always a probability of some [bit](bit.md) flipping from 0 to 1 or vice versa. We call this **data [corruption](corruption.md)**. This may also happen due to physical damage to digital media (e.g. scratches on the surface of CDs), imperfections in computer network transmissions (e.g. packet loss over [wifi](wifi.md)) etc. However we can introduce further measures to prevent, detect and correct data corruption, e.g. by keeping [redundant](redundancy.md) copies (2 copies of data allow detecting corruption, 3 copies allow even its correction), keeping [checksums](checksum.md) or [hashes](hash.md) (which allow only detection of corruption but don't take much extra space), employing error correcting codes etc.

game.md

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 A small number of games nowadays come with a [free](free_software.md) engine, which is either official (often retroactively freed by its developer in case of older games) or developed by volunteers. Example of the former are the engines of ID games ([Doom](doom.md), [Quake](quake.md)), example of the latter can be [OpenMW](openmw.md) (a free engine for TES: Morrowind) or [Mangos](mangos.md) (a free server for World of Warcraft). Console [emulators](emulator.md) (such as of Playstation or Gameboy) can also be considered a free engine for playing proprietary games.
 
-Yet a smaller number of games are completely free (in the sense of [Debian](debian.md)'s free software definition), including both the engine and game assets. These games are called **free games** or **libre games** and many of them are clones of famous proprietary games. Examples of these probably (one can rarely ever be sure about legal status) include [SuperTuxKart](stk.md), [Minetest](minetest.md), [Xonotic](xonotic.md), [FLARE](flare.md) or [Anarch](anarch.md). There exists a wiki for libre games at https://libregamewiki.org and a developer forum at https://forum.freegamedev.net/. Libre games can also be found in Debian software repositories.
+Yet a smaller number of games are completely free (in the sense of [Debian](debian.md)'s free software definition), including both the engine and game assets. These games are called **free games** or **libre games** and many of them are clones of famous proprietary games. Examples of these probably (one can rarely ever be sure about legal status) include [SuperTuxKart](stk.md), [Minetest](minetest.md), [Xonotic](xonotic.md), [FLARE](flare.md) or [Anarch](anarch.md). There exists a wiki for libre games at https://libregamewiki.org and a developer forum at https://forum.freegamedev.net/. Libre games can also be found in Debian software repositories. However WATCH OUT, all mentioned repositories may be unreliable!
 
-{ NOTE: Do not blindly trust libregamewiki, non-free games ocassionaly do appear there by accident, negligence or even by intention. I've actually found that most of the big games like SuperTuxKart have some licensing issues (they removed one proprietary mascot from STK after my report). Ryzom has been removed after I brought up the fact that the whole server content is proprietary and secret. So if you're a purist, focus on the simpler games and confirm their freeness yourself. Anyway, LGW is a good place to start looking for libre games. It is much easier to be sure about freedom of suckless/LRS games, e.g. Anarch is legally safe practically with 100% certainty. ~drummyfish }
+{ NOTE: Do not blindly trust libregamewiki and freegamedev forum, non-free games ocassionaly DO appear there by accident, negligence or even by intention. I've actually found that most of the big games like SuperTuxKart have some licensing issues (they removed one proprietary mascot from STK after my report). Ryzom has been removed after I brought up the fact that the whole server content is proprietary and secret. So if you're a purist, focus on the simpler games and confirm their freeness yourself. Anyway, LGW is a good place to start looking for libre games. It is much easier to be sure about freedom of suckless/LRS games, e.g. Anarch is legally safe practically with 100% certainty. ~drummyfish }
 
 Some games are pretty based as they don't even require [GUI](gui.md) and are only played in the text shell (either using [TUI](tui.md) or purely textual I/O) -- these are called TTY games or command line games. This kind of games may be particularly interesting to [minimalists](minimalism.md), hobbyists and developers with low ([zero](zero.md)) budget, little spare time and/or no artistic skills. Roguelike games are especially popular here; there sometimes even exist GUI frontends which is pretty neat -- this demonstrates how the [Unix philosophy](unix_philosophy.md) can be applied to games.
 

google.md

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 # Google
 
-Google is one the very top [big tech](big_tech.md) corporations, as well as one of the worst corporations in history (if not THE worst), comparable only to [Microsoft](microsoft.md) and [Facebook](facebook.md). Google is gigantically evil and largely controls the [Internet](internet.md), pushes mass surveillance, data collection, ads, [bloat](bloat.md), [fascism](tranny_software.md) and censorship.
+Google is one the very top [big tech](big_tech.md) corporations, as well as one of the worst corporations in history (if not THE worst), comparable only to [Micro$oft](microsoft.md) and [Facebook](facebook.md). Google is gigantically evil and largely controls the [Internet](internet.md), pushes mass surveillance, personal data collection and abuse, ads, [bloat](bloat.md), [fascism](tranny_software.md) and [censorship](censorship.md).
 
 Google's motto used to be **"Don't be evil"**, but in 2018 they ditched it lol xD
 
 Google raised to the top thanks to its [search engine](search_engine.md) launched in the 90s. It soon got a **monopoly on the Internet search** and started pushing ads. Nowadays Google's search engine basically just promotes "content" on Google's own content platforms such as [YouTube](youtube.md) and of course censors sites deemed politically incorrect.
 
-Google has created a malicious [capitalist](capitalist_software.md) mobile [operating system](operating_system.md) called [Android](android.md), which they based on [Linux](linux.md) with which they managed to bypass its [copyleft](copyleft.md) by making Android de-facto dependent on their proprietary *Play Store* and other programs. I.e. they managed to take a [free](free_software.md) project and make a de-facto [proprietary](proprietary.md) [malware](malware.md) out of it -- a system that typically doesn't allow users to modify its internals and turn off its malicious features. With Android they invaded a huge number of devices from cells phones to TVs and have the ability to spy on the users of these devices.
+Besides heavily biasing web search results towards Google's own and friendly platforms, Google also heavily censors the search results and won't show links to prohibited sites unless you literally very specifically show that you want to find a prohibited site you already know of, for example you won't find results leading to [Metapedia](metapedia.md) or Encyclopedia Dramatica unless you literally search for the url of those sites of long verbatim phrases they contain -- this is a trick played on those who "test" Google which at is mean to make it look as if Google actually isn't censored, however it is of course censored because the only people who will ever find the prohibited sites and their content are people who already know about it and are specifically searching for it just to test Google's censorship. { EDIT: tho Google also seems to refuse to give some URLs no matter what, e.g. https://infogalactic.com. Just tested it. ~drummyfish } If you intend to truly search the Internet, don't rely on Google's results but search with multiple engines (that have their own index) such as Mojeek, Yandex, Right Dao, [wiby](wiby.md), [YaCy](yacy.md), Qwant etc. (and of course search the [darknet](darknet.md)).
+
+Google has created a malicious [capitalist](capitalist_software.md) mobile "[operating system](operating_system.md)" called [Android](android.md), which they based on [Linux](linux.md) with which they managed to bypass its [copyleft](copyleft.md) by making Android de-facto dependent on their proprietary *Play Store* and other programs. I.e. they managed to take a [free](free_software.md) project and make a de-facto [proprietary](proprietary.md) [malware](malware.md) out of it -- a system that typically doesn't allow users to modify its internals and turn off its malicious features. With Android they invaded a huge number of devices from cells phones to TVs and have the ability to spy on the users of these devices.
 
 Google also tries to steal the [public domain](public_domain.md): they scan and digitize old books whose [copyright](copyright.md) has expired and put the on the [Internet archive](internet_archive.md), however in these scans they put a condition that the scans should not be used for commercial purposes, i.e. they try to keep exclusive commercial right for public domain works, something they have no right to do at all.

hacker_culture.md

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+# Hacker Culture
+
+See [hacking](hacking.md).

hacking.md

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+# Hacking
+
+*Not to be confused with [cracking](cracking.md).*
+
+Hacking (also hackerdom) in the widest sense means exploiting usually (but not necessarily) a [computer](computer.md) [system](system.md) in a clever way. In context of computers the word *hacker* was originally -- that is in 1960s -- used for very good [programmers](programming.md) and people who were simply good with computers, the word *hacking* had a completely positive meaning; hacker could almost be synonymous with computer [genius](genius.md) (at the time people handling computers were usually physicists, engineers or mathematicians), someone who enjoyed handling and programming computers and could playfully look for very clever ways of making them do what he wanted. Over time hackers evolved a whole **hacker culture** with its own slang, set of values, behavioral and ethical norms, in jokes and rich lore. As time marched on, computer [security](security.md) has started to become an important topic and some media started to use the word *hacker* for someone breaking into a computer system and so the word gained a negative connotation in the mainstream -- though many refused to accept this new meaning and rather used the word *[cracker](cracker.md)* for a "malicious hacker", there appeared new variants such as *white hat* and *black hat* hacker, referring to ethical and malicious hackers. With onset of online [games](game.md) the word *hacking* even became a synonym for [cheating](cheating.md). The original positive meaning has recently seen some comeback with popularity of sites such as [hacker news](hacker_news.md) or hackaday, the word *life hack* has even found its way into the non-computer mainstream dictionary, however a "[modern](modern.md) hacker" is a bit different from the oldschool hacker, usually for the worse (for example a modern self proclaimed "hacker" has no issue with wearing a [suit](suit.md), something that would be despised by an oldschool hacker). We, [LRS](lrs.md), advocate for using the original, oldschool meaning of the word *hacker*.
+
+## Original Hacker Culture
+
+The original hacker culture is a culture of the earliest computer programmers, usually smart but socially rather isolated nerds -- at the time mostly physicists, mathematicians and engineers -- who shared deep love for programming and pure joy of coming up with clever computer tricks, exploration of computers and freely sharing their knowledge and computer programs with each other. The culture started to develop rapidly at [MIT](mit.md) in about the second half of 1960s, though other hacker communities existed earlier and in other places as well (still mostly at universities).
+
+The word *hack* itself seems to have come from a model train club at MIT in whose slang the word referred to something like a project of passion without a specific goal; before this the word was used around MIT for a specific kind of clever but harmless pranks. Members of the model train club came to contact with early computers at MIT and brought their slang along. These early punch-card computers were expensive and sacred, hackers treated them as almost supernatural entities; in the book *Hackers* it is mentioned that those who were allowed to operate the machines were called *Priests* -- Priests would often carry out a little prayer to please the machine so that it would bless them with computation. During 60s and 70s so called [phreaking](phreaking.md) -- hacking the phone network -- was popular among hackers.
+
+Many ideas -- such as the beauty of [minimalism](minimalism.md) -- that became part of hacker culture later came from the development of [Unix](unix.md) and establishment of its [programming philosophy](unix_philosophy.md). Many hackers came from the communities revolving around [PDP 10](pdp_10.md) and [ARPANET](arpanet.md), and later around networks such as [Usenet](usenet.md). At the time when computers started to be abused by corporations, [Richard Stallman's](rms.md) definition of [free software](free_software.md) and his [GNU](gnu.md) project embodied the strong hacker belief in information freedom and their opposition of [intellectual property](intellectual_property.md).
+
+The culture has a deep lore and its own literature consisting of books that hackers usually like (e.g. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and books by hackers themselves. Bits of the lore are in forms of short stories circulated as folklore, very popular form are so called Koans. Perhaps the most iconic hacker story is the [Story of Mel](story_of_mel.md) which tells a true story of a master hacker keeping to his personal ethical beliefs under the pressure of his corporate employers -- a conflict between manager employers ("suits") and hacker employees is a common theme in the stories. Other famous stories include the *TV typewriter* and *Magic Switch*. One of the most famous hacker books is the **[Jargon File](jargon_file.md)**, a collectively written dictionary documenting hacker culture in detail. A 1987 book *[The Tao of Programming](tao_of_programming.md)* captures the hacker wisdom with Taoist-like texts that show how spiritual hacking can get -- this reflects the above mentioned sacred nature of the early computers. The *textfiles* website features many text files on hacking at https://textfiles.vistech.net/hacking/. A lot about hackers can be learned from books about them, e.g. the [free](free_culture.md) book *Free as in Freedom* about [Richard Stallman](rms.md) (available e.g. [here](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5768)). A prominent hacker writer is [Eric S. Raymond](esr.md) who produced a very famous essay *The Cathedral and the Bazaar*, edited the Jargon File and has written a large guide called *How To Become A Hacker* -- these are all good resources on hackerdom, even though Raymond himself is kind of shitty, he for example prefers the "[open source](open_source.md)" movement to [free software](free_software.md).
+
+As a symbol of hackerdom the glider symbol from [game of life](game_of_life.md) is sometimes used, it looks like this:
+
+```
+ _____
+|_|0|_|
+|_|_|0|
+|0|0|0|
+```
+
+Let us now attempt to briefly summarize what it means to be a hacker:
+
+- **Hacker is an artist who builds and creates**, [cracker](cracker.md) is someone who breaks and destroys, many times due to being less competent or unworthy of true hacking -- destroying something is easier than creating something.
+- **Hacker greatly values freedom**, among which are the **freedom of [information](information.dm)**, **[free software](free_software.md)**, **[free speech](free_speech.md)**, **free thinking**, free access to computers etc. Therefore he supports sharing, even if it is called for example "[piracy](piracy.md)", and despises things going against said freedoms such as [proprietary](proprietary.md) software, [passwords](password.md) (preventing information freedom), [censorship](censorship.md), [copyright](copyright.md), [patents](patent.md), pretense and deceit etc.
+- **Hackers are non-conformists, reject authority and don't respect social norms**; a hacker wears old cheap clothes, long hair and unkept beard without conforming to any fashion, he sees caring about looks as a wasted time that would better be spent by hacking computers. Hacker is a basement dwelling nerd without social life because he has rich inner intellectual life, he's usually a kisless virgin, even a [wizard](wizard.md), partly because of his looks but also again because typical adult life would require him to do less hacking.
+- **Hacker values [fun](fun.md) and playfulness** -- despite his serious dedication to the art, he hates seriousness of the business guys and "suits", as well as the self-centered attitude of "modern hackers" who might see or present themselves as kind of [superheroes](hero_culture.md). A hacker will give his programs funny names rather than names that would make for a good business product, a hacker will insert jokes in his source code (e.g. [hex](hexadecimal.md) values such as 0xBEEFFACE), documentation and speech ([Jargon File](jargon_file.md) has a whole section on how hackers construct and use words).
+- **Hacker aims for ingenuity, cleverness, elegance, [minimalism](minimalism.md), thinking out of the box** etc. As such he loves [math](math.md), puzzles, intellectual challenges and despises ugly commercial ways of mainstream technology, i.e. that which is [bloated](bloat.md), hastily made to impress by visuals or cheap "killer features" while hiding ugly internals etc.
+- **Hacker loves hacking and tinkering in itself -- hacking is the goal, not the means. Hacking is [art](art.md) and carries deep intellectual and even spiritual value.** To a hacker it is a joy to program computers and he aims for nothing more than enjoy endless hours of programming, programming is NOT a tool to achieve low goals such as monetary profit or mainstream fame. Many hackers claim that hacking is better than [sex](sex.md) (though it is questionable whether many of them have experience with the latter).
+- **Hacker has strong opinions about technology**, for example about what the best [text editor](text_editor.md) or best [programming language](programming_language.md) is. However hackers may also sometimes disagree which results in **[holy wars](holy_war.md)**.
+
+Let's mention a few [people](people.md) who were at their time regarded by at least some as true hackers, however note that many of them betrayed some of the hacker ways either later in life or even in their young years -- people aren't perfect and no single individual is a perfect example of a whole culture. With that said, those regarded hackers included Melvin Kaye aka [Mel](mel.md), [Richard Stallman](rms.md), [Linus Torvalds](linus_torvalds.md), [Eric S. Raymond](esr.md), [Ken Thompson](ken_thompson.md), [Dennis Ritchie](dennis_ritchie.md), [Richard Greenblatt](greenblatt.md), [Bill Gosper](bill_gosper.md), [Steve Wozniak](wozniak.md) or [Larry Wall](larry_wall.md).
+
+## "[Modern](modern.md)" "Hackers"
+
+Many modern [zoomer](zoomer.md) [soydevs](soydev.md) call themselved "hackers" but there are basically none that would stay true to the original ethics and culture, they just abuse the word as a cool term or a brand (see e.g. ["hacker" news](hacker_news.md)). It's pretty sad the word has become a laughable parody of its original meaning by being associated with groups such as [Anonymous](anonymous.md) who are just a bunch of 14 year old children trying to look like "movie hackers". The hacker culture has been spoiled basically in the same ways the rest of society, and the difference between classic hacker culture and the "modern" one is similar to the difference between [free software](free_software.md) and [open source](open_source.md), though perhaps more amplified -- the original culture of strong ethics has become twisted by [capitalist](capitalism.md) trends such as self-interest, commercialization, [fashion](fashion.md), mainstreamization, even shitty movie adaptations etc. The modern "hackers" are idiots who have never seen [assembly](assembly.md), can't do [math](math.md), they're turds in suits who make [startups](startup.md) and work as [influencers](influencer.md), they are tech consumers who use and even create [bloat](bloat.md), and possibly even [proprietary](proprietary.md) software. For the love of god, do NOT follow these caricatures -- not only are they not hackers, they are just not good people in general.
+
+## Security "Hackers"
+
+*Hacker* nowadays very often refers to someone involved in computer [security](security.md) either as that who "protects" (mostly by looking for vulnerabilities and reporting them), so called *white hat*, or that who attacks, so called *black hat*. These are not hackers in the original sense, they are hackers in the mainstream adopted meaning of someone breaking into a system. **This kind of "hacker" betrays the original culture by supporting secrecy and censorship**, i.e. "protection" of "sensitive information" mostly justified by so called "[privacy](privacy.md)" -- this is violating the original hacker's pursuit of absolute information freedom (note that e.g. [Richard Stallman](rms.md) boycotted even the use of passwords at MIT, Raymond discourages from using anonymous handles and rather recommends going by your real name). These people are obsessed with anonymity, [encryption](encryption.md), [cryptocurrencies](crypto.md), [cryptofascism](cryptofascism.md) and other [harmful](harmful.md) things. They additionally also don't generally adhere to the original hacker culture in any way, they are simply people breking into systems, nothing more than that. Again, do NOT follow these pseudohackers, they're pretty retarded.
+
+## Examples Of Hacks
+
+{ As a redditfag I used to follow the r/devtricks subreddit, it contained some nice examples of hacks. ~drummyfish }
+
+A great many commonly used tricks in programming could be regarded as hacks even though many are not called so because they are already well known and no longer innovative, a true hack is something new that impresses fellow hackers. The following is a list of things that were once considered new hacks or that are good examples demonstrating the concept:
+
+- **[bit hacks](bit_hack.md)**: Clever manipulations of [bits](bit.md) -- for example it is possible to swap two variable without a temporary variables by using the [xor](xor.md) function. Another simplest example is implementing division by 2 as binary shift by 1 (this hack is used in real life by people for quickly dividing by 10, we just remove the last digit).
+- **[copyleft](copyleft.md)**: A legal hack by [Richard Stallman](rms.md), connected to [free software](free_software.md), working on the basis of the following idea: "If [copyright](copyright.md) lets me put any conditions on my work, I may impose a condition on my work that says that any modified version must not impose any restrictive conditions".
+- **[fast inverse square root](fast_inverse_sqrt.md)**: Famous hack that was used in the [game](game.md) Quake, it [approxmates](approximation.md) a [square root](sqrt.md) of a [floating point](float.md) number by treating it as an integer and bashing it with a [magic constant](magic_constant.md), which is about four times faster than computing the value with the obvious floating point division.
+- **[game of life](game_of_life.md) patterns**: Stable patterns such as glider or even programming game of life in game of life is a nice example of game hacking -- in fact exactly game of life hacking stood at the beginning of hacker culture.
+- **[bytebeat](bytebeat.md)**: A [demoscene](demoscene.md) hack that utilizes integer [overflows](overflow.md) to create rhythm and produce music.
+- Computer [graphics](graphics.md) uses many clever tricks that could possibly be called hacks, e.g. in times when 3D graphics was primitive and didn't allow achieving such effects as mirror reflections easily, some [games](game.md) faked mirrors simply with a hole in the wall behind which the whole mirrored room was placed -- this achieved the same effect as a mirror and didn't require any extra rendering passes or shaders.
+- **[quine](quine.md)**: A cleverly constructed self-replicating program in [programming language](programming_language.md) that prints its own source code -- this is a common exercise of language hackers.
+- TODO: moar
+
+## See Also
+
+- [demoscene](demoscene.md)
+- [cracking](cracking.md)

minigame.md

@@ -11,17 +11,19 @@ Minigames are still very often built on the principles of old arcade games such
 This is a list of just some of many minigames and minigame types.
 
 - **[2048](2048.md)**
-- **[angry bird](angry_bird.md)**
 - **[arkanoid](arkanoid.md)**
 - **[asteroids](asteroids.md)**
 - **[backgammon](backgammon.md)**
+- **button smasher**: Games whose goal is achieved mainly by smashing a button as quickly as possible, usually e.g. sprint simulators. This may perhaps even include a game that requires you to press a button as quickly as possible (achieve fastest reaction time).
+- **[card games](card_game.md)**
 - **[checkers](checkers.md)**
-- **[chess](chess.md)** (and chess puzzles)
-- **city bomber**: a plane is descending on the screen, player has to drop bombs to destroy building so that it can land
+- **[chess](chess.md)**, its variants and chess puzzles
+- **city bomber**: A plane is descending on the screen, player has to drop bombs to destroy building so that it can land.
 - **concentration**
 - **[donkey kong](donkey_kong.md)**
 - **[endless runner](endless_runner.md)**
 - **[fifteen](fifteen.md)**
+- **[flappy bird](flappy_bird.md)**
 - **[game of life](gol.md)**
 - **[go](go_game.md)**
 - **guess a number**
@@ -37,6 +39,7 @@ This is a list of just some of many minigames and minigame types.
 - **[minesweeper](minesweeper.md)**
 - **[pacman](pacman.md)**
 - **[pinball](pinball.md)**
+- **[poker](poker.md)**
 - **[pong](pong.md)**
 - **[rock-paper-scissors](rock_paper_scissors.md)**
 - **[shoot'em up](shmup.md)**
@@ -45,6 +48,7 @@ This is a list of just some of many minigames and minigame types.
 - **[snake](snake.md)**
 - **[sudoku](sudoku.md)**
 - **[tetris](tetris.md)** (block game, "tetris" is trademarked)
+- **The Witness puzzles**: The kind of puzzles that appear in the game The Witness.
 - **[tic-tac-toe](tic_tac_toe.md)**
 - **[tower of hanoi](tower_of_hanoi.md)**
 - **[tron](tron.md)**

name_is_important.md

@@ -2,14 +2,16 @@
 
 Naming of a philosophy, movement, group, ideology etc. is probably much more important than most people think. This is because the name is the single most stable defining feature of such entity; everything else, all the books and knowledge associated to it may be distorted by history, but the name will always stay the same and will hold a scrutiny over all actions of the entity, it will always be a permanent reminder to every follower of what he is trying to achieve. But what if the name of the movement changes? Then it is to be considered a new, different movement. The name holds the one true goal.
 
-For this we have to keep in mind two thing:
+For this we have to keep in mind two things:
 
-- When encountering a new movement/philosophy/ideology etc., we can tell a lot about it from its name: the name is its ultimate goal which **will be pursued on detriment of other goals**. A lot of times the bad movements are those **named after the means** (e.g. *capitalism*) rather than goals (e.g. *pacifism*) because by this dominance the focus on means will inevitably subordinate the goal.
+- When encountering a new movement/philosophy/ideology etc., we can tell a lot about it from its name: the name is its ultimate goal which **will be pursued on detriment of other goals**. A lot of times the bad movements are those **named after the means** (e.g. *[capitalism](capitalism.md)*) **or [people](hero_culture.md)** (e.g. Maoism) rather than goals (e.g. *pacifism*) because by this dominance the focus on means will inevitably subordinate the goal.
 - When starting a new movement, we have to pay very careful attention to giving it a name.
 
 Let us comment on a few examples:
 
-- **[Capitalism](capitalism.md)**: The goal is maximization of capital. There is no promise of a good society, it is not mentioned in the name, and indeed what we get is a system that evolves corporations that get progressively better at maximizing capital, on the detriment of people.
-- **[Free Software Movement](free_software.md)**: The movement is about user's freedom and therefore ethics. Notice that even though definitions of free software may slightly differ between different branches of it, the groups calling themselves *free software* movements always pursue freedom. This is why capitalism couldn't embrace free software: because thanks to the name it always firmly stands against abusing the user.
+- **[Capitalism](capitalism.md)**: The goal is maximization of capital -- capital should be the means to achieving "something" (what lol?), but it instead becomes the goal. There is no promise of a good society, it is not mentioned in the name, and indeed what we get is a system that evolves corporations that get progressively better at maximizing capital, on the detriment of people.
+- **[Free Software Movement](free_software.md)**: The movement is about user's freedom and therefore ethics. Notice that even though definitions of free software may slightly differ between different branches of it, the groups calling themselves *free software* movements always pursue freedom. This is why capitalism couldn't embrace free software: because thanks to the name it always firmly stands against abusing the user. Of course, even the meaning of the word *freedom* may eventually be shifted and the movement may get spoiled too, but it has stood for a long time and has already proven a great resistance.
 - **[Open Source Movement](open_source.md)**: The movement has been born from the Free Software Movement with a specific goal of abandoning ethics and supporting business. The ethics (freedom) has been dropped from the name and was replaced with the word "open", and indeed what we're seeing is software that is somewhat "open" -- whatever that means -- but mostly [capitalism software](capitalist_software.md) abusing and restricting its users by means other than proprietary licenses (see e.g. [Firefox](firefox.md)).
-- **Feminism**: The goal is to benefit the females, i.e. make the superior to males. There is no mention of equality of sexes in the name even this idea might have appeared somewhere in the movement's beginning. And indeed, what we're seeing is a progressively more aggressive fascist movement that is downright hostile to males, is completely uninterested in inequality in the opposite direction and only ever looks for empowering the women, without any concern of equality.
+- **[Feminism](feminism.md)**: The goal is to benefit the females, i.e. make the superior to males. There is no mention of equality of sexes in the name even this idea might have appeared somewhere in the movement's beginning. And indeed, what we're seeing is a progressively more aggressive fascist movement that is downright hostile to males, is completely uninterested in inequality in the opposite direction and only ever looks for empowering the women, without any concern of equality.
+- **[LGBT](lgbt.md)**: Same as feminism.
+- **[Anarchism](anarchism.md)**: anarchism means "without a ruler" which has shown to be a good name, clearly opposing the idea of one man standing above another and so, again, keeps resisting attempts at being twisted to go against this basic goal. We rarely see the name being abused by the powerful because someone who wants to rule others simply cannot promote something that clearly indicates there should be no rulers. Indeed, there exist attempts at abusing the name, such as ["Anarcho" capitalism](ancap.md), but we observe the shear absurdity of such attempt is quickly spotted by most people who know what the word *anarchism* means.

nc.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # NC
 
+*See also [ND](nd.md).*
+
 In the context of [licenses](license.md) the acronym NC stands for *non-commercial* and means "only non-commercial use allowed", which is an unpopular limitation that makes such a license **by definition [proprietary](proprietary.md) (i.e. NOT a [free cultural](free_culture.md) license)**. This means that a work shared under a license with NC clause is prohibited from being used commercially (which itself is a very unclear statement), greatly limits the freedom of such work and opens the door for legal fuzziness and therefore possible bullying. The NC limitation appears most notably in two [Creative Commons](creative_commons.md) licenses: CC BY-NC-SA and CC BY-NC-ND; again, despite these licenses being Creative Commons, they are **NOT [free as in freedom](free_culture.md)** licenses -- note that this is not an opinion or controversial statement, NC licenses very clearly break the consensual definition of free cultural works and Creative Commons themselves clearly state this is the case; they justify NC licenses as part of the proprietary-free license spectrum, standing somewhere in between "all rights reserved" and free cultural licenses. Even though to free culture newcomers NC licenses don't seem like such a big deal, they are in fact extremely [harmful](harmful.md) to free culture, **DO NOT USE NC LICENSES**. NC is similar (and similarly harmful) to another proprietary license limitation: [ND](nd.md) (no derivatives allowed).
 
 **Why are NC licenses bad?** Firstly the *Definition of Free Cultural Works* project that maintains the widely accepted definition of free culture has an article on this: https://freedomdefined.org/Definition. Let us write a summary of the arguments ALONG WITH [our own](lrs.md) arguments:

nd.md

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# ND
+
+*See also [NC](nc.md).*
+
+In the context of [licenses](license.md) the acronym ND stands for *no derivatives* and means "no derivative works allowed" -- this is an unpopular limitation that makes such a license **by definition [proprietary](proprietary.md) (i.e. NOT a [free cultural](free_culture.md) license)**. A work licensed under a license with ND clause -- most notably the [CC BY-NC-ND](cc_by_nc_nd.md) license -- prohibits anyone from making derivative (i.e. modified) works from the original work, on grounds of [copyright](copyright.md), which goes against one of the very fundamental ideas of [free culture](free_culture.md) (and just any sane culture), that of free [remixing](remix.md), improvement, combining and reuse of [art](art.md); it kills artistic freedom, [culture](culture.md), opens the door to legal bullying and strengthens the [harmful](harmful.md) [capitalist](capitalism.md) idea of "[intellectual property](intellectual_property.md)". All in all **ND licenses are [cancer](cancer.md), NEVER USE THEM**.
+
+The ND clause is similarly harmful to the [NC](nc.md) (non-commercial-only) clause -- see the NC article for more detail.

rationalwiki.md

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # RationalWiki
 
-RationalWiki (https://rationalwiki.org/) is a [toxic](toxic.md) child [atheist](atheism.md) [SJW](sjw.md) [wiki](wiki.md) website that specializes in attacking rational views on controversial topics on the Internet. It is recommended you delete this website from your bookmarks or it will probably give you brain cancer.
+RationalWiki (https://rationalwiki.org/) is a [toxic](toxic.md) child [atheist](atheism.md) pseudorationalist/[pseudoskeptic](pseudoskepticism.md) [SJW](sjw.md) [wiki](wiki.md) website that specializes in attacking rational views on controversial topics on the Internet. It is recommended you delete this website from your bookmarks or it will probably give you brain cancer.
 
-Typically for a [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) site, a tactic of using misleading names is widely used as one of the main means of operation, e.g. [racial realism](racial_realism.md) is called [racism](racism.md), politically inconvenient [science](science.md) is called [pseudoscience](pseudoscience.md) and, of course, [soyence](soyence.md) is promoted as the "only true unquestionable [science](science.md)". The name of the wiki itself seems to suggest it has something to do with [rationality](rationality.md), which is of course very misleading, if not a downright lie -- the purpose of the wiki seems to be solely promotion of modern harmful religion and cults such as [capitalism](capitalism.md) and [political correctness](political_correctness.md), while bashing anything slightly off the mainstream.
+Typically for a [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) site, a tactic of using misleading names is widely used as one of the main means of operation, e.g. [racial realism](racial_realism.md) is called [racism](racism.md), politically inconvenient [science](science.md) is called [pseudoscience](pseudoscience.md) and, of course, [soyence](soyence.md) is promoted as the "only true unquestionable [science](science.md)". The name of the wiki itself seems to suggest it has something to do with [rationality](rationality.md), which is of course very misleading, if not a downright lie -- the purpose of the wiki seems to be solely promotion of modern harmful religion and cults such as [capitalism](capitalism.md) and [political correctness](political_correctness.md), while bashing anything slightly off the mainstream.
+
+## See Also
+
+- [pseudoscepticism](pseudoscepticism.md)

soyence.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 *Not to be confused with [science](science.md).*
 
-Soyence is [propaganda](propaganda.md), [politics](politics.md), [business](business.md), [bloat](bloat.md) and [bullshit](bullshit.md) claiming to pass as [science](science.md), nowadays promoted typically by [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) [soyboys](soyboy.md). It is what the typical reddit [atheist](atheism.md) or [tiktok](tiktok.md) [feminist](feminism.md) believes is science or what Neil De Grass Tyson tells you science is. Soyence calls itself science and [gatekeeps](gatekeeping.md) the term science by calling unpopular science -- such as that regarding human [race](race.md) or questioning big pharma [vaccines](vaccine.md) -- "[pseudoscience](pseudoscience.md)". Soyence itself is pseudoscience but it has the added attributes of pursuing [evil](evil.md) and trying to hide among serious science.
+Soyence is [propaganda](propaganda.md), [politics](politics.md), [business](business.md), [bloat](bloat.md) and [bullshit](bullshit.md) trying to pass as [science](science.md), nowadays promoted typically by [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) [soyboys](soyboy.md) and [pseudoskeptics](pseudoskepticism.md). It is what the typical reddit [atheist](atheism.md) or [tiktok](tiktok.md) [feminist](feminism.md) believes is science or what Neil De Grass Tyson tells you science is. Soyence calls itself science and [gatekeeps](gatekeeping.md) the term science by calling unpopular science -- such as that regarding human [race](race.md) or questioning big pharma [vaccines](vaccine.md) -- "[pseudoscience](pseudoscience.md)". Soyence itself is pseudoscience but it has the added attributes of pursuing [evil](evil.md) and trying to hide among serious science.
 
 Compared to good old [fun](fun.mf) pseudosciences such as [astrology](astrology.md), soyence is extra sneaky by purposefully trying to blend in with real science, i.e. within a certain truly scientific field, such as biology, there is a soyentific [cancer](cancer.md) mixed in by activists, corporations and state, that may be hard to separate for common folk and many times even for pros. This is extremely [harmful](harmful.md) as in the eyes of retarded people (i.e. basically everyone) the neighboring legit science gives credibility to propaganda bullshit. There is a tendency to think we somehow magically live in a time that's fundamentally different from other times in history in which it is now a pretty clear and uncontroversial fact that the name of science was abused hard by propaganda, almost everyone easily accepts that historically politically constructed lies were presented as confirmed by science, but somehow people refuse to believe it could be the case nowadays. In times of Nazism there was no doubt about race being a completely scientific term and that Jews were scientifically confirmed to be the inferior race -- nowadays in times when anti Nazis have won and politics is based on denying existence of race somehow scientists start to magically find evidence that no such thing as race has ever existed -- how convenient! And just in case you wanted to check if it's actually true, you'll be labeled a racist and you won't find job ever again.
 
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Examples of soyence:
 
 - [gender studies](gender_studies.md) [LMAO](lmao.md)
 - "Race is a social construct and doesn't have any biological meaning."
+- any [pseudoskeptical](pseudoskepticism.md) shit trying to look "scientific"
 - "Women are as intelligent as men."
 - "This extremely lucrative [Covid](covid.md) vaccine made by us in record time is absolutely safe, don't dare question it, just take it 5 times a year and pay us each time you do, don't mind any side effects." --Big Pharma
 - "We can't believe this because it wasn't peer reviewed and/or it didn't pass the [null ritual](null_ritual.md) and/or it wasn't published in a journal on our approved literature list." (--[Wikipedia](wikipedia.md))

systemd.md

@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ Systemd, also shitstemd, is a horribly disastrous [bloated](bloat.md), [anti-Uni
 
 Systemd was born when Harry Pot... ummm [Lennart Poettering](pottering.md) had [gay](gay.md) sex with [Kay Sievers](sievers.md).
 
-For more detailed bashing of systemd see e.g. https://nosystemd.org/. The site sums up systemd with a fitting quote: *"If this is the solution, I want my problem back*". Another sum up by [suckless](suckless.md): http://suckless.org/sucks/systemd/.
+For more detailed bashing of systemd see e.g. https://nosystemd.org/. The site sums up systemd with a fitting quote: *"If this is the solution, I want my problem back*". Another sum up by [suckless](suckless.md): http://suckless.org/sucks/systemd/. There is also e.g. https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/.

wikipedia.md

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 Wikipedia is a non-commercial, [free/open](free_culture.md) [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) [online](www.md) encyclopedia written mostly by volunteers, running on [free software](free_software.md), allowing almost anyone to edit its content (i.e. being a [wiki](wiki.md)); it is the largest and perhaps most famous encyclopedia created to date. It is licensed under [CC-BY-SA](cc_by_sa.md) and is run by the [nonprofit](nonprofit.md) organization Wikimedia Foundation. It is accessible at https://wikipedia.org.
 
+Wikipedia used to be a great project, however by 2022 it has become kind of a [politically correct](political_correctness.md) [joke](jokes.md). A tragic and dangerous joke at that. It just hardcore censors facts and even edits direct quotes to push a [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) propaganda. **Do not trust Wikipedia on anything even remotely touching politics**, always check facts elsewhere, e.g. on [Metapedia](metapedia.md), in old paper encyclopedias etc. You may also browse older, less censored versions of Wikipedia articles, either on Wikipedia itself, or -- if you don't trust it -- on [Internet Archive](internet_archive.md).
+
 Wikipedia exists in many (more than 200) versions differing mostly by the language used but also in other aspects; this includes e.g. Simple English Wikipedia or Wikipedia in [Esperanto](esperanto.md). In all versions combined there are over 50 million articles and over 100 million users. English Wikipedia is the largest with over 6 million articles.
 
 There are also many sister projects of Wikipedia such as [Wikimedia Commons](wm_commons.md) that gathers [free as in freedom](free_culture.md) media for use on Wikipedia, [WikiData](wikidata.md), Wikinews or Wikisources.
@@ -16,16 +18,16 @@ There exist [forks](fork.md) and alternatives to Wikipedia. Simple English Wikip
 
 Let's note a few positive and negative points about Wikipedia, as of 2022. Some good things are:
 
-- Despite its flaws Wikipedia is still a **highly free, high quality noncommercial source of knowledge for everyone**, without ads and [bullshit](bs.md). It is tremendously helpful, Wikipedia may e.g. be printed out or saved in an offline version and used in the third world as a completely free educational resource (see [Kiwix](kiwix.md)).
+- Despite its flaws Wikipedia is still a **highly free, relatively high quality noncommercial source of knowledge for everyone**, without ads and [bullshit](bs.md). It is tremendously helpful, Wikipedia may e.g. be printed out or saved in an offline version and used in the third world as a completely free educational resource (see [Kiwix](kiwix.md)).
 - Wikipedia **helped prove the point of [free culture](free_culture.md)** and showed that collaboration of volunteers can far surpass the best efforts of corporations.
-- Wikipedia's **website is pretty nice**, kind of minimalist, lightweight and **works without [Javascript](javascript.md)**.
+- Wikipedia's **website is pretty nice** (at least as of 2022), kind of minimalist, lightweight and **works without [Javascript](javascript.md)**.
 - Wikipedia is very **friendly to computer analysis**, it provides all its data publicly, in simple and open formats, and doesn't implement any [DRM](drm.md). This allows to make a lot of research, in depth searching, collection of statistics etc.
 - Wikipedia **drives the sister projects**, some of which are extremely useful, e.g. Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata or [MediaWiki](mediawiki.md).
-- Even if politically biased, **Wikipedia may serve as a basis for [forks](fork.md) that fix the political bias** ([Metapedia](metapedia.md), [InfoGalacti](infogalactic.md), ...).
+- Even if politically biased, **Wikipedia may serve as a basis for [forks](fork.md) that fix the political bias** ([Metapedia](metapedia.md), [InfoGalactic](infogalactic.md), ...).
 
-And the bad things are:
+And the bad things are (see also this site: http://digdeeper.club/articles/wikipedia.xhtml):
 
-- Wikipedia is **censored and biased**, even though it [proclaims the opposite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_censored) (which makes it much worse by misleading people). "Offensive" material and material not aligned with [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) propaganda is removed as well as material connected to some controversial resources (e.g the link to 8chan, https://8kun.top, is censored, as well as [Nina Paley](nina_paley.md)'s Jenndra Identitty comics and much more). There is a heavy **[pseudoleft](pseudoleft.md) and [soyence](soyence.md) bias** in the articles.
+- Wikipedia is **[censored](censorship.md), biased and pushes specific political propaganda**, even though it [proclaims the opposite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_censored) (which makes it much worse by misleading people). "Offensive" material and material not aligned with [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) propaganda is removed as well as material connected to some controversial resources (e.g the link to 8chan, https://8kun.top, is censored, as well as [Nina Paley](nina_paley.md)'s Jenndra Identitty comics and much more). There is a heavy **[pseudoleft](pseudoleft.md) and [soyence](soyence.md) bias** in the articles. It creates a list of **banned sources** ([archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20220830004126/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources)) which just removes all non-[pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) sources -- so much for their "neutral point of view".
 - Wikipedia includes material under **[fair use](fair_use.md)**, such as screenshots from proprietary games, which makes it partially [proprietary](proprietary.md), i.e. Wikipedia is technically **NOT 100% free**. Material under fair use is still proprietary and can put remixers to legal trouble (e.g. if they put material from Wikipedia to a commercial context), even if the use on Wikipedia itself is legal (remember, proprietary software is legal too).
 - Wikipedia often suffers from writing inconsistency, bad structure of text and **poor writing** in general. In a long article you sometimes find repeating paragraphs, sometimes a lot of stress is put on one thing while mentioning more important things only briefly, the level of explanation expertness fluctuates etc. This is because in many articles most people make small contributions without reading the whole article and without having any visions of the whole. And of course there are many contributors without any writing skills.
 - Wikipedia is **too popular** which has the negative side effect of becoming a **political battlefield**. This is one of the reasons why there has to be a lot of **bureaucracy**, including things such as **locking of articles** and the inability to edit everything. Even if an article can technically be edited by anyone, there are many times people watching and reverting changes on specific articles. So Wikipedia can't fully proclaim it can be "edited by anyone".