From 3dd1be4e387607781fd1affbf33339ac831f63e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miloslav Ciz Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 23:12:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update --- culture.md | 2 +- encyclopedia.md | 5 +++-- lrs_dictionary.md | 6 ++++++ maintenance.md | 4 +++- 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/culture.md b/culture.md index 71f5a00..f109ed7 100644 --- a/culture.md +++ b/culture.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ TODO -**Culture is more important than legislation and judiciary ("official laws")** as culture is the strongest force defining how we live the majority of our lives, what actions we take and how they are interpreted; courts, police and prison only step in in absolute extreme cases. There aren't even enough policemen to guarantee law enforcement in all cases and all states rely (by basically not even having any other choice) on culture doing most of the job in keeping society working (which is also exploited by states and corporations when they try to manipulate culture with [propaganda](propaganda.md) rather than changing laws). Consider for example that you download a random photo from the internet and set it as a wallpaper on your computer -- officially you have committed a crime of [piracy](piracy.md) as you had no rights for downloading the image, however culturally no one sees this as harmful, no one is going to bully you, sue you and even if someone tried to sue you, no judge would actually punish such a laughable "crime". On the other hand if you do a legal but culturally unacceptable thing, such as making a public art exhibition of non-sexual photos of naked children (also notice this might have been culturally OK to do in the previous century, but not [now](21st_century.md)), you will be culturally punished by everyone distancing themselves from you and someone perhaps even illegally physically attacking you. A sentence, such as "black people aren't as intelligent as white people", spoken half a century ago may nowadays be judged by a court in a much different way just by the context of today's culture and even under the same set of laws in the past you would not have been convicted of a crime while nowadays you would, as legal terms are eventually at some level defined in a plain language, which is permeated by culture. Therefore in trying to change society we should remember two things: +**Culture is more important than legislation and judiciary ("official laws")** as culture is the strongest force defining how we live the majority of our lives, what actions we take and how they are judged by others; courts, police and prison only step in in absolute extreme cases. You do many more things (such as eating meat, cutting your hair, watching TV or living with a single partner) because of culture, not because you are obliged by law. There aren't even enough policemen to guarantee law enforcement in all cases and all states rely (by basically not even having any other choice) on culture doing most of the job in keeping society working (which is also exploited by states and corporations when they try to manipulate culture with [propaganda](propaganda.md) rather than changing laws). Consider for example that you download a random photo from the internet and set it as a wallpaper on your computer -- officially you have committed a crime of [piracy](piracy.md) as you had no rights for downloading the image, however culturally no one sees this as harmful, no one is going to bully you, sue you and even if someone tried to sue you, no judge would actually punish such a laughable "crime". On the other hand if you do a legal but culturally unacceptable thing, such as making a public art exhibition of non-sexual photos of naked children (also notice this might have been culturally OK to do in the previous century, but not [now](21st_century.md)), you will be culturally punished by everyone distancing themselves from you and someone perhaps even illegally physically attacking you. A sentence, such as "black people aren't as intelligent as white people", spoken half a century ago may nowadays be judged by a court in a much different way just by the context of today's culture and even under the same set of laws in the past you would not have been convicted of a crime while nowadays you would, as legal terms are eventually at some level defined in a plain language, which is permeated by culture. Therefore in trying to change society we should remember two things: 1. Focus on laws is a short term necessary evil. 2. Focus on culture (and eventual elimination of law as such) is our long term focus. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/encyclopedia.md b/encyclopedia.md index 202b9be..4a03bc6 100644 --- a/encyclopedia.md +++ b/encyclopedia.md @@ -6,17 +6,18 @@ Encyclopedia (also encyclopaedia, cyclopedia or cyclopaedia) is a large [book](b ## Notable/Nice Encyclopedias -Here is a list of notable encyclopedias, focused on general knowledge English language ones. +Here is a list of notable encyclopedias, focused on general knowledge English language ones that are preferrably publicly available (or easy to get). { See also https://wikiindex.org/. ~drummyfish } | name | year | legal status | format | ~articles | comment | | ------------------------------ | ----- | ---------------- | ----------- | --------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -| Britannica 11th edition | 1910 | PD (old) | 29 vol. | 40K | legendary enc., digitized (gutenberg), uncensored facts on race etc. | +| Britannica 11th edition | 1910 | PD (old) | 29 vol. | 40K | legendary enc., part of "Big Three", digitized (gutenberg), uncensored facts on race etc. | | Britannica online |...now | proprietary | online | 130K | bloated, high quality articles, ads | | [Citizendium](citizendium.md) |2006...|proprietary? (NC) | online | 18K | Wikipedia alternative, censored, faggots have unclear license | |[Conservaedia](conservapedia.md)|2006...| proprietary | online | 52K | American fascist wiki, has basic factual errors | | Desk Reference Encyclopedia | 1995 | proprietary | 1 vol. 800p | 200K? | by James Hughes, nice illustrations, quality articles { I bought this, it's nice. ~drummyfish } | +| Encyclopedia Americana | 1903 | PD (old) | 16 vol. | | longer articles, part of "Big Three", scanned on archive.org | | Encyclopedia Dramatica |2004...| PD (CC0) | online | 15K | informal/fun/"offensive" but valuable info (on society, tech, ...), basically no censorship, no propaganda | | Illustrated Family Encyclopedia| 1997 | proprietary | 2 vol. 920p | 5K | kid-friendly, nice pictures, USA bias, piratable | |[Infogalactic](infogalactic.md) |2016...| CC BY-SA | online | 2M | Wikipedia fork, no SJW censorship, FOR PROFIT (you can buy article control lol), can't make accounts | diff --git a/lrs_dictionary.md b/lrs_dictionary.md index 57b53c1..6a7b8d8 100644 --- a/lrs_dictionary.md +++ b/lrs_dictionary.md @@ -11,8 +11,11 @@ WORK IN PROGRESS | code of conduct ([COC](coc.md)) | code of coercion | | [copyright](copyright.md) | copywrong, copyrestriction | | digital rights management ([DRM](drm.md)) | digital restrictions management | +| [entrepreneur](entrepreneur.md) | murderer | | [Firefox](firefox.md) | Furryfox | | [gaming](game.md) | gayming | +| [global warming](global_warming.md) | global heating | +| influencer | manipulator | | [Intel](intel.md) | [Incel](incel.md) | | [internet of things](iot.md) | internet of stinks | | [iPad](ipda.md) | iBad | @@ -21,6 +24,7 @@ WORK IN PROGRESS | "[Linux](linux.md)" | [GNU](gnu.md), loonix | | [Microsoft](microsoft.md) | Microshit | | [microtransaction](microtransaction.md) | microtheft | +| [moderation](moderation.md) | [censorship](censorship.md) | | [modern](modern.md) | malicious, shitty | | [network](network.md) | notwork | | [Nintendo](nintendo.md) | Nintendont | @@ -29,6 +33,8 @@ WORK IN PROGRESS | object oriented | objectfuscated | | [objective C](objective_c.md) | objectionable C | | [openbsd](openbsd.md) | openbased | +| peer-reviewed | peer-censored | +| person | man | | plug and play | plug and pray | | "science" | [soyence](soyence.md) | | software as a service ([SAAS](saas.md)) |service as a software substitute (SAASS)| diff --git a/maintenance.md b/maintenance.md index 79b60f4..b09d52f 100644 --- a/maintenance.md +++ b/maintenance.md @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ # Maintenance -Maintenance is [shitty](shit.md) [work](work.md) whose goal is just to keep a program functioning without improving it. Maintenance is extremely expensive, tiresome and enslaves humans to machines -- we try to minimize the maintenance cost as much as possible! Good programs should go to great lengths in effort to becoming highly [future-proof](future_proof.md) and [suckless](suckless.md) in order to avoid high maintenance cost. +*Maintenance is slavery of man to a machine.* + +Maintenance is [shitty](shit.md) [work](work.md) whose goal is just to keep a piece of technology functioning without otherwise changing it. Maintenance is extremely expensive, tiresome and enslaves humans to machines -- we try to minimize maintenance cost as much as possible! Good programs should go to great lengths in effort to becoming highly [future-proof](future_proof.md) and [suckless](suckless.md) in order to avoid high maintenance cost. Typical "[modern](modern.md)" capitalist/consumerist software (including most [free software](free_software)) is ridiculously bad at avoiding maintenance -- such programs will require one to many programmers maintaining it every single day and will become unrunnable in matter of months to years without this constant maintenance that just wastes time of great minds. I don't know what to say, this is just plainly fucked up. \ No newline at end of file