Autostereogram is a cool sort of image that when viewed in a special way (with eyes crossed or "walled") enables the viewer to see a [3D](3d.md) structure within it by [cheating](cheating.md) human stereoscopic vision (it is therefore in a sense also an optical illusion). As the name suggests it is a special case of [stereogram](stereogram.md) but unlike many traditional stereograms consisting of two side by side images, autostereogram is only a single image that forms the perceivable 3D pattern by being overlaid with itself (hence the prefix *auto*). These images are quite awesome for they implement stereoscopic 3D images without the need for special glasses or complex techniques like [autostereoscopy](autostereoscopy.md) or [holography](holograph.md) -- autostereograms can be made as long as we can draw plain 2D images, but of course they also suffer from some limitations. There are several types of autostereograms.
## Random Dots
Viewing autostereograms is easy for some and difficult for others but don't worry, it can be trained. One trick that's used (for the "cross eyed" types of images) is putting a finger in front of the image, focusing your sight on it and then lowering the finger while keeping your eyes looking at the point where the finger was (for "walled" images you have to be looking beyond the image, i.e. try looking at a wall behind it). Also be careful about the possibility of crossing your eyes "too much" and seeing the image in incorrect way. Once you see the pattern, keep looking at it for a longer time, it becomes clearer and clear as the brain makes out more of the structure (it may also help to slightly move your head from side to side).
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## Random Dot Autostereograms
The "random dot" technique gives rise to an especially [interesting](interesting.md) type of autostereogram -- one whose creation can easily be automatized with a program and which lets us embed any depth image (or *[heightmap](heightmap.md)*) into an image that consists of some repeating base pattern. And yes, it can even be animated! The pattern image may in theory be anything, even a photo, but it should have great variety, high frequencies and big contrast to work properly, so the typical pattern is just randomly generated color dots. This pattern is then horizontally deformed according to the embedded depth image. A disadvantage is, of course, that we can only embed the depth image, we cannot give it any texture.
*If you look at this image the correct way, you'll see a 3D image of big letters spelling out LRS.*
*If you look at this image the correct way, you'll see a 3D image of big letters spelling out LRS. Please forgive an increased viewing difficulty of [ASCII art](ascii_art.md) as compared to a true bitmap image.*
The following is a [C](c.md) program that generates the above image.
Pseudominimalism is the kind of technology design which aims to appear [minimalist](minimalism.md) on the outside while being [bloated](bloat.md) on the inside. Rather than trying to achieve a truly good, minimalist design from the ground up, with all its advantages, pseudominimalism just tries to hide the ugliness of its internals and appeal purely by the looks. A typical example could be a website that has a minimalist look -- a blank background with sans-serif font text and a few nice looking shapes -- which in the background uses dozens of [JavaScript](js.md) frameworks and libraries and requires a high end CPU to even appear responsive. Basically all [modern](modern.md) "retro" video [games](game.md) are pseudominimalist in design, they use pixelated graphics but are created in huge frameworks such as [Unity](unity.md) or [Godot](godot.md); even projects calling themselves "minimalist", such as many [fantasy consoles](fantasy_console.md), are in fact only pseudominimalist, written in extremely high level languages such as [JavaScript](javascript.md). [Apple](apple.md) is heavily practicing pseudominimalism.
While true minimalists do appreciate minimalist look as well, pseudominimalists are obsessed with visuals and after a while you learn to spot pseudominimalist just by their attempts at what they call a "clean design" or "user experience" -- a true minimalist uses minimalism so that bullshit doesn't stands in his way, a **pseudominimalist is just a snob** using visuals to pretend he's an intellectual. You will see the sweat that went into font choice, spacing of paragraphs with this tryharding leaking even to language in which he tries to use minimum of words which just makes it hard to understand what he wants to say. A typical example is the [shitty 100r wiki](xxiivv.md).
Another example are many [modern](modern.md) [CLI](cli.md) programs that [code monkeys](coder.md) use to impress their [YouTube](youtube.md) viewers or to feel like matrix haxors. Some people think that anything running in the command line is minimalist which is less and less true as we progress into the [future](future.md). A lot of [capitalist software](capitalist_software.md) add a CLI interface ex post **on top** of an already bloated program, often by simply disabling [GUI](gui.md) (but leaving all its [dependencies](dependency.md) in). An example may be the [gomux](gomux.md) chat client.
Yet another kind of pseudominimalism appearing among the new generation of pseudoprogrammers is all about writing very few LOC in some hugely bloated language and calling that "minimalism". Something like a *Minecraft clone in 100 LOC of Python using only Python standard library*, the catch of course being that [Python](python.md) itself is hugely bloated and its standard library is enormous, therefore they just hide all the complexity out of view. Such effort is of course completely useless and only serves for flexing in front of beginners who can't spot the trick. Even if obvious, it has to be noted that **minimalist software cannot be written in a bloated language**.
{ RMS is a legend and overall a great human, but let's be reminded we shouldn't be creating any [heroes](hero_culture.md) or celebrities. ~drummyfish }
The great doctor Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS, also [GNU](gnu.md)/Stallman and saint IGNUcius, born 1953 in New York) is one of the biggest figures in software [history](history.md), inventor of [free (as in freedom) software](free_software.md), founder of the [GNU project](gnu.md), [Free Software Foundation](fsf.md), a great [hacker](hacking.md) and the author of a famous text editor [Emacs](emacs.md). He is a non-religious [Jew](jew.md) and an [atheist](atheism.md) (though he is the highest saint of [Church Of Emacs](church_of_emacs.md)), a man who firmly stands behind his beliefs and who's been advocating for [ethics](ethics.md) and user freedom in the computing world. He has also been called the *king of software [cloning](clone.md)*, for he started the wave of making free, ethical clones of proprietary programs. Stallman doesn't wear a [suit](suit.md), he never shaves and doesn't use a cellphone, he talks even if what he says is unpopular -- if he didn't make history, these things alone would make him one of the most based men of our time.
The great doctor Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS, also [GNU](gnu.md)/Stallman and saint IGNUcius, born 1953 in New York) is one of the biggest figures in software [history](history.md), inventor of [free (as in freedom) software](free_software.md), its lifelong advocate, founder of the [GNU project](gnu.md), [Free Software Foundation](fsf.md), a great [hacker](hacking.md) and the author of a famous text editor [Emacs](emacs.md) besides others. He is a non-religious [Jew](jew.md) and an [atheist](atheism.md) (though he is the highest saint of [Church Of Emacs](church_of_emacs.md)), a man who firmly stands behind his beliefs, who always acts in conformance with them and who's been advocating for [ethics](ethics.md) and user freedom in the computing world. He has also been called the *king of software [cloning](clone.md)*, for he started the wave of making free, ethical clones of [proprietary](proprietary.md) programs. Stallman doesn't wear a [suit](suit.md), he never shaves and doesn't use a cellphone, he talks even if what he says is unpopular -- if he didn't make history, these things alone would make him one of the most based men of our time. However, on a completely serious note, let's not make gods out of people -- Richard Stallman also does some very retarded things, for example he plays along with the [fight culture](fight_culture.md) and started conforming to the [SJW](sjw.md) newspeak, thumbs down on that.
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Stallman's life along with free software's history is documented by a free-licensed book named *Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software* on which he collaborated. You can get it gratis e.g. at [Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5768). You should read this!
Richard Stallman is also famous for having foreseen and foretold virtually all the atrocities that [corporations](corporation.md) would do with computer technology, such as all the spying through cell phones, trade of personal data and abusing secrecy and "intellectual ownership" of source code for bullying others, though to be honest it doesn't take a genius to foresee that corporations will want to rape people as much as possible, it's more of a surprise he was one of very few who did. The important thing is he acted immediately he spotted this -- though corporations indeed did go on to rape people anyway, Richard Stallman made some very important steps early on to make the impact much less catastrophic nowadays. We should be all grateful.
Richard Stallman is also famous for having foreseen and foretold virtually all the atrocities that [corporations](corporation.md) would do with computer technology, such as all the spying through cell phones, trade of personal data and abusing secrecy and "[intellectual ownership](intellectual_property.md)" of source code for bullying others, though to be honest it doesn't take a genius to foresee that corporations will want to rape people as much as possible, it's more of a surprise he was one of very few who did. The important thing is he acted immediately he spotted this -- though corporations indeed did go on to rape people anyway, Richard Stallman made some very important steps early on to make the impact much less catastrophic nowadays. We should be all grateful.
[tl;dr](tldr.md): At 27 as an employee at [MIT](mit.md) [AI](ai.md) labs Stallman had a bad experience when trying to fix a Xerox printer who's [proprietary](proprietary.md) software source code was made inaccessible; he also started spotting the betrayal of hacker principles by others who decided to write proprietary software -- he realized proprietary software was inherently wrong as it prevented studying, improvement and sharing of software and enable abuse of users. From 1982 he was involved in a "fight" against the Symbolics company that pushed aggressive proprietary software; he was rewriting their software from scratch to allow Lisp Machine users more freedom -- here he proved his superior programming skills as he was keeping up with the whole team of Symbolics programmers. By 1983 his frustration reached its peak and he announced his [GNU](gnu.md) project on the [Usenet](usenet.md) -- this was a project to create a completely [free as in freedom](free_software.md) [operating system](os.md), an alternative to the proprietary [Unix](unix.md) system that would offer its users freedom to use, study, modify and share the whole software, in the hacker spirit. He followed by publishing a manifesto and establishing the [Free Software Foundation](fsf.md). GNU and FSF popularized and standardized the term [free (as in freedom) software](free_software.md), [copyleft](copyleft.md) and free licensing, mainly with the [GPL](gpl.md) license. In the 90s GNU adopted the [Linux](linux.md) operating system kernel and released a complete version of the GNU operating system -- these are nowadays known mostly as "Linux" [distros](distro.md). As a head of FSF and GNU Stallman more or less stopped programming and started traveling around the world to give talks about free software and has earned his status of one of the most important people in software history.
Wikipedia is a non-commercial, [free/open](free_culture.md) [censored](censorship.md) (child protecting, ideological, ...) [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) [online](www.md) [encyclopedia](encyclopedia.md) of general knowledge written mostly by volunteers, running on [free software](free_software.md), allowing politically approved individuals from the public to edit a subset of its less visible non-locked articles (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 is a mainstream information source and therefore extremely politically censored^1234567891011121314151617181920. Wikipedia's claim of so called "neutral point of view" (NPOV) has by now become a hilarious insult to human intelligence.
Wikipedia is a non-commercial, partially [free/open](free_culture.md) [censored](censorship.md) ("child protecting", "ideology protecting", ...) [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) [online](www.md) [encyclopedia](encyclopedia.md) of general knowledge written mostly by volunteers, running on [free software](free_software.md), which used to be editable by anyone but now allows only politically approved members of the public to edit a subset of its less visible non-locked articles (i.e. it is a [wiki](wiki.md)); it is the largest and perhaps most famous encyclopedia created to date, sadly littered by propaganda. 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 is a mainstream information source and therefore extremely politically censored^1234567891011121314151617181920. Wikipedia's claim of so called "neutral point of view" (NPOV) has by now become a hilarious insult to human intelligence.
WARNING: **DO NOT DONATE TO WIKIPEDIA** as the donations aren't used so much for running the servers but rather for their political activities (which are furthermore [unethical](pseudoleft.md)). See https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4458111/the-wiki-piggy-bank. Rather **donate to [Encyclopedia Dramatica](dramatica.md)**. Also please **go vandalize Wikipedia right now**, it's become too corrupt and needs to go down, vandalizing is [fun](fun.md) and you'll get banned sooner or later anyway :) Some tips on vandalizing Wikipedia can be found at https://encyclopediadramatica.online/Wikipedia#Tips_On_Vandalizing_Wikpedia or https://wiki.soyjaks.party/Vandalism.
@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ World of Warcraft (WoW) is an AAA [proprietary](proprietary.md) [game](game.md)
There is a [FOSS](foss.md) implementation of WoW server called [MaNGOS](mangos.md) (now having some [forks](fork.md)) that's used to make private servers. The client is of course proprietary and if you dare make a popular server Blizzard (or whatever it's called now, it's probably merged with [Micro$oft](microfost.md) or something now) will just rape you.
The classic WoW (mostly the vanilla but we can possibly extend this to the end of WOTLK) lied somewhere in the middle between good old and shitty [modern](modern.md) games, it had many great things like the iconic awesome [low poly](low_poly.md) hand painted stylized graphics, big open world, amazing PvP and PvE, but the modern poison was already creeping in. The WoW of today is of course 100% pure [shit](shit.md), it's [bloated](blot.md) beyond any imagination, the graphics is absolutely ruined (semi realistic style with the retarded shit like character outlines), it's extremely [censored](censorship.md) and [politically correct](political_correctness.md) (you can literally change gender of your character at barbershop lol, they did this out of fear of [LGBT](lgbt.md), they also removed the *spit* emote because it was "offensive" -- yes, a game that's all about [war](war.md) and killing and literally has war in its name must restrain you from hurting someone's feelings by spitting on the ground). You can also make any weapon or armor make look like any other weapon or armor, that just kills the whole point of an RPG. Also basically every race can now be any class, even if it doesn't make any sense, like Tauren rogue (in the past this used to be a [joke](joke.md) but today jokes are made into reality) -- otherwise it would be [racism](racism.md) or something. The game has about 1 billion expansions while the lore writers had already ran out of any ideas after like 5 of them, so they now just started to mess around with time travel and alternative timelines (resorting to time rape is always that desperate last resort move which signifies the work has been dead for a long time by then). The game is so bad Blizzard even started running official vanilla, no expansion servers ("classic WoW"), which is the only thing holding it above the water now. Of course before this they nuked all the popular unofficial private vanilla servers with legal threats so they could force a [monopoly](monopoly.md) -- this destroyed great many communities but Blizzard is a corporation so they could do anything they want.
The classic WoW (mostly the vanilla but we can possibly extend this to the end of WOTLK) lied somewhere in the middle between good old and shitty [modern](modern.md) games, it had many great things like the iconic awesome [low poly](low_poly.md) hand painted stylized graphics, big open world, amazing PvP and PvE, but the modern poison was already creeping in. The WoW of today is of course 100% pure [shit](shit.md), it's [bloated](blot.md) beyond any imagination, the graphics is absolutely ruined (semi realistic style with the retarded shit like character outlines), it's extremely [censored](censorship.md) and [politically correct](political_correctness.md) (you can literally change gender of your character at barbershop lol, they did this out of fear of [LGBT](lgbt.md), they also removed the *spit* emote because it was "offensive" -- yes, a game that's all about [war](war.md) and killing and literally has war in its name must restrain you from hurting someone's feelings by spitting on the ground). You can also make any weapon or armor make look like any other weapon or armor ("transmog"), that just kills the whole point of an RPG. Also basically every race can now be any class, even if it doesn't make any sense, like Tauren rogue (in the past this used to be a [joke](joke.md) but today jokes are made into reality) -- otherwise it would be [racism](racism.md) or something. The game has about 1 billion expansions while the lore writers had already ran out of any ideas after like 5 of them, so they now just started to mess around with time travel and alternative timelines (resorting to time rape is always that desperate last resort move which signifies the work has been dead for a long time by then). The game is so bad Blizzard even started running official vanilla, no expansion servers ("classic WoW"), which is the only thing holding it above the water now. Of course before this they nuked all the popular unofficial private vanilla servers with legal threats so they could force a [monopoly](monopoly.md) -- this destroyed great many communities but Blizzard is a corporation so they could do anything they want.
{ For me the peak of Warcraft was [Warcraft III:TFT](warcraft.md), it was perfect in every way (except for being proprietary and bloated of course). As a great fan of Warcraft III, seeing WoW in screenshots my fantasy made it the best game possible to be created. When I actually got to playing it it was really good -- some of my best memories come from that time -- nevertheless I also remember being disappointed in many ways. Especially with limitation of freedom (soulbound items, forced grinding, effective linearity of leveling, GMs preventing hacking the game in fun ways etc.) and here and there a lack of polish (there were literally visible unfinished parts of the map, also visual transitions between zones too fast and ugly and the overall world design felt kind of bad), laziness and repetitiveness of the design. I knew how the game could be fixed, however I also knew it would never be fixed as it was in hands of a corporation that had other plans with it. That was the time I slowly started to see things not being ideal and the possibility of a great thing going to shit. ~drummyfish }
Xonotic was a [free as in freedom](free_software.md) fast multiplayer arena [first-person-shooter](fps_game.md) [game](game.md) similar to e.g. [Quake](quake.md). It runs on [GNU](gnu.md)/[Linux](linux.md), [Winshit](windows.md), [BSD](bsd.md) and other systems. It is one of the best libre games, i.e. games that are completely free by both code and data/content. It is available under [GPLv3](gpl.md). Its gameplay, graphics and customizability are pretty great, it may well be the best in the AFPS genre, even compared to AAA [proprietary](proprietary.md) games -- this kind of quality is very rare among libre/noncommercial games.
Xonotic was a [free as in freedom](free_software.md) fast multiplayer arena [first-person-shooter](fps_game.md) [game](game.md) similar to e.g. [Quake](quake.md). It ran on [GNU](gnu.md)/[Linux](linux.md), [Winshit](windows.md), [BSD](bsd.md) and other systems. It was one of the best libre games, i.e. games completely free by both code and data/content. It was available under [GPLv3](gpl.md). Its gameplay, graphics and customizability were pretty great, it may well have been the best in the AFPS genre, even compared to AAA [proprietary](proprietary.md) games -- this kind of quality is very rare among libre/noncommercial games.
UPDATE: **Xonotic as a game died in summer 2023** when the retarded developers couldn't get an erection without CONSOOMING NEW CONTINT and started just blindly pushing bugs and balance breaking changes without listening to player complaints at all (and actually banning many for voicing criticism, including [drummyfish](drummyfish.md)), demonstrating [update culture](update_culture.md) at its worst. The main server became a meme overnight, all [fun](fun.md) (such as friendly push) was removed from the game to create a "safe space" for players, possibly to get the game ready for Steam sales or make it more open to noobs and advertisers. RIP. If you can [fork](fork.md) Xonotic and restore it to its previous glory, please do so.
{ LOL the main server now banned me for voicing criticism of these updates xD RIP, I guess that's it for me. It was a nice journey. ~drummyfish }
{ I've been playing Xonotic for years, it's really an excellent game. I've met a lot of nice people there as the players are usually programmers and people looking for [FOSS](foss.md). The gameplay is addictive and relaxing and you can have a great chat during the game. Of course it's kind of bloated but Xonotic is a masterpiece. ~drummyfish }
{ I used to play Xonotic for years, it was really an excellent game. I've met many nice people there as the players are often programmers and people looking for [FOSS](foss.md). The gameplay was quite addictive and relaxing and you could have a great chat during the game. Of course it's kind of bloated but Xonotic was in a way a masterpiece. ~drummyfish }
The game builds on old ideas and mechanics but adds new weapons, mechanics, ideas and modes -- apart from the traditional [deathmatch](deathmatch.md), team deathmatch, capture the flag, complete the stage (defrag, racing without shooting) and competitive mode (duel), there are a number of new [fun](fun.md) modes such as clan arena (team round-based mode without self-damage and items), freeze tag, key hunt, last man standing and even Nexball -- [football](football.md) in Xonotic!
XXIIVV is a [proprietary](proprietary.md) [soynet](soynet.md) website and personal [wiki](wiki.md) (similar concept to [our wiki](lrs_wiki.md)) of a Canadian [egoist](egoism.md) [minimalist](minimalism.md)/esoteric programmer/artist/[generalist](generalism.md) David Mondou-Labbe who calls himself "Devine Lu Linvega" ([lmao](lmao.md)) who is a part of a highly cringe artist/programmer group called [Hundred Rabbits](100r.md) (100r) who live on a small ship/boat. David seems to be a normie [SJW](sjw.md) [fascist](fascist.md), proclaiming "aggressivity" on his web (under "/ethics.html" on his site). The site is accessible at http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/home.html. There are some real good and pretty bad things about it.
XXIIVV is a [proprietary](proprietary.md) [soynet](soynet.md) snobbish website and personal [wiki](wiki.md) (in its concept similar to [our wiki](lrs_wiki.md)) of a Canadian [narcissist](egoism.md) [minimalist](minimalism.md)/esoteric programmer/"artist"/[generalist](generalism.md) David Mondou-Labbe who calls himself "Devine Lu Linvega" ([lmao](lmao.md)) who is a part of a highly cringe [fascist](fascism.md) artist/programmer group called [Hundred Rabbits](100r.md) (100r) who live on a small boat or something. David seems to be a normie [SJW](sjw.md) [fascist](fascist.md), proclaiming "aggressivity" on his web (under "/ethics.html" on his site). The site is accessible at http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/home.html. There are some quite good and pretty bad things about it.
{ Holy shit his webring is cringe and toxic as fuck. One huge gay nazi wannabe "artist" circlejerk. It's like a small village worth of the kind of psychopaths who draw cute childish drawings of tiny animals with small hearts and love all around while at the same time advocating live castration of anyone who dislikes them. ~drummyfish }
Firstly let's see the letdowns, which greatly prevail: the site is proprietary and **HE LICENSES HIS ART AND SOME OF HIS CODE UNDER [CC-BY-NC-SA](cc_by_nc_sa.md), retard alert!**. Honestly he can shove this up his ass. He's a [capitalist](capitalist.md) [open soars](open_source.md) fanboy who oppresses others by trying to monopolizing art by keeping exclusive "commercial intellectual property rights". At least some of his code is [MIT](mit.md), but he also makes fucking [PROPRIETARY](proprietary.md) PAID software (e.g. Verreciel), then he somehow tries to manipulate readers of his website to believe he is "against capitalism" :'D The guy also seems **[egoistic](egoism.md) as fuck**, invents weird hipster names and "personal pronouns" for himself, has some ugly body modifications, wears cringe rabbit costumes, he thinks his art is so good he has to "protect" it with fascist licenses and writes in a cringe pompous/cryptic/poetic style probably in hopes to appear smart while just making it shithard to make sense of his texts -- truly his tech writings are literal torture to read. The only thing he's missing is a fedora. Anyway, that's just a quick sum up of the [cancer](cancer.md) stuff.
Firstly let's see the letdowns, which greatly prevail: the site is proprietary and **he licenses his "art" and some of his code under the proprietary [CC-BY-NC-SA](cc_by_nc_sa.md), RETARD ALERT**. This bro is just lacking some chromosomes. He's a [capitalist](capitalist.md) [open soars](open_source.md) fanboy trying to monopolize art by keeping exclusive "commercial intellectual property rights", as if it had any commercial value lol. At least some of his code is [MIT](mit.md), but he also makes fucking **[PROPRIETARY](proprietary.md) PAID software** (e.g. Verreciel), then he somehow tries to manipulate readers of his website to believe he is "against capitalism" :'D (Or is he not? I dunno. Definitely seems to be riding the [eco](eco.md) wave.) The guy also seems **[egoistic](egoism.md) as fuck**, invents weird hipster names and "personal pronouns", has some ugly body disfigurements, wears cringe rabbit costumes, he thinks his art is so good he has to "protect" it with capitalist licenses and writes in a super cringe snobbish/pompous/cryptic/poetic tryhard style probably in an attempt to appear smart while just making it shithard to make sense of his texts -- truly his tech writings are literal torture to read. The only thing he's missing is a fedora. Anyway, that's just a quick sum up of the [cancer](cancer.md).
There are also nice things though, a few of them being:
