diff --git a/charity_sex.md b/charity_sex.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e6e374 --- /dev/null +++ b/charity_sex.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Charity Sex + +TODO \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/collapse.md b/collapse.md index 1a30172..1aa741b 100644 --- a/collapse.md +++ b/collapse.md @@ -14,10 +14,18 @@ The details of the collapse cannot of course be predicted exactly -- it may come { I've read a book called *Blackout* by Marc Elsberg whose story revolves around a fictional large collapse of power supply in Europe. A book called *The World Without Us* explores what the world would look like if humans suddenly disappeared. Also the podcast called *Fall of Civilizations* by Paul Cooper is awesome. ~drummyfish } -## Late 2022 Report +## Documenting The Current Collapse Of Our Civilization + +This section will record the current in-progress collapse of our civilization as seen by me, [drummyfish](drummyfish.md). It may serve later generations and historians, as I know any information left behind is important for avoiding repeating the mistakes, though I also know you will not learn and will repeat the mistakes anyway. A man can dream I guess. + +### Late 2022 Report It seems like the collapse may have already begun. After the worldwide [Covid](covid.md) pandemic the Russia-Ukraine war has begun with talks of nuclear war already going on. A great economic crisis has begun, possibly as a result of the pandemic and the war, inflation is skyrocketing and breaking all records, especially gas and energy prices are growing to extremes and as a result basically prices of everything go up as well. Russia isolated itself, new cold war has begun. Many big banks have gone bankrupt. War immigrants from Ukraine are flooding into Europe and European fascists/nationalists seem to be losing their patience about it. People in European first world countries are now actually concerned about how not to freeze during the winter, this talk is all over TV and radio. The climate disaster has also started to show, e.g. in Czech Republic there was the greatest forest fire in its history as well an extremely hot summer, even tornados that destroyed some villages (tornados in this part of world are basically unheard of), winters have almost no snow unlike some two decades ago. Everything is shitty, food costs more and is of much lower quality as basically everything else, newly bought technology cannot be expected to last longer than a few months. Society is spoiled to an unimaginable level, extreme hostility, competition and aggressive commerce is everywhere, kids are addicted to cellphones and toxic social media, mental health of population rapidly deteriorates. Art such as movies and music is of extremely low quality, people hate every single new movie or video game that comes out. A neofascist party has won elections in Italy, in Czech Republic all socialist parties were eliminated from the parliament: only capitalists rule now -- all social securities are being cancelled, people are getting poorer and poorer and forced to work more and to much higher ages. Ads are everywhere and equate psychological torture. The situation now definitely seems extremely bad. +### Late 2023 Report + +Yep, the collapse is happening. All previously mentioned issues just deepen, though I stopped watching the news and just avoid the negative info to enjoy the last few years I have on this [Earth](earth.md) without much stress. Russian-Ukraine war is still going on AND there is a new war in Israel, new immigrant are gonna flood Europe, then USA is probably gonna invade the weakened countries or something. [AI](ai.md) is currently breaking the [Internet](internet.md), [Google](google.md) became absolutely unusable which became noticeable even by normies now, it is just flooded by AI articles, news are an endless pile of AI generated nonsense. Technology is yet much worse than before, NOTHING now works without latest consumerist hardware, subscriptions and accounts, I started just buying old paper books and am thinking about abandoning computers altogether. USA culture is here like cancer, TV is littered SOLELY with political propaganda (SUPPORT MUH UKRAINE TAKE COVID VAX SUPPORT UR COUNTRYS ENCONOMMMMMMMMIE FUGHTTTTT RAACEEEEEESSSIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSAMMMM) taking turns with capitalist propaganda (ads, literally just people screaming BUY BUY BUY THIS FUCKING SHIT RIGHT NOW, BUY BUY BUYIT BUY IT BUUUUUUUUUY CONSOOOOOOOOOOOME THIIIIS CONSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMME). Watching it for 5 minutes literally makes you kill yourself. Hmm what else. NOTHING WORKS lol, you buy something, it is already broken, you pay for repair, they take money and return it unrepaired LMAO :D I am not kidding, it is literally the norm now, my bosses business is sinking due to all machines just breaking. Absolutely unqualified people now do all the jobs lol, there are literally teachers who CANNOT READ OR WRITE correctly, they just use Google to check how everything's spelled (I am NOT kidding, I have this from first hand sources). "Programmers" literally can't program, they just use AI. People are generally braindead, controlled by religions such as economy worship, [productivity cult](productivity_cult.md), [women fascism](feminism.md) (it has been officially declared now that women are physically stronger than man AND also smarter LMAO, every movie is obliged by law to include a scene where this is confirmed). I dunno man, this can't last much longer than a few years. + ## See Also - [capitalist singularity](capitalist_singularity.md) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/encyclopedia.md b/encyclopedia.md index a3af44c..b548aa8 100644 --- a/encyclopedia.md +++ b/encyclopedia.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Great nerds read encyclopedias linearly from start to finish just like a normal **Similar terms:** encyclopedias, which also used to be called **cyclopedias** in the past, are similar to **dictionaries** and these types of books often overlap (many encyclopedias call themselves dictionaries); the main difference is that a dictionary focuses on providing linguistic information and generally has shorter term definitions, while encyclopedias have longer articles (which however limits their total number, i.e. encyclopedias will usually prefer quality over quantity). Encyclopedias are also a subset of so called **reference works**, i.e. works that serve to provide [information](information.md) and reference to it (other kinds of reference works being e.g. world maps, tabulated values or [API](api.md) references). A **universal/general** encyclopedia is one that focuses on human knowledge at wide, as opposed to an encyclopedia that focuses on one specific field of knowledge. **Compendium** can be seen almost as a synonym to encyclopedia, with encyclopedias perhaps usually being more general and extensive. **Almanac** is also similar to encyclopedia, more focusing on tabular data. **Micropedia** is another term, sometimes used to denote a smaller encyclopedia (one edition of Britannica came with a micropedia as well as a larger macropedia). -These are some **nice/interesting/benchmark articles** to look up in encyclopedias: [algorithm](algorithm.md), [anarchism](anarchism.md), Andromeda (galaxy), Antarctica, Atlantis, atom, [axiom of choice](axiom_of_choice.md), [Bible](bible.md), [big bang](big_bang.md), [black hole](black_hole.md), [brain](brain.md), [Buddhism](buddhism.md), [C](c.md) (programming language), [cannibalism](cannibalism.md), [capitalism](capitalism.md), castle, [cat](cat.md), [censorship](censorship.md), [central processing unit](cpu.md), [chess](chess.md), Chicxulub, China, [color](color.md), comet, [communism](communism.md), [computer](computer.md), [Creative Commons](creative_commons.md), [Deep Blue](deep_blue.md), [democracy](democracy.md), Democratic People's Republic of Korea, [depression](depression.md), [determinism](determinism.md), [dinosaur](dinosaur.md), dodo, [dog](dog.md), [Doom](doom.md) (game), [Earth](earth.md), [Einstein](einstein.md), [Elo](elo.md), [Encyclopedia](encyclopedia.md), [ethics](ethics.md), [Euler's Number](e.md), [font](font.md), [football](football.md), [fractal](fractal.md), [free software](free_software.md), [game](game.md), gigantopythecus, [go](go.md) (game), [god](god.md), [GNU](gnu.md) project, [hacker](hacking.md), Hanging Gardens of Babylon, [hardware](hardware.md), [Hitler](hitler.md), [Holocaust](holocaust.md), [homosexual](gay.md), [human](human.md), [information](information.md), intelligence, [Internet](internet.md), [IQ](iq.md), Japan, [Jesus](jesus.md), [Jew](jew.md), [language](language.md), [Latin](latin.md), [life](life.md), [light](light.md), lightning, [Linux](linux.md), [logarithm](log.md), [logic](logic.md), [love](love.md), Mammoth, [mathematics](math.md), Mariana Trench, Mars, Milky Way, Moon, [morality](morality.md), Mount Everest, [music](music.md), [necrophylia](necrophylia.md), [Open Source](open_source.md), negro, [nigger](nigger.md), pacifism, [pedophilia](pedophilia.md), [penis](penis.md), [pi](pi.md), Pluto, [prime number](prime.md), [quaternion](quaternion.md), Pompei, [Quran](quran.md), [race](race.md), Roman Empire, [sex](sex.md), [sine](sin.md), [schizophrenia](schizo.md), [software](sw.md), [Stallman](rms.md) (Richard), [star](star.md), Stonehenge, [suicide](suicide.md), Sun, Tibet, [technology](technology.md), Tetris, [time](time.md), Titanic, [transistor](transistor.md), Troy, Tyrannousaurus Rex, [UFO](ufo.md), [universe](universe.md), [Unix](unix.md), Uruk, [Usenet](usenet.md), Valonia Ventricosa (bubble algae), Vatican, Venus, video game, [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md), [woman](woman.md), [World War II](wwii.md), [World Wide Web](www.md), ... +These are some **nice/interesting/benchmark articles** to look up in encyclopedias: [algorithm](algorithm.md), [anarchism](anarchism.md), Andromeda (galaxy), Antarctica, Atlantis, atom, [axiom of choice](axiom_of_choice.md), [Bible](bible.md), [big bang](big_bang.md), [black hole](black_hole.md), [brain](brain.md), [Buddhism](buddhism.md), [C](c.md) (programming language), [cannibalism](cannibalism.md), [capitalism](capitalism.md), castle, [cat](cat.md), [censorship](censorship.md), [central processing unit](cpu.md), [chess](chess.md), Chicxulub, China, [color](color.md), comet, [communism](communism.md), [computer](computer.md), [Creative Commons](creative_commons.md), [Deep Blue](deep_blue.md), [democracy](democracy.md), Democratic People's Republic of Korea, [depression](depression.md), [determinism](determinism.md), [dinosaur](dinosaur.md), dodo, [dog](dog.md), [Doom](doom.md) (game), [Earth](earth.md), [Einstein](einstein.md), [Elo](elo.md), [Encyclopedia](encyclopedia.md), [entropy](entropy.md), [ethics](ethics.md), [Euler's Number](e.md), [evolution](evolution.md), [font](font.md), [football](football.md), [fractal](fractal.md), [free software](free_software.md), [game](game.md), gigantopythecus, [go](go.md) (game), [god](god.md), [GNU](gnu.md) project, [hacker](hacking.md), Hanging Gardens of Babylon, [hardware](hardware.md), [Hitler](hitler.md), [Holocaust](holocaust.md), [homosexual](gay.md), [human](human.md), [information](information.md), intelligence, [Internet](internet.md), [IQ](iq.md), Japan, [Jesus](jesus.md), [Jew](jew.md), [language](language.md), [Latin](latin.md), [life](life.md), [light](light.md), lightning, [Linux](linux.md), [logarithm](log.md), [logic](logic.md), [love](love.md), Mammoth, [mathematics](math.md), Mariana Trench, Mars, Milky Way, Moon, [morality](morality.md), Mount Everest, [music](music.md), [necrophylia](necrophylia.md), [Open Source](open_source.md), negro, [nigger](nigger.md), pacifism, [pedophilia](pedophilia.md), [penis](penis.md), [pi](pi.md), Pluto, [prime number](prime.md), [quaternion](quaternion.md), Pompei, [Quran](quran.md), [race](race.md), Roman Empire, [sex](sex.md), [sine](sin.md), [schizophrenia](schizo.md), [software](sw.md), [Stallman](rms.md) (Richard), [star](star.md), Stonehenge, [suicide](suicide.md), Sun, Tibet, [technology](technology.md), Tetris, [time](time.md), Titanic, [transistor](transistor.md), Troy, Tyrannousaurus Rex, [UFO](ufo.md), [universe](universe.md), [Unix](unix.md), Uruk, [Usenet](usenet.md), Valonia Ventricosa (bubble algae), Vatican, Venus, video game, [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md), [woman](woman.md), [World War II](wwii.md), [World Wide Web](www.md), ... **What is the best letter in an encyclopedia?** If you are super nerdy, you may start to search for your favorite starting letter -- this if [fun](fun.md) and may also help you e.g. decide which volume of your encyclopedia to take with you when traveling. Which letter is best depends on many things, e.g. the language of the encyclopedia, its size, your area of interest and so on. Assuming [English](english.md) and topics that would be interesting to the readers of [LRS wiki](lrs_wiki.md), the best letter is most likely C -- it is the second most common starting letter in dictionaries, has a great span and includes essential and interesting terms such as [computer](computer.md), [C](c.md) programming language, [cat](cat.md), [communism](communism.md), [capitalism](capitalism.md), [chess](chess.md), [christianity](christianity.md), [collapse](collpase.md), [CPU](cpu.md), [color](color.md), [culture](culture.md), [copyleft](copyleft.md), [compiler](compiler.md), [creative commons](creative_commons.md), [cryptography](cryptography.md), [copyright](copyright.md), [car](car.md), [cancer](cancer.md), [cellular automata](cellular_automaton.md), [consumerism](consumerism.md), [cosine](cosine.md), [Chomsky](chomsky.md), [CIA](cia.md), [cybernetics](cybernetics.md), [cracking](cracking.md), [chaos](chaos.md), [carbon](carbon.md), [curvature](curvature.md), [chemistry](chemistry.md), [censorship](censorship.md) and others. As close second comes S, the most frequent letter in dictionaries, with terms such as [Stallman](rms.md), [science](science.md), [shader](shader.md), [semiconductor](semiconductor.md), [silicon](silicon.md), [software](software.md), [sound](sound.md), [socialism](socialism.md), [state](state.md), [selflessness](selflessness.md), [speech recognition](speech_recognition.md), [steganography](steganography.md), [square root](square_root.md), [sudoku](sudoku.md), [suicide](kys.md), [speedrun](speedrun.md), [space](space.md), [star](star.md), [Sun](sun.md), [sine](sin.md), [Soviet union](ussr.md), [schizophrenia](schizo.md), [set](set.md), [suckless](suckless.md), [shit](shit.md), [sex](sex.md) and others. { This is based on a list I made where I assigned points to each letter. The letters that follow after C and S are P, M, A, E, T, L, R, F, D, G, I, B, H, U, N, W, V, J, O, K, Q, Z, Y, X. ~drummyfish } diff --git a/go.md b/go.md index 90135a6..69b5577 100644 --- a/go.md +++ b/go.md @@ -40,7 +40,10 @@ The **ko** rule states that one mustn't make a move that returns the board to th **Prisoners** are enemy's stones that are OBVIOUSLY in your territory and so are practically dead. I.e. they are inside what's clearly not their territory and with further play would clearly be captured. Obvious here is a matter of agreement between players -- if players disagree whether some stones are obvious prisoners, they simply keep playing and resolve the situation. -**Scoring:** there are multiple scoring systems, but the most common seems to be the following. At the end of the game we count the score for black as the size of black's territory PLUS one point for each stone black has captured PLUS one point for each white prisoner in black's territory. Score for white is computed analogously but we also add the komi compensation. The player with more points wins. +**Scoring:** scoring assigns points to each player when the game is over, the one with more points win. There are multiple scoring systems, most common are these two: + +- **Chinese** (area scoring): more [KISS](kiss.md), the score is just each player's area (surrounded empty square PLUS squares occupied by the player's stones), plus komi for white. +- **Japanese** (territory scoring): At the end of the game we count the score for black as the size of black's territory PLUS one point for each stone black has captured PLUS one point for each white prisoner (a would be captured stone) in black's territory. Score for white is computed analogously but we also add the komi compensation. **Handicaps:** TODO. diff --git a/how_to.md b/how_to.md index b910602..fcfeae4 100644 --- a/how_to.md +++ b/how_to.md @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ This is a summary of some main guidelines on how an LRS supporter should behave - **Do NOT [fight](fight_culture.md)**, do NOT say you fight something. Fighting and rhetoric centered around "fighting something" is part of harmful [fight culture](fight_culture.md), most people don't even realize they take part in it. It is important to unlearn this. We do not want to defeat anyone, we want to convince by means of rationality, nonviolence and love. However note that what is unacceptable to do to a living being may be completely acceptable to do to non living object (for example destroying a corporation is OK, in fact it is very desirable). We often take actions that common people would call a "fight" (for example we may organize a strike), however it is important that we don't call it a fight -- a point of view is sometimes as important as the action itself as it will determine our future direction. Remember that [naming is important](name_is_important.md). - **Do NOT worship or create [heroes](hero_culture.md), don't become one**. It is another common mistake to for example call [Richard Stallman](rms.md) a "hero of free software" and to even worship him as a celebrity. The concept of a hero is [harmful](harmful.md), rightist concept that is connected to war mentality, it goes against [anarchist](anarchism.md) principles, it creates social hierarchy and given some people a power to deceive. People are imperfect and make mistake -- only ideas can be perfect. Respect people but don't make anyone your moral compass, you should rather subscribe to specific ideas, i.e. rather than worshipping Stallman subscribe to and promote his idea of [free software](free_software.md). -- **Do NOT support and waste your life on bullshit** such as [distrohopping](distrohopping.md), [githopping](githopping.md) [audiophilia](audiophilia.md), hardware consumerism etc. Dedicate time to creating art that will last, e.g. [LRS](lrs.md) source code that will last for centuries -- it doesn't matter whether you write it on Ubuntu or Gentoo. +- **CREATE, Do NOT waste your life on bullshit, do NOT get too obsessed with tools and hopping** such as [distrohopping](distrohopping.md), [githopping](githopping.md) [audiophilia](audiophilia.md), hardware consumerism, 100% minimalist perfectionism etc. Remember, the goal of your life is to create something new and better; too many people just get stuck doing nothing but switch distros, rant about which editor is best, making sure their OS has zero bloat and zero proprietary code etc. This is completely useless, your life is completely wasted. Dedicate time to creating art that will last, e.g. programming [LRS](lrs.md) (creating source code text) or making free cultural art -- it doesn't matter whether you create it with Ubuntu or Gentoo. - **Lead an example**, this is the best way to spread our values, however be also extremely careful not to become a worshipped [authority](hero_culture.md). Know the difference between a humble intellectual authority and an authoritative self-centered celebrity who uses his fame for deception. The more famous you are, the more humble you should become. - **Be loving, even towards opposition** -- remember: hate and revenge towards people perpetuates the endless circle. [Love](love.md) leads to more love, understanding, good deeds, friendship, happiness, collaboration and all the other positive things. Do not confuse love with [political correctness](political_correctness.md). - **Try to do [selfless](selflessness.md) things** -- TRULY selfless ones. Help those in need without expecting any kind of repay, do not even seek attention or gratitude for it, only your good feeling. Create selfless art, whatever it is you enjoy doing -- computer programs, 3D models, music, videos, ... put them in the [public domain](public_domain.md) and let others enjoy them :) Try to **make doing good things a habit** -- some people smoke, drink, overeat and do other kinds of things harmful to themselves and their environment as means for relieving stress. If you exploit this natural human tendency and rather develop GOOD habits, such as writing free software or helping charities as a means of relaxing and relieving stress, you have won at life; doing good and feeling good will be natural and effortless. diff --git a/kiss.md b/kiss.md index b76c188..4d44070 100644 --- a/kiss.md +++ b/kiss.md @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ # KISS -KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid!) is a design philosophy that favors simplicity, solutions that are **as simple as possible** to achieve given task. This philosophy doesn't primarily stem from laziness and a want to save time (though these are valid reasons too), but mainly from the fact that higher [complexity](complexity.md) comes with increasingly negative effects such as the cost of development, cost of [maintenance](maintenance.md), greater probability of [bugs](bug.md) (e.g. [security](security.md) vulnerabilities) and failure, more [dependencies](dependency.md). This stance is related to technology [minimalism](minimalism.md). +*See also [minimalism](minimalism.md).* + +KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid!) is a design philosophy that favors simplicity, both internal and external (simplicity of use), [technology](tech.md) that is **as simple as possible** to achieve given task. This philosophy doesn't primarily stem from laziness and a want to save time (though these are valid reasons too), but mainly from the fact that higher [complexity](complexity.md) comes with increasingly negative effects such as the cost of development, cost of [maintenance](maintenance.md), greater probability of [bugs](bug.md) (e.g. [security](security.md) vulnerabilities) and failure, more [dependencies](dependency.md). This stance is related to technology [minimalism](minimalism.md). Under dystopian [capitalism](capitalism.md) simple technology, such as simple software, has at least one more advantage related to "[intellectual property](intellectual_property.md)": a simple solution is less likely to step on a [patent](patent.md) landmine because such a simple solution will either be hard to patent or as more obvious will have been discovered and patented sooner and the patent is more likely to already be expired. So in this sense KISS technology is legally safer. diff --git a/minimalism.md b/minimalism.md index 00487ba..794c871 100644 --- a/minimalism.md +++ b/minimalism.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ *No gain, no pain.* -Technological minimalism is a philosophy of designing technology to be as simple as possible while still achieving given goal, possibly even a little bit simpler. Minimalism is one of the most (if not the most) important concepts in [programming](programming.md) and technology in general. +Technological minimalism is a philosophy of designing [technology](technology.md) to be as simple as possible while still achieving given goal, possibly even a little bit simpler. Minimalism is one of the most (if not the most) important concepts in [programming](programming.md) and technology in general. Remember, minimalist is firstly about **internal simplicity**, i.e. the simplicity of design/repairing/[hacking](hacking.md), and only secondly about the simplicity from the user's point of view (otherwise we are only dealing with [pseudominimalism](pseudominimalism.md)). Antoine de Saint-Exupéry sums it up with a quote: *we achieve perfection not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.* diff --git a/music.md b/music.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cfa163d --- /dev/null +++ b/music.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +# Music + +Music is an auditory [art](art.md) whose aim is to create [pleasant](beautiful.md) sound of longer duration that usually adheres to some rules and structure, such as those of melody, harmony, rhythm and repetition. Music has played a huge role throughout all history of human [culture](culture.md). It is impossible to precisely define what *music* is as the term is [fuzzy](fuzzy.md), i.e. its borders are unclear; what one individual or culture considers music may to another one sound like [noise](noise.md) without any artistic value, and whatever rule we set in music is never set in stone and will be broken by some artists (there exists music without chords, melody, harmony, rhythm, repetition... even without any sound at all). Music is mostly created by singing and playing musical instruments such as [piano](piano.md), guitar or drums, but it may contain also other sounds; it can be recorded and played back, and in all creation, recording and playing back [computers](computer.md) are widely used nowadays. + +**Music is deeply about [math](math.md)**, though most musicians don't actually have much clue about it and just play "intuitively", by feel and by the ear. Nevertheless the theory of scales, musical intervals, harmony, rhythm and other elements of music is quite complex; + +## Modern Western Music + How To Just Make Noice Music Without PhD + +{ I don't actually know that much about the theory, I will only write as much as I know, which is possibly somewhat simplified, but suffices for some kind of overview. Please keep this in mind and don't eat me. ~drummyfish } + +Our current western music is almost exclusively based on a 12 equal temperament diatonic scale -- basically the 7 tone (12 semitone) scale in which a semitone step corresponds to the multiplying factor of 12th root of 2 -- this we usually nowadays find on our pianos. 4/4 rhythm is most common but other ones appear, e.g. 3/4. Yeah this may sound kinda too nerdy, but it's just to set clear what we'll work with in this section. Here we will just suppose this kind of music. Also western music has some common structures such as verses, choruses, bridges etc. + +**Why are we using this specific scale n shit, why are the notes like this bruh?** TODO + +**If you wanna learn music, firstly you should get something with piano keyboard**: musical keyboard, electronic piano, even virtual software piano, ... The reason being that the keys really help you understand what's going on, the piano keyboard quite nicely visually represent the notes (there is a reason every music software uses the piano roll). Guitar or flute on the other hand will seem much more confusing; of course you can learn these instruments, but first start with the piano keyboard. + +``` + | |C#| |D#| | |F#| |G#||A#| | | + | |Db| |Eb| | |Gb| |Ab||Bb| | | + | |__| |__| | |__| |__||__| | |__ +... | | | | | | | | | ... + | C | D | E | F | G | A | B | C | + _|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|__ +``` + +*Tones on piano keyboard, the "big keys" are white, the "smaller keys on top" are black.* + +OK so above we have part of a piano keyboard, tones go from lower (left) to higher (right), the keyboard tones just repeat the same above and below. The white keys are named simply A, B, C, ..., the black keys are named by their neighboring white key either by adding *#* (sharp) to the left note or by adding *b* (flat) to the right note (notes such as C# and Db can be considered the same withing the scales we are dealing with). Note: it is convenient to see C as the "start tone" (instead of A) because then we get a nice major scale that has no black keys in it and is easy to play on piano; just ignore this and suppose we kind of "start" on C for now. + +Take a look at the C note at the left for example; we can see there is another C on the right; the latter C is one **octave** above, i.e. it is the "same" note by name but it is also higher (for this we sometimes number the notes as C2, C3 etc.). The same goes for any other tone, each one has its different versions in different octaves. Kind of like the color red has different versions, a lighter one, a darker one etc. Octave is a basic interval we have to remember, **a tone that's one octave above another tone has twice its frequency**, so e.g. if C2 has 65 hertz, C3 has 130 hertz etc. This means that **music intervals are [logarithmic](log.md), NOT linear!** I.e. an interval (such as octave) says a number by which we have to MULTIPLY a frequency to get the higher frequency, NOT a number which we would have to add. This is extremely important. + +Other important intervals are **tone** and **semitone**. Semitone is a step from one key to the immediately next key (even from white to black and vice versa), for example from C to C#, from E to F, from G# to A etc. A tone is two semitones, e.g. from C to D, from F# to G# etc. There are 12 semitones in one octave (you have to make 12 steps from one tone to get to that tone's higher octave version), so a semitone has a multiplying factor of 2^1/12 (12th root of two). For example C2 being 65 hertz, D2 is 65 * 2^1/12 ~= 69 hertz. This makes sense as if you make 12 steps then you just multiply 12th root of two twelve times and are left simply with multiply by 2, i.e. one octave. + +TODO: chords, scales, melody, harmony, beat, bass, drums, ... + +## Music And Computers/Programming + +TODO: midi, bytebeat, tracker music, waveforms, formats, procedural music, AI music, ... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/needed.md b/needed.md index 1e276e2..2f2d3e2 100644 --- a/needed.md +++ b/needed.md @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Here is a list of some projects and project ideas which we, [LRS](lrs.md), need | 3D raytracing library | mid? | | | had vague plans |C lib for shooting 3D rays, allows raycast., RT, pathtr., ... | POV-RAY | | 3D renderer (C) | mid/hard | [small3dlib](small3dlib.md) | drummyfish | done | | TinyGL, PortableGL | | 3D voxel renderer (C) | mid/hard? | | | | like Ken Silverman's voxlap, looks very nice | voxlap | +| artificial human language | hard? | | | thinking bout it |need LRS lang., big problems with definitions of words tho, think| Esperanto, Lojban, ... | | audio/music editor | mid/hard? | | | | for waveforms and/or MIDI (tracker music), can even be CLI/TUI | Audacity, LMMS, ... | | Arduino/Pokitto/... computer | mid/hard? | | | | until we have PD computer, we'll need a nice tiny embedded comp.| | | [BSP](bsp.md) "pseudo 3D" renderer (C) | mid/hard? | | | | for Anarch II? :) | Doom engine, BUILD | diff --git a/operating_system.md b/operating_system.md index e7b4e5e..62db4e8 100644 --- a/operating_system.md +++ b/operating_system.md @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ There is a nice [CC0](cc0.md) wiki for OS development at https://wiki.osdev.org/ From programmer's point of view a serious OS is one of the most difficult pieces of software one can pursue to develop. The task involves an enormous amount of [low-level](low_level.md) programming, development of own tools from scratch and requires deep and detailed knowledge of all components of a computer, of established standards as well as many theoretical subjects such as [compiler](compiler.md) design. +**Which OS is the best?** Currently there seems to be no good operating system in existence, all are just too far away from [LRS](lrs.md) ideals, however there are quite a few relatively usable ones, mostly [Unix](unix.md) like systems. For example [OpenBSD](openbsd.md) seems to be one of them, however it is [proprietary](proprietary.md) (yes, it contains some code without license) and too obsessed with MUH [SECURITY](security.md). [HyperbolaBSD](hyperbolabsd.md) at least tries to address the freedom issue of OpenBSD. [Devuan](devuan.md) is pretty usable, [just werks](just_werks.md) and is alright in not being an absolute apeshit of consoomerist bloat. [FreeDOS](freedos.md) seemed nice too: though it's not Unix like, it is much more [KISS](kiss.md) than Unices. + An OS, as a software, consists of two main parts: - **[kernel](kernel.md)**: The base/core of the system, running in the most privileged mode, offering an environment for user applications. diff --git a/wikipedia.md b/wikipedia.md index 7ea3f4b..fa12c0e 100644 --- a/wikipedia.md +++ b/wikipedia.md @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ And the bad things are (see also this site: http://digdeeper.club/articles/wikip - Wikipedia is **[censored](censorship.md), [politically correct](political_correctness.md), biased, pushes a harmful political propaganda and often just pure lies**, 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), [pseudoskeptic](pseudoskepticism.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". It wasn't always this way, browsing pre 2010 Wikipedia provides a less censored experience. - 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 is **intentionally deceptive** -- it supports its claims by "citations" ("race is a social construct"^1234567891011121314151617181920) to make things look as objective facts, but the citations are firstly cherry picked (there is a list of banned sources), self-made (articles of Wikipedians themselves) and secondly the sources often don't even support the claim, they're literally there just for "good look". Not only do they practice censorship, they claim they do NOT practice censorship and then write article on censorship so as to define censorship in their own convenient way :) Furthermore their articles intentionally omit points of view of their political opponents. +- **"verifiability, not truth"** - 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". - Wikipedia is **hard to read**. The articles go to great depth and mostly even simple topics are explained with a great deal of highly technical terms so that they can't be well understood by people outside the specific field, even if the topic could be explained simply (Simple English Wikipedia tries to fix this a little bit at least). Editors try to include as much information as possible which too often makes the main point of a topic drown in the blablabla. Wikipedia's style is also very formal and "not [fun](fun.md)" to read, which isn't bad in itself but it just is boring to read. Some alternative encyclopedias such as [Citizendium](citizendium.md) try to offer a more friendly reading style. Back in the day Wikipedia used to be written pretty well, check it out e.g. at https://nostalgia.wikipedia.org.