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copyright.md

@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ A work which is not covered by copyright (and any other IP) -- which is nowadays
 ## See Also
 
 - [bullshit](bullshit.md)
+- [trade dress](trade_dress.md)
+- ["moral rights"](moral_rights.md)
 - [free culture](free_culture.md)
 - [copyleft](copyleft.md)
 - [derivative work](derivative_work.md)

democracy.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Democracy (also *democrazy*) stands for *rule of the people*, it is a form of [g
 
 **Democracy does NOT equal voting**, even though this simplification is too often made. Voting doesn't imply democracy and democracy doesn't require voting, an alternative to voting may be for example a [scientifically](science.md) made decision. Democracy in the wide sense doesn't even require a [state](state.md) or legislation -- true democracy simply means that rules and actions of a society are controlled by all the people and in a way that benefits all the people. Even though we are led to believe we live in democratic society, the truth is that a large scale largely working democracy has never been established and that nowadays most of so called democracy is just an illusion as society clearly works for the benefit of the few richest and most powerful people while greatly abusing everyone else, especially the poorest majority of people. **We do NOT live in true democracy**. A true democracy would be achieved by ideal models of society such as those advocated by (true) [anarchism](anarchism.md) or [LRS](less_retarded_society.md), however some anarchists may be avoiding the use the term democracy as that in many narrower contexts implies an existence of government.
 
-Nowadays the politics of most first world countries is based on elections and voting by people, but despite this being called democracy by the propaganda the reality is [de facto](de_facto.md) not a democracy but rather an [oligarchy](oligarchy.md), the rule THROUGH the people, creating an illusion of democracy which however lacks a real choice (e.g. the [US](usa.md) two party system in which people can either vote for capitalists or capitalists) or pushes the voters towards a certain choice by huge propaganda, misinformation and manipulation.
+Nowadays the politics of most first world countries is based on elections and voting by people, but despite this being called democracy by the propaganda the reality is [de facto](de_facto.md) not a democracy but rather an [oligarchy](oligarchy.md), the **rule THROUGH the people**, creating an illusion of democracy which however lacks a real choice (e.g. the [US](usa.md) two party system in which people can either vote for capitalists or capitalists) or pushes the voters towards a certain choice by huge propaganda, misinformation and manipulation. Take one example from [Czechia](czechia.md), a so called "democratic" country -- in the 90s it adopted capitalism and as capitalism progresses, the age at which you can retire is getting higher and higher, recently getting very close to your life expectancy -- do you think anyone from the people wants this? Ask literally anyone if he wants to work until death, 1000 people of 1000 will tell you they don't want retirement age to increase. Why then -- if will of people should be realized under "democracy" -- is it happening? Because in reality the country is ruled by 5 richest people in it and these want everyone to work until death, so that's what will happen. That's what they call "democracy".
 
 Also nowadays democracy has mostly degenerated to "let's bully those who disagree with majority", i.e. "rule of the mainstream" (and of course, the mainstream is fully controlled by handful of rich etcetc.).
 

exercises.md

@@ -180,7 +180,10 @@ Bear in mind the main purpose of this quiz is for you to test your understanding
 77. Give at least three examples of palindromic English words (written the same forward and backwards), each at least four letters long.
 78. Six extremely obese [women](woman.md) ([Rust](rust.md) developers) -- three normal and three lesbian -- want to get to a party that's in the sixth floor of a building. As they are morbidly obese using stairs is not an option, they have to take the lift. The lift is on the ground floor but its outside button is broken, it can only ride if there is at least one human inside it who controls it (and it also doesn't go to any other floor than the two), but it also cannot carry more than two women at once (remember, they are obese). Lesbian must never outnumber the normal women otherwise they wouldn't be able to control themselves and would rape them. The women are too dumb to solve the problem of how to get to the sixth floor without any rape happening, they call you to help them -- find a solution to this.
 79. Does 0.999... (infinitely many 9s) equal 1?
-80. Did you enjoy this quiz?
+80. If [capitalism](capitalism.md) is bad why are people migrating into capitalist countries such as [USA](usa.md)?
+81. Why are low quality videos "blocky"?
+82. What's the next number in the following sequence? 0, 1, 5, 19, 65, 211, 665, 2059, 6305, 19171, 58052, ???
+82. Did you enjoy this quiz?
 
 ### Answers
 
@@ -263,7 +266,10 @@ Bear in mind the main purpose of this quiz is for you to test your understanding
 77. For example: poop, boob, civic, deed, level, rotor, madam, refer, stats etc.
 78. For example (`L` = lesbian, `N` = normal): `LLLNNN *|` -> `NNNL |* LL` -> `NNNLL *| L` -> `NNN |* LLL` -> `NNNL *| LL` -> `NL |* NNLL` -> `NNLL *| NL` -> `LL |* NNNL` -> `LLL *| NNN` -> `L |* NNNLL` -> `LL *| NNNL` -> `|* NNNLLL`.
 79. yes (look it up)
-80. yes
+80. For the same reason mosquitoes fly into the mosquito killer lamps -- they have microscopic brains.
+81. Possibly for several reasons but the most prominent one is likely that video codecs typically try to save space by not saving every frame of the video as a picture but rather encode movements of small blocks into which keyframes (static pictures saved at relatively low "FPS") are chopped. This exploits temporal redundancy -- the fact that frames close in time are similar to one another, i.e. that knowing one frame we can most likely get approximate version of the next frame by splitting the current frame into blocks and just moving them around a bit. Of course this doesn't work perfectly and low bitrate or nontypical scenes can make the blocks highly visible. It would be possible to come up with similar methods that don't use blocks and may look prettier but rectangular blocks of pixels are very easy and fast to work with and the results look good enough, so they are usually used. Another reason for blockiness of videos may be e.g. that the keyframes themselves are compressed with some lossy JPEG-like compression that makes them "blocky".
+82. 175099, formula for the series is *3^n - 2^n*.
+83. yes
 
 ## Other
 

fascism.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Fascism
 
-Fascist (from Latin *fasces*, "bundle", "group", ancient symbol of power to punish) groups are subgroups of society that strongly pursue [self interest](self_interest.md) on the detriment of others (those who are not part of said group). Fascism is a [rightist](left_right.md), [competitive](competition.md) tendency, very much connected to [identity politics](identity_politics.md) (being or rather feeling to be part of some group, e.g. nation, sex, [race](race.md) etc.); fascists aim to make themselves as strong, as powerful and as rich as possible, i.e. to weaken and possibly eliminate competing groups, to have power over them, enslave them and to seize their resources. The means of their operation are almost exclusively [evil](evil.md), including [violence](violence.md), [bullying](bully.md), [wars](war.md), [propaganda](propaganda.md), [eye for an eye](revenge.md), [slavery](slavery.md) etc.
+Fascist (from Latin *fasces*, "bundle", "group", ancient symbol of power to punish) groups are subgroups of society that strongly pursue [self interest](self_interest.md) on the detriment of others (those who are not part of said group). Fascism is a [rightist](left_right.md), [competitive](competition.md) tendency, very much connected to [identity politics](identity_politics.md) (being or rather feeling to be part of some group, e.g. nation, sex, [race](race.md) etc.); fascists aim to make themselves as strong, as powerful and as rich as possible, i.e. to weaken and possibly eliminate competing groups, to have power over them, enslave them and to seize their resources. Fascism uses mechanism of [tribalism](tribalism.md) -- a primitive instinct to which an unintelligent man easily gives in and which is easily abused by a politician. Fascist modi operandi are almost exclusively [evil](evil.md), including [violence](violence.md), [bullying](bully.md), [wars](war.md), [propaganda](propaganda.md), [eye for an eye](revenge.md), [slavery](slavery.md) etc.
 
 A few examples of fascist groups are [corporations](corporation.md), [nations](nationalism.md), NSDAP ([Nazis](nazi.md)), [LGBT](lgbt.md), [feminists](feminism.md), [Antifa](antifa.md), [KKK](kkk.md), [Marxists](marxism.md) and, of course, the infamous Italian fascist party of Benito Mussolini. Some famous fascists include Alexander the Great, [Napoleon](napoleon.md), [Churchill](churchill.md), [Julius Caesar](caesar.md), [Hitler](hitler.md), Mussolini, [Stalin](stalin.md), Henry Ford, [Steve Jobs](steve_jobs.md) and all [American](usa.md) presidents (basically any so called "great leader" can be included).
 

lrs.md

@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ Apart from this software a lot of other software developed by other people and g
 - **[Simon Tatham's portable puzzle collection](stppc.md)**: Very portable collection of puzzle [games](game.md).
 - ...
 
-Other potentially LRS software to check out may include [TinyGL](tinygl.md), [scc](scc.md), [ed](ed.md), [IBNIZ](ibniz.md), [lynx](lynx.md), [links](links.md), [tcl](tcl.md), [uClibc](uclibc.md), [miniz](miniz.md), [Lua](lua.md), [nuklear](nuklear.md), [dmenu](dmenu.md), [sbase](sbase.md), [sic](sic.md), [tabbed](tabbed.md), [svkbd](svkbd.md), [busybox](busybox.md), [darcs](darcs.md), [raylib](raylib.md), [IRC](irc.md), [PortableGL](portablegl.md), [openbsd](openbsd.md), [mtpaint](mtpaint.md) and others.
+Other potentially LRS software to check out may include [TinyGL](tinygl.md), [scc](scc.md), [ed](ed.md), [IBNIZ](ibniz.md), [lynx](lynx.md), [links](links.md), [tcl](tcl.md), [uClibc](uclibc.md), [miniz](miniz.md), [Lua](lua.md), [nuklear](nuklear.md), [dmenu](dmenu.md), [sbase](sbase.md), [sic](sic.md), [tabbed](tabbed.md), [svkbd](svkbd.md), [busybox](busybox.md), [darcs](darcs.md), [raylib](raylib.md), [IRC](irc.md), [PortableGL](portablegl.md), [3dmr](3dmr.md), [openbsd](openbsd.md), [mtpaint](mtpaint.md) and others.
 
 It is also possible to talk about LRS data formats, [protocols](protocol.md), standards, designs and concepts as such etc. These might include:
 

main.md

@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ Are you a noob but see our ideas as appealing and would like to join us? Say no
 - That [compiler bomb](compiler_bomb.md) is a very short source code that makes the language compiler produce gigantic executable?
 - That there is a light bulb in California that has been turned on since 1901 and as of writing this is still working? This shows that [old](old.md) things are better than those manufactured under more advanced [capitalism](capitalism.md) which pushes for more [consumerism](consumerism.md) and applies [artificial obsolescence](artificial_obscolescence.md). Many sowing machines made mode than 100 years ago still function perfectly fine as well as many other types of machines; anything created nowadays shouldn't be expected to last longer than 3 years.
 - That there exist [numbers](number.md) that are not [computable](computability.md) or are otherwise [unknowable](knowability.md)? See e.g. Chaitin's constant.
-- That throughout [history](history.md) one of the most common patterns is appearance of new lucrative technology or trend which is labeled safe by [science](soyence.md), then officially recommended, promoted, adopted by the industry and heavily utilized for many years to decades before being found harmful, which is almost always greatly delayed by the industry trying to hide this fact? This was the case e.g. with [asbestos](asbestos.md), [freons](freon.md) (responsible for ozone layer depletion), [x rays](x_ray.md), radioactive paint (see *radium girls*), some food preservatives, [plastics](plastic.md), smoking, car emissions and great many prescription drugs among which used to be even cocaine. Despite corporations denying it, there even appears evidence that cell phone radiation causes cancer (e.g. *Meta-analysis of long-term mobile phone use and the association with brain tumours*, 2008, even International Agency for Research on Cancer now holds that phones may pose such danger). Yet when you question safety of a new lucrative invention, such as [5G](5g.md), antidepressants or some quickly developed lucrative [vaccines](vax.md), you are labeled insane.
+- That throughout [history](history.md) one of the most common patterns is appearance of new lucrative technology or trend which is labeled safe by [science](soyence.md), then officially recommended, promoted, adopted by the industry and heavily utilized for many years to decades before being found harmful, which is almost always greatly delayed by the industry trying to hide this fact? This was the case e.g. with [asbestos](asbestos.md), [freons](freon.md) (responsible for ozone layer depletion), [x rays](x_ray.md), radioactive paint (see *radium girls*), lobotomy (which even generated a Nobel Prize), some food preservatives, [plastics](plastic.md), smoking, car emissions and great many prescription drugs among which used to be even cocaine. Despite corporations denying it, there even appears evidence that cell phone radiation causes cancer (e.g. *Meta-analysis of long-term mobile phone use and the association with brain tumors*, 2008, even International Agency for Research on Cancer now holds that phones may pose such danger). Yet when you question safety of a new lucrative invention, such as [5G](5g.md), antidepressants or some quickly developed lucrative [vaccines](vax.md), you are labeled insane.
 - That the [faggots](faggot.md) maintaining the debian `fortune` utility package started to [censor](censorship.md) "offensive" fortunes, moving them to a separate `fortunes-off` package that won't by default be installed, and which in the future will be removed completely? They also put some cringe disclaimers and apologies to man pages and so on.
 - That [Kinora](kinora.md), invented around 1895, allowed people to view short videos with a simple, small, purely mechanical device? It used the flip-book principle.
 

wiki_stats.md

@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
 This is an autogenerated article holding stats about this wiki.
 
 - number of articles: 580
-- number of commits: 801
-- total size of all texts in bytes: 3786557
-- total number of lines of article texts: 29141
+- number of commits: 802
+- total size of all texts in bytes: 3788876
+- total number of lines of article texts: 29156
 - number of script lines: 262
 - occurences of the word "person": 8
-- occurences of the word "nigger": 74
+- occurences of the word "nigger": 86
 
 longest articles:
 
@@ -39,18 +39,18 @@ top 50 5+ letter words:
 - there (1640)
 - people (1428)
 - other (1183)
-- example (1173)
+- example (1174)
 - software (1073)
 - number (1036)
 - about (987)
 - program (867)
-- their (809)
-- because (770)
+- their (810)
+- because (771)
 - would (761)
 - called (746)
 - language (735)
 - computer (732)
-- being (712)
+- being (713)
 - things (697)
 - simple (696)
 - numbers (688)
@@ -65,30 +65,41 @@ top 50 5+ letter words:
 - system (555)
 - should (544)
 - games (540)
-- doesn (539)
+- doesn (540)
 - society (532)
 - point (531)
 - though (504)
-- while (501)
+- while (502)
 - memory (497)
-- drummyfish (494)
+- drummyfish (497)
 - using (492)
-- still (478)
+- still (479)
 - technology (477)
 - similar (472)
 - course (472)
-- possible (457)
+- possible (458)
 - simply (456)
-- https (447)
+- https (451)
 - really (424)
 - computers (418)
 - extremely (414)
-- actually (412)
+- actually (413)
 - always (411)
 
 latest changes:
 
 ```
+Date:   Wed May 15 22:03:25 2024 +0200
+  bill_gates.md
+  exercises.md
+  jokes.md
+  main.md
+  modern.md
+  nigger.md
+  random_page.md
+  rms.md
+  wiki_pages.md
+  wiki_stats.md
 Date:   Wed May 15 18:01:55 2024 +0200
   capitalism.md
   coc.md
@@ -111,17 +122,6 @@ Date:   Tue May 14 13:35:32 2024 +0200
   random_page.md
   unix_philosophy.md
   wiki_pages.md
-  wiki_stats.md
-  woman.md
-Date:   Mon May 13 17:20:02 2024 +0200
-  coc.md
-  exercises.md
-  fsf.md
-  hexadecimal.md
-  jesus.md
-  kiss.md
-  name_is_important.md
-  programming_tips.md
 ```
 
 most wanted pages:
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ most popular and lonely pages:
 - [bullshit](bullshit.md) (73) 
 - [art](art.md) (71) 
 - [programming_language](programming_language.md) (70) 
-- [shit](shit.md) (68) 
+- [shit](shit.md) (69) 
 - [float](float.md) (66) 
 - [chess](chess.md) (65) 
 - ...