*WELCOME :) You find yourself on a strange [island](island.md).*
```
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______|_/____
~~~~\ /~~~~
"-._____.-"
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| )
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~-~-~\ /~-~-~
"-._____.-"
```
What is this? Boat is a [LRS](lrs.md) spinoff of [Tour Bus](tourbus.md), a famous wiki [webring](webring.md) -- see http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/TourBus. Why not join Tour Bus? Because we are antisocial and don't wanna talk to anyone, so we just start our new thing (also they would prolly [censor](censorship.md) us). Also our island is isolated from the [normieland](normieland.md) and no buses go here :)
@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Here is a comparison of the Creative Commons licenses/waivers, from most free (b
| Creative Commons Attribution NoValue | CC BY NV | no | yes | yes | no | no |forced | yes | [joke](joke.md) license by Question Copyright :) |
| none (all rights reserved) | | NO! :((( |NO! :( |NO! :( |NO! :( |FUCK YOU|FUCK YOU | FUCK YOU | [proprietary](proprietary.md) fascist option, prohibits everything, DO NOT USE |
Out of Creative Commons licenses/waivers **always use [CC0](cc0.md)**, that's the only one aligned with [our goals](lrs.md), it's the one that's closest to completely rejecting any control over the work. Even though legally and practically there probably won't be such a large difference between CC0 and let's say CC BY, the mental jump to absolute public domain is important (small step for lawyer, huge leap for freedom) -- it's known that people who use the imperfect licenses such as CC BY SA still feel a small grip and authority over their work, they still have to overlook that the license "isn't violated" and sometimes even start making trouble (see e.g. the infamous meltdown of David Revoy over his "moral rights being violated with [NFTs](nft.md)" despite his work being CC BY SA { Thanks to a friend for finding this. ~drummyfish }). Don't do this, just let go. If you love it, let it go.
Out of Creative Commons licenses/waivers **always use [CC0](cc0.md)**, that's the only one aligned with [our goals](lrs.md), it's the one that's closest to completely rejecting any control over the work. Even though legally and practically there probably won't be such a large difference between CC0 and let's say CC BY, the mental jump to absolute public domain is important (small step for lawyer, huge leap for freedom) -- it's known that people who use the imperfect licenses such as CC BY SA still feel a small grip and authority over their work, they still have to overlook that the license "isn't violated" and sometimes even start making trouble (see e.g. the infamous meltdown of David Revoy over his "moral rights being violated with [NFTs](nft.md)" despite his work being CC BY { Thanks to a friend for finding this. ~drummyfish }). Don't do this, just let go. If you love it, let it go.
There **Creative Commons license paradox**: there seems to be a curious pattern noticeable in the world of Creative Commons licensed works (and possibly [free culture](free_culture.md) and [free software](free_software.md) in general) -- the phenomenon is that **the shittier the [art](art.md), the more restrictive license it will have**. { I noticed this on opengameart but then found it basically applies everywhere. ~drummyfish } Upon closer inspection it doesn't look so surprising after all: more restrictive licenses are used as a slow and careful transition from "all right reserved" world, i.e. they are used by newcomers and noobs who fear that if they don't enforce attribution people will immediately exploit it. More skilled people who have spent some time in the world of free art and published more things already know this doesn't happen and they know that less restrictive licenses are just better in all aspects.
@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ He likes many things such as animals, peace, [freedom](freedom.md), [programming
Before becoming a kind of schizo, he used to be relatively normal, even had a girlfriend for a while -- for a long time he was a [proprietary](proprietary.md) [Windows](windows.md) normie, using [Facebook](facebook.md) and playing mainstream games like Trackmania and [World of Warcraft](wow.md) (since vanilla, quit during WotLK, played tauren warrior named *Drummy*). In the university he started using GNU/Linux because it was convenient for the school work, but still mostly used Windows. Only near the end of his studies he became more interested in [FOSS](foss.md), after reading [Richard Stallman](rms.md)'s biography. At the beginning he promoted "[open source](open_source.md)" and used [soynet](soynet.md) platforms such as [Fediverse](fediverse.md), later on he found the [suckless](suckless.md) website and was enlightened by [minimalism](minimalism.md); he also started to see through the evils of [open $ource](open_source.md), [capitalism](capitalism.md) and other things and refused to conform, which led him to the path of becoming the aforementioned schizo.
In 2019 drummyfish has written a "manifesto" of his ideas called **Non-Competitive Society** that describes the political ideas of an ideal society. It is in the [public domain](public_domain.md) under [CC0](cc0.md) and available for download online. Around 2020 he spent a few months in mental hospital. Some time around 2023 he bought a tiny caravan inawoods and plans to live there, away from society.
In 2019 drummyfish has written a "manifesto" of his ideas called **Non-Competitive Society** that describes the political ideas of an ideal society. It is in the [public domain](public_domain.md) under [CC0](cc0.md) and available for download online and was translated to more than zero languages. Around 2020 he spent a few months in mental hospital. Some time around 2023 he bought a tiny caravan inawoods and plans to live there, away from society.
**Does drummyfish have [divine intellect](terry_davis.md)?** Hell no, he's pretty retarded at most things, but thanks to his extreme tendency for isolation, great curiosity and obsession with [truth](truth.md) he is possibly the only man on Earth completely immune to propaganda, he can see the world as it is, not as it is presented, so he feels it is his moral duty to share what he is seeing. He is able to overcome his natural dumbness by tryharding and sacrificing his social and sexual life so that he can program more. If drummyfish can learn to program [LRS](lrs.md), so can you.
- **"Just because X doesn't mean Y"**: this is completely grammatically wrong, it is either "Just the fact that X doesn't mean Y." OR "Just because X not(Y)." You just have to hear it, but here is an attempt at showing you why this it's wrong: "I don't have to cry just because I'm sad.", we can reverse the sentences to "Just because I'm sad I don't have to cry" OR "Just the fact that I'm sad doesn't mean I have to cry".
- **"how it looks like"**: It's either fucking "what it looks like" OR "how it looks", NOT both at once.
- **Using apostrophe for plural**, especially with [acronym](acronym.md)s, for example "VPN's" (WRONG) instead of "VPNs" (correct).
- **Spelling**: beginner stuff like "its" vs "it's", "there" vs "their" etc.
- **Spelling**: beginner stuff like "its" vs "it's", "they're" vs "their", "effects" vs "affects" etc.
- **Countable vs uncountable** bitch, I double dare you to ever say shit like "less mistakes".
@ -163,9 +163,21 @@ This is a summary of some main guidelines on how an LRS supporter should behave
- PRO TIP: **Get yourself [banned](ban.md) on toxic platforms** like [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md), [GitHub](github.md), [Steam](steam.md), [4chan](4chan.md) etcetc., it has many advantages -- you gain [freedom](freedom.md) (no longer having to care about platform you are banned on), the platform loses one user/slave (you), you stop being abused by the platform, it's also [fun](fun.md) (just find some creative way to get banned, possibly cause uprising on the platform, make mods angry and waste their time on cleaning up your mess), it will make you become more self sufficient and you help decentralize the Internet again (can't edit Wikipedia? Just make your own :-]), it will make you find better places, you may also help bring the toxic platform down (others will see the platform utilizes censorship, some may follow you in leaving...) etcetc.
- ...
### How To Look
You should look like this:
- **Absolutely NEVER get any [tattoos](tattoo.md) or piercing.** That's one of the stupidest things you could ever do. If you have any, remove them ASAP. Never dye your hair, never make fancy hair styles or beard styles. Don't wear any decorations like rings, earrings or necklaces whose purpose is to make you look better.
- **Minimize your body [maintenance](maintenance.md)**. It's [bullshit](bullshit.md) that's taking your time in this world which could be spent better. It's good if you wear long hair so that you don't have to take haircuts which also has a nice side effect of hurting the barbershop economy. If you have to cut your hair, do it yourself, NEVER go to barbershop. It's also good to never shave, it saves you time, electricity, water, money on shaving cream, razors and so on.
- **NEVER wear any makeup.** That's extremely stupid, it's ugly and wastes your life.
- **Wear only cheap clothes and only for practical reasons**, never for fashion, persuasion etc. If those clothes have any brands on them, tear them off, you don't want to be a walking ad. **Absolutely NEVER wear [suits](suit.md)** or dresses, suits are expensive, uncomfortable capitalist bullshit whose sole purpose is to deceive by looks and show belonging to an upper class -- you want to do that? Wear old and cheap clothes, wear it until it literally falls apart, buy only second hand clothes, never support the cloth industry. **Be naked whenever you can**, for example in your house and in your garden (not in public -- it would be good but you'd get into jail) -- if someone gets [butthurt](butthurt.md) just ignore him, don't even talk to him, if they put some clothes on you by force just wait 5 minutes and then take it off again. If you can't be naked at least be as naked as you can, for example you can mostly walk topless or at least barefoot.
- You CAN alter things about yourself for practical reasons of course -- for example if your hair goes to your eyes, you can cut it.
- Should you get [fat](fat.md) or skinny? Well, there is no specific advice here, try both and see what works for you, it's probably ideal to have ideal weight anyway. Focus on health.
- Don't even think about things like plastic surgery -- if you ever thought about that, there is probably no hope in saving you, so we won't even go on here.
## How Not To Get Depressed Living In This Shitty Dystopia
I don't know lol, you tell me. Becoming more independent of this system really helps though, just accept everything will get destroyed in a few years -- yes, all you ever liked is basically already dead, just deal with it and find new things to like such as reading books instead of scrolling through facebook etc. Unconditional love and [altruism](altruism.md) helps too, just let go of the hate and fight, help people selflessly without expecting rewards.
I don't know lol, you tell me. Becoming more independent of this system really helps though, just accept everything will get destroyed in a few years -- yes, all you ever liked is basically already dead, just deal with it and find new things to like such as reading books instead of scrolling through facebook etc. Unconditional love and [altruism](altruism.md) helps too, just let go of the hate and fight, help people selflessly without expecting rewards. One of the big challenges is also dealing with the *Cassandra complex*, i.e. the fact that only you know the truth but you can't communicate it to others, they don't listen, it's like a nightmare but real, you have to deal with this by mediation.
**We [love](love.md) all living beings. Even you.** (Not just all people but also animals and other life forms.) We want to create [technology](tech.md) that truly and maximally helps you, e.g. a completely [public domain computer](public_domain_computer.md). We do NOT [fight](fight_culture.md) anything or anyone and we don't have any [heroes](hero_culture.md) or leaders. We want to move peacefully towards [society](less_retarded_society.md) that's not based on [competition](competition.md) but rather on [collaboration](collaboration.md). We also **reject all [violence](violence.md)**.
{ I no longer see hope, good is practically non existent in this world. This is my last attempt at preserving pure good, I will continue to spread the truth and unconditional love of all life as long as I will be capable of, until the society lynches me for having loved too much. At this point I feel very alone, this work now exists mostly for myself in my isolated world. But I hope that once perhaps my love will be shared with a reader far away, in space or time, even if I will never know him. This is the only way I can continue living. I wish you happy reading, my dear friend. ~[drummyfish](drummyfish.md) }
@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ In 1978 [Douglas McIlroy](mcilroy.md) has written a short overview of the Unix s
This has later been condensed into: do one thing well, write programs to work together, make programs communicate via text streams, a universal interface.
Details such as to what extent/extreme this minimalism ("doing only one thing") should be taken are of course a hot topic of many debates and opinions, the original Unix hackers very often very strict, famous example of which is the "cat -v considered [harmful](harmful.md)" presentation bashing a relatively simple function added to the [cat](cat.md) program that should only ever concatenate files. Some tolerate adding some convenience functions to simple programs, especially nowadays.
Details about to what extent/extreme this minimalism ("doing only one thing") should be taken are of course a hot topic of countless debates and opinions, the original Unix hackers are often highly strict, famous example of which is the "cat -v considered [harmful](harmful.md)" presentation bashing a relatively simple function added to the [cat](cat.md) program that should only ever concatenate files. Some tolerate adding a few convenience functions to trivial programs, especially [nowadays](modern.md).
**Simple example**: maybe the most common practical example that can be given is [piping](pipe.md) small [command line](cli.md) utility programs; in Unix there exist a number of small programs that do *only one thing but do it well*, for example the [`cat`](cat.md) program that only concatenates and outputs the content of selected files, the [`grep`](grep.md) program that searches for patterns in text etc. In a command line we may use so called [pipes](pipe.md) to chain some of these simple programs into more complex processing pipelines by redirecting one program's output stream to another one's input. Let's say we want to for example automatically list all first and second level headings on given webpage and write them out alphabetically sorted. We can do it with a command such as this one:
**Simple example**: likely the most common practical example that can be given is [piping](pipe.md) small [command line](cli.md) utility programs; inside a Unix system there live a number of small programs that do *only one thing but do it well*, for example the [`cat`](cat.md) program that only concatenates and outputs the content of selected files, the [`grep`](grep.md) program that searches for patterns in text etc. In command line we may use so called [pipes](pipe.md) to chain some of these simple programs into more complex processing [pipelines](pipeline.md) by redirecting one program's output stream to another one's input. Let's say we want to for example automatically list all first and second level headings on given webpage and write them out alphabetically sorted. We can do it with a command such as this one:
@ -35,11 +35,11 @@ Welcome To The Less Retarded Wiki
What Is Less Retarded Software/Society/Wiki?
```
In the command the pipes (`|`) chain multiple programs together so that the output of one becomes the input of the next. The first command, *[wget](wget.md)*, downloads the [HTML](html.md) content of the webpage and passes it to the second command, *[grep](grep.md)*, which filters the text and only prints lines with headings (using so called [regular expressions](regex.md)), this is passed to *[sed](sed.md)* that removes the HTML code and the result is passed to *sort* that sorts the lines alphabetically -- as this is the last command, the result is then printed out, but we could also e.g. add ` > output.txt` at the end to save the result into a text file instead. We also use [flags](flag.md) to modify the behavior of the programs, for example `-i` tells *grep* to work in case-insensitive mode, `-q` tells *wget* to be silent and not print things such as download progress. [This whole wiki](lrs_wiki.md) is basically made on top of a few scripts like this (compare e.g. to [MediaWiki](mediawiki.md) software), so you literally see the manifestation of these presented concepts as you're reading this. This kind of "workflow" is a fast, powerful and very flexible way of processing data for anyone who knows the Unix tools. Notice the relative simplicity of each command and how each one works as a **[text](text.md) [filter](filter.md)**; text is a universal communication interface and behaving as a filter makes intercommunication easy and efficient, utilizing the principle of a [pipeline](pipeline.md). A filter simply takes an input stream of data and outputs another stream of data; it ideally works on-the-go (without having to load whole input in order to produce the output), which has numerous advantages, for example requiring only a small amount of memory (which may become significant when we are running many programs at once in the pipeline, imagine e.g. a server with 10000 users, each one running his own commands like this) and decreasing [latency](latency.md) (the next pipe stage may start processing the data before the previous stage finishes). When you're writing a program, such as for example a [compression](compression.md) tool, make it work like this.
In the command the pipes (`|`) chain multiple programs together so that the output of one becomes the input of the next. The first command, *[wget](wget.md)*, downloads the [HTML](html.md) content of the webpage and passes it to the second command, *[grep](grep.md)*, which [filters](filter.md) the text and only prints lines with headings (using so called [regular expressions](regex.md)), this is passed to *[sed](sed.md)* that removes the HTML code and the result is passed to *sort* that sorts the lines alphabetically -- as this is the last command, the result is then printed out, but we could also e.g. add ` > output.txt` at the end to save the result into a text file instead. We also use [flags](flag.md) to modify the behavior of the programs, for example `-i` tells *grep* to work in case-insensitive mode, `-q` tells *wget* to be silent and not print things such as download progress. [This whole wiki](lrs_wiki.md) is basically made on top of a few scripts like this (compare e.g. to [MediaWiki](mediawiki.md) software), so you literally see the manifestation of these presented concepts as you're reading this. This kind of "workflow" is a fast, powerful and very flexible way of processing data for anyone who knows the Unix tools. Notice the relative simplicity of each command and how each one works as a **[text](text.md) [filter](filter.md)**; text is a universal communication interface and behaving as a filter makes intercommunication easy and efficient, utilizing the principle of a [pipeline](pipeline.md). A filter simply takes an input stream of data and outputs another stream of data; it ideally works on-the-go (without having to load whole input in order to produce the output), which has numerous advantages, for example requiring only a small amount of memory (which may become significant when we are running many programs at once in the pipeline, imagine e.g. a server with 10000 users, each one running his own commands like this) and decreasing [latency](latency.md) (the next pipe stage may start processing the data before the previous stage finishes). When you're writing a program, such as for example a [compression](compression.md) tool, make it work like this.
Compare this to the opposite [Windows philosophy](windows_philosophy.md) in which combining programs into collaborating units is not intended, is possibly even purposefully prevented and therefore very difficult, slow and impractical to do -- such programs are designed for manually performing some predefined actions, mostly using [GUI](gui.md), e.g. painting pictures with a mouse, but aren't made to collaborate or be automatized, they can rarely be used in unintended, inventive ways needed for powerful [hacking](hacking.md). Getting back to the example of a compression tool, on Windows such a program would be a large GUI program that requires a user to open up a file dialog, manually select a file to compress, which would then probably go on to load the whole file into memory, perform compression there, and the write the data back to some other file. Need to use the program on a computer without graphical display? Automatize it to work with other programs? Run it from a script? Run it 10000 at the same time with 10000 other similar programs? Bad luck, Windows philosophy doesn't allow this.
Compare this to the opposing [Windows philosophy](windows_philosophy.md) in which combining programs into collaborating units is not intended, is possibly even purposefully prevented and therefore very difficult, slow and impractical to do -- such programs are designed for manually performing some predefined actions, mostly using [GUI](gui.md), e.g. painting pictures with a mouse, but aren't designed to collaborate with each other or be automatized, they can rarely be used in unintended, inventive ways needed for powerful [hacking](hacking.md). Returning to the example of a compression tool, on Windows such a program would be a large GUI program that requires a user to open up a file dialog, manually select a file to compress, which then might even do nasty things like loading the whole file into memory (because anyone who can afford Windows can also afford a lot of [RAM](ram.md)), perform compression there, and then writing the data back to some other file. Need to use the program on a computer without graphical display? Automatize it to work with other programs? Run it from a script? Run it 10000 at the same time with 10000 other similar programs? Bad luck, Windows philosophy doesn't allow this.
**Watch out! Do not misunderstand Unix philosophy.** There are many extremely dangerous cases of misunderstanding Unix philosophy by [modern](modern.md) [wannabe programmers](soydev.md) who can't tell [pseudominimalism](pseudominimalism.md) from true [minimalism](minimalism.md). One example is the hilarious myth about "[React](react.md) following Unix philosophy" ([LMAO this](http://img.stanleylieber.com/src/20872/img/small.1527773532.png)), the devs just show so many misunderstandings here -- firstly of course [JavaScript](js.md) itself is extremely [bloated](bloat.md) as it's a language aiming for things like comfort, rapid development, "safety" and beginner friendliness to which it sacrifices performance and elegance, an expert hacker trying to write highly thought through, optimized program is not its target group, therefore nothing based on JavaScript can ever be compatible with the Unix way in the first place. Secondly they seem to imply that basically any system of modules follows Unix philosophy -- that's of course wrong, modularity far predates Unix philosophy, Unix philosophy is more than that, merely having a package system of libraries, each of which focuses on some thing (even very broad one like highly complex [GUI](gui.md)), doesn't mean those tools are simple (both internally and externally), efficient, communicating in good ways and so on.
**Watch out! Do not misunderstand Unix philosophy.** There are many extremely dangerous cases of misunderstanding Unix philosophy by [modern](modern.md) [wannabe programmers](soydev.md) who can't tell [pseudominimalism](pseudominimalism.md) apart from true [minimalism](minimalism.md). One example is the hilarious myth about "[React](react.md) following Unix philosophy" ([LMAO this](http://img.stanleylieber.com/src/20872/img/small.1527773532.png)), the devs just show so many misunderstandings here -- firstly of course [JavaScript](js.md) itself is extremely [bloated](bloat.md) as it's a language aiming for things like comfort, rapid development, "safety" and beginner friendliness to which it sacrifices performance and elegance, an expert hacker trying to write highly thought through, optimized program is not its target group, therefore nothing based on JavaScript can ever be compatible with the Unix way in the first place. Secondly they seem to imply that basically any system of modules follows Unix philosophy -- that's of course wrong, modularity far predates Unix philosophy, Unix philosophy is more than that, merely having a package system of libraries, each of which focuses on some thing (even very broad one like highly complex [GUI](gui.md)), doesn't mean those tools are simple (both internally and externally), efficient, communicating in good ways and so on.
**Does Unix philosophy imply [universality](universality.md) is always bad?** Well, most likely no, not in general at least -- it simply tells us that for an expert to create art that reaches the peak of his potential it seems best in most cases if he lives in an environment with many small, highly efficient tools that he can tinker with, which allow him to combine them, even (and especially) in unforeseen ways -- to do [hacking](hacking.md). Universal tools, however, are great as well, either as a supplement or for other use cases (non-experts, quick dirty jobs and so on) -- after all a general purpose [programming language](programming_language.md) such as [C](c.md), another creation of Unix creators themselves, is a universal tool that prefers generality over effectiveness at one specific task (for example you can use C to process text but you likely won't match the efficiency of [sed](sed.md), etc.). Nevertheless let us realize an important thing: a universal tool can still be implemented in minimalist way, therefore never confuse a universal tool with a bloated monolith encumbered by feature creep!
Zen, a term coming from zen [Buddhism](buddhism.md) (the word itself from *dhyana*, meaning *meditation*), means emphasis on mediation that leads to enlightenment; in a wider sense it hints on related things and feelings such as tranquility, spiritual peace, sudden coming to realization and understanding. In [hacker](hacking.md) speech *zen* is a very frequent term, according to [Jargon file](jargon_file.md) "to zen" means to understand something by simply meditating about it or by sudden realization (as opposed to e.g. active [trial and error](trial_and_error.md)).
Zen, a term coming from zen [Buddhism](buddhism.md) (the word itself from *dhyana*, meaning *meditation*), means emphasis on meditation that leads to enlightenment; in a wider sense it hints on related things and feelings such as tranquility, spiritual peace, sudden coming to realization and understanding. In [hacker](hacking.md) speech *zen* is a very frequent term, according to [Jargon file](jargon_file.md) "to zen" means to understand something by simply meditating about it or by sudden realization (as opposed to e.g. active [trial and error](trial_and_error.md)).
[Wikiwikiweb](wikiwikiweb.md) has a related discussion under *ZenConcepts*.
