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internet.md

@@ -35,8 +35,10 @@ Internet overtook the world thanks to having enabled great number of services to
 - **normal voice communication**: As stupid as it sounds, we can sometimes just talk to other people, even if they live in another village, simply by going there and talking to them. You can use shouting to reach even people who are far away instantly -- some communities even invented things like [whistling languages](whistling_language.md) to communicate simple messages on extreme distances, this was used by hunters in forests etc. We got too much used to using cell phones to communicate with someone who just happens to be in another room, but this is just stupid, this can be just discarded as human degeneracy.
 - **petroglyphs ([rock](rock.md) carving), wood carving, glass painting, knot tying, metal tables etc.**: Data can be recorded manually in many materials, e.g. Incas used Quipu, a special knot tying language. Carving to stone is hard but will last for a long time, it is ideal for preserving small amounts of important information for a long time. See also [rok carved binary data](rcbd.md).
 - **human memory**: Human memory can be used instead of computer memory, though we have to bear in mind its limitations. In very old times, before books became common and cheap, there existed people who made living by memorizing history in forms of long poems and recited them in public.
-- **public fora**: Instead of an Internet discussion forum or chat it's possible to just allocate some public space for people to simply talk -- again, pretty obvious but the new generation may already be forgetting things can be [done simply](kiss.md).
+- **public fora**: Instead of an Internet discussion forum or chat it's possible to just allocate some public space for people to simply talk. Instead of [YouTube](youtube.md) videos people can go see someone's lecture, with the advantage of being able to actually talk to the guy and ask questions -- again, pretty obvious but the new generation may already be forgetting things can be [done simply](kiss.md).
-- telepathy? :D
+- **local storage/paper and offline programs instead of [cloud](cloud.md)**: This is again more of a note for the newer generation that's used to storing everything in the cloud and also using "cloud apps" -- you can (and SHOULD) store things locally of course, you can use offline programs and eve boomer solutions like a literal paper notebook for taking notes instead of using some online note taking "app". Similarly you can store your cash [money](money.md) and private photos in a physical safe instead of relying on Internet banking or password protected clouds and voila, suddenly you free of yet another bullshit.
+- **doing it yourself, becoming independent**: you can replace many online services by just doing them yourself, for example instead of online weather forecast you can build your own small weather station, instead of online music streaming service you can just buy a harddrive, load it with mp3s and let it play on random, and so on.
+- [telepathy](telepathy.md)? :D
 - ...
 
 ## See Also
@@ -46,6 +48,6 @@ Internet overtook the world thanks to having enabled great number of services to
 - [World Wide Web](www.md)
 - [splinternet](splinternet.md)
 - [Kwangmyong](kwangmyong.md) (North Korean intranet)
-- [SNET](snet.md) (large computer network on Cuba)
+- [Snet](snet.md) (large computer network on Cuba)
 - [interplanetary internet](interplanetary_internet.md)
 - [books](books.md)

money.md

@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@
 
 TODO
 
-**Money spoils everything**, and in [capitalism](capitalism.md) money is everywhere.
+**Money spoils everything**, and in [capitalism](capitalism.md) money is everywhere. As Richard Muller sings: "happiness is a beautiful thing, but it can't buy you money".
-
 
 Sadly capitalism forced EVERYONE to deal with money, even those who hate it. How to handle this? **Correct relationship towards money** you should have as an [LRS](lrs.md) follower:
 

piracy.md

@@ -4,10 +4,16 @@ Piracy is a [capitalist](capitalism.md) propaganda term for the act of illegally
 
 It is greatly admirable to support piracy, however also keep in mind the following: if you pirate a [proprietary](proprietary.md) piece of information, you get it gratis but it stays proprietary, it abuses you, it limits your freedom -- you won't get the source code, you won't be able to publicly host it without being bullied, you won't be allowed to legally create and share derivative works etc. Therefore **prefer [free (as in freedom)](free_culture.md) alternatives to piracy**, i.e. pieces of [information](information.md) that are not only gratis but also freedom supporting.
 
-Despite the term itself being recent, the concept of "piracy" is nothing new; it's essentially as old as the concept of "intellectual ownership" itself. Famous paintings have been copied by "pirate artists" and sold as being the original. Mozart, thanks to his genius, famously copied sheet of music that was supposed to remain unpublished just from hearing the piece played.
+Have you ever heard about a public library that struggles with funding? Did you ever wish your local library could afford a bigger building and more books? Imagine for a moment now that we can build public libraries all around the world, basically for free, even in the most remote of place, each having so many books that they wouldn't fit to a skyscraper, each book in so many copies that arbitrarily many people could lend the same book at the same time, for as long as they want. Wouldn't that be great? People promoting anti-piracy are those who say "no, we are against this". You just can't argue anyone supporting anti-piracy is not evil. We already have this great library that past civilizations didn't even dare to dream of, it's the [Internet](internet.md), it's just that evil dicks now prevent access to it.
 
-At the dawn of personal computer era, the culture of [hackers](hacking.md) who helped with pirating software by creating [cracks](crack.md) spawned the [demoscene](demoscene.md), a hugely significant [art](art.md) subculture based on programming technically impressive audiovisual presentations. The fuss around piracy also influences mainstream culture, e.g. the infamous "you wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy propaganda that was present on VHS movie tapes is now a laughable piece of failed [capitalist](capitalism.md) attempt at trying to invoke a sense of guilt of sharing -- many people happily pirated and pirate to this day and they also happily admit to piracy; in fact many old movies and otherwise historically significant media has been preserved only thanks to people pirating. One paper from 2020s found that men (curiously unlike [women](woman.md)) exposed to anti-piracy propaganda will increase their pirating by 18% :D One example of publicly embracing piracy in the mainstream is e.g. the [Pirate party](pirate_party.md) that has risen to popularity in a few countries now.
+Despite the term itself being recent, the concept of "piracy" is nothing new; it's essentially as old as the concept of "intellectual ownership" itself. Famous paintings have been copied by "pirate artists" and sold as being the original. Mozart, thanks to his genius, famously copied sheet of music that was supposed to remain unpublished just from hearing the piece played. For the modern history of computer piracy especially the case of [The Pirate Bay](pirate_bay.md), a famous [torrenting](torrent.md) site established in 2003, was of great importance.
+
+At the dawn of personal computer era, the culture of [hackers](hacking.md) who helped with pirating software by creating [cracks](crack.md) spawned the [demoscene](demoscene.md), a hugely significant [art](art.md) subculture based on programming technically impressive audiovisual presentations. The fuss around piracy also influences mainstream culture, e.g. the infamous "you wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy propaganda that was present on VHS movie tapes is now a laughable piece of failed [capitalist](capitalism.md) attempt at trying to invoke a sense of guilt of sharing -- many people happily pirated and pirate to this day and they also happily admit to piracy; in fact many old movies and otherwise historically significant media has been preserved only thanks to people pirating. Piracy in actuality doesn't hurt anyone, monstrously rich corporations are and always will be monstrously rich, and if piracy indeed did hurt a corporation, then it's actually another argument for piracy, not against it.
+
+{ My brother collects old movie dubbing, great works of art of legendary actors, works that now would have been lost to time if it weren't for people recording those movies on VHS tapes and illegally sharing them. ~drummyfish }
+
+One paper from 2020s found that men (curiously unlike [women](woman.md)) exposed to anti-piracy propaganda will increase their pirating by 18% :D One example of publicly embracing piracy in the mainstream is e.g. the [Pirate party](pirate_party.md) that has risen to popularity in a few countries now.
 
 { Where to pirate stuff? See e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread and https://piracy.vercel.app. ~drummyfish }
 
-TODO: history, pirate bay etc.
+TODO: more history etc.

political_correctness.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 *The issue is not my language but your ego.*
 
-Political correctness (abbreviated PC) means [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) [censorship](censorship.md) and propaganda forced into language, [science](science.md), [art](art.md) and generally all of culture, officially justified as "protecting people from getting offended". This does an immense [harm](harmful.md) to society as it is an artificially invented "issue" that not only puts people and science under heavy control, surveillance, censorship and threat of punishment, normalizing such practice, but also destroys culture, freedom of art and research and creates a great conflict between those who conform and those who value truth, freedom of art, science and communication, not talking about burdening the whole society with yet another [competitive](competition.md) [bullshit](bullshit.md) that doesn't have to exist at all. Political correctness is mainly a political tool that allows elimination (so called [cancelling](cancel_culture.md)) and discrediting opposition of [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) political movements and parties, as well as brainwashing and thought control (see e.g. [Newspeak](newspeak.md)), and as such is criticized both by rightists and leftists (see e.g. [leftypol](leftypol.md)).
+Political correctness (abbreviated PC) stands for [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) [censorship](censorship.md) and [propaganda](propaganda.md) forced into language, thinking, [science](science.md), [art](art.md) and generally all of [culture](culture.md), officially justified as "[protecting](protection.md) people from getting [offended](offended_culture.md)". It's a political tool serving mostly as a weapon and vehicle for [populism](populism.md), a concept allowing creation of [political capital](political_capital.md) by taking advantage of the events of the [second World War](ww2.md), similarly to how for example religious ideas are twisted and turned for justifying political decisions completely incompatible with the religion in question. Political correctness does an immense [harm](harmful.md) to society as it is an artificially invented "issue" that not only puts people and science under heavy control, surveillance, censorship and threat of punishment, normalizing such practice, but also destroys culture, freedom of art and research and creates a great conflict between those who conform and those who value truth, freedom of art, science and communication, not talking about burdening the whole society with yet another [competitive](competition.md) [bullshit](bullshit.md) that doesn't have to exist at all. Political correctness is mainly a political tool that allows elimination (so called [cancelling](cancel_culture.md)) and discrediting opposition of [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) political movements and parties, as well as brainwashing and thought control (see e.g. [Newspeak](newspeak.md)), and as such is criticized both by rightists and leftists (see e.g. [leftypol](leftypol.md)).
 
 ```
 

programming_tips.md

@@ -11,5 +11,6 @@ This is a place for sharing some practical programming tips.
 - **Most true programming is done away from the computer** -- soydevs think that a good programmer just spends hours in front of a computer bashing the keyboard and drinking litres of coffee to stay alive and [PRODUCTIVE](productivity_cult.md); indeed, they usually do, but they are not good programmers, their time is spent slaving the computer doing [maintenance](maintenance.md), debugging, googling, updating and socializing on Twitter. A good programmer actually programs everywhere: when going for walk, before falling asleep, when sleeping, when watching a movie etc. He only starts writing a serious program after years of thinking about it and already having most of it programmed in his head; sitting in front of a computer and writing the algorithm down is only the final smaller part of the journey.
 - It can't be repeated enough times: minimize ALL kinds of [dependencies](dependency.md), don't use what you don't necessarily need -- this doesn't just apply to libraries but also design decisions. E.g. if you're making a compiler, make it a single pass compiler if at all possible, don't perform several source code passes if that's not absolutely necessary (which would however likely signify some flaw in the design of your language). Use [fixed point](fixed_point.md) instead of [floating point](float.md) if you can, [software rendering](sw_rendering.md) instead of GPU rendering etc. If you're making something that transforms text to another text (e.g. machine translation), make it a [filter](filter.md) with constant memory complexity if that's possible, i.e. do not require the program to load a whole input file to memory. Etcetc.
 - During development turn off optimization flags for faster compiling and turn on verbosity and various checks, e.g. `-Werror -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic` for [C](c.md).
-- By [Unix philosophy](unix_philosophy.md) don't be afraid to throw away your code and start over and better -- next time you'll most likely write the same program a lot better and if you're a Unix programmer, your programs are small, possible to be reimplemented in hours or a few days.
+- By [Unix philosophy](unix_philosophy.md) **don't be afraid to throw away your code and start over and better** -- next time you'll most likely write the same program a lot better and if you're a Unix programmer, your programs are small, possible to be reimplemented quicky. This has even been generalized into a wisdom that says "plan to throw away one", i.e. when approaching a new issue, you quite frequently start writing a program you know you will throw away when it's finished, just to start over and better; the first program just serves to help you understand the true essence of the problem and foresee the real problems you will face.
+- **Go out!** This is related to the other point -- you shouldn't just sit at the computer when programming, get up and go for a walk, do something else, take a shower, go swim, do something in the garden, repair some stuff or something like that. Fresh air and sunlight helps the brain, it makes you feel better and it's been shown that walking helps activate some important brain centers, many people [actually](ackchyually.md) say they have to walk when thinking hard { Can confirm. ~drummyfish } Changing your environment and getting out of the current focus on the letter on the screen can kick off some real great idea, seeing seemingly unrelated things in nature can spark some inspiration. If you're stuck, take a day off, just sleeping and approaching the problem fresh does miracles. This really does help. It may help to **carry around a blog for taking notes** so that you don't have to stress about forgetting the ideas -- prefer paper blog, leave all electronics at home.
 - TODO: moar

reddit.md

@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 # Reddit
 
-TODO
+Reddit, established in 2005, marketing itself as the "frontpage of the [Internet](internet.md)", was an extremely successful, popular and quite nice website for sharing links, ideas and leading discussions about them, before it got absolutely destroyed by [capitalists](capitalism.md) right before they year 2020. It used to be a forum with great amount of [free speech](free_speech.md) and with quite a nice, plain user interface; in a swift turn it however turn completely over and is now among the most [censored](censorship.dm) sites on the whole [web](www.md), a place toxic with [SJW](sjw.md) fumes and its site is literally unusable for the amount of [bloat](bloat.md) and [ads](marketing.md). Never visit the site if you don't have to.
+
+Before the infamous censorship wave circa 2019 reddit used to be quite a beuatiful place to behold, truly an experience unlike anything else (maybe a bit comparable to [Usenet](usenet.md)). { I used to actually love reddit, sad it died. ~drummyfish } It's hard to sum up to someone who didn't experience reddit back then, it found a great mix of excellent ideas that just worked great together, a combination mainly of [free speech](free_speech.md) (that's completely gone now, it's almost comical to remember reddit used to be one of the "bastions of free speech" back then), nice minimalist user interface (also gone now), having many subforums for all kinds of niche communities, even the smallest you can imagine (like people who like round objects or people who try to talk without using some specific letter because they hate it etc.), sharing of [interesting](interesting.md) links and/or ideas, having a non-traditional comment system structured as a [tree](tree.md) and letting people vote on both posts and individual comments to bring up the ones they found most valuable (i.e. informative, funny, interesting etc.). Users also gathered so called "karma", a kind of points they cumulated for getting upvotes, so users had some sort of "level" -- the more karma, the more "elite" the user was (users could also gift so called *reddit gold* for excellent posts, basically giving the user a free premium account for a while); this not once led to so called *karma whoring*. Anyway, reddit was like an whole new Internet within the Internet, it was just a place where you could spend hours searching and discovering things you didn't even know you wanted to find -- any hobby or any detail you had a morbid curiosity about you could dig up on reddit, you could find large interviews with ambulance drivers who told fascinating stories they saw during their careers, schizophrenic people answering questions like "can you walk through the imaginary people you see?", discussions like "what's the weirdest thing that happened to you as a beekeeper", people digging out extremely weird videos on YouTube, solving mysteries in video games, even famous people like Barak Obama took part in reddit IAMA interviews and just answered all the weird questions the internet asked them. There were also porn communities and controversial communities like *r/watchpeopledie* where users just shared videos of people dying { This was my favorite, seeing people die and suffer was actually what led me to completely reject all violence later on in my life. ~drummyfish }. This was sort of the vanilla reddit experience. However, as they always do, money and [pseudoleftists](pseudoleft.md) soon swiftly killed all of this, a few greedy faggots just destroyed it all so that they could get even richer than they already were.
+
+What was the big moment? Basically in 2019 reddit presented one the most visible, greatest examples of a **profit motivated 180 degree turn from a [free speech](free_speech.md) site to a [censorship](censorship.md) dictatorship** -- as some cock invested money to reddit, the reddit CEO just said yeah, let's make this advertisement friendly and ban all free speech on the site; there were hilarious historical moments like Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of the site, saying "we never intended reddit to be the bastion of free speech" while someone actually found a quote of him saying the exact opposite in the past :D This shitstorm resulted in one of the greatest disasters to ever have happened on the Internet. Subreddits such as *r/politicallyincorrect*, *r/Offensive_Wallpapers*, *r/watchpeopledie*, *r/necrophilia*, *r/PicsOfHorseVaginas*, *r/sjwhate*, *r/lovenotacrime*, *r/fatpeoplehate* and THOUSANDS of other were all banned (you can probably still find them in archives, but you can no longer discuss of course). Of course those who criticized this were just banned too, anyone who showed a dislike of this got a "fuck you bitch" message from a mod with a swift ban. People not familiar with reddit or Internet too much perhaps didn't notice too much, but to an Internet citizen this was comparable to something like the Pope one day waking up, admitting to atheism, dressing up as Hitler and starting to masturbate on the balcony, cumming on people while promoting nuclear war. Of course this was completely expected under [capitalism](capitalism.md), reddit just showed a very rapid, "we don't give a shit about users or society or anything but money" kind of step, one that must show clear as day even to any blind idiot what capitalism really is about. After this many people left reddit for good { Including me. ~drummyfish }, some migrated to alternative sites like [Voat](voat.md), but it was never what it used to be, communities were fragmented and they mostly degenerated to small groups bitching about how reddit fucked up. At least it's a great lesson learned about "free market" society.
+
+Reddit had an extreme number of own memes, historical events, famous users, inside [jokes](jokes.md) and jargon -- it was kind of like a whole country. Especially notable are the [acronyms](acronym.md) that come from subreddit names and which reddit guys use in normal speech, like AMA (ask me anything), TIL (today I learned), TIFU (today I fucked up) or ELI5 (explain like I'm 5) etc.
+
+Reddit is a famous rival to [4chan](4chan.md), it's basically the [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) forum vs the [rightist](left_right.md) forum -- the forums trashtalk each other, raid each other, make fun of each other and so on.
 
 Typical reddit thread after [SJW](sjw.md) takeover looks like this:
 

rights_culture.md

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Rights Culture
 
-Rights culture is a [toxic](toxic.md) culture of the [law](law.md)-obsessed [capitalism](capitalism.md)-plagued western society in which common things such as [repairing things](right_to_repair.md) and [defecating without being watched](surveillance.md) start to become privileges ("rights") which common people have to "[fight](fight_culture.md)" for instead of doing useful things. It manifests in language by much more frequent use of the word "right" ("human rights", "worker rights", "men's rights", "animal rights", "I have a right to sleep", "I have a right to not listen to you", ...), reflecting the subconscious shift towards accepting that "what's not codified as a right is implicitly forbidden", creating a new [bullshit](bullshit.md) field of various "[fighters](fight_culture.md)" for all kinds of rights like the right to wipe one's ass with his right hand, right to wipe his ass with the left hand, right to receive what one pays for, right to not be tortured for arriving late at [slavery](work.md) etc. The solution to such a shitty state of society is of course not in codifying more rights and "fighting" for them, but rather replacing the shitty [underlying system](capitalism.md) which keeps turning common things into privileges; however it's also the solution people will never choose because people always do the exact opposite of what they should.
+Rights culture is a [toxic](toxic.md) culture of the [law](law.md)-obsessed [capitalism](capitalism.md)-plagued western society, mostly connected to so called "human rights movement", in which common things such as [repairing things](right_to_repair.md) and [defecating without being watched](surveillance.md) start to become privileges ("rights") which common people have to "[fight](fight_culture.md)" for instead of doing useful things. It manifests in language by much more frequent use of the word "right" ("human rights", "worker rights", "men's rights", "animal rights", "I have a right to sleep", "I have a right to not listen to you", ...), reflecting the subconscious shift towards accepting that "what's not codified as a right is implicitly forbidden", creating a new [bullshit](bullshit.md) field of various "[fighters](fight_culture.md)" for all kinds of rights like the right to wipe one's ass with his right hand, right to wipe his ass with the left hand, right to receive what one pays for, right to not be tortured for arriving late at [slavery](work.md) etc. The solution to such a shitty state of society is of course not in codifying more rights and "fighting" for them, but rather replacing the shitty [underlying system](capitalism.md) which keeps turning common things into privileges; however it's also the solution people will never choose because people always do the exact opposite of what they should.

wiki_authors.md

@@ -5,3 +5,5 @@ Contributors, list yourselves here if you have made at least one contribution. T
 Contributors to this wiki include:
 
 - Miloslav Číž aka [drummyfish](drummyfish.md) (https://www.tastyfish.cz)
+
+{ Though legally there are no collaborators -- I do my best to ensure I stay far away from the line of someone's copyrightable work making it here -- there are people who helped me with the wiki in a way that's practically significant, for example those who sent me interesting links, donations, corrected my errors, commented on something, suggested jokes and so on. I would like to thank them from my whole heart <3 As it may be risky for anyone to associate with me, I will implicitly not name anyone, but if you would want your name or nick here, let me know. ~drummyfish }

wiki_stats.md

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 This is an autogenerated article holding stats about this wiki.
 
 - number of articles: 561
-- number of commits: 710
+- number of commits: 711
-- total size of all texts in bytes: 3118300
+- total size of all texts in bytes: 3125414
 
 longest articles:
 
@@ -24,6 +24,29 @@ longest articles:
 latest changes:
 
 ```
+Date:   Mon Feb 26 11:38:00 2024 +0100
+bloat.md
+brain_software.md
+compiler_bomb.md
+consumerism.md
+digital_signature.md
+jokes.md
+marketing.md
+modern.md
+open_source.md
+random_page.md
+sudoku.md
+tas.md
+ted_kaczynski.md
+tor.md
+trolling.md
+unix_philosophy.md
+usa.md
+uxn.md
+vector.md
+wiki_pages.md
+wiki_stats.md
+wikiwikiweb.md
 Date:   Sun Feb 25 21:07:35 2024 +0100
 c.md
 capitalism.md
@@ -34,35 +57,6 @@ wiki_pages.md
 wiki_stats.md
 www.md
 Date:   Sun Feb 25 01:09:12 2024 +0100
-3d_rendering.md
-abstraction.md
-ai.md
-aliasing.md
-analytic_geometry.md
-anarchism.md
-anpac.md
-approximation.md
-ascii_art.md
-assembly.md
-bbs.md
-bloat.md
-c_tutorial.md
-chaos.md
-chess.md
-coc.md
-competition.md
-compression.md
-computer.md
-copyleft.md
-cpp.md
-demoscene.md
-docker.md
-dynamic_programming.md
-elon_musk.md
-encyclopedia.md
-entropy.md
-furry.md
-gnu.md
 ```
 
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