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Despite some flaws (such as being [Linux](linux.md) with all the [bloat](bloat.md) and proprietary blobs), Devuan is still one of the best [operating systems](os.md) for most people and it is at this time recommended by [us](us.md) over most other [distros](distro.md) not just for avoiding systemd, but mainly for its adoption of Debian [free software](free_software.md) definition that requires software to be free as a whole, including its data (i.e. respecting also [free culture](free_culture.md)). It is also a nicely working [unix](unix.md) system that's easy to install and which is still relatively unbloated.
{ I can recommend Devuan, I've been using it as my main OS for several years. ~drummyfish }
{ I can recommend Devuan, I've been using it as my main OS for several years. NOTE: some people told me Devuan is impure because it's still kinda bloated and recommends bloated stuff like Firefox etc., they recommended e.g. Dragora and Hyperbola -- this is absolutely true, **basically nothing ideal exists at the moment**, and any software recommendation always comes with the danger of it becoming shit over time, always keep that in mind; really recommending any software at this point comes down to discussing what's least shit, what [suckles the least](suckless.md) and also putting a a lot of weight on subjective factors. Also distros don't matter basically, they are all shit, just choose something that doesn't stand too much in the way of your creation and accept that it sucks. If you are skilled you can set up a much better Unix than Debian, Debian is a recommendation for a user who wants a good balance between "close to LRS" and "[just werks](just_werks.md)"; if you are skilled enough to set up a close to ideal system you probably don't need my recommendation on a distro, you can find it yourself. ~drummyfish }

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Partially thanks to the release of the engine under a [FOSS](foss.md) license and its relatively [suckless](suckless.md) design ([C](c.md) language, [software rendering](sw_rendering.md), ...), Doom has been [ported](port.md), both officially and unofficially, to a great number of platforms (e.g. [Gameboy Advance](gba.md), [PS1](playstation.md), even [SNES](snes.md)) and has become a kind of **de facto standard [benchmark](benchmark.md)** for computer platforms -- you will often hear the phrase: **"but does it run Doom?"** Porting a Doom to any platform has become kind of a [meme](meme.md), someone allegedly even ported it to a pregnancy test (though it didn't actually run on the test, it was really just a display). { Still [Anarch](anarch.md) may be even more portable than Doom :) ~drummyfish }
The major leap that Doom engine's graphics brought was unprecedented, however Doom was not just a game with good graphics, it had extremely good gameplay, legendary [music](music.md) and art style and introduced the revolutionary [deathmatch](deathmatch.md) multiplayer, as well as a HUGE modding and mapping community. It was a success in every way -- arguably no other game has since achieved a greater revolution than Doom (no, not even [Minecraft](minecraft.md), [World of Warcraft](wow.md) etc.). Many reviews of it just went along the lines: "OK, Doom is the best game ever made. now let's just take a look at the details...".
The major leap that Doom engine's graphics brought was unprecedented, however Doom was not just a game with good graphics, it had extremely good gameplay, legendary [music](music.md) and art style and introduced the revolutionary [deathmatch](deathmatch.md) multiplayer (the name *deathmatch* itself was coined by Romero during Doom multiplayer sessions), as well as a HUGE modding and mapping community. It was a success in every way -- arguably no other game has since achieved a greater revolution than Doom (no, not even [Minecraft](minecraft.md), [World of Warcraft](wow.md) etc.). Many reviews of it just went along the lines: "OK, Doom is the best game ever made. now let's just take a look at the details...".
The game's backstory was simple and didn't stand in the way of gameplay, it's basically about a tough marine (so called *Doomguy*) on a Mars military base slaying hordes of demons from hell, all in a rock/metal style with a lot of gore and over-the-top violence (chain saws n stuff).
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- Someone created a Doom system monitor for [Unix](unix.md) systems called [psDooM](psdoom.md) where the monsters in game are the operating system [processes](process.md) and killing the monsters kills the processes.
- Someone (kgsws) has been [hacking](hacking.md) the ORIGINAL Doom engine in an impressive way WITHOUT modifying the source code or the binary, rather using [arbitrary code execution](arbitrary_code_execution.md) bug; he added very advanced features known from newer source ports, for example an improved 3D rendering algorithms allowing geometry above geometry etc. (see e.g. https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=RdbRPNPUWlU). It's called the Ace engine.
- Doom sprites were made from photos of physical things: weapons are modified photos of toys, enemies were made from clay and then photographed from multiple angles (actually a great alternative to [3D modeling](3d_model.md) that's less dependent on computers and produces more realistic results).
- The strongest weapon in the game is name BFG9000, which stands for "big fucking gun".
- TODO
## Doom Engine/Code

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But if anyone is allowed to do anything with the universe and so possibly incompatible works may be created, then **what is canon?!** Well, anything you want -- it's the same as with proprietary universes, regardless of official canon there may be different groups of fans that disagree about what is canon and there may be works that contradict someone's canon, there is no issue here.
**Existing free universes**: existence of a serious project aiming for the creation of a free universe as its main goal is unknown to us, however free universes may be spawned as a byproduct of other free works -- for example old public domain [books](book.md) of fiction, such as [Flatland](flatland.md), or [libre games](libre_game.md) such as [FLARE](flare.md), [Anarch](anarch.md) or [FreeDink](freedink.md) create a free universe. The [MMORPG](mmorpg.md) game [Ryzom](ryzom.md) releases its lore and content under a free license, spawning a huge, rich and high quality fantasy universe (though the game's server isn't libre and hence the game as such isn't altogether free). Libre comics such as Pepper and Carrot (https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/wiki), Wuffle Comics (https://web.archive.org/web/20200117033753/http://www.wufflecomics.com/) and Phil from GCHQ (https://phillfromgchq.co.uk/) also give life to their own free universes. If you want to start a free universe project, go for it, it would be highly valued!
**Existing free universes**: existence of a serious project aiming purely for the creation of a free universe as its main goal is unknown to us, though there are some project of similar nature, for example "open"geofiction (https://opengeofiction.net/) creating a fictional map of the world, which is however proprietary ([NC](nc.md) license), i.e. also an example of [openwashing](openwashing.md). Free universes may be spawned as a byproduct of other free works -- for example old public domain [books](book.md) of fiction, such as [Flatland](flatland.md), or [libre games](libre_game.md) such as [FLARE](flare.md), [Anarch](anarch.md) or [FreeDink](freedink.md) create a free universe. The [MMORPG](mmorpg.md) game [Ryzom](ryzom.md) releases its lore and content under a free license, spawning a huge, rich and high quality fantasy universe (though the game's server isn't libre and hence the game as such isn't altogether free). Libre comics such as Pepper and Carrot (https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/wiki), Wuffle Comics (https://web.archive.org/web/20200117033753/http://www.wufflecomics.com/) and Phil from GCHQ (https://phillfromgchq.co.uk/) also give life to their own free universes. If you want to start a free universe project, go for it, it would be highly valued!
## See Also

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# Google
Google (also Goolag) is one the very top [big tech](big_tech.md) [corporations](corporation.md), as well as one of the worst corporations in history (if not THE worst), comparable only to [Micro$oft](microsoft.md) and [Facebook](facebook.md). Google is gigantically evil and largely controls the [Internet](internet.md), pushes mass surveillance, personal data collection and abuse, ads, [bloat](bloat.md), [fascism](tranny_software.md) and [censorship](censorship.md).
Google (also Goolag) is one the very top and most evil [big tech](big_tech.md) [corporations](corporation.md), as well as one of the worst corporations in [history](history.md) (if not THE worst), comparable only to [Micro$oft](microsoft.md), [Apple](apple.md) and [Facebook](facebook.md). Google is gigantically evil and largely controls the [Internet](internet.md), pushes mass surveillance, personal data collection and abuse, ads, [bloat](bloat.md), [fascism](tranny_software.md) and [censorship](censorship.md).
Google's motto used to be **"Don't be evil"**, but in 2018 they ditched it lol xD
Google raised to the top thanks to its [search engine](search_engine.md) launched in the 90s. It soon got a **monopoly on the Internet search** and started pushing ads. Nowadays Google's search engine basically just promotes "content" on Google's own content platforms such as [YouTube](youtube.md) and of course censors sites deemed politically incorrect.
Besides heavily biasing web search results towards Google's own and friendly platforms, Google also heavily censors the search results and won't show links to prohibited sites unless you literally very specifically show that you want to find a prohibited site you already know of, for example you won't find results leading to [Metapedia](metapedia.md) or Encyclopedia Dramatica unless you literally search for the url of those sites of long verbatim phrases they contain -- this is a trick played on those who "test" Google which at is mean to make it look as if Google actually isn't censored, however it is of course censored because the only people who will ever find the prohibited sites and their content are people who already know about it and are specifically searching for it just to test Google's censorship. { EDIT: tho Google also seems to refuse to give some URLs no matter what, e.g. https://infogalactic.com. Just tested it. ~drummyfish } If you intend to truly search the Internet, don't rely on Google's results but search with multiple engines (that have their own index) such as Mojeek, Yandex, Right Dao, [wiby](wiby.md), [YaCy](yacy.md), Qwant etc. (and of course search the [darknet](darknet.md)).
**If you are relying on Goolag for your search, you are missing on a huge part of the web**, you will simply never see links to huge parts of the web which currently include e.g. [Kiwifarms](kiwifarms.md), [Metapedia](metapedia.md), [Encyclopedia Dramatica](dramatica.md), [Infogalactic](infogalactic.md), [Incels wiki](incels_wiki.md), [8kun](8kun.md) and many others. You are literally using crippled "search engine" if it can even be called so anymore, you're seeing a tiny bubble of preapproved content.
Google has created a malicious [capitalist](capitalist_software.md) mobile "[operating system](operating_system.md)" called [Android](android.md), which they based on [Linux](linux.md) with which they managed to bypass its [copyleft](copyleft.md) by making Android de-facto dependent on their proprietary *Play Store* and other programs. I.e. they managed to take a [free](free_software.md) project and make a de-facto [proprietary](proprietary.md) [malware](malware.md) out of it -- a system that typically doesn't allow users to modify its internals and turn off its malicious features. With Android they invaded a huge number of devices from cells phones to TVs and have the ability to spy on the users of these devices.
Besides heavily biasing web search results towards Google's own and friendly platforms, Google also **heavily censors** the search results and won't show links to prohibited sites unless you literally very specifically show that you want to find a prohibited site you already know of, for example you won't find results leading to [Metapedia](metapedia.md) or Encyclopedia Dramatica unless you literally search for the url of those sites of long verbatim phrases they contain -- this is a trick played on those who "test" Google which at is mean to make it look as if Google actually isn't censored, however it is of course censored because the only people who will ever find the prohibited sites and their content are people who already know about it and are specifically searching for it just to test Google's censorship. { EDIT: tho Google also seems to refuse to give some URLs no matter what, e.g. https://infogalactic.com. Just tested it. ~drummyfish } If you intend to truly search the Internet, don't rely on Google's results but search with multiple engines (that have their own index) such as Mojeek, Yandex, Right Dao, [wiby](wiby.md), [YaCy](yacy.md), Qwant etc. (and of course search the [darknet](darknet.md)), also check out [metasearch engines](metasearch_engine.md) like [SearxNG](searxng.md).
Google has created a malicious [capitalist](capitalist_software.md) mobile "[operating system](operating_system.md)" called [Android](android.md), which they based on [Linux](linux.md) with which they managed to bypass its [copyleft](copyleft.md) by making Android de-facto dependent on their proprietary *Play Store* and other programs. I.e. they managed to take a [free](free_software.md) project and make a de-facto [proprietary](proprietary.md) [malware](malware.md) out of it -- a system that typically doesn't allow users to modify its internals and turn off its malicious features. Android is also one of the ugliest pieces of software ever made, requiring hugely specific and expensive computer setup just for its compilation. With Android they invaded a huge number of devices from cells phones to TVs and have the ability to spy on the users of these devices.
Google also tries to steal the [public domain](public_domain.md): they scan and digitize old books whose [copyright](copyright.md) has expired and put the on the [Internet archive](internet_archive.md), however in these scans they put a condition that the scans should not be used for commercial purposes, i.e. they try to keep exclusive commercial right for public domain works, something they have no right to do at all.

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# Kiwifarms
Kiwifarms is a website accessible at https://kiwifarms.net whose address is highly [censored](censorship.md), known for mostly harmless funmaking of online people (usually autists and schizos, see e.g. [Sonichu](sonichu.md)). It's a center of a lot of "anti cyber bullying" hysteria and drama. We just want to leave the link to the site here as it's being censored everywhere.

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| [copyright](copyright.md) | copywrong, copyrestriction |
| [democracy](democracy.md) | democrazy |
| digital rights management ([DRM](drm.md)) | digital restrictions management |
| [encryption](encryption.md) | bloatcryption |
| [entrepreneur](entrepreneur.md) | murderer |
| fair trade | fair rape |
| [feminism](feminism.md) | feminazism, femifascism |

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| [GUI](gui.md) library | easy/mid | | | |like SAF but for "PC" GUI (mouse, sound, ...), now GUI's a mess | |
| image/2D data library | mid? | | | | C/comun lib for bitmaps (FFT, formats, ...), needs good planning| |
| logic circuit library/simulator (comun)| mid/hard? | | | | will be needed for PD computer | |
| "[micronation](micronation.md)" | ??? | | | | kinda joke, has to be anarchist, no money/government/army | |
| [MUD](mud.md) codebase (C or comun) | mid | | | | AFAIK there is no nice MUD codebase now | |
| nice polished concise encyclopedia | mid/hard? | | | | nice printable UNCENSORED encyclop. (clone of Larousse Desk E.) | |
| neural net/other ML library | hard? | | | | could use something KISS in pure C without needed python n shit | nothing |

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Open source is unfortunately (but unsurprisingly) becoming more prevalent than free software, as it better serves [capitalism](capitalism.md) and abuse of people, and its followers are more and more hostile towards the free software movement. This is very dangerous, ethics and focus on actual user freedom is replaced by shallow legal definitions that can be bypassed, e.g. by [capitalist software](capitalist_software.md) and [bloat monopoly](bloat_monopoly.md). In a way open source is capitalism reshaping free software so as to weaken it and eventually make its principles of freedom ineffective. Open source tries to shift the goal posts: more and more it offers only an illusion of some kind of ethics and/or freedom, it pushes towards mere partial openness ("open source" for proprietary platforms), towards high complexity, inclusion of unethical business-centered features ([autoupdates](autoupdate.md), [DRM](drm.md), ...), high interdependency, difficulty of utilizing the rights granted by the license, exclusion of developers with "incorrect" political opinions or bad brand image etc. In practice open source has become something akin a mere **brand** which is stick to a piece of software to give users with little insight a feeling they're buying into something good -- this is called **[openwashing](openwashing.md)**. This claim is greatly supported by the fact that corporations such as [Microsoft](microsoft.md) and [Google](google.md) widely embrace open source ("Microsoft <3 open source", the infamous [GitHub](github.md) acquisition etc.).
One great difference of open source with respect to free software is that **open source doesn't mind proprietary dependencies and only "partially open" projects** (see also [open core](open_core.md)): [Windows](windows.md) only programs or [games](game.md) in [proprietary](proprietary.md) engines such as [Unity](unity.md) are happily called open source -- this would be impossible in the context of free software because as [Richard Stallman](rms.md) says software can only be free if it is free as a whole, it takes a single proprietary line of code to allow abuse of the user. The "open source" communities nowadays absolutely **don't care a bit about freedom or ethics** (the majority of open source supporting zoomers most likely don't even know there was ever any connection), many "open source" proponents even react aggressively to bringing the idea of [ethics](ethics.md) up. "Open source" communities use locked, abusive proprietary platforms such as [Discord](discord.md), Google cloud documents and [Micro$oft's](microsoft.md) [GitHub](github.md) to create software and collaborate -- users without Discord and/or GitHub account often aren't even offered a way to contribute, report bugs or ask for support. There are many "open source" projects that are just meant to be part of a mostly proprietary environment, for example the [Mangos](mangod.md) implementation of [World of Warcraft](wow.md) server, which of course has to be used with the proprietary WoW client and with proprietary server assets, which gives Blizzard (the owner of WoW) complete legal control over any server running on such an "open source" server (such servers always only rely on Blizzard temporarily TOLERATING their small noncommercial communities, despite Blizzard having taken some of them down with legal action) -- calling such a project "free software" in this context would just sound laughable, so they rather call it "open source", i.e. "no, there is no freedom, but the source is technically open". Lately you will even see more and more people just calling any software "open" as long as some part of its source code is available for viewing on GitHub, no matter the license or any other considerations.
One great difference of open source with respect to free software is that **open source doesn't mind proprietary dependencies and only "partially open" projects** (see also [open core](open_core.md)): [Windows](windows.md) only programs or [games](game.md) in [proprietary](proprietary.md) engines such as [Unity](unity.md) are happily called open source -- this would be impossible in the context of free software because as [Richard Stallman](rms.md) says software can only be free if it is free as a whole, it takes a single proprietary line of code to allow abuse of the user. The "open source" communities nowadays absolutely **don't care a bit about [freedom](freedom.md) or [ethics](ethics.md)** (the majority of open source supporting zoomers most likely don't even know there was ever any connection), many "open source" proponents even react aggressively to bringing the idea of [ethics](ethics.md) up. "Open source" communities use locked, abusive proprietary platforms such as [Discord](discord.md), Google cloud documents and [Micro$oft's](microsoft.md) [GitHub](github.md) to create software and collaborate -- users without Discord and/or GitHub account often aren't even offered a way to contribute, report bugs or ask for support. There are many "open source" projects that are just meant to be part of a mostly proprietary environment, for example the [Mangos](mangod.md) implementation of [World of Warcraft](wow.md) server, which of course has to be used with the proprietary WoW client and with proprietary server assets, which gives Blizzard (the owner of WoW) complete legal control over any server running on such an "open source" server (such servers always only rely on Blizzard temporarily TOLERATING their small noncommercial communities, despite Blizzard having taken some of them down with legal action) -- calling such a project "free software" in this context would just sound laughable, so they rather call it "open source", i.e. "no, there is no freedom, but the source is technically open". Lately you will even see more and more people just calling any software/project "open" as long as some part of its source code is [available](source_available.md) for viewing on GitHub, no matter the license or any other considerations (see e.g. "open"geofiction etc.).
The open source definition is maintained by the [Open Source Initiative](osi.md) (OSI) -- they define what exactly classifies as open source and which [licenses](license.md) are compatible with it. These licenses are mostly the same as those approved by the [FSF](fsf.md) (even though not 100%). The open source definition is a bit more complex than that of free software, in a nutshell it goes along the lines:

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Viznut (real name Ville-Matias Heikkilä) is a Finnish [demoscene](demoscene.md) programmer, [hacker](hacking.md) and [artist](art.md) that advocated high technological [minimalism](minimalism.md). He is known for example for his [countercomplex](countercomplex.md) blog, co-discovering [bytebeat](bytebeat.md), creating [IBNIZ](ibniz.md) and starting [permacomputing wiki](permacomputing_wiki.md). In his own words, he believes much more can be done with much less. He also warns of [collapse](collapse.md) (http://viznut.fi/en/future.html). According to his [Fediverse](fediverse.md) page he lives in Turku, Finland, was born around 1977 and has been programming since the age of seven.
{ Lol he's not responding to my emails :] ~drummyfish }
His work is pretty based, in many ways aligned with [LRS](lrs.md), he contributed a great deal to minimalist technology. Unfortunately in some ways he also seems pretty retarded: he uses [facebook](facebook.md), [twitter](twitter.md) and [github](github.md) and also mentions "personal pronouns" on his twitter xD Pretty disappointing TBH. This would make Viznut a [type A fail](fail_ab.md).
His personal site is at http://viznut.fi/en/ and his blog at http://countercomplex.blogspot.com/. He collects many files at http://viznut.fi/files/, including very interesting writings about demoscene, programming experiments etc.

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