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{ answers by ~drummyfish }
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### Is this a joke?
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### Is this a joke? Are you trolling?
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No.
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### How does LRS differ from [suckless](suckless.md), [KISS](kiss.md) and similar types of software?
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These sets largely overlap and LRS is often just a slightly different angle of looking at the same things. I have invented LRS as my own take on suckless software -- as I cannot speak on behalf of the whole suckless community, I have created my own "fork" and simply set my own definitions without worrying about misinterpreting and misquoting someone else. However, LRS does have its specific ideas and areas of focus such as its stress on public domain and legal safety, altruism, anti-capitalism, accepting software such as games, NOT subscribing to the [productivity cult](productivity_cult.md), seeing [privacy](privacy.md) as ultimately undesirable etc.
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Technically these sets largely overlap and LRS is sometimes just a slightly different angle of looking at the same things. I have invented LRS as my own take on suckless software -- as I cannot speak on behalf of the whole suckless community, I have created my own "fork" and simply set my own definitions without worrying about misinterpreting and misquoting someone else. However, LRS does have its specific ideas and areas of focus. The main point is that **LRS is derived from an unconditional love of all life** rather than some shallow idea such as "[productivity](productivity_cult.md)". In practice this leads to such things as a high stress put on [public domain](public_domain.md) and legal safety, altruism, anti-capitalism, accepting software such as games as desirable type of software, NOT subscribing to the [productivity cult](productivity_cult.md), seeing [privacy](privacy.md) as ultimately undesirable etc.
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### Why this obsession with extreme simplicity? Is it because you're too stupid to understand complex stuff?
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### Why not keep politics out of this Wiki and make it purely about technology?
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Examining any subject in depth requires also understanding its context. Politics and technology nowadays are very much intertwined and the politics of a society ultimately significantly affects what its technology looks like ([capitalist SW](capitalist_software.md), [censorship](censorship.md), [bloat](bloat.md), [spyware](spyware.md), [DRM](drm.md), ...), what goals it serves (consumerism, [productivity](productivity_cult.md), control, war, peace, ...) and how it is developed ([COCs](cos.md), [free software](free_software.md), ...), so studying technology ultimately requires understanding politics around it. I hate arguing about politics, but it is inevitable, we have to specify real-life goals clearly if we're to create good technology. Political goals guide us in making important design decisions about features, [tradeoffs](tradeoff.md) and other attributes.
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Firstly for us technological progress is secondary to the primary type of progress in society: the social progress. The goal of our civilization is to provide good conditions for life -- this is social progress and mankind's main goal. Technological progress only serves to achieve this, so technological progress follows from the goals of social progress. So, to define technology we have to first know what it should help achieve in society. And for that we need to talk politics.
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Of course you can fork this wiki and try to remove politics from it, but I think it won't be possible to just keep the technology part alone so that it makes sense, most things will be left without justification and explanation.
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Secondly examining any existing subject in depth requires also understanding its context anyway. Politics and technology nowadays are very much intertwined and the politics of a society ultimately significantly affects what its technology looks like ([capitalist SW](capitalist_software.md), [censorship](censorship.md), [bloat](bloat.md), [spyware](spyware.md), [DRM](drm.md), ...), what goals it serves (consumerism, [productivity](productivity_cult.md), control, war, peace, ...) and how it is developed ([COCs](cos.md), [free software](free_software.md), ...), so studying technology ultimately requires understanding politics around it. I hate arguing about politics, sometimes it literally make me suicidal, but it is inevitable, we have to specify real-life goals clearly if we're to create good technology. Political goals guide us in making important design decisions about features, [tradeoffs](tradeoff.md) and other attributes of technology.
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Of course you can fork this wiki and try to remove politics from it, but I think it won't be possible to just keep the technology part alone so that it would still make sense, most things will be left without justification and explanation.
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### What is the political direction of LRS then?
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[Anarcho pacifist](anpac.md) [communism](communism.md), however we are NOT [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) (i.e. we don't support political correctness, violence, cancel culture, Marxism-Leninism etc.). We create technology to help everyone and abuse no one, i.e. a technology for the society of people that are socially (not necessarily physically) equal. Aiming for equality we reject anti-equality means and concepts such as violence, censorship, bullying, canceling, capitalism, governments, police, wars etc.
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[Anarcho pacifist](anpac.md) [communism](communism.md), however we are NOT [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) (i.e. we don't support political correctness, violence, cancel culture, Marxism-Leninism etc.). We try to pursue [good](good.md) to the extreme. We create technology to help everyone and abuse no one, i.e. a technology for the society of people that are socially (not necessarily physically) equal, i.e. loved equally. Aiming for equality we reject anti-equality means and concepts such as violence, censorship, bullying, canceling, capitalism, governments, police, wars etc.
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### Why do you blame everything on capitalism when most of the issues you talk about, like propaganda, surveillance, exploitation of the poor and general abuse of power, appeared also under practically any other systems we've seen in history?
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No.
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### Are you the only one in the world who is not affected by the propaganda?
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It definitely seems so.
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### How does it feel to be the only one on this planet to see the undistorted truth of reality?
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Pretty lonely and depressing.
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### Are you a crank?
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Depending on exact definition the answer is either "no" or "yes and it's a good thing".
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### Are you retarded?
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:( Maybe, but even a stupid person can sometimes have smart ideas.
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