On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 9:19 PM Karl <gmkarl@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/5/21, Stefan Claas <spam.trap.mailing.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah :( sometimes I contact old friends and further alienate them with harmful expressions. It's sad. But psychotic behavior patterns are really interesting, I think they say so much about things that happen in our culture and the human condition. I think a lot of people have diverse opinions on this.
Yes, and it happens more and more to people and regarding culture (in western countries) don't get me started on a whole new topic and my opinion about this. :-)
The thing or someone like zeynep to do is to collaborate with your community to pay for a huge disk, and download all the books to the disk and share them offline with your friends. This way people without funds, or who are not yet targeted online, can read things. I don't remember the name for this but grarpamp would know.
Yes, and for example, regarding a programming language one can do the same, i.e. purchasing a book and code offline.
When I was young you could buy programming languages with their manual (in book form). :-)
My early learning developed a lot with books from Waite Group with their CDs in the back. I think I'm younger than you.
Yes, I remember Waite Group. :-)
My GitHub Golang[1] stuff has no licenses because my opinion is that users at home, can do what they want to do with it, which I cannot control and if companies would use it I do not give the slightest fuck if their IoT stuff breaks, not my problem. No one is forced to use my stuff. Should one come with a lawyer I would show them my middle finger, because I am not bound by German law or by GitHub requirements to provide one. If I had to provide one I would write my own.
Sounds like public domain doesn't protect you if others misuse your work.
Well, simply said public domain and I do not have to worry. :-)
BTW. Golang folks are highly sought-after people. Me as an old fart, not interested in making money with Golang, have already received 5 well paid job offers (permanent) in different countries, early this year.
Other languages include rust and haskell.
I focus on python since huggingface is trying to use it to take over the world more communally than other corps are. I'm forgetting C++, which used to be my favorite language, kinda weird, should maybe do so more systems-style coding a little or something.
I like to add, I am not a programmer like you. When I started trying to learn programming it was when I purchased my Atari 800XL and a friend gave me an Assembly language cartridge to play with it. An older person back then taught it to us, but I found it boring and really time-consuming. Later came Basic and K&R C Language but also lost interest. My interest in Golang came from a well-known person in privacy circles who started many years ago with Golang, I found it interesting and later noodled around with it. So, when something interests me I do it in Golang. The advantage for me is that Golang, regarding crypto, has always many such libraries and I think the language is easy to learn. What I also like about Golang is that in my city the Golang club has over 2000 young members, which I think is really awesome. To add to this I also have no time to dive deep into programming. I do other things too, like Computer Graphics and 3D printing. Regards Stefan