On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 8:07 PM Karl <gmkarl@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/5/21, Stefan Claas <spam.trap.mailing.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
Man that's really crummy. I've done things like that a lot. I am happy to be your friend regardless of how we might disagree about network topology or whatnot, given you had this experience (for as long as I remember you had it). Psychoses are crazy. Note: I think my psychosis might have been a misdiagnosis for multiple dissociative disorders after finding https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7001344/ .
Indeed they are (unfortunately) crazy. When I had mine, I was completely knocked out, had to stay in psychiatry and lost all my friends from the real worl.
When I was young I purchased or collected many books and US magazines regarding computer technology. When Zeynep recently posted that she purchased Bruce Schneier's book I found this also awesome, which shows me that Zeynep is on the right track being a Cypherpunk, because she has privacy when reading a real book and not surfing the Internet to read things about Crypto. To bad for the young smartphone generation, hanging on the virtual needle, will forget later or do not know how we old farts did certain things.
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). :-)
wrote public domain software, without this OpenSource license crap?
Ehh I remember a lot of 'shareware', I must have missed the public domain stuff. I've written some public domain stuff but never gotten a lot of contributions back, so I like the GPL now.
Maybe it is because of the online politics, the lack of public domain contributions. Interesting thought. I never thought of software licensing as bad before; I've never heard anyone criticise it for reasons that make sense. Often people complain that businesses can't use it, I don't really understand why that would be. etically, I could do this, but then the
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. [1] What I like about Golang so much, I can cross-compile for 26 different platforms, so when I use a Linux version I can cross-compile for friends etc. a Windows .exe :-) 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. Regards Stefan