What is Real? was Re: Review Finds No Answers to Mystery of Havana Syndrome

[Stefan Claas]

On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 8:07 PM Karl <gmkarl at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> On 12/5/21, Stefan Claas <spam.trap.mailing.lists at 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