Miscallenous Rants

Reading music: Narcissu 1 Soundtrack - The Emerald Sea

Don't get me wrong, I don't care about all this political fuss surrounding this, however I'm tangentially interested in mass surveillance and the developments surrounding it, and I found it really fascinating how the discussion in Germany in regards this issue is "Should we use this powerful and American software or make our own" and not "Should we surveill every citizen in some grand program with a database containing every possible information about every possible person". It's as if everybody just doesn't care about this absolutely insane project happening and the only thing you are allowed to discuss is whether it's okay that the Yankees are involved, and not that you might not want this in first place. Fucking grim.

PS: I'm aware that even without Palantir there probably exists some software operated by the BND or some shit that does exactly the same, but I find it remarkable how everybody just accepts the pretense that we should live in a grand panaopticon and the only thing you should care about is how to do it.

Reading music: Richard Stallman - Free Software Song

Do the people who use the word "tinkering" and adjacent words like "tinkerware" or "tinkertranny" as an insult, predominately on 4/g/, even have an interest in computers or are they only here to bitch about politics and free (as in freedom) software not catering to them? Like do these people have, god forbid, """fun""" (ever heard of that?) when tinkering with computers, or are they so up their own ass that they just post about how they are serious, employed, white, heterosexual men that like using Windows 11 and VSCode on their computers to do serious, employed people work? Do those people have personal projects, where they might have to tinker themselves with computers? Holy shit, what is wrong this board? I don't believe those are real people. If those people are real, they must be the most miserable people alive.

Reading music: CLANNAD Soundtrack 2025 - Spring Breeze (Piano)

When I first got introduced to the anonymous part of the Internet and imageboards, I was absorbed by them, and spent day and night on them. I had a deep interest in their history and culture, to some degree I still do today, but the part of me that thought they were conceptually a great thing became less and less over time. I don't have anything better to offer, but I have a few impressions to share.

One thing about anonymity is this notion of "Anonymity is good, because you can say what you truly think without consequences" and I never quite got that point, and recently I'm feeling a lot like this is not an argument at all, if you can call it even that. I think if you truly act upon this princple, you will end up having a dissonance between what you truly think and what you admit publicly to thinking. To me this situation where people will only admit what they think under the disguise of anonymity is wrong. Maybe I'm naive and don't understand that hiding yourself behind anonymity is a necessary evil, nevertheless this notion keeps bugging me, and feels wrong.

The other thing about imageboards is that shilling, ads, and spam are much easier and there is barely anything that can be done about it. In that sense it is a flawed concept and there is no way of mitigating this, unlike a with a forum or other kind of website would.

In spite of all this problems, I still feel like imageboards are the websites that ressonate the most with me, by their concept, the people who inhabit them, and the culture of them. Obviously all the problems are well-known and everybody has heard about them already, but I felt like writing them down regardless.

Reading music: Touhou 1 Highly Responsive to Prayers OST - Iris

Sometimes I wonder what my life would be if I still cared. I've seen this post on 4/g/ and had to think of my past self, who had the same mindset as this Anon. You know, actually caring about having control over technology and not technology having control over you. I suppose it's in principle still a worthwhile endavor, but I have to admit that I don't care about this stuff anymore. Am I demoralized or brainwashed? I mean, I'm not immune to propaganda, nobody is, as such I feel like I might be fallen into a mental trap, an unhelpful way of thinking, however, you can only change what you think, not what you feel. Maybe the spirit has left me and I'm fully sedated, that's it.

I've not touched my shitty code for over a week, because my thoughts just disappear whilst thinking them. It's so fucked. I cannot do anything, all my thoughts just get interrupted, and don't return. I don't care about being "productive", I just wish I could do things that are fun to me and bring me joy without my mind making everything retarded, bad, and such that it sucks. I'm really exhausted and I do nothing but lie in my bed, and not do anything. I just stare at the ceilling and hope that this problem just magically disappears.

After the ID verification thing being mandatory for all new hardware manufacturers to include a cryptographically signed ID hardcoded into your firmware, there will be several waves of malware targeted at old devices, and in particular devices that allow the user to retain his freedom, bricking those devices definetly, in order to force the niggercattle to get new hardware, which then only runs when you have the cryptographically signed ID verification thing running. Those malware waves will either be unexplained, or even better, blamed on some unbeknownst threat actor, and it will come in multiple waves, to ensure all hardware useful for anything is fucked. I believe this will probably happen, as such you should be prepared, even though there will be little you can do about it. If you want to think further, it could be a potential use case for the Intel Management Engine, or maybe it's merely bugs in Linux, which will be exploited. I have no clue, but I'm sure those malware waves will happen, and rape any devices not made to be part of the Botnet. Supply chain attacks on Linux, the BSDs, GNU, various tools such a OpenSSH, OpenSSL/LibreSSL, and such could also happen. How to defend against it? You don't, you're just fucked if that happens, because there will be sufficent resources put into this project, so the government doesn't have to worry about somebody using freedom-enabling hardware. The masses will see no problem with this and it's probable everyone, who believes those malware attacks were centrally planned will be dismissed as a conspiracy mythicist saga legend theorist.

Imagine not being able to entertain yourself by just thinking of funny things yourself…BUUUUT, oh noes, we don't do that, it's "weird" and somehow "bad", oh nooeees, what if people LOOK at you weirdly?!??!?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAA Yeah, no thanks, I won't watch some "entertainer" or "content creator" to tell me jokes, all the funny things are in my brain, and I just laugh about that. "People look at you weirdly when you walk down the street and just start laughing for no reason". So? What's the issue? Imagine just denying yourself fun, because it's "not socially acceptable".

I think this is one of those things that you only understand if you have been secluded from society for a while, because they think you need somebody else to have a fun time, but in reality you can just think about funny things in your head and have endless fun.

TL;DR dependency management makes it impossible to install old software, a Linux system is practically useless without an Internet connection, airgapped, and every system is a very fragile construct of depedencies, and all solutions to solve that are even worse than the regular package managers.

…but everyone pretends like it's the best thing since sliced bread. The way most distributions do package management is utterly retarded, and inferior to what Windows has to offer. The response to this is as predictable as rain when you see dark, heavy clouds above your head: "You don't know shit. Don't you know there are .deb's, .rpm's, tarballs, snaps, Appimages, and such and such", they will dismiss you as a newbie, in particular `/g/`, because some "Linux content creator" told them to think that way. They think they have figured it all out, because how could somebody who uses the contrarian's OS be wrong about something? It's unlike the mainstream does it, so without a shadow of a doubt, it's what MUST be the correct way of doing it (!!) Fucking retards found out about Linux when Windows 11 came out by virtue of being a social media addict, but pretend like they know it all.

Soooo, what's wrong with Linux package management? There is not a singular way Linux OSes do package management, but they certainly all suck. The most common way, a regular package manager like apt or pacman, will require you to build your own little environment of depedencies from scratch, not being compatible with any other Linux system. Ever tried running GTK-2 applications on a modern Linux? If you have so, you know what I'm talking about. It's almost impossible, whereas a statically compiled executable for Windows XP can run on modern Windows without any problems. This is also why there is no such thing as piracy on Linux; to distribute copies of a pirated program, you need to have portable executables that run agnostic of what other programs are installed, which versions are installed, which tool chains are present, and so on. They will argue that piracy is not the way you are supposed to do it anyway, since you should only use free as in freedom software(TM), but that's an obvious cope, since this just moves the goalpost, and doesn't actually acknowledge that this is a real problem on Linux. You can install a copy of, for instance, Notepad++ everywhere without an Internet connection, not so much on Linux, where your whole way of installing programs is utterly crippled without an Internet connection. While they pretend like Linux is some last bastion of freedom, they don't realize that the only way to install software is always-online package managers, or for games the always-online Steam client. There is no way you can preserve a more complex program than cat without running a source-based distribution, which nobody of those Linux people does, because, mind you, they found out about Linux when it started being shilled by big corpo, IBM-cocksucking, Valve-dickriding "content creator" drones, that will sell them any scam given enough money, and not because they just were always interested in such technology, or god forbid in free software ideology. But even then, with ports like on OpenBSD/FreeBSD or a similar system like Portage on Gentoo, you still require an Internet connection to not be completely crippled. Slackware always had all the software bundled with it, and is the most sane approach to Linux package management, but still suffers from many ills that every other Linux package management approach suffers from, as the system is still crippled by the way it handles depedencies, not being able to use older software with newer software on any given system. Besides those traditional approaches to Linux package management, there is also Nix/Guix, snaps, AppImages, and Flatpaks. Nix/Guix only sells an illusion, since the whole system also requires you to have an Internet connection at any given time, otherwise nothing is "reproducable". Snaps, AppImages, and Flatpaks are a fucking joke, since they bundle everything it needs to run with each package, sandboxing every program in its miniature OS.

Is Windows a better OS? It depends on what you want, clearly Linux has many upsides, and you cannot dismiss a whole OS just for this single issue, HOWEVER, Linux retards sell you an idelalized lie about their own system, which they believe themselves, because they never think about any of their contarian positions, just "not being mainstream" is enough to impress them, whilst a mainstream OS like Windows has this issue figured out, and is one of the biggest selling point of it, which freetards fail to acknowledge, since they are in a cargo cult.

Another argument, which is often times contradicted by its own logic: Linux package management is more secure, because you have centralized repositories that you access with your package manager, however, when asked whether this doesn't limit the software you can install, either due to lack of capacity, censorship, or god knows what, they will answer that you can use the AUR, external Ebuilds, other third-party repositories, or compile it from source with a tarball, which of course completely nullifies their first point.

This page slowly declines into "texts from when I was angry at `/g/`", and perhaps this is kind of the case, but I don't know where else to put it, so it goes here.

The Artix Linux distribution and several others apparently "refuse to implement age verification", but I don't get what their point is other than signaling, rightfully so, that they're against it. In essence that whole age verification refusal is only virtue signaling, but this time appealing to the right values and people, therefor it's somehow okay.

It is probably virtue signaling, because I don't believe that distribution maintainers are so myopic that they won't see that you won't be able to use the Internet in the near future without OS-level age verification, as such opposing this thing will render your OS useless. Maybe your special snowflake hipster contrarian distribution doesn't go with the flow in that regard, but your bank, all those online shops, providers of various services, dissocial media "platforms", yada yada yada certainly will, and with time it will become only more and more websites that require this, which, of course, are going to want some OS-level API to interact with. Those people pretend to not get this, they pretend that their rebellion against the system or whatever will be something they can do for all eternity, but I think that all those Linux distributions, and perhaps OSes like OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD, will have to implement those features or else nobody is going to use them. Artix Linux will essentially be anologous to MS-DOS, since those also aren't compatible for anything on the Internet, and nobody uses them as a result of that (and some other things).

Don't get me wrong, I hate those regulations as much as the next guy, however, you cannot realistically do anything as an operating system developer, if you want your OS to be usuable for daily tasks, that is. The whole Internet will require to do this, and it is only a matter of time until your distribution of choice follows the flow.

Hopefully this sparks the development of something new and more worthwhile, more free (as in freedom), however it won't be anything like the Internet, as this would require an unrealistic amount of infrastucture and financial backing, but I digress.

(Note: I don't want to discourage anybody from finding loopholes in those regulations and maybe even find ways to bypass such things, however, the point of this write up is merely that I was fed up with all the virtue signalling, which obviously is virtue signalling and nothing else, rather than trying to be pessemistic, and defeatist.)

Wow, that really hurt. After finishing Ryou's route, I searched through the net whether I've actually reached the true end or whether it will continue after that. And all my search results strongly sugggest that breaking up with Ryou is the true ending, which I think is really awful, because I liked Ryou. In particular the way it ended it really made me feel bad for her. Apparently that's how it's supposed to end and only Nagisa and Tomoyo have an actual good ending. Whatever…

(Spoiler: I didn't finish Ryou's route, only the bad ending. Touche.)