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Thoughts on programming languages

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This page is more less a sly excuse to shit on languages that made me have big headaches and praise other languages to the heavens. Normally I don't engage in holy wars and I think it's eroding Internet forums, but this is my space, so let me have my vices, okay?

That is to say, don't expect this to be neutral and unbiased review.

Common Lisp

<3 <3 <3 CL is what every programming language should be. RMS once said that you don't know what an elegant language is if you haven't tried CL, and I'd reduce that claim to just CL. Whilst Scheme is too simple for its own good, or at least when you actually want to make something and not just jerk over your language in academia, CL is really the sweetspot for a language that is very elegant and beautiful in a mathematical way. You've heard this already a thousand times, so I merely urge you to try it out and judge for yourself. On that note, even though CL is very complex and compilers like SBCL compare to C compilers in complexity, the core principles are still very simple. Everything is a list and as such the compiler will just evaluate lists, which makes the syntax more pseudocode-like and easier to parse for both the programmer and the compiler. The macros are a very powerful feature of the language and they cannot be compared to compared to #define macros in C, not only because they are so much more powerful, but also because they are not just an afterthought and something that results in ugly hacks, like with

Wolpertinger

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Wolpertinger is a Bavarian folklore creature as a common trope in jokes between hunters and wanderers. According to the myth it is a hare with deer horns, duck wings, or duck feet and wolf teeth, depending on who you ask.

Hunters would tell their drunk and gullible friends about this creature and lure them into going for a hunt of a Wolpertinger. Of course, it didn't exist, and as such they waited for a long time, until the joke was resolved.

ALGOLites

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

ALGOL is probably the most influential programming language ever and much to the demise of alternative computing models, most shitflinging gay holy wars fought among people interested in computers are just people arguing which flavor of ALGOL they prefer over another and not actually discussions of different models of how to do computing. The ALGOLites won; the IBM PC, alias the PDP-11, alias the C-machine, alias the ALGOL-machine is the universal standard for almost every current day computer and anybody who doesn't like it has to adjust to the ALGOLites. Although still not as to such an extreme degree, people who say "computer architecture" mean the architecture of the ALGOL machines, the same way they say "computer architecture" to mean Von Neumann architecture. Non-ALGOL ways of computing are so sparse and fringe that most people who program computers probably never heard of FORTH or Lisp – that is to say the average computer scientist or professional software engineer, as with hobbyists you might be luckier – and never came in contact with a machine that wasn't optimized for ALGOL-likes.

Culture and Adam Lanza

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Adam Lanza has been interesting to me for a while now and in spite of his elementary school shooting (see Sandy Hook shooting )for which he became known for for most people, there is also a more interesting aspect of his person which is his philosophy and general thoughts he had. By no means I want to glorify this cruel actions, however I also don't want to be a moralfag and refuse to consider his thoughts because he did those awful things.

Anime Thoughts

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Besides the cute girls impressions page, I don't have any place to talk about anime, so I think this will do. It's called "thoughts", because those aren't reviews in any sense of the word, it's just some thoughts I had when watching.

Kamichu

Very nice anime. You have to watch it to get what's so nice about it, but in essence it's the overall atmosphere of a little town with all peaceful people with some supernatural things happening. Yurie is also very cute. Probably my favorite anime or among my favorites, at least.

Humility and Denial

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In the norman's mind everybody who is good at something needs to live in denial about being good at that thing. They have a completely twisted idea of humility and arrogance wherein they think everybody who says he is good at something is just an arrogant asshole and probably is not even as good as he claims. Children are being taught to live in denial about their own skills and talents and are being manipulated into this fake humility. They try to make it relative to make it look absurd – as a cheap rhetorical trick – and say things like "I'm not the best in the world", or "There are better people than me" completely disregarding that being good at something doesn't mean to be the world's best. This tendency for having an inferiority complex that Kaczynski noted leftists to have is a thing that almost all oversocialized people have. Even if they are the best person they know in some area they will still claim that they aren't very good. To a degree this is also performantive; a lot of those people probably are self-aware about their abilities and will deny them regardless in fear of being seen as arrogant.

Defeatism

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Defeatism is a word conceptually very similar to procrastination whereas it is mainly used by slavemaster to evoke a feeling of guilt in the slaves to not be obsessing every second of your life with inane bullshit. Just like people who say "procrastination" is a problem use it as a sly way to make you feel bad for not doing slavery, people who are obsessed with some retarded fights are trying to make you feel bad for not partaking in their fights.

Programming Style

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hot take: For the vast majority of questions in regards to programming formatting one can deduce the best style objectively and there is not much ambiquity in regards what the best style is. This only applied to ALGOL-derived languages, as Lisp, Forth, Assembly, and others work completely differently and have less such issues.

Assuming that…

…Clarity is the most important aspect of code formatting
…Readability is also important
…that you should always choose the minimum of any measure you're taking is required

 // Identation
 // Always choose of 2 spaces
 // It is the minimum required to be visible as being indented. 
 // More would be superfluous and would end up taking more space than 
 // minimally required

 // (I'm not so sure about this particular issue anymore, as 4 spaces
 // might be more readable and a better compromise between 
 // readability <-> using the minimum required to make it clear)
 // As such, possibly disregard this.

 if(condition) {
 f();
 }

 // Tabs vs Spaces
 // Spaces have always the same length and will always end up 
 // looking the same no matter in which editor or operating system.
 // Tabs can fuck up your code and perhaps it looks different from
 // what you intended, therefor for most clarity use spaces.

 // Try to avoid using curly brackets wherever you can. If it is clear
 // enough to understand for both the programmer and the compiler, then
 // you can leave them out. If it will only lead to confusion or you
 // have more than 1 instruction, then use them to make it more clear.
 if(condition)
 f();
 else
 f2();
 // If the if statement and the instruction can be written on the same
 // line, consider doing so, so it is more clear that it belongs to that
 // particular if statement and makes the code, again, more readable
 if(condition) f();

 // Similarly with switch statements, the most readable way of writing it
 // is writing the if statement and the instruction on the same line, 
 // but only when it isn't too long.
 switch(condition) {
 case 1: f1(); break;
 case 2: f2(); break;
 case 3: f3(); break;
 case 4: f4(); break;
 case 5: f5(); break;
 default: break;
 }

 // The curly brackets of functions belong on their own line, because they
 // cannot be nested further, unlike if/switch/do-while/while and such. 
 void f()
 {
 instruction;
 instruction;
 instruction;
 }

 // meanwhile if's and else's should definitely be on the same line as 
 // their curly bracket
 if(condition) {
 instruction;
 } else {
 instruction;
 }

 // Otherwise you will end up like this if you want to stay consistent:
 if (condition)
 {

 }
 else 
 {

 }

 // And this wastes a lot of space for no reason. Also they can be nested.

 // Use verbs for functions or methods
 // A verb is basically a grammatical function, as such they should be used
 // for function names. In the worst case add "do-..." to it, if you cannot
 // find a better word for it, but make it clear that you are DOING something
 // and the things you do something WITH should be nouns, like variables
 // classes, constants

 void do_your_mom();

 uint32_t YourMom;

 typedef struct {
 int a;
 int b;
 char c;
 } your_mom_t;

 #define PEE_PEE_POO_POO 1337

If I think of more examples, I'll add it to the list. Also this is just an example – to show that you can deduce a good programming style from just a few core assumptions – it is not meant to be "this is the only true programming style", because it probably isn't, but it is to show that if somebody smarter than me tried, he probably could engineer the perfect formatting and there could be little that could be argued against with.

Fantasy Consoles

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Fantasy consoles are software that emulate a non-existing machine. Unlike emulators, which mimmick the hardware functionality of existing hardware, fantasy consoles do not have a physical counterpart.

Technically they are very close to said emulators and often time exist

as a project for a beginner emulator developer, as it can be as simple or complex as you want it to be, making it easier to implement than real hardware.
To work as a middleman to make other software that runs on it more portable. As such they make an interface to write programs and so every program that can run that fantasy console can run an the programs written for it.
To explore novel ideas for various hardware that would be much more effort to make use of in actual hardware.

There are plenty of them and each has its own quirks, some examples:

How To Secure A Linux Server

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This is a basic guide for securing a Linux server such as a VPS for hosting a website or something on a RaspberryPI at home.

Disable Root Login

This is the big one. The root account will almost certainly be used as a first attempt to access the server over SSH, since it's the obvious user name that every UNIX-like machine has and would gain you full control over the server if accessed.

Messageboard (and elsewhere) gallery

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A little and incomplete collection of screenshots from imageboards, textboards, USENET, and elsewhere.

Identity Crisis (not really)

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I'm not sure anymore what my website really is. At the beginning it was a shitty blog, then a personal wiki, then a rather opinionated personal wiki, and now it is a blog without dates and chronological entries.

Perhaps it is true that this website is my streamlined thoughts, because it is not much else. The idea was too keep my personal opinion to a minimum only writing about topics that interested me, yet this is more or less only my personal opinions.

Aesthetics Obsession

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This text is closely related to the one on the "Fruitiger Aero" post, which can be seen here. Social media, but also image and video based media in general, as it exists right now in the world has lead to people becoming obsessed with the aesthetics of things rather than the things itself. One example is "Frutiger Aero", which is merely an aesthetic without any substance behind it. The people obsessed with it don't care about any deeper-going aspects of the thing they aesthetisize, as for them the appearance is everything.

Identity

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

An identity is a set of most of than not self-imposed rules that decide over your whole being. It is noteworthy that an identity is a purely social thing; people living in social isolation tend to have less identity than those with a rich social life, as such the less social you are, the less value an identity has for you.

The more you have of an identity, the more rules you have to abide by, as seen on anonymous message boards, where people have no hard-coded identity, and just let their ideas and thoughts flow (at least ideally), and the polar opposite being social media, wherein people have very elaborate identities, and thus also abide by more rules.

On Reality

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I fucking hate reality. It's awful and I don't want to live in it. Just escape reality whenever possible and never bother with anything "real", live your life in fantasy worlds with no connection to the real world. As a Shut-in/NEET it's even easier, and there is no reason to not indulge in my imagination and fantasy.

When I was younger I had a very vivid imagination and would have elaborate fantasy worlds in my head, in which I would spend more time than in reality, and I think that's the only right approach. Something is not inherently more valuable just because it is "real". There is no such thing as a "real life", my imagined experience is just as valuable as your really lived experienced. Value is subjective, and I say "Fuck reality" in regards to that.

Real life

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The "real life" is a shared delusion among people, who want to feel better about themselves by claiming that their lived experience is somehow more "real" than the one of others. The "real life" doesn't exist. When referring to this idea, in their head, they think of the most stereotypical normalfag's life when visualizing the "real life", since that is what is real, completely robbing the term of it's meaning. Is a "real life" an organic and natural life? Most certainly not, as the "real" people don't have any contact to anything that could be considered an organic life, and at least not in any way more than a NEET, a hobo, or some other socially ostracized group, who they consider not living a real life. Is a "real life" a social and happy life? My guess that isn't the case either, because what defines to them the "real life" is that you have "real problems", unlike the people who never came in contact with it, and thus never lived the real life. Is a "real life" a life with many problems? The issue with this one is that the people saying they life the real life never I could continue, but the point is that "real" is whatever they say is real, and what they claim to be real is their life. They just feel like they've reached enlightenment for being

64-Bit x86 assembly quiz from the old TempleOS website

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This used to be at the old TempleOS website, but has since been removed and is only available on archive.is and the Wayback Machine. I had it lying around in a text file, and wanted to share it since it's a fun quiz. Made by Terry Davis.

Side note: All underscores have been replaced with minuses to appease the Org Mode HTML exporter.

64-Bit Assembly Quiz

In 64-bit mode, how many bytes are always pushed?

 PUSH 12
 PUSH EAX

What happens to the upper 32-bits?

 XOR EAX,EAX
 MOV EAX,0x12345678
 MOV EAX,0x80000000

How do you set FS or GS values?
If FS points to current task record, what's wrong with this instruction?

 MOV RAX,U64 FS:[TSS_SOME_MEMBER]

Which instruction takes more bytes?

 MOV RAX,U64 [R8]
 MOV RAX,U64 [R13]

Are these the same number of bytes?

 MOV RAX,1234
 MOV R8,1234
 MOV EAX,1234

True or False

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Advertisements, as they exist right now, and considering the nature of most of them, are a form of socially accepted psychological abuse. Everywhere you go there are ads, making sure you don't miss out of the newest product to consume. Most people accept the pretense that ads are just an postulate of life, which one just has to live with - mind you, the almost a half of Internet users don't have an adblocker installed, and that obviously only accounts for those ads, that can be blocked with regular adblockers, bought articles and video sponsorships get through anyway, as do shill posts on messageboards. Ads are mostly made by groups of malicious, studied psychologists, whose whole job is to abuse the mind of people for so long that they feel like their life is worse, because they have not consumed a certain product. In children's TV there is advertisements of children having fun with friends, having a loving family, and, most importantly, only being happy because they bought a certain product. Similarly, advertisements for old people emphasize a caring family, who wouldn't let rot their elders in a nursery home isolated from the world, only sitting in front of a TV, being manipulated by ads. The young people are on the Internet, and so are the ads, and they are even more manipulative and harder to avoid than those in the train, supermarket, or TV. A lot of modern ads are based on fears that people developed. "Your data is being stolen by supergiga-h4xx0rgs and the CIA, if you don't buy a N*rdVPN or Expr*ssVPN subscription", as if "leaking" an IP address would literally kill you. The same applies for cloud-based password managers, those "data deletion services", less commonly "anti-viruses", and other scams, that solely rely on people being frightened by the consequences of not buying a certain product, and not understanding the nature of the technology that those products work with. While the the more conservative ads try to instill a perceived lack in something in you, the more disgusting ads work on the fear of the people. "If you don't buy THIS PRODUCT, CONSEQUENCES will happen". Those people making those ads are subhuman scum and should be held responsible for the abuse they perform on everyone, most of it completely involuntarily.

Algorithm Collection

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Feel free to use them for whatever you want. Repo: https://github.com/kotorifan/algorithm-collection

Checksums

Adler32

;; adler32

(defparameter +modulo+ 65521)

(defun adler32 (buffer)
 (let ((s1 1)
 (s2 0)
 (result nil))
 (dotimes (n (length buffer))
 (setf s1 (mod (+ s1 (nth n buffer)) +modulo+)
 s2 (mod (+ s2 s1) +modulo+)))
 (setf result (logior (ash s2 16) s1))
 (format t "~X~%" result)))

CRC32

;; crc32
;; translation of: https://lxp32.github.io/docs/a-simple-example-crc32-calculation/
(defparameter *crc32-table* (make-array 256 :initial-element 0))

(defun crc32-build-table()
 (dotimes (n 256)
 (let ((crc n))
 (dotimes (n2 8)
 (setf crc (if (/= 0 (logand crc 1))
 (logxor #xEDB88320 (ash crc -1))
 (ash crc -1))))
 (setf (aref *crc32-table* n) crc))))

(defun crc32-calc (buffer)
 (let ((crc #xFFFFFFFF))
 (dotimes (n (length buffer))
 (let ((ch (elt buffer n)))
 (setf crc (logxor (ash crc -8)
 (aref *crc32-table* (logand (logxor crc ch) 255))))))
 (logxor crc #xFFFFFFFF)))

(crc32-build-table)

Bare Metal Lisps

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Whilst Lisp Machines and Lisp Machine Lisp basically don't exist anymore, there are still Lisps that can be run on bare metal, and subsequentially be used for low-level development, and other fun things.

List Of Lisps that run on Bare Metal

Loko Scheme - https://scheme.fail/

Loko Scheme is a R6RS/R7RS implementation that can run on amd64 without any other software (and Linux/NetBSD on amd64). It supports various hardware, among them support for the FAT file system, networking, disk, video, serial, USB, and PS/2, but their website explains it franly better. It has its own symbol look-up tool called `apropos`. It can access system bus I/O directly, and make syscalls directly. Also it can be used in conjuction with Scheme package managers such as Akku.scm and Snow.

Bielefeld conspiracy theory

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Originating from German USENET, there is a joke conspiracy theory that the German city Bielefeld doesn't exist. It seems to be particularly popular around university students – Bielefeld is a university city – who see it as a kind of inside joke. It originates from some guy who accidentally said that it doesn't exist.

The people believing in this theory are arguably very annoying, albeit sometimes funny.

Card Games

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Solitaire (or Patience)

Solitaire is a card game played with a 52-card French card deck without jokers, usually with smaller-sized cards to save space on the table. It is to be played by one player, however, it is possible to play it together with somebody else, wherein both players work together. There are dozens of variants with the most popular being Klondike, which got, as far as I know, email me if I'm wrong, popularized by Windows including Klondike as the default variant in its Solitaire game. Some other popular variants include FreeCell and Spider Solitaire.

Credits

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Org mode script: https://zerocontradictions.net/programming/org-mode-blogging#homepage-template

Parts and idea of the theme switcher: https://zerocontradictions.net/programming/script.js

Colors of the CSS: https://github.com/kuanyui/moe-theme.el

Data hoarding

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The old blog that was here under the same domain had also a post on data hoarding. Too bad it was really just a pretentious waste of space and not worth saving. Instead of elaborating on why data hoarders cannot cope with their own mortality or some shit like that, I try to provide some helpful information instead.

Data hoarding tips

Make regular backups. If you can, try to make a cron job to run a shell script that runs rsync every week or so and saves the data to another storage medium.
Use universal, free, and open formats/codecs. This makes it easier to make it use your files on different operating systems and prevents you from DRM holding your own data hostage.
Use a filesystem that works on all the different OSes you need, or what's even better, use NAS where filesystems are irrelevant
Get everything where it's feasible as physical media. Books in particular, because those are easier to read with a physical copy and don't depend on electricity. Try to be as low-tech as possible for the data in question. Be careful to not buy DVDs or Blurays with DRM, in that case digital media is preferable.
Similar to how you should stay as low tech as possible, try to use as simple formats as possible. Plain text instead of PDF, for instance. If it's not available as such, convert it with pandoc or ffmpeg. This makes the files accessible on simpler devices too.
In many cases sorting your files can be automated by querying the metadata with a script (Python and Perl have a bunch of libraries for various file formats like mp3 or flac to use)

On Ogg Vorbis and Plain Text

For music and audio books ogg vorbis is by far the best format. It's one of the most effecient (size/content) audio formats, if done correctly it is indistingushible from a good mp3 (lossless is just wasting space for no good reason), it is free and open and widely available on every music player you might want. I highly recommend you use it. Bandcamp offers ogg vorbis too, unfortunately not as much Slsk, but they have a lot of flacs, which you can convert without quality loss.
Similarly, plain text is most of the time more than enough. For ordinary books you don't need to have a pdf or ebup. Plain text can be read on any device ever, while having the best (size/content) ratio. Plain text is beautiful and simple, pdf is ugly and complex. You can convert most of your pdfs to plain text with pandoc or a similar tool and edit it afterwards if needed.

Where to get data to hoard

Soulseek is good for music (and sometimes also video game ROMs!)
Consider USENET (see my guide on here)
Private trackers (see https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Private_trackers)
Books: Annas-archive, Library Genesis+ (the old Libgen is basically dead, Libgen+ replaces it), Z-Library, pdfdrive, Project Gutenberg, Liber3, OpenLibrary, MemoryOfTheWorldLibrary
IRC XDCC (#nibl on Rizon for anime), Doujinstyle for otaku music
https://kiwix.org/en/ for Wikis, albeit a lot of Mediawiki instances have a way of downloading the whole wiki already. Some Mediawiki-based Wikis also have a "Download as PDF" feature.
Httrack and wget can be used to download entire websites for reading them offline
yt-dlp works on more than just Youtube and can download from hundreds of other video sites too
gallery-dl is yt-dlp for images
Imgbrd-grabber for mass-downloading images from various boorus and Pixiv

Disassembler

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

A disassembler is a software tool that displays the assembly instructions in a binary executable or object file. It works by going over the file in question and reading each opcode byte by byte and translating it the corresponding assembly instructions. Some debuggers have a disassembling functionality, such as x64dbg or gdb, some assemblers have disassemblers with them like nasm has ndisasm, z80asm has z80dasm, and so forth.

Emacs

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Useful emacs stuff

Newlines after 80 chars without breaking words

Suppose you a text document where you want to wrap every line after 80 characters, but you don't want to break words. Also you want it throughout the whole document, then you can do this:

 ;; M-: for evaluating a singular expression, can only do one expression each
 (set-fill-column 80)
 (fill-region (point-min) (point-max))

Of course you can set any document text width, and any specified region.

FidoNet

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This article is far from finished and I have to research this topic further

FidoNet is a computer network consisting out of various mailboxes that can either be used as a group messaging tool (most commonly echomail, seldom also groupmail, forum, newsgroup, board, or public message), or as a way to do private messages (netmail, NM, PM, private mail). It is interesting, because it is purely operated by hobbyists and has no commercial aspect to it, much unlike the Internet. The "Zone Mail Hour" is certain time frame, where FidoNet node must be available for accepting mail; the time when this happens depends on the region of the node. FidoNet is also much more personal than the Internet or Usenet, wherein you're ought to use your real name and location while being a node. Of course you can use a name, which looks like a real name, but isn't, the same way you can use a fake name in a mailing list with such a policy, however it is not the expected thing to do.

Forth

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Forth, sometimes also FORTH, is a programming language known for exceptional simplicity and beauty, even when compared to the various dialects of Lisp. It exists since basically forever, or more exactly in 1969. Forth stands for "fourth generation" (of programming languages) and was shortened and capitalized to FORTH due to technical limitations. It is stack-based, untyped, and uses RPN.

The "stack-based" part means that the whole experience programming in Forth is about manipulating a stack, and you do such with a small set of "words", think language elements that you can extend yourself. Depending on the implementation, you get certain "words" to build to new words onto.

Frutiger Aero

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

"Frutiger Aero", alternatively "Fruitnigger Grounded" is an aesthetic and barely more than that. The word is used by the same people, who are into the "IndieWeb" and adjacent cancers. Instead of having an actual understanding what made the old Internet good, they resort to the most superficial crap possible, the graphic design of the time. Those people don't understand that there was something deeper, more profound about the old Internet, which made it in every way superior, as for instance much less censorship, much less centralization, no DRM, implementable standards, generally more openness and freedom, self-written software instead of depending on the same softwares everyone else does, and a lot more. The Fruitniggers don't get this, they think the Windows 7 startmenu's design and "Under Construction"-Gifs on personal websites were why it was good, as they don't look deeper, and only focus on shallow aesthetics. This is no hyperbole, because it is true already: If you showed those people some surveillancecattle, ultra-giga-censored, proprietary rapeware Internet thing, BUUUUT it would have the Windows 7 boot-up sound, the design of the Nintendo DS's game menu, and the Unreal Turnament OST playing in the background, they would gladly accept it, as they already do with all those Indieweb "webrings" and "communities" that are only available on Discord, require you to run Javascript, and will ban you if you don't sacrifice your first born child to some tranny.

Gifted Kid Burnout

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The so-called "Gifted kid burnout" is an narcissistic joke-made-identity Tiktok-ers and Redditors adopt, who think the reason why they do is worse in their job or school is not because they aren't as smart as their narcissistic self-image, but rather because they have some sort serious problem, namely "gifted kid burnout". This goes hand in hand with this self-image of "smart, but lazy", implying that if they wanted to they could become the next Gauß or Euler, but they just don't want to…m'kay? They sit in their Discord, Reddit, and Tiktok safe-spaces, utterly high on their own farts, and up their own ass, without anyone telling them how massive faggots they are, who would break apart in a million pieces if somebody challenged this belief.

Ideas

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This lingered around in my Documents folder and in a Github repo, and I felt like my website is a better place for this. I don't care what you do with the stuff here.

Forge of Empires clone:

city building game like Forge of Empires, made for people who have nostalgia for old (2015-2019) FoE and who want to have control over the game, their data, want the game progress to be saved locally
completely offline, without DRM, without online requirement, no addictive elements, no incentive to login at a particular time, completely public domain/non-copyrighted software and assets, no restrictions on what you can do with the game, self-hostable
multiple ages to go through, with a research tree that requires weeks to go through one age
fighting system with isometric map, different units that each have an optimal enemy for each for defensive and offense, different o/d values for other enemies, each unit type is the same in each "age"
written in C++17 or newer and Raylib/OpenGL, very portable, has to run on Windows, Linux, OpenBSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD, minimal depedencies
local Sqlite database for game data, can be opened and read by humans, can be modified by the user easily
hacking, modding, and additional texture encouraged, no artificial limitations
no multiplayer, this would be too difficult, and would suck, since you would need to rely on the server for months and years (ideally), so that is bad
be playable with custom frontends (server + frontend structure), possible to change values with the command line, graphical main game
more detail and historic accuracy
goods are depedent on the map you get and you have only two viable goods for each game session, improved good production for these, poor production for all others
Currencies: Coins (Production, streets, etc.), Supplies (military, houses), Metals (expansions), diamonds are part of the game, but obviously just possible get through playing, no p2w
Always the option to solve problems and getting map regions with either goods/trading or battles
autobattles, which purposefully are worse than manual battles, the bot has the upper hand when in autobattle and there is no insane descrepancy between the fighting units
No events, no special buildings, only buildings from the ages and great buildings
Great buildings require "forge" points to level up, blueprints required to build them
fair negations for side quests
side quests to get blueprints for great buildings, get game points

Common Lisp IRC client

IRC client, no compatibility with IRCv3, IRCv3 suxx
written in Common Lisp
log history compatible with irssi
very simple, no sidebar, for neither nicks nor channels
switching between channels like with irssi
doesn't require more depedencies than the networking library, potentially only /dev/tcp/host/port, so bash, and no other requirements, purely TUI or CLI application, like irssi

OS project

make something for the Kotori command
make some weird black voodoo magic POSIX compatability layer that makes running POSIX stuff possible, but doesn't make the OS require to be UNIX-clone (probably impossible, particularly impossible for me, but I like the idea of it)
write a shell language that can be used for most standard unix utilities
have the standard utilities be one executable that acts according to the symlink it has been called by, think busybox/toybox
not be a retard and fix my IDT before I fantasize about things that will never exist.

Forth OS

implements a reasonably well-featured Forth
32-bit, x86
text editor with Emacs bindings (think mg or e3)
made to be fun, includes games, includes a lot of documentation
has its own mini bootloader
music creation with music notes/sounds being saved on the stack and being executed as Forth words
(Maybe redo everything to either use a Forth cross-compiler or a self-assembling assembler rather than NASM, which is close to impossible to port, and make the OS self-hostable.)
(Adjacent to the previous point: Remove the need for a IDE/AHCI driver to load Forth code from the hard drive, and just have it all in memory already.)
ambient noise generator with self-recorded, non-copyrighted sound tracks
assembler for the i386 that just reads assembly as Forth words and potentially can understand NASM syntax, removing the need to rewrite everything in another assembler, and making self-hosting tangible

eternal-monologue.net self-hosted

Self-host it from a RPI/Starfive Visionfive 2/other SBC
use NetBSD as the OS, use wireguard-go instead of the native NetBSD wireguard implementation (for the reverse proxying)
Minimalist web server that only serves static HTML pages over HTTP (without HTTPS, since the reverse proxy already is encrypted), research viable software for that, use nginx when anything else fails
Host birdsnest.moe and eternal-monologue.net both from home, use the VPS only for reverse proxying
…

Gameboy emulator

graphical debugger, no print-debugging, use that to work with the emulator, and do this first and foremost

Offline noise generator

use a longer audio track for the cafe
make a pleasant-to-use UI (bigger volume/play buttons)
use only public domain audio pieces, audio that I can use freely without copyright restrictions
maybe record some of the sounds myself (when I get the opportunity to)
make a nice animation for it (either a fireplace in the forest at night, or a cyberpunk cafe gif)
Maaaaaybe make it an offline program that can be used on the desktop without any browser

Quest textboard

textboard/BBS meant for interactive, creative writing
in principle the same as `/qst/`, but its own imageboard
with other boards related to facilitate discussion regarding creative writing, maybe an imageboard to draw pictures for the quests, but generally a textboard
maybe runs Kareha, but with a public moderation log, if that is possible, although I don't like Perl, so that's still questionable
moderation containing itself to only allow quests on the quests board and nothing else, no spam, nothing illegal, duh, like every other textboard in existence

Tcl utility for music player daemon

works like mpc, but written in Tcl
autocompletes songs in the library when choosing to play one
configured within Tcl

Walkable window manager for Linux

game-like 3d representation of any given computer desktop (Linux)
the floor is the wallpaper
the icons on the desktop are DOOM-like 2.5d pictures that you can click on to open the related program
Perhaps written in C++/Raylib (I think raylib might have the least issues)
maybe make it a whole file manager

Kotori Robowaifu

160cm tall humanoid robot with movable arms, head, and legs
cannot walk, but can sit and stand
Can be talked to and respond appropriately
Has a hook in her hands, that can be attached to the upper legs to stabilize her while sitting
Most parts 3d printed (PETG)
Wig and light, soft clothes to make cuddling and hugging more convenient
has a screen as her eyes that changes according to her mood
completely offline, and free software, free hardware
has a single board computer as her """controling unit""", either a raspberry pi or an equivalent
claw as her hands
<spoiler>Some way to make her hands be usable for simple handjobs in such a way that it isn't dangerous</spoiler>
made to have very low power consumption, rechargable batteries
resembles Kotori in appearance
can be controlled by voice commands, but also by a remote bluetooth connection
bluetooth speaker for voice, ordinary TTS for voice

Emacs patch to make identation in ld-script-mode work properly

look up whether they accept pseudonymous contributions
improve my Emacs Lisp skills
look how other modes do that
adjust the identation in ld-script-mode so it works properly

Irony

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ever noticed how nobody sees value in sincere emotions, art, creations, friendships, other relationships between humans, thinking, or anything else really? Everything is meant as a fucking joke, and has to be covered in one or multiple layers of irony.

It's disgusting and pathetic, because it means nobody can deal with real emotions or thoughts anymore, as those would be too hurtful or make onself too vulnerable. Excessive use of irony is a sign of weakness, and the epitome of our times. Ironically, unlike what those retards with their excessive usage of irony want you to believe, they do it because they care about what other people think about them to the point that they just subtly lie about what they intend (irony), because they are too afraid how their fellow retards react. Being honest, upfront, caring, and genuine is considered a symptom of Autism, supposedly, as it's apparently a mental disorder to care about things and be honest about that. This also reflects in how those irony-obsessed faggots see other people - also as jokes.

List of Conlangs

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Herein I want to make a little list of interesting conlangs (once I feel like doing something like this, which might be soon, or in some time. Who knows?)

(to be researched more)

Ithkuil

Esperanto

Synapsian

Interslavic

Simple Technical English

Lojban

MausNet

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mausnet, standing for "Münster Apple User Service" is a Mailbox network similar to FidoNet. It was used mostly in the 1990s in Germany by Atari-Hobbyists. These days it is not used by anyone but a few nostalgic old men yearning for the good ol' days to come back. The users of the network had to use their real name, and doing otherwise was more or less shunned. Messages were sent between 3:00 and 4:00 in the morning, not unlike to FidoNet. MausNet was born out of the frustration with other Mailbox networks, with those being too clunkly and inconvenient to use.

Miscallenous Rants

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Palantir

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.

NEC PC-98

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The PC98 was a series of computers produced by the NEC Corporation sold on the Japanese market and are to this day known as a series with a plethora of games made for them.

Emulators

Currently there are multiple emulators to choice from when it comes to the PC98, however they vary in quality. Dosbox-X is reported to have less accurate emulation, whereas Neko Project 21/W is the go-to for PC98 emulation. There is also Neko Project II which is closed-source, unlike Neko Project 21/W. Other emulators are not really useful and more of a historical note herein rather than actually software you would like to play your games on. This website offers a good overview of the various PC98 emulators available.

On Hallucinations

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think what many people falsely assume about hallucinations, at least in the realm of a mental health problem and not a drug trip, is that you yourself think that you're hallucinating, because whilst hallucinating, you (I speak as "you", but I actually mean "me/I") don't feel like you're "out of touch with reality" or "insane", the hallucination just integrates into your lived experience, and the moment you realize a discrepancy between your own lived experience, and the one of everyone else, you start feeling like they are all wrong and you are the only person who is right about this, as such the hallucinations always feels real. It's the same way nobody "insane" actually feels like an insane person with insane thoughts, they just assume what they believe is right, and likewise you don't feel like there is something off or wrong about your lived experience when you're hallucinating.

On Jobs

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This might seem obvious to some, but for me it's a major source of frustration with people when talking about work or jobs, that they think the way work culture developed after the war somehow is indicative of how it always was and always will be, and everyone, who thinks that the status quo as of now is sick and rotten, merely wasn't working enough to truly understand why this culture of work is tolerable, or even good.

Originality

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

WIP

OS-tan fallacy

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

OS-tan fallacy is a kind of fallacy that happens when you assume an OS to resememble its OS-tan.

Example

Do you see this picture? Objectively, you would assume NetBSD to be the best OS, closely followed by DragonflyBSD, then FreeBSD, and then OpenBSD. However, NetBSD is a pain in the ass to do anything with and has fewer reedemable features than OpenBSD, even though the cuteness and attractiveness of the OS-tans would have indicated otherwise.

Plain English Programming

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Plain English Programming is a programming language aiming to be as close to pseudocode as possible, even to a much higher degree than Python or COBOL, for instance. It has it's own compiler and IDE and Plain English files end with ".plain". The IDE has its own compiler, as opposed to the command line compiler.

There are close to no symbols used as most of it is, well, plain English, unless punctuation counts.

Poems

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kotori (2026-05-13)

(This one might get updated or improved at any time, because I'm not quite satisfied with it yet.)

Finding myself in this room here, long has the sun set, As always, plenty of thoughts filling my head. Pondering where they would steer, it's always you my dear.

Longing (2026-06-05)

Unbeknowst to you I still dwell in this dorm Since long has there been a present shift, everything changed, yet this feeling persists.

Procrastination

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Reading music: Chikoi the Maid - Returnal

Procrastination is buzzword invented to make people feel bad about just doing what interests in them in the moment, enjoying the little things in life, instead of being "productive". You need to do slavery, but instead you decide to pet your cat? DUDE, that's procrastination of the worst kind, even. This word in particular did not evolve naturally and was pushed heavily on dissocial media "platforms", and has since then been in use by mostly Millenials and Zoomers, who make Youtube/Tiktok tutorials on how to best avoid having fun and do something "productive". It's such a pityful pursuit and it's sad how many people actually believe in this crap. I'm not saying you shouldn't create or work on something at all, but you should do so when you want and how you want, not be pressured into it by others and yourself. It's one of those words where the mere usage of the word already speaks volumes and is a clear sign of somebody being niggercattle. People get depressed over this and think they are a failure if they "procrastinate" too much, which is all wanted by the system in place to make you work until you die of exhaustion. Like everything bad in this world, this has also become an industry of its own, and people make cashmoney telling other people how they can procrastinate less, which probably also counts as procrastination or something.

Psychiatry

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

I have written this in anger at the people, who suggest you to get "professional help" as a way to not deal with mentally ill people. In retrospect this article feels very ungrateful towards the people in the hospital, who managed to ease my psychosis to such a degree that it became livable, and I wasn't in constant suffering. I hope this is clear and I hope that this doesn't come off as me bitching about people, who helped me to have a livable life. Moreover, I'm also not very fond of those "anti-psychiatry" positions, at least not those suggesting that "mentall illness is just a way to be different/seeing the truth/having another reality" and such and such. Those positions are just as much of an unhelpful way of thinking as those proposed by mainstream psychiatry.

Reinventing the wheel

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

"Don't reinvent the wheel" is a common notion among programmers, mostly of the corporate/unfun type, who think it's best if every uses the same 4 softwares for everything, and nobody deviates from that. It speaks volumes about these people, since the disadvantages are great, and the only advantage is that it saves "work hours" and "resources", thus only something that would concern a corporate drone, and not a real human soul. While there is a lot of arguments regarding the resillience, centralization, simplicity, thus also maintainability, reliability, and a lot of other issues that arise when everybody uses the same software libraries and frameworks to make his own stuff, there is also another argument, which a corporate drone will never understand in a million years, it's basically impossible to comprehend for such a man: IT'S LAME. I don't want every game to be written with Unreal Engine/Unity, every in-browser software to be only usable in Chromium/Firefox, every software to only support the big three operating systemns, completely disregarding everything else, everything to be written in the same programming languages, every Linux distro to use Glibc+Systemd+X11/Wayland+GNU Coreutils, and such and such.

Robowaifu

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This page is a kind of public notebook for me to collect all resources in regards to robowaifus. I won't put any advice or other stuff than links in here, since I'm very much the newest of newbies.

Resources

General

Wiki: https://robowaifu.tech/wiki/Main_Page
Imageboard for anything related to robowaifus: https://alogs.space/robowaifu/
Also an imageboard for robowaifu stuff, albeit dead: https://trashchan.xyz/robowaifu/
4chan's Electronics General: https://boards.4chan.org/diy/catalog#s=ohm
Robot OS Wiki: Robot OS Wiki
USENET: sci.electronics.repair, sci.electronics.design
Galatea v3.0.8 (local archive)
Sophie STL Files (local archive)
Robowaifu Design Document (local archive)

Electronics

You don't have to buy the books physically, just use Annas-Archive or Libgen.

Stack Exchange Curiosity

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This page is conceptually similar to the Wikipedia Curiosity page in the sense that it's about interesting topics on "mainstream" websites like Wikipedia, or in this case, StackExchange. Enjoy!

Stronghold

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stronghold is a medieval-themed PC strategy game released in 2001 by Firefly studios.

Playing Stronghold on Linux

You can get the setup exe file from anywhere you want, I got it from GOG, since it was dirt-cheap at the time, doesn't have DRM, and offers the classic Stronghold game. Unlike what certain websites try to tell you, you don't need any additional tools or software other than Wine itself, although it might work better with Steam's Proton. The game works well enough with standard Wine; just run the setup executable through it and follow through the installation process. The game itself runs fine, even on old hardware, even though it does have some bugs, that might or might not be similar on Windows: 1. All my desktop icons on Xfce4 reorder themselves when starting the game. 2. When starting the game, it starts glitching a bit, but once the first logo appears, this doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

Suckless

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Suckless is a cargo cult emphasizing what they call "simplicity", "unix philosophy", and "minimalism". In practice this minimalism looks like them writing the most trivial program imaginable and then exclaiming how fucking awesome their code is for being aligned with all their ideas how software should be. Their code is purposefully undocumented and uncommented, which only works since their code base is usually a few thousand lines. Suckless also attempted to make multiple Suckless Linux distributions, among them one that had everything statically linked resulting in an OS broken by design. Further, they think software peaked in the 70s and call everything that isn't structured like Unix System V bloat or something. It's remarkable how they cannot imagine a future where software doesn't adhere to some philosophy from almost half a century ago, as if that was the best thing since sliced bread and couldn't possibly be improved upon or updated (Note: I'm myself against update culture, but there's a difference between update culture and not using software written for ancient mainframes). Surely, if you complete the temperature converter exercise in the "The C Programming Language" book enough times, you will truly understand how great software ought to be, but I digress. It's true, if all programs you know are cat, sed, and cut, then there's not a point in rethinking your ways, but if you want something like Sony Vegas or IDA Pro, the Unix philosophy doesn't scale well and is not really applicable to such programs at all. Those are mostly points from the "unix philosophy" crowd, that a lot of suckless people subscribe ideologically speaking, but there's more. Their software is configured through source code, since they don't want any filthy nocoders even using their software, Whether you like this gatekeeping measure is up to you, I think it's good that one doesn't have to learn yet another configuration file syntax, but then again, most configuration files formats are more or less intuitive and require little reading.

Text editors

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This page is dedicated to some text editors and my experience with them.

Acme

I don't remember much from fiddling around with Acme. I like it conceptually with all it's piping mechanism and mouse gimmicks, though I never bothered using it for any real programming tasks besides trying it out, thus my opinion on it is worthless. If I check it out some time (together with all the other Plan9/9front stuff like Sam), then I'll document my experience here.

The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.)

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum..

There are several techniques for the control and manipulation of a internet forum no matter what, or who is on it. We will go over each technique and demonstrate that only a minimal number of operatives can be used to eventually and effectively gain a control of a 'uncontrolled forum.'

Technique #1 - 'FORUM SLIDING'

If a very sensitive posting of a critical nature has been posted on a forum - it can be quickly removed from public view by 'forum sliding.' In this technique a number of unrelated posts are quietly prepositioned on the forum and allowed to 'age.' Each of these misdirectional forum postings can then be called upon at will to trigger a 'forum slide.' The second requirement is that several fake accounts exist, which can be called upon, to ensure that this technique is not exposed to the public. To trigger a 'forum slide' and 'flush' the critical post out of public view it is simply a matter of logging into each account both real and fake and then 'replying' to prepositined postings with a simple 1 or 2 line comment. This brings the unrelated postings to the top of the forum list, and the critical posting 'slides' down the front page, and quickly out of public view. Although it is difficult or impossible to censor the posting it is now lost in a sea of unrelated and unuseful postings. By this means it becomes effective to keep the readers of the forum reading unrelated and non-issue items.

Usenet

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Usenet is a decentralized communications network built on top of the NNTP, which has been around for practically 5ever. These days the Usenet faded into obscurity, while it used to be the biggest network of its kind way back in the 80s and is of "cultural" significance for what would later become Internet culture, netiquette, and vocabulary. To read Usenet posts you need a newsreader and a Usenet provider, both of which can be obtained at no cost for the most part. The various newsgroups, think the places where the actual communication is facilitated, are sorted into various hierarchies (the major ones: comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, alt.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, talk.*, and additionally you got regional ones like es.*, japan.*, de.*, or other specific ones) each having a particular topic or theme to it

Waifu

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

A "waifu" is a fictional character you feel a deep emotional connection to. The concept of forming parasocial relationships with fictional characters has been around since almost as long as fiction and fantasy has been around. The word has different meanings depending on whoever you ask - more mainstream-inclined people think that the word "Waifu" means just any anime girl you like, and think of it in an irony-poisened, insincere way, doing it as a big joke, either because they don't know better, or because they would have to present them as vulnerable, living in fright what their peers would think, and being afraid as being seen as a weirdo. Those people usually also use the word in plural form, implying they don't care about the concept at all, and just see it as quirky synonym for "anime girl". People who take waifu love more seriously are usually found on 4/a/, Wizchan, or Tohno-chan.

Whistleblowers

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

So-called "whistleblowers" are an invention of the privacy/anonymity/security software projects like Tor, Tails, QubeOS, Whonix, some VPNs, and a lot, lot more to deceive people into thinking that they are more virtuous than they really are. Instead of arguing that privacy and anonymity are good for everyone, and everyone should be able to use the Internet in a privacy-preserving manner, they make up some magical heroes, which protect democracy of all things, to justify their existence. They say things like "Tor helps whistleblowers stay anonymous and reveal secrets about abusive governments" and such, however, the problem herewith is that whistleblowers practically don't exist. In proportion to all the marketing that advertises those things as for "whistleblowers", they are such a tiny minority that it is just a plain lie that they make it for them. They try to uphold this lie, however, because it makes them look better, and makes them seem like they do something very noble. To be fair, most of this "whistleblower" LARP is done by third-parties, who promote those projects on their own, but those projects certainly play a role in this marketing being done the way it is. They should just be honest and say they make those softwares for the common man, the average Joe, and not some magical democracy-saving heroes, of which basically none exist in comparison to all the other users.

Wikipedia

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Bla bla bla bla, everyone knows why it sucks and that it sucks. Herein used to be an article lamenting those issues, however, those issues have been pointed out by a lot of people already, and I doubt anybody cared about my rant. Just watch some Youtube video with some living soyjak on the thumbnail and some scam sponsorship on why Wikipedia does indeed suck. Here you go with the fun part of my article:

Wikipedia Curiosity

nocturnallurker () posteo ! net (chocotea) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This page is dedicated to Wikipedia pages that I consider interesting. If you know any interesting Wikipedia articles that you'd like to see here, email me (see the main page for the address).