On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 8:07 PM Karl <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 12/5/21, Stefan Claas <[email protected]> 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
