>“I’m the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don’t really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead.”
What dead culture is this stupid old man talking about? Computer are alive and well, everyone fucking loves coding and science. Even girls love it now which means it's no longer just some stupid subject that isn't important. It has value now. Someone, please enlighten me...
he is talking about the fungal culture between his toes
he was part of a "world" where computers were just being invented and they weren't available to the public and he could make basic programs on them and do whatever he wanted and feel like he was a "hacker" and instead of growing up he just wishes it was the 1960s and he was still at school like a great big manchild
The original hackers, who were well educated geeks who liked dumb harmless pranks.
>boo hoo i'm the only REAL hacker left!! =(
just die, you old jew.
name one "harmless" prank
have sex
eating toe cheese during a public conference
youtube.com
Based and funguspilled.
can you yet after your gender reassignment surgery?
The original electronic computer culture when the idea of using electronics perform calculations that would take humans eons as well effectively instantly organize and recall massive stores of data was nothing short of miraculous.
I miss it too.
cope
feels bad? i'm here if you want to talk about it.
Stallman lives in an imaginary world where people still don't store private information on computers and don't use passwords. Software companies don't exist only hardware ones do. This is the computer world of the 60s and early 70s.
Basically his autism has prevented him from keeping up and adapting to change. He himself has become outdated and can't be rebooted.
Having your printer beep a song while it turns on
Yet in the end he is the only sane person.
“In terms of effect on the world, it’s very good that I’ve lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn’t do it. But I sure wish I hadn’t had so much pain.”
RIP in piece Dr. Richard Marx Stallman
Ricahrd Stallman Obituary
Here I'll translate for nu-Jow Forums:
>"NORMIES OUT! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
>Butthurt zoomer
>Jealous because a mentally ill kike achieved more than zoomers ever will
who hurt you?
He thinks highly of himself.
this, it's also why he's a communist sympathizer
I won't be glad when he's dead, but I'll be glad when he's gone.
fucking a parrot
ITT: Glow in the darks lamenting the trouble Stallmans movement gave them over the years.
>Stallman has said that he is "an atheist of Jewish ancestry"[9] and often wears a button that reads "Impeach God".
>Stallman is openly childfree.[113] He has urged others to not have children, viewing it as objectionable for reasons centered on family tensions and overpopulation.[113] He argues that not having children better liberates people to find more productive ways to "make a positive contribution to the world".
>According to Stallman, with the exception of a few sites, such as his own website or sites related to his work with GNU and the FSF, he usually does not browse the web directly from his personal computer in order to prevent being connected with his browsing history. Instead, he uses GNU Womb's grab-url-from-mail utility, which can run on a separate system, and act as an email-based proxy to web sites: the user sends an e-mail which the script receives, the remote system downloads the web page content, and then the script emails the user the web page content.
So the big question is this: who runs his proxy?
imbeciles like you are the reason why older people think of the past with nostalgia.
no understanding of anything. a fucking insect.
>often wears a button that reads "Impeach God".
yix
The NSA
if we are all insects, you are a periodical cicada that was infected by the genital-eating fungus on emergence day, rms
He's right. His brand of academic technological purity is a dead-ended culture full of CS professors on email chains slowly dying off. And it's their fault. They refused to understand what they were part of. They took that little ultra-literal kernel that all us CS type people have and wielded it as a weapon to try and prove themselves in the battleground of "most rigorously well-defined and secure." And he won the battle royally only to find that society had moved in an entirely different direction, because nothing his culture about was actually important.
We were supposed to live in a world where the old wizards cautioned the young acolytes against the recklessness of ambition. But instead, because people like Stallman prided themselves on being so against the grain, we live in the world where corporation rush out code without any thoughts to privacy or security or stability. And RMS lives in his little corner of shame. Alone. Last of his species.
Because instead of the future we were headed towards in his time, a golden age of reason and resource abundance for the lowliest of plebs, we're now headed straight down into a dystopian dark age of collectivist totalitarianism, "I fucking love science" plebbitor cargo cults, all sorts of grotesque debaucheries and total domination through total surveillance.
It's already horrible, but you've seen nothing yet. Stallman doesn't understand the situation at all, but he has seen tiny glimpses of it, which was enough to drive him completely mad.
Dammit, I know what you're talking about, but it still sucks to be reminded of it. Is there anything which can be done?
>We were supposed to live in a world where the old wizards cautioned the young acolytes against the recklessness of ambition.
cringe
>a golden age of reason and resource abundance for the lowliest of plebs
but resource abundance keeps increasing and poverty keeps decreasing, what the fuck are you talking about
Computers are dead botnet machines.
>everyone fucking loves coding
Thanks for proving him right.
EVERYONE doing KODING is what kills computing slowly.
install gentoo
Making a bat script to open someone's CD drive after baiting them into thinking its porn
>“I’m the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don’t really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead.”
Top Hackers from the golden age of the hacker culture.
"Uncle" John McCarthy - Absent-minded but brilliant MIT [later Stanford] professor who helped pioneer computer chess, artificial intelligence, LISP.
Gerry Sussman - Young MIT hacker branded "loser" because he smoked a pipe and "munged" his programs; later became "winner" by algorithmic magic.
Richard Greenblatt - Single-minded, unkempt, prolific, and canonical MIT hacker who went into night phase so often that he zorched his academic career. The hacker's hacker.
Tom Knight - At sixteen, an MIT hacker who would name the Incompatible Time-sharing System. Later a Greenblatt nemesis over the LISP machine schism.
Steven "Woz" Wozniak - Openhearted, technologically daring hardware hacker from San Jose suburbs. Woz built the Apple Computer for the pleasure of himself and friends.
Bill Gates - Cocky wizard, Harvard dropout who wrote Altair BASIC, and complained when hackers copied it.
Richard Stallman - The Last of the Hackers, who vowed to defend the principles of Hackerism to the bitter end. Remained at MIT until there was no one to eat Chinese food with.
Is this the /autism general / thread?
back to tumblr
anime adaptation when?
back2rddit
He's talking about hackers, you retard. Though you probably don't know what a hacker even was.
>girls like it therefore it has value
smdh
seethe
>I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.
based and redpilled
He was referring to old hacker culture when very few software were available at the time to do the most basic things, there was lots of ideas to explore and a wide unexplored territory where you had to build things yourself if you wanted to get stuff done. Nowadays explore new ideas is harder, you have lots of things already made/standardized/explored, the fun of build things from scratch was taken away in most fields computers are used. and being paid to maintain others people shit or work with a retarded manager is what's left.
Participants of emerging cultures tend to have that kind feeling when the things they build go mainstream and are sold like a cheap souvenir with a brand in it.
Not probable at this particular time, too much inertia in what's going on. But there will come a tipping point where things can happen down the line, so prepare your descendants.
Resource abundance without reason is just a fat idiot stuffing his face with garbage until the land is barren and his health is destroyed. There are many forms of poverty, some have decreased some have increased.
You see all the people with their shitphones reading crapbook while simultaniously feeding an AI that 1) catalogues them; 2) converts them into data points; 3) keeps feeding them crap news so they are at ease with how fucked up the world is.
If you do then you're part of a group who will presence the dead of another group of people who decided to fight against it and had win but generally lost.
If you don't see it, then you're just a faggot and kys
Look at this edgelord. I hope you puke and breath on your sleep
>He argues that not having children better liberates people to find more productive ways to "make a positive contribution to the world".
What does he think the world is made of? What world is there going to be when there's no more people?
exactly
>"make a positive contribution to the world"
if these kinds of people dont have children, the world will be peopled exclusively by people who don't make positive contributions.
fpbp
Then go on and spend all your time and money on having some dumbass children, the world could always use some more burger flippers.
>What dead culture is this stupid old man talking about
hippies
People will use computers and software without the full knowledge of what they entail.
>Stallman gave troubles to glow in the dark niggers
>Stallman
>Stallman
brainiac
Script that hits caps lock randomly every five to twenty minutes.
Anyone with a brain knows you dont listen to Stallman for his politics about anything other than tech, since that is the only area in which his opinions arent shit. As exemplified by the last paragraph, he is extremely based in that area.
>peopled exclusively by people who don't make positive contributions.
nice reading comprehension
You made me feel so fucking old.
I support his decision to not have children, if he had to support a family he probably wouldn't have been able to work at the FSF for free all this time and would have jewed out long ago
It would have had to be done 20 or more years ago, or it would be as shit as IT/CompSci is now.
The hacker culture is basically dead. People who call themselves hackers nowadays are either hipsters who just discovered Ubuntu or skriptkiddies running Metasploit, AKA crackers. Hacking was different. It was playful cleverness, doing things in an unconventional way, doing good, not bad, not even a computer was needed for hacking. Not only is the culture dead, the word is also; the normalfag media gave it a bad name by connecting it with criminal activities.
stallman.org
catb.org
Me too. There's a huge difference between people who don't have children because they are hedonists and people who actually spend their time on something useful for everyone. That the latter group don't have time for children has always been useful for society.
>RMS and ESR agree on a topic
can't be unseen
Oh yeah ? Well in the West one has the right to become a museum artifact instead of being expunged or fed to cannons
>Joke.VBS.EjectDisk
I have the code for that in a text file.
I like it.
I can feel him. I used to love tech, computers and couldn't wait for new things to happen. Even proprietary software was simply inconvenient, since you couldn't hack it, but it wasn't full blown botnet malware like it is today. Today I hate computers. I don't connect it with fun anymore; it's mostly fear "will this new thing do even more bad to our society?" and "will this thing track me? I need to look up how up protect myself from this" are the first things that come into mind.
This is not what I used to love back in the days. This is a nightmare.
He's a paranoid retard wondering why everyone else isn't a paranoid retard.
whoa, that's a rancilio rocky paired with what looks like a decent espresso machine. Stallman knows how to coffee
>script kiddies not using BeEF, SOF-ELK, or Moloch to make their lives easier
>hackers today have never heard of 0xDEADBEEF or 0xCAFEBABE
man I feel really old
>What dead culture is this stupid old man talking about? Computer are alive and well, everyone fucking loves coding and science. Even girls love it now which means it's no longer just some stupid subject that isn't important. It has value now. Someone, please enlighten me...
This is literally a facebook tier post
But it's not God's word. Computers are centralized now, clouded and black boxed and companies, globally, make decisions based upon inhumane rationals. Simply, America blows up everything and must be extinguished before reason can re manifest. The nazis knew everyone interests better than stupid and rich America.
In 5 years you'll be so sorry. It happens to all of us. We hate him, because he speaks the inconvenient truth, which is incompatible to our convenient bad habits - but the bad habits will get worse and worse and at the end we all agree that Stallman was right all along.
kek'd
>sudo make me a sandwitch humor
In 5 years I'll probably be shooting Nazis, and nothing Stallman has ever said would prevent the right from falling for complete self-absorption like they have.
Nazis haven’t existed since WW2
Mein Kampf contains the blueprint of later Nazi propaganda efforts. Assessing his audience, Hitler writes in chapter VI:
Propaganda must always address itself to the broad masses of the people. (...) All propaganda must be presented in a popular form and must fix its intellectual level so as not to be above the heads of the least intellectual of those to whom it is directed. (...) The art of propaganda consists precisely in being able to awaken the imagination of the public through an appeal to their feelings, in finding the appropriate psychological form that will arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses. The broad masses of the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form reasoned judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of human children who are constantly wavering between one idea and another. (...) The great majority of a nation is so feminine in its character and outlook that its thought and conduct are ruled by sentiment rather than by sober reasoning. This sentiment, however, is not complex, but simple and consistent. It is not highly differentiated, but has only the negative and positive notions of love and hatred, right and wrong, truth and falsehood.[5]
As to the methods to be employed, he explains:
Propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favourable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side. (...) The receptive powers of the masses are very restricted, and their understanding is feeble. On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such being the case, all effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas. These slogans should be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward. (...) Every change that is made in the subject of a propagandist message must always emphasize the same conclusion. The leading slogan must of course be illustrated in many ways and from several angles, but in the end one must always return to the assertion of the same formula.[5]
Those who are fools for Nazi propaganda are Nazis.
Reminder that antifacism is just as bluepilled as fascism. You need to stop hating groups of people to see the light.
Typical Jow Forums thread:
>OP: $any_topic
> [...some posts later....]
>the Nazis and fascism
what's sad is that FOSS is great but people like stallman are so autistic that he actually makes everyone look bad. if he was actually a rational guy about binary blobs and proprietary software then a lot more people would in making free software and hardware. there are many people in the community but there could be more
it's just him admiting he was part of the red menace
When the group defines itself by its fascist ideology there's no reason not to group them as fascists.
"We want to kill everyone who's not like us!"
"I'm against what those people are proposing."
"Well don't you see you're just as bad as them for not getting to know their individual reasons for wanting to kill everyone who doesn't do as they say?"
Stallman fights for free software, not FOSS.
ironically antifacism is a form of facsim
No, fascism is just shit. If you live in USA and have benefitted from any of its post WW2 policies you already are an antifascist. The only problem with groups that explicitly label themselves as such is that they lend legitimacy to the opposing side, which is exactly what has led you to try and equate them. Don't do that.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with facism/tribalism/natsoc.
Free software and communist tendencies seem to manifest together a lot so it’s unsurprising someone with a fantasy about killing nazis would show up sooner or later
Get out. (If you disagree, you disagree with youself)
>if he was actually a rational guy about binary blobs and proprietary software
What does that even mean?
His whole goal is to promote free software, what would be rational about him saying proprietary software and binary blobs are okay?
>In 5 years I'll probably be shooting Nazis
You mean being shot by Nazis.
Killing nazis isn't a fantasy. They started a war. Both my grandfathers killed them with their own hands in self-defense. It wasn't a pleasant experience and nobody would like to repeat that. Don't be a fascist or a nazi, don't start wars. Why do I feel like I have to repeat this to you idiots constantly?
based
Glad to know I won't be alone in protecting myself from that commie faggot.
Redpilled post.