Łumało [he/him]

Local terminally online Polish idiot. Free software extremist and an ML. If you’d like to contact me, please send an email to polskilumalo at disroot dot org. I reply only to encrypted messages. My GPG public key: https://bin.disroot.org/?8f8c70a3707bb129#8LF2f9VjnzJUpsT1qab3NsLNKLSB3Szie7eMt5Pr488y

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  • yesterweb.org

    Now that’s something I haven’t heard of! Thank you for mentioning it, I’ll definitely look into it!

    Also you are quoting me wrong, you should add an additional line after the quote to fix it xd

    I sadly haven’t tried a typewrtier… yet. I’ll see if I can get my hands on one, though the simple editing that you do digitally when writing is unbeatable.

    I think more and pace myself better when typing on a typewriter, I also look out more for mistakes and generally think a lot before I lay it down on paper. It’s a different mode of production you could say, but yes. The versatility of the text editor or word processor is simply unmatched in the modern world. I just like the limitations and requirements that the typewriters put on me.

    Look at Luke Smith and how he praises the Unabomber and other such figures, even has a video saying imagination is demonic, lol. Same with DistroTube, both are far-righters.

    It’s hard to say the first didn’t influence me, he was one of the few who made Linux videos in 2016 and 2017, before Youtube Linux really blew up. So unfortunately he was the guy I looked up to. Yeaaaahhh… Quite a shameful past, but I’m not afraid to admit it. Luke is the premier petit bougie sympathiser… „Oh you rent? Just buy land soycuck!”. What a fucking moron.

    Yeah there’s a constant competition of “MORE PIXELS! MORE QUALITY!” but it’s barely distinguishable on an average screen. It’s just the techbro conception of “progress”

    Progress means better treats. That’s unfortunately the mindset of every anti-PRL idiot born in the 1970’s. They didn’t have jeans, Sony, Philips, Nintendo or other shit. Who fucking cares they’ve had guaranteed education, work, housing, high quality healthcare and more. Now that it’s all collapsing it’s just an inconvenience as long as they can keep their white BMW SUV. Fucking hell.

    Haha, fair

    B)

    Also keep in mind, the Dillo+ I linked is a fork of standard Dillo. It add more features including support for Gopher and Gemini. Also thank you for wanting to help me! While UNIX like operating systems is something I pretty much mastered as I’ve got 7 years of experience as a day to day user, hosting is something I’ve yet to get into. I’ll try to figure things out as I go and maybe I’ll nag you when shit hits the fan lmao




  • Yeah, If you try to search for any book on libgen or zlibrary that is not in english, and for example in polish, then good fucking luck! It basically can be considered non existent! I hope that one day I can afford a CZUR book scanner to make this somewhat different as I do have a small collection of Marxist books that were published back in PRL and having scans available would be nice for a lot of people. Because that is the main problem Polish marxists have, lack of availability of materials as no new prints are being made, nothing has been scanned and many books were lost to burnings after 1989…



  • Ah, digitally I also tried to be very minimalist by also using only CLI software and running a tiling window manager (sometimes i3 and sometimes dwm). I’ve only recently returned to XFCE as I find it rather simple for a DE and really love it for what it is, something just makes me return to it since we met back in 2016. I really love it, and being relatively hassle free when it comes to configuration has me won over. Sorry, I love the customization a CLI program allows, but I sometimes could use the mouse support or unified theming of GTK that I can easily swap with a singular click.

    I also have tried the Gemini and Gopher protocols but haven’t found much worth being posted there… I’m currently planning (key word, planning) on writing a Small Web guide and creating a dedicated Small Web community as I would really like to foster these ideas around people. I also have plans of creating a website that would be available on HTTP, Gopher and Gemini and my target browser is Dillo+. I’ll share more information when I get to it, sooooo yeah. Be sure to be veeeeeery patient…

    I’m glad that you are also an analog technology enjoyer, there’s just something else to these devices that smartphones and computers cannot really provide. It’s quite an amazing feeling I like to share with the people I meet, not many people have seen, not even typed, on a typewriter. Sharing the magic is the least I could do.

    Yeah I definitely saw what you mean, much of the Linux, Small Web, etc. is very anti-technology and goes reactionary most of the time. Partly cause it’s full of conservatives.

    Yeah 4chan’s /g/ is exactly like that, they were the guys that got me to read the Unabomber Manifesto. And even back in my worse days I knew Kaczyński was batshit insane, couldn’t really believe people would unironically try and spread his idiotic message.

    I criticise new useless technology such as Smart TVs because it’s capitalism’s way of “innovation” that is predatory, not because new = bad.

    And correctly so! My TV is a CRT and it works just fine. And also is a reason why I don’t really care for 4k Ultra HD torrents and just settle for 720p (Remember when 720p was called HD? I sure do). Bruh even standard resolution, known as 480p, is prefect enough for me lmao.

    Too bad there aren’t more leftists in the FOSS communities, though.

    Look around, they are making your software! Not fanboying about it on reactionary internet forums or shilling shitcoins B)

    That at least counts for something and if anything, I can 100% say this with full confidence, and I know she won’t read this but…

    Leah Rowe, you were influential in saving me from becoming a disgusting piece of shit. Thank you. It means the world to me.


  • I do agree smartphones are utilities that allow people to do much more with them for the much lower price tag, that is a great point. They also are very much useful for disabled people as they trivialize (mostly) many tasks that were in the past very difficult for them.

    Regarding China, I’d say I’m happy that they’ve achieved a unified model with smartphones really being the everything machine. But personally due to my past experiences with computers and smartphones I’m not really fond of that being the only option, and would love for “low tech” alternatives to exist. I really wouldn’t like my smartphone to be the singular point of failure of me being able to pay or even worse, open my home in the first place.

    I also don’t like (from what I’ve heard) that cash, despite existing, gets very rarely accepted anywhere in China. I’ve also remembered now some kind of article that was linked to GenZedong about China forcing some, but I don’t remember which, places to accept cash no matter what as to help seniors. So if anything, and I hope I’m wrong, it sucks that there are little alternatives to the smartphone life one has in China. It should be the mainstream, but weirdos like me exist unfortunately, even if we are the absolute minority…



  • Huh, didn’t know someone would care for Sienkiewicz, but it’s expected. He is the more popular one. Honestly I never read his books because I was instead forced to read Mickiewicz in highschool lmao

    But now that I’m no longer coerced into reading these books I might give them a proper read and admire them for what they are and not be required to care the for unnecessary details.

    Just to add, my favorite school book was Aleksander Fredro’s Zemsta (Revenge), and also please check out the amazing movie adaptation by Andrzej Wajda. Shit’s fucking amazing.