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| author | Franklin Schmidt <fschmidt@gmail.com> |
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| date | Fri, 15 Apr 2022 23:24:51 -0600 |
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| 52 <p>The short answer is that everything that modern culture hates is good, and everything that modern culture loves is bad. But we need more details than that. You can find good values in scripture or in good traditional culture. These values should be applied to programming and to everything else in life. I wrote <a href="http://www.mikraite.org/The-Old-Testament-on-Programming-tp1923.html">an Old Testament guide to programming</a>. I also discussed <a href="http://www.mikraite.org/Core-Programming-Principles-tp1237.html">applying traditional Japanese culture to programming</a>. These are just two examples. Any other scripture like the Quran or any traditional culture should work fine to give you good values, in contrast to the horrible values of modern culture, and these good values can guide you to writing good reactionary software.</p> | 52 <p>The short answer is that everything that modern culture hates is good, and everything that modern culture loves is bad. But we need more details than that. You can find good values in scripture or in good traditional culture. These values should be applied to programming and to everything else in life. I wrote <a href="http://www.mikraite.org/The-Old-Testament-on-Programming-tp1923.html">an Old Testament guide to programming</a>. I also discussed <a href="http://www.mikraite.org/Core-Programming-Principles-tp1237.html">applying traditional Japanese culture to programming</a>. These are just two examples. Any other scripture like the Quran or any traditional culture should work fine to give you good values, in contrast to the horrible values of modern culture, and these good values can guide you to writing good reactionary software.</p> |
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| 54 <h2>What about alt-tech?</h2> | 54 <h2>What about alt-tech?</h2> |
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| 56 <p>"Alt-tech" is a misnomer. It isn't actually alternative technology, it is alternative politics. It should be called "right-tech" because it is the same technology, just used to serve the Right. And this is the problem.</p> | |
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| 58 <p>The result is that alt-tech is just as bad as (if not worse than) other modern tech. A while ago I looked at YouTube alternatives, so I will use this as an example. BitChute is horrible because its core function, video streaming, is horrible. Videos often stall or don't play at all. And BitChute's search is horrible. BitChute is a technical failure. Odysee is horrible because they require a password so complex to sign up that I couldn't produce one. This reflects modern programmers' obsession with security in places where security doesn't matter at all. Modern programmers, even on the right, hate individual freedom, so they refuse to give users the freedom to choose their own password. And of course they can't be bothered with making things easier for users by, for example, generating a password for the user. Since Odysee obviously hates the end user, I won't use Odysee. Rumble had issues when I looked at this some time ago but seems to have fixed them. Rumble actually may be okay, which means that they are as good as YouTube.</p> | |
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| 60 <p>An example that I know even better is Reddit alternatives. Here there really is nothing usable, which why <a href="/freedit.html">a Reddit alternative is needed</a>. In that post I also go into detail in explaining why software from the Right is no better than other modern software. And I have looked at all available Reddit alternatives, and as expected they are no good.</p> | |
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| 62 <p>The problem with alt-tech is the general problem with the Right. They miss the core issue. The core issue is not politics. The core issue is culture. Modern western culture is evil, so it will always produce bad software, bad politics, and bad everything else.</p> | |
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| 64 <h2>Other Examples</h2> | |
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| 66 <p><b>Git versus Mercurial</b> - A great example of modern programmers preferring bad software as described in <a href="/mercurial.html">the Mercurial post</a>.</p> | |
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| 68 <p><b>The decline of Java</b> - An example of modern programmers destroying good software as I explained in <a href="/java.html">the Java post</a>.</p> | |
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| 70 <p><b>Java mail library</b> - The original <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/mail/package-summary.html">javax.mail</a> was a huge overcomplicated mess. This JavaMail package has since <a href="https://javaee.github.io/javamail/">moved to GitHub</a> where it belongs along with other horrible modern software. Googling for alternatives gives you other libraries that are built on top of JavaMail. Naturally I rejected all the garbage and wrote my own <a href="http://www.luan.software/goodjava.html#mail">goodjava.mail</a> from scratch. This whole library is a little over 200 lines of code and is a thin layer on top of SMTP and MIME. Modern programmers hate thin layers because they always think that they can do better than the underlying layer. But a thick layer actually adds complexity and makes debugging more difficult for the user of the library. My thin layer lets the user set the headers directly. Does this mean that the user has to fully understand MIME headers? No, not at all. The user can just send himself an email of the type he wants using his favorite mail client, say gmail, and then when he receives the email, he can look at its source (with gmail "Show original"). Then he can just copy the headers into his code. If the user is doing something complicated, then my thin layer gives him complete control to generate exactly whatever complex email he wants. With modern libraries with their disgusting thick layers, it is always a struggle to do anything complex.</p> | |
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| 72 <p><b>Other Java libraries</b> - All of the libraries in <a href="http://www.luan.software/goodjava.html">my goodjava library collection</a> were written because all other alternatives that I could find were horrible, so I wrote my own. Besides <a href="http://www.luan.software/goodjava.html#mail">goodjava.mail</a>, I have <a href="http://www.luan.software/goodjava.html#webserver">goodjava.webserver</a>, <a href="http://www.luan.software/goodjava.html#logger">goodjava.logger</a>, <a href="http://www.luan.software/goodjava.html#json">goodjava.json</a>, <a href="http://www.luan.software/goodjava.html#xml">goodjava.xml</a>, and of course <a href="http://www.luan.software/goodjava.html#parser">goodjava.parser</a> as good examples. In every one of these cases, I challenge you to find an alternative to my library that is as easy to use.</p> | |
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| 74 <p><b>Scripting languages</b> - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripting_language">Scripting languages</a> should be extremely simple. There is no reason to make them complicated. Yet all existing usable scripting languages are complicated. So I wrote my own simple scripting language - <a href="http://www.luan.software/">Luan</a>.</p> | |
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| 76 <h2>What you can do</h2> | |
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| 78 <p>Do you want to support reactionary software as an alternative to horrible modern software? If yes, then join our <a href="/discussion.html">discussions</a> and consider working on <a href="/needed.html">needed reactionary software</a>.</p> | |
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| 80 <p>You also should consider the fact that if humanity itself becomes worthless, then good software no longer has any value. To fight the degeneration of humanity, you might also consider my <a href="http://www.arkian.net/">Arkian project</a>.</p> | |
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