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We are here today thanks to the great work of a lot of cool folks.
We talked a bit about Luke Smith, but I'd like to start this section with someone I admire, known as Terrance Andrew Davis.
I would like to encourage people to work more on operating system development in our times. There is a lovely channel I love called Queso Fuego whose videos I used to build a mini-OS myself in May of 2021.
There are also lovely books on operating system design, and I love the ideas Terry designed into his operating system that I would love to see used more.
Right now, I think Arch is very good, but I'd love to see a retro OS also that can be used on any computer.
I would also love to have someone help me conduct an investigation on whether the BIOS of most computers with Intel chips is a form of spyware.
I paid for the tech, so I get to play with it - that's the rule since ancient times with anything you buy - you buy it, it's yours.
We call everything besides that "debt", and there are certain laws we can talk about that regulate debt and what you can do with it.
Now, on to Luke Smith! Lux, lucis... "Shine" - no wonder this Latin-loving landchad from North America shines so brightly.
He has actually built a lot of cool things.
based.cooking is in essence the inspiration for an open-source platform. Before that, I'd been running a tutorials website and videos since September 2021, but only in late February 2022 did I get the idea of an open-source academy.
I still remember how exciting that first project's designing and building was.
Ah, and I still remember all the things I got to do with tech thanks to Luke's videos and landchad.net.
And let us not forget lindypress.net, and Luke's overall videos...
And his lessons on Vim, on LaTeX, on Arch Linux (I tried Gentoo against your advice, also, father, a friend at the time encouraged me to do it~).
And let us not forget his videos on shell scripting, which inspired me to work on a script to create RSS feeds, and I believe there was also an option to update them.
At the time I didn't know of sc-im, also, and I didn't want to, under ANY circunmstances, use PROPRIETARY software, like Excel, so I built my own Excel shell script where you put in the size of the table and could, if I remember well, fill thingies - cells - in.
I am so grateful for the fun I had - and let us not forget Luke's beloved podcast, notrelated.xyz, which I love a lot too...
I will forever remember you, Luke - as a hero of mine.
As someone who always stood up for what was right, and who taught me to be a great role model.
Thank you, endlessly...
There are so many things to say about Luke and what he has done for the Internet that we might never finish if we get into it...
I am also thankful to all the influencers and people that have contributed to the Internet we have today, many of whom influenced or changed my life.
That is the Internet I know - where everyone gets to be free and where everyone is accepted on the Internet.
It is by people like Luke that the principles I have proposed for the Internet are made, and let us not forget one more thing about Luke's message...
Spontaneity.
He rarely made cuts in his videos, as he said in one video, being able to record without editing is a testament to one's authenticity, and it serves as advice to any future endeavoring bloggers and video makers.
Before learning how to film with edits and effects, learn to film yourself as is.
Chris Broad, Abroad in Japan, has made a great channel about Japan, which inspired me to learn Japanese, and which offers a lot of resources, like Remembering The Kanji 1 by James Heisig, Tae Kim's guide to Learning Japanese for Grammar, or Genki 1 and 2 for vocabulary.
He even mentions the lovely Japanese Zuiikin' English program... Which is one way you can learn pronounciation, I guess.
Together with the many beautiful Japanese pronounciation channels (e.g. did you know that sankaku is triangle and shikaku is a square? I would love to see an old Michael Thomas tape (the new ones aren't as good) style guide to pronoucning Japanese.) and anime.
Vlogging is truly an amazing offshoot of the Internet that has given great things to the world, while we are here.
I am glad to say that so many folks have inspired little things in the model I present to you here, such as "Hey, this is how you can learn Japanese in a cooler way.".
Or, there is a lot of cool things to say about Chris-san, or most YouTubers, honestly, and even the ones that are related to drama were once kids, and are just a bit - different, in a sense... though not so different.
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