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# LRS Wiki

LRS wiki, also Less Retarded Wiki or LRW (motto: Love everyone, help selflessly.), is a public domain (CC0) non-commercial anticapitalist (precisely anarcho pacifist) encyclopedia focused on truly good, minimalist technology, mainly computer software -- so called less retarded software (LRS) which should serve the people at large -- while also exploring related topics such as the relationship between technology and society, promoting so called less retarded society. LRS wiki is a source of high quality truth and the voice of reason in the age of lies and brainwashing -- testimony to its seriousness is the fact that all LRS wiki editors use their real names so that their credibility remains awesome, and in fact the editors hate any kind of privacy even in principle. The basic motivation and driving force behind LRS and its wiki is unconditional love of all life, and the goal of LRS is to move towards creating a truly useful, selfless technology that maximally helps all living beings as much as possible -- it does so while at the same time developing its own culture, one that's much more sane and compatible with the desired goal, unlike the toxic modern fascist culture of the 21st century. As such the wiki rejects for example capitalist software (and capitalism itself), bloated software, intellectual property laws (copyright, patents, ...) censorship, pseudoleftism (political correctness, cancel culture, COCs ...) etc. It embraces free as in freedom, simple technology, i.e. Unix philosophy, suckless software, anarcho pacifism, racial realism, free speech, veganism etc. As a work promoting pure good in a time of universal rule of evil it is greatly controversial, misunderstood and often met with hostility. However it already gained at least a few enlightened followers, one of whom is even translating the entire wiki into Portuguese (thank you, dearest friend <3). The wiki used to be online on the web at http://www.tastyfish.cz/lrs/main.html (until November 2025, currently diving more underground like a submarine), as well as on gopher, and recently became distributed by other means (mainly via rsync) and it must be noted it's not just a "website" -- the work can very easily be exported in many formats, including pdf, txt and so on.

Alternatively the wiki may be seen as the most colossal Internet rant of all time.

The wiki is not funded by anyone, it doesn't have to be funded because it's not a capitalist project and it costs literally zero monies to make, it is not even a non-profit, so it doesn't have to obey by any laws or suck bureaucratic microdicks, it is also not affiliated with anyone, its author has no career to fear for, he has no friends, family, community or collaborators, no material desires, no reputation to defend, no fear of demonetization/demonization, bans, cancelling, jail or death, so he can write truth without being limited by anything.

In addition to all this there are no furry, anime or loli mascots. In fact LRS has no mascot at all. This is undeniably yet another supreme advantage against every other existing wiki and only solidifies the wiki's superiority over every other literary work ever produced in history. It also has no flag or a logo.

LRS wiki was started by drummyfish on November 3rd 2021, 20:47:50 UTC (Unix timestamp 1635972470), so that he wouldn't have to kill himself from all the retardation all around, as a desperate attempt at recording and sharing his unique perception, experience and knowledge of technology, life and society, as well as for creating a wholly public domain educational resource and leaving behind an account of contemporary society for future readers, be they alien or human. It was forked from so called "based wiki" (back then established on codeberg by drummyfish with a few e-friends) at a point when all the content it consisted of had been made exclusively by drummyfish, so currently LRS wiki is 100% drummyfish's own original work. Over time it turned into a sort of a snapshot of drummyfish's brain and so the wiki doesn't allow contributions (but allows and encourages forks, blatant copy pastes of anything from it to anywhere else etc.). By early 2025 the total size of all texts on the wiki was over 5 MB, it reached over 600 articles and 1000 commits (and probably caused even more vomits).

Some distinguishing features of LRS wiki that put it above other wikis include:

- Everything is absolutely, completely and unconditionally in the public domain under CC0 and there appears nothing under "fair use" so you can blindly copy-paste any piece of text or code and do entirely whatever you want with it, without any obligation to give credit or maintain back links or any sort of similar tormenting bullshit. Unlike Wikipedia, LRS wiki is a FULLY free cultural work, i.e. there are no embedded "fair use" pieces of proprietary content.
- There are no images, only ASCII art, making it very small in size, free and readable on devices that can only display plain text.
- Use of Unicode is minimized to absolutely bare minimum so you'll probably never encounter problems related to encoding -- again, anything that can display ASCII will be able to read most of the wiki.
- There is absolutely no moderation (censorship), toxicity or code of censorship and the wiki doesn't adhere to cultural standards of 21st century -- for example it never uses "gender neutral" pronouns -- it rather targets real issues and reflects objective truths and facts. The word nigger is allowed and appears often. Free speech is not only allowed, but practiced on a daily basis.
- There are no SJWs, pseudoleftist, rightist or otherwise fascist editors.
- Articles at least try to be written somewhat well, aiming to actually help most people rather than be a gigantic stinky dump of every information ever discovered about the subject bashed together by random passerbys.
- Articles often contain simple runnable code examples, mostly in plain C aligned with the LRS philosophy, which can normally just be copy pasted into a file and compiled without additional libraries.
- There are no ads of course and there will never be a single one, it is impossible for LRS to contain any ad just as it is impossible for human to breathe water. You can argue many other wikis, such as Wikipedia, have no "ads" either, but only as long as you don't count their own propaganda and money begging as ads :-) On LRS wiki there are no banners urging you to CHIP IN ON TEH FREEDOMZ AND DEMOCRACY IN THIS FRAGILE WORLD and WIKI LOVES NIGGERS and similar crap. There is only good stuff for you with no excrement attached.
- It is not a website, website is just one of many possible forms of the wiki -- the wiki is a literary work independent of any medium and so exists in other formats such as plaintext on gopher, one long pdf document, one long HTML document, collection of markdown files etc.
- Technology "powering" the wiki is also LRS -- it uses only Unix shell scripts that don't surpass 400 lines of code. No mediawiki, fandom or similar insanity. Thanks to this it's extremely easy to fork, maintain or datamine the wiki. You don't need a fucking SQL or PHP or HTTP demons, it's literally just text.
- There are no visually distracting elements such as citations and references of studies.
- plus much more :)

Over time, having been written solely by drummyfish without much self censorship and "language filtering", the wiki also came close to being something akin to drummyfish's raw brain dump with all the thoughts and mood streams averaged over the years -- it reflects relatively faithfully drummyfish's internal thinking processes (for example you'll come across anticapitalist rants everywhere as these annoy drummyfish's mind at all times, whatever he's thinking about) -- this bears a risk of inducing explosive vomiting but it's also a kind of valuable experiment that some even apparently like to observe, so it stays up. No one is forced to read it and CC0 ensures anyone can hopefully shape it into anything better, if that even makes any sense.

It's also possible to see the wiki as a (somewhat dirty but constantly improving) collection of drummyfish's cheatsheets, links, code snippets, jokes, attempts at ASCII art, vents etcetc. More than a digital garden it's rather a digital swamp, a pile of composting nightmares, maybe someone could even go as far as calling it a sort of retarded art that mixes together various subjects: technical, cultural, personal, objective and subjective truths, beautiful and ugly things. Others might view it as a shitpost or meme taken too far. Whatever it be, one thing is clear: that it is undoubtedly just its own kind of thing that resists simple categorization.

To a degree the wiki was inspired by works of similar nature, for example it resembles the earliest (plain HTML) versions of Wikipedia, also perhaps wikiwikiweb, Jargon file etc. In tone and political incorrectness it is more like Encyclopedia Dramatica, but unlike Dramatica LRS is a "serious" project, albeit with humor and jokes here and there.

{ I also discovered later on that there used to exist similar projects in the past, e.g. https://shii.bibanon.org/shii.org/knows/Everything_Shii_Knows.html. Apparently there once was a flood of personal wikis going by the Everything X Knows naming scheme and it's very funny this completely missed me because I reinvented the thing without knowing about it. So this might as well be named Everything Drummyfish Knows. ~drummyfish }

Technology "powering" LRS wiki is plain and simple, it uses no frameworks or static site generators or crap like that, the wiki is currently written as a collection of Markdown files helped by a few shell scripts that convert the whole thing to HTML for the web (and can also produce txt and pdf version), i.e. it doesn't use any wiki engine or bloated static site generators or god forbid some crap like docker or whatever it's called.

## Some Numbers

See also current autogenerated wiki stats.

The wiki was run through a text analyzing script and the statistic as of October 2025 were following. Characters, words and sentences analyzed: 3935682, 981590 and 58510 respectively. Active vocabulary size (AKA the number of distinct "words" recognized): 28274. Average word length: 4.009. Average sentence length in chars and words: 67.265 and 16.776 respectively. Word length distribution: 1: 262733 (26.766 %), 2: 165353 (16.845 %), 3: 126874 (12.925 %), 4: 129967 (13.240 %), 5: 86249 (8.786 %), 6: 57233 (5.830 %), 7: 49854 (5.078 %), 8: 29814 (3.037 %), 9: 16737 (1.705 %), 10: 11698 (1.191 %), 11: 4815 (0.490 %), 12: 1829 (0.186 %), 13: 1077 (0.109 %), 14: 296 (0.030 %), 15: 134 (0.013 %), ..., 20: 17 (.001 %). Most common 5+ letter "words": which (3045), there (2407), people (2260), example (1972), other (1747), about (1556), number (1483), software (1357), because (1287), their (1215), something (1198), would (1172), being (1143), program (1096), language (1082), called (1022), things (964), without (946), simple (917), computer (889). Most common 4- letter "words": `.` (54555), `,` (49537), the (28529), to (19849), of (18951), a (18884), and (18457), `'` (15698), is (13726), `:` (12383), it (11649), in (11232), that (8305), for (7900), as (7581), be (7107), you (6723), this (6013). Most common characters: SPACE (1006980), e (446781), t (330209), a (299559), o (289732), i (287872), s (263439), n (254207), r (224212), l (179010), h (150073), c (130353), d (123633), m (114486), u (111744), p (92148), g (84004), y (83986), f (82230), w (69547). At this point there were 648 articles written in 1070 git commits.

At the end of October 2025 the following stats were collected from web logs that spanned 5 days. Average hits and visitors per day were 4593 and 556 respectively. Out of normal articles the most viewed were (from most viewed): pedophilia, political correctness, c tutorial, drummyfish, nigger, woman, capitalism, lrs wiki, privacy, unretard, how to, loquendo, lrs and bloat. Most frequent continents and countries of visitors were: Europe (Russia, then France, then Finland, then Germany, then UK, then Ireland, then Czechia, then Italy), then Asia (Singapore, then China, then South Korea, then Japan, then Turkey), then North America (USA, then Canada, then Dominical Republic, then Mexico), then South America (Argentina, then Brazil, then Peru, then Colombia), then Oceania (Australia, then NZ), then Africa. Most common operating systems of the readers were (from most common): Window$ (mainly Win 10s and then about half as many Win 7s), then crawlers/other/unknown (almost as many as Winshit), then a lot fewer GNU/Linux, then Mac, then Android and iOS. Most common browsers: Chrome, other, Firefox. Most common referring site was Google, then duckduckgo and then many sites of friends (thank you) and some obscure forums (for example "hacker"news) :)

## See Also

- LRS
- LRS wiki stats
- LRS wiki style guide
- LRS wiki authors
- LRS wiki "rights"
- LRS wiki post mortem
- LRS wiki TODO
- less retarded society
- FAQ
- encyclopedia dramatica
- Wikipedia

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