I guess that this probably belongs more on the tech thread or, even the politics one, but I feel that since I am a pathetic amateur, it's probably better for me to post on on the random/general thread here.
Unfortunately I am not into a STEM-related career but I always have had an interest in computers. Guess having to pirate software, movies and music on my own on a early age sparked this bug into life inside of me. When I was a kid, I always wondered how people removed DRM, split RAR files and did stuff like that, and how they didn't get immediately caught by doing such stuff. The fact that people could do such magic with computers at such low levels (especially ROM hacks), it always made me feel so curious about how the did it, how the old masters did it.
In particular, for the past few years I read up on how a lot of old programs, techdemos (even in the present day) and stuff like that was written in binary, hexadecimal, assembly OPCODES. And I know that it directly maps on to the implementation of logic gates, ALU and such shit like that. But to start with it, especially since I am looking for a modern platform feels fruitless. I don't really want to learn it for something ancient like the 68k or Z80 (you can call me a faggot for this, I don't mind) and the most important thing I have noticed is the absolute enshittification of results. It's slightly less bad for ASM but for regular coding, it just sucks. Nothing like MAN pages, documents, University articles aimed at beginners, or even old-skool stuff like say, Fravia or Iczelion or stuff like that. It's all these flashy Medium sites, SEO scamware pages, and bootcamp ads for Python and YT videos. I know that corporates always ruin everything but even the few ASM stuff I see nowadays tends to be for skiddie-tier reverse engineering of Malware for 1337 H4X0R points and not even something like the basics, syntax, documentation or programming for its own creative sake. I get that it's a pain to code complex stuff in such low-level languages and that most people stick to higher-level stuff but, I simply want to learn modern low-level stuff and hexadecimal, debugging and dumping for its own sake. Because computers as a whole facsinate me. I want to know how each and every layer of software abstraction is built from scratch (yes, I know that it all maps to silicon and electrons in the end but like I said, you are free to call me a faggot for this) and how it layers up into a modern system. It's something I barely see any resources for, especially since I'm not something like a CSE major, Math/Physics major or a PHd in anything.
By the way, I've noticed that back in the day, there used to be a lot of tutorials for cracking or patching SecuROM, Starfoce, and even older DRMs and people were more open to sharing secrets. Now in the age of Denuvo and online checks, people don't share their knowledge as often. Piracy as a whole feels much more commercialised than before, especially on PC. Android odding is a bit better in this regard but iirc the only guy who made a tutorial to patch Denuvo, Voksi got caught, MKDev and CODEX gave up, 3DM barely does anything anymore, EMPRESS was an insufferable arse who had a knackfor sending threats and fucked off anyway, and idk what Razor1911 is doing.
I think it's very sad that by how massive the internet has become, finding information has only become harder. There's information but it has only become much harder to access, lost in sludges of algorithmic noise and with legitimate information not necessarily being deleted but just drowned out enough to keep out most people. The Glowies do their job, the people are kept as mindless consoomers. Guess I should actually start playing MGS2 and, start to read Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation (you are again entited to call me an idiot for thinking to read Baudrillard. But again, he did inspire MGS2 and The Matrix so, yeah. I don't care if he's lefty, I'm not a wingnat).
And I've noticed something in politics, these weird LLM Corps. are all made by Nick Land fans. It could be a massive reddit-tier nothingburger but, I honestly kinda have my doubts that reddit might actually be right about this one. Nick Land seems to have basically thought that AI was the ultimate form of alien, lovecraftian capital that accelerates to post-humanity. Also Landian Hyperstition seems to be about that by repeating a myth or model, it becomes true after countless repetitions. I honestly seem to believe that given Peter Thiel and Palantir (basically 0 information available on Palantir but I do know that it seems to be linked to surveilance) and Sam Altman's weird belief of whatever the fuck buzzword jargon 'effective altruism' is supposed to mean and, Grimes' weird associations with some chick called Aella who holds rape parties for weirdo techno-nihilistic tech bros in Silicon Valley and, her links with Samo Burja, I think that this LLM craze seems to have deeper ties. It's probably because Tech is slowly displacing (or rapidly displacing) the old vanguards of the World Order in a capitalistic society like Big Pharma, Banking, Energy (especially coal/oil) and even Telecom to a certain extent, I feel that a lot of the silly politics in the world right now is an extension of this, especially since the alt-right seems to be very connected to tech. It could again be just some nothingburger wholesome keanu chungus type of reddit theories but honestly, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Also I want to know how billionaires work and how politics is truly never in control of us people. I think that TATA has been involved in deforestation in very ecologically sensitive regions of South Asia and Africa, a lot of the current German parliament and poltical leaders have Nazi ties, Bill Gates's family was involved in a major thinktank and he himself came from a senator's (or just a politically influential background with a lot of money), how BlackRock controls Canadian foreign politcy and the housing market and even immigration, how a good 90% of modern Psychology and Psychiatry research comes from CIA kinda shit and, Petronas war crimes. I want to be more aware of these kinds of stuff. I don't think it's going to be like some weird illuminati satanic abortions by Jewish-Palestinian woke order of 300 in a round circle but, i feel that it's just a play by rich people and we are all cogs and machines in it. It's more than probably an ego game with no true origin, like it always has been.
Btw Wikipedia is trash, and I hate how biased it is. I am also too retarded to find out the primary sources on a topic since I have 0 idea where to start. I don't have tiktok brain, but I simply do not have any idea where I can start doing proper research on any topic.
I also do not trust these Abijit Iyer Mitra, Defense With Adi, Sham Sharma and Sanjay Dixit type of people. If Government started doing DNA extractions at birth and tied it into the Aadhar cards of newborns and tied it to a DNA database of family members, they'd whole heartedly support it as "owning the wokes, leftists, radicals, and anti-nationals". They are just narrators of a narrative, the narrative of which has no end or birth point. God, I hate culture wars and how it leaks into every part of the world. The line between the online and the real has blurred and almost died, making a, hyperreality of sorts. Everyone jerks off Israel when they are also a USA puppet and they literally fund insurgencies in NE India (also want to know more about this)
So in short, I want to not be retarded enough to start reading the primary sources and learn how to find them and read them, learn low level programming and logic to create my own stuff like say, engines, graphics, any modern stuff really.... Learn about how politicians and billionaires and corpos and just 2 sides of the same coin and how they subsume critique and rebellion into them, just as another escapist narrative (Disco Elysium predicted this very well. Fuck the dystopian and cyberpunk genres, just another fantasy.), and... yeah. I am but a fag.