Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 34

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Accounts controlled by Ciro Santilli  Updated 2024-12-15  +Created 1970-01-01

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Ciro Santilli controls the following accounts.

With non-trivial activity:

github.com/cirosantilli on GitHub
stackoverflow.com/users/895245 on Stack Overflow
www.linkedin.com/in/cirosantilli on LinkedIn
www.youtube.com/c/CiroSantilli on YouTube
Twitter: see Section "Ciro Santilli's Twitter accounts"
archive.org/details/@cirosantilli2 on the Internet Archive. Was archive.org/details/@cirosantilli but got deleted due to an "admin error" and the old username cannot be restored!^[ref]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cirosantilli2 and commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cirosantilli2: Ciro tries to upload all educational CC content he creates to Wikimedia Commons as an extra backup and sometimes to use in Wikipedia pages
www.facebook.com/cirosantilli/ Ciro accepts all friend requests there, but expect a few non-technical posts. Unless you look like a massive honeypot account, please send context in advance in that case.
www.quora.com/profile/Ciro-Santilli
www.reddit.com/user/cirosantilli/ is Ciro's Reddit account, mostly computer and China topics
maps.app.goo.gl/npV35XTppSBTmNqC8: Google Maps. Ciro Santilli likes to make additions to certain niche topics that are missing, having reached Local Guide Level 6 as of 2024. He can't do as much as he'd like so as to not reveal his current city however.

Trivial activity only:

Profiles without URLs (OMG...):

Discord: username cirosantilli, previously cirosantilli#8921

Accounts in Chinese websites. These accounts might be banned or altered or offer other limitations, so Ciro only communicates briefly through them. All communication through those channels should obviously be assumed to be compromised:

bbs.nibaedu.com/index.php?m=space&uid=70
www.renren.com/338003848/profile
www.tianya.cn/109285544 (can't post, no cell phone)
hacpai.com/member/cirosantilli unable to login as of 2019-10-12, reason unclear, either ban or website too crappy.
pincong.rocks/people/cirosantilli Lost account tested as of 2022-11 and likely much earlier. Last existing password not working, and there doesn't seem to be a reset password button. Creating cirosantilli2
pincong.rocks/people/cirosantilli2
tieba.baidu.com/home/main?id=5cd56369726f73616e74696c6c69c944
v2ex.com/member/cirosantilli: Ciro was blocked and or account deleted on 2020-07-23: cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/v2ex
- v2ex.com/member/cirosantilli2: was created by someone else most likely and cannot be re-registered. Also blocked.
- v2ex.com/member/cirosantilli3: Ciro created this new account November 2023, let's see how long it lasts.
www.zhihu.com/people/cirosantilli. Ciro was prevented from posting in 2018-06-25, and the account and all content mentioning him were taken down in 2019-11-03.
www.weibo.com/p/1005055601627311: started requiring a cell phone to login in 2020, and Ciro didn't want to give his cell phone number to the CCP and didn't have the patience to manage a secondary phone number, so he is not logging in for now. The account was blocked in 2021: cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/ciro-santillis-weibo-block

Accounts in Russian websites:

vk.com/id595305194

Dead websites:

www.citeulike.org/user/cirosantilli (2019-05)

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Evil  Updated 2024-12-15  +Created 1970-01-01

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Things that are not nice such as:

Taboola, Outbrain, and other chumbox
BLOBs
Europe cookie law
adhesive inside mobile phones and more generally, planned obsolescence
Jupyter Notebook
typographical characters that look like ASCII ones, but are not the ASCII ones, e.g. typographical quotes, em-dash. The non-breaking hyphen is not even whitespace, and by def Why not stick to ASCII when ASCII is good enough?
excessive encapsulation
replacement of master and slave terminology from technology
mailing lists. And to add insult to injury, HTML on mailing list messages instead of plaintext.
blank lines in code added by people trying to increase clarity, especially when there is already indentation for that. Every blank line must be preceded by a line comment explaining what the following block is about, or removed.
messaging software that force you to have a mobile phone
advertisements by telephone/SMS
"state" such as global variables and object members, long live functional programming?
mosquitoes, the only intrinsically bad thing about tropical countries
projects with slow compilation times
Microsoft Windows
the 2019 Chinese government
e-learning websites that only allows verified teachers to write content. Cowards who can't handle ranking algorithms.
domain-specific language
a build system without an out-of-tree option
non-linear Git history: stackoverflow.com/questions/20348629/what-are-advantages-of-keeping-linear-history-in-git
visual programming languages like Scratch. Waste of time. Text programming languages are already equally as visual due to indentation:
```
if x == 0:
    x = 1
```
Just make good serious gamedev libraries and integrated development environments for those real languages instead.
software that prevents you from running as root. Let me fucking shoot myself in the foot if I want to. It is better than having to deal with your hand holding bullshit, which is done in a different way for every project. E.g.: stackoverflow.com/questions/17466017/how-to-solve-you-must-not-be-root-to-run-crosstool-ng-when-using-ct-ng/53099177#53099177
Medium
luxury goods
euphemism
closed access academic journals are evil
websites without OAuth
shower room without a window to the exterior (mould!!!)
single programs with their interface split across multiple windows, e.g. GIMP, ZynAddSubFX
graphical user interfaces
logograms
infinitesimals. Just use limit instead, please
country
knowledge olympiads
programming languages without a decent dominating package system
closed source offline software used by millions
exams
security through obscurities
dots in Gmail address
things in websites that look like links, and behave like links, but don't let you middle click to open them on a separate tab
K-pop
numerical computing language
fiscal paradises
when the front-end of an website changes an important permanent state, but the URL does not change
splash screens: you should show boot messages so that people will know what to Google for when things fail. Do you think computer newbies will be afraid and have nightmares?
milk chocolate: why would you eat that instead of dark chocolate if you are older than 10?
to talk about something without giving the real name to not scare off the audience
mathematical symbol that looks like a Greek letter but isn't. Or perhaps mathematical notation in general
when more than two people gather to play a board game or video game, and two or more people start chatting on and on about random subjects rather than concentrating on the game
watching television while eating. Same for reading, or doing basically anything else but eat. The only acceptable activity is talking relaxedly, not about work.
noises coming out of your bicycle. It is so hard to find where they come to fix them!!!
code drop
private cars as opposed to public transport. As a cyclist, you can just see the effect that large roads have on nearby areas, it just destroys nature.
closed standards
double consonants that make no difference to sound. Dilema? Dilemma? Dillema? Dillemma? Please!
social media websites that show stuff from people you don't follow when you don't explicitly want that, including things which are not ads, just random suggestions. Twitter starting being like that cirac a 2022. Facebook got worse around that time. It is a constant fight against those stupid websites.
- Facebook
  - www.quora.com/How-do-we-turn-off-suggested-anything-on-Facebook-so-that-these-never-show-up-again
- Twitter
  - twitter.com/danbarreirokfan/status/1415328096568360964?lang=en-GB
  - www.quora.com/How-do-I-disable-suggested-topics-on-Twitter
socks with short legs that don't protect your ankle/lower calf from cold/scratches/dirt, e.g. liner socks
Presta valves. Why would such a flimsy tech have become so popular compared to the infinitely superior Schrader!

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Blogs  Updated 2024-12-15  +Created 1970-01-01

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Where blog is taken in a wide sense, including e.g. Medium, WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, etc., etc.

The main shortcoming of blogs is the lack of topic convergence across blogs. Each blog is a moderated castle. So who is the best user for a given topic, or the best content for a given tag, across the entire website?

The only reasonable free material we have for advanced subjects nowadays are university lecture notes.

While some of those are awesome, when writing a large content, no one can keep quality high across all sections, there will always be knowledge that you don't have which is enlightening. And Googlers are more often than not interested only in specific sections of your content.

Our website aims to make smaller subjects vertically curated across horizontal single author tutorials.

MIT calculus course             UCLA calculus course

* Calculus                <---> * Calculus
  * Limit                 <--->   * Limit
    * Limit of a function
    * Limit of a series   <--->     * Limit of a series
  * Derivative            <--->   * Derivative
                                    * L'Hôpital's rule
  * Integral              <--->   * Integral

Some more links:

prose.sh/ multiblog, the only feature is easy of publishing from CLI

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