There's a Reason Why Techrights is Turning 18 and Tux Machines Will Turn 20.5 Next Month
Two more days...
THERE is this simple thing that our adversaries (people who bully us and commit actual crimes against us) fail to understand or stubbornly refuse to accept. Because accepting defeat is harder than self-delusion.
I started advocating GNU/Linux when I was a teenager. I've been programming (for professional and personal purposes) for even longer than that and I wrote many articles. I probably wrote way more than a million comments and Techrights' IRC network has registered many millions of lines. I've kept going, mostly uninterrupted (at best distracted, forced into temporary time-wasting), for over 2 decades and I intend to do this for another 2-3 decades. I cannot quite see or foresee anything that can stop this.
Techrights turns 18 in two days and Tux Machines is more active than ever before. Even if the Web was to perish entirely and vanish, Techrights and Tux Machines are both in Geminispace (all the same material!) and have been there for years. Even for the Gemini requests alone, both are worth running. The audience is there, so the motivation remains.
People who think they can somehow scare us, slow us down and maybe "terminate" us (some way or another) are delusional and pathetic. That just shows how little they know about us (or wish to comprehend). Even if I my home burned down, the sites would go on. There are contingencies and backups in place and those contingencies have been in place for well over a decade.
For those who wish to join our Techrights anniversary party (Thursday in Manchester), contact us by E-mail or IRC. There's still enough space. █