/tech/ - Technology

>>25768
feel free to continue using bsd anon, but you can't rly believe all that crap about linux do you? i mean wut r u specifically referencing besides redhat?

>>25769
If you like retro gaming, FreeBSD can run emulators fine. I don't play newer games so I can't say but from what I've read its pretty much identical to Linux except you need to use linuxlator.

>>25755
Cyber-nihilist occult leader who's said to be behind the occultic Sufism posts on Akichan. Well known BSD master and Lainchan founder, wrote a couple Deleuze influenced theory essays back in the 2000s. Basically she's Lainchan's version of Nick Land minus the transhumanist bashing, racism, and hair loss.

>>25755
just another pseud online that gets turned into a minor e-celeb by the braindead who are desperate to idolize someone just because hes read philcucks

Nyx land is a transhumanist that wrote Gender Acceleration the black paper

>This whole thread
KYS

>>30458
No.
1.) The CIA controls all public nodes to the network.
2.) Security issues relating to it (like "Sybil" unmasking attacks).
3.) The exit relay problem.
4.) The network is rickety now due to network-wide DDOSes thay's breaking sites and fucking the network up, and it's not as "robust" as it claims.

>>30459
>inb4 I2P
I2P is also trash. It was literally written in JAVA! Python shits on Java! It even requires you to install the latest version of it to even access the network! What a croc of shit! That's why hackers (and I'm not even talking STATE ones, either) can deanonymize users through the I2P network simply by abusing Java, since Java is proprietary garbage and anyone promoting this network is a shill. Hyphanet is the only promising one, since it requires you to run the connection off custom peer nodes to even access the network, which an actually safe VPN protocol is technically possible, but like i mentioned in the OP, it's not currently being correctly adopted. It would need at least 261 bits of encryption to keep the feds away.

Besides, having a centralized base of server nodes to backbone a network off of where a central point of failure could occur is dumb anyways. Hyphanet gives power to the user rather than the ISP, since VPNs can still keep logs.

Also, back when "Hyphanet" was still Freenet/Frost, it used Java, but newer versions are written in Rust. Really, Java is an outdated programming language.

>>30460
>outdated
The only outdated languages are those that don't run correctly on modern hardware. Java can be a perfectly sane language when used correctly, sadly it incentivizes convoluted templating structures and a laissez faire attitude towards memory. If you're worried about vendor-lockin, use gcj or kaffe instead of hotspot and its derivatives.

>being written in c is a dealbreaker
holy meme

>>30490
>Make DOS Games Look and Sound Better
Why? They're still shit.

MIDI is a pretty cool tech. It was invented in the early 1980s as a standard by American and Japanese synthesizer manufacturers, ensuring that every equipment could exchange musical data easily, because back then everyone had their own special incompatible protocol. MIDI is still used today in most music software.

Then you had General MIDI which is an extension specifying some standard sounds that often sound cheap as hell, but you could make your own General MIDI bank of sounds with a Soundfont and play fart sounds instead of piano sounds or something, or have high quality sounds. It wasn't just sound cards, quite a few people had a module like the Roland SC-55 or SC-88 to play the music of DOOM for example. I think Nobuo Uematsu also used a SC-88 to compose Final Fantasy music for the SNES and Playstation games.

The problem of MIDI is that the resolution of the data is 7-bit wide, which means all the data being interpreted by a synthesizer or module is limited between 0 and 127.
This is pretty limiting, especially if you want to make microtonal music or do subtle modulation of sounds.
They are cooking a MIDI 2.0 standard with a better resolution but it will take a long while to get ratified and adopted by everyone, at least one decade or two. For now we have a extension of MIDI called MPE allowing per-note modulation and that kind of stuff but it's hacky.

midi is a pretty cool way to transmit music when your storage space is limited, think about it, those developers from back in the day were crafty. meabwhile nowadays you get shitty software that eats up 2gb of memory just so you can edit a txt file

>>30497

>This is pretty limiting, especially if you want to make microtonal music
That doesn't apply to pitch.
< MIDI pitch bend messages have a precision of 14 bits, which translates to 16,384 possible values (0-16383). The typical default range is +/- 2 semitones, but this can be adjusted. The center point of the range is usually 8192, with values below representing a bend down and values above representing a bend up.

<http://microtonal-synthesis.com/MIDItuning.html
<The MIDI Tuning Standard was ratified by the MIDI Manufacturers' Association in January 1992. Credit should be given to Robert Rich and Carter Scholz who wrote and lobbied for this addition to the MIDI specification. Manufacturers have the option of supporting the tuning standard partially or in full. It is featured on some Emu and Ensoniq instruments. Currently they implement only the non-realtime features of the standard.

>The frequency data format allows for the precise notation of frequencies that differ from equal temperament.

>"Frequency data shall be defined in [units] which are fractions of a semitone. The frequency range starts at MIDI note 0, C = 8.1758 Hz, and extends above MIDI note 127, G = 12543.854 Hz. The first byte of the frequency data word specifies the highest equal-tempered semitone not exceeding the frequency. The next two bytes (14 bits) specify the fraction of 100 cents above the semitone at which the frequency lies. Effective resolution = 100 cents / 214 = .0061 cents."[1]

>This higher resolution allows a logarithmic representation of pitch in which the semitone is divided into 1282 = 214 = 16384 parts, which means the octave is divided into 196608 (logarithmically) equal parts. These parts are exactly 100/16384 cents (approximately 0.0061 cents) in size, which is far below the threshold of human pitch perception and which therefore allows a very accurate representation of pitch.

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>>30491
>25 minutes of E1M1
🤘

>>30465
Although to be fair about Arch, they at least have a PowerPC port (but it's unofficial). They also have Libre kernels (like linux-libre) from the AUR so that you can use for Arch Linux that can manually remove linix-firmware, intel-ucode/amd-ucode and proproetary drivers (like NVIDIA), but these are unofficial also. Qubes and Manjaro I would just avoid completely. Aside from GNU + linux-libre, you could also use Parabola GNU/Linux,which is Arch-based, Guix system, Trisquel, or maybe Hyperbola, which is also Arch-based (although their repo is no longer active).

>>30467
>proton-style compatibility layer
anyone knows what the current options are? years ago i installed some proprietary emulator on my dad's laptop, which the apps he used detected eventually, then android x86 as a qemu guest, but that refused to boot entirely. recently i also wanted to test if i could find an android app to get my family on irc, so i tried to launch waydroid in weston-x11 and it crashed for hard to pin down reasons (it wasn't dbus, probably).

>>30465
>Contrast this with Gentoo, which doesn't use any wifi firmwares (like Broadcom) or drivers by default, and it's 100% free and open source.
but you don't get wifi, nor the benefits that comes when the drivers are inevitable RE'd. broadcom's encryption was recently broken, if I remember correctly
>b-but I can use a USB WiFi dongle! that respects muh freedom!
https://libreboot.org/news/policy.html

>>30478
forgot the picture

>>30472
>has been compromised and will need a hard fork
What? They pointed out that Brave set up an F-Droid compatible repository, it has nothing to do with F-Droid itself. I think posting it was misguided but they are not shilling for it, it's more like
> hey someone else is using the software we wrote, cool, too bad their software is shit

Also
> There's no "wallets" here, this is purely a tech issue.
If you need a "hard fork" that's a social issue and the "wallet" here is your participation feeding the network effect.

>>30471
> there is no smartphone OS that supports [architectures that have no smartphones]
What a scandal! Google made an attempt at supporting RISC-V before realising the insanity in it.

>>30447
I used to post in the programming threads more than a decade ago and everyone there was clueless. At least they got me to read SICP, for that I am eternally grateful.

>>30448
Tbh for me back in 2010 it was convincing me to use Linux in the sense that it’s a UNIX-like and why that is different from using Windows fundamentally, because prior to that Linux (primarily Ubuntu at the time) was just presented as a direct alternative to Windows that is free and has ethics, that it was a UNIX-like just was an technical irrelevancy compared to being a technohippy (which I still am really).


But as /g/ just becomes the buying-graphics-cards sub-board for /pol/, you get a bizarre amount of pushback against even using Linux as an ethical alternative to Windows, let alone using it as a UNIX, because ethics are woke and the terminal is for unemployable tryhards (which tbh old /g/ also said but that was what made you belong on /g/, rather than nu-4chan where you have to (at least pretend to) have a Protestant work ethic to prove yourself to rightoid billionaires and if you don’t then you don’t belong)

>>30440
>Pic
I'm pretty sure that the reason that aesthetic was a big fad was that vector graphics software became widely available and everyone simultaneously learned how to use gradients and masks
<t. used to make "forum signatures" for people when I was 12

>>30461
Show us some of those signatures.

>>30461
I think vector graphics software was already pretty obtainable (legally or not) prior, I think perhaps it’s more that circa 2008 there was a lot of hype around having 1080p Full HD displays and thus vectorised wallpapers were capable of showing off the sharp lines of vector art on such displays, while also being a format that can still produce a smaller bitmap for not so fancy displays.


It’s my thinking as to why the “frutiger aero” aesthetic was so busy, all the frivolous detailing shows off how high res your HD display is, but presumably looked trash on anyone’s old CRTs which while dying in favour of at least 720p flat screens, surely weren’t fully extinct by 2006.

>>30226
Could try stealing the code maybe?
Not sure, this shits running vichan

>>30229
>>30230
Sounds like it’s for addicts tbh, like is Leftypol really so fast that it makes it worth building so you can be pinged when your post gets a reply like 6 hours later?

>>30434
Actually that's exactly why I want to be pinged. I check the site like once every few days, and often don't notice that someone replied to me until waaaay later (at which point it would derail the thread to continue the discussion)

>>30226
Dollchan works with vichan https://dollchan.net/extension/

i use it here you just have to add

// @include https://leftypol.org/*

and i think thats it. but it makes double (You)s and theres some other issue i ran into once and thought it was a site problem but it was really the script

Are you Romanian?

>>30438
Nu sunt romana, dar invat.

Second is what i've used for years. It's robust and feels very nice to type on. You can even rearrange the keycaps, so mine match my particular dvorak layout.
>other peripherals
I always get a proper three button mouse, sucks when software assumes you have a scrollwheel though.
>no numpad for data entry
Do you even do REAL work?

>what do you want?
Leap key for navigation like the Canon Cat had: Under the space bar is your leap key. While holding it down with your thumb, you start typing a word and the cursor immediately moves to the closest match. Actually the Canon Cat had two leap keys, for going LEAPING back and forth.

>>30442
Interesting idea. I just made a macro that does that. I just made a macro that does exactly that. It was a super easy.

It's just:
>ctrl+f
>tab once for previous
>tab twice for next
>enter

I just tested it and it works flawlessly in firefox. It might depend on the program. Just tried it in google docs and it doesn't seem to let you tab to the arrows. Ok tested it in Chrome and it works flawlessly as well there.

Learn to use the catalog.
>>26556
>>1280

Pen and paper tbh

>>30412
How do you install that, I can't find it on AUR.

>>30413
You’ve got to compile it from a feather, ash mixed with water and some wood pulp.

I mean it might be packaged by someone somewhere and the version I’m compiling from is from 1687, so presumably if there is a packaged version it’s probably newer, but hey if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

>>30410
>Its also bloated and slow, and its internal wiki style links might not transfer to another system so notes might get linkrot if I switch to other platforms in the future
shouldn't the links be easy to replicate in another MD editor, i don't see what's so special about a folder of .md files pointing at each other

>>30409
>Haven't yet setup any LSPs or Treesitter, don't really have any projects to motivate it.
Was looking for an excuse, simply can't believe didn't configure this years ago.
It's so easy with Helix that even editing one file made it worth it to setup an LSP.