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linux for noobs Anonymous 12-11-23 19:14:56 No.22278[Reply]

where should i start with linux? i really want to jump ship, but i've been on windows since 2000/xp and really don't know were to start. i want to be able to customize my desktop gui, use video editing software (it's for work), and still play my video games. i've been looking into Nobara and it seem like a good place to start. Should I dual boot it on my main OS, or put it on my old labtop to get use to it?

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Anonymous 23-11-23 12:34:26 No.22504

>>22503
Virtualbox often breaks after new releases or kernel upgrades, leading to relatively frequent crashes and file corruption.
Apparently Oracle only keeps vbox around as a legacy enterprise product and for gullible hobbyists, so stability and testing have suffered over the last decade.

Anonymous 23-11-23 13:29:02 No.22505

>>22504
I think you are right to some extent. But I know for a fact of many irl important uses of VMs in corpos and academia that are not legacy or hobbyism at all. Particularly to do with cybersec and other networking related stuff where without a VM you would have to run like 80 physical machines with the same OS and other software on top of each of them and VMs are just a whole lot easier

Anonymous 23-11-23 13:49:53 No.22506

>>22505
I never claimed anything about VMs in general, only that Oracle treats virtualbox as a legacy and hobbyist product.
IIRC virtualization is indispensible in the server market; Xen, Bhyve and Docker in particular.

Anonymous 23-11-23 14:18:34 No.22507

>>22502
not rly

Anonymous 23-11-23 14:31:05 No.22509

>>22502
If you aren't a "FOSS schizo" (?) then just install Steam.

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Anonymous 20-11-23 05:44:21 No.22419[Reply]

That's the list of toggles for disabling telemetry in Firefox. By default, Firefox sends pings every time you shut down your browser, make a new profile, it pings their servers when you run firefox and much more. Is this supposed to be 'le privacy browser?

I actually just copied and pasted one of these hardened configs and starting up firefox still pings home every time. Very cool!

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Anonymous 21-11-23 01:17:35 No.22465

>>22453
>also it had a bunch of unaddressed phone homes and security issues at the time I used it
I've never heard of ungoogled chromium doing this…
https://sizeof.cat/post/web-browser-telemetry/

Anonymous 21-11-23 01:26:50 No.22466

>>22465
well I didn't save what I saw at the time, but perhaps I read a misleading article an the matter.

Anonymous 22-11-23 22:04:16 No.22479

>>22419
Here -→ https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/blob/master/user.js
You don't need to use user.js if you don't want. Just go over the file and use about:config

Anonymous 23-11-23 03:16:05 No.22491

>>22479
Those pings still happen even with the most hardened config.js!!!!!!

Anonymous 23-11-23 03:28:40 No.22495

What about Librewolf?
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/librewolf

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Mechanical keyboards Anonymous 30-05-21 07:37:27 No.8859[Reply]

Do you own one? I just bought a cheap Chinese one and I love the feel and noise and the extra space (it's a tenkeyless).

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Anonymous 29-10-23 18:50:49 No.22100

>>8868
>retvrn to hieroglyphics

Anonymous 29-10-23 20:39:52 No.22101

>>8859
got one, mostly for getting rid of ghosting, and its more pleasant to type too
feel pretty good, got it since 5+ years for like 120bucks (I had plenty of money), given the time I spend on the computer was a good investment

Anonymous 04-11-23 00:20:51 No.22143

Cliqter claxters
tip tap

Anonymous 04-11-23 12:08:23 No.22144

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>tfw you will never own an IBM beam spring keyboard

Anonymous 22-11-23 22:29:06 No.22483

>>8859
I always get a full sized keyboard. You don't actually need a mechanical keyboard as long as you buy something that's better than the cheap entry-level stuff. That being said, I think Cherry Mx Brown keys are the most comfortable ones.

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Anonymous 29-05-22 03:55:09 No.15112[Reply]

why is maths as a school subject nothing but difficult number tricks with no practical application? physics has equations that are both piss easy and give you answers you can use. fuck educational maths

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Anonymous 13-11-23 18:56:51 No.22328

>>15129
66+44 does not equal 100 tho

Anonymous 14-11-23 00:21:47 No.22334

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>>15120
our universe is the only possible one, therefore physics is mathematics

Anonymous 14-11-23 01:45:28 No.22336

>>22328
that sounds like a social construct

>>22334
sry, just one of many

Anonymous 21-11-23 19:03:16 No.22471

>>22251
Based

Anonymous 21-11-23 22:13:51 No.22474

>>15112
>why is maths as a school subject nothing but difficult number tricks
cuz school is meant to make you into a trained monkey that doesn't think, just does according to principles thought out by someone else

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Anonymous 17-11-23 21:14:09 No.22380[Reply]

recommend me resources for learning bit, hex, dec, ascii and stuff

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Anonymous 18-11-23 19:12:57 No.22399

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File: 1700334775180-1.pdf (570.65 KB, 197x255, Boolean Algebra.pdf)

I tried finding you something, it's surprisingly hard. These two look good. They are from here: https://home.csulb.edu/~hill/ee201/

Anonymous 19-11-23 00:23:32 No.22404

>>22380
https://www.jemarch.net/poke

Anonymous 19-11-23 04:54:02 No.22409

>>22399
thanks fren
some wikipedia references and articles are also good resources tho it's a shame such info is so spread out

Anonymous 19-11-23 11:21:03 No.22412

>>22409
The actual topics to cover will largely depend on what you want to get out of it. Since you mentioned ASCII, I assume you are interested in the actual representations used by computers and not just the numeral systems in mathematics. I'm sure there are plenty of textbooks that cover these things but I can't recommend any because I learned these stuff by attending lectures in university.

I would cover at least these topics:
- Boolean algebra, maybe a little digital circuits
- Numeral systems (binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal)
- Bitwise operations
- Number representations (BCD, sign-magnitude, one's complement, two's complement, floating point)
- Memory, endianness
- Arbitrary precision numbers (maybe?)
- Character encodings (ASCII, ISO/IEC 8859, Unicode)
- Maybe some simple image format like something from netpbm? Or some other example of how other things are represented in computers. 3D models, audio? idk

I'm sure I missed something, hopefully other anons will insult me for it,

Anonymous 19-11-23 15:59:32 No.22415

>>22404
This looks sick, I wish I had an excuse to use it.

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Anonymous 12-11-23 21:22:54 No.22280[Reply]

EU should force websites to work without javascript tbh.
https://www.wired.com/2015/11/i-turned-off-javascript-for-a-whole-week-and-it-was-glorious/

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Anonymous 14-11-23 05:37:34 No.22343

Remember when javascript only existed to make websites prettier?

Anonymous 15-11-23 03:38:49 No.22349

>>22343
No, and my first browser was text based. JS has always been about adding functionality.

Anonymous 15-11-23 04:35:47 No.22350

>>22343
I think you mean CSS

Anonymous 15-11-23 05:12:37 No.22351

Not to defend js-fuckery but Math.max() and Math.min() make sense if you think of them as taking the sup/inf of the empty set

Anonymous 15-11-23 05:17:36 No.22352

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>>22349
nah back then it was about crashing your browser

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Anonymous 13-11-23 07:56:39 No.22303[Reply]

I have a feeling that "AI alignment problems" were just made up to make programmers feel better about their inability to solve any real problem. Please tell me how wrong I am.

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Anonymous 13-11-23 18:53:24 No.22327

>>22325
AI is nowhere close to being real and there's much bigger issues. None of the stuff like AI art is anything approaching actual AI.

Anonymous 14-11-23 05:25:56 No.22339

>>22303
>AI alignment problems
marketing term, nothing to do with programming

Anonymous 14-11-23 05:33:18 No.22340

oh yeah dude ai is so so soooooo powerful right now we need to contain it pass laws only let a select few control it because it could kill us all im not blowing it out of proportion so you inflate our stocks no im actually sooo scared aha

Anonymous 18-11-23 17:40:16 No.22395

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Anonymous 05-12-23 19:52:51 No.22724

"current text generation models carry with them the seeds for worldwide human extinction and we need to act accordingly" is a massively strong claim that is entirely hypothetical and carries zero evidence to back it up. It was more believable to say that nuclear weapons would cause a human extinction event and it still didn't happen. Why does anyone take these clowns seriously

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Anonymous 31-05-22 02:05:40 No.15141[Reply]

Remember to constantly randomize your MAC address.
https://github.com/datagod/gpsprobe

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Anonymous 09-11-23 00:15:37 No.22255

randomizing your MAC address doesn't do shit unless you're concerned about the local network you're on. when packets get NAT'ed they don't preserve information about the MAC address on the local network because otherwise that would cause all sorts of problems. MAC addresses are only meaningful on a local network because iirc they're randomized and also dependent on the hardware you're using, so if every single MAC address of every device in the world was being sent around on the internet, there would be collisions all the time.

Anonymous 09-11-23 00:41:59 No.22256

>>22249
>it's just nice to be noticed.
Deus Ex moment.

Anonymous 09-11-23 00:42:37 No.22257

Android already does this by default.

Anonymous 09-11-23 02:29:17 No.22258

sounds good if i'm on a labby, but why would i do it if i'm on desktop

Anonymous 09-11-23 18:15:21 No.22262

>>22253
>Thinking any of this shit is going to protect you from the fbi.
If I was doing shit that I thought yhe feds would care about I would use TailsOS or something, but you probably can't even count on that.

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Howdy, so what's the best antivirus for cuckdows? Anonymous 27-05-22 13:07:00 No.15071[Reply]

Yeah I still using it, in fact anyone still kinda using it cuz we can't just abandon our normies facade.

Also is it true that from Windows 10 until onwards (Windows 11), you don't need install any third-party or additional antivirus?

I still can't move on into Linux. Cuz it's not even my laptop, but my parents.

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Anonymous 28-05-22 00:12:49 No.15086

Best advice is to run Windows in a Qubes OS virtual machine.

Anonymous 28-05-22 01:25:11 No.15089

you should only use the built-in windows defender unless you like installing spyware that will make your computer run even slower

Anonymous 28-05-22 01:25:37 No.15090

>>15089
although obviously the better option is simply not using windows at all

Anonymous 08-11-23 17:20:42 No.22250

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I mean Windows has nothing exclusive anymore, so I don't get the point in trying it pretend it's still easy to use past Windows 7. NixOS with KDE is easier to teach to kids and old people than Windows 11 unless you want more flexibility than windows would ever non-trivially provide in the first place.

That said, ClamWin was great back when I used to use Windows.

Anonymous 09-11-23 09:10:36 No.22261

>>22250
>NixOS
>kids will want to learn a programming language just to use the package manager and install programs
You had a point until you mentioned that meme OS.

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Anonymous 06-06-22 01:44:15 No.15246[Reply]

Canada’s favorite coffee chain was covertly data mining the shit out of people who just wanted cheap coffee, and they got outed by the government, then concluded tim hortons was basically being evil then was like “oh well can’t punish them".

>The Tim Hortons app used location data to infer where users lived, worked, and whether they were travelling. It generated an “event” every time users entered and left their homes, entered and exited their office, or travelled.
https://priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/investigations/investigations-into-businesses/2022/pipeda-2022-001/

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Anonymous 07-06-22 00:47:45 No.15255

>>15254
It streamlines the process. If you already have the app it has your payment info and so on and you can order stuff before you get there or something. It's really unnecessary and a sign of how strapped for time and productivity-maxing society has become.

Anonymous 07-06-22 00:52:15 No.15256

>>15255
here's how to streamline the process: use cash

Anonymous 08-11-23 11:51:12 No.22233

>>15254
it's a good feature, you can pre-order your food and only go there to pick it up

more broadly, it's crazy how inefficient the food sector is under capitalism. food is the archetypal economy of scale, cooking at home shouldn't be cheaper than eating outside, there shouldn't be a kitchen in every house

everything I eat tastes like shit because I'm not going to waste my time learning to cook, and I'm not going to waste money eating outside

Anonymous 09-11-23 08:49:03 No.22259

>>22233
>more broadly, it's crazy how inefficient the food sector is under capitalism. food is the archetypal economy of scale, cooking at home shouldn't be cheaper than eating outside, there shouldn't be a kitchen in every house
It was the same in the USSR

Anonymous 09-11-23 09:05:55 No.22260

>>22233
>cooking at home shouldn't be cheaper than eating outside, there shouldn't be a kitchen in every house
Those are two separate issues. Why it's more expensive to eat outside is because the restaurant has to pay salaries to cooks and waiters, rent, taxes, licensing fees, equipment, etc.

No, there shouldn't be a kitchen in every house. People should have a communal kitchen in the building, and then people from that building have to be paid to work in the communal kitchen. It shouldn't be a free-for-all, the communal kitchen should be run like a restaurant. People can have a kitchenette at home to warm up things, make tea, etc.

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