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The other thread hit bump limit and I'm addicted to talking about the birth of the ̶a̶l̶l̶-̶k̶n̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶ the biggest financial bubble in history and the coming jobless eschaton, post your AI news here

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>>31801
It's just the way the division between intellectual and manual labor was framed up until 2023 in western media discourse, at least in certain sections. The creative labor - programmers, entrepreneurs, designers, influencers, artists - basically the kinds of people Apple marketing caters to, they also happen to be on the "left-leaning" side of liberalism as a group - were supposed to be rising and irreplaceable while everyone else was a filthy peasant who just couldn't adapt to the new world and that was entirely their fault.
Yes, it could sound silly to someone who has no context whatsoever, but people who read obscure imageboards tend to have knowledge of online discourse so I figured it wasn't an issue.

>>31800
I think this is some strange revisionism. The idea that art belongs only to a class of specific people who have technical training is a reactionary idea that goes against the ethos of pretty much all modernist movement and is almost totally gone from the contemporary art scene. The idea is overwhelming that artistry is innate to all people and its conservative critics, philistines for the most part, that reject the idea that art is anything more than technical competency.

And frankly I don’t see how we can’t already see the way AI generation cheapens art and basically debases human creativity. That you call things “human generated slop” already makes me think you hold these conservative views on art, though.

>>31806
I have next to no experience with real artists, especially ones educated in the field. My problem is with the way the ideas of art and innovation are used as one of the few tools bourgeois culture has against materialism. It has been absolutely insufferable before very recent years and it's still very annoying. Modernist art movements have sure not stopped contemporary media from running the idea into the ground in the ways I described. They could not: it's far bigger than them. It's the current form of the very old division between manual and intellectual labor.
This may have been the way >>31801 saw my comment about learn to code because that's just not a corner of the world I know or care much about. The last thing I really heard about it was that art is also a way to store value for bourgeois and some app company wanted to bring that possibility to the petty bourgeois that watch video essayists on youtube too.

>And frankly I don’t see how we can’t already see the way AI generation cheapens art and basically debases human creativity.

Don't get me wrong, I do. More than a few things I used to enjoy are now ruined by creators introducing AI into the workflow. It does absolutely cheapen the result in a way that feels very insidious. I myself decided against using AI in many areas because god damn is it repetitive and doing the thing yourself feels a lot better. But I can definitely see why people use it - it is a much more effective way to get the results. And it is getting a lot better very quickly.

>That you call things “human generated slop” already makes me think you hold these conservative views on art, though.

Maybe? I have listened to some artists online and they say that making art is a long process of improvement and building skill, but also inspirations and other background. But they were not educated in art academia. I don't think my views on this issue are all that conservative. What do you call the art that is incentivized by the market and as such gets so much art made by people who don't care at all? Like gacha games do nowadays. I would call that slop and there is a lot of it. And a beginner in art is most likely to just do whatever is popular because that's how leaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>31807
>What do you call the art that is incentivized by the market and as such gets so much art made by people who don't care at all? Like gacha games do nowadays. I would call that slop and there is a lot of it.
The perspective many people have on art and creativity in general is warped for sure. Even when the end product of peoples' work is sublime in a way that is hard to explain in its entirety, the skills needed to get there are still a matter of practice, reasoning and precision. Whenver people insinuate skill to be innate or call voice actors "talents", i throw up a little.

As a unix programmer and hobbyist sysadmin i can confidently say most current software is a hot mess. 90% of programs i use day-to-day suck in some major way and even among those that don't the code itself is often unremarkable. AI code is worse by a few circles of hell though, because it's often structurally baffling and usually even less reliable.

It's finally here: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/25/white-house-the-us-will-fabricate-science-with-chatbots/

""""The Manhattan Project""""" (actually just taxpayer money) for AI.
AI chatbots are now apaprently a matter of national security and to achieve "AGI" dominance, citizen simps will now fund the AI companies so that glorious america can win the "AGI race" against china.

In reality, it's a cheap bailout for stupidly overvalued AI companies which aren't making enough money to keep themselves going. You can only show $300 billion of non-existent money (overvalued stock) going back and forth between nvidia, open ai and oracle but can't actually use it to build the promised data centres, the promise of which are keeping the valuations high. So now enter government, who will generously build it for them and will buy the required GPUs and Oracle databases injecting taxpayer money to keep the bubble from collapsing. Because if the bubble collapses, the american economy is done for a good few years and countries like China even without "AI" will just outcompete them because they didn't stupidly leverage their economy on some imagined AI revolution.



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Machine Learning general. So anybody here actually do any ML programming? I just installed PyTorch yesterday and actually started training some shit. It was pretty easy to get working. But… I am a dumb dumb, so I am going to go back and learn all the basics I think, because I have delusions that maybe I'll be able to do something interesting with it, but I know unless I'm really knowledgeable about it, the probability is less than zero.

I know that thread about bitching about ML is the most popular thread on /tech/ but I thought we should have a separate thread for people actually programming it.
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I haven't reviewed this televised class because I'm not too interested in Ollama, but I'm assuming it's good because the guy running it caught what a breakthrough deepseek's experimental sparse attention model is


https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01066
An expected result, but it does down some critiques

it's important to distinguish between non-commodified ML and its legitimate uses and LLMs and other crap the AItard corpos are trying to shove in all our holes

isn't traditional ML/NLP useless now that LLMS have been invented? other than cost why would anyone write a Support vector machine or something in AD 2025?



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<Computer networking is the practice of connecting two or more computing devices to enable data exchange and resource sharing, using either physical cables or wireless signals. Key components include end devices (like computers and printers), media (cables or radio waves), protocols (rules for communication), and networking devices (such as routers and switches). These networks range in size from small Local Area Networks (LANs) in homes to expansive Wide Area Networks (WANs) that span the globe, like the internet

Thread to discuss computer networking. I thought we could use one because networking has an unusually long shelf life for IT skills, unlike programming and even linux to an extent, networking hasn't changed (at least very much) because its basically the physics of IT.

>>31764
>4mb ai slop image
>ai slop paragraph to bypass minimum length
>literally no content in the OP
why do mods allow this garbage. I always report and the always dismiss my reports

>it's not DNS
>it's not DNS
<it's DNS

mOTHERFUCK

>>31765
dont like it dont respond, no ones forcing you to discuss networking



 

Thread for questions that don't deserve their own thread.
I wanna buy some headphones to go outside i don't want to spend more than 100€ on them. I want them to be mostly durable and secondly to have good sound quality, also i don't want to look like a jackass while wearing them, any suggestions?
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Need a new phone, I hate all the os that come preinstalled and just want lineage. Is the oneplus 9 pro still a good option for a few years or do i go with oneplus 11? 11 seems more expensive for less gain.

I'm looking for an old imageboard script that has two colors to the left of every reply, one for the post and one for reference. Is anyone aware of what this is? Just remember an esoteric screenshot from ages ago.

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Why do several GiB downloads go faster over tor than just VPN? Is my VPN just that garbage?

>>31648
cute mouse

Is there some site with a bunch of html/css templates? No JS included.

Bonus points for simple, 90s-2000s looks. I don't want to use a generator but i don't want to start from scratch because it has been too long



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Is there any good open src EN t9 keyboards for Android? currently using GBoard JP in EN mode, but it's a lil clunky and a FOSS option would by default be prefered. before i get too used to this.
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>>19819
(ಥ﹏ಥ)

>>25515
Is that an Aqua emoji?

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>>25530
Aquamoji?

>>25533
AWWWW KAWAII DESU NE!!

Something like thumbkey but with sounds like this one would be fun



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This might not sound that impressive, but i've just managed to get program-agnostic rio-style window creation working flawlessly in FVWM. Previously it was a flickery, unreliable mess of xdotool commands, but now it's spawning every window iconified, hooking into the window creation event to set geometry from my rectangle selection program and deiconifying it to its correct position.

If you could keep track of all terminals and from which one a particular program is spawned, you might be able to reach true rio emulation closer than even the plan9port version.

Desktop and window management general, i guess.
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>>30176
Update: I got multi-key commands working in fvwm, with
FvwmMap RootMap $[FVWM_USERDIR]/root.map
Key Space A 4 RootMap

Now i can restart fvwm with a simple s-Space C-x C-r. It calls the following awk script:
#!/usr/bin/awk -f
BEGIN {
	FS = " "
	senter = ""
	sexit = ""
	name = ARGV[1]
	ARGV[1] = ""
	lines = 0
}
/^#/ {
	next
}
{
	senter = senter "+ I Key " $1 " A " $2 " WithExit" name
	for (i=3; i<=NF; i++)
		senter = senter " " $i
	senter = senter "\n"
	sexit = sexit "+ I Key " $1 " A " $2 " -\n"
}
END {
	print "DestroyFunc Exit" name
	print "AddToFunc Exit" name
	print sexit

	print "DestroyFunc " name
	print "AddToFunc " name
	print senter

	print "DestroyFunc WithExit" name
	print "AddToFunc WithExit" name
	print "+ I Exit" name
	print "+ I $*"
}

The top-level command map looks currently like this:
K N Close
P N Stick
T N Exec xterm
X N Exec dmenu | rc
Tab N Next (!Focused, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
Return N term
B C Direction W (CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
F C Direction E (CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
G C EscapeFunc
N C Direction N (CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
P C Direction S (CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
X C ExtendedMap
B M Direction W (!CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
F M Direction E (!CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
G M GotoMap
N M Direction N (!CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
P M Direction S (!CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow

>>31661
>X N Exec dmenu | rc
To avoid confusion, this is my private dmenu fork, which doesn't do menus or suggestions. I reduced it to a simple prompt.

>>31661
after reading OP again, I didn't notice back then, but I don't think you should be using fvwm or xdotool at all. a barebones x11 wm is like 300 lines of c, and you could implement one with these features in, I would say, 500 lines if you don't care about compatibility and only need it to work on your machine. the wm I used for a long time was 500 lines of zig

because to me it looks more like you are wrestling with fvwm than with the complexity of the task itself. the way to do this with barebones x would be to create windows out of the screen and only move them in when the user does the rectangle gesture

>>31664
No, you see i use a lot of FVWM featureset, like sloppy focus, cascading window placement, the anti-aliased menus and the virtual desktop stuff, which were implemented over a span of decades by a lot of smart people. Besides OP marked the point i managed to recreate the "rectangle gesture" in terms of FVWM primitives, so there are no more xdotool kludges. Maybe sometime i will publish the config and all of the helper programs as their own fvwm-based desktop. For now i will look into adding window groups 0-9 in a way the Next command understands.

I just finished writing a few functions, which can serialize and restore the position of any currently open windows and happened to find this in the manual:
<State state [bool]
>Sets, clears or toggles one of the 32 user defined states which are associated with each window. The state is a number ranging from 0 to 31. The states have no meaning in fvwm, but they can be checked in conditional commands like Next with the State condition.
Good enough for window groups, though i'm unsure how to reconcile window group inheritance with the non-exclusive nature of this attribute. Maybe i could filter using a set of states for a whopping 2^32 window groups.



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>but muh marx

Apple just launched a new revolutionary product that completely changes how you can use your phone. Will bernd get the $149.95 version, or the $229.95 pro version that comes with a long strap? It's even compatible with icky green bubble androids.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/introducing-iphone-pocket-a-beautiful-way-to-wear-and-carry-iphone/
>ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket. Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,” its singular 3D-knitted construction is designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.
>Born from the idea of creating an additional pocket, its understated design fully encloses iPhone, expanding to fit more of a user’s everyday items. When stretched, the open textile subtly reveals its contents and allows users to peek at their iPhone display. iPhone Pocket can be worn in a variety of ways — handheld, tied onto bags, or worn directly on the body.
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>>31676
>Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,”

Why is this news? It's literally just clothing lmao

>>31723
Bedause making fun of apple is fun in this depressing era

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tf apple is literally selling thneeds lmao

this is a fucking joke right?



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Why isn't it widely adopted yet? It's much better than AVIF since it's actually designed for still images, and Apple supports it natively on Safari and Photos. What's Google's endgame by killing work on support for it in Chrome?
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Jpeg-xl is coming to chrome, somehow. Guess they figured webp was a lost cause.

>>31775
What's actually wrong with webp?

>>31776
In some places it might not be supported. Other than that, nothing.

>>31783
It just doesn't perform well compared to the formats it sought to replace, and has had several zero-day vulnerabilities, while being pushed by several companies that were overly enthusiastic about (tumblr, anything google, reddit, etc…) which made it seem very top down.

>>31788
I doubt its because of AVIF since it is very rarely used (due to its poor performance compared to most jpg implementations), I think I have only encountered one this year, or maybe the previos year?



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I have been continuously paranoid since years about corporations and the government. I am an active militant and I like very much to keep my head low although sometimes I can't escape getting in the fray and involved with the media or the police. So my big threat vectors are the police, the government and to a lesser extent the media and the little fascist groups of my western European country.

Now I got windows out the way, I'm running arch and I wipe my laptop and desktop computers once or twice a year. I have Tails on a USB drive for critical operations, I have a riseup account but I never use it because I feel it could be a honeypot so I prefer Proton which is less political.

I used lineageOS build on my last phone but now I have a pixel with Graphene, Obviously I never post on leftypol without using a VPN or TOR.

Can I get better than that? I thought about using a 8 numbers pin on my phone on which I set up a reformat code if I'm forced to enter something but it fucking sucks to type so much each time I unlock it, I feel I'm not high profile enough to justify the hassle. And no I am never giving my digital print to any device.



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(Copypasted from a previous 4chin /g/ thread as a foundation to making these generals on leftypol)
Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.

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2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS.
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Resources: Please spend at least a minute to check a web search engine with your question.
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>>31596
>The idea is to use a patched build of chromium for the mpp. [^1]
Hardware accelerated encode is a (non-ARM) ChromeOS, Windows, or Mac OS exclusive.
Was looking into "brunch" as a way around this, maybe with crostini.
And meanwhile learned that ChromeOS is being replaced by Android…

The cleanest solution found was to use the ChromeOS kernel in Gentoo.
Use this Gentoo box to host LXC containers running the ChromeOS ROOT-A.

After all this it's possible that hardware acceleration still wouldn't work with the tutoring platform.
This is because of "negotiations" on the WebRTC encoding.
But probably it would work…

>>31498
>So, i tried installing CachyOS today. Live CD looked like a standard "Arch for lazy and/or stupid people" kind of thing
I recommend EndeavourOS for that use-case. But I suggest that you just install Xubuntu or Linux Mint and use distrobox to get programs from the AUR (and other distros). Arch Linux requires that you read the wiki a lot and that you know the basics of terminal and bash. This is why I can't recommend Arch for newbies or lazy people.

>>31498
I installed cachyOS on a chinese handheld gaming computer (gpd win 4) and it's pretty good. the latest version of bazzite didnt even want to boot anymore. i didnt check if it had man or not, i just open the terminal to update once every week or so, cachyOS has been fairly unobtrusive despite it being a rolling release distro, which is good enough for something that is going to be showing steam in handheld mode like literally 99% of running time.

Is there any cheap, quiet notebook/Chromebook that tuns Linux? I just want something that has a browser and terminal/Emacs. It being quiet is one of the most important factors as it would be to use while the wife is sleeping next to me.

can someone help me? i was trying to install ddcci-dkms so i could control the brightness of my monitor but now when i boot my monitor shows "no signal". i think the gpu is fine since it spins and shit. tried accessing my user and removing the packing and reconfiguring but the keyboard doesnt seem to work (numlock led doest lit up), i have tried all usb ports and a second keyboard and none worked. any ideas of what should i try?



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