/tech/ - Technology

I can't say too much, but if you ever meet somebody of rocketlab, do me a favor and punch them in a coma.

space exploration is like the uncontroversial, bipartisan, reddit-friendly iteration of "make america great again". america had this peak moment of great hope and national pride in the 1960s where astronauts walked on the moon in the most expensive political theater photo op of all time and will never, ever reach a peak like that again because the empire is in its twilight years and everything else in the solar system is hundreds of millions of miles farther away than the moon and just as boring and useless as the moon and there's no reason to go there, but people can't let it go, they so badly want to relive that past glory and to believe that it could happen again and that the naive 1960s optimism about the future space age will actually come to pass. and all the rocket launches are just obscene displays of extravagance and waste, like some trillionaire neo-nazi tech ceo just basically burning billions of dollars in cash on national television while americans watch and applaud like dopes as the entire world turns to shit HAHAHAHA LOOK IT WENT UP OH WOW

>>34415
CHYNA is going to land on the moon in our lifetimes so that's pretty neat

>>34416

they'll probably just build their own moon that costs like $50 and land on that

https://x.com/Danmar_here/status/2105059762240979283

uyghas are freaking out over people making the matrix multiplication machines output the most likely token of someone being tortured.

Realistically, what would happen if the AI bubble popped or investors demanded immediate profitability from AI companies? Would it actually have that much of an impact on the economy or AI adoption?

>>34424
It would trigger a "bank run" I suppose, but since it's mostly private credit, the biggest losers are the people who attempt to get out late, probably insurance execs from what I can tell. I don't think anyone can tell you the effects that will radiate from there, it's not like SVB, it's also strictly speaking not something that affects stonks directly, except for the middlemen, asset management companies running the SPVs like blue owl, and probably Coreweave. Certainly Nvidia could pivot into offering LLM hardware direct to consumers like the DGX Spark, so they could be hurt but it's also like Cisco in the late 90s I guess, people still needed internet hardware after the dot net bubble popped, so they'll still be around. It also depends on the financial commitments players have made, like Oracle is fucked because they are on the hook for datacenter buildup. The thing that makes it hard to diagnose is that the big tech companies are still very much in the green, and have been using their profit to finance AI research. There are some wider implications regarding rate of profit I suppose, because if they've been using their profit to finance LLMs is because they have nowhere else to put their money into, but I'm not smart enough to really predict what could happen.

>>34425
>dot net
dot com, can you tell i woke up from a nap

Oh it'll probably nuke your 401k, stuff like that because they have been buying into SPVs, like I said, it's so unique because it's not a stonks bubble, it's a private capital bubble.

>>33871
Vanilla android doesn't run anywhere, android is always customized to run anywhere other than in a vm, it's a cursed shitware os. But yes lineageos supports waaay more devices, and the benefit of graphene seems highly questionable to me.
That said all hardware is aids-ridden, google's hardware is not even the worst, probably by far not the worst. Btw assuming you're the guy from the samsung thread - in the past replicant devs found a modem-level backdoor in a samsung phone. And that's just what the found - it's a very small team and the number and complexity of devices is huge and ever growing, so you can safely assume EVERY device has something like that or worse.

looks like GrapheneOS has fixed this now by mirroring the files on their own servers. but I wonder why they do this all the time for every connection rather than say once per hour or once a week
also yes trusting GrapheneOS instead of Google is not without problems but there are degrees in hell

why do people on here argue over what to trust as if anything could possibly be trustworthy.

the smartphone market is just a dumpster fire from top to bottom, particularly android. android is the worst operating system in the history of mankind, the bastard child of google and linux, the two worst things to ever happen to computer technology. degoogling android won't make it better, nothing can make android better, android is shit all the way through, there is literally nothing good about it at all.

This thread glows like the sun.

>>33943
in the final analysis it's all just programs, so build.sh is the trve answer

>>33944
The average build.sh can't do minimal rebuilds, i.e. it will always recompile the entire project, whether you change a line in config.h or not. Redo targets are literally just executable files, that specify dependencies through redo-* calls, so repeated redo invocations will only rebuild targets according to the dependency graph, while those targets are still arbitrary programs.

>>33945
just buy more CPU time

>Sudo apt upgrade on kubuntu system
<kde all broken

ubuntu is by far and large the fucking worst distro I ever had to touch, they deserve to go bankrupt

>>34418
Fixed, guilty party was chromium, removed it and everything works again https://issues.chromium.org/issues/565132857

Am I wrong in wondering how the fuck a glaring bug like this gets pushed through? How did they not notice this? Is this because they just don't even bother anymore with snap?

>>34408
I am not donating because the Ford Foundation and George Soros are already funding the project.

it's how ai was able to scrape the new york times

>>34409
well there you go. i suppose it's also cheaper to fund the internet archive than a number of libraries around the world.

what about this: https://x.com/grok/status/2104162014603964742

>>34412
are you seriously asking grok if grok is an anti-chinese spook

Got a 2023 thinkphone from motorola, it's good and got lineage so

>>33885
Insane value for money. Had the same 200 american dollar (that's 260 in today's money) xiaomi for 7 years now. Adware I turned off immediately and haven't had trouble with since. For apps like gallery I just installed a replacement if they were bad, design-wise. Spyware is like, same level as samsung or other cheap shit. Would you rather have american or chinese backdoor?

>>34135
Bullshit or cope, I had a xiaomi and it had so much shit that you needed to turn off in separate places it was insane, and to this day I never figured out how to disable the xiaomj "safe installer" crap. I got lucky on that phone because it was vulnerable to mtkexploit which rescued it from the trash bin

>>34152
I just hit back out of muscle memory when the stupid safe installer appears. Yeah I had to turn off "features" in separate places too but it took me about a day of getting used to the thing. Yet it is still my daily phone after all these years. Battery still lasts a good day use, too.

everyone's giving you bad advice. the best phone is one you can play the best emulated gaming experience on, get 2 days battery out of, has OLED, and is cheap, under $250.

I was following him on Twitter for a while because of his dumb takes, but I had to stop because it stopped being funny after a while.

any of these people who take it upon themselves to try to become some kind of extremely-online micro-celebrity armchair journalist crusader constantly seeking conflict and controversy are fucking crazy, normal people who value their sense of self don't act that way and don't feel comfortable reinventing themselves as some kind of superhero character that completely eclipses their actual selves and turns them into some kind of one-dimensional entity rather than a human being.

>>28088
Looks like Every Single Tech company is going to copy Google's pixel 10a design which has an exploding battery and literally sell remote bombs to consumers which could detonate after bitcoin saturated consumers in China reveal their new remote killing system a purposefully made backdoor into the device to kill evil white men.

>>34357
We're SO back.

>>31338
>still talking about antifa clowns in 2026
Dude has a terminal case of boomer brain. Yes, I'm aware he's not literally a boomer.

bumping so i can return when i can be arsed but seems interesting

>>34307
Published something that seems to work, though the free models are too weak to run it consistently.
Think need subagents to prevent from maxing out the context window too soon.

>>34309
Why would you reply to someone's love letter to their favorite shitty outdated language with a totally low effort shill for your favorite shitty outdated language? Literally nobody uses Ada except wannabe glowy contractors in DoD funded wage cages, and even they're moving to Rust. Also generics in Ada are complete ass (explicitly instantiated lmfao) so I have no clue why that'd be your showcase feature of choice.

>>34369
Because i agree with everything that anon said, except that Pascal ever was ready for general use. Luckily Ada, Delphi or even Modula are similar enough in syntax and spirit.

Tbh learning the syntax of a language is mostly trivial, books involve frameworks and IDEs and shit because if you’re learning to program for a job then the experience you’ll be asked to demonstrate will revolve around the environment since that’s a much larger information space than language syntax.

That being said, probably best to just read books on specific kinds of programming concepts (commonly recommended is Data Structures and Algorithms, but think networking or multiprocessing or operating systems) rather than general language books to gain the knowledge you seek.

>>34369

i don't know if i would call it a love letter, just an explanation of why pascal is a good teaching language for novice programmers. obviously it's not the most useful or flexible language and it has a lot of annoying limitations that c/c++ doesn't have especially ansi standard pascal and it only really became a useful practical language through non-standard extended dialects such as turbo pascal/delphi/freepascal, but for someone who knows nothing about programming its easier to start with pascal than it is to start with c or c++ and get bogged down in all the various quirks and gotchas of those languages, especially c++ which is just footgun city.

>>34370

delphi and pascal are the same thing, delphi is just the name of borland's later pascal dialect which succeeded turbo pascal. and pascal/delphi are still used quite heavily today believe it or not, particularly in eastern europe. pascal was huge in the eastern bloc due to being taught extensively in public schools and institutes in the ussr, and borland turbo pascal was extremely cheap and also very easy to pirate and it ran on a single floppy disk and could compile code very fast on a shitty cheap IBM PC clone with no hard drive, so pascal sort of became the lingua franca of eastern european programmers.