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(Copypasted from a previous 4chin /g/ thread as a foundation to making these generals on leftypol)
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Finally got sick of W11 and tried linux again. First time in my life I felt comfortable enough with it to delete my windows partition. Everything just werks. Been really easy to google answers for the problems I do hit.

Bro why did nobody tell me about KDE Connect, I had to find out it existed from the comment section of fucking linus tich teps, it's fucking awesome. There's a nightly for macOS too, so everything is connected and cozy

>>30450
If/when it gives you problems (which it did for me, very quickly actually) you can try LocalSend

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Out of curiosity, what's the current meme Arch spin that people are using to avoid installing Arch?
>Manjaro
>Endeavor I think it was called
Is there another one yet? Will people ever learn how to use Calameres or just install Arch normally?

>>30527
im using endeavour. they say it is just arch with calamares installer. it uses dracut but idk what that means. it also has yay for pacman by default which i like. i just picked it cause i was gonna kde anyway and i liked the space stuff. i was using grub to dual boot until i deleted windows and reinstalled on defaults so now its systemd.

people say manjaro is bad now. i think the popular one is Cachy? the gamers like it better but the real gamer meme is Garuda. i wanted less bloat and only install gamer stuff as needed. endeavour works great zero issues for almost a year now.



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So, I'm a musician, who wants to have a musical career (a lot of communist musicians had stable careers) and meanwhile stupid porkies tell me that "no, we'd prefer if you were replaced, prole, because there if no place for people like you" and I hear, not only music, but other art, computer science, programming etc. will be replaced by AI. How do we stop this, so people are still prosperous in the real socialst societies?
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>>30520
> When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.
I don't find this surprising at all.

>>30451
No, oral defenses are a retarded concept and would require students to dumb down their work into concepts that can be conveyed verbally. Same issue with oral debate: Survival of the catchy. Shackled by linearity.

If colleges that have teachers that are inept enough to not be able to tell at a glance what is and isn't AI generated, then colleges are a failed institution. Students may have to prioritize curveball topics and other tactics to prove their authenticity, and allistic students may fall behind their autistic colleages, but that's survivable.

AI is going to take the jobs of people in AI companies:
>In late summer 2025, a publicly developed large language model (LLM) will be released — co-created by researchers at EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS).
>This LLM will be fully open: This openness is designed to support broad adoption and foster innovation across science, society, and industry.
>A defining feature of the model is its multilingual fluency in over 1,000 languages.
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html

Looking forward to Musk and Altman blowing their brains out LMAO

>>30358
>this is about generations now somehow

>>30524
>Looking forward to Musk and Altman blowing their brains out LMAO



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The neverending quest to rewrite vichan -

Archived threads:
https://archive.is/xiA7y
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>>30510
Downloaded, and read the source for the three main SSG programs, and skimmed io.c.
It's obviously a very interesting approach.
Just from reading what you wrote here for some reason thought had made the program to use fixed disk space.
That it's a textboard has reminded me that I've no idea how to federate files.

>>30514
Thank you. If i had to summarize this approach, it would be reducing complexity by finding the right interfaces.
>That it's a textboard has reminded me that I've no idea how to federate files.
Elaborate.

>>30515
>right interfaces
Wouldn't have guessed that this is what you would have called this.
Don't worry about the files thing was just being foolish.
Should probably spend some time learning UNIX a little better.
If for no other reason than to get better at using other programming languages' standard libraries.

>>30514
In other news seem to have gotten something like a nearly complete schema setup:

auth
├── PrivateAddress.ts
├── PrivateUser.ts
├── PublicAddress.ts
├── PublicUser.ts
└── UserRole.ts
reports
├── PostAction.ts
├── PostReport.ts
├── Report.ts
├── UserAction.ts
└── UserReport.ts
threads
├── File.ts
├── Nicknames.ts
├── PageInfo.ts
├── Post.ts
├── Reference.ts
├── Tags.ts
└── UserProfile.ts

3 directories, 17 files


The most interesting features are the ability to assign nicknames to anonymized (by default) IP addresses or users.
And the replacement of boards with moderated user created tags; along with the posting to multiple tags.
Am thinking of federating anonymous posts using throwaway https://github.com/Debdut/uuid-readable UUID usernames.
This would be as an alternative to the high dox potential of having anonymous histories based on IP.

>>30516
>to get better at using other programming languages' standard libraries.
C doesn't really have the best standard library. You usually want to avoid using anything that isn't a thin wrapper around a syscall.
>Wouldn't have guessed that this is what you would have called this.
I got this from https://skarnet.org/software/skalibs/djblegacy.html
<One of the "DJB philosophy" key points is to question the interfaces. You have a task to do; you have existing interfaces. What do you do?
<Interfaces should be questioned right down to the libc. You cannot build strong software on flakey foundations. And from a system and network programmer's point of view, one thing is clear: most standard libc interfaces suck. There is no buffered asynchronous I/O. There is no timed I/O. There is no heap management helper. Even simple system calls are not always guaranteed to succeed!
UNIX doesn't have proper records, which most developers compensate for with databases, essentially a second filesystem layer. Files and directories are really the only level where database operations are simple, reliable and fast, so if you keep your state simple enough, you can map all of it onto simple file creation and access.

The next version will allow composing posts by processing arbitrary blobs, but i'm proud of how the static site generation approach worked out for this one. The locks are the only non-essential state of the system and usually short-lived, everything else is either persistent data, static configuration or entirely ephemeral.

>>30516
Am probably going to restart.
I've realized this should be a ActivityPub server first.
And only secondly a anonymous imageboard (front-end).



 

/tech/ + /dead/ = Techlead
This dude is so based and moralfags whine about him! Just recently I became aware of him, he is my favourite tech/dead youtuber!
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>>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



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>WireGuard
Written in C, so no.
>OpenVPN
Insecure (and written in C).
>Tailscore
Proprietary trash. Again, written in a lower level language.

When the fuck will somebody use Python to script a VPN protocol out of for a full tunnel client w/ access to iptables w/ default setting at "strict"? Plus run it on custom STUN servers, uses 10.8.0.53 instead of 8.8.8.8 (Google)/1.1.1.1 Cloudflare)/9.9.9.9 (Quad9) and blocks any connections to them for a fine-grained DNS control, and fully self-hosted w/ local only control. Everything else is too insecure. Oh, and also
>Tailscale leverages Google's OAuth2 for user authentication, allowing users to log in to Tailscale using their Google accounts
Lmao. The absolute state.
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>>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




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Hello /tech/, how do you search for your images?

I’m looking for some image search services, I specifically want them for anime related stuff, but general use is good too. Both regular image search engines, and reverse image search tools to find sources or similar images, give me your suggestions and tell us what you use. Thansk Anons.

I use these for anime:
https://safebooru.org/ (SFW)
https://gelbooru.com/ (NSFW)

Danbooru has more images but only accepts two tags at most.

For non-anime, I just DuckDuckGo.

Reverse, anime:
https://saucenao.com/
https://iqdb.org/

For non-anime, tineye.com then google/yandex.

>>30406
Is there any alternative front-end to google/yandex images?

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Interesting feature just added to duckduckgo, filter out AI images.



 

Hey /tech/ I'm tryna get the cracked version of Adobe InDesign on my Macbook M1 cause im a brokie who doesn't want spend their limited resources on a sleezy company. Any tips or pointers?




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Remember when back in the day you had to have a so-called audio card that would allow your PC to fukken produce sound?

Pepperridge Farm remembers.

Most interestingly, depending on what hardware you had (ADLIB, SoundBlaster, GRAVIS, etc.) you would recieve a completely different end-user experience.

Compare these two:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dHechz7U0sE&pp=ygUWRGlzY3dvcmxkIHNvdW5kYmxhc3RlctIHCQn8AKO1ajebQw%3D%3D (from 38:10)
&
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jAHgpRitmHY&pp=ygUURGlzY3dvcmxkIG9zdCBzdHJlZXQ%3D

It is absolutely unique, to have to have 2-3 different (hardware) interpretations of composed (software) music.

I think there should be theoretical articles written about.the differing "gaming experiences" ppl had/recieved based on their fucking soundcards.

It is cery interesting (to me, at least( that 2 ppl could have played "the same game," yet their hardwares produced 2 different musics. In essence, we can't talk about a singular "gayme experience."
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>>30490
>Make DOS Games Look and Sound Better
Why? They're still shit.

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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
🤘



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>isn't compatible with POWER9/RISC-V architecture
>lacks a terminal, full package manager and uses sandboxed app store reliance instead
This OS is trash and anyone promoting it is a shill, I don't care what "degoogled" rom you're using.
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>>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

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>>30478
forgot the picture

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>>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.



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Will the FSF's use of anime in its propaganda, bring about the year of the GNU/Linux desktop?

https://www.fsf.org/resources/badges/
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>>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.



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