/tech/ - Technology

>>34049
>it was never compiled machine code that was the enemy of the digital commons; it was human beings, greedy stupid shitty human beings with lots of money and lots of terrible ideas. there can be no universal automatic failsafe to protect the commons from shitty human beings, they are infinitely creative when it comes to figuring out how to turn everything they touch into shit and they have all the money and the law is on their side, open-source and copyleft didn't do a god damn thing. and more importantly, it really doesn't matter what OS you choose to run on your computer or what companies you decide to boycott or any of these other weak performative attempts at civil disobedience

Ducking this. Everyone wants to blame AI or whatever for their dystopia. It’s not those it’s human

>>34056
I didn't say rust or go, I said applescript. Just because everyone could learn how to write a "real" language doesn't mean they should have to. Everyone could learn full mathematical notation too, but sometimes you meet them where they are.

>>34084

the point i'm trying to make isn't really about what is a "real" language and what isn't or how easy or hard a language is to learn or any of that, what i'm really talking about is guardrails that lock you into a certain paradigm. applescript is a very clear and obvious example and you can see what it's about right there in the name - a language designed to lock developers into apple's ecosystem and only think and write language the apple way™, so that they cannot use their knowledge in a way that apple does not approve of. a person who uses applescript isn't just a developer, they are an apple developer, their code only works on apple's hardware, if they quit or get fired from apple their knowledge of applescript becomes worthless to them, they can't reuse their code or their ideas anywhere else without completely rethinking and rewriting it from scratch. apple has all the power and the workers have none. google and mozilla's languages basically do the same thing but in a less obvious and less proprietary way, they have hardcoded artificial guardrails in place so that developers are not free agents who can do their work in many possible ways and make their own decisions, they are like slot cars on a track which can only travel along certain predesignated paths. it's like the difference between a well-paid high-agency salesperson who gets paid on commission and has complete discretion as to how to approach the client and convince them to buy, versus a low-paid low-agency salesperson at a telemarketing agency or something who just gets a shitty $8 an hour wage and has to just sit at an autodialing terminal and read from a script verbatim at hundreds of random people all day. the owner and managerial class want to turn every kind of job into the latter kind of job, where they have all the power and the worker is just a monkey that pushes a button and gets a banana.

>>34085
We are talking across purposes. applescript isn't some internal thing, it's an (underloved) consumer-facing product. you are on sounder ground with identifying it a form of vendor lock-in, but its primary purpose was to allow you to script stuff on the desktop with an intuitive syntax (e.g. a valid applescript instruction is "tell application Firefox to quit") although you can do a lot more than that. It is not too difficult to imagine an open, cross-platform language on similar principles (particularly if you weaken the desktop automation element and make a pure scripting language, or outsource interaction with local applications to some kind of extension). It would be actively undesirable to use such a language in a corporate environment (it is inherently too verbose.) but actively desirable for empowering end users.

I am not particularly concerned with enabling programmers to approach problems from whatever angle they like. so long as the language is turing complete, my primary concern is allowing non programmers to approach the problem from at least one angle. To the general proletarianisation of programmers i stand by my original point. Those who thought knowing C made them a superior class of artisan producer who doesn't need any leftist meddling suddenly come to find that in reality they're as, if not more, replaceable than the janitor. A learning experience.

texttotalk.org

https://www.normaltools.com/
https://alternativeto.net/

useful daily tools and shit-i-need-to-change-this-app website

https://arcella.nl/
Website with pictures and ID info of various amoeboid organisms. Amoeboid refers to the Amoeboid body plan(single celled blob, can have shell called a test or be naked>>33630
) and not just the phylum Amoebozoa. It is mostly members of the Amoebozoa but their are other lineages that also have Amoeboid body plans included as well on the website.

>>33630
some banger wallpapers ngl

wiby.me/

>>34167
wait till you get to GCC. My older laptop did it in mere 3 days.

>>34166
wut? unless systemd somehow fucked up the traditional boot order, /var and other filesystems in fstab should be mounted after executing init

>>34171
Ah, well perhaps, know it's needed for /usr/, LVM, and cryptsetup. I used to have the former, and still use the later two. That plus the docs: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Initramfs must have confused me.

>>34172
did a quick search on the forums and apparently systemd has services depend on /var that don't specify mounting disks as a dependency, as opposed to literally any other service manager…
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=1165959

>>34163
>Dont compile your first web browser.
uygha, just install Dillo.

>>34069
Rewrote the lexer to pull out a PDA with finite registers.
The caller provides parsers of a regular languages with state transitions, and fallbacks.
They do this by providing a large or'd sequence of named regex groups.
They then call the transition on the returned match.lastgroup, and supplied start, end pair.
Or if there is no match on the gap between the last position and the next match or EOF.
This should allow for the two phase lexing of commonmark as well as better handling of some blocks.

Next up is to generalize the parser to a LL(1) framework.
The caller will provide a REGISTRY table containing functions Mode -> Token -> MutableState -> MutableState
Where the MutableState is mostly just a Stack of pointers into the accumulator, an accumulator and a return.

The tricky part of course will be to actually write out all the lex and parse rules for commonmark with extensions.
On this note found the following interesting program which will serve as the basis of rewriting my rules:
https://github.com/mmark-md/mmark/blob/master/Text/MMark/Parser.hs

Have been learning a little by doing…
The regex engine I was using doesn't support unicode ranges over byte data.
Meaning it doesn't support unicode ranges over mmap data.
So I have to rip it out and replace it with hyperscan/chimera which will be faster.
Also realized I wanted the option to support scan and match modes.
And a stack of transition tables instead of transition functions to allow for extensions more easily.

Additionally attempts to implement the inline code already blew up the parser.
It now quite clearly has to be LL(k),

have you tried mistune?

Maybe it's because i just have a fundamental dislike for markdown and generating everything downstream from an mediocre markup format, but i think you may be approaching this problem the wrong way.

I recently needed a spaced repetition system and what did i do? I implemented a pseudo-VFS with Common Lisp structs and made it interface with the filesystem using "blob" and "dot" types to track regular files and files containing knowledge representation objects respectively. Dots are either read-only and loaded as a type of module or lisp objects which can be printed back and i've settled on doing everything with (potentially nested) plists and a path search struct. Finally the core program loads a lisp rc file and execs into a custom command-line with its own restarts and a cwd.

Then i wrote a couple of modules that define

• auto-promotion of blobs with an .a extension to writable dots
  
• multi-language keywords for storing information in dots
  
• a field for links to other dots and a function for plotting a path (which i call a trace) based on them
  
• a testing command which goes through every dot in and connected to a prefix as a topical graph ordered randomly and by the order of links and asks questions according to a plan like ('name summary :equation)
  
• commands that further extend the notion of a "trace" in order to pass as a memex
  
  

Since i'm still in the process of writing the emacs integration, the interface is currently quite rudimentary, yet i'm happy with what it does regardless.

I wrote the lexer as described in >>34069 but it turns out callbacks to python every match is too slow.
Like three orders of magnitude too slow…
It's very customizable which is nice, the API would not be impossible in C without manual patching.
Mostly because of the protocols which allow for the Context and State to be extended.
It's available at: https://codeberg.org/jugaad/lexify

>>34160
No, but I was having too much fun to try something else!

>>34161
Wrote a VFS once on top of indexeddb had a comprehensive enough interface to run isomorphic-git, and a complete test suite.
Wanted a MDX-editor with git implemented as PWA, but of course it has to have an FS menu so…
Should have just bought the bullet and gone native, might have had a mini product if I had.
Funny how everything around here is so…

PSA: the only "non-corporate" AI cybersecurity scare report, which people pointed to as evidence that it's not all marketing stunts, turns out to be a sloppy work produced by "Effective Altruist" ideologues.

https://archive.is/20260812011323/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/23731f653ebf2657

>However, the AISI had made some very strange decisions in this regard.
<It had disabled safeguards on purpose, left the systems attached to the internet and then let the AI software agents do their worst, while pretending not to notice.
>The AISI also allowed access to the Tor anonymous network, which let the AI access the dark web.
<“No enterprise network I have ever been on has allowed Tor. It is always disabled. That’s a big clue that this is a setup,” one expert told me.
>In response to the “rogue” event, the AISI produced its first ever “incident report” – formatted up to look and sound like a formal industry document.
<“It’s an ethically challenged publicity stunt,” says one highly experienced senior security expert who has led the development of global technical security standards.
>Nor is this the first time the quango has arguably tried to hoodwink us. When Anthropic sought help to promote Mythos as a dangerous cyberweapon earlier this year, AISI obligingly conducted a test on targets with their defences disabled.
<When Rishi Sunak hosted a summit on AI in 2023, the EAs quickly captured it and turned it into a vehicle for their hobby horse. “Three of the four partner organisations on the lineup are bankrolled by EA donors,” Politico UK reported at the time.
>One of their recommendations was the establishment of a new quango called the AI Safety Institute – the “Security” is a recent rebrand.
<Now a question: how do you think Jade Leung, the Prime Minister’s official AI advisor, reacted when she heard about the AISI’s latest amateurish stunt? Did she spell out the ways in which the testing fell short?
>That’s not likely, because Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>34106
>next token prediction but marxistly
Waow. New frontiers in ML (no pun intended) theory.

i saw a video on titkok of some guy trying to cut small restaurants some slack because they use AI for their ads because "they don't have art departments" like chipotle or whatever, and the comments are 99% "small business suck", and small business owners desperately fending for their life. 5 years ago this would have been unthinkable, everyone would be like "yeah but nestle is worse" or whatever. chat, is luddite sentiment bad? leftypol led me to believe that it's reactionary but it seems that AI hatred has been extremely didactic for some people.

>>34058
She is literally anorexic.

>>34059
i don't care about your american beauty standards.

AND STOP DERAILING MY THREAD!

>>34060
stop posting ana freaks, retard. impolite sage.

>>34054
seek help, your mind is fooling you into believing this is beauty when it is just your self-destruction mechanism

>>34054
Why not just quit internet altogether? Every single thing you do on it is harvested for data to be fed into AI.

>>34145
>no idea what you're on about
suppose thespians hate cynics

>>34138
Not going to lie but seeing this too many times in others is what caused me to decide to be permanently single. I don't even accept gifts.

>>34145
You're talking to an actual schizophrenic

Good is dead and "Nice" replaced it but it is a lie. Good you do for some reward you expect is not being good but when the reward is a lie that's really something, I tell ya. A bunch of liars, a whole bunch of nothing.

>>34150
>You're talking to an actual schizophrenic
I don't know for sure what's going on over there but I think this thread is funny at least.

Back on topic, we should be talking about robowaifus. I don't mind having a robot or an AI take on the role of being pretty to spoil and worship. I think that would be pretty cool. AI and technology have so much more potential beyond jiggle physics, is it art or is it nature?

I'm shopping for a new GPU and I'm wondering if these prices are ever coming down.

>>33872
they all suck, don't bother. if you want cheap burner androids they exist for less than 50 bucks. don't even waste your time trying to get the most out of a garbage OS like android beyond installing f-droid apps and a firewall. a used iphone SE is around 100 dollars and has security updates into the 2030s, and the OS is objectively better.

Pixels are pretty much the best option for long term support now. I do lament that we no longer have a DivestOS style ROM though, which was basically GrapheneOS + LineageOS best of both worlds. Pixels can use Graphene though and just about everything else and are likely to have the baseband and other core stuff updated for awhile, without depending on some OEM's custom shit atop Android and for them to bother updating core components. Samsung, Lenovo/Motorola, any of the Chinese Oppo/Huawei types etc.. can fall into these pitfalls easier. Nothing is perfect, but Pixels are the best option. I do wish they were more like the Nexus models of old that stayed to AOSP instead of having special Pixel versions of stuff that was proprietary, but its still quite possible (and on a pixel, easier than most other modern flagships) to run a custom ROM .

As far as the hardware, if you're buying Pixels (and especially if you're buying used) I HIGHLY suggest getting something of the Pixel 10 series or newer (ie the brand new 11, which is basically very close to the 10 with some small bumps here and ther, I think) because the 10 (at least the Pro models) have "pixelsnap" compatibility which is basically a built combination of Apple's "magsafe" magnetic connection for accessories and the like, and the latest Qi2 standard for wireless charging (regular Qi has been around a long time, Qi 2 is faster and has other benefits as well ). There are other benefits of course but this was one of the things added in the recent Pixel models with the new body redesign. There are also going to be a lot of deals on Pixel 10 family stuff now that the 11s are coming. Pixel 10/11 families go like

>Pixel 10a
The cheapest variant, usually released after the mainline. This is the cut down version but still solid overall. Usually has less 'premium' materials, cameras, and other ancillary shit, lesser raw performance etc.. but a lot cheaper.
>Pixel 10
The baseline version, very capable and a step up from the A models typically.
>Pixel 10 Pro and Pro XL
The high end version that has the best of everything. The XP version is just slightly physically larger but aside from that is very close in terms of specs; its more an issue of preference for portability etc. For most technically adept users one of these are typically the way to gPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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

>>34129

no, it's just that some people are humble and courageous enough to subvert the status quo by divorcing leftism from intellectualism, to spend their time thinking of ways for everyone in the world to be more free rather than just a minority of privileged academics.

Excuse me, I forgot to crossboard link:
>>>/siberia/812757
<US-Israel, Amdocs, matrix.org, imageboards, leftypol

>>34133
>no, it's just that some people are humble and courageous enough to subvert the status quo by divorcing leftism from intellectualism, to spend their time thinking of ways for everyone in the world to be more free rather than just a minority of privileged academics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_political_spectrum
If it's left as in the left of the assembly in front of the president then it's anything that supports human rights and safety nets. If it requires reading then it was bougie and elitist from day 1, fuck that noise.

There is also simplex now I guess

>>34101
you can't be a marxist and believe in this idealist illusion.

>>34094
>just works, soon to not work because Linus is senile now, (unless a hard fork can be maintained) but works for now.

expand on that? maybe im just uninformed but how does that make any sense?

i'm just realizing nostr is mastodon 2.0

https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsyxfsa8h30ezscy4epn27lel4y5h4x8cemcs6wrhmsj4n04xg8ywcp5wwfw

>>34117
>basic security and anti-spam measures = le heckin censorship
Eh, the maintainer doesn't know how to leave trolls alone, but this seems like it could be decent enough of a protocol. If Wafrn adds support for it I might tinker with it.