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Proprietary software must be fought against at every opportunity Anonymous 21-06-25 18:33:54 No.30211[Reply]

Microsoft is the CIA. Pretty much all US big tech is. Windows is a global CIA mass surveillance program via monopoly capitalism. It’s completely impossible to make Windows secure, there’s no secret registry switch. The entire thing is compromised top to bottom, and under no circumstances should anyone consent to its use. Closed source spyware monopolies are a weapon of war against us by the bourgeois state.

Open source operating systems are software communism. If we’re not willing to build and use existing forms of technological sovereignty and anti-capitalism, then we’re probably not willing to do any other forms of communism either. I hate the “No ethical consumption under capitalism” mantra. How do we expect to get out of capitalism without building alternatives? I think a lot of leftists hope a revolution will happen then just magically replace all the corrupt and bourgeois components of consumerism, using the same uninvolved passive mechanisms.

Do we really believe a windows update will just drop after some election that restores our rights, trust, openness, privacy and dignity? It must be built and owned by the people.

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Anonymous 06-08-25 13:17:57 No.30765

https://gwern.net/complement
I saw this and it felt relevant:
>Joel Spolsky in 200223ya identified a major pattern in technology business & economics: the pattern of “commoditizing your complement”, an alternative to vertical integration, where companies seek to secure a chokepoint or quasi-monopoly in products composed of many necessary & sufficient layers by dominating one layer while fostering so much competition in another layer above or below its layer that no competing monopolist can emerge, prices are driven down to marginal costs elsewhere in the stack, total price drops & increases demand, and the majority of the consumer surplus of the final product can be diverted to the quasi-monopolist. No matter how valuable the original may be and how much one could charge for it, it can be more valuable to make it free if it increases profits elsewhere. A classic example is the commodification of PC hardware by the Microsoft OS monopoly, to the detriment of IBM & benefit of MS.

>This pattern explains many otherwise odd or apparently self-sabotaging ventures by large tech companies into apparently irrelevant fields, such as the high rate of releasing open-source contributions by many Internet companies or the intrusion of advertising companies into smartphone manufacturing & web browser development & statistical software & fiber-optic networks & municipal WiFi & radio spectrum auctions & DNS (Google): they are pre-emptive attempts to commodify another company elsewhere in the stack, or defenses against it being done to them.

e.g. the reason linux is so widely supported for server use is primarily because it means you don't have to pay microsoft monopoly prices to set up a web-monopoly - just like microsoft threw IBM under the bus to the benefit of their OS monopoly. far from 'software communism', most notable/successful large-scale FOSS projects are really just novel competition-effects downstream from monopoly-capitalism.

Anonymous 06-08-25 14:11:59 No.30766

>>30765
I think this is unfortunately true. Damn

I want to see evidence that these companies intentionally engage in this sort of reasoning

Anonymous 06-08-25 17:31:47 No.30767

>Open source operating systems are software communism.
True. I'd go further and say Proton and other software that break up proprietary software's network effect by replacing the depencies for and running proprietary software is software dengism.

Anonymous 08-08-25 02:41:45 No.30775

Closed source is not inherently less secure than open source. Most source regardless of open or closed is not security audited or make use of a canary warrant. Most individuals using open source either download the binary or when they build from source they did not check every line of code because there can be thousands to millions written in multiple programming languages. Security holes are more widely exploitable in open source code because they are easier to find, while also easier to patch but it is a constant race. Likewise Stallman is a moron who won't acknowledge there is no such thing as open source websites. Anything on the backend you have no idea of what is going on even if they provide what they claim is the source. Also for profit companies and government agencies also contribute to FOSS so it is not like it entirely eliminates influence.

Anonymous 08-08-25 07:09:37 No.30780

>>30775
That talking point of "who's bothering to audit" never made sense to me because you have:
>literally impossible to audit
versus
>vibes tell me no one's bothered to audit it yet

I think we just need more indexes of audited FOSS stuff. Like people should publish their audits more prevelantly.

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Anonymous 06-08-25 23:12:19 No.30768[Reply]

I haven't personally seen this phenomenon yet, only saw someone on fedi joke about it, but have there been ads targeted toward AI training web crawlers yet? Like something illegible to human users but specifically made so the LLM would do an ad read their products when prompted for something (optionally) related? Or since a lot of bourgoises have went full koolaid about AI, trying to market to the AI as a consumer demographic itself?

Anonymous 08-08-25 01:35:52 No.30774

Literally search for SEO journals, it's one of the few virtuous cycles in science and technology

I'd link some blogs, but I just got a mathematical and!! geometric proof for dialectical and historical materialism; implies scientific socialism; implies communism; implies concrete not abstract Full Communism implies and is implied by Abundance
not sorry

So I'll give you the QRD, bots love accurate, honest truthful, lovingly hand corrected artistisinal bot slop make it informative for a human in the zone of proximal development of your target audience and you gravy

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where to get free uncensored deepseek online? Anonymous 17-07-25 17:33:38 No.30600[Reply]

where to get free uncensored deepseek online? huggingchat used to have it but now that's dead. I know I can run it locally on my own machine, but that's slow and I'm a mooch. what elase can I say?

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Anonymous 17-07-25 18:45:56 No.30604

what kind of censored information do you want to consult that deepseek is blocking you from. like you can just search for "tiananmen square" yourself

Anonymous 17-07-25 22:10:22 No.30605

>>30604
oh idk i just don't feel like making an account on the website and heard if you use it in open source spaces you won't ever get a BS answer

Anonymous 20-07-25 12:41:17 No.30623

also tired of everything needing a google email or phone number and rejecting temp email services. huggingface let me use a temp email service to access deepseek but the deepseek website does not. this is less about muh heckin epic tinyman square questions than it is about having a simple free and anonymous source for using it

Glownonymous 06-08-25 08:30:46 No.30763

>>30600
I think i know one, give me a day anon

update Glownonymous 07-08-25 03:18:06 No.30770

>>30600

There used to be one by the name of oniongpt, but its gone now. The creator stopped working on it and accidentelly wiped everything when he was doing a project sorry bud.

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Future of Chinese CPUs and computer technology Anonymous 22-09-24 16:11:33 No.26471[Reply]

In recent years China has made significant strides in developing its own semiconductor industry with things like Huawei's HiSilicon, Loongson, StarFive, MilkV, etc. I would call that China outlasted the US sanctions barrage from the US. Chinese investment in fabrication technologies, while not anyway near cutting edge is getting to be near good enough. With things like Intel looking shaky and the rise of Risc-V and ARM we are steadily moving forwards towards the hopeful future of open standards, hardware and software, where most consumer computation devices will have built in Chinese backdoors instead of American ones.

>Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/05/china_schools_riscv_pc/

>Beijing issues list of approved CPUs – with no Intel or AMD
>2024 may be the year of Linux On The Arm-or-RISC-desktop as China moves away from Western tech
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/25/china_approved_tech_list/

>China Is All In on a RISC-V Future
https://www.hpcwire.com/2024/01/08/china-is-all-in-on-a-risc-v-future/

>'The Linux of processors' — New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil as universities back open source high performance RISC-V processors to be the next big thing in HPC
https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-linux-of-processors-new-breed-of-chinese-super-cpus-emerge-on-us-soil-as-chinese-universities-back-open-source-high-performance-risc-v-processors-to-be-the-next-big-thing-in-hpc

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Anonymous 05-03-25 20:29:53 No.28665

>RISC-V
Is there anything to point at this not being wasted effort barking up the wrong tree like MIPS before it? The parallels are pretty obvious, both are teaching ISAs getting horribly mutated out in the wild. The advantage is that every computer engineering graduate has implemented RV32I in their coursework not that the architecture itself is well designed. I've yet to see a superscalar RV processor you can put your hands on as a regular person or the HPC accelerators people have been teasing for 5 years.

Anonymous 05-03-25 21:19:36 No.28667

>>28665
>I've yet to see a superscalar RV processor you can put your hands on as a regular person
I'll eat my hat on this. Seems like the spacemit K1 and M1 as well as the newer sci-five SoCs are OOO.

Anonymous 05-08-25 23:59:43 No.30759

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https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-06-17/China-builds-world-s-first-ultra-high-parallel-optical-computing-chip-1EhC1gYmphK/p.html
https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/06/30/news-china-made-breakthrough-in-ultra-highly-parallel-optical-computing-integrated-chip/
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087750
https://en.eeworld.com.cn/news/wltx/eic698456.html
https://www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/noticia.php?artigo=computacao-luz-paralela-rompe-escala-velocidade&id=010150250630

Anonymous 06-08-25 06:55:06 No.30761

>>28665
Maybe if were to assume that the end goal is desktop-class R-V CPUs, whereas the more likely goal is having something between an FPGA and an off the shelf ARM SoC as a middle ground for custom chips controlling all the various IoT devices, drones, autonomous systems, etc that China actually produces

Anonymous 06-08-25 08:28:05 No.30762

Why do you need a list of approved CPUs?

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Anonymous 31-07-25 22:58:48 No.30737[Reply]

Finally, tangible interfaces will retvrn. The age of touchskkkreens is over.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/12/24294634/hyundai-vehicle-controls-more-buttons-focus-groups-annoyed-touchscreens

Anonymous 31-07-25 23:02:19 No.30738

about fucking time

Anonymous 05-08-25 06:02:19 No.30755

>Focus group testing told Hyundai that people get ‘annoyed and steamed’ when using touchscreens in cars.
were they asking the same GenZ ipad babies who stole so many of their badly secured cars as a meme? lmao
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvj5jv/kia-and-hyundai-blame-tiktok-and-instagram-for-their-cars-getting-stolen

Anonymous 05-08-25 15:03:44 No.30757

Imagine banning holding a phone to your ear while driving on the basis it’s a distraction, but massive touch screens that you MUST look at to interact with, that have no tactility to feel for buttons without looking, let alone developing muscle memory for, were never questioned.

Anonymous 05-08-25 18:27:30 No.30758

Age of the touchskkkreen has yet to begin for me, see you in 20 years if today's shitboxes aren't on the market still

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/ditg/ Dead Internet Theory General Anonymous 16-08-22 19:56:58 No.16322[Reply]

Talk about why every single site except reddit and fbi.gov has been complete and utterly abandoned.

>Interesting things going on
Browsers are all forcing https by default. On the surface this sounds like a good idea but in reality it's part of a larger plan of control.
Website owners are now at the mercy of the cert authorities. Host something they dont like? you cert gets revoked and now your site wont load on 99% of web browsers.
you have been shutdown.

>What is the dead internet theory?
Dead internet is partly caused by a generational problem, zoomers just want to be where they're friends are. it's understandable, we even did the
same back in the 2000s. everyone was on AIM and myspace. The only difference is those platforms actually did allow free speech back then. now the
internet has become more centralized and a handful of big corps run it all. they are in charge of what gets said on their platforms. not you.

>big techs goal
Big tech is fighting a future war. They know the young are the future. It’s about indoctrination. They are building their vision for the future. A dumbed down controlled population.

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Anonymous 29-07-25 09:07:47 No.30713

>>30707
>posted on the dead internet theory general

Anonymous 29-07-25 09:15:03 No.30714

>zoomers just want to be where they're friends are
<zoomers just want to be where they are friends are
Sloppy OP.

Anonymous 31-07-25 03:03:13 No.30727

ep 1 of Kill The Computer podcast just released, talking about the dead internet theory and its relation to CIA/Peter Thiel surveillance and other fascist political economy stuff

https://player.fm/series/kill-the-computer/the-grand-inquisitors-dead-internet-theory

Anonymous 01-08-25 15:34:43 No.30739

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For 50,000 Palestinian kids to be murdered required a quite dead internet.

Most nations are alert about the dead internet issue. China for example cut their internet off from the rest of the world to avoid the parasites.
Many other nations are also cutting foreign internet off beyond the deeper web. IE cutting off the foreign-monopoly surface-web. The surface-level web the west has endured should be destroyed due to how much it has been subverted.

Cheers to nations developing better browsers for the deeper web.

Anonymous 05-08-25 08:25:35 No.30756

maybe the internet has just evolved beyond it's fun exciting wild west frontier phase and now it's a boring shopping mall and nobody is interested in using the internet for anything but selling garbage and making money.

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Privacy general Comrade 21-12-20 04:46:50 No.2111[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Comrades, we need a thread on privacy. Any decent activist should try ways of staying anonymous on the web and prevent being tracked by governments and corporations.General tips===* Use free software as much as you can.* Use GNU/Linux and keep it up-to-date, to be sure that you don't have unpatched security exploits* Don't use Flash Player, use youtube-dl instead for watching streaming videos online* Do not use Google, use DuckDuckGo or StartPage instead* Use a password manager like Keepass or for GNU/Linux users keepassx. Create new passwords for every site that you visit and use a strong password as a master password. A tip for easy remembering of your master password is to use a sentence. "i fucking love cookies and tits!" with extra capital characters etc. is easier to remember than some random characters and long enough to prevent brute force attacks of any kind.* Use the Tor Browser Bundle if you really want to stay anonymous.Firefox====* Go to Preferences -> History and set History to "Never remember history". * See for additional tweaks: https://github.com/amq/firefox-debloat and https://vikingvpn.com/cybersecurity-wiki/browser-security/guide-hardening-mozilla-firefox-for-privacy-and-securityAdd-ons-----------* Use uBlock Origin for preventing tracking etc. Bonus: use hard-mode to manually whitelist external domains on sites. Don't use uBlock but be sure to use uBlock Origin https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-mode* HTTPS Everywhere* DecentralEyes: prevents CDN hosting from tracking you (Google for Jquery etc.)* Self Destructing Cookies: only allow cookies that you choose to allowOS==* Encrypt your hard drive or home partition at least* If you use GNU/Linux, you can try to restrict systemd or syslog from logging. * Use a distribution which takes security seriously. Also, be sure that you don't install a lot of things outside the repository. It will cover most of your needs.Real life tips===* Pay with cash if you canFeel free to provide tips to each other comrades!

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Glownonymous 13-07-25 13:10:24 No.30530

>>30529
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/grapheneos-das-android-fuer-sicherheits-und-datenschutzfreaks/
Is reasonably comprehensive for other ROMs, but the closest thing here for GrapheneOS is the Datensendeverhalten section.

Anonymous 13-07-25 13:51:15 No.30531

>>30530
This is not a professional audit of Graphene OS. This is just a blogpost.

Glownonymous 13-07-25 14:19:12 No.30532

>>30531
Yes. My bad.

Anonymous 13-07-25 14:26:01 No.30533

What I’d like to add: I believe GrapheneOS has really become a kind of cult, and its followers can’t tolerate any factual criticism at all. The Kuketz forum is one such place. You absolutely mustn’t say anything negative about GrapheneOS there or you’ll be banned immediately. That’s also why I no longer trust Mike Kuketz’s “expertise.” His ideological blind spot on this topic is very obvious.

Where does the belief come from that GrapheneOS is the gold standard for privacy-friendly smartphone OSes? Simply because the developers claim it is. But without professional, truly independent audits, GrapheneOS isn’t any more trustworthy than the Braxphone.

It was a big mistake for Edward Snowden to publicly endorse GrapheneOS. People trust him, but in this case he actually has no idea and can’t objectively say whether GrapheneOS really lives up to its promises. Did Snowden review the code? As far as I know, he did not.

Anonymous 03-08-25 21:02:24 No.30752

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GOOD EVENING PRIVACY BROS

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I'm a retarded gooner with no self control. it's ruined my life. Anonymous 25-10-24 14:42:38 No.26837[Reply]

I already accidentally locked myself out from any adult content on my computer by changing the router settings and losing access but I need help with my phone.
There is no website block option on Android. I've considered paying someone to root my phone (I'm assuming it provides deeper access to settings) and doing something to hard block any access.
help.

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Anonymous 17-07-25 16:13:24 No.30593

Porn addiction may be the most based addiction

Anonymous 17-07-25 16:15:14 No.30594

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201808/science-stopped-believing-in-porn-addiction-you-should-too

Anonymous 24-07-25 23:04:08 No.30667

>>29380
>sex addiction and lack of discipline/control is a real thing.
"Sex addiction" is absolutely not a real thing. You've fallen for christfag propaganda.

Anonymous 30-07-25 16:24:31 No.30724

https://easypeasymethod.org/index.html

Anonymous 03-08-25 12:15:39 No.30751

Is social isolation/loneliness

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They say AI will take over people's jobs, how do we fight against it? Anonymous 13-12-24 03:29:34 No.27559[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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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Anonymous 07-08-25 02:39:40 No.30769

>>30740
AI is costing jobs is an interesting, roundabout way. It’s not directly replacing individuals yet, but the hype/mania has crated a culture in c-suite and finance that sees layoffs as an objective. They perceive them as efficiency gains rather than a sign of an ailing company. The hype is leading to a full separation of the interests of shareholders and the interests of employees. And the shareholders won decades ago.

Anonymous 08-08-25 02:46:19 No.30776

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there's no way this is real

Anonymous 08-08-25 03:08:00 No.30777

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there's just no way lmao what's going on

Anonymous 08-08-25 03:47:34 No.30778

>>30777

>>30776

The dick sucking around version 5 is impressive. But what’s wrong with that chart? The numbers don’t match the barchart visualization.

Also the “personality” they’ve RLHF’d into it from the blueberry thing instantly made me recoil. For fucks sake.

Anonymous 08-08-25 04:44:43 No.30779

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>>30778
>>30776
Wow Sam Altman is a real piece of shit. He’s got ChatGPT now talking about itself as if it had a brain and drawing false equivalences between LLMs and humans. In this case, a very galling one, since this letter counting problem is a well known adversarial challenge against LLMs which human brains are immune to. But the AI is inverting this and saying humans fail at it and providing nonsense reasoning with its characteristic authority.

AI psychosis.

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midi hardware and its socio-cultural consequences Anonymous 06-07-25 01:49:42 No.30482[Reply]

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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Anonymous 06-07-25 16:16:21 No.30499

>>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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Anonymous 07-07-25 11:40:21 No.30502

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>>30491
>25 minutes of E1M1
🤘

Anonymous 25-07-25 02:41:35 No.30668

>>30491
Nice

Anonymous 25-07-25 07:05:33 No.30669

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>>30496

Anonymous 31-07-25 03:20:17 No.30729

>>30492
>>30493
>>30494
meanwhile, in the autistic cringing replies of that video on soundfonts:
>this video is actively harmful to aspiring composers. if you go around spreading misinformation that soundfonts are "The Unsung Hero of Video Game Music Production", people who are new to composing and arranging music will rely on soundfonts way more than they should and will be unaware of music industry standards like kontakt libraries and other sampler formats that have way higher quality samples and additional features that aren't in the sf2 format. just because toby fox used soundfonts in undertale and deltarune doesn't mean they should be advertised as a primary instrument choice in vgm: not every indie game has to sound like undertale or snes games.
>off to an aggressive start but i really do not want anyone to repeat my mistake of searching for an "eastwest symphonic orchestra soundfont" because my brain was so brainwashed by soundfonts in 2016, the time when vgm community was taken by storm after undertale released, and vgm was synonymous with soundfonts. now with the recent resurgence of soundfonts I want people to be educated that soundfonts in vgm should not be a primary instrument of choice, but instead a backup instrument in case you don't have a desired sound from the kontakt/uvi/halion/etc libraries that you use (this does not apply if the soundtrack aims to be soundfont styled at it's core, but like I said not everyone should do that). the soundfont plague has already taken over the touhou community even though the creator of touhou has never ever used soundfonts; the first suggestion when you google "edirol sd-90" (a hardware rompler) is "soundfont" because people promote inaccurately sampled soundfonts too much instead of sharing a hypercanvas vst mod that replaces the samples with edirol sd series rom sounds, alongside that these people who are new to touhou vgm also don't know that the creator has moved on from the rompler to premium vsts and libraries for a while now and they make up 90% of his tracks, far from what's propagated on the internet as "sd90 soundfont" or god forbidPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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