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 No.18181[Reply]

Why are proprietary software allowed to use Github to distribute their malware?
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 No.22915

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Github is a fucking joke
https://github.com/daeuniverse/dae/issues/368#issuecomment-1859984256

 No.22917

>>22916
Goose game is cool though

 No.22919

>>22917
Ok, I take it back.

 No.22920

>>22915
this sounds like a kinky dom thing

 No.22921

>>22915
>please drink verification soylent to continue


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 No.19110[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

All of my software exists to destroy capital.

Quite literally. That is the true purpose of free software to me.

To eliminate capitalist control over my computing.

And for that matter corporate control of the same.

Thus saith the Preacher:

> If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the “owner” of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.
> Richard M. Stallman

It also literally destroys capital; consider the case of Blender. Whole proprietary software industries have died in its wake, replaced by a world where 3D artists collaboratively contribute to Blender, either with code, or with money to pay for code.

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 No.22881

>>22867
You can make Jazz music on Linux perfectly easily. DAWs like Ardour and Reaper exist which can record a band. Audio interfaces which don't require special software can work with JACK and ALSA out of the box.

 No.22882

>>22881
They should rename it to "Ardor" because fuck Bri'ish "spellings".

 No.22887

>>22867
>people don't use Linux precisely because its impracticable and an obstacle to community collaboration
it's not about linux at all. artfags simply won't give away their stuff even if it's made on a mac or windows, unlike programmers who have a culture of sharing code and contributing just because they enjoy programming.
artists will always use copyright to restrict sharing even as they themselves rip off other artists when they make remixes or copy other authors based on industry trends, etc.

 No.22888

>>22882
More valid than American ones

 No.22889

>>22888
Bri'ish "spellings" are inferior because they make less logical sense than American spellings. American spellings are the more valid spellings.


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 No.22029[Reply]

Xfce was supposed to be THE lightweight fully-featured desktop manager but it seems fucking KDE has around the same memory footprint and performance?!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/10/23/bold-prediction-kde-will-steal-the-lightweight-linux-desktop-crown-in-2020/
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 No.22043

>>22037
>we cannot use gtk2 forever
>even if it's better and we don't need any gtk3 "feature"
software engineering

 No.22044

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>>22043
First as a tragedy, then as a farce.

 No.22045

>>22043
GTK2 has no Wayland support.

 No.22872

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>she
I have an idea of how to make XFCE more popular.

 No.22874

>>22872
>female anthropomorphic mouse
OHNONONONONONO!


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 No.22542[Reply]

Why is everything so big now? Even laptops and smartphones just keep getting bigger.
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 No.22841

>>22548
>>22549
Apples users don't tell on yourself challenge (impossile)

>>22561
This. You should be able to hold the phone in one hand and reach any part of the screen with the thumb of that hand. And not just a general average consumer hand, but also smaller adult hands within like 2 standard deviations.

 No.22845

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>>22841
I'm not an apple user, I genuinely want a phone with ports and other amenities that devices used to have and that's why I posted that image.

 No.22846

Laptops have GPUs and shit now, they're becoming more portable (in the RIP to your back way) workstations than actual computers to put on your lap

 No.22848

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>>22845
I was talking about the people who created the image to own the apple critics.

 No.22851

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>>22848
Ah okay, my appologies.


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 No.22565[Reply]

Is adding the wine binary to a user with no internet access enough to securely use Windows programs under Linux? It seems using the 
winetricks sandbox
command also removes all links to $HOME.
Is this enough if I want to not worry about running stuff under Wine or should I opt for sandboxing with Firejail, Flatpak+Flatseal, etc?
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 No.22605

>>22597
>Flatpak would be really cool if it was a sandbox/permission system integrated into the system package manager.
And if Flatpak packages actually had good sandbox (some of them don't have any sandboxing at all). There is a site that has collected criticism on Flatpak; https://flatkill.org

 No.22626

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>>22592
>>it wants to install its own separate Gnome
yeah, flatpaks are literally hell
just use this instead: https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty
it's made by one of the mods on rutracker who packages a bunch of wine and native games for linux
it bundles EVERYTHING (wine, amd/nvidia drivers, steam, lutris, emulators, obs, legendary, etc) you need to play vidya gaems into a single appimage that requires no root access/install and need no extra dependencies
just create another user, download this appimage and run your games inside that environment

 No.22627

>>22626 (me)
>single appimage
meant package since it's actually a shell script + squashfs inside a .sh file

 No.22641

>>22626
Thanks, this looks very good. You can also run wine under a separate user with no privileges but this alternative also won't ruin my packages, it seems.

 No.22822

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BARE METAL IS ANATHEMA, ANY BARE-METAL PROCESSES MUST BE EXECUTED ON SIGHT


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 No.22773[Reply]

>middle-click link
>"javascript:;" tab gets opened
Fuck web design, holy shit.
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 No.22776

>>22775
No. You can try middle-clicking the File/Embed/Oekaki links here.

 No.22777

GNUlag all webshits

 No.22811

>>22774
it absolutely is. did you know most javascript software out there is impossible to compile completely from source?
https://dustycloud.org/blog/javascript-packaging-dystopia/

 No.22815

>>22773
>not blocking JavaScript
You're insane.

 No.22816

>>22773
>middle-click link
>nothing opens
>have to left-click link and then middle-click back to keep the previous page open


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 No.10230[Reply]

Since US tech embargo on China is still in effect and US plans to squeeze Chinese tech companies by restricting their access to computer chips. China's reaction to this was to make one of their goals to have a home-grown alternative for Intel, AMD, TSMC and the like to decrease dependence on the US. So I was wondering what kind of progress have they been making lately and what are their prospects of ever having a viable alternative to Intel and AMD?

There is all this talk about SMIC, Loongson and Zhaoxin and that in early 2020 Zhaoxin allegedly published a chip comparable to 2017 level intel and AMD tech and they are planning to have parity with Intel in a few years. Then there are Some sources are saying that China is failing horribly at acquiring manufacturing tech for more advanced processors. And I really can't make any real sense out of it.

So when will I be able to buy a computer that uses a hardware that dunks on burger made tech and sends my personal data to Beijing instead of Washington, if ever?
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 No.21992

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/16/apples-iphone-loses-top-spot-in-china-to-huawei-analysts.html

 No.22768

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China releases 5nm kirin 9006c just a few months after 7nm 9000s

https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/huawei-quietly-announces-5nm-arm-chip-despite-us-sanctions

 No.22770

>>10249
there's a cool project under development that's basically a combination of a CPU and GPU (which is useful because mobile GPUs are proprietary as hell)
https://libre-soc.org/

 No.22787

>>22770
>cool project under development that's basically a combination of a CPU and GPU
Why not just say SOC? It literally is that.

 No.22808

>>22787
it's different than that, normal SOCs have multiple devices side by side in the same package, this is literally a CPU that you can run GPU calculations on. it's implemented through the instruction set instead of device drivers and MMIO


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 No.22778[Reply]

Hi I'm looking to make my own website to host articles and stories I've written. I wanted to do Wordpress but like I found out its going to put ads on my screen. I've got no money and no time to learn programming skills. Is there an open source version of Wordpress where it doesn't monetize everything and where I can change my font?
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 No.22781

>>22780
Yeah I think I did an HTML website at school, I'm just worried it'll be vulnerable to hax or something

 No.22782

>>22781
Nah it just serves a document. As secure as you can get as long as you don't add any complex javascript. Just make sure you set a good password for your neocities account, which I imagine the same to be the case for wordpress.

 No.22783

>>22778
>I've got no money and no time to learn programming skills.
If you're going the html route, i recommend learning at least a little about shell scripting.
You can use a very easy form of templating by writing a head.html and tail.html file, that contain your theme and sitewide navigation bar, and writing a simple script to concatenate it with an html formatted article, for example:
#!/bin/sh
for i in *.htcontent; do # all files in current directory ending with .htcontent
  new=`echo $i | sed 's/.......$/ml/` # replace last 6 letters with ml
  cat head.html $i tail.html > $new # concatenate into html
done

 No.22785

write.as federates on the fediverse

 No.22788

>Is there an open source version of Wordpress
yeah, Wordpress


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 No.22681[Reply]

< 2011: DARPA announced that the team "All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S." won DARPA's Shredder Challenge and $50k. The team used computer-vision algorithms to suggest fragment pairings to human assemblers for verification, piecing together documents shredded into over 10k pieces.
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 No.22688

>>22686
They don't usually have adversaries that are desperate enough to put them together. You always have to consider the threat model they are working with.

 No.22692

>>22681
ok but this doesn't eliminate the problem of having to exhume a bunch of wet shit-covered shreds from a landfill before reassembling them.

 No.22693

>>22683
Shred and then burn.
Or shred and then compost.

The latter is probably the best method, but it requires paper that isn't chemically treated in a way that would prevent it.

 No.22694

>>22693
shred, burn and then snort the ashes

 No.22744

should be used for archeology. will probably be used for spying on political dissidents


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 No.22608[Reply]

>(partly) proprietary, buggy, auto updates out the ass and is absolutely garbage
>still the best download manager available in 2023
using DDL is hell, we will colonize mars before we get a decent alternative to jdownloader
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 No.22638

>>22631
Wouldn't know, I don't use UEFI and never will.
>>22632
>I'm too lazy to make backups
rsync and cron.

 No.22644

>>22622
>LFS
>armchair
I suppose one needs something to do with all that free time

 No.22664

>>22608
>proprietary
>best download manager
Oxymoron.

 No.22672

>>22638
>rsync and cron
Different Anon, that's how I do it and I'm not nearly as (delightfully) geeky as the other posters. Rsync is so fucking well written too, hot damn.

 No.22743

yeah well downloading from mediafire or, god fucking forbid, mega has become a very niche use case now. if anything each day we're further away from an alternative.


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