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Post quality RSS feeds for whatever. Blogs, news sites, even a YouTube channel RSS feed or other video content. As long as it has an RSS (or atom I guess) feed attached to it.

I'll go first and dump some of what I think are good ones:

>Grumpy Gamer

https://grumpygamer.com/rss
this one is rad, it's the personal blog of the lead developer behind The Secret of Monkey Island series (so basically my hero). He talks about a lot of cool random shit. Check it out.

>Niki Tonsky

https://tonsky.me/atom.xml
Another personal blog, I've only read a few articles but they have to do with UI mainly which I like.

>Cosmonaut Magazine

https://cosmonautmag.com/rss
Quintessential pretentious leftwing magazine. It's good, I like it. It's more insightful than I thought it would be and their articles even when I disagree with them (I usually don't) are always comfy reads.
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Isn't having a unique set off RSS feeds like shining a searchlight from orbit on yourself every time you check it?

>>26067
Theoretically yes but that is not unique to RSS feeds.

>>26067
not if you torify your RSS reader
sadly this works less than stellar these days thanks to glowflare


Jannies peanuts footballed a thread that asked for indie and non-western war news publications so pasting here:

indie:
https://thecradle.co/feed/
https://southfront.press/feed/
https://www.aljazeera.com/xml/rss/all.xml

non-western:
https://www.telesurenglish.net/rss/

non-western but it's a thinktank so the Heritage Foundation or Peter Theil are behind it somehow, but maybe useful anyway:
https://uwidata.com/feed/

non-western but government owned, but maybe useful anyway:
https://tass.com/rss/v2.xml
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<Computer networking is the practice of connecting two or more computing devices to enable data exchange and resource sharing, using either physical cables or wireless signals. Key components include end devices (like computers and printers), media (cables or radio waves), protocols (rules for communication), and networking devices (such as routers and switches). These networks range in size from small Local Area Networks (LANs) in homes to expansive Wide Area Networks (WANs) that span the globe, like the internet

Thread to discuss computer networking. I thought we could use one because networking has an unusually long shelf life for IT skills, unlike programming and even linux to an extent, networking hasn't changed (at least very much) because its basically the physics of IT.

>>31764
>4mb ai slop image
>ai slop paragraph to bypass minimum length
>literally no content in the OP
why do mods allow this garbage. I always report and the always dismiss my reports

>it's not DNS
>it's not DNS
<it's DNS

mOTHERFUCK

>>31765
dont like it dont respond, no ones forcing you to discuss networking



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Is there any good open src EN t9 keyboards for Android? currently using GBoard JP in EN mode, but it's a lil clunky and a FOSS option would by default be prefered. before i get too used to this.
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>>19819
(ಥ﹏ಥ)

>>25515
Is that an Aqua emoji?

File: 1717929556619.gif (1.67 MB, 540x540, aqua baaw.gif)

>>25530
Aquamoji?

>>25533
AWWWW KAWAII DESU NE!!

Something like thumbkey but with sounds like this one would be fun



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This might not sound that impressive, but i've just managed to get program-agnostic rio-style window creation working flawlessly in FVWM. Previously it was a flickery, unreliable mess of xdotool commands, but now it's spawning every window iconified, hooking into the window creation event to set geometry from my rectangle selection program and deiconifying it to its correct position.

If you could keep track of all terminals and from which one a particular program is spawned, you might be able to reach true rio emulation closer than even the plan9port version.

Desktop and window management general, i guess.
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>>30176
Update: I got multi-key commands working in fvwm, with
FvwmMap RootMap $[FVWM_USERDIR]/root.map
Key Space A 4 RootMap

Now i can restart fvwm with a simple s-Space C-x C-r. It calls the following awk script:
#!/usr/bin/awk -f
BEGIN {
	FS = " "
	senter = ""
	sexit = ""
	name = ARGV[1]
	ARGV[1] = ""
	lines = 0
}
/^#/ {
	next
}
{
	senter = senter "+ I Key " $1 " A " $2 " WithExit" name
	for (i=3; i<=NF; i++)
		senter = senter " " $i
	senter = senter "\n"
	sexit = sexit "+ I Key " $1 " A " $2 " -\n"
}
END {
	print "DestroyFunc Exit" name
	print "AddToFunc Exit" name
	print sexit

	print "DestroyFunc " name
	print "AddToFunc " name
	print senter

	print "DestroyFunc WithExit" name
	print "AddToFunc WithExit" name
	print "+ I Exit" name
	print "+ I $*"
}

The top-level command map looks currently like this:
K N Close
P N Stick
T N Exec xterm
X N Exec dmenu | rc
Tab N Next (!Focused, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
Return N term
B C Direction W (CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
F C Direction E (CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
G C EscapeFunc
N C Direction N (CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
P C Direction S (CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
X C ExtendedMap
B M Direction W (!CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
F M Direction E (!CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
G M GotoMap
N M Direction N (!CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
P M Direction S (!CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow

>>31661
>X N Exec dmenu | rc
To avoid confusion, this is my private dmenu fork, which doesn't do menus or suggestions. I reduced it to a simple prompt.

>>31661
after reading OP again, I didn't notice back then, but I don't think you should be using fvwm or xdotool at all. a barebones x11 wm is like 300 lines of c, and you could implement one with these features in, I would say, 500 lines if you don't care about compatibility and only need it to work on your machine. the wm I used for a long time was 500 lines of zig

because to me it looks more like you are wrestling with fvwm than with the complexity of the task itself. the way to do this with barebones x would be to create windows out of the screen and only move them in when the user does the rectangle gesture

>>31664
No, you see i use a lot of FVWM featureset, like sloppy focus, cascading window placement, the anti-aliased menus and the virtual desktop stuff, which were implemented over a span of decades by a lot of smart people. Besides OP marked the point i managed to recreate the "rectangle gesture" in terms of FVWM primitives, so there are no more xdotool kludges. Maybe sometime i will publish the config and all of the helper programs as their own fvwm-based desktop. For now i will look into adding window groups 0-9 in a way the Next command understands.

I just finished writing a few functions, which can serialize and restore the position of any currently open windows and happened to find this in the manual:
<State state [bool]
>Sets, clears or toggles one of the 32 user defined states which are associated with each window. The state is a number ranging from 0 to 31. The states have no meaning in fvwm, but they can be checked in conditional commands like Next with the State condition.
Good enough for window groups, though i'm unsure how to reconcile window group inheritance with the non-exclusive nature of this attribute. Maybe i could filter using a set of states for a whopping 2^32 window groups.



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Why isn't it widely adopted yet? It's much better than AVIF since it's actually designed for still images, and Apple supports it natively on Safari and Photos. What's Google's endgame by killing work on support for it in Chrome?
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Jpeg-xl is coming to chrome, somehow. Guess they figured webp was a lost cause.

>>31775
What's actually wrong with webp?

>>31776
In some places it might not be supported. Other than that, nothing.

>>31783
It just doesn't perform well compared to the formats it sought to replace, and has had several zero-day vulnerabilities, while being pushed by several companies that were overly enthusiastic about (tumblr, anything google, reddit, etc…) which made it seem very top down.

>>31788
I doubt its because of AVIF since it is very rarely used (due to its poor performance compared to most jpg implementations), I think I have only encountered one this year, or maybe the previos year?



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(Copypasted from a previous 4chin /g/ thread as a foundation to making these generals on leftypol)
Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.

* Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread *

Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.

If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following:
0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine.
1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.
2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS.
3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.

Resources: Please spend at least a minute to check a web search engine with your question.
*Many free software projects have active mailing lists.
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>>31596
>The idea is to use a patched build of chromium for the mpp. [^1]
Hardware accelerated encode is a (non-ARM) ChromeOS, Windows, or Mac OS exclusive.
Was looking into "brunch" as a way around this, maybe with crostini.
And meanwhile learned that ChromeOS is being replaced by Android…

The cleanest solution found was to use the ChromeOS kernel in Gentoo.
Use this Gentoo box to host LXC containers running the ChromeOS ROOT-A.

After all this it's possible that hardware acceleration still wouldn't work with the tutoring platform.
This is because of "negotiations" on the WebRTC encoding.
But probably it would work…

>>31498
>So, i tried installing CachyOS today. Live CD looked like a standard "Arch for lazy and/or stupid people" kind of thing
I recommend EndeavourOS for that use-case. But I suggest that you just install Xubuntu or Linux Mint and use distrobox to get programs from the AUR (and other distros). Arch Linux requires that you read the wiki a lot and that you know the basics of terminal and bash. This is why I can't recommend Arch for newbies or lazy people.

>>31498
I installed cachyOS on a chinese handheld gaming computer (gpd win 4) and it's pretty good. the latest version of bazzite didnt even want to boot anymore. i didnt check if it had man or not, i just open the terminal to update once every week or so, cachyOS has been fairly unobtrusive despite it being a rolling release distro, which is good enough for something that is going to be showing steam in handheld mode like literally 99% of running time.

Is there any cheap, quiet notebook/Chromebook that tuns Linux? I just want something that has a browser and terminal/Emacs. It being quiet is one of the most important factors as it would be to use while the wife is sleeping next to me.

can someone help me? i was trying to install ddcci-dkms so i could control the brightness of my monitor but now when i boot my monitor shows "no signal". i think the gpu is fine since it spins and shit. tried accessing my user and removing the packing and reconfiguring but the keyboard doesnt seem to work (numlock led doest lit up), i have tried all usb ports and a second keyboard and none worked. any ideas of what should i try?



 

They're always some fucking reactionary manbabies with 0 knowledge on anything that isn't *clickclickclickclickclik*

And whenever their work sucks and fails they'll try to explain how it isn't their fault really, without ever fixing the issue. I hate windows but their fucking """"powerusers"""" are worth less the dogpoop
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I would install Windows if it meant a Linux lady bossing me around.

I know that it's in theory possible to be a Windows user who actually has technical knowledge but in practice I've only ever met Windows sysadmins who do everything in the stupidest, least efficient ways possible or otherwise rely on off-the-shelf products for literally fucking everything because none of them have even basic programming/scripting knowledge. I fucking hate working in IT

>>31759
what particular field do you work in anon that you meet so many win sysadmins who are shite
>>31758
your rhetoric and tone here sound way too dominant

>>31754
Damn if only I was a rich employer

>>31759
I hear you comrade, it's the worst.

>>31705
i genuinely haven't used windows for more than a couple mins here and there for about a decade now. at this point i can't even use it very well. it's always funny when word and excel ninjas ask me to check something on it and i tell them i don't know how to. "b-but you're a programmer! how can you not know simple <random windows use case>??" is their usual complaint.



 

Saw Mental Outlaw's videos on the tor network. Thought I'd give it a try. Evidently, it is filled to the brim with exit scams and glowie pedobait. And I found it funny how Tordex/Torch admins try to justify not censoring such garbage.

>The search results on Torch are not censored because we believe trying to censor the dark web is counter productive and a waste of resources. Our philosophy is people have the right to do anything they want and live with the consequences, Torch should not decide what people do with their lives even if it’s morally wrong. We’re a search engine not your conscience.


>If you would like to advertise your hidden service please check our our advertising rates.


Yeah right, it's because of TRVE freedumbs n sheeit, it totally doesn't have anything to do with advertising scam websites to horny pedos and making money off of it.

Funny tangent aside, if there are any useful resources related to cybersec/privacy/tech on tor, please let me know. I'd like to get something useful out of it.
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Relevant keywords:
>Operational Security
>Information Security
>Communications Security
>Signals Intelligence
>Social Engineering

Software:
>Tor
>I2P
>Tails
>Linux-based operating systems

There is no magic bullet:
>https://support.torproject.org/faq/
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The purpose of TOR is to help the USA / israel overthrow the Chinese, Iranian, etc society. So no it doesn't actually work.

>>24009
Riseup is the most obvious honeypot ever
>Erm, hello fellow leftists, here's an e-mail service and a vpn you should all use for maximum privacy and security!
How can you fall for this?

>>31729
It doesn't need to be a honeypot to be a bad idea. Although I can't see how Riseup email is worse than any other email provider.

>Thought I'd give it a try. Evidently, it is filled to the brim with exit scams and glowie pedobait. And I found it funny how Tordex/Torch admins try to justify not censoring such garbage.

Like you didn't already know that. That's like the one thing everyone knows about the darkweb is that it's like 99% CP. Tell us more about your trip to Thailand.



 

they're making "AI GPUs" now. it's not a GPU at that point it's an AIPU. we don't call CPUs "central GPUs".

they should call them AIPUs and market them as that.
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GPU but the G stands for Gay

Machine learning specific processors have been around for a long while. Tensor processing units. Mostly good for regression, running cnns, rnns.

>>31631
yeah intel went really hard with their neural sticks, google had their tensor cores, apple had their own name for it too, mostly for computer vision, when AI was still cool in the eyes of consumers.

Excellent news kiddo
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/quantum-computing/new-chinese-optical-quantum-chip-allegedly-1-000x-faster-than-nvidia-gpus-for-processing-ai-workloads-but-yields-are-low
Prices on those babies should now eventually come down in a short time, around two years. You can get what is essentually a devkit for your forthcoming vidya console from orangepi starting at, too much for a mass console … for now

Eventually a lowmem board won't cost too much at which point have fun

>>31727
ps. Softbank just dumped NVDIA
Those who know know

Office hours I guess, any questions?



 

<Exposure to AI output immediately damages your brain's cognitive abilities
>9/10th's or more of 4chan, reddit and twitter activity is GPT-J bots
>Most video platforms curate suggestions using AI
>Search engines place AI output at top of results
>several platforms implement AI summaries
>Language translation programs being replaced with AI
>Browsers and closed source operating systems integrating AI features into UX
>Schools using AI to mark unusual vocabulary as suspect of being AI generated, advantaging students with average or below literacy.

I know the AI bubble is crashing so this won't continue to be a problem in 5 years, but it is worrying that we don't know how long this brain damage lasts.
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>>31578
I feel you brother, I go walking and camping alone in the woods and mountains on the regular, and it's great because you're just there, one foot in front of the other, taking a break when you feel like it, getting dirty,…

I feel like I've become increasingly Luddite over the last years, like, I'm not stupid. Loads of technological development is good ofcourse, but we've become so alienated from literally everything, all life is now nothing more then passive media consumption. No experiences, no hardships, no relations, no fun. Just stare and stare at that fucking screen in your hands.

The only reason I'm still working in tech now is so I can get money to buy some abandoned orchard or something, because modern society is absolutely crushing my soul and the only time when I had any semblance of feeling alive was when I was being a fucking hobo.

In SWE it's blatantly obvious. AI pretty much has to remain the primary, and will eventually be the sole, mode of software development because SWEs can't code anymore. They have, through sheer laziness, lost the ability to program a computer.

I have very little respect for SWEs, they always had the easiest job and absorbed the greatest surplesses. So their field is gone already. They simply cannot do it and will never be able to do it again.

>>27264
It's very good at two things: writing slop reports, and writing slop computer software. So rank-and-file reporters, who do not produce creative work, and software engineers, who also do not produce anything worth thinking twice about, are the most impressed and most impacted by the ability to automate their jobs. Unfortunately, these two have an outside impact on the overall evaluation of the technology.

Unfortunately, this won't be able to be corrected in the future. The children who are learning today are being totally annihilated by AI. They are not simply one or two years remedial. They are basically incapable, full stop.

>>31219
It doesn't matter if it gets anything wrong. People think people care if things are wrong. Actaully, they don't. It just looks like it works, in mostly works, whatever. The idea that people want high quality stuff that is carefully made by an attentive and diligent master of their craft is not true. They want MORE things. The MORE the BETTER.

Really. Nobody even cares if anything actually works anymore. As long as it is apparently there and apparently works, just plow through and make more $$$. Slop world is not a meme.

>>31712
>It doesn't matter if it gets anything wrong.
if your job is stupid bullshit, sure. if you're like an accountant or handle finances in any way, which is historically the profession that lead the rise of PMCs (it's in the name!), then your boss will get really mad if your numbers are off.



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