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Terry Davis is such a tragic figure and TempleOS is legitimately impressive, but so much of the epic 4chan stuff around him is just "let's get this severely unwell man to scream the n-word because it's funny".
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If there are so many programers on leftypol why do we never see any of their projects? It's hard for me to imagine there being programmers with enough skill here to critique Terry Davis for any reason other than to cope. Further doubt most second years can program an operating system and compiler when most operating systems courses concern merely how to interact with a UNIX operation systems.

>>29304
>you simply output the binary to the next address to be pointed by the program counter.
TempleOS doesn't have memory protection, yet it supports multitasking and thus needs some degree of linking/indirect adressing associated with that, right? And it's not like a POSIX program doing the same on W|X pages would represent a notable leap in complexity.

>>29307
>needs some degree of linking/indirect adressing associated with that, right?
no. you just have to check that your programs don't overlap. they can and they will if you make a mistake

>represent a notable leap in complexity
it does because it makes it hard to change the .text section while the program is running (in principle you shouldn't be able to)

>>29308
>you just have to check that your programs don't overlap
I had a look at the code of a game (from https://archive.org/download/TempleOS_ISO_Archive/TempleOS_V5.03/Tos_distro_2017.11.20_19-52.iso) and it doesn't appear to be loaded at a fixed offset, the same program can be run as an arbitrary number of tasks. No virtual memory only means each program has to reside in core (TOS ostensibly implements timesharing and threading without multitasking).
>it does because it makes it hard to change the .text section
You would more-or-less have to load object code into W|X marked memory, which comes with the territory. Write protection on the .text segment only makes writing self-modifying code harder.

>>29309
>and it doesn't appear to be loaded at a fixed offset
you don't need fixed offsets to overlap. all programs and all cores share the same address space. the kernel and drivers do have fixed offsets, programs are allocated with malloc (often right next to each other), but because they share the address space you can overlap. here is terry explaining it himself

>No virtual memory only means each program has to reside in core
in main memory, it also means no protections, which would be considered a giant flaw in any consumer os but it is a feature in templeos. the point is that it isn't as impressive as you think, any compiler could do something similar in a similar environment


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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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>>22778
>>22779
Also, static sytes generators like HUGO are a thing

>>22781
If a site like neocities is taking care of the hosting, and your password is half-decent, and you aren't accepting user input on your site, then it's extremely unlikely your site will get hacked.

See also: >>25675
If you find that fine to use, great. The plus side is that they can automatically manage blog things like pagination (the page numbers at the bottom) and post tags.

>>22778
whtevr method u decide on usin, share the url under this thread. if ur worried about le hackers, i'd be happy to pentest it free of charge.

I was also thinking about running my own blog. But then I realized, that I can just use leftypol to dump my schizo ramblings. This is much easier!

>>22778
buy a domain for 2 euro and find a free hosting service i use www.freehosting.com


 

Thread for questions that don't deserve their own thread.
I wanna buy some headphones to go outside i don't want to spend more than 100€ on them. I want them to be mostly durable and secondly to have good sound quality, also i don't want to look like a jackass while wearing them, any suggestions?
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>>29227
Just use the element selector from uBlock.

>>29227
You could switch to https://ddg.gg/lite or https://ddg.gg/html

I have a kobo Clara hd. I put Koreader on it. Anything else neat I can do with it? I don’t connect it to wifi. I want to use it more but I’m a YouTube addict. I have 500 real books I need to read before I get to the hundreds I’ve downloaded. I spend more time with the actual project of setting up shit like koreader than actually reading. Shit. Nevermind.

Alright, I've got a question:

Google really seems to hate Tor users and they block them agressively. At the same time, Google seems to tolerate VPN users.

Google's business is data collection, so it is no surprise, that they hate Tor users. But shouldn't they also block VPN users as well?

>>29257
Nah, vpns are easy to get warrants for.


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1. Are there any browser plugin options for using face detection to block youtube videos from suggestions / searches if the thumbnail has a detectable human face? Not anyone's face in particular, just any face.
2. If not, does this seem like a good beginner project for someone that hasn't made a browser plugin before, or am I underestimating the scope of such a thing?
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>>29027
>Do human faces creep you out or something lmao.
It's not so much the faces as much as the context of their presence. I don't like that it's normal to show one's face on youtube to the point where it seems like the algorithm incentivizes it, and it's trendy to do a "face reveal" if you don't already show it.
In elementary school they has whole days dedicated to teaching internet safety, several tapes and stories about it. I strongly believe most people should be at most pseudonymous online when practical, so anything that stands to erode that is icky to me.

Showing your face on the internet should've never been normalized.

Bro really asked for an extension to hide soy faces on Youtube, thats hilarious.
Im all for it.

>>29029
Boomers have been posting their faces online since the mid-late 2000s

>>29029
That's why you wanted to filter vids with faces? I honestly thought it was because videos with soyfaces in the thumbnail are usually shit quality slop, and by blocking those search results the signal to noise ratio would be better.


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I fucking hate ai, nothing good will come of it, humanity has enough problems with out some ghoulish ketamine retards making a machine that makes it's own descions we can't control.
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>>28891
people talk about all "AI" like it's just generative AI and LLMs

>>28891
>Porky just likes AI because it fulfills the fantasy of capitalism without workers
never denied that
>even though it still requires input data (produced by workers)
I know
>and massive amounts of servers and electricity (also produced by workers).
I know
>You are not combating ludditism.
ok but people make threads that are just "AI bad" but they have no real plan to combat it. they just wanna bitch and go back to the before times.
>You are engaging in magical thinking
where did I do that? All I did was post a Marx quote and now you're seething.
>and ignoring the material reality of how the technology works
I know the material reality of how the technology works. I had my actual job from 10 years ago replaced by it already. I won't elaborate because I don't want to doxx myself. I work in a hyper specific industry but trust me, it's not just statistical noise and wastes of electricity. There's more to it. And yes, it still requires lots of labor power to produce and maintain, but it's also saving a lot of people a lot of time.
>and why it's being adopted in the present social context.
I'm more than aware of why it's being adopted since I already lost my job to it once lol. Luckily I was able to move horizontally.

>>28892
This. Honestly AI is just a tool and can be used right, the medicine example is the best one.

But generative AI specifically is just slop and will make people dumber, as it's basically doing the thinking for all of us, and a technocratic wet dream. Also people around here like to shit on artisans because everyone is laborbrained but this also affects people who do art just as a hobby, not as a job. It's also affecting education because nobody learns anything, they ask ChatGPT to do the studying for them and teachers are more paranoid than ever.

>>29184
I think for some industries, if the goal of AI is replacing workers or whatever, AI has a "cobra effect" instead, like AI absolutely fucking destroys how education works, but this makes way for novel teaching and evaluation methods, mostly ones that require the teacher to be more personally involved with students, and where homework as a means for reinforcing learning and evaluation becomes obsolete, something that pedagogy researchers had been already begging for since wikipedia was a thing. For parents that are concerned for this kind of shit, which they will be soon, and can afford it, there's going to be a premium market for teachers, and they will become more, not less in demand.

>>29187
This is optimistic, especially because of the "begging for since wikipedia was a thing" component, but a good post.


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It's so fucked up that they don't make gas plasma displays anymore.
https://retropaq.com/the-miracle-of-gas-plasma/

I wonder if e-ink will ever become difficult to find too. I’m surprised it’s still thriving today but I guess the 90s wasn’t THAT long ago.

>>29185
this was a cool aesthetic but for all purposes OLEDS are cheaper and multicolored so theres no reason to use them any more


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Some soyjak party anon broke into 4chan after 4 years of work and dumped the source code + db with users and hashed passwords.
/ISG/ is currently talking about it.
There's a very active thread about this on kiwifarms
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/4chan.37222/page-475#post-21102680
And dev on twitter is doing some analysis on the code.
https://x.com/_yushe/status/1912041750085984276
https://x.com/_yushe/status/1911976973800272108
https://x.com/_yushe/status/1912025058953867353
https://x.com/_yushe/status/1912034013117554910
https://x.com/_yushe/status/1912035368347508783

Apparently 4cins is running on a 10 EOL'd FreeBSD on php 5 (amazing that it took 4 years of work to the soyjak hacker and not just 30 minutes)
Here for the archive with the source: https://litter.catbox.moe/a8z45n.7z + zip attacment
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>>29160
No. This is from the 3rd-parry archive 4plebs, and they classify memeflags as "Israel" in their statistics based on the joke/meme that they're all supposed to be Jewish. It's not literally true.

Pic related is the actual number of Israeli flag posts from the search. Slightly higher than Mexico in that list but not one trillion or whatever.

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/country/IL/

>>29046
>Why would other anti-establishment underground anonymous factions be working against each other?

As a bored refugee, I think it is kind of hilarious.

>>Are we at risk here?
nobody is at risk except those that were stupid enough to give personally identifiable information to the website formally known as the asshole of the internet.

>>Are we next?
I assume all chan admins are taking a look at their codebases, but it sure looks like hiro (probably misspelled, but the guy that purchased 4chan from moot), really neglected even basic web practices. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

this titty konata was drawn by tf2 youtuber starykrow, for those who want the source

>>29046
>Why would other anti-establishment underground anonymous factions be working against each other?
Because 'anti-establishment' is a meaningless label.

>>29179
>starykrow
gay


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How the fuck does one make a messageboard without paying money I fucking hate this shit
I'm trying to make a left-wing alternative to soyjak.st (do not enter for your own sanity)
Fuck capitalism
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>>29166
Wouldn't suggest really.
Unless it was just something for a few friends to chat on.

>>29171
>>29166
you could use cloudflare to reverse proxy, but you'd have to pay for separate business tier internet with a static ip and better upload speeds, which isn't available in all locations plus its gonna cost like $80 a month which is way more than budget VPS's

>>28723
maybe ask the leftypol.org admins to create a board on this site and volunteer to mod it full time.

>>29051
Self-hosting things in 2025 is a surefire way to ensure you'll spend thousands of hours fending off hackerman AI bots from state actors trying to spread their funnyware everywhere.
Not to mention that the target audience of imageboards will be very drawn towards getting lulz out of your infosec mistakes.

>>29176
It might be worth a shot considering our commissars are always down to create ghost boards that noone uses like /tech/

>>29178
>It might be worth a shot considering our commissars are always down to create ghost boards that noone uses like /tech/
No. The last thing we need is another zombie board with one post a week.


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I'm not joking.
>their phones are more ergonomic and have a beautiful curved display
>their vertical foldables are almost as cool as Motorolla Razr
>their custom ROM has a pretty, minimalistic and ergonomic UI and has extra features that are actually useful
>their smartwatches are actually pleasant to use thanks to their rotating bezels
>One UI is based on Android so it's more customizable, yet it works smoothly and has sane defaults and nice default apps that seemlessly blend with the system like GNOME or KDE software
It's a shame they're proprietards who don't help FLOSS and patent everything. If only we could take over…
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>>27112
all proprietards are shit
but apple is a special class of shit that i avoid in every way. everything about it is so hostile to user freedom. the overpricing, the glossy screens that drive you mad reflecting everything in the back, the lack of usable connectors/ports, the locked down OS that barely allows any configuration, the calculator keys for the laptop keyboard, the incredibly short charger cables, the lock-in (hard to run dual boot linux on apple pcs).
just everything about it is so anti-user, and then you have their captive audience that literally overpaid for shit products in the 90s just so that their beloved company wouldn't go out of business.

>>27112
I got my first samsung 2 months ago and its not that much better than my moto g tbh. Motorola has a better side panel feature and gaming mode

>>27216
There are many good-quality Android devices but the only interfaces that can rival One UI are Sailfish OS and sxmo imho. And that's 'cause I haven't yet tried those.

>>27115
yes. we are aware that people that have no idea what they are buying are being taken advantage of by Apple. that is why people try so hard to tell them android phones are better.

android phones do more, and cost less. the average consumer that is a brain dead idiot that knows nothing about phones would be better off buying a $200 android that does indeed Just Work.

The best phone I ever had was a huawei P20 demonstrating that whatever the despotic chaebols of worst korea can force their subjects to do, the chinese can copy and make better everytime


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>wired ethernet only
>handheld devices offline/limited internet
>torrents and physical media no streaming
>flip phone
>internet limited to household
>video games backed up to hard drive offline no steam, ubisoft, etc
>videos, podcasts, etc stored for offline use
>use offline programs
>use a regular home phone
>music on a CD or desktop
>no internal battery shit

Obviously impossible to do especially all at once but I do a little bit at a time.

This thread is for younger generation chads only and older no zoomers
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>>29134
I personally wanna make a flipphone just to see how much is actually needed to do that. I wanna know if SIM cards are comically overengineered or comically simple, it's gotta be one or the other.

I think visiting meatspin dot com when I was 13 is partially responsible for my obsession with big-dicc tgirls.

>>29115
You had to press SO FUCKING HARD on those battery things to get a percentage readout, if the thing worked at all.

yeah i already do all this except i just dont have a phone at all

>>29136
God has a plan for all of us.


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