/tech/ - Technology

>>2652
You don't have to act like I'm a retard. I only asked because fucking PSL apparently uses it. You fags love acting high and mighty about opsec but fact is the left has dogshit opsec. Part of getting people to listen to you is repeating tedious shit over and over, and clearly the techfags haven't been doing so if fucking PSL is using literal glowieware.

A link to good software alternatives would be nice, but you would just say "you're only compensating for bad opsec". So do you have any resources about good opsec from a tech perspective instead of ranting about video games?

>>2652
>If it is proprietary, you can guarantee that that hardware is backdoored and the NSA is using it to spy on you.
lol you have no threat modeling at all. nobody here is important enough to be hunted down by NSA via hardware backdoors. for most of people here it's enough to just avoid being flagged by the usual dragnet.

>>2676
>nobody here is important enough to be hunted down by NSA via hardware backdoors.
Everyone here is important enough to be part of a broad-spectrum mass surveillance and insecurity complex. The point is not to target any one individual now while they're taking a shit on the toilet, it's to incubate vulnerabilities to be activated [b]when the individual becomes a threat to the state[/b]. But using and promoting said insecure software through social coercion, you place everyone in this state of heightened vulnerability.

check system requirements and search on youtube your gpu model and the name of the game

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html
Can't say anything about credibility, they test games up to 5 years old or so it seems, I hope they actually launch a script that runs all the software benchmarks in sequence and calculate a median average among computers with this GPU installed they have tested. Overall, they had decent reviews of notebooks ~7 years ago when I last checked. Looking up game name + mobile GPU model on youtube is also a viable solution, cult classics like Minecraft and Crysis are tested on all sorts of toasters for giggles.

>>2636
MATE sucks too. They're both garbage compared to Xfce.

>>2636
It's no KDE but it's alright imo, just some bugs here and there and few extensions.

Cinnamon's file explorer is irredeemable garbage though.

>>2643
XFCE is several times more bloated than mate you faggot ricer pleb

>>1693
useful features like having two different apps for system settings?

>>2655
But that's wrong, you ignorant faggot. They both have a similar memory footprint while Xfce manages to have a ton more features and customizability than MATE. That's called an objectively superior piece of software. MATE really has no reason to exist now that Xfce has come so far, it's been a pointless and obsolete desktop environment since its start.

very simple i have a piece of shit old laptop, i don't even know if it's compatible, and i'm too tech illiterate to look, in the manufacturer's website there only appears to be drivers for keyboard, mouse and screen, and the ubuntu compatibility website doesn't have it listed, so i have a great suspicion that it's not going to be able to connect to wifi, or some weird shit like that if i install linux

>>2622
What's the model/brand? I can help find compatibility with simple distros if you'd like.

>>2629
it's a dell inspiron 3442, i thank you very much anon

My audio card doesn't have linux drivers

>>2640
get a pluggable usb audio adapter
those are said to support linux

https://plugable.com/products/usb-audio/

I love Rust, but it's completely useless for audiovisual projects due to the libs

>>1974
fuck you mean bwoy

>>1949
>Python is less verbose,
Rust doesn't have pointless verbosity like Java. You don't have redundant type annotations if you don't want them. All of the "verbosity" in Rust is meaningful information that documents how the program works, and increases readability and ability to reason about the code. In Rust, you explicitly declare whether a function takes or returns a reference or a value by copy or move. In Python you have a clusterfuck of multiple-ownership references, everything mutable, etc.
This is even worse for Python if you're comparing it to something like Haskell. Haskell programs are far more succinct than Python programs.

>has tons of libraries and utility functions that do most of the work
Rust and Haskell have these too. Not always the same libraries and functions, but many of them. And they have things Python doesn't have as well.

>it runs anywhere python is installed
*anywhere you have a compatible python version and can afford wasting resources

These threads are very non-directed and rarely have any meaningful content.

I know this board is very young but please let's end the /g/ posting tradition of asking the same arbitrary questions and getting the same useless answers.

for matlab there is GNU octave, very slow though

>>2021
octave is good. although it has some problems doing symbolic calculations/linear algebra

>>2022
yeah that's the same issue julia has, julia is way faster than both octave or matlab, but it cannot solve equations for shit, you have to call the python equation solver, which in itself is inferior to the matlab one

>>2022
For symbolic manipulation and calculation you have to use Maxima or WxMaxima.

>>2585
thanks

>>2582
up

coomer thread, ignore

Can we move tech related discussion to the actual tech board now?

up

There are lots of "OS of the future"

Guix is great, though I could never get it to play nice with Doom Emacs, which was a dealbreaker at the time (I'm not using Doom Emacs anymore, but as far as I can tell the only way to maintain config for your software like this is to build it as a Guix package, which I just don't have the time or energy for). I ran it for a couple of months on my hobby laptop, though I got tired of the build-times for some packages when substitutes weren't available (especially non-free Linux kernels, which I would leave running overnight and sometimes come back to the kernel still being built in the morning).I do think though that declarative operating systems are the future, because the implications are amazing for deployment of many machines, as well as maintaining your own workstation - you make some configuration change to a particular service in your OS declaration, build and switch to that OS you've declared, and if you fucked up you rollback.What really excites me is that Guix is just the package manager - even though we call the distribution based on on this package manager `Guix System', in reality every system configuration for Guix is its own distribution of GNU/Linux. Some future non-Guix project could `downstream' Guix by way of providing some standard distributions (read: `operating-system' configuration files with useful collections of packages, services, configuration, etc.) users could make use of, adding new channels with non-free software that users could opt-in to if they have e.g. a wifi card with non-free drivers, and providing some helpful configuration tools, e.g. for setting up and maintaining profiles, which don't require you to be pretty well versed in Scheme to have a working, maintainable distribution. Maybe this project could maintain build servers for the more popular software which isn't available in the standard Guix build repositories. We could have all sorts of Linux distributions which are built on the Guix package manager, and switching between these distributions would just be a matter of running `guix system reconfigure'. I think the possibilities here are incredible, and I'm pretty excited for it - for now though I've got Slackware on my laptop, so I can keep my distance from systemd while having a distribution that gives me most of what I could possibly need from a system out of the box.

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/managing-servers-with-gnu-guix-a-tutorial/Sounds pretty cool, now I need to find an excuse to try it!

Just finished writing my first package and it compiles!!

SQL IS BETTER BECAUSE YOU GET ACID, TRANSACTIONS, ROLLBACK, ETC. FOR FREE.databases like postgres have literal decades of engineering behind them making them rock solid. it even have json store if you want

Any thoughts on Daniel Abadi and his DB work?