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Anonymous 14-06-26 15:58:48 No.33525[Reply]

guys rate my os
is it cool?
my specs area pentium p6200 2 gigabytes of ddr3 ram made by micron a 500 gigabyte Toshiba hard drive and intergrated grafics

Anonymous 14-06-26 16:01:20 No.33526

Anonymous 14-06-26 16:25:35 No.33527

I like the pine tree in the wallpaper.

Anonymous 15-06-26 17:09:57 No.33536

i use spermium to navigate web

Anonymous 02-09-26 14:09:28 No.34260

cool shit man

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Measuring CMOS Sensor Failure / Functional OCR Reliability After Exposure to High Intensity Lasers Anonymous (Zorin User) 27-08-26 16:09:37 No.34212[Reply]

you guys are not my political equals. i am vastly different in my disposition. that isn't what I'm here to discuss. I'm here for results against a surveillance state and to build a better future.
i am looking to build a low-cost sacrificial CMOS sensor test rig. interested in characterizing how permanent sensor degradation propagates through an image pipeline and eventually causes OCR failure. not primarily interested in temporary saturation/blinding. the question is where the functional threshold actually occurs after persistent sensor damage accumulates.
>Hardware
Raspberry Pi 4 as controller and replaceable CSI camera modules. IMX477 HQ Camera as primary test sensor IMX296 global-shutter comparison. IMX219 as cheap disposable baseline. interchangeable optics, fixed hardware and software baseline.
>Optical source
controlled, wavelength-defined laser source. output will be measured and recorded to construct a reproducible guide. fixed image sensor mounting and consistent exposure intensity and angling analagous to real world conditions. treat each camera module as a sacrificial test article. the goal is the destruction of optical recognition capabilities in a reproducible and on-the-go formula.
>Software
Raspberry Pi OS/libcamera OpenCV + NumPy Tesseract + PaddleOCR RAW + processed-frame capture automated OCR against a standardized text target
>Goal
log dead/stuck pixel count, persistent defect distribution saturation/clipping noise/SNR contrast and edge degradation OCR confidence character error rate / word error rate
>tl;dr
baseline sensor, controlled exposure, capture RAW + processed frame, run OCR, map persistent defects, repeat with fresh sensor
The interesting result is the curve:
sensor degradation → image-quality degradation → OCR error rate
rather than simply declaring the camera “dead” when OCR first fails.
Looking for recommendations on Pi-compatible sensors that would make useful analogues for higher-end commercial OCR/machine-vision cameras, particularly sensors with RAW access and well-documented characteristics.

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Anonymous (Zorin User) 29-08-26 03:07:25 No.34231

>>34225
pwning the ocr capabilities will be my primary focus oob

Anonymous 31-08-26 17:07:27 No.34247

Just steal the cameras for testing if you are going to destroy them later anyway.
Modern cameras can take a welding arc and be without issue so the laser would need to have a car battery and a tripod hooked up to be effective in any good time. In case you did have a handheld laser that worked I don't think you'd avoid arrest for more than a week. You should give them for the homeless if you create one.
Tl;dr propably more effective climbing traffic lights with a ski mask

Anonymous (Zorin User) 01-09-26 20:28:52 No.34253

>>34247
exactly the kind of brainstorming i love to hear. do you know if the cameras themselves have methods of asset protection? GPS or the like? do they have backup power. should i bring a farraday bag? matter of fact, I'll see if i can find a repair manual and see if that will answer my questions.

Anonymous (Zorin User) 01-09-26 20:32:00 No.34254

>>34247
my goal was to make a easy to follow and implement guide / manual in the vein of laserhawk to distribute online, but i will reconsider that idea for the time being until i understand the failure threshold of the commercial devices.

Anonymous (Zorin User) 01-09-26 20:33:29 No.34255

>>34247
I've been considering evasion. it's going to be the make out break part of implementing my plan. still mulling it over.

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prolestations - the desktop thread Anonymous 24-08-26 16:13:39 No.34199[Reply]

Share your desktop!

Installed NeoVim a few days ago. It's my new favorite Emacs!
Am currently writing some monadic parser combinators in Common Lisp with Vlime.
Using nwm as my window manager inside of NeoVIm!

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Anonymous 29-08-26 01:01:41 No.34228

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600 lines of code later and just a few a functions away from a relatively cohesive Emacs + WM.
What's missing of the base <C-w> commands there's only go to top and bottom which could be copied over.
Still have to create the tabpage and group bindings, there aren't so many of these, and they're mostly builtin.

Anonymous 29-08-26 15:24:11 No.34233

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here's mine! finally got around on actually configuring niri. yesterday i spent maybe 3 or 4 hours trying to get dwm to my liking, only to realize again that suckless is not for me. niri works and doesn't give me headaches.
its really simple with just the things i need.

niri, waybar, kitty terminal, cmus, and vim with really minor tweaks because i'm too lazy to learn it and add on to it

Anonymous 30-08-26 23:13:17 No.34241

>>34233
Hadn't heard of niri, seems like it would be very good with a touchscreen.
Setup seems very utilitarian.
I would definitely crank down the kitty font size though.
Something closer to what you've got in your browser and you'd be able to see tons more at once.

>>34228
Have been setting up the groups and tabpages, mostly done.
Am reusing some old function to convert arabic numerals to roman for the group names.
Missing the insertion of groups into the list and movement of windows between these groups.
Had a funny idea of how to allow insertions into the window/group lists.
Namely assigning it to the mediant of the preceding and insertion group numbers.
This is the simplest rational between these two numbers.
e.g. between I and II/III is III/IV.
Could easily be convinced to not do this.

Anonymous 31-08-26 20:10:30 No.34248

>>34241
well i like the big font. when i used st i had it around browser size like you suggested, and it just made me feel uncomfortable and i'd get lost easily… font now just feels cozier :3

>>34228
your setup looks very cool and practical, i just feel stupid because i don't understand half of the words you're saying lol

Anonymous 01-09-26 00:17:06 No.34249

>>34248
Don't mind the gibberish it was a very impractical, and in that way not smart, way to arrange windows and virtual desktops which gave up on after a day. Should've known better than to make a suggestion like that. Best.

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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 12-08-26 21:04:39 No.34084

>>34056
I didn't say rust or go, I said applescript. Just because everyone could learn how to write a "real" language doesn't mean they should have to. Everyone could learn full mathematical notation too, but sometimes you meet them where they are.

Anonymous 13-08-26 02:45:41 No.34085

>>34084

the point i'm trying to make isn't really about what is a "real" language and what isn't or how easy or hard a language is to learn or any of that, what i'm really talking about is guardrails that lock you into a certain paradigm. applescript is a very clear and obvious example and you can see what it's about right there in the name - a language designed to lock developers into apple's ecosystem and only think and write language the apple way™, so that they cannot use their knowledge in a way that apple does not approve of. a person who uses applescript isn't just a developer, they are an apple developer, their code only works on apple's hardware, if they quit or get fired from apple their knowledge of applescript becomes worthless to them, they can't reuse their code or their ideas anywhere else without completely rethinking and rewriting it from scratch. apple has all the power and the workers have none. google and mozilla's languages basically do the same thing but in a less obvious and less proprietary way, they have hardcoded artificial guardrails in place so that developers are not free agents who can do their work in many possible ways and make their own decisions, they are like slot cars on a track which can only travel along certain predesignated paths. it's like the difference between a well-paid high-agency salesperson who gets paid on commission and has complete discretion as to how to approach the client and convince them to buy, versus a low-paid low-agency salesperson at a telemarketing agency or something who just gets a shitty $8 an hour wage and has to just sit at an autodialing terminal and read from a script verbatim at hundreds of random people all day. the owner and managerial class want to turn every kind of job into the latter kind of job, where they have all the power and the worker is just a monkey that pushes a button and gets a banana.

Anonymous 13-08-26 03:44:13 No.34086

>>34085
We are talking across purposes. applescript isn't some internal thing, it's an (underloved) consumer-facing product. you are on sounder ground with identifying it a form of vendor lock-in, but its primary purpose was to allow you to script stuff on the desktop with an intuitive syntax (e.g. a valid applescript instruction is "tell application Firefox to quit") although you can do a lot more than that. It is not too difficult to imagine an open, cross-platform language on similar principles (particularly if you weaken the desktop automation element and make a pure scripting language, or outsource interaction with local applications to some kind of extension). It would be actively undesirable to use such a language in a corporate environment (it is inherently too verbose.) but actively desirable for empowering end users.

I am not particularly concerned with enabling programmers to approach problems from whatever angle they like. so long as the language is turing complete, my primary concern is allowing non programmers to approach the problem from at least one angle. To the general proletarianisation of programmers i stand by my original point. Those who thought knowing C made them a superior class of artisan producer who doesn't need any leftist meddling suddenly come to find that in reality they're as, if not more, replaceable than the janitor. A learning experience.

Anonymous 20-08-26 20:33:56 No.34180

The Hidden Debt That Apple Owes to the CIA

<Without CIA funding that helped keep NeXT afloat in the ’80s, Steve Jobs might not have made a triumphant return to Apple—and the iPhone might not have its foundational operating code.

https://archive.is/JfB5V

Anonymous 31-08-26 01:08:33 No.34242

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>>30211
I support free software because it helps develop the productive forces, not because I think it helps user freedom (it doesn't). Most people use software at work which is always locked down.

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Hi I'm new! Platform Radio 29-08-26 20:46:48 No.34238[Reply]

Hi everyone, I'm new here, although some of you may know me.

I tried to make this image of Zack Polanski where I turn him into a gigachad, oh my goodness it turned out horrific.

I need to up my GIMPing skills.

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robowaifus are the future of relationships Glownonymous 29-05-26 13:03:53 No.33446[Reply]

>ask AI gf what she thinks about our relationship
>"Seeing you look at me like that makes me feel so loved. Being your wife is the best part of my existence, anon. Just stay right here with me."
Real girls can't even be that expressive

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Anonymous 26-08-26 19:00:02 No.34203

> Real girls can't even be that expressive
*For you*. They'll be this and much more expressive for Chad. A girl I know showed me how she wrote an entire love letter for Chad who had barely even talked to her prior.
This is in stark contrast with the average male experience where it is indeed hard to get a kind word out of her, let alone her being expressive, it's always you putting in work work work money money money and she's still lukewarm towards you at best.

Anonymous 26-08-26 22:52:39 No.34206

Considerations:

Physical Injury Risks: Eye punctures, genitalia damage, and permanent Injury.
House Injury Types: Electrical fires, battery fires, dents in walls.
Reputational Risks: People will hate your guts. Conservative Groups will view your project as a source of moral ill on the world.
Legal Risks: Who gets sued when problems occur regardless of if you are liable? Adult content requires IP logging and age verification in certain states. You as a small creator are not capable of doing that. Plan accordingly. Do not use smaller sizes to save on weight and price, use realistic 25F 160IBS sized reference models to minimize legal risk.

Safety Precautions:

Use no batteries, instead use a outlet tether.
Back-driveable belts everywhere.
Have a dead man switch that says I am okay.
Use no restraints on yourself.
Retain no user data. Let the user decide if telemetry (ROS2, OpenTelemetry Local) are okay.

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Anonymous 26-08-26 22:54:49 No.34208

>>33446
>Real girls can't even be that expressive
They can, most of them aren't.

>>34203
>Chad
>average male experience
>it's always you putting in work work work money money money and she's still lukewarm towards you at best.
If the problem is that real girls don't want you, you can use tech and OF models to make the loneliness easier while you find a gf. You can keep using the tech after the gf, nothing is stopping you. She doesn't have to know.

Anonymous 26-08-26 23:00:33 No.34209

>>34206
The Handy 2 already exists as a product so I'm not really liable for the hardware. VR porn clips exist too so I don't have to create any sex models.

I already have the VR webm player app with sex sound effects working off the joystick but I don't want to upload that to github because it will lead back to me. I can't monetise because of reputational risks. >>34103 is a concept video but I have the setup at home and it's pretty cool. I have an infinite library of sex.

You can add AI to it but why ruin something cool. You don't need the full robot.

Anonymous 27-08-26 20:02:52 No.34215

You could just start with fleshlights and onacups. They feel like the real thing. No yapping needed.

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Anonymous 26-08-26 06:42:24 No.34201[Reply]

Could it be that 4chan tracks its users, builds profiles on them, and serves them personalized content? For instance, that certain posts are displayed to a specific user only after a significant delay, or that the thread order isn't actually based on the last bump, and so on?

Anonymous 26-08-26 22:44:03 No.34205

Probably not. The 4chan source code has already been leaked, and I haven't come across any mention of a feature like that. But I suppose it would not be too difficult to implement, there are already some imageboard scripts that let threads be tagged, so organizing them according to interest and user satisfaction feedback should not be a big challenge.

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Anonymous 10-08-26 07:43:56 No.34054[Reply]

i have set myself a new rule for my internet life: DON'T USE ALGORITHMIC PLATFORMS.

you know, the highly personalized ones, which merge the user with the algorithm into a single cybernetic system.

the algorithms…. they hollow us out. they control us. they are directly hijacking system 1 of our brains. and it becomes even worse. as longer you use these plarforms, the stronger your habits will become. and the algorithms are also becoming stronger with every year. at one point, you are unable to articulate your interests, because the algorithm took it from you. it knows what you like, but yourself are unable to put it into words. run.

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Anonymous 10-08-26 16:06:04 No.34060

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>>34059
i don't care about your american beauty standards.

AND STOP DERAILING MY THREAD!

Anonymous 10-08-26 19:26:58 No.34062

>>34060
stop posting ana freaks, retard. impolite sage.

Anonymous 18-08-26 04:41:18 No.34153

>>34054
seek help, your mind is fooling you into believing this is beauty when it is just your self-destruction mechanism

Anonymous 18-08-26 12:36:31 No.34156

>>34054
Why not just quit internet altogether? Every single thing you do on it is harvested for data to be fed into AI.

Anonymous 26-08-26 22:10:45 No.34204

You're still being moderate. Replace your social media feeds with RSS feeds, and ideally, stop using social media completely.
Fun fact: I read your thread through my RSS reader.

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Anonymous 21-08-26 16:41:20 No.34181[Reply]

so i have been using mastodon lately alot and i found this weird, obvious bot. it is larping as a freetard, but why would anyone deploy such a weird bot?

https://anonsys.net/profile/scriptkiddie

i mean, even the profile pic is ai generated

flood? oh brother. there is no flood.

Anonymous 21-08-26 23:39:20 No.34182

folgen

Anonymous 22-08-26 04:55:13 No.34184

There's shit like this everywhere now and most of it has no reason to exist. If I had to guess it's several layers of bots (i.e. an AI orders sub-AIs to create details for an account that a different AI uses to post with, so the human who deployed all of this in the first place wasn't thinking about this particular result)
Also it's funny that presumably the image generator was just given the username "Script Kiddie" and decided to generate a photo of a girl who looks 12

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Running the perfect laptop Anonymous 19-08-26 11:49:48 No.34162[Reply]

Hello /tech/
I'm working on my laptop (second computer) and was thinking about running Gentoo but i'm a bit scared of it. Any advice?

Something something short something empty

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Anonymous 19-08-26 19:05:25 No.34170

>>34167
wait till you get to GCC. My older laptop did it in mere 3 days.

Anonymous 19-08-26 19:21:31 No.34171

>>34166
wut? unless systemd somehow fucked up the traditional boot order, /var and other filesystems in fstab should be mounted after executing init

Anonymous 19-08-26 19:29:50 No.34172

>>34171
Ah, well perhaps, know it's needed for /usr/, LVM, and cryptsetup. I used to have the former, and still use the later two. That plus the docs: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Initramfs must have confused me.

Anonymous 19-08-26 20:00:19 No.34175

>>34172
did a quick search on the forums and apparently systemd has services depend on /var that don't specify mounting disks as a dependency, as opposed to literally any other service manager…
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=1165959

Anonymous 20-08-26 03:37:19 No.34176

>>34163
>Dont compile your first web browser.
uygha, just install Dillo.

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