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Gitter is joining Element Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:42 No.4551 [Reply]

https://element.io/blog/gitter-is-joining-element/

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:41 No.4539 [Reply]

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/29/21493094/amazon-one-palm-recognition-hand-payments-amazon-go-store

Why even bother with chips under your skin when your eye, palm or face are more than enough?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:47 No.4587

>>4572
>>4558
doesnt matter, kill cops, riot in prison, sabotage the grid, their tech will be useless unless you let it rule you

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:47 No.4589

Biometrics are not practical, if somebody steals a keycard, you replace the keycard, if somebody steals your palm-print, you can't chop off your hand and grow a new one with a different palm print. Does capitalism have a anti-tool bias ? Fast-food does away with cutlery, smartphones do away with input devices like pens or keyboards, bio-metrics do away with keys. Is it really so bad if you need a helper tool for using an object ? I get doing away with hazardous cans that need a can-opener, but keys ?

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:47 No.4591

Applying for a job or even working requires smartphones frequently, so it is basically required.

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:55 No.4659

Why bother with eye, palm or face when your walking posture is enough?

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:55 No.4660

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>>4659
Fuck you just had to remind me we can even be tracked by the way we walk.

Surveilance got incredibly scary and it's only 2020.

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functional programming Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:36 No.4497 [Reply]

Why haven't you taken the fp pill?

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:38 No.4512

I already do it for scientific simulation programming, but I really don't see the point in using it for anything else.

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:38 No.4516

I like OCaml and Scheme

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:39 No.4522

>>4497
I use clojure. Most of /tech/ knows at least one functional language anon.

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:40 No.4532

Why yes, I have taken the Susspill.

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:45 No.4575

I like Haskell but I don't find it very much use for the things I do.

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Recycling Hardware Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:35 No.4485 [Reply]

Boomer family left me hundreds of blank floppies. (You know how Boomers love to collect things they don't use, which invariably become obsolete and become e-waste; they left thousands of blank CDs, DVDs, a zip-drive and about 6 old laptops and a few ancient desktops too. Because they refused to give anything away when they upgraded their stuff.)

Any ideas for what I can do with the floppies?

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:35 No.4486

>>4485
if there something importing on it you can try to back them up or try to smelt them, or glue them together to form cube or pencil holder or what ever post pics of what you made

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:35 No.4487

If they still work and you don't want them sell em on eBay or gumtree or whatever

Retro enthusiasts still use that shit

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:40 No.4529

You could use them to backup anything important you want to last.

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:40 No.4534

>Floppies
Those are not good for backup, and the typical storage amount isn't much for today's applications anyways.
>CDs, DVDs
These could be decent media for backup, but it depends. Sometimes the data layer can be degraded, if it isn't stored properly or utilizing materials that last long.

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:40 No.4536

If there are any rare, important programs on it, and they aren't already on the Archive, upload them.

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Dashchan Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:34 No.4482 [Reply]

https://github.com/Mishiranu/Dashchan

https://github.com/maksrago/Dashchan-Extensions-ACF

Anybody using this to post here? I'm fucking scared because until recently this project was looking over. No updates or anything then randomly out of nowhere got update notification and against my best judgement updated the app. It's got a new look and options now.

But then got several more updates over the next few weeks. Almost one everyday.

I don't know where to check or see why there are these updates coming from out of the blue. Bros please tell me theres not some hidden malware happening behind the scenes of this new UI changes

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:44 No.4561

>>4559
Time to rejoin the human race and post on an image board with a computer like a civilized person.

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:45 No.4568

>>4561
Web design on chans in general is hot garbage, let alone this one. Mobile interface is objectively superior

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:45 No.4569

>>4561
I can't always be with my computer dumbass

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:45 No.4570

>>4569
Then don't post. Are you really not able to disconnect from always online status?

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:45 No.4571

>>4570
>Then don't post
Why?
I want to be able to post and browse comfortably when I am not able to be near the computer

Are you really that incapable to understand people have different preferences than you. You seem to be hellbent on making this some sort of console war tier thing.
>Pc good mobile bad!

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:33 No.4469 [Reply]

WINDOWS XP SOURCE CODE GOT LEAKED

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Anonymous 2021-02-28 (Sun) 20:14:25 No.6957

>>6956
>Looking at stolen code is no reversing, it's called stealing!
>And as last fact. Stealing != Science. Stealing is a crime and I am very happy that it is. If you wanna steal, then do so, but. Not. HERE!

Jesus, what a cuck.
I get they want to keep the project untainted of any possible copyright issues, but damn he sounds like that kid who bragged bought all of their textbooks new in school.

Anonymous 2021-02-28 (Sun) 20:38:18 No.6958

>>6957
Of course it's a G*rman

Anonymous 2021-02-28 (Sun) 20:41:35 No.6959

>>6956
> cant reverse
> can barely code
> forum moderator
Yup its an IT midwit

Anonymous 2021-02-28 (Sun) 20:42:52 No.6960

>>6944
> he doesnt understand that free software project is basically communist in intent

Anonymous 2021-03-02 (Tue) 20:36:02 No.6980

>My reply was not militant. It was a FACT.

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Learning assembly language Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:23 No.4379 [Reply]

I have recently started my first course in Software Engineering. The first programming subject we got apart from C is learning assembly language. I have zero knowledge of the subject and it seems quite intimidating at first glance, and was described to us as a hard course. So I wanted to ask, what would be the best sources of information to learn the language and how to even use it? The YouTube tutorials always seem a bit shit and from my first glance it is true for asm as well. We were also all recommended to read picrel over the course. Is it good and or enough for learning? It's 34 years old, so I was wondering if there were more recent manuals on the subject.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:24 No.4383

Play TIS-100 or Shenzhen IO or Exapunks. They don't use actually existing assembly languages, but the principles, commands and syntax are kinda similar.

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:24 No.4386

>>4383
Where would one be able to find a pirated version of this?

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:24 No.4387

>>4386
rutracker.org
I've played all of them on Linux. Can post links to Linux versions if that's your OS, but it shouldn't be hard to find Windows ones via your preferred search engine.

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:24 No.4390

OP 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:51:17 No.4868

Thanks for the help anons. Just finished my first proper assembly program. Feels good, but damn is this shit unintuitive to code.

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COMRADE COCKBLAST 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:11 No.4265 [Reply]

Can someone please make more of these? I just need him in various forms. It's for a psyop. You won't get paid.
Thanks

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:12 No.4272

>>4266
this one is perfect for cop bullshit - thanks.
I will start making these on my own. feel pretty stupid

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:51:05 No.4758

bump

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:51:06 No.4759

>>4266
>name it as a jpg
make sure to remove EXIF data as well when you export as jpg

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:51:09 No.4787

>>4266
The only good thing GIMP has going is an unfunny overused meme filter.

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:51:11 No.4808

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>>1013411
>>1013411
>>1013411
Cross Posting this because obs this is Cockshott related

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:08 No.4229 [Reply]

BRAINSTORM THREAD
Post every single idea you have, no matter how stupid or insignificant, for combining or using current technology to get closer to revolution or a socialist society.

Just post at least one idea.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:51:03 No.4728

>>4260
use linkedin to unionize the pmcs

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:51:06 No.4763

>>4728
Will the companies try to stop these? Shouldn't the left not work on those corporate platforms?

>>4574
The cops exist.

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:45 No.5664

>>4229
A wiki of sorts with profiles on politicians, organizations, and individual content creators. Each profile contains a series of sourced lists of: promises made, and kept/broken; declarative statements made; "true or false"/factual claims made; sources of funding (available in charts); directly associated individuals/organizations; and direct consequences of various activities.
So a profile could look something like these:

>Name: Dave Rubin
>Funded by Koch Brothers [1 - $UNKNOWN]
>Claims to be a classical liberal [2]

>Name: Donald Trump
>Promised to build a wall on the border of the United States and Mexico [1] [2 - BROKEN]
>Associated with Steve Bannon [3]

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:41 No.6171

>>4258
You are only describing EDI

Here is my idea OP. Create an open standards body for federated economic planning. Open material recording format. Open ERP. Open demand forcasting. Open bookkeeping. Etc.

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:44 No.6193

Cybersyn was botnet shit and Allende is an overrated succdem.

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Software Architecture and Systems Design Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:49:59 No.4140 [Reply]

One of the really neglected aspects of programming is software 'architecture' i.e. how to do overall design of a software system. Indeed even today many companies are replacing leetcode/algorithms style interviews with "systems design" type interviews or at least adding that.

For leftists or open source programmers we also need to study systems design to make programs better.

First book is a textbook for a grad school class on software architecture, published first 2013, and the next is a more modern (2020) book on architecture which teaches more FAANG style designs.

opinions /tech/ ?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:01 No.4156

>>4140
I've worked in FAANG. It's a fucking mess. It's a meme that they hire great people there. Most are average to good devs. I've worked on projects that had dedicated senior architects that got scrapped years later because they were obviously badly designed from day 1.

>>4143
Don't know about OSS, but I would expect it to be better written/designed.

Good software developers/architects must remember to be suspicious of using meme architecture, like microservices and meme technologies like nosql, and meme research areas like ML.

Also, re usability between unrelated projects is a fake meme (unless working in non shit languages, which is never the case). In almost all cases, readability, testability, and "refactorability", should be priority. Coupling, premature optimization, abusing OOP patterns (SingletFactoryAbstractFactoryBeanVisitor), use of compiler directives, global state, parallelization, should be avoided as much as possible. Clear APIs are also very important.

But yeah, how software is made is a good idea to think of new ways of structuring code.

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:02 No.4163

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>>4156
>I've worked on projects that had dedicated senior architects that got scrapped years later because they were obviously badly designed from day 1.
thats a reason to study architecture more, not less…

as for >>4143 :
seriously, can any of these anons responding
>NUUUUU these graduate level textbooks on architecture are wrong, every academic computer scientist and senior FAANG engineer is a pseud compared to me, read my Stallman memes instead they are way more better and based.
actually tell me what particular problems with the PDFs in OP? or in >>4141 which is the pdf that has the FAANG styles, or are you literally just shitting on it because its muh silicon valley and i'm going to write it in common lisp instead because Paul Graham and Stallman told me to do that in the 90s even though the last time they wrote code 80% of the people that use this site weren't even born.

Really, the fucking arrogance.

>Good software developers/architects must remember to be suspicious of using meme architecture, like microservices and meme technologies like nosql, and meme research areas like ML.
those things are only memes for non tech companies which would indeed be better off making traditional apps + a relational database, which in practice, they already do. Almost every non-startup/faang just does 4 load balanced traditional web app (server side rendered) with an oracle or microsoft database and some rando reporting software for the business analysts/managers like crystal reports(if c#) or Jasper reports for java.
>In almost all cases, readability, testability, and "refactorability", should be priority.
>Coupling, premature optimization, abusing OOP patterns (SingletFactoryAbstractFactoryBeanVisitor), use of compiler directives, global state, parallelization, should be avoided as much as possible. Clear APIs are also very important.
no disagreement

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:02 No.4164

>>4141
p.s. this post/book is the pdf version in which some of the images are stretched. The epub version on libgen is much better:
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=71AE4AAA42B5858F370A672E2B43189B
its clearly meant to be read as an ebook and not printed

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:03 No.4173

>>4163
I1m sure it's real useful if you have FAANG infrastructure.

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:51:06 No.4768

>>4156
You dont know what you are talking about, you never was in faang for sure. You cant write good Java code (decoupled) without using OOP patterns

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