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>a lot of people use it!
This has gotta be one of the worst reasons for choosing a programming language for your team out there. The entire argument is premised on the idea that this makes it easier to hire for, but the more popular your language choice is the more scriptkiddies you’re gonna get applying for your company and you end up going through excruciating hiring processes, meanwhile if you just say "ok we're using Rust" the only hiring friction will be finding someone who isn't annoying at Christmas parties.
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>>29932
>Endless circles of poor getting punched making them poor getting …
That this is a very affordable form of low "learning".
And not only because it's cheap itself, but because it lowers "earned" highs too.

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>>29927
This is all pretty cold, but, get the impression that since 2008 there's been a variety of attempts to figure out what to do with hardware performance which is eccentrically sufficient for consumers. Part of this is scaling, so you can have more tabs open, more pixels, and higher fidelity graphics etc. Another part is making thinks which couldn't have existed before 2008. The addition of production driverless cars and the transition from ELIZA-style chatbots to LLM are examples of this, but have only shown up recently. These are potential major changes in the means of production. Wonder if there was a twelve to fifteen year lull though. Probably something to do with innovation cycles or something.

>>29932
>Not sure the best way things are learned and overcome however.
Turns out you have to be told!

>Endless circles of poor getting punched making them poor getting …

The same messages paid for again … to listen.
Literally and deeply as well as critically.
Some tips are not to buy things that hurt you.
And to receive payment in necessities! (learning)
But really there's not trick to get out and it's stupid!

>>30030
Within a few short generations my technological Amish may ripen to a technological chardonnay!

>>29911
>the entire argument is premised on the idea that this makes it easier to hire for, but the more popular your language choice is the more scriptkiddies you’re gonna get applying for your company

Script kiddies use scripting languages.

Typically this argument is used for "enterprise" languages like Java/C#, so the people applying won't be script kiddies but moderate skill 45 year old boomers with 20 years java experience and every java certification you can think of.

They're not geniuses who will invent the next meme database technology at a hot silicon valley startup, but they will get the job done for your midwestern airline/bank/tractor company/etc. 99.9% of the time at a moderate wage.



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Is there a siterip of all the documented works on marxists.org somewhere? I'm highly suspicious of the sites ability to stay up in the future for various reasons, and even if it does, I'd feel better storing it all on an HD or something and would be willing to self host it should the need ever arise.

wget --recursive --level=inf --no-clobber --page-requisites --convert-links --domains marxists.org marxists.org

Or something.


>>30100
Didn't realize that the archive would be so large.
Was wondering why there wasn't an effective google like service to do this sort of thing.
the site: search generally doesn't work for me,

Im sure a torrent exists somewhere of collected works.
learn how to internet gooder

>>30102
Not OP, but I've looked and there definitely isn't a torrent anywhere and the two guys that maintain the site have strongly suggested people just wget the parts of the archive they want, or mirroring it if you've got the stuff needed to do it.



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<People voluntarily line up to have their retinas scanned with a "worldcoin orb" to get a "universal" digital ID. In exchange for a small amount of "worldcoin" cryptocurrency.
The faggot behind "Open"AI is now trying to have biometric data of the whole world for cryptopennies. Very cool.
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>>24079
>>24421
Really not that dumb if you think about. Iris scan is whatever and at least they got paid, people actually PAY to have their DNA uploaded to the FBI database.

>>24421
>>24083
democracy is lovely

>24420
>I wouldn't worry that much, most of this shit will fail to stick, at least outside of the US.

You are either coping or you are just naive. Governments are currently in the process of creating techno-totalitarianism all around the world. From the US, the EU up to China. The dead internet theory is becoming real, it's all happening right now.

lol the "adam ruins everything guy" promoted this shit and got his iris scanned too for a substantial pay check so much for being anti OpenAI

>>24422
>people actually PAY to have their DNA uploaded to the FBI database.
there's something really hitlerian in doing these ancestry tests, so they deserve it anyway



 

From within a public library pure emergent, wiggly a.i. agents in the open wild.

https://youtu.be/lKF4Ij3rgT0?si=DWu1uhxQFZxnBIbq

This wasn't a theory; it was a reframing. Not “new laws,” but a different light on the scaffolding and the equation that will save humanity
H(X)

Main payload?

Wreck hooked crosses

> Time is not linear, space is not passive, and observation is not optional.

Reality doesn’t respond to measurement; it generates around it.
The sands of time are pulled down from the stars by our will.

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Are the mods afraid of banning stupid shit on tech for fear of being called ignorant?



 

Facial recognition. Gait recognition. Automated License Plate Readers, many of whom now identify based on make and model. DNA databases. Cellular location tracking. "First responder drones" will become a thing with police departments soon. Cash based transactions are becoming less accepted and every credit card purchase is sold to advertisers (and the feds). For most people in Western countries acting normally, anyone going anywhere or doing anything in the physical world is tracked in a dozen ways. Taking elaborate measures to avoid this surveillance makes you look extremely weird and suspicious to most normal people. Any serious leftist movement dealing with harsh state repression is going to need a reliable toolkit for defeating this stuff.

I don't think this shit can be defeated. Even doing so much as a cash withdrawal adds to your credit profile.

>Cash based transactions are becoming less accepted and every credit card purchase is sold to advertisers (and the feds)

Btw, this happens in plain sight. All your transaction data is sold to credit rating bureaus like TransUnion and Equifax. I'm Indian, and the same happens here. It's worse because here we have a casless payment processing system called UPI, which has gained popularity in recent years. It links directly to your actual bank account too, unlike venmo or paypal that require you to store money in wallets. I've seen alternate data products that scan your SMS history to look for these transactions and create a credit profile based on that. Many banking, insurance and trading platforms integrate these into their applications. So the moment you give them SMS access, they profile you.

You could be a basement dwelling shut-in who never goes outside, but the moment you interact with any banking or insurance systems (which is something everyone has to do) you get profiled. Your transaction and medical history can be used to track you. In fact, in my country it is mandatory for any financial services provider to upload your KYC data to a centralized government database (CERSAI). It's done in the name of fraud prevention, but we all know there are ulterior motives.

All in all, even excluding all the fancy AI-powered surveillance tech available nowadays, governments can still track you. There's no escaping it. Only widespread class-consciousness can make people even start considering this to be important and lay the basis for the collective action needed to counter it. Where I'm at, people literally call you a traitor questioning feds. So yeah, nothing will be happening anytime soon.



 

AGI by 2027. What are the implications for the world and the future of mankind and communism?

>Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. Nvidia analysts still think 2024 might be close to the peak. Mainstream pundits are stuck on the willful blindness of “it’s just predicting the next word”. They see only hype and business-as-usual; at most they entertain another internet-scale technological change.


>Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.


>Let me tell you what we see.


<I. From GPT-4 to AGI: Counting the OOMs

>AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible. GPT-2 to GPT-4 took us from ~preschooler to ~smart high-schooler abilities in 4 years. Tracing trendlines in compute (~0.5 orders of magnitude or OOMs/year), algorithmic efficiencies (~0.5 OOMs/year), and “unhobbling” gains (from chatbot to agent), we should expect another preschooler-to-high-schooler-sized qualitative jump by 2027.

<II. From AGI to Superintelligence: the Intelligence Explosion

>AI progress won’t stop at human-level. Hundreds of millions of AGIs could automate AI research, compressing a decade of algorithmic progress (5+ OOMs) into ≤1 year. We would rapidly go from human-level to vastly superhuman AI systems. The power—and the peril—of superintelligence would be dramatic.
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>>30001
And basically everything regarding the hype was made up because Sam Altman was panicing and needed to assure the stock holders that they must stick around. That's why he announced AGI, and that's why he announced ASI, and that's why he'll annound AXXLI in the coming months..

Ok

Permaban everyone in this thread

>>29959
came here to say this lolol

i just want the robo proles to kill the bourgeroise



 

>old drive from 2016 "might" be dying
>look into getting a drive with at least 2 tb since I wanna hoard my warez
>"oh get a toshiba bro they're reliable
>not even a fucking year later
>Current Pending Sector Count: 1864
You've got to be fucking kidding me, comrades.
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consumer toshibas are barely a step above western digitals lol

you got trolled my dude

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This is probably the last update. They called me back after 16 days to tell me the groundbreaking news that it's broken…gee, really?
I got my replacement drive, only after the stupid bitch on the phone tried to trick me into buying something else of equal value, cause they said they didn't have another drive. I went on their site and noticed they DID have a replacement, so either they lied or they didn't even bother to check. I noticed the price was up from 66 euro, to 69 euro, so genuinely that's possibly why they didn't mention they had a replacement…pricks.
Long story short, I got another fucking toshiba canvio, for free…sure it might also die in 8 months, but at least I didn't have to downgrade from 2tb.

>>29662
Make sure to stress test it early on. If your drives are going to fail you, you want it to be soon, before they have data on them.

>toshiba
ngmi, it was over before it even began flood detected post discarded

I've had no issues with western digital, even with the budget green ones



 

This is the next installment of threads in my project log series since the imageboard was completed >>27187, and ran out of motivation for the calendar-based forum >>27553, leaving it as merely a (relatively complete) calendar. The idea this time around is to make something of a GNU Emacs replacement, but broken up into a number of tightly coupled smaller packages. Namely the approach is going to be "frames" over "windows" where windows are controlled by a programmable tiling window manager and run in Xephr for individuals who don't want to replace their window manager. Further there will be a command processor for mapping keybindings to functions and command names to functions. Next there will be a prompt package which will be responsible for prompting the user, more likely than not this will be either at the cursor position or in the center of the display. Lastly, the text editor itself will be responsible for very little beyond saving and reloading state, and rendering the text buffer; these two functionality will likely also be split into separate packages.

Presently, the implementation is in C, Xlib, Cairo, and Pango but is little more than a demo to edit and render text taken from various tutorials glued together only started yesterday afternoon. It is however already capable of indexing in text based on pointer events, so it seems the stack will be powerful enough to write the gui. Am likely to start with morphing the present program into the prompt package and once have the basics of the centered view created (this would be something akin to dmenu) am likely to begin rewriting in Common Lisp. Don't yet know how to handle the interprocess communication ideally it would be bidirectoinal and work well with programs not written in Common Lisp, though this latter point isn't the biggest priority. Getting the interprogram communication right is going to be critical for having the environment work well overall. Anyway that's all for now.
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>>29923
Some common lisp later and have a complex implementation of a simple algorithm that was in my notebook.
The idea was to only render glyphs which need to be on the screen, and only "shape" for glyphs that are in lines on the screen.
Arabic and other connected scripts are borked because of rendering glyph by glyph.
Seems need to separate by LogAttr is_word_boundary or similar ( https://docs.gtk.org/Pango/struct.LogAttr.html ).
Really this should have come up in the design process for the algorithm, but oh well.

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>>29924
Writing in an alien language can be difficult!
Finally got all of the bugs sorted in the render!
The ASCII doesn't really show off the engine completely.
There's certainly some pressure to implement caching however.
Especially considering this was part of the whole reason for the re-implementation.
The algo avoids rendering words unless part of them is visible to the left.
There is still some work required to have this same behavior happen to the "right".
These things should be easily enough implemented now that the basic framework is in place.
Really still seem to need a non-idealist plan,

>>30021
Wrote primitive caching. Also more primitive optimization for cluttered overlong lines.

It will probably be difficult to do this last thing correctly.

>>30039
Worked on handling a edge case today with vacant lines. My "solution" was not satisfactory.

It only tries to render things which are within the view-port.

Next thing on the list is to try to make a cached generator. The idea is that this would fix the problem with having to shape overlong lines. Might not be able to program this for a second.

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>>30045
Even with a hot cache only rendering what's necessary on a medium fast machine it's too slow.

More cold stuff.
Programmed and it turned out that a bulk of this was in marshaling and unmarshaling data.
Was able to half the consing, total-run-time, and nearly the real-time just by removing unused slots.
Pulling out the window attribute xcb calls (which never would have guessed) also took off 20 times real-time for small buffers.
And hot stuff.

The remaining problem is the lack of a cache generator.
Combined with running this for the full text instead of just the relevant view-port.
Together this meant it was taking way too long to shape up the characters for long documents.
Fixing this makes it too fast to create a flamegraph for even for large documents.
… but am sort of getting ahead of myself.

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Feel free to discuss any consumer electronic products you use.
Picture two are my Chi-Fi: Tin-HIFI T2.
They're mostly neutral with some deviation in the highs.
Much less bass heavy than most Chi-Fi judging from the graphs.

Picture one is my phone, an ironic branding for a midrange device.
Am hoping to install Lineage 21+ after an unlock token arrives.
Interesting apps are as follows:

- NewPipe (youtube alternative)
- personalDNSfilter (global adblock)
- KurobaEx-Beta (leftypol client)
- Obsidian (note taking software)
- OsmAnd (google maps alternative)
- Messanger (RCS is a monopoly)
- Aurora Store (bad play replacement)
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>>29659
This is so much more of a pain then it used to be.
Even things like downloading an OTA, or transferring files to phone.
Like since when do you need a virtual filesystem to transfer files?
Since when do you need to transfer bins back and forth to your phone and computer to patch them.
Since when do you even need a computer to root a phone?
Then of course my laptop only has three USB ports each on a different side!
Since when can you not have a keyboard, mouse, flashdrive, and phone plugged in at once!
And then lol sorry you actually still need that fancy unlock token they haven't sent you for three weeks.
Ugh!

I have a Samsung a35 right now. I have google fi as my carrier so i just get whatever is a cheap phone with SD support from their store whenever the current one dies out

>>29813
This never did show up.
Am going to try using MSM on an old windblows machine to restore to an international firmware.
Really disgusting.

>>30037
This completely failed so gave up.
Seems like am going to get something unlocked next time.

a samsoong s25, sorry for being a consoomer, i was worried about trump tariff so i splurged
a kindle paperwhite gen 7 with koreader after jailbreaking it, koreader is fucking awesome
sometimes a miyoo mini v4 for gaming



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I recently got a smartphone again and things are worse than 5 or 6 years ago. I got an Android because they have inexpensive ones and I don't believe in paying around $1k for a phone.

Turns out you need a Gmail account and a whole Google relationship for the phone to work. Then you can't even send texts without your legal name and email address being linked to your number. For anyone you contact to read.

I'm no paranoid nut or anything, but this is far more involved than it used to be. And there's simply no way to opt out. It may be different with Apple phones, but I remember when I had one of those they wanted me to link up a bunch of shit too. It was similar but different.

Not to mention you kind of already need a phone to activate a phone. Because without some texted code to cell phone you can't get the new one going.
I know I'M the problem here because I'm questioning and not just agreeing to all their shit, but I want to understand it.

Do you guys know what's up with all this and if there's any way around it? I had a flip phone for a long time but each year it's more and more of a hassle to get along without having the same as everyone else. And everyone INSISTS on communicating via text message, so there's really no dealing with that on a little flip with just numbers. And I checked; they don't even fucking MAKE Blackberry type smartphones with physical keyboards anymore. If you can find one it won't work with any current carrier. The phones are all very big and they don't offer small smartphone options unless you want a folding one which is even more costly.
The cheapest I could get was $200 and I still feel ripped off.
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>>29721
proofs? tried even to use geoip to get timezone data once but the data wasn't accurate enough. something like 50% accuracy for city.

>>29721
Yeah, I haven't left the house with it. Someday I'll need it for GPS or something I imagine. I'd like to just buy a GPS for my car like I used to have that always works, no signing up or anything. Just a random guy using the thing for directions and it doesn't know who I am and isn't tracking me. Garmin. They still make those? My last one looked like a CRT TV, as deep as it was wide, suctioned to my windshield. I miss that thing. Would it still work? Remember those days?

>>29724
>>29724
>proofs?
here's this weeks proofs
https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o2-expose-customer-location-call-4g/
this isn't a demoralization post. understand the fucking ridiculous amount of data they're taking from you

>>29823
Well then.

>>29683
>Turns out you need a Gmail account and a whole Google relationship for the phone to work.

Uhmm… no you don't?! My phone is like 3 months old and I am using it completeky without a Google account. You can just skip the account creation.



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