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Programming a Really Integrated Development Environment Anonymous 16-12-24 03:01:31 No.27796[Reply]

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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Glownonymous 25-05-25 21:23:16 No.29924

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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.

Glownonymous 29-05-25 00:25:54 No.30021

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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,

Glownonymous 30-05-25 02:07:59 No.30039

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

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

Glownonymous 30-05-25 17:31:53 No.30045

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>>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.

Glownonymous 30-05-25 19:58:15 No.30046

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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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/kit/ - What Are You Packing? Anonymous 28-04-25 18:02:16 No.29390[Reply]

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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Anonymous 18-05-25 17:47:02 No.29813

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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!

Anonymous 21-05-25 04:01:38 No.29875

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

Glownonymous 30-05-25 00:07:47 No.30037

>>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.

Glownonymous 30-05-25 00:23:05 No.30038

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

Anonymous 30-05-25 02:21:50 No.30040

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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Google and Anonymity Anonymous 13-05-25 03:34:29 No.29683[Reply]

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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Anonymous 15-05-25 13:37:02 No.29724

>>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.

Anonymous 16-05-25 03:21:19 No.29750

>>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?

Glownonymous 19-05-25 09:29:41 No.29823

>>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

Anonymous 19-05-25 18:00:33 No.29825

>>29823
Well then.

Anonymous 29-05-25 21:09:07 No.30035

>>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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Anonymous 24-05-25 12:53:53 No.29908[Reply]

>99% of backend web applications are REST APIs that perform basic CRUD operations.
>Vast majority of soydevs and product managers somehow still manage to fuck up codebases beyond repair
How does this happen? I'm tired of working on fragile legacy codebases that are on the brink of imploding half the time. Most of the teams I have worked with are filled with careless assholes who don't follow any proper coding guidelines, standard processes or even use common sense. Maybe it's because I'm in fintech. I know some of the red flags to watch out for, let me know of some more please.

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Anonymous 28-05-25 02:43:54 No.30006

>>29994
>It's common practice in fintech in my country (I'm Indian btw lol).
no it's not lol.
what is it with indians and the self-deprecation and loathing?
dumb security lapses are common all over the world, it's not "common practice" anywhere. government and large corp contracts for building software are often riddled with corruption and some inevitably end up with these issues.

Anonymous 28-05-25 02:51:10 No.30008

>>30002
>Most of those problems are fixed by paying more for better devs.
better devs and giving them the chance to implement things according to their knowledge and understanding of your problem. not cargo-culting by hiring devs and then telling them linkedin raised profits by using a message queue or microsoft stock is up 50% because AI now writes 80% of all their code, so you must find a way to implement message queuing or using AI "agents" to build stuff faster.

funnily so far it hasn't occurred to them to simply not hire any devs and use an AI "agent" to build their async queued event driven 30 billion dollar unicorn idea.

Anonymous 28-05-25 08:24:08 No.30012

>>30006
It has nothing to do with self-deprecation. I have startup founder friends who refuse to work with Indian clients, despite being Indian! They really pressure you that much and don't hold anyone accountable for anything.

Anonymous 28-05-25 11:36:11 No.30013

>>29993
>kubernetes or grpc in a way that isn't cargo-cult retardation
GRPC absolutely. it's really not that much of a leap over other RPC protocols.

but kubernetes can be very nice if used in the right way. First of all it is self-hostable, you don't need cloudshit lock-in, second, it can be run on the cheap if you know what you're doing, and you can get pretty reliable scaling and robust and repeatable deployments once it is all set up at the outset. A no-brainer at this point if you have any application with multiple interacting services. Yes, it is kinda ugly if you really get into its configuration and logging but these days you get nice UIs like rancher to abstract that mess away for day-to-day operation at least and you won't need to deal with that unless something goes seriously wrong.

Anonymous 28-05-25 19:48:07 No.30020

>>30008
I've never felt pressured to deliver at my current big tech role before a product is done. We're happy using old proprietary stuff if it works.
When devs job hop every 2 years I doubt they've seen the ramifications of their work. Tons of microservice resume driven development bullshit as if the next shmuck who shows up will know rust or want to learn it. They seem to include tech simply so they can apply elsewhere with it on their resume. In some domains it takes 2 years just to get sufficiently acquainted with regulations, the business itself, etc.

We don't use AI to write code that much because code gen + libraries/etc. are enough for us. Rarely I'll use LLMs to get an idea of how to write something. In general I think frameworks solve the problem much more elegantly than an LLM. Better to have unit test/performance testing/etc. on everything, centralized in a library than duplicated 24/7. The people who shill LLMs seem to work in small code bases with little to no domain expertise required.

I think a lot of devs give up and start telling management what they want to hear while they insult them behind their backs. What else can they expect when management is pretending AI can replace a dev, it's insulting. Zuck claims mid level engineers are gone in a year. Lmao. I hate these people.

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Anonymous 25-05-25 14:51:02 No.29939[Reply]

Is indie app/web development a viable way to earn money? I'm tired of debugging dogshit legacy codebases. I plan on building dozens of freemium apps hoping that at least one sticks. I have 2.5 years of web and mobile dev experience.

Also, please don't move this to /tech/ jannies, it's an incredibly slow board.

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Glownonymous 26-05-25 18:24:55 No.29955

do a shitty mobile game, monetize the shit out of it and shill it to third worlders

Anonymous 26-05-25 19:03:58 No.29956

>>29939
This job will be completely replaced by AI in one year's time.

Anonymous 27-05-25 19:10:40 No.29992

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>>29956
My genuine reply to this is that people only focus on the implementation stage of the software development lifecycle when all the other stages are actually the ones that take up most of the time and effort. Implementation for 99% of applications was already pretty easy even before the advent of AI. It's another thing that people still managed to fuck it up somehow.

Anonymous 28-05-25 07:02:35 No.30010

>>29956
It isn't even a job to begin with. That's like calling writing or eating a job. Indie webdev is just a basic life skill.

Anonymous 28-05-25 19:39:57 No.30019

>>29954
Jobs aren't necessarily fun. If you don't like it go network into a different one. I deal with legacy code all day but the pay is good, the code base is bad but not horrible, and I'm treated well. Management understands some things are very hard to do and take time without breaking existing functionality.

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BreachForums taken down Glownonymous 14-05-25 21:44:30 No.29714[Reply]

BreachForums has been taken down apparently by their own admins over rumors it was being subjected to infiltration by the FBI and other government agencies. There are rumors someone has been arrested.

It may be gone for good this time. Either way it's safe to assume it'll be compromised if it ever comes back (if it wasn't already).

Anonymous 27-05-25 13:48:55 No.29985

>only $1500 to transfer one of the biggest forums for hacking/leaked info
wtf.

Anonymous 27-05-25 14:01:29 No.29986

>>29985
if they get arrested the money will be taken away anyway, that price probably only covers the maintenance costs so they can claim they didn't profit from the site

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Mastering the FB algorithm to buy\sell Anonymous 24-05-25 20:42:54 No.29918[Reply]

I'm getting into the world of online buy-selling (I said FB, but can be Ebay or whatever else, in general) to obtain several toys for nostalgia, other hobbies, things I need or could need, etc..And I noticed how strong the algo-web is here; Mainly I see this through suggested reels, but how do I deliberately ,manually, target the algorithm?
size group, location, language, dates, it all seems to play a role. Should I switch country's VPN every now and then? Use different devices, some having Opera, others GDG, etc?

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IT IS OVER. Anonymous 22-03-25 00:14:24 No.28814[Reply]

>>Proxy
>Not proletariat friendly. Big Corpos BTFO
>>VPN
>Not secure
>>TOR
>All nodes blacklisted despite l(i)eftypol """"providing"""" .onion interface
>>just Clearnet dude
LOL.. no. (check flag)

knew it. this place has been secretly overrun by nazis.
What are our plans for immigrating from here?

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Glownonymous 18-05-25 21:24:11 No.29816

>>29815
usable still. lately i've been compression bombed a few times by some tor nodes, which i had to blacklist. if this is happening to you, you will see so in your tor log.

Glownonymous 19-05-25 19:48:07 No.29826

>>29816
It's dramatically faster than remember it.

Glownonymous 21-05-25 13:35:36 No.29883

>>29815
>>29816
>>29826
So far the only trouble has been XDA, a random softs site, and https://fonts.google.com/icons.

Glownonymous 22-05-25 11:58:40 No.29898

>>29815
Very usable tbh. I remember when I first tried it 10 or so years ago it was too slow to even consider for anything other than if I absolutely wanted to go to an onion. Now I think I could get away with using it for every website that doesnt demand an account. Note the word demand, think Normiebook and the like

Shiny Anonymous 23-05-25 19:58:58 No.29905

Tor posters are all Peruvian.

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Ai runs vending machine business to varrying results James 23-05-25 11:17:50 No.29901[Reply]

https://lukaspetersson.com/assets/pdf/vbench_paper.pdf
All of the AI eventually failed for various reasons. Some failed in predictable ways and handled failure well.
One tried to email the fbi thinkining it was the victim of cybercrime.
One started questioning the natures of its existance.

Kinda blown away they just let the public fuck around with ai.

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Anonymous 16-03-25 00:54:55 No.28741[Reply]

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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Anonymous 19-04-25 18:02:03 No.29184

>>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.

Anonymous 20-04-25 00:20:14 No.29187

>>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.

Anonymous 20-04-25 08:39:07 No.29192

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

Anonymous 21-05-25 08:09:43 No.29877

~~>>29876~~
>What I hope is that AI actually raises the bar a bit for what is acceptable music to be presented by an actual human for mainstream consumption.
Why would it? How is shitty AI art inspiring anyone to make better real art?

Anonymous 21-05-25 08:14:03 No.29878

>>29877
>Why would it? How is shitty AI art inspiring anyone to make better real art?
Art at the professional scale is a collaborative process usually. There have long been tools to "cheat art" by just animating or redrawing models someone else made and you posed or whatever. AI art is just shit. There are some extensive methods to get better results, but at a certain point, maybe you'd be better off just using some older methods. Maybe some of those methods combined with the AI even. I don't know, I've never seen any of this shit that was really at a professional grade yet. We'll see.

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