/tech/ - Technology

>>25212
>>25212
the people's free software foundation would be a richard_stallmanist-leninist party foundation

most sane systemd command

>>25212
this. release the GPL4 as a hard copyleft license

>>25629
there's also a systemd command that wipes the firmware on certain laptops and bricks them

>>25013
linux was always meant to be a hackable hobby os i think
but for professional sysadmin'ing and low-effort desktop usage, systemd is best

>>24951
I'd be more interested in Mastodon and friends if they were less Twitter-like. It's a format I have basically zero interest in, and I find it strange that that's the one everyone glomed on to.

What I'd like to see is something along the lines of a federated Tumblr; more blog-like, both in appearance and functionality. If such a thing exists, please, for the love of god, point me to it.

I hate follow requests they are the dumbest shit ever.

>>25632
I hate character limits. But the appeal of Twitter is that it's social primarily aka you follow people and they follow you, and you post at each other ig.

>>24953
Why do businesses need to be there? If we're taking twitter as an example, it started off getting the users, then the businesses came in to advertise to said users while paying the twitter company for the privilege. But that's centralized. A centralized platform can monetize more easily. What's the gain for a network of different server hosts?

>>24953
The whole point of the fediverse is that its existence is not contingent on profit. An individual instance can be run by a hobbyist in their spare time, a-la the forums of the 2000s and early-2010s, and in practice, the vast majority of them are.

This never happened to me.

If you add

--compat-options multistreams

, it will convert everything with ffmpeg just like youtube-dl did.

Works on nixos

>>25621
>>25622
>>25623
>>25624
winget fucked up with ffmpeg path for some reason now it works.

>>25625
Should have used scoop. Or Linux.

Personally I suspect it's something to do with the fact that computers these days have the power that a single programmer would be hard pressed to utilise fully, seems like back in the day of 8-bit and 16-bit machines and I guess a bit in the early 32-bit era it was a real challenge to even get a rotating 3D cube (or something that looks a bit like it) on screen let alone all the crazy effects that the demoscene came out with and thus came the motivation to overcome that challenge.
Anything a single programmer could reasonably do in terms of spare time wouldn't actually be that challenging to do (in part thanks to all of the open source tooling that has been built) and in fact probably would have the computing resources left over to just write the entire fuggin thing in JavaScript and still have it run reasonably well.

To create something cool relative to what the major software houses are able to produce feels overly ambitious for a single programmer and I, like other anons have mentioned ITT and elsewhere, I get bored and demotivated just thinking about projects that wouldn't pale in comparison. Instead though I've taken to trying to learn more forgotten ways of doing things, though no one in their right mind would tackle a modern project using raw x64 assembly, I've quite enjoyed learning about it and making basic programs in it feels quite rewarding in a way that writing a single line of deeply abstracted and library heavy Python isn't.

I contribute to OpenStreetMap

>>24708
>I think they do that just to filter normies.
You caught me. Is copy and pasting build commands from the readme that hard? Getting asked for free tech support sucks. The average person is trained by big companies that if they complain loudly and aggressively enough they'll get a personal answer from some underpaid helpdesk prole in the third world, and they take this entitled attitude to the maintainers of open source passion projects. Asking people to build it themselves guarantees a minimum level of competency. I'll package software for distros I use, but I am NEVER releasing a windows binary ever again unless I'm getting paid for it.

>>24708
>My issue is that these fuckers think making an installer is simple impossible
that's because we have package managers. installers are Windows retardation. if you were to mess with a Windows program from source you'd have the same issue. worse even, because most Windows projects use Visual Studio

>>25502
Modern PCs are enormously complex in a way that home computers of the 80s and 90s weren't. Nobody works straight to the metal anymore unless they absolutely need to, and it's because doing so in a way that genuinely yields better performance is completely untenable for real-world applications.

>>25592
You can't log yt-dlp in.

>>25594
oh so the playlists are on the site? no option to export?

>>25581
The Peertube viewing experience is a lot better than it used to be because of fast centralized hosts and limited (almost non-existant) usage. None of those hosts are built to scale. But there's supposed to be P2P load balancing if and when there's load, right? How well does that scale? I think it would be a mixed bag. Popular videos could be fine. Stale videos would be like stale torrents and central hosts under load probably can't pick up the slack. There's also the problem of phone users, asymmetric upload speeds, and data caps which are all bigger problems for general video viewership than they are for traditional P2P traffic. The userbase is vastly different.

>>25582
All clients still work. This isn't a client issue. This is a blacklisted network issue.

>>25594
You can dump your session cookies and use those with yt-dlp. I think there's also an OAUTH fork.

>>25600
Damn that's pretty smart, I wonder how adblock can get around this if YT just refuses to serve the video before the ad ends

Pretty happy with thumb-key so far, but for those also interested in this, found option is Traditional T9 (A T9 keyboard for devices with a hardware keypad.)
https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.sspanak.tt9/

That way if you wanna literally do the tapping a key number of times thing intead of swiping. Hard to get the reaction time for that but seems fun to tinker with.

>>19819
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>>25515
Is that an Aqua emoji?

>>25530
Aquamoji?

>>25533
AWWWW KAWAII DESU NE!!

>>25531
It really doesn't seem like a VR desktop would need that expensive equipment. The only important bits are a high res, small screen and 2 lenses. But people want gyroscopes for some reason when gamepads and mouses do the some thing but less wiggly.
Like we could have cheap home VR if it abandoned it's Nintendonian obsession with hand / body tracking and accepted the potential of VR as purely a steryoscopic, private, non-deskspace-occupying monitor.

>>25545
The point is to avoid motion sickness when you move your head and the screen doesn't move. Along with moving your head being a good way to scroll your view.

>>25541
it got everyone talking about apple again, I honestly don't think they expected to sell that many

>>25556
Oh right… what about a clamp of some sort? Like if the head moving causes the motion sickness then maybe just using it in bed or in a chair that keeps the head pointed forward would fix that.

>>25558
This is solving a problem that doesn't exist though, it's more comfortable to look at monitors than keep something clamped to your face for hours on end.

https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/Gimp_Layer_Effects_Text_Styler_Plugin_GEGL_Effects

The open source software I develop is anti capitalist but pro free market because it encourages personal property rights and enterpeneurialism unlike the centralized corporate cloud servers at Adobe.

>>25488
>encourages personal property rights
Sounds like a licence issue and not representative of FOSS as a whole.
>and enterpeneurialism
it eliminates entrepeneurial opportunities.

>>25489
Entrepeneurialism is a good thing and open source software is pro entrepreneur while still giving the users the ability to own the means of production.

>>22887
what kinda artists we talking about? some hentai artist is obviously gonna be a stingy petit booj fuck

>>25488
That's a pretty cool plugin.

>>18178
there's krita

EMACS

>>16953
htop lol

audacious
https://audacious-media-player.org/
finally free’d me from wine after replacing the last windows app i needed (foobar200, because of the vgm plugins)

>>25413
Krita is more featureful
MS Paint's beauty is in its simplicity and intuitiveness
These >>25412 are good

That's cool, but my view of the SFC will always be tainted by the fact that they supported the ousting of RMS
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/16/rms-does-not-speak-for-us/

Does anyone here actually agree with the GPL but doesn't think it should be enforced by law as its too authoritarian.

>>25491
The entire point of GPL is that its efficacy scales with how authoritarian copyright law is.

>>25491
>Does anyone here actually agree with the GPL but doesn't think it should be enforced by law as its too authoritarian.
Too authoritarian compared to what? Because it was a response to the authoritarianism of proprietary software so saying that GPL is authoritarian and proprietary licenses are not is just peak hypocrisy. What else are we supposed to do in this wretched system where governments are lobbied by corpos to take away even more of our freedom? You want no authoritarian licenses then get rid of copyright altogether, anything short of it only perpetuates this corporatocratic system further. There can be no compromise, compromise only increases authoritarianism, not reduces it.