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What do you think about it? On its face it seems like a straightforward improvement over C/C++ and a good way to modernize development in their typical niches.
On the other hand there is this really weird cultish behavior around it that just makes me feel suspicious. "Let's rewrite everything in Rust", forcing it into existing software without a clear use case other than just "it's better", overstating the language's capabilities and robustness, very much a kind of "toxic positivity" around it as in the whole Linux Kernel shitshow earlier this year, and the fact that it's being pushed by corpos and the US government. It all feels very weird.
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I did some work recently in a Rust repo.
Correcting a bug, and rewriting a parser, for personal use.
It was more difficult to work with than other languages I'm familiar with.
But there are lots of available libraries, and it feels smaller/more intuitive than C++.
I don't understand the borrow checker but the LSP guided me through using it.

>>31863
Literal meme language.

>>31864
>it feels smaller/more intuitive than C++
This is all it's got going for it. More modern than C, smaller than C++. The borrow checker doesn't stop you from writing buggy code, and it makes certain correct code trickier to write.

>>31863
Cute mascot, potential C killer, likely to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with rust.

>>31868
I think (we) hobbyists overestimate the capabilities of zig because it works really well on linux, but it is kind of useless on windows and all the guys behind the compiler's windows target are microsoft employees that want the windows target to be exclusively 11, so a zig program compiled for windows won't run on windows 10, let alone 8 or 7. as a hobbyist I don't care, I just use linux, but I know this means that it will never be a c killer

>>31870
> so a zig program compiled for windows won't run on windows 10, let alone 8 or 7
that's fucking insane, complete no-go for something that advertises itself as a drop-in C replacement.


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The other thread hit bump limit and I'm addicted to talking about the birth of the ̶a̶l̶l̶-̶k̶n̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶ the biggest financial bubble in history and the coming jobless eschaton, post your AI news here

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>>31820
> better benchmarks, same AI
It's a new tool, eventually you will see the changes, as things get automated and your familiar services are represented with a `smart assitant`. Wait until ChatGPT releases their Jony Ive device. Then you will start to see some changes.

>>31860
>Wait until ChatGPT releases their Jony Ive device.
pretty sure it got canned already lol

Is it just me or does the deepseek update sucks balls. I can't get it to generate markdown files, something that it did with ease and was very good at.

>>31865
Isn't it's output markdown? It copied as markdown last time I used it. How'd they break that?

>>31867
I think it breaks the format when it starts inserting snippets for some reason


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The people's microcontroller. Dev boards can go for pretty cheap, especially on AliExpress.
https://idf.espressif.com/
https://docs.espressif.com/projects/rust/book/preface.html
https://docs.espressif.com/projects/arduino-esp32/en/latest/getting_started.html (Arduino IDE package info, probably better for beginners)
https://www.instructables.com/search/?q=esp32&projects=featured

I've been thinking of creating wagging cat ears with a couple of servo motors

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Short, practical tutorial videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLah6faXAgguOeMUIxS22ZU4w5nDvCl5gs
In-depth videos on electronic engineering theory:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0o_zxa4K1BV9E-N8tSExU1djL6slnjbL
Schematic/PCB editor software:
https://www.kicad.org/
https://www.tinkercad.com/
Embedrel is a textbook on electronic theory. It's long, but written for beginners and you don't have to read everything.

https://esp32io.com/esp32-tutorials


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>but muh marx

Apple just launched a new revolutionary product that completely changes how you can use your phone. Will bernd get the $149.95 version, or the $229.95 pro version that comes with a long strap? It's even compatible with icky green bubble androids.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/introducing-iphone-pocket-a-beautiful-way-to-wear-and-carry-iphone/
>ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket. Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,” its singular 3D-knitted construction is designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.
>Born from the idea of creating an additional pocket, its understated design fully encloses iPhone, expanding to fit more of a user’s everyday items. When stretched, the open textile subtly reveals its contents and allows users to peek at their iPhone display. iPhone Pocket can be worn in a variety of ways — handheld, tied onto bags, or worn directly on the body.
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>>31819
to be fair they now make the devices too damn big for a lot of too damn small pockets

>Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,”
How is this not a C-tier Onion article

>>31679
Imagine being this angry that the Chinese accept that a desire to consooom is just part of the human condition

Pockets exist

>>31834
I like China. I was making fun of ironic china-hating leftcoms


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I found this abandoned repository https://gitgud.io/parley/Haruko.
It's imageboard software that's not that old but still works. This is what it looked like: https://archive.is/qiLyz.
and I would like your help in updating it. It would be a project for “new” imageboard software made with PHP because, from what I've seen, there aren't many like this left, so I created this repository: https://github.com/bigdustycheese/AobaIB which I will update and you will also help me with.

>>Why should we help you with this? What do I get in return, OP?

It's simply a collaborative fork. If you want to help me, that's fine. No one is forcing you.

(If you see this on other imageboards, it's not spam.)


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>Just centralise the whole decentralised internet under like three critical providers, bro. what could possibly go wrong. It's brings economy of scale, bro.
How do socialists answer to this?
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>>31750
>do not support le small services
>"REEEEEEE CORPORATES TAKING THE DATA I UPLOADED MYSELF!!! GOOGLE SPYING!!! FACEGHEY READING MY CHATS!!! SAVE ME SOMEONE!!"

>>31750
> central planning is the same as central infrastructure.

Absolute braindead take, bravo

socialism doesn't require things be centralized, and communication (including the internet) should be free and decentralized

>>31738
>>31753
>>31757
>whats le socialist solution to irrelevant nerd shit?
communism has nothing to do with fucking web infrastructure buds, stop pretending its about alleviating every little fucking problem of capitalism

>>31762
nah

>>31768
lmfao complaining about le monopolies is 100% petit bourgeois shit i mean look at this shit bruh >>31823

>>31750
Only good post


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Machine Learning general. So anybody here actually do any ML programming? I just installed PyTorch yesterday and actually started training some shit. It was pretty easy to get working. But… I am a dumb dumb, so I am going to go back and learn all the basics I think, because I have delusions that maybe I'll be able to do something interesting with it, but I know unless I'm really knowledgeable about it, the probability is less than zero.

I know that thread about bitching about ML is the most popular thread on /tech/ but I thought we should have a separate thread for people actually programming it.
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https://github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2.2
Enjoy

https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01066
An expected result, but it does down some critiques

it's important to distinguish between non-commodified ML and its legitimate uses and LLMs and other crap the AItard corpos are trying to shove in all our holes

isn't traditional ML/NLP useless now that LLMS have been invented? other than cost why would anyone write a Support vector machine or something in AD 2025?

>>31805
in the sense that LLMs theoretically rely on NLP for language modelling, not really, i don't think, it's worth teaching at least. Is it going to be an employable field in the future? Probably no


 

Thread for questions that don't deserve their own thread.
I wanna buy some headphones to go outside i don't want to spend more than 100€ on them. I want them to be mostly durable and secondly to have good sound quality, also i don't want to look like a jackass while wearing them, any suggestions?
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Why do several GiB downloads go faster over tor than just VPN? Is my VPN just that garbage?

>>31648
cute mouse

Is there some site with a bunch of html/css templates? No JS included.

Bonus points for simple, 90s-2000s looks. I don't want to use a generator but i don't want to start from scratch because it has been too long

So I'm still very happy with my t430 except for a major annoying thing which is the noise. I want to get a laptop with good gnu/linux support that's fairly quiet.

I was thinking about getting a refurbished x1 carbon, but i don't really know if that's a good idea, maybe I'm ready to pay a bit more for a decent machine but preferably cheap.

So should be quiet + good linux support + more powerfully then the t430.

>>31799
https://csszengarden.com/pages/alldesigns/ would be the obligatory reference.


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Post quality RSS feeds for whatever. Blogs, news sites, even a YouTube channel RSS feed or other video content. As long as it has an RSS (or atom I guess) feed attached to it.

I'll go first and dump some of what I think are good ones:

>Grumpy Gamer
https://grumpygamer.com/rss
this one is rad, it's the personal blog of the lead developer behind The Secret of Monkey Island series (so basically my hero). He talks about a lot of cool random shit. Check it out.

>Niki Tonsky
https://tonsky.me/atom.xml
Another personal blog, I've only read a few articles but they have to do with UI mainly which I like.

>Cosmonaut Magazine
https://cosmonautmag.com/rss
Quintessential pretentious leftwing magazine. It's good, I like it. It's more insightful than I thought it would be and their articles even when I disagree with them (I usually don't) are always comfy reads.
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Isn't having a unique set off RSS feeds like shining a searchlight from orbit on yourself every time you check it?

>>26067
Theoretically yes but that is not unique to RSS feeds.

>>26067
not if you torify your RSS reader
sadly this works less than stellar these days thanks to glowflare

https://fair.org/feed/
https://www.bulatlat.com/feed/
https://www.hamptonthink.org/read?format=rss

Jannies peanuts footballed a thread that asked for indie and non-western war news publications so pasting here:

indie:
https://thecradle.co/feed/
https://southfront.press/feed/
https://www.aljazeera.com/xml/rss/all.xml

non-western:
https://www.telesurenglish.net/rss/

non-western but it's a thinktank so the Heritage Foundation or Peter Theil are behind it somehow, but maybe useful anyway:
https://uwidata.com/feed/

non-western but government owned, but maybe useful anyway:
https://tass.com/rss/v2.xml
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<Computer networking is the practice of connecting two or more computing devices to enable data exchange and resource sharing, using either physical cables or wireless signals. Key components include end devices (like computers and printers), media (cables or radio waves), protocols (rules for communication), and networking devices (such as routers and switches). These networks range in size from small Local Area Networks (LANs) in homes to expansive Wide Area Networks (WANs) that span the globe, like the internet

Thread to discuss computer networking. I thought we could use one because networking has an unusually long shelf life for IT skills, unlike programming and even linux to an extent, networking hasn't changed (at least very much) because its basically the physics of IT.

>>31764
>4mb ai slop image
>ai slop paragraph to bypass minimum length
>literally no content in the OP
why do mods allow this garbage. I always report and the always dismiss my reports

>it's not DNS
>it's not DNS
<it's DNS

mOTHERFUCK

>>31765
dont like it dont respond, no ones forcing you to discuss networking


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