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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

Previous thread: >>27559
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It's finally here: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/25/white-house-the-us-will-fabricate-science-with-chatbots/

""""The Manhattan Project""""" (actually just taxpayer money) for AI.
AI chatbots are now apaprently a matter of national security and to achieve "AGI" dominance, citizen simps will now fund the AI companies so that glorious america can win the "AGI race" against china.

In reality, it's a cheap bailout for stupidly overvalued AI companies which aren't making enough money to keep themselves going. You can only show $300 billion of non-existent money (overvalued stock) going back and forth between nvidia, open ai and oracle but can't actually use it to build the promised data centres, the promise of which are keeping the valuations high. So now enter government, who will generously build it for them and will buy the required GPUs and Oracle databases injecting taxpayer money to keep the bubble from collapsing. Because if the bubble collapses, the american economy is done for a good few years and countries like China even without "AI" will just outcompete them because they didn't stupidly leverage their economy on some imagined AI revolution.

>>31809
data centers are also bad infra investments because the chips/servers/network equipment get old after 3-5 years and need to be rebuild

>>31810
these are also not general purpose data centres, they're purpose-built LLM training data centres with networked GPUs. so if llms don't work out the only other thing they can be used for at that scale are cryptoshit.

Even if AI perfected writing code you'd just turn every programmer into a technical business analyst whos job is to elicit and model requirements to feed the AI.

Of course, AI cant really replace coders 100% now and probably forever.

>>31809
>The funding will apparently come from the Big Beautiful Bill? Somehow.
another trump nothingburger where no money is procured and everyone forgets about it in a year like it happend with stargate



 

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


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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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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I haven't reviewed this televised class because I'm not too interested in Ollama, but I'm assuming it's good because the guy running it caught what a breakthrough deepseek's experimental sparse attention model is


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?



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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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Is there any good open src EN t9 keyboards for Android? currently using GBoard JP in EN mode, but it's a lil clunky and a FOSS option would by default be prefered. before i get too used to this.
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>>19819
(ಥ﹏ಥ)

>>25515
Is that an Aqua emoji?

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>>25530
Aquamoji?

>>25533
AWWWW KAWAII DESU NE!!

Something like thumbkey but with sounds like this one would be fun



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This might not sound that impressive, but i've just managed to get program-agnostic rio-style window creation working flawlessly in FVWM. Previously it was a flickery, unreliable mess of xdotool commands, but now it's spawning every window iconified, hooking into the window creation event to set geometry from my rectangle selection program and deiconifying it to its correct position.

If you could keep track of all terminals and from which one a particular program is spawned, you might be able to reach true rio emulation closer than even the plan9port version.

Desktop and window management general, i guess.
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>>30176
Update: I got multi-key commands working in fvwm, with
FvwmMap RootMap $[FVWM_USERDIR]/root.map
Key Space A 4 RootMap

Now i can restart fvwm with a simple s-Space C-x C-r. It calls the following awk script:
#!/usr/bin/awk -f
BEGIN {
	FS = " "
	senter = ""
	sexit = ""
	name = ARGV[1]
	ARGV[1] = ""
	lines = 0
}
/^#/ {
	next
}
{
	senter = senter "+ I Key " $1 " A " $2 " WithExit" name
	for (i=3; i<=NF; i++)
		senter = senter " " $i
	senter = senter "\n"
	sexit = sexit "+ I Key " $1 " A " $2 " -\n"
}
END {
	print "DestroyFunc Exit" name
	print "AddToFunc Exit" name
	print sexit

	print "DestroyFunc " name
	print "AddToFunc " name
	print senter

	print "DestroyFunc WithExit" name
	print "AddToFunc WithExit" name
	print "+ I Exit" name
	print "+ I $*"
}

The top-level command map looks currently like this:
K N Close
P N Stick
T N Exec xterm
X N Exec dmenu | rc
Tab N Next (!Focused, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
Return N term
B C Direction W (CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
F C Direction E (CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
G C EscapeFunc
N C Direction N (CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
P C Direction S (CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
X C ExtendedMap
B M Direction W (!CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
F M Direction E (!CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
G M GotoMap
N M Direction N (!CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
P M Direction S (!CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow

>>31661
>X N Exec dmenu | rc
To avoid confusion, this is my private dmenu fork, which doesn't do menus or suggestions. I reduced it to a simple prompt.

>>31661
after reading OP again, I didn't notice back then, but I don't think you should be using fvwm or xdotool at all. a barebones x11 wm is like 300 lines of c, and you could implement one with these features in, I would say, 500 lines if you don't care about compatibility and only need it to work on your machine. the wm I used for a long time was 500 lines of zig

because to me it looks more like you are wrestling with fvwm than with the complexity of the task itself. the way to do this with barebones x would be to create windows out of the screen and only move them in when the user does the rectangle gesture

>>31664
No, you see i use a lot of FVWM featureset, like sloppy focus, cascading window placement, the anti-aliased menus and the virtual desktop stuff, which were implemented over a span of decades by a lot of smart people. Besides OP marked the point i managed to recreate the "rectangle gesture" in terms of FVWM primitives, so there are no more xdotool kludges. Maybe sometime i will publish the config and all of the helper programs as their own fvwm-based desktop. For now i will look into adding window groups 0-9 in a way the Next command understands.

I just finished writing a few functions, which can serialize and restore the position of any currently open windows and happened to find this in the manual:
<State state [bool]
>Sets, clears or toggles one of the 32 user defined states which are associated with each window. The state is a number ranging from 0 to 31. The states have no meaning in fvwm, but they can be checked in conditional commands like Next with the State condition.
Good enough for window groups, though i'm unsure how to reconcile window group inheritance with the non-exclusive nature of this attribute. Maybe i could filter using a set of states for a whopping 2^32 window groups.



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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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>>31676
>Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,”

Why is this news? It's literally just clothing lmao

>>31723
Bedause making fun of apple is fun in this depressing era

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tf apple is literally selling thneeds lmao

this is a fucking joke right?



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Why isn't it widely adopted yet? It's much better than AVIF since it's actually designed for still images, and Apple supports it natively on Safari and Photos. What's Google's endgame by killing work on support for it in Chrome?
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Jpeg-xl is coming to chrome, somehow. Guess they figured webp was a lost cause.

>>31775
What's actually wrong with webp?

>>31776
In some places it might not be supported. Other than that, nothing.

>>31783
It just doesn't perform well compared to the formats it sought to replace, and has had several zero-day vulnerabilities, while being pushed by several companies that were overly enthusiastic about (tumblr, anything google, reddit, etc…) which made it seem very top down.

>>31788
I doubt its because of AVIF since it is very rarely used (due to its poor performance compared to most jpg implementations), I think I have only encountered one this year, or maybe the previos year?



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I have been continuously paranoid since years about corporations and the government. I am an active militant and I like very much to keep my head low although sometimes I can't escape getting in the fray and involved with the media or the police. So my big threat vectors are the police, the government and to a lesser extent the media and the little fascist groups of my western European country.

Now I got windows out the way, I'm running arch and I wipe my laptop and desktop computers once or twice a year. I have Tails on a USB drive for critical operations, I have a riseup account but I never use it because I feel it could be a honeypot so I prefer Proton which is less political.

I used lineageOS build on my last phone but now I have a pixel with Graphene, Obviously I never post on leftypol without using a VPN or TOR.

Can I get better than that? I thought about using a 8 numbers pin on my phone on which I set up a reformat code if I'm forced to enter something but it fucking sucks to type so much each time I unlock it, I feel I'm not high profile enough to justify the hassle. And no I am never giving my digital print to any device.



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