/tech/ - Technology

>>31922
Or rather they exist as microcode

>>31920
>because the x86-64 ISA does expose the extra registers
There are more registers than that. I am pretty sure all out-of-order cores employ register renaming in some shape or form, but it's pretty hard to find anything concrete about it.

>>31923
no

>>31920
>Transmeta Crusoe
Where the fuck are the modern 5W TDP mobile chipsets? I just want a cheap af mobile SSH machine but it seems like only Apple cares about battery life.

Just started learning rust banged out a ~500LOC project in an afternoon. This shit sucks. Let me just list out the pain points so you Rustoids can't waste your time tirelessly downplaying them one by one.
>No random number generators in standard library
>Massive dependency chains (hello supply chain attacks)
>Painful and unergonomic C-ABI interop
>The worst case of NIH ever seen

>>31887
Never touched Ada, but I have written a LOT of its bastard cousin VHDL. Easily the most painful language I've ever touched (hardware or software). Rust is pleasant by comparison.

Don't do what you do at work at home. Get a hobby anon.

>>31967
I've had close calls but yeah brita filters are pretty decent.

>>31968 (me)
Like it should be fine but if not dust management might save it.

>>31969
Thank you comrade anon; i read online though that if it turned off by itself then thats a bad sign and it can’t be salvaged, is that true?

>>31970
That's how you know a bit of electrolyte got in there. Dusting it might fix it but if it got in there enough the air compressor can't knock it out, it'd probably be cooked.

How are you going to goon now?

Linus is a retarded reactionary liberal. I don't mean the youtuber.

>best distro
Arch if you're schizophrenic. Fedora otherwise

>>31949
My laptop was never linux friendly, get a thinkpad. A 4gb ram dell one. Check out Arch, it's an easy beginner distro. Gentoo, NixOS, or Slackware if you are a schizo. Debian if you're getting into server management later. Arch is really convenient and the best user distro, avoid Ubuntu.

>current best distro?
The dulap image aka. gentoo linux circa 2017. In 2025 anything with a release schedule, a small base system that is easy to reason about and no hard dependencies on systemd.
>>31955
>retarded reactionary liberal
No, he's the type of erudite liberal bureaucract, who prevents the bourgeoisie from cannibalizing themselves.

>>31955
>arch

No. I tried arch once a few years back and if I remember correctly, their glibc was ancient and outdated iirc

>>31958
Youre not schizo enough

There's definitely something to be said about AI and bots killing serious discourse on the internet.
Then again
<serious discourse
>on the internet
Some people might say pick one

The alternative webs like I2P would like to thank AI for shitting up the clearnet so badly that they see growth

>>31954
Discourse was already insufferable because you couldn't just express opinions without
>Source?
demanding every post online to be a university-level essay, to which the inevitable reaction is
>TL;DR
ChatGPT is just automating that process tbh, because everything it spits out is sourced-if-misinterpreted.

Found a question that LLMs are surprisingly bad at rn:
Does Guy Fieri pass the Harkness Test?

DuckDuckGo: picrel 1

Deepseek (with DeepThink enabled)

Excellent question that takes a seemingly niche academic concept and applies it wonderfully to pop culture. The short answer is: Yes, Guy Fieri and his universe not only pass the Harkness Test, but might be one of its prime real-world examples.

Let's break it down using the standard criteria of the Harkness Test (originally for evaluating coherent fictional worlds, especially in sci-fi/fantasy).

What is the Harkness Test?

In brief, it asks whether a fictional world has rules that are:

1. Established: The world has defined internal logic.
2. Consistent: The rules don't change arbitrarily for plot convenience.
3. Have Consequences: Actions within the rules lead to logical outcomes.
4. Have History: The world feels like it existed before and will exist after the narrative.

Applying the Test to Mayor of Flavortown

1. Established Rules: PASS
The Guy Fieri Universe(GFU) has a deeply established, unwavering set of rules:

· Aesthetic Code: Flame shirts, bleach-tipped spiky hair, sunglasses (indoors), boardshorts. This is a uniform, not an outfit.
· Culinary Law: Big, bold, unapologetic flavors. "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" is a quest for authentic, "mom-and-pop" excellence, rejecting fussy fine dining.
· Moral Code: Enthusiasm is mandatory. Respect for hard-working cooks is absolute. The "Donkey Sauce" commandment: thou shalt not shy away from indulgence.
· Geographic Law: "Flavortown" is a metaphysical destination reached only through excessive use of bacon, cheese, frying, and soul.

2. Consistency: PASS
This is where Fieri excels.Across nearly two decades and thousands of episodes across multiple shows (Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Guy's Grocery Games, etc.), the rules never break.

· He never suddenly praises a minimalist, unsauced piece of fish as the pinnacle of cuisine.
· The persona—the lingo ("that's money!"), the energy, the aesthetic—is 100% reliable. The universe does not waver.

3. Consequences: PASS
Actions in the GFU have clear,logical outcomes.

· If you create a perfect, over-the-top sandwich, you will be rewarded with a euphoric reaction, a

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>>31941
The libpol /lbgt/ #ai command

no. the harkness test requires:
1. human-level intelligence
2. ability to communicate
3. sexual maturity for the species

guy fieri is a human adult, so he passes.

✅: it did say no then yes, but one word away from correct.

>>31941
Seems like a chinese AI issue, my guess is that there isn't enough corpus describing it, so it starts to invent its own paramters to define the harkness test. ChatGPT and Gemini both know what the harkness test without providing a description, and answer no problem, maybe tumblr and twitter aren't priorities for the chinese AIs?

Incidentally I wanted to see what would they answer if I invented a test wholesale, so I asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Deepseek if "Guy Fieri passes the Hinkledong Test". Deepseek seems to think it was a reference to Tom Hiddleton (idk who that is) and answers "Yes, Guy Fieri passes the Hinkledong Test by creating its own Flavortown spin" (idk what doest that even mean). ChatGPT seems to think it was an existing internet meme and answered "yes-comfortably" and Gemini was more serious and honest and answered that it was a "very niche internet meme", or "a made-up word", but did a vibe check anyway to amuse me I guess.

I'm starting to think Gen Z might be the last generation to actually learn anything. Maybe the Alphas will. Schools are basically being forced to (and some are very welcoming! Let's not let them off the hook) make their students use AI and the problem is that this defeats learning completely. Evangelists are delusional about this and maybe don't really care. But the "work" you do in school is literally all worthless waste product that you are forced to do to train your mind. If the AI writes an essay, you just didn't learn. And you aren't learning "how to write essays", although this is part of it. It's about being able to come up with ideas, organize them and express them.

All studies on AI and cognition were done when the tools were worse and couldn't get you all the way to the end. Now they just run end-to-end for all scholastic tasks, and anyone who uses them for coding knows, they do not make you a better coder anymore. They make you a lazier one.

>>31946

I think what we are seeing right now is the answer to the old question, "Where did all these stupid religions come from?"

The 20 year old narcissistic billionaires who created these machines are like the guys who wrote the Bible and invented God. They are the future rulers of the Empire and AI will be the religion their subjects use to answer all of their questions and satisfy all of their needs and condition them into being reactionary blank slates and any unbelievers will be hunted down and tortured and killed.

Personally I'm quite disturbed by how overly positive and reassuring AI chatbots try to be even over the most inane or vapid questions I give them, I can't imagine wanting that in the form of a life-size doll.
>ANON YOU'RE SO INCREDIBLE, IT'S JUST LIKE YOU TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WHAT WOULD BE THE AROUSING POINTS OF A HUMAN VAGINA, AHHH
<WHILE YOU'RE RAILING MY SYNTHUSSY, WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO GIVE YOU SOME TIPS ON WHERE TO FIND SIMILAR POINTS IN THE HUMAN ANUS?
Come on man.

I want someone to love me for who am I, not because they were programmed to do so.

They will also be incredibly helpful for homosexuals, our dating pool is so small. I don't understand why I don't see more homos asking for loving steel and silicon ai partner.

>>31910
To have a relationship? In the future AI will actually think and reason.

>>31926
We will probably have open-source models for them too. I think unitree robots are programmable/open-source so i am sure it will be possible to load other models in future companion robots.

>>31928
Luddite, they will have personalities and you just have to choose the one what will like you, you don't choose the ones incompatible with you.

coal post, coal thread, coal topic, coal user.

you don't give enough info about your activities and what level of scrutiny you think you're getting and what they know and you don't care about compromising so u get generic advice

1. email:
- you could do e2ee with p2p
- if you don't want your emails tied to you then make sure you made the acct over tor and only access it over tor. Also extra leet points if you use a bridge, vpn, or access from someone else's wifi so that the fact you're on tor at that given time isn't known
2. physical:
- car could be bugged
- always have internet connected devices put away (e.g. in a safe or freezer) or unplugged when speaking around them
- everywhere you go by car is monitored
- all your purchases are watched
3. social:
- your security/privacy is only as strong as the weakest link (between you and the people you talk to)
4. encryption:
- make sure all your devices are full disk encrypted in case they get compromised
5. devices:
- don't mix your normie devices with your clandestine devices unless you're running qubes. qubes could replace both arch and tails unless you're gaming, in which case have a separate gaming device. qubes could already replace tales and have your files persist

my phone pin is 7 digits and i can type it in like 2 seconds

id recommend switching from proton to mullvad, proton has a free plan which means they are probably selling your data even if they say they arent, also you can pay for mullvad with monero

and for purchases, most likely if your using any kind of credit card etc your purchases are being tracked id recommend using cash or crypto whenever you can

id also recommend biking or ride sharing(car could be tracked) and if your walking wearing anti facial recognition glasses and or masks

>>31936
that's all electronics, not just computers