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cope as much as you want this is still true
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>>29593
It's always been easier to make games that were heavy on art and light on code. That's basically what point and click adventure games are, at the extreme. You can do the opposite but it's just harder to make the programming part appealing to people, whereas art has inherent appeal even if it was separated from the gameplay.

>>29539
I draw and animate primarily on a smartphone with my finger, and am pretty much entirely self-taught via internet tutorials. If you're really in the position where you don't have a phone and also your hands don't work, I really do feel for you, but otherwise, go cry me a fucking river.

>>29551
>>29552
I draw because it's a hobby that lets me express myself. I'm not the world's greatest artist, but I don't really care. The point isn't to make a pretty picture, the point is to unwind in a way that's more intellectually stimulating than mindlessly scrolling on social media.

>>29591
I'm AI neutral. I'm not going to sperg out every time I see an AI image or anything, and I can definitely see the utility in such a thing, but right now it's just plain not a great tool for creative expression. What I'd like to see going forward is AI tools that give you more direct control. A lot of the early AI stuff looked like it was going that way, I remember there was a program that let you turn 2D drawings into 3D models which was really cool. Whatever happened to that sort of thing? I thought it was really exciting.

>>29595
If you can work a computer you can make art lol. Nobody who is bitching online is in a position to whine about art being difficult. They are just coping with refusing to even try.

>>29568
>>29556
>people whove been drawing for 10 years with literally 0 progress to show for it.
But were they practicing? You can't expect to bang on a piano for 10 years and learn music. There is a formula and a structure for practice and learning.

>>29551
>>29567
Cope, he has a good understanding of composition and value that more than compensates for lack of dexterity.



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(Copypasted from a previous 4chin /g/ thread as a foundation to making these generals on leftypol)
Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.

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3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.

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*Many free software projects have active mailing lists.
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>>29537
No, that's Palemoon in the picture.
The alternatives are net-libs/webkit-gtk based.

>>29538
Does anyone else have performance issues with palemoon?
Overall it's not bad but am seeing for example 50%+ CPU usage from just opening https://deepseek.com
Further having lots of lag in the GUI for example moving tabs, or even just the loading graphic on the tabs.
Would try www-client/luakit instead but would need to write a patch for Emacs style bindings: https://github.com/luakit/luakit/issues/557
Don't think am up for that at the moment, even given the increased movement towards programming lately.

>>29526
>virtual/freedesktop-icon-theme
Apparently if you unmask <gnome-base/librsvg-2.41.0 there is a versions of x11-themes/adwaita-icon-theme which can run with this meaning you don't have to provide virtual/freedesktop-icon-theme. The disadvantage of this is that there are known vulnerabilities with this package and no one (so far as know) seems to want to take up the mantle to maintain the <gnome-base/librsvg-2.41.0 version of the library. Not sure it's worth doing.

>>29529
/leftypol/ was down for a split second, and my work isn't going well so decided to give removing virtual/udev another go, but this time just using devtmpfs, that is removing virtual/dev-manager. Haven't heard of anyone doing this but it's mentioned in the sys-fs/static-dev ebuild as an option. Think it should work.

>>29670
Package provided virtual/dev-manager and used equery depends udev to carefully expunge all the dependencies. Am waiting on things to recompile. It sounds like this isn't actually going to work "out of the box" though. picrel.



 

>old drive from 2016 "might" be dying
>look into getting a drive with at least 2 tb since I wanna hoard my warez
>"oh get a toshiba bro they're reliable
>not even a fucking year later
>Current Pending Sector Count: 1864
You've got to be fucking kidding me, comrades.
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>>29366
> Meanwhile, with flash drives, a lot of devices require you to "format your drive" which means I have to delete everything?
If left unplugged from electricity, flash degrades with time. Plugging it in a pc every couple of months should prevent that.

consumer toshibas are barely a step above western digitals lol

you got trolled my dude

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This is probably the last update. They called me back after 16 days to tell me the groundbreaking news that it's broken…gee, really?
I got my replacement drive, only after the stupid bitch on the phone tried to trick me into buying something else of equal value, cause they said they didn't have another drive. I went on their site and noticed they DID have a replacement, so either they lied or they didn't even bother to check. I noticed the price was up from 66 euro, to 69 euro, so genuinely that's possibly why they didn't mention they had a replacement…pricks.
Long story short, I got another fucking toshiba canvio, for free…sure it might also die in 8 months, but at least I didn't have to downgrade from 2tb.

>>29662
Make sure to stress test it early on. If your drives are going to fail you, you want it to be soon, before they have data on them.

>toshiba
ngmi, it was over before it even began flood detected post discarded



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So, I'm a musician, who wants to have a musical career (a lot of communist musicians had stable careers) and meanwhile stupid porkies tell me that "no, we'd prefer if you were replaced, prole, because there if no place for people like you" and I hear, not only music, but other art, computer science, programming etc. will be replaced by AI. How do we stop this, so people are still prosperous in the real socialst societies?
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>>29482


Firstly, artistan is not Artist here, but the skilled craftspeople, tailors, jewelers, smiths, etc, who produce boutique goods independently in traditional modes of productions (e.g. guilds).

So not only are these not "artists," you also misunderstand his analysis, which is how it applies to the revolutionary potential of this class broadly (which again, is not "artists", but small manufactures who own a individual amount of property)

The thing that separates them is that they *own property*, albeit at small scale. They are politically inconsistent because they are squeezed by the growth of capitalism. The revolution force is the proletariat who are defined by having no property to lose *in the present*. The proletariat can, and do, produce Art and artists.

I think you further misunderstand, too (calling them "scum") what he says about this class. Which is that they will be forced to abandon their standpoint by the bourgeois, who will destroy and subsume their smaller manufactures, stores, etc. and force them into wage relationships. Their nature is not deceptive or false. but they are politically inconsistent and unreliable, because they are revolutionary only when anticipating the future in which their class position has actually changed and they own no property.

If you want to call everyone scum who does not work as an industrial wage laborer, and claim that laborers also do not produce art, or that desiring to produce art instead of doing wage labor, is counter-revolutionary. Go ahead. lol.

>>27570
Consumers can't bear unlimited cost and currently not even a significant amount of cost. I'm all for indignation at corporate bailouts, but the government only bails out structurally critical corporations like banks. Also, the tech giants are not gonna be retarded enough to even come close to bankrupcy over a dumbass Gen-AI bruteforce campaign of just feeding more compute and elecricity and data to the thing endlessly. They'll play along for a while still, but once the bubble pops they'll take a hit, maybe even a very significant hit, but they're not going under. I mean the smaller subsidiary companies (OpenAI and Anthropic) might go under, but they're parent/sugar daddy companies (Microsoft, Amazon and Google respectively) will be fine in the long-term.

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>>29533
Turns out when slopcoding one ends up trying many more iterations and then combining these iterations into a working item. The tricky part is to know how or what you're trying to change so that the machine can hallucinate an interesting iteration. This is in contrast to typical where one would almost needs to know the available options more than anything else. Documentation usage is fairly limited, mostly to find out some bug that the machine introduced rather than to understand. There are exceptions to this rule, for example when trying to use features of a program the machine doesn't have documentation for. It's actually fairly good at doing things like introducing error handling, which may or may not be correct, and simplifying programs. It's very bad at trying to give you source which is nicely refactored out of the box, and can't imagine it making complex architectural choices. Probably the wisest usage would be to provide a pile of functions with relevant usage. This is what my limited experience has taught me so far about slopcoding.

>>29654
Attempted to iterate using slop instead of even look up a proper direction.
Ended up being lead into a very CPU intensive setup with no way out.
Ultimately had to do the same google search should have started with.
It's certainly much better at filling out boilerplate than making decisions.
Even still don't really know if the boilerplate correctly setup the library.
Other than the fact that everything seems to be working now.

Could add one more feature to the program.
So that you have to press and release in the same frame to switch.
Am probably not going to do this however and am going to call it complete.




 

Decided after finishing with my imageboard >>27187, and some complaints from testing my torrent package to try to spin the imageboard into a production calendar, forum, and discussion platform. The idea is to keep it very event focused, where the only way to discover threads is through a system of calendars, or private messages. There might also be various views for keeping statistics of various sorts for the users. Already have a mobile site, and some time localization working, as well as logins, and signup from my other project. Haven't decided whether or not this will be FOSS or proprietary. Anyway the previous project log was helpful enough in motivating, and talking through my software that decided to make another one.

Was thinking to make a general but thought would love to see this place spammed with personal project logs and so decided not to.
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Am considering attempting to revive this project.
Have made a few commits to make it run on my machine.
Am currently reworking the month view, but it's a real mess (picrel).
Haven't got too much to say about it at the moment.

>>27553
Also this was stupid. There aren't really bigger fish for me.

Got some of the Unicode icons swapped out with SVG so that the rendering is consistent.
Changed some features of the style in general to be more consistent.
Made some modification to the CSS, and JS to get them to work well in Palemoon.
Swapped out the biweekly headed view for the standard weekly headed view.
Updated the README with install instructions so remember how to do it next time.
Am unsure how a significant dedication of time to this project would go.

>>29663
Got the rest of the icons converted to SVG.
Implemented a continuous mode for the events.
Switched the post form to use datetime-local.

Going forward think the post form needs to be split into two parts:
- One part for the type, dates, and groups to be submitted.
- A second part for the actual entry of the OP or web form.
Further there needs to be confirmation windows to confirm event removal and edits.
Two "gestures" need to be added to the yearly view:
- Click to select date ranges.
- Click on event to open them.
There is a ton that needs to be done to have various kinds of threads supported.

>>29668
Probably going to bail on the gestures, and got a popup to confirm event deletion, and setup the two step post form. The next major step would be to copy and paste the forum software from: https://codeberg.org/jung/arsvia This is the second major part of the application which has roughly the mantra "everything is an event, everything is a conversation."



 

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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Anyone have a good app for free and libre music streaming now that spotube, and vismusic are kill? The best have found so far is a fork of vimusic called vitune.

https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube#user-content--spotube-is-banned-from-using-spotify-api-
https://github.com/vfsfitvnm/ViMusic
https://github.com/25huizengek1/ViTune

>>29512
Simpmusic seems more popular than vitune, but probably just because all the simps using it.

https://github.com/maxrave-dev/SimpMusic

>>29512
>>29513
Have tried five or more of these (some abandonware) youtube music clients now, none of them have worked. Some of them even bugged my phone enough to require a restart. Anyone know of any that actually work, or if this is an ephemeral occurrence?

Some Samsung phone that's like 8 years old.

>>29518
Am currently waiting on the unlock token for my One Plus Nord N10 (seems like its going to take two weeks or more). Am also trying out MetroList a Chinese Taipei take on the ViMusic clone. Seemingly the most rapidly updating, and perhaps the only one to have fixed the relevant bug within a week. Sadly no FDroid repo, so have to treat it more like proprietary software in terms of installation and updating (am switching away from Aurora Store).



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Any good tech reviewers out there that focus on hardware meant for development, creative work and system administration instead of consoomer laming slop? I know only of level1techs and servethehome.



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>got assigned to a new project
>built and maintained by a singular techlead level asshole who improvised the whole thing as he went along with no planning or standards
>he did this while overpromising shit to the client
>very shitty error handling
>literally zero documentation or API specifications
>no unit tests whatsoever
>no deployment pipelines
>packages containing critical vulnerabilities haven't been updated in months despite the client shouting about it
>code in testing isn't even the same as code in production
>the entire team is clueless about the whole thing
>throw me into the project without any prior knowledge of the codebase
>didn't even provide me with the creds needed to clone the 10 or so repositories until 3 days in
>can't even set up the environment locally without doing some voodoo bullshit
>just got to know yesterday that the guy who built this mess has already quit, and this is being hidden from the client
>literally a half-year long backlog that the client cannot stop shouting about to me
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>>29645
Will definitely look into it. I have started taking compsci subjects seriously now as I don't intend to be a soydev my entire life.

>>29647
Nope, I can't. Or it ends up getting escalated.

>>29648
ada is a meme, never take anything the tor poster says at face value

>>29649
>ada is a meme
The existing standards with multiple implementations say otherwise (rust in comparison is embarassing with it's "standard follows reference implementation" attitude and truly deserving of being called a meme). You might not see Ada much outside specific niches, that doesn't mean it isn't an exceptional tool, maybe not the best to learn about compsci admittedly.
>>29648
Ada as a language can be daunting, not because it requires compsci knowledge, but because it's type system forces many (good) restrictions you need to code around. You also won't find it in any curriculum, most use python, java or formerly lisp.

>>29650
If they can't update some shitty dependencies they certainly won't rewrite it in a language that nobody at the company knows.

>>29648
Can't you work during the meeting?



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What are your thoughts on AI and its development?
Not just pertaining to art but all types
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>>29600
I honestly don't get why people care so much about """AI""". this technology has been used for decades, and in most cases, it's a tool and/or a glorified assistant. at most, it can "replace" humans in repetitive, low responsibility, short scope situations

>>29601
you can run local models, though you need a lot of resources, and even DIY, though that requires even more resources unless you are fine-tuning them.

>>29615
It's because we hate money but love porn.

>>29611
>All evidence indicates that AI capabilities will continue to rise.
This is somewhat presumptuous given historic AI winters.
Further we've seen exponential decay in scaling with investment cost.
This is all the while AI has been massively unprofitable.
DeepSeek is a good indicator that there might still be some early gains to exploit however.

https://cameronrwolfe.substack.com/p/llm-scaling-laws

>>29620
<All evidence indicates that AI capabilities will not continue to rise at the same rate.
In mature codebases like those of Google and Microsoft we've already seen 20%-30% LLM generated code.
In immature codebases the rate is even higher with 25% of YC startups being 95% LLM generated.
Think we're going to see people getting used to these tools very quickly, even if development stagnates.
It's not too terrible to think of them as an advanced search engine and auto-completion system.
We should see an increases in the productivity of office workers of all sorts; and reduced burden as well.
Further there's going to be a change in the nature of knowledge away from specific and "complete" and towards broad and "indexable".
These two things to me are the most interesting features of this change in the mode of production.

>>29619
We really, really love porn



 

Is Elon actually good at math and physics? How good is he in economics? It does feel like his knowledge of economics is actually shit but I keep seeing people saying he was an A-grader in school and uni.
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He's a savant who is good at making big numbers get bigger

Dumb af.
Everything they write about him is a puff piece.

He's low autism score and uses capitalism to steal the identity of intelligent people.

>>29623
cringe censor

>>28553
I used to think he was smart but if you actually lislen to him speak for any extended period of time you realise hes dumber than a bag of rocks. he gets fixated on words that he thinks makes him smart, like saying 'triage' multiple times in interviews. for decades the media gave him a pass unfortunately they're still fixated on him being racist than a complete and utter con artist. if his father hadn't practised apartheid in the 80s he would literally be that wierdo incel guy at work that nobody likes and drops unsolicited opinions on bad video games and cringe reddit movies



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