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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?
>>1544For my own tablet (Wacom Bamboo) I have found it actually easier to use on my Linux distro (Mint).
Which is to say, I didn't need to install any drivers like I did on Win 10 and they seem be work just as well as the official ones. The only downside is that I can't seem to turn off the finger-tracking, but that isn't a big deal.
Also, Clip Studio Paint does not work on Linux.
There is likely a way to emulate it through Wine, but I haven't tried it yet.
If you need a comparable art program for Linux, i'd recommend 'Krita' which is a free, open-source and pretty much just like Clip but without the outline/halftone layer options and a slightly annoying text editor.
>>1557Thanks. I have an Intuos so I suppose it'll work just fine too.
There is indeed a way to emulate CSP that I found:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=250223&p=1345470#p1345470The problem is that I have a free 2 year trial of the full version and I don't know how that'll work out. Would I need to pirate it after all?
>>1650Krita doesn't have the awesome halftone layer mask that Clip has (which instantly converts a layer to black halftone).
More importantly, the text tools are really awkward, way worse than any other program i've used (it's hard to explain).
Apart from that it is fantastic.
Is anyone else having problems with cankakucomplex or is it just me? I can only open it on Tor after going to advanced and giving permission to "take the risk" and open the site, however when I click on the images they give me a blank page and only opening the image html separately gives the image itself.
Tor tells me my computer clock is set for July 3rd, yet my onscreen calendar is correctly giving me July 2nd so what the fuck is happening?
https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/?tags=monster_strike%20neon_genesis_evangelion&page=2>>1280rock zircon. if you don't mind in-ears. in general, when I did research some time ago, conseus was not to go for brands If you are no audiophiliac. best headphones I ever had, beating my former Sennheiser easily. other Chinese low budget choices seem to be valid as well.
have a question as well. what is your suggestion for an ebook reader? don't fancy kindle
>>3477>You'd have to have a VPN to a country that can watch itYeah, I think that's impossible.
I just tried with ytdl and it says "Unable to extract video data". Strangely I can still see the thumbnail on invidio.us (but it's unplayable)
I guess my only option is to reach out to the uploader and ask them to send me the song if they still have it.
>>1280I have a pair of Thinksound in ears that are pretty good for the money, I think they were about £60, although in ears never really compare to over ears, they sound about as good as koss porta pros which are on ear headphones that cost like £20
I used £15 redmi airdots most of the time though, bluetooth meme is so convenient even the sound quality is pretty bad
>>4636Alright, so my cousin who lived in a major Australian city used to work in IT. He would put on fake accents. People calling for help would often ask for the Russian, who had a reputation for being very helpful. Whereas the Indian (another accent he did) would take too long, could be rude at times and would get sidetracked reminiscing about something. When people would call they heard the Indian accent and asked if anyone else was in the office. He would put them on hold for a minute then switch to another accent. Being Australia, a cultural melting pot, a big city, and a very big IT department people calling and other people in IT would assume that having lots of ethnicities in the office was normal. There were a handful of accents he did American, Italian, Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese, German and so on.
>>4708sex since the epoch
$ date '+%s'
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>>1280Nice GET
>>4709lol
>>4716lol
I don't think it's talked about enough how modern tech is absolute shit and getting worse somehow.
Like you need a state of the art CPU + GPU to run some shitty website. Or there are tons of trackers everywhere, ATT selling your phonecalls and messages [0], advertising tech so good that it makes people think their thoughts are being read or their voices are being recorded, software getting harder and harder to pirate (before a simple drag and drop of the exe/binary might have sufficed), etc etc. Like yeah, some things might be getting better but it feels like tech made a deal with the devil and "progress" has a terrible catch.
I guess the same could be said with capitalism and its development of the means of production.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24756042 >>1280What pc book reading software would you recommend
i just want it to look good so that it motivates me to read
>>5001did I stutter?
>>5002(imagine (depending on) (how (you indent)) brackets (to (write anything)))
>>5015First you should check if your paper is available on libgen. They archive papers accessed through scihub.
1. Go on your favourite libgen mirror. They change the domains from time to time but searching for "libgen" on DuckDuckGo should give you usable links.
2. Below the search bar, click "Scientific Articles". (See the first picture.)
3. On the scientific articles page, type in the title of the article or some other identifier and click search. (See second picture.)
4. Look at the results you are interested in and download them by choosing a mirror from the last column. (See third picture.)
>>5020>>5020If there are no results on Libgen, you will need to use Sci-Hub.
1. First, you should find the place from where you could legally download the paper you are interested in if you were an academic institution with too much money. You can usually do this by searching the paper's title.
2. Next, visit sci-hub. Again, DuckDuckGo for sci-hub if the domain you usually use suddenly goes dark.
3. Paste the URL you found in step 1 into the search bar and click "open". (First picture.)
4. You might need to fill in a captcha.
5. It will try to find a proxy from inside an university that can download it. Wait, this can be really-really slow. (Second picture.)
6. If it succeeds, you will get the PDF (Third picture). If it fails, it might show you the website that you pasted in and you will have to navigate to the place where you can download the article. In the bottom there will be a grey bar, pressing the button (like the play button on radios) will give you a new proxy.
This tech channel "Luke Smith" (100k subscribers) just released a video with Stirner in his thumbnail:
>Intellectual "Property" is a Spook (GNU Boomer Rants):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrE4Xc63uNQI've not watched his channel before, it just popped up in "trending" on an Invidious front-page.
Is anyone here more familiar with him? Is he ideologically adjacent to us or did he just happen to find some Stirner memes he liked?
Having watched most of the vid he seems relatively reasonable (appears to have a basic understanding of imperialism, absolutely railing against intellectual property) – he may be a left-libertarian or something?
If some of you have youtube accounts it may be worth sending a message recommending egoist communist literature (
For Ourselves) and like the
Telekommunist Manifesto or something.
>>5156 He's from /g/, mostly known for being the guy who made LARBS and popularizing suckless software.
Afaik the guy sympathizes with leftism but he's more of a conservative neoluddite who hates capitalism. Think Unabomber but studied linguistics instead of math and knows the difference between liberalism and leftism.
>he may be a left-libertarian or something?https://www.stallman.org/glossary.html#anti'''Antisocialists: people who advocate a laissez-faire, laissez-mourir state which refuses to help non-rich people, such as by providing medical care or education, or protect them by regulating how businesses treat them. Antisocialists call such programs "socialism".
Those people secondarily defend human rights, such as freedom of speech, and they like to call themselves "libertarians". However, polling them shows that a laissez-faire, laissez-mourir economy is their highest priority, and human rights come second for them. In effect, they try to use our support for human rights to manipulate us into advocating the laissez-mourir economy, by presenting that as a part of human rights.
Using the term "libertarian" for them emphasizes the secondary aspect of their views and paints them as champions of liberty. I choose to emphasize their primary focus by calling them "antisocialists." Let's all call them that.
The state's mission is enabling everyone to have a just, free and decent life, which includes both social programs and defense of human rights.'''
>>6073nope. even seemingly portable program will at least touch your registry. there's nothing you can do to maintain reproducible environment under windows unless you are running on vm.
not sure why you want to torrent with vista. just install headless linux server if drivers are issue.
>>6111I have no idea what type of server the other anon is suggesting. Maybe a raspberry pi server?
Either way, he's saying,
>install debianinstall linux
>enable sshd serverinstall some software and configure it following some instructions
>install torrent clientsame deal
then whenever you need to download stuff
>press power button>ssh into [server]connect to the server via a command line (like the command prompt or a powershell like program). There are free software for windows to connect with ssh that makes life easier. With ssh, you act as if you were in the command line of the server itself. You input a command that tells your torrent client to start downloading whatever torrent you want. Like "torrentclient "magnet?=apdjasjdlajsda". This is just an example, I haven't used a torrent client via the command line.
>scp file back into your main computerThis means "use the scp program to download the file from your server". T
You could also use some other type of software, like FTP or a one-click web server to access your files instead of using ssh.
I'm sure there is some linux distro that can basically do all of this for you. All you'd need to do is install it, and navigate to the local IP of your server and do whatever you need to do there. Unfortunately, I don't know of any projects like that personally.
>>6113I still don't know your full story (like why you want to run torrent client on separate computer) but yeah installing linux on old laptop and experimenting running various services on it would be very good beginner project.
ask anything on this thread if you get stuck. only advice I am going to give you for now is choose non-free linux distro like ubuntu so you can actually install and use linux on your computer without getting lost on missing drivers.
>>6170Xubuntu
>Preferably something which makes the windows to Linux transition easier.You can make it look like Windows
Win95
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DotusGHoeyIWinXP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNI6uqcEiFULubuntu's good too, and uses a little less ram at startup compared to Xubuntu (~350mb vs ~450mb) but configuring stuff like appearance is slightly less user-friendly for a beginner to Linux.
Puppy is not beginner-friendly and meant for even older systems.
>>6184it'd just say package was not found.
xubuntu comes with "Software" (the name of the default software manager) and you can also install synaptic package manager (type in terminal:
sudo apt install synaptic) which some people prefer and try both
>>6191sure, most large packages have binaries.
But if you're going to install binaries you might as well use another distro tbh
>>8100have you tried a `dig` on the domain?
Maybe the domain settings aren't right.
dig is the command line tool.
>>8385https://send-anywhere.com/I'm temporarily using this
They say they can transfer files without data or internet
How does that work? Bluetooth? Is it safe?
>>9092Charge to 70% 80% or so, only allow discharge to 40%
That used to be the rule of thumb
>>9105Staying in the 25% - 85% range is the industrial standard for big lithium-ion batteries like those in electric vehicles.
>>9092Also avoid high temperatures. Field scientists will even store important batteries in their fridges when not in use.
>>9105>>9106okay thanks i'll follow that rule but wouldn't this cause overcharging?
since charging till 100 would make it last longer and need to charge it less
what is the science behind it exactly
charging slows down near the last 90 percent and i want to understand why is that so
>>9108you don't bitch
what do you want to make a imageboard about even?
>>9592Let's check their website:
https://www.linuxmint.com/about.php>Based on Debian and Ubuntu, it provides about 30,000 packages and one of the best software managers.The current versions (20.x) are based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), except for LMDE which is a Debian variant.
>>9863More Libra hardware coming out
https://m.slashdot.org/story/387619180nm can best Korea handle that density in their silicon production?
>>10019'Good' is literally subjective, and while I'm a FOSS programmer, that's not a necessary factor.
Maybe start with being extremely correct, maintainable and extendable, user controllable (e.g. FOSS) and non-exploitative (no ads, no telemetry or opt-in).
Any Linux PDF Reader without javascript support and annotation capability? I know evince doesen't have JS support but its on a todo (
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince/Roadmap) so it will sometime in the future be added. Okular has basic JS support (don't know what that means tbh), so it will have full support sometime in the future.
>>10755It is not the same feature at all, I'm talking about fit content, not fit page. I opened the same file on both so you can see the difference, the fit content zoom and scroll automatically as to fit the content and show as little blank space as possible without making you have to scroll at all.
Here's how it looks like, I had actually took screenshot of more pages and from both, but the jannies don't let me upload more than one file.
>>10849>>10850Do you mean like this? It's called trimming the margins and is supported by at least qpdfview, Okular and emacs' pdf-tools. Maybe others support it too.
But your image just shows fitting to the page's width and that is supported by Evince as that other anon pointed it out.
>>11673Yes, it is geoblocked here. But like the other anon said, master.m3u8 is probably what you need.
The request to that URL is a simple GET request without any special headers (cookies or otherwise) that would be generated dynamically.
Try with youtube-dl as well. You can try to replicate the exact request your browser makes with –user-agent, –referer and –add-header options.
>>11874My experience with Debian was the opposite. I set up the system from a minimal install, so no display server etc. Very little bloat, was actually missing plenty of genuinely nice things Mint has by default. Yet the performance was somehow worse than Mint. As for a standard desktop Debian install, it has plenty of bloat, more than Mint in some ways. But I debloat my Mint installs anyway, while keeping the bloat I want.
>>11872In your context you can think of Mint as just the latest Ubuntu LTS release. So the question is really about which package versions you need and that depends on each individual game. Some games will require newer libs, while some will work only on older distros because new lib versions are not backwards compatible. So you might need to multi-boot.
>>12020BeautifulSoup uses
getattr() magic to dynamically look up nonexistent attributes in the document you're parsing, then returning the value, or None if the attribute is not found. Your linter is unaware of this, so it complains. And I'm guessing your isinstance() check was on an empty BeautifulSoup object or another document without that element.
>>12069 (me)
>So you might need to multi-boot.Should add that you can also compile new versions of required libs yourself to avoid switching between systems. Most games come bundled with required libs anyway, so these issues are rare.
>>12075What is the purpose? What do you value (usability, privacy, etc.)? Why does it have to be Windows?
Windows 7 is End of Life (as in, won't get constant security updates) but I would rather burn a home computer than install Windows 10 or Windows 11 on it.
>>12174There's a very high dunning-kruger effect on sites like stackexchange and quora. People answering questions they don't understand just to show off their lack of knowledge. "Oh, you're asking something specific about A? Let me give you a bad advice about B instead."
You're better off if you just RTFM.
>>12186Those sites are all fucked because they let idiots karma-farm their way into positions of actual power.
>Closing your question A because question B has already been answered (in 2012 when the tech was different).Also there is no decay, so shit old answers keep racking up points.
Also the companies got sold off to bottom-tier vulture capitalists, so nothing will get fixed, and the huge corpse will slowly rot for years, blocking new sites from getting established.
>>12204What
>>12210 said. Although maximizing windows is not as harmful anymore because of "letterboxing" (gray borders): your viewport size will be limited to a preset of resolution buckets, rounded to 100px. But I would still advise against it, since the default window sizes have a larger pool of users hence you'll blend in more with other users.
Some general tips:
- Be as uniform with other users as possible, use defaults. Increasing security level is OK though.
- Don't mix too many different things (especially not logins) in a single session, use "New Identity" as often as possible. Threat each session as a single identity. Tor Browser further isolates each (URL-bar) domain, so that tabs with different domains opened can't be linked via 3rd party cookies or other 3rd party resources. But a site could still redirect to a 3rd party domain and your data could leak via request parameters for instance.
- If any site rejects you, use New Circuit - or even web proxies as a last resort.
- If you don't want an account to be linked to you, create it and login into it only in Tor Browser.
I need some assistance on 8kun (yes, yes fedshit)
https://8kun.top/redland/catalog.html All images are either 404ed or have pic related replacing them. Any pictures posted are also replaced by this dumb shit. BUT I have seen still functioning boards on the site that have normal images and restored threads, so is there a method of seeing the posted pics prior to Jim's autism or not? (outside of archive.is) Thanks for any help
>>12384>Is it true that all trustworthy VPN's have to be paid, in order to avoid that whole "if it's free, you're product" thingy?.If you take the correct precautions then even something that your adversary controls and monitors can be used without your actions being linked back to you.
Trustworthiness is a dumb metric anyway, you should never rely on trust - it means being at the mercy of the other, letting them decide your fate. Even if you somehow know that your provider is really so eternally loyal to you, that doesn't make them immune to incompetence and external breaches either.
So if you decide to use a VPN (or anything in general), operate on the assumption that it's pozzed from the beginning. Paying or not paying is a matter of what features you want from them, not about buying their loyalty. A free VPN can also have its own advantages, such as not being linked to your bank account / not requiring payment in crypto.
A more concrete answer depends on what you're trying to achieve and what's your threat model.
>>12435>47GB RAMWhat?
Also I wouldn't upgrade that, with current GPU prices it wouldn't be worth it and it's actually a better idea to just buy a console, also a GTX 1070 should be enough for most games anyway.
>>12794I couldn't quite grasp what that article was saying, but thanks anyways.
>>12795>get a seedbox, or buy a VPSVPS = virtual private server?? Is this like a VPN or is it an actual pc? I have a VPN, but I can't really afford much, on a fixed income…
Sorry for being a brainlet with this. What the fuck happened to the piracy general??
Anyway my actual question is, is nyaa.si the only version of Nyaa there is right now, and the one I should use? This is the most informative thing I could find on the subject with a quick search, and it's from 4 years ago
https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-relationship-among-nyaa-se-nyaa-si-and-nyaapantsu
>The only thing they share with the original nyaa is the backup database. Nyaa (the owner) hasn’t said anything about these 2 yet.
>http://nyaa.si is powered by the Cartel™ , a loosely connected league of English fansub groups associated with Commie-fansub. They are also endorsed by HorribleSubs and the “sekret club”. That means they have more subbed content.
>http://nyaa.panstsu.cat is powered by /g/entooments, is FOSS and currently have the most japan-based traffic, meaning most raws end up first on nyaapantsu before being scraped off by others (if they bother, currently don’t). That means they have more original content.
>They both hate each other.>>13573I didn't get a virus from using it,so it's fine.
>the one I should use ?I hope you don't imply brand loyalty to torrent site when you say that.
>>13573pantsu was some garbage /a/ made to spite those gosh darned leftists from "the cartel". I didn't even know it had died, lol. Just use nyaa.si
>>13576>I didn't get a virus from using itIt's a tracker site, of course you wouldn't.
>>13576>I hope you don't imply brand loyalty to torrent site when you say that.Nah I meant it more like "which one is legit" or "which one is recommended because of its content".
>>13577>pantsu was some garbage /a/ made to spite those gosh darned leftists from "the cartel".kek, I see
>I didn't even know it had died, lol. Just use nyaa.si Oh alright, that's what I've been doing. Thanks anon
>>13587you deserve it for having automatic updates turned on
if you like chrom* you can use ungoogled-chromium i guess
>>13803How do you presently sync your drives? I presume you copy everything from your hdd to your flash drives. Rsync works like cp, but only copies files when it detects changes
https://rsync.samba.org/You can automate any synchronization by writing a script for it. To create a script named afsync, to keep /mnt/af up to date with /home/sokoban/af, type:
printf '#!/bin/sh\nrsync /home/sokoban/af /mnt/\n' > /usr/local/bin/afsync; chmod +x /usr/local/bin/afsync
If you were already using a version control system like subversion, mercurial, or git (caution, rcs chokes on binary files), you would probably find it easier work out something with that.
If you didn't understand most of this, you should read a primer on shell scripting, the file system and block devices. If you use Windows you're on your own.
>>13818rich doesn't mean anything. a working class person could reasonably have a few mil in the bank
i'd say anything too excessive infers they're a capitalist that exploited other people
>>13907get a floss one off github, all it does is trick microsoft's server into believing you have a license
or better yet, use linux
Avast keeps telling me i have almost 100 gb of useless/junk files (most of them being win download files) . Yet when i try removing the bastards (following this site's instructions, that is:
https://keepthetech.com/delete-win-download-files-windows-10/) it barely does anything (the hundred something only slightly decreases).
How do i rid myself of these files?
>>14183Wine supports the Direct3D api of DirectX12 with vkd3d.
https://wiki.winehq.org/Vkd3d gives instructions to build wine against it, but you can probably install the right dlls with winetricks.
>>14178What's you Wine version?
DirectX 12 support is crappy on older Wine like the one that comes on Ubuntu repository
>>14211>If you know how to avoid malware you should be fine.If you're in a situation where you are downloading
any third-party tools, it's good to have one. Now that Win10 has Windows Defender as an in-built anti-malware tool, that might actually be enough. I honestly don't know. But the 'just avoid malware' attitude is bad advice for people who install programs on their own.
I almost got pwnt a few years back downloading a common virtual joystick tool because a hacker managed to hijack the official, reputable sourceforge page for a few weeks. Almost any anti-malware would have detected it, but I stupidly thought Win Defender was anti-virus (only the case for win10+). The only reason I didn't have all my data exfiltrated was that a part of my OS was so out of date that the malware failed to extract the payload
security through obscurity wins again!.
>>14213>the 'just avoid malware' attitude is bad advice for people who install programs on their ownI only ever encountered adware by installing popular software from questionable websites.
>any anti-malware would have detected itRegardless of how an antivirus detects hijacked TLS certificates, there are addons available for this purpose developed by all major antiviri. Most antivirus components are probably snake oil. AFAIK most antiviri extensively rely on malware lists, so installing common software over chocolatey would be the safest option.
>>14224For a marxist understanding of this question, you would need extensive knowledge of Marx' critique of Hegel. You can start with
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/ and
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/index.htmMaybe you should post the metaphysics you wish to debunk.
>>14835if ur using linux do ss
u can grep for the port ig
theres probably a better way to do it idk if u need to grep i think theres filtering built in maybe but thats the tool i'd use for finding open ports
>>14978>olive still waiting for the update for more features
>Kdenliveit's okay you can do pretty much anything
unless you need composition if so you can use Natron 2 or blender >Davenci resolve >>14978ffmpeg and mpv if you are willing to learn
Kdenlive if you want a traditional video editor
>>14980why the fuck do you recommend this ?
>ffmpegif you want to convert shit or stream
>mpva fucking media player
>>14982>willing to learn how they workhe want a video editor.
some day you should learn want normie wants.
>>14984bro you don't understand the point, he want a video editor not a fucking terminal nightmare
bro if he ask for one recommend something that's user fucking friendly
>>14985idk why youre getting so riled up, ffmpeg IS a video editor, end of discussion
if the other guy wants something else let him ask that
>terminal nightmarelol
>>15023>idk why youre getting so riled up, ffmpeg IS a video editor, end of discussionYou're really delusional i wanted to explain to me why fucking FFMPEG that use a base to record, convert and stream audio and video
ffmpeg is a video editor like fucking matlab is music player.
Do you fucking understand what a video editor is ?
Triming the footage, organization it having a fucking timeline cutting the fucking footage put fucking overlay and basic fucking composite, export fucking subs.
Euh Gonna recommend something that isn't fucking design for it to fucking newbie.
>terminal nightmare>lolI wanted to be "friendly" with you but of all that's holy take a fucking shower.
>>15025>triming the footage>cutting the fucking footageFFmpeg can trim (-ss/-t) streams according to timestamps.
>organization it having a fucking timelineIt delegates this task to the filesystem.
>fucking overlay and basic fucking compositeSee the overlay filter (
https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#overlay).
>export fucking subsffmpeg -i video -map 0:s subs
>terminal nightmareDo you know what a gui nightmare is? It's when all but the most common options need to be accessed through a menu path, require to be reselected for every new application (depending on the builtin level of abstraction) and often lack basic documentation, because they're "discoverable".
>>15025calm down people already recommended kdenlive and davinci resolve as GUI options
not sure why you’re getting so riled up at having been recommended ffmpeg
>>15247Yes there is. Why do you think most distros for low-powered computers ship with xfce, icewm, fluxbox or openbox (
https://distrowatch.org/search.php?category=Old+Computers)?
It's just not worth compiling statistics for, because for most users the choice is made by their distro. I wouldn't be surprised if the returns are diminishing, or else some distros would ship with even lighter DEs/WMs.
>>15317Have a look at some benchmarks:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190627163218/http://fsbench.netnation.com/ https://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html http://zonky.org/notes/fs-benchmarks.html https://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Filesystem_Comparison_Benchmarks https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/my-own-xfs-jfs-ext3-benchmark-809670/ https://gcore.de/en/help/filesystem-benchmarks-linux/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/zfs-versus-raid-eight-ironwolf-disks-two-filesystems-one-winner/Despite different granularities of journaling, all journaled filesystems are usually equally adequate at recovery. Most journaled filesystems record file metadata while some have the option of journaling data writes. Non-journaled filesystems are good in some scenarios like a /tmp partition (use ext4 with tune2fs -O^journal) and OpenBSDs fsck handles recovery remarkably well if a little slow.
EXT4 is the default choice for most distros, because it has acceptable performance under many varying conditions.
Reiserfs has performance advantages in some areas, though it's not widely supported anymore. Reiser4 is slightly unstable and depends on kernel patches.
XFS has very good performance on HDDs with medium to huge files, but sometimes is very susceptible to faulty hardware.
JFS is the best filesystem for SSDs, provided the io scheduler isn't tuned for HDDs.
ZFS should be considered less as a filesystem and more as an alternative to softraid and lvm.
>>15458for someone new to Linux i suggest you pick one of those distros
>Fedoraif you have a nvidia gpu don't use it because wayland is a bit buggy with Nvidia. either way it's pretty solid
>Linux mint Extremely newbie friendly
>pop OSsame a mint.
if you want a bit of Instability :
>Manjarobased on Arch, stable if you limit your use of the AUR.
>EndeavourosAlso based on Arch, stable come in many flavor, stable as long you limit your use of AUR.
>Arch I use arch BTW joke well now they have a command installer so it much easier to install for new ones but i do not recommend it to you as your first experience with linux
Just Don't :
>Gentoonot a distro for newbie, very good wiki and documentation a lot of good stuff if you want to learn Linux in detail
>UbuntuSpyware
>>15459Why do you keep doing this to new user ?!
>>15469I still don't know what to think of Fedora. I have some distrust towards it because of its corporate backing and its Code of Conduct. It's like Mastodon of GNU/Linux distros, I don't like this. It ticks me off.
Also, what about NixOS and Devuan/MX Linux? Void?
>>15614That kinda reflects the narrative of right-wingers but the other way around. "EBIL LEFTISTS ARE TAKING OVER LINUX!!" Never mind that the libre software movement was full of leftists to begin with.
It's not about recruitment, you radlib cuck. Both camps have this mindset that the other side wants to take over. This is not the case. Rightoids are paranoid about leftists so they spread their paranoia aids on other people. Radlibs are paranoid about rightists so they spread their paranoid aids on other people. That's how they "recruit" people. The concern about CoC's has nothing to do with any of this, this is just some ideological backbone some retards have to explain the spreading of CoC's, not the reason why they oppose them.
It's the same kind of stuff as "Anti-idpol left are arming reactionaries" nonsense. "If you're not with us you're against us." Which is basically reverse-McCarthyism.
>>15617right wingers are definitely trying to make FOSS their thing as an anti-globohomo thing (apparently microsoft only crossed the line in the 2010s and not earlier) lately
look at figures like luke smith or digdeeper and the smaller personalities popping up around them like mushrooms
thankfully, they don't have much willpower to do anything beyond flaming on forums or setting up pleroma on a cheap vps or whatever
>It's the same kind of stuff as "Anti-idpol left are arming reactionaries" nonsense. "If you're not with us you're against us." Which is basically reverse-McCarthyism.lmaooooooooo
>>15617What are the stakes ?
Radlibs and rightwingers having flame-wars in free-software mailing lists ?
Won't they just piss off a bunch of software-devs that will write a few scripts to filter all non-software related messages.
>>15627https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/capitalismcancer.htmlmuh consumption, muh fluoride, muh 5g, muh VIDEO GAMES (1/3 of the article btw)
this isn't "terminal idealism" it's just standard reactionary liberalism
>>15628They are literally Duhring though:
>Even if both parties benefit from an exchange, it doesn't mean that it was based on freedom - for example, someone might have a gun to his head and give up his child.<Herr Dühring is making the whole relationship stand on its head. The subjugation of a man to make him do servile work, in all its forms, presupposes that the subjugator has at his disposal the instruments of labour with the help of which alone he is able to employ the person placed in bondage, and in the case of slavery, in addition, the means of subsistence which enable him to keep his slave alive. In all cases, therefore, it presupposes the possession of a certain amount of property, in excess of the average. How did this property come into existence? In any case it is clear that it may in fact have been robbed, and therefore may be based on force, but that this is by no means necessary. It may have been got by labour, it may have been stolen, or it may have been obtained by trade or by fraud. In fact, it must have been obtained by labour before there was any possibility of its being robbed.They go beyond typical liberalism by acknowledging class warfare (
https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/enemylaw.html), refering to proletarization instead of "le fourth industrial revolution" (
https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/capitalism.html), being at least somewhat conscious of ideology and ignoring obvious idpol.
>muh consumption, muh fluoride, muh 5g, muh VIDEO GAMESThis is likely how they came to their critique of capitalism and now are too stuck in their scepticism to examine much else or discover the concept of immanent critique.
>>15630and duhring was a reactionary liberal
>acknowledging class warfare (https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/enemylaw.html)you have to have a weird idea of "class warfare" if you think that's what that page is talking about. it's standard lolbert shit + transphobia thrown in
>>15632>and duhring was a reactionary liberalDuhring was a utopian socialist (
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/ch23.htm).
>you have to have a weird idea of "class warfare"<Laws are designed to keep us in chains. Democracy is an illusion. Certain people are allowed to cause untold destruction without consequences while the not-so-lucky ones (that's you and me) suffer for violating the whims of the higher caste. Elections (if real) do not give us any power and in fact are a distraction. The most important thing for people to do, then, would be to topple the current law-based political system.While not explicitly refering to classes, this describes the core aspects of class warfare and the primary function of the state apparatus.
>>15630ok i decided to actually check this page you guys kept posting and first line is calling unabomber's "technological slavery" "influential" lmfao
>Transgender ideology pushers are convincing even small children to question their gender (archive) despite being aware that this group has a 40% suicide ratelovely
>>15633>While not explicitly refering to classes,rofl i guess /pol/tards advocate for class warfare when they whine about le jews and globohomo too
>>15624Eh, they'll just isolate themselves and that's it. That's how it works. But the corporations will definitely be on the radlibs' side so people will just move to more niche distros.
The biggest issue is with G-MAFIA taking control of the kernel, and the issue is not just some radlib CoC, they try to push Linux in the non-libre direction.
>>15623>right wingers are definitely trying to make FOSS their thing as an anti-globohomo thingEh, not really. Don't know about others but lolberts definitely have issues with megacorporations and privacy violations. The thing you must understand when it comes to the lolbert logic is that they blame the government for giving the conditions for this, without the government the competition will definitely destroy Google and it'll be epic. The alt-right I'm not even sure even cares about libre software at all. Just look at how eager they are to jump on any proprietary platform that allows them to say the N-word. The only reasons they end up using libre software is because the proprietary devs banned them or something. But otherwise if proprietary alt-right software was dominant they would probably be its biggest supporters. Hypocrites.
>luke smithI actually don't know what political views he has. He's definitely a conservative Christian. But honestly, as others pointed out, he does sound like a Leninist sometimes. He's just weird, I don't know about this guy.
>>15638>software was dominant they would probably be its biggest supportersActually, the same can be said about radlibs too. Do you seriously believe that Twitter users moved to Mastodon because they care about libre software? PFFFFF, it's obvious that it's Mastodon's
marketing that made it so popular. It's all about advertisement, both radlibs and the alt-right are easily manipulated target audiences.
I've been trying to use python to archive wikipedia (fandom) pages/images. Using these instructions:
https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/wiki/Tutorial#Running_the_scriptexecfile "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310-32\Scripts\dumpgenerator.py –
https://bleach.fandom.com/api.php –xml –images –delay=5"
I've tried all sorts of variations. It keeps spitting out different syntax errors.
I don't expect any help. But would like to know if I'm missing anything in the instructions.
>>all of the above
Yes I know. I've got Python 2 installed and loaded. It's just where the script was at, at the time. I've since moved it. Problem is Python2 won't let me install anything because it gives out an SSL error. So I had to use 3 for the pip install instructions, then copy pasted the files to the 2's installation folder. I keep running into this ssl error. Even when trying to disable security, tried using simple as-well to no avail. I'm about to throw in the towel. These 6 hours of my life wasted. I've tried to add a trusted host, didn't work. This whole program is shady. I sure got filtered. These 6 hours I could've worked-out, had some lafter with friends, watch a comfy 60s movie, all at the same time, too. But no, I just had to follow instructions that didn't work. I'm not blaming anyone here, just venting the time I've wasted.
>>16917>>16918webkit is controlled by apple who is notoriously territorial about "their" technology, it's probably better to use the gecko engine from mozilla, they are less likely to fuck with your stuff.
Writing a new browser render engine, that can be done, but it's a big project for like 200+ people
>>16927I only acknowledged webkits popularity for small-scale browser development. Epiphany, Midori, Otter Browser, Surf and Nyxt use forks of webkit.
That said, I have yet to find a browser based on gecko that isn't a firefox fork, which leads me to believe it's difficult to seperate from the firefox codebase. Maybe
>>16917 will prove me wrong.
>webkit is controlled by apple who is notoriously territorial about "their" technologyTheir attempt at collaboration with KHTML and the wide spread of webkit make me doubt they will interfere with any of the forks. An OpenSSL type scenario seems more likely, should apple stop giving a shit about it.
>Writing a new browser render engine is a big project for like 200+ peopleThey might just want to implement a subset or are in for the "fun" of trying.
>>16929>That said, I have yet to find a browser based on gecko that isn't a firefox forkMaybe forking an existing browser is more sensible than writing a new one.
>>16930I don't know about this project but the dangers of orbiting a mega-corp like apple are real
don't send people into that direction if there are other options.
>>16939vichan is active
the last update was 7 days ago
it does help that they have a lot of diverse, deployed forks that push recommendations back up the stream
>>16917This link
https://browser.engineering is a really good place to start, but trust me you're not gonna be able to make anything even remotely modern and compatible with most of the web on your own unless you're a wizard. The web has grown to become an incredibly complicated platform to target, with the W3 standard being absolutely massive and Google regularly ignoring it and adding their own extensions to Chrome knowing full well that since they have the overwhelming market share in the browser space, they can basically just force their extensions to Chrome into being accepted into the W3 standard eventually. They are effectively playing a war of attrition against the web to make it so no one other than Google is capable of comprehending the web or having a working browser implementation.
Good post on this subject that goes into more detail:
https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.htmlThat being said if you aren't worried about having a super modern browser that will work with most sites, the first link I posted is a good place to start. You should also look into netsurf if you know C, which is one of the few existing alternative browser engines. Another newcomer from the SerenityOS devs is Ladybird (
https://github.com/SerenityOS/ladybird), though the main dev of SerenityOS used to be on the Apple webkit team iirc so he's like an expert on web browser technologies and a wizard.
>>16929>That said, I have yet to find a browser based on gecko that isn't a firefox forkThis is because Mozilla never really tried to make it easy to embed gecko in other browsers. I've looked into this before a bit and there is zero documentation, you would need to basically reverse engineer the source code to do it since web browsers are massively complicated nightmare technologies.
>>16941too bad vichan is a giant pile of shit and written in a godawful language (PHP)
t. former vichan imageboard admin
>>17033Try out different VOs in the config editor (RightClick -> Settings -> Show Config Editor). If none works install
https://www.smplayer.info/ (or get the portable version), because it can embed both mpv and mplayer. If mpv works in smplayer the issue lies in mpv.net or the latest version of mpv. If none of the video outputs for mplayer work, your graphics are profoundly broken and you should investigate your video card and drivers.
>>17034It works in SM player, None of the outputs worked
So it is a problem with mpv or mpv.net
Shame, It looks very pretty now
I'll use MPC-HC
>>17137Check this out:
https://linux.die.net/man/8/iwconfig> txpower (1)> power (1)> modulation (2)Is your issue that your router advertises the same SSID on both 5GHz and 2.4GHz? Then you can just edit the connection in NetworkManager to always use one or the other kind of connection.
>>17144Thanks anon. It seems like the right track.
I spent probably 4/5 hours in total fucking around with it, installing drivers, downloading updates on a slow connection, trying various commands.
It's not a router issue, it's a really old low power pc, I haven't tried to connect to a router yet.
Running software on the pc that causes the usb adapter to draw it's maximum power causes a kernel panic and pc reboot.
The txpower, power and modulation commands you listed don't return the options available when queried
> iwlist wlan0 modulation> wlan0 no modulation informationWhat's the correct process to solve this, could anyone outline it? Just searching and opening tabs and trying whatever I find used to work, but the search results are dogshit.
>>17174You should try to see if your wireless card actually supports those changes:
`sudo iwlist wlan0 event`
to get a list of available options, if you don't see a row for that option you will need to install another driver that does, might or might not exist, you will need to know the actual model # of the chip to search for it
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1441823 >>17416If programs don't use your local ffmpeg they ship with their own releases, which is common on windows.
>i don't even know how to use it as a standalone appYour install location should contain 'ffmpeg.exe' in something like a 'bin' folder.
Read the manual on how to use it. It is fairly self explanatory.
>>17442Usually you do that so when you type a command starting with "ffmpeg" in PowerShell or whatever, it knows what executable file to look for to execute the command
Sometimes a program has an option in its settings to set a location path wherever you've stored the executable, like with Kdenlive in the attached pic (if you extracted the .zip or .7z folder to C:, then the paths should be like "C:/ffmpeg/bin/ffX.exe")
>>17447>>17448i also just added ytl-dlp to that environmental variable path, i can add as many as i want right? no problemo?
this is so cool
>>17594Yeah, and just call
youtube-dl --version
youtube-dl -h
in PowerShell
>>18001Quod libet
Has built-in tagging for managing your library
You can synchronize it with your GTK themes
>>18380Ill give that a shot, thanks. Sorry for dumb questoni but Im an utter techlet
>>18381I heard about this as well and downloaded it but its way over my head. doesnt it require knowing how to use command lines or whatever the fuck its called? I cant even use doxbox without a tutorial video everytmie I fire it up
>>18379Keep lowering the average bitrate until you get the smallest one that doesn't compromise video quality
Webm with vp9 codec is the more efficient compression
500-1000kbps is a good range for 720p or even 1080p vp9 video
Compress audio in libopus with 32-64kbps
>>15747Honestly, I'd use AGPLv3 for everything, non-web included. You don't know how your software will develop, and AGPLv3 closes a network loophole of GPLv3 which perhaps could be exploited in the future. AGPLv3 is compatible with GPLv3+, so you should see it as the successor to GPLv3 rather than an alternative to it.
Also, I'd use AGPLv3+ to be future-proof, because I trust the FSF to keep plugging holes in their license.
>>18401AGPL does sound like what I want
>>18408What do you mean? Make a program that is good enough to sell it to a company?
>>18432>>18792I finally learned to use wget this week and used it to download all files of a type from a page. I'm kicking myself for not learning how to use it sooner.
wget –user-agent=Mozilla –recursive –level=1 –accept jpg –no-directories "
https://twitter.com/whatever"
Haven't tried it with twitter but that should get all the JPG files from a twitter page and nothing else.
>>19026Oh man, I had no idea you could do this.
Usually what I want to do and give up because its a hassle, is on a site with multiple images, click each image/video and download the video/image that is embedded in the page.
Maybe some ask/sed magic piped to wget would do the job.
I was wondering, have any of you guys experience bluetooth connection issues on linux?
I originally got into linux through manjaro, and it was great until about a year later, where I had issues with bluetooth connection, (plus others, but I won't pad the post with them), I then switched to mint.
On mint, similar issues, (plus new ones since of KDE + mint = bad tim), and then switched to opensuse.
It was then I realized the solution for the bluetooth problem, don't installing tlp.
I forgot I installed it before, but when I installed since of opensuse's poor battery life, my bluetooth became just as bad as on mint and manjaro.
(Granted, the most days I have ran opensuse without rebooting is a week since I get like 100 updates a day, and some ask for me to reboot).
Have you guys experience this tlp and bluetooth issue?
Or alternatively: you find the two working together fine, but instead have other issues with the bluetooth?
I spend like 10 hours in the past trying to fine a solution to the bluetooth issue, and it was insane that it was a issue with tlp, (especially since the problem seemed to only appear days after you installed tlp).
>>19167No, (assuming that the rss feed you're using is the channel link itself, which is what I use).
>>19421It lowers the entry level of getting into the field.
It only makes things "worse for everone" since it's development, like all other technology, is meant to boost productivty, and lower the amount workers.
>>19150If I remember correctly, tails just makes the computer harder to identify when you're using tor.
It wouldn't give you any additional benefits when using the element app, other than (if there is) cache that its written to the pcs ram, which will be wiped when you turn it off.
>>20594Most peripherals are broken in some ways. The firmware often has to deal with unreliable hardware and drivers need to be coded around buggy firmware. For this dance to work, each layer needs to be sufficiently specified and debugged.
Many vendors don't care much for linux (though significantly more then for the BSDs). They either offer low-quality contributions, don't provide open-source implementors with sufficient documentation, or are actively trying to make their work even harder. This leads to scenarios such as my laptops network card not being able to use both wifi and bluetooth under linux.
>It was then I realized the solution for the bluetooth problem, don't installing tlp.IIRC the default tlp config sets peripherals in powersaving mode. Linux drivers could have badly tuned timeouts or missing wakeup event handlers, that interfere with open connections. See the kernel documentation on device power management
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.14/driver-api/pm/devices.html >>20594>manjaroManjaro generally sucks. There was a page that compiled a lot of reasons:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230626075444/https://manjarno.snorlax.sh/Linux Mint and Xubuntu are better. Or just install Arch.
>>22998SearXRNG.
On that note, searx.neocities.org often redirects to the front page of a search engine instead of forwarding the search and searches don't work on searx.techsaviours.org.
Is anyone else seeing this? Could it be an issue with SearXNG instances or just a problem with my local domain filters?
>>23007 (me)
DDG html onion mirror is also fine but no images for you.
>>22389cock.li, they opened registrations for everyone
you can register through tor and they let you use an email client like thunderbird instead of some javascript web bullshit like protonmail
How do you block this site, and leftychan in the /etc/hosts/ file?
Just temporary – except for leftychan – since I procrastinate too much, plus
I prefer phone posting so I can associate my computer for work.Though I don't know what device would handle the convertion and of the femboydom videos, nor what device will get the probably now 100 of book marks for porn tag combinations and stuff.
Every other site I tried has worked – with the exception of amazon but that needed the cache to be wiped – but this site for some reason gets around it.
>>22389You could go on those website that have a list of public emails, the email you're looking for is a code so it can't do any harm if someone else sees the code.
Or alternatively you can get a different email that doesn't need an email like
>>22390 ,
>>23011 , or any email service that you can close that which also doesn't permantly store that data.
>>23005>>23009>>23007Other than privacy and no java script, what do these engines offer?
Not a gotcha or anything, I'm just interested in finding a search engine, or a combination with an extension – that doesn't do googles approach of having an ai give inflated website that are
optimized to be picked by the ai.
"Inflated website" – for those who don't know what I'm talking about – websites that have the answer or not, but also have extra paragraphs of information that you don't care about.
Example:
>Search: "re:zero season 3">Site: https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/fantasy/anime/re-zero-season-3-release-date/<Answer is half way in the artcile, most of it is infromation about the show which you already know about. Least worst example, but this is what you will see more commonly at the top of results.
>>23059I'm blocking javascript by default. LibreX seems nice though. I hope the instances get added to SearXRNG or something similar.
I don't like the redirection to privacy frontends some meta-searches are doing, they interfere with my own filters. I've seen some sites redirect to cuckflared services.
>>23059>I'm just interested in finding a search engine, or a combination with an extension – that doesn't do googles approach of having an ai give inflated website that are optimized to be picked by the ai.
There is a twofold problem of all successfull general search engines thus far having bootstraped off the google index in some way and SEO methods gaming even the simplest web crawlers.
There are a few curated search engines (see
>>22715), but i often don't get great results from them. See the discussion under
>>20783 on how to make using the other general searches bearable.
>>23058Nothing special
leftypol.org 127.0.0.1
>>26523 (me)
New Discovery: You can open the directory as a url and it'll display as a list of links. I have made this my homepage.
>>27077I made a similar observation more than a year ago
>>22127What's critical is that objects and namespaces are still distinct concepts. In java an object is a value or storage location, a record type with an associated function namespace. While the fields of records are usually accessed with a namespace-like syntax, they are usually also synonymous with a storage location within the record. Packages are namespaces while not giving the same structural guarantees. Objects with message-passing semantics are their own thing and i don't think the namespace concept maps very well onto them.
>>27078You're sort of stating the negation at the same time, that the essence is distinct from namespaces. Was considering just using
fat structs which aren't very essential tasting and modules instead of classes. What are these structural guarantees?
>>27077? no
oop as implemented today in most languages (c++, java) just means auto-generated vtables. this is, the different types in an object hierarchy point to tables with function pointers, structured such that child tables can be trivially converted to parent tables. it sounds like a gimmick because it is. here is a blog that explains how the trick works:
https://shaharmike.com/cpp/vtable-part1/in languages like smalltalk it means that most types ("objects") are hash tables to either other objects or closures
>>27082Sort of understood. You at least think the inheritance is essential.
>>27083Understood.
>>27084I didn't say inheritance. reading comprehension
you can have compile-time inheritance and that is usually not referred to as oop. you can have some types of run-time inheritance that aren't considered oop either. try to use more specific technical terms than "inheritance"
>>27084Stumbled upon this blog post:
https://blog.tal.bi/posts/namespaces-in-c/ which reminded me of my OOP question here. Seems you could use basic structs to make namespaces and even use these namespaces to implement a common interface using _Generic to define the polymorphic type. Related to
>>27083, but not quite like
>>27082 because there isn't a mechanism to convert objects to the parent type (which only exists as the polymorphism).
>>27494you can implement full oop behavior in c, and I don't even mean implementing a compiler for oop languages, I mean oop in c, glib is an example. however, as explained in those definitions, c is not oop because you have to manually write and manage the vtables
>there isn't a mechanism to convert objects to the parent typethere is. as long as you keep the child class as a superset of the parent with exactly the same layout, you can cast the pointer to a child to a pointer of the parent type. this is, assuming the compiler keeps the same layout, if struct P {int x;} and struct C {int x; int y;}, you can take C* c; and cast it like (P*)c
and that's just one method
>>27501Alright understood this, and
>>27082 now. Thanks.
>>27495Because didn't realize that a coroutine that wasn't awaited was
guaranteed to not run.
>>27791Have been thinking about a Norvig presentation recently, and this slide was helpful.
>>27792This is static:
>>27494 does that make them not objects? You don't actually need _Generic if you cast to a parent, and with pointer arithmetic accessors you could even have multiple inheritance (so long as fields and methods don't overlap). Odd that you can use objects and inheritence (even classes) but not be programming in OOP.
>>27794std is not actually static, you can change it at runtime. Put it in compiler explorer, you can see that even at -O3 it will have indirect calls. You have to mark it const if you want to eliminate the indirect calls to make it static. _Generic is static, it is done at compile time.
This is going to be a bit of a mess because I don't have the time to express myself succinctly, but in my opinion one has to consider the essence of programs to determine the essence of programming paradigms, and programs essentially compute, therefore we have to consider how computation is done. In imperative languages, like C, computation is done by executing a sequence of commands (called statements in C). In functional languages, like Scheme, computation is done by applying functions (hence "applicative"). Of course actual languages are rarely that pure, you can apply functions in C and you can have sequences of commands in Scheme, therefore one should not be surprised to find out that OOP languages can be used in a non-OOP style. It actually seems to be pretty common in Java, which relies heavily on imperative constructs… But if you look at what the actually OOP essence is, or look at a more "strict" language like Smalltalk, what does the computing in OOP is dynamic dispatch, or said otherwise, determining which method to call on an invocation. Sometimes they call this message passing, because the idea is that when you invoke a method, the currently executing thing sends a "message" of the method name and parameters to the object, and the object decides what to actually do. But the real reason for OOP to exists is this.
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