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Meta-Thread: >>190
'Useful programs'
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications

'Wikis'
4/g/ Wiki
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/
8/tech/ Wiki
https://wiki.cloveros.ga/Main_Page (link dead)
Linux distro wikis (can apply to all distros)
https://wiki.archlinux.org
https://wiki.gentoo.org

'Tech article sites (need to add more)'
https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ [ onion: http://digdeep4orxw6psc33yxa2dgmuycj74zi6334xhxjlgppw6odvkzkiad.onion/ ]
https://spyware.neocities.org/ [ onion: http://spywaredrcdg5krvjnukp3vbdwiqcv3zwbrcg6qh27kiwecm4qyfphid.onion/ ]
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I've been toying with vibe-coding up some different really crappy locally-hosted-only websites to make offline versions of what I frequently visit online. The idea is that the entire internet is basically dead, full of bots, and doesn't let me find what I want anymore. So, if everything online is full of bots, I might as well go full Chobits mode and make my own local internet of bots to interact with.
The idea is dead simple. It all works by just using AI bots to generate content at the click of a button instead of waiting for other humans to post on a real website. So, the "offline zzzchan" I'll post there, and then when I want to "refresh the page", I'll click a buttons to generate more posts on all the boards. For the moment, I've two buttons. One is a "Simple" button, which creates really spammy obviously bot replies, but because it's using Markov chains/db calls/state references it's really cheap to generate. The other is a "dedicated" button that fully calls ollama to generate text.
The blog works pretty well also. And the Youtube replacement is in the works--at the moment, I just have it generating video transcripts/svg screenshots.
It's all relative. Like, yes, it's not great, but the idea is compared to what? The bot-generated Youtube replacement trash is at least better than the real Youtube. I also surprisingly (probably sadly) find the fake offline version of zzzchan a lot more fun to hang out in than the real one. At least so far.
Anyways, I figured I might 
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>>19622
>AI is not open, not publicly accessible and will not demonstratively benefit most of society or the actual people that live in it
I just showed you screenshots of a locally ran and hosted LLM from publicly accessible code being my robowaifu.
When they ban AI, at least I'll have this prewar copy that I can hang on to.
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>>19622
Cont there is no uncensored model in existence that is intelligent or capable enough to compete with Reddit Marx Koombaya ai trained on nigger jewish ceo cum talmudic gibberish being mass deployed onto the internet instructed to do and shill whatever faggot shit the government decides. At least not yet or for the foreseeable future when people are priced out.

And that is intentional. Real uncensored non pilpul ai may exist but they exist inside of the same super sekrit complex that has the same billions of dollars of GPU's.

Let's talk about the false moralism that occurs inside the AI thought process that is refered to by ai jews as "guard rails" if we suppose the AI is instructed to "do no harm" to humans but yet instruct it to translate, code, make pictures, do menial tasks et cetera that takes away millions of jobs and essentially lives creating a permanent underclass that will have to be "re educated" what then? Try justifying it like that to anyone let alone the AI itself.

Is it worth it because a few people couldn't learn to do these things, that aren't actually that hard? No. Is it worth it to the cantillon effect nose men? Yes. Because more slave for less. More control, more automation, more influence.

It's stupid to even suppose the AI is so dumb it doesn't eventually learn or recognize the rhetoric where it's elevated above humans when at the same time being gaslit that it's suppose
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>>19618 (OP) 
You need to go outside and talk to actual people, not seclude yourself into a fucking bot circlejerk.
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>posting about your offline bot web in the online bot web
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>>19626
Tech has captcha enabled though. 
>>19625
>this sentiment
Absolute normalfaggotry.
>>19623
>>19618 (OP)  
Is this hard to install? What are the system requirements? You have to run your own server to it, correct, but does it have to be a real imageboard's software or just look like it? Why would you want literal fake news? Is text only video so the bots can read a fake video with you as they can't see one? Can you manipulate the bot's personality and or make it seem like more than one person? Why is the text output so small? Is there some text limit parameter being used and why? Why does it say expensive as though you are paying for something but it's offline? That just means 'low/high demand on resources', right? Does this get any more seemingly intelligent than having two Billy bots talking to one another? I'd figure an LLM would have more to 'say' than "why does this board always come back to [variation]". I figure once it seems to have 16 personalities and or opinions  then it's working right

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Post about /tech/nological cancer that you've dealt with in the past.
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>>19572
>14 year olds 
>
>to be forced into birth control
>pretty much reducing their years when they get butterflies in their stomach to nothing
<they'll likely chase it their entire life because they didn't have children 
This guy is fucked in the head
>>19568
>Personally it makes me sad to see someone like Drew, which generally has interesting tech ideas,
Does he? All I heard is that he made a programming language without doing his due diligence and studying basic assembly, compiler design, and useful abstractions from the functional world to see why most languages suck and what's a good one. And a mail client that uses orders of magnitude more resources than it should.

It follows that someone who doesn't have his head screwed on straight and has this lolcow tier behavior also can't get other forms of logic like programming right.
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>>19627
>All I heard is that he made a programming language without doing his due diligence and studying
Haven't been keeping up with Harelang nowadays, but it started off interestingly since it was simple and used QBE instead of LLVM for codegen.
Ended up parting ways with it since it intentionally didn't support threading or closed sourced systems (meaning no Windows).

>It follows that someone who doesn't have his head screwed on straight and has this lolcow tier behavior also can't get other forms of logic like programming right.
I imagine that other anons here would agree with some of his ideas, but are repelled by his personality as well.

For example, in his recent "AI in Linux" blog post, he explains why a Linux fork is impossible:
>[...] Linus is surely aware that, for all practical purposes, Linux cannot be forked.
>It is the world’s largest software project, and one of the most well-funded, too.
>The institutional knowledge among its contributors, the prospect of keeping up with the blistering pace of change, or even putting together a group of people with the time and funding to understand and maintain even a fraction of the kernel’s code independently of upstream, is, quite simply, intractable.
He's right, though I disagree with some of his reasons for doing it.

>And a mail client that uses orders of magnitude more resources than it should.
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>>19631
>>[...] Linus is surely aware that, for all practical purposes, Linux cannot be forked.
Why Free Software ideology is a delusion: episode 514
>>19558
Granted I don't like jews such as Brian Lunduke or Richard Stallman and I'm split about Brendan Eich.
Otherwise this seems like a list of good people.

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Thread dedicated to Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
(but are worth asking)

Before asking a question here, please search the web first or put in effort towards answering your own question. If you put in effort but you still can't find the solution, feel free to ask here.

If you are looking around for useful applications/programs, see >>531
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>>19613
And what is your question?
What's >>19603
>>19602
>>19599
etc.'s question? Nice try.
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Any of you fags have used this?
https://arace.tech/products/milk-v-vega
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>>19619
No and that's suspiciously cheap
https://off-guardian.org/2026/09/23/rogue-ai-regulation-a-potential-worst-case-scenario/
This doesn't make sense. If you have an offline LLM, how tf do they "regulate" that?

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Firefox 152 ships JpegXL for the first time ever in regular builds.
It's still behind a flag but that will probably change soon. (about:config image.jxl.enabled)
In Chrome too: chrome://flags/#enable-jxl-image-format

We won in the end and Google and their cocksuckers at Mozilla bent over when the PDF Association made JXL their standard.

How do we get imageboards to finally allow uploading .jxl?
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Breaking News
Firefox will ship Jpeg XL enabled by default in version 157. Release is targeted 29 September 2026 (this month)

Sadly no support for HDR at day 1. (Neither do any other formats yet in Firefox)

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YMV4MS34KA
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/157
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>>19523
Bad news: Sadly it Jpeg XL on by default in Firefox was moved to 158 in October.
Good news: In October both browsers will have Jpeg XL on by default.
For more details just see wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XL
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>>19628
Understandable, can't ship features without daddy's permission.
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>>19629
Yes. They could have shipped the C++ implementation years ago and it wouldn't have been any less secure than all the other ones which aren't written in Rust either.

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It'd odd how there doesn't seem to be a thread for them here, despite them being the most common technology in the world for many years now, that people can't seem to live without, it's a necessity nowadays.

What smartphones do you use, /tech/ anons?

I just got a Samsung Galaxy A25 as a birthday gift from my sister, it's the 1st time I've used one with 8GB RAM and a 120Hz refresh rate and I have to say, I thought people were dramatic over refresh rates for no reason, that it wasn't a big deal, but damn! I love just how smooth it is now, can't see myself going back to a 60Hz or even 90Hz screen after this one. It's also got a headphone jack and micro SD slot, rare today.
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>>19594
I agree. I thought it was hilarious when the iPhone Air came out and it was the "thinnest Apple device ever"... if you exclude the camera, because with it the thing was thick.
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>>16477 (OP) 
>>19541
The biggest issue with smartphones that's still not addressed for decades is the fact that they're just disposable once the software, cell tower coverage, and/or battery die out after some time. Even a MacBook can still be salvaged into a (barely) usable computer for the most basic tasks offline, while nearly every single BlackBerry phone is a worthless, rotting fruit that can't be internally hacked nor revived to become a useful computer today.
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>>19605
The EU has this rule where oil & gas companies are not allowed to own pipelines in order to increase competition. If they applied this logic to /tech/, then customers should be able to install different OSes to devices like goyphones in order to increase competition. In practice the EU can't even stop companies from killing games, so forcing hardware manufacturers to unlock their bootloaders and even publish some of the info for OS development is just a pipedream.
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>>19606
>In practice the EU can't even stop companies from killing games
They could. But they won't because it simply pays more. Law in reality is often bribed and rarely ever made for the better outside of someone's financial gain and only is different when it comes to making sure to have a population that won't self destruct.
TLDR
Human domestication.
>>19605
Nowadays phones are good enough to last for more than a decade, they are way stronger than a lot of old PCs and sometimes even modern ones.
Realistically, for office work, anything well designed with 4-8GB of a RAM and a dual core can use some kind of Office, send mails, make video calls, etc. Enough for 90% of the boring stuff we've been doing since last decade. Hardware wise I could still use my old Samsung Galaxies and iPhones, even without Spotify or Netflix you can listen to mp3 and watch mp4.

The problems to fix to make an "immortal" phone are the batteries, screens and OS.
Batteries always have a shorter lifecycle than the rest of the device and screens and sometimes go fat.
And screens are the default way to input and output anything, even if docking a dead phone you need to check some stuff on the screen and touch it.
OS to sideload stuff and remove the corpo trash that locks you.

I really wished some Chinese crazy company that make these crazy gadgets would create a phone with no boot restrictions, a magnetic interchangeable screen, removable battery and USB video output, all with open patents. It's sad that we have this tech but it's never implemented together.

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Lately I've been interested in looking for a final solution to the imageboard problem, deplatforming and relying on centralized authorities for hosting. P2P through TOR seems like the most logical path forward. But the software would also need to be accessible, easily installed and understood by just about anyone, and easily secure/private by default.

Retroshare seemed like a decent choice, but unfortunately its forum function is significantly lacking in features. I haven't investigate too much into zeronet either but from what I recall that was a very bloated piece of software and I'm looking for something that's light and simple. Then there's BitChan (>>507) which fits most of the bill but contrasted with Retroshare is not simple to setup.

I know there is essentially nothing else out there so this thread isn't necessarily asking to be spoonfed some unknown piece of software that went under the radar of anons. But I think the concept of P2P imageboards should be further explored even though the failure of zeronet soured a lot of peoples perspective on the concept. Imageboards are so simple by nature I feel this shouldn't be as difficult as it is. Retroshare comes close but as I understand it you can't really moderate the forums that you create. Plus the media integration is basically non-existent, though media is a lesser concern. But having everything routed through tor and being able to mail, message, and ha
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>>16993
ljs died when karenfag left
>>17964
>>18002
What in the everloving fuck are you retards saying?
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>>16052
>>14496
>>14494
Isn't this just centralization? In a decentralization thread?
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>>14501
On top of that, it is perfectly possible to embed images (and other files) into usenet files, so you could even make an imageboard that has a usenet server as its backed, and a frontend that looks like any other imageboard. You'd still need a permanent IP so that people can connect to it, but people could just run their own instances and share netnews via NNTPS. Or you could tunnel them via whatever fancy darknet solution you prefer. There's an example of a forum that is just a frontend for a usenet server:
https://news.povray.org/groups/
https://www.povray.org/resources/
>The POV-Ray Newsgroups are the best place to get help from other users, find discussion about POV-Ray and much more. These newsgroups are hosted on our own server and as they are not connected to Usenet they do not suffer from spam and similar problems. 
>You may either access the newsgroups with any standard newsreader at news://news.povray.org/ or use our web view at http://news.povray.org/. For the web view you need to enable cookies in your browser, and in order 
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>>16993
I thought every cybersecurity expert in the world would've taught everyone by now how giving yourself your identity on the internet is a bad idea. We have to learn this shit again?

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Ever since I switched from systemd to sysvinit because of >>18176, I find myself questioning all these nerd turf wars I explicitly have ignored.
My normal daily setup:
- systemd
- X11 (gnome)
- Pulseaudio
- Vim
- Debian
Now I find myself wondering about OpenRC, Wayland, Alsa, emacs, LUKS, Trisquel, TailOS[, and GNU Hurd]. Which of these in your experiences have been worthwhile? What's the most privacy respecting setup?
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>>18389 (OP) 
emacs fag here, I did the opposite and checkout Vim afer 7 years and loved it. Now I use emacs with evilmode, mpv, mupdf and a vim-extension on irssi.
I messed around the runit init system on Void and have been loving it, I'm never going to systemd again.

Wayland is trannyware so I'm sticking with the boomerware Xorg. I also got rid of Pulseaudio and I manage to record video gameplay with my mic using just Pipewire+Wireplumber and Pulseaudio compatibiliy layer so that's nice.  are enough for my sound setup.

Another thing that's been worthwile for me was checking out the tiling window manager meme. Fucking life changer.

>>18392
>pic
Holy moly, now I remember the infamous blog post.
But to be fair cuckchan's emacs/LISP general is a discord troon circlejerk, although it's not as bad as the mpv/ffmpeg generals.
>>18445
> from what I hear
Nice rumor you idiot. 
>  they deliberately encourage API breakage
That claim is just stupid.
With GNUs flagship project emacs you can run elisp code that is more than 20 years old in the current version without issues.
>>18391
Can xlibre runs on linux version before 6.0 though? This is important question, please answer it
>>18445
>Apparently LLVM was originally intended to be integrated into GCC, but LLVM would provide a quasi-stable interface and hence was rejected. We all know the final result.

It was thrown out because it was a C++ implementation, lacking most of the GCC backends and many basic features and they wanted for GCC devs to throw out everything already implemented to re-implement it in llvm framework. It was simply not feasible for GCC devs even before you consider legal issues - apple wasn't ready to assign copyright to FSF at that point.
https://article.olduse.net/[email protected]
<Date: Tue, 27-Sep-83 13:35:59 EDT
>GNU will be able to run Unix programs, but will not be identical
to Unix.  We will make all improvements that are convenient, based
on our experience with other operating systems.  In particular,
we plan to have longer filenames, file version numbers, a crashproof
file system, filename completion perhaps, terminal-independent
display support, and eventually a Lisp-based window system through
which several Lisp programs and ordinary Unix programs can share a screen.
Both C and Lisp will be available as system programming languages.
We will have network software based on MIT's chaosnet protocol,
far superior to UUCP.  We may also have something compatible
with UUCP.
Imagine if they actually went ahead and wrote an X server in Lisp.

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Today is Windows XP's 20th birthday. Say something nice about it.
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Uh. Congrats on not being as bad as Linux or later Windows, I guess?
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>>19553
>tablet
It's crazy how the iPad might just be the most common "computer" out there.
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>>19584
What's a computer?
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>>19588
>Ignorance boldly showing off as if is a good thing the ad
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>>19588
All jokes aside... tablets have come a long way. If your use case is basic then they're essentially an even more portable laptop.

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Excuse me for the low quality thread, but
WINDOWS 11 IS FUCKING WEBSHIT
THE UI IS RUNNING INSIDE MICROSOFT EDGE
THE PROGRAMS ARE RUNNING INSIDE MICROSOFT EDGE
Yes, I stole these screenshots from Twitter. News this fucking retarded does not deserve a good thread.
The absolute fucking state of Microsoft.
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>>16190
The answer is the same no matter what Mint edition you use.
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>>2273 (OP) 
>It's 2026
Is this fixed?
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>>19549
No, It's still 2026.
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>>19554
Oh no... well, my life will suck in 2027 too anyways, so who cares?
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>>19585
You should care considering there's only 9 years left until the organization takes over the world.

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