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Found the bug in my proxy switching, the onion is back


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I can't believe we're losing another good resource for downloading our stuff, it's a sad time to enjoy technology, the internet's sucking harder and harder the older I get, and I don't see it getting much better in the future, heck, I think it'll get even worse considering it seems to be the track record. I still miss Emuparadise, The Eye, so many decent places in the past, even the IA is way worse nowadays.

Why do good /tech/ things always have to end so soon?
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>>19540
There's RetroGameTalk, but it's behind a joinwall :^)
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>>18439
>>18457
The best that governments can do is enforce a DNS block of the torrent sites themselves which is easy to work around.
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>>19546
I hope you're right, anon...

>>19545
Thanks! Lovely website, just like CD Romance was, so I don't mind the joinwall much, it works at least.
>>17942 (OP) 
>I can't believe we're losing another good resource
Maybe this has already been mentioned elsewhere, but uploader.jp is shutting down at the end of November.
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>>19804
>uploader.jp
I opened the website and they still have a chrome screenshot from the early 2010s...

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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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>>19789
I feel like I'm repeating what I said in the OP, but I tried out non-systemd because of age verification, and I stuck with it because the boot time was so much better on a non-systemd setup. The face that the primary thing systemd claimed was better was actually false kind of gave me a Damascus moment.
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>>19789
Your paragraph would be more modular and less bloated if you broke it up into sentences.
>>19793
I recall hearing that systemd actually did boot up a bit faster when it was first introduced, and that they sacrified boot time after it gained more market share. I don't know how true that is though.
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>>19792
>when they added age fields
I won't defend the nature of the age field as I am vehemently against the age verification push, but by itself it is nothing, it's an optional data field in a struct part of an optional subsystem, not a age verification system on itself, I can simply ignore its existence, and I don't believe a age verification system can be built on systemd itself either from what I understand the people that want to bring it to Linux are the freedesktop people they want to integrate it in xdg standards as a portal, the real bad parts of modern Linux are all happening at the application and desktop level not at the system level (because they need kernel, systemd, etc, to work under full control of the admin/user for their servers), for example wayland security model, flatpack/appimage sandboxed application model, all very hostile to the user at the application level, and all inspired by the Android model (that's their vision for Linux desktop, something as locked down as Android), but having systemd installed doesn't change anything you can still use oldschool X11 with WM and have full control over all of it, as long as we have root control on our Linux systems (unlike say android for example) age verification will always be impossible, like the whole subsystem (userdb) can be disable and compiled out of systemd if you want.
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>>19798
>but by itself it is nothing
<implying that's the end of it
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>>19801
They'll come for Linux but not from systemd, or the kernel, or other sysadmin software, again my prediction is that it will come from the distros, from the deskop environments, from the sandbox packaging, etc.

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>invest in an expensive mechanical keyboard because if I'm typing on it all day anyway then it might as well be the best I can get
>find a keyboard with "speed silver" switches because supposed to be quiet and I hate pressing the keys very deep down
>turns out the fucking brick is thicker than your mom and I have to bend my hands up in an awkward way
>keys activate at like 20% the way down, which means you have literally no physical feedback whatsoever for when it activates
>need to press the keys almost a whole centimeter before it's at the bottom
>loud as fuck "clack" sound if the key hits the bottom
>the fucking keys are laid in a niggerlicious concave curve where I need to lift my fingers higher to press the key above the current one
I've literally never touched a keyboard that felt worse to use, this thing cost like $200 or something. I could have gotten one for cheaper but this was the only one of it's type that didn't have disco lights all over it. Speaking of which, it's almost impossible to find a mechanical keyboard that doesn't bleed rainbow lights out of it's ass, some of them even advertise themselves as having "blinding lights".

Are mechanical keyboards the biggest meme in computers? I've used a flat chiclet keyboard (
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>>1043 (OP) 
>have to save money
>my keyboard stopped working
>steal my wife's old keyboard she wasn't using
>it's pink and has stickers on it
>it works so I use it
>it breaks
>have to buy a keyboard
>still want to save money regardless
>start looking into buying a new one for cheap
>find a good deal and it's a few bucks cheaper if I take a gamble on the color
>risk getting another gay pink keyboard but I have to save
>"fuck it" buys the random option and pray
>it's all black
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>he has a computer without PS/2 ports
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Does anyone here have experience with chorded keyboards? I'm considering building one myself. Aside from needing significantly less keys and perhaps requiring a single hand only it is supposedly faster for typing than a regular keyboard too (after training).
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>>19749
Are you typing for 8+ hours a day as a job? 
Or do you have some hand condition that could be improved with ergo keyboard?
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>>19750
>Are you typing for 8+ hours a day as a job? 
I do
>Or do you have some hand condition that could be improved with ergo keyboard?
My hand is sometimes stuck on my dick.

Another reason is that I'm looking to build my own hardware + OS while avoiding overly flexible/complex protocols such as USB (at least for the base OS). With a chorded keyboard I won't need to wire as many buttons.

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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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Is the web finally going to abandon the abominable webp and move to jxl? I read that jxl is not only better at compression but also flexible enough to be losslessly converted back to "classic" jpg if needed. That would be great if true.
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>>19651
>to be losslessly converted back to "classic" jpg
I don't think this applies to any jxl file. You can upgrade jpeg to jxl and back without introducing recompression artifacts, but it won't be as efficient as creating jxl directly from the source. Still great if you want to compress your giant photo collection or something without losing quality.
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>>19652
>You can upgrade jpeg to jxl and back without introducing recompression artifacts
That's what I meant. The benefit here is that you get to use a modern format with good compression, while still having the ability to support older software.
Chrome 155 is out now with Jpeg XL. Users will be upgraded gradually over the coming days.
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+log/154.0.8037.99..155.0.8059.40?pretty=fuller&n=10000
It's been rolled out in both browsers by now.

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Please please tell me, that something (hardware and/or software) somewhere, operating system and everything else from web browsers to video editors, anywhere in the foul year of our lord >2020, THAT IS NOT EITHER OF THESE TWO EXTREMES THAT ARE STARTING TO MAKE ME SEE THE POINT OF ECOTERRORISM BEING LESS INSANE THAN ALL THE OTHER POLITICAL GIRLS:

1) Bloated kludgeware tire fire trashheaps slapped together (I am beyond fed up with linux and open sores freetardation in general) by either cringy trannies or cringy nadsee larpers but I can pick and choose my poison to try and carefully avoid both kinds of collectivist authoritarian "YOU'RE A FUCKING WHITE MALE!!" and "YOUR'E NOT A FUCKING WHITE MALE!!" (both are equally gay, two sides of the same slacktivist coin, both of you blow your brains out since I'm sick of both of you blowing each other way outside your containment quarantine shitpits of purity spiraling echo chamber circle jerks, there is no escape from terminally online politislopsuckers) being shoved down my throat at every turn (which is getting more and more difficult to get away from in the digital world: as enshittification, the competency crisis, and the neo-bolshevik long march through the institutions infects every corner of everywhere (the world owes Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Paul an apology!); what happened to hobbyists being proud of their passions? what happened to "coupla dudes in a garage" gigageeks outclassing paid professionals like
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>>19477
I just want to say that this Linux-tan-esque thing you posted looks cuter/more appealing to me than most Linux-tan-esque character designs and artwork I've randomly seen around before. (Maybe it's because I'm a loliGOD)
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Thank you fellow victims of decades of glowing rectangle induced pseudoautism to escape the even worse brain damage of bell curve outlier something-something forced integration buzzword salad. Have some basic neoluddism meems for your trouble.
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>>19464
Honestly pining for living among the pines, no joke.
>>19522
Sadly the artist has not posted anything on Pixiv since 2017.
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Remember when halfway decent alternatives to [insert big name vibe-coded kludgy bloatware product/service because shit floats to the top of the digital diarrhea lake that is modern computing] weren't gatekeeping themselves with ten-thousand captchas a second so if the least shitty option was a little too fucky, you could try another that didn't suck even harder like six gorillion "some bored tweenager who takes regular dumps on Github in between restocking cigarettes at a gas station in Rednecktopia, Utah?" to piss on your parade until you throw your hands up at the several-dozenth freetarded open sore and just gb2/[insert big name vibe-coded kludgy bloatware product/service because shit floats to the top of the digital diarrhea lake that is modern computing]?

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Seemed like it would be a good idea for users both old and new.

[Materials to avoid]
Codecademy and other flashy looking sites (KhanAcademy might be okay)
"fishy" Youtube videos such as those from FreeCodeCamp
"Learn X in 24 hours/three days!"
Anything that deviates too far from a specification (Very obvious if you're reading a spec. in parallel with a primary learning resource)
Most blogs, especially anything on Hacker News that isn't being written by someone obviously trustworthy and/or qualified

[Searching]
You should use a metasearch engine. Not only are they better for your privacy, but I've observed better results than single engines like DDG or Yandex.
https://searx.space/
Bookmark 3-4 reliable instances at the top of your browser and rotate between them or use an add-on such as LibRedirect.

Hacker News has lots of developers and skilled people posting on it. If there's a particular project/idea you're interested in its worth looking it up with their search engine.
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>>17778
>not keeping your own flock of geese to cut dip quills from
ISHYGDDTSMHfam
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>>17779
>Having to dip your feather in ink every paragraph while the ink in the well dries up.
>Feather tickling your hand and reducing focused vs machined ergonomic handle
>using what is discarded as trash from a bird

Might as well go back to using punch cards.
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>>17781
>gives papercuts
>isn't human-readable
>holes compromise structural integrity
This is why I scratch messages directly onto surfaces with my fingernails or a spare arrowhead.
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>>17775
As great as these learning materials are so far, I'd also like to see a thorough curriculum that deliberately rejects every kind of artificial intelligence tool and any large language model since there's already plenty of pushback from places like KDE, Codeberg, Debian, and the FSF. I can't learn from just lurking nor discussing through forums anymore.
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>>19698
Thankfully the LLM-specific stuff on that site is more about the side of developing it than using it, but I too would prefer if it wasn't present at all. At least the rest of the material remains useful in projects which reject LLMs.
What I'd really like is something that isn't just a polemic or activism against AI, or an attempt to pretend it doesn't exist, but an actual response which practically addresses why AI is used.

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>the internet is changing


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what are you doing here, λnon?
Go back to your containment tranny board.
This website was so nice without you.

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Post about /tech/nological cancer that you've dealt with in the past.
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>>19679
>memory safety
>doesn't even have a finished spec
>pushed by jews and trannies
There is also the larp that it is as fast as C and that's why it is getting shilled everywhere, otherwise if people just wanted correctness and a ball-busting compiler they'd be using something like Haskell since at least everything is made by mathematicians who provide a 10-page theorem proving their implementations are correct (assuming you have enough RAM for the GC to keep a 2 copies of everything while it runs) rather than expecting you to trust the power of subsidized estrogen.
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>>19677
>Can someone redpill Rust? Give me the lowdown plskthx
Last I heard, it doesn't support all the architectures OpenBSD does. It's also so fat that it can't compile itself on an x86 machine because it quickly hits the 4GB memory limit.
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>>19681
<30GB+ of free disk space
<8GB+ RAM
<2+ cores
Holy hell... I thought GCC was bloated but this is on a whole other level. How exactly is this supposed to "replace" C?

>>19677
I have been mostly ignoring news about Rust, but the fact that its users are constantly barging into C projects and demanding rewrites is suspicious enough to warrant scrutiny. There has to be an ulterior motive, people don't just go around asking for code rewrites in a completely new language unprompted.
Typically I'd expect Rust enthusiasts to just write their own original projects and organically build up interest in the language, but I'm yet to see a single non-trivial Rust project that compels me to use the language. All I see is rewrites and they're not exactly success stories (e.g. Bun rewrite, uutils).
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>>19683
It's a language for extremely boring people whose idea of cool software is just the same shit we have now, but rewritten in a hyper-anal language that takes ages to compile and encourages webdev-tier overuse of libraries. They're also overreacting to issues with C and the way system programming languages have stagnated over the 21st century.
My impression is that Rust will eventually be upstaged by less retarded languages that borrow a couple ideas from it. You can already see a little of that in projects like Jane Street's OxCaml extension of OCaml, which takes Rust's type theory autism further but without the borrow checker.
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>>19684
>My impression is that Rust will eventually be upstaged by less retarded languages that borrow a couple ideas from it. You can already see a little of that in projects like Jane Street's OxCaml extension of OCaml, which takes Rust's type theory autism further but without the borrow checker.
Someone will make something new, easier and better but the users will make it obnoxious and pretentious with time, then the cycle continues.

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Today is Windows XP's 20th birthday. Say something nice about it.
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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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>>19596
Yes, but at least you can install the OS you want in a laptop.

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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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>>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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I use a Pixel 7a with GrapheneOS but I've really come to resent it. I usually keep it in Airplane mode with no SIM card. The second you connect it to a network it's just nothing but countless annoyances designed to waste your time and patience. It drives me crazy to use the internet on it.
Whe should make a new version of the internet where phones can host small personalized websites on a decentralized peer to peer network
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>>19640
Niggers hate this, because it's the truth, but each centralized tracking device (smart phone) should be a de-centralized anti-nigger counter-talmudic device.
>>19640
I'm starting to feel like a shill, but you can do that with reticulum already.

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