/tech/ - Technology

I would rather start with C++ and remove don't things than build on C, but if I had to suggest improvements to C that could realistically pass comitee at some point in the future. 
>defer
>syntactic macros (optional and coexisting alternative to preprocessor)
>comptime type-functions á la Zig
>namespaces

less likely to be accepted, but I don't think they should be:
>universal function call syntax (x.foo() is the same foo(x)).
>non-nullable pointer type
>built-in slice types

rm /usr/bin/gcc
I'm free at last. :)

>>15322
Rust won't magically solve any issues that haven't already been solved in other languages and it doesn't excel at anything.

>>15323
I'd say the most important are:
>Passing fucking arrays or at least a syntax to pass pointer and length together.
And as you said:
>Slices
>Namespaces

>>15329
Passing arrays would be cool. We can pass structures containing arrays, but not arrays, how does that make sense?

And actually use VLA's length specification so that
void foo(size_t n, int bar[n]) {
    return sizeof(bar);
}
returns sizeof(int)*n

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Let me follow-up my last post >>15183 to add that MSDOS doesn't have to be retarded and gay >>15145 because they made a whole bunch of useful tools for it back in the day, so it's only lame if you're using it stock. I can't list all of them, but for starters you should look into 4DOS and QEMM/Desqview. I didn't have 4DOS back then sadly, so I hobbled along with COMMAND.COM and some aliases and command history provided by the DOSKEY program that came with my version of DOS. I also had LIST90H that was also very helpful, kinda like a mini version of Norton Commander.
For programming, the OS should already includes some version of BASIC like BASICA/GW-BASIC or QBASIC. These are actually quite good dialects, and were very popular back in the day so you'll find tons of programs written in them (as well as the older & compatible MBASIC for CP/M). I liked them back then, and now I like them even more!
Otherwise Turbo Pascal was also very popular. Something I stumled on today while searching for an old game (Island): http://blarg.ca/2018/10/14/turbo-pascal
I also had a lot of fun with TP back in the 90's. More recently I tried to use FreePascal on Linux, but it's not at all the same in practice. With DOS things were simple, everything just

If you go with ELKS, then maybe you should try to find out if dvtm works under it.
https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/

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I doubt you're gonna learn anything with ELKS that you couldn't already with normal Linux. It's just gonna be more C/Unix wankery like everything that's in vogue today. You'd be better off to port CollapseOS to this computer. Or make your own Lisp if you're one of those lainfags. But obviously DOS already has assembler and huge amounts of documentation, tutorials and examples, so you don't even  need to install any fancy OS to write Tetris. Plus there's tons of good old games to play natively, which is something not many people have an opportunity to do today.

>>15201
>porting collapse os
That's an excellent idea, anon. How would a hyperactive zoomer go about tacking a project like that?
I only have done some pic assembler and tarduino C MCU programming before.

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>>13347 (OP) 
I should start reading about technical details of C64. Terry Davis recommended the book Mapping The Commodore 64

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>>13390
Forgot my magnum opus

Hello, I'm new too and radio is banned in my country, any ideas on how to hide antennae? Anyways, what is everyone's thoughts on meshtastic since its recent gain in popularity, their discord is at 18k+ members.

>>13516
>discord
>decentralized
Hard pass.
Jokes aside, there are a lot other projects like this and their webpage doesn't say anything different about them.

>no license

as soon as you broadcast without a license some faggot ass white boomer a day away from a dirt nap is going to rat you out to the FCC cause he has nothing better to do than to rat on his fellow white man for wanting to communicate without government control. Boomers just need to fuck off already.

>>10196 (OP) 
I recommend getting RTL-SDR because it's cheap and requires no license. Use ebay links on their site so you don't get scammed:
>https://www.rtl-sdr.com/

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Basically two ways:
<a. new money
>1a. have high iq
>2a. have good work ethic
(these two alone are enough to reliably make you upper middle class, but not enough to be rich, pixrel)
>3a. be luckier than thousands of other people that are just as exceptionally smart and hardworking as you
<b. old money
>1b. like >>14042 said just inherit the silver spoon

>>14054 
Maybe not all, but certainly many, especially webapps:
https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/04/investigative-reports/the-military-origins-of-facebook/

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It's a mystery!

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Well, well. Bill Gates is hobnobing again.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-01-18/bioterror-roundup-anti-vaxxer-rfk-advisors-reportedly-sacked-trump-transition-team

>>15241
>Body autonomy is a losing stance
At this point, I'd be fine with everyone being killed.

>>15242
It's Trump. Everything he does is through the filter of
<Will my jewish masters like this?

>>13363
might be better off getting a hot girl to sign up for onlyfans for you and fake an id that they ask for and upload that for verification. Then just upload fake pics of pussy and tits and shit. I don't know somebody to do this or I would try it. Unironcally I know a girl but I fucked up and talked shit to her cause shes crazy asf lol but she was hot and perfect for onlyfans. Also you could go to sex chat rooms and post pics of nude girls then ask for cucks to cashapp you. This is a grueling process though and super scumbaggery and you have to sex talk up fat incels which is extremely gay, but if you're jewish you will succeed. 


Has anyone unironcally done this? Gone to chatrooms, pretend to be girl, ask dudes that message you within 5 seconds of posting a pic for a cashapp for more pics?

>>13933
They seem to be cracking down on this more. My Cashapp account was shut down because I paid a whore with it once. I never really used cashapp so when I opened it one day it was closed. I thought only the whores accounts would get shut down, apparently not.

>>13933
>Has anyone unironcally done this? Gone to chatrooms, pretend to be girl, ask dudes that message you within 5 seconds of posting a pic for a cashapp for more pics?
My dude, people were doing that one ten seconds after AOL added profile pictures to their chatrooms thirty years ago.

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OP here, not doing much lately sorry. Focusing on my career for the most part now, forgot to make time for this side work. I'll get back to it from now on, I swear, im so fucking broke right now. Lately i have seen some people doing airdrop stuff through telegram shit coins, so im asking around. I don't really have a full structure course that i could find, so right now im kind of a lost sheep on this topic. But im watching some channels to get the basic image, maybe i will find some groups that can at least openly share the basic paths. The ones that managed to get money doing this, they hide their craft like cat hides their shit.

>>15123
So the basic description here is that, these shit meme coins usually have some kind of dumb games that reward players with its own coin. Now instead of using one account to play, how about you emulate 100 accounts. And then I guess they managed to sell that meme coin somehow? I mean i never tried this before, but i want to learn how it works. Anyone here has been doing crypto stuff? Where can i learn this? About these emulation, usually these people buy used workstation cpu and have like 100 gb of ram, they don't write their own software but have to outsource to some code monkey. Now if its automation, I’m guessing the code monkeys are using some kind of automation framework like selenium, cypress, robot, playwright,...Maybe I could make money doing this, I do have some experiene working with these tools.

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>>5529
>... and it worked.
No it didn't... faggot.
Trolls and bots are the excuse to kill anonimity and track users, same way anthrax towelhead terrorism was an excuse to systematically spy on people and turn the big platforms into propaganda machines.
And the original problem was never fixed. 

>>5565
Not him but I almost exclusively post while procrastinating at work

>>5544
>manuals written in English, the write man language
Not him but manuals and documentation are mostly written by autistic furries that rarely reach 3 social interactions a week, the same kind of low lives that populate wikipedia.
I agree that the CLI is much better but let's not pretend the autistic e1337ism prevalent in the field doesn't jump on every opportunity to gatekeep knowledge just to feel superior to normies who can't afford to spend nights decyphering obscure and out of date docs. Funnily enough, many of them end up trooning out and are the first to screetch at anyone that doesn't indulge them for not being inclusive enough. lol.

>>10048
>Smartphones.
>The nigger swipety swipe UI and the niggercattle who use it make me sick.
>This degenerate POS technology has turned every last possibly decent person into a nobrain nigger subhuman. Zoomers are spiritual niggers. I hate this whole fucking degenenerate timeline.
>At this point only a global nuclear holocaust can revert the damage done by technology to this whole species.
I sympathize with that statement so much that I fail to express it with words adequately.

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>>9460
Tech is only a hobby for me at this point. I did all my work over the years mostly on the text terminals that you think are useless. I got paid. I'm done with all that. Now I do my computing how I want to, not how someone else wants.

>>5492 (OP) 
Linux block device/partition names like /dev/sda1  because they can change if you add another disk (just like modern NIC names, old naming (like eth0) is better). Luckily, you can use /dev/disk/by-label/*

>>5492 (OP) 
>>>/tech/15167

>>14818
One of us!
One of us!

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>>14844
Yeah it's a big scam, just like all the rest of tech. Especially NigVideo that's always #1 and basically carrying the stonks market all by itself. Otherwise everyone would have realized long ago the reality: the economy is fucked.

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Here's another one:
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/trump-officials-reportedly-easing-rules-self-driving-cars-elon-musk-pushes-robotaxis
Who even asked for self-driving cars in the first place? This is the stupidest idea ever. They'll never be safe! Modern appliances keep getting shittier every year, but somehow they think this is going to be any different? No, it'll be just another shitbox. And on top of that it'll be even more complicated and less repairable than any of the recent cars. Great for the manufacturer and dealers, a nightmare for everyone else.

>>14847
Car accident statistics improved too much so a sustainable way to correct them was clearly needed.
I don't think autonomous automobiles are a tech dead-end per se but they'll never happen with society, industry and economy in their current state of absolution.

>>14847
If they wanted realistic autonomous transportation they would just invest money into tram and metro lines. The latter can already work without a conductor, and teaching an "AI" to handle a tram would be at least semi-realistic on the long term, because it just has to learn not to close the door on someone. Although that might be still too complicated for big tech.

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>>14599
I think 08 was ok in the beginning, but only a couple weeks later they added a requirement to generate IDs for posting, allegedly to deal with spam. Problem: you had to connect over clearnet to generate an ID. I bailed at that point, since I was already unhappy with the sluggish web interface.

>>14600
Some of those clients might have an option to use a proxy server, but otherwise they should work via torsocks.

> what if websites just served plain text?
The web is overkill for this. All you need is gopher.

>>14603
>Problem: you had to connect over clearnet to generate an ID.
Uh, no?
The ID generator was hosted via Zeronet as well, though it didn't werk half the time.
What killed 08 in my opinion wasn't so much the need for nigger IDs which you could generate and swap to as needed provided the ID generator wasn't overloaded again but the fact that the IDs/usernames of other users were visible by default with only a clientside option to hide them rather than IDs being represented by per-thread hashes during normal use and only really applying in the case of clientside bans, with no way to make them visible outside of perhaps BO admin tools.

>>14710
Zeronet is worse than clearnet.

>>845 (OP) 
Current i2p checksums are mixed up!

from their official website:
>ea3872af06f7a147c1ca84f8e8218541963da6ad97e30e1d8f7a71504e4b0cee

calculated from downloads folder:
<d70ee549b05e58ded4b75540bbc264a65bdfaea848ba72631f7d8abce3e3d67a  Downloads/i2pinstall_2.7.0.jar
<ea3872af06f7a147c1ca84f8e8218541963da6ad97e30e1d8f7a71504e4b0cee  Downloads/i2pinstall_2.7.0_windows.exe

>>14849
they fixed it.

Hello

Is it possible to temporarily disable the word filter? I'm trying to make a thread about cock.li's recent outrage.

>>14789
What string was you filtered for? Post a screenshot of the text

>>14794
> What string was you filtered for?

The board software just says the post was blocked due to the word filter, then redirects it to the index.

The attached file has the post's text.

>>14795
Strange, I don't see the match. Post it now.

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>>14797
Worked now.

Thank you!

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>>13205
I think they achieved exactly what they wanted—a tumor rotting the Linux ecosystem from the inside out, so I don't think they're actually idiots. Microsoft is undoubtedly the worst technology company in existence, and this kind of long-term destruction is all too familiar to them.

>>14543
I probably misremembered one of the many names she goes by. Here's the article I was thinking about: https://edramatica.com/Randi_Harper

>>14553
>tfw it took 2 years for somebody to [b]read[/b] your post
If we're talking about freebsd faggotry it's not just that they added a code of conduct for no reason it's that it was copy and pasted from something called the geek feminism wiki, so you can imagine how bad it was. The main issue with freebsd though is dogshit security although the hardenedbsd project is trying to fix that.

>>14544
>Microsoft is undoubtedly the worst technology company in existence, and this kind of long-term destruction is all too familiar to them.
Microsoft depends on linux as much as anyone to run their internal infrastructure.

>>13206
>I have a modified Ubuntu where I run BusyBox init instead of systemd
Gentoo used to make you type VERY_BRAVE_OR_VERY_DUMB=yes to do that.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-518111-start-0.html

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systemd is the best init and very based

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>>14677
Maybe it started out as an init system one day. But then it grew into a rampaging tentacle monstrosity.