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Today is Windows XP's 20th birthday. Say something nice about it.
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any /prog/fags here? what is it like handling programs made by trannies? is it true that gays code software better than the rest of us?
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>>6508
I am afraid the only fag here is you. Gays are not necessary better programmers. kys
>>6508
I don't think gays or trannies make better software than anyone else. They are certainly better at annoying the fuck out of people and making themselves known, though.
Preferably you'd avoid tranny software whenever possible. If they really care about FOSS, then they should tolerate someone that doesn't like them making use of their software, but of course we all know how tolerant trannies are, so I wouldn't bet on them staying neutral in regards to Chuck the Chud  using xer software to run a neo-nazi forum.
>>3444 (OP) 
Everything downhill ever since. I'd buy a windows xp handheld if they made one for retro gaming and such, just non-Internet things. It'd be neat if it had no wifi nor bluetooth. I wonder if an atompi can do it? Too big though. Win7 works they say but then mini-itx would be better for that.. when win7 works.  I still have a dell inspiron b130 and it runs an older project64 pretty good for common n64 titles. Older/weaker consoles even better of course. 
>>3451
>>3453
And yet systemd took Linux over and Linux comes with Chromium installed also now days I'm sure. The way you install things is dick with Linux. Javascript, cookies... why even complain? Post 2007 CPU's got backdoors in them to where they can hack from afar as I understand it rather than crack up close. Why move on past 2007 devices? Are you using Debian 5 on a 2005 cpu? 

It's okay I like Lakka and Slacoware version Puppy Linux and dual booting them using Pinn. 

>but slackware HATES Wifi!
Good.
>>3444 (OP) 
>Say something nice about it.
Most comfy OS I have ever used. Privacy and security concerns were limited and easy to deal with back in the day. Easy to modify to hell and back. Great useful programs out of the box for people to make their first baby steps with a PC. Great for video games old and new at the time. The definition of the home computer in the early 2000s.

Two years ago I build an offline XP machine from the best eary 2000s hardware I could find to play with some old games that don't run correctly on modern systems. Was fun to fiddle with the old hardware again. But oh man was it slow. Once the games were running it's fine, just like today. But everything else took it's minutes and seconds longer than you expect it.

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Please write a Violentmonkey script to hide threads. I wrote such script for prolikewoah, but I can't be assed to do the same for this shit. ttps://prolikewoah.com/geimu/res/26529.html#37226
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If internet is real life, then punch me.

A lot of internet is an extension of real life, and this is one of few places that still isn't.
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>>6492
The distinction is retarded. The internet is as real as anything in life. Does it become more real if you print my post on a piece of paper? Or pay a bitch to read it out loud?
Not providing touch/smell doesn't mean it is not real.
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>>6092
Please post it.
>>6495
philosophically illiterate post
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>>6525
>everything I disagree is philosophically illiterate
Are you so philosophically illiterate that you can't even explain why you disagree with anything?

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I've been thinking about writing a blog. Nothing fancy. No private lives. No pictures. No product-shilling. Just writing words.

I tried Blogger and Wordpress and I had a bad experience with them, considering that the ToS became more restrictive over the years.
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>>6439
I demand that you correct this at once.  The Internet needs real racist anime fanfiction.  With extra >rape.
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>>6439
If you post that shit on my site, you will get banned for supporting globalhomo.
>>6440
>With extra >rape.
How about you find some black boys to buck break, start your very own gay sex farm, and write about it?
>>6384
except that it's called "substack" which reeks of nudev faggotry
it will be unusable within a year (if it isn't already, everything i've seen posted on there is pretentious and worthless crap like when medium just came out).
then again if you're just trying to get your info out you would be using multiple hosts and just springing up a mirrors on other hosts when a few go down, as opposed to being hugely worried about branding and having a central SEO optimized domain name like a braindead LARPing faggot like you
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>>6452
that's fine. i wouldn't want to read one more letter from you.

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What is the reason for the govt to spy on us? Do they really do it or is it just schizo shit? If they really did, how come the school shooter who says he will shoot up a school in instagram DMs the day before the shooting, doesn't get caught? Or is it that they don't think school shooters are more likely to be on sekrit clubs like 4chan, as proved by the neoouroncha shit how the japanese police was monitoring 2channel for violent people and caught the neomugicha copycat before he did anything, so they didn't pay any attention to normies threatening shit?

It's not like even they enforce their political ideology and curb wrongthink by spying on us. What do they get from spying on people? Ross Ulbricht was caught because of bad opsec and a simple google search, they can't even track a literal drug cartel with all the spyware they use.
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>>6476 (OP) 
>What is the reason for the govt to spy on us?
Control and paranoia.

>Do they really do it or is it just schizo shit?
Yes they do it. Mass-surveillance is pretty easy to do since everyone is on social media and has a goyphone.

>how come the school shooter who says he will shoot up a school in instagram DMs the day before the shooting, doesn't get caught?
Remember Waco? Can you trust your government? ((( They ))) get more money for the next budget if there are terrorist and school shooters. It's not just about pure money but also politics. 9/11 was known beforehand (dancing Israelis et. al.) but it wasn't stopped? Why? I bet it was because of money and the Patriot Act (and to get casus belli to attack middle eastern countries).
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>>6476 (OP) 
They want absolute control and ownership of everything, from your body to this planet, to the universe. They can't track everything yet, but that is the goal, because they want a system of universal slavery that will last forever and that can never be opposed. Just look at what is happening in the world right now. Agenda 21 has already happened, and Agenda 2030 is being implemented right now. They are already trying to take away people's land and talking about banning car ownership. There is no amount of power that they will be satisfied with.
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>>6476 (OP) 
At this point government spying, and corporate spying is pretty-much-accepted-as-fact regardless of what they're actually doing.

the NSA spy-ops are generally seen as gov spying on citizens for stupid reasons. I don't have it personally, but there's a repost that details how there's a recon organization for the US armed forces that basically is the eyes for actual threats against our nation without the need for spying on citizens. 

I don't know, but I have three hypotheses on just why they spy on citizens.
Law Route - "War is changing, we need to look for threats within ourselves,"
Neutral Route - "Better safe than sorry, everyone else is doing it anyway,"
Chaos Route - "Nobody can be trusted, we will not survive an uprising without this,"

>>6479
Believe it or not, most of the "wow, you're so paranoid for not having a facebook/instagram/google/pintrest/tiktok account, lol." types are either out-of-touch wannabe-influencers, shills, or bots.

Most normies are actually sick of feeling like all their tech is watching them, they're just afraid and don't know what to do to fix the problem. Besides, it's not like anyone with a cell phone had a choice in that their personal data is being treated like another piece in a spreadsheet to be used as a convenient blackmail tool. 

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Author of the Randonautica app confirmed on a Livestream that both his app and TikTok are using data they steal from user’s minds with hardware backdoors.

His naivety is thinking the military isn’t using this for terrorism.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn77LzVhous [38:50 – 42:59]
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>>5985
I didn't elaborate enough. I agree with the reference in regards to the  OP.
Magical thinking is often schizophrenia, not based on reality.
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>>6029
>Most people lack both internal monologe and internal visualization
Very flawed statement. All people are capable of dreaming and therefore internal monologue and vis. It's just that most people can't change their brainwaves at will which requires training. For instance, a martial artist's fighting stance is a way for them to calm their nerves and enter the zone, reminding them of their training - which they have memorized by heart.

This imagination isn't limited to dreaming, you can put someone into a daydream state. Let's put on the special incense to calm your nerves down and put you into such state, there you go, now you have it. What if someone blows you the Devil's Breath while on vacation? Now for sure you WILL develop your very own realistic imagination, visuals, voices while awake.

With that said, there is really no "NPC" meme. Maybe if you're crippled by birth or lack chromosomes it would prove to be difficult (or even the opposite!).

>huerstic for consciousness
Another thing you're dead wrong about. Consciousness is constantly manipulated by the subconscious. When you go live in the woods you will dream of being chased by a predator this is due to your brains survival "patch" work, your subconscious will now be implanted with such thought of danger  forcing you to be more extremely careful in the woods but what happens if the billion dollar Ad industry also have thoroughly researched on this and even uses techniques far beyond the average one's comprehension? Let's not even forget about intelligence agencies that abuse subliminal programming and psychology operations in the daily. Even military use psychological warfare (over internet or cyberspace, aka cyber warfare), you can read and download their academic papers if you don't believe me.

Most of consciousness is pretty much hijacked BUT there is one problem to "them". This was the imageboards. Imageboards are free from such idiosyncrasies caused by intruders let alone these narcissists >>6019 Anon talks about as they likely are the odd one out (namefags btfo). Imageboards is a free rein.
We are the hivemind immune to bullshit, it's like the complete opposite of a herd being manipulated, imageboard is where the free hivemind can olny exist in todays internet world (contrary to plebbit) and of which hivemind develops its own superintelligence, both the conscious and subconscious simply by shitposting, larping, and memeing, through words and the logos we retain what is important, passed on like memes. This is the TRUE consciousness. True Logos. Just like the when the prophets wrote the Bible which are passed on and protected.

Elon was absolutely right when he said picrel. Most people are manipulated by light, the LCD screens all people hold all day are part of their OWN consciousness. We are however different and obverse to such, we are the mind inside the LCD screen - the very reason why "they" are actively trying to subvert and attack imageboards especially also imageboards that are focused on the paranormal and occultism aspects.
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>>6288
The NPC meme is absolutely real. Being able to enter into a dream state does not mean that you have the capacity for internal visualization or internal monologue in the waking state. I don't understand what you are even trying to say here. I do find it funny your argument includes a fucking Twitter screencap from grifter Musk who is arguably the closest match to the tribulation schizos definition of an anti-christ (a universally loved figure) who wants to put brain chips in people's skull.
>>6089
Inner speech is a layer of thought on top of "cerebration". NPCs simply lack the inner voice.  People that think with words do both.
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>>6288 (checked)
First off, Bold claims bro, but there are too many prophets this day and age, far too many hands churning the waters of fate, spreading fearmongering and screaming hopes to their dire futures possibly-becoming reality.

Second. Centralized communication circles become corrupted shitheaps because the administration is either corrupted, replaced by, or has always been malicious actors. That's what happened to Reddit. Reddit just has the additional problem of the narcissist-dream of having a score to your posts. It's why the dead internet theory is a load of shit- it's not because of anything about bots, it's because people have patterns and search engines are tailored to an extremely-narrow pattern.

Third. ((( the usual suspects ))) may have billions of psych research on their side, but they make the mistake of thinking they're immune to their own tactics. Hell, their tactics at the end of the day, are based off of really old, tried-and-true manipulative-narcissist-parent bullshit that has existed since biblical times.

The whole "manipulated by light, and LCD screen," shit though, I somewhat agree with, just for different reasons. Nowadays popular media-outlets try to make people chase the "wiki walk" effect, and have tuned algorithms to try and keep people as distracted as possible for views, clicks and ad revenue. Same with mobile games, but that's mostly beca
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Finally, we have /tech/ back. I uploaded these right before Zchan kicked the bucket, let's see what the anons around here can make.
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>>383
yeah
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>>6340
This is how you do it.
apologies for the nigger
Nice work

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I am currently using Colemak CAWS. It is the best currently available keyboard layout for ANSI/ISO column staggered keyboards. If you're a split/ortholinear chad then DHm is enough.
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>>6163
Have you tried vim keybindings for code editing? I think it can be more important than raw typing time if you're already pretty fast on QWERTY.
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Yesterday I topped out at 22WPM, but I must have been averaging 17 or so. Today I'm consistently doing about 23WPM, and I just got 24 for the first time.
I also figured out how to fix the website's layout, forcing a monospace font was breaking it.
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I spent almost the entire weekend on my new layout and didn't bother to do typeracer,
Now I'm faster but my speed is all over the place. I also feel like typeracer is giving me harder texts.
Colemak confirmed

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>>6163
Better layouts are faster, but the upper end of qwerty speeds are faster than you need for programming and creative writing. Being proficient with qwerty allows you to sit at nearly any computer desk in the english speaking world and blast out 90 wpm without even thinking about it or configuring an alternate layout.

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Something I've noticed with the failure of art teaching in schools is something that parallels with the failure of teaching programming in schools: Lack of structure.

When I say 'structure' I mean the teaching of craftwork that can be used as baselines to make things solid, sound and good. pic related is one of 25 pages dedicated to guidelines and overall structure of drawing figures. Anyone can draw or make art, but everyone knows the difference between good and bad art- except for idiots, that is. 

What I'd like to know, is how this can be paralleled to it's programming equivalent. I hear from programmers about how important math is- and I agree, but my problem with that, is that math's emphasis feels like it's either for magus-tier programming, or is so basic that it immediately fades into the background. Because of this, I feel like I've learned all I can at this stage but nobody knows anything on the level up except for pros who want peers rather than students.

I've heard "just do it" or "practice dude" but here's the thing: practice doesn't make perfect, it makes permanent. Trying to undo the damage of bad habits is effort on top of learning things the right way, the only saving grace is that is gets easier as you do it more. 

In conclusion, what is good programming structure? How can use it to be a better programmer and actually feel more than a just like a permanewb?
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>How To Design Programs
https://htdp.org is a bit like mini SICP. It uses a Racket subset.

>Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CABEA24090&index=1
If you choose to use Racket, either set the language to R5RS or get the SICP language (https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/package/sicp).
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>>3476
I don't even know what words to use to describe it, but there's a certain mindset that is required before a person can ever utter something of worth, and the architect anecdote that your link starts off with proves the writers have the right mindset.

I'll read it, thanks anon.
>>3479
guile worked perfectlu for SICp for me.
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>>3538
>A friend who used racket had to create his own versions of certain function, in order to run certain programs.
AFAIK, you don't have to do that if you use the SICP language (#lang sicp)
>>574 (OP) 
> I've heard "just do it" or "practice dude" but here's the thing: practice doesn't make perfect, it makes permanent. Trying to undo the damage of bad habits is effort on top of learning things the right way, the only saving grace is that is gets easier as you do it more. 
Alas, it’s not a failure, it’s the entire point. See also: semi-literacy training (teaching to read a letter based alphabet not letter by letter and/or with artificial interruptions). This produces all those TL/DRs who cannot read anything longer than a slogan. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

By now, it’s not even intentional, just intrinsic: everyone in educrap is a less-than-bright schizoid trained at parroting  the previous iteration of garbage and unable to do anything else. Garbage In, Garbage Out, in a feedback loop.
The thing with schizoids is that after some point they have trouble understanding “structure” at all. Thus everything gradually turns into Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge grade nonsense.

> In conclusion, what is good programming structure? 
Just like with everything: whatever fits the practical usage. Obviously, there are several approaches. And lots of bad practices. But even a bad practice beats a good air castle.

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Post about /tech/nological cancer that you've dealt with in the past.
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>>5629
Scroll down to the "continue" buttons, free accounts are only for contributing to existing projects, anything more and you need to pay or contribute to the sr.ht source.
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user like >>5503
linux
hardened linux
vala
terminal emulators
C (and java, because it's based on it)
LICENSE in open source projects
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>>5636
>using cancer
What is not cancer? Nearly everything is based on C. Posting here takes thousands lines of C.
>LICENSE
What is the alternative?
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>>5637
Don't reply to bait, dumbass.
>>5492 (OP) 
Computers, those are cancer. I had to deal with computers. Still have to do that today and still hate it. There is no good software, it is all terrible, and I have used all of it so I know that from experience.

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I've had taken a break form programming since mid 2020. Lost overall interest and such. But now it's quite hard to get back at it and get any motivation, especially having learnt how shitty the job market for programmers really is. 

So my question, is it even worth getting back at this? I liked it as a hobby but I don't want to be a code monkey in the future. Would I be better off becoming a teacher or studying medicine?

Please let me know.
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>>5519
You can still code as a hobby on your own time.
Related question, how do you find the energy and motivation to work on your project with a 9-5 code monkey job? I am just too tired to do anything, but I want to work on my shit.
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>>5539
Drugs or working out
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>>5541
My body is weird, I gets mini heart attacks with just a small cup of coffee. I probably will die if I take drugs. How can you work out when you are tired as fuck?
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>>5547
Just force yourself and the energy will come. It sounds like bullshit but that's how your body works.

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