/tech/ - Technology

>>12922
This sounds like it's more adaptive and also targets problematic users for shadowbanning. So like instead of having a bunch of fact-checkers running a counter-narrative and at the same time pumping them up in search engines, they just straight up eliminate the opposing side altogether before they can communicate and replace them with kosher bots (so that the social media doesn't become eerily silent).

>>12922
>How do we even counteract something like that
One thing is proof of work. Make it easy to post at a human pace but sending 1000 posts per second becomes computationally expensive. Another thing is reputation systems. Everyone has a public-private key and software to filter out posts signed by known bot keys or only show posts signed by keys you trust or trusted by keys you trust. With zero knowledge proofs you can also do this in a way that nobody can enumerate all your posts and attribute them to your key.

>>12922
> How do we even counteract something like that other than giving up on the internet entirely?
Not sure, maybe isolated intranets that vet users or something. I think Tor/i2p/freenet may become the only kind of option soon.

>>12922
>giving up on the internet entirely
>implying there is anything on the internet worth not giving up on
Think about why does a person uses the internet. Roughly speaking it is to exchange information. Information including news, political views, memes, private messages, etc. Where do they come from? Who compose the majority of the other end of any information exchange?
Assume that bots and AIs are not already flooding the Internet, that is to say most other users are humans. Most humans are normalfags. Since the Internet getting popular, most places gone to shit because of normalfags. One reason normalfags turn everything to shit because they are inherently more socialized, which means they are more affected by social norms and peer pressure. Even without AI, the ((( media ))) has been pumping normalfags full of degeneration, niggerloving and other literal faggot crap. The so-called culture war.
But there was never any war, it is just replacement of any resemblance of anything nice into jewish bullshit. The game was rigged from the start. It is similar to white replacement, free-thinkers and based individuals are being drown out by the sheer number of normalfags, with more and more newfags (migrants) invading from all parts of the Internet. The September that never ended.
As for the stragglers, we are ge

>>12920
Part of it happens because authoritarian kool-aid drinking technocrats are in charge now and they think their power should be used "responsibly" (ie. propagandistically) by search results that would give people the wrong idea, but a lot of it is also just plain abusing monopoly power to support their own ecosystems to get more money in a roundabout way as well as shitting up search results because fuck you, they're a monopoly, you'll use them anyway, so they might as well collect those sweet savings on performance and take that cash to the bank.

It's fucking cancer and I hate Google now. It's just evil and when it isn't engaging in information control it is engaging being low effort trash.

Golly gee, I sure do love when my search results are crowded by SEO slop articles, some of them clearly AI-written, instead of actual fucking content.

>>13664 (me)
Before you wonder why we have tech despite that:
>more heat means more plants
>more plants more people
>more people more random geniuses born
>they made libraries and schools for stupid people of which makes a 'smarter' illusion 
It was always that and only that. Those libraries, those giants standing on giants, it took time. Too much time. Where is the Saturn V missile schematics? Where is the original telemetry data? They suck at programming, laws shit too? Everyone seems like a clown lately? Oh dear oh dear, not obvious at all.

>>13663
The cargo cult is because things have become too complicated. And when they realize the complexity is causing problems, they don't scale back. Instead they just make another more complicated tool.
The ultimate delusion is that AI is going to solve all the complicated messes they created.

>>13668
>The ultimate delusion is that AI is going to solve all the complicated messes they created.
Can't wait for AI to tart writing pajeet code.

>>13664
>Made me laugh. Didn't our brains lose a golf ball sized chunk since the stone age? 
Human intelligence has been collapsing since the industrial revolution. There's a whole book about it called At Our Wit's End. The tldr is that smart people waste their lives working while dumb people fuck like rabbits and collect unemployment checks from the government.

>>13665
>more people more random geniuses born
There is more to it than that, even with a few 10.000 years head start africa has never spawned an einstein.

>>13664
>niggers have the least neanderthal genes by the way
That's one theory, sub saharan africans never bred with neanderthals because they were physically cut off by water on 3 sides and the sahara desert.

There is also the winter theory which better explains why light skin correlates with intelligence. People who evolve in variable climates have lighter skin to absorb more sunlight. They also need to plan ahead and hoard resources to survive winter. White people who didn't prepare for winter or ate all their food on December 1st were selected out of the gene pool by evolution. People who evolve in tropical climates don't have as much evolutionary pressure o

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>>13464 (OP) 
The higher-ups think of most computer shit as wizardry and often don't see a difference between being secure and claiming you are secure, except that the latter is more cost-effective for obtaining consumers.

The network guys are a product of a public education system that convinced them they are smart lads when all they know is how to regurgitate the shit they were told and that's the mindset they bring to IT work even though that requires actual thought. So you end up with total shitters who think whatever shit they're excited about it technological deep lore and delude themselves that secretly everyone is as clueless or thoughtless as they are. All they know how to do is follow a security process and the rest is not a problem even though security has to be holistic to be meaningful. Any feelings of incompetence must just be imposter syndrome, clearly.

So the end result is that most security is just theater performed by incompetents, really. Hey, he managed to update his firewall and antivirus software. That clearly means it's a secure system now. :^)

At least when voting machines have this cancer they have the excuse that those machines are designed to enable election rigging.

I improved DeepSeek-V3 performance from 0.5 to 1.2 tokens/s by tuning the filesystem:
- I was using transparent ZSTD compression at first, which had much higher overhead than I anticipated (fast NVMe SSDs are something else...).
- LLMs are already highly compressed, so gains from LZ4 are <0.5% or less. Not worth the CPU overhead, even if quite minimal.
- Checking htop, CPU I/O overhead still seemed substantial. I decided to wipe the SSD entirely with nvme format and put xfs on it (instead of f2fs).
- I copied the files with rsync -rav --preallocate and also ensured it actually is defragmented with xfs_fsr to ensure filesystem overhead is minimal.

Checking with iotop, I/O bandwidth is about
- 5.6G/s during warmup
- 6.0G/s to 6.5g/s when parsing input
- 2.5G/s to 3.8G/s when emitting tokens

Doubling the amount of threads (on a 8C/16T CPU) only slows it down, which suggests I'm DRAM-bandwidth limited again. So fixing the timings is next on the menu.

DeepSeek-R1 performance also improved a bit, from 1.4 tokens/s to 1.66 tokens/s

i swear deepseek will make debloating bots mainstream again where we will see comeback of <500 token bots since all your tokens are being wasted on this "reasoning" thing

>>15752
No. Offtopic dumping is spam. Posting pictures for discussions is on topic.
Dumping in an AI picture dump thread would be on topic but the thread is offtopic for /tech/.
Use >>190 for meta next time.

i take it back what i said about "reasoning" thing being interesting. i think it will bring demise to ai as a whole with more censorship than ever where jbs or euphemisms will no longer work because reasoning makes ai too smart to fall for the old tricks. too smart for its own good

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I've been following the Lean 4 development. It is advanced enough that you've got people like Terry Tao using it. Using Lean4, there is a competition between Open AI, Meta AI and Google Proof (Alpha Proof). At the they're all at roughly the same level of a High School math Olympiad mathematician.

I think it has a possibility to end mathematics or at the very least drastically change the entire field. At the very least, you've got to be able to get to the stage where you can feed the system some of the mathematical problems that limit LLM AI models, and then use those results to improve the LLM AI models, which improve the mathematical models that that's built on, which...

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>>6567
>not running Tomato Garden XP
You can set custom boot logo (Plymouth) on Linux, too.

>>6567
Three words: Hannah Montana Linux.

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>>6464 (OP) 
I follow the same few steps each time:

1. Look for any bloat I can find and get rid of it.
2. Install all of the crucial software for my personal usecase.
3. Customize the UI to my liking so it both looks and feels good to use.

If an OS lets me get rid of bloat, runs programs I need, and look/feel how I like, it's a win!

Prime95
FurMark
Wireshark
Memtest86
Smartmontools
TestUFO
CrystalDiskInfo

>>6464 (OP) 
I treat my computer no differently than I do regardless of OS because I stick to what I find to work for me.
>Customize to desired look without ricing if possible
>Stress test
>All the basic shit like format a SD card, download manager, Console emulators , Downloading browsers, Import Bookmarks, Font Change

>>15981
zzzchan absolutely loathes new users. If you want to grow a community then this is the wrong site to do it in.

>>15982
I think it has more to do with the fact that the new users are absolute tards. Anyone who is looking to use a imageboard is genuinely less intelligent and just unwilling to use anything but essentially what is reddit but dogshit.
Group watches and game nights are great. The sense of community on the internet has degraded to non existent. This site is still fucking garbage despite that it's better here in that sense but because of people unwilling to let go of their braindead obsessions.

If only there was a middle ground that could be reached  but then that would mean autistic anons would have to be dropped.

>>15981
I agree that beging fast isn't sufficient to be good and too much speed can be a problem. zzz/tech/ is easiest the best quality technology board around and I want to keep it this way.
The speed problem is partly my fault. I could've made many posts, but I was busy and very unmotovated for a while. Now I am just busy. And during the 4 downtime, I could've advertised around to get people. One probably true excuse is that I fear the quality of posters on 4/g/. But in truth I was just lazy.
I am a bit salty about 8 getting the traffic, when I thought everyone would be here and I need to put more hotpocket in the microwave. Afterall, 8 cucked super hard when they got nuked.
Still I appreciate the injection of speed by a few posters that have drifted to my board. /tech/ isn't much but it's my home and I hope you find my policies to keep the quality high is working.
May as well use this chance to explain my policies. Discussions should be on topic, without too strict enforcement to keep the fun going. Since our speed is low, every post counts, this produces the following effects:
>the value of each post is higher
>bad/offtopic posts do more damage as they stay up longer
Because of this, instead of deletion, I move offtopic posts to >>5022. I do this to not remove opinions but to

>>15982
I see, fair enough.

>>15984
Thanks for the reply! Don't be hard on yourself, I think you're doing a great job, this place is pretty great.

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>>15983
Reddit is much worse, everything about it. And I don't think it was ever gud, unlike slashdot. Slashdot was decent in the late 90's, before they defaulted anonymous posts to -1 and changed the interface to a very painful browsing experience in Lynx.
Reddit mossad lady on the left.

use seeker anon, it's on play store, izzydroid and aurora store

>>1606 (OP) 
a pathetic existance of a zoom zoom

>>1616
Why? There is lno reason not to own a computer. Buy a Thinkpad, those are like 200-300$. Go on craigslist, ebay, kikebook marketplace and you will find loads of cheap laptops and desktops. Go to goodwill or you local thrift store and look there. Don't tell you don't even have 200$ to spare? Fuck off right now and buy a computer.

>>9462
In places like india and africa there is no 2nd hand pc/laptop market they basically jumped straight to smartphones.

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>>1614
NTA but a few people have genuinely completely replaced desktops and laptops in favor of smartphones and especially tablets. Depending on your usecases, there might not be a real need for a proper PC, and as a consequence iOS/iPadOS or Android are your the only OS you have available. Of course, often one might run into situations like these, where there's no mobile alternative.

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Can't make this shit up.

>>4939 (OP) 
Good thing I've decided to look through the catalog.

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>>9975
Who gives a shit? there's always cool guys regardless of race and religion means fuck all as to a person's real values. it sucks no one really helped him. I have to assume half of his rants were him and the other half his schizophrenia. 
if not he would not have been so openly digging his own grave if not for his illness.

Judgement is reserved by ourselves  doing so to others is simply cruel because  you don't know their perspective.  those who you find to be troubled you should try to help instead of  ignoring and condemning because that's how you gain real friends that you can trust for life without having to be born next door.

>>4939 (OP) 
>jews jewing jews
They do deserve each other, eh?

>>13124
>this overused fake phrase
You actually can. Schizophrenics do it all the time. Such as schizophrenic jews with high IQs.

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My digital microscope arrived. It took some fiddling to get good resolution but it does work as advertised. In particular, the lens should be as close to the surface as possible (which in hindsight makes sense...).
The lens is obviously not centered properly though, which is annoying. I might try to fix it.

I probably should just buy an adapter board instead of trying to solder the chip manually.

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>>15866
>>15863
>blacked.gov

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>>15866
>>15863
>He clicked Yes

>>15866
>>15863
SHAME

>>15853
I see... that's a bummer, anon...

>>15896
Because canonical is a bunch of RETARDS

Any of you fags are using the pine phone? How is it?

>5 years ago
<still no linux phones

>>15936
is there any real actual advantages outside of being pinged? I would think that using something outside of android and IOS would put a red bullseye on your back.

>>10175
This picture feels so pointless yeah it's blatant the art is shit.  But what do you expect when you hire a hentai artist worse things come to worse being that if they drew her normally mentally ill women and homosexuals will cry they're sexualizing children despite it's just a drawing.
So no matter what you cannot win how you draw her unless you dress her like a Muslim woman with a hijab.

>>15936
They exist and you can even buy them, they are just not ready for daily use, which is a travesty. But then commercial UNIX pretty much died out because every vendor had its own line of expensive RISC work stations running their own flavour of UNIX, meanwhile anyone could take a random x86 computer and start tinkering with Linux. The problem is that there is no smartphone equivalent of x86 computers, instead you have to either fight tooth-and-nail to somehow put your own OS on a locked down phone, or try make your own. The former is not that much fun when you can permanently brick your phone if something goes wrong, and the latter seems to be too expensive for an end product that is objectively inferior to a low end Android phone.