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'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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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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>>15666
Thank you Satan.
Is that orange message I get telling me I can change the default name "master" when cloning a git just a concession to dumbasses BAWWWWing about slavery or BDSM or whatever the fuck?
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>>15669
git's default branch was master. GitHub and other git hosts conform to sjw niggerfuckery and have its own default branch changed to main. That probably happened at the same time as whitelist to allowlist and blacklist to blocklist. Then some git installations began to distrubute git with the default branch set to main. Probably you are on windows.
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>>15669
Just rename master to nigger, that'll shut up the orange thing.
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I moved from artix-xfce to artix-cinnamon and I was using this to take screenshots
>sh -c 'xfce4-screenshooter -w -s "$HOME/Pictures/Screenshots/$(ps -p $(xdotool getactivewindow getwindowpid) -o comm=)_$(date "+%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S").png"'
I tried to do this
>sh -c 'gnome-screenshot -w -s "$HOME/Pictures/Screenshots/$(ps -p $(xdotool getactivewindow getwindowpid) -o comm=)_$(date "+%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S").png"'
But it didn't work, what should I modify?

Also, how do I make Nemo use moonrunes?

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Are you employed in a technical capacity? What job is it? How did you get it? What does your daily wokload look like? Are you looking for a different line of work?
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>>15526
sysadmin is largely dead other then windows sysadmin. DevOps took its place, which full-stack/"backend"/ai then took its place.
>>15525
Api test, which i suck at. E2e, which is replicating typical flow of an user. Typically just testing websites, but lately i work on android as well. Moving higher up you have to manage your repo, cicd, performance test. Auto test is different from unit test, which is usually the job of the developers.
I worked as a software developer for years. It was traumatizing as hell and made me extremely averse to white collar jobs. I started suffering from anxiety and despair from interacting with coworkers and became a lot healthier after switching to being a delivery driver. As a driver, I could be alone almost all the time. I remember being screamed at by a manager because I started panicking when a coworker noticed I was wearing headphones and started continuously coming up to me for bullshit reasons to aggravate me. This same coworker was editing my code to introduce bugs and reporting it to the manager. The manager said I couldn't wear headphones anymore so the other coworkers harassed me by playing music loudly, rapping out loud, whispering loudly about me, tapping on my desk when they walked by, and screaming when they were near me. As a driver, nobody ever fucked with me for listening to music. The pay was poorer as a driver but not by much and I ended up making more because I could hold the job long term instead of getting fired every few months.

Becoming a truck driver requires a 1 month course. It's the easiest job in the world, just don't fall asleep. There's probably 20 trucking jobs for every software developer job. You make about as much as an entry level programmer with a bachelor's degree starting and you can make $100k+ after 2 years if you do long hauls. It helps to be over 25 for insurance. You're alone most of the time, especially if you do no touch freight. It lets you see the continent instead of being in a fucking office.

Here's a few pieces of advice for people working in programming/IT/sysadmin type jobs
- Don't.
- Have a high leveled degree. No matter what your portfolio is, people will use any excuse they can to question your competence. People that have never written a hello world will say you don't know anything just because you don't have a degree. These are often the types that can be replaced by a software update and are afraid of you.
- If you believe in producerism and like programming because you like producing things, working as a programmer will likely ruin it for you. You're a gorillion times more likely to work on malware or DRM than a programming language or operating system. This is a white collar administrator type job. You'll be in an office or call center interacting with bureaucrats. That means you'll be with business managers, accountants, human resources, brokers, lawyers, marketers, salespeople, and other pencil pushers. The type that don't generate wealth, only move it. If you want to be successful in this type of job, don't just learn tech, learn how businesses operate. Thank about if you really fit in with that clique. Most "programmers" don't program, they just pretend. You won't be able to talk with them about programming, just sportsball.
- If you actually do your job, you're going to get replaced quickly. The work ethic of this kind of job is "pretend to be busy". You will be pressured into making code hard to understand and bloated so that you're more difficult to replace, having feature creep in order to "stay busy", having technological debt to keep yourself occupied, and so on. It's the digital equivalent of digging holes and then filling them again over and over. Your coworkers will harass you for fixing bugs they depend on. I've experienced a coworker having a meltdown because I replayed code he wrote that had(in PHP) "for(...) {$a[] = $b;}" with "array_fill(...)". Apparently the program slowing down made it look more professional and official, like it was doing more. You see, only little kids write code that executes instantly. That means it's not doing anything, right?
- These types of jobs attract liberal ideologues. No matter how much you appease them, it'll never be enough. To them, trannies and illegals are sacred. They'll be suspicious if you don't use Redditspeak. At best they'll think of you as being an old fashioned weirdo and at worst a right wing terrorist. If you're ethnic, exaggerate it as much as possible. Talk with a heavy accent even if your family has been present for generations. It'll make it easier to excuse your oddness to them. Be careful using ideal grammar. To them, that screams "white nationalist". They like talking in rap slang. Be prepared to practice doublethink in any topic related related to race or immigration.
- You do not need a 9-5 schedule. It's just there to make it more difficult for you to work and to exhaust you. Sleep deprivation causes severe and irreparable brain damage. Remember that there are jobs out there where you don't get screamed at for being 5 minutes late, you just get paid for 5 minutes less.
- Beware of white collar crime. If you're getting paid a lot of money without doing much work or working remotely and your coworkers take you out to expensive restaurants and give you expensive gifts, when you get positive reviews despite not doing much, when you get raises in response to asking for more work, it's a sign that they're trying to frame you or manipulate you or make you take a fall for a crime.
- No gun signs aren't for guns, they're for you. The sign doesn't apply to the manager.
- Smoke weed and get your coworkers high. It's a way to unfuck your coworkers. There's no way anyone can work this kind of job and not go crazy without drugs.

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>>15593
I was considering on going for a sysadmin kind of career for years, especially having used to be a loonix privacy schizo for so many years. But I never did well in college for so many years and there's just so much bleak and obnoxious shit about the tech industry overall. I don't want to be forced to become a libshit normalnigger or any kind of normalnigger for that matter. I don't want to suck jewniggercock. I just want to work and go home with a decent paycheck at least, as opposed to retail wagecucking I tried for almost a year and quit. I'm perfectly okay now with going to trade school or finding a helper job in a trade, or possibly changing my major to whatever is in higher demand and won't leave me cucked. I'm just not ready physically for trades yet and I never drove, so I'm not sure if trucking is right for me. Maybe delivery/courier jobs more locally instead of interstate would be a choice, don't know yet though. I do have some trades in mind to go for, but I'd rather not talk more about that.
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>>15594
>especially having used to be a loonix privacy schizo for so many years
How'd you stop?

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Discuss /tech/-related news.
What will happen if section 230 is nuked?
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The advantage of HVIF is that it's so tiny it fits in the filesystem metadata. This benefit isn't there for cursors.
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>>15617
>different sizes could be configured for different windows 
For different screens. That's what I meant.
>>15622
Space efficiency aside, HVIF also has a bunch of other advantages from being so domain specific, like vertices being presorted for deterministic single-pass rendering, responsively simplified coordinate and shape representations for faster rendering, and purely binary format for faster parsing than text markup. Also, of course, fixed maximum complexity and Turing-incompleteness, but that's technically nothing a preprocessor couldn't guarantee for restricted subsets of, e.g., SVG.
I downloaded the Paprika movie, but I don't know how to extract the .ass subtitles using ffmpeg
Torrent.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5a8d045821f84966433a1c77b4036da56c334e5e&dn=%5BTrix%5D%20Paprika%20%282006%29%20%5BMulti%20Audio%5D%20%5BDual%20Subs%5D%20%28BD%201080p%20AV1%29%20-%20VF%2FVOSTFR&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fnyaa.tracker.wf%3A7777%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce
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>>15632
https://superuser.com/a/927507

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The modern internet is absolute cancer, so here's some old-school alternatives to some of the major aspects of the modern web. If you have any others you'd like to mention and discuss, feel free.

Instead of social media and forums, try using Usenet and BBSes. There exists many a BBS to choose from, and you can even create your own. Usenet newsgroups exist for many, many topics, and if you wanna create one (ideally based on a topic with some decent amount of appeal), you can even present your idea to the folks at alt.config and they *may* create a newsgroup for you.

Instead of blogging on sites like Tumblr, Myspace, and all those sites with period blood smeared all over them, try running a Gopherspace. It's text-only and uncluttered, and there's no JavaShit to bog down the experience.

Instead of GitHub, host all your code on an FTP site. And instead of posting videos to JewTube, you can make the videos downloadable on that same FTP site, along with anything else you wanna offer up.

Finally, instead of insecure messaging applications, use encrypted email.
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Hrm, one more test...
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>>15647
>>15648
So does it work with this board software?
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>>15652
No. I gave up after that. It doesn't look like it posts the image. :/
>>15628 (OP) 
Here's an old school alternative...anyone still play any MU*s in 2025?
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>>15659
Even if nobody does, anyone who wants to can still start one up.
List of known MUDs here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090820043750/http://geocities.com/mud_gallery/

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Discussion about "AI"s, deep learning, llms and others.
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>>15607
Anon, you know you can make a small-scale Gamenight thred over on /v/?

t. did just that for Trials of Mana/聖剣伝説3 3 years ago and played through the entire game with 2 other anons via mednafen
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>>15627
>t. did just that for Trials of Mana/聖剣伝説3 3 years ago and played through the entire game with 2 other anons via mednafen
If you aren't lying, I hope you treasure that memory. To find two people like that through a random /v/ thread is so precious. Especially two people that would actually play through it with you the entire way, and don't do that "I'm not letting you move the screen, hahaha, isn't this funny?" thing half the time is...you got very lucky and found two very kind souls that I hope you keep in your heart.
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mfw someone made an AI rap song about the fellow that incessantly spams /pmg/ on 4chan
https://vocaroo.com/1fVQsUSqbptA
>>15611
my bad
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>>15630
One of those two souls happened to be a drawfag who drew picrels for a different gamenight, sleepy/v/ on average has ~10 anons per gamenight so the 2 anons who played with me are probably still around, the drawfag definitely is considering he uses the same username when playing on sleepy serbs.
You just have to make bread and see what happen I wuld play with (You) no homo.

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ive always ignored my dad's insistence on Arduino on me until i started doing CS in college, where should i start? I did a little bit of soldering but i have no idea how a breadboard works, or what the fuck is grounding.
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What's a solid microcontroller for relaxed stability pitch control in homemade toy aircraft?
Doesn't have to be fast but has to be very reliable in real time conditions.
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>>13263
raspberry pi pico
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What beginner tools are needed for soldering besides a soldering iron, flux, and solder?
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>>15637
Good pair of helping hands and/or vices
Tweezers, lots of them
Pliers
Microscope or eyeglasses if  eyes are not good
Ventilation
Depending on what you solder, hot air gun and heat shrink. In my experience, if you can use UV epoxy, it is much better
Soldering iron tips, lots of them of different sizes
A wire mesh ball to abusively clean tips
Sponge with water to quickly clean tip
Light source
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>>15638
Missed: multimeter for connectivity check

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Gulag for interesting offtopic discussions.
Try to keep it /tech/ related.
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>>15579
stop posting porn, faggot
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>>15595
Maybe you would've enjoyed it more if it was a picture of a boy.
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>>15599
or just maybe it's offtopic on /tech/
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>>15615
Attaching unrelated images is a staple of imageboards, my newfriend. But you only seem to be "triggered" when it's a picture of a cute sexy girl. Hmmmm, what could that say about you?
>>15579
>why are people with no virtue so obsessed with appearing virtuous?
The question answers itself.

>>15574
>is there some way to achieve similar security to qubes with firejail?
The security of qubes comes from taking the linux kernel out of the trusted computing base. The linux kernel doesn't need to be secure for qubes to be secure. All of firejail's security does depend on the linux kernel being secure.

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This is a project I've been planning on doing for a long time: a cross-platform and open source image editor that completely supersedes MS Paint and all it's cheap imitators (for digital images, so no printing features). I want to hear thoughts and ideas.

The objective is to take MS Paint and polish an even better version out of it: minimalistic, extremely light weight and fast, and very easy to use. Everything should take as few clicks as possible and to just work, the feature set is intentionally limited and designed to work well even without transparency or layers. For example the brushes should all be pixelated (reasons in the attached webms), I think it was a mistake on Microsoft's part to switch to the soft brush as a default. Maybe advanced brushes can be added as a side feature, but I feel like they just don't belong into MS Paint and nobody uses them for any real purpose.

Do you see any problems from the mockup? Have other ideas or things that should be added/changed? How would (You) improve MS Paint? Does some other image editor have a feature that you like?
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>>15587
>alter transparency in a selection
You mean like using the color picker on the hovering image to make that color transparent? Something akin to that could be possible. Or did you have something more in mind?

I can think of very complicated features for honing the transparency on a hovering image, but at some point it's just not worth adding that complexity since the program starts instantly so you can open a second window and use that to remove unwanted pixels without having to be careful about committing the image to the canvas.

>Font outline
That depends entirely on the capabilities of Freetype. I have no idea how to turn font glyphs into pixels, so I wouldn't be able to create an outline for them either. I'll put it on the todo list to investigate.

>selection sizing with modifier+arrow
There's way too many things you may want to do. For example the right arrow key could:
- move the selection mask to the right (pixels don't move)
- duplicate the selection mask and combine them
- pad the selection mask to the right (1x2 pixel selection would become 2x2, then 3x2, then 4x2...)
- resize the selection mask from the right edge (increase size)
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>>15590
>using the color picker on the hovering image to make that color transparent? 
Exactly

>>15590
Ideally you'd do the steps on at a time, resize the selection mask, then once it's "selected" use the arrow keys for a transform of the selection, or if you had a modifier key to do one or the other at any time.
It's mostly an issue of selection, scaling and moving accuracy vs the mouse
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>>15598
Holding Ctrl to move/transform the selection mask without the pixels should be doable.

One idea that could be considered is the concept of "selecting" one of the handles on a selection (by right clicking or using hotkeys like C+ArrowKey). If no handle is selected, then arrow keys will move the entire selection as usual, but if one of the side handles are selected, then arrow keys will move that handle. Exactly how it works when clicking and dragging with a mouse.
I'm having second thoughts about this entire program. There's all kinds of neat little things I want to add, but the way the UI is set up is incompatible with most of it. The settings bar on top is already cramped and requires more room than I'd like it to, and I haven't even implemented all the originally planned tools and settings yet.

For example, one thing I want is the ability to copypaste whole RGB values, for example "255,140,20", not just individual channels. But where am I supposed to fit that input?
Another thing I realized is that there's a lot of selection settings, they are shared across all selection tools, and they're also mostly used by the canvas itself. It might be better to put selection/transform settings into a separate panel, especially since magic wand requires it's own settings that already take space. But where is that panel supposed to be?
I also want to be able to mark/name regions and export them as spritesheet information.

Maybe I can just use floating panels, but I feel like they're a bandaid to a bigger issue. Before this program, I had an idea for a bigger graphics editor with a much more powerful UI design (similar to Photoshop's attachable panels), and I feel like I should just switch to that. But if I do that, I'll probably also feel like doing a bunch of other things that compromise on the simpleness of this program.
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>>15601
When a tool is selected, have it replace the tool selection area with tool detail area? Re-use the space.

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I thought we should have one of these. Someone from the QTDDTOT suggested these questions for the thread.

>best private mail host?
>best private browser?
>how do you stay private online?
>how do you airgap your phone?
 Also
>Best VPN

I imagine some people have made guides on privacy, so if you have any you can post them in this thread too.
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>15430
As paradoxical as it sounds, *BSD is not actually good for networking tasks. If you need niche software, chances are it wasn't ported to BSD. Unironically Gentoo is better as router OS
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>>15479
>Note on uBlock Origin: it has some additional features like element hiding and disabling WebRTC
>>15537
But what if you don't need niche software?
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Can't even browse the 4flan anymore.
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>>15541
Somehow the archive at warosu.org works, even though it's also behind cuckflare (of course that means they can shut it down at any time).
And now this niggas are looking for alt chans, how quaint! I posted about trashchan /finance/ there before. Doubt they'll find it though.

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