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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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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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>>18389 (OP) 
emacs fag here, I did the opposite and checkout Vim afer 7 years and loved it. Now I use emacs with evilmode, mpv, mupdf and a vim-extension on irssi.
I messed around the runit init system on Void and have been loving it, I'm never going to systemd again.

Wayland is trannyware so I'm sticking with the boomerware Xorg. I also got rid of Pulseaudio and I manage to record video gameplay with my mic using just Pipewire+Wireplumber and Pulseaudio compatibiliy layer so that's nice.  are enough for my sound setup.

Another thing that's been worthwile for me was checking out the tiling window manager meme. Fucking life changer.

>>18392
>pic
Holy moly, now I remember the infamous blog post.
But to be fair cuckchan's emacs/LISP general is a discord troon circlejerk, although it's not as bad as the mpv/ffmpeg generals.
>>18445
> from what I hear
Nice rumor you idiot. 
>  they deliberately encourage API breakage
That claim is just stupid.
With GNUs flagship project emacs you can run elisp code that is more than 20 years old in the current version without issues.
>>18391
Can xlibre runs on linux version before 6.0 though? This is important question, please answer it
>>18445
>Apparently LLVM was originally intended to be integrated into GCC, but LLVM would provide a quasi-stable interface and hence was rejected. We all know the final result.

It was thrown out because it was a C++ implementation, lacking most of the GCC backends and many basic features and they wanted for GCC devs to throw out everything already implemented to re-implement it in llvm framework. It was simply not feasible for GCC devs even before you consider legal issues - apple wasn't ready to assign copyright to FSF at that point.
https://article.olduse.net/[email protected]
<Date: Tue, 27-Sep-83 13:35:59 EDT
>GNU will be able to run Unix programs, but will not be identical
to Unix.  We will make all improvements that are convenient, based
on our experience with other operating systems.  In particular,
we plan to have longer filenames, file version numbers, a crashproof
file system, filename completion perhaps, terminal-independent
display support, and eventually a Lisp-based window system through
which several Lisp programs and ordinary Unix programs can share a screen.
Both C and Lisp will be available as system programming languages.
We will have network software based on MIT's chaosnet protocol,
far superior to UUCP.  We may also have something compatible
with UUCP.
Imagine if they actually went ahead and wrote an X server in Lisp.

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Lately I've been interested in looking for a final solution to the imageboard problem, deplatforming and relying on centralized authorities for hosting. P2P through TOR seems like the most logical path forward. But the software would also need to be accessible, easily installed and understood by just about anyone, and easily secure/private by default.

Retroshare seemed like a decent choice, but unfortunately its forum function is significantly lacking in features. I haven't investigate too much into zeronet either but from what I recall that was a very bloated piece of software and I'm looking for something that's light and simple. Then there's BitChan (>>507) which fits most of the bill but contrasted with Retroshare is not simple to setup.

I know there is essentially nothing else out there so this thread isn't necessarily asking to be spoonfed some unknown piece of software that went under the radar of anons. But I think the concept of P2P imageboards should be further explored even though the failure of zeronet soured a lot of peoples perspective on the concept. Imageboards are so simple by nature I feel this shouldn't be as difficult as it is. Retroshare comes close but as I understand it you can't really moderate the forums that you create. Plus the media integration is basically non-existent, though media is a lesser concern. But having everything routed through tor and being able to mail, message, and ha
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I keep seeing people talking about requiring identities as a way to deal with spam. Could a variant of the blind signature stuff L+JS is experimenting with work as a substitute? It seems to be helping them recover from a long-running spam attack that nearly killed the site.
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>>16993
ljs died when karenfag left
>>17964
>>18002
What in the everloving fuck are you retards saying?
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>>14494
Isn't this just centralization? In a decentralization thread?
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>>14501
On top of that, it is perfectly possible to embed images (and other files) into usenet files, so you could even make an imageboard that has a usenet server as its backed, and a frontend that looks like any other imageboard. You'd still need a permanent IP so that people can connect to it, but people could just run their own instances and share netnews via NNTPS. Or you could tunnel them via whatever fancy darknet solution you prefer. There's an example of a forum that is just a frontend for a usenet server:
https://news.povray.org/groups/
https://www.povray.org/resources/
>The POV-Ray Newsgroups are the best place to get help from other users, find discussion about POV-Ray and much more. These newsgroups are hosted on our own server and as they are not connected to Usenet they do not suffer from spam and similar problems. 
>You may either access the newsgroups with any standard newsreader at news://news.povray.org/ or use our web view at http://news.povray.org/. For the web view you need to enable cookies in your browser, and in order 
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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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>>19600
I'm not surprised, I'm getting sick and fucking tired of it. Every single time the commoners just accept "muh regulation=good" like the concept of regulatory capture doesn't exist.
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>>19601
Nothing good will happen in our lifetimes, anon.
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>>19602
That is false, niggerpill, because I am wishing you a good afternoon right now. This is an objectively good thing which is happening in your lifetime, no matter how terrible your response or lack of one is.
Why is there a Grokipedia article on Laurie Kirk, but not one on kikepedia? Seems a bit sus tbh.
https://grokipedia.com/page/laurie-kirk
>>19597
Why not look around HuggingFace, Anon. ATP AFAICT only 10%-15% of the users/projects there are glownigger gayops? Probably can still find things that are useful during Current Year.

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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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>>19541
Would be nice if those things had a battery big enough to support the power draw of the big screen so you could actually use it. Even better if they had a sane price because I'm paying 1.5-2k for a fucking phone. As it is all foldables are shit.

>>19593
So? If the fancy camera assembly needs to be extra thick make the entire phone thicker to match and use the gained internal space for a bigger battery. But no, every manufacturer cuts on battery and thermals to shave off a little weight and frame thickness while the women who buy this crap put their phones in fat cases, add huge pop sockets with deco crap on top and carry power banks.
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>>19594
I agree. I thought it was hilarious when the iPhone Air came out and it was the "thinnest Apple device ever"... if you exclude the camera, because with it the thing was thick.
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>>16477 (OP) 
>>19541
The biggest issue with smartphones that's still not addressed for decades is the fact that they're just disposable once the software, cell tower coverage, and/or battery die out after some time. Even a MacBook can still be salvaged into a (barely) usable computer for the most basic tasks offline, while nearly every single BlackBerry phone is a worthless, rotting fruit that can't be internally hacked nor revived to become a useful computer today.
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>>19605
The EU has this rule where oil & gas companies are not allowed to own pipelines in order to increase competition. If they applied this logic to /tech/, then customers should be able to install different OSes to devices like goyphones in order to increase competition. In practice the EU can't even stop companies from killing games, so forcing hardware manufacturers to unlock their bootloaders and even publish some of the info for OS development is just a pipedream.
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>>19606
>In practice the EU can't even stop companies from killing games
They could. But they won't because it simply pays more. Law in reality is often bribed and rarely ever made for the better outside of someone's financial gain and only is different when it comes to making sure to have a population that won't self destruct.
TLDR
Human domestication.

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Today is Windows XP's 20th birthday. Say something nice about it.
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Uh. Congrats on not being as bad as Linux or later Windows, I guess?
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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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Excuse me for the low quality thread, but
WINDOWS 11 IS FUCKING WEBSHIT
THE UI IS RUNNING INSIDE MICROSOFT EDGE
THE PROGRAMS ARE RUNNING INSIDE MICROSOFT EDGE
Yes, I stole these screenshots from Twitter. News this fucking retarded does not deserve a good thread.
The absolute fucking state of Microsoft.
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>>16190
The answer is the same no matter what Mint edition you use.
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>>2273 (OP) 
>It's 2026
Is this fixed?
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>>19549
No, It's still 2026.
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>>19554
Oh no... well, my life will suck in 2027 too anyways, so who cares?
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>>19585
You should care considering there's only 9 years left until the organization takes over the world.

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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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>>18472
There should be some sort of rule about how long an April fools' joke can go on for. 24 Hour limit.
>>17942 (OP) 
Myrient dying is just the worst... is CD Romance back or is it still dead too? I think they moved to another website, but I forgot the name and didn't save it.
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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.

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I think this is big enough deal to merit pulling it out of the 'news' page into its own thread. If you don't know what's going on, a bunch of states have pulled a fast one on us and are trying to/have passed age verification laws in various states in the U.S. on the operating system level.
- Lunduke's Journal has been having a spree providing updates on it ( lunduke.substack.com )
- I made my own page to try to keep track on what you can do. Please think about sharing it (or something): https://websitereview.neocities.org/ageverification
- Reclaim the Net has a campaign trying to counter it https://reclaimthenet.org/age-verification
- The EFF has a campaign https://www.eff.org/issues/age-verification .
I've included some minor links suggested by >>18007 and >>18008 . Please keep in mind I'm a moron and don't know what I'm doing, but felt something should be done here. Please share your own sites, updates, and thoughts on the situation.
THANK YOU F
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>>19491
So much for brazilians being free.
Is the freedomwiki article for safe countries still valid?
>>19491
Government here loves to play blackmail with companies.
>you need to have a legal representation here in Bananaland
<we already have, here is a list of the key people and legal contacts in your country
>uh... forget it, now you need to have a office space here, local business and everything else, even pay taxes
<what?
>and do an impossible list of features that contradicts itself that neither, EU, US, China or anyone else asks for it
<we can compromise some of the list but not all of it
>no deal, you guys clearly hate children, not like us, who let them get into prostitution, sell drugs and go to war in favelas at age 8 and use crack on the streets
<it's impossible, to do all of it, we already did 10 meetings with your leaders and..
>oh, fascist much? half a billion of banana dollars in fines, you have 24h to reply or else pay more
<the problem was on Instagram, not our platform
>now excuse us, we need to party and keep corruption

Funniest part, they already blocked countrywide a lot of times chat services like WhatsApp, Telegra
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>>19527
Economists will still be like "Tarriffs are bad" after reading shit like this. Like bro, just let the tech companies pay tariffs or an offshore tax or smth instead of doing this regulatory guessing game bullshit. At least the country gets revenue out of it, and there's some amount of transparency, honesty, and decency about it; and the host country also doesn't have to pay for an army of regulators and enforcement.
Instead we live in this world where every economic bloc has domestic regulatory protection, and then every neoliberal economist sits back and pretends that economic protectionism doesn't exist/free trade exists because tariffs are so low. Meanwhile U.S. tech companies pay gigantic fees to the EU to help prop up its regulatory apparatus. Give me a break.
Anyways, sorry to hear about your country man. And sorry for being selfish, but if you got any tips to keep that shit from happening here, we'd love to hear it.
>>19498
I know there's going to be a lot of valid criticism of this, but I'm actually really happy about this. I'll take what wins I can. I kind of feel like the letter writers won here.
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>>19528
>Anyways, sorry to hear about your country man. 
It's fine, one of the few good things of living among retards is that most government institutions are too incompetent to work, they wish they could censor and ban like China, but they mostly block a few DNSs. It's not like they are chasing normal people, there are too much criminals for them to care about.
The only way of you getting in trouble is going openly on social media with your real life profile posting shit like "I'm going to kill someone and bomb a place". Hell, if you kill someone here and have a good lawyer you still could get 4-5 free days (per year) out of prison and never came back.

I think here is one of the few countries you can go fully anonymous if you want it. There a lot of cities with nearly 200k pop where you can live normally and just 2h-3h of bigger cities. You could buy a house, car, internet, a cellphone with little trail and only money. Worst case if you have no fear, go to a favela where you have no address and live with fully stollen internet provided by local drug lords.

>And sorry for being selfish, but if you got any tips to keep that shit from happening here, we'd love to hear it.
Really troubling, personally, I think democracy can't work without eventual violence. You need disruption from time to time, like war, steal someone's land, companies, resources, etc.
Voting won't change, all parties are corrupt in a literal cabal of baby killing, eating and fucking.
Protesting wont work. They've shutdown organizing ever since ((( wall street  ))) directed the rage against them to other groups like now people are just mad at each other for frivolous things like social media ragebaits.

Look at US, the population happily put spy cams and mics 24/7 connected on their doors all from Ring/Amazon, inside their homes with smart assistants (mostly Amazon/Google), and just now are annoyed that the Flock thing are spying them. UK cucked themselves with loicenses and what not, Europe accepted with open arms millions of refugees that not only refuse to speak or learn the local language and culture but  don't follow their laws, not including having 5 to 10 kids each, building mosques and slowly destroying local culture.

The solution? I don't fucking know, study, be smarter, have a good job and a safe place to live. Try to help your local community, join a club, try to interact more with the old folk and keep what's good and traditional from your city, state or country, be a better person and wish for the best.
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California doing Californian things:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/eff-gov-newsom-veto-californias-ab-1709
Social media age verification requirements.
https://reclaimthenet.org/california-lawmakers-advance-bills-to-impose-ai-chatbot-censorship-and-age-verification
AI use age verification requirements.

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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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Shit like Ableton and my plugins makes me have to use windows on my gaming rig and because of this I feel like a seethy jew experiencing holocaust 6 gorillion anti semitism because of it. I hate windows so fucking much its actually unreal. It took 1 year to firewall the constant requests from the pedo lord servers and its still impossible because they use insane levels of spyware. yet this fucking evil hebrew os forcibly updates your machine when you've disabled all updates by reg and firewall.

We have to call it anti-linuxism.
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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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