/tech/ - Technology

In the last few days there are more and more strange posts, at this point it can't even be a bot since bots learn from users. Did a eceleb advertise the webring on insta or something? 

I use iteroni.com and i don't remember it being down much.

>>3531
The variety of strange posts seems to be coming from different people at different time. It may be just a number of newcomers making 1-2 posts.
Also use pipe-viewer.

>>3532
How is pipe-viewer related to what i said?

>>3533
pipe-viewer with invidious api tries all known instances automatically.

>>390 (OP) 
100% google fuckery. They're constantly coming up with new shit to make invidious instances fail to work right. inv.nadeko.net is currently the fastest at detecting and circumventing the latest google bullshit.

>>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.

 OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an ((( AI-first ))) experience 
> The remedy phase of Google's antitrust trial is underway, with the government angling to realign Google's business after the company was ruled a search monopolist. The Department of Justice is seeking a plethora of penalties, but perhaps none as severe as forcing Google to sell Chrome. But who would buy it? An OpenAI executive says his employer would be interested.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/chatgpt-head-tells-court-openai-is-interested-in-buying-chrome/

>>15880
OpenAI is Microshit. What would be the point of giving it to Microshit? Would still be in the hands of a software monopolist.

I'm not sure whether OpenAI would be allowed to buy it.

>>15990
Pretty sure that they wouldn't be able to as it would be against competition and basically make Microsoft up in the same place as Google is currently.

>>412 (OP) 
does anyone have this image but for 2025?

>>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.

>>4
Also Slackware, which I usually run.

And you can also just run Unix, like OpenBSD, NetBSD, minix3 (which is very NetBSD-like these days), illumos (modern-day Solaris), and others.

If you want to flee the cancer by embracing cancer, there is even ReactOS (an open source Windows clone). At least ReactOS is helpful for the WINE ecosystem.

>>181
>even if it becomes completely ridden by exploits and bugs
Even if? This shit's already happened. A big problem with systemd is the capacity of its egotistical maintainers to cause bugs and security vulnerabilities that never needed to exist and then get assblasted when you tell them to fix their shit because that's a problem where they will get all kinds of fucking snooty about how it's really a feature or not an actual issue or (what really gives them an erection) saying that you should patch the kernel instead (because they wish they could just control the kernel and settled for creating a cancer middleware that they try to make into an increasingly mandatory dependency to do anything, kernel+ style). It's copying MS's trash Windows mentality in more than one bad way into Linux.

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...

>>6558
>>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

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>>2302 (OP) 
I've loved using this one ever since Ubuntu 22.04 LTS's "mascot" was a jellyfish, and the colors feel very Ubuntu to me, I love this.

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I would have included one of my  Waifu. But she has no good wallscreens due to being a visual novel character otherwise I would have to take a screenshot from the bad anime adaptation and waifu2x it oh well Ryūko is close enough.

>>7079
I get mine from gelbooru and wallhaven

Do you guys have any tiling wallpaper?

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>>2302 (OP) 
Ubuntu has a color scheme that essentially makes me love all of their default wallpapers, though recently I haven't liked them as much as the ones from the days when Unity was the DE, those were the best ones in style.

>>12475
>You can make low quality shit and people will still watch

Yeah maybe if it's interesting in any way. This is someone lost in the smell of their own ass who doesn't realise their work is complete shit, larping as a legitimate talent. Just a sad case of someone really having no idea how to self-evaluate on an artistic level.

>>12357
>Problem with producing things such as movie is that most movie people are not movie nerd, they evaluate movie not by its technical value nor effort. 

Except there is zero technical value here, and only effort with no meaning. This film looks like complete shit, and it will look like complete shit to anyone whether they're a "movie nerd" or not. I'm fairly sure you're the creator of the video, so I'll just say that you need to step back and look at this from square one. Make your characters not look like they're parodies unless you're actually making a parody. They look fucking horrific.

>>12479
>The render engine that they are using is good enough to convince me that this is a real photographic image. 
Are you brain damaged?

That was so dumb but I'm surprised that I got more and more into it the longer it went on. I hope this guy can make something better and he's not the kind of autist that just shits out the same level of quality his entire life.

>>15930

He's actually making a GTA clone based of the movie.

https://video.hardlimit.com/w/oNhei3W9ER6se1G7vZXmTx

>>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.