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No.16760 [Open]
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I'm looking to exit Youtube as they've been blocking VPNs, ad blocking software, creating age verification, pushing globohomo channels more and more. I started this half-heartedly some years ago, so I know two channels I main outside Youtube, but stopped after that. Yes, I know I'm late to the party. Better late than never.
I know this doesn't seem too /tech/ related, but could we suggest good channels outside of Youtube and help others find their fix outside of Youtube? I know the tendency is going to be to shit on others for their tastes, but keep in mind that if you do that the individual involved is likely to stay on Youtube with that sort of attitude. The goal of this thread is more to get people off of Youtube whatever it takes.
I'll start:
Alternative channels I've already found:
Privacy news: https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8
General news: https://rumble.com/c/RonPaulLibertyReport?e9s=src_v1_cmd
Alternatives I'd like to find outside Youtube/mainstream tech:
Hoe Math/that Romanian Vee guy/culture war news
Sabine/general sci news
Vtubers
Bokoen/Paradox map game shitposters

Thanks for any help.
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No.17844 
>>16760 (OP) 
If you want to be in control of your content, peertube (or any other self-hosted federated alternative) is the only choice.
No.17879 
>>17843
stop using mpv+yt-dlp. use yt-dlp to download vid then watch it with mpv. if it's the space/cache that bothers you, download to /tmp or tmpfs, effect with be identical to mpv+yt-dlp
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No.17880 
>>17879
While I do exactly that, mpv used to load video practically instantly and with settings you wanted automagically.
You have to wait for full download of audio and video which is a wait no matter what, I assume you can make a script to download audio first and then start downloading video and pipe both files to mpv for a faster way of opening videos depending on your connection, but I have no idea how to do that.
>>17843
cookies expire as soon as you close tab or browser in my experience.
No.17883 
>>16760 (OP) 
Freetube.
yt-dlp
No.17885 
>>17879
The problem might literally just be MPV, as instead of chaining yt-dlp more directly, it uses either a hook script or a virtual protocol. Other players chain in a more straightforward fashion, for instance, SMPlayer, and might have less/different issues.
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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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No.17639
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>>16477 (OP) 
I finally get the Exynos hate now... it overhears like a son of a bitch.
No.17807
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>>16477 (OP) 
I'm loving OneUI 8.0 and it's customization, which is intuitive, but allows for tons of freedom, especially with Good Lock, it's making me like my overheating and battery draining Galaxy A25 a little more, though I still wish it'd get something other than Exynos, and those 6000/7000mAh batteries the M series used to get, I hope 8.0 is better than 7.0 there at least.
No.17808 
>>16477 (OP) 
I haven't use a smartphone for years, but I got a new one because it has a jack and micro SD slot.
Installed lineageos on it without the google cancer, it is pretty good for what it is.
Any recommended programs? So far I have installed f-droid and a battery manager.
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No.17809 
>>17808
It depends on your usecase. If you want to draw I'd recommend Sketchbook. If you want to emulate I'd recomend RetroArch or Lemuroid. SoundHound is great for identifying songs. Files by Marc Apps & Software is useful for file browsing, also enjoy QuickEdit, RAR and Termux.
No.17810 
>It's odd how there doesn't seem to be a thread for them here, despite them being the most common technology [for OPs] for many years now, that people can't seem to live without, it's a necessity nowadays.
No.9127 [Open]
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Seemed like it would be a good idea for users both old and new.

[Materials to avoid]
Codecademy and other flashy looking sites (KhanAcademy might be okay)
"fishy" Youtube videos such as those from FreeCodeCamp
"Learn X in 24 hours/three days!"
Anything that deviates too far from a specification (Very obvious if you're reading a spec. in parallel with a primary learning resource)
Most blogs, especially anything on Hacker News that isn't being written by someone obviously trustworthy and/or qualified

[Searching]
You should use a metasearch engine. Not only are they better for your privacy, but I've observed better results than single engines like DDG or Yandex.
https://searx.space/
Bookmark 3-4 reliable instances at the top of your browser and rotate between them or use an add-on such as LibRedirect.

Hacker News has lots of developers and skilled people posting on it. If there's a particular project/idea you're interested in its worth looking it up with their search engine.
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No.17777
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>>17623
Linux is depressing and makes you stupid. Kids would be better off with a simple 8-bit computer that boots to ROM BASIC.
No.17778 
<Regular pens.
Fountain pen+ink.
>Cheaper+better.
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No.17779
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>>17778
>not keeping your own flock of geese to cut dip quills from
ISHYGDDTSMHfam
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No.17781 
>>17779
>Having to dip your feather in ink every paragraph while the ink in the well dries up.
>Feather tickling your hand and reducing focused vs machined ergonomic handle
>using what is discarded as trash from a bird

Might as well go back to using punch cards.
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No.17785 
>>17781
>gives papercuts
>isn't human-readable
>holes compromise structural integrity
This is why I scratch messages directly onto surfaces with my fingernails or a spare arrowhead.
No.17176 [Open]
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How do i build ratio on private trackers in a  good way? For example torrentleech. I tried seeding new torrents but lets say something just got uploaded then theres like 50 people with seedboxes that autosnatch the torrent and i cant compete with seedbox speeds. Lets say i dl a 20gb file. Then i'll at most get a few gb upload but then its done. Next to no one seems to leech on there so you have to seed the file for 10 days which is something i cant do at the time.
That brings me to my second question.
I want to get more storage. Im pretty computer illiterate but would getting a nas and putting some ssds in it be better than putting some ssds in my pc? For seeding ofcourse. And what about raid. Should i even bother with setting that up? When i think about nas i think about vulnerabilities because its connected to the internet but with a nas i wouldnt have to keep my computer on at all times. I have port forwarding on the vpn i use so seeding should work fine in the first place. It's just that i don't seem to have the storage or time to do it in the first place but thats something i want to change. In the first place i think 10 days is very strict. A 1080p remux can be between 20-40gb and mind you thats only ONE movie. I watch alot of movies so my drive would be filled to the brim before 10 days to even get the first movie to be watched.
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No.17630 
>>17629
how do I do that?
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No.17634
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>>17630
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No.17687 
>>17629
>>17630
>>17634
are you retards? why would you do it on torrent? i just use ipsets natively in iptables to -j DROP them
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No.17688 
>>17687
I bet you don't even have indoshitters and israel rangebanned
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No.17732 
>>17688
no, only my own country because it has closest danger
No.17572 [Open]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGB-hjc2Gc
This nigger made a two hour long video explaining why C++ sucks, only to shill Rust while admitting that Rust has awful metaprogramming, no support for circular references, takes even longer to compile (right after bashing the compilation time of C++), only having a single compiler backend and sucks for prototyping and iterative development.
He should have shilled 'D' instead.

Okay there are some other gross errors in the video like telling people to use WebGPU over Vulkan because of claimed support by Apple when WebGPU is just a safety wrapper and even slower than MoltenVK. All his problems with MS Visual Studio seem quite irrelevant too.
At one point he talks about the problems of Qt but never mentions the most glaring one:
The Qt MOC compiler you have to use. If you're writing C++ with Qt, you're actually writing Qt++.
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No.17669
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>>17662
>some out of the box system
Is this the latest jeetslang or what?
No.17709 
Rapid prototyping doesn't exist, nobody does that. What "rapid prototyping" means is that the developer half-assed some spaghetti and began randomly changing it without any thought and praying it works. The final version is the first version where the output looks right. 

In C++ you go through the entire compilation and you're able to produce a working binary that you can ship with such a development process. It may spit out 6 warnings per second during compilation, but it "works". In Rust you get a compilation error about trait bounds or other fancy terminology that is utterly meaningless to someone who doesn't actually know the language and development stops right there for a jeet who watched a 20 minute video and started copypasting stackoverflow and AI prompts, hence "why Rust sucks for game development".
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No.17723 
>>17709
Nobody managed to make a game in Rust yet.
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No.17724 
>>17723
Veloren.
No.17756 
>>17572 (OP)  
C[++] is infinitely worse than rust, let alone any language, and your some tunnel visioned neckbeard who can barely walk for not understanding something so obvious that first 4 month programmers understand
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I ignored it at first because I already bought a new computer 5 years ago and probably won't get a new one for 5 more years, but I keep seeing people randomly talk about this across the Internet, so it might actually be a funny happening making consoomers cry.
But I wanna hear a quick rundown about this before I decide to waste any time taking a deeper look.
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No.17675
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It's just the RAM cartel up to their same tricks they've been doing periodically clear past the '90s, but camouflaged behind paper thin SJW AI derangement moral panic. It'll pass just like every other time once the lawsuits start hitting the dockets.

>>17661 
FAKE NEWS
Reposted from QTDDTOT
Unlike, for instance, the previous PoW ponzicoin fad that specifically gobbled up retail consoomer gayman HW, this current RAM price spike looks like just the same plain old pricefixing the cartel's been prosecuted for in 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2017:
https://www.xda-developers.com/dram-prices-spiking-dont-trust-industry-reasons/
Intentionally cutting production for years, hoarding inventory, shifting remaining production away from less profitable to the most lucrative chips, consolidation, all against a backdrop of constantly increasing demand and revenues.

This definitely would've happened even without some trendy datacenter bubble exacerbating it
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No.17676 
Oh, also
>>17665 
>globohomo special ram you can't even put in your pc
There is no such thing

Much cheaper "new" memory is populated by desoldering used DRAM chips from server DIMMs and even other devices like phones to reprogram and recycle onto standard consumer DIMMs:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/used-ddr4-ram-chips-are-being-reused-in-new-pcs-dram-sticks
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No.17677 
>>17675
>>17676
Thank you for actual good post.
No.17678 
>>17676
What about HBM and DDR5?
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No.17679 
>>17678
That depends on the course mobo standards take. Will we see more desktops with CAMM sockets instead of DIMM slots to increase pincount? So far, even servers don't do that yet for main memory.

But for devices that do use weird RAM, chips can be swapped or upgraded even on GPUs:
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/modders-have-figured-out-how-to-slap-32gb-of-vram-on-the-rtx-5080-as-memory-shortage-intensifies
The market for which may open up significantly due to nVidia loosening the terms of their agreements with AIBs:
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/109145/nvidia-stops-bundling-vram-chips-with-gpu-dies-tells-aibs-to-source-their-own-gddr-chips/index.html
And even on hyperfascist MCM crap like Apple's:
https://www.idownloadblog.com/2021/04/06/apple-silicon-macs-ram-ssd-unofficial-upgrades/

The only way
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Qt Company wants to bring the UI part (Qt Quick) of the framework to 'every' language out there.
>initially Rust, Python, .NET, Swift, Kotlin and Java. This is not a “yet another binding”

'Will it do LISP? Will GTK survive? Is the Electron apocalypse prevented?'
Come in this thread and talk about it.

https://www.qt.io/development/qt-bridges
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No.17638 
>>17637
Because it only works in an emulator nigger. Qt runs on real hardware.
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No.17642 
>>17638
You're making shit up. I booted the CD on a crappy amd64 laptop a long time ago. I doubt it changed much since then.
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No.17644 
>>17642
On some 2008 laptop maybe but it doesn't work with modern hardware at all, no bios, no usb stack, no ahci, relies on bios interrupts that are no longer present at all, requires bios vga, no support for vesa...
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No.17649 
>>17638
>>17644
And Qt doesn't require an entire OS to work? How is this relevant? Your shill thread sucks. Get better material.
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No.17651 
>>17649
Terry used Ubuntu as his main OS.
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Can we discuss main stream social  media and Google using drivers license to verify accounts? Is this being the norm now? You cannot get a Gmail using a burner phone anymore.
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No.16676 
>>16044 (OP) 
I have a single Google account to receive job postings and I never bother to use it for anything other than that. If YouTube flagged something as nsfw, I just don't bother to watch it.
No.16677 
>>16065
I would say it's less to do with sites and retarded parents and government overreach. Especially after propoganda slop like adolescence, they're just being safe than sorry.
No.16845 
>>16221
where exactly are you from?
Also, what alrernatives are you thinking of?
No.16846 
>>16347
what is this PRISM you are speaking of?
No.17627 
>>16044 (OP) 
>he wants a google account
Can we just admit that people wanting a botnet account on a botted platform with endless and constant censorshit is the problem? Because it's actually the problem. This idea that the entire internet is just google youtube facebook is such a new normalnigger golem concept and its incredible we went from typing urls to whatever the fuck dystopian monster this is.

Its very concerning how uncaring people are spreading their info around to "verify" whatever bullshit from these nose men technocrats. Ive seen people that really know better just upload their id to watch age restricted slop while coping about it. Letting them data mine you is participating in the humiliation ritual. It's also dangerous. Not just to the golem that obeys but to others that don't.
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What is the final document format? Not text file (unformatted). I am asking for formatted text document, with tables and embedded images. What is the final solution?

Proposals:
-ODF (.odt)
-Rich Text Format (.rtf)
-HTML
-DOC (.doc)
-DOCX

Considerations:
-is the format simple, efficient, small?
-is it open source, free, or at least without patents or some other shit
-is it supported by large amount of software? for import and export
-is it malware? has hidden metadata and other shit? complex and proprietary?
-does the format allow for huge documents?
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No.16193
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Hey Faggots,

My name is John, and I hate every single one of your formats. All of them are fat,
retarded, no-lifes who spend every second of their day looking at stupid ass raster images. They are everything bad in the world. Honestly, have any of you ever
gotten any gopher? I mean, I guess it's fun making fun of people because of your
own insecurities, but you all take to a whole new level. This is even worse than
jerking off to 3D-PDF on facebook.

Don't be a stranger. Just hit me with your best shot. I'm pretty much perfect. I was captain of the WordStar team, and starter on my text phile team. What games
do you play, other than "jack off to naked DOCX anime girls"? I also get
straight A's, and have a banging hot girlfriend (She just blew me; Shit was SO
cash). You are all faggots who should just ed yourselves. Thanks for
listening.

Pic Related: It's me and my bitch
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No.16209 
Experience showed that relying on a format isn't the right solution because it would put a burden on every system to be able to read and edit that format, the solution imo would come from a markup syntax like HTML or MD for simple text. The solution has always been text. Said text should be interpreted following a syntax to produce formatted documents.
(What a tragedy that Org and MD were invented in parallel at about the same time. They have no business having separate syntaxes).

>>16193
Thanks for the nostalgia feels
No.16210 
>>16191
Solid bait
No.16496 
>>7441 (OP) 
>>7443
This, the final format is a latex .tex that creates a .pdf file (with links &c) containing the document.
No.17606 
Good bread. I very much enjoyed watching the autistic nigger in this thread suffer and despair as he realizes there is no "final solution" to meet his anal retentive demands.
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It was well known that C was obsolete in the 90's. It could have been replaced with region inference a la ML Kit, Cyclone, etc. By 2000 computers were fast enough such that 90% of applications could just be written in a memory-safe garbage collected language[1]. Now what about that other 10%? Glad you asked.

What we need now (2010) is a return garbage collected languages with hardware support. Manual memory management is a complete waste of time and is a large source of program defects. Analog computing can be used to implement O(1), deterministic, garbage collection, suitable for even hard real time applications. Imagine a pipe from your water heater to a hot water tap on your kitchen sink. Here's a quick experiment: Have someone go to the water heater in your basement and listen while you turn on the hot water tap. Did you notice it *instantly* turns on?

Now here's one way O(1), deterministic GC can be implemented in hardware. There are millions of tiny water pipes. Each time you have an allocation, a water pipe goes from it to the code using it. If a structure has the pointer to the allocation, a water pipe goes from it to the allocation. When someone (code or a struct) is done using an allocation, it closes its end of the pipe.

All water in the system is in constant flow. When all ends of an allocation's pipe are closed, water overflows from that pipe, and it knows it's time to free it.

Q.E.D.

The CPU will have to be cubic shape to fit this system. Water do
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No.17570 
>>17569
Both are high level languages and there are no C cpu instructions.
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No.17578 
>>17569
Because many LISP features, for instance GC, are inherently inefficient. Think of how Emscripten transpiling C/C++ to JS results in code that runs way faster than idiomatic JS, specifically because it avoids using features such as GC as much as possible.
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No.17579 
>>17578
Most LISP languages are scripting languages with dynamic typing. I think that has a larger impact than GC.
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No.17580 
>>17570
Implement Lisp in CPU microcode?
No.17582 
>>17579
True, even more so for some languages such as Python.
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