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Flatpak and Friends Anonymous 06/10/2020 (Wed) 10:02:59 No. 413 [Reply] [Last] >>21303
What's your opinion on the concept of these newfangled package managers having sandboxing, enabling backwards compatibility and having a one-build-fits-all-distros mentality? Is it bloat, or the right way to go about solving such problems? Personally, I use Flatpak to handle games, so my system doesn't actually have any 32 bit libraries installed by my distro's package manager, anything 32 bit's managed entirely by Flatpak, separate from everything else. As well as isolating propietary software, since most games are, and Steam too. Since I don't use programs with Qt 5 much, I've decided to get rid of the ones I've installed natively and installed the ones I do need on Flatpak, that way I can get rid of Qt 5 as well.
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>>18098 Isn't it the heavy sandboxing of flatpak that makes it unsuitable for normal CLI tools?
>>18092 what... linux/ld has had static linking and rpath forever. its just things installed from a package manager use system libraries since its all controlled in one spot
>>413 (OP) All of the containering nonsense just to avoid potential flakiness of dynamic linking of glibc and the LSB when musl and uclibc had static linking support for over a decade, and with Win32 now being a more accepted target than said LSB. Either ways the actual cure is to develop Hurd or a QNX/L4-like but that would require people to change dev mindsets so it's not happening soon. t. successfully ran a shell script as an 'executable' for Xonotic in 2013

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Master Thesis Anonymous 08/14/2022 (Sun) 21:26:09 No. 9316 [Reply]
I need ideas for my Master Thesis in Computer Engineering anons I'm open to pretty much everything, as my degree doesn't have a specialization per say However, AI, Data Science, Networking and Cybersecurity don't captivate me that much
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That image is incorrect, just knowing the architecture is not enough to determine type sizes, for example on windows long is 4 bytes on both x86 and x64. That's why long long exists.
Shame AI is a no go, because I would have recommended some classical GPU architecture research (wavefront scheduing and the hardware "algorithms" for this - like Tomasulo algorithm equivalent but much simpler), even better if you implement it in Verilog and optimize it enough. There is some work done on this and even some academic open source RTL and simulators, but it's kind of lackluster. They certainly need a lot of work on the compilers too, but that's adjacent. Also on AI, Tenstorrent had some interesting grid architecture (tiled cores, having to pass data to adjacent nodes), is very scalable but coding it is challenging, I'd maybe recommend researching better ways to code and design such infinitely scalable GPGPU-like architectures? Baring that, if you want some wonderful autism, one dude has been working on atomic scale mechanical computers designed using VLSI techniques and simulated at the atomic level (molecular dynamic, quasi-empirical, no QM), he's got his hands full with a lot of stuff so he only got the ALU done and some clocking, might be fun to see other research here - the context was Drexlerian nanotech (the hard stuff, that doesn't yet exist in reality, but a way of bootstrapping has been found in the last decade, the race is on!). Nevermind, I'm a retard, I noticed OP is from 2022, but my reply was already written, now in 2025.
>>18934 This thread's a few years old. It's safe to say OP has probably finished his master's already.

I need something that automatically detects loop points in an audio file and spits them out as samples Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 08:05:19 No. 17911 [Reply]
I'm trying out Loop Auditioneer but the loop points you get when selecting a file are often laughably off. The loop search function takes an eternity and never finds anything (and I have no idea how to tweak the settings for the autosearch)
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>>18266 >What do you mean by loop points though? I mean... loop points. You know when you select a portion of audio in audacity? The start and an end points of that portion are measured in either seconds or samples. I need something that lets me find seamless loop points measured in samples. I'm modding a UE game that uses Criware as its audio middleware, the song lengths are softcoded and every song loops near the end. Rather than changing the softcoded length (which might not even work knowing how janky this entire process is) I'm just gonna cut up my songs and have them loop just like the originals. The problem is finding those loop points, I don't have the patience to meticulously find every loop point in 60+ songs. You can see an example in the second image (Loop Auditioneer didn't find that loop - again, it seems next to useless for finding loop in long songs), it's one that's embedded in a song from the game and was retained when converting from HCA to WAV. Yes, it loops seamlessly.
>>18276 There are sampler instruments/VSTs that do things like this. Or entire music studios (i.e., milkytracker, renoise, ft2-clone). Probably a bit overkill for your purposes howbeitever.
>>18549 Again, those are meant for samples, not entire songs.

Linux Terminal Emulator Recommendation Anonymous 09/04/2022 (Sun) 23:11:03 No. 9622 [Reply] [Last]
Any good terminal emulators ?
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Ghostty. >>17905 >>18014 What does it do better than guake?
>>18614 QT based instead of GTK based. Yes that's an objective improvement. Also older so might be more stable and have more features, but I can't be sure of that because I haven't used guake.
Emacs M-x ansi-term.

Anonymous 04/21/2025 (Mon) 14:38:59 No. 18693 [Reply]
Is libreboot for the t480 decent yet? I wanna use it as daily driver.

Anonymous 04/21/2025 (Mon) 14:36:11 No. 18692 [Reply]
Is libreboot for the t480 decent yet? I wanna use it as daily driver.

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Kik and similar over TOR? Anonymous 09/18/2022 (Sun) 04:38:34 No. 9801 [Reply]
How would one go about setting up a machine to talk on Kik over TOR without compromising anonymity? I'm sure others would be curious about Telegram and similar chat apps. Simply put, with all the surveillance capitalism and in particular, data hoarding practices by China and other threat actors, how does one reduce ones risk profile while still being able to enjoy their time online?
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>>17417 Does Tails allow running a VM within the software? I would have thought I would need Whonix or another privacy-based OS, no?
Never used Kik, but a lot of social media is not pleasant to use anonymously. Sometimes they want a persistent trackable identity for you, which means you may need to rent some SMS service or just accounts directly, usually with coins you mixed, just to register an account. If it's UDP or if they block Tor IPs, you may also need to pay for some VPN (client ran in a VM), but that makes you pseudonymous instead of anonymous (if VPN goes after Tor). You may even need to "sticky" the outgoing IP or at least country for some services like Discord. Using third party clients may also help avoid some annoyances. There are various free ways to do this if you don't want to pay, but expect more pain, and a lot more tries needed to register and avoid being banned.
why do you fucking idiots insist on using kik instead of wickr? i refuse to believe you're all this stupid

Matrix technology room Anonymous 02/09/2022 (Wed) 16:58:45 No. 7376 [Reply] >>18643
Hello everyone, stop using Discord and step over to the superior alternative already! Stallman disapproves of Discord and nobody should use this proprietary botnet for anything related to technology or programming. Since the old /g/ room on Matrix with 400 members died I made a new one. It's not on matrix.org for security and privacy reasons. #friends:catgirl.cloud
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>>7376 (OP) >[do not post] content illegal in germany like nazi symbolism I think the nazi shit is stupid but why would you post a chan-oriented room on a service based in Germany
>>7378 /thread
Matrix is buggy though, wish there's a better alternative.

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P2P Imageboard Client Anonymous 11/04/2024 (Mon) 02:54:24 No. 16463 [Reply]
I posted about this a while back but it was still in the early stages then, I've been working more on my P2P imageboard software, and after the underlying p2p database engine (Peerbit) has undergone some major upgrades, the performance and stability are a lot more robust now. There are also a lot more UX improvements recently based on user feedback. I've attempted to keep the dependencies minimal and make the install process as simple as possible. There are several nodes online to my knowledge but I don't necessarily have a full map or total knowledge of the network. Feel free to try it out and join the swarm lol. https://gitgud.io/threshold862543/peerchan For moderation I've kept a totally "flat" architecture where each node is free to delete any content at any time. But this deletion only applies to the node itself by default. If you want to be able to delete things on other user's nodes, they have to subscribe to your node as a moderator, and then when you delete something, that deletion action will be broadcast to others and they will accept it in their own local database. So you can subscribe to other people as moderators if you trust them to be able to delete things for you. Each board is it's own independently-seeded topic and you can watch (join) or unwatch (leave) a board topic at any time. There are various config options to customize your experience too. Posts and file uploads are made under a newly generated temporary identity every time (by default) for the sake of anonymity. If you want to anonyitymax at the networking level I recommend using Whonix to connect, though ideally eventually native integration with Tor can be developed for Peerbit or libp2p itself. That being said, already there is no association between a post and the uploading IP, when you receive a post from another node, the original poster is not known, as posts and files are relayed from node to node without recording the source. And this is the Peerbit p2p database system it uses which is built on libp2p. https://peerbit.org/#/
To explain the setup a bit, the default configuration opens a webserver on localhost port 8000 that serves pageviews to you and allows you to browse and post to the p2p database, which connects to other nodes in the background. If you want to make this into a publicly facing website via nginx or something, there is the option to enable "gateway mode" where you can enable or disable certain features (like the ability to delete posts) for public users accessing it over the internet. Essentially this allows other people to interact with your node over the internet and post using the traditional client-server concept. You can also disable all features when not logged in, making it so only you can browse and post and moderate when logged in (eg. from your phone or another computer elsewhere) but other internet users won't be able to access the content on your node. I've gotten a node to work and successfully replicate posts and files on Android in the past too, using Termux, so you can also do that as well.
bump also demo instance is up at https://peerchan.net

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Keyless Repeater/relay attacks Anonymous 10/12/2022 (Wed) 08:08:14 No. 10077 [Reply]
Been doing a lot of research, I would love too open up a talk about them. currently only see buy-able options but Couldn't you make one for cheap?!
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You'll be lucky if your cloned keyfob can unlock the doors a single time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_code
Lol a 3 years old thread wew In my experience, transmitting the LF from the key to the vehicle proves to be difficult. Using a blade rf, a hamitup, and a mag loop, i was able to just barely see a signal in the spectrum analyzer. It never activated the key. I'm not sure what kind of hardware you can even buy that work as a sdr and transmits well at 125khz. I was thinking a proxmark 3 with it's sdr mode but lost interest. It was also straight up difficult to even receive the LF from the vehicle, I could only get the signal with the antenna jammed up against the transmitter of the vehicle by removing a door panel to access it.
>>18621 Oops I mean from vehicle to key. Veh>key is LF 125-250khz Key>veh is ism bands, 433mhz 915mhz, ect. Trivial to relay

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Anonymous 04/21/2025 (Mon) 01:50:01 No. 18602 [Reply] >>18613
Is chicory good for you?
>>18602 (OP) Begone, disgusting creature

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https://usesthis.com/ Anonymous 05/23/2020 (Sat) 16:12:52 No. 186 [Reply] >>18472
I found an interesting look site which interviews people asking them what hardware/software they use for their life/work/projects. There are some interesting people on there like Bram Moolenaar (https://usesthis.com/interviews/bram.moolenaar/), this lady who has some godtier taste (https://usesthis.com/interviews/alice.maz/), and plenty of faggots. Maybe you'll find some interesting work setups or you can share your Windows 10 + Beats by Dre. setup.
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>>11750 >lowest Erdos number of any sex educator That's great but ultimately meaningless outside of math and physics researchers (and maybe a handful of other related disciplines).
>>186 (OP) This site used to be good, with interesting people sharing cool tools. Something happened, and now "interviews" are just with retarded women, Redditors, and trannies who all use MacBooks and Google Docs to get anything done.

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Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 15:02:18 No. 17790 [Reply]
Why the fuck do you engineers draw diagrams in the most confusing way possible? Is it to keep us retards out? How exactly is this circular shit working because my hodgepodge in Turing Complete hasn't illuminated much
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>>18398 >We can look at the lower NOR: ~(1 OR X) = ~1 = 0 Holy shit, that's exactly what I was missing, we only need one True value to determine that NOR is False, the system doesn't have to depend on the other NOR output unless it received a False from the other input. I know that's dirt simple but I really wasn't picking up on how the dependency worked >I hope it was of some use to you OP It was, although I think the more analog stuff is lost on me, but it does help to know how these things are abstracted because I need to have a basic understanding of architecture. Thank you anon
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am retarded, this makes sense now. thank you /t/. that's really clever
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>>18398 >like CMOS where even for a simple invertor (~ = NOT), you have 2 transistors (NMOS and PMOS), such that when the output is meant to be 0, it ends up taking it from the GND, and when it's 1 it takes it from the supply, with half of the circuit being "off" in typical operation - but you know, there will be an intermediate state, when one transistor opens and the other closes, and in that moment both will be conducting! ohhh okay. that's pretty cool. that actually does help me understand more what's actually happening underneath the abstraction

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Anonymous 05/14/2020 (Thu) 07:03:18 No. 49 [Reply] [Last]
Let's all love Lain
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>>18246 ganoo plus lain
I LOVE HER
I grew older, but Lain stayed the same. I miss the days when I was a kid watching Lain. Back then, everything was ok, and I didn't know the cruelty of the world

Anonymous 01/27/2025 (Mon) 15:41:49 No. 17112 [Reply] >>17845
why haven't you used nntpchan? NNTPChan (previously known as overchan) is a decentralized imageboard that uses the NNTP protocol (network-news transfer protocol) to synchronize content between many different servers. It utilizes cryptographically signed posts to perform optional/opt-in decentralized moderation https://github.com/konamicode9/nntpchan
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>>17112 (OP) I used to, but then I took a break and all the instances I used to use are dead. Is there a list of ones that's still alive somewhere? What NNTPchan would need, ideally, is a distributed list of instances accepting peers, like DHT. That'd make it simple to write a guide on how to set up a personal instance on a VPS, and then peer with that, making it far more distributed and resilient to disruptions, as true P2P is stronger than mere federation. Federated systems have a handful of key people to take out and they're done.
Nobody actually uses decentralized social shit because it's a nightmare to moderate and there's no centralized point of access which means there's no centralized culture. The mindset that leads someone to believe decentralized social media makes sense is the same mindset that leads someone to think cryptocurrency will revolutionize the world
I used it a little bit, but I don't think I've seen public nodes recently? Would be nice if someone took the opportunity now when 4c is less alive.

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The secret of Metal Gear Revengence Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 23:59:29 No. 18288 [Reply]
Online videogames exist to train AI killbots, discuss
<stupid statement>, discuss
>>18299 Why is it stupid, it's interesting, you can't "know" it's happening, but realistically it has to be, and the implications of that are interesting >Word your thread better Yeah I probably could but this is the best I've got
>>18308 NTA, it's fiction the narrative goes for the most entertaining answers IRL the US tried to train soldiers with nintendo games and simulators but it's more effective and economic to just fly them to a small country and overthrow the government to have an excuse to do live combat exercises, they've been doing it since forever The one thing that might happen that resembles MGR (and MGS 2) is that some researchers with no ethics grab combat game footage and train killer robots with it, but anyone can scrape the web and use the data however they want, it's not limited to powerful groups with big funding anymore

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