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Hi big brains. I’m hoping that technology can transform society to liberate the normal person from labor and allow most to enjoy a high quality life where we can focus completely on individual expression and self actualization. Maybe living our lives out in virtual worlds and curing aging. I get this is a progressive pipe dream at the moment, but could some of this be achieved this century?
99% of things /g/ complains about when it comes to GNU/Linux are caused by the rolling release model. >X breaks at the next Y update! You are not forced to update, assuming this is true at all (it usually isn't in the first place) >can't keep same version of X! Yes you can. It won't change under the hood every 5 minutes, and even then, never without explicit intervention. >le backwards compatibility meme The Linux kernel is one of the most backwards-compatible software projects in history. It can still load and run 32-bit ELF binaries from the late 90s in 2023. If you need specific kernel versions, see the second point. >can't install multiple versions of X! Sure you can. What do you think /usr/local, /opt and so on are for? Not only that, this is platform-agnostic and even Unix-like OS agnostic. >can't install specific version of X! See previous point. It is trivial to "override" the software provided by the distribution.
Rolling release distributions create far more problems than they solve. They have their place, mainly for testing all the newest releases at once, but they are not suitable for production use, not even for personal use as long as "personal use" does not mean "testing every latest versions of all software".
>Not sure what private trackers are all about? The mission of /ptg/ is to promote the highest possible standards of tracker service by providing members with opportunities for professional development, by recognizing technical competence through examinations and by advancing the interests of its members.
>Remember the following: >READ THE OP BEFORE MAKING A FUCKING QUESTION YOU RETARDED FAGGOT >It doesn't matter if you use the same username in different trackers, the staff still share your IP with each other. >Staff is reading, being /marked/ is NOT a meme. >Don't ask for invites, it's private for a reason. >If starting out you should interview for RED, rank to elite, wait on account age and get invites from there. THAT'S IT THAT IS ALL YOU HAVE TO DO >If you want to rank up on RED, spam recent deezer shit with deemix/smloadr.
Anybody here miss the good ol' nostalgia days of Windows XP growing up? I sure do! +Games were better back then (World of Warcraft, Morrowind, Garry's Mod, Half-Life 2, etc.) +The aesthetic design of the desktop environment always felt warm and welcoming +Addicting Games and Flash animations +MS Paint, Club Penguin, Runescape, Webkinz was the shit +10/10 best ear-rape startup sound
Now everything is just minimalism horse shit designs with no effort or thought put into it.
Discuss classic boomer technologies from the 1970s to mid 1990s, I.e. Classic UNIXes, Vax VMS, IBM z series, classic home computers (Commodore, Atari, Acorn etc). Apple Post Jobs original departure and Windows even pre 95 not allowed. Early networking (TCP/IP prior to HTTP I.e Gopher, Usenet, IRC; X.25, DECNet, etc encouraged. Classic programming e.g. C/C++, Cobol, Haskell, etc welcome.
Let's say I wanted to make a new WAN, aside from the internet, how would I go about it? Would it be as simple as creating a new protocol suite and just using that over the same wires as the internet connection (assuming there are enough people/routers running this suite)? Would I need to implement completely new lines for the data to go down? I know about overlay networks, and that's not really what I'm asking about here, since I'm talking about a network parallel to the internet, not one built on top of it. Think X.25 or DECNET. If I did make enough changes to TCP/IP that it wouldn't work with other internet devices (except those running the modified version) but was still able to send/receive data from a properly configured peer, would this be a different WAN, or the digital version of tourists who still speak their native language on vacation?
So I accidentally stumbled upon this schizo. He seemed to have had a project called ShionKeys (beautiful nonsense) that would revolutionize keyboards... and giving us with this little gem (chink bros, help out)
https://github.com/shion7wong/spy >There is an ancient spy technology that is threatening all human beings, hacking into the brain and stealing everything through the organs connected to the human brain, this technology is two-way. >the spy task implementer experiences the smell of the spy object's fart through the vr device, not the smell of the spy object's fart, the spy task implementer smells the spy object's fart The smell will produce hatred (this depends on the spy task implementer's taste)
There's also this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31182315 >After CN terrorists kill children, they use domesticated animals to domesticate the soul/memory of human children, and forced work (AI). CN terrorists have gradually used the heads of human deceased people who died abnormally to replace electronic computers as AI servers.
oldfag here. no neckbeard, but been cruising webs since the mid 90s. always savored curious and bleeding edge sources of information, back then it was easy: irc (undernet), news groups (alt.*).. even icq connections. morphed into slashdot, and at times 4chan. now everything comes with awful corporate agenda, or heavy religious/nutty undertones (reddit, ats, glp).
anon: whre to find cutting edge and not often cited sources of information on the crazy internet of today?
