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 No.11964[Reply]

What's your take on linux software distribution ?

There's a lot of buzz around flat-pack and flat-hub atm, they are currently implementing a monetization feature. And for some reason Eric Schmidt the google-guy is involved somehow.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/27/flathub_app_store/
flathub isn't calld flub
I'm worried that once money is involved it will attract scammers and litigation for a payout type people. Also the payment processor they want to use is stripe, that's probably not anonymous

Ubuntu has removed flat-pack from it's official releases, to push it's snap package manager instead, i wonder if they have other reasons than "we're going to make our own pack-manager with blackjack and hookers" to yeet flat-pack from their system.

I think the best package manager in the end might be NIX

Is going from distro repositories to this type of stuff going to improve software distribution on linux ?
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 No.12050

>>12049
>use proprietary license only for their assets
*art assets

you know, so that people can actually safely pirate it and not worry about malware

AI generated art is gonna make artists obsolete anyway, or at least the highly skilled ones
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 No.12051

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>>11964
I think the main problem is that there should be a clear delimitation between gnu/linux as a tool (gentoo, nix, guix, etc.) and gnu/linux as a consumer OS

I use gentoo as my daily driver because I like foss and programming (as a hobby) and portage is more or less what I would do if I decided to write a personal package manager. if I also wanted reproducibility, the end result would be very similar to guix. these package managers are just what a programmer would expect, the intuitive approach to the problem so to speak

I have no idea what people who want to use linux as a consumer OS to do office work or play windows games need, but I'm sure their requirements are not the same as mine. I don't want them to modify my tools to accommodate for their needs, and the feeling is probably mutual

so that's my take I guess. I had to program on windows at work some years ago and it was terrible. the one size fits most approach is a waste of time

>>12035
>meson
>unneccesarily convoluted build system
you probably use shit like autotools and cmake already. meson is way less convoluted than the alternatives
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 No.12061

>>12051
>I think the main problem is that there should be a clear delimitation between gnu/linux as a tool (gentoo, nix, guix, etc.) and gnu/linux as a consumer OS

I think if you do this and appeal to normies by making gimped distros like silverblue to more easily facilitate browsing facebook, you get hordes of screeching uneducated retards like the userbase of /r/linux going WHY DOESN'T THE DOLBY ATMOS FOR MY NETFLIX WORK, WHY DOES THE SETTINGS MENU HAVE SO MANY BUTTONS, IT'S CONFUSING, LINUX IS SHIT!!!

and in response to that you have huge developers like redhat pandering to them by writing software like GNOME that is intentionally gimped in functionality yet at the same time crowds out all other alternatives from the ecosystem because it has such institutional force behind it, and shit like baked-in DRM, TPM attestation (to enforce the DRM), immutable root (to keep the retards from breaking their distro and whining about it), wayland shit which screenrecording and keybinding doesn't work half the time (because some retard might download malware which will keylog them), ad nauseam.

linux should always remain a tool. if the tool can be made easier to use without compromising on functionality, then fine. but it should always remain a tool.
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 No.12062

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>>12061
>I think if you do this
do what? keep a delimitation? do you think there should be no difference between gentoo and ubuntu?
from the rest of your message I can see that you are not as retarded as to suggest that. in principle we agree, but it is not like you can stop ibm and redhat from doing what they are doing. the best and only realistic alternative is to try to keep the tool separate from the consumer environment - this is what I call delimitation
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 No.12064

>>12062
the problem is it's difficult to keep "linux the tool" and "linux the consumption device" segregated so that the latter doesn't crush the former


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 No.11956[Reply]

Recently there has been a lot of commotion around large language model text based AI.
They are able to do impressive stuff, they give useful answers, and even can write somewhat usable programming sample code.

The most famous one currently is chatgpt, but all of those AIs are basically black boxes, that probably have some malicious features under the hood.

While there are Open-Source Implementations of ChatGPT style Training Algorithms
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/open-source-chatgpt/
Those kinda require that you have a sizeable gpu cluster like 500 $1k cards that are specialized kit, not your standard gaming stuff. To chew through large language-models with 100 billion to 500 billion parameters.

The biggest computational effort is the initial training run, that chews through a huge training data-set. After that is done, just running the thing to respond to your queries is easier.

So whats the path to a foss philosophy ethical AI ?
Should people do something like peer to peer network where they connect computers together to distribute the computational effort to many people ?

Or should people go for reducing the functionality until it can run on a normal computer ?
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 No.11960

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Check this out
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=gTkBUBJ9ksg

Meta of all companies is promising that they will make an open source AI that you can run on your own computer.

Did the Zuck really go from "Dumb fucks giving me all their private data" to "lets Democratize AI"
Is there a catch ?
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 No.11962

>>11960
Probably a Free-as-in-Free-Labor license with obfuscated code.
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 No.12036

>>11960
https://www.hackster.io/news/the-llama-is-out-of-the-bag-17993515b310

<The fun did not stop with the MacBook Pro. Other engineers got LLaMA running on Windows machines, a Pixel 6 smartphone, and even a Raspberry Pi. Granted, it runs very slowly on the Raspberry Pi 4, but considering that even a few weeks ago it would have been unthinkable that a GPT-3-class LLM would be running locally on such hardware, it is still a very impressive hack.


This seems like something worth while getting into.
Does anybody have a handle on this ?
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 No.12037

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>>12036
darn it forgot the picture
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 No.12063

>>11956
>So whats the path to a foss philosophy ethical AI ?
The source code being open is not enough. The dataset the AI is trained on must also be open, and it must be possible to verify the trained AI against that dataset. It is entirely possible to hide undetectable backdoors inside machine learning agents.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/cryptographers-show-how-to-hide-invisible-backdoors-in-ai-20230302/

>Should people do something like peer to peer network where they connect computers together to distribute the computational effort to many people ?

There's a [email protected] style thing for AI called "petals", which turns a distributed network into an AI. The problem is, there's currently no way of verifying if a node is fabricating its computations or injecting fraudulent results, and it's not clear at all if verifying such a thing is even possible (short of instituting homomorphic encryption over the top of the network)
https://petals.ml/

>Or should people go for reducing the functionality until it can run on a normal computer ?

Basically all the new capabilities of these chatGPT-style AIs stem not from new algorithms, but throwing masses of computing power at old algorithms through brute force. So running it on a home desktop machine is not going to accomplish much.

>I guess the most useful feature is the computer-code generator, because you might be able to use that to make better Foss Ai software in the future, and help you with creating libre open source programs.

I strongly advise against using code generators to contribute to open-source software as the code they emit is likely copyright infringement (distributing significant sections of the source without the associated license attached), even though it hasn't been tested in court yet.
https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/


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 No.7204[Reply]

Hey Leftychads
Whatcha readin?
Pic related is the import shipment I just received. Probably going to read the Greene book first since I'm in a springtime lull before I start summer projects. What about u.
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 No.7211

>>7207
Don't feed thetroll.

Not everyone can stair at a computer screen for 24+ hours.
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 No.7212

>>7211
pretentious faggot
modern screens are better for your eyes than you fag paper books
you can even zoom in
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 No.7213

>>7212
>Hormone disrupted consoomer has logged in
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 No.7214

>>7209
Which ones in particular?
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 No.7215

>>7214
What's it to you? mind your own business.


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 No.7829[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

What are some classic cute yuri animu to watch??
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 No.8872

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tifa >>8729 >>8780 >>8804 >>8816 >>8869
nsfw

warcraft >>8134 >>8243 >>8247 >>8249 >>8255 >>8670 >>8676 >>8742 >>8783 >>8843 >>8852 >>8869
nsfw

Harley Quinn/Poison Ivy >>8124 >>8126 >>8681 >>8775 >>8849
nsfw

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 No.8876

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tifa/aeris (2) [ >>8793 ] [ >>8868 ] >>8869

amelie/angela (2) >>8003 >>8871
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 No.8877

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tifa/aeris
nsfw

tifa >>8238 >>8239 >>8719 >>8816 >>8848 >>8865
nsfw

lara croft >>8065 >>8666 >>8804 >>8869
nsfw

bioshock
nsfw
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 No.8884

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tifa >>8238 >>8239 >>8719 >>8816 >>8848 >>8865 >>8877

wonder_woman/power_girl

dead or alive (2 images) >>8233 >>8241 >>8243 >>8246 >>8247 >>8249 >>8253 >>8680 >>8686 >>8691 >>8696 >>8714 >>8721 >>8724 >>8852 >>8865

miss marvel/scarlet witch
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 No.8885

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2x dead or alive
nsfw

jill valentine/yennefer
nsfw

panam palmer/valerie
nsfw

>(2 images) >>8884

just a copy-paste error


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 No.14436[Reply]

What do you think of the ending to Watchmen?
Do you agree with Ozymandias?
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 No.19522

>>19521
>Vietnam *not* posing any serious existential threat.
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 No.19523

>>19520
>Explains the reasoning of a critic.
>Appeal to authority
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 No.19524

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>>19521
>existential threat.
Yeah, but the American soldiers who lost in Vietnam also fought despite Vietnam posing any serious existential threat. The point is that he has a foot in the human world, he is operating for the American state, and this highlights that.
This is the point, he acts like a fucking midwit burger except he's invincible now. Other than acting cold what fucking effect did being privy to every fucking secret of the universe have on Dr. Manhattan?
This is why Greek and Christian Gods are so timeless. They don't have these yawning gaps in their own logic.
I get that sacrificing a a few 100 thousand people might be justified to prevent a nuclear war that kills billions but the Vietnam War was a farcical war that MILLIONS OF PEOPLE KNEW AT THE TIME.
Regular comics avoid these problems by having their own made up politics.
One critic I linked said that Moore has a nostalgia for Nixon and even Reagan to an extent. This rings true and is the only explanation for Moore's confounding choices for his alternative history.
Many Anarchists harbor have this reactionary sympathy for fascists. And it's in Moore's comics. They're like Pit Mommies that think prejudice against their dangerous dogs are allegories for prosecution of marginalized people.
I agree with Moore's subtext that it's silly to think that super hero's with the power to shape society would be good and ethical because, well just because! But then he makes equally absurd claims that superheroes would all be irredeemable asswipes because society mmaaaaaaan.
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 No.19525

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>>19521
>Yeah, but the American soldiers who lost in Vietnam also fought despite Vietnam posing any serious existential threat. The point is that he has a foot in the human world, he is operating for the American state, and this highlights that.
This is the point, he acts like a fucking midwit burger except he's invincible now. Other than acting cold what fucking effect did being privy to every fucking secret of the universe have on Dr. Manhattan?
This is why Greek and Christian Gods are so timeless. They don't have these yawning gaps in their own logic.
I get that sacrificing a a few 100 thousand people might be justified to prevent a nuclear war that kills billions but the Vietnam War was a farcical war that MILLIONS OF PEOPLE KNEW AT THE TIME.
Regular comics avoid these problems by having their own made up politics.
One critic I linked said that Moore has a nostalgia for Nixon and even Reagan to an extent. This rings true and is the only explanation for Moore's confounding choices for his alternative history.
Many Anarchists harbor have this reactionary sympathy for fascists. And it's in Moore's comics. They're like Pit Mommies that think prejudice against their dangerous dogs are allegories for prosecution of marginalized people.
I agree with Moore's subtext that it's silly to think that super hero's with the power to shape society would be good and ethical because, well just because! But then he makes equally absurd claims that superheroes would all be irredeemable asswipes because society mmaaaaaaan. There's zero subtlety or complexity to his deconstruction.
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 No.19526

>>19521
>Dude, you're complaining about Alan Moore being disrespectful towards comics or whatever you think he's doing, and you don't even know who The Question is? Come on!
The Question is an obscure as fuck character, give me a break.


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 No.226[Reply]

How do I stop myself wanting a gf so badly that it hurts?
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 No.2040

>>2039
We get it. You live to fuck. Good for you.
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 No.2041

>>2040
Jeez, with all the time you save, you must have a really awesome life full of accomplishments👍
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 No.2042

>>2037
Bronze Age Mindset by a pseudonym named Bronze Age Pervert is the source for those images
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 No.2043

>>2042
nobody asked, bugman
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 No.2044

>>2042
Great book


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 No.7043[Reply]

A while back, I wrote a summary of every chapter from Robert Greene's '48 Laws of Power.'

If you haven't read it, I'd highly recommend. These summaries don't do the book justice, since I've stripped away the historical anecdotes and quotes which really make the work come to life. However, I think there are still some interesting tidbits and lessons in these summaries, so I thought I'd share.
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 No.7192

<40 - DESPISE THE FREE LUNCH

From Robert Greene:

>"What is offered for free or at a bargain rate often comes with a psychological price tag - complicated feelings of obligation, compromises with quality, the insecurity those compromises bring, on and on. The powerful learn early to protect their most valuable resources: independence and room to maneuver."


>"Generosity softens people up - to be deceived. By gaining a reputation for liberality, you win people's admiration while distracting them from your power plays."


>“For everyone able to play with money, thousands more are locked in a self-destructive refusal to use money creatively and strategically. These types represent the opposite pole to the powerful, and you must learn to recognize them - either to avoid there poisonous natures or just turn their inflexibility to your advantage."


>"Powerful people judge everything by what it costs, not just in money but in time, dignity, and peace of mind. And this is exactly what bargain demons cannot do. Wasting valuable time digging for bargains, they worry endlessly about what they could have gotten elsewhere for a little less."


>"Generosity has a definite function in power: it attracts people, softens them up, makes allies out of them. But it has to be used strategically, with a definite end in mind. Indiscriminate givers, on the other hand, are dangerous because they want to be loved and admired by all. And their generosity is so indiscriminate and needy and it may not have the desired effect: If they give to one and all, why should the recipient feel special?"


>"Make power your goal and money will find its way to you."

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 No.7193

<41 - AVOID STEPPING INTO A GREAT MAN'S SHOES

From Robert Greene:

>"Power depends on appearing larger than other people, and when you are lost in the shadow of the father, the king, the great predecessor, you cannot possibly project such a presence."


>"Alexander [the Great] knew he had to make himself the very opposite of his domineering father: he would force himself to be bold and reckless, he would control his tongue and be a man of few words, and he would not lose precious time in pursuit of pleasure that brought no glory… But Alexander had the same relationship to his own deeds as he had to his father: his conquest of Persia represented the past, and he was never to rest on past triumphs, or to allow the past to outshine the present."


>"Only the weak rest on their laurels and dote on past triumphs; in the game of power there is never time to rest."


>"The distance you establish from your predecessor often demand some symbolism, a way of advertising itself publicly."


>"Never let yourself be seen as following your predecessor’s path. If you do you will never surpass him. You must physically demonstrate your difference, by establishing a style and symbolism that sets you apart."


>"Most people are afraid to break so boldly with tradition, but they secretly admire those who can break up the old forms and reinvigorate the culture."

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 No.7194

<42 - STRIKE THE SHEPHERD AND THE SHEEP WILL SCATTER

From Robert Greene:

>"Within any group, trouble can most often be traced to a single source, the unhappy, the chronically dissatisfied one who will always stir up dissension and infect the group with his or her ill ease. Before you know what hit you, that the satisfaction spreads. Act before it becomes impossible to disentangle one strand of misery from another, or to see how the whole thing started. First, recognize troublemakers by their overbearing presence, or by their complaining nature. Once you spot them do not try to reform them or appease them - that will only make things worse. Do not attack them, whether directly or indirectly, for they are poisonous in nature and we'll work underground to destroy you… Banish them before it is too late."


>"Do not waste time lashing out in all directions at what seems to be a many-headed enemy. Find the one head that matters - the person with willpower, or smarts, or, most important of all, charisma. Whatever it costs you, lure this person away, for once he is absent his powers will lose their effect."


>"In every group, power is concentrated in the hands of one or two people, for this is one area in which human nature will never change: people will congregate around a single strong personality and like planets orbiting the Sun."


>"Powerful people never waste time. Outwardly they may play along with the game - pretending that power is shared among many - but inwardly they keep their eyes on the inevitable few in the group who hold the cards."


>"It is often better to isolate your enemies than to destroy them - you seem less brutal. The result, though, is the same, for in the game of power isolation spells death."


Power is everywhere. Even among your detractors and rivals, power exists. Rather than attacking in a blunt fashion, it is often better to surgically strike the source of the problem.
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 No.7201

<43 - WORK ON THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF OTHERS

From Robert Greene:

>"Coercion creates a reaction that will eventually work against you. You must seduce others into wanting to move in your direction."


>"At all times you must attend to those around you, gauging their particular psychology, tailoring your words to what you know it will entice and seduce them. This requires energy and art."


>"In all your encounters, take a step back - take time to calculate and a tune yourself to your targets' emotional makeup and psychological weaknesses. Force will only strengthen their resistance. With most people the heart is the key: they are like children, ruled by their emotions. To soften them up, alternate harshness with mercy."


>"The key to persuasion is softening people up and breaking them down, gently. Seduce them with a two-pronged approach: work on their emotions and play on their intellectual weaknesses. Be alert to both what separates them from everyone else (their individual psychology) and what they share with everyone else (their basic emotional responses). Aim at the primary emotions - love, hate, jealousy. Once you moved their emotions you have reduced their control, making them more vulnerable to persuasion."


>"Play on contrast like this: push people to despair, then give them relief. If they expect pain and you give them pleasure, you win their hearts."


>"To find the key that will motivate them, first get them to open up. The more they talk, the more they reveal about their likes and dislikes - the handles and levers to move them with."

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 No.7205

<44 - DISARM AND INFURIATE WITH THE MIRROR EFFECT

From Robert Green:

>"This is the power of mirroring those around you. First, you give people the feeling that you share their thoughts and goals. Second if they suspect you have ulterior motives, the mirror shields you from them, preventing them from figuring out your strategy. Eventually this will infuriate and unsettle them. By playing the double, you steal their thunder, suck away their initiative, make them feel helpless. You also gain the ability to choose when and how to unsettle them - another avenue to power. The mirror saves you mental energy: simply echoing in the moves of others gives you the space you need to develop a strategy of your own."


>"Everyone is wrapped up in their own narcissistic shell. When you try to impose your own ego on them, a wall goes up, resistance is increased. By mirroring them, however, you seduce them into a kind of narcissistic rapture: they are gazing at a double of their own soul. This double is actually manufactured in its entirety by you. Once you have used the mirror to seduce them, you have great power over them."


>"When you're dealing with the intractable willpower of other people, direct communication often only heightens their resistance… As Christ himself understood, talking in parables is often the best way to teach a lesson, for it allows people to realize the truth on their own."


>"When dealing with people who are lost in the reflections of fantasy worlds never try to push them into reality by shattering their mirrors. Instead enter their world and operate inside of it under their rules, gently guiding them out of the hall of mirrors they have entered."


>"The mirroring of reality offers immense deceptive powers. The right uniform, the right accent, the proper props - the deception cannot be deciphered because it is intermeshed in a simulation of reality."


>"After all, we cannot go around doubting the reality of everything we see - that would be too exhausting. We habitually accept appearances, and this is a credulity you can use."

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 No.11916[Reply]

Tell me, anon: what are the best minigames in RPGs?
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 No.11918

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When your minigame is better than the actual game…
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 No.11919

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>>11917
This?
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 No.11921

>>11920
Yup, it's literally just Pipe Mania/Pipe Dream.
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 No.11945

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Inertia is also a nice "mini game"

pic related is from Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

on linux the package name is sgt-puzzles


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 No.530[Reply]

>revolutionary defeatism with incel characteristics
It's happening bros
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 No.764

Anyday now.
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 No.1156

bump
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 No.2027

bump and also get rid of the faggot e-celeb spam
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 No.2028

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This got posted on .org earlier today. I didn't know there was an entire movement around being a sexless bum tbh
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 No.2031

>>2028
These people should be put into a gulag. Let them rot while doing labor


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 No.19482[Reply]

Only post bops.
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 No.19486

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 No.19487

Legends.
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 No.19488

>>19486

Hell yeah
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 No.19516



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 No.1502[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

I don't even think it should be illegal for any moral reason, or, because I think it is degenerate. I think it is bullshit women get to get by only on their looks and their pussies. They should get a job like the rest of us.
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 No.1982

>>1981
<Nah bro. Capitalism evolved after Marx.

Lenin summarized this development in 'Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism.'

Since then, it hasn't evolved at all.

Hence, that's the final word on political economy.
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 No.1991

>>1978
The gambling industry isn't selling a commodity faggot wtf are you dumb?
That's the whole point. It's called fictional capital or in modern economics: Speculation. Everything Marx said is still applicable today and you aren't witty or edgy for thinking otherwise.
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 No.2007

>>1991
>Everything Marx said is applicable today, except a huge chunk of the modern economy doesn't fit into his description of capitalism as a system based on the production of commodities
Makes sense
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 No.2029

>>2007
>Gambling is a huge chunk of the modern economy.
You have to go back.
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 No.2030

>>2007
He does gambling not 'fit' into what he said? Lmao.


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 No.131[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Incel humor thread.
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 No.1959

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 No.1960

>>1959
I work with a bitch who has one of these.
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 No.1961

>>1958
I hate women.
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 No.2025

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<I like boobs, so I got fat and have boobs now. Why aren't women interested in me?


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 No.161[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Incel News Thread
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 No.2018

>>2017
tldr? my time is worth more than yours
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 No.2019

>>2018
For being such a hyper intellectual, I'd think that reading 500 words or so would be an easy task
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 No.2020

>>2018
And lol niqqa. If your time was super valuable, you wouldn't be here rn
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 No.2021

>>2019
>>2020
damn, an entire article to say this? how is this even related to incels?
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 No.2022

>>2021
You know how reply tags work on image boards, right?


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 No.1983[Reply]

This guy learned the hard way
>What women think or say they want and what they actually respond to are two very different things
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 No.2012

>>2011
Si, your point?
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 No.2013

>>2008
This anon is a living Chappelle skit kek.
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 No.2014

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>>2008
<I'd prefer a man who could read social/nonverbal cues
>bunch of words that means nothing
holy shit op confirmed sperg
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 No.2015

>>2014
>He doesn't know about nonverbal queues.
>Accuses others of being a sperg.
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 No.2016

>>2014
Dystopian Cyberpunk writers used to write about people like you in the 80's.


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 No.11948[Reply]

Samsung is lobbying to get a general exclusion order against phone-screen imports in the US.
They claim it's because screens that are imported by the phone repair-shops do a muh-patent-infringerino.

The real reasons is because Apple wants to switch their screen supplier to BOE, and Samsung wants a monopoly on screens.
Samsung can't go after Apple directly because Apple has enough money to wage patent-warfare until the end of time.
Samsung can't go after BOE because that's a Chinese company, and patent-trolling doesn't fly in China.

The result is going to be the destruction of the repair industry, and a precedent for banning technology parts as a means for installing a monopoly. If you aren't allowed to get parts for fixing your stuff, it's more corporate shit encroaching on personal possessions.

here is a video from Rossmann going into more details
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=HD8Y4xS7fMU
His take is to make Samsung a dirty word.

My questions:
Would it not be a better strategy to bypass this by (legally grey) relabeling tech parts and importing them anyway. So that Samsung gets cut out completely ?
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 No.11952

>>11948
intellectual property must be destroyed
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 No.11961

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>>11948
>Would it not be a better strategy to bypass this by (legally grey) relabeling tech parts and importing them anyway. So that Samsung gets cut out completely ?
Based accelerationChads on leftychan identifying lines of flight and creating Zones of Offensive Opacity against the monopolization of capital. Remember, Marx voted for free trade specifically for it's accelerating, destabilizing effects against the companies.
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 No.12059

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EU right to repair legislation has dropped

the official document says:
https://cyprus.representation.ec.europa.eu/news/right-repair-commission-introduces-new-consumer-rights-easy-and-attractive-repairs-2023-03-22_en
<1 - A right for consumers to claim repair to producers, for products that are technically repairable under EU law, like a washing machine or a TV. This will ensure that consumers always have someone to turn to when they opt to repair their products, as well as encourage producers to develop more sustainable business models.
<2 - A producers' obligation to inform consumers about the products that they are obliged to repair themselves.
<3 - An online matchmaking repair platform to connect consumers with repairers and sellers of refurbished goods in their area. The platform will enable searches by location and quality standards, helping consumers find attractive offers, and boosting visibility for repairers.
<4 - A European Repair Information Form which consumers will be able to request from any repairer, bringing to repair conditions and price, and make it easier for consumers to compare repair offers.
<5 - A European quality standard for repair services will be developed to help consumers identify repairers who commit to a higher quality. This ‘easy repair' standard will be open to all repairers across the EU willing to commit to minimum quality standards, for example based on duration, or availability of products.

I don't know if those rules are any good because you usually have to be a level 12 legal wizard to understand what it really means, so I'm deferring to somebody else for that judgement.

here is a video of Louis Rossmann ranting about the centralized database (point 4) where repair services have to compete on price
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=-aKw5pSR5uk
The reason he's upset is because if all repair shops have to compete in a central market place their margins will be razor thin and won't be able to accumulatePost too long. Click here to view the full text.


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 No.177[Reply]

im a comfy NEET, do you like to be A neet anon?
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 No.1145

>>1038
How does working 8 hours per day, 5 times a week not make you want to kill yourself?
I also have a job, mostly /comfy/ wfh job so it's not the end of the world, but there is not a lot more in life than entertain yourself with whatever you like the most.
Reading Lenin REKT the socialdemocrats from the past is better than any new form of entertainment consumption though.
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 No.1146

>>1038
It beats working all day and destroying my body. Been at this job one year and my back and shoulder are already giving out.
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 No.1986

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anyone have protips for maximizing comfyness as a neet?

any interesting/useful websites?

easy little to no cost skills to learn?

Also how does a neet proper engage in finding members of the female species?
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 No.1987

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>>1986
Dedicate set time to extracting the maximum possible NEETbucks from daddy government. You can literally get paid to sit at home and masturbate, it's insane.
As for what to spend your time doing, you need to be realistic about motivation. Sure you could go on jogs, do some volunteering, learn to code, learn a new language etc. But are you really going to do that when sitting at the computer and masturbating all day is so much easier?

>Also how does a neet proper engage in finding members of the female species?

Not going to happen so don't get your hopes up. Women are parasitic as fuck and if you don't have a source of income for them to leach off, they're not interested. Also what woman wants to tell their friends and family that they're dating an unemployed guy?
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 No.1988

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>>1986
https://rentry.org/good-sites
Find a photographer that does social media pictures, then (1) open an instagram account and post 3 or 6 professional quality pictures of yourself, (2) do the same with tinder and include some zoomer meme in your description. If you don't know how normal people talk or what memes are popular outside imageboards, use tiktok to find out. Once you have these two things, you start matching women on tinder. I don't know why, but women like instagram, some matches are going to ask you to add them there. Target women in the <consent_age> to 23 range - believe it or not, older women are slightly harder to talk, with the young ones you can just spam tiktok memes and they will find it funny. If they ask you about your job, say construction or welding, women have no interest in these so they will quickly change the subject.

Perseverance is the key: The method has a low success ratio (around 0.005), but no matter how ugly you are, if you grind tinder (or social media in general) long enough you are going to fuck. Beware though, women are extremely vapid and boring, the conversations you are going to have will be painfully banal. These relations are going to be one-day things, obviously. Long-term relationships are a big no-no as a NEET.

It isn't worth the effort imo.


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 No.8882[Reply]

it is that time of the year again, what are your picks for the coming season?
mine are
>Tonikaku Kawaii Season 2
>Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto desu!
>Edomae Elf
>Kaminaki Sekai no Kamisama Katsudou
>Megami no Café Terrace
>Kawaisugi Crisis
>Otonari ni Ginga
>Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Punch!
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 No.8883

All of it is shit


/tech/

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 No.12054[Reply]

It's potentially possible to use modified low-yield fusion bombs for power generation.

It's definitely not the first choice for generating fusion energy, but since the technology has already been developed, and the production-facilities are build, one might as well repurpose military tech for civilian use. Weaponized bombs and energy-generating-bombs are similar but not the same, so the currently existing low yield bombs aren't directly usable for this but they could be modified or recycled for raw materials. Existing weapons-stock can be burned up in power generation.

The technical principle is that you put a low-yield thermonuclear device into the center of a giant hollow vacuum "filled" metal-sphere that is lined with led, and by detonating the fusion bomb, the big metal ball gets really hot, and you can use that as a high-grade heat-source for power-generation.

It might be useful to do this as a power-satellite in earth orbit, because space already has a gratis vacuum and you can use a mirror array to send infrared heat-energy to many different power-receiver stations which reduces the load on electrical grids. It can also be used to power container ships and huge water desalination plants.

This would use mostly off-the-shelf parts which would greatly reduce the engineering requirements, and could be build very quickly. As a parallel development high priority project, this could go online in a few years.

The economics on this are pretty good, even capitalism might be able to pull this off, because this is not a long term project and upfront capital costs aren't that high. The political aspect might be harder however, because mass-producing tiny h-bombs might ruffle some feathers.
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 No.12055

>>12054
okay, suppose I want to build one of your engines in my backyard, how thick should the metal-sphere be? can I use recycled steel cans?
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 No.12056

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>>12055
>okay, suppose I want to build one of your engines in my backyard, how thick should the metal-sphere be?
It just has to be strong enough to hold a vacuum inside, while being really hot.
>can I use recycled steel cans?
In principle yes, just consider that most cans are made from aluminum these days.

I'm not sure if you meant this request in earnest, but in principle this can be miniaturized, and build like a steampunk fusion reactor. Except for the small fusion bombs that essentially are the fuel, those get more complicated to make the smaller the reactor gets.
The fusion reaction is set off by a fission reaction that needs a critical mass of fissionable materials. You would need exotic materials to make that happen in a small size. For example Californium-252 reaches critical mass at 1.8 grams, and that would allow you to make a really tiny fusion bomblet for a small reactor. You have to store it in cold conditions below -15°C / 5°F to keep stable. So a really reliable freezer is a must-have to store your fuel igniter-caps.

You would place the ball into a tank filled with salt. Purge the tank with nitrogen gas before adding salt to avoid corrosion problems. You run radiator pipes through the salt and if you put water into one end of the pipe it will come out as steam on the other end. The salt is a cheap way of storing lots of heat energy in a smallish space, it's not critical and you can also use something else like quarts-sand or graphite-powder.

Even if you could manage to get Californium, i don't recommend building this as the most ambitious diy project in history, because if your vacuum seal fails it will vaporize your yard and a bunch more.


/ent/

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 No.8795[Reply]

Thread to recommended and discuss the best/most unique examples of soviet cinema.

The bulk of Mosfilm's productions can be accessed for free on their youtube channel, many with english subtitles.
https://www.youtube.com/@Mosfilm_eng
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 No.8858

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>>8835
>all this individualistic and even plain racist crap
the second film maybe, popcorn flick with a nationalist special-snowflake bankrupt moral

the first Brat is more complicated, there is an underlying protest against individualism there, that takes the form of nihilism

and the ending is pure kino - the main hero forgives and saves his brother, even though he betrayed him for money
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 No.8870

train movies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuzPyI3H6BM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H4dDikzIoo

the quality is a bit gay but you can expect that from youtube
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 No.8878

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https://archive.org/search?query=im+staub+der+sterne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o4xr0NSb2M

east german scifi

the quality is meh in both sources but probably watchable

i watched it in more hd quality and it was better (but maybe only on torrents…)
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 No.8879

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 No.8880

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>>8878
>>8879
That's actually a pretty good scifi flick.

The makers of this film really objected to spray-cans, and they weren't subtle about it, lol.


/tech/

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 No.12053[Reply]

Recommend a virtual phone number, to register on Telegram
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 No.12057

register at a gym namefag


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 No.1339[Reply]

I've noticed people on the website tend to get super heated. I think we need to learn to better communicate and stop jumping on the defensive so quickly.
This thread will be dedicated to saying upligting things to your fellow leftychaders and anons and just general positivity.
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 No.1373

I'm gonna side with the mods.

I'm undoubtedly the biggest troll here - with the caveat that I've actually read a ton of ICM lit and am not simply some mouthbreathing WN or lolbertarian.

They are extremely chill as far as leftoids go.

.org mods are demented genderfags with unbalanced hormones who sit at their computers all day, deleting posts and screaming about touching grass.
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 No.1374

>>1373
yeh you're just plain old nazi
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 No.1375

>>1374
Go back to .org and cry about it there
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 No.1376

>>1375
i will go there and tell them how nazi you are
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 No.1377

>>1376
I do nazi your post there..


/ga/

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 No.11928[Reply]

Share you best outcome from playing the game!

This was my best so far. My strategy was to first get the military under control, then do land reform and set up the economy, hold an election with as much legitimacy as possible, and finally to build up stuff like medicine, education, and infrastructure. It went alright for the most part, but the IMF is going to kill the country later, much like what happened in Yugoslavia.

So what did you do? What worked for you?
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 No.11939

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>>11938
https://codeberg.org/anon666/tetric_preview1


this is only a preview, because it is scattered over different repos

this is mostly pathfinding experiment + some notes (wiki_main.md etc)

many of it not even related to the idea

BUT you can run it on linux with ./run.sh or ./build.sh (its just go project)

and most of it is even in different repos, basically its not very intereing rn
at least this repo. i just created it for pathfinding experiment, and maybe then some bot testing.
if you run it it only demonstrate the 3d cell-based pathfinding
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 No.11940

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>>11939
interesting. I can't open the link, did you set it as public?
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 No.11941

>>11940
lol try now
i made it public, but they need other permissions there as well
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 No.11942

>>11941
I don't want to keep derailing this thread but I have some suggestions (if you are open to suggestions), would you mind posting an email or opening a new thread?
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 No.11943



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 No.1670[Reply]

its the fist time ive made a friend who's a girl (female) in my 19 years of age, turns out it wasnt that hard. Im still afraid of women though

am i winning?
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 No.1892

>>1888
>Half of all men under 35 aren't having sex.
>Don't you know liberal capitalism is a meritocracy inkwell. If you're alone it's all your fault, sweaty, stop saying it's systemic. Only LoSeRs do that!
Ebin
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 No.1893

>>1888
>Accuses 3rd world women of having white fever because of imperialism
>Unknowingly implicates Western women in rejecting their looksmatch because of that same imperialism.
>Moves the goalposts to moral failings of men now.
Why are liberals like this.
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 No.1894

>>1879
>Make light of eugenics.
BASED MALTHUSIAN
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 No.1895

>>1891
>>1892
>>1893
>deranged samefag
touch pussy
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 No.1896

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>>1895
>>deranged samefag
Cope


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 No.1880[Reply]

Why are millennials and especially zoomers so obsessed with gender?
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 No.1881

Welcome to the desert of post-politics
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 No.1882

>>1881
What do you mean?
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 No.1883

People tend to focus on that which they don't have.

It's also part and parcel of the immense faggotry of modern youth generations. In there mad dash to 'normalize' and 'destigmatize' everything, they've turned themselves to lechers of the spoken word and prudes of the deed. Never before has sex been to out in the open and accepted. Meanwhile, never before has a generation been so chaste and unable to perform the most basic function of life.

It's pathetic and one of the reasons why millennials should be stripped of all rights. They're simply not qualified to be trusted to act like functioning adults.
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 No.1884

>>1880
We don't know how much of that was actually organic, or how much is it an artifact of communicative capitalism branding people according to marketing categories.
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 No.1887

>>1882
Gender bullshit and identity politics is actually what we are left with when our political leaders have nothing to give us. It's really a form of pseudo-politics since it's not a serious struggle for political power.
1. Capitalist postmodernity erodes traditional cultural sensibilities
2. New and/or previously suppressed behaviors emerge while social structures collapse
3. The servants of capital attempt to manage this while capital forces market forces upon the social void
Identity politics is a term that refers to a constellation of such management regimes. Every mainstream party in most of the world makes use of some form of identity politics.
For example, the more that civil society break down, the more that we see the violent reassertion of racial, national, and sexual identity. Gender is just another one of these.
This creates a paradox where what seems like the critical destruction of gender norms is also an affirmation of gender, in the form of a bajillion new genders and so on.
TL;DR: millenials and zoomers are living in an aggressively "marketed" gender gold rush


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 No.468[Reply]

Share you feels here.
No bully
also feel free to share your feels in the /leftcel/ thread at https://9chan.tw/leftcel/thread/2696
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 No.1391

>>1388
My life has been falling apart too. It feels like it's been in slow motion for the last 5 years. I think a lot of people are feeling the heat in the economy today.
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 No.1395

I fucking hate women.
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 No.1399

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 No.1400

>>1399
lmao saved
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 No.1885

Bump


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 No.1335[Reply]

You know the deal

No one is coming to save you
No one cares about you
Your quality of life is your responsibility
(Unless you're a woman, I guess)

Use this thread to track your weekly actions, habits, and the goals you've reached on your journey to improve.
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 No.1336

>Read 50+ pages
>Gym 5x, Morning exercise routine 6x, bike ride 2x
>Collagen mask 2x, teeth whitening 1x
>Oil change for vehicle
>Payed rent early
>Cleaned my place well. Scrubbed bathroom tile, rearranged dishes, washed bedding.
>Settled on a way to make business related content that is less time consuming and energy draining. Result is better output that I'm less personally embarrassed about, which has better organic reach as well.
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 No.1337

I cleaned really well and organized but deff need to get into reading it's so hard. Best advice for reading?
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 No.1338

>>1337
Pick a genre you enjoy reading or at least feel like you're getting something out of.

Don't try to force yourself to read something because you 'should.'

Personally, I read a ton, but I have somewhat narrow tastes. This just kinda came up in my life because my gf mentioned she was thinking about getting me a book for Xmas but said she wasn't sure if I would like the book she got or not. This was good intuition on her part, since I definitely wouldn't have enjoyed just any book.
If you're not sure what genre you even like, I'd recommend checking out historical fiction since it combines many different elements and interests.

Secondly, set a very low bar for success. Instead of telling yourself you're going to read 20 pages a day, tell yourself you're going to read 1. Then, if you want, stop after you finish that one page. That way, you're more likely to start since reading 1 page is a much smaller time/effort commitment.

Likewise, pick a time and place ahead of time. 'Im going to read 1 page in the afternoon while drinking coffee at the cafe by my house' is much more clear plan/goal than 'im going to read 1 page.'
That way, you have less to decide when the time comes to put your plan into action, and won't be as affected by descision fatigue or choice paralysis.
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 No.1366

These threads should be revived


/ga/

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 No.10911[Reply]

Whats games are the /leftypol/ people currently in the middle of playing?
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 No.11914

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>>10911
Hidden Agenda.

It's ultimately cringe and surprisingly based at the same time. Cringe, because it's peak virtual socdemmery shice which expects you to unite the private exploiters and the death squads with their slaves fur le cummon goot. Based, since it unknowingly teaches you that it is impossible to drive society-oriented humane politics when the main production forces still reside in private property instead of a governmental one at least.
And guess what, even if you slam your ministy with the most supposedly radical fighters for socialism, some of which were commanders in guerrilla and others stuffed in prisons, you still won't get a chance to promote any move that comes out of succdam way. E.g. there's an event where landless farmers say it's enough and just go and take the land from the big guys and ask you to legalize it ‒ and you won't, since you can only take path of either a seething big guy or your so-called radical ministers, all of whom would gently ask you to pacify the dang dirty wageslave stupid proles by speeches of a soft reformation for le cummon of ouh nayshun.

And yeh, this is also the grandpa of that shiddy chauvinistic political "sim" that is called "Crisis in the Kremlin" ‒ even the main gameplay screen, as you can (I hope) see, is practically the same.
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I don't play vidya, but this seems pretty kino
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 No.11926

Half Life on redream, Gran Turismo on ppsspp.
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 No.11937

>>11926
gran turismo 2 on a ps1 emulator better albeit


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 No.12038[Reply]

Does anyone actually know how to make money on the Forex market? Been trying for years, but nada.
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 No.12039

>>12038
Before we get to foreign exchanges

Finance 101: It's a zero-sum game, for some people to win others have to lose.

There are 4 rungs:

-The lowest rung in this game is guessing what's going to happen and then gambling with investment, this is not sensible, don't do it this is the looser-rung.
-The next rung is having insider information about what is going to happen so that you know what you can invest in with a guaranteed return.
-The rung above that is having the ability to affect the world in a way to make your investments give you returns.
-The top rung is having control over institutions so that you can rig the game in your favor.

Foreign exchanges are affected allot by foreign policy of countries, if you can get insider information about decisions in that field before it's made public, you can sensibly predict it and make some money off it. If you're the one making foreign policy decisions that's also a way. Controlling something like a central bank, that's probably the best position.
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 No.12040

Why forex? Just do options. They are at least better than forex. I wouldn't do forex with out a large savings of cash.


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 No.11980[Reply]

What would a video conferencing application that can support multiple billion users look like?

Can it be made decentralized with guaranteed high availability?

How can moderation be organized in such an application? I guess some aspects can be programmed in, like speaking time limits, and speaking order could be randomized. Also considering all users would be authenticated could muting or kicking be organized on a voting basis?

I honestly was thinking about VR chat based assembly but that seems far more cumbersome.
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 No.12028

Anyway, this is just me entertaining the possibilities.

One thing is certain - digital spaces allow humans to go beyond physical limits. To not take advantage of this in collective decision making is foolish. The possibilities outweigh the risks in my opinion.
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 No.12029

>>12023
You want to combine both physical and virtual space, i guess that could work, but i think you are taking IT Security too lax.
How do you organize the token issuers, so that it doesn't become a gate-keeper organization that has too much power ?

>How is it not democratic when majority votes to burn someone at the stake?

Are you trolling me ?
If you want the rule by the demos, you can't just burn a part of it to death.

>You seem to think that democracy only means pacifism. When democracy perfectly can be bloodthirsty.

If you mean engaging in warmongering like the neocon-regimes, no democracies tend not to do that because most people loose out in wars.

>Democracy is a dictatorship of the majority. Nothing more, nothing less.

If that's what you want, why are you trying to create a dictatorship of the ostracisers, which are by no means a majority.

>why would the majority undermine a majority principle that empowers it?

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 No.12031

>>12029
>you are taking IT Security too lax
well assuming there are hundreds of millions of nodes to compromise the network you would need to compromise hundreds of millions of machines

hardware tokens would ensure authentication tied to real unique identities

open voting means that any results could be independently analyzed and verified for meddling

so that leaves the development platform and distribution channels

development should be carried by some government institution
how you would control this institution is how you would control any public institution that manages critical infrastructure

and there is always going to be critical infrastructure in society

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 No.12032

What I'm getting at is that assembly can't just be a rubber stamp organ with passive public who only listens and doesn't have any control over the agenda or the means to punish individual speakers.
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 No.12033

>>12031
>well assuming there are hundreds of millions of nodes to compromise the network you would need to compromise hundreds of millions of machines
There is evidence that pretty much all consumer computers are already back-doored.
You can't brush this off, you would be handing over political-power to what ever organizations are able to exploit the backdoors.
There is no inherent security in having large numbers of computers.
You have to assume that all the computer technology you can't inspect is compromised.

independent vote-verification can't fix vote-manipulation on the massive scale that's possible with computers, the verification process doesn't have enough through-put.

>how you would control this institution

You develop all the technology in the open so that everybody can inspect it, we'll be able to make it secure enough that, it'll cost more to break the security than what can be gained from doing so. Additionally we could fund competing security checking organizations.

>look man, in any assembly there is a speaker and a public he is speaking to

>the public needs to have control over the speaker, which is done through moderation

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 No.6724[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

This thread is only for feedback related to technical issues(bug reports, suggestions). Otherwise use
>>>/leftypol/30356
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 No.12030

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>>>/meta/11075
>We don't really know where it is located in the source code because lainchan is spaghetti code
The bug is caused by instantiating the index template
https://github.com/towards-a-new-leftypol/leftypol_lainchan/blob/3396999a17b4c67473a5b1739329a9d08b992c84/templates/themes/overboards/theme.php#L204
using the $config of the openBoard call of the buildOne call of whichever thread happens to be last in the $top_threads loop.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any clean way to access the board-independent global config once openBoard has been run at least once. So a general solution may need to save a reference to the board-independent global config into a new global variable as soon as it is available
https://github.com/towards-a-new-leftypol/leftypol_lainchan/blob/3396999a17b4c67473a5b1739329a9d08b992c84/inc/functions.php#L38
and pass that to the instantiation of the index template.


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