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 No.7827[Reply]

Hello lads, I'm looking to start a conversation on a topic that's been popping up alot recently, and will likely develop further as the technology gains more adoption. As I'm sure you know, robotic dogs from the likes of Boston Dynamics are being rolled out at police departments and military bureaus across the US, and I'd bet we see widescale adoption as the technology is fleshed out further.
So as a result, I'd like to start a conversation on the best feasible means, both expensive and DIY, to deal with these fuckers. With the advent of home-based 3D printing, easily accessible lasers, and other modern user tech, I believe there are a number of options available to us.
In the resistance against drones being used by the police in Chile, Argentina and now in Portland, lasers were used to incapacitate drone dogs during protests. However, this incapacitation *only* makes these dogs unusable at that single protest; any police department will simply repair their $75k digidog and send it back at the next protest. So, what I'm interested in is ways to make them *inoperable* for extended periods of time, whether physically or electronically. I was bouncing around the idea of somehow using very strong magnets to damage the internal electronics, but this may be unfeasible due to the size of magnet that would be needed. Other options that seem viable would be permanently damaging the optics being used by the dogs, but I'm not sure on the best option for this. As such, I'd like to open this to conversation. I'll be posting this thread here, as well as on a few other imageboards that may be interested and able to help in this discussion.
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 No.10098

How about smoke, could that screw up the sensors on the device?

What about covert methods to disable these pricy toys?

Guns would draw the attention from the officers if they were used to disable these robots.
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 No.10110

>>10098
event paintball guns may work if it has optical sensors
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 No.10189

>>10110
then theyll just install little eye wipers…
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 No.10227

paint isn't that easy to scrape off by simple wipers though
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 No.10228

I’ve never wanted to violently destroy something more than these disgusting fucking robots

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 No.10084[Reply]

I was listening to a Citations Needed episode about the propaganda trope of "Labor shortages" and realized that all that WE NEED MORE WOMEN AND PEOPLE OF COLOR is not about making software companies less monocultural (which is good in itself), and the real porky's goals are:

1. Increasing the overall supply of engineers, like they pushed women into the workforce in the 60s in the West.

2. Getting the candidates who tend to accept lower salaries (at least women are routinely underpaid, probably PoC too).

In fact, CN hosts briefly mentioned it themselves:
> what they want to do is they want to expand the pool by any means necessary, whether they use liberal inclusion language or whether or not they use, they want to have more workers because if I have twenty people applying for a job versus three, the demands, of course, will be far less
https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-135-the-labor-shortage-ruse-how-capital-invents-staffing-crises-to-bust-unions-and-fb42448a7e23

Somehow, the whole inclusivity hype should be hijacked with unionizing, because who would oppose the white'n'male CEOs' tyranny if not a diverse labor movement?
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 No.10141

>>10135
Your point being?
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 No.10142

>>10120
Dude, you asked and I’m answered what it all meant among normies and wokies, stop with this pedantry to appear Le Rational Materialist. I’m not in charge of these terms, go send a complaint to the CEO of modern language.
>>10121
See… what? I shared an observation, I’m actually pro-women-in-IT because the current sausage party is tiresome.
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 No.10164

>>10113
both are heavily correlated. but a proper study would be interesting
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 No.10206

>>10091
>dude you're being woke!!!!
>still using terms like "materialist"
pseud ass
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 No.10222

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>>10206
>still using terms like "materialist"
Yes

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 No.10149[Reply]

>Me when I'm the only non-FAGGOT instance on pleroma.

How do you deal with this, bros? I thought fediverse was supposed to be based.
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 No.10157

Ok.
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 No.10158

i understood zero things you said
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 No.10161

>tfw all the good posters are on shitposter.club
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 No.10162

What are some good profiles to follow and keep up with the new? Since I got banned from Twitter I noticed that I'm only knowings thing far long after they happened but I really don't wanna use Reddit, I hate that place.
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 No.10172

>>10162
I used to be hip and with it until social media became way too cancerous and privacy-destroying for me (like a few years ago) so now I'm still with it but only as an outsider. I miss being on all the cool niche communities a decade ago before they got overridden by the masses.

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 No.251[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

ITT: Post your desktop
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 No.6286

>>6284
Isn’t it pretty easy to change the appearance without radically changing the DE? I saw one video of a guy making xubuntu look exactly like windows 95 and it just looked like he put a skin on it.
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 No.6288

>>6286
Yes, you can change the GTK/QT theme for any DE. This gives you some degree of customization, it's pretty nice. More customizability than Windows or MacOS will give you, actually, all GNU/Linux programs allow for a fair degree of customization. But that level of customization is still limited when compared to manually configuring each program to be precisely what you want, like a custom WM setup would allow. WM setups aren't just about looks, but also about funcionality. Getting to choose each program and configure them gives you a big boost in customization of functionality.
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 No.8330

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>>775
>These motherfuckers can make Xfce look nice while mine looked like ass
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 No.10097

bump
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 No.10123

>>10122
>posting in the old desktop thread
Bruh
>Doom modeline
Double bruh

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 No.5053[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Does /tech/ participate in the Fediverse? Seems to me that this is the sort of social media we should be trying to get people into, even if social media itself is kinda trash.

I've always disliked social media, but after the news at >>>/leftypol/1066439, I've been considering getting into the Fediverse. You see, I would like the people who DO use social media (basically everyone) to be on better platforms, but I feel I cannot demand that from them if I cannot even use them myself. For instance, it would be disingenuous to ask Comrade Cockshott to start his presence in Mastodon after getting banned from fedbook if I could not be there to follow him and boost his follower stats. So..

So, /tech/, any thoughts on the Fediverse? What are some good instances and communities I could join? What are some people I should be following? What implementations are better, Pleroma, Mastodon, something else?

Also fediverse general.
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 No.10034

>>10030
B A S E D
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 No.10053

>>10031
It's better than twitter.
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 No.10060

>>10053
It won't be if all the retards from here start shitting it up.
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 No.10076

>>10060
Seethe and Cope titteroid.
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 No.10077

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>>10076
> titteroid
What's that supposed to mean? I use the fedi that's why I don't want it to be tainted by you imbeciles.

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 No.9326[Reply]

Why hasn't chans/imageboards UX/UI advanced beyond the early to mid 2000s?

Would anons even want a "modern" style HTML5/CSS UI with flex/grid/etc. ?

I feel like having a non dated UI would attract alot more normies to imageboards
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 No.10008

>>9966
I think that's called post-modern web design.
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 No.10009

>>10008
moar liek post-mortem am I rite??
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 No.10062

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>>9916
It's these marginal notes you can put on posts. They are always sage and hidden by default so it is a good way to call people faggots without derailing the thread.
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 No.10063

>>10062
how is that different from the branching reply model of reddit for example? only it only goes 1 deep?
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 No.10068

>>10063
yea

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 No.9604[Reply]

/g/ and /pol/ are down so I know gotta crash with you retards
say something, what distro are you using, why did you choose free software, how does it align with your retarded world view
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 No.9949

>>9932
So he's also free to criticize him. :^)
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 No.9950

>>9949
When did I say he wasn't? I just asked why he was being an elitist faggot :^)
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 No.9957

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Does anybody run MX Linux? I hear nothing about it, but it's been #1 on distrowatch for a few years. It looks good, no systemd, but it just seems that no one talks about it yet it's the most popular distro?
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 No.9958

>>9957
It's a literally who distro that no one uses. The only reason it's #1 on distrowatch is because the devs use bots to spam the page, thus generating fake interest.
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 No.10058

>>9639
based department

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 No.9967[Reply]

Hey /tech/ I've been working on a chan with a relatively modern UI/UX as a side project. I thought about adding this to an existing thread but didn't want to shit them up.

I have several goals:

1. Modern UX/UI - I wanted to give the chan/imageboard a modern makeover using modern HTML/CSS, yes, with rounded buttons etc.
2. Code Quality - I'm not a nazi about code quality on hobby projects like imageboards, but imposing some sort of basic framework or structure would still be a vast improvement over vichan style imageboards which are mostly structureless spaghetti code balls. Statically typed languages also help with this.
3. Spam Filtering - some sort of pre-emptive validation or spam filter, possibly using basic classifier algorithm, to help moderate the board.

Things that are done:

- Basic posting (threads, replies)
- Catalog View
- Support for images (jpeg, png ,etc.)
- Catalog Pruning (delete last threads on catalog after X threads)
- Links (double carrot style links to other posts and OP)
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 No.10039

>>10038
>Don't DIY everything, it sounds like hell to maintain.
im using a library not DIY
>>10037
>Also last update to gochan was just a few weeks ago
the person in charge of gochan used to be a leftypol janny but unfortunately they fell off the face of the internet a while ago due to some personal issues and thus gochan is dead in the water. So AFAIK while there may still be contributions being made the project is leaderless.
>Why is that a problem?
because those programs themselves also require installation, updates, outside the package manager of the language of the chan and therefore practically mandates containerization which some other people here are opposed to implementing
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 No.10040

>>10037
>It's worse than 2x in most benchmarks and has to use several times more memory to achieve those speeds
so what, it's not like you're going to write a web app in C anyway. Also, often java can outperform native code due to runtime optimizations under real life non benchmark conditions anyway.
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 No.10041

saged my own thread in favor of a new one
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 No.10046

>>10040
If someone wants to run your server program on a $3/mo VPS (which means 512MB RAM), then it's better to do this in Go than Spring Boot because the latter will hog up much more memory to begin with and crash much sooner when the userbase gets larger.
>>10039
>So AFAIK while there may still be contributions being made the project is leaderless.
He still checks issues and pull requests and the last updates were by him.
>because those programs themselves also require installation, updates, outside the package manager of the language of the chan and therefore practically mandates containerization which some other people here are opposed to implementing
It's not difficult to set a guideline on which minimum version of imagemagick and ffmpeg to use.
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 No.10049

>>10046
>He still checks issues and pull requests and the last updates were by him.
glad to hear it, hopefully he hops on riot/element sometime.

>>10046
>It's not difficult to set a guideline on which minimum version of imagemagick and ffmpeg to use.

yes but it makes installation more complex. If you've ever installed a vichan derivative on bare metal you'll know its a pain in the ass due to all these external dependencies

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 No.6620[Reply]

Are javascript/typscript based single page applications better, or server side template based rendering? Do we really need something like react/angular?

I know /g/entoofags hate javascript because stallman told them to like 10 years ago but normalfags will complain if their front end experience isn't silky smooth with js animations and shit

Obviously some applications like darknet markets try to minimize or eliminate the use of javascript for security reasons.

server side html rendering also makes app deployment simpler since you don't have to worry about the front end and back end separately.

OTOH separating the front from the backend helps make a richer UI and also separation of concerns. Also makes it easier to swap out UIs

What does everyone think?
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 No.9575

bump
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 No.9609

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>>6620
Another consideration which may be relevant for you is the issue of hosting. Some hosting platforms, such as Digital Ocean, will allow you to host a "static website" for free. Static, in this case, means no server-side code, but you are otherwise free to use as much javascript as you wish.
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 No.9620

>>9609
sure, but the data has to be stored somewhere. So for any communication there has to be server side/backend code still existing
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 No.9745

>>9609
That's true. There's also stuff like "edge caching", which makes your front end be delivered really quickly to clients.

A huge issue with "modern" front ends is that they are insanely bloated and de-bloating them is frequently an issue that requires tinkering. Of course, it depends what you're using. If you're using GHCJS vs Elm, or vs plain JS.

On the other hand, it's really nice not have to deal with common retardation that comes from JS/CSS/HTML. A huge huge one is responsiveness, and "mobile web app" friendly. It's easy to shit on bloated React shit projects, but it requires less work to make a shitty front end.
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 No.10027

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 No.9320[Reply]

"essential"
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 No.9943

>>9320
It matches the political compass
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 No.9955

>>9942
>>9336
Even le elon musk says that AI is harder than he thought. He keeps pushing back the timeline of self driving cars because there have been no breakthroughs in AI.
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-full-self-driving-beta-cars-fsd-9-2021-7?op=1&r=US&IR=T
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 No.9962

>>9444
imagine people dying of heatstroke because the power company raised the temperature in their sleep. the thought makes me shudder.
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 No.9975

>>9962
>imagine giving anybody remote control access to the temperature settings in your home
If you can't install your own firmware on your "smart" thermostat, so you have total control over your heater, you have to rip it out and replace it with a mechanical valve. The fact that this was even physically possible proves criminal intent.
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 No.9976

>>9975
We need GPLv3 thermostats!

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