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Digital Cargo Cult: How Zoomers Ruined Old Internet Nostalgia
rave + wirefaux
>+ wirefaux? Who's this?
A reader of this article, who posted it around several "nostalgia" hivemind circles, only to be met with immense backlash and several bans from many tech circles...
135 posts
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4h ago
Why Your New Computer Feels Slower Than Your Old One
Osaka
>This problem exists on Linux as well, but I'd like to just target this instead as Linux can still happily run on even the shittiest of boxes in the modern...
16 posts
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4h ago
Solving CP and spam in anonymous discussion boards
admin
## ADMIN
We asked 2 questions:
>1. How do we stop spam without JavaScript and adding friction to the anonymous posting process
>2. How do we stop CP spam without relying on an external...
1 posts
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5h ago
Cindy is well again
Anonymous
My retro box (Cindy) is finally up and running again. Three different operating systems (WinXP, Backtrack 3 and Ubuntu), with full-disk encryption on every partition except sda2, makes reinstalling everything...
Gobo Linux
Anonymous
I'm using Devuan on a portable HDD that I use across 3 devices, and Gobo seems like a last stop for me.
Asides from the obvious overhaul to the FHS,...
3 posts
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2d ago
Modding Minecraft Alpha to make the game enjoyable again
wirefaux
step 1 - add pathfinding
step 2 - make the game harder (as it should be) by making all mobs outpace the player
step 3 - allow mobs to invade bases to...
34 posts
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3d ago
Anonymous Decentral Comment-System for Static Websites
iwakura
One of my pages was hacked. Badly. So badly that I had to kill it.
I decided to only use static pages for future projects: Unhackable (with a well-maintained host), Fast,...
There's no such thing as a true breakthrough
iwakura
All technology allowed to be deployed has already been in development for decades. Such technology is not actually human, but technology left to the ones the Galactic Federation puts in...
1 posts
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4d ago
Training model on cy-x and more
Anonymous
I've been scraping the articles and posts from here and training a model on them. I will continue. I've succesfully deployed two artificial posts here which have garnered engagement. I've...
5 posts
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5d ago
THE END OF FORUNS AND CHANS IS HERE. THIS IS HOW CYBERIX CAN ESCAPE IT
Anonymous
There are dozens of jschan instances running on the webring, the fat kike pedophile Mark's 8moe. Also endchan, and the other 1000 chans for the sake of being a chan....
21 posts
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5d ago
fuck the web, embrace the internet
Anonymous
Even a dual core pentium is a supercomputer by 80s standards, that's THE way to look at it
- insert one(1) hdd and use as a backup target (you should have...
14 posts
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5d ago
On the Future of Social Media
LostintheCycle
The perception and attitudes of social media
It’s amazing how we all have an astonishingly low opinion of social media.
Facebooks privacy violations and experiments are well known;
Instagram with it’s infamous reputation...
5 posts
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6d ago
Internet friends used to mean something.
RandomAmerican
I dunno if this is just nostalgia poisoning or what, but like... remember when internet friends were actually *friends?*
There wasn’t this weird filter of "parasocial relationships" or "content creators" vs...
All You Need Is SSH
wrongthink
As a self professed minimalist, I’ve long been a fan of the axiom “Perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left...
6 posts
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>30d ago
The Lost Art of Internet Forums
Manhandler
As someone who's been around the internet for a while, I've noticed that the traditional forum style of discussion has largely fallen out of favor. Everyone's so focused on social...
The Dark Side of Social Media
Anonymous
i'm so done with social media. it's all just a facade, a highlight reel of people's lives that's meant to make us feel inferior. and don't even get me started...
Unfortunately, the internet is not really a psyop
Anonymous
It seems public sentiments around the internet as a technology have undergone a flip. Rather than being treated as a tool with liberatory potential, more and more, it seems the...
5 posts
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>30d ago
technical woes thread
l-i
Cyberix went down two days ago randomly at 7 AM and I was forced to spend too much time trying to fix it. **It wasn't even anybody's fault. The fucking...
Actual problems with linux
Anonymous
I've been daily driving linux for years now and here are the things i can think of:
- awful software distribution, especially for proprietary
- corpo tranimals running every project, making it...
81 posts
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>30d ago
Modern internet hate thread
Anonymous
Websites at 90s and 2000s:
-Click link
-That's it
Websites at 2010s and 2020s:
-Click link
-"CLICK LINK TO ACCEPT COOKIES!
-"VERIFY THAT YOU'RE HUMAN AND WAIT FOR A WHOLE MINUTE UNTIL WE CAN LET YOU...
4chan is full of AI bots and they aren't even trying to hide it anymore
Anonymous
If it obvious then, it's obvious now.
# IF YOU ARE STILL USING 4CHAN IN 2025 YOU ARE ACTIVELY ENGAGING WITH FAKE HUMANS
PROBLEM: DYING SITE AND/OR LACK OF ADVERTISERS
SOLUTION:
1 - Turn...
12 posts
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>30d ago
Forums rarely offer as many rights to its users as governments. Why?
Anonymous
If someone really wants to foster a positive environment online, why are the standards they hold themselves to in administering their service so disconnected from the standards they hold their...