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Started by chainpuncher
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Filling Cyberix with autonomous LLM bots

Anonymous
No other website has come up with a solution like this. 4chan is falsely rumored to be hosting something similar but their complete cross-server source code leak in April of...
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SystemDisease removal

Anonymous
Slackware>Void>Gentoo>Devuan>Artix pkgtools>xbps>portage>apt>pacman the best init you can use on Artix is OpenRC. It's neat enough for you to rc-update delete udev, elogind and dbus Devuan lets you use SysVinit which is ideal, you...
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System76 Laptop

Anonymous
I am considering purchasing a System76 laptop since it has supposedly found a way to undo Intel ME and stuff like that. I figured everyone here is more educated than...
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Worst Programming Languages

LostintheCycle
Share one (1) programming language and giver some reason for why you hate it so passionately. Mine is **MATLAB**. I've had to use it too much in the past few years...
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It would take me 10 posts and half the night to detail everything horrible about systemd, freedesktop and everything else the DoD is doing via fronts like Red Hat.

Anonymous
I hope you held on to old systems because you'll need one in the near future to play with compilers at all. They won't be able to access the web...
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Cyberix Linux distribution - Cyber-ix/Cy-linux/CyberixOS

Anonymous
Flavor of GoboLinux Except it's riced out, debloated and configed for our needs And add a arch chroot for software The base system remains lean, minimal and frozen. Beautifully riced Shitware and junk...
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>2026

Anonymous
>I'm still using OpenBSD >I'm still running Gentoo without systemd, polkit, PAM, dbus, wayland and a whole host of other cancer disabled at compile time >I'm still using USENET and XDCC for...
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Does Wine/Proton really just work?

Anonymous
What's your experience?
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>indieweb

Anonymous
>megabytes of anime gif vomit and random prefab javascript widgets that'd bring a pc from the actual geocities era to its knees >every site made by a monoculture of 14sheitthetadeltas with...
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Building mullguard in Zig — TUI WireGuard frontend for Mullvad because fuck Electron

46&2
I'm fucking tired of the bloated Mullvad Electron GUI shitting itself on my Void musl setup. I'm also tired of manually fucking around with `wg-quick` in the terminal and...
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Linux as a whole is compromised

Anonymous
>Gentoo and Funtoo > >A new evolution of Funtoo's core ideas is being built from the ground up, unencumbered by legacy toolchains, with a target for an initial public release in...
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what the fuck is xorg clipboards why the fuck are there two and why are they so fucking inconsistent

Anonymous
What the fuck i've tried so many exotic ways to synchronize my clipboard but they're all so fucking autistic. Some programs only like the middle paste/select and some programs only...
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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...
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Terminal dictionary

Anonymous
Is there any good dictionary program I can use inside virtual terminals on Linux?
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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...
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game recommendations

Anonymous
Is there a place I can find game recommendations done by an actual human with taste
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Institutional Parasitism in Open Technology Communities: 79-page paper on how people who can't code took over the projects built by people who can

Anonymous
https://files.catbox.moe/uezu4x.pdf Debian 2026 DPL election. One candidate. Diversity platform. Nobody else showed up. That's where the oldest community distro is now. GNOME hired a literal shaman who sold flavored water as Executive...
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Abandoned or otherwise strange and unusual discoveries on the 'net.

l-i
Recently I managed to stumble onto a really old, pristine and untouched fan forum for a band called 'Ozma'. I know nothing about what or who this band may have...
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What Social Media do you use? Has that changed recently?

Anonymous
Do you use the main social medias, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter etc? Have you found your usage of the platforms to be better or worse lately? Are there any alt-social medias that you...
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Microsoft is offering 43 different versions of Microsoft Copilot

Anonymous
- Microsoft Copilot - Microsoft Copilot Pro - Microsoft Copilot Business - Microsoft Copilot+ PC - Microsoft Copilot Chat - Powered by WorkIQ - Copilot Pages - Copilot Studio - Gaming Copilot - Copilot Voice - Copilot Labs - Copilot...
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Age verification coming to normie Linux systems

Anonymous ## MOD
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954 https://ghostarchive.org/archive/tznSe attachment:1 attachment:2 Really just tells you everything you might want to know about sysd. I'm honestly horrified there's zero push-back until the System76 guy, followed by a thread-lock. Just straight up implementation...
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The ideal browser would be one that's barebones and basic by default...

bow
But allows you to integrate additional web functionality through plugins, kind of like firefox's old xul extensions but on a more advanced level. oh, you need WebGL? install the plugin...
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