TECH
Discussion of the computing industry and every field of work surrounding it
Website adoption issues
Anonymous
I've made websites and web apps for my whole life and making them isn't the hard part for me. The biggest roadblock especially today (unlike in the early 2000s) is...
Which websites are actually worth using?
Anonymous
The more I use major ones like social media and youtube, the more I feel like my brain is rotting
It is starting to seem more and more like the only...
Japan weighs age-based filtering on social media to combat addiction
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https://archive.ph/2D2wm
They already relaxed privacy laws to prepare for this btw
Why are we still using glibc?
blr
>New Glibc Flaw Grants Attackers Root Access on Major Linux Distros
>Malicious local attackers can obtain full root access on Linux machines by taking advantage of a newly disclosed security...
New terrain generator just dropped
Anonymous
https://xandergos.github.io/terrain-diffusion/
https://github.com/xandergos/terrain-diffusion
Say goodbye to perlin noise spam
>For decades, procedural worlds have been built on procedural noise functions such as Perlin noise, which are fast and infinite, yet fundamentally limited in realism...
Why does old technology seem better?
Anonymous
From houses to cast iron cooking to cars with features that would never be made today..
Why does it seem like old tech was just better?
All in one Android app development
Anonymous
google just "let us" have android a little longer but i was thinking of a app that could be a all in one. Its a empty shell you copy and...
How do you plan to survive digital ID and government mandated enshittification?
Anonymous
Well I wrote the rest a few weeks ago and debated posting it in its current state, but now the very first site was named that'll be complying with upcoming...
XLIBRE PAGE REMOVED FROM ARCH WIKI
Anonymoon
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2294792
Thread discussing this just got deleted, it should be obvious now that this is never getting fixed nor are they going to give a reason why it's not allowed other...
How difficult would it be to do everything in a CLI/TTY?
Anonymous
Just wondering how hard it'd be to do this. I'm posting from Lynx in my TTY and it's a bit difficult to navigate this webpage but I figured it out....
What websites should I sign up for with a burner phone?
iwctsua
I have a phone number Im about to disconnect. What websites should I sign up for while I still have it connected? I already have discord. Im thinking sites that...
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...
Free energy physics group!
Anonymous
Hello, free energy friends! If any one of you has become fed up with the current state of the free energy community, where practice has replaced theory and aimless tinkering...
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...
Do not visit archive.today/archive.ph/archive.is/etc with javascript enabled
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https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/
https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/
>Around January 11, 2026, archive.today (aka archive.is, archive.md, etc) started using its users as proxies to conduct a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against Gyrovague, my personal blog
>All users...
SystemD adding age verification (deeper question/rant)
Anonymous
Hello anons, I wanted to ask a deeper question and just rant/get some stuff of my mind regarding this topic rather than just pile on information that you may or...
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...
The smartphone is the most sophisticated surveillance device.
Anonymous
How did the powers that be convince everyone they need one on the at all times?
These devices are essentially a microphone, a camera, a GPS, gyroscope, accelerometer, fingerprint monitor, heart...
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...
Creating a older pc experience
MudMixie
I remember the days of the early 2000s pages took ages to load now everything feels too quick I just wish there was a way to limit the speed of...
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...
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,...
XMPP will come to an end...
ley
I discovered a vulnerability in the XML parsers in the XMPP servers Prosody and ejabberd that can bring down any server without protection — and such protection isn't in place...