TECH
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Knowledge Board Thread
sabremathia
How would one research information without resorting to sources like Wikipedia that is full of gibberish?
Before you type, fine, I am a low life twat who have neither the means...
thanks, ai.
stranger
AI has become a huge buzzword in the tech world, and it's affecting more than just software and algorithms. It's also hitting our wallets, especially when it comes to RAM....
Minecraft source code leak
Anonymous
https://github.com/smartcmd/MinecraftConsoles
inb4 it gets taken down
I've downloaded the git repo today. Will repost if it does
I am going to wait until it can compile natively for Linux systems..
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...
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...
The Smartphone revolution and its consequences...
Anonymous
You can go to the mall and get a phone plan which provides you a feature smartphone for the price of a cup of coffee a month.
These devices are filled...
Refuting the "cuck license" argument
Anonymous
Libre software forms the basis for commercial non-free software. The norm is to shit on permissive licenses because the MIT license allowed Intel to hijack MINIX and use it as...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Passwords for Windows devices are useless
Lafensai
I'm not that techy, I'm still learning lmao but what is the point of having a Password on a Windows device if you can just get in anyways using commandprompt...
Privacy Browsing
Dr.R
What browser+plugin combination do you all use for safely browsing the web? I use Firefox and uBlock Origin, but I'm sure there are better options out there. What do 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...
Looking for some people to join my matrix channel
Anonymous
i usually only talk about tech
https://matrix.to/#/!ezYeJRXeihJRpJyscP:matrix.org?via=matrix.org
non-unix-based OSes/kernels worth looking into
atomizer
if you are not used to dealing with bleeding edge shit and fixing tools as they break then please do not attempt to use any of these at least for...
google is no longer a search engine
Anonymous
it is an ad-delivery platform that uses your technical documentation as training data for gemini before hiding it under a pile of sponsored links
if your open source project isn't on...
How Agora Road Turned Internet Nostalgia Into a Subscription Service
meatwheels
**You should consider this article an extension to this one: https://cy-x.net/articles?id=13**
If you haven't, you should read that one first before reading this one. I (meatwheels) have purposefully structurally mirrored that...
Do not visit archive.today/archive.ph/archive.is/etc with javascript enabled
arrow
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...