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Discussion of the computing industry and every field of work surrounding it
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...
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>30d 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...
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>30d 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....
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>30d 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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
Why can't we have a lightweight solution to the Linux package management centralization problem?
Anonymous
I really do want all of my programs to be portable and placed on a separate partition but the heavily centralization around package managers on Linux really does make this...
WinClassic's Windows Modding Delusion: Why You Can't Polish a Turd
wirefaux
## A Sisyphean Task
Scroll through any Windows theming community and you'll find the same tragic pattern: hundreds of users desperately trying to make Windows 10 and 11 look and behave...
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>30d ago
the forum fallacy
Anonymous
There is only so much you can say, so much you can laugh at, so much that you can argue over until you have run out of things to post....
4chan actively giving data to the feds - source code
Anonymous
Just in case you thought that 4chan didn't glow enough already.
https://gitgud.io/GapeNewell/OpenYotsuba/-/blob/master/admin/manager/legalrequest.php
Your data is going straight to the feds.
```
const
TYPE_EM_DISC = 'ed', // Emergency Disclosure
TYPE_PR_ORDER = 'po', // Preservation...
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>30d ago
does anyone actually use linux?
Anonymous
ike seriously, who actually uses linux as their main os? i've tried it a few times but it's always been a hassle to get everything working properly. is it just...
What causes this weird mindset of needing constant updates?
Anonymous
I've noticed this weird modern trend with games but especially with programs, where if it stops receiving updates then people abandon it. You can see this right now with the...
Bullmail.sh: Create your own email server
lolcat
I have made an email server setup script. It works for debian & ubungo machines. Hopefully this can save you 3 weeks of your life
https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/bullmail
The Decline of Internet Communities: How Polarization Killed Creativity and Innovation
Osaka
## A divided web
The internet was once a vibrant and diverse landscape of communities, where people from different backgrounds and with different interests could come together to share ideas and...
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>30d ago
Blackbox for Windows
Anonymous
Why the fuck is this so obscure? This is the solution to everyone's woes with both new and old Windows explorers and gives a nix-like environment on a win32 kernel
Has...
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>30d ago
I think people should just accept that forums are dead
Anonymous
Forums have not been the majority for a long time. So many people are creating discussion boards of all kinds and expect lots of activity on a day-to-day basis (this...
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...
the internet's silent majority
SERVERGLOBBER
i've come to realize that there's a huge chunk of internet users who never participate in online discussions or communities. they just consume content, never leaving a comment or creating...