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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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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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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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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