What is polygonal shaping? I have no experience with this stuff, I'm just curious how it works. Video editing is such a massive headache to me and all I do is move clips around

>>1556
I don't think there's any physical limitation, they just do it because they can get away with it. That's how it goes with ISPs here because they largely don't compete with each other and instead carve out territories to monopolize.
My assumption is that since most people aren't going to upload much they purposely neuter the upload to prevent select people from using it for torrenting and stuff since 99% of people would have something like a 100:1 download:upload ratio.

>>1538
>Presumably people in large cities get the best speeds, but I'm not sure what those speeds would be.
It's pretty common for fiber connections to have equal download and upload speeds. My connection has 400 Mbps for both download and upload and seeding torrents on it is not a problem.
>>1557
It's usually the cable ISPs which have bad upload speed, even in large cities with actual competition. There are like 4 ISPs available in my area and still the fiber ISP is the only one which has good upload.

>>1556
You're right. The cable company is doing it because they can get away with it and most of their customers don't know what "wifi" means and actually pay a monthly fee for it. But there is a technical reason why it's so bad: Most cable ISPs are WAYYYY over sold bandwidth wise. That's how they make projects. But there are some technical reasons why they sell packages like 1Gbps download/500Mbps up. If you can get on a business grade account sometimes you can get the same down/upstream. But usually even then they aren't equal.

Thankfully, a fiber company just ran some by my house. It's much cheaper per month and it offers 1Gbps/1Gbps for what I'm paying for much less now. The only reason I haven't switched is a lot of these new ISPs put you behind CGNAT. But I run home servers that require IPv4 address. Which these new ISPs have in very short supply and don't assign to each customer in their network. Instead, you share one IP with maybe 100-1,000 other people. Which makes things like forwarding ports or running a server at home impossible without the added cost of a VPN. Even then it isn't perfect.

I'm thinking about switching or trying them out though. If they'll give me static IP I'll jump tomorrow. Cable company is robbing me and everyone else in this area and has been for years. Because they bullied their way in and got an illegal monopoly.

>>1558
Are you behind CGNAT on fiber? Who is your provider?

>>1563
Fiber seems nice. If my ISP map is accurate (I very much doubt it is) then it might be coming to my area in a few years. Maybe.
Well, my cable company is saying that it will be providing the fiber which is making me very skeptical. No one has any choice in this area so it's not like there's any pressure for them to do it this year or in 50 years.

>>1563
>Are you behind CGNAT on fiber? Who is your provider?
Verizon Fios. Not sure about CGNAT but incoming connection works for torrent without any manual configuration.

The training on Autismmix was a failure. I mean, it's there but it's easily worse. It was my assumption that this would be the case, but it's nice to know for sure.
ALso... working on getting SDXL and my LORA working in irc and /chat/!

Pony, or more specifically the SDXL base's higher resolution actually makes the regional prompt extension useful to me! Add in adetailer to fix the faces (although it's a crapshoot at which face is selected first with the correct prompt) and things come out quite well.
I'm not someone that will spend time inpainting and photoshop editing and stuff, so the image I generate is the image I keep. (Well, unless I'm making a thread or something but it's rare I use an AI image for that)
This isn't an ideal image since the style took a hit somehow, but wow it's pretty amazing to have Nekone and Kuon there, roughly.

On a lark I decided to search 'Kuon' on civitai and there was in fact a Kuon LORA for Pony.
But... it's not very good. The guy has 342 models on there, so it's obvious that he does the automated mass production things which creates models that are decent enough for most people for most purposes (masturbation), but definitely not ideal. I'm not sure why anyone would make that many models, it's certainly not fun and you're creating the material that other people use to try and make money without getting any of it yourself.

I saw another Kuon lora (civitAI search seems quite strange and didn't show this one directly) but it was disappointing to me again.
Alright, I'm refreshed enough to give Kuon the attention she deserves!
Now that I'm training a concept instead of a style the process is a little bit different. First, I'm going to separate Kuon by outfit so I can try to trigger different outfits of hers on command.
But, I'm noticing some angles are missing so I'm going to watch Kuon's charming and beautiful and amazing anime form again and carefully go frame-by-frame to collect as much visual information as I can. But, I actually do find this frame-by-farme stuff mentally exhausting so I guess this will take me a little while since there's 53 episodes to go through. They really should have made it at least 80 episodes, but I guess it was a miracle that season 3 happened at all.

Like this, this seems like a good frame to show what it looks like from behind. If you don't provide this information then the AI will make an assumption.

diving into my nested pack of folders to reach my hidden stash of images of my waifu
This is actually crazy, the fact that it so smoothly loads the content feels surreal. Really makes me think on how modern file explorer software stutter and shit the bed in spite of the fact that it's so simplistic.
I wish more software would explore new ways for a way the user interfaces with it, I can guess that the typical ones we see these days are founded on a ton of trail and error from way back, but with the advances of technology I wonder if there's potential for something that wasn't possible back in the day

How the FUCK do you even go about coding something like this, let alone coming up with the idea for this. Wow.
Love the universe-esque theme too. However, such a UI, while cool to look at, would probably be hell to use. Having to zoom out/in to anything you want to use instead of maybe alt+tabbing to summon it into view immediately.

This feels like file system navigation for people that only know how to use a smartphone. It's neat but there is no way I'd use it day-to-day. It's simply too slow.

The real way forward is getting rid of the file tree all together. Plan9 and TRON got this right. No difference between local and remote files. All files in chunks that would be piped into each other without any formatting tricks. We're only stuck with what we have right now because the entire industry refuses to move beyond UNIX.

>>1345
This reminded me of Project Xanadu somewhat. Instead of representing hypertext as if it were paper you navigate it in a three-dimensional space. Development started in the 1960s and it's essentially considered vaporware at this point, it has a very long and convoluted history. Some people might have heard of it because it's mentioned in Lain a few times.

This is intensely cool, with major caveats.
It really needs to cache big folders.

It actually manages to handle a 31000+ image folder, after a little bit of waiting.
Unfortunately, if you zoom close enough to a picture for it to be considered the currently opened file, you then have to wait again for the folder to load. My main image folder is 61000+ images, and it didn't even try no matter how much I zoomed, lol.
It really needs to make concessions for big folders where it just doesn't care too much about sorting or anything, just get a list, put it in a grid, and then try and handle what's in view.
Also, it breaks completely on some filenames -- tried to zoom into my Star Twinkle Precure and Prisma Illya folders, it got confused and gave up because of the star in the filenames.
I think there was also a youtube video I'd downloaded with an emoji in the filename that confused it.

If it was faster, I'd genuinely use it regularly. It does make dealing with deeply nested folder trees extremely easy, you can easily zoom around and see what's up. Navigating through folders full of images feels great, navigating into a PDF feels great, I was too lazy to go install VLC since I use mpv, so I don't know how it handles video but it seems like it'd be pretty cool there too.

>>1446
>>1448
I'll actually answer your question sorry. In Linux everything is built on top of ALSA. JACK, Pulseaudio and Pipewire are all just a way to pipe audio into ALSA -> sound card driver -> speakers. You're getting latency because pulseaudio is a really crappy sound server and has been for a long time. Hence why pipewire is the new shiny.

For pro audio applications you want JACK and nothing else. You probably want a realtime kernel to. For just listening (not production) you can get by with just ALSA. The only value is something like pulseaudio is the ability to have multiple devices plugged in at the same time. In other words one application doesn't get direct control of your sound card. You can do mixing in ALSA to (that's all pulse is doing) but you have to manually configure it. Which isn't hard but ALSA is a bit of a pain to config. Pulseaudio is easier to config but breaks randomly for no reason and has really bad latency because it's doing all the mixing with the CPU before sending sound to the sound card.

OSS is also good but rarely used anymore.

For stuff that claims to be pulseaudio only you can use apulse to pipe it into ALSA. Main one will probably be your web browser. apulse works find in my experience.

You could try pipewire but I haven't used it much (moved on to JACK years ago). It tries to be a better pulseaudio. But it's from the same developers and most of what they've created is crap over the years. But it'll no doubt be the new standard for most things like Ubuntu if it isn't already.

Having realtime kernel is more for people that do stuff like use MIDI devices or plug in guitars and other instruments.

>>1450
I don't get it, or is it that there's no sound (speech)?

>>1451
yeah pretty sure that's it
remember when not too long ago for some reason my setup broke even when resetting the pc and i had to do a re-something and then everything was good even though i never tweaked it... weird stuff

>>1444
pipewire just werks

>>1425
You're just jealous that my tiktok videos get so many comments telling me how sexy I am, deskhag. No girl has ever gotten laid using Linux and that's a fact.

>>1416
wouldnt use linux for anything other than servers

>>1428
Every computer is a server if you're brave enough.

>>1424
compensating arisu and bricking her toddlerware while she's sleeping!!!

Gentoo is actually the best and most stable desktop OS. Although it requires the person sitting between the keyboard and the monitor isn't stupid.

Hard drives are painful as primary storage... I wish used SSDs were as cheap and as plentiful as used hard drives...

>>1310
I think it depends on what you mean by "primary storage". All my anime and game ROMs/ISOs (when not being played) are on HDD since it doesn't need "performance" and 99.9999% of the time it sits there doing nothing. I have AI models on SSD since they get loaded and unloaded and stuff and I read that can be bad for HDDs to move that much data around regularly. SSDs and NMVe prices seem a bit better lately, but I think they're expected them to stagnate or increase unfortunately.

>>1311
Well... I'm making a backup of a virtual machine's filesystem because the virtual machine was acting erratically and not starting properly. It's virtual drive is only 80GB, but because it's on a rather slow hard drive and filesystems are often filled with tons of tiny files, in the image there it slowed down to 7.4MB/s. If the remaining ~59% go at that speed, it'll take about 2 more hours from when that screenshot was taken. The task info stopped updating though and I noticed earlier a few messages saying "Bad block medium error"... I'm hoping some hard drive errors aren't the cause of all this... My server seems to suggest that the hard drive is alright though and not likely to fail.

sigh... I think the drive really did corrupt the VM... I tried copying the .raw file that stored the VM's filesystem manually, but it stalled after having only moved 26GB over ~8 hours. I hope I can recover some of the files at least, but it seems like after ~2 minutes the VM freezes up and gets itself into such an unresponsive state that the VM process cannot be killed, requiring a full restart of the host machine. It must be corrupted in a very peculiar way because it boots fine, but then after some time, nothing can be launched and any attempt to do so results in the process hanging with no ability to force quit via key macro... Probably the worst part of all is that I cannot even SSH into the VM, if I could, I could at least try to retrieve some of the files via SFTP.

Uggggghhhhh

>>1313
on topic sager

>>1397
That's what I assumed you meant in my post here >>1395. I've had some weird behavior happen when I do that before, like it 'forgetting' placement of icons on the desktop and other minor stuff. It wasn't a big deal, but it demonstrated to me that it wasn't an ideal way of doing things. Maybe it was just my setup, though.
But, yeah, I'd try to shut it down through the operating system I think. The button connected to the case that's connected to the motherboard would be second place I think.

>>1393
Most modern OSs will do software shutdown if you press the button on the case. Unless you hold it down for a few seconds in which case it'll cut power before a clean shut down.

9 times out of 10 it isn't going to matter. The 1 out of 10th time it might bork your entire OS install. It really depends on the OS, what it's doing at the time and the particulars of each machine. I can tell you that over the years I've had many machines have power cut due to power outage or similar reasons. Out of all of those times maybe once I rebooted into a BSoD situation.

I'm also of the opinion that there is no reason to turn a machine off ever unless your reason is security and you're running full disk encryption on it. I leave all my machines on 24/7 excluding laptops. They do not draw much power when idle and I'm of the opinion that it causes less wear to internal parts than turning them off and on all of the time. I have some computers here that have been running 24/7/365 for over 30 years now. They still work fine and will probably continue working long after I'm dead provided someone is around to care for them.

These days I've invested in UPSs but for many years I didn't use those either. The power network here isn't the best and suffers from outages nearly every winter and sometimes in summer during large storms. I've never had an issue with them going down due to power outage. But you do want to watch out for pulsing. When a line is down the power company will pulse the line 2-3 times in an attempt to bring it back up. This happens automatically. Anything plugged directly into the grid will get pulsed right along with the main line. In those cases you want to yank the power cord out of the wall and wait on the pulsing to pass. The line will either come back up and run as normal or it'll go down all together until a crew can come out and fix the problem (usually a downed power line).

For the above a cheap powerstrip isn't good protection. You want a UPS with battery backup. You want it set-up correctly to send a shut down signal to the machines hooked up to it. It'll give you 5-15 minutes of power to finish up any task you're working on and to allow the OS to shut down cleanly. You want to replace your batteries every so often. If you buy a used UPS always buy a new battery along with it.

>>1403
>I have some computers here that have been running 24/7/365 for over 30 years now
Are you running servers or something? Or is the reason you don't switch them off just for longevity? Might be cheaper to just save on electricity and replace the components. I've only ever left my computer on overnight for big downloads or processing.

>>1405
You save almost nothing on electricity by turning them off. Even if you have the CPU churning away 24/7 at 100% you aren't saving much compared to them being turned off. Anyone that thinks this way hasn't personally tested it. PCs consume almost nothing compared to your dryer, hot water heater, AC/Heat and other appliances. But the ones I mentioned at the main ones in every home.
>Why do you do this?
Other than wear and tear on the parts the main reason is simple. When I want to use a machine I want to use it NOW. Not 5 minutes from now. On older machines without SSDs start up can be several minutes. Some of mine are servers, firewalls and that kind of thing. But many of them are just old desktops that I use for various purposes or just for fun.

You've seen Lain I'm sure. My living room basically looks like her bed room.

If you really want to save power you'd be unplugging everything from the wall whenever you aren't using it. Since they all draw a bit of power even when "powered off". Anything connected to the grid has a load on it.

>>1405
>replace the components
Not sure if you're aware but it's impossible to replace components for some legacy hardware. I can not replace my capture card since they don't make good ones anymore. I have several dongles using proprietary DRM that allow them to control old industrial hardware. They can not be replaced. They still haven't been cracked. They will not work with a VM. If they aren't connected to the serial ports of your old 286/386 machines and don't detect some ancient version of MS-DOS they will not work. Meaning a $10-100k+ piece of industrial equipment is now totally useless. There our bounties for some of this stuff upwards to million dollars. Still no one has stepped forward to claim them. I've personally been at it myself for many years.

A lot of my machines run 24/7 simply because they're running some task. I have one desktop dedicated purely to encoding video. It has a 12 year old CPU in it now. It has stayed pegged at 99-100% load for most of those 12 years. It runs at about 75C in summer and 70C in winter if I crack open the window next to it. It's air cooled with a good aftermarket fan. The stock fan couldn't keep it below 90C and it would constantly throttle itself to keep from burning up.

One month I compared the difference between running that machine 24/7 or leaving it turned off. I didn't encode video for that entire month. The difference in my bill was like $0.50. AC and Heat are the main things that contribute to my power bill. In summer the AC adds about $90 a month and in winter the heat adds somewhere between $120-$150. I have a split duct system and not much of a house to cool/heat. I also don't run the AC or heat that much either. I keep the place about 75F in summer and 65F in winter.

All that to say. The computers cost almost nothing to run. They only start costing a lot if you're running a proper server farm with large banks of multi-core CPUs and GPUs going at full load all of the time. Even then the main cost is cooling them. Not the actual processing they're doing.

I'm currently developing my own textboard software and I've been thinking about these issues as well. I also want to bring some features usually found on forums (even if some of them might be considered "useless bloat") but I prefer the simplicity of textboards. I don't want to introduce an account system so delegating parts of the moderation process to users might be a good idea.

Of course, any formatting/presentation feature that can help code readability (like code blocks or syntax highlighting) and code sharing is being considered.

>>1372
The issue with no accounts+user moderation is abuse. It's a nice idea. But without some kind of restriction on access it can be a pain. User accounts have a known set of problems. I think it's best to have anonymous but accountable moderation. Full transparency with the ability to roll back any changes. Karma systems don't work.

Pretty much everything else from an old school forum would be nice to have. Never understand why text/imageboards are frozen in 2004. Forums offered a lot more even back then. That's why people used them. The admincp is much nicer and so is how data is stored in the database.

A long time ago I saw someone take some forum software like php and pretty much strip out everything that wasn't on your typical imageboard. Then they modified the post layouts to show attachments in-line. Maybe disabling some stuff on forum software would be easier than building an imageboard engine up. Most of them already support anonymous posting and always have. People just rarely turned it on.

Full anonymity generally seems like a bad idea when tech stuff is involved since it's something that has become synonymous with various scams and other chicanery. The exception would be places like kissu where it's secondary, so there's already a bit of a separation.
Forums are probably a great idea and I'd love to see more people use them, but they're probably harder to establish than an imageboard these days because of the extra steps to become a poster. Well, I guess an imageboard with "accounts" would be similar, but people wouldn't feel like some unknown newbie when someone with an old join date with implied seniority has a different opinion.
Meh... it is a mystery...

>>1375
I just bit this shab.

>>1375
I was suggesting you used an existing forum and strip out all of that kind of stuff. It isn't very hard. On most all you have to do is click a button and delete some stuff from the templates.

Do you know HTML? Most of the time templates are just HTML+pseudo-code. You don't have "join date" and "post count" listed by posts since you just have to delete that portion of the template to hide it. Log-ins are strictly for moderation tasks and/or spam prevention. Anonymous posting can either be really open. Or you can require an account log-in but not reveal the poster's identity to the rest of the board. Or you can do both.

The imageboard engines I've worked with seem very basic and not scripted as well in my experience with them. Every owner is forced to add a lot of stuff and basic features like multiple images per post seem to always be either hard, broken or missing all together. Where as with forum software you can upload multiple attachments by default with a post. Putting the image beside/above the post itself instead of listed as a file underneath is a simple matter of editing the template and maybe some original CSS. Forums typically have more spam prevention tools built in. The moderation system for mods is more robust. Roles are clearly defined along with permissions. Lots of other stuff.

You could take the average forum software. Turn off half the features. Edit a few templates and have a basic imageboard in an afternoon. I don't understand why more people don't take advantage of them instead of using the same few imageboard scripts. Forums typically have better integration with other scripts than imageboards to. It's very easy to take something like mediawiki and share log-ins with the forum. There are already tons of pre-made solutions for things like hosting media or real time chat. Forums usually have integration options with CMSs.

The thread management options are much much better to. The only thing you'd be missing is auto-thread deletion. But that's as easy as adding a cron job with a simple SQL query.

I was surprised by how bad most every imageboard script is until I installed them myself. But I suppose a medium designed for anonymous-first doesn't need the kitchen sink when it comes to user and thread management. So it makes sense.

>>1365
Some customers want to aggregate metadata about what users are doing with their web app and do this with some sort of cronjob that uploads logging output to some sort repository for later use. Usually for consumption in some dashboard like https://matomo.org/ It's for the bean counters to count beans and security guys to audit the systems.

>>1366
the group im working for has only internal users and one developer, so I've been wondering if logs are pointless or not. Kinda sounds like it is because I don't do a lot of been counting and just want to cover my back in case of problems

>>1367
> want to cover my back in case of problems
You may still want to generate logs, my understanding of the industry "standard" for "DevSec" advises "meaningful" activity logs are kept for your applications. Even if no one uses them or requires you to upload them somewhere, it still would be a good idea to generate them. Mostly for cover your ass purposes but if the customer doesn't want or care about the feature maybe just put it in the backlog for when you need an easy day.

>>1368
it's what i've been doing for a lot of the analytical tools, but since the most recent features are going to handle multiple digits of money flowing I'm trying to make sure I don't "therac" my way into a problem. Client doesn't have a good idea of software risk so have to insert my own best practices.

Wise old men at two different jobs in two different fields told me the same thing
>99% of this job is covering your own ass
Both were right.

>>1351
>We see companies like google and netflix leasing so-called edge servers in ISP data centers all over the world. This allows them to avoid this problem. But it's a p2p for me and not for thee type of situation.
That's the entire point of the article though. Big tech companies can lease a large amount of servers because they have the money and political capital to do so, something which the common don't have. Even though the internet protocol is decentralized, it's a system where every node has equal standing; so whoever can pay to control the largest amount of them have the largest control over the entire system, which in turn gives them even more money and control.

>On a free internet those edge servers would host everyone's content.
No. They host the contents of the ones who pay for it. The internet doesn't exist in a vacuum, it's backed by physical hardware and electricity, which cost money. No one can host significant amount of content for free. Big tech can afford to do it because they sell your data, exactly the article's point. Common persons don't have any capacity to do this, and they don't want to pay either.

>>1351
doggy

>>1353
Energy would be free is nuclear power and other sources of power were not demonized on purpose. What you have to understand is it's a system of control. Money IS control.

We don't have to have communism to have good for the common man. We just have to not let a few people treat us like we're less than people. They stifle innovation to retain control over the population. That's the only reason things are like this.

What we need are laws that say things like:
>All data is free
>Transporting data over the global common network is a human right

If the Constitution of the USA was written today it would say DATA instead of SPEECH.

>Common persons don't have any capacity to do this, and they don't want to pay either.
I pay hundreds of dollars a month to host several TB of content on my home network that I can access anywhere in the world. Even with the current situation it's more than possible for each and every home to have its own little home server. Which churns away hosting and serving content. Both content you put on it yourself and a small datastore where you're hosting content for others.

Hell most ISPs now already let other people access the bandwidth you're paying for. They call it "mobile wifi" or whatever. It allows other customers to log-in to their accounts via the router/modem in everyone else's home.
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>>1350
ZERO reading comprehension ZILCH NADA

>>1353
>That's the entire point of the article though. Big tech companies can lease a large amount of servers because they have the money and political capital to do so, something which the common don't have. Even though the internet protocol is decentralized, it's a system where every node has equal standing; so whoever can pay to control the largest amount of them have the largest control over the entire system, which in turn gives them even more money and control.
whats the point of the OP then? because this sounds entirely political.
It's not inevitable.
It's ABSOLUTELY something that should be corrected.
It's not at all inherent to the internet.

I think the general assumption is that there's so many people doing illegal things on discord that people feel secure that the authorities would go after the more severe people first. Stuff like loli is against the ToS but it presumably doesn't stop people from posting it there because there's millions and millions and millions of people across hundreds of thousands of channels. Sure, discord could easily wipe it out by just searching for basic terms in their compendium of harvested data, but I don't think they actually care as long as the people are there to provide said data.
I think it's pretty rare that anything happens. Privacy stuff? Well, no one cares about that stuff any more.
Many internet companies aim to be fulfill many roles and discord aims to replace stuff like forums and imageboards alongside other programs or services. Think of what an older internet person does. He uses a browser to browse a forum/imageboard, a filehost to upload large files, an IM program for quick chat (with names for organizing), and optionally maybe something like ventrilo or teamspeak if he wants to use a mic and I guess Steam if he wants to do some multiplayer stuff. (Steam itself seeks to eliminate some things and is a bit discord-like since it wants to monopolize people's attention the same way)
It used to a normal part of having a computer capable of multitasking (hooray for multiple CPU cores and RAM) to make use of it, but these days many people would prefer just to one one single program for everything, even if it makes sacrifices.

Discord sucks and I hate the damage its done and will continue to do to the internet, but I understand why lazy, tech illiterate people would use it. I really like the idea of having a plethora of programs specialized for different things, though.

>>1335
>no images and filesharing directly
This is a big inconvenience when working on visual media where quick screenshots are common for reviewing stuff. But even more damning is losing out on all the kids who are already on Discord and want to use it. Knowing Japanese is not a trait limited to the privacy paranoid and giving them up out of fear of the feds coming after your 1000 download piracy operation that already exposes itself with torrents is pretty stupid. That's even more true if you're looking for donation money or popularity with people who will actually show gratitude. There are alternatives, but you're not going to invite someone to your fucking Element server to follow your chinese cartoon releases. At least not until you find out she's 15.

>>1335
It's mainly a combination of two things. Kids and newer internet users are pretty stupid. They do not understand how to properly set up an application or use anything that isn't tied directly to their cell phone number. Discord and similar services cater to these people.

On the other side; Modern "fansub" groups (using the term lightly. Ripping group is a better description) want to monetize other people's content. Their primary goal is to make money from their so-called hobby. This requires attracting the maximum amount of eyeballs and "donations" possible. So they cater to platforms where idiots with cash are in abundance. Which is Discord and other social media outlets.

Discord and other social media outlets also exist to make money. They claim they do this from advertising. This is false. They make their money from spying on the users and data mining them. So they allow certain "illegal" content on their networks so they can monitor these people more closely instead of being forced to follow them around the internet like they used to. It's move convenient is the users come to them instead of them having to seize and re-purpose existing services and networks while hoping no one involved in the bust talks.

IRC is still the better platform for things like file hosting anyway. On IRC you can operate a bot linked to any server (or network of servers) in the world that you can directly interact with. There are even easy-to-use GUI applications to interact and search the contents on those bots. On Discord the best you're getting is some base64 encoded links to some DDL server on http that can be taken down at any moment.

The main issue is that the modern internet/computer user has no real idea what they're doing. They think things like VPN and base64 encoded links actually protect them and the other users. They think encryption over a mainstream platform is real. Hence why they promote crap like Signal and other "apps" running on compromised devices like cell phones.

If you want to see a real network for warez that's been operating for decades and is impossible to shut down look no further than USENET. This network has been in operation in one form or another since the late 70s. It's impossible to censor. It's impossible to prevent the spread of data over it. But it has been slowed down. Mainly by claiming users of itPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1339
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There is also a lot that can be said about the so-called "prosub" groups (people working for CR and other streaming services). The reason their content floods the usual trackers isn't the fact that it's high quality or that people want to view it. The reason it floods all those spaces is because these people have control over such places and prevent independent people from releasing stuff. This serves two primary purposes. The first; It ensures even those "stealing" the content are viewing the same content that's approved for distro by the publishing houses. 2) It prevents anything that might outshine that content from appearing during the first months-years when the content is first being release. Which is when profits are maximized. They don't care as much once you're outside of that window of time. Plus anything released outside of that window is likely to never be seen or forgotten entirely.

As an example take nyaa. You can easily find batches of CR rips for most anything released in the last 10 years. But finding an old high quality fansub release for something from 2005-2010 is hard and likely not seeded anymore. People claim that such stuff is only available on so-called private trackers because it ensures it remains seeded and protects the users of that tracker. But this is not true since those trackers dox everyone connecting to them and history has proven people will seed content for free anyway. In a sane world (so pre-2010 or so) this was never an issue. You could always request a re-seed on a public tracker and usually the request would be filled. If not the community would come together to fill it. Now this is impossible. You aren't even allowed to leave comments anywhere. Again, they claim this is to protect the end users from "spam" and we see the same old "people were posting pizza" as an excuse. Somehow a small torrent tracker is impossible to moderate despite them having hundreds of moderators. Yet every other larger website on the internet doesn't seem to have a problem does it? Again, it's a control thing; They want to content what can and can not be posted. They want to control who and who can not post.

What we've been living through over the last decade or so is the slow death of the internet and free speech (and freedom of data) itself. Most likely, in another decade you won't be able to publish contenPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

There used to be a lot more variety in the earlier web. I think it's just that like the famous fax machines and website design out of 1998 they haven't moved on. I remember stuff like www2 and uhhh.... man I think my brain finally got rid of that useless information. I remember there was one specifically used for the "virtual reality" exploration stuff like uhh... huh. Yeah, I forgot.

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i've come across some www4.asdasdasd.com in a couple govt websites and they're actually like from the last few years

It's a primitive form of load balancing. One subdomain = one IP.

should've used gentoo

It's nice to see people with personal websites. I don't really have anything else to add.

I have a lot of bloggers in my bookmarks. I could post the whole list if someone's interested.
Most of them are graphics programming related (think people who make their own game engines) but there's a lot of other random topics too.

One of my favorites is https://matklad.github.io/
He's the guy who made rust-analyzer, which is a language server for the Rust programming language. He posts a lot of random thoughts about programming languages, algorithms, etc. It's all over the place and I love his style of writing

I like food4dogs I wanna be like her when I get older

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>I could post the whole list if someone's interested.
I'd prefer in this thread to talk about them one at a time.