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 No.1469[Reply]

Remove all C code from the world
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 No.1789

>>1788
Primagen who used to be full on Rust pushing, recently started saying he like Zig more. But it's a bunch of hopping around because Linux diehards are so against letting Rust get a chance and Windows is an unknown

 No.1790

The Rust in Linux thing is just pathetic old guys preventing new generation from getting a chance because they don't want to document their APIs
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240828211117.9422-1-wedsonaf@gmail.com/

Listening to people like this is downright frustrating

 No.1791

>>1788
My biggest problem with Rust is the development model. A language, especially a language aiming for safety and security in the way Rust is, should really be defined by a stable spec. Instead, it's defined by a single reference implementation that's developed like a web browser.

But as a language, it's got too much C++ and not enough C. Way too big, way too complex, way too confusing. My ideal systems language would basically be a stricter, more explicit C with opt-out run-time safety features like bounds checking.

 No.1837

>>1469
>Alphabet inc wants everyone to code in their language that they lobby
But it's not EEE right gaiz?

 No.1842

>>1837
No, it's called Swift



 No.1796[Reply]

When people know you code so they start asking you about Excel functions and formatting

 No.1838

>>1796
Why is he at a debconf if he's unfamiliar with debian's use of his Kernel?
That's like a James Brown's drummer going to a Rap artist's interview for using his amen break for a drum sample.

 No.1840

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Is this true?
Damn. Baffling that there was a time when Debian was the Arch of Linux distros.

 No.1841

It's more baffling that all the old Linux programmers still think building from source is the norm.



 No.1829[Reply]

I'm not good with OS stuff. What's this merger for realtime linux about in less than 10 minutes?

 No.1830

>>1829
Linux has always had the ability to be a real time OS. A real time OS ensures low latency in kernel space. Here is the best way to think about it;

You know how a guitar works? Imagine a guitar plugged into a computer via an audio interface. With a normal mainline kernel there might be a slight delay when you strum the guitar. You have headphones plugged into your DAC and are strumming the guitar. With a non-real time kernel there might be a several millisecond delay delay between your strumming and when you hear the notes in your headphones.

With a real time kernel there is no delay. When you strum you will hear the notes at the exact same time.

Real time Linux kernel have been a thing for decades. They form the basis of all the multimedia/digital audio workstation distros. This e-celeb or whoever (I didn't watch the video) is just going over information everyone that works with this type of software has known for years. Maybe they finally merged the patches into mainline or something. I dunno.

The trade-off with a realtime kernel is the fact that it can cause high CPU usage in some cases. For the vast majority of users a realtime kernel isn't needed and can cause various issues with day-to-day stuff.

Realtime kernels are mainly used for things like I mentioned above (multimedia production) or for other tasks where realtime is vital to functionality (imagine a fighter jet with a stick hooked up to a small computer that controls the flaps). If you want to know more read about Real-time operating systems on wikipedia. The vast majority of them are not UNIX based and are small OSs geared towards specific tasks running on small computers.



 No.1379[Reply]

Jisaku-ing a keyboard.
Following the video, tried creating a 3x3 "keyboard" with switches on a breadboard, was pretty simple to connect and program. Won't be doing much software though, mostly just soldering diodes and wires from the switches to a micro controller.
Thinking of making some compromises with the keyboard body and switches/keys by scavenging an old keyboard I have lying around. Right now, my goal is to create a working model and implement a custom layout for the keys. Maybe if this works out, I'll look into CAD-ing a proper case for a new board, and installing some good switches (the ones I have right now are off-brand reds).
All in all, the project is looking pretty doable so far... So long as I don't mess up during the soldering phase. Going to have to do a ton of practicing before I'm confident enough to work on the switches, don't want to be ruining them. Want to spend as less as I can on this.


*Will drop the project if I deem it financially unfundable (because I'm broke)
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 No.1792

>>1784
The 16g (naked) copper wire (and heat shrink) he used in his build is what I'm referring to. Sure they look cool, but it was damn near impossible to have a solid connection between the pin and the copper wire. With a normal wire (like the one I'm currently using) you can wrap the copper around the pin to stabilize it, then solder it to further stabilize the connection; with the 16g copper wire, since the wire is so thick, you can't wrap it around the pin so the connection is dependent on just the solder alone, one strong push and it breaks apart.

 No.1815

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Connecting all the rows and columns to the micro controller was way harder than it was supposed to be; my theory is that it was because the soldering iron was a cheap one. Looking further into soldering irons after the tip was basically useless (should have looked into it further before buying one...), turns out that being too hot also causes rust. Needed to keep it within a certain temperature range to be able to use it for a long time but the one I bought didn't have any temps monitoring to it, it just heated the iron as long as it was connected to an electric source.
Thankfully, the set I bought came with 5 spare tips, was able to solder all the rows and columns after going through 3 of them. Now, the keyboard works, but I don't know how stable the connections to the micro controller are. I think as long as it's just sitting on my desk, there shouldn't be any problems. The wire is a little shorter than I'd like it to be, but it's the longest micro usb-b cable I have at hand.

 No.1816

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Here's what the finished product looks like. Had to repurpose some of the non-standard sized keys, so the + and the Shift keys you see in the image are actually LShift and SpaceBar keys. All in all, kind of glad I did it, have a working keyboard in the layout I liked, and I can now put the old one in a showcase or something. Though, there are some regrets; regret the soldering iron thing a lot. I could have easily bought a better soldering iron if I'd added the copper wires budget to the soldering iron budget... Also regret making the plate yellow......
Not the best of executions, the plate is too small to fit to the case, the case's standoffs are broken, the connections to the MC could disconnect at any time, but I can use it and it stays in place. In the end, all that matters is that it werks™.
A break down of the total costTotal expenditure on the project: ~$190
Soldering kit + helping hands cost: $38
Total parts cost: $40
Money wasted on parts I never used: $24
Total cost just for the keyboard (includes 3D printing cost, electric parts, and keycaps): $86

 No.1817

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>>1816
That's not bad. Did you have fun learning the stuff? It's a skill you can apply to future projects or whatever so that's worth something.
Are you going to label the keys? Add neon lights? Personalize it at all?

 No.1818

>>1817
Yeah, it was fun. Soldering the rows and the columns were fun, seeing how clean it looked... It's just that the project ended on a low note with kuso soldering with the MC... Learned plenty of stuff about soldering, keyboards, USB, even 3D designing and printing. Fun experience, but yeah it's how something ends that sticks with you, pretty meh ending.
>label the keys
The keys are already labeled actually, it's just on the sides of the keycaps, you can kind of see them on the top row keys and some on the bottom row.
>lights
At first, my thought was to add some RGB after the fact, but now I'm too scared to open up the back (so to speak), because it might disconnect some wire somewhere on the MC...
Maybe some day, after I've saved enough again, I'll buy a better soldering kit, some better keys (want the brown ones), and re-do the connections in a better way.



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 No.1722[Reply]

How do you manage computer security in your devices?

I feel that just common sense isn't enough nowadays, because of several reasons:

- Browsers especially (even if you disable JavaScript, which is often not feasible in many sites), but also email clients, torrent clients... can all be exploited somewhat easily.
- Some games require kernel-level anti-cheats, which have complete access to your computer. Even if you trust the developer, these kernel drivers are often buggy and can be leveraged by malware.
- Legitimate programs or Steam games might receive malicious updates if the developer or their supply chain is compromised.
- If you use third-party dependencies for development, you might also be compromised if any of them (or their recursive dependencies) are malicious, not uncommon in ecosystems like npm.
- If you play doujin games or eroge, you often have to download them from random untrusted sources.

I've concluded that it's not really possible to trust a computer if you use it for activities like these.

I'm thinking about getting a second device only for sensitive stuff, like banking, shopping and managing passwords. It seems a bit of a hassle, but I can't think of any other way.
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 No.1726

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>>1722
99% of the stuff you listed is not realistic and only works in theory. In reality all you have to do is not download random shit on the internet and not fall for phishing scams.

 No.1727

>>1726
This,
OP and anyone who is interested in securing their electronic devices should define their own threat model before implementing solutions.
Anyway, most people only want to be safe from cybercriminals and this advice is probably the most important. If I wanted to add one more specific, I'd recommend to create a separate account for administration tasks (done by default on most Linux distributions but not on Windows).

 No.1729

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have some fun playing with Qubes OS which isolates every application into its own virtual machine

 No.1730

>>1722
Backup your files in case of ransomware.
Don't reuse passwords.

Having a USB containing a small OS that loads into RAM and doesn't touch your HDD could work, like Puppy Linux or Slax.

There are small things you can do that don't necessarily fall under "don't click on weird stuff".

 No.1731

I don't keep any passwords on my device, after I got a virus that pulled all mine from Firefox's password cache.

Don't let your browser remember passwords, it's stored basically in plaintext as far as viruses are concerned.



 No.1634[Reply]

I found this imageboard on Github https://github.com/brodyking/Openchan As I said in the title, it works without a database and I am taking the time to make a connection with a MySQL database to be able to integrate functions such as reply and others. If you were looking for a basic project to start your own imageboard I think you should give this software a try.

 No.1635

Mr. Froggie, the readme says input isn't sanitized. If you want to start your own imageboard software why not do it from scratch with full control over all the code?

 No.1712

why do some people write out whole ass Contributor sections without going thru the trouble of wrapping two variables in htmlspecialchars()



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 No.1668[Reply]

Install Linux on your personal computers.
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 No.1705

>>1704
People did/do use XMPP as a protocol. They just used it re-branded as something else. The answer to this question is the same for all technology. Mainly that most people are happy to consume warmed over garbage and beg for more. They're lazy, stupid and do not care anything about quality.

 No.1706

>>1702
This season, surely, will be the season of the Linux desktop!

 No.1707

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THE OVERSIMPLIFIED LOGO PEOPLE GOT OPENSUSE TOO

 No.1708

>>1705
For what it's worth the same is true of IRC. Most popular multiplayer chat programs are simply IRC renamed with some simple add-ons and a web interface.

XMPP fell out of favor when voice/video chat became more widespread. But it's likely the text portion of those chat programs are still XMPP or IRC on the back end.

Basically, anything that requires you or random person to set-up a server is not normal-friendly. They will freak out about such things "leaking their IP address" but will happily use the same chat software if a corporation is hosting the server. Same reason they fear p2p stuff.

I think Zuckerberg said it best. They're "dumb fucks".

 No.1709

It is very funny the open source community has fragmented into many chat protocols like the early 2000s proprietary ones. I guess Matrix's trying to fix that



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 No.1636[Reply]

Thoughts on KDE?
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 No.1647

>>1646
For me personally the time I was using lighter desktops is when LXQT didn't even exist yet, I used the predecessor LXDE instead

 No.1648

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i have used KDE for almost 3 years now on different distros, most notably on arch which is the one i've used the longest. i enjoy using it and have it setup just how i like it. though a lot can be said about KDE's feature creep, it has almost every configuration one could possibly want or need. as for its bugginess, this is something that is greatly exaggerated online: i haven't had any deal breaker issues while using the same bleeding edge installation for well over a year now. at most, some minor graphical glitches that usually get fixed on the next update. as for its memory usage, despite being way more polished than XFCE they share a similar memory consumption.

 No.1649

>>1639
libbie !

 No.1650

>>1636
Not a fan of KDE personally. I'm more of a fan of WMs. If I have to use a DE I usually go with XFCE, MATE, or Cinnamon.

 No.1651

The only advanced Linux topic I've ever needed to deal with is the OS's C libraries, glibc, because I can't compile software on Mint then move it to other servers.



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 No.1540[Reply]

I'm gonna give one of these gay ergonomic mice a shot. I just wish there was one that had that Logitech free-spinning mouse wheel thing...
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 No.1562

>>1555
>The trackball you posted doesn't address the issue that the vertically oriented mouse is meant to address
It does and it does it better in my opinion if your concern is damage to your wrists. They are for people with that concern that don't want to give up using a mouse.

>which is the two forearm bones crossing over and coming close when your wrist is pronated. I guess you could place it on a slanted surface.
Trackballs are nearly _always_ designed this way out of the box excluding those horrible mouse+trackball combos. Look at the one I linked. See that little pad it comes with? That's for your wrist to rest on. Now take a close look at the base just ahead of it (the plastic under the ball itself). It's at a slant. So it rests flat on your table but is a bit higher in the front than in the back. I've personally found it to be perfect slant for me. If it isn't for you then you can adjust it no problem.

My wrist is totally relaxed when using a trackball. Which is more than I can say for the keyboard I'm typing this on right now. Which is a very good keyboard.

Aside from trackball+good keyboard: Chair, posture in chair and your desk set-up is a serious thing! Do not take them lightly. No kind of input device can correct bad posture or too little desk space.

I suggest having a big/deep enough desk to have room to put your elbows on the desk top and reach the keyboard. You want your keyboard pushed way back close to your primary monitor. This alone will take a lot of stress off your wrists. You want a chair with good arm rests. You want them level with the desk. You want your free to be able to reach the ground. You don't want to slouch over the desk itself.

I also high suggest old school metal shop desks. Since they're huge. Have plenty of desk space with overhangs to mount monitors and they're generally cheap and will last forever. The right desk makes all the difference. You need the room.

 No.1584

>>1562
>So it rests flat on your table but is a bit higher in the front than in the back.
That's orthogonal to what I'm talking about.

 No.1585

my trackball gamer girl big sister bends my wrists back every day

 No.1591

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>>1548 >>1549
Am seriously considering getting one of those now, especially since I more often have pain in my wrist and the tendons in the back of my hand recently. So thanks for all the information you gave. I hope that model goes on a sale soon in my country too since 110€ is ab bit much for an experiment for me.

>>1561
Model M keyboards are truly a pleasure to type with, only the sound of the keystrokes are rather drastic (Lain here seems to like it though).

 No.1630

If anyone else needs a quick and cheap fix for wrist pain with mouse usage, I've been using an xbone controller with a steam desktop setup and its good enough. Lets me rest my wrists and still work. Im sure a trackball would be better, but I already had it



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 No.1597[Reply]

So there's some windows exploit thing that needs to be patched? https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38063
I kept my windows on an old version since updates break various things (like the pirated copy) and adds new microsoft spyware stuff so I never update my windows 10. So uhh... can I selectively patch this thing without breaking my windows installation? I need help from nerds.

 No.1598

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Wait, I read that you can disable IPv6 here in the network settings.
Okay, potential crisis averted and I didn't have to update.



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 No.1487[Reply]

How's your storage looking?
I think I need to buy another hard drive with at least 10TB when Black Friday comes around again. RAID stuff seems like a good idea, but buying two of every drive is too expensive.
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 No.1526

>>1524
koshitan is PISSED......

 No.1527

>>1519
sageing for this

 No.1590

im obsessed to negate some sagees

 No.1846

Dunno how it looks but I can hear it's doing its quarterly scrub through two doors.

 No.3128

bump



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 No.1587[Reply]

Are there any better alternatives for keying out anime in video editors/software besides polygonal shaping out what you want to cut and going from there? Doing all the work to adjust the model for each frame kills me.

 No.1588

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



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 No.1535[Reply]

>>>/qa/132267
You know I was kind of thinking about this. How long do we need to wait before we can start streaming to each other directly from our home networks? Surely with rhe increased availability of gig speeds and higher this should be possible to pull off for streams with lower viewcounts of like a couple dozen. Or is the required speed far and above what's capable of the average residential user?
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 No.1558

>>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.

 No.1563

>>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?

 No.1581

>>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.

 No.1582

>>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.

 No.1847

>>1557
There's layer 1 reasons why uplink is slower than downlink in residential cable. It's not just how you allocate spectrum with more bandwidth for uplink which they do do addiontaly. The Trunk amplifier off the CMTS simply has more txpower than your modem for starters (your modem would catch fire) so the S in SNR is higher. In America where you're multiplexing whole blocks worth of customers over single coax runs, the noise is an even bigger problem on uplink.
You put those two together and you end up needing, spectrum bandwidth even being equal, to encode uplink data more conservatively. So you might get 10Gbps on one downlink channel but a mere 1Gbps on a single uplink channel.



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 No.324[Reply]

Last year I did a bunch of experiments with Stable Diffusion image generation stuff and of course one of the first things I did was create Kuon and Aquaplus LORAs for my own personal use. Well, now for SDXL (specifically Pony which is a finetune of SDXL so that it's actually usable for this kind of thing) is now something I wish to try, I have begun the process of getting Kuon in higher quality. By that I mean, higher quality AI generations! Kuon could not be any higher quality herself!

The first step of the SDXL Kuon LORA process has begun after a week of careful image cropping, editing and tagging! Yes, you don't need to be this specific about it, but it's worth doing. I've started the style training thing before going to bed, but I still need to create a curated set of Kuon-specific images to train the concept of her appearance for the second part! It will take me another week or so to gather all those and carefully curate them, but since I'll be looking at images of Kuon the entire time it won't feel like work.
Well, assuming this first style thing works. Who knows what I'll wake up to? It could be a huge mess since I'm not quite accustomed to this SDXL stuff.
KUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!
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 No.1334

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/!

 No.1338

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.



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 No.1344[Reply]

>Eagle Mode is a zoomable user interface (ZUI) with file manager, file viewers, games, and more. This project is about a futuristic style of human-computer interaction, where the user can visit almost everything simply by zooming in.

https://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/index.html
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 No.1347

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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

 No.1348

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.

 No.1349

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.

 No.1357

>>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.

 No.1530

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.



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