>>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

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.

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
(cont)

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.

>>1325
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

I just use jellyfin.

Oh, Plex has a self hosted option. I didn't see

Deleted my post because I think I figured it out.

>>1316
deletard

>>1316
on topic sager

I remember this site was a pretty useful resource when I was implementing A* for the first time:

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction.html

>>351
Well, more presentation slides than paper

>>353
Djirska a shit

While A* is one of the fastest algorithms to find a path from A to B, it doesn't guarantee that it is the shortest path. Dijkstra on the other hand guarantees the shortest path, but takes much more time to find it.

>>384
This isn't true, the path found by A* is guaranteed to be optimal so long as the heuristic used is "admissible", meaning it never in any case over-estimates the distance to the goal. In practice, in-admissible heuristics are often used as they produce good-enough paths faster than using the equivalent admissible heuristic.

$config['allowed_ext_files'][] = 'webm';

...........

// WebM Settings
$config['webm']['use_ffmpeg'] = true;
$config['webm']['expected_format'] = array('webm' => 'webm', 'mp4' => 'mp4');
$config['webm']['video_codecs'] = array('vp8', 'vp9', 'h264', 'av1');
$config['webm']['allow_audio'] = true;
$config['webm']['max_length'] = 90000;
$config['webm']['ffmpeg_path'] = 'ffmpeg';
$config['webm']['ffprobe_path'] = 'ffprobe';

Have ffmpeg , ffprobe installed on your server device

also you probably need google's webm package that likely is installed by apt install webm-dev

how to disallow webp?

>>381
by not having it in the allowed_ext

It's quite well documented in the config.php file (that you're not supposed to edit, use instance-config.php to overwrite default valuse). There's comments everywhere and what it does. Just mess around with it.
Why disable mp4 and allow webm? mp4 has highest support.
I thank you greatly for using vichan. It's far less of an eyesore as a user than all the newer ones.
Wakaba is pretty decent too in terms of being a pleasant user experience, but it's a lot more hassle for the admin.

I don't really get it. Seems kind of fun, I guess? No one actually wants an OS that takes extra time to do stuff, though. It's like how movies imagined the future internet as a VR world in which you would take 5 minutes to 'walk' to another website through a polygonal street with a colorful avatar, which looks cool in a movie but would be dreadful in real life because you want things NOW as soon as you can click them.
At least it's not Lain again, although some kids do have a strange fascination with Azumanga due to algorithms or something. I actually replayed Day of the Tentacle a few years ago and it still held up.

>>371
The Azumanga Druglord Game got me curious.

The idea that not all AIs are the same is pretty old. So I don't see a problem with the denomination of AGI as a lofty ideal.

>Robot maids with free will?
Free will is a bit of a myth, anyway.
You cannot choose your primary wants. If you choose wants, then you do so according to higher-ranking wants. But there is nothing that ranks higher than the highest rank. Those wants are therefore not of your choice. They are what defines you.
If you build a robot maid's AI from scratch, you might be in a position to directly write these primary objectives after which everything else in her personality must follow.

Well we probably won't get AGI anytime soon since ChatGPT has entered us into an arms race for the best LLM and that's all anyone is going to chase after for the time being instead of working on other models that could progress us towards that goal of AGI.

>>20
Well, in this case I meant something like you could have a robot maid that obeys the command to watch paint dry for 5 weeks straight. The "AI" I'm imagining would have enough knowledge of humanity and the world to find that command ridiculous and she would have the "choice" to reject it, but she doesn't have to understand the deep philosophical implications of why. If she's sentient then she's going to do something else other than being my cute robot maid because that would pretty lame for any intelligent creature instead of idealized artificial personalities.

>>367
Seems like the arms race has been slowing down, though. The money is starting to dry up since all the investors throwing money around wildly without any plan have yet to get their short-term profits and that's all they care about.

>>368
It's not that the long-term doesn't matter, it's that exasperated tech guys and business analysts are actively combating the marketing push to have """AI""" everywhere and helping people understand that there aren't actually many good ways to use generative LLMs that aren't just slight improvements on things they already had bots doing, like customer support. The money is in selling the idea of AI, not in anything they will actually accomplish.

>>346
>If they would release these for public use we'd have more than enough to go around.
Most of them did. Only 5 companies are still on "class A" legacy assignment and 2 of them are ISPs, so that leaves 3. The US military reserves far more IP addresses than any of these.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks
>>345
>they control all the servers and end points
Only end points really matter because of encryption which is the part they have the least control of.

>>347
>Only end points really matter because of encryption which is the part they have the least control of.
I have some bad news for you...

>US military
Private company. Just the blocks companies like Google and Microsoft are sitting on unused would keep things going for many years to come. IPv6 itself is a garbage standard for many reasons. Mainly because it isn't readable to a human like v4. They could have extended the address space by simply adding another decimal point and things would have been fine for the foreseeable future.

The default config for most IPv6 ISPs is hilariously bad. My ISP has been converting over lately and forced my LAN on to IPv6 one night with a fireware update. Within minutes I had bots from all over the internet attempting to log-in to every device on my network. My home media server was sending data over the internet and then back to my set-top device under a television in the same room. All behind my back.

After that experience I invested in a proper router and bought my own modem to. ISP wiped out my entire config behind my back for no reason because I got lazy and used their router instead of my own. Now my LAN is segregated from the rest of the world as much as humanly possible. ISP just straight up by-passed my firewall with one simple config file that they didn't disclose to customers. They had backdoor access to everyone's network even when it was supposed to be turned off and they promised to never do anything like that.

I'm worried they will take away my ability to use my own modem soon. Their latest modems do not allow you to log-in and they've already removed 2 of the former 5 approved devices from the list of modems you can run on their network. Just getting my modem approved took multiple calls to the ISP and no one was trained to deal with the request. If I change the MAC address of the modem I'll have to go through that all over again. Last Christmas they "forgot" I had my own device and sent a tech out unannounced to install their new modem. I wouldn't let him in the house. He claimed they shut off my service if I didn't but in the end I won that battle. But I fear I'll be losing the war.

>>348
>I have some bad news for you...
You're saying they have less control over routing devices directly in the hands of ISPs than the endpoints? Bullshit.
>They could have extended the address space by simply adding another decimal point and things would have been fine for the foreseeable future.
This just shows you don't have a dime of knowledge about computer programming and system interoperability, and you have zero understanding on why IPv6 adoption is so slow. Your idea is no better than IPv6.
The rest of your post is the usual technobabbling typical of /g/ spinoffs. Comments like
>The move to IPv6 is mostly about being able to track each device on each LAN.
Shows you have less than a shallow knowledge of networking. Public accessible LAN is not a unique property of IPv6, and I have personally use such IPv4 network before.

>>344
>Tor is much less popular than VPN that it's possible to monitor all connections to the Tor network
Ok? All Tor browsers are configured the same though so it's easier to blend inside a Tor user swarm. Remember that all Tor nodes IP adresses are public though.
>I remember there was a news article about a college student who was caught this way.
Don't spread FUD please. The guy was convicted because he confessed, not because of Tor itself.
>You want at least VPN+Tor.
You can do that if you want but it adds another layer of complexity

>>349
>You're saying they have less control over routing devices directly in the hands of ISPs than the endpoints? Bullshit.
I'm saying your encryption doesn't matter when you're using a CPU known to have multiple backdoors and a random number generator that isn't truly random.
>This just shows you don't have a dime of knowledge about computer programming and system interoperability, and you have zero understanding on why IPv6 adoption is so slow. Your idea is no better than IPv6.
I'm pretty sure I've spent more time in a class room and the real world than you. But I didn't insult you like you chose to insult me. Which is pretty much your M.O. any time you disagree with someone.

Any system that is not both readable and easy to quickly transverse by a human is a flawed system. Which is exactly why we told everyone IPv6 was a bad idea over 25 years ago. It's also why we're 25 years past initial roll out and it's still not being used anywhere that matters. Maybe if you dealt with IPv6 -> IPv4 networking regularly you'd understand why it's stupid and not deployed widely. You'd also understand why having every device in a customers home _DIRECTLY CONNECTED AND PINGABLE FROM THE GLOBAL WAN_ is a _really_ bad idea. Hence why ISPs continue to rely on NAT. Since it's a cheap effective firewall that the customer doesn't turn off without going through multiple steps. Access that's being taken away from most customers now because 99% have no idea what they're doing. Which is making the lives of the 1% that know much worse in the process.

>Shows you have less than a shallow knowledge of networking. Public accessible LAN is not a unique property of IPv6, and I have personally use such IPv4 network before.
Yeah you can expose a computer directly to the WAN on any IP network. The difference is in IPv6 it's the DEFAULT.

>>350
Again. If you expect privacy and security on a network controlled by the Government and some "private companies" known to hand over information without a warrant you're in for a bad time. You are no more protected on VPN/tor than you are directly connecting from someone. The only difference is now instead of your ISP knowing everything you do Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Is that a music creation program?

>>38
Nightcafe? Barely. No, i asked for an image

Funny, when u aks to paint yourself something anything about sound machine here acts a bit weird. Maybe it curious about sounds because it cant hear. I doubt someone connected a microphone to an image creation "tool" just out of being kindhearted