How many phone numbers does one need nowadays? Two? More? I've been thinking about getting a second phone specifically for phone number required verifications and maybe one more secure for 2FA stuff. What's the cheapest way to get multiple numbers nowadays?

https://www.palladiummag.com/2020/10/19/the-centralized-internet-is-inevitable/

I think this article makes a good point. Many people here miss the "old internet" not realizing that period is destined to disappear from the start, since the inherent cannot be anything else: the inherent property of the internet leads to the eventual centralization of control:

> One of the core functions of the internet is to record material of human interest in digital format.
> This information is not made available to us as individuals. Even if it were, it would not be the kind of information we could use. It’s only useful en masse—in other words, only insofar as it makes us legible and visible to centralized institutions.
> The centralizing trend that we have seen over the lifespan of the internet is not a fluke to be corrected as we learn to properly harness the power of this new technology. Rather, the internet cannot be anything but a centralizing force, so long as there are groups that are situated to disproportionately benefit from that which it renders visible.

What are your thoughts on using multiple displays vs having one main one.

Having done the following:
- One widescreen monitor
- Two monitors
- One Widescreen + Laptop screen
- One TV monitor
I find that my ability to focus on tasks and get into the `zen` zone state of programming is much simpler when I only have one primary monitor to focus my attention on and then potentially an auxiliary one to play music or get outside notifications. Only one thing is the object of my focus at a time and this helps me get things done.

Since it's such a hot button issue that's distracting from happenings, how about a thread for containing all your fights over AI and the acceptability of its usage. Don't really want to say it's a discussion that can't be had at all because it's something actually feel quite passionately about in a non-shitposting manner.

There's been a lot of chatter lately about Deepseek. In the online circles I'm in, people have a politics-colored understanding, more or less saying "American tech companies couldn't do this, but an opensource Chinese company could and American tech companies are in 'damage control'". Which... I really don't understand. If it's an open source model, like Llama was, for example, I don't see how this doesn't just cause there to be a proliferation of much more efficient and performant models -- the same way after Llama became available, sudden there was Phi from Microsoft, Gemma from Google, Mistral, and others.

What does /maho/ think?

What do you look for when downloading an anime release? This seems to be a surprisingly divisive topic in some circles, with some wanting only the highest quality encodes regardless of size while others just want mini-encodes that save space while looking somewhat decent, like ASW or EMBER. I think there's a certain appeal to aiming to only get the highest quality, but at the same time I sometimes struggle to see the difference between that & a significantly smaller version. Maybe my eyes are bad, or it's because I'm just watching on a 1080p monitor?

Personally, I usually reserve those massive encodes for series I really enjoy and download "average" ones for anything else. I only have so much space after all, and I enjoy having a sizeable anime collection...
For example with pic related, I store the MATSU release rather than the Kagura release, which is supposed to be better but also around 13GB or so larger.

Reminder not to dox yourself!

I wanted to show off my current working environment for my laptop. Which is mostly for writing so it's free of many of the usual distractions on my six monitor mult-monitor workstation set-up. The DE: LXQt is a lie by the way. The last release of firefox broke its GUI unless you fake having a DE installed through your .profile/.xsession.

This is probably my most comfy system at the moment. My own custom version of dwm that has terminal swallowing set-up. Driven mostly through keyboard although touchpad, trackpoint and touchscreen is fully working (but rarely used). Running latest OpenBSD snapshot. Most things compiled locally (kernel, packages, emacs). I primarily live in emacs and have a custom dashboard set-up when it first opens. Emacs running as daemon. A few things like weechat, newsboat, neomutt and firefox running on other tags so they don't distract me when working in emacs. A custom script I wrote to access youtube and pipe content into yt-dlp+mpv for viewing locally so I never have to visit the actual website. Following channels I like via RSS feeds and using my browser cookies so I can get content that requires log-in.

Everything kept really simple. Picom is only set-up for transparency and to prevent screen tearing no other fancy effects set-up. Hyperthreading disabled so no logical CPU cores being used (more secure). I do not miss it everything is as fast with it off as it is with it on. No wine/linux support though so no Steam on this machine which is a bonus for what it's intended for.

Will be replacing this set-up very soon with my own BSD-based kernel and user space tools I mostly wrote myself or adapted from other people's work. Arcan+Plan9 inspired. Hope to show it off soon. I have a total terminal emulator+shell replacement that solves many long standing issues. It can even embed videos right in the terminal, supports multiple jobs and has a real time clock. Integrates directly with the new window manager as well. I've posted about it before. Started as my own little Linux distro based on Gentoo and then I ported everything to FreeBSD. Now I've ported everything again to OpenBSD and started mixing and matching things from various BSD kernels. Replaced almost everything in userspace over the last few years on my dev machine.

Although all the usual stuff still works so I haven't lost access to those tools. But I'm replacing them to take advantage of my new GUI onePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Is anyone else thinking or already in the process of making their own video game? It's getting easier and easier with stuff like RPGMaker or Unreal and the knowledge is out there in many forms. Not to mention the AI assistance out there, although people shouldn't rely on that and should I think it should instead be used to plug holes with lots of supervision.
Of course the flipside of that is that there's a ton of them being released all the time so you need to stand out. Personally, I think kissu has people that could make such things.
If you are you can use this thread to blog or talk about things relating to it!

Although I haven't done much development on 4chan X lately, bugs still crop up, and eventually I want to get around to making it work with the new Kissu UI. This is a thread where you can discuss problems with or suggestions for 4chan X. I'm thinking about linking this from the bug reporting page if Verniy's okay with it.

Do you use any software that other people may not know about that you like?
I started using (and eventually even bought!) this thing called Wallpaper Slideshow after trying a bunch of free ones and getting frustrated. https://www.gphotoshow.com/wallpaper-slideshow-pro.php
Basically, you give it folder(s) of your choice and it will assemble a collage image of them and make it your background. You can configure it with a timer that changes it and I have it set to 15 minutes. I had originally used John's Background Switcher that someone thankfully linked to me a few months ago: >>91800 https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/
I liked this one more because there's less wasted space, more options, and it just generally seems to assemble the image better. I turn it off before I go to bed each night though because I'm worried that it's keeping my hard drive active all day, which probably isn't good. I should maybe research that sometime...

This pairs well with something like Grabber ( https://github.com/Bionus/imgbrd-grabber ) that can bulk download tags from booru sites.
Of course, this stuff is kind of wasteful if you don't have an extra monitor with a wallpaper that's largely visible, but I find myself like that sometimes so it's pretty nice.

Anyone else been messing around with the stable diffusion algorithm or anything in a similar vein?
It's a bit hard to make it do exactly what you want but if you're extremely descriptive in the prompt or just use a couple words it gives some pretty good results. It seems to struggle a lot with appendages but faces come out surprisingly well most of the time.

Aside from having a 3070 i just followed this guide I found on /g/ https://rentry.org/voldy to get things setup and it was pretty painless.

Let's say you flip a coin twice and you want it to come up heads twice. You have a 25% chance of winning.
But what if you know extra information: one of the flips will come up tails. Now you have a 0% chance of winning.
But if you had covered your ears and screamed "LA LA LA I can't hear you"! Then you would still have a 25% chance to win. So you could "forget" that there will be a tails to increase your chances of winning.

How's Svelte doing compared to the hoard of other JavaScript frameworks?
Nothing else seems to have come out since then which is really any improvement over the old.
All the frontend devs are dying on the hill of WASM and stuff.

I was thinking it'd probably be a good idea to have a thread for asking questions about video editing since they're generally one of the more tough ones to make. My own experience is limited to making a bit of funposts here and there of varying degrees of competency so I'm not really an expert myself, but I could help with stuff I know. For other things, I think I've seen people posting video edits before so hopefully they'd be more knowledgeable.