Let's make the internet comfy again.Topics* Recommended Browser Extensions* Anonymous Account Creation* Alternative FrontendsThings that make the internet good again.
>>106520202https://github.com/atauenis/weboneSee how far you can get with this, otherwise it should still be perfectly usable
>>106519929> Recommended Browser ExtensionsLibredirect, tampermonkey > Anonymous Account CreationCock.li> otherCreate blog/site and join the webring
>>106520881needs ublock too
There is no way to deshittify the internet, it must be killed
>>106521696All you need is willpower from a few nerds, sadly zoomers are feckless retards and won't do anything unless specifically told to do it.
where is it?
>2025>still using BBC++YWNBAW
Is AI getting worse? It seems like it was actually usable for about 6 months and now it won't produce any usable code. Are they gimping the models to try and turn a profit?
>>106520218It won't do shit. Kek.
>>106514707there are humans being the scenes too.>>106514996generative ai and AI that can recognize>LLMis different then what businesses are selling as "AI". Every time i feel like i am talking to an Indian.
>>106514100it never produced prod worthy codebut its been improved latelyyoure kvetching because youre repeating reddit's talking points and how c-gpt 5 is worse at erp than 4 was
>>106516313>Investor interest is the reason they censor the modelsWhich is funny considering ERP is easily the biggest reason anyone would have to pay out of pocket for these things>but codingStill dwarved by coomerism and despite the non stop shilling as "le programmer replacers" its still hardly enough to make up for the losses much less profit.This whole business is propped up by venture capitals' overdrive FOMO (and the faint chance of AGI somehow being made and turning the economy worthless) and even they are starting to sweat bullets at how long its been with dogshit for profit.Credit where credit is due Elon at least realized coom is these advanced chatbots biggest real usecase and made that Ani thing, unlike other AI companies that still shove icepicks in their machines' brain at any mention of lewd.
>>106515245GPT-5 is way worse for bootlicking though.It will sometimes push back on things now, but otherwise, no. It's way worse. GPT-5 gets trapped in mirror language where it will summarise what you've said and spit it back at you. You need to tell it explicitly to use search tools and even then you have to get it to read the sources, doing the work for it to avoid it just spitting out nonsense now.It really wants to validate your opinions and keep you engaged on the web agent front. It's now extremely useless for simple things like talking about history or politics and will hallucinate wildly to validate your feelings (even guessing wrong on which way your leaning). They also cut down on how much info it spits out on questions and terms, and the engagement filter at the end needs to be removed in settings otherwise that colours context too.Other models don't have this issue on their web fronts to this degree. The closest to that is gemini flash but it only mirrors after about 100k tokens when it runs into an alignment issue and can get back on track with 4 repeated messages. GPT is only useable via API and it's still shit there too.An LLM doesn't need to strive for you to engage with it endlessly. It's fine for conversations or quick checks on something to be 5 messages. A look at a philosophical topic can spin out for a few hours but eventually you've got everything off your mind and explored edge cases too. It doesn't need to ask you:>So, the “slop” is the way engagement with Pascal often slides into clichés—catchphrases, moral judgments, or reductionist readings that sound engaging but don’t actually grapple with the argument’s structure.>If you like, I can also show a more subtle version of slop where people think they’re sophisticated, but they’re still misreading him—something that’s funnier because it sounds intellectual. Do you want me to do that?This shit, does not need to happen. It's just as bad.
This is what nexusmods.com looks like on my Windows 10 machine with default settings inside Chromium/Edge, on my 27" 1440p screen at 100% scaling. How do I make the text rendering look exactly the same on openSUSE Tumbleweed or Fedora using GNOME or KDE Plasma? I'm not interested in debating which is more accurate, I just can't read linux text rendering as it's blurry, jaggy, thin, and strains my eyes. But I want to move away from microsoft's software and rather enjoy using Linux overall.
>>106521447I'm not that technical, so I'm not sure if I already did what you said, but here's what I tried to do to fix fonts on my current linux install of Fedora Workstation 42 (GNOME). I downloaded GNOME Tweaks and set hinting to slight and subpixel rendering to RGB. After that I downloaded Microsoft Fonts from here: https://mscorefonts2.sourceforge.net/Then I restarted the computer and went into Firefox settings and made sure it's using the default fonts it uses on windows, New Times, Arial, etc, and set lowest font size allowed to 13, everything like defaults on Windows. Problem is it still somehow looks slightly worse than Firefox on Windows, which I usually "fix" by using betterfox github tweaks listed here under "FONT APPEARANCE" sectionhttps://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox/blob/main/Peskyfox.jsFirefox without these changes strains my eyes too much on Windows too, and it's the same with using Blender or GIMP, which makes me think that they might be using the same default text rendering Firefox or Linux uses without proprietary stuff that Windows has. Is there any way to make these tweaks inside firefox on linux? I tried to apply them but they seem to work only on windows, as in they don't even show up in about:config in linux and adding them manually seems to do nothing at all
>>106521512>Microsoft Fonts from here: https://mscorefonts2.sourceforge.net/No no no no no no no. These are old, very broken versions of only like 10 fonts from the late 90s. You have to get proper modern versions of everything from a Windows ISO. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Microsoft_fonts#Extracting_fonts_from_a_Windows_ISOI don't really blame you for fucking this up, stack overflow, and AI don't understand the difference.>FirefoxI haven't used Firefox in a long time but if I recall some of the defaults for using serif or sans serif differ between Windows and Linux. You might want to check those too. Also I vaguely recall something about the math font settings being hard to get to if you also care about those.
I kind of missed that you're trying to match Firefox to Chrome, I originally thought you were using Chrome on Linux too. Chrome does its own text rendering using different gamma to make skinny fonts a little thicker so you might need to enable stem darkening to get a comparable effect on Firefox. But I'm not super sure how using a high DPI display affects that either
>>106521552Damn arch wiki is useful as fuck, I think I'll just go ahead and dedicate a day to installing Arch properly and setting up fonts and shit using arch wiki. Maybe this fixes my issues since it seems they say the old fonts don't have proper hinting which is probably what makes them look so blurry and jaggy on sites. I hope this shit fixes it because text rendering has been practically the only issue keeping me from moving to linux full time. Would these fonts also fix Chromium text rendering in browsers and stuff like Steam? I don't mind using some foss chromium browser like Chromium or Brave, but without any font changes they don't render text properly for me either rn. The most annoying part is how clear and crisp text looks in linux native programs, like using KDE or GNOME and everything looks so nice out of the box, but if I download a browser or steam it just looks like dogshit. Annoying as fuck
>>106521604As long as the programs can find your fonts they have the opportunity to use them, although I'm not sure whether something like steam would try to. Remember that programs aren't expecting you to have them on Linux so they might hard-code something else. Although generally fonts don't get hard-coded on Linux they just trust fontconfig which ironically causes other bugs but I digress. I put all the Windows fonts in ~/.local/fonts. Everywhere on the internet says you have to re-generate your fontconfig cache after this but as far as I can tell that's not true it just starts to work.>The most annoying part is how clear and crisp text looks in linux native programs, like using KDE or GNOME and everything looks so nice out of the box, but if I download a browser or steam it just looks like dogshit.That mostly shouldn't be the case, common distros I know of set their system fonts to be your preferred serif/sans serif/mono fonts. So on e.g. KDE you should mostly see Noto fonts everywhere. If you have Liberation Fonts installed, get rid of them, they're probably being aliased to Arial and TNR in your distro config.
>>106401320Don't buy anything OTHER THAN IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T, X, and W/P Series if you want the Real Business Experience™>Other business laptops are welcome in /tpg/ (Dell Latitude/Precision, HP EliteBook/ZBook)Why ThinkPad?>Used machines are plentiful and cheap>Excellent keyboards, tactile feel and quiet + the TrackPoint>Great durability: magnesium roll cage for structural integrity, with high quality plastic body panels>Utilitarian design: e.g. indicator LEDs, 7 row keyboard layout on older models>Docking stations that easily turns your laptop into a desktop>Easy to repair (most models), upgrade & maintain thanks to readily available service manuals for every model, spare parts easy & cheap to obtain>Excellent Linux & *BSD supportThinkWiki - General info about ThinkPads/specshttps://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWikiComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1065193760 days since chvdding out on the internet
>>106521567>linux?>did I mention I chopped off my cock?
>>106521488checked
>>106521461IME it got worse around 2012, then slowly improved after the switch from Synaptics and ALPS to Elan. The nipple on my T14 G5 is the comfiest I've used in almost a decade.If your X13 is G1 or G2 AMD running Linux, you can tryhttps://wpyoga.dev/blog/2022/04/27/thinkpad-t14-trackpoint-linuxorhttps://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-input/patch/71d9dc66-9576-c26f-c9d9-129217f50255@gmail.com/#24848525
>>106521659G1 AMD yeah. feels just awful coming from t440p
I don't get it.Why is this still not the standard?
>>106516236it's faster than waiting in line though and time is more precious than whatever you think is wrong about doing it yourself>>106516299I do this faster and it only gets better when I have few only few itemswaiting in line behind some boomers that make weekful groceries sucksself checkout made it so much more efficient
>>106516236>Doing grocery shoppingSlave mentality.>Driving the the grocery shopSlave mentality.
>>106520750He’s trying to find someone working so he can pay for his LEGO. >>106520603I use the self checkout if the cashier is some non that I don’t want to deal with.
>>106516153N
>self checkout doesnt work because NIGGERRRRSSSS!!!!!why? whats stopping nigs from simply walking out with goods regardless of there being a normal cashier or a self checkout?
Post tech scams
>>106515093>AIEEEEEEEE THE CAP HAS A RETENTION LANYARD IM BEING GENOCIDEDyup, we're sending ordinance now
>>106510998The fuck was their problem, the phone was too cheap? So fucking what?
>>106521553the most hilarious part of NFTs is most of the NFT money came from crypto scamming in the first place. the only people who bought them who werent cryptobros were celebrities essentially paying for advertising among cryptobros, and generally the more "how do you do fellow kids" older artists from the 00s like snoop and eminem
>>106519660I like 3-wheel small cars.But then again I refuse to preorder anything so I never contribute to this shit either
>>106521673Amerilards fall for this shit because they dont know 3 wheeled cars already exist (and are bad)
I purchased this recently for $2000. Was it a good decision? It was on sale, the best specs I could find for the price and form factor. It has a fit and finish approaching a modern MacBook (although a slightly thicker design, but not much) and it can run all muh games at ultra settings at 120 fps or above. More importantly, I think it'll be good for tinkering with LLMs and for productivity. I may dual boot Linux on it.Battery life is okay at around 6 real world hours on battery with minimal tweaking (using the integrated graphics only), and in performance mode it really does run quite well.I have a week to return it, though. Thoughts? Can I do better for the same price or less without sacrificing anything big? My other laptops include an old MBP and a ThinkPad x220.specs:3k 120hz OLED display with G-Sync (looks great in static images, does not particularly impress me in motion)AMD 9 HX 3705070 Ti (laptop), I think it's slightly underpowered to fit in such a small chassis, but I don't really know any better and it's still the most powerful GPU I've ever used, I think.good speakers, decent keyboard, overall just a nice build.
>>106521111>If it's a 100 or 200 series, they are more efficient than AMD for web browsing and watching videos.not even close, AMD gets within 95% of intel's top end performance at half the tdp>>106521281no does he have the same labtob?
>>106521345Nope, he has a thinkpad & some meme schizo laptop he recently ordered. Asked you that since you kind of write like him a lot.
>>106521367>some meme schizo laptop he recently orderedbe more specific
>>106521595>>106499256
>>106521637>Laptop (found it when searching for intel ME disabled options)>https://novacustom.com/product/v54-series/>v54 instead of v56>not realizing this is simply a clevo v560tu (or 54 shit variant) white labelthis is not an autism laptop, it is a common model from an odm with a badge on it and a 4x markup. there is another thread up on this very topic:>>106516088
Every website has this shit now
>>106521456I admit I am not entirely sure. All I know is I tried a script that would querySelector the checkbox every 50 ms and call the click() method and that didn't work, so they do something with the pointer to at least verify that it is actually above the checkmark when clicked.
>>106519583Just click on Original form and "Get captcha" that way. The quick reply will start working again then.
>>106521357>The tl;dr of it is that the anubis proof of work actually isn't that expensiveYou know that's configurable, right?The point of it isn't that it's expensive though, it's that keeps out the lowest common denominator. All those AI crawlers aren't solving this shit or if they are then it slows them down sufficiently enough to not bring your web server to its knees since they typically aren't using cookies and will therefore have to solve one challenge per HTTP request.
>>106521506I think that while most modern scrapers don't use javascript (therefore they cannot scrape the server), they do use cookie jars at least.
>>106521615I guess what I should have said is they typically don't have long-lived sessions so they're going to be solving new challenges all of the time.
Why don't linux systems protect themselves against malware?Security by obscurity is the dumbest shit ever.
i dont get it
>>106519428i dont get it
>>106509528>You're an idiot: and I'll kill you if I meet you:i liked you better when you were just going on and on about your casino game and Deuteronomy and little girls, Mikee
>>106515569>2013Kek, even freebsd implemented "le mitigations" since (see hardened freebsd), also linux distros as well.
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S26 edition>What phone has X and Y feature?Don't ask, use these!https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3https://www.kimovil.com/en/compare-smartphoneshttps://phonedb.net/index.php?m=device&s=queryGood Resources:>Reviewshttps://www.gsmarena.comhttps://www.phonearena.comhttps://www.notebookcheck.net>Frequency CheckersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
what's the point of ultra/flagship phones? mid range phones can do everything so what do you gain from spending 4-5 times more?
>>106521042>what's the point of ultra/flagship phonesCONSOOOOM
>>106521042Bigger screen
>>106519090>>106519187the only game i played on it was warcraft rumble, a shitty clash royale clone, not even graphics intensive, and i would feel it heating up in my hand, it would even slightly heat up just watching youtube videosit's a great phone specs wise, has the best phone speaker i've ever heard, but flagship/gaming phones are fucking TRASH now that I've experienced them, or maybe it's just ASUS (they make the smartphone for snapdragon insiders)>>106519119what phone do you use?
>>106513923Anyone?
>linux will never be this comfy again
>>106498769sovl >>106498791souless
>>106515383I still don understand why this even exists
>>106513379I've never seen a post more deserving of >cope
>>106498791fpbp
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I will never forgive kiwiNIGGERS for getting him to delete his online presenceI used to watch his daily dev update posts on mastodon, where he would post updates on Ares, Hare and his side projects (linux kernel clone, minecraft clone)It made me motivated to develop something myself too. Now the only motivation I get is watching Tsoding do half finished meme projects that last for one week at most.
he should delete his offline presence too
>>106521280This is literally a death treat
He tried to murder Dr Stallman, He got what he deserved.
>>106521253rundown please. His projects sound interesting.also>minecraft cloneminetest is a thing
>>106521324his death would be a treat, yes
Junior roles down 23%.Senior roles up 14%.Harvard tracked 285,000 firms. The math is brutal:Before AI: 1 senior + 3 juniors = 4 person teamAfter AI: 1 senior + Claude = same outputWe're creating a generation of experts with no apprentices. Masters with no students. Mentors with no one to mentor.Who trains the next generation when AI does all the junior work?But here's what made my stomach drop:It's not layoffs.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>106510167People really don’t understand how predictable these cycles are.>tech requires a fuck ton of capital, always>low rates result in expansion and thus, hiring >companies compete viciously during this boom>rising salaries mean inflation>inflation means rising interest rates>oh no Mr Goldbergstein, it’s getting expensive to borrow, we need to save money!>i know, let’s try <thing that saves money short term but ends up being a bad long term play> (off shoring, AI)>hey this is great we’re saving money!>unemployment goes up, inflation falls, interest rates start to fall>uhh Mr Goldbergstein, people hate our customer service and our product is riddled with bugs>well let’s hire back some people on shore >cycle begins anew
>>106511562It’s already a saturated market. A friend and I have looked into it.
>>106516924Me, the humble neet with my neetbux.
>>106510256>>oh no people crosspostfirst day on the site huh?
>>106515090btw if Trump renaming Ministry of Defense to Ministry of War, him threatening denmark to take Greenland, deploying troops to Venezuela etc etc doesn't give you a hint of any kind of last ditch effort to save the empire then you're vastly mistaken