sirs, is the free gravy train over?
>>108530319nice concession tho
>NOOOOOO!!!! I NEED TO DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT TO CREATE MY AI SLOPS!!! I WAS A REAL ARTIST ONCE!!!!!!!lmao the fallout over this will be insane
I used Google's Gemini yesterday, the boring gemini.google.com; I was able to create an incredibly tool chain I will be able to re-use for a long time, in less than 10 minutes & all for free. I have a feeling some people shouldn't waste their time with ``AI'' It did say right as we finished the hard parts that I had ran out of ``thinking'' time, but the ``fast'' brained Gemini was still there to celebrate and crack some jokes with me. I also have a stored history of previous cooperation saved, all for free, that I can go back to at any time. Gemini even references relevant sessions which feels new and really makes getting stuff done feel rewarding and meaningful. Would I ever pay for the service? Hard to say, because I am destitute and dying, but I like to think I would if I could afford it.
>>108531563I feel like searching through massive logs is one of the best uses for AI if you can get it to write a quick script to parse out the benign information to stop burning 100 million tokens. But for your situation I say burn away.Shitty world we live in eh?
>>108531312>We just need to solve the Halting Problem, then we can implement our pricing model!R-right. Okay. You do you. Lemme know how that works out.
https://torrentfreak.com/game-pirates-beat-denuvo-with-hypervisor-bypasses-irdeto-promises-countermeasure/Every single game with Denuvo has been bypassed Bypass is available for all denuvo games on day 0Irdeto is seething hard and saying more invasive DRM is coming. I'm guessing they will demand kernel level access in later versions of Denuvo.Will Microsoft allow them that?
>>108527423the midwit attacks from a position of safety
LOL, I decided to check what this unsafe prep was needed and turns out I already have this crap disable for 9+ years on my machine. I even have defender nuked to oblivion. You have to be retarded to get a virus with how walled and sandboxed most stuff is nowadays.A tip is to not run anything as admin if you are not 100% sure what it is, use procexp/procmon/autoruns to check what is running, never let anything auto-update (notepad++ incident) and use a firewall to block everything by default.
>>108533245look up how much game publishers pay for denuvo. spending a few thousand on scaremongering online to get some redditors to not use cracks is well worth it
>>108533381It feels too good to be true, to be able to play whatever comes out day one. Maybe Irdeto is unable to respond with a new version and shilling is their only cope.
>>108531544>>108532273skidrowreloaded is one of the safest and most trustworthy sites for cracked games, and they've been around for 12 years.Ofc Fitgirl, DODI, RIN and GOG-Games are safer and more trustworthy, but SKR isn't bad.Some people claim SKR are untrustworthy because there's been a couple of times (in these 12 years) when they uploaded game files infected with malware, but it was more likely a fuckup on their part rather than bad faith, considering the amount of games they upload daily. Their scene releases are completely safe since they're untouched, what might pose a risk are the P2P releases. I always upload the .exe and .dll files to virustotal before running P2P releases from skr.>>108532289>Moreover, bootkits still exist today despite all modern precautions, and they survive by exploiting vulnerabilities in signed drivers or even motherboard firmware, rather than hoping a user has disabled system parameters that everyone has lived with for the last 20 years.Very sane and reasonable take.The only thing they got wrong, is that most of the features that require disabling actually only appeared in W10, and some in W11.
>/g/ makes a 19th albumTheme: Intelligent Drum And BassListening party: Sat. 4th of April, 20:00 UTChttps://dmpproductions.org/party/>/g/ makes a 20th albumTheme: Movie scoreDeadline: Sun. 7th of June>Song submission rules/guidelinesUpload the file somewhere, preferably in a lossless format, and post the link here. If you want to update your track, make a new post.Include the song title in the post, and make it clear that your song is a submission for the album.You must include a screenshot of your DAW - this is to verify the track is not AI-generated.Optionally you may include cover art for your track, but please confirm that the image in your post is the cover art or it won't be included.You may also add a pseudonym to be included in the track metadata, but it must not be one you already use on music platforms.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>108531206https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0kg80jAtI8
https://vocaroo.com/142pk9Dhfh9i
>>108530443I'm thinking of doing remixes of actual film scoresI'll make sure to pick songs that already have remixes on YT so they're unlikely to get taken down
arab remix https://voca.ro/1ewWjq7si3A6
We should film a video like this for the next albumhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11EXf19fW0
From https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/03/senators-ask-tulsi-gabbard-to-tell-americans-that-vpn-use-might-subject-them-to-domestic-surveillance/>Senators Ask Tulsi Gabbard To Tell Americans That VPN Use Might Subject Them To Domestic Surveillance>In a letter sent Thursday to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the lawmakers say that because VPNs obscure a user’s true location, and because intelligence agencies presume that communications of unknown origin are foreign, Americans may be inadvertently waiving the privacy protections they’re entitled to under the law.>Several federal agencies, including the FBI, the National Security Agency, and the Federal Trade Commission, have recommended that consumers use VPNs to protect their privacy. But following that advice may inadvertently cost Americans the very protections they’re seeking.>VPNs might protect you against garden-variety criminals, but the intentional commingling of origin/destination points by VPNs could turn purely domestic communications into “foreign” communications the NSA can legally intercept (and the FBI, somewhat less-legally can dip into at will).>That’s the substance of the letter sent to Gabbard, in which the legislators ask the DNI to issue public guidance on VPN usage that makes it clear that doing so might subject users to (somewhat inadvertent) domestic surveillanceWho knows for how long they've been collecting your data "accidentally".Land of the free? Weren't you guys laughing at China? Kek
>>108528164
>>108527961oh, so if i use a vpn with and endpoint outside the US they're probably spying on it? is that surprising? so, they're probably spying on all non-US traffic. i don't like it, but it's not like things are any better for Americans. it's been less than a month since they admitted they're mass buying tracking data on Americans. they're spying on everyone. this is just FUD to stop vpn use.
>>108532475Did you read and read the text of the article?
>>108527961Americans are more surveilled than China. The weird part is Machiavellian freakshows using surveillance with your likes and dislikes trying to micromanage your life and annoy the fuck out of you
>>108533898nah. the chinese just don't talk about things like this. they were focused on building surveillance infrastructure years before the US. you're a retard if you think China isn't just as bad. nowhere is safe from this shit.
Is he right, bros? Is the AI bubble going to pop and lead to the end of the tech industry as we know it?
>>108532738AI isnt making any money, for anyone.it will only exist running at a loss for organizations who dant care about losing money : governments.
>>108532943I don't get LLM from him at all. Grifter maybe, but he does seem pretty convicted of his views on all of this.Main thing I agree with him on is being very interested in seeing OpenAI and Anthropic try and go public, and have to show just how much money this shit loses.Also the general idea of venture capital and 'make unsustainably free/cheap service to get users and investors, grow off that, make the service worse once established' being a business model that could and should die off.
>>108532738There’s no bubble tranny. AI IS REPLACING TECH WORKERS AND ARTISTS IN MASSE.COPE, YOU LOST
>>108532738>AI companies are going to go bankrupt, so people won't need to use computers anymorewat
he's right in the sense that this shit is deeply unprofitable to run at scale. he's wrong in the sense that LLMs are entirely useless. his narrative has even shifted from "they don't do anything" to "they have _SOME_ limited use". go back to his earlier content and compare it to now, you'll see this.what i personally cannot wait for is the inevitable corpo rug pull anthropic and openai will perform when they are forced to raise rates on tokens.when that happens, you are gonna start seeing companies cut AI capex because all of a sudden, their pre-subsidized AI budgets are gonna get BTFO by the price increases and rate limits.when that happens, all of these vibe coder idiots who used this shit as a crutch to do their jobs are going to be left flailing. i am already seeing this play out with coworkers who are shit-tier programmers. right now, they are able to simply switch models in copilot when they get fucked by claude being slow. but once that option gets removed they're going to be like men dying of thirst in the desert trying to get that one last sip of the AI water.only this time, it's not water: it's Altman's piss.
Best PDF Viewer that is not Microsoft Edge?
>>108532098xpdf
>>108532103>2026>still can't fill out formsUtter garbage.https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/discussions/2386
>>108533741never encountered a pdf formpdf is read only and thats it.open it in libreoffice if you want to edit it.
>>108532098Adobe Acrobat Reader
I have been happy with mupdf, but it probably doesn't fit most non-trivial use cases, like...>>108533821>never encountered a pdf formGovernment agencies have been pushing that hard.It's an inconsistent mess I wouldn't trust for as much as organizing a birthday party, but I guess that tells you more about governments these days than about pdf.
Fox editionPrevious: >>108456697>Keyboard recommendation template:https://pastebin.com/n220xk9V>Find vendorshttps://www.alexotos.com/keyboard-vendor-list // Up-to-date list of reputable vendors with brief descriptionshttps://keycaplendar.firebaseapp.com // Tracker for current and upcoming keycap group buys>This keyboard stuff is so expensive!https://aliexpress.com (or Taobao if you know how)>Learn about MX-type switches ("mechanical keyboard switches")Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>108528502gateron reds
>>108530182File them down a tiny bit?
>>108493291Keyboard recommendation>Budget: Up to $300.>Location: Europe, but I'm ready to order from the US and have it shipped here through a forwarder.>Switches: I have no idea. I know jack shit about keyboards and mechanical keyboards. But my use cases for the keyboard are coding, typing text, using shortcuts in programs. I don't want the keyboard to be some kind of noisy thing. I do want it to feel pleasant to type and to press the keys, whatever that means. Feel free to suggest switches or types of them. I think ideally I would prefer to buy everything in one package without buying something separately.>Layout: ANSI or ISO, it doesn't matter. I guess I prefer ANSI, but I don't know.>Form factor: 75%. In general I want something without the numpad, but with arrows and with Home/PageUp/PageDown/End buttons, or close to it. I kinda want my hands to be roughly centered on the keyboard. Feel free to suggest other sizes if you think they're better for this.>Backlight: I don't care.>Current keyboard: My current keyboard is a membrane keyboard with a layout that is like ANSI, except that the Enter key is L-shaped in exactly the same orientation as the letter L (i.e. it's not like on ISO where it's an upside down L), and the key that is above the Enter key on ANSI is instead placed to the left of backspace, which takes only one key. I do not necessarily want this layout, it seems to be non-standard.
>>108530834Epomaker makes nice hardware (even when they aren't trying to pass off Skyloong keyboards as their own, Skyloong makes fabulous keyboards) but has horrible software
Very interesting find, Skyloong GK68 Mix has a PCB cross-compatible with both hall effect switches and normal MX switches, and has a socket for a knob module in the upper-right that can still have a switch of either type put in it instead
Can you use generic toner/ink in brother printers?
>>108528858You can, until you have to replace the drum unit 6 months later
>>108533345what are you, a public library? a $40 drum lasts me 11,000 pages.
>>108533402>what are you, a public library?insurance agent
>>108533451Then you deserve every ounce of suffering the world can heap upon ye. Insurance is just Finance with a pocket protector.
>>108533836It isn't suffering bro I just charge the customer for it
Why were the 2013 Xbox One and PlayStation 4 equipped with 8 Jaguar CPU cores? To my understanding, most consumer PCs back then only had 2-4. Of course those Jaguar cores were basically Atom-tier in terms of performance (since they were designed for tablets/cheap laptops) but I'd imagine developers weren't exactly used to making multithreaded games at that point in time.
>>108533071because they were designed shortly after the 2008 recession and costs had to be kept as low as possible
Teto Server
>>108533071whore>>108533143whore>>108533708whore
>>108533752we teto countryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLtmkEPo0Pc
>>108533071Because AMD were the only company capable of providing at least usable CPU cores on the same die as an actually performant GPU. Even now they're basically unmatched in that department which is why the Xbox Series, PS5 and all those funny handheld game PCs still use them. The Jaguar cores are simply a consequence of wanting to keep power and/or cost down and AMD not having Zen cores ready at the time.
Are you ready to embrace Resolute Racoon? Release set for April 23, Beta out now.>7.0 kernel>GNOME 50>New document reader, Evince replaced by Papers (built in Rust)>New image viewer, Eye of GNOME replaced by Loupe (built in Rust)https://documentation.ubuntu.com/release-notes/26.04/summary-for-lts-users/I know at least one of you will make a certain post, and I'm betting with myself how many replies it'll take before it arrives.
>>108533110Mint nonsense?
>>108533186they are in a mess with gtk 4 and libadwaita. everything is inconsistent
>>108520929the aesthetic is easy to copyjust use the ubuntu mono font and that other compacted one they use these days. also, yaru icons. change some colours in the terminal, and that's it. also, use that gnome extension that does the sidebar shtick.
>>108529021Damn... this is genuinely sad.
>>108526168>fedora workstationlast time I tried it the font rendering was so atrocious that I almost removed my own eyes
How dependent are you on the cloud? Does anybody do local backups any more?
>>108516054this has been deboonked(no you may not see it)
>>108526560If you download any file via a VPN, they can always see
>>108526560Because unless youre using tor, the VPN company will report you for anything related to terrorism or csam. They dont care about piracy or torrenting
>>108526576Based
>>108507977The only "cloud" i use is backblaze for making encrypted backups using restic.It's not the main backup but a secondary one in case i really get unlucky.
Post your desks.
>>108525564Where did the Israel hat go?
>>108533494>it just moves the pivot point to the edge of the plank. ie there's no valueIt spreads it along the edge of the plank instead of only the clamp itself. >>108533507If I had a corner desk I'd bring it with me, but it's just way too deep.
>>108529126Don't do it all at once, do a little every day. Eventually you'll get there.
Here is mine.Got a new decoration.if you are wondering about 2nd mouse on desk, ive got another pc under the table, it uses same monitors, other kb is under the table.I also would like an CRT but would struggle to find spot for it>>108525771comfy, but man needs a 2nd monitor.>>108528555now thats an workshop>>108533533alienware?
>>108533767>alienware?yessir
>for i from 0 to 10If your favorite language doesn't read like plain English like this, it's dogshit.
for and while loops are for children programming languages, I make my loops with gotos
>>108530108>for i from 0 to 10Show me 3 non-autistic people who ever said that.
>>108530177>If your language is slow it's dogshit. Computers exist for efficiency.Normal for loops are more efficient and easier to optimize than C-style loops.
>>108530177anon it's 2026 and you still don't understand that the code the computer reads is irrelevant to what you read?
>>108530108for i in 0..10 is much better.or even better (0..10).map().collect()
>most of the desktop's development comes from Ubuntu MATE>already on life support, Ubuntu MATE is several versions behind and it's not getting a 26.04 LTS>lead maintainer steps down after over a decadeguys is MATE kill?
>>108532965>themes were all mehyou now you can install old gnome 2 themes, right? i installed freebsd with mate on old x220 and it's pretty comfy with old bluecurve strawberry theme. use it while it lasts.
I don’t think Mate has had a good reason of being since it ported to GTK3 (which they had to do).Originally, when it wasn’t certain Cinnamon would succeed implementing GNOME 2 features in a GNOME 3 fork, it made sense, but both Cinnamon and Mate have more or less the same goals and use the same technology.They should have started collaborating a long time ago (do we need Caja AND Nemo? Xed AND Pluma? and so on) like RazorQt and LXDE did.
>>108533646the point being that most of development is coming from ubuntu maintainers? dunno their github still has activity and to be fair what could you possibly add to the environment? i don't think anyone expects there to be new stuff added so you might as well just use debian.
>>108533372>and sells>just sells>steals you>divorsedyou are an retard
>>108532776Works just fine for me on Arch.>>108533061It's more plug-and-play than Xfce, but Xfce is also cooler if you take the time to configure it. I think mine looks just fine, though. Cinnamon just sucks.>>108533372>But it's on a heavy side, perhaps one of the top heaviest DEsAlso this.>>108533542Why would you run a lightweight DE on Ubuntu? That's not exactly a light OS. Come to Arch, the water's great. It's as easy as Ubuntu once you know which packages to install and why.>>108533635I can't speak for that anon, but I wouldn't on a daily driver just because outdated packages.
Is it to study, an engineering for the completed DMA transfers before initialise a ring buffer? Would it be reclaimable if after the memory is freed, or would you even need to? IS it backwards compatible anyway?
Why are there like eight threads of nonsense shit like this
