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272 Name: mothership : 2026-04-07 11:43:34

reddit~ corporate trash algos, Bots, NPCs
facebook ~ corporate trash algos, bots, boomers and racists
twitter ~ algos, dipshits, morons, racists, grifters, bots
bluesky ~ NPCs and bots

4chan ~ bots, feds, jews, racists, blocked on school wifi (yes yes i know about VPNs)

altchans ~ less bots and jews, more feds, less users

discord ~ big servers are shit, small servers are dead mostly
telegram ~ large groups are full of bots, small groups dead
signal ~ bots, hard to find groups

matrix ~ csam
irc ~ pretentious weirdos
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304 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-13 02:16:51

I think you have a myopic view of IRC and alternative imageboards. There are plenty of cool imageboards that have their own culture and regular users. This also applies to IRC. The thing with "more feds" only applies to imageboards that host edgy or otherwise weird content, but not to all imageboards are like that, some are just comfy.

317 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-18 04:38:40

I think Nostr is worth looking into. It's a protocol that allows for a variety of clients, it's distributed and censorship resistant by design, and it actually has some users. There's some life on that network.
https://nostr.com/

321 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-18 12:04:26

>>317
>>304
I have a question. What do you think makes social media WORTH visiting / participating in even? For me as soon as there's a sign up its just like fuck this. I used to post on instagram, but now its like fuck it my friends arent there and even the ones that are there won't see it because of all the ads and memes they're subscribed to.

327 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-18 13:25:06

>>321
For Nostr, that's where Andrew Anglin is going to post publicly after he shut down the Daily Stormer. I'd like to know what's on his mind from time to time.
https://dailystormer.pw/
https://archive.ph/dKInI

329 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-18 13:48:18

>>327
I created the archive using an unholy combination of Common Lisp, Perl, and shell scripting:
https://archive.org/details/dailystormer
and other people with more hosting resources put it online in creative ways.
https://archive.stormer.kyun.li/
https://archive.stormer.kyun.li/putting-the-old-bitch-to-sleep/index.html
https://dailystormer.co/
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314 Name: progchan !05fbr-b_ : 2026-04-17 13:43:58

Programming. Vibing. Studying. Whatevers add it. This is what I'm liking right now:
>Street Fighter II Synthwave By Retro Kid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZhEWLywwVc

315 Name: progchan !05fbr-b_ : 2026-04-17 14:30:52

Retro Kid's Zelda Synthwave ain't bad either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9DDJJl-ibI

318 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-18 08:13:02

Since 2016, @Nakata7 on YouTube has been posting a French House mix at the end of the year.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyiEdwFNLHMl6ZyMIien6R07rgkHpqPCD
https://www.youtube.com/@nakata7_

328 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-18 13:34:17

>>318
This is what I actually listen to daily on repeat when I'm trying to focus. It's not distracting, and it has a curious side-effect.
https://gofile.io/d/34Ifnb
https://hemi-sync.com/product/higher-album/
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222 Name: Anonymous : 2026-03-15 10:39:45

https://monkeytype.com/
I cap out at 95. It's really the PO and Q buttons that get me. I just got fucking TINY PINKIES man.
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270 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-05 20:01:00

123 WPM normies fear me

271 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-06 02:32:46

>>270
those kinds of speeds are insane to me. i don't even think in 100 words per minute.

320 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-18 08:50:44

>>222
I got 76wpm with 95% accuracy on my first try.

322 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-18 12:42:16

Does typing speed translate into programming speed? Now days we have all this auto completion and ai shit in general. Can you guys program as fast as you type?

326 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-18 13:21:05

>>322
Typing speed doesn't matter too much. A lot of the time spent programming is thinking about the problem. That takes far more time than anything else. Typing speed is inconsequential in comparison.
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323 Name: progchan !05fbr-b_ : 2026-04-18 12:52:20

You never know when a good algorithm will come in handy, so its probably a good idea to start collecting them. Any Algorithm. Any language.

324 Name: progchan !05fbr-b_ : 2026-04-18 12:53:22

>Python Union Find
def findGroups(isConnected: List[List[int]]) -> int:
    count = len(isConnected)
    parent = list(range(count))
    rank = [1] * count
    def find(i):
        if parent[i] != i:
            parent[i] = find(parent[i])
        return parent[i]
    def union(i,j):
        nonlocal count
        pi = find(i)
        pj = find(j)
        if pi == pj:
            return
        count -= 1
        if rank[pi] > rank[pj]:
            parent[pj] = pi
            rank[pi] += rank[pj]
        else:
            parent[pi] = pj
            rank[pj] += rank[pi]
    for i in range(n):
        for j in range(n):
            if isConnected[i][j]:
                union(i,j)
    return count

325 Name: progchan !05fbr-b_ : 2026-04-18 13:17:06

>Python Shoelace
def polygon_area(points: List[List[int]]) -> int:
    n = len(points)
    area = 0
    for i in range(n):
        x1, y1 = points[i]
        x2, y2 = points[(i + 1) % n]  # wrap around
        area += x1 * y2 - x2 * y1
    return abs(area) / 2
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212 Name: Anonymous : 2026-03-11 20:04:55

Making something? Lemme see!
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253 Name: Anonymous : 2026-03-21 00:54:02

ooo ED was a good one. old internets has some cool wikis. hmm its pretty easy to throw up a static anonymous site on neocities or whatever and you can just ask ai to generate wiki style pages from your text, but ya doing a whole form and editable wiki even if you use open source and ai is sort of a pain to maintain. but having even a static anonymous site is nice for getting feedback on junk.

306 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-13 02:30:05

>ask ai to generate wiki style pages from your text,
```bash
for f in files/*.md; do
pandoc $f -f markdown -t html -o "html/$(basename .$f .md).html"
done
```
It's as easy as that in principle, you can add making an index with a 4 lines of awk too. Copy the resources into html with another line. Static site generators and CMS are a scam.

308 Name: mothership : 2026-04-13 10:19:12

right now im building a newwork monitor with an esp32 and an i2c LCD display. written in micropython.

would work but a lot of libraries for python dont woek with micropython.

i wanna do a plant/garden monitoring project using an esp32 and an old raspi. hoping to collect temp, light, soil mosture, etc. would like to work on automated watering and lighting.

might use the pi to do some basic timelapse photos and provide live cam footage, maybe see if i can set up some computer vision libraries to detect plant health and age.

312 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-14 22:07:00

>>306
pandoc is based. pretty much just works for any conversion.
>>308
esp32 is underrated. you can plug those things into any hardware project for dollars. im absolutely retarded at using any hardware to interface with that shit though like servos were just impossible for me to get right. how are you watering it?

319 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-18 08:16:08

Pandoc is useful. I recently wrote a little utility function in Common Lisp that wraps it.
(defun pandoc (input &key (from "html") (to "plain"))
  "Convert `input' string using pandoc.
The default is to convert from html to plain(text)."
  (with-input-from-string (s input)
    (uiop:run-program (format nil "pandoc -f ~a -t ~a" from to) :input s :output :string)))
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189 Name: Anonymous : 2026-03-05 14:40:10

What's the best language and why is it Python?
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239 Name: Anonymous : 2026-03-18 16:38:26

Emacs Lisp is fun. It's gotten a lot faster over the years, too, thanks to native compilation.

243 Name: Anonymous : 2026-03-18 18:06:25

emacs lisp is pretty nice. but its also a thousand times better than vimscript.

244 Name: Anonymous : 2026-03-19 09:34:58

I only do a little python.
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305 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-13 02:25:09

>>239
Also if you compile GCC and Emacs both with JIT support it gets even faster. Gentoo has a useflag for both, but if you really want to, it should work elsewhere too.

316 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-18 04:27:58

>>305
I compiled my Emacs with all the native compilation features enabled. It makes a huge difference.
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295 Name: progchan !Hbv-BZDL : 2026-04-10 14:06:59

, -──-、
/ リハ ヽ
| |(0  0)| < I'm on Mint
| |  ヮノ|
W   W
I went from ubuntu to mint. But it's probably time to switch again. I'm not gonna lie DHH's Omarchy is looking pretty nice right now.
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307 Name: mothership : 2026-04-13 10:15:35

tbh my next experiance on linux has been ubuntu. unpopular opinion but i dont mind gnome.

ive tried mint but idk their cinnimon DE makes the whole thing look like a cartoon to me, could never use it for more than a few days.

309 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-13 13:49:27

I've been using Arch for a little over a decade now. I'm unsure if I'll switch to Artix or got the Gentoo/LFS route with knee bending that has happened to systemd. My DE is just cinnamon, I have used DWM in the past, but it wasn't really for me, but I do use ST as my main terminal emulator.

310 Name: mothership : 2026-04-14 09:35:18

>>309
knee-bending?

311 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-14 15:14:23

>>310
Bending the knee(kneeling before an authority and/or opinion) to comply with recent law changes in the USA that will "require" all computer users to verify their age with the OS they are using. It was sad to see how quickly devs that contribute to FOSS were quick to comply with an invasive law.

313 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-14 22:09:44

fuck me I forgot about that whole thing. its absolutely retarded. we already have it across every site. why would adding it to the os even matter? I literally can't tell if its a global conspiracy or if the world keeps getting a little more retarded each day.
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264 Name: Dr. L. Uddite : 2026-03-31 23:46:06

So, i'm a firm believer in ai and llms. i legit think they can automate npc behavior and make the human condition less miserable with stupid pointless timesinks like "jobs" and "work"

But i swear talking to other ai engs has made me hate that even in a niche highly specialized field we get absolute fucking morons who don't understand the first fucking thing about any of these principles or architypes or algos and just think "WOW I CAN TELEGRAM MY AI HOW AMAZING"

When i go to a tech party, i know i'm going to get some students bootlicking me for advice and some indians looking to get me to whitewash their shit, but to hear over and over people talking about the most retarded concepts it's just torture.
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269 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-05 07:35:04

up where

274 Name: mothership : 2026-04-07 12:32:54

i dont think AI will ever go away, per se. its obviously a disruptive technology and represents a paradigm shift.

the ultimate goal would be to use AI to advance the human race and to make life better, and automate the dangerous or stupid or mindnumbing shit away.

would be nice if the disruption caused by AI would help the cause of UBI....

unfortnately for the meantime, it will be used to try to replace humans so that corpos can save money on payroll.

but what AI will look like in 5-10 years will be very different from this silicon valley investor slop shit AI bubble.

i think AI will have its applications and killer apps in the future, but once the AI bubble pops and investor generated hype dies down, it wont be stuffed into everthing like they are tryna do now.

AI being so compute and therefore energy heavy will be its downfall, and i hope that dumbfuck trumpo's Iran war will be the first domino to fall to burst the AI bubble.

i currently wish the capitalists, investors, big tech morons, hardwre scapers and AI glazers a very die.

275 Name: mothership : 2026-04-07 13:34:00

i forgot to include this,

does anyone regard AI engineers seriously? like do they think this market will last 5+ years?

thats like being a metaverse engineer, literally a meme-tier job based on a silicon valley fad.

is anyone going to take an AI engineer when a ToS or service update could compleately make your job impossible to do, irrelevant or obsolete?

sounds like bullshit

277 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-07 14:16:19

I think you're mostly correct. People are just switching from Google Search to AI Asking. The hilarious thing though is even though these models take tons of power to create the distilled models are pretty free and easy to run even locally. So ya if ChatGPT fails to overtake Google in market share its over for them.

Programming in the current year is insane. It's both way easier and way harder. You look at software like the huge fucking mess claude code (BY THE PEOPLE THAT ARE INVENTING VIBE CODING) and you have to wonder: what the fuck are programmers going to be like in a few years? Cars, airplanes, building engineering software, ext. If stuff that actually matters ends up being slop generated by the same type of people that did claude code then were all in trouble.

302 Name: Dr. L. Uddite : 2026-04-12 17:14:18

the new gemma models are fucking insane ngl. great leap forward.
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293 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-10 09:26:13

This year our manager switched our team to windows for dev. Every god damn day I have to boot up microslop wait 5 fucking minutes for it to connect to its ads network to download ads to your startmenu then I have to wait another 5 minutes for visual studio to boot. The entire ecosystem is utter garbage. On top of that I have to use IIS and MSSQL for some reason now. And teams... fuck I hate teams. There's literally not one redeeming thing about the entire OS.

294 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-10 09:27:38

actually one of the biggest ones is I can't use fucking terminal to do anything. its truly an operating system for complete idiots.
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292 Name: Anonymous : 2026-04-10 07:55:32

what do you read or watch? hn has become such trash. primagen is based sometimes. mostly when he shits on microsoft.
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