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Anonymous 01/09/2024 (Tue) 23:32:41 No. 354 [Reply]

Can you guys browse textboard.org? I got perma IP banned from the site because I wrote a spamming bot shell script and bumped half of the threads on the site I feel guilty now

later the admin restored everything Have you ever done something wrong on the internet hikari?

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Anonymous 01/10/2024 (Wed) 11:01:20 No. 355

when I was a psychopathic 12 year old I spammed gore images on a porn forum. I used to frequent jihadi forums and other extremist websites to get my kicks. I was one evil little shit.

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Anonymous 01/10/2024 (Wed) 14:24:55 No. 356

>>354 i tried to connect trough mobile data, workplace/college internet, the guy ip banned my entire country i think

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Anonymous 01/10/2024 (Wed) 22:11:08 No. 357

>>354 >Can you guys browse textboard.org? It's not working for me as well

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Anonymous 01/10/2024 (Wed) 23:22:45 No. 358

>>354 confirming also it seems to not be up.

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Anonymous 01/14/2024 (Sun) 20:31:38 No. 360

does anyone know what happened to textboard.lol? I know the site was infested with underage memefrens by the latter half of its life but I was hoping to get back on to lurk older threads when I found out it didn't exist anymore also the first (and so far only) time I've been perma ip banned from anything was when I got auth on a cube 2 sauerbraten server and kicked a random guy on the server because I wanted the place to myself. after the server owner banned me for that I uninstalled and then reinstalled the game to see if that would unban me and it did absolutely nothing

Making the computer *yours* Anonymous 01/12/2024 (Fri) 04:54:10 No. 359 [Reply]

People tend towards ricing their desktops, but this is really just visual stuff. What kind of touches do you have to make the computer an extension of yourself rather than collections of other peoples software? I personally set the login PAM auth settings to have rootok as sufficient. getty logins run from uid 1 so you don't have to put in a password. Unprivileged users (including ssh) can't login without the rest of the authentication modules. Having a file that gets printed whenever a shell starts as a motd is pretty useful too.

Anonymous 11/24/2023 (Fri) 21:36:59 No. 300 [Reply]

How do I use computers?

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Anonymous 12/07/2023 (Thu) 10:54:56 No. 314

phones are addicting, i prefer comfy computers (but I have no choice other than using the smartōphone

>>300 it's not hard!! just expose yourself to new things in computer... try programming, installing other OSes, messing with the bios... go on, explore the world!!

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Anonymous 12/08/2023 (Fri) 15:05:29 No. 315

C and Unix are the bread and butter of computing. Install a Linux or Unix operating system in Virtualbox, preferably a Debian disto (Linux Mint is a good choice) or FreeBSD (GhostBSD is good for absolute beginners). Don't jump into something like Gentoo, OpenBSD or Arch too soon. Then go through this book: https://www.linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php Just make sure you have a copy of your OS' manual as a handy reference. Once you've done that, pick the Scheme dialect of Lisp or C. Scheme is easier to learn and will teach you a lot about computing whereas C is hard but used in literally everything and you will have to learn it at some point. Which you do first is up to you. Lisp is a great choice for any beginner. For Scheme, go with Simply Scheme and then move on to SICP if you want to https://archive.org/details/SimplyScheme SICP https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/books_pres_0/6515/sicp.zip/index.html For C, just use the King book https://archive.org/details/c-programming-a-modern-approach-2nd-ed-c-89-c-99-king-by

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Anonymous 12/09/2023 (Sat) 00:22:25 No. 316

>>300

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Anonymous 12/13/2023 (Wed) 05:35:38 No. 323

Your fortune: Very Bad Luck

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Anonymous 12/14/2023 (Thu) 05:15:37 No. 324

>>316 i am a proud practitioner of COMPUTER

help Anonymous 07/10/2023 (Mon) 13:06:40 No. 30 [Reply]

I have a harddrive/disk and I want to extract family picturs traped inside. I broke the pc by moving the cable inside the computer now it's broken and that's all I have. I am a tech illetrate I don't even know if it's doable. can someone help me? the pics are very important

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Anonymous 07/23/2023 (Sun) 18:15:29 No. 70

>I broke the pc by moving the cable inside the computer you sure that it's broken? anyway yeah just like poster number 36 said buy a USB adapter for hard drives and plug it to any working machine if you use windows it will appear as a disk F or something i don't know how alphabet works in microsoft but it should be easy and straightforward >>36

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Anonymous 08/27/2023 (Sun) 13:24:25 No. 154

here are the ports needed but I don't know what it refers too which cables? and their names

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Anonymous 08/27/2023 (Sun) 20:54:26 No. 155

>>154 On the right is SATA. On the left is Molex.

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Anonymous 08/30/2023 (Wed) 12:47:59 No. 161

>>155 and what the other end of the cables must be? usb?

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Anonymous 11/21/2023 (Tue) 07:30:20 No. 290

>>161 yup

Where do you discuss programming online? Anonymous 10/26/2023 (Thu) 22:00:01 No. 240 [Reply]

I just don't know what places are good anymore...

I used to be a regular on 4chan/g/ several years ago, but it's gone to shit so much that even I can't take it anymore and I haven't been able to figure out where else to discuss tech/programming online. Do you have any places where you go regularly? The only one that I use other than random subreddits for whichever topic is hackernews, but that place is just no fun at all

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Anonymous 10/26/2023 (Thu) 23:47:20 No. 241

Idk, I can barely find any good places to discuss anything anymore

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Anonymous 10/27/2023 (Fri) 00:16:17 No. 242

>>240 >Where do you discuss programming online? textboard.org lainchan.org are pretty ok

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Anonymous 11/18/2023 (Sat) 15:18:04 No. 280

>>240 Mostly lainchan and sleepychan /t/ for me. I think the alternative is joining some dicksword server, reddit, lobste.rs, or hackernews, but I'd rather swallow a whole load of salt water than do that.

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Anonymous 11/20/2023 (Mon) 10:29:37 No. 285

>>240 LainChan is too humourless.

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Anonymous 11/20/2023 (Mon) 17:55:31 No. 286

>>285 and slow

Anonymous 07/07/2023 (Fri) 08:16:18 No. 2 [Reply]

What kind of projects are you working/worked on /t/? Or if you're not working on something, do you have any ideas you'd like to work on? Share your progress or showcase your works

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Anonymous 08/20/2023 (Sun) 03:13:49 No. 118

Currently working on a mobile phone gacha game because money. (not some extreme capitalist, just need monetary support for my future projects)

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Anonymous 09/27/2023 (Wed) 17:43:35 No. 211

>>2 Fire emblem style strategy game in zig, using SDL and opengles 2 I only started last week dont ask for screenshots

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Anonymous 11/02/2023 (Thu) 03:55:20 No. 255

>>5 I wish I had seen this sooner

I had no idea what to do so this helps a lot, thanks!

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Anonymous 11/11/2023 (Sat) 19:54:09 No. 274

Been inspired by Cyberpunk 2077. Maybe some type of metroidvania + cyberpunk style

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Anonymous 11/12/2023 (Sun) 02:33:06 No. 275

starting my first project probably gonna be some kind of minimal text editor, with simple save and search feature in python; nothing too interesting but I want to make something to learn to code with. >>274 much more creative idea than me, what software are you going to use?

Anonymous 07/09/2023 (Sun) 21:53:10 No. 22 [Reply]

What was your first computer? First OS you used? Do you still have it? Mine was a shitty iMac G4, but I got some DELL running Windows XP shortly after

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Anonymous 07/09/2023 (Sun) 23:38:39 No. 25

>>24 I have a similar one that's also a Toshiba, not a Satellite though. It's a bit bigger but it's from around the same time.

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Anonymous 08/20/2023 (Sun) 03:22:11 No. 120

The first computer I had to myself was an upper-low-end custom-built my stepdad made for me. I don't know much about it except how it ran Windows 7 (or maybe 8.x at some point) and we upgraded it to Windows 10 in 2016.

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Anonymous 09/27/2023 (Wed) 17:59:21 No. 216

>>24 I had a similar laptop from the same age which also came with vista I had it stored in a box. but my mom decided to throw it away because when she is bored she needs to come up with something to clean

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Anonymous 10/14/2023 (Sat) 15:30:21 No. 226

The family PC was a beige computer running Windows XP. Parents say it was a Compaq Presario (likely picrel). Then around 2005 maybe we upgraded to what looked like a Dell Dimension 3000. We had it for years. Sometime down the road the family installed Windows Vista, I can't remember if it was on the same Dell or if we had another new computer at that point but we switched to Windows 7 around 2010. I probably remember the Dell so vividly because we had it for so long. I only remember that Compaq Presario as "the beige computer" since it was so long ago in my formative years.

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Anonymous 10/19/2023 (Thu) 05:21:05 No. 229

>>226 I love the shape of these kinds of PC's...

Anonymous 07/13/2023 (Thu) 03:58:01 No. 38 [Reply]

How much math is actually required when programming?

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Anonymous 09/21/2023 (Thu) 14:43:12 No. 198

>>38 It's literally all algebra so if you're a low IQ loser who wasn't able to finish year 12 levels maths you're not going to be able to do it. You'll end up as some midwit who can only copy other people's shit in Python or C#

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omniscientOverlady##lQz+TI 09/21/2023 (Thu) 20:00:42 No. 204

>>80

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Anonymous 09/27/2023 (Wed) 17:51:59 No. 214

>>38 understanding basic geometry in 2D and in 3D, (for example, equations of lines, linear interpolations between points) is very helpful if you are dealing with graphics or even just bare gui layouts For everything else, the way math works is that once someone has figured something out you can just copy the solution. It's highly unlikely that you ever get to work on something inovative so its quite useless. It's still a good idea to understand these things tough If I say that your algorithm takes quadratic time, you should immediately know what that means and why otherwise you will look like a dunce

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Anonymous 10/04/2023 (Wed) 08:13:26 No. 222

The amount of math you need will vary depending on what "genre" of programming you're working in. Web development might not need more than basic arithmetic, but you should explore languages that specialize in scientific computation to see another world of computing. https://julialang.org/community/organizations/

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Anonymous 10/04/2023 (Wed) 11:09:56 No. 223

Not a lot and for those areas where it is necessary you can learn it then since it's usually just a sub-part of what you'd get taught in school. (like matrices and calculus for 3D graphics or understanding the modular multiplicative inverse for RSA crypto) It's usually the theoretical college parts for academics that focus on the mathematics.

Anonymous 07/22/2023 (Sat) 00:58:19 No. 57 [Reply]

What's the best client for torrenting? I've used things like qbittorrent before but I want to know if there's something better.

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Anonymous 07/22/2023 (Sat) 15:12:17 No. 58

I think qBitTorrent is fine just continue using that

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Anonymous 07/23/2023 (Sun) 10:19:17 No. 59

Qbittorent is just a front-end for libtorrent and libtorrent is pretty much the best one out there in terms of performance. Qbittorent is a bit laggy though especially when you seed hundreds of torrents so i use rutorrent and run it as a daemon but it's pretty much the same thing so don't bother if you don't have a seedbox. But yeah what defines "the best" torrent client? the elitists from private trackers agreed that the best one is libtorrent and it's frontends ages ago nothing new came out besides maybe transmission but it's kinda duct taped together in a hurry btpd is pretty good if you are autistic and minimalistic

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Anonymous 07/23/2023 (Sun) 18:56:23 No. 72

>But yeah what defines "the best" torrent client? i just want something scriptable tbh i have a homeserver and i want to leave it seeding and feeding all day, and i dont have any graphical engine installed on it, nor do i want to manually ssh into it every time i wanna add a new torrent also another good question is how tf do i even keep my torrent directory organized cant even move stuff around or rename it smh this is why i want script capabilities so i can keep things easy to find

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Anonymous 07/24/2023 (Mon) 06:42:50 No. 76

>i just want something scriptable tbh the fuck are you scripting? >i have a homeserver and i want to leave it seeding and feeding all day, and i dont have any graphical engine installed on it, nor do i want to manually ssh into it every time i wanna add a new torrent rutorrent is just what you need >also another good question is how tf do i even keep my torrent directory organized IMPOSSIBLE seriously you are asking for too much there >cant even move stuff around or rename it smh yeah that's why i just use symlinks everywhere bruteforcing like a retard

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Anonymous 09/27/2023 (Wed) 18:00:33 No. 217

>>57 rtorrent is minimalistic and just works

Anonymous 07/07/2023 (Fri) 10:11:08 No. 8 [Reply]

What's your main browser? I like to use Pale Moon with a Netscape theme to browse old sites, Brave for more general stuff, and regular Firefox as a general alternative

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Anonymous 08/20/2023 (Sun) 10:05:02 No. 123

>>116 >Vivaldi Chrome fork #809789, with the gimmick of coming with additional excessive BLOAT. Not good for privacy https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/vivaldi >Chrome Whatever you do, JUST DON'T USE CHROME. It's SUPER-SPYWARE. https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/chrome >Fire/Waterfox https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/firefox https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/waterfox_classic Both are bad for privacy, but at least you can mitigate the spying https://spyware.neocities.org/guides/firefox But if you don't want to go through the hassle of mitigating the spying, you can just use a Firefox fork that's better for privacy by default, like Librewolf or Mullvad Browser. >but some of the websites I use don't support those Wow, that's retarded. Those must probably be some shitty spyware websites with a gorillion JavaShits and whatnot, right? Well, those websites are not a reason not to use Firefox-based browsers, since you can use them for most websites, and then use Chrome-based browsers for those shitty few websites. Some decent Chrome forks that don't spy much on you much are Iridium and Ungoogled Chromium.

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Anonymous 08/24/2023 (Thu) 14:31:19 No. 140

Brave is the best browser. Works perfectly, runs fast, and doesn't steal my data

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Anonymous 08/24/2023 (Thu) 15:54:32 No. 142

>>140 It's better than Chrome and whatnot, but it's still not too good for privacy (https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave) and comes with a lot of bloat, including shady cryptoshit. Also, it's a fork of Chromium, so you're still contributing to Google's monopoly on web browsers. I rather recommend Librewolf (https://librewolf.net/), which is based on Firefox, but has huge privacy and security improvements.

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Anonymous 08/24/2023 (Thu) 19:27:35 No. 143

>>142 Haven't heard of Librewolf before, I'll look into it

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Anonymous 09/27/2023 (Wed) 17:47:24 No. 213

>>8 I just use firefox-esr with some custom settings I prefer to avoid using the web than to try and make it usable

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