/tech/ - Technology and Computing

Technology, computing, and related topics (like anime)

Post-mortem on downtime coming soon.

Max message length: 6144

Drag files to upload or
click here to select them

Maximum 5 files / Maximum size: 20.00 MB

More

(used to delete files and postings)


/tech/ meta Anonymous Board owner 04/09/2020 (Thu) 21:58:50 No.2493 [Reply]
Talk about quality, rules, OCs and board events here. Required readings: http://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm Current event(s): >Suggest a thread to pin for April >Suggest posts for newfags to lurk
Edited last time by NULL_1 on 04/09/2020 (Thu) 23:25:19.
37 posts and 7 images omitted.
>>3602 True. /christmas/ moved to Trashchan, BTW. We're still having the annual party there.

Open file (2.12 MB 640x480 bestvideoever.webm)
The Sticky Anonymous 08/21/2019 (Wed) 12:37:09 No.4 [Reply]
Welcome to /tech/ THE RULES: 1. Please spoiler all porn and gore 2. Talk about something actually related to /tech/nology 3. Have fun! Required reading http://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm Beginner Info If you would like to try out GNU/Linux because of https://itvision.altervista.org/why-windows-10-sucks.html, you can do one of the following: 0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine (preferably using KVM or Oracle VirtualBox for newfriends). 1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything (keep in mind that the performance of live distros might be very different than from distro that was booted from your HDD, as most distros are loaded in RAM and don't include the proprietary drivers for NVIDIA GPUs or up-to-date Mesa libraries in their isos). 2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows (make sure to install Windows first, as it can "replace" GRUB or other UNIX bootloaders, and troubleshooting of Windows replacing your bootloader of choice might be painful for people that just started learning about the Linux kernel) 3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux (you really shouldn't do this, if you don't know what you're putting yourself into, see: https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html). Resources:

Message too long. Click here to view full text.

Edited last time by dukat on 04/11/2020 (Sat) 12:18:28.

Open file (816.53 KB 1920x1080 wallhaven-436wq9.jpg)
da fuq happen to image boards? How Did We Get Here? 11/11/2025 (Tue) 11:38:48 No.3699 [Reply]
Seems like suddenly we're not allowed to talk about anything but memes and lolcow drama. Is this what image boards are for anymore? Is there nowhere one can JUST BE COMFY AND REAL, without having to embroil themselves in venomacidic middle-school popularity contests like Big Social? Is there nowhere online not full of either normalfaggots and normgroids and their niggerworship and troondicksucking and homosacredcows where roastiefoids can do no wrong and brainless consoomer-cattledom, OR the even worse retardautismal alternative: socially dysfunctional emotionally undisciplined mentally handicapped unironic politislop obsessors keyboard warrior transnazi cowardly bitches never shutting the fuck up about da j00z (but desert tribemonkey yeshua isnt a ded kike onna stick, somehow he doesnt count, herp durr; leta ignore all the Bible like no swearing etc by only focus on Leviticus gaybashing drooling donkey diarrhea, lets larp that wypipo wuz kangz DA tr00 israelites lelelele) and crying about much degeneresseh despite spamming drawn naked Japanese people and lolicon ecchi with somehow doesnt count as cheese pizza ("drawings aren't people hurr durr" "well then photos and videos aren't people either derpderp; pedoadjacents are so fucking cute in their mental gymnastics, their one and only exercise roflcoptar") unironic bootlicking collectivist hiveminded wannabe tyrants who never intend to follow the same arbitrary and capricious might makes right rules and laws they crave imposing upon everyone else because theyr e frightened little girls who need a sweaty leather daddy to bark orders at them their whole life (not gay at all lmao) due to extreme terror and dread of having to make your own decisions in life because youre a scare whimpering sniveling fagcunt who can't handle freedom and self-determination and anything that isnt bootlicking authority simping groupthink addiction is "lolbert" and by the way why aren't you wearing your mask antivaxxer? Is there anywhere in the whole wide world, not just online, where you can just be comfy and real without having to obey antiwhite judencommies wearing dangerhair and problemglasses and if youre even slightly right of Marx/Mao/Lenin/Stalin youre banhammered for hatespeech? Anywhere at all i can speak gamer words and its not a big deal or even a thing at all? Anyplace left that isnt an insular anticulture antisociety anticivilization of lobotomized cockroach farts with downs syndrome and alzheimers? Must I give up on communicating with other humans entirely? Must I surrender to complete hikki isolation because there is no longer a place for me to just be myself like image boards and other "geek" communities used to be before Second September and The Great Awokening? And you wonder why anonymous culture is dead, going over the top toxic intentionally Coldsteel edgelord niggetry  in terror or le normiez until you push out all the good posters too, until all that is left is ASP malignant narcissistic spergerkwayne snobelitist shitpeople at the very bottom of social value and negative charisma contributing nothing but negativity and being a waste of space. Shitpeople like you. Good job.
9 posts and 3 images omitted.
Open file (139.87 KB 379x440 bread.gif)
>>3727 >war never changes.png Once again I stumble upon screen shots of my own posts while lurking. Fun fact: A few months after I posted that I made a joke about killing the president with my massive cock and a hoard of glow niggers showed up at my front door. I'd been choosing my words carefully and effort posting pretty hard around that time. So they ended up having to use the most flimsy excuse possible to show up without a warrant.
>>3734 Intredasting. Wonder why it took them months if they were in fact """concerned"""?
>>3735 The lag time between them showing up and the post they claimed they showed up for was about 5 weeks IIRC. The post was an obvious joke I made when debating freedom of speech with some glow nigger on a public board. The US Government fears my mighty cock it has now been labeled a weapon of mass destruction. I had an SS agent, multiple people from the SBI (state FBI), FBI agents and about 10 local cops show up. There were about 18-20 people in all. I didn't count but it was a large group. They came and parked all over the property looking for me. Beat on my prior address door (parent's house aka where my "legal" address is because I never bothered to update it when I moved years ago). They harassed multiple people in the neighborhood. Two of them sat under a security camera at a building I own for hours talking smack about how they had my families entire property surrounded. All that and no warrant. They kept trying to get me to sign a piece of paper to give them legal access to my medical records and begging me to let them into my home. Then the SS agent started taking pictures of my stuff outside and demanded to take a picture of my face. Threatened to arrest me if I said no but they didn't do anything after I went back inside and told them to fuck off. Well nothing to me. They went and tried to interview my Grandparents and got told to fuck off. Strangely, two things I wrote long papers about that were buried on the web suddenly got wikipedia pages and some discussion on major platforms in the weeks that followed. Before the topics would get instantly banned/deleted and buried. The wikipedia pages and discussion happening now are total misdirection though. If you read those threads and pages you'll come away with no real understanding of it. It's pure spin and propaganda. One of the "cyber agents" from the SBI actually tried to sweet talk her way into my home with promises of sexual attention. An ugly late 30s-early 40s hag. They threatened to look at my HDDs and I told them there was nothing on them but pictures. They perked up at the sound of that and got really interested in what kind of pictures I had. I told them it was thousands of images of anime girls. They got dumb struck and asked why I would have thousands of images of that. I said "because they're cute" and at that point I think I finally spooked them with my autism. I shouldn't have interacted with them at all but they'd already harassed so many locals that I'd had multiple people come knock on the door to warn me the police were looking for me. At the time I didn't know it was the feds I just assumed the local cops had issued a warrant or something. I made the mistake of walking over to my Grandparent's house to warn them that the police were around and not to talk to them. When I walked back to my own home people came out of the bushes and multiple SUVs rolled up on me. They held me at gun point and started barking commands. I asked if they had a warrant and they said no. So I just went and sat on my porch and humored them for a bit. Still it was a bad idea to talk to them and I won't do it again in the future. In the weeks leading up to that raid they watched my house with black SUVs at all hours of the day and night. They broke into my home multiple times to and would move shit around to let me know they'd been inside. I made a habit of walking around naked because I figured the place was bugged.
>>3736 Anyway I'm still not sure what pissed them off because I was writing about so much at the time. My best guess is either a DoD project I stumbled upon that had been buried since 2007 with no discussion happening anywhere on the internet or a paper I wrote about a very powerful pharmaceutical family that had recently fled the country with ill gotten gains. This was in late 2021 or mid-2022. I can't recall exactly when they raided. I just remember it was summer because the SS agent kept crying about how he was hot and wanted to go inside. Part of the reason I kept humoring him was because they were all standing in the mid-day sun in 100F degree weather or so and were sweating bullets. You could tell all the feds weren't used to being outside. They kept begging to be let in the house because they wanted to talk where there was A/C (so they said). They really really wanted into the house bad. Even though they'd already been in it multiple times. They would watch the place for weeks waiting for any chance to break in again. They only got a 10-15 minute window once a week to do that because I went full hermit once I noticed them and only left once a week for groceries. Every time I'd leave to buy food and supplies without fail they would break in and move shit around. I know they went up in the attic because one of them left a boot print on the wall next to the entrance. I figure his buddy boosted him up there because it was impossible to get up there without a ladder. I knew one of my machines was totally compromised because it started acting very odd in the weeks leading up to the raid. They did something to one tower I had just chilling in a corner that hadn't been used in years to. I knew because they didn't put the case back on it correctly. They never got a chance to get at my main machine I used because I always took it with me even into the store. It never left my bag and it was fully encrypted so unless it was on it was impossible to get anything off of it. All radios in it had been disabled years ago (not that they'd work anyway with the OS I use on it). I also got hit multiple times with whatever weapon they're using to cause "havana syndrome" around that time and a few times since then. Although it hasn't happened in awhile now it was happening very often for at least a couple of years after this encounter with them. They also followed me 300+ miles all the way to the coast and back one day when I did a favor for a family member and rode down to the coast with them to pick up a car (which I drove back). We got followed by two black SUVs all the way down and one of them followed me all the way back. I estimate they spent over $20,000 just on watching me for those several months. I committed no crime other than expressing my freedom of speech/freedom of the press.
>>3737 >>3736 Concerning the weapon they used on me: I figure it's just run of the mill microwave weapon. It was always easy to tell when they hit me with it. I'd hear a loud buzzing sound that would ramp up over the course of about 10-30 seconds. Soon as it got loud it would feel like all my energy was zapped. I couldn't do anything but lay down. Usually, I'd have to put my head down on my desk and then stumble to bed. Where I'd sometimes lay for hours feeling horrible. I'd get a splitting headache and body aches all over. Couldn't sleep. Couldn't distract myself from it. They'd lower the power or shut it off for a bit just to ramp it back up and sometimes they'd keep that going for hours. After getting hit with it I was unable to sleep for days sometimes week. I'd feel awful for weeks afterwards. I eventually got where I could tell it was going to happen because I'd feel flushed just before the buzzing started. Which I assume was my skin heating up from the microwaves. I don't think someone was hiding in the bushes or anything. From what I can tell it was a long range weapon. Getting away from windows didn't really do anything to stop it. I have one room with no windows and going in there didn't stop the symptoms or make it any less powerful when they were actively using it. Getting to that room was hard in the first place because when it's aimed at your it's almost impossible to walk. I'd often have to crawl to the couch or to the bed. Once there I couldn't do anything but lay there and take it. It's like the worse flu and the worse drunk you've had all at the same time. The buzzing sounds electric. Like a power line arcing or something. It's hard to describe. You don't really hear it because it's inside of your head. I wonder how much my chance of cancer sky rocketed from getting hit with that thing several times. There is absolutely no way a weapon like that should be legal. I wouldn't use it on my worse enemy. Anyway, I stopped writing so I suppose they got the reaction they wanted. There isn't anywhere worth publishing anymore at this point anyway.

gemini g 04/09/2026 (Thu) 20:23:31 No.3724 [Reply]
gemini api key AIzaSyA58qD1KRufKIHpZWi1ng2Cc1Y_a-6Gie8
Gemini api key AIzaSyA58qD1KRufKIHpZWi1ng2Cc1Y_a-6Gie8

Anonymous 10/15/2020 (Thu) 15:05:39 No.3062 [Reply] [Last]
Where did everyone go?
62 posts and 8 images omitted.
>>3694 >that screen
Open file (151.82 KB 1920x1080 1028-1920x1080.jpg)
We're surfing the kali yuga in our own ways on our own days.
there's a new Lain imageboard https://boards.lain.rocks/
>>3062 >Where did everyone go? Walmart moved in to the small town and drove out all the mom-n-pop stores.
>>3720 Lol. The reverse is more apt: everyone moved away from (((zogmart))), and set up smol mom & pops. ZOG, as usual, sent out zogbots to destroy them all. The slow defeat battle is still ongoing to this day.

Open file (299.53 KB 1400x814 face of coding.jpg)
Everything is Dead Anonymous 09/10/2019 (Tue) 17:44:01 No.80 [Reply] [Last]
>8ch goes down
>cuckchan /g/ is shit
>/tech/ irc is dead
Where else is there left?
49 posts and 10 images omitted.
>>1948 you should be required to write a working fizzbuzz in C to enter any technology board.
>>1948 >meguca /pol/ and /meadhall/ are at https://homurachan.org/homu now if anyone is still looking.
there's a new Lain imageboard https://boards.lain.rocks/
>>80 >Where else is there left? Have you tried shutting off your glowing rectangle and speaking to humans face-to-face?
>>2188 Darknet fediverse. Fuck off, we're full.

Open file (169.02 KB 3000x2000 fuck the government.jpg)
Privacy megathread Anonymous 08/27/2024 (Tue) 13:20:56 No.3573 [Reply]
The downfall of telegram and the crackdown in the UK has made privacy and free speech more required than ever. Please post your favorite services and why. Best messenger: jabber xmpp session briar simplex best privacy phone software and hardware: lineageOS (pixel) CalyxOS (pixe) GrapheneOS (pixel) DivestOS (oneplus)

Message too long. Click here to view full text.

6 posts and 1 image omitted.
>>3626 >baseless claim with no elaboration Wow, we're all so much safer now.
I just tried lokinet it didn't work for shit buggy piece of shit couldn't even start without extra arguments
>>3700 Classic PEBKAC error, common among plebbit-spacing lusers. Great for gatekeeping normgroids, filtering n00bz, and other assorted lobotomized consoomer-cattle and drooling farting nigger-worshipers who don't belong in the cool kid's club.
>>3597 >signal Unlike TOR, this one's provably an FBI honeypot. >tox Buggy piece of shit. Like Matrix, XMPP, other "I'm not like all the other newfags on dicksword" sooper sekyur instant messengers. Why use anything other than IRC, Usenet, Gopher, or at most fediverse instances running Bloat-FE on darknet servers or at least behind an onion link accessed only through TailsOS or Whonix in a Qubes sandbox on your neighbor's stolen wifi?
>>3626 The US government CREATED IT in the first place, you dense motherfucker. TOR was created by the NSA as a tool for "dissidents" (read: CIA assets) in "repressive countries" (read: places that have our oil underneath them) to allow them to "communicate" (read: receive information from their handlers without getting pwned by a FARAJA black-bag team). 70%+ of TOR nodes belong to the NSA. They built it. All traffic on it passes through Fort Meade. All traffic on it is monitored. ALL OF IT. TOR is of the US Deep State's spook shops, by the US Deep State's spook shops, and for the US Deep State's spook shops. Any other uses to which it is put are strictly coincidental and orthogonal to its intended purpose. You want to use it for anything else? When using it behave as though the Feds were looking over your shoulder and taking notes, because they are. See also, Silk Road. If you insist upon being niggerlicious on government servers, don't be shocked at what happens next.

QTDDTOT v2 Anonymous 12/13/2025 (Sat) 09:20:38 No.3706 [Reply]
ded bord, but will ask anyway: Having trouble with an alias to auto-convert all webp's (into the folder I toss all my saved images into before manually moving them, if I ever do) into png's followed by deleting the original webp's: 'cd ~/Pictures/Memes/ && mogrify -format png *.webp && find . -name *.webp -type f -delete && cd ~' It USED to work, but for no discernible reason (don't remember exactly when this started) it no longer deletes the old webp's. It instead throws up errors like: >find: paths must precede expression: ?>`Screenshot_20251206-094014.webp' >find: possible unquoted pattern after predicate `-name'? Too tech illiterate to know how to proceed from here. Should I be using something other than find?
>>3706 >Should I be using something other than find? Near as I can tell the expression: find . -name *.webp is valid. AKA < worksonmybox(tm) I'd look for the problem in another part of the overall command. You can just look at the outputs (possibly filtering with grep) to check each step. As to why it doesn't work now, I dunno. Maybe an update broke something? Good luck.

I hate modern tech so much it's unreal, this used to be my home, my passion, my escape from shitplanet and shitpeople Anonymous 10/20/2025 (Mon) 07:21:51 No.3691 [Reply]
Once upon a time you could easily only load a page and not the frame it's a part of. So easy, just a right-click. But now it's impossible to do a simple thing. Nothing in a traditional search engine tells me how to do it with modern browsers (of course, they're useless for finding information anymore) and my usually reliable method of using a chat AI... didn't work this time. I hate the modern Web, I hate modern Internet/computers/phones/digital/analog, I hate the antichrist.
Net used to be made by Aryans and east Asians, now its made by jeets.
>>3692 Used to be about 100 million in the 90's and 00's, nearly all murrikans and a few yuropoors. Now it's like 4 billion mostly poos and chinks like you say.
Open file (159.85 KB 841x1393 ihatecomputersnameless.png)
I've had some luck by avoiding AI myself. Apple (of all companies) has my current support - older phones don't support Apple Intelligence and it's easy enough to turn Siri off. This is short reprieve as it's being used for coding, and every app will have it's own chatbot at some point too... But I'm thankful their failure to keep up has bought me some time. I've picked up a few non-tech hobbies because I'm not interested in funding this insanity, and rebalanced my 401K so it's not going to the "magnificent seven." Even if boycotts don't work I can say this nonsense wasn't my fault.

Open file (16.97 KB 256x243 Stub.png)
Anonymous (formerly Chud) 08/14/2025 (Thu) 07:38:31 No.3682 [Reply]
Linus Torvalds was a massive superfaggot. He stole code from SCO and he got (((Richard Stallman))) to write a compiler for him.
>>3682 Yeh? So what?

Report/Delete/Moderation Forms
Delete
Report