>>1351
>We see companies like google and netflix leasing so-called edge servers in ISP data centers all over the world. This allows them to avoid this problem. But it's a p2p for me and not for thee type of situation.
That's the entire point of the article though. Big tech companies can lease a large amount of servers because they have the money and political capital to do so, something which the common don't have. Even though the internet protocol is decentralized, it's a system where every node has equal standing; so whoever can pay to control the largest amount of them have the largest control over the entire system, which in turn gives them even more money and control.

>On a free internet those edge servers would host everyone's content.
No. They host the contents of the ones who pay for it. The internet doesn't exist in a vacuum, it's backed by physical hardware and electricity, which cost money. No one can host significant amount of content for free. Big tech can afford to do it because they sell your data, exactly the article's point. Common persons don't have any capacity to do this, and they don't want to pay either.

>>1351
doggy

>>1353
Energy would be free is nuclear power and other sources of power were not demonized on purpose. What you have to understand is it's a system of control. Money IS control.

We don't have to have communism to have good for the common man. We just have to not let a few people treat us like we're less than people. They stifle innovation to retain control over the population. That's the only reason things are like this.

What we need are laws that say things like:
>All data is free
>Transporting data over the global common network is a human right

If the Constitution of the USA was written today it would say DATA instead of SPEECH.

>Common persons don't have any capacity to do this, and they don't want to pay either.
I pay hundreds of dollars a month to host several TB of content on my home network that I can access anywhere in the world. Even with the current situation it's more than possible for each and every home to have its own little home server. Which churns away hosting and serving content. Both content you put on it yourself and a small datastore where you're hosting content for others.

Hell most ISPs now already let other people access the bandwidth you're paying for. They call it "mobile wifi" or whatever. It allows other customers to log-in to their accounts via the router/modem in everyone else's home.
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>>1350
ZERO reading comprehension ZILCH NADA

>>1353
>That's the entire point of the article though. Big tech companies can lease a large amount of servers because they have the money and political capital to do so, something which the common don't have. Even though the internet protocol is decentralized, it's a system where every node has equal standing; so whoever can pay to control the largest amount of them have the largest control over the entire system, which in turn gives them even more money and control.
whats the point of the OP then? because this sounds entirely political.
It's not inevitable.
It's ABSOLUTELY something that should be corrected.
It's not at all inherent to the internet.

I think the general assumption is that there's so many people doing illegal things on discord that people feel secure that the authorities would go after the more severe people first. Stuff like loli is against the ToS but it presumably doesn't stop people from posting it there because there's millions and millions and millions of people across hundreds of thousands of channels. Sure, discord could easily wipe it out by just searching for basic terms in their compendium of harvested data, but I don't think they actually care as long as the people are there to provide said data.
I think it's pretty rare that anything happens. Privacy stuff? Well, no one cares about that stuff any more.
Many internet companies aim to be fulfill many roles and discord aims to replace stuff like forums and imageboards alongside other programs or services. Think of what an older internet person does. He uses a browser to browse a forum/imageboard, a filehost to upload large files, an IM program for quick chat (with names for organizing), and optionally maybe something like ventrilo or teamspeak if he wants to use a mic and I guess Steam if he wants to do some multiplayer stuff. (Steam itself seeks to eliminate some things and is a bit discord-like since it wants to monopolize people's attention the same way)
It used to a normal part of having a computer capable of multitasking (hooray for multiple CPU cores and RAM) to make use of it, but these days many people would prefer just to one one single program for everything, even if it makes sacrifices.

Discord sucks and I hate the damage its done and will continue to do to the internet, but I understand why lazy, tech illiterate people would use it. I really like the idea of having a plethora of programs specialized for different things, though.

>>1335
>no images and filesharing directly
This is a big inconvenience when working on visual media where quick screenshots are common for reviewing stuff. But even more damning is losing out on all the kids who are already on Discord and want to use it. Knowing Japanese is not a trait limited to the privacy paranoid and giving them up out of fear of the feds coming after your 1000 download piracy operation that already exposes itself with torrents is pretty stupid. That's even more true if you're looking for donation money or popularity with people who will actually show gratitude. There are alternatives, but you're not going to invite someone to your fucking Element server to follow your chinese cartoon releases. At least not until you find out she's 15.

>>1335
It's mainly a combination of two things. Kids and newer internet users are pretty stupid. They do not understand how to properly set up an application or use anything that isn't tied directly to their cell phone number. Discord and similar services cater to these people.

On the other side; Modern "fansub" groups (using the term lightly. Ripping group is a better description) want to monetize other people's content. Their primary goal is to make money from their so-called hobby. This requires attracting the maximum amount of eyeballs and "donations" possible. So they cater to platforms where idiots with cash are in abundance. Which is Discord and other social media outlets.

Discord and other social media outlets also exist to make money. They claim they do this from advertising. This is false. They make their money from spying on the users and data mining them. So they allow certain "illegal" content on their networks so they can monitor these people more closely instead of being forced to follow them around the internet like they used to. It's move convenient is the users come to them instead of them having to seize and re-purpose existing services and networks while hoping no one involved in the bust talks.

IRC is still the better platform for things like file hosting anyway. On IRC you can operate a bot linked to any server (or network of servers) in the world that you can directly interact with. There are even easy-to-use GUI applications to interact and search the contents on those bots. On Discord the best you're getting is some base64 encoded links to some DDL server on http that can be taken down at any moment.

The main issue is that the modern internet/computer user has no real idea what they're doing. They think things like VPN and base64 encoded links actually protect them and the other users. They think encryption over a mainstream platform is real. Hence why they promote crap like Signal and other "apps" running on compromised devices like cell phones.

If you want to see a real network for warez that's been operating for decades and is impossible to shut down look no further than USENET. This network has been in operation in one form or another since the late 70s. It's impossible to censor. It's impossible to prevent the spread of data over it. But it has been slowed down. Mainly by claiming users of itPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1339
(cont)

There is also a lot that can be said about the so-called "prosub" groups (people working for CR and other streaming services). The reason their content floods the usual trackers isn't the fact that it's high quality or that people want to view it. The reason it floods all those spaces is because these people have control over such places and prevent independent people from releasing stuff. This serves two primary purposes. The first; It ensures even those "stealing" the content are viewing the same content that's approved for distro by the publishing houses. 2) It prevents anything that might outshine that content from appearing during the first months-years when the content is first being release. Which is when profits are maximized. They don't care as much once you're outside of that window of time. Plus anything released outside of that window is likely to never be seen or forgotten entirely.

As an example take nyaa. You can easily find batches of CR rips for most anything released in the last 10 years. But finding an old high quality fansub release for something from 2005-2010 is hard and likely not seeded anymore. People claim that such stuff is only available on so-called private trackers because it ensures it remains seeded and protects the users of that tracker. But this is not true since those trackers dox everyone connecting to them and history has proven people will seed content for free anyway. In a sane world (so pre-2010 or so) this was never an issue. You could always request a re-seed on a public tracker and usually the request would be filled. If not the community would come together to fill it. Now this is impossible. You aren't even allowed to leave comments anywhere. Again, they claim this is to protect the end users from "spam" and we see the same old "people were posting pizza" as an excuse. Somehow a small torrent tracker is impossible to moderate despite them having hundreds of moderators. Yet every other larger website on the internet doesn't seem to have a problem does it? Again, it's a control thing; They want to content what can and can not be posted. They want to control who and who can not post.

What we've been living through over the last decade or so is the slow death of the internet and free speech (and freedom of data) itself. Most likely, in another decade you won't be able to publish contenPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

There used to be a lot more variety in the earlier web. I think it's just that like the famous fax machines and website design out of 1998 they haven't moved on. I remember stuff like www2 and uhhh.... man I think my brain finally got rid of that useless information. I remember there was one specifically used for the "virtual reality" exploration stuff like uhh... huh. Yeah, I forgot.

>>1325
i've come across some www4.asdasdasd.com in a couple govt websites and they're actually like from the last few years

It's a primitive form of load balancing. One subdomain = one IP.

should've used gentoo

I just use jellyfin.

Oh, Plex has a self hosted option. I didn't see

Deleted my post because I think I figured it out.

>>1316
deletard

>>1316
on topic sager

I remember this site was a pretty useful resource when I was implementing A* for the first time:

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction.html

>>351
Well, more presentation slides than paper

>>353
Djirska a shit

While A* is one of the fastest algorithms to find a path from A to B, it doesn't guarantee that it is the shortest path. Dijkstra on the other hand guarantees the shortest path, but takes much more time to find it.

>>384
This isn't true, the path found by A* is guaranteed to be optimal so long as the heuristic used is "admissible", meaning it never in any case over-estimates the distance to the goal. In practice, in-admissible heuristics are often used as they produce good-enough paths faster than using the equivalent admissible heuristic.

f.lux
https://justgetflux.com/

This is something I've been using for a few years and it just exists passively in the background so I forget about it. It's a simple program that automatically reduces the blueness of your screen dependent on your set sleep schedule and/or time of day. This is important for reducing eyestrain and supposedly it helps you sleep, but I can't confirm the latter. It's based on the reasoning that blue light is artificial and new whereas the sun in the evening and even fire is orange and that's what our eyes have adapted to process.
There are other programs that do it (and newer OS versions have their own version I think) but this is the one I've used. I wonder if there's better stuff out there, but this is free and it does exactly what it's supposed to do so I haven't bothered looking.

https://www.bluetoothgoodies.com/a2dp

Been thinking about this ever since I got my Bluetooth headphones. They support LDAC, but Windows has no real bluetooth codec support like Android does. Found this which replaces the Bluetooth driver and adds support for LDAC, AptX LL, AptX HD. It works too. I was skeptical at first, but I tried it out with my Fiio BTR3 which has a little LED indicator that changes color based on codec used, and it absolutely works. I seriously appreciate being able to use LDAC with granular settings. My headphones used to cut out whenever I would walk to the kitchen and stand near my fridge, but now it just cuts down to a lower bandwidth and maintains the connection.

It's paid, but with a week-long trial period. If you buy it before the trial expires, you get a discounted price. Only gripe is that the license is hardware-tied, meaning you need to buy additional licenses for any additional computers you have. The price is discounted for additional purchases, but it still is kind of annoying. Still, I think it's well worth the price.

Nice, a software thread.

Does anyone know any script that blocks users or tage on pixiv? Either that or filters posts based on region? I'm trying to block gaijin on my feed. Some bug man and worse koreans are okay I guess, but western posts I want them out of my feed for the most part. Too much crappy art from them.

somehow AG Grid has become more intuitive through their latest maj. vers update. Everything gets set through a single ```setGridOption``` function that uses a string key to act...

>>478
Oh, I didn't see this until now. I remember using a Pixiv Toolkit script thing, but I don't think it had anything like that. You're probably out of luck.

$config['allowed_ext_files'][] = 'webm';

...........

// WebM Settings
$config['webm']['use_ffmpeg'] = true;
$config['webm']['expected_format'] = array('webm' => 'webm', 'mp4' => 'mp4');
$config['webm']['video_codecs'] = array('vp8', 'vp9', 'h264', 'av1');
$config['webm']['allow_audio'] = true;
$config['webm']['max_length'] = 90000;
$config['webm']['ffmpeg_path'] = 'ffmpeg';
$config['webm']['ffprobe_path'] = 'ffprobe';

Have ffmpeg , ffprobe installed on your server device

also you probably need google's webm package that likely is installed by apt install webm-dev

how to disallow webp?

>>381
by not having it in the allowed_ext

It's quite well documented in the config.php file (that you're not supposed to edit, use instance-config.php to overwrite default valuse). There's comments everywhere and what it does. Just mess around with it.
Why disable mp4 and allow webm? mp4 has highest support.
I thank you greatly for using vichan. It's far less of an eyesore as a user than all the newer ones.
Wakaba is pretty decent too in terms of being a pleasant user experience, but it's a lot more hassle for the admin.

I don't really get it. Seems kind of fun, I guess? No one actually wants an OS that takes extra time to do stuff, though. It's like how movies imagined the future internet as a VR world in which you would take 5 minutes to 'walk' to another website through a polygonal street with a colorful avatar, which looks cool in a movie but would be dreadful in real life because you want things NOW as soon as you can click them.
At least it's not Lain again, although some kids do have a strange fascination with Azumanga due to algorithms or something. I actually replayed Day of the Tentacle a few years ago and it still held up.

>>371
The Azumanga Druglord Game got me curious.

The idea that not all AIs are the same is pretty old. So I don't see a problem with the denomination of AGI as a lofty ideal.

>Robot maids with free will?
Free will is a bit of a myth, anyway.
You cannot choose your primary wants. If you choose wants, then you do so according to higher-ranking wants. But there is nothing that ranks higher than the highest rank. Those wants are therefore not of your choice. They are what defines you.
If you build a robot maid's AI from scratch, you might be in a position to directly write these primary objectives after which everything else in her personality must follow.

Well we probably won't get AGI anytime soon since ChatGPT has entered us into an arms race for the best LLM and that's all anyone is going to chase after for the time being instead of working on other models that could progress us towards that goal of AGI.

>>20
Well, in this case I meant something like you could have a robot maid that obeys the command to watch paint dry for 5 weeks straight. The "AI" I'm imagining would have enough knowledge of humanity and the world to find that command ridiculous and she would have the "choice" to reject it, but she doesn't have to understand the deep philosophical implications of why. If she's sentient then she's going to do something else other than being my cute robot maid because that would pretty lame for any intelligent creature instead of idealized artificial personalities.

>>367
Seems like the arms race has been slowing down, though. The money is starting to dry up since all the investors throwing money around wildly without any plan have yet to get their short-term profits and that's all they care about.

>>368
It's not that the long-term doesn't matter, it's that exasperated tech guys and business analysts are actively combating the marketing push to have """AI""" everywhere and helping people understand that there aren't actually many good ways to use generative LLMs that aren't just slight improvements on things they already had bots doing, like customer support. The money is in selling the idea of AI, not in anything they will actually accomplish.

>>346
>If they would release these for public use we'd have more than enough to go around.
Most of them did. Only 5 companies are still on "class A" legacy assignment and 2 of them are ISPs, so that leaves 3. The US military reserves far more IP addresses than any of these.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks
>>345
>they control all the servers and end points
Only end points really matter because of encryption which is the part they have the least control of.

>>347
>Only end points really matter because of encryption which is the part they have the least control of.
I have some bad news for you...

>US military
Private company. Just the blocks companies like Google and Microsoft are sitting on unused would keep things going for many years to come. IPv6 itself is a garbage standard for many reasons. Mainly because it isn't readable to a human like v4. They could have extended the address space by simply adding another decimal point and things would have been fine for the foreseeable future.

The default config for most IPv6 ISPs is hilariously bad. My ISP has been converting over lately and forced my LAN on to IPv6 one night with a fireware update. Within minutes I had bots from all over the internet attempting to log-in to every device on my network. My home media server was sending data over the internet and then back to my set-top device under a television in the same room. All behind my back.

After that experience I invested in a proper router and bought my own modem to. ISP wiped out my entire config behind my back for no reason because I got lazy and used their router instead of my own. Now my LAN is segregated from the rest of the world as much as humanly possible. ISP just straight up by-passed my firewall with one simple config file that they didn't disclose to customers. They had backdoor access to everyone's network even when it was supposed to be turned off and they promised to never do anything like that.

I'm worried they will take away my ability to use my own modem soon. Their latest modems do not allow you to log-in and they've already removed 2 of the former 5 approved devices from the list of modems you can run on their network. Just getting my modem approved took multiple calls to the ISP and no one was trained to deal with the request. If I change the MAC address of the modem I'll have to go through that all over again. Last Christmas they "forgot" I had my own device and sent a tech out unannounced to install their new modem. I wouldn't let him in the house. He claimed they shut off my service if I didn't but in the end I won that battle. But I fear I'll be losing the war.

>>348
>I have some bad news for you...
You're saying they have less control over routing devices directly in the hands of ISPs than the endpoints? Bullshit.
>They could have extended the address space by simply adding another decimal point and things would have been fine for the foreseeable future.
This just shows you don't have a dime of knowledge about computer programming and system interoperability, and you have zero understanding on why IPv6 adoption is so slow. Your idea is no better than IPv6.
The rest of your post is the usual technobabbling typical of /g/ spinoffs. Comments like
>The move to IPv6 is mostly about being able to track each device on each LAN.
Shows you have less than a shallow knowledge of networking. Public accessible LAN is not a unique property of IPv6, and I have personally use such IPv4 network before.

>>344
>Tor is much less popular than VPN that it's possible to monitor all connections to the Tor network
Ok? All Tor browsers are configured the same though so it's easier to blend inside a Tor user swarm. Remember that all Tor nodes IP adresses are public though.
>I remember there was a news article about a college student who was caught this way.
Don't spread FUD please. The guy was convicted because he confessed, not because of Tor itself.
>You want at least VPN+Tor.
You can do that if you want but it adds another layer of complexity

>>349
>You're saying they have less control over routing devices directly in the hands of ISPs than the endpoints? Bullshit.
I'm saying your encryption doesn't matter when you're using a CPU known to have multiple backdoors and a random number generator that isn't truly random.
>This just shows you don't have a dime of knowledge about computer programming and system interoperability, and you have zero understanding on why IPv6 adoption is so slow. Your idea is no better than IPv6.
I'm pretty sure I've spent more time in a class room and the real world than you. But I didn't insult you like you chose to insult me. Which is pretty much your M.O. any time you disagree with someone.

Any system that is not both readable and easy to quickly transverse by a human is a flawed system. Which is exactly why we told everyone IPv6 was a bad idea over 25 years ago. It's also why we're 25 years past initial roll out and it's still not being used anywhere that matters. Maybe if you dealt with IPv6 -> IPv4 networking regularly you'd understand why it's stupid and not deployed widely. You'd also understand why having every device in a customers home _DIRECTLY CONNECTED AND PINGABLE FROM THE GLOBAL WAN_ is a _really_ bad idea. Hence why ISPs continue to rely on NAT. Since it's a cheap effective firewall that the customer doesn't turn off without going through multiple steps. Access that's being taken away from most customers now because 99% have no idea what they're doing. Which is making the lives of the 1% that know much worse in the process.

>Shows you have less than a shallow knowledge of networking. Public accessible LAN is not a unique property of IPv6, and I have personally use such IPv4 network before.
Yeah you can expose a computer directly to the WAN on any IP network. The difference is in IPv6 it's the DEFAULT.

>>350
Again. If you expect privacy and security on a network controlled by the Government and some "private companies" known to hand over information without a warrant you're in for a bad time. You are no more protected on VPN/tor than you are directly connecting from someone. The only difference is now instead of your ISP knowing everything you do Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

analogies always fail when computers and humans try to intermix terminology

anything higher than your refresh rate is just unnecesarry strain on your hardware

This is stupid, you have two eyes so what you see are two frames _all_ the time.

>>315
Let's assume for a moment that a number like ε satisfying
¥ 0 < ε < 1
¥ 0 < ε < 0.1
¥ 0 < ε < 0.01
¥ 0 < ε < 0.001,
and so on indefinitely, exists, and let's look at some properties that number would have.

I won't be proving these in Coq, at least for the moment, because we're talking about number systems that are different from the one I'm describing in the project. The basic assumptions I'm making about a number system containing ε are that it satisfies the properties of an ordered field, which means all the properties listed in >>267 except the least-upper-bound property.

First of all, ε is smaller than any positive rational number.
(A rational number is a number that can be written as a fraction with integers for the numerator and denominator. Since we are not French speakers, positive means greater than zero, and negative means less than zero; zero itself is neither positive nor negative.)
The proof: Given a positive rational number p/q, let n be the number of digits of q. Then 10^n, that is, 1 followed by n zeros, will be greater than q, and 1/10^n will be less than p/q. Since ε < 1/10^n, it is also less than p/q.

Since ε is positive, it's also obvious that ε is larger than any negative rational number.
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Correction: There are some < signs in >>316 that should be ≤ signs.
Instead of
> 2 < (r/s)^2 < (√2 + ε)^2
> 2 < r^2/s^2 < 2 + 2ε√2 + ε^2
> 0 < (r^2-2s^2)/s^2 < 2ε√2 + ε^2 = ε(2√2 + ε) < 3ε < every positive rational.
it should say
2 < (r/s)^2 ≤ (√2 + ε)^2
2 < r^2/s^2 ≤ 2 + 2ε√2 + ε^2
0 < (r^2-2s^2)/s^2 ≤ 2ε√2 + ε^2 = ε(2√2 + ε) < 3ε < every positive rational.

>>315
>>316
So to answer the question of whether there's a number system with a number ε such that
¥ 0 < ε < 1
¥ 0 < ε < 0.1
¥ 0 < ε < 0.01
¥ 0 < ε < 0.001,
and so on, the answer is yes, there are many. There are the hyperreal numbers which are useful as an alternate way to do calculus. There are the surreal numbers which arose out of game theory. And you can even just postulate such a number ε and add it to the reals sort of like how we add i to make the complex numbers. In the case of the complex numbers, you get the complex numbers from all the linear functions of i. If you add ε, your new set of numbers consists of all the rational functions (polynomial divided by polynomial) of ε.

But we can see that a nonzero infinitesimal number like ε will cause trouble if we want our numbers to be expressed by infinite decimals. The whole idea behind infinite decimals is that we can identify a number by comparing it with finite decimals. If we allow ε into our system, then we can no longer distinguish ε from 2ε, or 0.4 ÷ 0.03 from 0.4 ÷ 0.03 + ε, or √2 from √2 + ε by comparing them with finite decimals. We would need something else. For example, in the surreal numbers, ε is the simplest number between {0} and {1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, ...}, and 2ε is the simplest number between {ε} and {1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, ...}.

Another definition:
¥ Two numbers are infinitesimally close if the difference between them is infinitesimal.

There are many equivalent ways to construct the real numbers, but all of them are designed so that we never construct a real number infinitesimally close to another real number. I don't think anyone knows whether it's possible for two real-life quantities (such as distances, times, weights, and volumes) to be infinitesimally close to each other yet not equal. If it is possible, then when we model these infinitesimally close quantities with real numbers, we are choosing to ignore any infinitesimal difference and assign the same real number to both.
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>>312
>They made use of a preexisting Java library to do the calculations:
>https://www.hboehm.info/crcalc/

I said that like they just used someone else's code, but on second look I see the guy who wrote that library is the author of the CACM paper. He developed it while he was working at SGI and then got hired by Google to work on Android stuff.

>>308
>>311
I've been thinking again about how to do hand arithmetic with infinite decimals, in this case division. I've tried this before, but my calculation of the error on the result at each step was an ugly and unmemorable formula. I think I've found a better way to think about the error on the result, which is to first work out the error on the remainder at each step. There are two contributions, one from the truncation error on the dividend, and one from the error on what's been subtracted from the dividend (due to truncation error on the divisor). Then the error bound on the result is
(|remainder| + |error on remainder|) / (lower bound on |divisor|).
You could also forgo taking the absolute value of the remainder and work out separately the error bounds in each direction, which could occasionally help squeeze out a digit of the quotient a bit earlier.

>>107
Huh? Import to where? You mean from the native 4chan extension to 4chanx? Can't you just copy paste? (I'm not ccd0)

>>108
yeah
thing is I don't think 4chan lets you select your entire filter list and copy everything

Probably something pretty urgent that needs to be fixed. I clicked on one of my 4chan links today and it brought me to a cloudflare check, but unlike usual I was forced to disable 4chanx to proceed since it was somehow blocking challenges.cloudflare

Wish I'd taken a screenshot of it but I was fiddling with things to try and find what the issue was and just happened to find it through disabling 4chanx before the thought to post about it in here came to me.

>>110
Random anon here.
I just passed the cloudflare check. So either the problem is something other than the presence of 4chanX, or it's been fixed.
Can you try again?

opened up on a proxy and i still get the same issue, on regular
yeah the beta version is fixed once i updated it

Is that a music creation program?

>>38
Nightcafe? Barely. No, i asked for an image

Funny, when u aks to paint yourself something anything about sound machine here acts a bit weird. Maybe it curious about sounds because it cant hear. I doubt someone connected a microphone to an image creation "tool" just out of being kindhearted