>>2239 I used those swabs and they did pick up the droppings but for some parts like the steel frames they didn't seem to do anything. I switched to a toothbrush and that kind of worked for removing stains but it faces the same problem as the swabs where it too isn't removing the stains off the frames.

>>2170 Easiest solution would be to spritz some WD-40 in there and hope that solves it. Pulling it apart to lubricate the ball bearings properly isn't really worth it compared to just replacing the fan.

>>2126 I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do or how it looks like but I just make a text file that has all the names of the fragments in the form file '<name of fragment>' one per line and then do ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i files.txt -c copy output.mkv. You may want to look at how youtube-dl handles concatenation of the pieces since it also does it somehow. I remember trying a few different things and this being the one that worked the best, although I'm not convinced it's an ideal way to do it.

>>2063 What a coincidence, I was reading through that book. I want to make a tool to give anons asap.

is there any idea about when we will get comparability with MacOS Big Sur?

>>2261 I hope soon. Some guys are working on it, I think they have a prototype going. Once that is running ok, I'd like to fold it into my normal releases. If you are comfortable with discord and would like to help test it, please check in with Suika there.

>>2252 Thank m8, I am glad you like it. >>2253 Thank you for this report. I am sorry for the trouble. I do not think I changed anything in Qt or tab behaviour, so I wonder if High Sierra got some update. I'll check this out on my own client. We may need to do some back and forth here to figure out what is going on, so please let me know how this works for you in future versions. BTW, when we move to this new Big Sur compatible build, that OpenSSL shit should go away and cloudscraper will start working on macOS, as the build will be made with newer libraries on github rather than my old laptop. >>2254 >>2257 Yeah, I think TOR is probably the problem here. By definition, TOR will connect to sites with different IPs, right? And CF tie your identity to IP, so even if you populate hydrus with your (even TOR) browser's cookies, CF will still see you as a new lad soon enough and will want to re-authenticate. CF may also recognise TOR and just have super strict TOR rules, but I don't know enough to be confident.

>>2224 He says in the excerpt that it's uncharted territory and likely not completely secure. Not sure what more you can expect.

>>2226 It's not uncharted territory, this has been discussed for over a decade https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea

What about Surf? Been using it for a day and I think its good for basic web browsing and editing if that's all you care about. So far as I can tell, it's pretty secure.

i own x260 and r400. i use x260 a lot when i'm on the go but i'm too lazy to libreboot my r400 so it just sits on my desk.

There is a criminal organization in Brazil using NSO Group's Pegasus to infect devices for hack for hire, to incite terrorism, blackmail people, produce illegal pornography and assist in assassinations. They also have other advanced malware, like UEFI implants and even persistent implants for Kindle and Raspberry Pi. Plus face/voice recognition on every camera and microphone they can get into, in public or private places. Brazil won't do anything to stop them. Only the FBI, CIA and NSA can stop them. There is also the possibility that they were engaged on the hack of Bezos' smartphone. If you know of any security researcher who wants to reverse engineer the exploits they are using, I am more than willing to help them. If you want a story about how they operate, I am willing to work with you to expose them.

>>1725 As a former owner of something like that, not worth it, a pain to use, really just a novelty. If you want to play retro games just find some secondhand CRT monitor and hook it up to your regular computer with a VM or something. I can't really think of anything that you can't get running completely fine on Wine, Wangblows 7/10, or a VM. >>1778 Lucky. Every time I see something like that someone else snags it up.

>>1948 A Brazilian different languages, and you choose Portuguese.

Hey Anons. Does Nim make for a decent first programming language? As it is, I've been sort-of learning both Nim and Python at the same time through Exercism because I can't choose between them. They're very similar syntactically so it actually hasn't been that much of a headache, but I recognize that this is a suboptimal way to learn. Nim is a language that greatly fascinates me. Enough to give me motivation to learn it, and despite the language seeming to be intended for more lower-level programming, the community has actually been surprisingly accepting of me being new to programming when I asked beginner level questions on the official forum. On the other hand, the differences in the quantity of resources between Nim and Python might make learning Nim more difficult to a new programmer. Anyway sorry if this is rambly, but I just wanna know if it would be better to learn the language I'm more motivated to learn, or the one with more resources. Maybe learning both at the same time isn't as bad as I think it is? I don't know.

>>2241 It doesn't really matter which language you choose as your first, as long as it's not retarded (Javascript) or something esoteric (Brainfuck). Python and Nim have very similar syntax, but they have very different purposes. Python is a scripting language, it's basically executable pseudocode. There is a ton of libraries available through pip, so whatever you want to do, you can probably just glue together some code in a few minutes and be done with it. It is much older and popular than Nim, so there is a lot of resources for it. On the other hand Python is slow. If anyone tells you that Python can be fast, they are lying and using libraries written in C with Python bindings. Nim is as systems programming language, it is meant for writing proper applications and it is fast. There are fewer resource (there is only one book written for it to date) and it has become stable only recently. It is better when it comes to writing proper applications in, but you have fewer libraries to choose from. Since Nim piggy-backs on C it allows you easily to use C libraries, but you need to be familiar with C in order to use them properly. While the Nim ecosystem is smaller, the community is also cozier. Python is cucked, but so is pretty much anything these days. Not Nim though. Nim takes ideas from a number of languages like C and Python (obviously), but also Lisp, C++ and Ada. Nim is also statically typed (you cannot change the type of a variable). To me Nim feels a lot like "what if we could do C++ all over again, but not even try to be backwards compatible with C syntax?". Personally I find Nim much more interesting than Python as a language. My personal recommendation: for your first language pick something that is easy to learn. I think that due to the large amount of resources Python is a better choice in that regard. You don't have to master every facet, just enough to be comfortable with the ideas behind programming. For your second language you can then pick whatever you need or find interesting. With every new language you learn you will find it easier to learn the next one.

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>>49 lewd

>>1769 I like the concept but in execution it's underwhelming. You have to add people manually, but because the community is so small people just end up adding the same few 24/7 nodes and joining the same network.

I've got a 2gb file of sought after erotic hypno (S@mB@n) files I want to share, but I don't have the capacity to host/seed a torrent. Where can I easily post it online so others can handle the spreading afterwards?

>>2207 You could try pinning the files on IPFS, but if you're the only node then it will be just as bad for your bandwidth as a torrent. You can try uploading to MegaUpload. I think they accept any file size, and people just use tools to circumvent daily download limits. You could also split the archive into multiple files which are easier to download, but this inhibits spreading.

You can use audio cable with most tape recorders. Then you'd just play files as sound. Probably very slow r/w though. Also tapes are not that long lasting if I recall, why not just cd roms, they work great if you dont rw everyday? Also memory cards only decay while reading and writing, so would be a better investment anyways data density wise.

>>2034 Look into half height drives, they are about the length of really old CD-ROM drives while fitting into a single 5.25" bay. I would avoid the external drives, mostly because you find better deals on internal only SAS controllers and cables, and can use the other 3 channels on the cable for drives. External drives are nearly all Fibre Channel, which means optical cables. I would not stick the drive in my main machine for 2 reasons: 1. I love the sound of the tape drive, but after the 2nd hour of non-stop servo motor sounds, it wears on you. 2. The SAS controllers and drives your going to be finding are old datacenter stock where energy use and heat output are an afterthought. Make sure you can find the software to run LTFS on your drive. Even though there's really only 2 manufacturers of these drives, you cannot mix and match that software. For example, all the Quantum, IBM, and HPE drives are all the same, but will only work with each respective software suites. Firmware access is a pain in the ass, if you can even find it. I have an HPE drive, and had to dig out the latest firmware from one of their support DVD's for a ProLiant server, everything else wen't behind a paywall ever since HP split into multiple companies. If your using Linux, you can fall back to plain old TAR and store data that way, but it's a giant pain in the ass keeping track of the data if you don't use some form of library software to keep track of everything, especially if your archives are huge. I use mine mostly for full system images by using a NAS to copy to first, then onto tape so I have 3-2-1 backups. LTFS is really nice, but if your dead set on using a GUI filemanager, you have to turn off thumbnails. I would stick with using the terminal or better yet, midnight commander for transferring data. You can use the files directly off the tape with LTFS, video for example, set your player up with a large precache so it reads the whole file in, you don't want the drive to be seeking when you rewind a few seconds back.

I forgot to add, most SAS controllers are dog slow during the boot sequence, you can easily double the time it takes your system to boot up, even with no drives detected. They are all designed to be in a system that resets once or twice a year, not every day.

California files to join US Justice Department's Google antitrust lawsuit https://www.cnet.com/news/california-files-to-join-us-justice-departments-antitrust-lawsuit-against-google/ They're in trouble now.

>>1927 A lot of companies already have offices in Texas. Not surprising to see HQs slowly moving there. I'm worried though because the employees they're bringing want to turn Texas into another California with the same policies that ruined it. >>1975 >Shocked to see it's not the official Nintento GameCube adapter that's being supported. I just use the Mayflash adapter which works fine on Linux. It was cheaper, supported both WiiU and PC (and eventually Switch), ended up having 2 ft more cable length than the official adapter, and was more easily available due to Nintendo's retarded philosophy of always under-stocking high-demand products. I wouldn't be surprised if it outsold Nintendo's own adapter. >>1988 >inb4 we repeat the 2001 antitrust suit with Microsoft which they just dropped and "forgot" about after 9/11

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/releases/tag/v0.11.0-beta Not that big of news, but I figure it was well worth sharing as FreeTube can be a damn good alternative to using YouTube or even an invidious instance.

Apigee is a predictive analytics company that did business in the Middle East. 16 employees, received $173 million in funding https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/apigee https://archive.is/tkksU * Chet Kapoor - CEO and BOD. Co-Founder and CIO at Tenzing Global Investors LLC. Former partner of Perry Capital. https://archive.today/y23N4 * Raj Singh - BOD & Founder. * Gregory Brail - CTO * Uday Subbarayan - Director of Software/Founding Member * Scott Regan - VP, Marketing * Sam Ramji - VP Strategy. Microsoft's director of open source and Linux strategy https://archive.is/6Tpm3 https://archive.is/1F6jA * Bob Corey - chairman of audit commitee * Vab Goel - partner in Norwest Venture Partners * Josh Goldman - partner in Norwest Venture Partners * Promod Haque - board member in Norwest Venture Partners More: https://archive.is/TaCRG * Neal Dempsey * Robert Schwartz

Saudi Arabia bought the UN Office of Counterterrorism. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/12/12/1959689/0/en/The-United-Nations-Counter-Terrorism-Centre-performed-Cybersecurity-Innovation-Challenge-in-Collaboration-with-OICT-and-AIT.html The UN Counterterrorism Executive Directorate runs Tech Against Terrorism to promote "migration, diversity, social inclusion" and the UN Alliance of Civilizations. https://archive.is/el7c2 Tech Against Terrorism partners include Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Twitter https://blogs.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/prod/sites/5/2019/05/Christchurch-Call-and-Nine-Steps.pdf The UN Alliance of Civilizations is a propaganda front for terrorists established by Iran and Pakistan and advised by Russia. Its partners include the Avaaz network and Vartan Gregorian. https://ggwiki.deepfreeze.it/index.php?title=UN_Alliance_of_Civilizations Vartan Gregorian is a Qatari agent who financed Barack Obama's political career and the Weather Underground http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990pf_pdf_archive/205/205714317/205714317_201006_990PF.pdf https://www.wnd.com/2010/06/171429/ his son Raffi Gregorian is deputy at the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/github-regrets-firing-jewish-employee-who-called-trump-incited-mob-nazis/ What are the possible ramifications of Github becoming woke and becoming pozzed? In light of this debacle. It is possible that Github could possibly look into changing it's Company Policy and thus code of conduct >GitHub regrets firing Jewish employee who called Trump-incited mob “Nazis” >GitHub Inc. yesterday apologized for firing a Jewish employee who had urged colleagues to "stay safe" and avoid "Nazis" on the day a mob incited by President Trump stormed the US Capitol. GitHub said it "reversed the decision" and indicated it is trying to hire the employee back. >"Stay safe homies, Nazis are about," the employee, whose identity hasn't been revealed publicly, wrote in an internal Slack chat room on January 6. He was fired two days later, after one "coworker was quick to criticize the employee for using divisive rhetoric" >"I did not know that, as a Jew, it would be so polarizing to say this word," the former employee wrote in a Slack group for Jewish employees shortly "before his corporate accounts got deactivated. The former employee is Jewish and had family who died in the Holocaust >The sacking was reportedly explained by the human relations representative who did the deed, with a “pattern of behavior that is not conducive to company policy.” >The fired employee spoke with TechCrunch last week before GitHub announced its decision to reverse the firing. The man "says he is (((currently seeking counsel to ensure his family is protected, as well as figure out if he can receive damages or some other form of reconciliation"))) and that he ((("is waiting to engage with the company until he has legal representation in place,"))) >The fired employee said he was also threatened with being fired in October when he complained about a lack of (((diversity))) in GitHub leadership. ((("I feel like this could be an opportunity for GitHub to really do a purge and say, 'Do we want white supremacists at this company and how do we get Black leaders into executive management?")))

Depends on what you want. If you look up other CDNs then you'll find quite a few. A lot charge by bandwidth usage, which can get expensive fast. If you just want DDoS protection, people sell just that. A lot of them have fine print about controversial content, though. Ironically Cloudflare is most famous for cucking out twice but it seems to be the only instances of them every doing so. There's a bunch of smaller vendors. You can also find a datacenter which provides DDoS protection for your server, although that doesn't help if you actually need a CDN. Then again, few people do. CDNs are really a solution for a problem faced by enterprise who care about engagement metrics and optimizing load times. Most people are using Cloudflare's free plan because it's free and protects them from DDoS and bots.

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>>2157 What?

Can you run it locally? Is it Free Software? If either of those answer is no, then you should not be using it. > I just need to use a grammar checker whenever I become retarded especially when I am writing papers. Get good at writing. Re-read your writing. Ask another person to look over it. Make sure that person is not just a yes-man.

>>2105 >Ask another person to look over it. Make sure that person is not just a yes-man That's the problem I don't have friends, asking randoms is a bad idea. Writing long and tedious papers is a pain in the ass. I just need a service that would check my writing personality and my grammar. For example my personality involves the usage of unpopular words and simplifying the definition of it.

>>2119 The guy who ran that newspaper around the webring self-hosted some kind of spellchecker software. I believe it was this https://grammark.org/dist/#/

>>1257 So is the project dead? I was waiting for the importing to Vichan feature, that would allow to archive any Vichan board and make a read-only version.

Pushed an update to rectify an oversight in DB versioning. File hashes were updated but one of the identifier fields was not. >>2099 No, but between the holidays, the main site, the streaming site, and some other projects my hands have been full. I released this when it hit a minimum viable state. I will need to learn the layout of the Vichan database, possibly accounting for the most popular forks. If you are familiar with administrating Vichan servers, please drop me a line. You may be able to expedite the process. >>2125 Are you facing difficulty scraping from Cloudflare protected sites? If so, let me know which sites are causing a problem. Even on a VPN I've been able to take test scrapes from every webring site.