/cy/ - Cyberpunk

The X Window system had a lot of problems but most are solved now really, beyond being sort of complex and "insecure" (doesn't really matter, since Unix-likes are about as insecure anyway). Wayland is supposed to break things down into some D-Bus/XDG/logind nightmare or something, not entirely clear to me, maybe someone knows better here.
Ignoring all other options and going directly for GTK and Qt (Qt isn't nearly as bad as GTK though). GTK and Qt go through major version changes and impose change on programs which creates instability and extra developer work. GNOME has been changing its design paradigm and everyone else has to pick up their turds and deal with it.
GIMP is not even bad other than the fact that it uses GTK. Single window mode, dark mode, GEGL options, Mypaint brushes, its all been default for quite some time now, but Adobe users just won't switch away from an 8 year old program (the pre-cloud version of Photoshop). Never used Photoshop, the most complex proprietary graphics editor I have used is Paint.NET, but GIMP is more capable than that one. Krita is a little easier for painting and drawing but it has a worse text tool last I checked. I remember people whining about CMYK for years, but its in Krita and GIMP now as far as I know (there was a GIMP plugin for CMYK for years). I think they just don't want to learn a new tool, there will always be excuses, but they don't really mean much since these people don't plan to switch ever.

>>1528
cont'd
I like Eaglemode, graphical Emacs (the X kind without GTK), and some of the X window managers as well as mpv. Links (browser) has a graphical mode but it looks much like the curses interface. Worker is an interesting file manager and a good example of a classic X11 program that never died out, but its a bit too orthodox, so I don't use it.
Once you get away from the big GUI silos trying to replicate some other system semi-successfully, you can see the advantages and disadvantages of the Unix-like approach. Unix-likes don't really care much about graphics so there is a lot of complexity in the whole pile of display technologies. Ideally they're just trying to display a TTY, not a graphical environment with GL acceleration and programs capable of displaying OpenGL or Vulkan stuff with specialized hardware and drivers. It took many years for Mesa/drm (not digital rights management) in the kernel/X to work this well for a lot of people, and there are still problems. Desktop software wise, people had to write a lot of standards, XDG/ICCCM/EMWH and so on, and they're not really seamless or without problems, so its kind of terrible for an Apple, Windows, or BeOS clone. But on Unix-likes, you can have it your way usually, you can have your own window manager of choice that works well for you and can be modified to fit your needs, rice Emacs or Vim or whatever, tile those windows, etc.
Oh and NVIDIA doesn't care much about Linux or other open source platforms so CUDA isn't really as relevant (requires proprietary drivers), and OpenCL usage is limited, so there are less programs using or related to that sort of thing.

>>1529
>Eaglemode
Good taste.

>>984
It's not exactly a secret, they have statues for Lacan, Derrida and some other.

I generally don't watch much anime, but fuck I adore this show

Yea not bad, watched it in 2/3 days when bored, hoped for something better when I finished it btw

>>941
pleb filtered

>>984
THANK YOU

I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THAT WEBSITE FOR YEARS

I remember there was one out there I had found that did side by side shot comparisons of ergo and famous movies/paintains etc. but could never find it again.

Looks like the people at Framasoft realized how hard it is to find anything on PeerTube and made a semi-curated search engine for it: https://sepiasearch.org/
Announcement: https://framablog.org/2020/09/22/sepia-search-our-search-engine-to-promote-peertube/

This is some netlabel's PeerTube, they upload music videos to it: https://v.basspistol.org/videos/local

This site has "edutainment" videos, if I understand correctly they are uploaded by youtubers (i.e., it's not an unofficial mirror).
https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/69da6d3a-b56b-4b22-800d-8eb1530f4394

Look what I have found: https://toobnix.org/video-channels/emacsconf/videos

>>1711
Fuck the FSFE
They went and signed the Anti-Stallman letter

>>1828
This just looks like Live2D to me, same sort of thing as what all those VTubers use. This type of thing doesn't require anywhere near the complexity of deepfakes.

I found this video about making something similar. They cut up the image into parts in some editor and then use some magic in AfterEffects to bend it. The first part can be done easily in GIMP, but is there any FLOSS software that can do the second?

The video in OP was something like this.

It's not magic, just tween and puppet. It's almost easy.

>>1832
Show us how to do it!

The world isn't that cool anymore. At best you'd get something out of China. Scary if they win the AI race.

>>1494
How about something like APL that manages to avoid the language question altogether?

>>1496
why would people want to go back to hieroglyphs?

>>1497
Same reason they use them in maths? Why should programming languages mimic human languages when programs do not behave in any way resembling human thoughts?

>>1498
because humans make it and use it, the machine doesn't care you can make a language based on different dick sizes and it will still take it, but we don't think like that we think and verbalize our thoughts with words, we refined to a point where we can use letters who are easy to grasp and to memorize in a verbal way who can also be used in a number of different variations

square+circle+lain+circle+dildo+triangle= function a
"a" = function a

The Little Schemer (and its continuations) have a very nice dialogue-like structure to them, which takes a bit of practice to read effectively, but once you are used to it, is a delight to read. The examples it use are very fun, too. I was told that it is an example of "programmed instruction" but other books labelled programmed instruction are nowhere near this masterpiece.

This is a textbook written for students whose introductory programming class used a functional programming language, the concrete examples are in SML. It teaches C and imperative programming through translating functional programs into efficient and idiomatic C programs. Sometimes the translations are quite formal, other times somewhat heuristic.

You really chose a backwater to post this one. These are the other spaces I know of.
https://lainchan.org and the Lainzine
https://blackfogzine.org/
https://www.neondystopia.com/
https://www.cyberpunkforums.com/
and of course the cyb subreddits

Good luck!

>>998
>lainchan after 2018
>subreddits

i cry

>>999
Checked.

>>1000
Checked.

>>999
Triple reverse satan check

>>998
please go back, there is a reason why we choose this backwater.

Yeah boys. some of my (free || open) source software

1. OSs: Debian, Void, Plan9, & OpenBSD
2. Editors: Acme, Emacs, & Sam

W8.
Here is a list:
https://github.com/mayfrost/guides/blob/master/ALTERNATIVES.md

>>1500
I wish I could find a cute gf that's into free software, a good OS, and hates smartphones.

I am really glad that Anki exists. It saved me from failing out of university.

>>1501
include gentoo

Try asking on textboard.org maybe.

>>1510
Is my thread not welcome here?

I believe this to be very important in today's climate where every megacorporation tries to paint themselves to be great supporters of "open source" and many of our organizations are funded by their "generous donations". But the problem is that they don't give a shit about software freedom. Take Visual Studio Code for example. Microsoft used to advertise it as being Open Source, and millions in good faith downloaded binaries of it. Until a careful eye noticed that the source code released as "Visual Studio Code" was different from the binaries released as "Visual Studio Code". In fact, the binaries even have their own license agreement that you have to accept to use them. After being called out on it, Microsoft modified their website and now Visual Studio Code only claims that it was "built on Open Source", as if that was something to be proud of. But the damage has already been done. I think Docker employed (or still employs) similar tricks. The problem is, pushover (so-called "permissive") licenses do not protect you from this trickery at all. With copyleft licenses, the source code of the binary has to be provided. But with pushover licenses, corporations can put some crippled version of their software on Github as bait, and distribute proprietary versions of it in binary form. This is why I think verifying source-to-binary correspondence, enabled by bootstrappable and reproducible builds, is so important.

>>1512
https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/the-four-free-ums/
There was this talk at LibrePlanet 2020 by someone from the Open Source Initiative(!) about some current practices that companies employ to appear as part of the Free Software movement without actually adhering to the principles of software freedom.