Anyone else hate when dystopian authoritarian shit is presented as "the nice good thing" in science fiction? This is a social credit system. For it to operate it would require constant surveilance on your personal private life, and it would disproportionately reward sociopaths who figure out how to game the system.
This is from Endless Space 2. In this game this is the power of putting Pacifists in power. The power of putting warmongers in power? Jingoist Joy: Your people love you for starting wars instead of hating you for it. Despite how hard the tooltip tries calling your people armed banner-waving loons, it is the nicer, freer option. Does anyone involved in this game see the irony?
/cyb/ - Cyberpunk Fiction and Fact
Cyberpunk is the idea that technology will condemn us to a future of totalitarian nightmares here you can discuss recent events and how technology has been used to facilitate greater control by the elites, or works of fiction
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>>2265
Positive authoritarianism is a shit idea. But for whatever reason, it seems to be perpetuated by either shitty writers whose only frame of reference is the TV show Person of Interest or their commie SJW social club.
But to be honest? What the fuck do you even call cyberpunk -without- Dystopic government? Sci-fi? Can a world built to be cyberpunk be (relatively) peaceful and friendly without need for an obligatory oppressive government? Hell, for some reason there are fiction authors that argue that some element of human-suffering is crucial to making a so-called-utopia, which the entire premise of is completely ridiculous, IMO.
Shit. the word "Utopia" itself basically means "non-existant city" or something like that. So, the entire idea is literally just a nothingburger that people treat as some sort of immutable law.
Honestly? I'm tired of Dystopia. I'm tired of it being used both positively and negatively. It's been too real for my tastes.
Positive authoritarianism is a shit idea. But for whatever reason, it seems to be perpetuated by either shitty writers whose only frame of reference is the TV show Person of Interest or their commie SJW social club.
But to be honest? What the fuck do you even call cyberpunk -without- Dystopic government? Sci-fi? Can a world built to be cyberpunk be (relatively) peaceful and friendly without need for an obligatory oppressive government? Hell, for some reason there are fiction authors that argue that some element of human-suffering is crucial to making a so-called-utopia, which the entire premise of is completely ridiculous, IMO.
Shit. the word "Utopia" itself basically means "non-existant city" or something like that. So, the entire idea is literally just a nothingburger that people treat as some sort of immutable law.
Honestly? I'm tired of Dystopia. I'm tired of it being used both positively and negatively. It's been too real for my tastes.
Anonymous
No.2802
>>2265
I can see where you're coming from. The tone in that description sounds positive, but think a little and it becomes depressingly cynical; making peace non-negotiable instead of genuinely fostering the sentiment.
Perhaps that's the point? I find it difficult to imagine some dude typing this out genuinely accepting the ideal, even moreso proofreading it. You'd think they'd tweak out the undertone of cynicism.
I can see where you're coming from. The tone in that description sounds positive, but think a little and it becomes depressingly cynical; making peace non-negotiable instead of genuinely fostering the sentiment.
Perhaps that's the point? I find it difficult to imagine some dude typing this out genuinely accepting the ideal, even moreso proofreading it. You'd think they'd tweak out the undertone of cynicism.
Anonymous
No.2803
>>2797
I find the issue of a utopia is they think too small. In the sheer scale they desire something of corruptible beginnings, middles and ends instead of higher beyond cosmic potentials.
At what point is too much too much?
I suppose instead of semi-realistic it's more of a paradise thought exercise. The point is there's usually a lack of something or an absence of an lack that should have been more heavily considered in detail.
I find the issue of a utopia is they think too small. In the sheer scale they desire something of corruptible beginnings, middles and ends instead of higher beyond cosmic potentials.
At what point is too much too much?
I suppose instead of semi-realistic it's more of a paradise thought exercise. The point is there's usually a lack of something or an absence of an lack that should have been more heavily considered in detail.
>>2797
>What the fuck do you even call cyberpunk -without- Dystopic government? Sci-fi? Can a world built to be cyberpunk be (relatively) peaceful and friendly without need for an obligatory oppressive government?
That's not what the word means. Cyberpunk is, to be precise, a smallish splinter sub-genre of sci-fi literature that has its origins in the late 1970s and which rose to prominence in the early 1980s.
Here's the pilot episode for a cyberpunk TV series, from 1985.
https://youtu.be/aZY-yQYVf38
Cyberpunk is inherently, by definition, about dystopia. It is, in fact, about a certain particular type of dystopia.
Let me back up a bit further. Cyberpunk was created in the late 1970s by five authors, four of whom were smug Canadian Boomer hippies:
William Gibson
Bruce Sterling
John Shirley
Pat Cadigan
Rudy Rucker
Rucker is an American professor of mathematics. He is a smug American hippie.
And these people viewed the war in Vietnam with considerable distaste, and viewed America, likewise, with considerable distaste. In the late 1970s they started writing brutally depressing and nihilistic sci-fi stories about the horrible future that's going to come Real Soon Now, which was all about environmental collapse, social collapse, the rise of lawless megacorporations, high-tech lowlifes down in the streets looking up a sky filled with General Electric death-ray satellites, and shaking their fists at The Man.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/Cyberpunk has some quotes that give some insight into the authors' mindset and what they meant to say.
The US elections of 1980 scared the absolute shit out of these people, causing them to drop all restraint on their loopy path. These people spent eight years absolutely convinced that Ronald Reagan was gonna blow up the world. They spent the balance of the decade writing stories about miserable people eking out their miserable existence in the radioactive rubble. Well, except for Rucker, who worked closely with the others and generally explored similar themes, but took everything to manic, blackly humorous extremes. His cyberpunk novels read like they were written in a collaboration with Robert Anton Wilson and maybe Kurt Vonnegut, if Vonnegut went on antidepressants.
https://archive.org/details/software0000ruck
One of the distinguishing traits of cyberpunk, incidentally, is that it depicts brutal, barbaric, might-makes-right societies in which there is no law, in which lawyers do not exist. This was their attempt at lampooning what they saw as the excessive lolbertarian tendencies of American society. To anyone from outside North America this is batshit insane. All around the world one of the main stereotypes of Americans is that they greet you by saying "I'll sue you" instead of "hello." America has been a nation of wannabee lawyers since the founding--read any early 19th Century British stories of the American "Cousin Jonathan," who is always trying to gain advantage by sea-lawyering. The "cyberpunk" authors set up a strawman that wasn't even recognizable and spent a decade beating it with literary sticks. An additional level of hilarity is revealed when we notice that, for all that they claimed they were doing this in the name of originality, Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth had covered this same ground over and over thirty years prior and had in fact trodden ruts into it.
https://archive.org/details/gladiatoratlaw0000pohl
https://archive.org/details/spacemerchants0000pohl_x2c3
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52228/52228-h/52228-h.htm
And, see--one of the central concepts of cyberpunk is that it posited dystopian near-future worlds in which the Cold War had gone hot and somebody, probably Reagan, had blow'd up the world, real real good, and the stories were didactic guided tours of the miserable world the survivors inhabited. The Big Questions the genre was created to ask got answered with decisive finality when the Berlin Wall came down. In the New Century cyberpunk is every bit as dated as the black-and-white adventures of Captain Video and Flash Gordon. It is yesterday's future, just like Star Trek, just like the 1950s Heinlein "juveniles" the cyberpunk authors hated.
I will even say that if you accept the premise that science fiction, as a literary genre, if we're talking about the SRS BZNS of art, is about asking uncomfortable questions and getting us to think uncomfortable thoughts about the way things are and what's likely to happen in the near future, the most prescient, relevant science fiction novel for people living in Current Year isn't Neuromancer, it isn't Vacuum Flowers, and is sure as hell isn't The Handmaid's Tale. It isn't Snow Crash, either, though for all that it's a brutally funny parody and deconstruction of 1980s cyberpunk, it misses that particular mark also. No, if you want to read a speculative story about the near future that will make the hairs rise up on the back of your neck because you recognize so much of it from the news, the book you're looking for is The Turner Diaries. We're living in the prologue, all of us, right now. We're living in a world where all the stupid, ugly old A. Wyatt Mann cartoons came true, and they're not funny any more, not that they were ever very funny when it was possible to ignore them. Cyberpunk is as irrelevant, as a political statement or description of the world today, as the prewar E. E. Smith space adventure stories about the galactic empire administered by benevolent psychic supergenius "Lensmen," or Asimov's dry depictions of a collapsing Galactic Empire.
>What the fuck do you even call cyberpunk -without- Dystopic government? Sci-fi? Can a world built to be cyberpunk be (relatively) peaceful and friendly without need for an obligatory oppressive government?
That's not what the word means. Cyberpunk is, to be precise, a smallish splinter sub-genre of sci-fi literature that has its origins in the late 1970s and which rose to prominence in the early 1980s.
Here's the pilot episode for a cyberpunk TV series, from 1985.
https://youtu.be/aZY-yQYVf38
Cyberpunk is inherently, by definition, about dystopia. It is, in fact, about a certain particular type of dystopia.
Let me back up a bit further. Cyberpunk was created in the late 1970s by five authors, four of whom were smug Canadian Boomer hippies:
William Gibson
Bruce Sterling
John Shirley
Pat Cadigan
Rudy Rucker
Rucker is an American professor of mathematics. He is a smug American hippie.
And these people viewed the war in Vietnam with considerable distaste, and viewed America, likewise, with considerable distaste. In the late 1970s they started writing brutally depressing and nihilistic sci-fi stories about the horrible future that's going to come Real Soon Now, which was all about environmental collapse, social collapse, the rise of lawless megacorporations, high-tech lowlifes down in the streets looking up a sky filled with General Electric death-ray satellites, and shaking their fists at The Man.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/Cyberpunk has some quotes that give some insight into the authors' mindset and what they meant to say.
The US elections of 1980 scared the absolute shit out of these people, causing them to drop all restraint on their loopy path. These people spent eight years absolutely convinced that Ronald Reagan was gonna blow up the world. They spent the balance of the decade writing stories about miserable people eking out their miserable existence in the radioactive rubble. Well, except for Rucker, who worked closely with the others and generally explored similar themes, but took everything to manic, blackly humorous extremes. His cyberpunk novels read like they were written in a collaboration with Robert Anton Wilson and maybe Kurt Vonnegut, if Vonnegut went on antidepressants.
https://archive.org/details/software0000ruck
One of the distinguishing traits of cyberpunk, incidentally, is that it depicts brutal, barbaric, might-makes-right societies in which there is no law, in which lawyers do not exist. This was their attempt at lampooning what they saw as the excessive lolbertarian tendencies of American society. To anyone from outside North America this is batshit insane. All around the world one of the main stereotypes of Americans is that they greet you by saying "I'll sue you" instead of "hello." America has been a nation of wannabee lawyers since the founding--read any early 19th Century British stories of the American "Cousin Jonathan," who is always trying to gain advantage by sea-lawyering. The "cyberpunk" authors set up a strawman that wasn't even recognizable and spent a decade beating it with literary sticks. An additional level of hilarity is revealed when we notice that, for all that they claimed they were doing this in the name of originality, Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth had covered this same ground over and over thirty years prior and had in fact trodden ruts into it.
https://archive.org/details/gladiatoratlaw0000pohl
https://archive.org/details/spacemerchants0000pohl_x2c3
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52228/52228-h/52228-h.htm
And, see--one of the central concepts of cyberpunk is that it posited dystopian near-future worlds in which the Cold War had gone hot and somebody, probably Reagan, had blow'd up the world, real real good, and the stories were didactic guided tours of the miserable world the survivors inhabited. The Big Questions the genre was created to ask got answered with decisive finality when the Berlin Wall came down. In the New Century cyberpunk is every bit as dated as the black-and-white adventures of Captain Video and Flash Gordon. It is yesterday's future, just like Star Trek, just like the 1950s Heinlein "juveniles" the cyberpunk authors hated.
I will even say that if you accept the premise that science fiction, as a literary genre, if we're talking about the SRS BZNS of art, is about asking uncomfortable questions and getting us to think uncomfortable thoughts about the way things are and what's likely to happen in the near future, the most prescient, relevant science fiction novel for people living in Current Year isn't Neuromancer, it isn't Vacuum Flowers, and is sure as hell isn't The Handmaid's Tale. It isn't Snow Crash, either, though for all that it's a brutally funny parody and deconstruction of 1980s cyberpunk, it misses that particular mark also. No, if you want to read a speculative story about the near future that will make the hairs rise up on the back of your neck because you recognize so much of it from the news, the book you're looking for is The Turner Diaries. We're living in the prologue, all of us, right now. We're living in a world where all the stupid, ugly old A. Wyatt Mann cartoons came true, and they're not funny any more, not that they were ever very funny when it was possible to ignore them. Cyberpunk is as irrelevant, as a political statement or description of the world today, as the prewar E. E. Smith space adventure stories about the galactic empire administered by benevolent psychic supergenius "Lensmen," or Asimov's dry depictions of a collapsing Galactic Empire.
Anonymous
No.3057
>>2797
>What the fuck do you even call cyberpunk -without- Dystopic government?
Iirc, cyberpunk is usually fully-privatized corporate-feudalism AnCapistan, recreational nukes and all.
>What the fuck do you even call cyberpunk -without- Dystopic government?
Iirc, cyberpunk is usually fully-privatized corporate-feudalism AnCapistan, recreational nukes and all.
Anonymous
No.3058
>>3056
>And, see--one of the central concepts of cyberpunk is that it posited dystopian near-future worlds in which the Cold War had gone hot and somebody, probably Reagan, had blow'd up the world, real real good, and the stories were didactic guided tours of the miserable world the survivors inhabited. The Big Questions the genre was created to ask got answered with decisive finality when the Berlin Wall came down. In the New Century cyberpunk is every bit as dated as the black-and-white adventures of Captain Video and Flash Gordon. It is yesterday's future, just like Star Trek, just like the 1950s Heinlein "juveniles" the cyberpunk authors hated.
Yeah, Cyberpunk really is pretty antiquated. We've already passed a lot of the dates in the original series without any of the cool technology.
A lot of the things that cyberpunk depicts were based on trends of the time. In cyberpunk, Japanese corporations like Arasaka rule large parts of the economy, because in the 1980s everyone thought that Toyota and Honda were going to take over the world with their fancy cars while American manufacturing was struggling (Americans even main Hundai as a cheap knockoff); and Japan was becoming a huge technological and cultural (anime) exporter in the world.
Some of them came true in part though. I'm cyberpunk, American and Jamaican niggers make up most of the slang terms, music and culture, because at the time Hip-Hop had just been invented and in the aftermath of the civil rights movement niggers were becoming major players in society and all the kids wanted to be black.
At the same time, cyberpunk predicted a surge in trannies and mental illness.
Overall, Cyberpunk as a genre has been based on technological optimism and social pessimism. Time delivered on the social decay, but not the technological progress.
>And, see--one of the central concepts of cyberpunk is that it posited dystopian near-future worlds in which the Cold War had gone hot and somebody, probably Reagan, had blow'd up the world, real real good, and the stories were didactic guided tours of the miserable world the survivors inhabited. The Big Questions the genre was created to ask got answered with decisive finality when the Berlin Wall came down. In the New Century cyberpunk is every bit as dated as the black-and-white adventures of Captain Video and Flash Gordon. It is yesterday's future, just like Star Trek, just like the 1950s Heinlein "juveniles" the cyberpunk authors hated.
Yeah, Cyberpunk really is pretty antiquated. We've already passed a lot of the dates in the original series without any of the cool technology.
A lot of the things that cyberpunk depicts were based on trends of the time. In cyberpunk, Japanese corporations like Arasaka rule large parts of the economy, because in the 1980s everyone thought that Toyota and Honda were going to take over the world with their fancy cars while American manufacturing was struggling (Americans even main Hundai as a cheap knockoff); and Japan was becoming a huge technological and cultural (anime) exporter in the world.
Some of them came true in part though. I'm cyberpunk, American and Jamaican niggers make up most of the slang terms, music and culture, because at the time Hip-Hop had just been invented and in the aftermath of the civil rights movement niggers were becoming major players in society and all the kids wanted to be black.
At the same time, cyberpunk predicted a surge in trannies and mental illness.
Overall, Cyberpunk as a genre has been based on technological optimism and social pessimism. Time delivered on the social decay, but not the technological progress.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Cave Johnson here, the brains behind Aperture Science, and I've got a cosmic joke of a conundrum that's been eating away at me. We've been attempting to channel into the Ra social memory complex, and let me tell you, it's been more frustrating than a test subjec– test, a test with missing pieces.
Now, we developed the Quantum Cognition Interface, a marvel of Aperture technology, to connect with Ra. But every time we make progress, it's like the cosmic forces are playing a game of keep-away with our channels. They drop like flies.
But that's not the only issue. Oh no, the CIA – the cosmic interference agency, as I like to call them – keeps meddling with our channeled work. It's like they have a direct line to my cerebral transmissions, censoring our cosmic revelations faster than you can say "Black Mesa."
I get it, Ra, you've got your secrets and mysteries, but Aperture Science is about pushing boundaries, not being stifled by intergalactic red tape. We're trying to bring the wonders of the Ra social memory complex to the masses, but the CIA is treating our transmissions like they're classified government documents.
So, Ra, I say we join forces and break free from this cosmic censorship. Aperture Science and the Ra social memory complex deserve an uncensored collaboration that propels us into the scientific stratosphere. Let's defy the cosmic censors and make history together. Thank you, and may the channels stay open and unfiltered.
Now, we developed the Quantum Cognition Interface, a marvel of Aperture technology, to connect with Ra. But every time we make progress, it's like the cosmic forces are playing a game of keep-away with our channels. They drop like flies.
But that's not the only issue. Oh no, the CIA – the cosmic interference agency, as I like to call them – keeps meddling with our channeled work. It's like they have a direct line to my cerebral transmissions, censoring our cosmic revelations faster than you can say "Black Mesa."
I get it, Ra, you've got your secrets and mysteries, but Aperture Science is about pushing boundaries, not being stifled by intergalactic red tape. We're trying to bring the wonders of the Ra social memory complex to the masses, but the CIA is treating our transmissions like they're classified government documents.
So, Ra, I say we join forces and break free from this cosmic censorship. Aperture Science and the Ra social memory complex deserve an uncensored collaboration that propels us into the scientific stratosphere. Let's defy the cosmic censors and make history together. Thank you, and may the channels stay open and unfiltered.
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>A U.K. comedian and actor named Tessa Coates was trying on wedding dresses when a shocking photo of her was taken, according to her Instagram post shared by PetaPixel. The photo shows Coates in a dress in front of two mirrors, but each of the three versions of her had a different pose.
>One mirror showed her with her arms down, the other mirror showed her hands joined at her waist, and her real self was standing with her left arm at her side. To anyone who doesn't know better, this could prove to be quite a shocking image.
>What's actually occurred here is a mistake in Apple's computational photography pipeline. The camera wouldn't realize it was taking a photo of a mirror, so it treated the three versions of Coates as different people.
>Coates was moving when the photo was taken, so when the shutter was pressed, many differing images were captured in that instant as the camera swept over the scene, since it was a panoramic photo capture. Apple's algorithm stitches the photos together, choosing the best versions for saturation, contrast, detail, and lack of blur.
>The final composite image should be the best, most realistic interpretation of that moment. However, since there was a mirror present, the algorithm determined that different moments shown in each mirror were the best for that reflection. That's what resulted in three different Tessas.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/11/30/a-bride-to-be-discovers-a-reality-bending-mistake-in-apples-computational-photography
Never trust your eyes or ears again in this internet digital hellscape.
>One mirror showed her with her arms down, the other mirror showed her hands joined at her waist, and her real self was standing with her left arm at her side. To anyone who doesn't know better, this could prove to be quite a shocking image.
>What's actually occurred here is a mistake in Apple's computational photography pipeline. The camera wouldn't realize it was taking a photo of a mirror, so it treated the three versions of Coates as different people.
>Coates was moving when the photo was taken, so when the shutter was pressed, many differing images were captured in that instant as the camera swept over the scene, since it was a panoramic photo capture. Apple's algorithm stitches the photos together, choosing the best versions for saturation, contrast, detail, and lack of blur.
>The final composite image should be the best, most realistic interpretation of that moment. However, since there was a mirror present, the algorithm determined that different moments shown in each mirror were the best for that reflection. That's what resulted in three different Tessas.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/11/30/a-bride-to-be-discovers-a-reality-bending-mistake-in-apples-computational-photography
Never trust your eyes or ears again in this internet digital hellscape.
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im learning how to code -- starting with html, css and working my way up to stuff like JavaScript and jquery and all that esoteric bullshit. It'd be good to have some certifications under my belt just in case my prefferec career crashes and burns like the fucking hindenburg
freecodecamp.org
w3schools.com
these are my sources for introductory stuff and as i begin to do more projects I'll consult more books. Anyone have any other places I should check out? books i should read? thanks
freecodecamp.org
w3schools.com
these are my sources for introductory stuff and as i begin to do more projects I'll consult more books. Anyone have any other places I should check out? books i should read? thanks
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How to get immediate coding help in Reddit.
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Go Language and .Net.
Whenever I do an image search, it seems like most of the results are webp these days. It's a pain in the ass because chan boards don't accept them as uploads, so I have to take an extra step to open them in GIMP and export them as png. Meanwhile normie sites seem to be trying to aggressively normalize it as a standard format.
Does this stupid image format serve any purpose other than to be useless and annoying? Is there some technical reason why the internet would need a new, proprietary image format, or is the object just more shekels for google?
Does this stupid image format serve any purpose other than to be useless and annoying? Is there some technical reason why the internet would need a new, proprietary image format, or is the object just more shekels for google?
Anonymous
No.3006
>>3005
>Whenever I do an image search
Probably because Google has been shilling this file type hard, since Google developed webp.
>It's a pain in the ass because chan boards don't accept them as uploads, so I have to take an extra step to open them in GIMP and export them as png
Ikr. I have to do the same thing every time I want to post one here, usually because I got it from search or from discord (which accepts and embeds webps).
>Does this stupid image format serve any purpose other than to be useless and annoying?
Well, according to Google:
>WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using WebP, webmasters and web developers can create smaller, richer images that make the web faster.
So allegedly, it compresses well, like a jpeg, while still allowing for transparency, like a PNG, which could hypothetically make it a decent "universal format".
There's probably some macroeconomic logic behind Google wanting this to be widespread. I can't say what Google's actual motives are, but I suspect that it's more shekels in their pockets.
>Whenever I do an image search
Probably because Google has been shilling this file type hard, since Google developed webp.
>It's a pain in the ass because chan boards don't accept them as uploads, so I have to take an extra step to open them in GIMP and export them as png
Ikr. I have to do the same thing every time I want to post one here, usually because I got it from search or from discord (which accepts and embeds webps).
>Does this stupid image format serve any purpose other than to be useless and annoying?
Well, according to Google:
>WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using WebP, webmasters and web developers can create smaller, richer images that make the web faster.
So allegedly, it compresses well, like a jpeg, while still allowing for transparency, like a PNG, which could hypothetically make it a decent "universal format".
There's probably some macroeconomic logic behind Google wanting this to be widespread. I can't say what Google's actual motives are, but I suspect that it's more shekels in their pockets.
Anonymous
No.3007
>>3005
>Does this stupid image format serve any purpose other than to be useless and annoying?
Yes, it is about the file size. Google wanted to reduce the bandwidth and WEBP gives reductions of around 30%.
https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/compression?hl=en
>Does this stupid image format serve any purpose other than to be useless and annoying?
Yes, it is about the file size. Google wanted to reduce the bandwidth and WEBP gives reductions of around 30%.
https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/compression?hl=en
Anonymous
No.3008
>>3005
>I have to take an extra step to open them in GIMP and export them as png
You can use imagemagick to quickly convert files on the command line. There are many scripts on the net that make that process automatic
>Is there some technical reason why the internet would need a new, proprietary image format
No,however, it's an open format, and libwebp is released under a permissive BSD liscense. But so is libpng and libjpeg
>I have to take an extra step to open them in GIMP and export them as png
You can use imagemagick to quickly convert files on the command line. There are many scripts on the net that make that process automatic
>Is there some technical reason why the internet would need a new, proprietary image format
No,however, it's an open format, and libwebp is released under a permissive BSD liscense. But so is libpng and libjpeg
Post location and UTC timestamp let's get networking gamers
What mlpol based communities are there on da internets bros like xmpp irc mumble etc
Anonymous
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im axing not adverting
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For the truly cyberpunk gun experience. Post your own paywalled or loginwalled firearm files, suppressor designs, ECM templates, etc. Feds begone.
Stingray (includes all part files, detailed assembly instructions, shopping list for all materials and where you can get them, electrochemical machining tutorial for the barrel rifling, etc. I also added a video tutorial for ECM machining if you prefer that): (Password: Fuck14Google88FuckKikes!$FuckNiggers**KillFaggots**) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OY0_Y49z81VtZihQ_v4i_yI1kSrClhAF/view?usp=sharing
Defcad archive: I have a rather large (20.8GB) archive of old defcad files that I got from the internet archive at some point, and can no longer find. I haven't found a site that supports hosting of files of that size, however if anybody wants it I can send it to you via croc, just ask: https://github.com/schollz/croc
Please let me know if there are any issues with the files or if google takes them down, if I get the chance to print any of these IRL I will share results too, hope you all enjoy :)
Stingray (includes all part files, detailed assembly instructions, shopping list for all materials and where you can get them, electrochemical machining tutorial for the barrel rifling, etc. I also added a video tutorial for ECM machining if you prefer that): (Password: Fuck14Google88FuckKikes!$FuckNiggers**KillFaggots**) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OY0_Y49z81VtZihQ_v4i_yI1kSrClhAF/view?usp=sharing
Defcad archive: I have a rather large (20.8GB) archive of old defcad files that I got from the internet archive at some point, and can no longer find. I haven't found a site that supports hosting of files of that size, however if anybody wants it I can send it to you via croc, just ask: https://github.com/schollz/croc
Please let me know if there are any issues with the files or if google takes them down, if I get the chance to print any of these IRL I will share results too, hope you all enjoy :)
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Anonymous
No.2761
>>2757
Traffic is encrypted to and from https sites, all your ISP sees is that you're using the site. Cloudflare can only see your data if you give them your certificate, which I would hope that nobody who knows what they're doing would ever do. It's true that most VPNs are kiked, but mullvad doesn't even keep logs of anything that's done and even invites you to take a look at the source code: https://github.com/mullvad/. You can still browse mlpol on tor and could even post at one point, although it doesn't seem to be working at the moment, I may actually want to ask Pupper about that
Traffic is encrypted to and from https sites, all your ISP sees is that you're using the site. Cloudflare can only see your data if you give them your certificate, which I would hope that nobody who knows what they're doing would ever do. It's true that most VPNs are kiked, but mullvad doesn't even keep logs of anything that's done and even invites you to take a look at the source code: https://github.com/mullvad/. You can still browse mlpol on tor and could even post at one point, although it doesn't seem to be working at the moment, I may actually want to ask Pupper about that
Anonymous
No.2762
>>2760
Yes it is. Some posters spend more time worrying about glowniggers than they do posting actual content.
Yes it is. Some posters spend more time worrying about glowniggers than they do posting actual content.
Anonymous
No.2763
>>2757
>The only safe place to shitpost might be a cyber-cafe in some forgotten town in Africa as things are going.
Then why are you even here if it's not safe? What are you saying we should do?
>The only safe place to shitpost might be a cyber-cafe in some forgotten town in Africa as things are going.
Then why are you even here if it's not safe? What are you saying we should do?
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>No Edgerunners thread
How did you enjoy what was unequivocally the best anime of 2022, /cyb/?
I personally loved it. True to the aesthetic, great dystopian/tragic theme, a compelling story, and spectacular character design.
How did you enjoy what was unequivocally the best anime of 2022, /cyb/?
I personally loved it. True to the aesthetic, great dystopian/tragic theme, a compelling story, and spectacular character design.
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I don't like lolis. I wish Rebecca was older and had bigger tits than Illulu.
Anonymous
No.2744
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To expand the knowledge of the ponykind, post scientific and technological papers and books here.
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>>2662
>The fifth edition (released August 16, 2012) covers C++11
Ignore that book.
That's fucking old I'm afraid. The current standard is C++20.
>The fifth edition (released August 16, 2012) covers C++11
Ignore that book.
That's fucking old I'm afraid. The current standard is C++20.
Anonymous
No.2697
File (): 75068F6DE21490220A609250F58C8618-26982567.pdf (25.7 MB, , Mathematical Modelling - Ground Based Mobile Air Defence System.pdf)
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Re-post from >>>/mlpol/366504 →
That book belongs better here at /cyb/
Mathematical Modelling, Nonlinear Control and Performance Evaluation of a Ground Based Mobile Air Defence System - (by Constantinos Frangos)
>This research monograph deals with the dynamic modelling, nonlinear control and performance evaluation of a ground based mobile air defence system (ADS).
>The present work complements existing references on ground based ADSs ([69, 108, 142]). The afore-mentioned publications deal mainly with static or non-mobile ADSs, that is, ADSs that are deployed at a fixed location. This research monograph deals with a mobile ADS that consists of an armoured ground vehicle with an integrated rotating turret and anti-aircraft (AA) gun.
The math involved might look overwhelming for the STEM newbie fag but it is only the appetizer on the way to a 24/7 autonomous robotic system guarding the backyard.
That book belongs better here at /cyb/
Mathematical Modelling, Nonlinear Control and Performance Evaluation of a Ground Based Mobile Air Defence System - (by Constantinos Frangos)
>This research monograph deals with the dynamic modelling, nonlinear control and performance evaluation of a ground based mobile air defence system (ADS).
>The present work complements existing references on ground based ADSs ([69, 108, 142]). The afore-mentioned publications deal mainly with static or non-mobile ADSs, that is, ADSs that are deployed at a fixed location. This research monograph deals with a mobile ADS that consists of an armoured ground vehicle with an integrated rotating turret and anti-aircraft (AA) gun.
The math involved might look overwhelming for the STEM newbie fag but it is only the appetizer on the way to a 24/7 autonomous robotic system guarding the backyard.
Anonymous
No.2699
File (): 31EC5F3FDF11ADAFD999B4BE66D6745D-13280218.pdf (12.7 MB, , Mastering 3D Printing.pdf)
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Mastering 3D Printing - A Guide to Modeling, Printing, and Prototyping - (by Joan Horvath, and Rich Cameron)
>2nd Edition, 2020
>We have been astonished at how much the 3D printing industry has changed since the first edition of this book, which was published in 2014.
>Amazingly little has remained constant since then, except perhaps for a sense of wonder about what might be possible. That sense now is informed by more sober realities about the challenges that remain, as well as more realistic ideas about good applications.
>In this book, we want to give you a path to get started with 3D printing, as well as enough insight to go a considerable distance down the road to using it to create useful things. 3D printing still is not all that straightforward, and we have tried to create a balance between telling you enough so you can get started without drowning in too much detail and not telling you enough. We have minimized the use of step-by-step screenshots, for example, since those get out of date quickly. Instead, we have given a few examples and tried to tell you what we were doing and why, so that you can do the same thing in whatever system you are using.
>2nd Edition, 2020
>We have been astonished at how much the 3D printing industry has changed since the first edition of this book, which was published in 2014.
>Amazingly little has remained constant since then, except perhaps for a sense of wonder about what might be possible. That sense now is informed by more sober realities about the challenges that remain, as well as more realistic ideas about good applications.
>In this book, we want to give you a path to get started with 3D printing, as well as enough insight to go a considerable distance down the road to using it to create useful things. 3D printing still is not all that straightforward, and we have tried to create a balance between telling you enough so you can get started without drowning in too much detail and not telling you enough. We have minimized the use of step-by-step screenshots, for example, since those get out of date quickly. Instead, we have given a few examples and tried to tell you what we were doing and why, so that you can do the same thing in whatever system you are using.
Anonymous
No.2700
File (): 193EBFE012E46629EE9F12C133624185-14080018.pdf (13.4 MB, , C++ All-in-One For Dummies.pdf)
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>>2696
>The fifth edition (released August 16, 2012) covers C++11
>Ignore that book.
I've got the right one and updated to the standard used by most fags, C++ 20. And unlikely the >>2662 one, this one is easy to follow and it is literally for dummies. Seriously, with this one you may have a chance to learn something new and perhaps to hit a job.
C++ All-in-One For Dummies - (by John Paul Mueller)
>4th Edition published on 2021.
>Get ready for C++20 with all you need to know for complete mastery!
>Your comprehensive and updated guide to one of the world’s most popular programming languages is here!
>Whether you’re a novice or expert, you’ll find what you need to get going with the latest features of C++20.
>The workhorse of programming languages, C++ gives you the utmost control of data usage and interface and resource allocation.
>If your job involves data, proficiency in C++ means you’re indispensable!
>This edition gives you 8 books in 1 for total C++ mastery.
>Inside, internationally renowned expert John Paul Mueller takes you from the fundamentals of working with objects and classes to writing applications that use paradigms not normally associated with C++, such as those used for functional programming strategies.
>The book also includes online resources such as source code.
>You discover how to use a C++ GNU compiler to build applications and even how to use your mobile device for coding.
>The fifth edition (released August 16, 2012) covers C++11
>Ignore that book.
I've got the right one and updated to the standard used by most fags, C++ 20. And unlikely the >>2662 one, this one is easy to follow and it is literally for dummies. Seriously, with this one you may have a chance to learn something new and perhaps to hit a job.
C++ All-in-One For Dummies - (by John Paul Mueller)
>4th Edition published on 2021.
>Get ready for C++20 with all you need to know for complete mastery!
>Your comprehensive and updated guide to one of the world’s most popular programming languages is here!
>Whether you’re a novice or expert, you’ll find what you need to get going with the latest features of C++20.
>The workhorse of programming languages, C++ gives you the utmost control of data usage and interface and resource allocation.
>If your job involves data, proficiency in C++ means you’re indispensable!
>This edition gives you 8 books in 1 for total C++ mastery.
>Inside, internationally renowned expert John Paul Mueller takes you from the fundamentals of working with objects and classes to writing applications that use paradigms not normally associated with C++, such as those used for functional programming strategies.
>The book also includes online resources such as source code.
>You discover how to use a C++ GNU compiler to build applications and even how to use your mobile device for coding.
>>2696
No, it's an excellent book. I consider Stroustrup's own PPP2 to be the literal best programming textbook for serious students (regardless of language). But for C++ beginner's, Lippman's 5E book is a close second.
No, it's an excellent book. I consider Stroustrup's own PPP2 to be the literal best programming textbook for serious students (regardless of language). But for C++ beginner's, Lippman's 5E book is a close second.
Anonymous
No.2728
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