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 No.1343[Reply]

What are sushis working on right now? Any cool topics in computer science I should know more about?
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 No.2395

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>>2365
If you're going to jump into video game making, it's always harder than it seems. Pick a small goal first, something like pong or breakout. And focus on gameplay not art, if the goal is to learn programming.

Also consider learning low-level stuff, even if you won't use it, the understanding what your high-level code runs on and does will still matter.

Good luck, have fun!

 No.2493

>>2365
I think working on a project that solves a problem you have is fun, and really good if you want to learn something.
For example, I didn't like the offerings of color pickers, so I decided to make my own.
Even if you have a problem that's already solved by some software… solve it again, but your way.

 No.2495

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I keep finding a reason to incorporate DAGs into my projects, don't quite know why.

 No.2496

Interesting topics to look into right now: AI Alignment and Mechanistic Interpretability.

Mechanistic interpretability is trying to reverse engineer trained neural networks into a theory of how they do what they do.

 No.2497

>>2365
I would say that for CTF stuff, it's good to practice on pico until you feel like the problems are too easy for you. Other than that, you can practice doing many of the contests, which should provide some more experience with harder tasks. In addition to being able to figure out how to do things, I think experience also helps you figure out how to do things more quickly.


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 No.2015[Reply]

Do you use any programs on your computer on a daily basis? What are they? Do you use anything so much that you instinctively launch it right after turning your PC on? Are you always connected to the Internet?

Personally I use IRC, email and webchats a lot so I have a corner of my room dedicated to an old recycled PC that only runs my clients and a web browser.
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 No.2486

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>>2023
>>2016
I still think that the best way to keep your password is on paper.
I have a small envelope glued on the last page of my diary and there's also one at the end of my calendar.
I keep a password paper in both although I usually only add new passwords on the paper that's in my calendar. I only update the list in my diary every now and then. I doubt I'll lose my calendar since I don't take it out of my home unless I go on vacation, but I misplace it at home sometimes because I'm kind of messy. The system works for me though.
I also have an extra list of passwords that I only use for super old games that don't have saves but instead give you a password so you can go back to where you were, like in top gear for the snes. I put that one up on my wall though, not like it's a problem if anyone sees it.

 No.2487

Emacs
I wasn't aware there were other programs

 No.2491

>>2346
I use kdenlive on windows, but on linux I have to install qt and a billion kde depepndecies for it to work, so I just use Flowblade instead

 No.2492

Mostly using Windows lately because of my current laptop situation, I use KeepassXC for password management with a fuckoff long master password, and MPC-HC for playing video. For SSH to manage my servers I use a web app called Shellngn so that I can connect from places where I can't connect out through non-web ports (like at work).

That said I do have a Linux laptop I use sometimes but it is too old to even watch video. But some techy stuff is just better done with Linux.

Most things these days I actually do through my phone. Notable all-day apps are Feedly for news feeds, Opera browser, and Discord.

 No.2494

Every day I check rss feeds with newsboat, I use my web browser librewolf to browse the web, I communicate with my friends using element and (unfortunately) discord. I would rather use a more lightweight matrix client than element, but the only 2 terminal based clients I know of both suck. Maybe time to switch to xmpp. I watch anime using MPV, browse my files with nnn, and listen to music with cmus. I also use vim to edit text, I've experimented with various text editors and always end up back at basic stock normal ass vim. Pretty bog standard boring stuff I think.


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Around a week ago, I noticed that my charger was peeled off just by a tiny bit, so i decided to put some tape on it.

Today, i noticed a weird smell coming out of my computer, specifically, from the charger.

When i touch the part with tape on it, BOOM, foarkin SMOKE starts to come out of the darn thing.

Turns out that the heat from the computer, eventually melted the tape i'd put on the peeled part of my charger

I removed the tape, and well, the charger stopped working, and i can't buy a new one (Im poor as dirt) which at the same times means, that i can't use my computer

Please, sushis, share painful experiences like these so that we all can have a laugh
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 No.2468

cleaned my dirty laptop with a damp paper towel
a drop went in a vent hole and i heard a hiss
wouldn't turn on anymore

 No.2469

I tried to add some RAM to a friend’s laptop. After installing it, the machine would turn itself off because one of the cooling fans wasn’t working right. So I decided to open her back up and check. They were connected fine so I thought I’d disconnect and reconnect them to see if that would fix them, but I applied too much force and ended up ripping the cable, forcing me to replace the whole fan too.

 No.2476

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Bought 200$ in MOCA (Coax based Ethernet) for there to be a crimp in the wall. After buying weird rj45s I finally found a female connector, all in all I paid 350 or so dollars for gigabit in my room in the end

Help old people with computers for fun. I know this lady who's Parkinson's/arthritis/whatever was so advanced she couldn't double click the home button on the iPad fast enough. I recommended she buy an android at that point. Everyone I know recommends apple devices for their simplicity but they can do better in the accessibility department. Windows is probably the best with the key delay feature which helps when obasan wants to type on her Compaq like she's dialing a toll free nunber

 No.2489

Back in the day I was the idiot buying the cheapest power supplies possible and I had two separate combustion incidents. One time the PSU itself just popped and filled my room with smoke. Second time a fan splitter cable set on fire with no apparent external cause – maybe unstable voltage from the power supply and/or a bad connection in the cable?
I know what I'm doing now and I haven't had any disasters since but I do live in fear of my graphics card's 12VHPWR connector blowing up.
Fake edit: actually there was something more recent – has anyone here NOT at some point bent CPU pins? RIP to my old Ryzen 3600. Always remember to heat the IHS before attempting heatsink removal.

 No.2490

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I had a laptop that I kept plugged in 24/7 for a couple years (before I knew this would destroy the battery). When I got a computer to replace it I realized that I had almost killed the battery, and it eventually died leaving it unable to boot.
I took out the battery which turned my laptop into a pseudo-desktop since it had to be plugged in in order to work.
On top of that, the boot process is something I'll never forget.

Step 1: turn on the laptop
Step 2: it says that the wattage is too low, so I press diagnose
Step 3: wait for it to get to the rainbow screen of test colors
Step 4: force power off
Step 5: turn on laptop again
Step 6: wattage error again, but press continue
Step 7: congratulations it booted.

If I didn't hit diagnose the cpu caps at 300Mhz, and if I didn't reboot during the repair process a loud beeping noise would happen which was annoying, I believe one time it also caused it to fail to boot.


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 No.2480[Reply]

Hostname ideas for a black PC that will be hosting some VMs? I was thinking of naming it after himeji castle.

 No.2483

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Haruna


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 No.2470[Reply]

hello sushis!!
I wanted to make a thread asking all of you to
recommend some good looking, (WITH SUPPORT FOR
JAPANESE, CHINESE AND CYRILIC CHARACTERS) bitmap
fonts

If you can, drop a link to a ttf file, as it's easier for a noob to install in that way; if you can't do that, refer to a page with instructions or give them yourself

I use Tekuplus as of now. Really easy to install as well; just download, extract
the zip file, and paste all the ttf files onto your .fonts folder in your home
directory (If you're using windows just watch a youtube tutorial)

https://github.com/itouhiro/Tekuplus/releases/tag/v1.1.0
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 No.2475

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This inspired me to look into how ttfs work.

>>2474
Sure, but if you converted the bitmap to a ttf I think it would become curves when you scaled it, because the ttf information is fundamentally stored as curves rather than a bitmap. My guess is that OP's program converts the bitmap font to a ttf font that only retains the original bitmap at one font size; I think that would be the most reasonable way to do it. So it looks right as long as you use a specific font size with it. Thinking on it more it actually seems like a good solution to making old bitmap fonts more compatible with modern programs. The bitmap fonts were only ever intended to be used at a single font size anyways, so it doesn't really matter how they scale.

This is a pretty good description of how ttf works:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/ttch01

 No.2477

>>2470
Coincidental timing, sushi roll. I found these on accident recently:
https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
^ has otf and tons of multilang glyphs including CJK
Also check these out:
https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/
http://www.dsg4.com/04/extra/bitmap/index.html

P.S. Sushigirl stop banning TOR nodes T_T

 No.2478

>>2475
The history of TrueType and early computer fonts is surprisingly involved and interesting, you can find interesting reading on that topic on the same domain you linked.

>>2477
Good find!

TOR nodes are not getting unbanned any time soon, too much abuse, sadly.

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>>2477
Nice fonts sushi

I installed the GNU unifont and it looks graet

 No.2485

>>2477
you can use vpns !! if one doesn't work try another


 No.2451[Reply]

I hope nobody kills me for making this thread just to share a video. The documentary is called For-Profit (Creative) Software, and it covers how business models in creative software, particularly 3D programs, have become increasingly predatory. To surprise of absolutely nobody who has ever tried 3D as a hobby and run into Autodesk’s website. It’s essentially a depressing look at how things went wrong for artists, showing how monopolies hurt consumers. Or Blender Foundation's psyop.

 No.2457

thanks for sharing, there was a thread for interesting youtube vids somewhere on this board but ill check it out


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 No.2443[Reply]

How do you make your devices more connected? Are there any sushis with home media server set up? How would you make it, how does the usual use case look like? Do you have any uncommon devices or cool software to support your work, gaming or anime consumption?
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 No.2446

i use this USB memory stick to transfer files betweeen computers it's like a floppy disk except it stores a lot more data

 No.2447

>>2445
It worked like a charm! And was much faster to setup than Plex. Amazing. Thank you!

>>2446
l33t h4x0r :0

 No.2448

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The spirit of juche is a strong motivation. You need buy in of most of the household for a media server, it needs updated and maintained. I run immich and a comics server. Check out awesome-selfhosted on GitHub for stuff that's ready made for self maintenance

 No.2449

>>2447
No problem sushi, glad to help :D

 No.2450

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>>2446
I do this, but using my phone. All my devices are logged into Discord, so I can just send any files to my alt account and then download it from the text history from the other device.


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I had ideas of jumping ship from Windows to Linux Mint Debian Edition due to being annoyed with Microsoft's decisions lately. The problem is that I want to make games using RPG Maker XP, and even though I tried searching through the web (that's a lie I'm just lazy…), I was not satisfied. So, do you think that it's possible to use RPG Maker using Linux or is it not possible? Thanks!
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 No.2437

im pretty sure you can run it with wine :)

 No.2438

what about https://easyrpg.org/

 No.2440

>>2438
Oh, thanks! Though I wanted RPG Maker XP, that's good enough, since beggars aren't choosers, LOL!!!

But… the EasyRPG Editor is not released yet…

 No.2441

And it seems there "is" a way, based on this link: https://gdu.one/forums/topic/4804-tutorialrpgmaker-xp-and-vx-for-linux-users/

 No.2442

>>2433
Does it work in a VM? why not test it in virtualbox and then you should be able to run it virtualized on LM


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 No.2401[Reply]

there's an issue with (https://cock.li), ive had to switch over to (https://fedora.email) and (https://pissmail.com) are there any alternative sites with shitposty domains that function?

 No.2421

Sadly, nothing works these days.

 No.2422

grow up namae!!

 No.2423

>>2422
nah.

 No.2432

got myself a fedora mail but I'm afraid it'll just disappear one day


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 No.227[Reply]

Battlestation thread!
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 No.2424

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>>2402

It's very clean and minimalistic; do you find it comfy?

bump!

 No.2425

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>>227
Battlestations, yes

 No.2426

>>2424
thank you sushi, it is very comfy and i wish i could just sit there till the end of times. pictured setup is also the messiest it ever have been but i thought it looked cool. i need my workspace minimal and symmetrical! otherwise it makes me a little uneasy…

 No.2427

>>727
I realize this post is from 2017, but the more I looked at the post, the more impressed i became. Very pretty setup!

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updated pic of my bst, the other tv i had was far too big so i traded it for a better sized tv, so i could put it beside me.


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