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ALTERNATIVE BROWSERS THREAD Anonymous 06/23/2025 (Mon) 14:13:16 No. 1483 [Reply]
hey Hikarins. i want to talk about alternative browsers: which ones you like, which ones you dislike, which ones you think are interesting, whatever. we all know about Ungoogled Chromium, Librewolf and Pale Moon, so although discussion of those browsers is fine, i really wanna see some niche stuff. bonus points for browsers that function on the modern web or browsers that have weird designs or usecases. this is also a good opportunity to talk about projects that push away from Google's domination of the browser market through Chromium and their proxy Mozilla. my browser to start this thread is Basilisk. used to be owned by the Male Poon team but now is independent. runs a similar codebase to PM but has some modern technologies like WebRTC and such. from what i can tell it seems to function fine as a modern browser, and although it's lacking in extensions/themes it has the necessities like adblock, userscripts, etc. i'd consider this as pretty independent from Google/Mozilla as far as functioning browsers go since the codebase is based on old Firefox.
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I've been using Tor Browser more than a decade with scripts disabled. You can do that nowadays by setting the default security level to "safest" through the shield icon in the browser bar. I don't really know what else is out there but this is what I use, and this is what I recommend everyone else to use as well.
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>>1661 >>1662 Thanks for the insight hikarin. I agree that Firefox is generally the best bet to be usable on the modern web, but it's nice to dream about a less shitty version of the modern web sometimes. Sucks that Pale Moon threw away their credibility to be furry spergs. A bit unrelated, but do you have much experience with alternative webs? Things like Gopher, Gemini, Freenet, IPFS, etc? I like the idea of them and absolutely see the appeal but from my (limited) experience they're a bit too niche and often too limited to have much content. My idealistic cope fever dream is all the people of the "dissident web" (for lack of a better term) who use IRC and altchans and such to migrate off the clearweb into some sort of alternative internet protocol(s) but I know that will not happen. cry
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>>1666 I've been using gopher since before http took off. It's pretty nice. But hardly anyone hosts content on it. Freenet I've tried but I'm not really in a position to say whats on the network. Same for Gemini. Isn't Gemini the one that requires you load javashit and have to host the content of the pages you browse? I can't remember why but I stopped using it. I think it was because of pizza spam. IPFS I really like but the developers refuse to fix basic things about it like the fact that you have to store data in the datastore and on your local HDD. Meaning for every TB you give it you have to have 2TB. There is an option to prevent this but it has been broken for many years. Another big issue with IPFS is it really taxes your router/modem. I was running it for a week and it murdered my LAN. The router got so hot that it was shutting down due to the thousands of requests it was getting a second. The network is really unstable because of that. But I do like the idea in theory. The main issue with it is the developers and their attempts to turn it into yet another crypto scam instead of a real free encrypted network for data. They have many long time bugs they simply refuse to fix. Instead they've been courting big tech companies and trying to get them to use the software. They're going after the tech bro investment money instead of making something for everyone to use for free. Another big problem is new p2p protocols aren't taking off because users refuse to donate bandwidth+space. They're opting to use things like private torrent trackers instead. Which are stupid. I refuse to engage with those people because they're bad actors and don't follow the spirit of hacker ethics. They don't care about the data being free for everyone. All they care about is clout and money.
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>>1669 you're wrong hikarin, gemini is basically just postmodern gopher with markdown instead of gopher syntax... and mandatory encryption
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>>1669 >>1670 I think that Hikarin is thinking of Hyphanet (Formerly known as Freenet).

Anonymous 04/09/2024 (Tue) 01:30:38 No. 492 [Reply]
What's your text editor of choice? Vim for me
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>>1617 Emacs does not have any of that "inside" of it. It is not a text editor that that fell to scope creep, but instead a Lisp interpreter/VM. As a side effect it provides a fully mutable environment which has resulted in the creation of many Lisp programs, some of these come packaged with Emacs, and the user may run or delete these programs as he sees fit.
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>>1625 I love emacs key bindings. I use them for everything. They're faster once you get the hang of it and move ctrl to CAPS. I can't stand modal editing. I use vi fairly often but I avoid it and use emacs whenever possible. Emacs has become my entire OS for the most part. I only leave it to use Firefox and a couple of other applications. If I can do something in Emacs I try to. I made a manga reader for it in about 20 lines of lisp because the one I was using was so annoying and pulled it so many other things. I was using emacs as my window manager for a long time. It was okay. But had some quirks I didn't want to live with. So now I'm back on dwm with emacs loading as a daemon when I log-in. It's pretty comfy.
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>>1660 If you ever want a simple in and out vi-like experience in the terminal but emacs style, you might enjoy mg. I use that when I want super user privileges without having to use TRAMP.
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ee and nano
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>>1665 Yeah mg is part of my OS I use it pretty often. I only use vi on remote machines where I can't install software.

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Anonymous 03/02/2024 (Sat) 16:50:51 No. 422 [Reply]
what programming languages does hikari use?
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HolyC
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>>424 I want to learn Racket. It's sound so fun to craft your own meta-language I don't know what I'd use it for tho...
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Not fluent, but I've made "projects" in Lua for making mods in Garry's Mod, though I am just recently learning Python in college. I've made way too many disappointing attempts in trying to learn Python or any other programming languages prior to college, during high school. I just hope college motivates me to be better, because it really sucks being lazy, I'm trying to break away from the habit.
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C++ since you can do RAII and make the memory work for you or you can have free control to do all the memory management yourself like C style. Wide range of control and architecture you can have in C++ makes me love it.
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Mostly C, various lisp dialects and sh scripting. I use lisp more and more each year. Trying to slowly work my way down the stack and make everything lisp when possible. I'm frustrated though because I'm using 3 lisp dialects right now and I'd prefer to use just one.

Subtitle/Audio help for Dual Audio Anonymous 08/20/2025 (Wed) 06:48:06 No. 1644 [Reply]
Does anyone know the best software to manage subtitles and audio on a .M2TS file or other video format? I was wanting to have them named Japanese and English instead of both being "unknown" cry
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Nvm figured it out. Using handbrake I can rename the audio settings and subtitles as well as make it an mkv
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>>1646 Good job. Hikarin must be very smart love love
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>>1650 I can be sometimes

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Anonymous 08/12/2025 (Tue) 05:31:59 No. 1628 [Reply]
THE next New Big Thing is a combination of dicksword, Anonymous Imageboard and Feditwittereddiverse all in one, and there's not even a signup. I don't know what it'll look like, but I do know there would be 2 parts to the site(or... webapp?), the "Agora" part, which is the "imageboard" (no redditvoting, no democracy, just posts) but has some elements from twitter and reddit, but primarily imageboard, and the "Tavern" part, which is dicksword-like, but all of this on one site/whatever-it-is. Overcoming bots would have users do or say things that bots generally can't, manually. Nothing is "automatic" Overcoming CP would have mods round the clock perpetually. The site wouldn't really have "boards", but few, with few "topics" doing 'roots' and 'vines' to others, like a web, like mycelium underground, the mesh and crisscross would be so much to the point there's no one real entry point, but all can be connected to others. twitter's organic connected posts resemble this the most.
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>a combination of dicksword, Anonymous Imageboard and Feditwittereddiverse

Anonymous 10/21/2023 (Sat) 18:14:24 No. 231 [Reply] [Last]
What's your favorite programming language /t/?
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>>1425 go is dope
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>>231 Rust >Cargo Need I say more? needing to wrap everything in "unsafe" for interacting with the native API is getting really old, though. I do like how I can use the msvc toolchain for x64 and write asm, though, since M$ decided intrinsics can replace inline asm for whatever reason. C and Go are great languages, though. Golang is amazing for backend work.
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Haskell and Lisp, I love em. annoyed2
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>>231 im quite fond of both python and C++ or C# since both languages have been around and are very robust and generally pretty darn secure

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Anonymous 07/24/2025 (Thu) 19:23:14 No. 1594 [Reply]
i'm poasting from QubesOS. ask me anything. neco
Your fortune: Better not tell you now
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What is your reason for using it? neco
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>>1595 i mostly started using it out of curiosity. the laptop i have it installed on is really only used for college and extra-curricular studies so i thought why not. there is also the privacy aspect, which is always nice. is Qubes a bit more than my threat model needs? perhaps for now. but that may change in the future. honestly it functions quite well for my usecase, and the focus on compartmentalization strokes my autism a certain kind of way. neco
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why are you gae
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cool

Anonymous 07/26/2025 (Sat) 14:56:44 No. 1600 [Reply]
Sweet who would've thought after making a "Secure" email service that rats you out to the cops and an overpriced VPN service that Proton would make a shitty AI model that shills their own products?
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>>1600 is rsa 4096 post-quantum? is 8192 post-quantum? we can always just add more bits anyway
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>>1600 Haven't the only people that Proton "rat" on to the police, were involved in a preteen handholding abuse ring, selling Hurtcore CP?
Your fortune: Good Luck
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>>1603 >the limit of encryption is that you can't let other people do it for it ok, /thread?
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oh shit sorry i thought that this was the quantum thread
Your fortune: Average Luck

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Gentoo Linux General Anonymous 03/18/2024 (Mon) 03:07:08 No. 449 [Reply] [Last]
Any Gentoo Friends on this board? If so tell me what you love or hate about it. What USE flags do you use? In the meanwhile I will post some of my favorite Gentoo Desktops!!
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>>1563 laugh gay non binary dev thinks that HIS machine is relevant
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>>1563 Have you completed the migration to py3.13? have you recently updated qt with zero issues? how's it done?
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>>1568 >Have you completed the migration to py3.13? Yes I have. I still have some programs dependent on 3.12 though. emerge -pv --depclean '=dev-lang/python-3.12.10' '=dev-lang/python-3.11.13' Calculating dependencies... done! dev-lang/python-3.12.10 pulled in by: app-cdr/cdemu-3.2.5-r1 requires dev-lang/python:3.12 www-client/firefox-128.12.0 requires dev-lang/python:3.12[ncurses,sqlite,ssl] www-client/icecat-128.12.0 requires dev-lang/python:3.12[ncurses,sqlite,ssl] >>> Calculating removal order... >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: dev-lang/python

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Ok I tried emerge -pvu @installed and turns out I could update 200 pkg, including qt >Conflict: 23 blocks (all satisfied) But you should update your world set, not @installed anyway.
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all the qt packages are blocking each other.

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Routers, Switches, and Hubs MrArborsexual!jNrC5JFs3k 07/22/2025 (Tue) 00:36:55 No. 1593 [Reply]
Came home today to my router was a very very hot, very dead, brick. Not sure what happened, but I assume it is due to me living in a house with ancient wiring (some of the oldest parts are knob & tube, and I am afraid of ever touching that lest I awaken demons). Now I am stuck with the ISP router until I replace it. I've rather liked MikroTik products in the past, and I'm eyeballing the L009. Anyone here use it before? Any ideas for an SFP-RJ45 module that will work at 2.5Gb with it? I'm also open to other ideas for routers, and other networking gear. I just don't want Gaymer bullshit, or built in wifi.
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