Petrarchive – Technology thread pt. 2

>>7968 has mentioned hanging out on non-web internet spaces. Anon, are you on Gemini or Gopher or something? Would be cool to have a Petrarchan base somewhere there

Looking at the bitchat mesh chat that came out recently. Giving me BATMAN vibes, let's see if more normies will pick it up. Guess I'll have to go back to messing with the Linux Bluetooth stack again if I want to use it seriously.

Normies who look at this thread, please consider using something besides Discord! Do something interesting with the magic device in your pocket for once!

bitchat (.) free

Jackie boy even went out of his way to make an iOS app for you fucking retards (a very irritating process to go through in general, but especially worthless for anything open-source or nonprofit) so now you don't even have an excuse of technical skill.

>>8017
No one in my neck of the wood

I guess someone needs to be first.

Today, I re-flashed my Poker II, because it began malfunctioning and eventually stopped responding altogether. It led me to thinking about the possibility of flashing some custom firmware to make this thing hardware-coded Dvorak. I did the same thing with another keyboard but that ran an Arduino interface so that was leagues easier and more open. I wish I was more experienced with firmware hacking so I wouldn't have to dip into Windows each time to run whatever flashing software needed to do the job.

Admin confirmed cuck for hosting on Goyflare

>>8008 (OP)
boob

Not at all a techfriend, but I recently swapped from using a smartphone to a dumbphone (specifically a Nokia 2780 Flip). Honestly, has been a pretty positive change. Cut my retarded scrolling tendencies effectively and communication has not been very difficult.

>>8053
I wish you the best in your endeavors, but to me this always sounds like the tech version of crash dieting, as in you'll be back on the drip soon enough.

>8054
Lol, I think you're not wrong. Truthfully, I been using my laptop way more at home (but I also have been trying to write out grad school applications, which necessitate that use of my laptop). But I don't take my laptop to places like work, which means I basically have to just meditate or read a book (which is mostly what I've replaced scrolling with: about a quarter of the way through Moby Dick now). I think this experiment has already been successful in that degree, and I don't really think it will be an ultimate failure because I feel quite comfortable having the flip phone be my only option.

>>8061
>>8054

>>8053 (me)
Anyway I've been curious on how to become more of a techie and expand my horizons, mostly because I found out about neocities and I think making a website for displaying writings would be an interesting endeavor. Anyone got tips and tricks.

>>8066
If you are techie enough to purchase and operate a VPS (it's not that hard) then you could try using a static site generator to build a blog or writing portfolio or whatever.

>>8066
Why don't you start with something small like a Neocities site instead of jumping into self-hosting like retardautist >>8067 says -- if you were capable of autodidaction you would have done so already

>>8068

The difference in difficulty between neocities and self hosting on a vps is pretty small. Even smaller if you run on cloudflare pages or whatever.

>>8069
Tech autists always say "you can do it it's easy" but they have no idea how to gauge difficulty when it comes to normies

>>8073
being on this website makes you ipso facto not a normie

>>8074
Obviously, the context is tech vs. non-tech, and if making a Neocities page sounds like an exciting challenge, you're a normie in that regard. What a banal reddit-tier gotcha reply

>>8074
By the way I know it's you, admin. I'm the only asshole who posts on here so this might as well be a fucking IRC room with us two for all it matters. I deserve a pint from you for holding this place up on my shoulders with shitposts.

>>8073

Not to be cringe but LLMs make any well-understood setup process completely trivial. "I can't set up a VPS" is like "I can't cook". Anyone who can follow instructions can do a median job.

Making a website with HTML and CSS: Requires some understanding of the technology and good taste to get something meaningful. You have to continuously iterate on your project.

Setting up a VPS: Ask chatgpt how to do it, follow directions for 30 minutes, never think about it again.

>>8067
Hmm, I would say the first hurdle is that I don't know what any of those words mean.

>>8068
>if you were capable of autodidaction you would have done so already
A curiously circular statement, but ultimately true. I'll probably just see if I stick with learning 2 code an easy thing (neocities) and if I cannot do that, then I will accept that I am nothing but a wordcel for life.

>>8079
I am quite sorry for my overly judgemental comment in >>8068 (I was weaned in the ruthlessly hyper-competitive /g/ sphere of technology discussion). You seem like a level-headed, curious, and intelligent person and I think you are a good candidate for learning technology. I am also, at my base, a wordcel, but my zealous dose of autism has led me into the technical path slowly and inadvertently. Technical concepts do not come easily or naturally to me at all, even after all these years. I am also an autodidact, which is fine for that initial boost of curiosity but eventually leads to diminishing returns as you progress in skill; only the truly talented can self-teach themselves into anything great. Otherwise you eventually find yourself filling gaps in knowledge and skill that would already been covered in any average computer science class. As it stands, my strengths lie in toying with operating system and networking setups, and I am still pitifully weak with programming in particular.

I expound on my personal progress not just to blather on autobiographically but to give you an example of someone that was, and is still, in a position similar to yourself, a neophyte and outsider in the tech realm, always having to take the hard path upwards. I think making a Neocities site is a great endeavor for a wide variety of people with a baseline of technical literacy and interest. Many millennials will credit Myspace (and Tumblr to a lesser extent) to introducing them to basic HTML and CSS design, and I think Neocities does the same for many zoomers. Please do post your progress and questions in this thread if (when!!) you decide to start with your page there.

I've been vibecoding an android widget lol. Hoping to get it done this weekend, it pulls a couple numbers from my budget app (they have their API exposed) and do a projection so I can track my spending with little effort. Just need to change some classes and it should update correctly now. Using LLMs for this was really nice as I have no interest in learning the intricacies of kotlin and Android app development.

I want to upgrade to a VPS from my seed box, so I could do more fun things with my own server. But I don't trust myself to have proper security on it

>>8081
Android dev is hell, glad you’re having fun

>>8082
You can self host pretty much anything in your own home unless you’re trying to make money. That said, you shouldn’t worry about security that much. Just don’t use php

>>8082
I'd say router security and compromised routers are more pressing than whether you have an http port exposed, but I wouldn't say that you "shouldn't worry much" about security. Public port scanning is still intense. Buy a cheap VPS and check the logs if you don't believe me.

>>8009
Yeah I was, Gemini and a pubnix. It's all very small.

Poor guy got straight up existential.



>And so now I have to ask myself, did I ever even teach anybody how to fish? Maybe I didn't. Maybe I just gave a bunch of people fishes, and when they run out of those fish, they're just going to starve to death. Maybe that's what I did. And... that possibility, that's honestly probably why this is so triggering to me I guess.

computers make me sick now
that is all

>>8119
Are you a burned-out tech worker/CS grad or just another moron who can't get off of their phone?

>>8121
probably former although i didn't work for that long

Not having loaded up on RAM a few years ago is going to kill me more than not having continued to mine Litecoin in 2012. Hope you tards are ready for the RAMocalypse

>>8179
I upgraded my PC a year ago to its maximum capacity, and I'm grateful to not have paid cucked prices for components, especially memory. AI is ruining everything, and I can't imagine being in the pc-building hobby and staring at a $500 price tag on a pair of memory sticks that were, just last year, a fraction of that.

>>8193
Gonna be a lot of people learning about swap and paging memory in the coming two years till the market corrects.

Warm greetz from cy-x.net.
nice place you fellas got here

>>8364
Thanks for passing by

Who knew they had such a sense of humor

We all got fucking psyopped, man.

>>8373
We?

Is htop admonishing or praising me

>>8376

Is this a server or your desktop?

>>8377

It's the last outpost/rump state of a remote setup, which no one has had time to go and fix yet. Even though probably nothing will happen if I update and reboot, I can't afford to gamble.

>>8377

Sorry for not answering the fucking question, lol. It's a laptop actually.

A very niche linguistics/computing post:

Norwegian developer delineates Nynorsk from Bokmål with a mountain emoji next to it. Unicode solves what premillennial statecraft couldn't!