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Sticky (Anonymous et al) !!sVnnZgHCy6 06/10/15 (Wed) 00:52:03 No.11[Reply]

Hi, welcome to /comp/.

This is a board for discussing computers and related topics.

General technology posts are allowed but should be kept to a minimum.

If you've come to shitpost, please don't.

Suggestions go in this thread.

I'd like that point out >>>/torlounge/ and >>/privacy/ as some tech-related boards with no love. >>>/eh/ and >>>/lovecraft/ and >>>/box are also underrated.

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06/15/15 (Mon) 07:30:55 No.18

>>17

Because it is a text board

Old Windows 06/16/15 (Tue) 16:59:18 No.19 [Reply]

Hey guys. I'd like to know if you like using old Windows, like 98, Me, NT 4 and 2000. I got an old compúter for 25 bucks just for that purpose.

06/25/15 (Thu) 13:12:45 No.20

No, I use a freetard OS, but I really like the aesthetic of 98. Sometimes I prefer that comfy feel to the shiny-ness of KDE or XFCE.

But how hard is it to use the computer when all the software produccers expect you to be using bleeding edge stuff?

01/22/16 (Fri) 01:22:38 No.22

>>19

I used oncetime a windows 98 theme for Win 7, hadin't programs to win 98 to use the internet like Mozila browser or java suport, it!s just for nostalgic.

Shilling new chan 10/10/15 (Sat) 17:01:36 No.21 [Reply]

https://freech.net/

nhnhn

/lisp/ Anonymous 06/02/15 (Tue) 21:11:11 No.1 [Reply]

Lisp general go!

Ask all your questions and post your code!


Check the pastebin first:                    Read the FAQ:
http://pastebin.com/u/g-lisp-general  http://pastebin.com/aDfDm5sZ

What are you working on?

What dialect do you use? Why is it Guile?

Why can't I hold all these parens?

06/10/15 (Wed) 20:28:42 No.16

>>1

bump

Text browser thread Anonymous 06/09/15 (Tue) 21:51:48 No.4 [Reply]

Really like the idea of this board, BO. Let's have something relevant to kick it off: what browser do you guys use? I use w3m myself, mainly because I'm so used to it. Still want to give elinks a try though, I heard it's good.

No religious wars please.

Anonymous 06/09/15 (Tue) 22:09:32 No.5

Stock elinks (i.e, no css, no js) because I am too lazy to try anything else.

Do you recommend w3m OP?

Anonymous 06/09/15 (Tue) 22:15:20 No.6

>elinks

Last update in 2012 m80s, use links.

http://elinks.or.cz/

http://links.twibright.com/

Anonymous 06/09/15 (Tue) 22:18:12 No.7

>>5

Well, since I haven't used elinks for more than ten minutes yet I can't tell you how the two compare, but I've always liked using w3m. It does what I want, is fast, and pretty feature-complete. It even has image support, if your terminal can handle it.

06/10/15 (Wed) 17:34:35 No.14

>>6

I always thought elinks was the updated fork up until now, interesting. I think I'll give links a try then in a bit.

Web Design Anonymous 06/10/15 (Wed) 00:11:25 No.9 [Reply]

Soup, /comp/.

Wanna discuss web design and the death of sane web platforms?

I even brought reading material.

>https://uxmag.com/articles/why-web-design-is-dead

>https://web.archive.org/web/20150609170909/http://uxmag.com/articles/why-web-design-is-dead/

It's only slightly better than you'd expect with the clickbait-y title and description.

Essentially, the good old web is dying. And being replaced by the nebulous heir named 'user experience'. There are numerous problems with this.

Off the top of my head there is the sad fact that this obviously implies user choice and versatility will be butchered under the guise of 'user friendliness'.

This also advances the growing trend of corporations creating monopolies within the web, the heterogeneous ecosystem of different websites being replaced by vast 'social platforms'.

There is a growing reliance on intelligent software, like Siri and Google Now, that offload your responsibilities. Very Problematic. Especially when this software is closed source.

It's nothing new, but it's something, and a decent fodder for discussion.

What's your take on it?

Anonymous 06/10/15 (Wed) 00:27:54 No.10

Fuck, I feel dumb for not even talking about the article itself.

It's pure rhetoric, no data is given to back it up.

It's a bunch of a priori statements taken as fact with slippery reasoning used to guide them towards convenient conclusions.

Not that it's unusual in this regard, since most all blog-y type stuff (even if it's called 'news' or 'a magazine') is just like this (what do think rhetoric is)

But I digress. the article is hosted on website for UX developers, so you can expect this from that conflict of interest.

Just trying to stress that the link is just fodder for discussion, not gospel.

06/10/15 (Wed) 06:46:17 No.13

I too get very sad every time I see this. People would rather use web services than their own computer, because it's so easy. People want to do everything in their browser, which isn't made for those things: it's for receiving and displaying HTML, with perhaps some css and some minimal bits of Javascript.

File storage? Dropbox/Google Drive

Mail? Fucking in-browser clients, who needs control right?

Videos? You guessed it.

Also, every kid that knows a bit of javascript now considers themselves a programmer, and other more powerful languages get disregarded because you can't make shiny buttons for your shitty website in it.

Sorry for the rant, by the way.

Anonymous 06/09/15 (Tue) 21:12:09 No.2[Reply]

heil hitler

Anonymous 06/09/15 (Tue) 21:15:11 No.3

Cool, it works.

Still, I don't really see how this is any more text friendly than a regular board. I'd say it might keep shitposters away, but wasn't half/prog/ all circlejerking shitposters?

Anonymous 06/09/15 (Tue) 23:13:25 No.8

>>3

Any small community will become a circlejerk if it doesn't grow or die.

Even then there is no grantee.

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