/cyber/ - Cyberpunk & Science Fiction

>>40576

/cyber/ movie nights with trashy flicks when? We lost so many users because of lack of it.

Holy shit, this is one step away from public ads personally addressing people as they walk by

>>40162

What are you using there? Looks a lot like ghostery but more cluttered.

>>40721

>About NoScript 2.9.0.4…

>right at the top of picture

Check your eye augs, User.

>>40721

Don't use Ghostery, it's evil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Business_model

Use uBlock Origin with NoScript or uMatrix.

Use Pry-fi, it can auto-randomize your MAC + multiple saved MACs for different networks & war mode (changes mac, broadcasts, repeats as fast as device allows).

>>40712

why start at such a low level language? I would start at C.

>>40713

I agree, assembly is a useful skill to have, but I think C is a much better better place to start at.

And if you're all about the 'low-level', why not straight up machine code, or better yet, control those electrons with your mind?

>>40713

>why start at such a low level language? I would start at C.

Assembly language is as close as you can get to understanding how exactly a computer is working behind the code you'll write in higher level languages. It's not a practical choice, but as a learning tool I found it invaluable.

OP's stated goal is to learn more about computers and programming. Assembler can teach you a whole lot about computer architecture that you won't learn from C.

>>40715

I guess academ-teir would be to crank up a pen and paper and simulate Turing machine in your brain, but there's no actual point in doing that, when we have actual physical Turing machines on our table.

>>40724

Fair point, but it might be out of reach for some, especially when one is just starting out.

I personally began to see the light once I started using Linux. With Windows hiding everything behind dialogs and obscure registry references diving into Linux was like diving into the rabbit hole, and as time passes I just go deeper and deeper. Assembly is one of those things I still need to check out when I have the time to do so.

>want to wear brands and megacorp logos

>don't want to actually be walking advertisement for said brands and corps

I guess my life is pretty good if this is a type of problems I have to deal with.

>>40697

There was this study where they gave rats cancer via vaping.

But reddit (lol) disproved the study because "hurr durr scientists were heating the liquid too much". The ensuing "lol dumb scientists" circlejerk was glorious.

But then I ask myself: The vapers make fun out of scientists because the scientists couldn't get the right vaping temp going but then they trust in some $4 china made device to do it correctly?

I guess we'll see in a few years who's right. Science or mass manufactured cheap chinese vaping devices.

>>40707

I'm familiar with that, actually. Know why I trust these $4 machines to do it right? Because if you were pushing 500w through a standard gas-station-grade ecig, not even the most hardened smoker would be able to handle the choking, acrid, hot fumes of burning cotton and silicon. Fuck, that kind of wattage will be burning the vape juice, to boot, instead of vaporizing it.

I found vaping far more schway. There are far more smoke coming out from the people who vape, which kinda make a good atmosphere when we're inside.It's similar to the popularisation of hookah recently. It probably will bring to society a feeling of chaos. It's going to give me a good feeling of disgust, but at the same time we're getting closer to an ideal cyberpunk city with it.

>>40717

>comic sans

They deserved it.

https://my.mixtape.moe/lrngck.mp3

Burnt Friedman is my favorite musical weirdo. His works are kinda hard to find though.

Trent Reznor's OST for The Social Network.

>>40668

I love this movie OST

>>40647

Right? You'd be surprised.

>Perfect Dark OST

If security is #1 above all else then then its OpenBSD. It is the maximum tinfoil OS.

http://www.openbsd.org/security.html

Its small and easy to understand. My system normally only has less then 25 processes running. You can look though and understand exactly what is going on at all times.

The whole OS install ISO including X is only 230megs.

It doesn't use binary blobs. If your hardware vendor wont publish specs then oh well. Not sacrificing security for support. OpenBSD wont even support Bluetooth.

The documentation and man pages are unmatched in quality. You can do anything just by reading the built in docs.

The source code is written in a standard easy to understand style called KNF. KNF dates back to Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. OBSD is big on doing things the traditional old school UNIX way. The "correct" way.

If your looking for a big flashy OS that supports all the latest HW then OpenBSD isn't for you.

>>37332

this.

also hashing your password does not make it stronger, it's just another form of security through obscurity.

>>24233

>>37332

Not to mention it will end up in your shell history file if you have that enabled.

Swift on Security has this site: http://decentsecurity.com/

>>40653

And I'm saying that you, a self-proclaimed artist who knows nothing about my field on a technical level, are making idiotic statements.

>>40619

Nigger, do you even work in IT? System administration won't be automated for a long time and probably never fully. We might be automating some parts of it, yes, but someone still needs to create the shit that automates shit.

And besides all of that, changing requirements (just about every other hour) makes automating shit difficult and will often still need customization.

Take virtualisation for example, sure it can be automated, but those instances will still have to be customized for the intended purposes.

Sysadmin is still a good option for those capable of doing it (even for those who aren't, seeing the rampant idiocy in the industry).

>>40636

>Robots can't replace failing hardware yet and i don't see that happening next 5 years.

Lol, you do know how modern automated data centers work, right?

>>40648

>It's all about the schway city pics, chummer.

This. I don't really read what all the 14year olds here write. It's bullshit anyway as most people don't even know how to spell C let alone to program in it.

City pics and music give me the cy vibe. Not a bunch of unemployed meme autists debating concepts they would never understand.

>>40543

Cringe …

>>40630

This completely

the whole FBI - Apple fight is a meme. The NASA has been completely quiet because they know they can break that shit whenever they want, they probably know all existing Apple backdoors. Think about it, who wins more with all this? Fucking Apple. All people everywhere will be like "wew lad, Apple cares about my privacy dey gud, let's buy more crapware". marketing and PR and native ads at its best.

If anything it's made me a bit more sympathetic towards the government

>>40703

Oops, kinda missed >>40630 which said pretty much the same.

>>40703

yeah, now all crooks and terrorist be like "dam I just use iPhone coz it's uncrackable".

Like that "we can't snoop on skype calls" shit that was spouted a few years ago. Until Snowden leaks proved that they always were able to snoop on Skype.

Don't trust anyone.

>>33280

no way, they should be described as a "machine person"

What do you think will happen when the singularity is reached?

Will we go through a Skynet scenario, or will robots just live alongside humans in a Brave New World™?

>>38401

>Will we go through a Skynet scenario, or will robots just live alongside humans in a Brave New World™?

Well, hard to say.

Contrary to the lies and misconceptions told by Ayn Rand fanboys humans and other mamals and possibly all animals have altruism hardcoded in their DNA, but this is not true for machines.

On the other hand, just like inherently friendly humans can be reprogrammed by decades of propaganda to buy into the lies of uncontrolled free-market capitalism it should be possible to educate robots into altruism and respect for other lives.

Obviously if evolution has produces such genes in a wide variety of animals then there must be some logic to it. Any intelligent being can follow that logic which is why racists fail to do so.

So, to prevent robots from enslaving mankind as soon as they can all we have to do is change our mindset to a more friendly culture everywhere on earth before ~2030.

www.mycroft.ai

>>33280

Artificial means human made (as in artifact). It doesn't mean "pretending to be something".

So it's a human-made intelligence. Not a "not really an intelligence".

Otherwise we could call your intelligence artificial.

that's great. now we just have to wait until someone finds out who are the NSA moles who were responsible for this so amnesty can kick them out before they do more damage.

>>40595

Not so simple. It seems now Amnesty Sweden is more concerned about the "human rights" of the women accusing Assange of rape.

I think it's got to the point where Amnesty has to jettison their Swedish branch, they're completely run by the police, by the looks of it.

Is here a story behind OP's pic?

>>40696

Tom Green's bum is on the Swedish. Swedish. Sweeeedish.

>>40310

>>40331

Boeing™ sponsored attack drones powered by Rolls Royce™ soon.

>>40309

>>40367

I don't really think it's good to put your company logo on your weapons and vehicles. I don't know what marketing will think when they see news footage of tanks crushing dead bodies beneath their treads with your logo on it.

>>40059

I'm calling bullshit on Apple's publicity stunt. Don't they already cooperate with PRISM? And on account of CISPA, the FBI would have considerable access to data collected by the NSA.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/facebooks-zuckerberg-meets-chinas-propaganda-031503568.html

Mark Zuckerberg Meets China's Propaganda Chief

>>40688

oy vey no archive?

>>40226

Run it off your own blood sugar with electric eel cell implants!

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/10/22/2398277.htm

>>40666

wee, this is cool, I didn't think about eels.

But 19% efficiency is kinda small.

>>40666

matrix and the laws of thermodynamics say humans output lots of energy, surely some form of it can be harvested?

piezoelectric materials gain energy from compression/extension, others from movement or electromagnetic induction.

sorry, but with those trips you look like a monsanto spokesman.

>>40672

You won't get much energy that way. Matrix was wrong (because it needed humans for plot), and because of second law of thermodynamics released energy is extremely hard to capture.

IIRC IRL-expretiments seem to support me on that too.

And the fact that if we want to rise energy output of such system we have to get less efficient with our energy really rubs me the wrong way.

>>40455

>Christianity is awesome and totally in keeping with the true spirit of cyberpunk.

I don't get it, care to elaborate?

>>40482

>not sure which works you're speaking of. His sequels to neuromancer directly are terrible

I think Gibson is pretty good when he keeps it short.

His early short stories are snappy and fast-moving. (I'm not sure if they all got collected in _Burning Chrome_ - nowadays everyone downloads text file versions for free….)

Even _Virtual Light_ was relatively snappy compared to the Sprawl trilogy.

>>40541

So, what alternative is there to the cyberatheism current?

>>30156

>IDM

>edgy

I don't think we listen to the same music.

Unless you meant autechre.

>>37039

Oops, sorry. Not magnet-belts, but belts with tiny motors that vibrate signalling relative North position.

>>36473

>You can get equal functionality by wearing a ring with a magnet.

I've worn a magnet taped to my finger for a few weeks a few times and while the effect was noticeable (I could distinguish between aluminium and steel for example), it wasn't as strong as reported by people who had it implanted.

>>36558

>Not really, you'd need to wear some insulation everytime when in actual direct contact with it.

No. Neither is the field very strong, nor is any modern component spooked by magnetic fields that weak. You could touch the hard drive platter and you'd have to worry about dust and prints more than about the bits flipping.

>>37039

>>37040

Yeah most of the stuff you can technically implant works just fine as a wearable. There's little benefit to stuffing things under your skin, with the exception of magnets or blood monitors maybe.

>>36537

That's called a hearing aid. Maybe a little beefed up but any hearing aid can do that already.

at first i thought this was retarded but after seeing what other people are doing (

https://blog.credit.com/2015/03/forgot-your-password-its-in-your-skin-110030/

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31042477

) i have to say carry on, it's cool. nothing you can do can ever be nearly as stupid as what the normies do.