/cyber/ - Cyberpunk & Science Fiction

Meatspace generally lacks high-tech, and overal just one big "where's my jetpack" joke.

I do agree with Gibson's notion that "future is already here, it just not evenly distributed", but it certainly sucks when you live in those parts of the world that didn't get any action going on. The only thing we can do is to stay at home and drown ourself in tech-consumerism and shitposting.

so where do i find safe regions controlled by the resistance?

reality isn't exactly cyberpunk. There are technological advances, similarities. But the grandiose visions of all sci-fi are not truly ever expressed. The real word is as mundane as dirt

>Japan was one of the safest places on Earth until Fukushima.

i have no idea where you got your misconceptions from but japan is a largely racist country, in economic crisis, discussing TPP and widely controlled by corruption.

Everyone knew that Fukushima would happen one day but nobody cared because the alternative would have been to fight against corruption and thus embrace a less neoliberal/neoconservative world view.

>>40545

Corruption is unavoidable in a democracy, because running a party takes a lot of money, so politicians exchance political favours for money. Just one of the reasons why democracy is a horrible system.

>>40550

the factor separating japan from comparable democracies is the yakuza presence. If they were eliminated the scope of the problem would be greatly reduced. But as the other guy insinuates, corruption and crimelords go hand in hand with the political process

>>40533

>>40533

the 'hacker' with own 'server racks' and 'botnets' meme never ceases to crack me up. why would you ever need them, it's not like you're working on any projects or R&D. this board is trully a gold mine of cringe.

I know it's amazing. Turmoil is reaching critical mass. Anti-globalists on the left and the right (but at this point, primarily the right) around the world are making huge waves fighting corporatism and globalism but it's probably too late.

Not to mention this is the most cyber American election in history

>2 populist candidates who are both incredibly fringe in different directions but at the end of the day believe in protectionism are hugely popular despite the constant media assault on both of them by the corporate owned MSM are going against an unabashed corporate globalist puppet who will do anything to be in power and who will probably win

At the end of the day it's probably all too late, we THOUGHT we were living in a cyberpunk world, it hasn't even begun. If Hillary "Merkel is my inspiration" Clinton wins it's all over and we should just embrace it. This is the dystopian future we deserve.

>>40585

Then why are you here shazbot?

>>40532

That's the joke.

ba bum tiss

>>40585

Training is important for one's career, though. Plus I host Jinteki, and I'm working on a project with someone right now not like it'll ever get completely off the ground.

>>40601

want training? okay. learn how to CREATE things. art, music, films, games. you don't make brouzouf by having the knowledge how to apply documentation in practice. server admin is a dying job. and you can't argue with that, friend, robots will make you obsolete in the next 5 to 10 years.

>>40619

>yes, come join we miserable poorfags who did humanities and art and game design majors!

I'll pass, thanks. Really, if you think robots are going to take over IT jobs, you've been reading too many of those buzzword-laden articles written by clueless C-level execs on linkedin.

See, you do make brouzouf by "having the knowledge to apply documentation in practice", which is what I'm doing right now. But everyone doing it is also doing it with the goal of being the person who writes the documentation, which entails a shitload more money. Don't get me wrong here (buzzwords spoilered), automation, compartmentalization, and the whole devops and agile things are reactions to tech trends that embrace less hands-on work, although the first two are the only truly useful ones. But "robots" will never be able to revive a dead SAN, build a whitebox, plan out your network, plan out your datacenter, script common AD tasks, or even make users happy by solving their retarded little problems. And even if theoretically they could, it would be prohibitively expensive for all but the top players - Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and whoever takes their places.

Your job as a barista or a burger-flipper, however, will be much more easily replaced, because it's simple and requires almost no skill. Good luck living off of your shitty art and music then - you're far better off playing the lottery than handing out mixtapes in the hopes of making it big.

I'm sure people said the same thing to my dad when he was working on mainframes some 30 years ago.

>>40585

I must admit that you're right about this board being cringy.

/cyber/ really is and always was one of the most cringy boards on 8chan.

It's basically a hacker wannabe board after all.

But i like to come here, because there is a few creative people here. Or more like was..

>>40622

here it goes, server admin's butthurt where i live (europe) education is free, but if you live in america there's a lot of resources on the internet and unless you want to be a rocket sciencist you'll find all informations you need by doing a simple search on duckduckgo or any other search engine. also, i don't flip burgers, i'm mostly working on my own art projects and freelancing for companies such as CD Projekt. (yes, not everyone is an in-house artist, we're in 21th century) anyways, it seems like you're too ignorant to embrace the fact you'll be replaced by a machine in the future. there just isn't going to be such thing as documentation anymore. such mundane tasks will be done by server AI, that'll also take care of any security threats and so on. it's just better, and faster that way. we, humans, are better at creative tasks.

>>40628

yeah, it seems like a lot of people are stuck in the cyberpunk of gibson and can't move on. they're living like parasites on concepts other people made instead of inventing their own iterations of what future might look like. it's just sad and uninspired.

>>40619

robots are not gonna take over sysadmin & network admin jobs.

Automation is happening but it won't be fully adopted in the next 10-20 years.

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

If we create a robot that you are talking about then it most likely can create its own art, music, games, movies too.

>>40636

>robots can't be intelligent because humans are special snowflakes with god-given souls

you, sir, are and idiot.

for everyone else:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

>>40639

>>40636

nvm, i see you're not quite that ignorant. didn't fully read your post, just woke up.

still, have a look at the video.

>>40544

>The real word is as mundane as dirt

That’s because either you don’t follow the news or you don’t notice it because of how gradual it is. There are VIPs in Europe who want to enforce mandatory euthanasia for the elderly, others who think surrogate mothers are as normal as men working in a factory, people got refused a job not because they were not competent but because their social media accounts weren’t popular enough, electronic voting has become the norm in the USA, the state of emergency in France has been prolonged despite there being no attack since November, brouzouf is slowly becoming illegal, birth control pills for men are becoming a thing, governments want to stop the teaching of handwriting in schools and Chinese people have started selling their children and kidneys for iPhones.

>>40648

i know how hard it is for you to accept the truth, but unless you're creating those robots, you most likely won't be needed. (and no, we don't need another 1000 engineers to oversee [in reality, they do fucking nothing] those robots.)

anyways, as i said in that post >>40636 this board seems to be stuck in the past, so i'm out. au revoir.

>>40640

I believe what they tell in the video, maybe in 10 years we are going to feel it that automation is taking off and is going really hard ( like computers did ).

Self driving cars will be something awesome but i think expensive at first as soon as its alot cheaper then we will see it taking off.

Anyway next 10-20 years is gonna be interesting :)

>>40536

But non-distributed future is one of the biggest sells of cyb for me.

Think of it: walking through a street that's not paved, while using the smartphone to whatsapp.

It's my real life, too.

>>40658

well, good to be you then.

But I leave in a place where street paving is more or less ok, but mobile internet is too expensive and slow to whatsapp on the go.

>>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 …