/metatech/ - /tech/ Meta Discussion

also, while im aware that /prog/ exists, the last post on there was 12 hours ago

If you want /dpt/, make a /dpt/

That's literally the whole point of 8ch.

>>1206

boards that exist for the sake of one thread are a bad idea

>>1192

well, that is shitposting tbh, fam.

>>1178

who?

and how is he so bad

>>1168

If you need an oldfag /g/entooman and originalfag /tech/ user as mod from GMT+1 say the word.

>>1200

meant to say vol, not mod.

I welcome this decision. It is great to have more diversity on the /tech/ team. But, even though we're progressing, we still have a long way to go as a board in accepting and empowering marginalised voices. That is why I propose the moderation team adopt a Code of Conduct (CoC) to make the board more welcoming for marginalised groups. In particular, terms such as 'f**got' and 'tr*p' should be avoided because of their power to trigger our minorities in tech.

Please consider this suggestion. It will be a victory for equality, for minorities, and, most importantly, a victory for the right side of history.

>>895

>>858

It's alive

/windows10/

>>810

You're part of the cancer, mate. I've seen plenty of people answer others in the TS Sticky. I have answered a few things there myself, so fuck you.

>>1199

I'm pretty shure that was bait or the other more likely option a new of retardadation.

Also they will never reply.

>>1181

Stop being such a crybaby.

>>1188

I don't have a position that makes it any easier for me to overcome those technical problems than it is for anyone else, so this isn't the place for me to argue about those technical problems. I'm fine with arguing about them in other places, and without a capcode.

For what it's worth, I'm a volunteer on Endchan /tech/, too. The board owner is too busy playing video games to check the report queue, and as far as I can tell from the logs, the last time he did a local moderation action was when he deleted all threads two months ago because he thought they were too shitty. If you don't like gross negligence, don't go there. I'm the only one taking care of it, and one person is not enough for a reasonably-sized board.

>>1189

>cloudflare can't connect to server

>no page 3

>double posts for half a year, seems to be better lately

>10 MB WEBM limit

Is "crybaby" what you called someone who left 4chan over GG? Over censorship, etc.? Low quality trolling tbh fam, smh. My point is that there is literally no reason to prefer 8ch over 4ch or Endchan, depending on what is important to you. The only people who could support 8ch at this point are either total idiots or masochists.

>>1190

If true, its just another reason why anything tangentially related to 8ch is doomed. Right now it is at the sweet spot for maximum fun. No Captcha, no spam orlow-quality posts from massive waves of Redditors. On so many boards here at 8ch I constantly see links to Reddit. Its worse then it ever was on 4chan, these days... times were different a year ago but mini-moot fucked that all up.

And if you hated Moot, he's gone. 4chan and 8ch both have 2ch people behind the curtain... but based Jim, despite leaving the uncensored Jap porn business, he never shared his stash of delicious uncensored Jap porn. He owned and made his fortune off of Jap porn but he never shared a bit of it with us. No busty uncensored Jap milf or anything like that... wtf man!? Why is Jim better than Hiroyuki or whatever the fuck his name is? Jim hasn't done shit for me. He should have demanded that Josh be fired six months earlier, talk about shitty ownership. What the fuck guys, are we not allowed to dissent anymore?

>technical and admin problems are beyond our control, keep posting and giving ad revenue to these fucking assholes

If a chan pops up that isn't run by total fuckwits, it will become a powerhouse of dank memes and everyone will forget these places just discussed ever existed. Rotten.com, etc. ... just tears in the rain.

>>1142

how dare people talk about technology that isn't muh loonux muh meme distros muh pedophile stallman how terrible oy vey

>>1175

>- He appointed https://a.cocaine.ninja/xcbfcx.png as a /tech/ mod for a few hours, until someone else demoted him. Well, he meant to, but because of a miscommunication, he was made board owner instead.

>this shit again

For a few hours. Horsefucker overplayed his hand, and got the boot. That's called good administration. I've heard this disinfo "point" from /v/edditors far too often.

private tracker general is off topic and cancer.

consider removing it, instead of silencing dissent against it.

>>1098

Just to provide some context, he's talking about the one-day ban he got for this post (as you can check at https://8ch.net/bans.html):

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LLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLL

MFW WHEN LE 2014 DOESN'T MEME /G/ROS

SA/G/E IS LE /G/AY XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

MUH MUH MUH SIDES ARE LELING INTO LE /G/ROSPHERE XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD LE SIDES MEME LLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

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E/G/IN /G/ROOOOOOOOO

PTG is the "pony /b/read" of /tech/

enjoy never being able to remove them.

>everything that discusses anything that isn't just linux distros is shilling

Kill yourself OP.

Yeah we should probably discuss the mental illness you suffer from, causing you to ascribe the action of every no-life NEET spamming the board to some conspiracy to slide very important topics.

It's not like /tech/ discusses anything important anyway.

We could be talking about technology.

Instead, it's "EVERYTHING IS BOTNET EVERYONE IS SHILLSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS" unless it's a linux distro or autistic "my command prompt console is better than yours" thread.

>>1150

Why wouldn't it be?

>>1133

Every 'slow' board on any imageboard gets that kind of complaint and it never helps. Go post something interesting, that's the only way to keep it alive.

add a recommended vpn's to sticky

in 'VPN' and/or 'Recommended Software' page

The https://8ch.net/metatech/rules.html page linked on /tech/'s first sticky has old invalid references to a "tech support sticky (>>181463)" and a "consumer advice sticky (>>181464)"

Btw, I've seen more the one dupe thread surviving for over a day, one of the most shitposted thread now is a "chop your dick off" thread ( >>498521 ), there's always someone who unironically bumps shit like that when it gets posted. The board log shows that the last mod action occurred more than 7 hours ago... time for new mods maybe? In different timezones?

>>1136

>"chop your dick off" thread ( >>498521 )

obviously meant >>>/tech/498521

btw I wonder if threads like >>>/tech/498382

>who/what is the most fuckable open source mascot?

shall exist...

>>1136

>The https://8ch.net/metatech/rules.html page linked on /tech/'s first sticky has old invalid references to a "tech support sticky (>>181463)" and a "consumer advice sticky (>>181464)"

Updated.

>Btw, I've seen more the one dupe thread surviving for over a day, one of the most shitposted thread now is a "chop your dick off" thread ( >>498521 ), there's always someone who unironically bumps shit like that when it gets posted. The board log shows that the last mod action occurred more than 7 hours ago... time for new mods maybe? In different timezones?

I haven't been able to do as much hotpocketing lately due to work, but I'll try to come on a bit more often. Might consider adding more vols for when the 'A' team's asleep.

>>1137

>btw I wonder if threads like >>>/tech/498382

>>who/what is the most fuckable open source mascot?

>shall exist...

I tend to either put threads tangentially related to technology or otherwise low quality threads on autosage or flat-out delete them. That one I decided to autosage.

Can you stick the following contents of this post as a separate sticky? It's an important security point most people don't even seem to know about:

"grub has support for loading encrypted drives. This has been around for a LONG time and people still brag about non-boot FDE.

Example with Parabola: http://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/encrypted_parabola.html

Example with Trisquel: http://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/encrypted_trisquel.html

Example with Arch: http://www.pavelkogan.com/2014/05/23/luks-full-disk-encryption/

Example with Mint: http://www.pavelkogan.com/2015/01/25/linux-mint-encryption/

Example w-... You get the idea."

Edit as needed etc

>>1104

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>>1108

>I don't like democracy

/tech/'s thread turnover rate is already slow. Imagine the turnover rate of /tech2/... A bad thread there would linger in the catalogue for weeks.

My recommendation: Allow embeds and stop being such faggots.

>>1118

My thought is that it has been done before. These are the 8chan-based /tech/ alternatives that I can think of, some of which have different aims:

>>>/gentoo/ - Very early technology board started at the same time as /tech/, didn't take off

>>>/tech2/ - Stricter alternative to /tech/ that tries to fight shills, dead

>>>/actualtech/ - "/tech/ without politics", dead

>>>/g/ - Another early technology board, slow but not quite dead, but only because people occasionally come to 8chan without looking at the board list

>>>/g2/ - /tech/, except that it allows tech support threads and desktop threads and that it's dead

>>1121

>Stricter alternative to /tech/ that tries to fight shills

>dead

who could have guessed.

>>1121

I said it would not be on 8ch.

>>1068

Posting with a name is allowed, attaching an unrelated image to your post is allowed, and he didn't start any derailment on purpose. He didn't break any rules.

>>1074

pathetic

>>1074

Your login details are a waste of bytes

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Way too much censorship and unfair banning.

Underage users are more likely to post threads that break rules. So what?

If an underage user posts a rule-breaking thread we don't need an age limit to do something about it. I deleted that example thread as soon as I saw it (hours before I saw this thread) because it was a tech support thread, not because the user was underage.

If an underage user posts a legitimate thread while admitting they're underage, they're not doing anything wrong.

You propose banning people for who they are, instead of what they do. I can't support that.

>>1064

What they do is unnecessarily bring attention to the fact that they are underage. This extraneous information provides zero additional value and only exists to attention-whore.

It doesn't matter how old you are, what ethnicity you are, where you grew up, how much money you make, your gender, how many people you've fucked, the number of confined kills you have from the navy seals, or anything else besides what you have to offer.

These underb&s are breaking the rules and they need to be punished, or the rules will die.