Are thin clients a meme?
>>58354794
My uni uses them, "upgraded" last year. Absolute trash. Slow laggy fuckers with a 15 minutes login time.
I am pretty sure my uni it is pretty much the worst in the country.
>>58354794
Yes, they have shit performance i.e lag and they cost as much as a proper computer.
If they're used as intended so as a vnc client then they are pretty ok for basic office tasks.
>there will never be a Pentium 5 5ghz
why live?
what do you think of pentium D?
I remember those days when you just could ask 'what pentium do you have?'
>>58355447
legit
also the more mhz the better
now they just add more cores
its over
so i made a factory reset on my old router. guess what happened? it has a default wifi password, so i cannot even get close to the admin admin part.
any idea, a bullet?
>>58354670
wire your house for ethernet, what fucking century is this?
jesus christ
>>58354670
>>>/google/
Give it back, Jamal.
Hey fa/g/s, paranoid poorfag here
Just wondering if you guys know about any free, decent vpns for linux? I cant afford to pay for PIA although it appears to be the best out there.
>can't afford paying $3.33 a month
jusy kys you worthless piece of shit
>>58354799
Congratulations! You just insulted an anonymous random on the internet for no fucking reason other than to prove to yourself that you're not as fucking pathetic as you're rightfully afraid of being! You sir, are an alpha-faggot!
>>58354653
There's no such thing as a decent free vpn
If you want decent, you have to pay up
If you want to joint he botnet, then use a free one
What kind of music does /g/ listen to?
>>58354581
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNCQdbViQZ8
nightcore
>>58354581
Eurobeat
Why aren't there more commercial applications available for Linux?
Coming from a computer engineering background, I've used plenty of commercial electronic design software for Linux. It works great. You get the power of commercial software applications with tons of R&D behind it, integrated with the popular Unix development tools available by default on Linux.
But, correct me if I'm wrong, professional applications like photo editors, PCB designers, 3D/modeling cad software, audio production software, finance, etc. don't run on Linux.
>>58354444
Windows is used by almost 90% people. This means companies will primarily make software for it.
Linux is used by less than 4% people. This means it's not a top priority to distribute software to it.
MacOS is used by as many people as linux, and slightly more (probably around 50% more). It's second priority only because it and it's users mainly follow "pay for everything" mentality, unlike Linux which says "most things should be open source and preferably free" (doesn't apply to everyone, I also buy software and use Linux). Companies see that they have a greater chance of selling products to Windows and Apple PC users than Linux PC users. So they look at it this way:
>Windows users will bring us 80% profit
>Mac users will give us 19% profit
>Linux users will give us 1% profit, or less
It's true that linux is used by over a hundred million people, but the truth is companies are too lazy to ship products to them when the potential reward is small. Look at it this way, less than 15% windows users even use that kind of software (Photoshop, etc) and over half of them have pirated it (at least home users). If Linux users followed the same standard the company (example, Adobe) wouldn't earn much.
Though lots of software is now becoming available on linux, the main problem with older software is it would take too much to fix everything up and port it to linux as software was previously mainly shipped for windows only and it's much easier using legacy stuff and adding features on-the-go.
tl;dr
>it's not worth it, people who pay for software are a minority, and Linux users are a minority
>it would take too long to make older software compatible with linux and people are lazy to do so
>>58354730
>it would take too long to make older software compatible with linux and people are lazy to do so
It doesn't take much time with existing multi-platform libraries. Unless your code is shit.
>>58354802
Autodesk's code is really shit. The only reason Maya works on Linux is because it was designed to do so from before Autodesk bought it. 3dsmax on the other hand is entrenched in Win32
Can somebody explain why bluetooth dongles are necessary and shilled so hard even by consumers?
I mean dont majority of people have a bluetooth adapter in their PC? Almost anytime i see a video related to utilizing bluetooth on PC people always reccomend a bluetooth dongle. Whats the deal?
They are aimed at tech illiterate babyboomers aka Trump voters.
>dont majority of people have a bluetooth adapter in their PC
obviously not
>>58354664
does bluetooth come with most motherboard?
>IPv6 addresses
Who the fuck thought this would be a good idea?
>let's replace some easy to remember numbers with a retarded long hex string
At least it will keep newfags like you out when people can't memorize the IPv6-address for 4chan
>>58354409
better than IPv4
>>58354435
You're dumb as fuck. That's literally what DNS is for.
Do signed and unsigned integers take up same amount of memory?
For example, there is fixed size of memory for them, the only difference is one starts from 0 to X and other from -x/2 to x/2 (ofc x/2 is approximation for the sake of example, dont bully for notations)?
Yes.
>>58354398
Yes, an n-bit signed integer and an n-bit unsigned integer both require at least n bits of memory
Yes but they have different ranges. Int could be -2^31 to +2^31 - 1but unsigned could be from 0 to 2^32 - 1
Can we get a desktop rate thread + speccy or screenfetch?
No, we can't. Sorry.
>>58354536
looks like it
Assume you find a vulnerability in a software.
The reverse engineering process reveals security by obscurity.
Low quality code and weak algorithms, just obfuscated.
Think ROT13 "encryption" combined with XOR and a static key.
It looks like management told underpaid, unqualified, outsourced sweatshop "developers" to add encryption and the developer just scrambled bytes until it looks encrypted.
Choices:
a) Be a good boy and report vulnerability to vendor. They do have a bug bounty program. However chances are, they will just change their obfuscation, not actually securing the product at all. It will make further exploration harder, but the code is so littered with bad security, I just know it won't be fixed at all.
b) Publish it as 0-day, forfeiting any chance of getting paid or employed by the vendor.
Can it have legal repercussions to public 0-day exploits using your real name? I'm unemployed and I hope this will get me job offers.
>the developer just scrambled bytes until it looks encrypted
Encryption always works this way. It's just hard enough to prevent bruteforcing on common rig. Also you forgot c) Sell the exploit.
>>58354668
>Encryption always works this way
I guess yes, but anyway this is very weak. It's basically just obfuscated.
Would you notify the vendor?
I'm 99% certain they will not fix the underlying issue at all, just piling more obfuscation on top of it, making it harder to reverse, but still totally insecure
>>58354758
You can report the bug with the appropriate bugfix, if you care about the security. You get the money, and increase the probability of a good fix
What are you working on, /g/?
Old thread: >>58345243
>>58354335
Anime OP is always true OP in my heart.
/g/ cool kids club checklist
[x] hate OOP
[x] hate IDEs
[x] use only Haskell
[x] never produce actually useful software (this is important)
[x] wear knee socks
[x] tiling window manager
[x] dark-like-my-soul customized colors
[x] tiny mechanical keyboard with artisan caps
[x] hate popular Linux distributions (far too intelligent for them)
What are you working on, /g/?
Old thread: >>58345243
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thank you for using an anime image
>>58354286
Thank you for using a non-anime image
Lets talk about RISC-V boys
This is going to be one hell of a ride, a fully open source ISA, not the first time of course, but most the most significant with market ready prototypes
because openarm was a successful thing too.
>>58354226
Looks really cool but it probably won't get any traction outside of free software foundation
>>58354261
It could make the basis for a fully open RPi competitor.
I'm hopping off the Apple bandwagon, and am looking for another laptop to run Linux on. Are the Dell XPS 13" a good fit, or are those overpriced as well? I want to see what sorta specs I've been missing out without the Apple tax. Mainly work with AWS, Python/Ruby. Everyone on YouTube keeps saying i5/i7 for the Core M isn't the same as regular i5/i7, which further confuses me. I thought i7 was the best? Currently running "2.7 GHz Intel Core i5", with "8 GB 1867 MHz DDR3".
Yes.
>>58354194
Core M is the laptop versions of intel processors, but they are still good.
XPS 13 is a very good laptop. Go for it.
I've got a XPS 13 1080p developer edition with the new kaby lake meme
its honestly a good laptop