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How /g/ store video and music? Do you even do it?
Don't know what codecs/format use to do it.
FLAC for audio, that's obvious, but what about movies?
Is 720p in matroska enough? For me it's right - small size up to 5GB, good video quality with nice bitrate and often it contains DTS audio.
>implingy I can hear the difference between DTS and 192kbps mp3
What about you?
>>42501831
Bluray remuxes from private trackers are the only correct answer.
>>42501831
192kbit/s mp3 probably isn't surround when it comes to movies, while DTS probably is.
I download 1080p encodes done by good groups from private trackers. Usually at least 10GB per movie, more often than not 15GB per.
FLAC music from what.cd obviously.
Only FLAC because of Rotational Velocodensity. I don't want my music to sound like shit in 5 years :^)
Let's have an FF tips/trick/tweaks general, more geared towards Privacy, aside from other things, like ads and shit. What add-ons do you use, what about:config commands have you added, any particular URLs that you are actively blocking, etc., etc?
I'll get the ball rolling.
Add the following to your AdBlock filter preferences to never see "Annotations" in YouTube videos ever again. Life significantly improved.
||youtube.com/annotations_
If you absolutely have to use GMail, then try the Gmelius add-on, if you haven't already. Make your Gmail look clean, and remove all the retarded text adds. Feels good man.
Pic related.
there's a setting in your youtube account to disable the, by default.
see them if you want, don't lock yourself out.
https://github.com/chpii/Headerbar
bretty good
Desktop thread.
Why aren't you listening to angry white people music edition.
hi there, /g/
Anyone else having appchan-x captcha problems?
>>42436766
Only problems I have is I'll occasionally get those stupid address captchas that always fail. I just refresh the captchas a few times and I'll get a normal one. I'm glad they fail, I don't want to support that shit.
Old thread died.
Piratebox /G/eneral
Build a piratebox:
http://piratebox.cc/openwrt:diy
A PirateBox is a portable electronic device, often consisting of a Wi-Fi router and a device for storing information, creating a wireless network that allows users who are connected to share files anonymously and locally. By definition, this device is disconnected from the Internet.
Old thread: >>42353086
The channel has been a bit inactive recently. Join #/g/piratebox on Rizon to liven up the discussion.
Today, I was out from morning till evening, and used the opportunity to carry my piratebox with me. The result was not overwhelming, just got a few messages, most nonsensical, in the shoutbox. I should probably use a less suspicious SSID, like that of an actual local network, or "free wifi" next time.
Can we have a "Games made in Assembly" thread?
Some months ago I saw a thread about it and I found some gold.
Is there any good game, or a simple game, made in NASM?
>>42389644
>RollerCoaster Tycoon
>Scottish game developer Chris Sawyer originally wanted to create a sequel to his highly successful Transport Tycoon, but after becoming obsessed with roller coasters, he changed the project into RollerCoaster Tycoon. Sawyer wrote RollerCoaster Tycoon in x86 assembly language, which was rare for a game published in the late 1990s. Some functions were written in C for interaction with the Windows operating system.[1]
>Some functions were written in C for interaction with the Windows operating system.[1]
Any else find it comical that he had to move from assembly to a higher-level language just so he could interact with the OS?
>>42389644
Which CPUs and GPUs being as powerful as they are today, is there truly any need for assembly in games these days?
Even mobile devices are getting pretty powerful these days
>>42389644
well, I don't really know about this, but the demoscene is full of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
Can you touch type /g/?
I just started learning how, and it is definitely a tough transition.
>>42382746
yes because I'm not a pleb. if you can't touch type by yesterday you should kill you are self.
>>42382766
>you should kill you are self.
lol kill yourself
I can. Years ago I forced myself to use the homerow and type without looking. I started at probably around 10 WPM. A few years later, I'm now able to type around 130 WPM. Don't give up anon!
ITT: post the dumbest questions you were afraid to ask before.
>anon nobody will judge you (recessive genes, worthless, slump)
why has no one written a program that writes improved versions of itself?
>>42362486
how do I creat a gtk app from c++ app?
Are free versions of video game engines worth it? How about a engine with source provided? What if I can't even code so that makes the source useless for me?
Official /g/ phone: Motorola Moto G
Official /g/ watch: Casio F-91W
Official /g/ laptop: ThinkPad
Official /g/ operating system: GNU+Linux
Official /g/ CPU vendor: AMD
Official /g/ dildo: Dragon Dildo
Official /g/ car: ?
Official /g/ monitor: ?
Official /g/ headphones: ?
>>42377882
Official /g/ os should be gentoo
>>42377882
>Official /g/ dildo: Dragon Dildo
I don't know why I laughed.
official keyboard : IBM model M
official crt screen : sony fw-900
How close are we to true Virtual Intelligence or Artificial intelligence?
For those who don't know, VI's are programs used to make the interface of computers and the like easier, allowing voice commands with scripted responses and actions. The problems encountered with this is that it cannot learn like human intelligence can. They can 'learn' by getting more scripting done to improve their collection of answers, but they cannot take initiative or solve problems, and above that they have to be 'taught' by a user.
AI is something I believe we haven't even come close to yet. At NASA and Google, they have been experimenting with quantum computing, but no real results can be seen yet when it comes to Artificial Intelligence. Judging, thinking, decision-making and taking initiative are all things a true AI should be able to do, and that's extremely hard to mimic.
Hopefully you guys have more insight in this than I have, and I was wondering what your opinion was.
1. What exactly is an A.I. according to you?
2. How close are we to accomplishing A.I.?
>>42347352
Look to Google. They're the ones building huge neural networks and cannabilizing robotics companies. I'm sure it's mentioned often during blue sky meetings.
You said "What exactly is an A.I. according to you?". Is this correct?
True A.I.? If you assume that Google/NASA has the funds and time, we could probably see it in out lifetime. I think that people would get buttmad though. Like people who'd seen too much I, Robot and the like. They'll try to stop the research or force some law against it. Still,
I'd piss myself if I'd have a computer program ask me: 'Who am I? Why am I here? Do I have a soul?'
I'd freak the fuck out. If they do accomplish it though, we have to be careful as fuck with it. Hackers would become the most dangerous criminals in the world. If you tamper with an A.I. that has the processing power to spread itself across the internet it could turn into a digital apocalypse.
OKay. So the introduction to this page shows a tutorial in how to install Gentoo on your machine. However it seems like the majority of the Linux users here uses Arch Linux.
Is Gentoo just so comlicated that it needs its own tutorial or is Arch just the preferred Linux distro.
Fedora is simply better than both of them.
Just use Debian (or its derivatives) like normal people and you'll have time to actually do some real work, not just re-tinker with the OS for the millionth time because it broke again.
OSX is free software.
There is no reason to use Linux.
>>42293008
Free as in free beer
>>42293008
*freeware
also bloatware
>>42293028
Yep.
First for these threads are shit. Please stop making them.
You were just waiting to start a new thread with that picture
Asspie faggot
>anime image
STOP
Remember: sage and report
Hey guys, so today I was deleting everything on my paypal related to my bank that account got deleted. I called to the bank and they told me that they deleted my bank account due to inactivity for more than 6 months with a $0.00 balance. All my debit cards were seized and the bank account was trashed.
>This bank account was solely for buying online.
I had exactly 6.90 dollars left of PayPal balance. I wanted to take care of this balance to leave it at $0.
I went to eBay and ordered some shit worth exactly $6.90. Little did I know they taxed it so it raised to like $7.30. I confirmed the payment and it stated the usual:
>Instant bank transfer from XXXX-666 Bank Name.
I had only 6.90 and the account DOESN'T EXIST anymore. This is not a credit card, it is a debit card with no overdrafting capabilities.
I was 40 cents short and PayPal and eBay accepted the payment.
After noticing this I was curious on what would happen with a bigger amount.
>I proceeded to spend $3000 dlls.
At this point I was expecting the usual "No funds left... etc." message.
>It worked.jpg
What did I get myself into? Should I cancel the order and tell the seller it was a mistake or something and confess everything to the bank?
Again I double and triple checked my bank dashboard and I have absolutely nothing charged (under the dashboard you get several account statements, on mine there are no accounts).
>>42293228
Buy more things with your infinite money supply, sell them at a higher price.
If anything bad happens, you'll be able to cover the costs.
>>42293250
This.
Also, after a while they find out and will mail you stating you need to add fund in order to keep using paypal. I had this with a 100 euro purchase. Woops.
>>42293250
>>42293266
But can I get in trouble [legally?], I have not signed for another bank account, there are no bank accounts under my name. Is this PayPal's fault, the bank's fault? Where does this money come from?
So the truecrypt developers intended to stay anonymous and I'm assuming that means using TOR for everything related to the project
Somehow it is believed that the NSA or some organisation forced them to shut down, meaning their ID's had to have been compromised for the NSA/organisation to have any leverage against them
Does this logically mean that the NSA/org has cracked TOR or that the devs messed up somewhere?
>>42288022
no please
this thread is about truecrypt with an unrelated image
please don't derail ok
>>42288022
you drew a line over the middle door so you could cheat
>>42246409
>Using botnets
kek.
Either way, i would use Chromium and remove the privacy offending features.
>>42246409
Chromium. Respects my freedoms more.
>>42246422
Couldn't agree anymore, if I was forced to use one of them.
