/cyber/ - Cyberpunk & Science Fiction★

>>50616

>crying about /pol/ on 8chan

Do you not understand the concept of cross-posting?

And why the fuck wouldnt the kikes get brought up? They hold tremendous power.

Maybe you need to deal with /cyber/ as it is rather than /cyber/ as you want it to be.

>>54491

And this is why /pol/edditors should kill themselves.

>>53909

>Americans

>>50520

>Cyberpunk is only so big, you can't be discussing it year round.

How big is cyberpunk ? Its hard even to define what it is. I want to say its futurist self-reliant stem-wizard/hacker with a schway aesthetic.

>>53909

Huel is hella schwayy though. Scientifically engineered cheap food is schaway.

>>55137

Disgusting.

>>55149

>if the cord is embedded, what happens when it gets frayed

Well, you take the arm off and get it repaired or conduct repairs yourself, realistically. having some measure of plug-and-play functionality seems to make sense. It really would depend on how seamless the electronics are. I'd like a robotic arm to be a fashion statement, personally. I want it to be obvious that it's not natural. I'd construct the outer shell with angular shrouds and bulges and things that would both look schway as fuck and also house extra gadgets or auxiliary batteries.

If it's extremely integrated, well, you get surgery.

guys stop dressing like you're someone you aren't, people won't perceive you as what you want them to. dress practically.

>>22468

I like this

>>55166

>having some measure of plug-and-play functionality seems to make sense

Plug In Play refers to IRQ's and DMA's being configured automatically.

You probably just mean modular?

lads can anyone recommend me if the boots in >>47953 are any good?

>>42561

Anathem was amazing

>>50462

not if you were a professional shazbot in HS

>>54904

personally I could not get past the first few pages, should I try again?

>>55086

It depends on what you like.

I liked the idea of the 'math' as a quasi-religious academia removed from the bullshit of everyday life. That goes away more and more and details about quantum mechanics, configueration space, neutron bombs, etc. start emerging, and the ending is an interesting excersize in strategy.

Its not cyberpunk per say, but definitely high tech, and kind of educational if you like science. Stephenson is an excellent writer generally. If the science stuff sounds boring, and you didn't like the beginning, you might not find it all that interesting. Its a long read, but I enjoyed it.

>>55087

Historically, pure math has always been the purview of the religious and philosophical, not of technicians. In fact, even to this day, technicians and other sorts of "uses math but doesn't develop it" types scorn pure math as being a useless trade, since most of modern routine human endeavour is achievable with only fairly basic math which is true but ignores the effects of the highest tiers of technicians/engineers/etc that do use advanced math creating that rising tide of technology that lifts all boats, necessitating more and more math skills be learned all the time to just stay relevant in the face of technologies that become newly common

>>54358

>enables-paralyzed-als-patient-to-type-six-words-per-minute

>six-words-per-minute

<with a fucking parallel printer port-sized plug sticking out your head

<the last place they have any feel anymore

There truly are fates worst than death

>>54502

Mofo got ev cars going and a fucking rocket that can land vertically. Just saying I thought he was full of shit in the 2000s but now? not really, he might make it

>>54507

Also blockchains are going to shit, who woulda thought that an untraceable anonymous financial asset would be gamed by the same shitty bankers who fuck the economy all the time?

As for tesla tbh ev cars were really shit before the model s, even the roadster was meh

>>54529

>Also blockchains are going to shit

cryptos*

there's nothing wrong with blockchain tech, at least not in the way you mean there.

What the fuck are you even talking about? It's a keyboard layout.

You're supposed to use whatever works best for you, not what makes you look 1337, kids.

>>49516

well, you're on /cyber/ what did you expect

>>49510

Isn't that just a thinkpad keyboard torn out of the laptop?

>>49525

It is. External ones don't look as cool as this one, though.

schway.

Customizing your machine for power use is schway.

>>47454

>Using closed source OS, then talking about a "secure browser" is just… not relevant? In my personal opinion it is not.

Depends on your threat model. If you do not consider pervasive mass surveillance by government(s) a threat, and consider microsoft/adobe trusted parties, it can be meaningful to talk about a secure browser on top of Windows.

Of course, I cannot imagine any /cyber/ poster being down with pervasive mass surveillance, which makes all closed source code suspect.

I like SRware Iron. All the usual extensions are needed tho (ublock origin, https everywhere, random user agen switcher.

>>47424 (OP)

Do you spoof or not spoof user agent?

I like the idea of the political advocacy that comes with telling service providers "I use *nix".

>protprietary pajeet chrome clone focused on "privacy"

>srware iron

>opera

Woah, we're reaching larp levels neither of lainchans achieved.

Here's a serious advice: start using Tor Browser and learn how it's designed, then pick a bare Soros/Firefox and tweak it for normal usage by removing home phoning but try not to fall into full placebo pit like Adnauseam/User Agent Switcher users do. Learn how websites identify and track you, learn how you can be infected or deanonymized through browser.

Stop visiting websites that break too much when you disable scripts or add lists to your firewall/adblock, there is 99% probability of those websites being shit and not having any meaningful information to gather from.

If you just need low attack surface, use simple HTML rendering browsers with no built-in javascript support like Dillo, w3m, Links. For videos, I'd assume you mean YouTube and the likes. Because simple embedded videos can be downloaded with right click.

Happily, a program called youtube-dl exists. It supports lots of websites to download from, it can even run live streams and you can send it's output to video player software. Should I say, you can also use it over Tor and still get reasonable speeds?

When you say secure you have to have a threat model.

If your threat model includes only an ordinary attacker using conventional methods (like say a pentester), simply having up to date software might be good enough. You can increase security margin by reducing attack surface: Limiting plugins installed, setting plugins click to play, limiting javscript, blocking unwanted third party content. Using corrective security measures like sand-boxing, or virtualization might be considered extreme (Qubes temporary VMs are awesome here). Detective measures like anti-virus, or HIPS might be useful as well.

If your threat model includes advertisers you might want to add to the above blackholing known addnetworks, disabling 3rd party cookies, periodically clearing cookies, possibly vpn/tor use . You also need to ask yourself if you trust your software vendors to do the right thing here. Consult the EFFs prism break guide. Operational security measures might be useful here as well.

If your threat model includes governments then do not use proprietary software.

Haven't read it in forever, but it's been floating in the back of my mind recently. I remember it being pretty good, but human memory is known for being unreliable at best.

F2F, by Phillip Finch

> The Verba Interchange is an electronic bulletin board, a virtual meeting place where anyone with a computer and a modem can exchange views, flirt, or argue with complete anonymity. But an ingenious serial killer is using the vast potential of the Net to choose victims for a deadly f2f - a face-to-face meeting.

Related - why can't Tor users upload images to this board? Spammers, I guess? Was going to attach the cover.

>>54591

>Couldn't because archive.is is inaccessible to anyone using CIA dns and I refuse to use NSA's

>>54773

> Related - why can't Tor users upload images to this board? Spammers, I guess?

Too many Russian CP site spammers coming from TOR since forever ago.

>>54832

Disappointing, but fair.

Got a link here to the book if anyone wants it.

http://lib1.org/_ads/FBE0DD1E9F66C375D4C8643C95AD3136

>>52871

It's going to become more and more commonplace as time goes on. GM was caught a few weeks ago harvesting info of what drivers were listening to on the radio. The fucking r-a-d-i-o.

On that note, does anyone know of any good forums that focus mainly on the tech side of cars, ie infotainment and disabling as much botnet as possible. /tech/ meets /o/

>>51723

i-is that tank ejaculating?

>>52874

perhaps some chans or very specific Tor sites, most people who do anything with cars want MORE visibility online.

>>51699

>stealing bikes

Absolutely nigger tier and fucks over poorfags unless its clearly a gearhead's bike those fags deserve it. Stealing those fucking electric scooters companies have started leaving in cities is where it's at. Don't forget to throw the wireless receiver in the trash before taking it home.

>>52660

>>52672

>>52673

I use android with mine, its very nice, battery lasts about a day and is usb-c charged. kali linux fully supports gemini which should be good enough for most of you.

>>54852

>shitpost aggressively on facebook

state of this board, everyone

>>54852

>my friends arrive to hang out with me irl

state of this board, everyone

>>54854

>>54861

t. triggered noobs who put sim cards in their gps-equipped laptops but get mad about ""normies""

>>54582

That sounds both annoying and cool as fuck. Can definitely be part of a cyber story arc.

>>54783

>increase in female gendered offspring/infertility (wifi/radio wave exposure)

Thought that mostly affected males

>>54822

>Thought that mostly affected males

unless you are talking about jesus's mom, humans need 2 parents

>>54825

What?

>>54724

>lacks the "low life" aspect

Do you remember where KD6-3.7 (Joe) lived? Would you want to live with his neighbors?

>>54717

Clearly cyberpunk, in fact i always thought the replicants were androids, robots.

There's not enough biopunk stuff out there and in any case they should go hand in hand, it's not like in the future we would have made progress in just one area.

I can imagine a lot of competition in the future between "health" firms pushing a bio-chemical solution and others pushing an electronic one

BUMP

>>54736

They are clearly not robots.

>>54738

They are bioengineered humanoids in the movies and electronic androids in DADES.

>>54317

You messed up a lot of dates and facts here. Did you ever took a glance of wikipedia or imdb pages on films you listed?

>>54545

>EYE: Divine Cybermancy

I would really like to get into this more but I can't get into the dated look and feel.

>>54546

EYE isn't even that old of a game. If you can't handle EYE because it seems "dated", then you're going to be missing out on most of the other worthwhile cyberpunk games too, like Deus Ex or Uplink.

>>54346

I went through the list of films I have on my external hard drive. I made the descriptions from memory. If some are not entirely accurate, whoops.

I would like an amber theme for my phone

>>54113

I regret more how svidya got nuked and all those threads are gone

>>54120

THIS

>>54133

We're just slow now though, but going from that to dead is not hard

>>54150

This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmOCsiZgAbg

Also I didn't even know "indammen" was a word even though it's my native language. The more you know.

>>54114

Reread my post. I never said that I have an issue with slow boards, just an issue with them being dead (frozen in time). I sometimes browse boards that I remember and there have been no posts at all.

I quite like slow boards, probably my favorite thing if they aren't 1 post a month kind of slow. I agree that the faster ones are more cancerous.

>>54422

yet again, endless sprawl a cyberpunk city does not make. here is one of literally thousands of chinese examples of aesthetic cities. however even these futuristic cities are not cyberpunk unless you can see the intersection of the lo-lifes and high-tek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD-t3W1zLzg

>>54424

Cyberpunk is more then just a personal style. You by yourself can’t create cyberpunk, you need the tech, you need the low life, you need the income disparity and the smog and all the things that go along with the core of cyberpunk and it’s aesethic. You alone can’t make all that happen.

>>54427

I get that just urban sprawl isn’t cyberpunk, but why does that happen? Because growth happens too fast and they can’t control it. That in my opinion can and sometimes is an element of cyberpunk. Things happening and progressing too fast for the government to control. I like the core of cyberpunk but I also like the aesthetic of it also. I love the rainy streets with the neon signs, the smog, the massive buildings and the crammed apartments. I love it all. Chongqing is pretty cool though.

>>54437

>why does that happen? Because growth happens too fast and they can’t control it.

every single one of those buildings got permits, were built to code, and pay taxes.

>Things happening and progressing too fast for the government to control.

you're a neet aren't you?

>>54438

>every single one of those buildings got permits, were built to code, and pay taxes.

true that, thinking about it you can get a lot of shanty towns like south american favelas and barrios, but anything higher than three stories is probably going to literally fall on its own they way they're built.

>>54438

Lol no. Sure they get permitting, but the gov can’t control the zoning and the new density. I mean they technically could, but it was moving so fast and brouzouf speaks. I’m sure there were bribes taken to approve everything in LA.

>>54214

What, and Arise was watchable for you? How does it feel to compulsively eat trash? It was a shitty reboot with non of the philosophical depth of either the original movies or SAC, and the animation quality was hot garbage. The Arise movie was a bizarrely-paced dumpster fire with a shitty plot that tried too hard to be hip and cool by mentioning contemporary computer issues like Stuxnet. Every other piece of GitS media completely shits all over Arise.

>I instantly dropped psychopass because it's just bad anime.

Thanks for sharing your opinion on an anime you didn't watch

>>54215

I should give that another try, the loli was cute af

>>54237

The loli was headpattable, but she was upstaged by the incredibly sexy 19-year-old with too much eye shadow.

>>54169 (OP)

I enjoyed Genocyber, and even though it has "cyber" in the name, I don't call it cyberpunk. It is more like Guyver: the Bioboosted Armor in that it's about very visceral, biological transformation.

Anime involving motorcycles:

Akira is classic.

https://myanimelist.net/anime/47/Akira

Megazone 23 has some moments that I find quintessentially cyberpunk. It really nails the "low life" aspect.

https://myanimelist.net/anime/1935/Megazone_23

Angel Cop is classic.

https://myanimelist.net/anime/1351/Angel_Cop

You should look into the OVAs for the "AD Police" franchise, starting with Parasite Dolls:

https://myanimelist.net/anime/1350/Parasite_Dolls?q=parasite%20dolls

For a retro-1980s feel, go with Download and Cyber City Oedo 808:

https://myanimelist.net/anime/3152/Down_Load__Namu_Amida_Butsu_wa_Ai_no_Uta

https://myanimelist.net/anime/1352/Cyber_City_Oedo_808