/tech/ - Technology★

>Is Hiroshima farming my data on 4chan?

>Is pig farmer Jim and his company farming my data on 8chan?

Yes

>Which one of these cucks should I trust?

Neither, it's a gamble either way. There's less retards here though.

>>1016431

Pretty much this. There is no real discussion on 2018/2019 /g/, they just follow one of these templates:

>ebin NPC maymays

>Flavor of the month Wojak variation

>Based/Redpilled/Cringe

>Damn Unix looks like that

>Oh no no no (aka niggertalk)

>Satania and other fags like the KDE Neon guy

>Microsoft and Apple shilling

If you try to talk about anything meaningful you get only a handful of actual posts and are drowned out by that inane garbage

>>1016431

>Neither, it's a gamble either way. There's less retards here though.

Yes well when the userbase is in the millions vs 301 IPs (lmao) that would of course be the case.

>>1016409 (OP)

If you want to browse a dead board which even the LARPers have abandoned, run by a retarded weebshit whose only achievement in life is getting a relatively active board by 8ch standards (301 active IPs lmao), you're more than welcome on /tech/.

>>1016446

Based and redpilled.

>>1016443

>There is no real discussion on 2018/2019 /g/

Nah, there is if you avoid the trash threads.

This is a thread just a couple days ago about satellite hacking, where a guy who actually worked with satellites showed up:

https://warosu.org/g/thread/S69109236

Here's a thread I made a while ago about making DIY chips, where at least one guy who worked on a fab showed up:

https://warosu.org/g/thread/S67611160

Same for threads about the minutia of assembly or C++.

If you avoid the cancer threads there's more content than here, that's for sure.

>>1016454

>if you go diving in this garbage dump you can find a piece of wrapped candy if you look hard enough

>if you dig through enough mountains of trash there's more candy than in your house, that's for sure

>>1016457

Well to be fair thats how you find gold.

>>1016457

>implying there isn't a lot of trash on here too

>>1016457

Yeah, so much better staying in this garbage dump with no candy at all

>>1016466

>b-b-but muh desktop thread!

>>1016467

>>1016466

that's the point, it's junk food anyway

>>1016467

I already proved to you that there's good content on there.

Seems to me like the solution is to post here, as there's no google captcha, and lurk on 4chan as they have a cucked google captcha.

>>1016624

>lurking on 4chan

How little do you value your time?

>>1016627

based

after I got range banned there I now have much more free time for other things

>>1016627

>lurking on 8chan

How little do you value your time?

>>1016431

>There's less retards here though

false

>>1016657

if you're just on /tech/ there's a lot less activity than on /g/ so I guess a lot less little

>lurking on cuckedchan

>not lurking on the biggest 4chan archives managed by real devs

>he probably has a cuckchan pass

>not donating on 4chan archives which have more 100x the size of database than cuckchan alone and no jewgle captcah

>>1016663

why would you buy a pass or care about the captcha if you aren't posting anything?

also the UI for the archives is shit, there's no catalog view, and the numbered pages are constantly changing because new threads, so by the time you finished reading say page 3, you switch to page 4 and you see all the same threads that you saw on page 3 that have been pushed back. there's no real way to navigate the archives chronologically, really the only purpose they serve is if you have the id for an old thread you want to fetch or if you want to search for something specific.

Both are, but it doesn't matter if they can't sell you shit. Embrace non-consumerism and keep the ad blocklists alive. Also don't go to 4chan, it's really cancerous.

I cant understand the mindset of 4chan users that worship privacy and free software on a closed source website that has google captcha. is it possible jim is farming data on 8ch? there is no evidence. Is 4chan farming my data defiantly. fuck off cuckchan still.

>>1016755

8ch is closed sourced too

>>1016759

https://github.com/OpenIB/OpenIB

>>1016932

oh wow neat desu

>>1016755

You're confusing a matter of network services and free software. They are not the same issues.

This is why you only use 8chan through Tor

Is that image fucking real?

>Is Hiroshima farming my data on 4chan?

Without a doubt, yes.

>Is pig farmer Jim and his company farming my data on 8chan?

Hotwheels stated 8chan's software is designed so as to make such endeavours impossible but who knows what the pig farmer's been up to since.

I don't much care if Jim is selling user data, what he's got is very much limited unlike Hiroshima who has google captchas and 4chan pass user info to sell plus god knows what else the slant eyed kike is able to market.

>>1017310

Google doesn't give any info about the captcha users to the webmaster.

>>1017299

unfortunately it is.

>>1017717

This is fucking hilarous, especially if you've read his Guide to PGP which doubles as a ryptopunk manifesto. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vvbw9a/even-the-inventor-of-pgp-doesnt-use-pgp

>>1016409 (OP)

>Is Hiroshima farming my data on 4chan?

yes, see >>>/g/8207

I'd still be using 4chan if the site itself wasn't such a pile of trash. Both sites have shitty userbases and I have no reason to trust either Jim or Hiro at all. But I can post here without javascript and only have to fill out one dumb captcha a day instead of every single damn post. I don't even know how you'd get any valuable data out of imageboard users, assuming they're using an ad blocker.

captchas are def being used to provide live and dynamic training data for AI. I dont mind doing captchas but I don't like being tracked thus TOR. it sucks when boards block TOR because of spam/ trolls since we all share the same IP (127.0.0.1) as far as the onion side of the server sees. one ban blocks all TOR users. luckily here on /tech/ people seem to play nice.

4ch is even more toxic than 8ch, although and perhaps because it is contained within predefined boards. the level of user creation potential on this site has immense data value and is 100% certainly being datamined by various entities whether site owner is doing so or not

>>1016409 (OP)

trust each chan to be what it is,

but ultimately trust only yourself