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【1:15】 Resolution

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1 Name: Nameless : 2026/05/04 23:52

What is your current screen resolution?
Mine is 1024x768, I've used larger displays in past but I've noticed that most of that space is usually empty and I prefer information density. 1024x768 was also the standard when most of the software I use was made, so things tend to fit neatly.

11 Name: Nameless : 2026/05/12 12:54

when my trinitron was still working i used 1280x960@90Hz, then the green gun gave up the ghost, and now i'm stuck with a 1024x768 LCD and i absolutely hate it, because i don't know how to fix the trinitron. 16:9 just feels wrong to me now.

12 Name: Nameless : 2026/05/12 17:24

>>11
16:9 is cool for watching stuff and work but 4:3 is perfect for everything else
The web alone has never looked good on a 16:9 screen
To the point where modern websites are either zoomed in (which looks terrible) or have borders.
For games, it depends. I'd say only FPS are worth playing on a 16:9 screen (except maybe the older ones like Doom ).

13 Name: Nameless : 2026/05/13 16:53

>>12
I miss my 1280x1024 screen because web browsing really does suck at 1920x1080.

14 Name: Nameless : 2026/09/01 21:25

1920x1080 for main pc, 1600x900 for my current laptop

My previous main laptop has 1024x768, it's very workable especially with the fine-tuned font sizes etc (and it makes picking wallpapers way easier as an aside, opens up so many older wallpapers that are otherwise awkward at both high sizes and 16:9) and I still got plenty of use out of it as an excellent Win2000 machine after getting a new laptop but at the moment it's sadly out of commission due to both the battery and the charger croaking

15 Name: Nameless : 2026/09/02 15:28

16:9 is the biggest crime to ever happen to monitors.

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【2:8】 [2ch] Is this legacy 2001 2channel code usable ?

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1 Name: Nameless : 2026/08/28 14:02

There's an archive of 2ch's read.cgi from the 2001 UNIX crisis, does anyone know how I could compile this ?

https://github.com/nekoruri/readcgi

4 Name: Nameless : 2026/08/29 16:19

>acquire tech/dat/998845501.dat
>make
>make install

5 Name: Nameless : 2026/08/29 16:30

>>4
I tried that (except for acquiring the dat), but it spits out some error relating to some "USE_INDEX" function.

6 Name: Nameless : 2026/08/31 00:52

>>5
There are 2 problems.

  1. All the source is encoded in JIS and contemporary compilers expect UTF-8.
  2. The syntax for multi-line strings in C requires trailing backslashes to do line continuation.

Fix:

  1. The easiest thing to do is to re-encode *.c and *.h as UTF-8.
  2. Add trailing backslashes where appropriate for R2CH_HTML_DIGEST_FOOTER and R2CH_HTML_INDEX_FOOTER in r2chhtml.h.

7 Name: Nameless : 2026/09/01 14:04

hey angeleno

8 Name: Nameless : 2026/09/01 16:14

>>6
I'll try that, thanks.

>>7
Hello.

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【3:53】 Invasion of privacy in the name of "protection"

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1 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/24 08:08

ITT we discuss the ongoing destruction of online liberty through government datamining efforts. Systemd, which is used by many linux distros, has already crumbled to the age verification laws (´・ω・｀).

49 Name: Nameless : 2026/08/16 09:52

>>16
i think one day i will just learn c with no librarys and write an os from scratch and it will be simple, easy and useful
but its just a dream (︶︹︺)

50 Name: Nameless : 2026/08/17 04:14

For Unixen there is still Solaris/Illumos, Plan9, Minix, QNX and various research projects with a featureset close to v7 (and i guess x86 port of actual v7 UNIX). At least lynx should compile on all of them.

51 Name: Nameless : 2026/08/17 15:12

Mandated digital IDs are probably inevitable for the UK and EU, which would not only cause complications for those that do not have phones, but also for those that do not have the state approved hardware and operating system, pretty much ruling out any practicality of nu-feature phones, graphene, and other free phone projects.

52 Name: Nameless : 2026/08/18 02:23

>>49
There are already plenty of OSes like this.

53 Name: Nameless : 2026/08/18 06:20

All the AI surveillance cameras are going to make things get REAL BAD!

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【4:18】 Textboard script

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1 Name: Nameless : 2026/02/13 17:45

do anyone know a good textboard script, ive seen kareha (what world2ch seems to be using), but i seen it hasnt been updated since 2015 and i kinda fear security breaches, so i was wondering if anyone knew about some more up to date alternative

14 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/10 12:12

Denpa-chan uses emanon BBS, it looks quite similar to kareha.

15 Name: Nameless : 2026/07/06 18:41

>>13
Oh, now that you've mentioned it, I remember leftybbs. I almost thought I was the only person on earth who still knew about this.

16 Name: Nameless : 2026/07/07 18:45

https://github.com/alyssa-p-hacker/SchemeBBS
I have no idea about the specifics but I liked to post on this boar, rip

While looking this up I learned that someone was rewriting it in common lisp. It's the same guy apparently. First time I hear of it
https://github.com/ryukinix/cl-bbs

17 Name: Nameless : 2026/08/10 21:41

This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but the anons of heyuri made KuzuhaScript PHP + for their Strange World/Ayashii Warudo board

https://github.com/Heyuri/ksphp-plus/

18 Name: Nameless : 2026/08/11 01:20

I'm not sure if it's been updated recently, but there are a few textboard scripts on the overscript

https://overscript.net/
https://github.com/tanami/overscript

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【5:3】 Assembly programming and vibecoding

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1 Name: Nameless : 2026/07/04 17:30

I find it weird how "AI"-zealots compare AI versus compiler as analogous to compiler versus assembler without realizing that knowing assembly language is an important skill to have when you're developing software. They just say this as an end-it-all for any discussion, because who in their right mind mind would know a thing or two about assembly? The nice thing about C as opposed to C++ and a lot of the others is that you can roughly imagine what the compiler will spit out when you see the code and if that isn't possible, you can read the generated assembly by the compiler and check for yourself. It gives you control and as a programmer naturally you're ought to be a control freak. Now I don't want to make this thread be a fighting ground for programming languages, so I'll leave it at that. My point is that the same way you should know what the AI does and what it all means, you should understand what the compiler does and what it all means.

2 Name: Nameless : 2026/07/05 06:49

Well said

3 Name: Nameless : 2026/07/05 13:25

It makes sense in the mind of the oft-maligned lowest-common-denominator of high-level developer, who only writes js, python or other scripting languages and gets by through copying code snippets or dwim vibes without much deeper understanding of the process to speak of. Sadly experience has shown low-quality code to proliferate in certain niches and "AI" will be no exception to this.

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【6:29】 Useful Unix Utilities

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1 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/14 21:27

What are some useful Unix utilities you've been using lately?

Something that's entered my toolbox in the last few months is `just`.
https://github.com/casey/just

They're kind of like Makefiles but simpler, because it's not trying to be a build utility. It just runs commands. After a few months of use, I have justfiles sprinkled all through my system to run various project-specific shell commands. It hits a sweet spot between one liners and dedicated scripts, and it has really enhanced various workflows for me. Things that I wouldn't have automated before (because it feels too small), I *do* automate now, because these justfiles feel like an appropriate place for those little tasks.

25 Name: Nameless : 2026/06/23 17:22

>>24
Tar zxf is convenient compared to cpio, the true UNIX archiver. While cpio -i extracts the files from an archive like you would expect, cpio -o is very different from most other archive programs, expecting to read a list of files from standard input. Replicating the behavior of '7z a archive directory' requires something like 'find directory | cpio -o (| gzip > archive)'.

Too bad cpio hasn't been standardized since System V Release 4 or i would send it more often to people.

27 Name: Nameless : 2026/06/29 15:08

>>25
How do you feel about pax?

28 Name: Nameless : 2026/07/03 08:09

>>27
NotThatNameless, but it lacks encryption.

29 Name: Nameless : 2026/07/04 09:42

>>27
I don't use it, because it's rarely part of the base system and i always type tar out of habit. Iterating on the ar/tar syntax and badgering everyone to link tar to their new and slightly incompatible ar!pax program would have been the smarter choice honestly, which is sort of what libarchive did with "bsdtar". The pax format seems fine, but i have no idea what the benefit over ustar is.
>>28
As it should, since you ought to encrypt on the file level at least.

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【7:16】 Massechussets Institute of Technology [INSULTING]

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1 Name: Nameless : 2025/07/31 09:33

My brother drove by MIT with his windows down and he accidentally received several degrees.

12 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/10 18:12

>>11
It is worth it to misspell their name so that their low intellect doesn't infect the speaker.

13 Name: Nameless : 2026/06/03 11:08

>>2
Becky from PaniPoni Dash is also an MIT graduate...

15 Name: Nameless : 2026/07/01 14:55

>>11
What do you think is the percentage of actual MIT graduates who cannot spell Massageshootargh correctly? Genuine question.

16 Name: Nameless : 2026/07/01 18:37

>>15
100%, next question

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【8:5】 late.sh

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1 Name: Nameless : 2026/04/15 19:24

https://late.sh/ - You ssh in to participate. I'm reminded of pre-internet BBSs.
Hitting ? will show you the keybindings.

2 Name: Nameless : 2026/04/30 05:21

Neat.
https://github.com/whisperchan/cursedboard is the only other ssh board I've seen before.

3 Name: Nameless : 2026/05/01 11:22

There seems to be a trend in making ssh-based TUI applications. Here's another one I found.

ssh mlbt.sh

If you like American baseball, it's quite useful.

4 Name: Nameless : 2026/05/06 20:40

>>3
How large is the red sox following there?

5 Name: Nameless : 2026/05/09 00:12

>>4
There's nothing social about it. It's all stats, so all teams are treated equally.
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【9:34】 Text Editors

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1 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/21 09:08

What text editor do you use and why?

30 Name: Nameless : 2026/06/16 00:05

Nano rocks. When I'm writing a program in C++ I have two terminal windows open on the left/right side of my screen. On one I have nano open and the other I use to run cmake/make. Honestly the best dev setup I've come up with since I started programming

31 Name: Nameless : 2026/06/18 04:29

I am the bone of my SICP.
Scheme is my body, and Lisp is my blood.
I have typed over 1024 parentheses.
Unknown to Java.
Nor known to C#.
Have withstood emacs to write many programs.
Yet these skills will never lead to a career.
So as I pray, Unlimited Satori Works!

32 Name: Nameless : 2026/06/18 19:39

>>31
You type like 10 parenthesis per line when programming Lisp, so you've written like 102 lines of code? I get the joke, but still it doesn't add up.

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【10:12】 Scripting for Fun

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1 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/21 10:03

Using Elisp, calculate how many days it's been since world2ch.net went offline.

(defvar world2ch-offline-date "2026-01-18"
"Date that world2ch.net went offline.")

(defun today ()
"Return today's date as an ISO-8601 date string."
(format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d"))

(defun days-offline ()
"Print and return the number of days since world2ch.net went offline."
(interactive)
(let* ((math (format "<%s> - <%s> + 1"
(today)
world2ch-offline-date))
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8 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/21 00:16

>>7
https://eternalwinter.xmpub.org/

9 Name: Nameless : 2026/04/15 19:39

>>8
The site is down again. Some data was backed up at:
https://files.catbox.moe/s5nxsh.json

10 Name: Nameless : 2026/05/02 13:50

Here is yet another backup of Eternal Winter, this time in Common Lisp:
https://codeberg.org/ggxx/permafrost

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