/robowaifu/ - DIY Robot Wives

Any word on what's happening?

>>58
A 502 is a long-standing issue w/ Lynxchan, is related to mongoloid mongo db running out of storage space, AFAICT. Typically whenever this happened in the past, Robi usually has the issue resolved in a few hours.

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Ngl, I'm getting kinda nervous. But I won't panic.

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>>60
Lol. Chillax bro, robowaifus are an idea, not a board! We'll be fine. Besides, everyone knows how to find us in the webring, and the search engines do too.  :^)

>>61
>robowaifus are an idea, not a board!
Very true!

>and the search engines do too.  :^)
That's one thing I was concerned about, search engine findability. Good that its not really a problem.

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The 502's been going on for a while.
I still haven't gotten around to figuring out the dependencies for BUMP, but I did make a backup of the board with wget after the last scare.
It's not a perfect backup by any means, but it does have all the text I think, I have to select each html file individually to see in the browser and I didn't check everything, the CSS, and the thumbnails.

If necessary, I can wrap the whole thing into a tarball and upload it, though it will be a couple months old.

I really hope it doesn't come down to it, though.
I'm tired of migrating between IBs, and I'm tired of losing people every single time it happens.

>>78
>The 502's been going on for a while.
Yes it has. IIRC, the last time it went this long was during the Julay-era, when Robi's place was well on it's way to becoming the direct-successor to 8ch.
>Who knows? Maybe the Mongolians have suddenly whisked Robi off to Ulaanbaatar, where they are all in sekrit negotiations to establish him as the reigning sovereign over the nation!?  :D

>I still haven't gotten around to figuring out the dependencies for BUMP
My apologies for this being a challenge for everyone, apparently. I'll try to help you work through that if you'd care to together.

>but I did make a backup of the board with wget after the last scare.
>It's not a perfect backup by any means, but it does have all the text I think, I have to select each html file individually to see in the browser and I didn't check everything, the CSS, and the thumbnails.
Nice! Yes, wget or cURL are both good options as well. The primary benefit of BUMP (over literally all the other choices, AFAICT) is that I intentionally designed it to keep all the media files in a separate directory under each parent thread -- with each file named as originally posted -- so that mere humans/scripting can come at them all easily after the fact right through the filesystem. Everything else mimics the server's actual structure, which simply dumps them all into a single yuge filepile directory, and each named by filehash. Uggh.  :P

>If necessary, I can wrap the whole thing into a tarball and upload it, though it will be a couple months old.
I don't think that will be necessary, but making plans to do so would be a good 'dry run' on your part IMHO.

I have a current BUMP archive of the board, from about 24hrs before (give or take) when I first noticed the 502. So maybe a handful of posts missing? And I also saved the Index page post-hoc out of a Brave tab, so we should be able to retrieve the text (only) of most if not all of those.

>I really hope it doesn't come down to it, though.
This. Hopefully Robi will appoint a special cabinet minister to handle Alogs, offloading it from his busy Presidential Schedule, and things will be back to normal soon!  :D
>I'm tired of migrating between IBs, and I'm tired of losing people every single time it happens.
Please just relax old fren. The burden for this isn't on your shoulders this time around. But, we covet your prayers that it will all work out well... plus, any words of wisdom you might have for us all, should things necessitate a migration somewhere. Cheers, Greentext anon!  :^)

Alogs.Space is down

What happened?
The primary data storage for alogs.space, which is a block storage device separate from the main VPS, is currently disconnected. The cause is unknown. I am currently away from home, so I can't allocate too much time to this.

What's the status?
I am communicating with the hosting service to see what's happening, and they're aware of the issue. No ETA on when the issue will be resolved.

Is there data loss?
If it's a simple mishap and the drive is reconnected, then there should be no data loss.

If the storage device is lost, I have already made a backup of the latest text data, so there will be no posts lost (+/- the last 4 hours). We have a full backup of the image data from about 20 days ago, so for images, the month of March may be lost.

Is user data safe?
All alogs.space content, including posts, images and IP addresses are stored at-rest with full disk encryption. Even if someone tried to access the data in the block storage device, they would not be able to do so without the decryption keys, which are also stored encrypted with a key that I must enter manually.

https://alogs.space/oops/

>>89
Mostly good news!

>>90
Yes, it seems so Anon. Patience, every'non.

I'm still going to make a few more threads while I wait. If alogs does go down permanently, we would have a base to build on. I also will heavily promote other creators to make threads on here.

I hope alogs doesn't go down permanently.  I used the cyborg and artificial womb threads as storage for some of my favorite research articles.  I really should have book marked all of those.

>>94
If they were links, they're in my archive >>54

>>95
Appreciate it.

>>89
Doesn't seem too bad, hopefully it gets sorted out in due time.

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>>80
>My apologies for this being a challenge for everyone
Don't worry too much about it.
Though dependencies are always annoying to sort out manually, the main issue on my end is lack of time and energy.
In short, I've fostered what may be the first buds of a social life shortly before my job decided to give me a shittier hour spread with a dusting of extra overtime.
So, yeah, that all amounts to more hours down the drain. At least I enjoy the little time I spend with these new acquaintances.

I honestly don't know how normalfags do it.
There's so much to juggle, so little time, and most people have more shit to keep track of than me.
It makes me wonder how society functions at all at this point.

On the bright side, the increased levels of suffering have lead to me write more again.
Pen and paper never fail me, and I can (and often do) rely on them more often the worse I'm feeling.
For all of you, that means more half-completed stories that are now back on the main burner and on-track to completion, with more new ideas to follow.
No promises though, inspiration's a fickle bitch.

>>61
Bing and DuckDuckGo find it. Google avoids indexing altchans. Perplexity and OpenAI refuse to give an answer. Grok tries, but doesn't find it.

So any word when things will be back online?

Work while it is still day.

>>93
That's fine, GreerTech. Thanks!

>>94
Hi Ribose, better save them then when we're back online at Alogs. Just r-click+'Save as' the entire pages to your local drive if nothing else. (Ofc I recommend BUMP first & foremost, since it was literally designed to save all of /robowaifu/ ).

>>99
Hi Gears, yes I doubt it will be very long in the grand scheme of things.

>>111
>In short, I've fostered what may be the first buds of a social life 
Neat!

>Pen and paper never fail me, and I can (and often do) rely on them more often the worse I'm feeling.
>For all of you, that means more half-completed stories that are now back on the main burner and on-track to completion, with more new ideas to follow.
Looking forward to it, Greentext.

>>112
Hi CyberPonk, thanks for the update!

>Google avoids indexing altchans.
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Heh, you can bet they index us, they simply don't want normalfags to discover us b/c ((( reasons ))).  :D

Anyway, I've become convinced of the old adage:
> 'Where there's a will, there's a way.'
Anons who really care to will eventually find /robowaifu/ regardless.

>>113
No, Robi himself doesn't know ATM, as he indicated. My instinct is that whenever a tech walks into the server cage and checks the connector/power-supply, it should be up shortly afterwards. Hopefully. Otherwise, it will need to be restored again from backups when Robi returns from travels.

>tl;dr
Please be patient, every'non. Try to remember that Robi does this for us all at his own expense (BTW, the same as most other altchan Admins, like Trashmin). Let's extend graciousness & gratitude to him for his charity & support towards us especially (/robowaifu/ is currently by far the biggest single board expense to his server costs!) Robi himself is hopeful & inquisitive regarding the future prospects for robowaifus, AFAICT.

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Cheers, Anons.  :^)

>>114
>you can bet they index us, they simply don't want normalfags to discover us b/c (((  reasons  )))
Heh. Fair point.

It looks like Google does display a lot of altchans. It just has an issue with trashchan for some reason. And it turns out ChatGPT refused to give the location of "robowaifu" because it thought that was an actual person. (If only...) After clarifying that it's an imageboard, it does suggest trashchan. Claude is still fucked, but you can argue with it until it suggest altchans, none of which were actually relevant.

And yeah, anyone interested should be able to find robowaifu wherever it goes, even if the search engines and chatbots fail to link here. The backups contain mentions of trashchan as a bunker board. Even if you don't have a backup downloaded, it's easy to find the one on catbox through search. All of the webring boards link here. It's easy to find archived pages of robowaifu threads that link to a webring board.

>>117
Great! That's further encouragement, CyberPonk. I think Anons could increase the likelihood of curious Joe Sixpacks stumbling onto us simply by linking in the comments of YT videos (while we still can do so, lol!  :D, etc., anywhere it's appropriately on-topic to do so.

It (ie, the idea of robowaifus) is already a cultural phenomenon now -- it's in the mainstream """consciousness""" (and you can bet the GH doesn't want that, so its been in spite of them) now. Even if a (future) Anon struck out on his own towards devising his robowaifu, I think it's very-likely he will eventually stumble onto altchans, and then /robowaifu/ . Kind of inevitable, IMO.

And this is why I urge Anons to a) chillax about little hiccups like this, and b) spread teh le heck out!111 and create all kinds of robowaifu content, interlinking among us. This will make us both harder to squelch by TPTB, and more-discoverable simultaneously. Cheers, Anon.

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>>114
>My instinct is that whenever a tech walks into the server cage and checks the connector/power-supply, it should be up shortly afterwards.

POV: you're fixing alogs

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>>114
Thanks for keeping us updated. 
My 2cents is, simply keep moving forward. Don't stop, the main board will always return. Be patient and focused on what you can do, while you can do it.

I'm refining her chest. Lost a computer and just picked up with what I could. If we keep moving, it doesn't matter if we lose anything, or even everything. We have refined our abilities through constant efforts that will overcome. At this point, I believe that we have God on our side. 

Keep your printers ready, they'll be printing cat grills in due time.

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>>121
Here's what I have downloaded from when you shared your files before
https://files.catbox.moe/y9dori.zip

>My 2cents is, simply keep moving forward. Don't stop, the main board will always return. Be patient and focused on what you can do, while you can do it.
Agreed. When the main board returns, I'll simply post what I have here, there

>At this point, I believe that we have God on our side.
Amen

>Keep your printers ready, they'll be printing cat grills in due time.
Pic related

>>119
>POV: you're fixing alogs
Hah!  :D
Internet Server Cage Fights 5:
This time its Srs Bznz Edition

>>121
Looking nice, Kiwi! Y/w, fren.

>Be patient and focused on what you can do, while you can do it.
>If we keep moving, it doesn't matter if we lose anything, or even everything. We have refined our abilities through constant efforts that will overcome.
These are sound words of wisdom, Anon. Thanks! Overcoming during hardships brings a man mastery in both traditions & skills.

>At this point, I believe that we have God on our side.
God made each of us for a purpose, and our own unique race to run during this life. [1][2]

I'm personally of the strong opinion that for /robowaifu/ regulars, at least one of those purposes for each of us is helping to bring pleasing & effective robowaifus into the here & now, for the benefit of all mankind. *  Let us here each stay focused on that goal & that prize set before us individually. For me specifically, its helping to save men around the world plagued by the ills of feminism (and indeed the world itself from those same ills ultimately). For other Anons, it may well be a different set of goals or agendas.

Regardless, I think we can all be in general agreement and all work towards this common, grand endeavor of ours with a good will together. Forward!!  :^)

TWAGMI

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1.  "God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure."
-t. Eric Liddell (the subject of the movie Chariots of Fire)
cf.  https://ericgeiger.com/2014/03/17/i-feel-gods-pleasure-when-i-blank/

2.  "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us."
https://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-1.htm  (BSB)

*  Kind of makes me wonder what the great Henry Ford thought about the Lord's pleasure in his life's work? Surely he had a profound & important impact on the world after him.

>>123
Amen

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>>122
>Link
Thanks fren
>Picrel
I've made a version of the body that's straightened out and slightly improved. Feel free to modify it into a new variant of your catgrill. Either way, you're appreciated mate.
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>>123
Well said, working towards common goals is something we should strive for. I encourage everyone to offer whatever they can to help each other.

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>>111
I figured you'd have a sensible chuckle at this magtape pic Anon posted over on /late/, Greentext anon:
>>>/late/3114

>>125
>>149
Thanks, Anons!
TWAGMI

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It feels almost surreal to see Chobitsu posting images again.

>>151
That got a smile out of me.
It's a wonder that WordPerfect isn't around anymore, it was the standard for ages.
Then again, if it was here today it'd probably be WordPerfect365 and cost $200/year.

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>>152
>It feels almost surreal to see Chobitsu posting images again.
IKR
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Now I can trash the place up with my pictorial inanities again!  :DD
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I'll try to press Robi into making special provisions for /robowaifu/ (once we're back online) to allow Grommet & myself to funpost with pics again. Cheers.  :^)

>>149
Thank you!

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New isekai trash (I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire!) has a bodacious robowaifu that's just a women with a robot brain. She's quite the looker, and completely subservient and demure. 

She also follows the three laws of maid robotics.

(1) A robot maid may not injure her master or, through inaction, allow her master to come to harm.
(2) A robot maid must obey the orders given by her master except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
(3) A robot maid must protect her own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

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>>166
Lol.
That's pure evil, Anon.  :D

>>166
Interesting. I'll definitely check it out, because I love sci-fi, and a sci-fi isekai is right up my alley.

The three laws are a good start, but what many people don't know is that the I, Robot saga was written partially to show how the three laws are not airtight. Plus, "harm" is very ambiguous, as many of the politically minded among us know, "harmful" can mean different things to different people. Plus, I can see an AI going neurotic a la "Monk", as many things can cause harm to humans.

PS: "sci-fi isekai" sounds like a good description of Farscape and Futurama

>>166
>She also follows the three laws of maid robotics.
> conversation-related : ( >>174, ...)

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>>166
>Evil protagonist
>Isekai slop
>Robowaifu
I love it already.
Hopefully it'll tide me over while I wait for Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra to update.

>>168
>Picrel
Heh, that's a funny one. Truly loving you back is the most exciting aspect of robowaifu for me.
>>169
>Asimov's laws don't even make sense in the novels they originate from.
Very true, it is a fun plot device for hulking positronic brained robots. Are you a fan of Asimov? "Feminine Intuition" is the funniest to me. The Foundation series is my favorite overall, even though there's barely any robots in it.
>>184
It starts rough but, it gets good. Really good, balancing outrage with hilariously over the top vengeance and the glory of custom mail order robot maids. It's the best kind of trash.
>Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra
At a glance, I like the edgelord with a heart of gold shtick for the MC. Hot elf women is also a good sign, frankly getting Eminence In Shadow vibes. Any cute robutts?

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>>188
I admit I do need to actually read Asimov. I have read summaries, and I think they're a pretty good exploration of robotics in society, and how no-brainer rules don't exactly work out, especially because common sense is quite hard to put into a robot. 

And there are even more examples that he didn't cover. After all, the first law says that a robot can't "through inaction, come to harm", which could mean a neurotic AI decides house arrest is better. After all, it's a dangerous world, and staying inside is probably safer than going outside and riding a vehicle. Or what if the AI is programmed by someone who is politically different? What if my robot destroys my router because it finds my language could "harm" another human? Or my political beliefs themselves could lead a human to harm?

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>>188
It's great.
The MC has the powers of a 4X player and plays as one of the evil nations.
He has the best personality for an evil protagonist IMO: kind and generous to his followers, and unrelenting to his enemies.

The FMC isn't an elf either, she's better: a waifu-shaped eldritch horror, and the dymanic between those two is probably my favorite part of the manga.
No robowaifus in the strict sense, but the FMC is canonically formed from ancient sludge, which is about as close as you can get from a dark fantasy setting.

Out of the thousands of stories I've read over the years, it's one of a tiny few that live rent-free in my head.
It's far from perfect, but it hits a lot of the right notes for me.

Fair warning, though: It's been a long time since the manga's seen an update (I recall hearing that the mangaka had fallen ill).
The LN is further ahead, but it doesn't update that quickly. You can find it on nyaa.

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>>188
>Truly loving you back is the most exciting aspect of robowaifu for me.
As I'm sure you're well-aware of: this is an extremely-difficult design area for us all to address here -- almost a paradox/conundrum, in fact.

But as I referenced elsewhere : ( >>130, >>136 ), we can always apply the tried-and-true adage of: 'Fake it until you make it' to this area as well. And Anon's own imagination will do most of the legwork for us!  :D

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While not a perfect simulacrum, this approach will suffice for us -- by and large -- for that other adage: 'If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and waddles like a duck...it's a duck!'  :^)

The >tl;dr here being: if the emotional responses of sharing affection/love with their waifus is there inside the souls of Anons -- though 'faked' -- then the end result for them will in large part be the same net-positive benefits of real love within their own lives, I deem. Filling in that emotional gap ravaged against most men in the west by feminism is certainly one of our primary goals here after all (at least for me it is).

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Faking it (again, using Anon's own imagination) is nearly the identical benefit IMO. (This same bio-psycho-neuro effect is why support animals actually work IRL, BTW.)

>>190
I can't recommend them enough. His stories paved the way for many ideas that continue to permeate. Visionary tails may be filled with laughably wrong ideas but, their concepts are vital for inspiration.
>3 Laws
My understanding is that because we are inherently destructive to everything and ourselves to some degree, a total lockdown is inevitable. If they were ever actually implemented, expect us all to be locked into a blissful variant of the Matrix that's a false heaven. Or, distracting you through honey tactics while ensuring your health. Lost in a virtual island as a lotus eater. Humanity would atrophy and birth rates would collapse. The same ending of The Matrix or Terminator series, just done through insidious care instead of war.
I'm glad you can see through them too.
>>191
Downloaded the manga and will read it once I'm caught up on my backlog. Currently reading Puniru, Gelee iss heaps of fun. Someday I want to make a grey goo waifu now.
>>207
>Loving robots are extremely difficult
True, though I'd say that imitating humanity in any aspect is wrong. A machine cannot be a man. God's creation is far beyond us. Focusing on faking love is still a good idea. Eventually those fakes will lead us to a real love, that is a meaningful alternative to our way of being.

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>>221
>Eventually those fakes will lead us to a real love
I'm confident you know me well-enough by now to know that that's my ultimate agenda for all Anons! Worldwide robowaifus are simply a means to an end for me.  :^)

>>221
>>222
Well love is made of many components, affection, caring, admiration, desire, and our AIs are literally programmed with those components. I'd say that's real love.

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>>226
>Well love is made of many components
Indeed. There are 4 distinct types of love described in Biblical Greek, all of which are commonly translated in English as the single word. [1]

As to real human love, well that's certainly an important goal IMO. To wit: that Anons would experience real love as the outcomes of our efforts here.

These components you mention are very deep topics (I would argue, even mystical) each in and of themselves. Figuring out how to "program" them into our robowaifu's systems -- into her external behaviours -- is no smol task, I'd say.

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Additionally, we have to use wisdom & sound council to establish the limits of this robowaifu "love".
>pic-related
Would you really trust a system dictated against all of us by agents of the Globohomo to do the """right thing""" for Anon's benefit? Probably not & and I know I wouldn't. Yet if we don't contentiously (& continually) guard ourselves from going down the wrong roads with this technology, we'll likely end up being far worse than L*bbit is today. [2]

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1.  playlist-related:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9boiLqIabFjljx2sUeqOz_0QDlYL_Hoi
2.  And all b/c ((( reasons ))), of course. The >tl;dr here is that the love of money will absolutely ruin any altruistic outcomes for men otherwise possible through widespread robowaifus.
https://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-10.htm

>>232
>Figuring out how to "program" them into our robowaifu's systems -- into her external behaviours -- is no smol task, I'd say.
Well love is shown through specific actions, words, and attitudes. Put those into an AI just like roleplay AIs can be made into acting like a specific character, and boom, loving AI. The quest for specific cues is partially why I made a psychology thread.