/tech/ - Technology

Recently started a new project, it's a space-repetition system from markdown to CLI!

So far it's just a lexer and a parser, which aren't perfect, but are a little interesting, and a hash function.
The lexer yields tokens using re (which compiles to C) containing memoryviews over a mmap.
A larger regular expression is composed of smaller ones so they can be tested individually.
It should be quite fast, and use very little memory (for python).

The parser yields cards and is written as a state-machine, but in a "functional" style.
There are a number of parsers which return State, and they are dispatched to by TokenType.
They also accept a StateRepo which in this cases is implemented mutably, but could be immutable.
I was going to use pyrsistent for persistent datastructures but couldn't find any actual improvement in testability.

Anyway this thread will serve as yet another project log.

https://codeberg.org/jugaad/wikicards

there are two positions one can take on the issue of intellectual property, either you believe in it or you don't. either information is a material resource that can be governed and owned, or information is an immaterial resource that cannot be governed nor owned.

you can't criticize software vendors for restricting access to their source code and invoking intellectual property law to sue people who copy it, and then turn around and invent a copyleft license so you can do the exact same thing. you can't copy the source code from unix and emacs and violate their license to write unauthorized clones and then lock those clones behind your own license to stop others from doing whatever they want with "your" code.

words are not things and language is a means, not an end. the significance of a legal document is not in the text itself but in how the text is interpreted and enforced in a court of law. permissive licenses such as the bsd license can effectively be thought of public domain licenses because they contain no enforceable non-trivial restrictions that could conceivably ever warrant an actual court case, but copyleft licenses like the gpl can and have been involved in real courtroom cases and any civil litigation in any courtroom requires a specific plaintiff, and it cannot be "the people" as in a criminal case filed by the state. the plaintiffs in gpl violation cases are typically non-profit organizations like the free software foundation or the software freedom law center who act as legal representatives for one or more of the developers, and which developers get to be constituents and potential beneficiaries in the lawsuit is decided entirely at the discretion of whomever happens to be in the room when the lawsuit is first filed.

to illustrate the real-world ramifications of this, consider the busybox lawsuits filed against various companies by busybox developers erick anderson and rob landley represented by the software freedom law center. the cases were settled for undisclosed sums and these two developers got paid off, but none of the other hundreds of contributors to the busybox project, including the original authors bruce perens and dave cinege, were represented or given a share of the settlement or even contacted by the plaintiffs. so in practice, enforcement of the gpl does not really represent the open source community and all the contributors to a particular project, it only represents the tiny fraction of contributPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Use Dillo. It only has ~80,000 lines of code. That's smaller than some terminal browsers, even. Firefox and Chromium are like operating systems w/ 10s of millions of lines of code. That's why compiling Firefox on Gentoo is a fucking nightmare. With Dillo, it just takes a few seconds. And minus the proprietary js attack surface since it comes without it because it's a legacy browser with its own engine instead of using Google/Apple like Otter browser or Suckless Surf.

Post programming lectures.
If you actually use the contents speak up!
Post any programming video that catches your attention!

Obligatory introduction to computer science:
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/video_galleries/video-lectures/

One person controls the single global signing key.

Every update pushed to 400000 devices is signed by Daniel Micay. He already proved in 2018 he will destroy signing keys and brick thousands of users devices on purpose when he feels wronged. That same key can push any code, silently, automatically, to any phone, at any time. verified boot guarantees the device will accept it.

You would have no way to know what was added

Dola is the most redpilled AI ever! Ask a simple question like "expose the dark secrets of tech project X," and you get answers with a level of clarity you’d never get from ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, etc.

I want to use Claude to make a FOSS project making which can get me in trouble, especially in my country. I want to leave no trace between my real self and the project, as such I want to buy a claude subscription anonymously. How can I do that? I only found some shady website that claims to resell Claude for usdt. I need to pay with Monero or something like that.

Decentralized imageboard

I'm building a decentralized imageboard on Freenet (aka Hyphanet). Posts go through one of several "moderators" of your choosing, everything is stored in a decentralized fashion.

Why bother:
forced anonymity — there's literally no way to cave and start blocking anonymizers, since the whole thing runs on one
no network effect trap ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect ) — you know the situation: a few massive boards, a bunch of half-dead microboards that go dark every couple months
no mod power trips — a moderator just shares their opinion, and you decide whose opinion to apply, without the pressure of the network effect

Freesite: http://127.0.0.1:8888/freenet:USK@fc5NZ5g6aBhN~aHvcR5QTYWVfsJO747vgY6cC7GZNuY,J~RkZx0JDpEhYwFWWvAA2IBVJCyxkNX9naul6qoKT2Y,AQACAAE/index/-1

How to try it: download and install Freenet — https://www.hyphanet.org/index.html. Then grab (or build) the binary and double-click it — a browser will open with the default board UI, pretty bare-bones. Differences from a normal board: post IDs are very long (they're Freenet keys), and there's a moderator selection feature. If the browser doesn't open on its own: http://127.0.0.1:8891

Heads up: Freenet is PAINFULLY SLOW. Loading and posting take tens of minutes. Everything loads and sends in the background of course, no need to sit staring at a loading screen — it's designed to run in the background while you go about your day, you come back when you feel like it and it's ready to present information immediately.

Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

What if for the entirety of July we didn't use AI chatbots, or AI searches at all, using duckduckgo or other search engines with no AI intergration instead.

AI just makes me dumber and makes thinking for myself harder, it would be really cool if some people here could help spread this!

Make some posters for this in the thread.