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modern technology sucks
what's some old tech you own/want to own

I recently got a used analogue oscilloscope for super cheap, fully working and everything, absolutely loving it

A CB radio and a HAM radio have been on my list. I hear it's a dying technology, but the fact that you can send your voice half way around the world with only about 100 watts of power is so cool to me.

Slings; the David & Goliath kind.

A dedicated MP3 player.

A dedicated, offline GPS unit.

A wise man once said, "Just because something is old, does not mean it's obsolete, and just because something is obsolete, doesn't mean it's ineffective." I believe the original context was regarding cap & ball revolvers, but I think the point still stands.



 

First time posting on this dead board, even as a leftypol user of nearly a decade.

Check this cool video out. So cool. So cool technologies. We gotta get them.

>>32505
The real forbidden technology was Project Sundial.

We do have /ufo/ board for paranormal stuff that is about as dead as this one.

>wilhelm reich
It's fucked up how all his legit pscyhology works got burned alongside his orgone bs in AmeriKKKa.

>>32513
>orgone bs
I dunno, ever since she found out about him, my wife's been jealous of that little box he built for his wife so she could sit in a silent room whenever she wanted.



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Post quality RSS feeds for whatever. Blogs, news sites, even a YouTube channel RSS feed or other video content. As long as it has an RSS (or atom I guess) feed attached to it.

I'll go first and dump some of what I think are good ones:

>Grumpy Gamer

https://grumpygamer.com/rss
this one is rad, it's the personal blog of the lead developer behind The Secret of Monkey Island series (so basically my hero). He talks about a lot of cool random shit. Check it out.

>Niki Tonsky

https://tonsky.me/atom.xml
Another personal blog, I've only read a few articles but they have to do with UI mainly which I like.

>Cosmonaut Magazine

https://cosmonautmag.com/rss
Quintessential pretentious leftwing magazine. It's good, I like it. It's more insightful than I thought it would be and their articles even when I disagree with them (I usually don't) are always comfy reads.
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Jannies peanuts footballed a thread that asked for indie and non-western war news publications so pasting here:

indie:
https://thecradle.co/feed/
https://southfront.press/feed/
https://www.aljazeera.com/xml/rss/all.xml

non-western:
https://www.telesurenglish.net/rss/

non-western but it's a thinktank so the Heritage Foundation or Peter Theil are behind it somehow, but maybe useful anyway:
https://uwidata.com/feed/

non-western but government owned, but maybe useful anyway:
https://tass.com/rss/v2.xml
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Want a giant dump of antichoice groups?
Here you go. Archive it. Share it. Promote this tactic of social media mapping.

i want an AI service which generates hyper personalized articles just for me based on my interests and i will access them via RSS. this is the future i want.

>>31813
You should check out Radio War Nerd also. It's a war podcast by two journalists for the old Exiled newspaper in Russia, the hosts are American.



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Imma do it. Gonna switch to FreeBaSeD on my servers. ZFS goodness, raidz2, stability, pkg, serious people.

It's no wonder that the most staunch anti-linux pro-unix/BSD person I ever met was a staunch Communist.

Thread for all BSD variants, OpenIndiana, Illumos, Haiku, plan9 and other unix-based OSs welcome too.
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>>20965
>It's no wonder that the most staunch anti-linux pro-unix/BSD person I ever met was a staunch Communist
How is communism connected to hating on GNU/Linux? If anything, GNU/Linux haters are often lolberts or liberals who think copyleft is communist and authoritarian and who are way more class collaborationist than copyleft enjoyers ever will be. I think those BSD users who don't just blindly hate GNU/Linux and who support copyleft are more likely to be communists.

>>23017
Yeah, most copyleft haters hate it because you can't combine it with permissive licenses. And why would you use permissive licenses? So corpos could use your code in their proprietary product, of course.

>>20965
the graphics drivers require debufs :/

Bumping this because I'm interested in moving my servers from Debian to either FreeBSD or OpenBSD due to the increasing corporate involvement in the Linux ecosystem and the increasing amount of shitware.

As a leftist of course the license is a problem because the defense I see is always something among the lines of "can anyone think of the corporations?".

What would you recommend for a minimalistic and secure server nowadays?

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Switched to FreeBSD like 4 years ago, never looked back. You never realize how shitty linux communities are until you check the BSD communities



 

duckduckgo just dropped their new voice chat and i must say, i am pretty impressed! it works extremely good! i wonder how they can offer such a high quality service without any ads? how do they make their money?

by, uh, using you data for training? like what, do you think a tweet is some sort of binding document?



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If you've been running the tor daemon for the last year or so, you've likely experienced several outages and maybe even spotted reports of a compression bomb left in the logs. In fact i've seen other people report having to disable their daemon for a week for a week or so. Previously, for me it was easy enough to grep the logs for the offending node sending compression bombs and blacklisting it.

This morning though, i was faced with at least a dozen malicious nodes clogging the network, so i did what any self-respecting operator would do: I inserted a longrun into my s6 service pipeline, to automatically scan the logs for compression bomb incidents and heal itself by appending the offending node to a blacklist file, that is included within torrc. I'm posting this while my daemon is still under attack, so i would definitely deem this a success.

My script currently runs as root, which is not ideal, but completely appropriate for the privileges involved in restarting services and editing system-wide config files. I others may benefit from my method, thus the run file of the service is reproduced below:

#!/bin/execlineb -P
forstdin -E line
foreground {
echo $line
}
if {
heredoc 0 $line
fgrep "Unable to decompress HTTP body"
}
foreground {
backtick -E ip {
heredoc 0 $line
grep -c "[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9]"
}
redirfd 1 -a /etc/tor/bombs
echo ExcludeNodes $ip
}
s6-svc -r /run/service/tor

Project Idea: Integrate your Onion Service with a local self hosted instance of Wazuh SIEM.

The OP actually had several errors and only worked, because they resulted in tor recreating circuits, until they stopped containing malicious nodes. This is the corrected version:
#!/bin/execlineb -P
forstdin -E line
foreground {
printf "%s\n" $line
}
if {
heredoc 0 $line
fgrep -s "Unable to decompress HTTP body"
}
foreground {
backtick -E ip {
heredoc 0 $line
grep -o "[0-9]*\\.[0-9]*\\.[0-9]*\\.[0-9]*"
}
redirfd -a 1 /etc/tor/bombs
printf "ExcludeNodes %s\n" $ip
}
s6-svc -h /run/service/tor

Flood detected; Post discarded.Flood detected; Post discarded.



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Hello, I'm using this thread to ask for ideas on what to do with a Meshtastic compatible board. Specifically, I would like the capability to track, record , perform counter surveillance of the growing militarized surveillance state of my country.

Could I detect those nasty AI cameras used by law enforcement ? Track suspected federal employee vehicles? Please give me some ideas. I'm also wondering if theres something I can do with SDR dongles.

>>32353
>Could I detect those nasty AI cameras used by law enforcement
Maybe you can go out now and make experiments, put the device you are going to use promiscious mode and check if they have some fingerprint you could use. Then you would have to deploy a considerable amount of them (how are you going to finance it?) which I find it hard. Are you in an org? You would help more that way than with individual action.

>>32360
Also, have you tried considering asking on lainchan? If you do try to make a good OP post so it doesn't get flagged as soykaf, lurk there a bit or ask on their IRC (I guess)

1. Publicly participating and posting your results makes you a target.
2. When FLOCK understands that everyone is signal hunting their gear, billionaire money will be dumped into SIGINT Hardening.
3. I know under good authority that their are ALPR Cameras designed to look like bolts that are present on busy roads. I don't know who is using them or where. I just know that these are used. Stealth Cameras will be the name of the game. When FLOCK internalizes that they will always be treated as the enemy, they will focus on stealth cameras.
4. Self Driving Cars, Ubiquitous Smart Doorbells, and centralized standardized Government CCTV Access of cameras will create greater and greater dragnets. This will make focusing on any one system a waste of time.
5. Meshtastic is a low bandwidth tool per legal requirements. Maybe repurposed software built for meshtastic scales up into 5G 10KM tech? Maybe not? Either way, you want a secret hidden hunter that transmits nothing and receives everything. You will take your data and turn it into a viewable project that can be shared over onion addresses.
6. Cybersecurity you might want for this project: Qubes OS, VPN, Encrypted DNS, IDS/IPS, and self hosted gear. You know you will be angering authoritarians. You know that sniffing traffic is legally risky. Go in knowing you can't get help from AI's you don't host yourself.

TLDR: Surveillance State Grows, diminishing impact of sniffing any one system. When they learn you are doing this, they will adapt as their resources are superior to yours.

One big thing I forgot to mention in my last post is the "so what" principle.

PRISM leaked, the public said "so what".
XKEYSCORE leaked, the public said "so what".
Insert Scandal here leaked, the public said "so what".

You could pour your time and money into this project, only to be treated with a "so what" attitude. They will also say, "I have nothing to hide".
Whistle blowing and investigative journalism almost served as a normalization engine to government programs.

People who mistrust the government usually get on-boarded to the reality of surveillance pretty quickly. Rather than prove the reality of surveillance at great cost to you personally, focus on promoting mistrust of the government among boring liberals aged 18 to 25. Then sneak in some surveillance knowledge.



 

So, I remember using Cheat Engine without any problems some years ago and for a game I'm currently playing I wanted to install it again but apparently the installer comes with adware (and some other stuff even if youre careful and decline all the options). Atleast some users have started complaining about stuff being installed on their pc without consent. Alot of those complaints started about three years ago. What makes me also pretty sus is the developer being very unhelpful and going down hard on alternative download sources (those that come without the ads) not too mention him being called out on github multiple times and his responses being fishy as fuck. Anyone got an either an alternative or has some experience with this?
Links regarding sussy behaviour on github:
https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/issues/2105, https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/issues/2470, https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/issues/2027
On mobile so excuse the formatting

it's been known to bundle adware for years, you need to compile cheat engine, it's not super hard, luckily

Infecting lazy script kiddies who can't even be fucked to compile their tools is based.

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Been using GameConqueror on Linux and it works for basic search and set values. maxed out my ennies in cyberpunk 2077. preem.



 

so is this guy in the epstein files or why was he cancelled again?
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>>32464
Not even esr?

>>32470
why would he be in the files, in the large scheme of things he's some random from UPenn, RMS would be more likely to appear since he's from MIT. I just don't think that Linux was big on Epstein's interests, seem like he was more focused on AI and NLP, thus Marvin Minsky and Chomsky were huge Epstein pals.

>>32462
Probably anti-Indian sentiment as can be seen here: >>32458

>>32474
I don't even get why Stallman would say that. Microsoft developers are less than ten percent Indian.

>>32460
>so is this guy in the epstein files
If you search for his name at https://www.justice.gov/epstein/search, his name is mentioned there only once and it really is just a mention. And it's not even Esptein or some of his friends mentioning him in the email conversations, it's some paper written by Marvin Minsky Epstein had saved on his harddrive or something
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01157468.pdf

>why was he cancelled again?

That was long before the files were published. He was cancelled for his views on pedophilia (which your typical lolbert drivel about "what if they consent tho") and yes, for defending the same Marvin Minsky



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You know why I hate Mastodon and Bluesky? They pretend to be an alternative to Big Tech platforms, but these "alternatives" are walled gardens, just like the Big Tech platforms. Neither on Bluesky nor on Mastodon can you search content without an account. If you don't have an account, you don't get any search results. Totally hypocritical.
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>>32422
No, you still don’t get it.

The entire rest of the fedi is NOT ‚connected and neutral‘, it’s just the extended HOA empire with slightly looser borders. The big ‚normal‘ instances (mas.to, troet.cafe, chaos.social, flick.social, etc.) are all run by the exact same German/NL/US progressive NGO-academic caste that runs mastodon.social. They all defederate the same targets on day one, they all have the same 40-point rules list, they all instantly gang-silence anyone who uses wrongthink keywords.

There is no ‚everyone else is connected‘ zone. There is only the Greater HOA Reich and then three or four isolated ghettos (chud, loli, and whatever’s left of the old weird fedi).

The whole promise of ‚join any instance, you’re still on the big network‘ is a lie. In practice there are exactly two networks that matter:

1. The progressive elite monoculture (90 % of active users, perfectly sealed, zero tolerance for dissent)
2. A handful of leper colonies where the outcasts were kindly allowed to go

Mastodon didn’t create a million free communities.
It created one gigantic, perfectly sanitized palace for the ruling class and then a couple of reservations for the undesirables so the palace dwellers can keep pretending they’re the tolerant ones.

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>>32425
Your premise hinges on the idea I implied that the HOA was just manstodon.social and not every too-large-to-moderate instance.

Any instance too large to reasonably moderate resorts to HOA tactics, as the trust that admins and federation as a mechanisn can actually protect against spam breaks down, causing hypervigilance to be an acceptable mindset.

The "The big ‚normal‘ instances" are like that because they hare hypermassive and can't stop expanding despite demonstrably being unable to handle the load.
>A handful of leper colonies where the outcasts
That's where the rest of fedi is. That's where all the activity is pubbing. As I keep telling you, everyone else either defederates from or limits these hypermassive instances due toetheir spam problems.
>were kindly allowed to go
You went into poteticism without thinking of what that represents. The HOA instances don't allowance anything to the rest of fedi, the rest of fedi are seperate websites that block or limit them. They are the twitterlerite lepur colony that keeps the rest of fedi free of that shit, not the other way around.

The reason why you see it the way you do is because you resonate with the culture of the HOA instances more, judging by how quickly you rejected picking a furry instance. You just want a twitter out of a technology that structurally evades being twitter on purpose, and breaks down when treated as a twitter.

>>32369
The real sin of mastodon is being a twitter clone. Twitter is a terrible format

>>32431
I like that misskey tries to break the mold a bit by replacing ⭐'s with emotes, but yeah frontends have only scratched the surface.

>>32369
Nice new phone



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