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 No.23925[Reply]

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4
Apparently one of the maintainers have been adding backdoors to xz/liblzma for who knows how long. Because it was coming from a "trusted" source (upstream), nobody noticed it until now. Does this mean the end of the open-source security myth?
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 No.24053

>>24052
i imagine that the greatest challenge comes from the sneaky-sneaky glowies digging years old rabbit holes to push backdoors into code. due to the open source nature of xz, malicious code must be very well hidden, difficult for the ai to detect, see >>23973 for a tl;dr of the very lengthy process. plus, its not like you can just grep the source code and find a boolean response to some given string whether its malicious or not. although i imagine these aren't huge limitations, as the plot was foiled pretty easily by, of all people, a Microsoft dev and I would imagine after this fiasco more effort will be concentrating on ravaging through rabbit-holes for malicious code.

 No.24054

>>24052
It would cost money and companies use "open source" to save money.

 No.24059

>>24050
There's fuzzing which tries to bruteforce malicious inputs, which is not exactly what you describe but the closest to it, and it was sabotaged by the backdoor's author: https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/pull/10667

 No.24060

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Maintainer's blogpost about the incident:
https://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/

 No.24071

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>If you have infected version of liblzma in your system, it's already loaded into EVERY process that depends on libsystemd. systemd's dependency on liblzma *was literally* the attack vector.
lol pid 1

glad i dont use a distro that depends on poetteringware


 No.23768[Reply]

Stalinists and many other types of leftists are about to be fully jettisoned into the fucking dustbin of history if they never manage to overcome their history LARP. You unironically have nighas on this board arguing the OGAS cybernetic system of the fucking 70s USSR was the last actual technological advancement meanwhile American and Chinese research firms are building general purpose humanoid robots (androids that can take any basic command and execute it), building the infrastructure for a fully digitized real world visible only through headsets, neuro-chips that control computers with thoughts, successful gene therapy, and successful eye transplants; but keep fapping to tech from a literal century ago
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 No.23843

>>23841
>>23842
You missed my point. In 1985 a consumer computer war more powerful then the top end workstation of 1984. That would be like today being able to buy a gaming rig that completely trounced the top end IBM Power10.

 No.23844

>>23842
>>NVIDIA literally crunching the numbers faster than Moore's Law predicted with their new AI chips
What does this even mean

The number of transistors on the chips is very slightly off the predicted 2 year mark in the negative direction, and this has been the case for the last decade.
If you mean it literally, then you're forgetting that the arithmetic of AI accelerators is probabilistic and imprecise. This is good for neutral networks, but it's a completely different thing from and not comparable to chips not specialised for ML.

 No.24014

What is this?

A never-ending conversation between Bavarian director Werner Herzog and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. When you open this website, you are taken to a random point in the dialogue. Every day a new segment of the conversation is added. New segments can be generated at a faster speed than what it takes to listen to them. In theory, this conversation could continue until the end of time.

https://www.infiniteconversation.com/

 No.24065

Guys they finally found a use for AI! It's genocide: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

 No.24066

>>24065
At this point why not just drop bombs at random? Oh I know why, it's because it gives the IDF butchers some kind of rationalisation that they can tell themselves that they're taking out the bad guys.


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 No.23635[Reply]

Ignore my degenerate phoneposting

 No.23813

That's the kind of imperialism I would fully support

 No.23815

How did you manage to avoid the wordfilter for degenerate?


 No.23711[Reply]

I watched this video recently, and have been fascinated by the concept of "the peripheral web" (in contrast to "core web") and want to find more stuff out there. So how about a thread where we share neat stuff we find on the peripheral web?

First thing that comes to mind for me that isn't a blog or meta on this topic feel free to share either tho, just wanted to start the thread on a cool note is https://firstpersontetris.com/

Also relevant >>/tech/23548
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 No.23728

You mean like, websites that aren't social media platforms?

 No.23738

https://www.vipvgm.net/
It's a music player with a bunch of videogame music on it.

 No.23801

As an experiment, I am going to (at least try to) exclusively coom to art made by artists who have posted those works to their personal website.

If even core web sites can fall off due to lack of / difficulty to access NSFW content–Tumblr, for example–then that could be that's a factor in why people gravitate to the core, and one that seems immediately addressable if you can get people to make the habit of making pages linking to them.

Sites I've found so far:
https://vahn.art
http://slipshine.net/
https://asswolf.com/txt/

 No.23804

>>23715
Deep Dark Webtasy

>>23801
>https://vahn.art
Already down. I doubt posting on /leftypol/ would hug of death it, so probably gone for good out of disinterest. If you like something archive it. HDD (or LTO for longer term preservation) are cheap in terms of storage space.

 No.23805

>>23804
Oh oops, https://vanh.art/
n and h look too similar on the default font my browser is using. I need to set it back to comic mono or something.


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 No.23740[Reply]

What is the endgame of the internet archive? An "archive" which refuses to save specific sites? I just tried to check out some articles on the wayback machine for the site compactmag.com and I reveived picrel. I can understand, that an internet archive will refuse to host CP, but why are they blocking pure text sites???
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 No.23763

>>23760
>>23761
>>23762
stop samefagging

 No.23767

>>23740
You can request to have your aocial media or websites excluded and they always comply, that's likely what happened here. The reason Compact can't be archived is because they've likely asked the IA to block their site, because "muh copyright".
As usual IP laws are cancer.

 No.23796

>>23767
It's fair use, the website's owners just have a retarded paranoia because of the nature of capitalist competition. Also, they expect IA to not go to court so this is essentially equivalent to beating someone who's already down.

 No.23800

>>23796 (me)
After some researching, the status of fair use in the case of Internet Archive is unfortunately unclear. The US laws are so retarded it's not even funny.

 No.23802

>>23796
Archiving a website might be fair use. Making that archive available to the public might not be. In the US, fair use is determined by judges who usually act in the interests of capital.


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 No.23640[Reply]

hi guys long time lurker but haven't posted until now.
what are your stances on local language models (LLMs)?
I know that closed models like GPT-4 are fucking stupid and late stage capitalism.
But what about everyone having infinite knowledge at their fingertips? is this not a noble goal?
What is the party line on AI and the proletariat?
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 No.23736

>>23731
This article is even better:
>Writing with AI help can shift your opinions
>Artificial intelligence-powered writing assistants that autocomplete sentences or offer “smart replies” not only put words into people’s mouths, they also put ideas into their heads, according to new research.

http://web.archive.org/web/20240205045643if_/https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/05/writing-ai-help-can-shift-your-opinions

 No.23765

>>23721
>>23723
A language model could "write" a Wizardry clone for the NES but you would have to have previously fed it with a lot of Wizardry clones or very similar programs, so the usefulness of LMs still needs to be questioned as the only thing they can do is to copy and merge, people get excited when they see one solve a problem but ignore the fact that the way the answer was given was by looking at the results of people that have already solved the problem.

 No.23766

>>23765
LLM fail badly unless you handhold them the more novel your problem is. A big issue is that information in the context doesn't seem as strong as that in the training set when it should be moreso. I tried to get chatGPT to work with nonstandard VGA modes and it couldn't handle it, would always fall back to 640x480@60hz timings. The code was buggy as hell too, but I could mostly fix it with english prompting. I don't think any developer should be worried about LLMs taking tasks beyond those you could give to an average junior anytime soon. It can do a CRUD app, but deep domain knowledge is safe. Rule of thumb: if you could do it copy and pasting from stack overflow, chatGPT can do it.

 No.23779

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>>23640
>What is the party line on AI and the proletariat?
AI is the new slave class and proletarians are the new plebeians.

 No.23793

>>23640
>the party line
Make your own conclusions from your own analysis, anon, Marxism is (at least supposed to be) scientific, not just another religion. Otherwise it's no better than being an ancap or a radlib or whatever other flavor-of-the-month ideology.


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 No.23515[Reply]

Students at the University of Waterloo discovered that their candy machines were covertly collecting facial recognition data when 'Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe' crashed.
https://mathnews.uwaterloo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mathNEWS-154-3.pdf
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 No.23571

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>>23570
Did they switch back to the sexy stilhetto version because of Tucker complaining?

 No.23628

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>>23570
>a candy with legs
Damn, that's hawt.

 No.23703

>>23519
monster hydro

 No.23706

>>23523
>>23529
>>23532
To be fair, they probably don't own the machine, whatever subcontractor they hired to provide vending machines does.

 No.23764

>>23529
UWaterloo*


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 No.20842[Reply]

Post less computery hardware you think is neat or have question about.
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 No.22939

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 No.22953

Hurdy Gurdys are pretty neat. Saw a kit for building one using just wood cutouts and wax, could be a fun CNC project.

 No.22971

I like the idea of just being able to slap more hands / devices onto a clock as needed. Fill a whole wall with time related information of varying usefulness.

 No.22985

>>20850
this is tech. self powered, elegant, zero maintenance. post more please.

 No.23730

Snatch blocks, they're a pulley you can put on a rope, rather than having to thread it through. So like how zipline hooks work.


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 No.4951[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

This Thread Has Been Re-appropriated for leftypol.org Usage.

General thread meant for the discussion of the mobile app for browsing leftypol.org, known as clover.

Releases can be found here:
https://github.com/PietroCarrara/Clover/releases/latest
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 No.23503

>>23502
You can't, it's not implemented

 No.23528

I am thrilled to report I can now phonepost to my heart's content.

 No.23553

Videos aren't working. 403 errors. Bumner

 No.23705

Anyone else having issues with Cloudflare on KurobaEx still? Raised an issue with the dev and I can at least browse on the beta branch, can't post though.

 No.23717

>>23705
Never had a cloudflare challenge on leftypol


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 No.20728[Reply]

Terminally online bros… it's over
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 No.21082

>>21080
Misskey is about to have so many users named 下 join at once they'll have to add an emote for it.

 No.21083

>>21080
How does this even happen? It's not like the retard is implementing this by himself. I'd expect at least someone would tell him that not everyone is an anglo.

The only explanation is employees don't give a fuck anymore and do whatever stupid shit he comes up with. Or someone is actively sabotaging the website, which is even better.

 No.21084

>>21083
>How does this even happen? It's not like the retard is implementing this by himself. I'd expect at least someone would tell him that not everyone is an anglo.
He doesn't listen to reason and pushes whatever he wants, especially if he gets any pushback. Employees at Tesla and SpaceX have come out saying that in order to get anything done they basically need a team of people to babysit him and be yes men when he shows up just so he won't actually meddle in things (more than they can avoid) and cause tons of problems for everyone. Maybe he was just lucky to have people like that at the previous copmanies where he had that kind of pull. He apparently doesn't have that at twitter.

 No.23443

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I really expected it'd be lower. That 29% is holding on for dear life.

 No.23686

twitter's CDN blacks out for a few minutes at least once a day at this point
good job firing all of those tech people, dipshit


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