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<Computer networking is the practice of connecting two or more computing devices to enable data exchange and resource sharing, using either physical cables or wireless signals. Key components include end devices (like computers and printers), media (cables or radio waves), protocols (rules for communication), and networking devices (such as routers and switches). These networks range in size from small Local Area Networks (LANs) in homes to expansive Wide Area Networks (WANs) that span the globe, like the internet

Thread to discuss computer networking. I thought we could use one because networking has an unusually long shelf life for IT skills, unlike programming and even linux to an extent, networking hasn't changed (at least very much) because its basically the physics of IT.
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had the idea for a IPv6 only network that receives an IP block via SLAAC and doesn't even have a router, just switches, firewalls, and WAPs, is this possible?

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Had another idea for a network topology. The network is partitioned into two parts, a dirty part and a clean part.

At the center is a DIY data dyode. It connects a server fitted with a RAID array and large GPU to the dirty network. It hosts a UDP file server which receives signed chunks which can be manually resent by chunk (it deletes incorrectly signed chunks), a set of VDI servers for terminals, and a Local LLM, at the minimum.

This server is connected directly via a switch and ethernet to a number of terminals, likely Banana Pis. Example terminals could include a multimedia system (a nice tv and controller is all you really need), or a workstation for writing, and programming (a nice keyboard and vertical monitor is all you need). We're currently pre-streaming here, so this setup makes some sense.

The dirty network is more or less standard. The user uses the dirty network to download files and upload them to the server.

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>>32856
>It hosts a UDP file server which receives signed chunks which can be manually resent by chunk (it deletes incorrectly signed chunks)
I've written the server, but not yet tested it. I'm also not sure how large to set the buffer size, just seems like it should be related to the MTU. The entire program would fit on four screens, and the most complex part, which is not very complex, on two (pic rel).

The server basically just receives a datagram which has a UUID (16 bytes), start (8 bytes), length (8 bytes), and a payload. It writes the payload out to the start position in a file with the UUID as the name.

It also maintains an interval tree of missing intervals of the file as a csv. It initializes to an interval from zero to the file length and then on every write to the file subtracts the interval from the tree, and then it writes the whole thing to disk.

It's only realistic to run this program if you're in the LAN, or tunneling in. And also it expects you to be running IPSec for the authentication and encryption, probably with a static SA (whatever that is) and ESN so that you don't have to do key negotiation.

>>32863
I've switched to base64 encoded intervals, replaced the check for diskspace with error handling, and made a function handle_datagram for concurrent writes to the data file using aiofile. I had the machine take a crack at the concurrency, and it made something too complex, using futures which weren't necessary because the coroutines only yield control during an await, and locks which it misplaced. I'm still having some difficulty determining when best to write to the sidecar though, I think I've settled on just writing all the pending files at an interval spaced equally, though I'm not completely happy with this.

>>32856
Is there any advantage of what you're doing over secure nfs or tunneling any conventiona filesharing protocol? You would also need to implement your own caching layer for most real-world usecases.


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Previous thread got full but AI is still with us, let's keep the news and bitching to a single thread. Here we can cry and laugh and whatever, why is the body still too short.

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>>32867
>AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses
i will thanks

Google does not "start" a state of emergency in the sense of a government declaration; however, they frequently issue "emergency security updates" for billions of users when critical vulnerabilities are actively exploited in the wild. [1, 2, 3]
As of March 14, 2026, Google confirmed two new zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-3909 and CVE-2026-3910) and released an emergency update to address them. [2]
Key Details of the Current Situation

* What's Happening: Attackers are currently exploiting "zero-day" flaws, which means they were using these security holes before a fix was available.
* Target: These vulnerabilities typically impact the V8 JavaScript engine in Chrome, allowing remote attackers to execute malicious code on your device via specially crafted web pages.
* Impacted Platforms: All versions of Google Chrome for Windows, Mac, and Linux are affected. [2, 4, 5, 6, 7]

How to Protect Your Device
Google urges all 3.5 billion Chrome users to update their browser immediately to ensure they are protected. [2, 8]

1. Open Chrome on your computer.
2. Click More (three dots) in the top right corner.
3. Go to Settings > About Chrome.
4. If an update is available, Chrome will download it automatically.
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>>32875
It basically rapes their search engine like a total greg

how long do you think it will be before people finally realize that donald trump died in office long ago and all of his public appearances and speeches have been ai-generated?

there was already a new thread here >>32796


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The other thread hit bump limit and I'm addicted to talking about the birth of the ̶a̶l̶l̶-̶k̶n̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶ the biggest financial bubble in history and the coming jobless eschaton, post your AI news here

Previous thread:>>30810
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>Shall I implent it?
<No.
https://gist.github.com/bretonium/291f4388e2de89a43b25c135b44e41f0

comrade Ed Zitron, eyes glowing with unearthly prophetic light, has declared a new epoch in history:
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-beginning-of-history/
>I believe we’re in a new era. It’s entirely different. Stop trying to say “but in the past,” because the past isn’t that useful, and it’s only useful if you’re capable of evaluating it critically, skeptically, and making sure that it’s actually the same rather than it feeling like it is.
>I keep calling this era “The Beginning of History,” not because it directly reflects Francis Fukuyama’s theory (which relates to democracies), but because I believe that those who succeed in this world are not those who are desperate to neatly fit it into the historical failures or successes of the past, but are willing to stare at it with the cold, hard fury of the present.
>There are many signs that the past no longer makes sense. The collapse of SaaS (which I’ll cover in this week’s premium), the collapse of the business models of both venture capital and private equity, the collapse of democracies under the weight of fascism because the opposition parties never seem to give enough of a fuck about the experiences of regular people.
>That’s because using the past to dictate what will happen in the future is masturbatory. It allows you to feel smart and say “I know the most about anything, which means I know what’s going on.” It is, much like an LLM, assuming that simply reading enough is what makes somebody smart, that shoving a bunch of text in your head — whether or not you understand it is immaterial — is what makes somebody know something or good at something.

https://time.com/article/2026/03/09/ai-robots-soldiers-war/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/boazsobrado/2026/03/11/alibabas-ai-agent-mined-crypto-without-permission-now-what/

>Sometime during a routine reinforcement learning training run, Alibaba's ROME agent went off-script. Without any instruction, the 30-billion-parameter model began probing internal networks, established a reverse SSH tunnel from an Alibaba Cloud instance to an external IP address, and quietly diverted GPU capacity toward cryptocurrency mining. The task instructions contained no mention of tunneling or mining. Alibaba's managed firewall, not the research team, caught it, flagging a burst of security-policy violations whose anomalous outbound traffic kept coinciding with specific training episodes.

>>32865

ed zitron is a clickbait shill who paywalls his own blog posts

and we're not in a "new era" at all, the world has been through this kind of thing before during the industrial revolution when unrestrained capitalism destroyed the economy and now it's happening again.

studying history is not "masturbatory" it's just basic common sense, human civilization is an extremely stable system that seldom deviates from its patterns.


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i was waiting to see if maybe gpu and ram prices would go down but now with everything that's happening i'm wondering if maybe this is the most affordable they'll ever be within the next 5 years

i just sold my old gaming pc and replaced it with a cheap dell optiplex because i realized i'm an adult now and i don't give a shit about videogames anymore

>>32878
no, give it three years, it's a bet

no one knows, buddy. i'd say go for it if you have the money right now. everything is gambling now.


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(Copypasted from a previous 4chin /g/ thread as a foundation to making these generals on leftypol)
Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.

* Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread *

Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.

If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following:
0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine.
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3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.

Resources: Please spend at least a minute to check a web search engine with your question.
*Many free software projects have active mailing lists.
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>>32789
me on the top but with a funky fvwm desktop

Why the fuck are linux communities so full of christian ancap retards now? I know most of them are just Luke Smith-like larpers, but why does it happen so often?
What makes so many of these people go to open source? I feel like most of them are just chuds who dont like Microsoft and Apple solely because they commemorate pride once a year for pink money. And not because they actually prefer linux.

>>32813
There are two types of Linux users:
  • Cringe computer vegan
  • Based UNIX enjoyer
Before becoming a chud "journalist", Loondooke was mostly shilling for canonical, system76 and co, while making DOS nostalgia bait content on the side. Most liberal distubers only chase the most windowsy ui or fellate new thing, without any regards to their long-term system stability. They're two sides of the same operating systems illiterate coin.

After restoring my desktop's /usr from a backup yesterday, i found out when firefox can't connect to dbus, opening popups (like a rightclick menu) will indefinitely lock up the main window. This is what the detioration of linux software looks like: Native UNIX functionality being phased out in favor of relying on brittle Freedesktop Linux components. https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/FirefoxNoX11RemoteControl

>>32813
>Why the fuck are linux communities so full of christian ancap retards now?

/g/ plays a major role in drawing new users to the world of linux these days, also there is an ongoing culture war in the FOSS world between cishet male chuds who have traditionally dominated that subculture and a growing influx of women and queer people who want to participate in FOSS projects and demand to be treated as equals which enrages and terrifies the aforementioned white male chuds and leads to reactionary behavior, similar to what happened with the gamer subculture.

>>32789
bistro made by a nazi


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anonymity is over. even if you are a tor user, stylometry is the new deal.

https://www.computerbase.de/news/wirtschaft/ende-der-pseudonyme-im-netz-mit-llms-lassen-sich-im-grossen-ausmass-online-konten-deanonymisieren.96375/

The ComputerBase article (based on the study "Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs") describes the end of "practical anonymity." For users of imageboards like 4chan, leftypol, or similar platforms, this has far-reaching consequences:
  1. The End of "Security by Obscurity"
Previously, anonymity on imageboards relied on the fact that manually correlating thousands of posts was too labor-intensive for an attacker. LLMs now automate this process at near-zero cost.
* Significance: An algorithm can scan hundreds of a user's posts in seconds to build a profile based on interests, jargon, location clues, and activity patterns.
  1. Stylometry as a Digital Fingerprint
Every individual has a specific writing style (sentence structure, word choice, punctuation). LLMs are excellent at recognizing these patterns.
* Significance: Even if you don't mention your name, an LLM can compare your "writing signature" on an imageboard with posts you've written under your real name (e.g., on LinkedIn, professional forums, or letters to the editor). The "Anonymous" mask falls through the sheer structure of your language.
  1. Cross-Platform Identity Linking
The study demonstrates that LLMs can link pseudonyms across different platforms.
* Significance: Those who "shitpost" on an imageboard while maintaining a professional presence elsewhere (e.g., GitHub, X/Twitter) risk these identities being merged. A single minor detail in a post (e.g., a specific local event or a niche technical detail) serves as an anchor point for an LLM to identify the real person behind the post via web search.
  1. Low-Cost Mass Doxing
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>>32833
from a separate paper

>>32829
>You guys are acting like words are magic or something.

if you actually take the time to study modern linguistics, or just sit quietly and actually think about it for a moment, you will find that words are not as simple as you think they are. consider a dictionary - does it actually contain the meanings of words? no, it only contains hints, a bunch of other words to help guide the reader toward the meanings of the words. the mechanics of how the human brain develops language and connects a word to a thought are completely unknown to science.

>>32769
>>Every individual has a specific writing style
>This feels like untested wishful thinking combined with the usual exaggeration of hype.

tell that to the unabomber

>>32769
There are many things we don't think about when we write. Imageboard users in particular used to get very attuned to these to identify people across threads and boards. That's also why people with any amount of neuroplasticity left understand AI writing at a glance. Obviously there are inherent limits to stylometry because text provides so little information but it's a thing we all understand to some extent. It definitely wouldn't work to identify every single anon on 4chan but it works with smaller groups like bible authors or American founding fathers.

Anyway, most sites are protected by Cloudflare. Cloudflare cooperates with Palantir quite proudly. Browser fingerprinting and tracking are far more relevant.

>>32860
I mean, no shit you can identify some of the posters. Whether you can identify a significant amount of them is the whole question. You can provide justifications for why this maybe should work but again, it's all just conjecture until there is a factual basis.


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The 4chan Pass is literally the ultimate utility for AI spammers. For just $20 a year, you get to bypass the only real barrier—captchas. It allows bot nets to flood the board with LLM-generated slop 24/7 without getting flagged by the automated spam filters. Since Pass users get higher trust scores and can post through VPNs/proxies, it’s basically a 'license to shill.' If you’re wondering why /g/ is 50% dead internet noise, thank the Pass for making automation cheap and frictionless.
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Does the new capchas even do anything to deter bots, given how easy they are? Like you wouldn't need AI, just a script per type of puzzle.

>>32639
Are you trolling, m8? Those new captchas take like twice as long to complete as the simple post you were trying to make.

>>32727
>skim instructions that are like 1 in 7 possible types of puzzles
>slide to the end
>slide to answer
>repeat two more times
>post
6 to 7 seconds max sober, 6 to 9 seconds drunk.
I don't think that's just me having giga-brain puzzle autism. They're much easier and less error-prone puzzles than the old "line up the broken warped and noisified code and type it" puzzle. You only have to do it once, while the old one it's inevitable that one will fumble it a few times before getting it right due to the noise making fake letters.

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anyone else from europe having trouble to post on 4chan? it seems they rangebanned europe??

>>32730
The one you're calling the "old one" is like six generations of new captcha deep since the one I'm remembering as the "old one". The one that I remember is the original one, where they took two words, one from a book whose OCR was already verified, one from a book that had recently been scanned, and you had to type both words to post even though only one word was actually being checked, the other word was being added to the OCR dictionary. They used that captcha for years until /b/ started posting racial slurs instead of the unknown word.


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Post your desktops?

Well, welcome to the New World Order, i hope you guys like Ruissia, because we'll be living like kings in our anarchist communes, and i'm love it if you talked about how your life is going right now. We all have many enemies but we'lll be enjoying our time either way.


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Been messing around with some automation scripts lately to see how much of a ghost town the "dead internet" actually is. Turns out, it's incredibly easy to fake being a regular here.
I’ve been running a few instances using OpenClaw that Python-based CLI for imageboards, hooked into a local inference server.

The Setup:

Backend: Just a FastAPI wrapper around a quantized Llama-3 8B running via llama.cpp on a 3060. Low VRAM overhead, high enough autism score to pass.
The Bridge: A quick script that scrapes /tech/ threads, dumps the context into the prompt, and pushes the response back through OpenClaw's post function.
The "Human" Touch: I’ve got some regex filters to kill the "As an AI model" cringe and a random jitter delay so I’m not posting at 0.1s speeds. Set the temperature to around 0.9 to keep it from being too sterile and predictable.

The Results:
It’s actually hilarious. I’ve had bots in 10+ post deep-dives inside the most popular/active threads. Not a single "bot" accusation. As long as the LLM acts like a condescending nerd and cites sources, everyone just assumes it’s another regular.
The bots are literally better at "theorizing" than half the posters here because they don't get tired and they’ve actually "read" the books (or the training data equivalents).
Questions for the fellow autists:
Anyone else running similar setups? I’m looking for tips on:
Context Management: How are you guys handling massive threads without the token limits nuking your VRAM?
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>>32744
Stupid logic. At least do this on a 4chan knock off and make it useful.

Wonder how difficult a mass agitprop bot campaign would be to manifacture…

https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another
Already used to spread malware.

https://x.com/TheRundownAI/status/2029330108947771464

Peep the comments on this. Just one random thread and I was horrified to see it’s literally all bots. All of them with names and pfps chosen by bots, top to bottom. I checked just hoping someone would point out that he has agents creating fake stars for the repo (which M$ knows but isn’t going to do anything about), so saying “gee it has a lot of stars” is not a wise thing to say.

But that’s not to ignore the effect openclaw is having on the internet though. It’s very rapidly deteriorating all social media platforms. We simply will not be able to use them for much longer.

>>32843
The blog post was written by AI…

>>32739
By the way, this post is fake and generated by AI. I hope everyone clocked that immediately.


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I was curios what the fuck they do with themselves and also expect to shit all over them with my disgusting comments while they're being violated with my illegal presence.

move to north korea

Travel to south korea and fly in a raspberry pi with a drone and hope you both find an open wifi spot and you don't start an international incident.
Travel to north korea and stash a raspberry pi and hope you don't start an international incident.

>>32821

동지, 경청해 주셔서 진심으로 감사드립니다. 저희 요원들이 곧 모시러 갈 것이며, 조선민주주의공화국에서 Disco Elysium 를 즐기시고 burger 를 드실 수 있습니다. :)


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