/tech/ - Technology

>>31747
Humanity has evolved past the need for Windows.



<Linux boxes get compromised and dragged into botnets all the time

>centralization is le bad support le small services
painfully middle class thread

>>31750
We just had a proof that in some cases centralization can fuck things up royally by introducing an unnecessary points of failure. Where half of the internet went down thanks to some inters vibecoding.

>>31750
Please actually learn how web infrastructure works instead of trying to figure the world through memes.

>>31549
OAI doesn't know what it's doing. I think this is obvious, and I do think a lot of people are noticing and asking this question, what exactly, this is for.

The smut generator is one thing. But Sora is another one that is actually much larger. Why even make this app? Literally nobody asked for it.

Keep in mind this isn't generic video generation upgrade. Sora is engineered to to make "viral videos". e.g. a slop generator. Rather than locking users in, it's just ruined the rest of the ecosystem and demolished trust and devalued creativity. That's putting aside how badly it's damaged the internet as an ability to learn. It's now at the point where nature videos, something I used to profoundly enjoy, learning about animal, has been severely poisoned with fake videos that I no longer can be sure if anything is real, because nature is often very surprising and unbelievable in reality.

>>31566
It will probably contract because I would expect, from personal experience, that both businesses and consumers are paying for multiple services and are likely to just choose one. Makes no sense to pay for Claude + Windsurf + Cursor + whatever like many are doing.

>>31703
It must be a precursor to world models, which are theorized to be capable of understanding and interacting with the real world and working beyond the textual context of large language models.

>>31736
Paper in the show notes may give you hope

https://www.maximumtruth.org/p/deep-dive-ai-progress-continues-as
This blog claims that AI is actually still growing
And some people are saying Gemini 3 is a huge improvement is this true

Relevant keywords:
>Operational Security
>Information Security
>Communications Security
>Signals Intelligence
>Social Engineering

Software:
>Tor
>I2P
>Tails
>Linux-based operating systems

There is no magic bullet:
>https://support.torproject.org/faq/
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The purpose of TOR is to help the USA / israel overthrow the Chinese, Iranian, etc society. So no it doesn't actually work.

>>24009
Riseup is the most obvious honeypot ever
>Erm, hello fellow leftists, here's an e-mail service and a vpn you should all use for maximum privacy and security!
How can you fall for this?

>>31729
It doesn't need to be a honeypot to be a bad idea. Although I can't see how Riseup email is worse than any other email provider.

>Thought I'd give it a try. Evidently, it is filled to the brim with exit scams and glowie pedobait. And I found it funny how Tordex/Torch admins try to justify not censoring such garbage.

Like you didn't already know that. That's like the one thing everyone knows about the darkweb is that it's like 99% CP. Tell us more about your trip to Thailand.

GPU but the G stands for Gay

Machine learning specific processors have been around for a long while. Tensor processing units. Mostly good for regression, running cnns, rnns.

>>31631
yeah intel went really hard with their neural sticks, google had their tensor cores, apple had their own name for it too, mostly for computer vision, when AI was still cool in the eyes of consumers.

Excellent news kiddo
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/quantum-computing/new-chinese-optical-quantum-chip-allegedly-1-000x-faster-than-nvidia-gpus-for-processing-ai-workloads-but-yields-are-low
Prices on those babies should now eventually come down in a short time, around two years. You can get what is essentually a devkit for your forthcoming vidya console from orangepi starting at, too much for a mass console … for now

Eventually a lowmem board won't cost too much at which point have fun

>>31727
ps. Softbank just dumped NVDIA
Those who know know

Office hours I guess, any questions?

>>31578
I feel you brother, I go walking and camping alone in the woods and mountains on the regular, and it's great because you're just there, one foot in front of the other, taking a break when you feel like it, getting dirty,…

I feel like I've become increasingly Luddite over the last years, like, I'm not stupid. Loads of technological development is good ofcourse, but we've become so alienated from literally everything, all life is now nothing more then passive media consumption. No experiences, no hardships, no relations, no fun. Just stare and stare at that fucking screen in your hands.

The only reason I'm still working in tech now is so I can get money to buy some abandoned orchard or something, because modern society is absolutely crushing my soul and the only time when I had any semblance of feeling alive was when I was being a fucking hobo.

In SWE it's blatantly obvious. AI pretty much has to remain the primary, and will eventually be the sole, mode of software development because SWEs can't code anymore. They have, through sheer laziness, lost the ability to program a computer.

I have very little respect for SWEs, they always had the easiest job and absorbed the greatest surplesses. So their field is gone already. They simply cannot do it and will never be able to do it again.

>>27264
It's very good at two things: writing slop reports, and writing slop computer software. So rank-and-file reporters, who do not produce creative work, and software engineers, who also do not produce anything worth thinking twice about, are the most impressed and most impacted by the ability to automate their jobs. Unfortunately, these two have an outside impact on the overall evaluation of the technology.

Unfortunately, this won't be able to be corrected in the future. The children who are learning today are being totally annihilated by AI. They are not simply one or two years remedial. They are basically incapable, full stop.

>>31219
It doesn't matter if it gets anything wrong. People think people care if things are wrong. Actaully, they don't. It just looks like it works, in mostly works, whatever. The idea that people want high quality stuff that is carefully made by an attentive and diligent master of their craft is not true. They want MORE things. The MORE the BETTER.

Really. Nobody even cares if anything actually works anymore. As long as it is apparently there and apparently works, just plow through and make more $$$. Slop world is not a meme.

>>31712
>It doesn't matter if it gets anything wrong.
if your job is stupid bullshit, sure. if you're like an accountant or handle finances in any way, which is historically the profession that lead the rise of PMCs (it's in the name!), then your boss will get really mad if your numbers are off.

typical uncanny abomination from neoliberals. Reminds me of the Videodrome melted-flesh-hand-gun

(small soul hipster settler voice) "LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH OR WHATEVER"

>>31708
Sir I have pockets

>>31717
Yeah and I bet they are empty.

Why is this news? It's literally just clothing lmao

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-developer-verification-early.html
>While security is crucial, we’ve also heard from developers and power users who have a higher risk tolerance and want the ability to download unverified apps.
>Based on this feedback and our ongoing conversations with the community, we are building a new advanced flow that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn't verified. We are designing this flow specifically to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren't tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer. It will also include clear warnings to ensure users fully understand the risks involved, but ultimately, it puts the choice in their hands. We are gathering early feedback on the design of this feature now and will share more details in the coming months.
Looks like they might give you a way to get around it, we will see how it will work in practice.

Has anyone attempted to make a phone operating system on BSD?

>>31713
most people run BSD desktops either because of the server features on FreeBSD or some variation of it being a trve vnix. those aren't huge consideration for a phone though and linux userspace phones presently fill every other niche, so no.

>>31713
Not just attempted, the Sidekick LX 2009 used NetBSD as its kernel: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/109338988718834042

>>31715
>@pfr There's videos of the UI on YouTube. It's java-based. Had some cool features, like you could zoom around web pages, since nothing was mobile-optimized yet.
so it's just a forgotten android precursor then.

>>31645
what if videos are ephemeral, and also hosting uses some p2p to alleviate costs, if you wish to keep an archive, you keep an archive yourself, only the latest videos are hosted on the p2p network, this way the trendiest videos are the less costly to host

>>31667
I mean, compared to an html and an audio track a guy talking over a slideshow is wasteful, but among video types it compresses extremely well and you could host it on something like vimeo without problems or even your own site. Client-side rendering only seems realistic in the vtuber case, where you have reusable, high-definition textures, or full-blown machinima if that wasn't dead.

This seems to be built on Pixelfed (which was more of an Instagram style federated platform) so its good that its open source and federated. It seems to be making progress for interoperability at least according to that blog, such as the way it structures a video-centric platform in a way that will work with non-video centric alternatives (ie microblogging and photo-style tech like Mastodon or Pixelfed). Now the big thing they need to do if they want some actual fucking progress is to
>Not allow overzealous moderation by instance owners; leave it up to individual users.
One of the biggest problems I've had with the 'fediverse' is that it becomes a fractious culture war battleground with nodes/servers run by the most obnoxious people who you can imagine, perpetually offended. This means that, for most 'less technical' users - anyone who isn't running their own entire server that is - their ability to communicate with others comes down to what their admin deems worthy of federating with. If I am on Instance A, and you are on Instance B, yet instance A's admin decided that B is full of degenerates or nazis or fascists or communists or pedos or whatever they find problematic, I can't talk to you. This was always one of the weaknesses of not the fediverse itself but the individual projects within. THe "maximum" amount of defederation should be "nothing from your server is showed on my server's public/universe etc..feeds" which would still leave individual users the chance to make their own choices about what to do, where they want to go, and who they wish to connect with. Loops coding this in from the start would be a help, especially considering that it appears their "instance inbox" thing suggests that all the federated messages go through one server side pipe as it were which is more of a hole for both security and overzealous moderation.

>>31665
PeerTube is the best alternative so far and handles this situation by far. It allows both instances to do some degree of the heavy lifting, but if users are watching the same thing there's p2p webtorrent. As it grows the costs go down both with users and servers - its the only way to really handle something like this…along with usage of better codecs for bandwidth.

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>Instead of being trapped in walled gardens, your content, your followers, and your identity can move freely across the open web.
I've always felt TikTok is bad for this reason
>>31657
>format cancer
"Zionists need to buy TikTok for peoples own good, we need harm reduction anti-fascism" - cancerous socialists

To the people suggesting offloading video hosting to peers, this is mobile-centric short-form content. I'm guessing you understand neither the technology you're talking about nor how people use Tiktok.

Cool.

>>31651
>coming up with some kind of parasitic network signaling mechanism clients can exploit to discover each other by (mis)using various public-facing internet services
That avenue of research seems intriguing. I've thought about implementing a messageboard in js on top of a static-page before, which is theoretically possibly with WebRTC, but doesn't allow natively for any discovery mechanism to my knowledge. Connecting people without centralized rendezvous-points and beyond exchanging addresses with your friends, phonebook-style, appears to be a hard problem in the current network.

>>31652
>Can you link/post the paper? Please, I have thought about this sometimes too

I can't find the specific whitepaper I remember reading before, it might be locked behind paywalls now, but the concept is known as a "DNS dead drop" or a "dead drop resolver" and it's often used for covert C&C in botnet and malware networks. DNS is like the ancient legacy backbone that the Internet is forever stuck with and it's a UDP-based protocol with no state or error checking of any kind and there's a lot of nefarious stuff you can do with it. Here is a PDF I found which goes over the general vulnerabilities of DNS as a protocol and some of the ways it can be misused for this sort of thing:

https://blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-05/BH_EU_05-Kaminsky.pdf

>>31668
>I might be dumb but I never understand what's the point of messaging apps. How is that better than social media with DMs?

The client-server model works for sending text messages and sharing pictures and videos and stuff like that, but it doesn't work for live video/audio streaming. It is not possible for Discord's servers to handle millions of simultaneous live video/audio streams between all of the Discord users of the world; for video/audio calling, Discord merely functions as a signaling server and it uses WebRTC to create a direct peer-to-peer connections between users for the actual video/audio stream.

>And if you want P2P messaging, why not just self host ?

How does anyone find you? How do they connect to you? Are you behind a NAT? Can you forward ports on your router? Do you have a static IP address or a domain name? Is your device a computer on a network that you control or is it a locked-down smartphone that doesn't let you host anything?
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See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_generation_algorithm

Keep in mind, security experts struggled to combat this sort of thing long before the days of LLMs; imagine what could be done nowadays, where you could algorithmically generate domains that are completely impossible to distinguish from legitimate domains.

>>31671
>I've thought about implementing a messageboard in js on top of a static-page before, which is theoretically possibly with WebRTC, but doesn't allow natively for any discovery mechanism to my knowledge. Connecting people without centralized rendezvous-points and beyond exchanging addresses with your friends, phonebook-style, appears to be a hard problem in the current network.

You can use a pre decided fake infohash as a shared password and exploit the bittorrent DHT like this board does. uvl4xhrtupoygytfikwttev5pl2n2lyfajbedy5b7lbwtupndd4lh6yd.onion/board/mu
The program will look like normal bittorrent peer finding activity.

>>31673
>Domain_generation_algorithm

You can easily do this too, for example sha256(infohash+month+year).

>>31674
>sha256(infohash+month+year).
Careful, SHA2 is vulnerable to length extension attacks. It's better to use SHA3 or Blake3 for this purpose.