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>but muh marx

Apple just launched a new revolutionary product that completely changes how you can use your phone. Will bernd get the $149.95 version, or the $229.95 pro version that comes with a long strap? It's even compatible with icky green bubble androids.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/introducing-iphone-pocket-a-beautiful-way-to-wear-and-carry-iphone/
>ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket. Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,” its singular 3D-knitted construction is designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.
>Born from the idea of creating an additional pocket, its understated design fully encloses iPhone, expanding to fit more of a user’s everyday items. When stretched, the open textile subtly reveals its contents and allows users to peek at their iPhone display. iPhone Pocket can be worn in a variety of ways — handheld, tied onto bags, or worn directly on the body.
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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.

>>31676
>Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,”

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



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First they made AOSP private, now they won't even let you install your own apps. Is this the end of Android?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/
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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.

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>>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.



 

Loops is federated now
https://blog.joinloops.org/loops-joins-the-fediverse/

The app is still a bit rough around the edges but I think it'll improve as more people get involved. Anyone else wanna check it out? Maybe leftypol could host an instance.

context: Loops is like if TikTok was a mastodon. It took a while to actually be federated but they did it and there's a few instances so far.
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>>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.



 

<Exposure to AI output immediately damages your brain's cognitive abilities
>9/10th's or more of 4chan, reddit and twitter activity is GPT-J bots
>Most video platforms curate suggestions using AI
>Search engines place AI output at top of results
>several platforms implement AI summaries
>Language translation programs being replaced with AI
>Browsers and closed source operating systems integrating AI features into UX
>Schools using AI to mark unusual vocabulary as suspect of being AI generated, advantaging students with average or below literacy.

I know the AI bubble is crashing so this won't continue to be a problem in 5 years, but it is worrying that we don't know how long this brain damage lasts.
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>>27262
>Schools using AI to mark unusual vocabulary as suspect of being AI generated, advantaging students with average or below literacy.
you know, i developed a strong sense of outrage at injustice from a young age because i was often randomly accused of things i did not do, both in and out of school, and the idea of having one of my papers marked as plagiarism just because i used a fancy word makes me angry just thinking about it.

>>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.



 

They're always some fucking reactionary manbabies with 0 knowledge on anything that isn't *clickclickclickclickclik*

And whenever their work sucks and fails they'll try to explain how it isn't their fault really, without ever fixing the issue. I hate windows but their fucking """"powerusers"""" are worth less the dogpoop

Cool.



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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

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>>31658
What relevance does that keyphrase have here?

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>>31658
i looked into it, is it really relevant? i feel AI is different to any other investment in constant capital because what it does is so nebulous to begin with, illuminate us wise man

btw looking good for OAI

Every fucking creative writing store online is just chatGPT now. I mean it's literally all AI. No idea how anyone can bear to read this, it's so tedious.

>>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.



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What do you guys, gals and enbies think about Briar?
It's a p2p communication program but for once has a different approach.

From wiki:
>…communications with no centralized servers and minimal reliance on external infrastructure. Messages can be transmitted through Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, over the internet via Tor or removable storage, such as USB sticks.

Anyway, seems like a neat idea but maybe I'm missing something
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>>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.



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This might not sound that impressive, but i've just managed to get program-agnostic rio-style window creation working flawlessly in FVWM. Previously it was a flickery, unreliable mess of xdotool commands, but now it's spawning every window iconified, hooking into the window creation event to set geometry from my rectangle selection program and deiconifying it to its correct position.

If you could keep track of all terminals and from which one a particular program is spawned, you might be able to reach true rio emulation closer than even the plan9port version.

Desktop and window management general, i guess.
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>>30174
In rio only the plan9 terminal (which gets its geometry passed in plan9port) can be created this way. As you can see from the xterms, which don't accept pixel coordinates, my scheme works for every program. Also notice the sloppy focus in the video, what you don't see are the 3x3x5 virtual desktops, so there's that. My next step is programming keybindings that align with my emacs muscle memory to work, but the scripting language is finicky and a module would clearly be overkill.

>>30176
Update: I got multi-key commands working in fvwm, with
FvwmMap RootMap $[FVWM_USERDIR]/root.map
Key Space A 4 RootMap

Now i can restart fvwm with a simple s-Space C-x C-r. It calls the following awk script:
#!/usr/bin/awk -f
BEGIN {
	FS = " "
	senter = ""
	sexit = ""
	name = ARGV[1]
	ARGV[1] = ""
	lines = 0
}
/^#/ {
	next
}
{
	senter = senter "+ I Key " $1 " A " $2 " WithExit" name
	for (i=3; i<=NF; i++)
		senter = senter " " $i
	senter = senter "\n"
	sexit = sexit "+ I Key " $1 " A " $2 " -\n"
}
END {
	print "DestroyFunc Exit" name
	print "AddToFunc Exit" name
	print sexit

	print "DestroyFunc " name
	print "AddToFunc " name
	print senter

	print "DestroyFunc WithExit" name
	print "AddToFunc WithExit" name
	print "+ I Exit" name
	print "+ I $*"
}

The top-level command map looks currently like this:
K N Close
P N Stick
T N Exec xterm
X N Exec dmenu | rc
Tab N Next (!Focused, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
Return N term
B C Direction W (CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
F C Direction E (CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
G C EscapeFunc
N C Direction N (CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
P C Direction S (CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
X C ExtendedMap
B M Direction W (!CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
F M Direction E (!CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
G M GotoMap
N M Direction N (!CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow
P M Direction S (!CurrentScreen, CurrentGlobalPage) FocusWindow

>>31661
>X N Exec dmenu | rc
To avoid confusion, this is my private dmenu fork, which doesn't do menus or suggestions. I reduced it to a simple prompt.

>>31661
after reading OP again, I didn't notice back then, but I don't think you should be using fvwm or xdotool at all. a barebones x11 wm is like 300 lines of c, and you could implement one with these features in, I would say, 500 lines if you don't care about compatibility and only need it to work on your machine. the wm I used for a long time was 500 lines of zig

because to me it looks more like you are wrestling with fvwm than with the complexity of the task itself. the way to do this with barebones x would be to create windows out of the screen and only move them in when the user does the rectangle gesture

>>31664
No, you see i use a lot of FVWM featureset, like sloppy focus, cascading window placement, the anti-aliased menus and the virtual desktop stuff, which were implemented over a span of decades by a lot of smart people. Besides OP marked the point i managed to recreate the "rectangle gesture" in terms of FVWM primitives, so there are no more xdotool kludges. Maybe sometime i will publish the config and all of the helper programs as their own fvwm-based desktop. For now i will look into adding window groups 0-9 in a way the Next command understands.



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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.
1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.
2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS.
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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>>31595
>The idea is to use a patched build of chromium for the mpp. [^1]
>This should alleviate the CPU pressure from recording the small built in.
There's apparently not really negotiation on the encoding.
It's entirely possible that wyzant doesn't support the hardware encoding.

>>31596
>The idea is to use a patched build of chromium for the mpp. [^1]
Hardware accelerated encode is a (non-ARM) ChromeOS, Windows, or Mac OS exclusive.
Was looking into "brunch" as a way around this, maybe with crostini.
And meanwhile learned that ChromeOS is being replaced by Android…

The cleanest solution found was to use the ChromeOS kernel in Gentoo.
Use this Gentoo box to host LXC containers running the ChromeOS ROOT-A.

After all this it's possible that hardware acceleration still wouldn't work with the tutoring platform.
This is because of "negotiations" on the WebRTC encoding.
But probably it would work…

>>31498
>So, i tried installing CachyOS today. Live CD looked like a standard "Arch for lazy and/or stupid people" kind of thing
I recommend EndeavourOS for that use-case. But I suggest that you just install Xubuntu or Linux Mint and use distrobox to get programs from the AUR (and other distros). Arch Linux requires that you read the wiki a lot and that you know the basics of terminal and bash. This is why I can't recommend Arch for newbies or lazy people.

>>31498
I installed cachyOS on a chinese handheld gaming computer (gpd win 4) and it's pretty good. the latest version of bazzite didnt even want to boot anymore. i didnt check if it had man or not, i just open the terminal to update once every week or so, cachyOS has been fairly unobtrusive despite it being a rolling release distro, which is good enough for something that is going to be showing steam in handheld mode like literally 99% of running time.

Is there any cheap, quiet notebook/Chromebook that tuns Linux? I just want something that has a browser and terminal/Emacs. It being quiet is one of the most important factors as it would be to use while the wife is sleeping next to me.



 

Thread for questions that don't deserve their own thread.
I wanna buy some headphones to go outside i don't want to spend more than 100€ on them. I want them to be mostly durable and secondly to have good sound quality, also i don't want to look like a jackass while wearing them, any suggestions?
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>>29869
I would choose Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Need a new phone, I hate all the os that come preinstalled and just want lineage. Is the oneplus 9 pro still a good option for a few years or do i go with oneplus 11? 11 seems more expensive for less gain.

I'm looking for an old imageboard script that has two colors to the left of every reply, one for the post and one for reference. Is anyone aware of what this is? Just remember an esoteric screenshot from ages ago.

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Why do several GiB downloads go faster over tor than just VPN? Is my VPN just that garbage?

>>31648
cute mouse



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