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So, I'm a musician, who wants to have a musical career (a lot of communist musicians had stable careers) and meanwhile stupid porkies tell me that "no, we'd prefer if you were replaced, prole, because there if no place for people like you" and I hear, not only music, but other art, computer science, programming etc. will be replaced by AI. How do we stop this, so people are still prosperous in the real socialst societies?
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>>30536
Do you have the actual rankings? Where is this from?

>>30536
>editing text
Does it say if that's API or in the client? On libpol there's a macro to edit a previous post with AI. That's native run I think but maybe APIs are used for that.

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>>30537
>>30538
it's from harvard business review, unfortunately it's paywalled and i'm too lazy to check if it's available on archive.is

>>30538
it doesn't say if it's from an API or client or whatever, judging by the stratospheric jump of codegen (likely due to the proliferation of AI autocomplete editors) i'd say it's from every source

>>30540
I don't like the categories but it's pretty sad nevertheless.



 

Saw Mental Outlaw's videos on the tor network. 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.

>The search results on Torch are not censored because we believe trying to censor the dark web is counter productive and a waste of resources. Our philosophy is people have the right to do anything they want and live with the consequences, Torch should not decide what people do with their lives even if it’s morally wrong. We’re a search engine not your conscience.


>If you would like to advertise your hidden service please check our our advertising rates.


Yeah right, it's because of TRVE freedumbs n sheeit, it totally doesn't have anything to do with advertising scam websites to horny pedos and making money off of it.

Funny tangent aside, if there are any useful resources related to cybersec/privacy/tech on tor, please let me know. I'd like to get something useful out of it.
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mental outlaw is an unhinged /g/tard rightoid and a sensationalist. don't take anything he says seriously.

>>25424
>a black who goes against his race

So a race traitor? You sound like a /pol/tard.

>>25424
What does he mean by wokeness destroying the surface web? The only thing wokeness is destroying is mainstream journalists' reputation. But you can just… not read them? I dunno.
>>25434
>So a race traitor?
Lol, it did sound like this but I think they were talking about internalized racism. I wonder: can white guilt be considered white people's version of internalized racism? Lmao.

>>25427
>/g/tard
That sounds more accurate, definitely some InstallGentoo Wiki vibes.

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>>25409
pasty KKKracKKKer hands wrote this post
Does this look like a chinlet to you?



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Hello /tech/, how do you search for your images?

I’m looking for some image search services, I specifically want them for anime related stuff, but general use is good too. Both regular image search engines, and reverse image search tools to find sources or similar images, give me your suggestions and tell us what you use. Thansk Anons.

I use these for anime:
https://safebooru.org/ (SFW)
https://gelbooru.com/ (NSFW)

Danbooru has more images but only accepts two tags at most.

For non-anime, I just DuckDuckGo.

Reverse, anime:
https://saucenao.com/
https://iqdb.org/

For non-anime, tineye.com then google/yandex.

>>30406
Is there any alternative front-end to google/yandex images?

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Interesting feature just added to duckduckgo, filter out AI images.

>>30407
4get is a metasearch engine where you can choose what crawlers to search with and what (websites, images, news and music (only soundcloud currently). most of the instances have the basic google, yandex and "privacy respecting" bing frontend crawlers for images. up to date instances also have flickr and pinterest which i find very useful, some independent crawlers and stuff like knowyourmeme for memes and whatnot. you can also choose what country you're searching from, which solves the problem of garbage results when searching for local information or in other languages than english.

>>30534
Fuck, I meant the reverse image search, not the normal one.
I already know about 4get but thanks.



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Comrades, we need a thread on privacy. Any decent activist should try ways of staying anonymous on the web and prevent being tracked by governments and corporations.General tips===* Use free software as much as you can.* Use GNU/Linux and keep it up-to-date, to be sure that you don't have unpatched security exploits* Don't use Flash Player, use youtube-dl instead for watching streaming videos online* Do not use Google, use DuckDuckGo or StartPage instead* Use a password manager like Keepass or for GNU/Linux users keepassx. Create new passwords for every site that you visit and use a strong password as a master password. A tip for easy remembering of your master password is to use a sentence. "i fucking love cookies and tits!" with extra capital characters etc. is easier to remember than some random characters and long enough to prevent brute force attacks of any kind.* Use the Tor Browser Bundle if you really want to stay anonymous.Firefox====* Go to Preferences -> History and set History to "Never remember history". * See for additional tweaks: https://github.com/amq/firefox-debloat and https://vikingvpn.com/cybersecurity-wiki/browser-security/guide-hardening-mozilla-firefox-for-privacy-and-securityAdd-ons-----------* Use uBlock Origin for preventing tracking etc. Bonus: use hard-mode to manually whitelist external domains on sites. Don't use uBlock but be sure to use uBlock Origin https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-mode* HTTPS Everywhere* DecentralEyes: prevents CDN hosting from tracking you (Google for Jquery etc.)* Self Destructing Cookies: only allow cookies that you choose to allowOS==* Encrypt your hard drive or home partition at least* If you use GNU/Linux, you can try to restrict systemd or syslog from logging. * Use a distribution which takes security seriously. Also, be sure that you don't install a lot of things outside the repository. It will cover most of your needs.Real life tips===* Pay with cash if you canFeel free to provide tips to each other comrades!
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Friendly reminder:

There is no publicly available list of specific, independent organizations or companies that have conducted a complete, documented audit of GrapheneOS.

>>30529
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/grapheneos-das-android-fuer-sicherheits-und-datenschutzfreaks/
Is reasonably comprehensive for other ROMs, but the closest thing here for GrapheneOS is the Datensendeverhalten section.

>>30530
This is not a professional audit of Graphene OS. This is just a blogpost.

>>30531
Yes. My bad.

What I’d like to add: I believe GrapheneOS has really become a kind of cult, and its followers can’t tolerate any factual criticism at all. The Kuketz forum is one such place. You absolutely mustn’t say anything negative about GrapheneOS there or you’ll be banned immediately. That’s also why I no longer trust Mike Kuketz’s “expertise.” His ideological blind spot on this topic is very obvious.

Where does the belief come from that GrapheneOS is the gold standard for privacy-friendly smartphone OSes? Simply because the developers claim it is. But without professional, truly independent audits, GrapheneOS isn’t any more trustworthy than the Braxphone.

It was a big mistake for Edward Snowden to publicly endorse GrapheneOS. People trust him, but in this case he actually has no idea and can’t objectively say whether GrapheneOS really lives up to its promises. Did Snowden review the code? As far as I know, he did not.



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(Copypasted from a previous 4chin /g/ thread as a foundation to making these generals on leftypol)
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Finally got sick of W11 and tried linux again. First time in my life I felt comfortable enough with it to delete my windows partition. Everything just werks. Been really easy to google answers for the problems I do hit.

Bro why did nobody tell me about KDE Connect, I had to find out it existed from the comment section of fucking linus tich teps, it's fucking awesome. There's a nightly for macOS too, so everything is connected and cozy

>>30450
If/when it gives you problems (which it did for me, very quickly actually) you can try LocalSend

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Out of curiosity, what's the current meme Arch spin that people are using to avoid installing Arch?
>Manjaro
>Endeavor I think it was called
Is there another one yet? Will people ever learn how to use Calameres or just install Arch normally?

>>30527
im using endeavour. they say it is just arch with calamares installer. it uses dracut but idk what that means. it also has yay for pacman by default which i like. i just picked it cause i was gonna kde anyway and i liked the space stuff. i was using grub to dual boot until i deleted windows and reinstalled on defaults so now its systemd.

people say manjaro is bad now. i think the popular one is Cachy? the gamers like it better but the real gamer meme is Garuda. i wanted less bloat and only install gamer stuff as needed. endeavour works great zero issues for almost a year now.



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The neverending quest to rewrite vichan -

Archived threads:
https://archive.is/xiA7y
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>>30510
Downloaded, and read the source for the three main SSG programs, and skimmed io.c.
It's obviously a very interesting approach.
Just from reading what you wrote here for some reason thought had made the program to use fixed disk space.
That it's a textboard has reminded me that I've no idea how to federate files.

>>30514
Thank you. If i had to summarize this approach, it would be reducing complexity by finding the right interfaces.
>That it's a textboard has reminded me that I've no idea how to federate files.
Elaborate.

>>30515
>right interfaces
Wouldn't have guessed that this is what you would have called this.
Don't worry about the files thing was just being foolish.
Should probably spend some time learning UNIX a little better.
If for no other reason than to get better at using other programming languages' standard libraries.

>>30514
In other news seem to have gotten something like a nearly complete schema setup:

auth
├── PrivateAddress.ts
├── PrivateUser.ts
├── PublicAddress.ts
├── PublicUser.ts
└── UserRole.ts
reports
├── PostAction.ts
├── PostReport.ts
├── Report.ts
├── UserAction.ts
└── UserReport.ts
threads
├── File.ts
├── Nicknames.ts
├── PageInfo.ts
├── Post.ts
├── Reference.ts
├── Tags.ts
└── UserProfile.ts

3 directories, 17 files


The most interesting features are the ability to assign nicknames to anonymized (by default) IP addresses or users.
And the replacement of boards with moderated user created tags; along with the posting to multiple tags.
Am thinking of federating anonymous posts using throwaway https://github.com/Debdut/uuid-readable UUID usernames.
This would be as an alternative to the high dox potential of having anonymous histories based on IP.

>>30516
>to get better at using other programming languages' standard libraries.
C doesn't really have the best standard library. You usually want to avoid using anything that isn't a thin wrapper around a syscall.
>Wouldn't have guessed that this is what you would have called this.
I got this from https://skarnet.org/software/skalibs/djblegacy.html
<One of the "DJB philosophy" key points is to question the interfaces. You have a task to do; you have existing interfaces. What do you do?
<Interfaces should be questioned right down to the libc. You cannot build strong software on flakey foundations. And from a system and network programmer's point of view, one thing is clear: most standard libc interfaces suck. There is no buffered asynchronous I/O. There is no timed I/O. There is no heap management helper. Even simple system calls are not always guaranteed to succeed!
UNIX doesn't have proper records, which most developers compensate for with databases, essentially a second filesystem layer. Files and directories are really the only level where database operations are simple, reliable and fast, so if you keep your state simple enough, you can map all of it onto simple file creation and access.

The next version will allow composing posts by processing arbitrary blobs, but i'm proud of how the static site generation approach worked out for this one. The locks are the only non-essential state of the system and usually short-lived, everything else is either persistent data, static configuration or entirely ephemeral.

>>30516
Am probably going to restart.
I've realized this should be a ActivityPub server first.
And only secondly a anonymous imageboard (front-end).



 

/tech/ + /dead/ = Techlead
This dude is so based and moralfags whine about him! Just recently I became aware of him, he is my favourite tech/dead youtuber!
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>>25768
feel free to continue using bsd anon, but you can't rly believe all that crap about linux do you? i mean wut r u specifically referencing besides redhat?

>>25769
If you like retro gaming, FreeBSD can run emulators fine. I don't play newer games so I can't say but from what I've read its pretty much identical to Linux except you need to use linuxlator.

>>25755
Cyber-nihilist occult leader who's said to be behind the occultic Sufism posts on Akichan. Well known BSD master and Lainchan founder, wrote a couple Deleuze influenced theory essays back in the 2000s. Basically she's Lainchan's version of Nick Land minus the transhumanist bashing, racism, and hair loss.

>>25755
just another pseud online that gets turned into a minor e-celeb by the braindead who are desperate to idolize someone just because hes read philcucks

Nyx land is a transhumanist that wrote Gender Acceleration the black paper

>This whole thread
KYS



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>WireGuard
Written in C, so no.
>OpenVPN
Insecure (and written in C).
>Tailscore
Proprietary trash. Again, written in a lower level language.

When the fuck will somebody use Python to script a VPN protocol out of for a full tunnel client w/ access to iptables w/ default setting at "strict"? Plus run it on custom STUN servers, uses 10.8.0.53 instead of 8.8.8.8 (Google)/1.1.1.1 Cloudflare)/9.9.9.9 (Quad9) and blocks any connections to them for a fine-grained DNS control, and fully self-hosted w/ local only control. Everything else is too insecure. Oh, and also
>Tailscale leverages Google's OAuth2 for user authentication, allowing users to log in to Tailscale using their Google accounts
Lmao. The absolute state.
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>>30458
No.
1.) The CIA controls all public nodes to the network.
2.) Security issues relating to it (like "Sybil" unmasking attacks).
3.) The exit relay problem.
4.) The network is rickety now due to network-wide DDOSes thay's breaking sites and fucking the network up, and it's not as "robust" as it claims.

>>30459
>inb4 I2P
I2P is also trash. It was literally written in JAVA! Python shits on Java! It even requires you to install the latest version of it to even access the network! What a croc of shit! That's why hackers (and I'm not even talking STATE ones, either) can deanonymize users through the I2P network simply by abusing Java, since Java is proprietary garbage and anyone promoting this network is a shill. Hyphanet is the only promising one, since it requires you to run the connection off custom peer nodes to even access the network, which an actually safe VPN protocol is technically possible, but like i mentioned in the OP, it's not currently being correctly adopted. It would need at least 261 bits of encryption to keep the feds away.

Besides, having a centralized base of server nodes to backbone a network off of where a central point of failure could occur is dumb anyways. Hyphanet gives power to the user rather than the ISP, since VPNs can still keep logs.

Also, back when "Hyphanet" was still Freenet/Frost, it used Java, but newer versions are written in Rust. Really, Java is an outdated programming language.

>>30460
>outdated
The only outdated languages are those that don't run correctly on modern hardware. Java can be a perfectly sane language when used correctly, sadly it incentivizes convoluted templating structures and a laissez faire attitude towards memory. If you're worried about vendor-lockin, use gcj or kaffe instead of hotspot and its derivatives.

>being written in c is a dealbreaker
holy meme




 

Hey /tech/ I'm tryna get the cracked version of Adobe InDesign on my Macbook M1 cause im a brokie who doesn't want spend their limited resources on a sleezy company. Any tips or pointers?




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Remember when back in the day you had to have a so-called audio card that would allow your PC to fukken produce sound?

Pepperridge Farm remembers.

Most interestingly, depending on what hardware you had (ADLIB, SoundBlaster, GRAVIS, etc.) you would recieve a completely different end-user experience.

Compare these two:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dHechz7U0sE&pp=ygUWRGlzY3dvcmxkIHNvdW5kYmxhc3RlctIHCQn8AKO1ajebQw%3D%3D (from 38:10)
&
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jAHgpRitmHY&pp=ygUURGlzY3dvcmxkIG9zdCBzdHJlZXQ%3D

It is absolutely unique, to have to have 2-3 different (hardware) interpretations of composed (software) music.

I think there should be theoretical articles written about.the differing "gaming experiences" ppl had/recieved based on their fucking soundcards.

It is cery interesting (to me, at least( that 2 ppl could have played "the same game," yet their hardwares produced 2 different musics. In essence, we can't talk about a singular "gayme experience."
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>>30490
>Make DOS Games Look and Sound Better
Why? They're still shit.

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MIDI is a pretty cool tech. It was invented in the early 1980s as a standard by American and Japanese synthesizer manufacturers, ensuring that every equipment could exchange musical data easily, because back then everyone had their own special incompatible protocol. MIDI is still used today in most music software.

Then you had General MIDI which is an extension specifying some standard sounds that often sound cheap as hell, but you could make your own General MIDI bank of sounds with a Soundfont and play fart sounds instead of piano sounds or something, or have high quality sounds. It wasn't just sound cards, quite a few people had a module like the Roland SC-55 or SC-88 to play the music of DOOM for example. I think Nobuo Uematsu also used a SC-88 to compose Final Fantasy music for the SNES and Playstation games.

The problem of MIDI is that the resolution of the data is 7-bit wide, which means all the data being interpreted by a synthesizer or module is limited between 0 and 127.
This is pretty limiting, especially if you want to make microtonal music or do subtle modulation of sounds.
They are cooking a MIDI 2.0 standard with a better resolution but it will take a long while to get ratified and adopted by everyone, at least one decade or two. For now we have a extension of MIDI called MPE allowing per-note modulation and that kind of stuff but it's hacky.

midi is a pretty cool way to transmit music when your storage space is limited, think about it, those developers from back in the day were crafty. meabwhile nowadays you get shitty software that eats up 2gb of memory just so you can edit a txt file

>>30497

>This is pretty limiting, especially if you want to make microtonal music

That doesn't apply to pitch.
< MIDI pitch bend messages have a precision of 14 bits, which translates to 16,384 possible values (0-16383). The typical default range is +/- 2 semitones, but this can be adjusted. The center point of the range is usually 8192, with values below representing a bend down and values above representing a bend up.

<http://microtonal-synthesis.com/MIDItuning.html

<The MIDI Tuning Standard was ratified by the MIDI Manufacturers' Association in January 1992. Credit should be given to Robert Rich and Carter Scholz who wrote and lobbied for this addition to the MIDI specification. Manufacturers have the option of supporting the tuning standard partially or in full. It is featured on some Emu and Ensoniq instruments. Currently they implement only the non-realtime features of the standard.

>The frequency data format allows for the precise notation of frequencies that differ from equal temperament.


>"Frequency data shall be defined in [units] which are fractions of a semitone. The frequency range starts at MIDI note 0, C = 8.1758 Hz, and extends above MIDI note 127, G = 12543.854 Hz. The first byte of the frequency data word specifies the highest equal-tempered semitone not exceeding the frequency. The next two bytes (14 bits) specify the fraction of 100 cents above the semitone at which the frequency lies. Effective resolution = 100 cents / 214 = .0061 cents."[1]


>This higher resolution allows a logarithmic representation of pitch in which the semitone is divided into 1282 = 214 = 16384 parts, which means the octave is divided into 196608 (logarithmically) equal parts. These parts are exactly 100/16384 cents (approximately 0.0061 cents) in size, which is far below the threshold of human pitch perception and which therefore allows a very accurate representation of pitch.


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>>30491
>25 minutes of E1M1
🤘



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