/tech/ - Technology

>Vibe coding, sometimes spelled vibecoding, is an AI-powered programming practice where a programmer surrenders to the "vibes" and power of the AI, while ignoring the details of the generated code. After describing a problem in a few sentences, a programmer can watch as the AI codes a custom solution such as an app or website.

>In a March 2025 video "Vibe Coding is the Future", managing partner Jared Friedman said that AI has generated 95% of the codebases for a quarter of the current batch of Y Combinator startups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding

How fucked are we?

So here is a list I created of basic digital privacy tools to consider using in the current landscape.

Web Browsers:
Firefox: A trusted, open-source browser known for its commitment to privacy.
LibreWolf: A privacy-focused, Mozilla-based browser with enhanced security features.
Brave: A privacy-first browser that blocks ads and trackers by default.

Private Search Engines:
MyAllSearch: A UK-based search engine offering privacy with no cookies or tracking.
DuckDuckGo: A widely-used, US-based search engine that prioritizes anonymity.
SwissCows: A privacy-driven search engine leveraging secure Swiss infrastructure.
Qwant: A French-based metasearch engine with a focus on privacy and safe browsing.
MetaGer: A German-based, open-source metasearch engine offering privacy and a variety of helpful tools.

Password Managers:
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Microsoft is the CIA. Pretty much all US big tech is. Windows is a global CIA mass surveillance program via monopoly capitalism. It’s completely impossible to make Windows secure, there’s no secret registry switch. The entire thing is compromised top to bottom, and under no circumstances should anyone consent to its use. Closed source spyware monopolies are a weapon of war against us by the bourgeois state.

Open source operating systems are software communism. If we’re not willing to build and use existing forms of technological sovereignty and anti-capitalism, then we’re probably not willing to do any other forms of communism either. I hate the “No ethical consumption under capitalism” mantra. How do we expect to get out of capitalism without building alternatives? I think a lot of leftists hope a revolution will happen then just magically replace all the corrupt and bourgeois components of consumerism, using the same uninvolved passive mechanisms.

Do we really believe a windows update will just drop after some election that restores our rights, trust, openness, privacy and dignity? It must be built and owned by the people.

I already accidentally locked myself out from any adult content on my computer by changing the router settings and losing access but I need help with my phone.
There is no website block option on Android. I've considered paying someone to root my phone (I'm assuming it provides deeper access to settings) and doing something to hard block any access.
help.

Hi friends,

I joined this community because leftism seems to be categorically anti-harm. In other words, it was the most wholesome board I could find.

Are you aware of any image board sites that do not host pornography, nazi-stuff, and other pernicious, obnoxious, sinister things? Examples include philosophy, book reviews, hobbies, and so on. I am most interested in philosophy.

May you be well and happy, fellow internet user.

GrapheneOS cannot be fully trusted because it runs on Google's proprietary hardware stack, which remains a critical vulnerability. While GrapheneOS markets itself as a privacy-focused alternative, its security is undermined by the fact that it operates on devices like Google's Pixel smartphones—hardware designed and controlled entirely by Google. Unlike other OEMs, Google does not merely integrate off-the-shelf components; it designs its own processors (e.g., Tensor chips) and develops the closed-source firmware and software that power them. Other manufacturers receive binary blobs from chipmakers, which they cannot modify, but Google retains unilateral authority to embed hidden functionalities or surveillance mechanisms directly into the hardware-software ecosystem.

This means Google could inject malicious code into the processor’s firmware—code that operates independently of Android (and thus independently of GrapheneOS itself). Such malware would run at the hardware level, bypassing the operating system entirely and evading detection. If Google exploits this capability in its proprietary GApps, the same logic applies to the foundational software controlling its processors. Since GrapheneOS cannot audit or modify these closed-source components, users are left exposed to potential backdoors.

If you trust GrapheneOS on Pixel devices, you must also trust Google’s closed-source hardware stack—the very same infrastructure that could enable pervasive surveillance. In that case, there is no meaningful distinction between GrapheneOS and stock Android; both rely on Google’s opaque technology. Conversely, if you reject GApps and Google’s data harvesting, you cannot reconcile that distrust with reliance on Google’s hardware. To truly deGoogle, you must abandon devices where the manufacturer controls the silicon itself.

Is there any reason to stick with jpg/png formats over things like webp/avif. Atleast for webp software support that once was not there now is. I'm not just talking about web, but in general bulk storage also.

Suckless seems like a great way to transition from rice to programming.
A good set of training-wheels for the bicycle of the mind.
However there's something extremely pathological about not wanting well designed and implemented features.
It's like cachexia from voluntarily avoiding healthy fats.

This isn't to advocate feature creep, which is ugly and doesn't add to the design of the system.
In rejecting big systemic components which integrate they may even make things more complex.
This is something like having a small standard library, avoiding RPC, or even loose coupling of components.
Implementing these can reduce duplication, and reduce complexity, while allowing more to be achieved.

Everywhere the minimalist takes something rich and make it small.

Let me tell you a little secret about flip phones: They run the same hardware as smartphones, just in a different form factor. They're even more proprietary black boxes than the average smartphone and its hard to get even basic specifications. I know because I have one. I'm trying to replace the old version of KaiOS it runs with PostmarketOS; unfortunately, the bootloader is locked. At least with a cheap Android phone you can replace Android with something else.

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?