/tech/ - Technology

Crazy, finally a comfy app for leftypol.

Finally. I can rest and be more active.

>>22074
Actually on topic: https://git.leftypol.org/leftypol/leftypol/issues/138
Contributions are welcome, even just a list of stuff that would need to be addressed.
Lately I've had so little free time…

Looks like we may get support from Chance soon, now that clover and kurobaex are dead

>>28093
Based
My kuroba ex fork is starting to shit itself now

It is easy when you got some more experience using Linux like LMDE or else.

As for installing Deus Ex via a GOG installer? Literally use the latest version of Wine Staging, and make sure you have winetricks to also install the necessary components, dlls and language fonts or whatever it is called.

You can first use wine staging to run the installer and install the game, where then you use steam proton's 9.0* stable and run the actual game itself.

>>27978
or if youwho? don't want wine to bloat the system I recommend using a vm

With windows 10/11/7 enterprise(best version) or any other gnu/linux distro with wine, just to avoid bloat

>>26745
>all the software is like kicking dead whales down the beach.
That proves that you have copy+paste'd the whole post from L*inchan…

Troubleshooting these things is more fun than most of the games.

>>25022
Anon, we are talking about normies here. Social media will not die. 95% vill give their ID. They vill use Recall on Windows. And they vill be happy.

bumping this thread

>>25022
The amount of effort it takes to protect my privacy in the age of techno feudalism is astronomically high. Any attempt at making myself more private or cleaning it all up seems an insurmountable task, on top of the new habits that need to be formed for it to be effective. And if I can't avoid the brain hacking addiction of the internet and social media slop, how is the common man supposed to?

https://web.archive.org/web/20110416005844/https://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/personalsoftware0302.pdf
Persona Management Software.
Solicitation Number: RTB220610
Agency: Department of the Air Force
Office: Air Mobility Command
Location: 6th Contracting Squadron
Sources Sought
Jun 22, 2010
1:42 pm
0001- Online Persona Management Service. 50 User Licenses, 10 Personas per user.
Software will allow 10 personas per user, replete with background , history, supporting details, and cyber presences that are technically, culturally and geographacilly consistent. Individual applications will enable an operator to exercise a number of different online persons from the same workstation and without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries. Personas must be able to appear to originate in nearly any part of the world and can interact through conventional online services and social media platforms. The service includes a user friendly application environment to maximize the user's situational awareness by displaying real-time local information.
0002- Secure Virtual Private Network (VPN). 1 each
VPN provides the ability for users to daily and automatically obtain randomly selected IP addresses through which they can access the internet. The daily rotation of the user s IP address prevents compromise during observation of likely or targeted web sites or services, while hiding the existence of the operation. In addition, may provide traffic mixing, blending the user s traffic with traffic from multitudes of users from outside the organization. This traffic blending provides excellent cover and powerful deniability. Anonymizer Enterprise Chameleon or equal
0003- Static IP Address Management. 50 each
Licence protects the identity of government agencies and enterprise organizations. Enables organizations to manage their persistent online personas by assigning static IP addresses to each persona. Individuals can perform static impersonations, which allow them to look like the same person over time. Also allows organizations that frequent same site/service often to easily switch IP addresses to look like ordinary users as opposed to one organization. Anonymizer IP Mapper License or equal
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you want to use linkedin… anonymously?

Legacy platforms would just just get outcompeted by sites that let artists remain pseudonomous. If ID does start to be more common with legacy platforms it'll push people towards federation and non-social media web stuff like personal websites.
>roblox
Various sandboxes–some open source, some proprietary–are gaining traction as roblox keeps banning curvy female avatars which pisses off the fashion scene that drives most of their buisness model and word of mouth marketing, as well as that horrendous attempt at dynamic talking faces they did to try to be more like VRChat. Those and flirting with NFT usage a while back is a death knell, since they'll keep finding snakeoil to latch onto.
>Zuckernet
The Zuckernet is very insular. It will always be second, third, maybe fourth fiddle to the internet proper. The TikTok ban made a bunch of instagram users realize you can't only use instagram, let alone use it as a main.

Only other site I've seen do this is bilibili.

My state is making it necessary for porn sites to verify IDs to use the site.
Literally South Korea

I know from a friend's friend that you can use an image generator language model and photoshop to make fake photos of IDs to get around this, you just have to let your email account associated with the service's account "cook" first (e.g. let big data fingerprint it by watching youtube and creating general activity on it) so their algorithm does not recognize it as fraud

>>27773
>now their is just that the Expose events don't seem to be firing
This is also solved, just needed to set the ExposureMask.

>>27767
>On the other hand, the approach was likely chosen so applications could run on a wide variety of displays without multithreading as an explicit requirement.
except you don't need to do that to support many displays, and it has nothing to do with threads

>Would you conceptually be happy with something like gtk, if it had a non-blocking Gtk_Main?
no, and gtk has bigger problems. maybe a non-appropriative qt, but rewriting these libraries in a different style would miss the opportunities for improvement. a better approximation using existing libraries would be something like nuklear but with a more declarative api and better features (through some "retained" state exposed to the user) like the "selectable region" from flutter, which is easy to implement when the ui is structured as a dom-like tree, but is hard in the immediate mode where there is basically no structure

Another idea:
I assume everyone here knows about event loops by now, right? the idea is that you use a kernel feature like epoll or iocp so that your thread can wait on different blocking operations simultaneously. blocking primitives are usually simple, so you can describe them with a simple data structure, and then use a queue with that structure.

so they usually work like this; instead of calling blocking operations directly, you just add a "task request" to the loop queue, for example {OP_READ, my_file, &buffer, callback, &user_data}. then you run the loop, which will take tasks from the queue and block on the entire set using the backend (epoll, iocp, etc.) api. once one of the tasks becomes ready, the pool performs the task (reading from the file into the buffer, in our example) and calls the provided callback with the results of the task if appropriate (the buffer) and the provided pointer to user data, a common patter in c

because of this, code written to work with event loops like libuv, have to be structured as chains of callbacks. the entire state for each chain of callbacks (for example, to handle a client connection to a server) is passed using that user_data pointer. it is efficient but hard to read, hard to debug, and error prone. maybe if processes, threads and context switches weren't so expensive, all of this could be avoided in favor of either child processes or threads, which have a cleaner interface. but that's simply not the case

so I have been thinking, interpreted languages usually keep their entire state in a single vm or context object, so what if instead of callbacks in the compiled language, you exposed to an embedded interpreted language an api which would, under the hood, add a task where the ud points to that context. the callback would simply push the task result as the return from that api, and resume the execution of the interpreted script from there. this way the user could write async programs without the callback hell

>>28056
>maybe if processes, threads and context switches weren't so expensive, all of this could be avoided in favor of either child processes or threads
http://kegel.com/c10k.html#threaded and the linked paper make a similar argument. then again even though threads and processes can be expensive, the overhead only matters with large-scale workloads. after all forking on each client connection is still the standard c/unix model.
>so what if instead of callbacks in the compiled language, you exposed to an embedded interpreted language an api
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/green_thread?useskin=vector

>>28057
yeah, it would be like a process-level non-preemptive scheduler like green threads. another thing is that you could use this same gimmick with an actual thread-pool. as in, you could have a thread per cpu core, and run an event loop on each thread. because the state of the interpreted language can be passed around, the user program could be moved between different threads

what I mean is that the provided api would add the task to a common queue, and then some worker thread would consume from the common queue and add the request to it's event loop. backends like epoll usually support a timeout parameter, which could be used for a load balancing algorithm. an event loop with many tasks spends less time blocking; we can use a timer event to check if the el is spending too much time blocking and try to consume new requests from the common queue

all of this would be transparent to the user of the interpreted language, but it would maximize throughput even under very heavy loads

macos is comfy, the real problem for me with buying a mac is that the hardware is worthless trash and breaks constantly and then apple screws you even if you have applecare. this has happened twice, with different macs. both times it was a well-known issue that was affecting many, many people who bought the same model as me, both times the apple store told me it would cost over a thousand dollars to fix, and both times i bought a new laptop for the same price instead. the second time i didnt buy a mac. lesson learned. its fine. while macos is comfy, linux is better anyway. you have to use wine for *slightly* more software but it's not that big of a deal because you have to use wine for half of your software on macos anyway. none of your issues have been an issue for me or anyone else since like 2012. if you were trying to install linux on a mac then yeah, they've done their best to ensure there are going to be driver issues. not surprising. locking you into their shit has been their entire move on all of their products for decades. if you have a mac and it hasnt broken yet then you might as well just use macos.

>>27331
anyone have any gentoo waifus??

>>28034
I've been using nix-darwin and home-manager on my Mac. Quite nice.

I know next to nothing about computers or terminals or commands, and still am very happy with switching to Linux Mint. Its like Windows, minus all the annoying parts.

>Putin: "That's unacceptable… I want to do that too. Care to share, NATO bro?"
<NATO: "I keep my biolabs, you take Ukraine."
>Putin: "Deal."
And thus the world piece was achieved and communism has come. All the reactionaries were snapped from existence by Thanos. The end.

Don't have too many thoughts on this. If you have high quality speech to text you can use more traditional search algorithms. Would be curious what it would be like if search wasn't weighted by reference, view, or more complicated algorithms. A peer-to-peer implementation would be the means to distribute costs without marketing. Think it would be useful if there were no suggested videos either on the main page or after clicking on a video. Disabled these using a userscript for some time and it seemed to greatly improve my efficiency with the platform.

Most of the significant improvements you could make to youtube would just be restoring features that have been removed over time to "streamline" it, like support for response videos, community captions, and so on. You could say this is due to capitalism (optimizing the platform for attention retention and data collection), but the platform used to have these things and it was still capitalism.

>>27920
Another feasible thought would be to turn over content filtering, and search algorithms over to the user so they can disable content they don't want to see. On this website use the hide button for images and the [-] button for threads very frequently, and even these small additions make this website far more useable for me than it would otherwise be. Beleive BlueSky is expereimenting with this sort of functionality, and probably others.

Pretty much peertube, but if loops.video was part of it.

Free as in freedom© GNU/Linux™

>crypto
why are you paying for protonmail? storage? if so just export the emails and back them up locally/to some other cloud service (encrypted, obviously)

Email is unencrypted, don't do anything confidential over email.

>>27900
you can do anything confidential anywhere as long as you use encryption, such as:
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so like for example, if you live in a shithole that uses whatsapp or use anything proprietary/glowing/unencrypted/etc, you could just use the command

 gpg -e --armor -r <user id name> text.txt

like in >>27932, instead of sending messages in plain text hoping that whatever you're using doesn't glow or has vulnerabilities

or if you'd prefer GUI, use kleopatra(GnuPG graphical interface) I guess.

Bow before the all-might of .htm
Would kill to get more like this man like fuggg they even have a document version linked
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cesan.nr0.htm

>>21800
>I know. But I am a bad listener, in toxic male fashion I always offer a solution rather than empathise and nod. r/twoxchromosomes might be a better fit?


I would backhand you for talking like that.
"Toxic male fashion" ?
Yet if men didn't offer solutions for any complaint, they'd be accused of being zero empathy.

>enshittification
Go back to r*ddit

>>27793
>noooooo you can't say enshittification, it's hecking problematic
lib

>>21800
>in toxic male fashion
The fuck is this cringe? It's like you're a snarky libtard but anti-SJW. The libtards' self-righteous snarkiness is a part of why they are annoying, no self-awareness whatsoever.