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How do you even protect yourself against your own ISP trying to fuck you over like this?
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/south-korean-telco-deliberately-infected-thousands-of-users-with-malware
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Every block downloaded on a torrent is verified against a checksum, the only way to get malware from a torrent is to download a malicious torrent file or magnet if everything worked as it should. What was the case here? did they spread a malware that affected torrent users, tricked their users into downloading malicious torrent files or did they exploit a vulnerability on a torrent client?

> How do you even protect yourself against your own ISP trying to fuck you over like this?
Lots of ISPs are untrustworthy. Use a VPN. Or Tor. Or git gud. In today's day and age, you should be treating your local network as a hostile environment, nevermind your Internet connection.

>>25820
It's an exploit targeting a garbage proprietary Korean client. Imagine Western Digital MyCloud meets Dropbox with bittorrent integration for p2p distribution. It may not be as dumb as it sounds. It's popular enough that this ISP decided to break the law to stop it on their network.

install gentoo

This seems like a uniquely South Korean issue. South Korean law allows it to happen. In the States, I imagine this is yet to emerge as an issue. DMCA claims go largely unanswered.

>>25840
>law
USA law is retroactive though. Unless the exact same situation has happened before somewhere else, it goes to court years after the alleged crime and it gets appealed over the course of a year or two too before it's decided whether precedent applies to this case.



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Is the FSF going to die with him? That's sad to think about.
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>>25482
idk i don't live in america lol. Gonna search for it.

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I made these meme for Richard

>>24787
Hurd is a microkernel, which makes the OS more secure and composable. Think of it as being vaguely similar to Plan 9.


good



 

Has anyone taken the time to examine "left wing market anarchism"? and how open source software relates to it. The way I see things open source software can help entrepreneurs and small business owners make money without having to pay royalties or subscription fees to companies like Adobe and give up their right to own software. After all "capitalism" requires patents and IP law and heavy Government involvement where as FOSS is decentralized and allows anyone to profit off it without all the legal government middle man stuff.

Am I a deviant for thinking this way because since late 2018 I always got the impression that FOSS was synonymous with free market socialism - ect anti capitalist but pro personal property rights and entrepreneurialism. Some people say FOSS is communist and I have disagreed with that; as if it were communist there would be a strong centralized government body controlling things and forcing people to work on FOSS projects.
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>>25607
I lol'd.

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OP here, I don't know if my political views are left wing or right wing I Just want to know how to prevent this kind of world

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>>25607
OP here, yes any physical object can be given that attribute but FOSS is something special because it forces "capitalism" to stay decentralized. When capitalist is decentralized people get the best out of it without any of the yucky stuff.

When capitalism is decentralized and free from state protectionism I no longer consider it capitalism and prefer the term "markets". markets can be practed with both a boss or worker co-ops. its a free will choice of whoever voluntarily participates.


Communism is problematic because without money, banks or credit I don't know how a society would function, it makes my head hurt just thinking about it. But if you can figure out a way you should be free to voluntarily practice communism

>>25505
>That's how I know you're an orange ancap, read theory plz. Communism is just marketless mutualism, there's no money involved in smaller projects except from outside donations, people make software for themselves, not for anyone else, they just put out their own work in hopes somebody else finds it useful or can help them develop it, not to sell it.


yes, I am an "orange an cap" because I see evidence that whenever communism is practiced it turns into a centralized state. Right Libertarians like Mike Rectenwald, Lew Rockwell and Ron Paul are right in my opinion about communism always turning into a centralized blood bath terror but wrong about capitalism being its solution.

Individual liberty, markets and property rights exist better in a anti capitalist frame work.

The FOSS movement is majorly libertarian, no big surprise there.



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Hi I'm looking to make my own website to host articles and stories I've written. I wanted to do Wordpress but like I found out its going to put ads on my screen. I've got no money and no time to learn programming skills. Is there an open source version of Wordpress where it doesn't monetize everything and where I can change my font?
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Also if you just want a simple webpage you don't even need to code it. You can literally just ask chatgpt to write the full html to your specifications

>>22778
>>22779
Also, static sytes generators like HUGO are a thing

>>22781
If a site like neocities is taking care of the hosting, and your password is half-decent, and you aren't accepting user input on your site, then it's extremely unlikely your site will get hacked.

See also: >>25675
If you find that fine to use, great. The plus side is that they can automatically manage blog things like pagination (the page numbers at the bottom) and post tags.

>>22778
whtevr method u decide on usin, share the url under this thread. if ur worried about le hackers, i'd be happy to pentest it free of charge.

I was also thinking about running my own blog. But then I realized, that I can just use leftypol to dump my schizo ramblings. This is much easier!



 

/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
How's NetflixBSD working out for you?

>>25773
The FSF approved terminology is "pushover license".

>>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



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Microsoft is finally dropping support for Windows after the Recall/Copilot exodus, guess they're focusing on Xbox or something instead.
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>>25762
You take for granted that your home was built to an acceptable standard, that the food you eat is not poisonous, that your electrical hardware will not catch fire due to poor assembly. You are not expected, nor should you be, to be a fully qualified mechanic in order to drive a car, nor a fully qualified builder to use a hammer. In most civilized countries, you do not have to file a US-style complex tax return, it is all handled automatically and painlessly. Expecting people to be domain-matter experts regarding every tool they use is an inane and deeply unserious idea pushed only by two types of people: those who are so naive they don't understand a world exists outside their blinders, and those who are disingenuous and simply want to feel superior to others.

Linux didn't won. It is actually dying and it is being killed by corpos. What will computing look like in the next 5-10 years? Linux is a psyop and it becomes more obvious with every passing year. The future of computing is fucked and there is no hope.

>>25763
>Expecting people to be domain-matter experts

This wasn't my point. My point is, that technology has become so complex, that even the so called experts don't even know, how it works. And this is very apparent in computertechnology and medicine. Nobody knows how AI or psychmeds actually work.Yet, we are supposed to listen to the "experts".

>>25765
In part that's fair. The web, for example, is a horrible standards clusterfuck. Building a functional browser engine from scratch would be a challenge even for a Microsoft tier company.

>>25761
then it's unfortunate if they dont have the ability to understand how the tool works even in the most basic ways



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https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/mozilla-is-an-advertising-company-now/
How do we feel about this? I'm not surprised but still pretty bummed out.
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>>25680
the US isn't going to do shit to regulate it

I will switch to a chromium based browser if there's a manifest V3 adblocker that works as well as uBlock Origin.

>>25689
I use it at work and there's no shame in that. It's no worse than using vanilla Chrome.

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>>25689
>using a proprietary browser

>>25682
>>25722
historical necessity doesn't imply that it's probable that it'll happen, but the current state of things was never going to last.

>>25723
>I use it at work and there's no shame in that. It's no worse than using vanilla Chrome.
both are worse



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I can’t tell if this is real or schizophrenia. Usually Ap/pol/ poisons poor people in third world countries that nobody gives a fuck about.

>>25709
>Joe Biden passes Chips Act
>now all the companies are moving all their toxic manufacturing sites into America
thanks obama

>>25710
Contrary to the popular conception, electronic fabs are a dirty industry. When they were build in the US in the 70's and 80s they were in massive industrial parks surrounded by tree lines as they pollute the air and water. Ex MOS tech employees from Pennsylvania have commented at how disgusting the ground water around the fab was.
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>>25710
She is a real person making real claims. She is not credible. She seems fucking nuts.

>>25710
>Apple
>Fab
fake.



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New video AI just dropped for meme production.

Site: https://lumalabs.ai/dream-machine

Resources for Dream Machine:
Ideas for prompting: https://ideogram.ai/login
API: https://github.com/yihong0618/LumaDreamCreator
FAQ: https://lumaai.notion.site/FAQ-and-Prompt-Guide-Luma-Dream-Machine-f7bd5f77478c4994aa692aa58b063ef3
Converting to webm: https://handbrake.fr/ or https://cloudconvert.com/mp4-to-webm

Information on Dream Machine:
>Dream Machine was released to paid users on June 12, 2024 and to the free users on June 16.
>Dream Machine runs on OpenAI image generating multimodal transforming software. Each generated seed is unique.
>Free users get 10 generations per day and have to wait for longer periods at the queue. The technique is to use multiple sockpuppet google accounts.

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Posting my collection, didn't make these myself

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>>25702
>>25705
The impossible geometry and regression of every face to a statistical average is hypnotizing. Love the ghost car and floating Nosferatu in the Maupin one

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It completely shat itself with text, but after cropping it, it interpreted them as plushies. I mean I guess that's a valid answer.

>>25707
I think it's a really good visual demo of the problem with these neural network systems. Text doesn't give the same uncanny appearance that these images do, and there's a lot more data in a pic so the "corruption" and artifacting stands out way more.



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Why is Windows the only major operating system to come with a warranty that it will work as advertised in its licence?

Windows license:
>Limited Warranty. Depending on how you obtained the Windows software, Microsoft, or the device manufacturer or installer, warrants that properly licensed software will perform substantially as described in any Microsoft materials that accompany the software. This limited warranty does not cover problems that you cause, that arise when you fail to follow instructions, or that are caused by events beyond the reasonable control of Microsoft, or the device manufacturer or installer. The limited warranty starts when the first user acquires the software, and lasts for one year if acquired from Microsoft, or for 90 days if acquired from a device manufacturer or installer. If you obtain updates or supplements directly from Microsoft during the 90-day term of the device manufacturer’s or installer’s limited warranty, Microsoft provides the limited warranty for those updates or supplements…
OSX license:
>TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE APPLE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, AND APPLE AND APPLE'S LICENSORS (COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO AS “APPLE” FOR THE PURPOSES OF SECTIONS 7 AND 8) HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE APPLE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES, EITHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND/OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS.
I also checked if Mac OS 9 had a warranty (in case Windows' was just left in from the 1990s) and found that although apple did offer a warranty for the install disks themselves, they had a very aggressive disclaimer for the software, even including "NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY APPLE OR AN APPLE AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY…" lol.

MIT license (Standing in for most GNU/Linux distros, which usually use MIT or GPL.):
>THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE APost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>25695
Microsoft is the sole developer and vendor of their proprietary software. Open-source and shareware developers usually disclaim warranty from anything they release, so they can prevent, with the minimum possible effort, some hypothetical company from doing something stupid with it, like using it in a safety critical system without proper expertise, and busting a lawyer on their asses for it.

I'm unsure why Apple doesn't have it. Maybe it's because OSX incorporates some open-source software in their releases or they can just get away with it. Windows definitely needs some kind of warranty though, because the base-system for home desktop-use and commercial installations has been mostly the same since XP. I'm pretty any license for one of the commercial Unixen, like Solaris, QNX, AIX and HP-UX, would come with an appropriate warranty.

1. Guaranteeing that the software will do substantially what it says it will is actually standard EULA language going back to the early 90s at least. This is mostly just feel-good language. I think what it was originally for is things like damaged diskettes. In 1993 MS-DOS 6.0 had a defective disk compression feature that could result in data loss. It was fixed months later in 6.2 which was a $10 upgrade. Microsoft tried to stop the formation of a class action lawsuit over this and was still litigating the $10 fee in 1996.
2. Microsoft is the only company remaining in the OS sales business. Apple sells hardware and used to sell OS upgrades but it's always had a monopoly on that market. Red Hat and other Linux vendors sell support services. DR-DOS, OS/2, BeOS, GEOS, Netware, all that stuff is ancient history.



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