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 No.19321[Reply]

https://junyanz.github.io/CycleGAN/
>Image-to-image translation is a class of vision and graphics problems where the goal is to learn the mapping between an input image and an output image using a training set of aligned image pairs. However, for many tasks, paired training data will not be available. We present an approach for learning to translate an image from a source domain X to a target domain Y in the absence of paired examples. Our goal is to learn a mapping G: X → Y, such that the distribution of images from G(X) is indistinguishable from the distribution Y using an adversarial loss. Because this mapping is highly under-constrained, we couple it with an inverse mapping F: Y → X and introduce a cycle consistency loss to push F(G(X)) ≈ X (and vice versa). Qualitative results are presented on several tasks where paired training data does not exist, including collection style transfer, object transfiguration, season transfer, photo enhancement, etc. Quantitative comparisons against several prior methods demonstrate the superiority of our approach.

Looks like fun to play around with and create trippy art if you have a GPU

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 No.20915

bump



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 No.12051[Reply]

All of their phones are overpriced fucking garbage and always have been. The products that aren’t phones can still be considered as useful as literal e waste and only exist so petit bourgeoisie can float about their Shri no one cares about in public like the rats they’re, no one gives a shit about AirPods watches fucking whatever they hell they call computer stands in the slightest and they improve nothing about electronic hardware. All of their products wear out in a year at best and god forbid you don’t have protection for any smartphone/Mac you have for those things because they will break instantaneously(reminder these rats will prohibit you from being allowed to fix your phone from private repairmen) and all of apples products might as well require you to file out your entire life’s story worth of info to use or download because that company couldn’t give less of a shit about how much info they collect on their customers and exist as a vassale of the American government. I wish it was just apple that was a noninnovative vapourware tech corporation but unfortunately the entire western big tech industry thrives on hype and stolen ideas and hasn’t pumped out anything innovative in over 60 years except for the might as well be dead corporations that are IBM and Intel that only make me moderately dislike capitalism less because they actually have humanity something that wasn’t complete and total utter fucking nonsense
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 No.20524

What the fuck am I supposed to buy instead? A google android? One of those super overpriced open source phones? A used thinkpad with fedora on it? I am not a smart enough man to integrate my work beyond windows and an iPhone.

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 No.20657

>>20524
Google Pixel devices are good because it's so easy to flash a custom ROM (LineageOS) on it.

 No.20724

>>20657
Xiaomi too. They all come with unlocked bootloaders. MIUI is open source so you can have a "stock ROM" without all the google and Xiaomi/Mi shit: https://xiaomi.eu/community/forums/miui-rom-releases.103/

 No.20903

I’ve held off on getting a MacBook for years now, but the time feels like it’s edging closer and closer. For the past 20 years I’ve been gaming on windows, but recently I got lazy and have been using a used ps4. My ‘gaming’ Lenovo is now 5 years old. It’s beaten and battered with shattered plastic parts and a huge cracked screen. It’s become a burden with how large it is, how ugly it is, and how shit it’s battery life is. I don’t think it’s ever lasted longer than an hour unplugged. It can’t run modern games like it used to. Windows now periodically gives me advertisements as it freezes and makes my life a living hell. I am not the computer guy I was back in 09’. I feel like getting a Mac is giving up and moving on. I don’t want to have to buy new usb-c gear. I don’t want to have to adjust to mac settings. But I know it’ll probably be easier for me and my work. The work will get done.



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 No.20876[Reply]

>ugly as shit
>HTML based
>desktop friendly
>keyboard friendly
>easy to use
>pure searchable text everywhere
>almost no javascript to speak of

RETVRN

 No.20877

its use of <map> is atrocious. it's not at all clear that you can for example click on Marx (or Engels) to get to the Marx & Engels archive. bad UX, not friendly to the blind or visually impaired. it also works poorly with text mode browsers like lynx

 No.20890

>>20877
You could feed these through a screen reader: https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/index.htm

 No.20892

>>20890
yes the actual texts are usually fine. I'm talking about the front page specifically

 No.20894

The usemap looks a little weird in lynx and w3m, but functionally it works perfectly.

 No.20895

>>20894
you have to navigate into it though, unlike a normal list of links



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 No.20838[Reply]

This is what computers looked like in 1492-1932 (over the span of 440 years total, this is what people had to use before electricity became common).
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 No.20856

>>20855
nah smartphones have been around for a long time and they still give them out at the county fair and stuff.

 No.20857

>>20854
I'm from yurop and my middle- to high-school was relatively well funded. We had programming classes and you had to pay to go to prom.
It makes you think about where these schools actually spend their money, when we had to order calculators and multiple school books per year. We had some type of consultant to teach us sex ed and he just made us talk about public information videos he played on his laptop.
>In the west calculators are given away for free as promotions.
I only ever won a pen and a mug at some school event.

 No.20858

>>20857
I didn't mean at school, business just give them away. I probably have half a dozen free calcs. We never used calculators in school until hs and graphing calculators and shit because they're haram for low level math.

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>>20858
No abacuses either but we use these blocks to teach multiplication to retards.

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Then we got actual computers in the 70s and it was glorious with hardware fully exposed to the user.



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 No.20860[Reply]

Zag Forums is an 8chan archive disguised as a forum. It seems no one is posting in it and the site only serves as an advertisement space.
I came across unstructured link farms, fake filesharing sites and autogenerated reviews before, but this type of site seems unique to me if only because of the moderate effort needed to set it up.
Are these types of forums more common than i thought or may this have been an attempt at a type of spam site that never caught on?

 No.20862

It's been around for ages.

 No.20863

>>20862
Good to know. It appears to be a surprisingly comprehensive archive of some 8chan boards like /hgg/.



 No.20612[Reply]

In my "software engineering" job, during the past 6 months, I wrote approximately ZERO lines of code.
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 No.20626

my job used to be like that and i got overemployed but suddenly i'm stuck with a literal dumbass who is an "architect" who basically does nothing but increase my workload just because he exists and is in my team and now i want to drink bleach.

 No.20630

>>20620
This is true, however you can probably get around it by just open sourcing your work, with Apache or GPL licenses. Your work will still own it, but the source will remain open, and apparently Apache protects it from patent fuckery or something.

 No.20646

That's nothing. I worked several years in a plywood factory watching the drying machine for problems. Only ever had to press the emergency stop button four times, that was all the work I ever did. No relevant education btw.

 No.20649

>>20618
I have been in a similar situation and it was a rather soul crushing experience. you don't have anything to do, but it is still work so you can't really engage in non-trivial entertainment
I don't know how people cope with those workplaces where, on the one hand, everyone snitches on you and you have to install corporate spyware, but on the other, there is no real work to be done

>>20630
I don't think you can license company property. imo the best strategy is simply not telling them about your side project

 No.20829

I think this how a lot of nominally professional jobs go for people.



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 No.20257[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

For those who don't know, a bunch of major subreddits (at least 3000 in total) are going to go private for 48 hours to protest Reddit killing third party use of its API. It's technically supposed to start tomorrow but a bunch of subreddits are getting a head start already.

More info:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/11/reddit-communities-to-go-dark-in-protest-over-third-party-app-charges
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65855608

Thoughts? There's more backlash than I expected, and I'm all for it, but I think going with a 48-hour blackout with no demands is basically a toothless gesture, much like the 24-hour protest strikes some unions do. Doesn't really mean anything.
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>>20749
Some instances have patreon sites and other funding channels set up. Some seem to make a decent stable bank from donations.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-protest-private-ceo-elon-musk-huffman-rcna89700

>In an interview Thursday with NBC News, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman praised Musk’s aggressive cost-cutting and layoffs at Twitter, and said he had chatted “a handful of times” with Musk on the subject of running an internet platform.

<“Long story short, my takeaway from Twitter and Elon at Twitter is reaffirming that we can build a really good business in this space at our scale,” Huffman said.
>“Now, they’ve taken the dramatic road,” he added, “and I guess I can’t sit here and say that we’re not either, but I think there’s a lot of opportunity here.”

 No.20787

>>20786
Top Fucking KEK this guy sucking off Elon so hard that he thought that doing the same thing was going to be good for Reddit. Despite the fact that Twitter has been losing money and is a giant echo chamber for far-rightoids as Twitter will finally die.

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>>20800
what's this bruv
it looks tasty



 No.18224[Reply]

Hey comrades,

This article came up https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7e9y3/activists-are-designing-mesh-networks-to-deploy-during-civil-unrest about an open source mesh network (including the hardware made from easily accessible parts) to be used when governments shut down the internet. It seems the original project is dead, but I did manage to find this repo
https://0xacab.org/kirsa/mycelium-mesh-old/

I have (as of this moment) limited expertise in hardware and protocol programming but I have time and resources to delve into it and perhaps start it back up.

There's several things they mention in the description of the program, such as a lack of encryption, lack of peer to peer, how all messages are saved in nodes, etc. These strike me as someone with not too much knowhow, as bad design aspects.

I would like to dedicate this thread to trying to dig up more info on this project, and for people with more know how to chime in on what ought to be different, if you would restart as the sole dev(s) anyway, or pointers on where to start.
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>>20574
anonet has been around longer than you've been alive

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>>20581
lol no.
projecting?

 No.20810

>>20144
Phones near police reported not recording:
-Microwave weapons that stop electronics would not be it as that is not permanent.
-Backdoors are not responsive
-?

Phones near police don't upload:
Simple Jamming a mobile antenna running on battery with a giant antenna running on generator.

Stopping Internet in local areas:
1. If they stop it, they will also ban HAM radio for civilian use.
2. If they ban HAM radio (send, not receive), than no sense creating a mesh due to arrest risk.

Wide area Internet shutdown:
-They are loyal to money. They have to find a way to make money flow. Wide area shutdowns are only loyal outside of 9 to 5 M-F.

 No.20811

>>20810
A meshnet would only make sense during a time of war, when laws would be suspended or disregarded anyway.

 No.20821

>>20810
>If they ban HAM radio (send, not receive), than no sense creating a mesh due to arrest risk.
They don't have the means to enforce a ban on ad-hoc wifi and bluetooth even if they wanted. Imagine how many extremely tech-literate cops they would need running around with PDAs sniffing for packets to triangulate
>A meshnet would only make sense during a time of war
Meshnets are used commonly to share free internet or to connect remote areas without landline infrastructure, some of them are even sponsored by local government



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 No.20806[Reply]

what in the heavens do they mean with this formulation?

 No.20807

It means only retards trust Elon's suckware.

 No.20808

If you install it as an APK instead of through a "store" like F-Droid, you don't get automatic updates.

 No.20809

>>20808
If you install Signal from the APK on their website, it'll download updates automatically and send you a notification when it's ready to install. Then you just tap on it and hit install on Android's usual app install dialog.

 No.20815

>Signal
Why not XMPP + OMEMO?



 No.20797[Reply]

Is this the only safe communications technology out there? To elaborate further, WWII-era encryption methods, such as the German Enigma machine, would not be easily cracked by a modern consumer computer. The Enigma machine was used by the Germans during World War II to encrypt their communications, and it was considered highly secure at the time.

Cracking the Enigma code was a significant challenge and required the efforts of a large team of mathematicians, engineers, and codebreakers at Bletchley Park, including notable figures like Alan Turing. The codebreakers employed various techniques, including developing early computers called "bombes" to assist in the decryption process. It took years of dedicated work to decipher Enigma-encrypted messages.

Modern consumer computers are significantly more powerful than the computing technology available during World War II, but cracking the Enigma code still required advanced mathematical and cryptanalytic techniques. It's important to note that the Enigma encryption was not fundamentally flawed; rather, it was vulnerabilities in the implementation and operator errors that led to its eventual decryption.

However, it's worth mentioning that modern consumer computers, combined with advanced algorithms and techniques, can crack certain encryption methods used during that era if they were weak or based on known vulnerabilities. But the more robust and well-implemented encryption methods, such as the Enigma, would still pose a significant challenge even to modern computing power.

 No.20803

Where am I going to get a KL-7 from?

 No.20804

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>the Enigma encryption was not fundamentally flawed
OP the fact that the Enigma never encrypted a letter to itself was a huge flaw. in fact it was what allowed the bombes to work in the first place, thanks to easily guessable cribs (a known-plaintext attack)
I'm not even sure what point you're making. you can implement AES in a microcontroller for offline encryption if you like. it is largely immune to known-plaintext attacks

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