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>disroot hard drives fucked up
aaa
>second drive failed too
AAAA
>they put up a temporary server so incoming emails still work, but that just made email clients sync to an empty inbox and wipe all emails from the local storage
AAAAAA
>my system backups exclude my email folder
AAAAAAAA
that filesystem recovery better fucking work or I've lost over a year of emails from multiple accounts
back everything the fuck up comrades

big rip.

>disroot hard drives fucked up
ah so that's what happened

Is this why AO3 is down?



 

So I have a spare HP laptop I have no fucking idea what to do with. Heard imageboards are a good place to ask and as I'm a communist I chose to ask here. Uhhh… any ideas, comrades? (image not important)
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>>34667 I actually already have a home server on a retired HP workstation, currently running ProxMox. I don't exactly have a lack of home server. Its why I'm asking here, as I need a new thing to do on my laptop

run a minecraft server on it for all leftypol anons to play on
last one failed but im sure this one will succeed

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>>34669
oh or you could run a reticulum transport node, if you also have something like lora or ham radio idk
https://reticulum.network/

>>34668
The point would either be to migrate everything onto the laptop, since it should end up being more energy efficient, or run some daemons on the laptop for security or performance reasons.

If you don't want another server, maybe you would enjoy setting up a media center somewhere in your house. You could have it do anything from just playing videos on your TV to being a full STB substitute.

give it away to a poor person mr communist. if you have no idea what to do with something, that probably means you don't need it.



 

What are some genuinely good phones that do not shit the bed after 3 years, and without software updates shitting it's functionality? I've been stuck with Samsung, falling for propoganda that it's long-lasting when in reality they've just added some new pointless OS updates that makes it slower to use.
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>>34135
Bullshit or cope, I had a xiaomi and it had so much shit that you needed to turn off in separate places it was insane, and to this day I never figured out how to disable the xiaomj "safe installer" crap. I got lucky on that phone because it was vulnerable to mtkexploit which rescued it from the trash bin

>>34152
I just hit back out of muscle memory when the stupid safe installer appears. Yeah I had to turn off "features" in separate places too but it took me about a day of getting used to the thing. Yet it is still my daily phone after all these years. Battery still lasts a good day use, too.

everyone's giving you bad advice. the best phone is one you can play the best emulated gaming experience on, get 2 days battery out of, has OLED, and is cheap, under $250.

The entire phone market is an oligopoly keeping certain features from budget and even mid range phones.

Namely, all non flagship phones are artificially limited to 4k30 fps recording, it used to be because of the image signal processor on the cpu, but then it became too expensive to manufacture multiple of those for different cpus, now it's just that the option doesn't pop up in the camera app.

Cameras on phones haven't really gotten better since 2020, the limiting factor isn't megapixels but rather the focal length and tiny sensor size. Every new camera feature since then has been a marketing gimmick.
Manufacturers trying to get more from the tiny sensor ironically makes the picture worse year over year due to shitty overprocessing.


To keep phones from getting cheap all brands collectively agreed to limit midrange phones from having zoom cameras. I bought a redmi note 10 pro 5 years ago and it had a main 108mp camera, a macro camera and an ultrawide. 5 years on the same line offers the same fucking features for 2x the price.

The only thing that keeps advancing are phone cpus but the gap between budget and the one flagship cpu (snapdragon 8 gen 5) keeps increasing year over year due to normal everyday tasks not becoming more demanding.

Also I really like sillicon carbon batteries.

Refer to my other post >>34682



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One person controls the single global signing key.

Every update pushed to 400000 devices is signed by Daniel Micay. He already proved in 2018 he will destroy signing keys and brick thousands of users devices on purpose when he feels wronged. That same key can push any code, silently, automatically, to any phone, at any time. verified boot guarantees the device will accept it.

You would have no way to know what was added
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>>34011
>That same key can push any code, silently, automatically, to any phone, at any time. verified boot guarantees the device will accept it.

Go to Apps -> System Apps -> disable System Updater and install them via adb
https://grapheneos.org/usage#updates-sideloading

>>34305
>>34306
WTF is the context of this conversation?

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>>34315
>>still no alternative offered
Not him however you sound deranged.
>alternative
WHY? You are insane! What if the technology itself makes it impossible to be not tracked 24/7 like cell phones? The cry for alternative is insane, the technology itself is wrong and can not be fixed.

Anything with a GSM modem is tracking you 24/7 and your geolocation to whoever controls the cell network. In 99% of all cases it means the government of the country you live in.
<Oh no it is not the government! It is the corporation who controls the cell towers
<Who are only 5 max in the country
<Who all can be compelled legally or extra legally to give up this data and given gag orders
<Or the government simply deciding to sit on cables that send their data and record that
<WEW glad I cleared that one up!
This is how GSM technology itself works.

>alternative

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>>34550
<Some people need apps, and some people aren't techies.
<e.g. maybe your community uses a secure messenger that runs only on FBI.GOV only.

Do you sometimes listen to yourself?

>Some people need apps

He says this while posting on a web forum!

>>34582
>Go to Apps -> System Apps -> disable System Updater and install them via adb
OK. Why is this not default behavior? Looks like you condemned your entire project!

>>34315 >>34542 >>34594
I have a landline phone, not only is it less intrusive than a mobile it's also comfier, if not a little loud when it rings.
You can get an IP-telephony connection from certain ISPs. for me it costs an additional 40 SEK to my monthly broadband subscription plus a one-time purchase of a telephone router from them and telephones can be found for cheap in charity shops.
When I've been asked for my mobile number and I explain that I only have a landline I've been told that it must be relaxing not to have a mobile and it really is!
Other than telephony the only digital services I'm dependent on can be accessed with my puter.



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This place needs an AI chatbot thead, so this is it now.

To start things off, I've made a card for Alunya: https://chub.ai/characters/xalkoi/Alunya
Fuck Fork and modify it to oblivion

Don't want to give money to capitalist but want to try it out? First download SillyTavern: https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern

Then create an account on Poe.com and follow the guide on SillyTavern to get the API key (just copy the value of the cookie)

Now download the png of the bot and import it on sillytavern, have fun.

And if you don't mind being unable to lewd the bots, you also have https://beta.character.ai/
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>>27100
Because Lenin is Jewish by descent, also of parents who were Orthodox Christians and therefore "cut."
To ask an uncut Lenin is to ask for both an unadultered Lenin and yet also a Lenin not true to himself in the physical sense.
The duality of idioms.

>>27139
Wtf am I reading? 🧐

>>27155
Retarded burgeoise idealism

Made a fork of Alunya-tan.
Communist catgirl, /leftypol/ mascot

Now with two new scenarios!
1. Alunya found out you we're a racist nazi and kidnapped you. You wake up in her basement for nazi deprogramming.
2. Alunya Communism ASMR where she'll teach you about the wonders of Communism on her soft thighs.

https://characterhub.org/characters/novel_draft_8795/alunya-964ef81557a1

>>27322
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Thread for watching rocket launches and shit.
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>>34415
CHYNA is going to land on the moon in our lifetimes so that's pretty neat

>>34416

they'll probably just build their own moon that costs like $50 and land on that

>>34415
Funny thing is according to polls the space program in the 60s-70s wasn't that popular, people wanted spending on more terrestrial concerns.

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>>17673
>GPS is pretty cool.
No it is not. I do not appreciate a global spyware network being build around every corner of my planet.

>Sattelite internet might be good too

NO! Anything internet is evil and wrong. This translates to more spyware around this planet (and why NSA and CIA are funding it I bet)
<No you do not understand we need you to use your cellphone 24/7 even if you are on top of a mountain or the middle of the ocean!
<WE simply need to be able to access your government tracking device (formally known as a cellphone) 24/7!

>>19294
>your youth studying hard because you wanted to make a difference. You wanted to be part of advancing aerospace technology and help move humanity into the future

Why? What is so great about space? Are you going to discover that ancient alien pyramid in earth orbit one of these days? All you do is go to orbit and nothing more.

The global satellite network exists for only 1 reason SPYWARE! We literally have spyware cameras making photos of every corner of this planet all the time (this is why america lost its shit over sputnik ) We have GPS giving every shit electronic on this planet the capability to fart in your exact geolocation to every photo you take(thanks FBI!) and starlink shit to finally have internet based tracking in the most remote corners of this planet. Explain how any of this is good for 99.9999999% of the population?
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>>34415
I hope those espousing these sorts of opinions are pretty young and its legitimate ignorance. There are a lot of things that are downstream of the space program (not just the moon mind you, but things that came after including a lot of greater cooperation with the USSR in space etc) that have had untold scientific benefits. Sure, there was obviously a propagandist angle to the cold war space race, but that doesn't mean that there wasn't a lot of other stuff going on as well, many of those that impact your life today in beneficial ways because they were done by govt and not solely dependant on corporate profits in order to roll things out (Global positioning system for example, much like the Internet before it coming out of Arpanet; lots of technological development in big and expensive ways by govts are then utilized by academia and the public, and then corporate interests make use of it once things are set up). In any event, space exploration like many forms of frontier technological development can be done for many reasons, but it tends to have massive benefits from its progress, to say nothing for the potential to realign society's views. People may forget that much like how 60s and 70s counterculture even had their own developments echoed in space exploration where Carl Sagan and many others espoused a humanitarian target for the results of what we learned, which had a large impact not just in the famed Voyager probe "plates introducing humanity to the stars" and were partially responsible for the environmentalist interest in maintaining life together on this "pale blue dot" which is part of how all these global capitalist countries decided to ban CFCs immediately leading to the closing of the ozone layer, when previously CFCs were in everything from the freon in every car air conditioner to the big 80s hairspray. So yeah, many many downstream effects and far less than, in concept, a grift or vanity project or propaganda alone with no benefits.



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The internet is inherently hierarchical and tends toward giving already established and popular entities undue voice.

In the real, physical world, people encounter things that they are physically close to and can sense through their sight, hearing, etc. This is the concept behind protesting out on the street.

On the internet, there is no built in discovery mechanism like there is in the physical reality. People never just type in domain names to se what's there, especially these days. You could own "starmer.sucks" and maybe get like two visitora a year.

Discovery on the internet is based on network effect and platforms. You are at the mercy of other people linking to your site or whatever platform you're posting on choosing to recommend you.

In contrast, the material world has discovery built in. You pass a street protest, you hear their chants, you see their faces. You see some graffiti. You didn't search for it. The people who did tjat didn't have to pay Google for the privilege of being seen.

This is why real life is so important. Touch grass my Marxbros

>>34516
I like your post.
I don't claim to know anything about the topic.
There might be an analogue in outreach.
Setting up collabs, and convos and that sort.
Probably difficult to find the right audience/creators.
Where you've got lots of potentially sympathetic actors.
Even I know some organizations make this their occupation.
And then there's the rest of us.
So there's real institutional pressure like you say.
I must touch grass…

>>34516
Very important post the internet is slavery.

>In contrast, the material world has discovery built in. You pass a street protest, you hear their chants, you see their faces. You see some graffiti. You didn't search for it. The people who did tjat didn't have to pay Google for the privilege of being seen.


Not only this however the 90s internet and the 2000 internet almost vanished now with AI scanning your posts you can not even say wrong think the OWNERS of the PLATFORM dictate your post will be scanned and flagged before anyone can see it, same for every file etc. And you get shadow banned so you can scream into the void at this point.

The days of some dude posting whatever he likes on some forum to inform people are long over. The internet is a net negative technology and the ruling plutocrats love to pretend how it empowers peoeple.



 

fascinating thread on the chinese internet. check it out.

https://x.com/noUserMurphy/status/2111018897835192392

body too short body too short empty empty



 

https://omarchy.org/patrons/

give me your take on omarchy. whats the deal? why are corpos funding it? why are the same people who finance grapheneos are also funding a fascist linux distro? what is this?
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What's the point of Omarchy in the first place?

It's another Arch-based distro, okay, but what's the use-case? People who need a solid battle-tested Linux environment either use Debian or Fedora based distros, and there is CachyOS if you want a more user-friendly Arch distro for gaming.
If you take, on the opposite side of the political spectrum, two projects like Rust (woke) and Urbit (chud), they have a purpose beyond the political baggage they carry, it's not just "I'm a Haskell-inspired programming language but woke/chud UwU pls adopt me".

I don't see the point of Omarchy. Distro-hopping is fun at first, but then things eventually break over time and in the end, most of us just want a solid computing environment to do our own shit with, like messing with GCC and Emacs or what have you. I'm not aware of any technical merit this project has over the existing infrastructure, unlike for example, Nix or Guix (which I don't use, but find interesting from afar).
For people who bitched a lot about how woke PR people pushed code of conducts onto open-source projects last decade, they seem to be as useless as them, just on the opposite side of the spectrum.

>>34526
>In a speech to Alibaba employees, Ma defended the industry's '996' work schedule, which refers to the 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. workday, six days a week.
>"I personally think that being able to work 996 is a huge blessing," he said in remarks posted on the company's WeChat account.
>"Many companies and many people don't have the opportunity to work 996," Ma said. "If you don't work 996 when you are young, when can you ever work 996?"
Here is your communism, bro. Jack Ma moved to Japan after this, because the CPC weren't taking his remarks on breaking labor laws too kindly.

>>34578
Got the impression it was ricing "lets build it with LLM".
The technology - taken from elsewhere - isn't evil.
Biggest two risks, beyond the sign, of just this are:
  1. Users stop thinking. (guaranteed)
  2. Users are sold (out). (quite likely)

We can peal back the spectacle to look at the material.
Taking things just as they are is more direct, if subtler.
Everyone being able to make their own software is good.
Am probably going to rededicate the day to software methods.

>>34579
Pretty funny considering China has capital controls.

>>34579
then why is a chinese corporation funding a fascist distro?

Gentoo can do it better



 

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076048
>When vibecoders meet sane package management standards
As a daily Gentoo user, this kind of situation can only get worse with time
Nearly all rust projects already ship thousand of (sometimes in-tree) pinned dependencies, all lto'd into a big static blob for "reasons"
Even Debian has mostly given up, package management is a dying art

Rust has been impossible to avoid for a while now.
Mesa pulls it as a dependency.
So does every modern browser except like cog.
(If even that counts as a "modern browser")
I completely gave up avoiding it on my main machine.

For my personal projects I never saw the utility of uv.
Guess it fits the category of "rewrite it in Rust." projects.
But there was a time when I would have used it anyway.

Also might have learned my lesson from the recent Deno acquisition.
e.g. wouldn't write with MongoDB today.
Even though I'd like a JSON "ODM" with no translation layer.
Ideally written in javascript…



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