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 No.23255[Reply]

>4chan is a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images anonymously.
>anonymously
>blocks VPN's and Tor
what the fuck is their problem?
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 No.23267

>>23255
>what the fuck is their problem?
Their problem is that they're liars.

 No.23268

>>23263
Actually, yes, let the pigs crack down on this place.

 No.23684

I'm not a big tech expert, but is it theoretically possible, that governments can ban TOR and vpns completely? I mean, the infrastructure of the internet is owned by states and corpos. So in the end, they are only "tolerating" vpn, but if they want, they can shut it down anytime,right?

 No.23691

>>23684
Usually internet filtering is done on a blacklist basis, like in China. They almost certainly know that vpns exist, but they seem not to care enough about tech savvy users getting around the great firewall to crack down. You could block vpns and tor definitely by using a whitelist approach to internet access, but that makes internet access quite useless. The glowies also have a (currently dormant I think) way around this kind of filtering, by having important internet companies like microsoft, google, facebook host tor entries as a subdomain of their main site.

 No.23707

Word on the street is that 4chan is going to implement user IDs on every board. They recently removed the IP counter from threads and mods have been very vague as to why.



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 No.20728[Reply]

Terminally online bros… it's over
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 No.21082

>>21080
Misskey is about to have so many users named 下 join at once they'll have to add an emote for it.

 No.21083

>>21080
How does this even happen? It's not like the retard is implementing this by himself. I'd expect at least someone would tell him that not everyone is an anglo.

The only explanation is employees don't give a fuck anymore and do whatever stupid shit he comes up with. Or someone is actively sabotaging the website, which is even better.

 No.21084

>>21083
>How does this even happen? It's not like the retard is implementing this by himself. I'd expect at least someone would tell him that not everyone is an anglo.
He doesn't listen to reason and pushes whatever he wants, especially if he gets any pushback. Employees at Tesla and SpaceX have come out saying that in order to get anything done they basically need a team of people to babysit him and be yes men when he shows up just so he won't actually meddle in things (more than they can avoid) and cause tons of problems for everyone. Maybe he was just lucky to have people like that at the previous copmanies where he had that kind of pull. He apparently doesn't have that at twitter.

 No.23443

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I really expected it'd be lower. That 29% is holding on for dear life.

 No.23686

twitter's CDN blacks out for a few minutes at least once a day at this point
good job firing all of those tech people, dipshit



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 No.22133[Reply]

Stallman is OUT!
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2023-sep-dec.html#1_November_2023_(President_Trump_2.0)

Anyone defending, mentioning, or promoting Stallman, and his liberal capitalist "free" software philosophy is a liberal.
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 No.22830

>>22135
Stallman doesn't actually oppose anything that you said. He actually said Steam is a net positive for GNU/Linux adoption, even though he doesn't like it.

What most Stallman haters refer to as "Stallmanism" is a strawman they themselves invented based on a vocal minority that is more extreme than Stallman is. Stallman advocates for LibreJS and JShelter ffs, he isn't even inherently opposed to JavaScript (I am however). Stallman restricts himself more than anyone else, he doesn't want to force anyone to go as far as he does, even though he takes this very seriously.

The libre software philosophy doesn't equal isolationism so saying that it's irrelevant is completely missing its point. Standing for software freedom is standing for the user empowerment, remix culture and privacy, the Open Source movement is a non-movement, it only cares about development, not privacy or user freedom, those things are completely secondary to them, same with the copyfree advocates (the two things are pretty much synonymous in my eyes, it's just semantics). Emphasizing the four freedoms is enough to be considered a software freedom activist in my view, you don't need to be a hermit. Neither Mako nor Snowden are and yet they are the more outspoken FSF allies.

 No.22856

>>22174
gnome is a poxy, corporate-controlled locked-down featureless "productivity" drudgery software on par with the likes of outlook and jira.
I couldn't care less if it died, I'd rather do everything from the command line than use it.

 No.23637

What is the problem with isolationism? In our current time, this is the smartest thing you can do.

 No.23638

>>22830
I'm a comp sci student currently taking web dev classes. What technologies would you recommend if I wanna go about it the right way for personal projects?

 No.23639

Leave Stallman alone, the old man has cancer.
>>23638
If your goal is to get ready for a job, learn React for the frontend, Java with Spring Boot for the backend, and use a SQL database (Postgres/MariaDB/MySQL).
If your goal is to do a personal project simply to learn more or for fun, you can use whatever you want, as long as you do things, you will learn stuff that is applicable to other technologies, and you can always recode stuff later on if there are too many problems.



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 No.23635[Reply]

Ignore my degenerate phoneposting


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 No.22146[Reply]

You know what would actually be a useful AI? One that crawls through the text of the entire written works of an author, isolates each logical assertion that author makes, and cross-checks it against other logical assertions for contradictions, to see if that author ever contradicts themselves. Is such a thing possible using LLMs? Does such a thing already exist?
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 No.22824

>>22146
Funny how Abrahamic religions rely on the validity of their religious texts so much. Really shows that they can't stand on their own and have no real practical advantage over other worldviews, it's just constant self-validation.

 No.22831

>>22151
This doesn't just require understanding pronouns and antecedents. It also requires understanding what the nouns actually designate, in terms of their qualities with respect to each other, what "fit" actually describes in the relationship between the two things.
>Current AI is very flaky at this.
From my understanding it doesn't do it at all and can only occasionally imitate it passably out of luck and because people tend not to intentionally throw curveballs. The chatbot AI we have now isn't even supposed to be able to do this, either. The way people are asking it questions to get real answers fundamentally misunderstands the problems it's designed to solve. At the same time, the way people are trying to use the chatbots does show that they are succeeding at what they are supposed to do, which is produce text that looks like something a human would produce. The problem here isn't that the AI sucks, but that people misunderstand what tool they're using and aren't trying to verify or fact check things.

 No.22840

>>22151
It's Wilton. Robert Anton Wilson.

 No.22942

AI doesn't understand the meaning of statements or words, it's only a statistical analysis of recurring sequences of symbols.

Not to mentions that statements made by some author are not necessarily unambigious in their meaning, so even humans can't achieve what you ask.

 No.23634

PrivateGPT has a feature like this (querying documents) and you can run it locally in a docker container. But it’s not that good with massive volumes of text.



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 No.23592[Reply]

What kind of advances in computer science could help programmers deal with highly rare and irregular events like leap days?
https://codeofmatt.com/list-of-2024-leap-day-bugs/
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 No.23629

>>23592
You can still test for stuff like that, you just need to know that such a thing can happen.

 No.23630

>>23611
Kind of funny how Star Trek completely handwaves this. Accounting for communication delays and relativistic time warp would be a fucking nightmare.

 No.23631

>>23617
How would you make a calendar without leap days, oh euphoric anon?

 No.23632

>>23617
anon its not the fault of our standards that the earth spins ~365,25 times for one trip around the sun

 No.23633

>>23631
Have a quarter day every year

Eh no wait that wouldn't work lol



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 No.19296[Reply]

All nitter instances are rate limited now
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 No.23472

>>23471
sucks
now ill have to find news myself

 No.23473

>>23472
news sites have rss feeds

 No.23475

>>23473
I think it's fairly easy to find RSS aggregators these days. Here's your Twitter.

 No.23624

>>22748
centralization is a feature for some people
twitter is pretty unappetizing at this point with its constant pornbot spam and MAGAboomer fascist shit
so a demographic that doesn't like that but still needs the centralization of something like twitter will absolutely try out bluesky and threads

 No.23625

>>23475
I want news about Dasha, not politics.



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 No.21830[Reply]

Firefox recently got a translation feature for Bulgarian, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, based on the public-funded EU project https://browser.mt/ and this works WITHOUT SENDING DATA.

Very soon we will have specs showing subtitles with free software running 100 % OFFLINE. Imagine what this will do for organizing the working class.
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 No.21847

>>21846
> rule-based machine translation
That sounds like it needs insane amounts of work to get right.

 No.23607

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>language barrier dying
Music to my ears :D

 No.23619

>>21847
> rule-based machine translation
That actually sounds very based. If we automate most of the stuff machine learning does then it's more likely to give correct answers with less work… right?

 No.23621

>>23619 (me)
Wait, it says "machine translation" instead of "machine learning." Ohhhhhhhhhh…



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 No.20470[Reply]

fucking SOAP2DAY is GONE!! I already got a warning letter from my ISP regarding torrents, I need alternatives
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 No.23556

>>21224
Actual theft? This is fine. But PIRACY!!? NOW YOU'VE CROSSED THE LINE.

How much do you have to shill for porkies to be that pathetic?

 No.23569

>>20474
die leach

 No.23573

>>21227
Does this actually work?

 No.23615

stremio or you can probably find that film/show on soulseek

 No.23616

>>23573
probably better to just torrent over one of the free vpns if you're in a country where it matters



 No.23548[Reply]

Post quality RSS feeds for whatever. Blogs, news sites, even a YouTube channel RSS feed or other video content. As long as it has an RSS (or atom I guess) feed attached to it.

I'll go first and dump some of what I think are good ones:

>Grumpy Gamer

https://grumpygamer.com/rss
this one is rad, it's the personal blog of the lead developer behind The Secret of Monkey Island series (so basically my hero). He talks about a lot of cool random shit. Check it out.

>Niki Tonsky

https://tonsky.me/atom.xml
Another personal blog, I've only read a few articles but they have to do with UI mainly which I like.

>Cosmonaut Magazine

https://cosmonautmag.com/rss
Quintessential pretentious leftwing magazine. It's good, I like it. It's more insightful than I thought it would be and their articles even when I disagree with them (I usually don't) are always comfy reads.
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 No.23601

>>23600
uygha's site is 3.5 MB just for some text.

 No.23602

>>23566
QuiteRSS is no longer under development.

 No.23603

>>23601
true, definitely needs optimization. Most of that's the background (2.5 MB), so that'd be worth tinkering with.

 No.23604


 No.23605

>>23602
not every program needs to be further developed, except maybe fixing bugs



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