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Is there any reason to stick with jpg/png formats over things like webp/avif. Atleast for webp software support that once was not there now is. I'm not just talking about web, but in general bulk storage also.

AVIF is a mess from a technical standpoint. designed by committee. it doesn't just store a straight up image, no no no. it splits the image up into chunks, each of which can be stored using any codec supported by the format. this is a huge hassle for the internal data model for many project, for example ffmpeg
WebP is OK, but getting support for it everywhere seems to be slow going. I'm not convinced it's sufficiently better than cjpeg to justify widespread use. JPEG itself has many features that improve its compression that no one uses for some reason. like pyramidal coding

>>30836
to elaborate on this:
https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2014/mozjpeg-3-0/
>Mozilla has done a study of image formats and concluded that WebP and JPEG XR are not a big-enough improvement over well-optimized JPEG. In the study only HEVC (H.265) was significantly better, but it’s a patent-encumbered format, so it can’t be used freely (shhhh!)

>>30806
>>30836
webp seems ok to me. I guess avif is technically more fancier, but it has no support. both can do lossy and lossless so that's not an issue

It just werks™


 

Saw Mental Outlaw's videos on the tor network. Thought I'd give it a try. Evidently, it is filled to the brim with exit scams and glowie pedobait. And I found it funny how Tordex/Torch admins try to justify not censoring such garbage.

>The search results on Torch are not censored because we believe trying to censor the dark web is counter productive and a waste of resources. Our philosophy is people have the right to do anything they want and live with the consequences, Torch should not decide what people do with their lives even if it’s morally wrong. We’re a search engine not your conscience.

>If you would like to advertise your hidden service please check our our advertising rates.

Yeah right, it's because of TRVE freedumbs n sheeit, it totally doesn't have anything to do with advertising scam websites to horny pedos and making money off of it.

Funny tangent aside, if there are any useful resources related to cybersec/privacy/tech on tor, please let me know. I'd like to get something useful out of it.
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>>24007
Tor is useful, it does its job pretty well. But the only need i had from it was to buy acid from Dr. Seuss and MDMA from Archetyp (before it closed). Only the acid was useful, that's how i became a Marxist-Leninist.

The fact of the matter is, tor is a very slow and shitty network and the only thing people use it for is child porn and buying/selling drugs and fbi sting operations and timecube-esque crankery.

>>30875
Nah, it could be useful. It used to be a lot slower than nowadays btw. Its use would benefit an insurrection in a vast manner. Used with PGP it's an even better perspective.

>>30884
>Its use would benefit an insurrection in a vast manner.

You can look at existing authoritarian regimes as sort of a testbed for what works and what doesn't work when it comes to bypassing censorship and hiding your identity from the authorities. From what I've gathered, people usually use VPNs to bypass censorship in countries like China and tor is not really a viable option because all the public tor nodes get identified and blocked by the Great Firewall, thus you can't even connect to the network at all unless you know the ip address of a private node; it's easier to just hunt around for some obscure VPN service that the Great Firewall hasn't detected and blocked yet than to look for an entry-point into the tor network which is much slower than a VPN and harder to obfuscate what it is due to all the multi-hop routing making it obvious that someone is using tor, on top of that tor nodes are often banned from many internet services due to being abused for spambots and ddos attacks etc.

Relevant keywords:
>Operational Security
>Information Security
>Communications Security
>Signals Intelligence
>Social Engineering

Software:
>Tor
>I2P
>Tails
>Linux-based operating systems

There is no magic bullet:
>https://support.torproject.org/faq/
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Suckless seems like a great way to transition from rice to programming.
A good set of training-wheels for the bicycle of the mind.
However there's something extremely pathological about not wanting well designed and implemented features.
It's like cachexia from voluntarily avoiding healthy fats.

This isn't to advocate feature creep, which is ugly and doesn't add to the design of the system.
In rejecting big systemic components which integrate they may even make things more complex.
This is something like having a small standard library, avoiding RPC, or even loose coupling of components.
Implementing these can reduce duplication, and reduce complexity, while allowing more to be achieved.

Everywhere the minimalist takes something rich and make it small.
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>>30345
Well I can't imagine that a microkernel is actually minimal nor keeping it simple stupid, since otherwise we'd not have to keep calling the bastard GNU/Linux because GNU would be using the Hurd.

>>30347
But a microkernel is more aligned with the UNIX philosophy.
I have heard that the issue with Hurd is that they are perfectionists, not that they can't get a microkernel working. Doesn't harmonyOS (huawei OS) have a microkernel?

>>30220
>It's absolutely terrible
What do you mean by this? The daemontools approach to service supervision is unambiguously superior to cgroups monitoring and other hacks systemd uses (see http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html). Runit sits on the lower end of daemontools derivatives, nosh is another one that can run systemd unit files http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/worked-example.html

>>30075
>However there's something extremely pathological about not wanting well designed and implemented features.
Think have walked back on this somewhat due to my wetware being inherently memory constrained.
Because of this reducing the state-space to hold in memory, and less so what one has to search over, is very valuable.
There's probably some nuanced position that involves getting the interfaces correct, and minimal.
For example the difference between a (composable) loop macro versus a large collection of iterator procedures versus loops.

Once again this is only because of a peculiar feature of my wetware.

>>30845
>loop macro
A small collection of iterators functions works just as well.


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The neverending quest to rewrite vichan -

Archived threads:
https://archive.is/xiA7y
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>>30699
I didn't think about the fact ip addresses can basically act as session identifiers for clients, but that negates some advantages of UDP. While socket-level broadcasting isn't implemented on linux, i don't feel like this way to track sessions makes for good program architecture.

There are two cases where performance matters, which are many clients leeching few files and many clients leeching many files. The forking model is bad for both, while something to optimize specifically for the first would handling requests in a tight event loop. It shouldn't even matter if the server spawns a process connecting to it for each request or directly exchanges requests with it.
>These allow the "central" daemon to be exited and spawned periodically for example in a cronjob if that's desirable.
This isn't as important as it might seem. Polling periodically is inefficient, but if you have a fixed number of processes listening on a specific event on a file for example, you're not going to consume any computing resources or a lot of memory while they aren't running (UNIX is a timesharing system after all). This wouldn't be a bad choice as a way to ensure your daemon is reentrant though.

>>30503
why typescript over python?

>>30804
i'm going to guess "for employability reasons", i think yugoanon is choosing technologies based on his career path

>>30805
python is highly in demand though?

>>30804
>>30805
>>30821
Ended up taking a break from this project, and school and work are about to kick in so it's probably for the best.
The reasons for picking Typescript are as follows:
1. https://fedify.dev/ is way better than the python alternatives.
2. Wanted to be able to apply to more jobs, was thinking it was a question of quantity (probably wrong).
(The fresh Island architecture and preact also seems nice.)


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Let me tell you a little secret about flip phones: They run the same hardware as smartphones, just in a different form factor. They're even more proprietary black boxes than the average smartphone and its hard to get even basic specifications. I know because I have one. I'm trying to replace the old version of KaiOS it runs with PostmarketOS; unfortunately, the bootloader is locked. At least with a cheap Android phone you can replace Android with something else.
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>>30820
People are operating motor vehicles while looking at their phones. I've never seen anybody do that with any other tool. People look at their phones for an average of 4 or 5 hours a day. I personally don't have an issue, but smartphones are crack for most people and they'd probably be better served with a simpler tool.

>>30822
>I've never seen anybody do that with any other tool
because youre a zoomer who wasnt there for printed maps

>>30807
What a weird trend to buy more crap

>>30824
>>30820
If you're not going to constantly use your phone, it's worth it for the battery life alone, because you don't have to bother with charging it every day. I also got a dedicated mp3 player for $30 that can play 48h of music consecutively on a similar basis.

>They're even more proprietary black boxes

People don't buy dumbphones to escape from proprietary software, they buy them because they just want a telephone and they don't want a complex general purpose customizeable device that demands so much of their attention.


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In recent years China has made significant strides in developing its own semiconductor industry with things like Huawei's HiSilicon, Loongson, StarFive, MilkV, etc. I would call that China outlasted the US sanctions barrage from the US. Chinese investment in fabrication technologies, while not anyway near cutting edge is getting to be near good enough. With things like Intel looking shaky and the rise of Risc-V and ARM we are steadily moving forwards towards the hopeful future of open standards, hardware and software, where most consumer computation devices will have built in Chinese backdoors instead of American ones.

>Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/05/china_schools_riscv_pc/

>Beijing issues list of approved CPUs – with no Intel or AMD
>2024 may be the year of Linux On The Arm-or-RISC-desktop as China moves away from Western tech
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/25/china_approved_tech_list/

>China Is All In on a RISC-V Future
https://www.hpcwire.com/2024/01/08/china-is-all-in-on-a-risc-v-future/

>'The Linux of processors' — New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil as universities back open source high performance RISC-V processors to be the next big thing in HPC
https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-linux-of-processors-new-breed-of-chinese-super-cpus-emerge-on-us-soil-as-chinese-universities-back-open-source-high-performance-risc-v-processors-to-be-the-next-big-thing-in-hpc

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>>28665
>I've yet to see a superscalar RV processor you can put your hands on as a regular person
I'll eat my hat on this. Seems like the spacemit K1 and M1 as well as the newer sci-five SoCs are OOO.

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https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-06-17/China-builds-world-s-first-ultra-high-parallel-optical-computing-chip-1EhC1gYmphK/p.html
https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/06/30/news-china-made-breakthrough-in-ultra-highly-parallel-optical-computing-integrated-chip/
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087750
https://en.eeworld.com.cn/news/wltx/eic698456.html
https://www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/noticia.php?artigo=computacao-luz-paralela-rompe-escala-velocidade&id=010150250630

>>28665
Maybe if were to assume that the end goal is desktop-class R-V CPUs, whereas the more likely goal is having something between an FPGA and an off the shelf ARM SoC as a middle ground for custom chips controlling all the various IoT devices, drones, autonomous systems, etc that China actually produces

Why do you need a list of approved CPUs?

I work at a hardware company. one year ago we were talking about partnering with Chinese companies, now red scare is in full effect and my boss tols me npt to go to china "because they'll detain u" jokes on him I'll go anyway and just not mention it.


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what masks would you recommend to someone that will attend a gathering during which he will be recorded from all angles? itt we discuss such things, potential ways to mask ourselves in a way that makes it as hard as possible for future algorithms to: a. reconstruct the face; and b. match the face with already existing databases.

bonus points if the mask allows the person to view clearly without exposing too much of the eye area
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>>26678
>inb4 camera doesn't detect infrared

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>>28323
Rubber ARMS?? Is this to be a completely different color? Hardcore level there.

>>26397
Cops will just look at your phone location data and see if you left it at home to determine if it was indeed you carrying a provoking sign at the function

>>26701
Needs sunglasses at the very least


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where to get free uncensored deepseek online? huggingchat used to have it but now that's dead. I know I can run it locally on my own machine, but that's slow and I'm a mooch. what elase can I say?
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>>30604
oh idk i just don't feel like making an account on the website and heard if you use it in open source spaces you won't ever get a BS answer

also tired of everything needing a google email or phone number and rejecting temp email services. huggingface let me use a temp email service to access deepseek but the deepseek website does not. this is less about muh heckin epic tinyman square questions than it is about having a simple free and anonymous source for using it

>>30600
I think i know one, give me a day anon

>>30600

There used to be one by the name of oniongpt, but its gone now. The creator stopped working on it and accidentelly wiped everything when he was doing a project sorry bud.

Q: Where can I run it online?
A: Any time you have a question sensitive enough to warrant an uncensored model, you have a question sensitive enough to only run it locally.

Q: How can I run it locally?
A: Wait for a smaller more capable model.


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I haven't personally seen this phenomenon yet, only saw someone on fedi joke about it, but have there been ads targeted toward AI training web crawlers yet? Like something illegible to human users but specifically made so the LLM would do an ad read their products when prompted for something (optionally) related? Or since a lot of bourgoises have went full koolaid about AI, trying to market to the AI as a consumer demographic itself?

Literally search for SEO journals, it's one of the few virtuous cycles in science and technology

I'd link some blogs, but I just got a mathematical and!! geometric proof for dialectical and historical materialism; implies scientific socialism; implies communism; implies concrete not abstract Full Communism implies and is implied by Abundance
not sorry

So I'll give you the QRD, bots love accurate, honest truthful, lovingly hand corrected artistisinal bot slop make it informative for a human in the zone of proximal development of your target audience and you gravy

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We could teach the AI how to goon

# Kill them (they're likely stuck)
sudo kill -TERM 513163 514537

# If they don't die gracefully:
sudo kill -KILL 513163 514537

The above is an actual output of an actual AI.


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Talk about why every single site except reddit and fbi.gov has been complete and utterly abandoned.

>Interesting things going on
Browsers are all forcing https by default. On the surface this sounds like a good idea but in reality it's part of a larger plan of control.
Website owners are now at the mercy of the cert authorities. Host something they dont like? you cert gets revoked and now your site wont load on 99% of web browsers.
you have been shutdown.

>What is the dead internet theory?
Dead internet is partly caused by a generational problem, zoomers just want to be where they're friends are. it's understandable, we even did the
same back in the 2000s. everyone was on AIM and myspace. The only difference is those platforms actually did allow free speech back then. now the
internet has become more centralized and a handful of big corps run it all. they are in charge of what gets said on their platforms. not you.

>big techs goal
Big tech is fighting a future war. They know the young are the future. It’s about indoctrination. They are building their vision for the future. A dumbed down controlled population.

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>zoomers just want to be where they're friends are
<zoomers just want to be where they are friends are
Sloppy OP.

ep 1 of Kill The Computer podcast just released, talking about the dead internet theory and its relation to CIA/Peter Thiel surveillance and other fascist political economy stuff

https://player.fm/series/kill-the-computer/the-grand-inquisitors-dead-internet-theory

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For 50,000 Palestinian kids to be murdered required a quite dead internet.

Most nations are alert about the dead internet issue. China for example cut their internet off from the rest of the world to avoid the parasites.
Many other nations are also cutting foreign internet off beyond the deeper web. IE cutting off the foreign-monopoly surface-web. The surface-level web the west has endured should be destroyed due to how much it has been subverted.

Cheers to nations developing better browsers for the deeper web.

maybe the internet has just evolved beyond it's fun exciting wild west frontier phase and now it's a boring shopping mall and nobody is interested in using the internet for anything but selling garbage and making money.

Its true. All thats left is big tech monopolies (remember, amazon hosts so much shit). Not to mention the exploitative nature of the attention economy (and even if you think youre avoiding it by using duckduckgo, its just Bing in disguise, you will be clickbaited). To all comrades addicted such as myself all I can say is delete all your accounts and smash your smartphone in a luddite rage. Regain some control and reconnect with fellow humans to stand a chance against the Big Tech. No mercy for the big tech nerds!


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