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<Computer networking is the practice of connecting two or more computing devices to enable data exchange and resource sharing, using either physical cables or wireless signals. Key components include end devices (like computers and printers), media (cables or radio waves), protocols (rules for communication), and networking devices (such as routers and switches). These networks range in size from small Local Area Networks (LANs) in homes to expansive Wide Area Networks (WANs) that span the globe, like the internet

Thread to discuss computer networking. I thought we could use one because networking has an unusually long shelf life for IT skills, unlike programming and even linux to an extent, networking hasn't changed (at least very much) because its basically the physics of IT.
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What is some useful stuff to learn in terms of networking?

>>32588
Nftables
iproute
vyos
protocols
Staring at wireshark

>>32588

# Basic Terms
Software Defined Networking
IDS/IPS (Intrusion Prevention System)
IPv6 & implementation
Placing IPv4 Addresses inside of IPv6 addresses for simplicity
NAT (Network Address Translation)
SLA (Service Level Agreement): Maintain certain levels of uptime for your activist house.
Encrypted DNS Implementations
The domain .local or .internal

# Federal Power
- The knowledge that HTTPS is not resistant to Quantum Computers and that the NSA can save obscure amounts of data in Tape Storage for save now, decrypt later attacks.
- Americans can seize Domain Names with martial law and war time power acts. This means Crimethinc, the Anarchist Library, & Leftypol will lose control of their domain names within the next decade following a US vs China war regarding Tiawan, China in 2035.
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i have a site2site wireguard vpn that lets push backups from my homelab to another rack in my grandparent's basement

had the idea for a IPv6 only network that receives an IP block via SLAAC and doesn't even have a router, just switches, firewalls, and WAPs, is this possible?


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So in my state, Colorado, there's a bill going currently up to debate to require operating systems like Windows, Linux (which isn't an operating system), and MacOS to have age verification.

damn, so it's not just california. i guess it is a coordinated effort after all, this fucking sucks

they're going all in on literal 1984 surveillance dystopia and aren't gonna stop unless there's a revolution. even if these bills get shot down, they're going to just keep pushing for it and hiding these measures in other bills like they've been doing with everything else.

>>32752
so far it's just California and Colorado but I wouldn't be surprise in the near future more states or perhaps congress would push this bullshit
>>32753
Unfortunately I don't see it being shot down if it pass the general assembly, the governor of my state is a right-wing libertarian anti-vaxxer who thinks corporations should have access to as much data as possible


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Not so funny now is it?
You have 18 months to organize before youre thrown into the wood chipper :^)
Well maybe more while you take up a lower paying manual job
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>>32712
(meant to reply to >>32687 )

there will still be jobs because for millenials because recent graduates will be totally useless and unable to do anything that doesn't involve chatGPT. it's kind of insane if you think about it, that they had the pandemic that fucked up high school, then they had LLMs in college to replace all the critical thinking skills they weren't able to acquire during the pandemic, it's the perfect storm. we're going to have a crop of professionals who can't do anything without an ipad and $400 monthly subscriptions. the west has completely destroyed the brains of an entire generation, and for what?

and before you say "learning is useless" or whatever, the upper echelon of the tech industry is specifically sending their kids to schools that have low-tech learning programs. doing critical thinking really will become a class differentiator, your kids will be taught math by some chatgpt nightmare bot and assisted by some guy who barely knows how to read and write, this is the future until the chinese easily roll us over after americans become too stupid to dress themselves correctly

IT work is not going to be automated by AI, but it is going to be outsourced to people in India and China who do the work with AI assistance/supervision for a fraction of the pay. Even without AI this has been a long time coming, IT people have just refused to acknowledge this reality and desperately want to believe that their jobs are somehow the exception to the forces of global economics, that nobody except bourgeoisie white Europeans could ever learn JavaScript and their jobs would be secure forever.

>white collar
  • That's accountants and such, not programmers.
  • Lmao imagine how fucked every company will be if they actually try to let AI do their accounting.


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The 4chan Pass is literally the ultimate utility for AI spammers. For just $20 a year, you get to bypass the only real barrier—captchas. It allows bot nets to flood the board with LLM-generated slop 24/7 without getting flagged by the automated spam filters. Since Pass users get higher trust scores and can post through VPNs/proxies, it’s basically a 'license to shill.' If you’re wondering why /g/ is 50% dead internet noise, thank the Pass for making automation cheap and frictionless.

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posted this on /g/. guess what, in less than 3 minutes i got a highly precise reply. bots. they are everywhere.

Does the new capchas even do anything to deter bots, given how easy they are? Like you wouldn't need AI, just a script per type of puzzle.

>>32639
Are you trolling, m8? Those new captchas take like twice as long to complete as the simple post you were trying to make.

>>32727
>skim instructions that are like 1 in 7 possible types of puzzles
>slide to the end
>slide to answer
>repeat two more times
>post
6 to 7 seconds max sober, 6 to 9 seconds drunk.
I don't think that's just me having giga-brain puzzle autism. They're much easier and less error-prone puzzles than the old "line up the broken warped and noisified code and type it" puzzle. You only have to do it once, while the old one it's inevitable that one will fumble it a few times before getting it right due to the noise making fake letters.

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anyone else from europe having trouble to post on 4chan? it seems they rangebanned europe??


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The neverending quest to rewrite vichan -

Archived threads:
https://archive.is/xiA7y
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>>32461
>a central censor to allow for more costly filters
Filters shouldn't be costly, unless there's something deeply wrong with your architecture (like emacs gnus scoring articles in a single thread by fetching them multiple times).
>The trouble is that I'm not sure the bots can do a good enough job.
They likely can't. This is why you give users the options to configure these filters, because it allows them to do aggressive filtering at their own risk. The more a filter or lack thereof bothers them personally, the more time they will spend on refining it, a textbook case of worse-is-better.

>>32471
>Filters shouldn't be costly.
Well, if we're using LLMs at all they would be from the user perspective.

>They likely can't. This is why you give users the options to configure these filters, because it allows them to do aggressive filtering at their own risk.
This tracks, it's a good idea. Having two tiers of filtering, one for basic federation (meeting basic social standards of the fediverse) and another tier with per instance filtering you could make it federate well, at least on the level of the Group. I also like the idea that sense we're working with trees of a single inReplyTo link per post you can go ahead and hide entire trees at once. Making bump ordering work with this is a tractable problem.

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Went ahead and got the creation of Note and Article objects, and the display of the catalog done today with the help of "opencode". No file attachments at the moment of thread pages. Had to replace the >!spoiler!< syntax with the more contemporary ||spoiler|| so that the quotes would parse correctly.

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Today had opencode add the thread posts, I didn't really like the way it structured the model code so I had to fix this.

Had another idea: a "difficult" POW for newly created accounts. This is roughly equivalent to banning everyone by default and having a default ban length. With this you could have actual user Actors instead of just the Group, but purely optional usernames, and still have bans that make some sense. Sort of think I no longer have the energy to dedicate to this project. Might just wait for the LLMs to get good enough to write this themselves.


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My team and I are building a new kind of social networking platform, where communities can organize, produce, and distribute goods and services collectively, outside of capitalist market structures. Our goal is to make social production and distribution as seamless and democratic as possible.

>What is Social Production?
  • A peer-to-peer (P2P) network where every user is a node, no central authority.
  • All decisions (from project rules to resource distribution) are made by the community, using transparent, on-chain voting.
  • Projects are created, funded, and managed collectively. Outputs are distributed based on need, not profit or labor input. All plans for distribution will be agreed upon before production begins.
  • All transactions and changes are recorded on a blockchain for transparency and accountability (not for speculation or data storage).
  • All collective assets are held in trust by a non-profit foundation, managed transparently and only as directed by community decisions.
  • The system is designed to be cross-platform (desktop, web, mobile) and open to anyone who wants to participate.
  • The goal is to build enough productive capacity and community resilience that participation in the capitalist economy becomes a choice rather than a necessity. Collective funds of projects intends to be temporary, giving us legal acquisition of means of production from which to build upon.

Why are we doing this?
We want to build a world where capitalism is no longer the default. We believe in collective ownership, democratic planning, and meeting needs directly without markets, bosses, or profit motives.

>Where are we now?
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https://github.com/social-production
Forgot the github link


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The other thread hit bump limit and I'm addicted to talking about the birth of the ̶a̶l̶l̶-̶k̶n̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶ the biggest financial bubble in history and the coming jobless eschaton, post your AI news here

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ai bros on suicide watch

I’ve used AI to generate a bunch of dashboards for various random things I wanted to visualize and unfortunately I’ve gained the ability to instantly recognize vibe-coded UI. For some reason all the bots have a very limited visual language. I can’t unsee it now and so now so many new webpages just make me nauseous to look at.

Just take a look at “dataisbeautiful” if you don’t know what I mean yet. It’s all Claude coded visualizations. Black backgrounds with colorful UI elements, way too much text, too many elements, unironically “not beautiful” representations of data that are overloaded with irrelevant and confounding analytics.

The AI Bubble Is An Information War
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubble-is-an-information-war/

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The entire pro-AI side of the discourse is basically just this, isn't it

>>32834
Yes, it’s literally all AI generated posts.

I use it so much at work (code) that I can instantly recognize it and often down to which model and which version. Though they blur together. I’m always surprised and a little disgusted when I go into, for example, Reddit, and see some AI generated OP with AI “polished” responses and the actual humans responding to it not even noticing apparently.

But they also simply don’t care about human life at all, at the far end. They think 99% of humanity is effectively worthless chaff, non-productive and made obsolete by commoditized intelligence. The cause of this is actually primarily capitalism, I think, because they don’t understand the purpose of anything that does boost productivity or make markets more efficient. So if you are inefficient and unproductive, you are worthless. What you are as a human? If you bring this up you’ll be scoffed at, as if this questions is a childish thought that they’ve already refuted.

Incidentally I can totally see the awful agent pipeline they have set up:

>“Hum, the user seems to believe the previous target designation was incorrect. This is a critical issue. I need to handle this delicately….”

>You were right to push back on that. On closer examination, that is not a military barracks but is clearly a school. Do not push that button. This is not a valid military target. Thanks for setting me straight. Are there more targets you would like me to evaluate? Or would you like me to explain why bombing protected civilian infrastructure is a war crime?


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one of the key asymmetrical advantages that the (imperialist) military superpowers enjoy is highly advanced air defense missile systems. these systems can intercept a fair amount of incoming projectiles, but they miss a lot too and are extremely expensive.

why not just send thousands of explosive drones in a big grid pattern into the sky, make them hover there and detonate the closest ones when the drone grid detects a missile passing through? the drone grid can intercept multiple missiles simultaneously, is self-healing, low-tech, and inexpensive.

this could allow 3rd world countries to massively level up their air defense capabilities, thereby increasing 3rd world power.


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Post your desktops, here is my steamdeck. Even if it's not "riced" it would be nice to see the desktop, does apple have screenfetch still? I hope you have a good day.

i like how your screenfetch logs multiple errors when trying to retrieve the percentage of available space in your hard drive, nice touch.

OP, I…

>>32720
divide by zero lmao. makes sense screenfetch would be written by a script kiddy

>>32723
Notice how it doesn't panic and screenfetch still finishes, that's the power of powershell


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Discord is fucked (will require age verification now) and conventional social media has been unbearable for a while. Time for another paradigm shift in anonymous Internet communication. And no forums are not coming back, you gotta get over it. The next thing will probably be an obvious downgrade in the same way Reddit was.
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>>32541
>You dipshits
Tingnoter or the "get a job" gif guy? Only two posters here have turned goomba fallacy into a full on syndrome.
>have been saying this since fucking COVID, lmfao.
It's been true since COVID. There's a growing number of forums. Simple as. It won't be The Next Big Thing, but there's a noticable resurgence in forums.
>Are you on Bluesky by any chance?
Stop shilling your mediocre attempt to compete with Activitypub, no one cares about AT protocol.

At least that explains where this weird non-discourse came from, you're from Twitter v2: waffle narwal shoelaces edition.

>>32530
Based af. Discord groomers on suicide watch.

>>32547
>Tingnoter or the "get a job" gif guy?
>goomba fallacy
What the fuck are you even talking about, faggot.

<there were 4 users
<5 years later there are a grand total of 6 users now!!! we are SO back
You should work on marketing.

>>32548
>>32546
>>32541
>>32543
>we need to regulate the internet…because of chuds and groomers!
Yeah I'm sure the FBI and Palantir is on our side and has our best interests at heart. Remember that one of the biggest age-verification companies (Persona) has direct ties to Peter Thiel

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This wasn't really supposed to be the main topic of the thread but I guess w/e. Anyway, new retarded age verification law just dropped. Probably impossible to enforce and will be struck down or modified down the line somehow, but this is still insane. A bunch of governments and private orgs just started pushing for shit like this all within the span of months and everyone's just going "eh what can we do". Am I being histrionic, is this not crazy? Should we not be taking this seriously?


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