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Rayhunter Anonymous 18-10-25 15:45:51 No.31573[Reply]

Who else rayhunting? Tired of police militarization and surveillance? Watch them back!

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying?language=en

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JPEG XL Glownonymous 10-10-25 20:42:08 No.31509[Reply]

Why isn't it widely adopted yet? It's much better than AVIF since it's actually designed for still images, and Apple supports it natively on Safari and Photos. What's Google's endgame by killing work on support for it in Chrome?

Anonymous 10-10-25 21:27:16 No.31510

Competes with webp. Think that's about it. A lot of programs do support it but chrome refusing is the main banana peel on the road.

Anonymous 12-10-25 22:58:52 No.31542

nothing is sufficiently better than good old JPEG to actually dethrone it. what we should do is actually implement the full JPEG spec, which has a bunch of neat features like pyramidal compression and range coding

Anonymous 16-10-25 08:44:38 No.31552

>>31542
Many websites already use webp or avif.

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ID verification thread Anonymous 30-12-24 00:42:37 No.28046[Reply]

In the recent years, more and more platforms at starting to introduce age verification trough external services like Persona. The most recent one, being roblox, which introduced ID age verification not so long ago. We also have cases like Facebook and Linkdin. But it is just the start. Probably, soon more and more platforms will introduce restrictions and age verification trough ID.

Now the question is, how would one bypass these tools? Fake IDs, if so, how good they should be? Or is the technology even working? All the questions surrounding this are encouraged.

3 posts omitted.

Anonymous 04-01-25 17:44:43 No.28094

I know from a friend's friend that you can use an image generator language model and photoshop to make fake photos of IDs to get around this, you just have to let your email account associated with the service's account "cook" first (e.g. let big data fingerprint it by watching youtube and creating general activity on it) so their algorithm does not recognize it as fraud

Anonymous 29-09-25 02:08:23 No.31416

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bump

Since this thread was last bumped things have gotten worse.
The thing that is on my mind is how would one run a site without having to follow such laws.
Like I want to run my own porn site which is the most risky category.

Anonymous 29-09-25 02:38:12 No.31417

>>28047
this is very common if you are overemployed and want to have two different CVs. it's not "anonymously" just not tied to a real ID.

Anonymous 29-09-25 02:40:48 No.31418

>>31416
>Like I want to run my own porn site which is the most risky category.
How about a webring instead? If a bunch of people making smut just link to eachother, there's no platform to be forced to do this to begin with.

Anonymous 15-10-25 19:46:38 No.31551

>>31418
yeah thats one step away from just throwing up a torrent

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Anonymous 22-04-25 20:18:49 No.29266[Reply]

>old drive from 2016 "might" be dying
>look into getting a drive with at least 2 tb since I wanna hoard my warez
>"oh get a toshiba bro they're reliable
>not even a fucking year later
>Current Pending Sector Count: 1864
You've got to be fucking kidding me, comrades.

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Anonymous 12-10-25 13:46:55 No.31527

>>29266
Surely the drive you bought is still in warranty?

Anonymous 12-10-25 13:48:01 No.31528

>>29448
In my experience external HDDs have been horrible for reliability and constantly broke. But maybe that's because I was too clumsy and dropped them sometimes and didn't really know you shouldn't move them while they're plugged in

Anonymous 14-10-25 14:51:38 No.31545

All my important files I have stored in triplicate on three old 3.5" hdd sata drives of different brands I had lying around. I figure if they are stored somewhere out of the elements at least one of them ought to still be readable 20 years from now.

Anonymous 14-10-25 15:49:05 No.31546

You guys stressing out about pirated content you can download anywhere and you don't even give it the time of your day, meanwhile I lost all my teenage years' photos on my old phone that broke.

Anonymous 14-10-25 17:45:05 No.31547

I got some WD Red HDD drives years ago and they're been at it just fine, I dunno why they have such a bad rep. You also should probably invest in some sort of NAS device with raid or whatever, 2 TB devices are dirt cheap these days and you can always use the peace of mind tbh

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nu-imageboard megathread #2 Anonymous 16-09-24 04:09:47 No.26419[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

The neverending quest to rewrite vichan -

Archived threads:
https://archive.is/xiA7y

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Glownonymous 14-10-25 22:52:50 No.31548

>>31541
>Cache immutable the outbox.
I wrote signature verification for the inbox and three implementation for the Person outbox.
Think I'd like it to be illegal to use an irregular cursor/page so that the cache rarely misses.
But would also like to avoid using the "skip" parameter with O(n) search of the documents.
No matter how it's implemented it seems to require a document mapping cursors to pages.

Glownonymous 16-10-25 16:45:58 No.31556

>>31548
Settled on just using a cursor and "trusting" that servers won't use irregular cursors.
Or else that it may be possible to remove services which query the origin excessively.

Further this is a singly linked implementation because Delete and Update are included.
Delete and Update requires that the pages be traversed in full to render next elements.

The first page is always the total_items modulo the config.OUTBOX_PAGE_SIZE.
This allows every subsequent page to be cached immutable so long as the linked cursors are used.

We also drop the "partOf" parameter to avoid making the full (mutable) collection.

It's all above board with the spec too.
Only downside is the mentioned "trust" required of servers.

Glownonymous 17-10-25 17:37:30 No.31567

Wrote the Person following and followers endpoints.
Ended up not materializing the document to keep track of this.
So similar to the outbox this is just a query on the ActivityModel class.
The only real advantage to this is in bookkeeping.
It's slow because it's not really possible to cache these pages.
It should be less than 50ms (maybe less than 10ms on heavy hardware), for a page, which is probably too slow.
There is also a precondition that there be one follow not undone for any thousand.
This is to make it computationally feasible.

Glownonymous 20-10-25 14:53:07 No.31583

>>31567
It's a bit of a fail to write a federated server with mongodb in anything but typescript.
Guess there's going to be a 2.3 using fedify, mongodb, and typescript.
Think need to separate out the Activity logs from the materialized views.
This is to make the follwers, following, and like sufficiently performant.
My impression is that the client to server protocol would make things like bump ordering difficult.
So there probably needs to be a third layer to the API for a cache efficient client.

Glownonymous 20-10-25 17:06:22 No.31584

>>31583
For future reference, the private key idea is to use fordwardActivity() [^1].
And simply sign on the client side for all the relevant servers sent via a separate endpoint.
It's apparently trivial to wrap the existing fedify classes as monogodb documents with indices.
For the POST fanout use fedify/x/cfworkers [^2] including POSTing to the origin…

:[^1] https://fedify.dev/manual/inbox#forwarding-activities-to-another-server
:[^2] https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/pull/242

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/ML/ Machine-Learning general Anonymous 28-08-25 20:57:06 No.31062[Reply]

Machine Learning general. So anybody here actually do any ML programming? I just installed PyTorch yesterday and actually started training some shit. It was pretty easy to get working. But… I am a dumb dumb, so I am going to go back and learn all the basics I think, because I have delusions that maybe I'll be able to do something interesting with it, but I know unless I'm really knowledgeable about it, the probability is less than zero.

I know that thread about bitching about ML is the most popular thread on /tech/ but I thought we should have a separate thread for people actually programming it.

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Glownonymous 23-09-25 23:15:24 No.31361

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>>31353
Am interested in if "Let's Verify Step by Step" can be applied to prompting. So you construct a prompt telling it to explain step by step what it's doing. You then give incremental feedback as it's constructing the chain of thought. The responses steps are kept small so there's not much time lost to generation. Bonus it makes the models look real stupid, and you have to think a little.

Anonymous 24-09-25 20:41:11 No.31368

Have fun kids

https://huggingface.co/blog/smol2operator

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=99f0335c4ad9ff6153e517418d48535ab6d8afef&from=research.latest-advancements-list

Anonymous 25-09-25 17:32:31 No.31370

Anonymous 10-10-25 22:55:49 No.31511

I haven't reviewed this televised class because I'm not too interested in Ollama, but I'm assuming it's good because the guy running it caught what a breakthrough deepseek's experimental sparse attention model is

Anonymous 12-10-25 00:07:27 No.31521

https://github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2.2
Enjoy

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Is Android kill? Anonymous 26-08-25 06:09:12 No.30977[Reply]

First they made AOSP private, now they won't even let you install your own apps. Is this the end of Android?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/

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Anonymous 29-08-25 17:25:40 No.31093

>>31090
Officially you can only call it Android if Google approves of it, it's for device manufactures and your device has to pass certain requirements and I assume pay some money, and then they give you the Google Play Services and all that crap and then you have Android. The open source version is called AOSP (Android Open Source Project) and it does not have the Play services and stuff, and most likely won't have this either.

Anonymous 03-09-25 02:44:27 No.31158

I'm curious about how Obtanium will work since it uses git links to build packages.

Anonymous 29-09-25 15:25:58 No.31425

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>>30980
https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
tl;dr: f-droid is kill

Anonymous 11-10-25 20:36:58 No.31519

>>31158
huh? i use obtainium for one specific app. afaik, it only downloads the release files from github, it never builds anything from source.
if the dev uploaded the signed apk to github releases, it will still work. if they didn't do that or it's files straight out of a build pipeline it won't (unless you're using android without google play services)…

Anonymous 11-10-25 20:47:24 No.31520

>>31519
>unless you're using android without google play services)…
Oh so this a GAPPS thing, not android itself?

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Quit my dev job with no backup Anonymous 24-09-25 11:33:17 No.31366[Reply]

Have you ever come across legacy code and clients so shit it made you quit your job? I'm the OP from >>29629. I'm serving my notice period as of now. Never will I ever work a techjeet job again in my life. I'm fed up of looking at the absolute worst if-else/try-except hell, perpetually broken, shitly architected mess of entangled services that was assigned to me against my will. Even the individual config files are thousands of lines of undocumented json. It's such hot garbage you can't even run it locally, you need to push your changes to UAT just to see if they work. On top of that, the clients are typical middle-management assholes who always tried to blame me for their own mistakes. So, I quit on my own terms before those cunts got me fired. Atleast I have learned what not to do and saved enough to start my own thing. Will probably become a petite-bourg indiehacker or freelancer of some kind.

Also, and I say this as a jeet myself, never work for jeet clients or managers. They'd rather work you to death than make any improvements in their processes and standards, even if said improvements serve their own interests.

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Anonymous 05-10-25 22:36:04 No.31468

hahahaha, I've had the same setting, sometimes shit code makes you want to blow your brains, it was a 20 year old .net codebase, PORTED from another company that was about selling horses or some shit, and it was adapted to handle biometric product catalogues, a CRM, i remember finding comments from 2004.

Glownonymous 06-10-25 21:57:23 No.31485

>quitting a cushy job over autismal shit
<Will probably become a petite-bourg
yeah "become" lmfao

Anonymous 08-10-25 16:59:26 No.31493

>>31485

Staying on a job that is unfulfilling and makes you miserable just because it's "cushy" is The American Okie-Doke.

OP don't feel bad for having agency in your life.

Anonymous 08-10-25 17:06:12 No.31494

>>31485
>>boo hoo poor me
>Won't somebody think of the african children???
Cmon man, get a grip

Anonymous 11-10-25 05:41:47 No.31514

>>31485
Labour aristocrats are far less reactionary than petite-bourgs. Not that it matters because India is doomed anyway.

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Anonymous 20-10-23 16:46:43 No.22029[Reply]

Xfce was supposed to be THE lightweight fully-featured desktop manager but it seems fucking KDE has around the same memory footprint and performance?!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/10/23/bold-prediction-kde-will-steal-the-lightweight-linux-desktop-crown-in-2020/

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Anonymous 30-07-24 05:51:04 No.26317

>>26316
low spec computers. which is the majority of computers in the third world

Glownonymous 31-07-24 10:39:38 No.26348

>>22030
>mouse girl
This has awakened something in me, what have you done?

Anonymous 01-08-24 06:42:03 No.26388

>>22872
Just when the world needed tysontan most, he vanished.

Anonymous 26-09-25 15:02:04 No.31379

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https://oomfie.city/@anubiarts/115265721807724116
>happy KDE Linux/KDE Plasma 6.5 beta to those who celebrate

Anonymous 10-10-25 14:42:54 No.31507

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I like IceWM and Window Maker. Both are easy to use. IceWM comes with Windows 95 clone GUI and Window Maker is different (similar to NeXT) but still just as easy to use.

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Anon's anonymous email guide Anonymous 01-10-25 20:10:27 No.31436[Reply]

since the server crash ate my last thread about how to create anonymous email users over Tor in the age of cuckflare, I decided to recreate my findings from it. the goal is simple: create an email with a host that is considered trustworthy in most places online, using Tor Browser
I assume you're on a Debian-like system, including Ubuntu or Linux Mint. use a password manager like keepassx to generate unique passwords for all services. DO NOT USE ANY PASSWORDS THAT YOU USE FOR ANY OTHER ACCOUNTS. avoid using any special characters in your passwords, because configuring mutt with them seems to work poorly

for this exercise you will need Javascript enabled in Tor Browser. the middle "Safer" setting should work. perhaps in the future I will figure out a way with scripts disabled. the target of this guide is protonmail. in my experience it is considered trustworthy enough for signing up for various services
we will use a series of what I will call "springboards", where we move from a less trusted service to a more trusted one, until we get to protonmail which has rather strict standards for what it considers trustworthy for email verification

the guide below will go cock.li -> kolabnow.com -> proton.me

>level 0: cock.li
run by chvddie-adjacent people. uses colorful domain names like cock.li, loves.dicksinhisan.us and horsefucker.org, so it is generally considered untrustworthy by almost everyone. but it has the benefit of easy signup. it will therefore serve as our level 0 service. it has some hidden services:
rurcblzhmdk22kttfkel2zduhyu3r6to7knyc7wiorzrx5gw4c3lftad.onion for web
xdkriz6cn2avvcr2vks5lvvtmfojz2ohjzj4fhyuka55mvljeso2ztqd.onion for email (IMAP, POP) and chat (XMPP)
the clearnet web service tends to work better for signup for some reason, so use https://cock.li/ to sign up. using the cock.li domain for your email seems to work best - I tried using airmail.cc but had problems logging in
cock.li currently does not have a webmail. look further down for a short guide how to set up an IMAP client (mutt) that runs via Tor
you can solve the Proof-of-Work thing if you want, but it's not necessary for this guide since we only need to be able to receive email on this account. solving the PoW took 20 minutes on my crappy machine. you need to set the "Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Anonymous 01-10-25 20:23:31 No.31437

I also noticed reddit allows signup with cock.li emails. works best via reddit's .onion

Anonymous 01-10-25 20:33:18 No.31438

>>31436
>mutt
at this point just connect to the imap server with the openssl terminal client. it literally adds nothing over a bash script that just grabs everything from imap and will be a point of failure because it is comically hard to setup compared what little it does

and you wasted time talking about random email providers that literally does not matter. if you want privacy use a pgp key pair. wtf is this /g/ tier nonsense

Anonymous 01-10-25 21:32:12 No.31439

>>31438
this isn't about encrypting email. it's about getting an email without leaving any clearnet trace

Anonymous 03-10-25 23:40:10 No.31449

>>31437
update: reddit will shadowban you for the most minor shit if you do this. better to use a more reputable provider

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