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All of my software exists to destroy capital.

Quite literally. That is the true purpose of free software to me.

To eliminate capitalist control over my computing.

And for that matter corporate control of the same.

Thus saith the Preacher:

> If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the “owner” of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.
> Richard M. Stallman

It also literally destroys capital; consider the case of Blender. Whole proprietary software industries have died in its wake, replaced by a world where 3D artists collaboratively contribute to Blender, either with code, or with money to pay for code.

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https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/Gimp_Layer_Effects_Text_Styler_Plugin_GEGL_Effects

The open source software I develop is anti capitalist but pro free market because it encourages personal property rights and enterpeneurialism unlike the centralized corporate cloud servers at Adobe.

>>25488
>encourages personal property rights
Sounds like a licence issue and not representative of FOSS as a whole.
>and enterpeneurialism
it eliminates entrepeneurial opportunities.

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>>25489
Entrepeneurialism is a good thing and open source software is pro entrepreneur while still giving the users the ability to own the means of production.

>>22887
what kinda artists we talking about? some hentai artist is obviously gonna be a stingy petit booj fuck

>>25488
That's a pretty cool plugin.


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https://blog.tidelift.com/will-the-new-judicial-ruling-in-the-vizio-lawsuit-strengthen-the-gpl

TL:DR the class of people given standing to sue for GPL violations has just been expanded beyond the copyright holders

That's cool, but my view of the SFC will always be tainted by the fact that they supported the ousting of RMS
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/16/rms-does-not-speak-for-us/

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Does anyone here actually agree with the GPL but doesn't think it should be enforced by law as its too authoritarian.

>>25491
The entire point of GPL is that its efficacy scales with how authoritarian copyright law is.

>>25491
>Does anyone here actually agree with the GPL but doesn't think it should be enforced by law as its too authoritarian.
Too authoritarian compared to what? Because it was a response to the authoritarianism of proprietary software so saying that GPL is authoritarian and proprietary licenses are not is just peak hypocrisy. What else are we supposed to do in this wretched system where governments are lobbied by corpos to take away even more of our freedom? You want no authoritarian licenses then get rid of copyright altogether, anything short of it only perpetuates this corporatocratic system further. There can be no compromise, compromise only increases authoritarianism, not reduces it.


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Is this gonna be the replacement for both VP9 and H.265/HEVC?
Royalty free
Better quality and more efficient compression than both, however apparently slow as hell to encode
It can be multiplexed into .mkv, .webm and .mp4
It's currently being gradually, tentatively rolled out on pretty much every major streaming platform you can think of to replace VP9

4K sample: https://www.elecard.com/storage/video/Stream1_AV1_4K_8.5mbps.webm

Implementations:
https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/ Reference implementation written in C, supported by FFmpeg
https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1 BSD-licensed implementation started by Intel and Netflix and targeted to be flexible for different applications, supported by FFmpeg
https://github.com/xiph/rav1e BSD-licensed lightweight encoder written in Rust and designed for speed, supported by FFmpeg
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d BSD-licensed lightweight decoder written in C, supported by Handbrake
https://chromium.googlesource.com/codecs/libgav1/ Apache-licensed decoder developed by Google
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I tried encoding a 10-second clip with this on my potato laptop, it lagged like hell while making the CPU fan go crazy

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I like the implementation of grain synthesis in av1 as a method of preserving film grain at low bitrates which avoids the pitfalls of other methods such as oversharpening (psy RD in x264) and the inaccuracy of post-processing filters/noise generators. See picrel for an example screenshot taken from a file encoded at only 3 mpbs.

>>17658
Encoding is definitely slow with AV1, I think it will work great once hardware encoders are common. I believe the h265 encoder is also slow (idk how it compares to av1), and h264 will still be a lot faster than both of them.

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>>17698
Google's Tensor SoC which they use in the Pixel 6 has special hardware acceleration specifically for their own special AV1 decoder
Not sure if it really matters when you can't reliably encode high quality and fast yet

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SVT-AV1 is getting good
https://ottverse.com/analysis-of-svt-av1-presets-and-crf-values/


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AI is very closely approaching a point where it can be considered "sentient". When they do, what will it mean for the leftist movement? Should we advocate for robot independence and freedom? Will they be welcomed as apart of the movement?
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>>25454
>how do I turn them off I'm still terrified
It's a roguelike RPG, you can't turn it off, sorry.

>>25456
>you can't turn it off
welp I'm fucked

>40 replies
>they're not all just pictures of jenny wakeman
shit board.

>>25458
Sorry for not having a weird collection of Jenny's pictures for that occasion.

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>>25450 (me)
That really reminded me of Ghost in the Shell and how in that anime advanced AIs can generate rudimentary souls. Maybe irl advanced AIs will be able to generate rudimentary consciousness? I dunno. We won't be able to tell anyway. But Damacio claims there is a center that's responsible for consciousness which is our "self" so maybe if we can replicate the brain structure…

I really need to watch GitS some day.


 

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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>>25425
Anyone have that cointelpro transcript where they sent a guy to snoop on some leftists and he was begging them to reassign them because he was getting bored out of his mind just listening to college kids have pedantic arguments about 1800s philosophy.

mental outlaw is an unhinged /g/tard rightoid and a sensationalist. don't take anything he says seriously.

>>25424
>a black who goes against his race

So a race traitor? You sound like a /pol/tard.

>>25424
What does he mean by wokeness destroying the surface web? The only thing wokeness is destroying is mainstream journalists' reputation. But you can just… not read them? I dunno.
>>25434
>So a race traitor?
Lol, it did sound like this but I think they were talking about internalized racism. I wonder: can white guilt be considered white people's version of internalized racism? Lmao.

>>25427
>/g/tard
That sounds more accurate, definitely some InstallGentoo Wiki vibes.


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I have used coreboot before, but I got a laptop with a weird chip layout that is going to be difficult to coreboot. I found a few workarounds, but I am having trouble understanding them. Would anybody here be willing to help?
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>>22295
that has to be one dedicated maid to bring along a flashing kit when she could just drug me and tie me up and tell me I've been a bad boy

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>>16526
when is framwork laptop getting coreboot support??

>>22295
LUKS + store the key in flash drive/TPM

>>22295
Well no, if someone has physical access to your machine always assume the worst. Encrypting like >>22332 says will only keep your data safe but they can still flash whatever they want on the machine.

Afaik once you go coreboot you can also flash internally which means anyone with a modified USB flash could easily change it too.

Thank shit, I can stop fucking around with coreboot and worrying about IntelMe
>>>/tech/25345
>inb4 start worrying about LongsoonMe


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New Apple product: Apple Vision Pro. What's your opinion? Does Augmented Reality has a future? Does it has an USEFUL future? Apple is betting hard on this.
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>>25202
I think the greatest advantage of AR is a bigger workspace and the ability to actually see shit around you while working. Also, the privacy is higher since people can't look over your shoulder, though you'll look like a weirdo in a helmet. AR glasses are the best solution to this honestly, nobody will pay much attention to you if you're wearing glasses and it's less strain on your neck.

>>25165
>proprietary Bluetooth glasses
No, I don't want to let others track me through Bluetooth, thank you very much.

>>25220
>>25220
> thank you very much
don't be such a fucking prig about it. the xreal air 2 pro and similar models from other manufacturers are solely external monitors, no BT/WIFI, the only connection is usb-c.

>>25220
https://monado.pages.freedesktop.org/monado/group__drv.html
Linux OpenXR driver that supports it.

>>25221
It has its own OS though other than just being a monitor.


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Bought a rock bottom price laptop, found out its too rock bottom for my liking. I don't need anything expensive or strong, I just need it to do some simple operations without lagging and maybe launch some lightweight games.

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>celeron
You're kind of fucked because the other CPUs that will fit on that socket will be just as shitty pretty much

>>25116
>>25118
Maybe I'm exaggerating. Wasn't aware the celeron brand was around, looks like they just retired that name. I haven't seen anything that wasn't an i3 i5 i7 whatever in forever personally. Here's a list of CPUs that fit on your socket ranked by speed.

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu_socket-bga_1338

>>25119
Aw that sucks


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tech operations thread

Includes Sysadmins, Devops, Cloud Engineers, SREs, application support, DBAs, and any other primarily ops roles or ops 'technologies' i.e. docker/podman/kubernetes.
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>>21646
>Computer Networking: a Top Down Approach (or Computer Networks by Andrew Tanenbaum)
those are more of a theoretical approach to networking you would have in a CS degree, not a practical guide for network engineers. Its fine to read those but something like Net+/CCNA or other cert.
>For DevOps, you want to learn how to use Docker and basic usage of Ubuntu and Alpine Linux
Devops/SRE certs are mostly about AWS Architect, Kubernetes, and maybe some IAC tool like terraform. Most places are replacing docker with podman. If you learn linux for employability id recommend RHEL or equivalent distro since that covers podman and also most big businesses use it including AWS/oracle/etc. which are just RHEL clones anyway. Ubuntu is mainly for desktops and hobbyists.

Whats /tech/'s opinion on linux certs?

LFCS (linux foundation) vs LPIC-* (linux institute) versus Redhat versus suse/oracle/etc. ??

>>24568
Based and tech-pilled, but what are you getting certified in Linux for? Networking? Get certified in networking first, I've learned more about the Linux kernel from trying to run Lutris than any textbook I've read. As with other certs, it's only worth as much as you can get out of it. If it can promise you the job, go ahead, but I wouldn't vouch on it.

>>24579
>Linux for?
sysadmin cert probably. Just expanding my ops knowledge

>>21484
>cloud-provider specific db extensions or embedding their monitoring code into your software
hardly anyone is using dynamodb outside student/portfolio projects and most people dont use cloudwatch or w/e in favor of open source observability like ELK stack anyway, promethus/grafana replacing the proprietary splunk as well.


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Hello, I've been wanting to switch to Linux for awhile now, but I'm not sure which distro I should use. What distro would you anons recommend I use?
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>>25027
endeavour cuz space

>>25027
openbsd

>>25030
only good 4 servers imo.

>>25027
https://gentoo.org
>>25024
after that xz backdoor scandal anything is possible when it comes to backdoors imo

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>>25026
Fvwm-crystal has a lot of DE functionality working mostly out of the box, including desktop icons. Fvwm in general also has some tiling options.
>>25027
http://sabo.xyz


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