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Cuba uses google analytics Anonymous 12/25/20 (Fri) 21:51:46 No.6321 [Reply]

ecured.cu uses google analytics, why is that? WTF is Cuba's youth club is doing?

I thought socialism wouldn't sell our data to google wtf.

Anonymous 12/28/20 (Mon) 21:22:04 No.6337

cuba is capitalist so no surprise there

Anonymous 12/29/20 (Tue) 05:57:27 No.6339

Write a letter to them.
They use FLOSS for other purposes, but this could be a mistake.
At least from a security perspective they should remove proprietary software, as others like the Chinese had done.

Anonymous 01/01/21 (Fri) 11:39:36 No.6349

>>6339
Where can I send them a letter?

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adobe flash player will die by 2021. Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:52 No.6257 [Reply]

Friendly reminder that flash is gonna be dead in less than a month and alongside it a large chunk of the old internet in the form of flash animations and games,Because the software is old and full of so many security flaws that Adobe just can't be arsed to fix it anymore at this point so they're just ending support altogether.

What does /tech/ think of this? Is it a good riddance?

https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-finally-kills-flash-dead/

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Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:53 No.6271

Does anyone have a copy of this book ?
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/flash

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:53 No.6272

Flash was shit, even when I was a kid, and don't get me started on the programming language it used that was completely reworked with every new edition.

Fuck Macromedia, fuck Adobe and fuck nostalgiafags. We can emulate this shit now anyway.

Anonymous 12/22/20 (Tue) 04:27:33 No.6308

Adobe is full of greedy fucks who rely on this garbage trend of having "software as a service" be their business model, anybody who pirates Photoshop should knows this.
The real question is why don't let they let anybody else take Flash off their hands?

Anonymous 12/22/20 (Tue) 08:47:22 No.6309

>>6257
mfw i got a flash certificate in like 2006

Anonymous 12/26/20 (Sat) 12:28:56 No.6328

https://opensource.com/alternatives/flash-media-player

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Free programming languages tutorial Anonymous 12/22/20 (Tue) 17:40:25 No.6310 [Reply]

Youtube playlist by a college professor:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL75YXG7TYNRKHzVmFT2Lh34hMNZ44idSv

videos teaching programming language theories mostly SCALA, with a few bits of scheme/c/js thrown in

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Linux phones 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:27 No.6031 [Reply]

Is this my best option for removing the Google/Apple yoke of servitude? I want to piss off all my proprietary fag coworkers who think applife is the future of computing.

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Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:29 No.6052

>>6051
This isn't even what the thread is about and you started autistically screeching about an article I didn't even post. Good night.

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:57 No.6301

Second hand or refurbished Samsung flagship model like S5 or S7 installed with LineageOS and properly degoogled is the answer you are looking for.

The online guides are easy and Samsung also provides Odin tool for loading the recovery which is only for windows, but an alternative to heimdall.

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:57 No.6302

>>6301
i got a pinephone because of the open source bootrom

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:58 No.6303

>>6046
Seconding. The way to prevent apps from violating your privacy is to refrain from installing garbage on your phone. It's definitely worth to have a non-gimped OS that makes the device a tiny computer, rather than an appliance with more computing power than it can use.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 16:37:04 No.6307

>>6303 (me, after board transplant)
This being said, I do understand people being mad at Purism for their misleading marketing. They're making an expensive toy for nerds who want a combination phone and single-board computer, while marketing it as a privacy-oriented phone for normies. This isn't going to end well.

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SolarWinds hack Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:50 No.6248 [Reply]

>US national security agencies issued a joint statement Wednesday acknowledging a "significant and ongoing hacking campaign" that's affecting the federal government. It's still unclear how many agencies are affected or what information hackers might have stolen so far, but by all accounts the malware is extremely powerful. According to analysis by Microsoft and security firm FireEye, both of which were also infected with the malware, it gives hackers broad reach into impacted systems.
>On Thursday, Politico reported that systems at the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration were also affected. Also on Thursday, Microsoft said it had identified more than 40 customers that were targeted in the hack. More information is likely to emerge about the hack and its aftermath.
https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-head-calls-solarwinds-hack-act-of-recklessness-what-you-need-to-know/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/12/microsoft-is-reportedly-added-to-the-growing-list-of-victims-in-solarwinds-hack/

One of the worst parts about mass surveillance is that the people doing it are embarrassingly bad at securing the data they're hoarding.

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Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:54 No.6276

I honestly don't know if I believe it.

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:56 No.6291

>>6276
The only part that's probably not real is that this was done by le russians.

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:56 No.6293

>>6291
well, there is a good chance that it was. They have a pretty extensive cyber warfare setup.

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:57 No.6297

>>6293
Prove it. Until then, consider who stands to gain by producing an intangible enemy. Also see >>6226

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:58 No.6305

>>6291
Sure thing Ivan

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Well I'm disappointed Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:36 No.6127 [Reply]

For a site known predominantly for leftism and marxists ideology I was expecting more threads on factories and better methods of mass producing state demanded goods on its tech board. Oh well, stay in school and work hard y'all

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Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:38 No.6138

I always like hardware manufacturing over software.

Whenever I've visited mills or shops, even once a real industrial smelter and forge, the machines and ambience were amazing. Some of this tech runs well even though it's over 100 years old.

Recently I visited an old 19th century factory that had been converted into a fabricator centre with 3D printing and CNC milling

>mfw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gIMZ0WyY88

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:38 No.6142

>>6132
You can't 3d print steel you need to mold or shape it into useable machinery dipshit!!

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:40 No.6167

>>6142
3D print metal microparticles and then put it in a kiln.
nothin personnel kiddo

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:55 No.6283

>>6167
Apparently there's an Australian one that does it by blasting the stuff out so fast it welds on contact.

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:58 No.6306

>>6283
source ?
how do they deal with oxide layers ?

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Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:48:25 No.3233 [Reply]

Can I see your home screen?

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Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:48:55 No.3536

Oh God oh fuck hopping phone images is even better than hopping distros, its like distro hopping but with an actually important device

How the fuck do I clean myself from google services? It seems insurmountable, I installed clean lineage with nanodroid so I could spoof the playstore to get some non fdroid apps but I can't get off of gmail and my proper youtube account, it seems insurmountable setting everything back up on non google shit

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:49:36 No.3909

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Slowly deglowing myself,google is almost removed,fb messenger is a bit of a sticking point with my tech illiterate friends though

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:50:06 No.4205

>>3234
why does the samsung choccy font feel and look so comfy

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:51 No.6251

Anyone here using a PinePhone or Librem? I'm waiting for mine, but alas, Purism has supposedly finished the production batch of Librem5, but didn't get around to ship mine yet.

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:51 No.6254

>>3536
>I can't get off of gmail and my proper youtube account
If you truly can't delete that shit then sign in via your browser instead of using their apps.

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Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:49 No.6238 [Reply]

Do itx mobos without (((wireless))) even exist anymore?

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Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:49 No.6240

Yes

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:49 No.6241

>>6239
I don't want mandatory wifi/bluetooth on my motherboard.

>>6240
Such as?

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:49 No.6242

>>6241
isnt that shit pretty easy to disable? I dont think niggas are gonna pull up to your house and hack your bluetooth.

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:50 No.6243

>>6241
The ones here that don't say WiFi should be WiFi free https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/AMD-X470-B450

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:50 No.6244

I'd switch to ITX if actually small cases weren't so expensive.

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Really big projects Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:48 No.6226 [Reply]

Seven hundred million lines of code written over a period of thirteen years. That's how large the CIA's Marble framework was at the time of its 2017 Wikileaks "Vault7" exposure. At Bill Binney's estimate of $50 per line, that's a $35 billion program.

Ever since learning this I have been attempting to find programs of a similar size. The Linux kernel is currently roughly 27.8 million LOC. Windows Vista was 50 million LOC. Mac OS X v10.4 was 85 million LOC. Supposedly some "high-end" proprietary car software is at the 100 million LOC range. And according to many sources, the entirety of Google internet services is 2 billion lines of codes–but I don't think that really counts because it's hardly a discrete piece of software.

So is the Marble framework one of the largest pieces of software ever created? Is there nothing else that compares?

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:48 No.6230

is LoC really sound metric to use for measuring size of a project? Language like C can really blow up when you attempt to replicate object oriented programming concepts (systemd code base is verbose not bloat IMO). I don't know anything about proprietary car software but if they are one of those real-time control things that needs to be written in assembly or very low level constructs, they will also blow up in terms of LoC.

if there is a way to measure information density of a program by complexity of feature and then combine it with number of features, that will be really cool application of information theory.

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:48 No.6231

>>6230
well OK then I'm just counting number of instructions of binary but there could be a way to measure this in more abstract ways through flow analysis or something

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Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:39 No.6155 [Reply]

>with the power of ai and machine learning we built this 300% efficient quantum supercomputer to make the world go fully green and STOP climate change by 2025

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:39 No.6156

>>6155
I know people like this. talking to them is pain

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:39 No.6157

Any type of "AI will fix it" talk makes me roll my eyes, really

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:40 No.6158

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What will really happen:

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:53:44 No.6194

>>6158
As someone who got into a job that had machine learning knowledge as a requirement, this is completely true. They had a database of all their phone calls and wanted me to improve an algorithm that tried to determine the mood of the person they called to get to sell them useless trash.

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