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In an attempt to make the website more usable, I wanted to try introducing some changes, manly on the CSS side of things. By which I mostly mean: bigger fonts, trying to increase contrast and adjust the size of things. The raison d'être of this thread is to try to collect ideas

Note: I only posted the video because that's what I'm currently watching and taking as a source of information. Will not and cannot take the entirety of the things she lists and apply them here, obviously.

>>26596
I like it but as said before by some most /leftypol/ users are boomers who like the 2003 "classic" look for imageboards


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Any camera feed can do this
>phone
>supermarket cam
>protest cam
>ring door cam
wild implications. live dox anyone.
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>all the pictures of myself are from when i was a teenager/early 20s

am i fucked?

>>26550
depends if your face has changed and youve gained weight?

I think intelligence apparatuses spend too much time collecting data and not enough time analyzing it. They've started to build AI to analyze it for them, but they don't and won't quality control that AI. eventually their systems will begin to make unwanted and unexpected decisions. At that point, things will either get out of their hands completely, and they'll become victims of the monster they created, or they'll revert to doing things slowly.

>>26545
No, it doesn't. You need a phone number, at best. Maybe more white collar jobs also require you to use some IM service like Slack or Microsoft Teams.

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Being a few years into my 30s I feel like being a /g/-tier privacy schizo for a third of my life has only made my life considerably terrible. Doesn't help I'm not a firstie or remotely well-off.


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phonesisters its over…
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>>26534
Leftypol is the only imageboard I use unironically

>>26538
I go on nukechan too but leftypol is the main one I use. Hope someone forks this app because I don't think any other chan app has this site on it

>>26539
Time to put PWA back on the menu…

>>26560
anything but that

>>26561
Why not?


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is this a good idea for my tech startup

No, use this license:
>Copyright (c) YYYY YOUR-NAME-HERE <[email protected]>
>You do not have, nor can you ever acquire the right to use, copy or distribute this software ; Should you use this software for any purpose, or copy and distribute it to anyone or in any manner, you are breaking the laws of whatever soi-disant jurisdiction, and you promise to continue doing so for the indefinite future. In any case, please always : read and understand any software ; verify any PGP signatures that you use - for any purpose.


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> "Winamp will be Open-Sourced"
> Look inside
> Proprietary source-available

Yay

https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp
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>>26500
This is a naive reading of both the license and the Github ToS. The license says that you can't distribute a modified version. The Github ToS says that making a public Github repository means allowing forking but they're talking about people pressing the "fork" button. This is nothing more than a database operation. People do this all the time and then never make any modifications. I don't know what they're getting out of it but they do it nonetheless. And now they can do it with Winamp.

>>26505
That mere database operation counts as distribution. It violates "Official Distribution".

>>26506
I disagree. That is no more distribution than linking to the upstream repository. It's a web 2.0 fiction until you start making modifications. Further, the Github ToS constitutes a separate grant of rights and would render that term unenforceable, at least on Github. I think it would be illegal to clone the repo and upload it to Gitlab, for instance.

>>26507
It is not linking. It would be more like downloading a tarball and making it available elsewhere. How Github handles it in the background does not matter. It is now available at a different place, which constitutes as distribution.

>>26496
Just fork it anyway and develop on a tor onion repo


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>i dont game or mine coinz
>see someone made a Stable Diffusion LoRa for a rare character I like and decide to give it a try
>there are a few tools and workarounds to stop my ~decade-old budget GPU from out-of-memorying, like tiling, although the quality is still ok enough for basic hobby fun
>decide try to make a new embedding for a rare character
>see a guide for [their formatting kept] "VERY LOW VRAM"
>aw sweet
>mfw "VERY LOW VRAM" is now apparently "[12GB/16GB/20GB]"
bitch i aint payin half a thousand for very low vram
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>>26476
If the program has sufficiently local access patterns, you can get decent performances with mostly swap.

Mine has 256M.

>>26478
There's swap for video?

>>26484
I thought VRAM meant virtual RAM/memory, my mistake. The answer to your question depends on how the application manages memory. System level memory access will pass through the virtual memory subsystem, but low-level VRAM access will be bounded by physical size. The program might even implement its own virtual memory layer for obvious reasons. Integrated graphics are a special case, because they often map their VRAM onto a physical memory region, whose size is sometimes governed by dynamic bios settings.

I suggest you take a look at the memory settings of your application. Performancewise the worst-case scenario would be running a virtual machine that emulates a video card.

>>26476
Isn't stable diffusion minimum VRAM like 4Gb?

>>26488
For one, I believe you can run it on CPU/RAM only if you have enough, it will just generally be much slower.
I don't have a 4GB VRAM device and I'm running it. But newer higher-res models trained on larger pics (e.g. 1024x1024 pics instead of 512x512 pics) or any upscaling to a larger output requires using tiling (generating e.g. 4 smaller images to make one big image) or just using CPU mode. So 4GB would be the recommended, at least for whenever model they were talking about.


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What are some leftypol-approved fedi instances?
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>>26463
it certainly seems like a lot of fediverse users bring twitter baggage with them. like they think they can somehow block specific users from reading their public posts on the federated microblogging network. it boggles the mind

>>26465
what's the G? looks like a sex app lol

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>>26466
GNU Social

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Why is the Plegorra fox missing from OP's picture?

>>26466
OnlyGnus


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General thread for text editors

Have a favorite text editor, or found a funny / interesting one recently? Found a neat feature / trick that's sped up your workflow?

🎨: foxpile.online/@lennox
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y is copy and p is paste, even I know that much.

Visual Studio Code. Everything else I tried was either crappy with shit integration with anything or a memory hogging monster

>>26323
text editor: vim
IDE: VScode (or VS proper for certain languages/environments).

Some resources on text editors and typing in general:
https://texteditors.org
https://www.finseth.com/emacs.html
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirtiest-little-secret.html
http://xahlee.info/kbd/how_to_press_control_key.html
>>26325
it reads like something a twitter user would add, because they assume people are too dumb to use reverse image search or feel the need to venerate intellectual property.

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>>26458
Thank you Xah Lee, very cool!


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Hello, consider me a guy who happens to know top secret leakers because I've been interacting with amateur researchers that recovered a computer the US Government hacked. And apparently they declassified federal (glowie) tricks

Here are packages the glowies download on the recovered computer

osinfo-db
osinfo-db-tools
libosinfo
libisofs
libiptcdata
libgsf
libgrss
libcue
libtracker-sparql
tracker-3
tracker-miners-3
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>glowies abuse GNOME Tracker to monitor people's computers
KDE chads win again

>>25920
>libcue
the relevance of security exploits in this library proves once again, that djb was right. most program code, especially parsers and encoders/decoders, should be untrusted and have an explicitly defined dataflow https://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf

>>25922
https://langsec.org/
most if not all 0days have to do with parsing, especially ignorant programmers implementing their own bespoke parsers

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GEGL guy here (also OP), I don't know what happened to the post I made a few weeks ago, maybe it never posted but in July 2023 it was discovered that tracker's library `libcue` had an active exploit that allowed arbitrary code execution. Which basically means a cracker can run any code on your system they want.

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-10
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/100884806/#100894578

Followed by a unpublished discovery of glowies using tracker3 metadata to spy on users once they hack a machine. This suggest that glowies were involved in the development of tracker3 and intentionally made tracker3 vulnerable because it does two things 1. collect meta data for them, 2. run arbitrary code. Its fixed now but for years they could have exploited this and I believe strongly that glowies were the ones who made the exploits in tracker3.


Anyhow, why are all images here broken?

>>26440
A combination of disk failure and shitty backups.


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Everybody here is saying that smartphones are the worst modern consumer electronics but I'll tell ya hwat: TV is much, much worse. Android and Apple phones at least give you some control over what you do with them. TV is deliberately designed to waste your time and feed you ads constantly. There is only an illusion of choice (switching channels) while everything you watch is made just to fill the TV schedule. Even if YouTube and Netflix are close to mindless TV surfing they at least give you an option to have some actual agency in what content you're watching, and both of them don't have any ads if you pay a fee (or install an adblocker as is the case with YouTube). In order to watch something that's actually worth your time you need to somehow find good programs in a flood of shit in a schedule that's constantly shifting, dedicate time in your schedule to a specific show to not miss it and pray that it isn't plot-driven 'cause then you'll be missing out on everything that happened before. Most of this can be somewhat mitigated with a recorder (not the ads) but you need to know in advance which shows are good and which are shit, and TV subscriptions are split by channel, not by content. And you can't just listen to it in the background, TV shows are LONG and require a lot of attention compared to radio shows.

TV is worse than YouTube, TV is worse than Netflix, TV is worse than DVDs, TV is worse than VHS, TV is worse than radio, TV is worse than GOING TO THEATER. So why, why would anyone want to watch it compared to anything I just mentioned?
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>>26374
>ads 50 years ago: telling you why their product is good to use, and maybe a short little jingle with a cartoon character
>ads now: stock footage of people having fun on the beach, going hiking, laughing at parties, teaching their child how to walk, vaguely being happier or cooler than you, and then the brand name appears at the end with barely any indication of what they sell

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>>26375
50 years ago was the mid 70s, ads were already all 'artsy' then, you're thinking more like the early 50s.

yes I remember the pre-internet era when all people did was watch TV. And it was like a one way propaganda source. At least on the internet literally anyone can share information, and you can take on the responsibility of verifying it. With TV and radio it was nothing but whatever is relayed by whoever has control over the broadcast.

>>26270
ever heard of switching the channel, OP?

>>26425
>and you can take on the responsibility of verifying it

Most people choose not to and choose to believe what they want to believe.
When I was younger I used to think that the internet would basically prevent the populace from being duped into…anything, because theres that two-way sharing of information aspect to it. But now its obvious that it, too, can be subverted and used by the powers that be to make us forget that they are the enemy.


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