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So something went wrong with last Windows update, it wont boot, recover, or do anything at all, my laptop appears to be completely bricked, Ill have to do factory reset (and even then Im keeping fingers crossed it will actually work). This is the last fucking drop, Im switching to Linux. The thing is, I have virtually no IT skills, so what is your advice? What type of Linux is most noob friendly? I use computer basically just for internet browsing, some graphic software and bideo games.
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>>25856
Gave up on trying to change refresh rate. Figured out how to game on Linux, surprisingly easy, Steam lets you launch pirated games through Proton. Havent tried anything from GOG yet though, and I suspect old titles might be an issue.
I dont regret switching OS, the peace of mind I get from not having mandatory updates, telemetry and bloatware infestation is worth the hassle, but at the same time, I dont really feel in control. Every time I need to do anything I have to search internet for someone else doing it, paste the commands, and then having no idea what is it actually doing. Like I install something, dont know from where, to where, what are all the other packages or dependencies, which of the 4 different clean and remove commands should I use to delete in order to uninstall. Its all so opaque.

>>26004
After dicking around with linux for long enough, you will feel more in control and YOU WILL like it. That is the curse of unix. Start by getting a sense of where things are in the filesystem. https://linuxjourney.com/lesson/filesystem-hierarchy seems like a good resource, compare it with https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/file-hierarchy.7.html as well. Use apropos to look for commands you might want to use. Read the bash manpage front to back when you feel ready.
>which of the 4 different clean and remove commands should I use to delete in order to uninstall
The remove/delete command should at least uninstall any explicitly specified packages unless the output says otherwise. Most package managers have a special command for pruning unused dependencies. Theoretically you don't have to worry about pruning dependencies and cleaning caches, until you start running out of disk space.

>>26004
>I dont really feel in control
this is a matter of complexity. on average, as the user, the more complex the software is, the less control you are going to have. the software stack required to run games, specially those that were made for a different os, is complex. the only difference is that at least with linux (and open source stuff in general) you can educate yourself and regain control by understanding the simple parts that form the complex stack

that said, most distributions, specially the popular ones, are complex, obscure and even hostile <- this is, paradoxically, the price of being beginner-friendly and "enterprise". you could switch to a simpler distro like gentoo or artix if you want to try fixing things by yourself instead of depending on the community for everything. the stack required to play windows games will still be complex and error-prone

>>26004
>Wayland?
Xrandr just works on my machine with a finnicky 1994 CRT though the built in modelines are wrong.

Wasted entire fucking day trying to get apache server with wordpress working. Had to patchwork together a solution with three different guides, basically guaranteeing something going wrong eventually and me having no idea what exactly. Seriously, a word of advice for all the good people out there making Linux tutorials, tutorials are generally used by people not familiar with the topic being tutorialized, therefore, for the love of god, FUCKING EXPLAIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING AND WHY, DONT SKIP HALF THE FUCKING STEPS.


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Pirate thread, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

Post about pirates and and piracy be it on the high seas or the internet!
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>>26013
Looks like it's not available on https://libgen.rs so you might just be out of luck and have to request it from your local library.

>>26013
No luck in open directories either: https://www.google.com/search?q=intext%3AConan.Chronicles%20(avi%7Cmkv%7C.mov%7Cmp4%7Cmpg%7Cwmv%7Cflv)%20%20intitle%3A%22index.of.%2F%22%20-inurl%3A(jsp%7Cpl%7Cphp%7Chtml%7Caspx%7Chtm%7Ccf%7Cshtml%7Cpy)%20-inurl%3A(index_of%7Cindex.of%7Clisten77%7Cmp3raid%7Cmp3toss%7Cmp3drug%7Cunknownsecret%7Csirens%7Cwallywashis)

>>26017
>>26016
Fuck. I did manage to get a method to download borrowed books permanently, but the borrow function is dead.

>>26013
This is on Anna's Archive along with a lot of other books that IA scanned. You can identify the books sourced from IA because the distinctive filename is preserved.

https://annas-archive.org/md5/06d97fdb27f5d825016425da3d3ac0da



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Imma do it. Gonna switch to FreeBaSeD on my servers. ZFS goodness, raidz2, stability, pkg, serious people.

It's no wonder that the most staunch anti-linux pro-unix/BSD person I ever met was a staunch Communist.

Thread for all BSD variants, OpenIndiana, Illumos, Haiku, plan9 and other unix-based OSs welcome too.
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>>20981
The fact that FreeBSD is a complete system has a drawback in that it does not go beyond the old UNIX conventions which, as any Lisp enthusiast would tell you, are TERRIBLE AND NEED TO DIE!! Without GNU/Linux's modularity we wouldn't have stuff like NixOS or Gentoo (though admittedly security by design is even shittier on NixOS, they still can't manage to get SELinux or even Firejail to work). Also, both FreeBSD and GNU/Linux pretty much require hardening, something that OpenBSD does not need as much (congrats, OpenBSD chads, take a cookie). So it's more complicated than it seems. All-in-all I think the BSDs are better than GNU/Linux overall but GNU/Linux's modularity is one of its biggest strengths and weaknesses.

>>22995 (me)
Also, the fact that GNU/Linux does not have one distribution mitigates the power distro maintainers have over the users. If distro maintainers become corrupt or start doing some decisions you do not like you can just go use another distro. How many usable BSDs are there? FreeBSD… OpenBSD… The end.

Also, it's not entirely true that GNU/Linux isn't developed as a complete OS, it's just that people like to replace some components they do not like in it (looking at you, Alpine), something that you simply don't do in the BSDs. The whole system core is basically developed by GNU with Linux borrowed as a kernel because they still can't finish GNU Hurd. But if by GNU/Linux being incomplete you mean that it doesn't use its own in-house kernel then you'd be correct.

I'm not saying that GNU/Linux is better than BSDs, I just disagree that the fact that the development of the BSDs is so centralized is entirely a good thing.

>>20965
>It's no wonder that the most staunch anti-linux pro-unix/BSD person I ever met was a staunch Communist
How is communism connected to hating on GNU/Linux? If anything, GNU/Linux haters are often lolberts or liberals who think copyleft is communist and authoritarian and who are way more class collaborationist than copyleft enjoyers ever will be. I think those BSD users who don't just blindly hate GNU/Linux and who support copyleft are more likely to be communists.

>>23017
Yeah, most copyleft haters hate it because you can't combine it with permissive licenses. And why would you use permissive licenses? So corpos could use your code in their proprietary product, of course.

>>20965
the graphics drivers require debufs :/


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General thread about Tor.

Is there any problem with going to https://leftypol.org/ and then clicking on the .onion site? I can't store http://76i2c3hn55fcj5nut3tqlboqqbbh23zvphv7lefk3vftpx6wketlanyd.onion/ in my browser because it's in a disposable VM.
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>>23271
>Just tread carefully
Well, this is obvious. Noone should trust anything blindly. That's why people don't trust systemd and Linux for example despite them being OPEN SOURCE!! IT'S OPEN SOURCE, GUYS, THAT MEANS IT'S PERFECT!!

>>23272
Honestly for 99% of people you can trust Tor. If you're some big dicked alpha running some crazy drug service or doing highly illegal shit that people both care about and have a paid incentive to stop, I would not at all trust Tor to keep you safe and would completely remodel your anonymity setup and would look towards i2p or some more advanced setup between you and Tor

>>23274
Wonder why the online drug cartel hasn't yet switched to something else like i2p, they seem to trust Tor way too much to run a multi million dollar highly illegal business. or are all those markets just psyops by glowies?

>>23276
Some of them do, but they get dropped left and right and arrested all the time. Hard to say truly how they're getting fucked as well since we can only really go by what law enforcement says. Either way those types of people have to be looking over their shoulders forever once they get involved with shit like this. Also Im pretty sure there are i2p drug distributors but thats besides the point

>>22554
poggers stickers tbh


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https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/17/foss_funding_vanishes_from_eus/
EU is eliminating NGI grants which fund the development of many open source projects. You can browse some of the projects here: https://nlnet.nl/project/index.html
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>>26200
>true community
1. Communism is not "community," it's an economic system.
2. Sufficiently organized libre software developers are no less of a community than your average workplace.
3. The social aspect of communism is overemphasized, communism doesn't have to have a strong emphasis on fraternity to be communist, both egoist communism and anarcho-primitivism are a thing.

>>26215 (me)
Communism is common ownership of the means of production (libre software fulfills this definition). If it was just communitarianism then I wouldn't support it. No more than I would fascism, I don't want a community imposed on me from the outside, sometimes (many times in fact) I just want to do things by myself.

>>26215
>>26217
Free software when used in production is collective ownership of a means of production but not of the means of production. This was more effectively my original argument. Worker that produce free software can be denied needs and thus in an even worse position than if it was produced under capitalism. My comments on Kibbutz where just in replies to the statement: "Because communization is the real movement that abolishes the current state of things." Which was interpreted as referring to communes.

>>26224
>>26224
>My comments on Kibbutz where just in replies to the statement: "Because communization is the real movement that abolishes the current state of things." Which was interpreted as referring to communes
Well… kinda? I mean, a Git repo is a kind of a digital commune to which everyone contributes work and resources.

Yeah, I get it, in the grand scheme of things those are just islands in the capitalist sea. That's why I chose to use the word "communization" because communism may more appropriately refer to a communist society, which I'm obviously not talking about.

>>26234
This is fair enough.


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interview with Bill Binney, the talks about crowdstrike, data collection lots off insider stuff and the origin of Google http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k6uKtvuKIQc


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Hactivist and cyber security researcher finds exposed servers containing the No Fly list

https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/how-to-hack-an-airline/

Also why do so many facilities with sensitive documents seem to never configure their shit properly? Why do they keep getting trusted with said documents? Especially schools and hospitals.
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>>26213
>Well at least you realize hacktivism is even more useless than IRL activism
Hacktivism is useless, yes… for class struggle. It is useful for self-liberation and insurrections which are anarchist praxes but I assume you think anarchist theory is crap so we have nothing to discuss here.

I'd argue that activism is the most useless since it achieves absolutely nothing.

>>26212
>it's obvious [absurd assertion]
Not an arguement, It's how it's used in practice ba dum tish
>>26213
>Phil undergrad post
Wasn't even philosophical.
>nothing to do with the class struggle
You haven't explained your premise, yet you just keep repeating it.
Making forcibly disclosed information that was strategically classified by an opponent is advantageous in any conflict, especially class struggle. The fact that it's not one unique to it is irrelevant, the current case being discussed–the recent hacks on The Heritage Foundation, NATO and Israel are very relevant to class struggle.

>>26219
>It's how it's used in practice ba dum tish
I usually seperate what people call "activism" and praxis. I have no use for the word "activism" otherwise, I can just say "praxis" or "direct action," the words that are actually used by politically active people instead of journos who call them "extremists."
>Making forcibly disclosed information that was strategically classified by an opponent is advantageous in any conflict
Good point.

>>26218
<Red Guard comrades of Tsinghua University Middle School:

>I have received both the big-character posters which you sent on 28 July as well as the letter which you sent to me, asking for an answer. The two big-character posters which you wrote on 24 June and 4 July express your anger at, and denunciation of, all landlords, bourgeois, imperialists, revisionists, and their running dogs who exploit and oppress the workers, peasants, revolutionary intellectuals and revolutionary parties and groupings. You say it is right to rebel against reactionaries; I enthusiastically support you. I also give enthusiastic support to the big-character poster of the Red Flag Combat Group of Peking University Middle School which said that it is right to rebel against the reactionaries; and to the very good revolutionary speech given by comrade P’eng Hsiao-meng representing their Red Flag Combat Group at the big meeting attended by all the teachers, students, administration and workers of Peking University on 25 July. Here I want to say that I myself as well as my revolutionary comrades-in-arms all take the same attitude. No matter where they are, in Peking or anywhere in China, I will give enthusiastic support to all who take an attitude similar to yours in the Cultural Revolution movement. Another thing, while supporting you, at the same time we ask you to pay attention to uniting with all who can be united with. As for those who have committed serious mistakes, after their mistakes have been pointed out you should offer them a way out of their difficulties by giving them work to do, and enabling them to correct their mistakes and become new men. Marx said: the proletariat must emancipate not only itself but all mankind. If it cannot emancipate all mankind, then the proletariat itself will not be able to achieve final emancipation. Will comrades please pay attention to this truth too.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_60.htm

>>26220
And good point as well. I almost never use the term unless someone else brings it up. It's grammatically weird for what it's trying to convey, and words like praxis and direct action are easier to work with.


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Hello fellow anons, i really enjoy programming mathematics and computer science and I'm going to do high performance computation next year in school. I'm also really into leftist politics and was wondering how can I cross both subjects. I not really into hacking but developing software is my thing but what kind of tools. I've also seen stuff about paul cockshott and planification which is really interesting. are there ressources to learn more about leftist computer science engineers. Thanks for the advice nerds
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>>25939
>Good luck with high performance, and remember that performance always matters, no matter what they try to tell you!
I don't know what kind of professional software you've been using if you think performance matters. What matters most for professional software is an ocean of features so it can cover every niche, which is what lots of open source productivity software has trouble with, due to the much more limited developer man-hours.

>>26184
>What matters most for professional software is an ocean of features so it can cover every niche
This really does seem to be the case for consumer facing software.

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>>25927
>communism is when ideology

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You should look into "operations research", that's the euphemism for economic planning, and there's some compute intensive algorithms that can benefit from HPC.

>>26203
Okay, materially non-copyleft licenses have a petit-bourgeois class character.


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How do we do free software money? I used to be really into Bitcoin but I saw some serious problems with how it was set up, namely the fees were ridiculous. Obviously crypto isn't the solution but there still isn't any free software method to transfer money. Any website that accepts credit cards is relying on proprietary software.
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>>25918
ofcourse not!

Money derives its value from what you can do with it (buy things, pay taxes) so there are essentially only three things a new money system can do:
>Fade into irrelevance due to being useless (most suffer this fate)
<Get used for illicit activities (Bitcoin/Monero for online black markets, others for cryptoscams)
>Get officially recognized by a government (has this ever happened yet?)

>>26185
>Money derives its value
But not its exchange rate its worth noting.

>Get officially recognized by a government (has this ever happened yet?)
IIRC there have been some recognized by various Latin American countries for sanction avoidance and remittance.

>How do we do free software money?
im a communist, i want to abolish it, not 'free' it

>>26187
Pondering the impossibility of freeing it could lead to theory.


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What smartphone do you use and why?
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My smartphone is a Moto G8, without google services.
I use a lot app FOSS, but i went obliget to use Whatsapp, because in my country everone deer Whatsapp.

>>25904
>The best way to ensure your privacy is to encrypt anything you wouldn't want your mother to see
Actually the opposite, the best way to ensure privacy is to have something that you wouldn't want your mother to see be the first thing that appears. Since I've set a piece of gay furry porn as a wallpaper, my privacy has improved by 200% cause I'm way more careful when taking out my phone in public.

Pixel 8 pro

>>26130
in public, the best way to ensure your privacy is with a gun and termux gpg

>>25903
>If you really would care about datamining, you wouldn't use the internet.
We're not as paranoid as Ted, even though Ted had valid reasons to be paranoid.


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