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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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Made as an extension of the main moderation recruitment thread, this thread is meant specifically for developer recruitment for /leftypol/.

We are asking for tech-orientated volunteers to help with development of the site's code and features, especially if you have experience with web design, common website coding languages, and/or development of mobile apps.

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How long have you browsed or posted on /leftypol/ or her alt-boards?
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>>26097
I get "Can't strip EXIF" error, tried with a couple of files

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>>26126
Same here, an example attached as a zip.

>>26126
>>26132
Ok so I have bad news and good news.
The bad news is that our current exiftool install seems to not support writing WEBP. The good news is that you won't accidentally leak your metadata.

Currently looking for a way to update it…

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Updated with success

>>26133
Thank you for your work Zankaria.


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Post quality RSS feeds for whatever. Blogs, news sites, even a YouTube channel RSS feed or other video content. As long as it has an RSS (or atom I guess) feed attached to it.

I'll go first and dump some of what I think are good ones:

>Grumpy Gamer
https://grumpygamer.com/rss
this one is rad, it's the personal blog of the lead developer behind The Secret of Monkey Island series (so basically my hero). He talks about a lot of cool random shit. Check it out.

>Niki Tonsky
https://tonsky.me/atom.xml
Another personal blog, I've only read a few articles but they have to do with UI mainly which I like.

>Cosmonaut Magazine
https://cosmonautmag.com/rss
Quintessential pretentious leftwing magazine. It's good, I like it. It's more insightful than I thought it would be and their articles even when I disagree with them (I usually don't) are always comfy reads.
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>>23550
Eew

Isn't having a unique set off RSS feeds like shining a searchlight from orbit on yourself every time you check it?

>>26067
Theoretically yes but that is not unique to RSS feeds.

>>26067
not if you torify your RSS reader
sadly this works less than stellar these days thanks to glowflare

https://fair.org/feed/
https://www.bulatlat.com/feed/
https://www.hamptonthink.org/read?format=rss


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The Web Crawler Has Fallen

Billions Must Surf and Manually Index

unironically love it

retvrn to webrings and topic-specific fora


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Since US tech embargo on China is still in effect and US plans to squeeze Chinese tech companies by restricting their access to computer chips. China's reaction to this was to make one of their goals to have a home-grown alternative for Intel, AMD, TSMC and the like to decrease dependence on the US. So I was wondering what kind of progress have they been making lately and what are their prospects of ever having a viable alternative to Intel and AMD?

There is all this talk about SMIC, Loongson and Zhaoxin and that in early 2020 Zhaoxin allegedly published a chip comparable to 2017 level intel and AMD tech and they are planning to have parity with Intel in a few years. Then there are Some sources are saying that China is failing horribly at acquiring manufacturing tech for more advanced processors. And I really can't make any real sense out of it.

So when will I be able to buy a computer that uses a hardware that dunks on burger made tech and sends my personal data to Beijing instead of Washington, if ever?
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>>26010
the j20 uses windows xp

>>26012
Is the argument that the Chinese doesn't actually even need to catch up in terms of R&D, that "Made in China 2025", and China's 14th five-year plan has already been a success? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025#Funding_and_evaluation

>>26012
>>26014
Or even better the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" is actually the second "Starwars", and coming "Third AI Winter". Side with the least comprehensive and effective government investment wins because the objectives are of dubious utility.

>>26015
>Or even better the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" is actually the second "Starwars", and coming "Third AI Winter".
Think now this mostly can't be the case. If cost of automating services like tellers or cashiers, and logistics industries (of course logistics came to mind even before) drops to the point where these things could be reasonably automated it would have a significant impact. The odd thing to me is that these could largely already be automated by simple web-apps or button panels and scanners, or in the case of logistics by train yards. Is natural language processing, or sophisticated image recognition really necessary for such automation - or more compellingly, would they be sufficient for such a realization? Capital simply systematically undervalues labor and so such an automation has only been partial; and it may be that reducing the cost of implementing these services would be such that it could cause radical shifts in industry. In some industries, like logistics, this is nearly a guarantee maybe starting 2027 it looks like.

Is StarFive (https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/company) really Chinese or no? If they count then might they already have a cool Chinese RISC-V: https://milkv.io/mars#buy (Shenzhen MilkV Technology Co., Ltd (Milk-V)) can take a SATA SSD with an adapter which was always an issue with older SBC.


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