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Is there an explicitly cooperative FOSS crowdfunding solution?
Or does it need to be created? Most seem to rely on direct donations to individuals (patreon, liberapay) or halfassed, symbolic methods/gestures (opencollective)

The real solution would be a technologically cooperative (each member in the group registers their acc to a ledger and gets auto-payed every time a donation is received to the co-op), free software licensed, with as little layers of mediation as possible.

Peertube is P2P, free software
Mastodon is flooded with anarchists, free software
Lemmy admins are MLs, free software
Fediverse is both integrating and branching relevant projects with each other
Amazon Labor Union (Amazon is owner of Twitch) has ballooned
Matrix has become normalized for development, so has alternatives to Github
Activists use Signal and not WhatApp anymore

With each instance of big tech bourgeois repression the cyberspatial zone of counterpower improves more in quality and quantity

Lay the economic brick on the socialist path, comrades
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What is it solving?

I'll add another perspective from praxis. This thing would have members all over the world. Cooperatives need to be incorporated in a state somewhere. I've looked into starting cooperatives and some jurisdictions have tight requirements for who can be a member. Which jurisdiction is the easiest if you have members all over the world?

>>20506
A country like Bolivia or Venezuela maybe?
I know that imperialist west social democratic governments passed some laws making it easier for their co-ops, but we wouldn't want to base there for reasons already mentioned (imperialist government, bound to bend over backwards in order to make it frustrate the transition I mentioned here >>20493 )
But that risk may be considerably reduced when the country in question already chooses to integrate into an alliance like ALBA-TCP, which includes a country like Cuba.

i'm, in this year, writing my university dissertation about donations systems for opensource developers, focused more on the points you said, like bulk donations rather than individual donations.
i believe this can work in FLOSS development or other highly specific areas, not everything, so i dont believe for sure in the so-called market socialism.
my reasons for believing that approach can work in floss is that software development does not need tons of constant capital, it basically needs computers and internet access what everyone already has, doing developement or not.
you just need to cover the sallaries of open source developers, and my sollution of bulk donations would help normies to donate, they dont need to know especific people to donate (tough having this option is good too).
crypto doesnot work simply because is not a good currency. it takes too much time to do transactions, and as that cant be used to buy food (the most important point of donating). although i like the open source and flexibility to do bulk transfers from crypto.

>>20498
I really hope Lemmy posters ditch the training wheels and start posting on the microblog instances with hi charcounts and group posting. It's like forcing yourself to use a folder system instead of tags. Also, the upvotes thing is such a waste of time. Seeing moderators police it and bot vote counts is hilarious. Serious problem, some of the tenderqueer instances that are nominally "left unity" take this to an extreme, one anarchist reddit clone is literally just one guy and his sockpuppets, insanity. Never seen anything like that happen on Mastodon or Misskey forks.


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>A lawsuit revealed that Facebook has reportedly sold all of its users' private messages to Netflix for $100 million
https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1775123488862323060#m
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>>24073
Capitalism.

>>24070
well netflix will recommend them some hecking lefty content for them to entertain themselves, i say it's a good deal for everyone involved as far as i can see

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https://blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-lavender/

>>24503
And people wonder why opsec is important.

>>24069
Way waaaay more egregious is this story. Facebook should have been shut down at this point and Zuckerberg should be in jail for cybercrimes at least, if not other crimes. It is absolutely baffling how bad this is.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/
In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understand users’ behavior and help Facebook compete with Snapchat, according to newly unsealed court documents. Facebook called this “Project Ghostbusters,” in a clear reference to Snapchat’s ghost-like logo.

On Tuesday, a federal court in California released new documents discovered as part of the class action lawsuit between consumers and Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

The newly released documents reveal how Meta tried to gain a competitive advantage over its competitors, including Snapchat and later Amazon and YouTube, by analyzing the network traffic of how its users were interacting with Meta’s competitors. Given these apps’ use of encryption, Facebook needed to develop special technology to get around it.


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Does /tech/ participate in the Fediverse? Seems to me that this is the sort of social media we should be trying to get people into, even if social media itself is kinda trash.

I've always disliked social media, but after the news at >>>/leftypol/1066439, I've been considering getting into the Fediverse. You see, I would like the people who DO use social media (basically everyone) to be on better platforms, but I feel I cannot demand that from them if I cannot even use them myself. For instance, it would be disingenuous to ask Comrade Cockshott to start his presence in Mastodon after getting banned from fedbook if I could not be there to follow him and boost his follower stats. So..

So, /tech/, any thoughts on the Fediverse? What are some good instances and communities I could join? What are some people I should be following? What implementations are better, Pleroma, Mastodon, something else?

Also fediverse general.
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>>24487
>true alternative
>bigtech
>control
unabstract your concepts
>firefox being an alternative to something
lmao

>>24489
firefox is an alternative to not having adblock on mobile desu.

>>24487
This faggot is too lazy to even look up LibreWolf, which turns all of the privacy setting autism into a one-click exercise

>>24488
Mozilla can't make any money off of you and you don't do any work, of course like Nextcloud and Element and Mastodon the flagship instance/repository is going to be an actual product you poor motherfucker
Pocket is way bigger faggotry than anything they have added to Firefox which is practically a charity exercise. It seems like the advertising within default Firefox does more to build up animosity towards big tech among actual programmers. Speaking of which why are you talking about basic Firefox when Floorp and Librewolf fix all concerns of people with jobs and NEETs who look at hentai in Saudi Arabia, respectively

>>24486
>Chvd instances being their own archepelegio means there's no chvds on the main archepelegio(s?)
In additon, it makes going over to them almost entertaining, because they start getting into their "it's just drawings lol it's fine calm down okay maybe some of it is traced from cp but who caaares it's just pixels lol i neeeeed it" people vs the fake trad christian weirdos, they turn on each other immediately


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>>24476
Lame code injection. Go fuck yourself.

What was it supposed to inject?

For the first time in my life, i think i got a bad score on math today. I spended the whole night awoken. This cant happen again, i will not allow it


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Some breakthroughs have led me to finally and definitively abandon microshit's spyware.
I had been staying on wangblows for the audio software but had no idea Linux production had come so far.

My DAW [Renoise] has a fucking excellent native linux version that exceeds WIndows performance in some cases. Grabbing audio to feed into its sampler is easier than ever with youtube-dl and ffmpeg.
yabridge lets you convert Windows VSTs to run through Wine, the ones I've tried have worked seamlessly albeit with a little overhead.
Takes a tiny bit of elbow grease to get it optimized enough for serious use, but it's pretty simple once you get past initial setup and it even supports VST3.

Feels pretty good to be making music on a system I have so much control over, it's actually given me a lot of inspiration to work on new material.
Are you a composer or producer who runs Linux? What's your workflow/software?
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anyone produce on arch? and is pipewire worth replacing normal JACK with?

>Ctrl-F Tracker
>Only rutracker
Really no trackerchads in the linux musician thread? Crispy 8bit PCM is all you need. No LADSPA or Dirty Nonfree VSTs. So which will it be
>Schism Tracker
<MilkyTracker

>>16338
One of my friends from highschool turned into this, and it's sad to watch his decline into failson white rapper. He made decent techno and trance back in the day…

>>24471
renoise was brought up

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>>24472
>renoise

>>12053
Thank you for your service


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how do i scrape images/webm/videos from imageboards like this one or any other using wget, how?

bin doin 4cha using this
wget –wait=1 -P qwerty -nd -r -l 1 -H -D archived.moe -A png,gif,jpg,jpeg,webm https://archived.moe/w/thread/2202966/


pls halp
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>>8534
Someone archive this shit and jannies merge redundant threads I reported so I can post mine.
billions must hoard

>>20113
nah, none of them work since they require a captcha and my script can't get past any of them. i need fixes bros

>>20266
bump of shame

>>22747
you have to hire iranians to do the captchas for your bot

>>22747


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Fun fact, WiFi is a major security risk. I recently turned it off, and even when I had it on, it was on a separate, heavily firewalled VLAN that only guests use. None of my computers were connected to it.

If you can, you should use ethernet exclusively. Run cables in your house.
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you should be very worried about the gigs of unread pdfs you have on your device. what if an evil hacker gets them, it would be terrible

>>24094
>You need to turn on airplane mode on your phone in order to stop being tracked.

1000% wrong. Read Snowden's PDF about the introspection engine.

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>>24068
The Thing was designed in 1945 at the latest.
The psyop isn't about being unheard. The psyop is about talking directly to the federal agent handling your case.
It probably isn't even a human agent anymore. I'm pretty sure they just dump all the info into some bot and wait for a light to flash red and spit out a name.

>>24097
>retarden
>the guy who became rich and successful 'on the lam'

>>24433
do you want to watch retardens Netflix movie with me guys


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https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4
Apparently one of the maintainers have been adding backdoors to xz/liblzma for who knows how long. Because it was coming from a "trusted" source (upstream), nobody noticed it until now. Does this mean the end of the open-source security myth?
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>>24052
i imagine that the greatest challenge comes from the sneaky-sneaky glowies digging years old rabbit holes to push backdoors into code. due to the open source nature of xz, malicious code must be very well hidden, difficult for the ai to detect, see >>23973 for a tl;dr of the very lengthy process. plus, its not like you can just grep the source code and find a boolean response to some given string whether its malicious or not. although i imagine these aren't huge limitations, as the plot was foiled pretty easily by, of all people, a Microsoft dev and I would imagine after this fiasco more effort will be concentrating on ravaging through rabbit-holes for malicious code.

>>24052
It would cost money and companies use "open source" to save money.

>>24050
There's fuzzing which tries to bruteforce malicious inputs, which is not exactly what you describe but the closest to it, and it was sabotaged by the backdoor's author: https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/pull/10667

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Maintainer's blogpost about the incident:
https://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/

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>If you have infected version of liblzma in your system, it's already loaded into EVERY process that depends on libsystemd. systemd's dependency on liblzma *was literally* the attack vector.
lol pid 1

glad i dont use a distro that depends on poetteringware


 

Stalinists and many other types of leftists are about to be fully jettisoned into the fucking dustbin of history if they never manage to overcome their history LARP. You unironically have nighas on this board arguing the OGAS cybernetic system of the fucking 70s USSR was the last actual technological advancement meanwhile American and Chinese research firms are building general purpose humanoid robots (androids that can take any basic command and execute it), building the infrastructure for a fully digitized real world visible only through headsets, neuro-chips that control computers with thoughts, successful gene therapy, and successful eye transplants; but keep fapping to tech from a literal century ago
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>>23841
>>23842
You missed my point. In 1985 a consumer computer war more powerful then the top end workstation of 1984. That would be like today being able to buy a gaming rig that completely trounced the top end IBM Power10.

>>23842
>>NVIDIA literally crunching the numbers faster than Moore's Law predicted with their new AI chips
What does this even mean

The number of transistors on the chips is very slightly off the predicted 2 year mark in the negative direction, and this has been the case for the last decade.
If you mean it literally, then you're forgetting that the arithmetic of AI accelerators is probabilistic and imprecise. This is good for neutral networks, but it's a completely different thing from and not comparable to chips not specialised for ML.

What is this?

A never-ending conversation between Bavarian director Werner Herzog and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. When you open this website, you are taken to a random point in the dialogue. Every day a new segment of the conversation is added. New segments can be generated at a faster speed than what it takes to listen to them. In theory, this conversation could continue until the end of time.

https://www.infiniteconversation.com/

Guys they finally found a use for AI! It's genocide: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

>>24065
At this point why not just drop bombs at random? Oh I know why, it's because it gives the IDF butchers some kind of rationalisation that they can tell themselves that they're taking out the bad guys.


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Ignore my degenerate phoneposting

That's the kind of imperialism I would fully support

How did you manage to avoid the wordfilter for degenerate?


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