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Which one's better? OMEMO seems to be gaining more use than OTR. But leftist activists still use OTR. OMEMO users will claim OTR is outdated, but its PROVEN and TRUSTED.

I got setups for both for anyone who wants to chat with either.
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OMEMO is ubiquitous in the XMPP sphere and seems to work well. I haven't heard of any break of it. the biggest problem with it is that it's JSON, which is an abomination in a protocol like XMPP which is XML based
>>23174
use Pidgin if you want a client that supports all the thing. but bear in mind libpurple has had oodles of 0days over the years

also Matrix is a memory hog from what I've heard

OMEMO, obviously
OTR is severely outdated
I even use OMEMO for 1-on-1 DMs
>>23174
>>23201
Gajim is decent

>>23217
+1 on Gajim
Snikket is OK also

both are soon dead. MLS is the future


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You will own nothing and you will be happy.
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>>23576
>society wide censorship is for primitives. we just force them to use our protocols and nudge mass behaviors with our platforms

what the hell is RCS?

>>23583
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services
> Rich Communication Services (RCS) is a communication protocol between mobile telephone carriers and between phone and carrier, aiming at replacing SMS messages with a text-message system that is richer, provides phonebook polling (for service discovery), and can transmit in-call multimedia.

>>23584
>reinvent MMS 6 years after MMS was introduced
>make it require an internet connection
did telcos really?

Eh, non-android Linux phones are a thing now. Rent seeking is usually an admittance of obsolescence. I see this as an unfortunate result of a net-good situation.


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Let's express our love for user freedom in this thread. Why do you love Free Software? Which Free Software do you love?
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>>18416
Richard?

>>21079
?
https://cdm.link/2016/04/a-totally-free-daw-and-live-environment-built-in-supercollider-lnx_studio/

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>>18414
>Why do you love Free Software?
It is the purest form of freedom yet attained by man
>Which Free Software do you love?
The number of free programs out there is as boundless as the grains of sand on a beach, and I love almost all of them. I love cool cutting edge/developmental software (GNU Hurd, GNUnet, Spritely Project, openXR, Arcan, IPFS), I love workhorse software that I use daily (KDE, Firefox, Linux, BTRFS, NFS), I love funny meme software (psdoom, supertux, supertuxkart, fortune, cowsay, sl), I love games (minetest, endless sky, unciv, mindustry, veloren, vircadia), I love exotic conceptual software (plan9, templeos, inferno, genode, barrelfish), I love powerful wizardy software (emacs, org-mode, nyxt, nix, guix), I love software I haven't tried but looks interesting (various WMs like awesome, gnustep, i3, suckless, matrix, nextcloud), I love reliable and feature rich utilities (GNU recutils, GNU stow, yt-dlp), i love creative software (psychosynth, ardour, stochas, mixxx, pipewire, linux studio plugins, vital synth), i love convenience software (shin, touchegg, darkreader, git-annex, homeassistant, openstreetmaps, ublock, sponsorblock, xclip), I love privacy software (tor, monero, macchanger, qubes, pfblocker), I love software that I want to create someday

>>23564
I also love social networking/collaboration software (irc, mastodon, lemmy, forgejo)

>>23564
Linux is fine but I honestly wish the GNU project went with the BSD kernel.


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Share and discuss various p2p alternatives to HTTP/S

https://www.torproject.org/
Onion router, stable despite a bunch of attacks
https://freenetproject.org/
Small-world network based on encrypted key-based routing
https://geti2p.net/
Distant fork of Freenet that uses garlic routing
https://ipfs.io/
Built on distributed hash tables that consolidate data with similar hashes
https://beakerbrowser.com/
Torrent-ish web browser that can view websites on the Dat protocol
http://anonet.org/
Friend-to-friend network that does not rely on you setting up a router or having to seed or anything

There's also Lokinet and ZeroNet but they seem weird and gimmicky
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another fucking thread about this thats a carbon copy of all the other ones on the board?

>>19513
There's a bunch of Tor threads. Everybody knows about it, which is why you're seeing that, I suppose.

Forums are completely dead also. Forgot to add that.

>>19514
uhhh no you made the same thread here >>19450

Do you host an I2P node on your homeserver?


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<If you were to criticize blockchain technology from a purely technical perspective, you might point out the flaw that proof of work requires an exponentially increasing amount of computational power, and thus electricity, in order to keep the blockchain database alive over time. You might point out how inefficient of a database it is. But you would be missing the point. Blockchain technology excites investors precisely because of how wasteful it is. Even if we had fusion (!!) it would eat up all that energy and more. It's difficult to express the magnitude of how wasteful this is, and the fact that it's built into the system intentionally is sinister.

<LLMs offer an even more ideal kind of software to the investor. First of all they require an enormous amount of capital to train, and specialized hardware to run, making them suitable to offer as a service, where the amount of profit can be made to go up in a controlled manner. What a delicious idea.

<More to my point, they offer a host of subjective, ill-defined tasks that are immune to being completed. They've managed to take something well-defined, well-scoped, and completable, and turn it into an untameable monster that will be sure to offer software churn for decades to come.

<LLMs are a way to make software take orders of magnitude more computational power, electricity, and human labor, while delivering a product whose extremely volatile quality is impossible to assure. The work will never be completed; it will only create the need for ever more labor.
https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-we-cant-have-nice-software.html

do you agree with the author? a priori it seems like an accurate description but I'm having trouble understanding two things:
>if the llm/blockchain software is worse than the discrete alternatives, why do people still prefer them? marketing?
>how does this fit in the ltv, where you usually want to outperform the average socially necessary labor?
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>LLMs offer an even more ideal kind of software to the investor. First of all they require an enormous amount of capital to train, and specialized hardware to run, making them suitable to offer as a service, where the amount of profit can be made to go up in a controlled manner. What a delicious idea.

Open source LLMs are basically outperforming corpo ones

Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google And OpenAI
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/05/leaked-internal-google-document-claims-open-source-ai-will-outcompete-google-and-openai/

AIs don't really need specialozed hardware. A GPU is enough, the issue up until recently was that all major frameworks relied on CUDA, but they are already moving away from it.

>>23542
>AIs don't really need specialozed hardware. A GPU is enough
only because GPUs include the specialized hardware now. this is like saying that graphics don't require specialized hardware because some CPUs include integrated GPUs
why do you feel compelled to reply when you have no idea what you are talking about

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>>23543
You talk about GPUs as if they haven't been shipped with even the lowest end office pc for the last 30 years.
For what it matters, even keyboards and mouses are specialized input hardware

> this is like saying that graphics don't require specialized hardware because some CPUs include integrated GPUs
You mean the thing which is actually the case in the real world?

>>23544
you are so dumb you didn't even register what I was talking about. GPUs from 30 years ago didn't have AI-specific hardware in them, neither did most consumer GPUs from 10 years ago. now if you buy a GPU you have to pay for the AI hardware in them that you are never going to use
AI requires specialized hardware in the GPU that is different from the hardware normally used for graphics

you didn't even get the analogy holy shit. what a moron

>>23545
>you are so dumb you didn't even register what I was talking about.
Are you Andrew Kelley then? The other poster was answering to Kelley's claim (quoted in OP) that LLMs "require" expensive hardware so that corporations will profit from offering them as a service.

Btw are you same nutcase who is randomly accusing people of being bitcoin shills ITT?


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Are there any imageboards that allow CSS posting like on cohost?

how does cohost's CSS posting work?

>>23524
The composer accepts markdown, and that includes html, which is sanitized for safety reasons, but you can do in-line styling. The css crimes tag has a bunch of examples: https://cohost.org/rc/tagged/css%20crimes

4taba has a flash board where you can upload HTML5 instead of swf but I never saw it working.


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I find this board adequate for my taste same as
4chan /g and lainchan.org any other like?
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>>23399
Is sharty even up?

>>23375
i read the kernighan & ritchie book, deep c secrets on college. i also read the tanenbaum OS book, but it was the one with dinos on it, not the one with racoons. tbh tanenbaum's covers are so cute, i just want to own one for the cover. i will never read it again lol

>>23405
I have a translated copy (it was going to be discarded from a library) but it's cover is just white :<

>>23374
The unix haters handbook is definitely worth a read for any linux user.

Lemmy communities like these:
https://lemmy.one/c/privacyguides
https://lemmygrad.ml/c/privacy
https://lemmy.ml/c/privacy


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We need to make it hard for proprietary software to exist in certain sectors in life. if not outright illegal.
RMS used to talk about how schools should only teach using free software, have you made any effort to get your local school to use GNU/Linux?
other sectors include the government and public places.
we could start campaigning with other techies to get public terminals to use GNU such as public library computers for example (not sure who still goes there now a days kek)
but above all I think we should push for the private commercial sector, we need to make it so that certain kinds of software have to be open. software that can easily end up being monopolized should be made only available as free software. such as office tools and perhaps only serviced for money.
post more ideas comrades
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It's only a bandaid until open and free hardware becomes a thing which is only possible when workers control the means of production, software can't exist in a vacuum, it's like ying without the yang so to speak.

>>23488
Exactly.

>>23455
yeah, it's a shame. Why kind of cruel person would want to demoralize the handicapped? Their programmers can't code, their users do nothing useful and they erect arbitrary barriers to cope about their shit products. Be kind, anon, and let them have their autistic playpen.

>>23488
>>23489
good thing libre silicon is a thing then, and China is churning out millions if not billions of RISC-V CPUs among other things
besides RISC-V there are also projects like OpenRAM: https://openram.org/
on top of this you have yosys, and it would probably not be too difficult to design a completely libre FPGA

>>23493
That's actually pretty nice if that's actually true. But are RISK-V and FPGA ready for daily driving? And how does one get a laptop with one?


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Are computers a branch of state/defense/power within the context of a communist party?
It seems they are only treated as tools for mass propaganda and outreach for most I've come into contact with (and with questionable results – amounting to retweeting each other or posting take downs as Facebook posts with hardly any engagement). Is this way of using the technology maybe a huge mistake setting us back currently, especially considering the media platforms often are confirmed police/SIGINT tools where our groups are indisputably targeted/sabotaged?

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no

>>16206
also useful for storing, disseminating, and discussing educational material. Beyond mass propaganda, building repository of info relevant to your org, etc.

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>>23506
Is this from the author of ELIZA? Didn't he write a book like this, I can't remember the names.


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How accurate is this video?

https://youtu.be/dnHdqPBrtH8
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Keeping up to date silicon fab is over for the west
China owns the high end fabs all of it now
https://gizmodo.com/intel-loses-500-million-dollars-price-hike-inflation-1849349160

>>16075
China’s semiconductor industry is still driven by western capital

>>16076
Not so much now zoom zoom

>>16077
I just realized, do you even know what capital is?

Bump or is there another thread on Soviet computing that this one could be merged into?


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