/tech/ - Technology

maybe the internet has just evolved beyond it's fun exciting wild west frontier phase and now it's a boring shopping mall and nobody is interested in using the internet for anything but selling garbage and making money.

Its true. All thats left is big tech monopolies (remember, amazon hosts so much shit). Not to mention the exploitative nature of the attention economy (and even if you think youre avoiding it by using duckduckgo, its just Bing in disguise, you will be clickbaited). To all comrades addicted such as myself all I can say is delete all your accounts and smash your smartphone in a luddite rage. Regain some control and reconnect with fellow humans to stand a chance against the Big Tech. No mercy for the big tech nerds!

It's not dead internet, it's centralized internet and unsearchable internet. Internet traffic became more centralized towards major platforms like Twitter and Facebook and Reddit, Google monopolized search and then destroyed it with SEO rendering the internet unsearchable. In other words, the United States once again made the mistake of leaving a vitally important public resource in the hands of the private monopolies who turn a potentially-great technology into an unusable piece of shit. The internet is the new railroad.

Everyhting is just an influencer marketing bullshit shtick and they want me to scan my face for that? Fuck that. Luckily, cool software like classic imageboards or new fediverse shit can run on a toaster, when the classic http internet gets fully surveiled and controlled we'll just have to adapt and switch to onions, or something else. Be creative with it.

>>31321
Ok, then tell me where else should I go? I have tried everything: Reddit, Xitter, Mastodon, 4chan, Lemmy, leftypol. I don't care about ideology. I don't care about bitcoin. There are only two things which interest me: Entertaining, new content and not being shadowbanned. Bonus points: No requirement of email adress/phone number to use the service. Nostr doesn't need those, so this enough reason to give it a try.

>>31322
They should give shadowbans for coming to leftypol and acting like ideology does not concern the poster :Dddd

I'm just going tousethis thread to ask for fum pleroma/akkoma instances. The more anarchisty the better too

>>31323
Noted but eh

men will literally use an app called Nostril instead of getting therapy
>>31320
>It works like twitter with the only difference, that you can donate crypto to other users
>>31322
>I don't care about ideology.
person who is attracted to the more pure neoliberal marketplace ideology I've ever seen: "I'm not like those other girls, I'm apolitical"

>>28624
That's it, I'm switching to LibreWolf.

>>28624
Punished Lunduke

A man denied his s c o o p s

>>28122
He said openBSD

Having a normal one

>>31338
he looks like the meme lol

>>31152
The experiment continues!

Couldn't the validation logic tests also be unit tests? e.g. in class-validator open the validator class and test the validate method. The persistence tests would also be unit tests, they would simply require more complicated data and call some of the higher level methods.

What does the red-green-refactor loop look like here? Besides that your integration tests basically suck (the purpose is to integrate (modules), not just to test the imperative core). You need to include tests of the module interface otherwise you're going to go green before you've satisfied the requirements. The obvious next question is what are the requirements? For all relevant pages:

def has_uploaded_file_size_in_units ():
def has_link_from_filename_to_uploaded_file_hash_in_file_directory ():
def has_thumbnail_link_to_file_hash_in_file_directory ():
def has_thumbnail_image_displayed ():
def has_thumbnail_image_maintains_aspect_ratio ():
def has_thumbnail_image_within_maximum_size ():
# Strictly UX tests:
def has_thumbnail_placeholder_for_unhandeled_mime ():
def has_thumbnail_spoiler_for_spoilered_files ():
def has_thumbnail_spoiler_click_unspoilers_thumbnail ():

The exact details that the thumbnail transformation be aspect ratio preserving and within certain dimensions seem to be more implementation details.

In other words because your app is so simple the integration tests fold into the UX tests, the only call site is the UX. With these UX tests written it's clear that your application would not run unless you had the correct functionality (with the exception that the thumbnail transformation might be erroneous).

This might be too many tests, but it's how this outside-in would have to work.

>>31154
Of course this assumes you're not using mocks for any of these.

>>31155
Continued to clean up the source of the sample. Was thinking more about names. Have come to the conclusion that avoiding trivial thoughts is fruitful. Where this is some combination of repetitive, irrelevant, or vacuous thoughts.

- repetitive: includes any repetition of thoughts of perception or feeling in verbal form.
- irrelevant: includes any thought which is based on a false association (including false statements such as those concerning the self) within some broad context (perhaps a set of goals.)
- vacuous: includes any thoughts that neither contain information nor prompt for further like some rhetorical questions.

These apply rather obviously to programming, but applying them to thought, if you can manage, seems to be a rather radical cognitive shift. LLMs rather dislike my second term "irrelevant", but it still seems important to me so long as it's interpreted rather liberally.

Programming to avoid these things ever appearing in the first place might bring us back to >>31125 "In software this means we write only what we need…" and the converse set of reasoning that perhaps this entails a top-down or outside-in design.

>>31162
Aren't all vacuous statements irrelevant by this schema? And all three (trivial thoughts too) could be thought of as statements not providing information content to any of our goals. These categories are still useful, because you don't really need to know your goals to apply them.

>>31162
Even better is the idea that statements should be falsifiable.
You have to provide sufficient contextual "why".
There is little that would implicate testability more directly.
This derives from the fact that inductive statements can only be disproven, not proven.
With deductive statements it's useful in the search for "essence".
Deductive statements may be necessarily true, but aesthetically inductive.
It's an open question how much contextual "why" would be sufficient however…
Suspect it's up to moderation.

I used to use Briar for a while. it's pretty neat. for those who don't know, its main selling point is that it is metadata resistant. its main downside when I used it was battery usage, because it had to stay connected to Tor. message delivery is also an issue, because both users have to be online. in a group chat this is easier, but it's still necessary for a critical mass of people to be online for messages to percolate

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At a symposium held in July 2004 at Stanford University in honour of Professor Emeritus René Girard, Peter Thiel (40) founder of Palantir Technologies Inc. and “godfather” of the PayPal Mafia (41) outlined the foundations of the new global power architecture. He based this on the premise that “the brute facts of September 11 demand a re-examination of the foundations of modern politics,” given that “Western political philosophy can no longer cope with our world of global violence.”

During his talk, titled The Straussian Moment, a tribute to the leading ideologue (42) of the neoconservative circles that instigated the “War on Terror” under the disastrous presidency of George W. Bush, Thiel stated:

“The twenty – first century started with a bang on September 11, 2001. In those shocking hours, the entire political and military framework of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and indeed of the modern age, with its emphasis on deterrent armies, rational nation – states, public debates, and international diplomacy, was called into question. For how could mere talking or even great force deter a handful of crazy, determined, and suicidal persons who seemingly operated outside of all the norms of the liberal West? And what needed now to be done, given that technology had advanced to a point where a tiny number of people could inflict unprecedented levels of damage and death?

The awareness of the West’s vulnerability called for a new compromise, and this new compromise inexorably demanded more security at the expense of less freedom. On the narrow level of public policy, there needed to be more x – ray machines at airports; more security guards on airplanes; more identification cards and invasions of privacy; and fewer rights for some of the accused. Overnight, the fundamentalist civil rights mania of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which spoke in the language of inviolable individual rights, was rendered an unviable anachronism.’’ (43)

5.

“Peace activists are war activists. … We are the peace activists.” Alex Karp

Among the companies within the “military-digital complex” that stand out most for their practical and ideological support of the Tel Aviv government’s policies, Palantir Technologies Inc. stands out as a defining case. As Alex Koller observes:

“Palantir, known for its government contract work in defense and intelligence, has provided its technology to support the Ukrainian and Israeli militaries in their respective wars. (…) [Alex] Karp said on Palantir’s earnings call last month [February 2024] he was ‘exceedingly proud that after Oct. 7, within weeks, we are on the ground and we are involved in operationally crucial operations in Israel.’ Palantir held its first board meeting of the year in Tel Aviv, Israel, in January [2024], after which the company agreed to a ‘strategic partnership’ with the Israeli Ministry of Defense to supply the country with technology for its military efforts. In November, Karp asserted the company’s support of the U.S. government and Israel, declaring on an earnings call that ‘Palantir only supplies its products to Western allies.’

In Wednesday’s interview, Karp reaffirmed his pro-Israel views. Eisen referenced the company’s decision in October to take out a full-page ad in The New York Times, stating it ‘stands with Israel.’”

Palantir Technologies Inc (46) was founded in 2003 “using $2 million in investment rounds from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm,” (47) and counts among its clients the FBI, NSA, IRS, various police departments, and other government agencies (48). The Denver-based company specializes in developing artificial intelligence (AI) software that supports data analytics and decision-making processes in large organizations, primarily militaries and other government agencies. It has been providing its tools to Israel’s security forces at least since 2017, starting with its predictive policing system.

Shortly after Israel began its genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023, Palantir entered into a ‘strategic partnership’ with Israel’s Ministry of Defense to help the ‘war effort.’ The company reported ‘seeing high demand from Israel for new tools’ and has been providing the Israeli military and intelligence agencies with at least four of its main products:

Gotham: Palantir’s flagship product for military, intelligence, and law enforcement applications. It ingestPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Footnotes:

Footnote 1: Curtis Yarvin, “Gaza, Inc.”, https://graymirror.substack.com/p/gaza-inc, 6 February 2025. But it is not over … Curtis Yarvin adds: “On the other hand, the Gazans are now a wealthy, cultured, naturally commercial people. It’s not like there isn’t a Palestinian diaspora everywhere in the world. Take over Africa maybe Uganda …], or something. Also, someone has to live in the new Gaza-there have to be residence requirements, because any country with open admissions will turn into a gigantic global slum. It will probably work like Dubai, but much more Westernized. But with enough GAZA shares… you might be able to afford it.” Ibid.

Footnote 2: Francesca Albanese, From economy of occupation to economy of genocide (A/HRC/59/23) Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Human Rights Council, Fifty-ninth session, 16 June-11 July 2025, https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/.

Footnote 3: “”Corporate entities’ in the present report refers to business enterprises, multinational corporations, for-profit and not-for-profit entities, whether private, public or State-owned. Corporate responsibility applies regardless of the size, sector, operational context, ownership and structure of the entity.”

Footnote 4: “The Dutch East India Company (1602-1799) was worth $7.4 trillion at its peak, more than Alphabet, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft put together.” Audrey Kurth Cronin, How Private Tech Companies Are Reshaping Great Power Competition, PDF, Henry A, Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, https://sais.jhu.edu/kissinger/programs-and-projects/kissinger-center-papers/how-private-tech-companies-are-reshaping-great-power-competition# edn2, August 2023.

Footnote 5: “The English East India Company played a crucial role iPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Footnote 30: This ideology is based on a critique of liberalism in the name of freedom from imperialism, as evidenced by the National Conservatism movement and its founder, Yoram Hazony. In an insightful essay published in Jewish Currents, Suzanne Schneider states: “The clearest instantiation today of Hazony’s ideal is neither Donald Trump’s America nor Boris Johnson’s Britain, but the hilltop settlements located deep in the heart of the West Bank: tight-knit communities made up of large, traditional families, united in the face of the enemy, producing legions of young soldiers who have been schooled in the fusion of state violence and spirituality. This is the template that Hazony now offers to the world via the neutralized language of National Conservatism. Like his Zionist predecessors, he too imagines Israel as a light unto the nations—an illiberal model for the international nationalist brigade.” Suzanne Schneider, Light Among the Nations, 28 September 2023, https://jewishcurrents.org/light-among-the-nations. Contrary to the unfounded claims of some contemporary journalists and politicians, the resurgence of nationalism that we are witnessing today cannot be equated with the historical European movement of the same name. The latter was characterised by a secular and anti-clerical stance, inspired by the universalist values of the Enlightenment and spread by a network of revolutionary secret societies, including the Carbonari in Italy and the Filiki Eteria in Greece. Yoram Hazony’s National Conservatism movement appears to be an attempt to export the ideology and practices of the Zionist movement from the Middle East to Western countries in their most illiberal form. After all, the founder’s biography has always been consistent with his ideals, beginning with his encounter with the extremist Meir Kahane at Princeton in 1984.

Footnote 31: Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Footnote 32: René Girard, The Scapegoat, Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1989

Footnote 33: In 2015, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett stated: “Israel is in the forefront of the global war on terror. This is the frontline between the free and civilized world and radical Islam. We’re stopping the wave of radical Islam from flowing from Iran and Iraq all the way to Europe. When we fight terror here, we’re protecting LPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Silicon Valley’s Reading List Reveals Its Political Ambitions

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/silicon-valleys-reading-list-reveals?

In 2008, Paul Graham mused about the cultural differences between great US cities. Three years earlier, Graham had co-founded Y Combinator, a “startup accelerator” that would come to epitomize Silicon Valley — and would move there in 2009. But at the time Graham was based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which, as he saw it, sent a different message to its inhabitants than did Palo Alto.

Cambridge’s message was, “You should be smarter. You really should get around to reading all those books you’ve been meaning to.” Silicon Valley respected smarts, Graham wrote, but its message was different: “You should be more powerful.”

He wasn’t alone in this assessment. My late friend Aaron Swartz, a member of Y Combinator’s first class, fled San Francisco in late 2006 for several reasons. He told me later that one of them was how few people in the Bay Area seemed interested in books.

Today, however, it feels as though people there want to talk about nothing but. Tech luminaries seem to opine endlessly about books and ideas, debating the merits and defects of different flavors of rationalism, of basic economic principles and of the strengths and weaknesses of democracy and corporate rule.

This fervor has yielded a recognizable “Silicon Valley canon.” And as Elon Musk and his shock troops descend on Washington with intentions of reengineering the government, it’s worth paying attention to the books the tech world reads — as well as the ones they don’t. Viewed through the canon, DOGE’s grand effort to cut government down to size is the latest manifestation of a longstanding Silicon Valley dream: to remake politics in its image.

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>>29193
Pretty sure synthetic data is leading to model collapse, probably why ChatGPT 4.5 underperformed despite being degrees of magnitude larger

>>29193
>>29262
Synthetic data has to be filtered for quality and novelty, otherwise it does lead to model collapse. It doesn't always result in that, though.

However, even if they don't lead to collapse, they hit the diminishing returns wall more quickly than original data.

>>28693
>Are people using Wikipedia now for viral marketing campaigns?
Always have been. Wikipedia mainly gets edited for SEO purposes. You may think you are reading information, but look at the citations. Those citations were put there by people trying to promote their work by having it linked to by Wikipedia and therefore juicing Google's search algorithm.

So, why exactly is it not called slopcoding?

>>29621
Because they want to frame it as something positive; it's a psyop. "I'm vibing, dude! I got the vibe coder vibe! Look I'm too retarded to do the simplest programming task, I got the vibe, man!"

Just use Tor Browser in a chroot with duckduckgo, and have a protonmail, though typically just use a gmail managed by an organization.

>>31192
i heard mullvad browser is also good, but just use librewolf

search engines are all soykaf, just use bookmarks and when you really need it searxng hop

KEEPASSXC USE THE DAMN KEEPASSXC WITH A GOOD PASSWORD AND A THUMBDRIVE

onionmail.info, morke.org and cock.li

privacy is soykaf YOU WILL BE TRACKED YOU WILL BE TRACKED YOU WILL BE TRACKED

to be honest at this point just send data to palantir i dont think anything really matters. Sorry if this is a midwit doo doo post.

>>31266
Plus if you bookmark enough stuff you pretty much never need to use a search engine since you'll likely have a bookmark within a click or so of what you need.

>>31192
Also want to add on, KNOW YOUR ATTACK VECTORS!!!!

Read about how and what you want to secure, and understand what is needed for you to achieve that goal while still having good experience with the net.

you cant save yourself from psychedelic fueled computer men paid a good amount to see who you are, no matter how much you try. But you can always save yourself from advertisers and skiddies.

>>31268
exactly

Why do you spam this crap everywhere? I saw your post already on Channel4 BBS. It's not even a good list, it's just the most entry level milktoast nonsense list.
https://4-ch.net/general/kareha.pl/1757068106/l50
Please fuck off.

>>30338
Thing is there's been good posts on fedi, especially art. It's had undeniable steady growth. As the list of other options shrink, the option that fundamentally cannot die stands firm.

>>30799
It depends which project tho. I've seen this criticism directed at FOSS projects that have in fact been audited so many times that my first assumption is whoever brings it up doesn't know how to look for audits.

>>30802
>>30865
Yeah there's really no learning involved anymore. I got my dad to use NixOS with KDE and he hasn't had a single issue with it, compared to windows where he found himself confused with it weekly.

>>30211
Nothing matters as long as they control the hardware and CIA backdoors your chips. Internet was made by DARPA, backbone is privately owned. Solution is global 5g OpenWRT meshnet. Thats why they made up conspiracies about the beams melting your brain or whatever. They know the Chinese are trying to democratize the net.

Software is inconsequential if you cant make your own hardware. Thats why people are waking up to domestic production sovereignty. You need state level power and investment in domestic lithography not just using a different OS to play your vidya.

>>31140
Better optimized software means weaker hardware can meet expectations, but yeah hardware remains dominant in the hardware-software dialectic.

>>28528
I'm convinced no one who jerks off as much has played with their asshole.

Jerking off is just a bodily function, like taking a shit. If you feel like you are taking a shit too much, the solution is not to remove the toilets from your house.

>>31128
But you don't understand, they feel extreme shame at having to take a shit, so they must hold it in.

>>31129
I had a cousin that refused to shit when she was little because of that. It nearly killed her and she was forced to take medication to make her go.

Isn't there a tiny pinhole button on your router to reset it to factory settings? You should push that button so you can start jacking off again.