/tech/ - Technology

First they made AOSP private, now they won't even let you install your own apps. Is this the end of Android?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/

Have you ever come across legacy code and clients so shit it made you quit your job? I'm the OP from >>29629. I'm serving my notice period as of now. Never will I ever work a techjeet job again in my life. I'm fed up of looking at the absolute worst if-else/try-except hell, perpetually broken, shitly architected mess of entangled services that was assigned to me against my will. Even the individual config files are thousands of lines of undocumented json. It's such hot garbage you can't even run it locally, you need to push your changes to UAT just to see if they work. On top of that, the clients are typical middle-management assholes who always tried to blame me for their own mistakes. So, I quit on my own terms before those cunts got me fired. Atleast I have learned what not to do and saved enough to start my own thing. Will probably become a petite-bourg indiehacker or freelancer of some kind.

Also, and I say this as a jeet myself, never work for jeet clients or managers. They'd rather work you to death than make any improvements in their processes and standards, even if said improvements serve their own interests.

Xfce was supposed to be THE lightweight fully-featured desktop manager but it seems fucking KDE has around the same memory footprint and performance?!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/10/23/bold-prediction-kde-will-steal-the-lightweight-linux-desktop-crown-in-2020/

since the server crash ate my last thread about how to create anonymous email users over Tor in the age of cuckflare, I decided to recreate my findings from it. the goal is simple: create an email with a host that is considered trustworthy in most places online, using Tor Browser
I assume you're on a Debian-like system, including Ubuntu or Linux Mint. use a password manager like keepassx to generate unique passwords for all services. DO NOT USE ANY PASSWORDS THAT YOU USE FOR ANY OTHER ACCOUNTS. avoid using any special characters in your passwords, because configuring mutt with them seems to work poorly

for this exercise you will need Javascript enabled in Tor Browser. the middle "Safer" setting should work. perhaps in the future I will figure out a way with scripts disabled. the target of this guide is protonmail. in my experience it is considered trustworthy enough for signing up for various services
we will use a series of what I will call "springboards", where we move from a less trusted service to a more trusted one, until we get to protonmail which has rather strict standards for what it considers trustworthy for email verification

the guide below will go cock.li -> kolabnow.com -> proton.me

>level 0: cock.li
run by chvddie-adjacent people. uses colorful domain names like cock.li, loves.dicksinhisan.us and horsefucker.org, so it is generally considered untrustworthy by almost everyone. but it has the benefit of easy signup. it will therefore serve as our level 0 service. it has some hidden services:
rurcblzhmdk22kttfkel2zduhyu3r6to7knyc7wiorzrx5gw4c3lftad.onion for web
xdkriz6cn2avvcr2vks5lvvtmfojz2ohjzj4fhyuka55mvljeso2ztqd.onion for email (IMAP, POP) and chat (XMPP)
the clearnet web service tends to work better for signup for some reason, so use https://cock.li/ to sign up. using the cock.li domain for your email seems to work best - I tried using airmail.cc but had problems logging in
cock.li currently does not have a webmail. look further down for a short guide how to set up an IMAP client (mutt) that runs via Tor
you can solve the Proof-of-Work thing if you want, but it's not necessary for this guide since we only need to be able to receive email on this account. solving the PoW took 20 minutes on my crappy machine. you need to set the "Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

When the fuck will there be a fully open source desktop RISC-V SBC w/ mainline Linux support? The closest one is a SiFive HiFive Unmatched/Unleashed. I'm not spending $15,000 on a Talos II and nobody wants to go retro either, so this is the safest bet at having fully open source hardware on a desktop PC.

What's the deal with block-based coding? I'm surprised it's not more common for the obvious stuff like markup languages, since they're both sandwich shaped, and whenever I look into it I see it pitched as:
>no coding
even though it is, just you have premade snippets.
>usually pitched as a teaching tool rather than part of a serious workflow
which is weird beause I see node based coding, another kind of visual coding, used in gamedev and shader stuff quite regularly.
>seemingly only used for high level programming
why? like is there something low level programming languages do that can't translate to blocks?

Do you use block-based coding for anything, or have experiences to share about it?

In recent years China has made significant strides in developing its own semiconductor industry with things like Huawei's HiSilicon, Loongson, StarFive, MilkV, etc. I would call that China outlasted the US sanctions barrage from the US. Chinese investment in fabrication technologies, while not anyway near cutting edge is getting to be near good enough. With things like Intel looking shaky and the rise of Risc-V and ARM we are steadily moving forwards towards the hopeful future of open standards, hardware and software, where most consumer computation devices will have built in Chinese backdoors instead of American ones.

>Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/05/china_schools_riscv_pc/

>Beijing issues list of approved CPUs – with no Intel or AMD
>2024 may be the year of Linux On The Arm-or-RISC-desktop as China moves away from Western tech
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/25/china_approved_tech_list/

>China Is All In on a RISC-V Future
https://www.hpcwire.com/2024/01/08/china-is-all-in-on-a-risc-v-future/

>'The Linux of processors' — New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil as universities back open source high performance RISC-V processors to be the next big thing in HPC
https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-linux-of-processors-new-breed-of-chinese-super-cpus-emerge-on-us-soil-as-chinese-universities-back-open-source-high-performance-risc-v-processors-to-be-the-next-big-thing-in-hpc

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Talk about why every single site except reddit and fbi.gov has been complete and utterly abandoned.

>Interesting things going on
Browsers are all forcing https by default. On the surface this sounds like a good idea but in reality it's part of a larger plan of control.
Website owners are now at the mercy of the cert authorities. Host something they dont like? you cert gets revoked and now your site wont load on 99% of web browsers.
you have been shutdown.

>What is the dead internet theory?
Dead internet is partly caused by a generational problem, zoomers just want to be where they're friends are. it's understandable, we even did the
same back in the 2000s. everyone was on AIM and myspace. The only difference is those platforms actually did allow free speech back then. now the
internet has become more centralized and a handful of big corps run it all. they are in charge of what gets said on their platforms. not you.

>big techs goal
Big tech is fighting a future war. They know the young are the future. It’s about indoctrination. They are building their vision for the future. A dumbed down controlled population.

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Ok, I'm giving Nostr a try and I don't know where to begin. Recommend me please some interesting people to follow. Thanks!
(My body was to short or empty, I don't know what else to say??)

Who the fuck was it that says Lunduke was a good guy? He's a rightoid now which I already knew due to his petit bourgeois class status and that debate with Stallman on free software.

Now all his videos are about h1b and discrimination against whites and pronouns and shit.

Feels good to be vindicated as opposed to the people on /tech/ who said hes a good guy or whatevr.