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Facial recognition. Gait recognition. Automated License Plate Readers, many of whom now identify based on make and model. DNA databases. Cellular location tracking. "First responder drones" will become a thing with police departments soon. Cash based transactions are becoming less accepted and every credit card purchase is sold to advertisers (and the feds). For most people in Western countries acting normally, anyone going anywhere or doing anything in the physical world is tracked in a dozen ways. Taking elaborate measures to avoid this surveillance makes you look extremely weird and suspicious to most normal people. Any serious leftist movement dealing with harsh state repression is going to need a reliable toolkit for defeating this stuff.

I don't think this shit can be defeated. Even doing so much as a cash withdrawal adds to your credit profile.

>Cash based transactions are becoming less accepted and every credit card purchase is sold to advertisers (and the feds)

Btw, this happens in plain sight. All your transaction data is sold to credit rating bureaus like TransUnion and Equifax. I'm Indian, and the same happens here. It's worse because here we have a casless payment processing system called UPI, which has gained popularity in recent years. It links directly to your actual bank account too, unlike venmo or paypal that require you to store money in wallets. I've seen alternate data products that scan your SMS history to look for these transactions and create a credit profile based on that. Many banking, insurance and trading platforms integrate these into their applications. So the moment you give them SMS access, they profile you.

You could be a basement dwelling shut-in who never goes outside, but the moment you interact with any banking or insurance systems (which is something everyone has to do) you get profiled. Your transaction and medical history can be used to track you. In fact, in my country it is mandatory for any financial services provider to upload your KYC data to a centralized government database (CERSAI). It's done in the name of fraud prevention, but we all know there are ulterior motives.

All in all, even excluding all the fancy AI-powered surveillance tech available nowadays, governments can still track you. There's no escaping it. Only widespread class-consciousness can make people even start considering this to be important and lay the basis for the collective action needed to counter it. Where I'm at, people literally call you a traitor questioning feds. So yeah, nothing will be happening anytime soon.



 

AGI by 2027. What are the implications for the world and the future of mankind and communism?

>Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. Nvidia analysts still think 2024 might be close to the peak. Mainstream pundits are stuck on the willful blindness of “it’s just predicting the next word”. They see only hype and business-as-usual; at most they entertain another internet-scale technological change.


>Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.


>Let me tell you what we see.


<I. From GPT-4 to AGI: Counting the OOMs

>AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible. GPT-2 to GPT-4 took us from ~preschooler to ~smart high-schooler abilities in 4 years. Tracing trendlines in compute (~0.5 orders of magnitude or OOMs/year), algorithmic efficiencies (~0.5 OOMs/year), and “unhobbling” gains (from chatbot to agent), we should expect another preschooler-to-high-schooler-sized qualitative jump by 2027.

<II. From AGI to Superintelligence: the Intelligence Explosion

>AI progress won’t stop at human-level. Hundreds of millions of AGIs could automate AI research, compressing a decade of algorithmic progress (5+ OOMs) into ≤1 year. We would rapidly go from human-level to vastly superhuman AI systems. The power—and the peril—of superintelligence would be dramatic.
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>>30001
And basically everything regarding the hype was made up because Sam Altman was panicing and needed to assure the stock holders that they must stick around. That's why he announced AGI, and that's why he announced ASI, and that's why he'll annound AXXLI in the coming months..

Ok

Permaban everyone in this thread

>>29959
came here to say this lolol

i just want the robo proles to kill the bourgeroise



 

>old drive from 2016 "might" be dying
>look into getting a drive with at least 2 tb since I wanna hoard my warez
>"oh get a toshiba bro they're reliable
>not even a fucking year later
>Current Pending Sector Count: 1864
You've got to be fucking kidding me, comrades.
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consumer toshibas are barely a step above western digitals lol

you got trolled my dude

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This is probably the last update. They called me back after 16 days to tell me the groundbreaking news that it's broken…gee, really?
I got my replacement drive, only after the stupid bitch on the phone tried to trick me into buying something else of equal value, cause they said they didn't have another drive. I went on their site and noticed they DID have a replacement, so either they lied or they didn't even bother to check. I noticed the price was up from 66 euro, to 69 euro, so genuinely that's possibly why they didn't mention they had a replacement…pricks.
Long story short, I got another fucking toshiba canvio, for free…sure it might also die in 8 months, but at least I didn't have to downgrade from 2tb.

>>29662
Make sure to stress test it early on. If your drives are going to fail you, you want it to be soon, before they have data on them.

>toshiba
ngmi, it was over before it even began flood detected post discarded

I've had no issues with western digital, even with the budget green ones



 

This is the next installment of threads in my project log series since the imageboard was completed >>27187, and ran out of motivation for the calendar-based forum >>27553, leaving it as merely a (relatively complete) calendar. The idea this time around is to make something of a GNU Emacs replacement, but broken up into a number of tightly coupled smaller packages. Namely the approach is going to be "frames" over "windows" where windows are controlled by a programmable tiling window manager and run in Xephr for individuals who don't want to replace their window manager. Further there will be a command processor for mapping keybindings to functions and command names to functions. Next there will be a prompt package which will be responsible for prompting the user, more likely than not this will be either at the cursor position or in the center of the display. Lastly, the text editor itself will be responsible for very little beyond saving and reloading state, and rendering the text buffer; these two functionality will likely also be split into separate packages.

Presently, the implementation is in C, Xlib, Cairo, and Pango but is little more than a demo to edit and render text taken from various tutorials glued together only started yesterday afternoon. It is however already capable of indexing in text based on pointer events, so it seems the stack will be powerful enough to write the gui. Am likely to start with morphing the present program into the prompt package and once have the basics of the centered view created (this would be something akin to dmenu) am likely to begin rewriting in Common Lisp. Don't yet know how to handle the interprocess communication ideally it would be bidirectoinal and work well with programs not written in Common Lisp, though this latter point isn't the biggest priority. Getting the interprogram communication right is going to be critical for having the environment work well overall. Anyway that's all for now.
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>>29923
Some common lisp later and have a complex implementation of a simple algorithm that was in my notebook.
The idea was to only render glyphs which need to be on the screen, and only "shape" for glyphs that are in lines on the screen.
Arabic and other connected scripts are borked because of rendering glyph by glyph.
Seems need to separate by LogAttr is_word_boundary or similar ( https://docs.gtk.org/Pango/struct.LogAttr.html ).
Really this should have come up in the design process for the algorithm, but oh well.

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>>29924
Writing in an alien language can be difficult!
Finally got all of the bugs sorted in the render!
The ASCII doesn't really show off the engine completely.
There's certainly some pressure to implement caching however.
Especially considering this was part of the whole reason for the re-implementation.
The algo avoids rendering words unless part of them is visible to the left.
There is still some work required to have this same behavior happen to the "right".
These things should be easily enough implemented now that the basic framework is in place.
Really still seem to need a non-idealist plan,

>>30021
Wrote primitive caching. Also more primitive optimization for cluttered overlong lines.

It will probably be difficult to do this last thing correctly.

>>30039
Worked on handling a edge case today with vacant lines. My "solution" was not satisfactory.

It only tries to render things which are within the view-port.

Next thing on the list is to try to make a cached generator. The idea is that this would fix the problem with having to shape overlong lines. Might not be able to program this for a second.

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>>30045
Even with a hot cache only rendering what's necessary on a medium fast machine it's too slow.

More cold stuff.
Programmed and it turned out that a bulk of this was in marshaling and unmarshaling data.
Was able to half the consing, total-run-time, and nearly the real-time just by removing unused slots.
Pulling out the window attribute xcb calls (which never would have guessed) also took off 20 times real-time for small buffers.
And hot stuff.

The remaining problem is the lack of a cache generator.
Combined with running this for the full text instead of just the relevant view-port.
Together this meant it was taking way too long to shape up the characters for long documents.
Fixing this makes it too fast to create a flamegraph for even for large documents.
… but am sort of getting ahead of myself.

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Feel free to discuss any consumer electronic products you use.
Picture two are my Chi-Fi: Tin-HIFI T2.
They're mostly neutral with some deviation in the highs.
Much less bass heavy than most Chi-Fi judging from the graphs.

Picture one is my phone, an ironic branding for a midrange device.
Am hoping to install Lineage 21+ after an unlock token arrives.
Interesting apps are as follows:

- NewPipe (youtube alternative)
- personalDNSfilter (global adblock)
- KurobaEx-Beta (leftypol client)
- Obsidian (note taking software)
- OsmAnd (google maps alternative)
- Messanger (RCS is a monopoly)
- Aurora Store (bad play replacement)
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>>29659
This is so much more of a pain then it used to be.
Even things like downloading an OTA, or transferring files to phone.
Like since when do you need a virtual filesystem to transfer files?
Since when do you need to transfer bins back and forth to your phone and computer to patch them.
Since when do you even need a computer to root a phone?
Then of course my laptop only has three USB ports each on a different side!
Since when can you not have a keyboard, mouse, flashdrive, and phone plugged in at once!
And then lol sorry you actually still need that fancy unlock token they haven't sent you for three weeks.
Ugh!

I have a Samsung a35 right now. I have google fi as my carrier so i just get whatever is a cheap phone with SD support from their store whenever the current one dies out

>>29813
This never did show up.
Am going to try using MSM on an old windblows machine to restore to an international firmware.
Really disgusting.

>>30037
This completely failed so gave up.
Seems like am going to get something unlocked next time.

a samsoong s25, sorry for being a consoomer, i was worried about trump tariff so i splurged
a kindle paperwhite gen 7 with koreader after jailbreaking it, koreader is fucking awesome
sometimes a miyoo mini v4 for gaming



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I recently got a smartphone again and things are worse than 5 or 6 years ago. I got an Android because they have inexpensive ones and I don't believe in paying around $1k for a phone.

Turns out you need a Gmail account and a whole Google relationship for the phone to work. Then you can't even send texts without your legal name and email address being linked to your number. For anyone you contact to read.

I'm no paranoid nut or anything, but this is far more involved than it used to be. And there's simply no way to opt out. It may be different with Apple phones, but I remember when I had one of those they wanted me to link up a bunch of shit too. It was similar but different.

Not to mention you kind of already need a phone to activate a phone. Because without some texted code to cell phone you can't get the new one going.
I know I'M the problem here because I'm questioning and not just agreeing to all their shit, but I want to understand it.

Do you guys know what's up with all this and if there's any way around it? I had a flip phone for a long time but each year it's more and more of a hassle to get along without having the same as everyone else. And everyone INSISTS on communicating via text message, so there's really no dealing with that on a little flip with just numbers. And I checked; they don't even fucking MAKE Blackberry type smartphones with physical keyboards anymore. If you can find one it won't work with any current carrier. The phones are all very big and they don't offer small smartphone options unless you want a folding one which is even more costly.
The cheapest I could get was $200 and I still feel ripped off.
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>>29721
proofs? tried even to use geoip to get timezone data once but the data wasn't accurate enough. something like 50% accuracy for city.

>>29721
Yeah, I haven't left the house with it. Someday I'll need it for GPS or something I imagine. I'd like to just buy a GPS for my car like I used to have that always works, no signing up or anything. Just a random guy using the thing for directions and it doesn't know who I am and isn't tracking me. Garmin. They still make those? My last one looked like a CRT TV, as deep as it was wide, suctioned to my windshield. I miss that thing. Would it still work? Remember those days?

>>29724
>>29724
>proofs?
here's this weeks proofs
https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o2-expose-customer-location-call-4g/
this isn't a demoralization post. understand the fucking ridiculous amount of data they're taking from you

>>29823
Well then.

>>29683
>Turns out you need a Gmail account and a whole Google relationship for the phone to work.

Uhmm… no you don't?! My phone is like 3 months old and I am using it completeky without a Google account. You can just skip the account creation.



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Thread for watching rocket launches and shit.
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>>26520
Yeah he's even a nazi too.

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Not really /tech/ but still /space/.
Lunar eclipse happens tonight, will be visible in the Americas.

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Yet another giant leap on the road to the Moon and Mars. The Chinese will never catch up now!

I might be stupid but I still don't understand what problem starship (or even falcon9) is trying to solve

>>30027
Isn't the purpose to soak up government gibs while maximizing profit (offering a cheaper service and doing things no one else can) and inspiring-following a vision of futurism. If the vision of the future were different you'd probably get it.



 

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?

Finally figured out npm and got blockly running. Perhaps I could try making a generator for rust to see if that's possible.

>>30009
Blocks are just a different interface to imperative code, which most people already know how to read as text and is trivial to learn compared to other coding paradigms (it's like a cooking recipe). Nodes in contrast represent a type of reactive programming, which is harder to grasp and in general-purpose languages can only be found as special purpose pipelines or message-based object systems. Documentation is pretty much the only advantage of blocks over text, all constructs are listed and often telegraph how they may be used.



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>99% of backend web applications are REST APIs that perform basic CRUD operations.
>Vast majority of soydevs and product managers somehow still manage to fuck up codebases beyond repair
How does this happen? I'm tired of working on fragile legacy codebases that are on the brink of imploding half the time. Most of the teams I have worked with are filled with careless assholes who don't follow any proper coding guidelines, standard processes or even use common sense. Maybe it's because I'm in fintech. I know some of the red flags to watch out for, let me know of some more please.
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>>29994
>It's common practice in fintech in my country (I'm Indian btw lol).
no it's not lol.
what is it with indians and the self-deprecation and loathing?
dumb security lapses are common all over the world, it's not "common practice" anywhere. government and large corp contracts for building software are often riddled with corruption and some inevitably end up with these issues.

>>30002
>Most of those problems are fixed by paying more for better devs.
better devs and giving them the chance to implement things according to their knowledge and understanding of your problem. not cargo-culting by hiring devs and then telling them linkedin raised profits by using a message queue or microsoft stock is up 50% because AI now writes 80% of all their code, so you must find a way to implement message queuing or using AI "agents" to build stuff faster.

funnily so far it hasn't occurred to them to simply not hire any devs and use an AI "agent" to build their async queued event driven 30 billion dollar unicorn idea.

>>30006
It has nothing to do with self-deprecation. I have startup founder friends who refuse to work with Indian clients, despite being Indian! They really pressure you that much and don't hold anyone accountable for anything.

>>29993
>kubernetes or grpc in a way that isn't cargo-cult retardation
GRPC absolutely. it's really not that much of a leap over other RPC protocols.

but kubernetes can be very nice if used in the right way. First of all it is self-hostable, you don't need cloudshit lock-in, second, it can be run on the cheap if you know what you're doing, and you can get pretty reliable scaling and robust and repeatable deployments once it is all set up at the outset. A no-brainer at this point if you have any application with multiple interacting services. Yes, it is kinda ugly if you really get into its configuration and logging but these days you get nice UIs like rancher to abstract that mess away for day-to-day operation at least and you won't need to deal with that unless something goes seriously wrong.

>>30008
I've never felt pressured to deliver at my current big tech role before a product is done. We're happy using old proprietary stuff if it works.
When devs job hop every 2 years I doubt they've seen the ramifications of their work. Tons of microservice resume driven development bullshit as if the next shmuck who shows up will know rust or want to learn it. They seem to include tech simply so they can apply elsewhere with it on their resume. In some domains it takes 2 years just to get sufficiently acquainted with regulations, the business itself, etc.

We don't use AI to write code that much because code gen + libraries/etc. are enough for us. Rarely I'll use LLMs to get an idea of how to write something. In general I think frameworks solve the problem much more elegantly than an LLM. Better to have unit test/performance testing/etc. on everything, centralized in a library than duplicated 24/7. The people who shill LLMs seem to work in small code bases with little to no domain expertise required.

I think a lot of devs give up and start telling management what they want to hear while they insult them behind their backs. What else can they expect when management is pretending AI can replace a dev, it's insulting. Zuck claims mid level engineers are gone in a year. Lmao. I hate these people.



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Is indie app/web development a viable way to earn money? I'm tired of debugging dogshit legacy codebases. I plan on building dozens of freemium apps hoping that at least one sticks. I have 2.5 years of web and mobile dev experience.

Also, please don't move this to /tech/ jannies, it's an incredibly slow board.
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do a shitty mobile game, monetize the shit out of it and shill it to third worlders

>>29939
This job will be completely replaced by AI in one year's time.

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>>29956
My genuine reply to this is that people only focus on the implementation stage of the software development lifecycle when all the other stages are actually the ones that take up most of the time and effort. Implementation for 99% of applications was already pretty easy even before the advent of AI. It's another thing that people still managed to fuck it up somehow.

>>29956
It isn't even a job to begin with. That's like calling writing or eating a job. Indie webdev is just a basic life skill.

>>29954
Jobs aren't necessarily fun. If you don't like it go network into a different one. I deal with legacy code all day but the pay is good, the code base is bad but not horrible, and I'm treated well. Management understands some things are very hard to do and take time without breaking existing functionality.



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