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Linux, Wikipedia, Mozilla Firefox, Signal… I've always believed, that these were the "good guys" in the tech world. I have believed, that there is a countermovement against BigTech. I remember, ten years ago, I actually donated regularly to Wikipedia, because I believed in their mission of free knowledge and shit. But in the last months, I found out that all these "alternative" and "non-profit" projects and organizations are deeply intertwined with BigTech. It's over. There was a time, when people thought, that television would bring light to the world. It didn't, it actually brought darkness to the world. And I was one of those people, who believed, the internet would bring light to the world. Now I realize, it was a mistake, just like television.
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>>24877
Wikipedia only allows information from "trustworthy sources" (mainly mainstream media). Caring about wikipedia's conflict of interest instead of those of its sources is rather pointless.

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>>24906
I think, Snowden should apologize for shilling this glowware so hard. I don't even think he did it on purpose, but he clearly made a mistake.

>>24929
I think Signal works for a lot of people. I just don't trust it personally
the reason Snowden isn't dead likely has more to do with him being protected by the FSB since it's in Russia's geopolitical interests

>le epic unibomber
how did i know this was gonna be /g/ tier anti-FOSS FUD even before i read the text

>le epic unibomber
how did i know this was gonna be /g/ tier anti-FOSS FUD even before i read the text


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So you have this technology that is effectively electronic cash, you get to send any amount of money with all the benefits of cash and without all the problems of a centralized middle man service. but still after about a decade not enough people believe in crypto as a currency. the hate from the left is especially strange.
>muh energy crisis
YouTube alone is more of an energy blackhole than all of crypto combined. you think streaming 4K@60fps video 24/7 world wide is sustainable? or even 1080p?
instead of fighting the banks, normalfags keep voting for laws that restrict crypto, because of muh think of the children!
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>>23288
>electronic cash
>all the benefits of cash
Real QQ, are you retarded? Are you allowed to leave your home? Are you over the age of, idk, 15?

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https://localmonero.co/blog/announcements/winding-down
>After almost 7 years of operation, due to a combination of internal and external factors, we have made the difficult decision to close our platform.
>We're extremely thankful for the love and support we've received over the years. We couldn't have done it without you. We love you all ♥
>LocalMonero has been around for most of Monero's life. Fortunately, the Monero ecosystem has matured a lot over these years, and with the imminent launch of Haveno and other DEXs like Serai, atomic swaps, the coming addition of FCMP (full blockchain anonymity set replacing rings of 16) as well as the continuing and rapidly accelerating development of the Monero protocol, we're confident that Monero's future is bright, with or without our platform.

R.I.P. king

>>24871
saw a video on this, big ripz. placd a numbr of ordrs via this site, shit suckz. tho i imagin via the nature of the decentralized, peer-to-peer nature of the site, another will emerge. itz jus a matta of time.
in addition, to any Anons hve any recommend alternatives 2 the site? thx.

Computer-cash is dark magic, 99.9999% do not understand, how it functions. You can't control, what you don't understand. It is even in the name, "crypto" means you don't know what is going on. Only the top elite knows how it functions, the crypto-priests. Stay away from dark cyber-magic, you can't compete with the crypto-priests.

>>24873
>Computer-cash is dark magic
wait til anon discvrs crytpo currency is jus decades-old math and encryption an there's a multitude of resources online to educate themselves, haha. srzly tho anon, it's not a dark magic. sure it may be complex, bu id hapy to point u in the right direction twrds educational resources.
>Only the top elite knows how it functions, the crypto-priests. Stay away from dark cyber-magic, you can't compete with the crypto-priests.
lulz, r u familiar w/ the gentleman who burnt himself in midtown-manhattan? u may b a fan of his research.


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https://nitter.net/photomatt/status/1594587024245260289

Tumblr is going to joining the fediverse soon.
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>>17739
I think wordpress has proprietary modules. Threads has some retarded algorithm right? Is it "open source" software interfacing with unknown server shit like other Meta open source stuff is AFAIK?

>>24706
>>full of glowies, defence contractors, libertarians, zoophiles and pedophiles
And the difference with regular social media is…?

I think wordpress has proprietary modules. Threads has some retarded algorithm right? Is it "open source" software interfacing with unknown server shit like other Meta open source stuff is AFAIK?

>>17743
wikipedia says ostatus turned into gnusocial, which is the ancestor of fediverse activitypub

>>24761
even if Threads was open source that's like saying you're fine with having AIDS because its DNA has been sequenced


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> find new software
> check out their Microsoft GIthub
< it's just translations and issue tracking, no actual source code
Proprietary software should be required to put large warnings about it being proprietary like those warnings on cigarette.

>find neat looking project on shithub
<all commits are readme edits
there was this guy who had like five repositories of this and spammed links to his "firefox fork" on reddit and hn

>>24525
I hope he died tbqh

90% of accounts I see on github are just people forking highly starred repos or posting their homework assignments. There's this idea that github is a community of artisans sharing and reacting to each others work but it just isn't true

>>24529
You're just mad you can't code for shit

>>24529
What, are you browsing? I just look at software I use, usually checking minecraft mods are actually open source before installing them. Like I assumed minecraft has had enough malware scares to swear off closed source stuff entirely, but nah 1 in 100 mods you find in both repos are still closed source.


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>4chan is a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images anonymously.
>anonymously
>blocks VPN's and Tor
what the fuck is their problem?
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Apperantly 4chan has a problem(?) with AI generated threads/posts. How will leftypil prepare to the bots? I'm quite surprised, that there isn't even a captcha here.

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>>24443
Yeah but you gotta fucking verify you're human on cloudflare every 2 minutes.

>>24443
There is a guy that said he had proofs that there are actual bots doing bot stuff in >>>/siberia/523120

>>24453
What if… this is only the tip of the iceberg…?

old school internet anonymity is slowly going extinct isn't it?
and the worst part is that no one cares.


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>government app necessary for functioning in society
<requires google play store to be enabled in your phone
>uni also uses google shit for everything
I can't escape Google no matter what I do. Should I just bite the bullet and integrate into their workspace then?
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Just have a dedicated device for it

>>24605
It's possible to install apps in isolated profiles in GrapheneOS and some other phone OS afaik. Another option might be to install the apps in Android VMs on a laptop.

>>24605
>>government app necessary for functioning in society
There are mirrors for google play apks and installing malicious apps on android is manageable. Any google service should have a secure, compatible alternative somewhere (see https://microg.org/).
>>uni also uses google shit for everything
Elaborate. I'm interested in how dystopian shit has gotten in your 'stan.

>>24605
The megacorps are the eyes and ears of the surveillance state, what did you expect?

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WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY.


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All nitter instances are rate limited now
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>>24435
It's been that way for about a decade. As always, for "security" purposes.

no point in accessing this shithole anymore
it's just bots and chvddies now

>nitter.poast.org now displays without full nitter style formatting
>somewhat unreadable
what do

>>24586
B-but my hentai…

>>24611
their style and media arent loading and almost always show a 403 error because their blacklist is super aggressive to deter crawlers


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/leftypol/ was instrumental in helping me make my personal site. An eternal thank you.

I've added a guestbook and would be honored if someone from here would sign it.

Here's the URL: darigo.su

To access the guestbook, click the pokeball in the bottom right, then walk to the computer and open Netscape.

Love you leftypol

I made the guestbook in the style of an imageboard in honor of this site helping me reach my goals

Very Cool website OP 👍. Bookmarked

>>24597

aw thanks. don't forget to sign the guestbook with an interesting image!

>/leftypol/ was instrumental in helping me make my personal site
how?

>>24632
>>>/siberia/524561


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Real or hysterical? Things have already been quite bad for decades now, so…
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/16/1916229/us-senate-to-vote-on-a-wiretap-bill-that-critics-call-stasi-like

>>24511
don't Google and AT&T already give the government all their data? but sure things can always be worse

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Here's the bill that was proposed. It looks concerning, but that's just from these spooky scary headlines I found from searching it. I'll start to read it now and share my thoughts.

>>24537
>expand the number of businesses that the US government can force to eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant
they already had this for years in the bush era on the patriot act, warrentless wiretaps were fully legal, and not indirectly forcing businesses to hand over data but actually doing it directly.

I guess this is just a return to form.


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With most phones not having a microSD slot or even an audio jack these days you'd think projects like Rockbox would be more popular but it's almost abandoned.
https://www.rockbox.org/
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>>24583
works on my machine

it's because music streaming completely killed dedicated audio players obviously. not only that but phones carry like 1TB ootb that's a lot more than the 256GB we were used to back in the day, so it's completely irrelevant technology. if you have specific audiofile needs and an aversion to spotify, you'd be spending your cash on a plex box and plexamp on your phone.

>>24590
>phones carry like 1TB ootb
fucking which ones? all the phones with good specs have like 128-256 gigs with absolutely no room for extra storage to force you to rely on streaming and cloud garbage

>an aversion to spotify
i have an aversion to paying for stuff that can be free, thanks

>>24592
like every flagship lol wdym. even dirt cheap chinese phones have 256gb storage wtf lol, i use a fucking rooted poco as a dedicated media player it was a hundred bucks and that has 256gb, it's too bad that flagships dont have additional sd card storage like that one does, i'll give you that

>>24593
im not in the "first world" tbf


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