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Remember to constantly randomize your MAC address.
https://github.com/datagod/gpsprobe
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randomizing your MAC address doesn't do shit unless you're concerned about the local network you're on. when packets get NAT'ed they don't preserve information about the MAC address on the local network because otherwise that would cause all sorts of problems. MAC addresses are only meaningful on a local network because iirc they're randomized and also dependent on the hardware you're using, so if every single MAC address of every device in the world was being sent around on the internet, there would be collisions all the time.

>>22249
>it's just nice to be noticed.
Deus Ex moment.

Android already does this by default.

sounds good if i'm on a labby, but why would i do it if i'm on desktop

>>22253
>Thinking any of this shit is going to protect you from the fbi.
If I was doing shit that I thought yhe feds would care about I would use TailsOS or something, but you probably can't even count on that.


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Yeah I still using it, in fact anyone still kinda using it cuz we can't just abandon our normies facade.

Also is it true that from Windows 10 until onwards (Windows 11), you don't need install any third-party or additional antivirus?

I still can't move on into Linux. Cuz it's not even my laptop, but my parents.
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Best advice is to run Windows in a Qubes OS virtual machine.

you should only use the built-in windows defender unless you like installing spyware that will make your computer run even slower

>>15089
although obviously the better option is simply not using windows at all

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I mean Windows has nothing exclusive anymore, so I don't get the point in trying it pretend it's still easy to use past Windows 7. NixOS with KDE is easier to teach to kids and old people than Windows 11 unless you want more flexibility than windows would ever non-trivially provide in the first place.

That said, ClamWin was great back when I used to use Windows.

>>22250
>NixOS
>kids will want to learn a programming language just to use the package manager and install programs
You had a point until you mentioned that meme OS.


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Canada’s favorite coffee chain was covertly data mining the shit out of people who just wanted cheap coffee, and they got outed by the government, then concluded tim hortons was basically being evil then was like “oh well can’t punish them".

>The Tim Hortons app used location data to infer where users lived, worked, and whether they were travelling. It generated an “event” every time users entered and left their homes, entered and exited their office, or travelled.
https://priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/investigations/investigations-into-businesses/2022/pipeda-2022-001/
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>>15254
It streamlines the process. If you already have the app it has your payment info and so on and you can order stuff before you get there or something. It's really unnecessary and a sign of how strapped for time and productivity-maxing society has become.

>>15255
here's how to streamline the process: use cash

>>15254
it's a good feature, you can pre-order your food and only go there to pick it up

more broadly, it's crazy how inefficient the food sector is under capitalism. food is the archetypal economy of scale, cooking at home shouldn't be cheaper than eating outside, there shouldn't be a kitchen in every house

everything I eat tastes like shit because I'm not going to waste my time learning to cook, and I'm not going to waste money eating outside

>>22233
>more broadly, it's crazy how inefficient the food sector is under capitalism. food is the archetypal economy of scale, cooking at home shouldn't be cheaper than eating outside, there shouldn't be a kitchen in every house
It was the same in the USSR

>>22233
>cooking at home shouldn't be cheaper than eating outside, there shouldn't be a kitchen in every house
Those are two separate issues. Why it's more expensive to eat outside is because the restaurant has to pay salaries to cooks and waiters, rent, taxes, licensing fees, equipment, etc.

No, there shouldn't be a kitchen in every house. People should have a communal kitchen in the building, and then people from that building have to be paid to work in the communal kitchen. It shouldn't be a free-for-all, the communal kitchen should be run like a restaurant. People can have a kitchenette at home to warm up things, make tea, etc.


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Just found out about "invention clauses". In the US there are about 10 states which have 3 conditions: they own everything you name that was made on company time, using company equipment, or using trade secrets taught to you by the company.
Every other state does not include any conditions. They can claim everything you make, even if it's completely unrelated to your job. YouTube videos? Tutorials? Game streaming? A web comic? Literally anything. It's theirs.
They don't even have to make exemptions for collaborative work. They can take a portion of anything you contribute to if they want.
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*blood sucking noises*

>>22243
These laws completely ignores computer history. Workers walking out of Fairchild Semiconductor is how we got Intel, AMD and Zilog. Same with workers walking out of Motorola giving us MOS Technology. Meaning if the laws existed in the 1970s the PC would never have been invented in the USA as the military industrial complex had no interest in it and they employed all the engineers thus it would have had the intellectual property to the tech behind the PC and did nothing with it as DARPA didn't ask them to make one. Then you had Commodore and Atari swap a chunk of their engineers when Jack Tramiel bought Atari and when Commodore bought Amiga (that was engineers the left Atari prior) which would have been a IP nightmare.

>>15871
Ehh the USSR kind of did the Tetris guy dirty like that. Interesting story.

>>22245

>>22245
That was Gorbachev era, prior to that the CMEA didn't really care much about IP at that level where firms in the CMEA would reverse engineer from other firms in the CMEA with no worry along with from firms in the west.


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An article from 2016 on how the Bitcoin blockchain was reaching its limit and being controlled by a tighter and tighter pool of speculators. Even more relevant with the rise and crash of tethercoins lately.
https://blog.plan99.net/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7

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woah cool af article anon
Do you know any similar ones for other projects (Monero)?

>>15226
also his blog is cool, there's a really neat post about bots and how the bot metrics are fake it wont stop me from saying social media is 80% bots tho
https://blog.plan99.net/fake-science-part-ii-bots-that-are-not-c66129e5e3f5

>>15228
No
Kute pic

>>15226
>plan9
can't take this guys seriously. get a better source

>>22198
why the fuck are you necrobumping? you're not even contributing, just spamming.


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What's a safe way to store lithium batteries in case they ever burst on fire?
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Neighbor installed a Powerwall, so I'm going to need to fireproof the fence.

also i read to keep them at 40% charge for the least wear on them, and keep them in a fridge lol (not freezer tho)

in it asshole

>lithium batteries
we don't even know how that shit works: https://wikenigma.org/content/chemistry/li_ion_batteries
<Although lithium ion batteries are considered as system of choice for variety of mobile and stationary applications, fundamental knowledge is alarmingly required to uncover the underlying principles controlling the basic processes that determine and dictate their function, operation, performance limitations as well as failure.

I just throw them into a random drawer and hope for the best.


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>communist revolution happens in the 1990s (somehow)
>the tyranny of big tech is no more
>$$hillikkkon Valley execs are lined up and shot before they can ruin the world
>finally we can use the best tools for the job to increase our productive forces
>programmers form worker-owned soviets
>cybersyn.lisp
>Commissar James Gosling seizes direct control of all workers' soviets
>places Party representatives in charge
<comrade, lisp is an individualist bourgeois language used by kulak elites like Paul Graham
<the people's language is Java because everyone already knows it and it is designed to force programmers to do things the Java Way
<the object system of Java models the dictatorship of the proletariat via a Vanguard as a hierarchy of classes and objects which dissolve in the dialectical process of compilation to bytecode
<macro systems are anarchism and probably counterrevolutionary as well

was he right comr8s
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>>22118
I know Guy Steele definitely has some idea what he was talking about when he said this since he literally made scheme and was involved with Common Lisp standardization efforts but I really have no idea what he could have meant by this

>>22139
Just some guesses from the top of my head:
>garbage collection
<unheard of at the time in general purpose languages outside of lisp and smalltalk
>dynamic typing
<casting between sub- and superclasses
<before generics many data structures casted specific types into generic objects and vice-versa
>strong typing
<exceptions on invalid casts
>bytecode
<native compilation as a form of caching
>kitchen sink standard library
<see greenspun's tenth law

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>>22140
outing myself as someone who has never touched C++ because I value what remains of my sanity but I completely fucking forgot that it used to be the norm to not even have things like garbage collection and a big standard library

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>java
no, after the revolution everything will be rewritten to either go, rust or c and you WILL enjoy it
every book, compiler and source code made for other programming languages WILL be outlawed and you WILL be hunted down as the counter-revolutionary scum you are if you try anything funny

>>22142
Forth programs will hate you, they spent years thinking that everything is a stack and routine in reverse polish notation. It is still used because it is one step above assembly.


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i don't even know where to post this.

i have ADHD.

i have this thing where there is X-thing that i cannot let my hand touch. if it does than it is "contaminated" (in my head)there for i must wash it or make it clean in my head. other things (household items and door and etc) could be touched by X-thing or my hand when it was "contaminated". and when it does i have to wash that thing or make it clean in my head. because the same rule when i touched x-thing applied.

i have the thing where it makes you forgot what you are doing seconds ago.

i have also "the thing" like above but far worse and akin to having a evil voice in your head gaslighting and lying about you yourself to harm you.

now done with background.
now for the real problem.

i like to do web archive of thread on CBIB's (leftypol and things alike) and also just saving web things in general. no, not in a internet hisorian or lost media or youtuber kind of way, far from it (saving web things in leftypolnco people kind of way). in one of those thread it have a epub file. so i use Calibre to open it. i not only use the "open with calibre opener" option but i also use the "open with calibre" option which creates the problem. using the "open with calibre" option open the main program. not the epub opener, but the main program. because i panick that something will happend with the file threr for making the archive inperfect, i cancel the loading that pop up in the main calibre program. but i took too long for canceling the loading thing because i panicked and overthink and question myself wheter or not i shuld cencel it or not. there for i cancel the download when its in the midle (+10% or something i don't remember).when i open the epub file it is error and i can't open it. yes i already try using the calibre epub opener and program other then calibre, it fail to open to. detour this is how i keep (some) files in my hardrive(:C): have a main loby -> have a sub loby that in this context is for "important things" -> this is where i keep the folder -> for folder(s) -> that eventually lead to the folder that have said problematic archive. now that i already tell how the files organize, return to tour. i eventually had a bright idea to replace the broken epub with a working version. so i copy a working version said broken epub to the sub-loby. then i copy again that epub, this time to replace the broken epub. it worked, i can now open the ePost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>21669
Woufh, I see.

This kind of obsession that took a shape of utter dependence even surpassing and consuming other desires of physical body surely is interesting for me.

I had rarely became obsessive ( but not too intensely ) to a thing and that it's re-thinking & re-memorizing & re-generating ( scenarios etc. ) process for days mostly bring some kind of ache - bitterness 'that you desire it to end' in chest. But gladly those rare experiences of mine were ended in 2-3 days, back to my apathetic, empty state. Soo, I guess I can see how a consuming desire may look like. And I guess for you, it's a mere subjection of your material state and circumstances itself, even if you "discredit,negate" of being something being 'contamined' in your mind, or simply see it as an absurd, abstract attritubion- the material state still brings pain.

So~ I bestow my wishes on your tiring, consuming journey.

Also-
In an ancient book of an elder, respectful witch, a thing is written: "In the dimension of time and state, relations and non-relations absorb and ignite each other in a chaotic and unknown way."

Perhaps, different moments popped in your mind would absorb the current relations of your body-machine , and u'll magically no longer have the haunting attritubion of "contamined" !

op here. dont worry guys, i dont ignore your massage 👍

tl:dr

What you're describing is textbook OCD not ADHD…

>>21660
Anon, you may have ADHD, but what you are describing is 1000% OCD, I have very similar compulsions and its very difficult to deal with.

I've written over my laptops harddrive with zeros multiple times a day despite having done nothing with it out of some anxiety about corruption or the possibility of restoring some cached files I didn't know were there.

I'm afraid I can't help with the tech issue in particular because its likely the exact same thing I would have an issue with in that context. However I would suggest looking into things like Cognitive Behaivoural Therapy, Exposure Therapy, or even drugs. not that it would necessarily help, I've run the gauntlet on things, and am currently on prescription drugs for OCD (Its the second one I've tried and I don't think its working) but if anything can help you it would be best to find it sooner than later, because this condition is really awful to deal with.


 

https://youtu.be/jLiHLDrOTW8
Fascinating
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Can someone summarize the hype around this guy and his research?

>>18104
>It didn't have any bones in its toes, so it wouldn't be very useful for humans anyways
What about a cock?

>>18114
If he could regenerate dicks it would be the greatest advancement in medicine since the vaccine

>>18105
Very briefly - his big idea, bioelectricity, is that the body of an organism isn't much different from the brain - cells communicate with one another via electrical signals to form and achieve goals - what we call intelligence. He's using biochemistry to manipulate cells' electrical signals and thus their goals, and he's done this to great effect on lesser organisms - from making frogs regenerate their hind limbs to making flatworms grow multiple heads with different shapes. The ultimate goal of course is to apply this technology to mammals, especially humans, but he apparently hasn't had any success on that front.

Someone who knows more marxist philosophy than me could probably explain what this has to do with dialectics.

>>18104
They've used electricty to regrow amputated rat limbs in the 70s. Good that people are researching it again tho.

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep18353


 

Software developer thread
Thread for all the people who are working towards, have been, or are software developers.

Let me begin by saying that *magic* in ruby on rails, spring boot, and shit like that is all nice and dandy until you scale your project larger than a fucking hello world.

It blows my mind that enterprise is so balls deep on spring boot. Fucking cancer of a project. Don't get me wrong, abstractions are great. Abstractions aren't magic. Magic is when shit is not explicitly set anywhere and are done for you.

This might be shit like automatic wiring of routes based on function name. Or running a series of uninspectable SQL to map into objects. Or build HTML pages based on the regex of the model. Anything which is auto built without being explicitly set.

Don't even get me started on the fucking shit show that OOP is, with shit like spring boot, JPA, etc. Adding magic on top of that is like adding poisonous spiders to a cockroach pit that you live in.

Also, what the fuck is the fucking problem with people who write shit like
PersonIdNumberGenerator that takes a PersonIdNumberStrategy made by a PersonIdNumberStrategyFactory. Then the Generator makes a PersonIdNumberGenerator produces a PersonNumberId object which is just a fucking wrapper for an int. Of course everything is an interface but drilling down this fucking concrete strategy, you find that to motherfucking shit just produces sequential integers.

Software developers can be the fucking worst motherfuckers alive istg.
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all the "languages" and frameworks that make money fucking suck. theyre terrible and suck what little joy i find in programming. i fucking hate it and theyre driving me insane

>>22122
Which one is your poison?
>>22068
What do you expect it to do? Like whether it can fail or what? Or memory wise? Not sure what your expectations of int.Parse() can possibly be.

>>22122
webshits discover for the hundredth time that they get paid so much because their tools are universally horrible

>>22123
>What do you expect it to do? Like whether it can fail or what? Or memory wise? Not sure what your expectations of int.Parse() can possibly be.
For starters, I don't even understand how you could call a method on int, in my mind it just feels wrong to make int a class type

>>22126
Java and C# overload classes as namespaces. In java Integer is the class containing an int value and also the namespace for the static function java.lang.Integer.parseInt().
The C# int/Int32 type is a value type/object but the same applies regarding int.parse() being the parse function in namespace System.Int32.


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