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Darknet markets are as close as it gets to a free market, where you can order drugs and have it delivered to you by mail. The purpose of this thread is to discuss opsec, ask for help and discuss markets in general. This thread should be fully legal as long as you don't solicit or facilitate illegal transactions, meaning:

&ltDon't beg to buy from someone
&ltDon't attempt to sell to anyone here
&ltDon't link to dealer Instagram/Reddit/Snapchat accounts. These accounts are run by either scammers or feds.
&ltDon't directly link to any market. These links could be fake scam/fed markets, designed to phish your login details and steal your cryptocurrency. Only use https://dark.fail/

The following is my personal recommendation for good opsec while conducting business, however, you must [b]read the darknet market bible[/b] (.pdf attached) after you are done with this post. If you don't read theory, it's likely you will be caught and convicted.

>Will I be 100% safe?
In theory, no. The darknet market bible, together with this thread, is meant to minimize the risk of getting caught as much as possible. If you follow the exact procedure outlined in the bible, you should be okay, especially as a small-time buyer.

Tails
Tails is an Linux-based operating system that runs entirely on your RAM and is wiped when PC is powered off. If the cops intercept your item, conduct a controlled delivery and seize your machine, they will not be able to find evidence linking you to the package and you can deny involvement via a lawyer.
You will want to install the Tails operating system to a USB flash drive with at least 8GB of storage. Personally, I'd go for USB 3.0, with at least 16GB storage for persistent volume purposes, or even 128GB or more if you want to store the Monero local node on it. You also need a PC with at least 1GB RAM to run Tails. The bible contains a guide for installing Tails in [b]2.A.2 Installing Tails[/b]. You can download it here:
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>>21346
>pruned chain is 4+GB
I meant 40+ obviously

>>21346
>p2p that doesn't inherently suck ass on every level?
Isn't that pretty much everything other than blockchain?

>>21346
So you don't know how Monero works. Unlike bitcoin, transactions cannot be tracked back to you. When you are controlling a node, you can wipe/not save all the logs you want. Nobody is forcing you to keep logs on yourself lol

bohemia/cannabia might be exit scamming

localmonero is dead


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cope as much as you want this is still true
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>>29596
>If you can work a computer you can make art
i know thanks to ai :^)

>>29550
techfags: here you go, free GPL shit, free compilers, free editors, free mail clients, free web servers, the entire infrastructure of the internet for free, use it, modify it, share it, build a community around it

artfags: nooooooo!!! this doodle is (c) me, you can't SEE it without MY PERMISSION!! you can't download it!!! HELP! DMCA! POLITICIANS!

>>29705
Those aren't techfags, those are developers. Techfags are the idiots who think computer will do everything for them. It's possible to be both but generally people who actually understand how the tech works are not techfags because they know its limits.

>>29594
I mean all the most successful games have been gameplay-focused and usually are innovative in terms of programming in some way. Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Doom, Super Mario Bros, Minecraft, etc.
Minecraft's graphics are literally programmer art made by an amateur.
Hell even art-focused games like Undertale can have "bad" art (flawed on a technical level) if they're executed right. It's the human creative element that makes it work, generative AI would never be able to make something like that.

>>29705
>equating open source developers and government projects with silicon valley vampires
oh anon… no… no no no no


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It's so fucked up that they don't make gas plasma displays anymore.
https://retropaq.com/the-miracle-of-gas-plasma/

I wonder if e-ink will ever become difficult to find too. I’m surprised it’s still thriving today but I guess the 90s wasn’t THAT long ago.

>>29185
this was a cool aesthetic but for all purposes OLEDS are cheaper and multicolored so theres no reason to use them any more

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I'm with you, OP. That shit is awesome. I used to go to this kid's house when we were in middle school and his dad's computer had a screen like that. We played some shitty Kung Fu game on it with the keyboard and he got mad that we were messing with it.
We had a regular VGA color monitor but the computer before that had a tape deck and hooked up to a black and white TV. Fucking thing never worked. But I was 7 and none of us knew what we were doing. By the time I was 13 I could get around ms-dos and play games and connect to BBS.


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Any good tech reviewers out there that focus on hardware meant for development, creative work and system administration instead of consoomer laming slop? I know only of level1techs and servethehome.

When was a young lad watched Hak5 and the predecessor to Level1Tech.


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>got assigned to a new project
>built and maintained by a singular techlead level asshole who improvised the whole thing as he went along with no planning or standards
>he did this while overpromising shit to the client
>very shitty error handling
>literally zero documentation or API specifications
>no unit tests whatsoever
>no deployment pipelines
>packages containing critical vulnerabilities haven't been updated in months despite the client shouting about it
>code in testing isn't even the same as code in production
>the entire team is clueless about the whole thing
>throw me into the project without any prior knowledge of the codebase
>didn't even provide me with the creds needed to clone the 10 or so repositories until 3 days in
>can't even set up the environment locally without doing some voodoo bullshit
>just got to know yesterday that the guy who built this mess has already quit, and this is being hidden from the client
>literally a half-year long backlog that the client cannot stop shouting about to me
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>>29645
Will definitely look into it. I have started taking compsci subjects seriously now as I don't intend to be a soydev my entire life.

>>29647
Nope, I can't. Or it ends up getting escalated.

>>29648
ada is a meme, never take anything the tor poster says at face value

>>29649
>ada is a meme
The existing standards with multiple implementations say otherwise (rust in comparison is embarassing with it's "standard follows reference implementation" attitude and truly deserving of being called a meme). You might not see Ada much outside specific niches, that doesn't mean it isn't an exceptional tool, maybe not the best to learn about compsci admittedly.
>>29648
Ada as a language can be daunting, not because it requires compsci knowledge, but because it's type system forces many (good) restrictions you need to code around. You also won't find it in any curriculum, most use python, java or formerly lisp.

>>29650
If they can't update some shitty dependencies they certainly won't rewrite it in a language that nobody at the company knows.

>>29648
Can't you work during the meeting?


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What are your thoughts on AI and its development?
Not just pertaining to art but all types
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>>29600
I honestly don't get why people care so much about """AI""". this technology has been used for decades, and in most cases, it's a tool and/or a glorified assistant. at most, it can "replace" humans in repetitive, low responsibility, short scope situations

>>29601
you can run local models, though you need a lot of resources, and even DIY, though that requires even more resources unless you are fine-tuning them.

>>29615
It's because we hate money but love porn.

>>29611
>All evidence indicates that AI capabilities will continue to rise.
This is somewhat presumptuous given historic AI winters.
Further we've seen exponential decay in scaling with investment cost.
This is all the while AI has been massively unprofitable.
DeepSeek is a good indicator that there might still be some early gains to exploit however.

https://cameronrwolfe.substack.com/p/llm-scaling-laws

>>29620
<All evidence indicates that AI capabilities will not continue to rise at the same rate.
In mature codebases like those of Google and Microsoft we've already seen 20%-30% LLM generated code.
In immature codebases the rate is even higher with 25% of YC startups being 95% LLM generated.
Think we're going to see people getting used to these tools very quickly, even if development stagnates.
It's not too terrible to think of them as an advanced search engine and auto-completion system.
We should see an increases in the productivity of office workers of all sorts; and reduced burden as well.
Further there's going to be a change in the nature of knowledge away from specific and "complete" and towards broad and "indexable".
These two things to me are the most interesting features of this change in the mode of production.

>>29619
We really, really love porn


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Is Elon actually good at math and physics? How good is he in economics? It does feel like his knowledge of economics is actually shit but I keep seeing people saying he was an A-grader in school and uni.
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He's a savant who is good at making big numbers get bigger

Dumb af.
Everything they write about him is a puff piece.

He's low autism score and uses capitalism to steal the identity of intelligent people.

>>29623
cringe censor

>>28553
I used to think he was smart but if you actually lislen to him speak for any extended period of time you realise hes dumber than a bag of rocks. he gets fixated on words that he thinks makes him smart, like saying 'triage' multiple times in interviews. for decades the media gave him a pass unfortunately they're still fixated on him being racist than a complete and utter con artist. if his father hadn't practised apartheid in the 80s he would literally be that wierdo incel guy at work that nobody likes and drops unsolicited opinions on bad video games and cringe reddit movies


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>Vibe coding, sometimes spelled vibecoding, is an AI-powered programming practice where a programmer surrenders to the "vibes" and power of the AI, while ignoring the details of the generated code. After describing a problem in a few sentences, a programmer can watch as the AI codes a custom solution such as an app or website.

>In a March 2025 video "Vibe Coding is the Future", managing partner Jared Friedman said that AI has generated 95% of the codebases for a quarter of the current batch of Y Combinator startups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding

How fucked are we?
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>>28692
I work in data so I think I'm safe… hopefully

>>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?


 

I watched this video recently, and have been fascinated by the concept of "the peripheral web" (in contrast to "core web") and want to find more stuff out there. So how about a thread where we share neat stuff we find on the peripheral web?

First thing that comes to mind for me that isn't a blog or meta on this topic feel free to share either tho, just wanted to start the thread on a cool note is https://firstpersontetris.com/

Also relevant >>/tech/23548
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Sometimes I get the urge to make my own little website, but what would I even put on it? I have nothing to share with the world.

Zombo.com

https://www.htmhell.dev/
"A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites."

"Support small businesses" of the internet. Just let go.

>>29531
I thought the thread already had this debate but I guess not:
It's not a call to supooort something, it's an understanding that the current state of things, where the internet has accumulated around a handful of centralized platforms and search engines, is collapsing as the material conditions that allowed them to exist have passed, and smaller websites are emerging from that.

The thread premise is to explore this new, immanently approaching landscape.


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> SQL could be improved somewhat by introducing composable query fragments with statically-typed interfaces. I begin by explaining two areas (testing and reusing business logic) where SQL does very poorly. Then I explain my solution, and how it addresses the problems.
https://borretti.me/article/composable-sql

Please please please I want those functors so badly. I don't have the energy to set up a test db for every damn project I start.
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write your own sqlite implementation with these features. it sounds intimidating but it is not, the logic behind it is very simple
https://blog.sylver.dev/build-your-own-sqlite-part-1-listing-tables

>>29497
>>29499
They don't accept patches from outside their circle. You need to be approved by the devs before you can even contribute with your code.

why do FP lovers always want to generalize the most random shit, like this, and why do they always want someone else to implement the stuff they want?

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>>29506
Testing. The other complaint is true tho

>>29500
? I'm saying you can write your own sqlite -type database, you don't have to go through the sqlite bureaucracy. that blog entry is a really beginner friendly introduction to database design. hell, I'm pretty sure you could easily write something better and more composable than sqlite just by using non-blocking i/o (so it could be integrated into event loops like libuv), I'm sure someone must have already done this


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