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Is a self-driving car really an invention that society needs? We already have a machine that was fundamentally designed for a human operator, there is no entity in the universe more well-suited to the task of driving an automobile than a human being, but now we want to try to retrofit every car with some software that replaces the human driver and will never be as good as a human driver and for what? Is driving really such a laborious and horrible ordeal for humans to endure, having to sit in a comfortable air-conditioned chair and listen to music for a while? Is it really worth wiping out an entire category of jobs that humans depend on to survive, just to replace them with software that is not nearly as well suited to the task and will likely kill people with no accountability?
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Trains would be better for mass / long distance transit, trollies would be better for residential / industrial, conveyor belts and escalators in dry spots, and horses (the OG self-driving vehicle) would be better the country / offroad.

There's no real point to self-driving cars when you have the above.

>>31100
>Is it really worth wiping out an entire category of jobs
jesus try not sounding like an insufferable middle classer so much next time

>>31105
What about disabled people? I mean some day we will cure al disabilities but until then.

>>31105
Trains are kind of a lost cause in America. We left the development of US rail infrastructure entirely in the hands of private monopolies who designed the railways for maximum profit, i.e. freight and not passengers, and now we're stuck with shitty railway infrastructure that is useless to almost everyone and costs more money to maintain than it's even worth. The government tried to make the obstinate railroad monopoly modernize America's railroads but gave up and focused on highways instead, thus the subsidized interstate highway system and the car-centric urban planning of American cities. It's too late to go back now, we're kind of stuck with what we've got.

>>31111
What about them? Be specific.



 

Hi friends,

I joined this community because leftism seems to be categorically anti-harm. In other words, it was the most wholesome board I could find.

Are you aware of any image board sites that do not host pornography, nazi-stuff, and other pernicious, obnoxious, sinister things? Examples include philosophy, book reviews, hobbies, and so on. I am most interested in philosophy.

May you be well and happy, fellow internet user.
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>>30948
>categorically anti-harm
lol philosophytards

>categorically anti-harm
"There's never any excuse to be mean" wot if theyre bourgeois tho?

>>31046
Wonder if you could have this but for the ingroup only. Sounds kinda terrible, but there could be coordination among just the people who accept the terms.

"leftism seems to be categorically anti-harm"
Theoritically only the lower left quadrant (referring to the political spectrum), though I believe that it's all bullshit

https://leftypol.org/sfw/index.html
Will show 30 most recently bumped SFW threads



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GrapheneOS cannot be fully trusted because it runs on Google's proprietary hardware stack, which remains a critical vulnerability. While GrapheneOS markets itself as a privacy-focused alternative, its security is undermined by the fact that it operates on devices like Google's Pixel smartphones—hardware designed and controlled entirely by Google. Unlike other OEMs, Google does not merely integrate off-the-shelf components; it designs its own processors (e.g., Tensor chips) and develops the closed-source firmware and software that power them. Other manufacturers receive binary blobs from chipmakers, which they cannot modify, but Google retains unilateral authority to embed hidden functionalities or surveillance mechanisms directly into the hardware-software ecosystem.

This means Google could inject malicious code into the processor’s firmware—code that operates independently of Android (and thus independently of GrapheneOS itself). Such malware would run at the hardware level, bypassing the operating system entirely and evading detection. If Google exploits this capability in its proprietary GApps, the same logic applies to the foundational software controlling its processors. Since GrapheneOS cannot audit or modify these closed-source components, users are left exposed to potential backdoors.

If you trust GrapheneOS on Pixel devices, you must also trust Google’s closed-source hardware stack—the very same infrastructure that could enable pervasive surveillance. In that case, there is no meaningful distinction between GrapheneOS and stock Android; both rely on Google’s opaque technology. Conversely, if you reject GApps and Google’s data harvesting, you cannot reconcile that distrust with reliance on Google’s hardware. To truly deGoogle, you must abandon devices where the manufacturer controls the silicon itself.
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>>30907
Why not a pinephone
>uber
Don't they have a browser webapp?

>>30905
>massive anti-GOS shilling

Where? Go to Reddit, Youtube or any mainstream plattform, the, are all pro Gos. Mainstream media is promoting and advertising Gos on a massive scale: "These phones are so secure, police can't break them!"

I have to own a smartphone for my job and the software my company uses is only on IOS, therefore I must own an iPhone to continue being employed. I have already lost my right to choose which devices or software I will or won't use in my work life, does it really make any difference if I take some principled stand against proprietary software during my free hours? Is everybody in the world supposed to quit their jobs if their jobs force them to use proprietary software?

kinda seems like a privacy oriented OS on your voluntary government sponsored wiretipe is not a thing

There are issues with GrapheneOS worth discussion, but most of what someone seems to be posting in this thread is very badly misinformed.

Pixels, like the Nexus before them, were the "developer focused" phone that got AOSP and similar development for it primarily, instead of contesting with whatever bullshit Samsung wanted to drop atop it, or how Samsung or Verizon decided to stop updating your OS or firmware in a year or two etc.
>Pixel hardware
Pixel hardware is exactly as proprietary as the rest of mobile hardware. Do you think that a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip is magically FOSS top to bottom? Hell, most Tensor chips were basically Samsung Exynos which again were certain proprietary bits. Like all other phone SoC, there are licensed bits and proprietary hardware elements, as well as closed baseband firmware and the use of binary blobs etc. This is common with just about any device. Do I wish it was different? Absolutely and we should leverage Google, Qualcomm and others into shipping more open hardware if possible, but there's nothing magically more locked down or suspicious with the Pixel line vs other manufacturers.
>but uh what if its compromised, i don't have any evidence it is but if it was it could be reading everything and saving everything etc
There's literally more evidence that Chinese made smartphones from their major companies have vacuumed up tons of data vs those from other brands, yet you're worried about a hypothetical like this? There's more evidence for and wider hypothetical potential for a lot of the chinese devices using chinese chips made in chinese factories etc.

These are issues with GrapheneOS and Pixel that are worth critiquing fairly, but nothing like what is being discussed here.



 

Thread for questions that don't deserve their own thread.
I wanna buy some headphones to go outside i don't want to spend more than 100€ on them. I want them to be mostly durable and secondly to have good sound quality, also i don't want to look like a jackass while wearing them, any suggestions?
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Does anyone have recommendations for learning threat modelling that's not corporate nonsense and not limited to cloud microservices and other web applications?

>>30698
Start with
https://www.schneier.com/
You'll have to dig through the archives a bit since he's gotten distracted by the new shiny toy, but it is all there

>>29869
I would choose Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Need a new phone, I hate all the os that come preinstalled and just want lineage. Is the oneplus 9 pro still a good option for a few years or do i go with oneplus 11? 11 seems more expensive for less gain.

I'm looking for an old imageboard script that has two colors to the left of every reply, one for the post and one for reference. Is anyone aware of what this is? Just remember an esoteric screenshot from ages ago.



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Is there any reason to stick with jpg/png formats over things like webp/avif. Atleast for webp software support that once was not there now is. I'm not just talking about web, but in general bulk storage also.

AVIF is a mess from a technical standpoint. designed by committee. it doesn't just store a straight up image, no no no. it splits the image up into chunks, each of which can be stored using any codec supported by the format. this is a huge hassle for the internal data model for many project, for example ffmpeg
WebP is OK, but getting support for it everywhere seems to be slow going. I'm not convinced it's sufficiently better than cjpeg to justify widespread use. JPEG itself has many features that improve its compression that no one uses for some reason. like pyramidal coding

>>30836
to elaborate on this:
https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2014/mozjpeg-3-0/
>Mozilla has done a study of image formats and concluded that WebP and JPEG XR are not a big-enough improvement over well-optimized JPEG. In the study only HEVC (H.265) was significantly better, but it’s a patent-encumbered format, so it can’t be used freely (shhhh!)

>>30806
>>30836
webp seems ok to me. I guess avif is technically more fancier, but it has no support. both can do lossy and lossless so that's not an issue

It just werks™



 

Saw Mental Outlaw's videos on the tor network. Thought I'd give it a try. Evidently, it is filled to the brim with exit scams and glowie pedobait. And I found it funny how Tordex/Torch admins try to justify not censoring such garbage.

>The search results on Torch are not censored because we believe trying to censor the dark web is counter productive and a waste of resources. Our philosophy is people have the right to do anything they want and live with the consequences, Torch should not decide what people do with their lives even if it’s morally wrong. We’re a search engine not your conscience.


>If you would like to advertise your hidden service please check our our advertising rates.


Yeah right, it's because of TRVE freedumbs n sheeit, it totally doesn't have anything to do with advertising scam websites to horny pedos and making money off of it.

Funny tangent aside, if there are any useful resources related to cybersec/privacy/tech on tor, please let me know. I'd like to get something useful out of it.
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>>24007
Tor is useful, it does its job pretty well. But the only need i had from it was to buy acid from Dr. Seuss and MDMA from Archetyp (before it closed). Only the acid was useful, that's how i became a Marxist-Leninist.

The fact of the matter is, tor is a very slow and shitty network and the only thing people use it for is child porn and buying/selling drugs and fbi sting operations and timecube-esque crankery.

>>30875
Nah, it could be useful. It used to be a lot slower than nowadays btw. Its use would benefit an insurrection in a vast manner. Used with PGP it's an even better perspective.

>>30884
>Its use would benefit an insurrection in a vast manner.

You can look at existing authoritarian regimes as sort of a testbed for what works and what doesn't work when it comes to bypassing censorship and hiding your identity from the authorities. From what I've gathered, people usually use VPNs to bypass censorship in countries like China and tor is not really a viable option because all the public tor nodes get identified and blocked by the Great Firewall, thus you can't even connect to the network at all unless you know the ip address of a private node; it's easier to just hunt around for some obscure VPN service that the Great Firewall hasn't detected and blocked yet than to look for an entry-point into the tor network which is much slower than a VPN and harder to obfuscate what it is due to all the multi-hop routing making it obvious that someone is using tor, on top of that tor nodes are often banned from many internet services due to being abused for spambots and ddos attacks etc.

Relevant keywords:
>Operational Security
>Information Security
>Communications Security
>Signals Intelligence
>Social Engineering

Software:
>Tor
>I2P
>Tails
>Linux-based operating systems

There is no magic bullet:
>https://support.torproject.org/faq/
Post too long. Click here to view the full text.



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Suckless seems like a great way to transition from rice to programming.
A good set of training-wheels for the bicycle of the mind.
However there's something extremely pathological about not wanting well designed and implemented features.
It's like cachexia from voluntarily avoiding healthy fats.

This isn't to advocate feature creep, which is ugly and doesn't add to the design of the system.
In rejecting big systemic components which integrate they may even make things more complex.
This is something like having a small standard library, avoiding RPC, or even loose coupling of components.
Implementing these can reduce duplication, and reduce complexity, while allowing more to be achieved.

Everywhere the minimalist takes something rich and make it small.
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>>30345
Well I can't imagine that a microkernel is actually minimal nor keeping it simple stupid, since otherwise we'd not have to keep calling the bastard GNU/Linux because GNU would be using the Hurd.

>>30347
But a microkernel is more aligned with the UNIX philosophy.
I have heard that the issue with Hurd is that they are perfectionists, not that they can't get a microkernel working. Doesn't harmonyOS (huawei OS) have a microkernel?

>>30220
>It's absolutely terrible
What do you mean by this? The daemontools approach to service supervision is unambiguously superior to cgroups monitoring and other hacks systemd uses (see http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html). Runit sits on the lower end of daemontools derivatives, nosh is another one that can run systemd unit files http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/worked-example.html

>>30075
>However there's something extremely pathological about not wanting well designed and implemented features.
Think have walked back on this somewhat due to my wetware being inherently memory constrained.
Because of this reducing the state-space to hold in memory, and less so what one has to search over, is very valuable.
There's probably some nuanced position that involves getting the interfaces correct, and minimal.
For example the difference between a (composable) loop macro versus a large collection of iterator procedures versus loops.

Once again this is only because of a peculiar feature of my wetware.

>>30845
>loop macro
A small collection of iterators functions works just as well.



 

Let me tell you a little secret about flip phones: They run the same hardware as smartphones, just in a different form factor. They're even more proprietary black boxes than the average smartphone and its hard to get even basic specifications. I know because I have one. I'm trying to replace the old version of KaiOS it runs with PostmarketOS; unfortunately, the bootloader is locked. At least with a cheap Android phone you can replace Android with something else.
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>>30820
People are operating motor vehicles while looking at their phones. I've never seen anybody do that with any other tool. People look at their phones for an average of 4 or 5 hours a day. I personally don't have an issue, but smartphones are crack for most people and they'd probably be better served with a simpler tool.

>>30822
>I've never seen anybody do that with any other tool
because youre a zoomer who wasnt there for printed maps

>>30807
What a weird trend to buy more crap

>>30824
>>30820
If you're not going to constantly use your phone, it's worth it for the battery life alone, because you don't have to bother with charging it every day. I also got a dedicated mp3 player for $30 that can play 48h of music consecutively on a similar basis.

>They're even more proprietary black boxes

People don't buy dumbphones to escape from proprietary software, they buy them because they just want a telephone and they don't want a complex general purpose customizeable device that demands so much of their attention.



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So, I'm a musician, who wants to have a musical career (a lot of communist musicians had stable careers) and meanwhile stupid porkies tell me that "no, we'd prefer if you were replaced, prole, because there if no place for people like you" and I hear, not only music, but other art, computer science, programming etc. will be replaced by AI. How do we stop this, so people are still prosperous in the real socialst societies?
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>>30769
I thought about it and yes, this squares off with internal sergey brin emails that requests remaining google staff to put in 60+ hour work weeks, it's contradictory at face value, but what's going on is obvious, the gaps in staffing are actually being felt and are not being filled with AI, and they're requesting people to put in more work to make up for it.

ok i'm sorry for doubting mr altman, truly these things are the future. deepseek is a stuck up nonce and refuses to answer these important questions

>>30784
Well after the poor showing for chatgpt 5 altman has thrown in the towl on AGI, and declared it a useless term

Nope, it's quite possible with a lot more work; but not by burgers

>>30797
>Nope, it's quite possible with a lot more work
Not with LLMs, they are scaled quite substantially but still are unable to solve pre-schooler sokoban puzzles

>>30749
You can download full dumps of it so it's not like AI bros are forced to scrape the site.



 

what masks would you recommend to someone that will attend a gathering during which he will be recorded from all angles? itt we discuss such things, potential ways to mask ourselves in a way that makes it as hard as possible for future algorithms to: a. reconstruct the face; and b. match the face with already existing databases.

bonus points if the mask allows the person to view clearly without exposing too much of the eye area
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>>26678
>inb4 camera doesn't detect infrared

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>>28323
Rubber ARMS?? Is this to be a completely different color? Hardcore level there.

>>26397
Cops will just look at your phone location data and see if you left it at home to determine if it was indeed you carrying a provoking sign at the function

>>26701
Needs sunglasses at the very least



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