/tech/ - Technology

Jannies peanuts footballed a thread that asked for indie and non-western war news publications so pasting here:

indie:
https://thecradle.co/feed/
https://southfront.press/feed/
https://www.aljazeera.com/xml/rss/all.xml

non-western:
https://www.telesurenglish.net/rss/

non-western but it's a thinktank so the Heritage Foundation or Peter Theil are behind it somehow, but maybe useful anyway:
https://uwidata.com/feed/

non-western but government owned, but maybe useful anyway:
https://tass.com/rss/v2.xml
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Want a giant dump of antichoice groups?
Here you go. Archive it. Share it. Promote this tactic of social media mapping.

i want an AI service which generates hyper personalized articles just for me based on my interests and i will access them via RSS. this is the future i want.

>>31813
You should check out Radio War Nerd also. It's a war podcast by two journalists for the old Exiled newspaper in Russia, the hosts are American.

>>20965
>It's no wonder that the most staunch anti-linux pro-unix/BSD person I ever met was a staunch Communist
How is communism connected to hating on GNU/Linux? If anything, GNU/Linux haters are often lolberts or liberals who think copyleft is communist and authoritarian and who are way more class collaborationist than copyleft enjoyers ever will be. I think those BSD users who don't just blindly hate GNU/Linux and who support copyleft are more likely to be communists.

>>23017
Yeah, most copyleft haters hate it because you can't combine it with permissive licenses. And why would you use permissive licenses? So corpos could use your code in their proprietary product, of course.

>>20965
the graphics drivers require debufs :/

Bumping this because I'm interested in moving my servers from Debian to either FreeBSD or OpenBSD due to the increasing corporate involvement in the Linux ecosystem and the increasing amount of shitware.

As a leftist of course the license is a problem because the defense I see is always something among the lines of "can anyone think of the corporations?".

What would you recommend for a minimalistic and secure server nowadays?

Switched to FreeBSD like 4 years ago, never looked back. You never realize how shitty linux communities are until you check the BSD communities

by, uh, using you data for training? like what, do you think a tweet is some sort of binding document?

Project Idea: Integrate your Onion Service with a local self hosted instance of Wazuh SIEM.

The OP actually had several errors and only worked, because they resulted in tor recreating circuits, until they stopped containing malicious nodes. This is the corrected version:

#!/bin/execlineb -P
forstdin -E line
foreground {
printf "%s\n" $line
}
if {
heredoc 0 $line
fgrep -s "Unable to decompress HTTP body"
}
foreground {
backtick -E ip {
heredoc 0 $line
grep -o "[0-9]*\\.[0-9]*\\.[0-9]*\\.[0-9]*"
}
redirfd -a 1 /etc/tor/bombs
printf "ExcludeNodes %s\n" $ip
}
s6-svc -h /run/service/tor

Flood detected; Post discarded.Flood detected; Post discarded.

>>32353
>Could I detect those nasty AI cameras used by law enforcement
Maybe you can go out now and make experiments, put the device you are going to use promiscious mode and check if they have some fingerprint you could use. Then you would have to deploy a considerable amount of them (how are you going to finance it?) which I find it hard. Are you in an org? You would help more that way than with individual action.

>>32360
Also, have you tried considering asking on lainchan? If you do try to make a good OP post so it doesn't get flagged as soykaf, lurk there a bit or ask on their IRC (I guess)

1. Publicly participating and posting your results makes you a target.
2. When FLOCK understands that everyone is signal hunting their gear, billionaire money will be dumped into SIGINT Hardening.
3. I know under good authority that their are ALPR Cameras designed to look like bolts that are present on busy roads. I don't know who is using them or where. I just know that these are used. Stealth Cameras will be the name of the game. When FLOCK internalizes that they will always be treated as the enemy, they will focus on stealth cameras.
4. Self Driving Cars, Ubiquitous Smart Doorbells, and centralized standardized Government CCTV Access of cameras will create greater and greater dragnets. This will make focusing on any one system a waste of time.
5. Meshtastic is a low bandwidth tool per legal requirements. Maybe repurposed software built for meshtastic scales up into 5G 10KM tech? Maybe not? Either way, you want a secret hidden hunter that transmits nothing and receives everything. You will take your data and turn it into a viewable project that can be shared over onion addresses.
6. Cybersecurity you might want for this project: Qubes OS, VPN, Encrypted DNS, IDS/IPS, and self hosted gear. You know you will be angering authoritarians. You know that sniffing traffic is legally risky. Go in knowing you can't get help from AI's you don't host yourself.

TLDR: Surveillance State Grows, diminishing impact of sniffing any one system. When they learn you are doing this, they will adapt as their resources are superior to yours.

One big thing I forgot to mention in my last post is the "so what" principle.

PRISM leaked, the public said "so what".
XKEYSCORE leaked, the public said "so what".
Insert Scandal here leaked, the public said "so what".

You could pour your time and money into this project, only to be treated with a "so what" attitude. They will also say, "I have nothing to hide".
Whistle blowing and investigative journalism almost served as a normalization engine to government programs.

People who mistrust the government usually get on-boarded to the reality of surveillance pretty quickly. Rather than prove the reality of surveillance at great cost to you personally, focus on promoting mistrust of the government among boring liberals aged 18 to 25. Then sneak in some surveillance knowledge.

it's been known to bundle adware for years, you need to compile cheat engine, it's not super hard, luckily

Infecting lazy script kiddies who can't even be fucked to compile their tools is based.

Been using GameConqueror on Linux and it works for basic search and set values. maxed out my ennies in cyberpunk 2077. preem.

>>32464
Not even esr?

>>32470
why would he be in the files, in the large scheme of things he's some random from UPenn, RMS would be more likely to appear since he's from MIT. I just don't think that Linux was big on Epstein's interests, seem like he was more focused on AI and NLP, thus Marvin Minsky and Chomsky were huge Epstein pals.

>>32462
Probably anti-Indian sentiment as can be seen here: >>32458

>>32474
I don't even get why Stallman would say that. Microsoft developers are less than ten percent Indian.

>>32460
>so is this guy in the epstein files
If you search for his name at https://www.justice.gov/epstein/search, his name is mentioned there only once and it really is just a mention. And it's not even Esptein or some of his friends mentioning him in the email conversations, it's some paper written by Marvin Minsky Epstein had saved on his harddrive or something
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01157468.pdf

>why was he cancelled again?
That was long before the files were published. He was cancelled for his views on pedophilia (which your typical lolbert drivel about "what if they consent tho") and yes, for defending the same Marvin Minsky

>>32422
No, you still don’t get it.

The entire rest of the fedi is NOT ‚connected and neutral‘, it’s just the extended HOA empire with slightly looser borders. The big ‚normal‘ instances (mas.to, troet.cafe, chaos.social, flick.social, etc.) are all run by the exact same German/NL/US progressive NGO-academic caste that runs mastodon.social. They all defederate the same targets on day one, they all have the same 40-point rules list, they all instantly gang-silence anyone who uses wrongthink keywords.

There is no ‚everyone else is connected‘ zone. There is only the Greater HOA Reich and then three or four isolated ghettos (chud, loli, and whatever’s left of the old weird fedi).

The whole promise of ‚join any instance, you’re still on the big network‘ is a lie. In practice there are exactly two networks that matter:

1. The progressive elite monoculture (90 % of active users, perfectly sealed, zero tolerance for dissent)
2. A handful of leper colonies where the outcasts were kindly allowed to go

Mastodon didn’t create a million free communities.
It created one gigantic, perfectly sanitized palace for the ruling class and then a couple of reservations for the undesirables so the palace dwellers can keep pretending they’re the tolerant ones.

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>>32425
Your premise hinges on the idea I implied that the HOA was just manstodon.social and not every too-large-to-moderate instance.

Any instance too large to reasonably moderate resorts to HOA tactics, as the trust that admins and federation as a mechanisn can actually protect against spam breaks down, causing hypervigilance to be an acceptable mindset.

The "The big ‚normal‘ instances" are like that because they hare hypermassive and can't stop expanding despite demonstrably being unable to handle the load.
>A handful of leper colonies where the outcasts
That's where the rest of fedi is. That's where all the activity is pubbing. As I keep telling you, everyone else either defederates from or limits these hypermassive instances due toetheir spam problems.
>were kindly allowed to go
You went into poteticism without thinking of what that represents. The HOA instances don't allowance anything to the rest of fedi, the rest of fedi are seperate websites that block or limit them. They are the twitterlerite lepur colony that keeps the rest of fedi free of that shit, not the other way around.

The reason why you see it the way you do is because you resonate with the culture of the HOA instances more, judging by how quickly you rejected picking a furry instance. You just want a twitter out of a technology that structurally evades being twitter on purpose, and breaks down when treated as a twitter.

>>32369
The real sin of mastodon is being a twitter clone. Twitter is a terrible format

>>32431
I like that misskey tries to break the mold a bit by replacing ⭐'s with emotes, but yeah frontends have only scratched the surface.

>>32369
Nice new phone

>>32357
wrong. they are my original ideas and i used llm to enhace them. learn the difference.

>>32355
fact: there is no such thing as "autonomy".

its pointless to discuss with idiots who don't know this.

>>32350
>We must stop fighting our nature and start engineering our environment.
Human nature is on the one hand a Spook (in the sense of being a relatively fixed restrictive idea), and on the other hand all that there is in human beings. There is no environment independent nature of man, yet all man does is a result of his biology, his nature, environment or even ideas can quickly constitute a second nature, but time is all that makes this second to a first nature. Human nature is something like the divine right of kings used to justify what currently exists which all sucks.

A question of mine, which relates, is why does the will exist? Or does it? Or does it have to? Why is there not simple wanting then doing? An LLM answered mostly with antiquated Spook filled notions of blame assignment in social and personal settings, and ranking of temporally separated wills, which seems like it could be completely automated. There was maybe something to do with planning, but I don't see the issue here either, you want so you plan and then you do.

>>32362
>Why does the will exist?
>Why is there not simple wanting then doing?
I suspect what we're talking about here is not the will but the idea of feelings of cognitive exertion even though there's no cognitive resource that is being exhausted. My guess is that our will needn't be effortful, this is even true for non-habitual choices, and happens when there is little internal conflict. So it turns out the vast majority of our human actions aren't effortful, but the question that follows is: why is this internal conflict not resolved effortlessly? I couldn't find a satisfactory answer to this, but it probably doesn't matter at all, the whole point of will is that you just ignore the strain. none-of-this-is-real.jpg

>Or does it have to?
Empirically people who think the will is a depletable resource tend to have a depletable will, while those who don't do not, so it's not out of the question that there could be some sort of psychological mechanism at play here. Not only a "spook" but a "spook" that artificially constrains us. My best guess presently however is that the main artificial constraint is not with the presence of the will but with the idea that we need to respond or even focus on strain. Real tough guy stuff: regular exercise, cold showers, meditation.

>>32350
I agree with >>32354 but this logic is just silly. Are all addictions myths? The fact is addiction exists, but the solution isn't to individually abstain from a powerful technology that is extremely integrated into daily life. We need to address the issues that make it addictive at the social (and for some individuals possibly medical) level, the same as other addictions. That will transform our relationship to these technologies. But saying it's not addictive is ridiculous when the big social/media companies literally run social experiments and engineer their platforms to be as addictive as possible and push the content that is specifically addictive to you as an individual.

>>32342
I think you're being overly cynical though? There's a lot you can reclaim out of your digital life as long as you have the interest to. Like, okay so basically I have a homserver at home, just an office pc I got for like £30, stuck a hardrive of 1TB alongside the preexisting SSD that came along with it. Stuck ubuntu linux into it with a simple ssh login with no display so that it sips as little power as possible.

I'm now able to stream MLP episodes form a nginx webserver with mpv I'm hosting in my own home with no reliance on Netflix. And I'm even storing some family photos. Just maybe as a bit of ecnouragement, here's my docker-compose file: https://codeberg.org/compuhsition/homeserver

>>32342
I'm also running a booru using shimmie2 alongside this too! Which I use to just host a few anime art references for fun. I make sure to block AI crawlers using anubis + I also use Cloudflare tunnel so it takes a lot of the bandwidth and security concerns away.

>>32342
All I'm saying is, as long you're willing to put in more effort, you can definitely be as uncensored as possible even in 2026. As long as it isn't like literally illegal.

>>32342
>because nobody will find my site!
Just link it on fedi or a minecraft server or whatever. No one will find you on anything if you don't share it with people you know. A website is just more stable and you can do more with a full HTML toolkit than what a social media post composer can provide. (rip cohost)

>>32189
did anyone else noticed, that substack is flooded with AI generated articles and substack doesn't seem to care? actually, it looks like they have completely embraced it.