/tech/ - Technology

Does Windows have any desirable features that aren't just "this software I use uses a rootkit"?
Is the sole thing keeping Windows relevant right now a glaring system-wide vulnerability? Like if the Titanic came pre-installed with the iceberg and made said iceberg it's main attraction?

What do you guys think of gray hats, hacktivism and leftist cybercriminals? Hactivism is a politically motivated cybercrime that may target oppressive governments or capitalists. Gray hats are cybercriminals who often engage in such cybercrimes.

Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website

https://web.archive.org/web/20250214064422/https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/

> "THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."

> The doge.gov website that was spun up to track Elon Musk’s cuts to the federal government is insecure and pulls from a database that can be edited by anyone, according to two separate people who found the vulnerability and shared it with 404 Media. One coder added at least two database entries that are visible on the live site and say “this is a joke of a .gov site” and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro.”

> Doge.gov was hastily deployed after Elon Musk told reporters Tuesday that his Department of Government Efficiency is “trying to be as transparent as possible. In fact, our actions—we post our actions to the DOGE handle on X, and to the DOGE website.” At the time, DOGE was an essentially blank webpage. It was built out further Wednesday and Thursday, and now shows a mirror of the @DOGE X account posts, as well as various stats about the U.S. government’s federal workforce.

> Two different web development experts who asked to remain anonymous because they were probing a federal website told 404 Media that doge.gov is seemingly built on a Cloudflare Pages site that is not currently hosted on government servers. The database it is pulling from can be and has been written to by third parties, and will show up on the live website.

> Both sources told 404 Media that they noticed Doge.gov is pulling from a Cloudflare Pages website, where the code that runs it is actually deployed.

> One of the sources told 404 Media that they were able to push updates to a database of government employment information after studying the website’s architecture and finding the database’s API endpoints.
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I already accidentally locked myself out from any adult content on my computer by changing the router settings and losing access but I need help with my phone.
There is no website block option on Android. I've considered paying someone to root my phone (I'm assuming it provides deeper access to settings) and doing something to hard block any access.
help.

Assembly language has been completely phased out by now. Now everybody uses Python, Java and C. The only two general purpose operating systems that were released in the 21st century that were written in assembly language that have any modern support are MenuetOS (released in 2000), KolibriOS (a fork of MenuetOS) and BaremetalOS (released in 2008). Everything else is Unix-like now, with the exception of Windows. You also have TempleOS (released in 2013), but that lacks modern compatibility and isn't general purpose either. Everything else is just a fork of a preexisting legacy operating system that was (like HaikuOS, which is just some BeOS clone or 9Front, which is some fork of Plan 9 From Bell Labs). I wonder if someone autistic enough was able to make one for the mobile platform just as some bizarre experiment?

Anyone else want to watch 4chan GIFs and videos in an automatic slideshow?

Hopefylly 4chan will offer this feature at some point, but in the mean time I created a webapp that lets you play 4chan videos one after another. Try it out here: https://depvana.com/topic/344

Simply add 4chan thread URLs (e.g., /gif) – as many as you want. The web app will automatically play all the MP4 videos it finds in a seamless slideshow.

Short story - "If We Could Change Our Existence".

Preface:
As you have noted, I'm a gender-critical feminist who is supportive towards JK Rowling, but it doesn't bother me from writing a short novel about genderless society in the future. Note that I will never support the degenerate measures that are promoted today, as the another way to subjugate women. But even second-wave feminists thought that gender roles is the main reason for most women's unhappiness.

Chapter 1:
It's 2500, sex change is not what it used to be. Somewhere in 2020 for instance, sex change used to be painful, ineffective, people dissatisfied with the results used to commit suicide, people undergoing transitions were disliked by a lot of people, who didn't undergo these (frankly at times not unlike the witchers in Andrzej Sapkowski's books), the treatment itself was not unlike lobotomy of the 1950s etc.
But these times belong to the past now, as the new technology emerged. And this new technology enables everything, from changing body parts to biological functions of thereof. As Yuval Noah Harari predicted, we are now hackable animals and yes, even body parts and its biological functions are now effectively hackable.
Now one can change the vagina into the penis and viceversa, now one can stop having periods or nocturnal emissions, one can have high pitched voice or low pitched voice for both new "genders". Sex can be also binary and you can be either biologically-wise a man, or biologically-wise a woman. Also, the transition is perfectly reversible, as there are no awful side effects from undergoing what is now called "enhanced biology modification" or "EBM". Also one can decide, if they are gonna be fertile or infertile, via the new "EBM" technology. Now nobody questions the existence of transpeople, everybody is content and not divided. Seems like it's the happy time, when all the religions (especially those keeping the binary gender roles) are deceased and no longer enforced.

Chapter 2:
Yet there might arise some problems. For example, if hypothetically a man raped a woman in his past life and then transitioned, how is it going to be solved? There are still ethical questions being raised from all of this. It technically could be solved with convicting and jailing the individual offender, of course if the law enforcement worked, properly. One issue would be settled for sure: men in the past lives will be always mental men and women in thePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Do you think you'll be alive to see what happens when giga-structures like The Line, and other saudi\UAE cities, silicon valley's AI utopia etc, are finally built ,and start being functional? OR, when small human colonies can subsist on Mars?
Within, say, 50 years; how will Energy, public transport\ private use of electric cars, climate chaos-resistant cities, etc, have developed? What are the newest or most important, recent developments in transport, and city-wide planning and transport infrastructure, no one talks about?

Is there a version of 4chan X that work with Leftypol's varient of Lainchan's variant of Vichan? I've tried the vanilla 4chan X, but it barely works, which sucks, because I prefer the 4chan X interface.

Thanks in advance!

this is something we've always known was going to happen at some point. Now of course the Internet and big sites will still exist(YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter) but it will become like television was, a lot more sanitized. There won't really be any real speakers on those sites, just spectators, most rebel sites will be removed other than the enforced squeaky clean ones and I've made peace with that.