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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?

software that is incompatible with the other common OSes and it came preinstalled in ibm pcs (and clones) back in the day. these two things were done to achieve a "network effect" by which developers make software for windows because people use it, and people use it because the software they need was made for windows

imo the only reason gnu/linux software doesn't do the same is because it isn't popular enough and it's users are usually computer people that know what a rootkit is. there are apps that use rootkits on android, for example

legacy applications and special support contracts, being "the standard", etc.
if you need it for your job you're fucked but otherwise anyone would be better off with whatever linux

>>28497
Driver support for odd and old devices

>>28500
/thread

Software and usability are what keep it relevant. I tried to help someone switch to Mint and he gave up after not being able to figure out how Proton works.



 

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.
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>>28559
>Why should I support proprietards
antiimperialism
>Chinese FLOSS devs
uncritical support

>>28560
>antiimperialism
No, it's techno-imperialism, it sabotages the proles' computers with proprietary software.

>>28562
trust the plan anon

Btw, the term "ethical hacking" is such an obvious Newspeak psyop, just like the term "piracy" is. The corporations want you to think that if you download DRM-locked games with spyware and microtransactions for free or get unsolicited access to private documents that expose the CEO as a pedo rapist money launderer then you are an evil person.
>>28563
The question is whether the ends justify the means rather than whether China will become socialist in 2077 or not.

>>28564
>The question is whether the ends justify the means rather than whether China will become socialist in 2077 or not.
sure. what I'm trying to get at is that if you're going to poke at proprietary software to try and break it, you should poke at Western software



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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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>>28501
internet spectacle. you are soypointing at a technical detail while getting hit with an austerity program and a general turn to the right in the political discourse. it's fine I guess but…

UPDATE

https://cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-exposes-once-secret-government

> Beginning on January 8, 2025, a surge of U.S. government infrastructure began appearing on what’s known as “the search engine of Internet-connected devices,” Shodan.io.


> Federal agencies typically secure their systems behind multiple layers of protection, ensuring that critical services – such as mail servers, directory services, VPNs, internal IP addresses, and remote access gateways – remain isolated from public access.


> The scope and severity of exposed government networks is unlike anything I’ve seen. It’s hard to even have a baseline to compare it to. But one thing’s for sure–adversaries such as Russia and China are dancing for joy.


> Essentially, whatever is causing once-private government networks to suddenly be publicly observable is making the lives of Chinese and Russian hackers much easier–we’re doing the first stage of hacking campaigns, network reconnaissance, for them. With such easy insights into once-secret U.S. networks, the likelihood of data breaches impacting millions of Americans becomes that much higher.


Setting aside the sinorussian spooks, this is actually pretty bad; it seems like they're ignoring basic security practices that even medium sized companies employ.

> On February 6, the Washington Post reported that DOGE fed sensitive data into AI systems while auditing the Department of Education. The specific AI product used by DOGE was not known to the Post at the time.

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Behold the power of Python + Javascript, like 10 layers of meme frameworks and blockchain integration, all programmed with the assistance of american AI.

>>28503
Fancy man forgot to tie shrine to ground or put a fence around it, easily messed with by passerbys.

but experts tho, elon musk tony stark spacex, rocket scientists, AI wizards, these guys fresh out of college are genius white nationalist atlas shrugged big balls alpha chads!



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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.
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There's a few DNS apps on F-droid that'll take an /etc/hosts file. That's what I do. Now that I can do Arknights on Bliss OS the only thing keeping me using a smartphone–rather than switching to a flipphone–is xiauhongshu. Haven't checked if that works on Bliss, if it does then I'm free.

>>26842
For the same reason you take the same route to work every day, why you always do things in the same order in the morning, why you tend to order the same few foods every time you go to a restaurant. People are creatures of habit. He's not addicted to porn, he's used to the routine.

Use Steven Black's porn filter on uBO and AdGuard family DNS. Sure, these are individually all easy to disable, but I've found they place a barrier on porn consumption that helps a lot if you consume porn when you're bored as much as you're horny. If this isn't enough for you, consider getting a Raspberry Pi or the like for PiHole. Perhaps even more importantly, find other things to do. Read a book, hit the gym, even just play some vidya or watch a movie.

I used to masturbate a lot, 8 to 10 times per day at least, when I was sitting at home in a home office job which required little input from my part. Spent most of my day browsing the illusion thread on 4chan h looking for cards for HS2 but I turned overemployed and I fixed my gooning habit by filling all my free time with work, it's mostly a thing that is barely on your mind when you have lots of shit on your plate, gooning is a consequence of an idle mind.

>>26837
i lived 5 years without computer or phone precisely because of this reason. instead of a smartphone i started using a nokia. I recommend you using a nokia. If you say to me that you cannot renounce on having a smartphone, i say to you that most of humanity has always lived without one, that you will try to get stimulus from your enviroment, you will start learning the streets of your city or town, so many things, for me it was so liberating to live without being able to stimulate myself constantly in my room. yes that it will be uncomfortable at first but you'll learn to live without it. ITS NOT TRUE THAT YOU CANT, YOU CAN. There are even nokias with whatsapp now so you dont have to renounce being in contact with your friends and family.

This, however, is only a patch, your problem is not gooning, gooining is a symptom of a far more profound spiritual problem with a long trajectory, so, for that i recommend knowing thyself and a psichologist, not just any psichologist but a serious guy with a focation for helping you, because the iceberg goes DEEP. Without you being able to goon your life will be better, but the symptom could appear and be more tense, so you need to paralelly work on yourself and your problems that you probably dont even know in a 20% as of now.

I am currently relapsing now, i am in a relapse moment, but i have learned a lot in the years and i know that this is only a symptom of a deep and fundamental self contempt i have been wired with for years and that i need to work through somehow.



 

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?
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>>28495
the pdp is also interesting in another way. like most computers of the time and unlike any of the souped up microcomputers made today, it came with a debugging panel. processor state was fullly exposed through indicator lights and you could literally halt the processor mid-execution and step through every instruction individually

>>28488
Moron. High level language are more readable than Assembly, not perfectly readable unto themselves.

>>28493
Meh. When writing C, I can still tell, broad strokes, what the computer is doing on any given line of code, especially at lower optimization levels. It's definitely a bigger jump from Assembly to C code than Machine Code to Assembly, but it's still a negotiable one, especially if you're familiar with Assembly. I know embedded programmers who know what the Assembly will look like in a given C implementation before they've even compiled.

>Assembly language has been completely phased out by now. Now everybody uses Python, Java and C.
wow, got any more breaking news from the late 20th century?

Only expert programmers are worthy of assembly. The compilers outperform modt programmers these days so it's completely unnecessary to write a bulk of code in assembly. I do imagine when RISCV becomes more developed assembly will be popular for it though because the level of access to the code behind the chipsets.

>>28512
>Moron
Unnecessary.
>not perfectly readable unto themselves.
People universally agree you need colour coding to read high level code, whereas each line of assembly is concise enough to not need it. So (X) Doubt meme.jpg



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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.

Why?

>>28531
I've always thought it was crazy having to click on every video! This is needed



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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.

>>28490
>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.
Feminists don't count. Most women are mad in love with their babies and that brings a smile to their face. Do everythng so they could maximize their chances of having babies and then perhaps do something on the sides of motherhood and I'm sure most of them would be glad.

With renewed motherhood you deprive capitalists from one of their weapons to divide the classes by pitting men against women and using the latter to drag wages down.

Women also spend more on trivialities, they are the perfect consumers, which is why Capitalism needs them "empowered", AKA with a big wage to spend money on makeup and shoes and bags and random gossip related shit.
Women are very pragmatic when they are confined to a house, they manage houses very well, better than men. They think all the time about all the little things that bore men.

>Chapter 1

>EBM
I suppose the technology in question is really entirely based on maturing mRNA bodies in vats, so people spend some time in a tube with fluids while nanorobots and other miraculous serums rewrite the DNA and work on altering the bodily tissues and bones. Tack on that a lot of brainwashing to erase as much as possible the ancient mind and imprint the new gendered type. Then growth hormones would be used to make women taller whereas deep nano-surgeries on bones would reduce the volume of the male skeleton and redraw it.

>religions and gender roles gone

You missed an opportunity here where you could have some countries that push people into gender roles now that they say there is no reason not to have anything in between male and female when anyone can be pure male or pure female. A little provocative but definitely more thought provoking, you took the very easy road to safely satisfy your fetish.
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Just dumping lore seems pretty unimaginative, but i guess you bring up a few points worth discussing.
>sadly children during the beginning of this technology were sold
It's an interesting thought that, due to the endurance of the patriarchical superstructure, the arrival of artifical childbirth will make children even more into a type of property.
>sports
Why would a future society have a need for the current kind of professional sports, requiring a segregation along physical characteristics? This type of highly physical competition is relatively recent and at odds with most of the populations interest in sports beyond pure spectacle.
>men in the past lives will be always mental men and women in the past lives would be always mental women
This is stupid essentialism on the same level as the "brain development" argument, but mtfs definitely should have more feminist struggle sessions.
>Their job is to see, how AI is doing the jobs for them. The only thing they have left is being a jester in front of the new oligarchs.
This is the main problem with your "story". Science fiction usually examines a tendency in the present and says something about it by extrapolating its development into the future. Yours in this case appears to be ai-driven automation advancing the state of body modification, but you haven't established any connections from one to the other. The most i could glean, is that ai somehow enables humans to live these lives for their entertainment, which i don't get in any case.

>>28490
>classify
categories: bait, idpol, rambling
I dislike fiction but I don't think your idea can even be called that. if you want to make a point just write an essay. your thing is full of inconsistencies but I don't care enough to point them out, partially because it is clear you are only posting this to elicit responses ("bait"). as a matter of fact, the only reason I'm writing this reply is because the report field is too short to make a proper report

<the treatment itself [HRT] was not unlike lobotomy

<men in the past lives will be always mental men and women in the past lives would be always mental women
<People would be smart enough, not to deny their past life, as one of the binary biological sexes
poorly disguised transphobia

>>28490
>super bullshit science can rewire people and morph them at will
>still has not solved the homosexual issue
I guess the R&D budget was put to good use.
>>28521
>Why would a future society have a need for the current kind of professional sports, requiring a segregation along physical characteristics? This type of highly physical competition is relatively recent and at odds with most of the populations interest in sports beyond pure spectacle.
Martial arts are millennia old already and cover a wide range of activities, they could get brutal. It would certainly be super gendered on top of the ancient moral code already upholding strong separations of purposes between both sexes.
>>28522
Try typing "goon b8" in the field.



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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?
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>>28508
Lol they aren't going to build any of that crap.

I thought the first picture was built in Minecraft.
我以为第一张图在我的世界里建造的

>what if cube, but bigger

Utopias for the rich, dystopias for the poor.

>>28508
>The Line
More like The Snorting Line. They have already downsized their plans about it. By 2040 they will rebrand it to The Segment and the The Point.



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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!



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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.
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>>23852
>content / ad ratio exploded
Social networks, video websites and even mere wikis are now full of that shit and that's not limited to internet mind you it also happens on tv too. They're maxing the revenues for some big project.

Yt is already asking for you to sign in to prove you're not a bot in many countries and IPs while they're working round the clock to prevent proxies from accessing the content.

Yet despite all the doom posting Im not seeing whats preventing people from joining forums and obscure sites hosted on remove cabbage powered computrons.

>>23860
So much now is bait, worst offenders lure people with a thumbnail and some keywords and the topic is either only superficially explored at the end or never at all. You've got tons of supposedly serious or friendly channels doing it.

No need for bots when it's just a business of churning out time wasters to get views and monetize them.

>>23864
>i could see the American goverment inplementing something like the great firewall of china, though granted that is unlikely as A. it would significantly inpact american buisness interests and as we all know american politatians are basically paid for mouthpieces of the porkies within Murica, and B. bcz its too expensive (from there pov) to implement.
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I support the coming sneakernet. We need content discovery and distribution over sneakernet.

>Open source alternatives exist
>Decentralized hosting exists
>Meshnets exist

needs decentralized backbone and hosting

maybe 5g and cheap storage will overcome,

need someone to make receivers also be transmitters, so your phone and smartfridge can be their own mesh hotspots/servers. maybe a p2p protocol

>>28479
all of which are either corporate subverted or have never once acquired enough of a network effect to become widely used by anyone other than autistic freetards, Nazis, drug dealers, and pedophiles



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