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Everybody here is saying that smartphones are the worst modern consumer electronics but I'll tell ya hwat: TV is much, much worse. Android and Apple phones at least give you some control over what you do with them. TV is deliberately designed to waste your time and feed you ads constantly. There is only an illusion of choice (switching channels) while everything you watch is made just to fill the TV schedule. Even if YouTube and Netflix are close to mindless TV surfing they at least give you an option to have some actual agency in what content you're watching, and both of them don't have any ads if you pay a fee (or install an adblocker as is the case with YouTube). In order to watch something that's actually worth your time you need to somehow find good programs in a flood of shit in a schedule that's constantly shifting, dedicate time in your schedule to a specific show to not miss it and pray that it isn't plot-driven 'cause then you'll be missing out on everything that happened before. Most of this can be somewhat mitigated with a recorder (not the ads) but you need to know in advance which shows are good and which are shit, and TV subscriptions are split by channel, not by content. And you can't just listen to it in the background, TV shows are LONG and require a lot of attention compared to radio shows.

TV is worse than YouTube, TV is worse than Netflix, TV is worse than DVDs, TV is worse than VHS, TV is worse than radio, TV is worse than GOING TO THEATER. So why, why would anyone want to watch it compared to anything I just mentioned?
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>>26374
>ads 50 years ago: telling you why their product is good to use, and maybe a short little jingle with a cartoon character
>ads now: stock footage of people having fun on the beach, going hiking, laughing at parties, teaching their child how to walk, vaguely being happier or cooler than you, and then the brand name appears at the end with barely any indication of what they sell

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>>26375
50 years ago was the mid 70s, ads were already all 'artsy' then, you're thinking more like the early 50s.

yes I remember the pre-internet era when all people did was watch TV. And it was like a one way propaganda source. At least on the internet literally anyone can share information, and you can take on the responsibility of verifying it. With TV and radio it was nothing but whatever is relayed by whoever has control over the broadcast.

>>26270
ever heard of switching the channel, OP?

>>26425
>and you can take on the responsibility of verifying it

Most people choose not to and choose to believe what they want to believe.
When I was younger I used to think that the internet would basically prevent the populace from being duped into…anything, because theres that two-way sharing of information aspect to it. But now its obvious that it, too, can be subverted and used by the powers that be to make us forget that they are the enemy.



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ADHD anon who post thread about OCD symptoms here a while back.
this:
https://leftypol.org/tech/res/21660.html
i also post this thread:
https://leftypol.org/tech/res/21508.html
i actually deleted all of my archive and all of the inside of my main folder (folder that i use for unimportant stuff like posting in ibs and e-books). i just want you guys to know so nobody have to worry about stuff here being in somebodies hard drive/computer. compass-dichotomy-isms, thread, posts and writings here doesn't get archived, so don't worry.

Hi anon, does that mean you're not worrying about your files anymore? I'm proud of you!



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Post less computery hardware you think is neat or have question about.
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🎨: scribblewise

>>25863
Is this your OC Anon?

>>25869
Nah I just think they're neat looking. Reminds me of the cover art for Knife Man - AJJ.

The sound doohicky




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Every few months, people come up with an idea to create a new imageboard, since mostly everyone is dissatisfied with the state of vichan/lainchan, or thinks they can do it better. Having better software would greatly enhance the experience for both regular users and mods, and have more crossover appeal to “normies”. The problem is that no one can agree on the technical or more importantly non technical decisions on how one would go about making an actual, usable replacement for lainchan.

In fact, people don't even agree on whether the imageboard replacement should be an imageboard at all. This thread is a merged, consolidated, megathread of all the various attempts at answering this question that people have made.

Previously, there was a thread on outreach to lainchan, including a strawpoll:
https://lainchan.org/%CE%BB/res/26674.html

The poll determined it should be built in Java, but a significant minority wanted to use a functional programming language, esp. Haskell, or Clojure/Lisp.

The only way a new imageboard will be built is if multiple people, technical jannies and lurker-programmers, from here and lainchan and even elsewhere, actually collaborate on a single project and concentrate their efforts on this.

There are important technical and non technical questions to be answered.

Namely, do we even want an imageboard?

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>>26396
>Anon making a board in C++ with a team here, we need name ideas for the imageboard and for the company/organisation that makes it
Chan++ ?

>>26396
>privateware
Seems like some play on anonymous would be the way to go

>>26400
geg, maybe 5chan. However, the fact it's written in C++ is just a detail, this wont be another gochan or jschan. >>26036 is our goal, we still have to make it clearer though.
(at least we hope so)

>>26401
I also proposed "anoncodes" but "priva(te)ware" is my favourite so far

>>26396
Make it something memorably unremarkable, like NGchan, quickboard or anond.



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This thread is only for feedback related to technical issues (bug reports, suggestions).

Mobile Support:
https://github.com/PietroCarrara/Clover/releases/latest
Thread For Mobile Feedback: >>>/tech/6316

Matrix rooms:
https://matrix.to/#/#leftypolPublic:matrix.org

We are currently working on improvements to the site, subject to the need of the tech team to sleep and go to their day jobs. If you need more immediate feedback please join the matrix room[s] and ask around. Feel free to leave comments, concerns, and suggestions about the tech side of the site here and we will try to get to it as soon as possible

Archived thread:
>>>/leftypol_archive/903
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>>25851
Works on my reader (Flym)

>https://git.leftypol.org/explore/repos
<https://docs.gitea.com/usage/blocking-user
In light of the recent bot swarm, what is the Dev team's thoughts on closing the Gitea register to stop the spam of bots? Instead perhaps we could allow approved users to make an account.

When are you gonna fix the pdf uploading system!? How can I upload documents and have them look like file rel when uploaded?

When I find out why it's broken

Moved to >>>/meta/34491.



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So Marxism-Leninism is obviously opposed to abstraction since it's idealism, but what will be the fate of programming languages that have their entire root in abstractionism like Python and R? I know biotechnicians base a lot of their technical knowledge in these languages which is basically called for since a large portion of biology nowadays is dominated by mendelian idealists who think lysenkoism is wrong and bad, so clearly programming languages have suffered from the same kind of idealistic penetration as biology itself. Will communism destroy idealistic programming languages like python and R?
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Remember in my math classes constantly looking back to the set theoretical definitions and theorems; there is something to be said for having these abstractions which none the less allow you to trivially bias them to get more work done, and more understanding of the topic.

>>26373
>>26377
>abolish spoken languages
On this point words like "Marxist-Leninism" conveys almost nothing to the average person (it doesn't even have an entomology), and vast quantities of commonly used categories or names are completely misunderstood or are so poorly defined as to barely exist in the first place.


If there was definitive proof communism would destroy Python, R, FP based languages, and stinky CS PHD's, all my friends that are not juniors would support it.

Well instead they support it based on facts and logics. Funny how every one in C++, including me, is some sort of anarchist/libsoc. Freedom from the bourgeoisie, the state, and the compiler, or death!

>>21261
>abstractions are idealist
Vulgar Marxism be like, smh.

Economic classes are themselves abstractions. Our natural languages are based on abstractions. We literally cannot think without using abstractions. Just stop.

Abstract programming languages are compatible with Marxism. And I would claim they're the only truly proletarian languages since they're easier to learn and understand for the non-programmers. And the more abstract they are, the easier they are to understand which means more contributions to FLOSS projects and more eyes on the code.

Now which is better: Python or Lisp?



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is there one that searches through pornhub and xhamster and all them free porn sites at the same time?

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You could have posted anime tiddies, but choosed a lizard instead.

Why?


>>26321
>picrel
BOOBA



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I HATE PHONES

Teachers getting pepper sprayed over phones is not shocking to me. On my first day teaching, I had a girl leave my class and scream at me for asking her to put her phones away. I caught the same girl scrolling tiktok on a serious standardized test. I’ve found a kid using chat GPT on his final essay— it’s blocked on the computers but he emails it to himself from his phone, doesn’t even get rid of the "Sure! Here’s a paragraph…." part of the bot’s response when he pastes it into his essay.

I’ve seen kids taking videos of horrible fights, and I’ve seen kids watching those videos later. It seems both exciting and numbing to them. Sometimes they’re texting when I’m talking, and they say they’re talking to their parents. Why are you texting your kid? Stop.

I had one kid lose his phone when he came back from a suspension after posting threats, but he was still on his phone in my class because he handed the administrators his old phone instead of his real one.

Sometimes you suggest to administrators that none of them should be allowed to have phones, and they say it’s a safety issue. You lock away a basket of phones into a closet down the hall during a standardized test because they won’t stop beeping, and your department chair tells you that you could get in trouble for unwarranted seizure.

You do your duty and tell parents their kids are on their phones, and they tell you they thought their ADHD kid was allowed to have a phone in their educational plan. If you say they aren’t, and read to them their plan, then they demand that their child get ten minute cool-down breaks— where they go in the hall and look at their phones. It goes into the plan.

The accommodation I need is for you to read, listen, talk, and write without looking at your phone. These kids use their phones to cheat, to torture each other, to shop, and to essentially spoil their youth and their last chance for a free education. If anyone tells you this isn’t prolific in American schools, they are lying to you or they have the type of brain worms where they think digital technology is helping people and not wrecking our brains. If you’re in your 30s+, you are basically from the Before Times, and you’re probably ontologically different from younger generations because of smartphone exposure.

I want to throw my phone down the well. I don’t like how accessible I have become to other people in all thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>26349
>No, it's the reverse actually.
The reverse of that would be teaching you real life skills and how to do the basic things that everyone will end up needing to know when they're in their early twenties. Saddling kids with all this reading and homework/essays/projects is the busybody work I'm talking about, it's ultimately frivolous bullshit. But it does do what you said at the end which is programs you to be a good slave. I can tell you almost everything I learned in HS was not applicable to my life, it was pretty well just a waste of effort, time and life and then on top of it I had to learn a lot of the actual real world life skills at times where I didn't really have a lot of free time to be doing it, it would have been way better to be taught that when I had nothing better to do aka sitting in class.

>>20238
No, active jamming is illegal and the FCC will absolutely come after you for it.

>>20253
This is why we need a free hardware movement, but instead of programmers the movement would be comprised of engineers that'd make libre hardware replacements of all sorts of machines that are currently proprietary(phones for example), even robots even. or maybe I should just major in mechatronics engineering and build stuff only for myself idk

>>26359
>The reverse of that would be teaching you real life skills and how to do the basic things that everyone will end up needing to know when they're in their early twenties.
I see what you mean. Well, most of the stuff they teach at school is still useful I'd say because it gives you a better understanding of the world which will help you in developing your materialist worldview. Sure, it may not be as useful for applying to a job but for forming a better conception of the world and being immune to desinformation (if you get yourself a left-leaning history textbook that is) it is.

Granted, the textbooks are bloated and a bore to read so most of the school years is indeed a waste of time, the curriculum should have a more pop sci approach since pop science is proletarian science.

>>26390 (me)
Also, economics and politics are another source of disinformation in schools so get yourself alternative textbooks on those subjects too.



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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/logitech-has-an-idea-for-a-forever-mouse-thatrequires-a-subscription/

>Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber recently discussed the possibility of one day selling a mouse that customers can use "forever." The executive said such a mouse isn't "necessarily super far away" and will rely on software updates, likely delivered through a subscription model.


>Speaking on a July 29 episode of The Verge's Decoder podcast, Faber, who Logitech appointed as CEO in October, said that members of a "Logitech innovation center" showed her "a forever mouse" and compared it to a nice but not "super expensive" watch. She said:
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>>26379
mice are basically the cheapest dogshit peripherals it's possible to manufacture, just a light sensor and a couple switches. they are not going to be able to lock-in people in order to force a subscription on them

>>26379
There's no way anyone who's actually used a mouse in their life would think this idea is anything but absolutely retarded, right? This has to be a scheme to appeal to dumbass shareholders.

>>26383
They will not be able to sell it to ordinary people but never underestimate the need for some upper middle class wasters to conspicuously consume, look how many people paid like $5000 for a peloton that they then need to spend like $30/month subscription to use

>>26385
nvm I looked it up and peloton subscription is actually like $50/month

The general idea has been out since at least the late 90s. Turn ownership into renting by requiring updates over a network for continued use. What the device is for is irrelevant in the decision process that leads to this, since the process is not driven by utility considerations.



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Xfce was supposed to be THE lightweight fully-featured desktop manager but it seems fucking KDE has around the same memory footprint and performance?!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/10/23/bold-prediction-kde-will-steal-the-lightweight-linux-desktop-crown-in-2020/
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what's the use case for a low memory footprint?

>>26316
low spec computers. which is the majority of computers in the third world

>>22030
>mouse girl
This has awakened something in me, what have you done?

>>22872
Just when the world needed tysontan most, he vanished.



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