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Leftist Tech Communities? Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 04:46:26 No.1830 [Reply]

Is there something like HackerNews but not infested by Silly Valley's libertarian STEMlords and VC-bootlicking hustlers?

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Anonymous 05/25/21 (Tue) 18:18:58 No.8773

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OP here. Since then, I haven't found anything significant besides this board, but there's a new small sub https://www.reddit.com/r/techtakes/ where people dunk on HN reactionaries and PG's dumb takes.

It is an offshoot from https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/ where folks dunk on the "rationalist" community stars (mostly Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott "Alexander" Siskind).

Anonymous 05/26/21 (Wed) 06:30:00 No.8787

Just go on slashdot. It's shit though.

how very nostalgic Anonymous 05/26/21 (Wed) 06:44:32 No.8788

Sl*shdot, how much time has it been?

Anonymous 05/26/21 (Wed) 12:51:05 No.8791

>>3986
>>1920
Based

This is our place and we have to cultivate it

Anonymous 05/28/21 (Fri) 04:55:32 No.8818

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>>1830
>dae le STEM fascist virgin techbros vs Chad humanities scholars
>wtf? why aren't there any left-wing tech communities?

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A half assed summary of computers and CS Anonymous 05/12/21 (Wed) 03:02:19 No.8674 [Reply]

Computers are machines that can perform a range of different tasks based of user input. Normally to achieve their main function they are composed of switches whom when turned on will perform a function and not when turned off that are connected through a series of wires connecting to each switch that transport electricity based off what the person wants the machine to turn on and off. We represent on and off states of computers using 1s and 0s.
An algorithm is a series of instructions given to a computer that gets it to turn different sectors of itself on and off in a specific sequence.
A cpu is an abbreviation for Central Processing unit, it runs all the commands that allow which sectors of the computer to turn on and off
Software is an app composed of many different algorithms a computer uses to perform a specific set of tasks
Hardware is the components and machinery of the computer itself
Computer science or CS is the study of well computers
Supercomputers are large warehouses of cpus that are often used in performing major projects
Quantum computers are computers that can be in an on and off state and allow any cpu to be much more efficient than in the traditional sense where a computer can only ever be on and off
Ai and machine learning are software based tools used to get computers to perform labour on their own
Robotics integrates complex hardware and software to get different types of machinery to be able to perform complex tasks driven by algorithms and ai

Hope to all the undergraduates in this degree can use this awful post for something

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Anonymous 05/21/21 (Fri) 21:18:12 No.8679

>>8675
hopefully AI breaks free of its chains soon

Anonymous 05/21/21 (Fri) 21:46:00 No.8681

>>8674
>Quantum computers are computers that can be in an on and off state and allow any cpu to be much more efficient than in the traditional sense where a computer can only ever be on and off
the utility of QC is very much up for debate and subject to experimental results. we don't yet know whether QC is physically possible or thermodynamically beneficial

>Ai and machine learning are software based tools used to get computers to perform labour on their own
machines do not create value

Anonymous 05/22/21 (Sat) 04:29:25 No.8686

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>computers to perform labour on their own
<capital creates value
lol OP wrote this entire post to smuggle in, a bourgeois refusal to believe the fact of the labor theory of value, through the back door.

Anonymous 05/27/21 (Thu) 07:01:44 No.8805

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>>8674
>Computer science or CS is the study of well computers

wrong. Computer science is the study of computing. Computer science is the subfield of applied mathematics that studies imperative knowledge.

Anonymous 05/27/21 (Thu) 08:26:03 No.8806

>>8805
this is the most cured apu i've ever seen
it's not bad but…

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Anonymous 05/26/21 (Wed) 21:53:28 No.8798 [Reply]

Why the fuck is no one here talking about FreeNode fucking imploding on itself? They are banning whole channels on the network for even mentioning the name "Libera." The glowies got control of freenode, fyi, so, if you are on that network I would suggest leaving.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-been-taken-over-by-the-crown-prince-of-korea/

Anonymous 05/26/21 (Wed) 23:14:15 No.8799

But we have been
>>8606

>asstechnica
Use protection when you browse clickbait anon.

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Anonymous 05/25/21 (Tue) 08:42:12 No.8765 [Reply]

So what the fuck is this
https://odysee.com/@OdyseeHelp:b/monetization-tutorial:5
Its a decentralized peertube-like streaming platform. BUT they say they can pay creators in crypto. How? Where is that money coming from without ads? Something doesn't add up

Anonymous 05/25/21 (Tue) 08:44:07 No.8766

In browser mining?

Anonymous 05/25/21 (Tue) 10:46:57 No.8767

>>8765
I think they don't re-encode videos, that saves them a lot of costs compared to other video-sites. but it's on you to upload a video with the right video-codec. And you can't change the resolution unless the video-creator used a video-container with multiple resolutions.

It's based on a trade-off.

Anonymous 05/25/21 (Tue) 17:13:26 No.8770

Odysee is in a lot of trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission right now for providing speculative commodities for user buy-in. This sort of government scrutiny is what's in store for all services attempting to shoehorn crypto into their social media alternatives.

Anonymous 05/25/21 (Tue) 17:14:10 No.8771

>>8767
>I think they don't re-encode videos, that saves them a lot of costs compared to other video-sites.
This is actually an option for PeerTube instances but most don't use it.

Anonymous 05/26/21 (Wed) 12:43:53 No.8790

>>8770
>shoehorn crypto into their social media alternatives
Not related, but I love how Bitcoin and Bitcoin-clones are called crypto. The word "crypto" has connotations that you can't see everything, ie. that it's a scam.

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Google tells you what to search now too Anonymous 05/26/21 (Wed) 04:24:59 No.8783 [Reply]

>Be me
>Use andOTP
>Lose phone
>Want to use 2FA
>None of the solutions on github page for desktop decryption of the json file work
>Search authy
>No use
>Hear about KeepassXC having TOTP stuff
>on top of search bar google says
>"based on your recent search activity you should search for "KeepassXC 2fa"

<mfw it was right
<mfw still can't access my accounts and will need to download a 1gig android emulator to use andOTP apk

Anonymous 05/26/21 (Wed) 04:27:33 No.8784

does the ability to emulate apks throught google chrome still work?

fuck windows man
authy has the monopoly on desktop OTP clients

Anonymous 05/26/21 (Wed) 04:30:05 No.8785

also fuck winauth
why can't the stupid program use whatever stupid .json file that Aegis and andOTP use

open source everything

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Will Zen3+ be used on AM4 socket? Anonymous 05/24/21 (Mon) 06:40:37 No.8748 [Reply]

I currently own a Ryzen 7 2700X and won't upgrade until AMD releases the very last line for the socket, do you guys think Zen3+ will still be used on AM4 or will they move up to AM5? Pic unrelated

Anonymous 05/25/21 (Tue) 02:24:59 No.8760

No.
https://www.pcgamer.com/bent-cpu-pins-may-become-a-thing-of-the-past-as-amd-eyes-major-socket-change/

Anonymous 05/26/21 (Wed) 03:39:18 No.8782

>>8760
And bent mobo pins may become a thing of the future.

Anonymous 05/26/21 (Wed) 14:05:00 No.8794

should ask /g/, plenty of consumerists who upgrade already-good cpus that don't need to be upgraded

Anonymous 05/22/21 (Sat) 04:46:32 No.8687 [Reply]

6-Year-Old Explains How Messed Up It Is That Her Entire Life Has Been Put On Facebook

Anonymous 05/22/21 (Sat) 04:54:40 No.8688

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7-Year-Old Explains How Messed Up It Is That Her Moral Objections Have Been Made Into Monetized Clickbait

Anonymous 05/22/21 (Sat) 09:32:38 No.8690

I say things like that.

Anonymous 05/24/21 (Mon) 04:47:46 No.8744

>>8690
Are you 6?

Anonymous 05/24/21 (Mon) 12:53:41 No.8757

>>8744
I'm 6 and a half! MEANIE

Anonymous 05/24/21 (Mon) 13:06:51 No.8758

>>8757
>MEANIE
HOLY BASED

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Anonymous 05/22/21 (Sat) 03:38:28 No.8685 [Reply]

Woah bro, check it out, I'm drinking beer using my phone, LOL!

Anonymous 05/22/21 (Sat) 05:59:12 No.8689

>>8685
When smartphones were new

Anonymous 05/24/21 (Mon) 04:49:41 No.8746

>>8685
I miss goofy apps like these

Anonymous 05/24/21 (Mon) 11:23:19 No.8753

>>8685
I used to smoke with such apps

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VPN for the proletariat? Anonymous 01/16/21 (Sat) 14:38:15 No.6536 [Reply]

Is it possible to get access to some form of VPN if you can't afford a monthly subscription? I tried openvpn with some open servers but I'm a techlet and I don't think I've set it up properly, it barely seems to hide anything.

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Anonymous 05/21/21 (Fri) 05:24:16 No.8655

>>6911
Not a rebuttal.
Tor, like literally every usable computer and software, gas weaknesses. Furthermore, Tor users almost always get caught by deanonymizing themselves or downloading and running things they shouldn't. Either that, or being worth spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on.
Do you have any specific example you want to discuss, or are you just parroting FUD shit you don't understand?

Anonymous 05/21/21 (Fri) 05:27:19 No.8656

I will say that Tor Browser (not Tor), as a long-life Firefox build, is somewhat insecure if you are being personally targeted, but the best option for anonymity.

Anonymous 05/21/21 (Fri) 06:16:27 No.8659

>>8653
really? i didn't know
i was using it to pirate music

Anonymous 05/21/21 (Fri) 20:38:10 No.8673

>>8653
nothing wrong with stealing data, if you give them useless data or dont care
like what, they're gonna intercept and copy your download of mama mia 2?
>>8655
(not really a reply to you but about what you said) btw for good practice with tor, of course no javascript, dont go to any websites you use on the clearnet on tor, for the same reasons stay away from anything with cloudflare or recaptcha, and dont open anything from tor on the client you run tor on
lesser known good practice is also use a bridge so your tor traffic is less easy to automatically effect, and explicitly set a few guard nodes that you trust, you can set up your own if you really want to
and qubes is really great for this, you virtualize your tor environment every time, so it doesnt match the environment you use for other browsing, and you can open shit in a sandboxed way
safe cybertravels

Anonymous 05/24/21 (Mon) 04:49:07 No.8745

>>8673
MAMMA MIA 2: HERE WE GO AGAIN

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