Privacy general
Comrades, we need a thread on privacy. Any decent activist should try ways of staying anonymous on the web and prevent being tracked by governments and corporations.General tips===* Use free software as much as you can.* Use GNU/Linux and keep it up-to-date, to be sure that you don't have unpatched security exploits* Don't use Flash Player, use youtube-dl instead for watching streaming videos online* Do not use Google, use DuckDuckGo or StartPage instead* Use a password manager like Keepass or for GNU/Linux users keepassx. Create new passwords for every site that you visit and use a strong password as a master password. A tip for easy remembering of your master password is to use a sentence. "i fucking love cookies and tits!" with extra capital characters etc. is easier to remember than some random characters and long enough to prevent brute force attacks of any kind.* Use the Tor Browser Bundle if you really want to stay anonymous.Firefox====* Go to Preferences -> History and set History to "Never remember history". * See for additional tweaks: https://github.com/amq/firefox-debloat and https://vikingvpn.com/cybersecurity-wiki/browser-security/guide-hardening-mozilla-firefox-for-privacy-and-securityAdd-ons-----------* Use uBlock Origin for preventing tracking etc. Bonus: use hard-mode to manually whitelist external domains on sites. Don't use uBlock but be sure to use uBlock Origin https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-mode* HTTPS Everywhere* DecentralEyes: prevents CDN hosting from tracking you (Google for Jquery etc.)* Self Destructing Cookies: only allow cookies that you choose to allowOS==* Encrypt your hard drive or home partition at least* If you use GNU/Linux, you can try to restrict systemd or syslog from logging. * Use a distribution which takes security seriously. Also, be sure that you don't install a lot of things outside the repository. It will cover most of your needs.Real life tips===* Pay with cash if you canFeel free to provide tips to each other comrades!Programming a Really Integrated Development Environment
This is the next installment of threads in my project log series since the imageboard was completed >>27187, and ran out of motivation for the calendar-based forum >>27553, leaving it as merely a (relatively complete) calendar. The idea this time around is to make something of a GNU Emacs replacement, but broken up into a number of tightly coupled smaller packages. Namely the approach is going to be "frames" over "windows" where windows are controlled by a programmable tiling window manager and run in Xephr for individuals who don't want to replace their window manager. Further there will be a command processor for mapping keybindings to functions and command names to functions. Next there will be a prompt package which will be responsible for prompting the user, more likely than not this will be either at the cursor position or in the center of the display. Lastly, the text editor itself will be responsible for very little beyond saving and reloading state, and rendering the text buffer; these two functionality will likely also be split into separate packages./kit/ - What Are You Packing?
Feel free to discuss any consumer electronic products you use.Google and Anonymity
I recently got a smartphone again and things are worse than 5 or 6 years ago. I got an Android because they have inexpensive ones and I don't believe in paying around $1k for a phone.Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread Thread
Thread for questions that don't deserve their own thread./AGI/
AGI by 2027. What are the implications for the world and the future of mankind and communism?Block-based coding general
What's the deal with block-based coding? I'm surprised it's not more common for the obvious stuff like markup languages, since they're both sandwich shaped, and whenever I look into it I see it pitched as:Physical Surveillance Thread
Facial recognition. Gait recognition. Automated License Plate Readers, many of whom now identify based on make and model. DNA databases. Cellular location tracking. "First responder drones" will become a thing with police departments soon. Cash based transactions are becoming less accepted and every credit card purchase is sold to advertisers (and the feds). For most people in Western countries acting normally, anyone going anywhere or doing anything in the physical world is tracked in a dozen ways. Taking elaborate measures to avoid this surveillance makes you look extremely weird and suspicious to most normal people. Any serious leftist movement dealing with harsh state repression is going to need a reliable toolkit for defeating this stuff.This is how they track you through phone apps
From https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/BreachForums taken down
BreachForums has been taken down apparently by their own admins over rumors it was being subjected to infiltration by the FBI and other government agencies. There are rumors someone has been arrested.They say AI will take over people's jobs, how do we fight against it?
So, I'm a musician, who wants to have a musical career (a lot of communist musicians had stable careers) and meanwhile stupid porkies tell me that "no, we'd prefer if you were replaced, prole, because there if no place for people like you" and I hear, not only music, but other art, computer science, programming etc. will be replaced by AI. How do we stop this, so people are still prosperous in the real socialst societies?Mastering the FB algorithm to buy\sell
I'm getting into the world of online buy-selling (I said FB, but can be Ebay or whatever else, in general) to obtain several toys for nostalgia, other hobbies, things I need or could need, etc..And I noticed how strong the algo-web is here; Mainly I see this through suggested reels, but how do I deliberately ,manually, target the algorithm?/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread (leftypol edition)
(Copypasted from a previous 4chin /g/ thread as a foundation to making these generals on leftypol)IT IS OVER.
>>ProxyAi runs vending machine business to varrying results
https://lukaspetersson.com/assets/pdf/vbench_paper.pdfProduction Software Log
Decided after finishing with my imageboard >>27187, and some complaints from testing my torrent package to try to spin the imageboard into a production calendar, forum, and discussion platform. The idea is to keep it very event focused, where the only way to discover threads is through a system of calendars, or private messages. There might also be various views for keeping statistics of various sorts for the users. Already have a mobile site, and some time localization working, as well as logins, and signup from my other project. Haven't decided whether or not this will be FOSS or proprietary. Anyway the previous project log was helpful enough in motivating, and talking through my software that decided to make another one.Infiltrating big bank
I'm a communist but I'm currently employed in internal tech department of one of the big 4 banks in the US with expensive international operations, control financial infrastructure and currency exchange in many periphery countries and act as an arm of US imperialism.panhandling
Hello, /tech//darknetmarket/ general
Darknet markets are as close as it gets to a free market, where you can order drugs and have it delivered to you by mail. The purpose of this thread is to discuss opsec, ask for help and discuss markets in general. This thread should be fully legal as long as you don't solicit or facilitate illegal transactions, meaning:I hate developers
>got assigned to a new projectPeripheral Web Stuff
I watched this video recently, and have been fascinated by the concept of "the peripheral web" (in contrast to "core web") and want to find more stuff out there. So how about a thread where we share neat stuff we find on the peripheral web?Composable SQL
> SQL could be improved somewhat by introducing composable query fragments with statically-typed interfaces. I begin by explaining two areas (testing and reusing business logic) where SQL does very poorly. Then I explain my solution, and how it addresses the problems./w11/ - windows 11 general
lets talk about windows 11 and how its better then all the other operating systems like windows 10 andd linux which are slow and suckHomelab general thread
I started hosting an image board out of my house, in the past I've also hosted space station 13 servers. Hosting things from my bedroom has become a hobby of mine.WorldLaborNews
I've had this idea for a while of a piece of software that aggregates Labor News from all of the world, and allows the user to sort them by country, type of news (labor strike, union busting, laws passed/repealed, settlements reached, cooperative formed, etc.) It would do this for each and every country and do this only for News platforms that are written from a pro-labor perspective (so you don't end up with a bunch of RadioFreeAsia type crap).I'm a retarded gooner with no self control. it's ruined my life.
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.Using online AI with privacy in mind
Yes, yes selfhosting is the most privacyrespecting way, I know, but I'm not a richfag. So here is my idea:YOUTUBE/GOOGLE IS ON THE OFFENSE
Youtube is relentlessly attacking all proxies, from yt-dlp to invidious to materialiousNo one actually shares any interesting programming projects
99% of the programming projects I see on github, reddit, HN, etc. are just programming tools for other programmers. "I made a data-processing library for the ButtFuck framework" "I made a fancy-pants syntax highlighter for Fartlang in vim" "I made a utility that tells you if your config file is blah blah blah" 10 billion stars on github with a bunch of badges and emojis of course. All this effort put into programmer tools and for what? So they can make more programming tools, I suppose?Website
Hi I'm looking to make my own website to host articles and stories I've written. I wanted to do Wordpress but like I found out its going to put ads on my screen. I've got no money and no time to learn programming skills. Is there an open source version of Wordpress where it doesn't monetize everything and where I can change my font?Ever wanted to download 4chan?
Some soyjak party anon broke into 4chan after 4 years of work and dumped the source code + db with users and hashed passwords.Samsung is simply better than Apple
I'm not joking.Take the 2000s tech pill
>wired ethernet onlyDownloads keep failing unless I use VPN
In fivem downloads go all the way 0 and keep trying over and over if the archive is more than 30MB, and eventually failThe fuck, are we actually going to turn into robots?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-03-05/cortical-labs-neuron-brain-chip/104996484are threat models just for show
>My point is that security people need to get their priorities straight. The “threat model” section of a security paper resembles the script for a telenovela that was written by a paranoid schizophrenic: there are elaborate narratives and grand conspiracy theories, and there are heroes and villains with fantastic (yet oddly constrained) powers that necessitate a grinding battle of emotional and technical attrition. In the real world, threat models are much simpler (see Figure 1). Basically, you’re either dealing with Mossad or not-Mossad. If your adversary is not-Mossad, then you’ll probably be fine if you pick a good password and don’t respond to emails from [email protected]. If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU’RE GONNA DIE AND THERE’S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. The Mossad is not intimidated by the fact that you employ https://. If the Mossad wants your data, they’re going to use a drone to replace your cellphone with a piece of uranium that’s shaped like a cellphone, and when you die of tumors filledAI Dub services that dont suck?
Might as well ask here since its related to being able to propagate information and educate others.China has made AI open-source, cheap and efficient.
https://venturebeat.com/ai/open-source-deepseek-r1-uses-pure-reinforcement-learning-to-match-openai-o1-at-95-less-cost/AGILE
Is AGILE a meme?The Downfall of Alternative Frontends
Just wanted to share a very good article/blog I found on the recent ramping of big tech attacks against APIs and alternative frontends. Let's discuss possible ways of dealing with this in the best of ways. I have personally been relying on these since they appeared, for several years.深度探索:控制台冒险游戏 ( DEEPSEEK CONSOLE GAME
#Upgrade pack or direct source code for good LLMs like DeepSeekOpenZFS
Does anyone here have experience with OpenZFS? The port for Windows specifically.Future of Chinese CPUs and computer technology
In recent years China has made significant strides in developing its own semiconductor industry with things like Huawei's HiSilicon, Loongson, StarFive, MilkV, etc. I would call that China outlasted the US sanctions barrage from the US. Chinese investment in fabrication technologies, while not anyway near cutting edge is getting to be near good enough. With things like Intel looking shaky and the rise of Risc-V and ARM we are steadily moving forwards towards the hopeful future of open standards, hardware and software, where most consumer computation devices will have built in Chinese backdoors instead of American ones.Lunduke
Who the fuck was it that says Lunduke was a good guy? He's a rightoid now which I already knew due to his petit bourgeois class status and that debate with Stallman on free software.DOGE has been breached (lmao)
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov WebsiteThe death of assembly language
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?
Anyone else want to watch 4chan GIFs and videos in an automatic slideshow?Classify my new sci-fi short story or rate it
Short story - "If We Could Change Our Existence".Preparing for the end of the Internet
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.nu-imageboard megathread #2
The neverending quest to rewrite vichan -unikernels
I've always been drawn to the idea of a truly personal computing experience, being able to design a system that I understand inside and out and have complete mastery over, but without knowledge of OS and low-level programming, I assumed this was beyond my reach. But looking at unikernel technologies such as MirageOS, it seems I should be able to write an OCaml program that "just werks" on any hardware that supports virtualization.German Police Deanonymize Tor Users
Recent reports indicate that German law enforcement has successfully deanonymized users of the Tor network./AIn't/ - AI negotiation General
[ITT, Discuss!]/eyecare/ - Eyecare and e-paper general
There doesn't seem to be any so I decided to make one myself. The topics you can discuss here are but not limited to:Project Mayhem 2012
The entire Anonymous and imageboard culture is even more riddled with psyops in the MKULTRA sense than people realize. What came to fruition in QAnon was only building on endless prior efforts, many now forgotten. The MKULTRA manifestation in internet culture takes the form of the Alternate Reality Game, which is a kind of open-source, broadcast cult.anti-facial recognition masks
what masks would you recommend to someone that will attend a gathering during which he will be recorded from all angles? itt we discuss such things, potential ways to mask ourselves in a way that makes it as hard as possible for future algorithms to: a. reconstruct the face; and b. match the face with already existing databases.Meta's goes all out against FOSS
Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blockedCybernetics
Have we moved past the post-digital era of the internet? According to Cramer in 2013, "‘Post-digital’ thus refers to a state in which the disruption brought upon by digital information technology has already occurred. […] this technology is no longer perceived as disruptive." At the time of writing, in 2013, this seemed to be a realistic appraisal of the situation, as digital forms of communication (social media, internet news, Wikipedia, etc.) were viewed as a part of life. The post-digital was a rejection of the techno-optimism of Kurzweil and SV, opposing the techno-hegelian view that the digital era was a simple moment on the path to the idealized singularity. Post-digitalism was coined at a time when the internet had started to lose its own foggy idealism, and was understood as having been captured in large part by corporate and state interests. DIY communities and counter-cultural trends existed, but the term 'digital' was not a disruptive element at the macro scale of society.The PC Programs
Linux, Windows or MacUnprotected Security Cams
Recently my asshole father installed a bunch of cameras all over the house, after a sleepless night where he threatened to kick me out and accused me of stealing his iphone and razor. So it was either cameras or a homeless shelter. With how little privacy I have now (I used to cook food and talk to myself for hours in the kitchen, dont feel comfortable doing that anymore with big brother watching), this got me thinking about all of those unprotected security cameras that anyone can easily figure out the passwords to, and play creepy sounds/noise music to mess with people. I'm seriously considering doing this to scare the fuarrrk out of him nonstop so he'll return them.Android app to talk/lurk on leftypol and getchan
Just wondering if you use any android app (preferably open-source) to browse on leftypol and/or getchan.AI killing internet
Dead internet theory and all I know, but in recent years LLM/gpt chatbot content has been flooding the internet with low quality shit from youtube faceless automation channels to SEO product review sites flooding the first page of search engine results.ID verification thread
In the recent years, more and more platforms at starting to introduce age verification trough external services like Persona. The most recent one, being roblox, which introduced ID age verification not so long ago. We also have cases like Facebook and Linkdin. But it is just the start. Probably, soon more and more platforms will introduce restrictions and age verification trough ID.Project Ideas
The purpose of this thread is to gather a variety of programming project ideas that can help us enhance our skills and foster a deeper understanding of software development. The goal is to share ideas that challenge participants to think, collaborate, and learn together.theres literally no reason to use linux or learn it unless you work on servers
It's not that Linux is "hard", it's that it's tedious and a waste of time.US is moving its biolabs from Eurasia to Africa.
Ghana and DjiboutiIs protonmail a honeypot?
>Trying to sign up on .onion links back to .comI FUCKING HATE JAVASHIT
>remove.bgSuppressed Technologies
I've had a question for a while that I've wanted to ask leftists and I figure this is as good a place as any. I can think of only one thing the right and left could ultimately come together on, and that's when it comes to suppressed technologies or suppressed science.SpaceX is a front for CIA drug smuggling
My theory is that the CIA uses the autonomous drone ship that Elon’s gay rockets land on as a mule to get industrial quantities of contraband into the US mainland.Is there a ai that can help search faces on social media profiles?
I know that there’s lots of face searching services where you can upload a photo of someone’s face and it will find social media profiles. What I am looking for however is some kind of ai or something where you can describe someone’s face and where they live and it will pull up possible matches. Does that even exist?HUNTING DOWN NAZIS PROFILES
I'd like to know if the anons has any materials (zines, posts, videos, books, blogs) on how to doxx or track down the owners of nazi profiles on the internet. Lately, I've been receiving a wave of cyber attacks across various social media accounts and even my emails from these bastards. Is there any material on this? I want to root out this evil.Artifiical Intellegence General
Hey everyone, let’s have a thoughtful discussion about artificial intelligence and whether it’s truly living up to the hype. While AI is being hailed as a game-changer in many industries, there’s an ongoing debate about whether it’s actually useful or if it’s just another shiny new technology that’s here to distract us.Rest in Pizza
<most valuable automobile company in the world/aicg/ - AI Chatbot General
This place needs an AI chatbot thead, so this is it now.Tor hidden services
Know some good shit on Tor? Let us know. Whether it be substitutes for clearnet services, or just the .onion domain for whatever, or just something cool.Sell Chrome to end search monopoly, Google told
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp81ppr3l9goTorX: "Metadata-safe Tor Chat Library"
So I'm made a Tor Chat C library and two proof-of-concept UI clients (one in GTK4 for Windows/Linux/MacOS/etc, and one in Flutter for Android).Making Microsoft Windows Home
Am probably going to be switching to Windows (first time, other than public school computers), and QWERTY for work. This means giving up a whole load of my configuration, and sort of starting computing from scratch. Found a few interesting tools to make the operating system a little more usable:Should I stop caring about my digital privacy?
I really tired of caring my privacy. I don't know do I really care about my privacy? Maybe it's time to stop. Also I have OCD which makes me check every privacy settings and browser settings all the time. I don't know what to do anons I really don't I'm so confused. Should I enable telemetry all the way and don't care? Should I disable telemetry and be private as much as possible?Overpriced enterprise software
How do enterprise software companies charge so much for their products when there are FOSS alternatives for them? It makes sense for applications used by end-users but I don't know why network firewalls, private DNS servers, proxies, VPNs, API gateways, linux distros, server monitoring tools and RDBMS systems need to be paid for. Do they provide a benefit that goes above and beyond their FOSS alternatives?Open Hardonware
Has the FSF or any adjacent organizations or companies tried to bankroll some hardware again? It mostly seems like some amount was thrown at the Lemote Yeeloong MIPS laptops, but also that they were only publicly sold for one or two years in 2011. Same thing with semi-endorsing the BeagleBone Black, but the SBC space has developed further since 2013 for better and worse. Imagine a RISC-V board flashed with Libre/Coreboot or OpenFirmware, that starts up an install of Guix or Trisquel. Or (switching from personal computers,) even that a "dumb" monochromatic laser printer that doesn't require deblobbing the firmware like Pine64's soldering iron.nsa collection against telegram
i recently came to possess a printed out slide deck detailing an nsa collection program against telegram. i got it very accidentally, i live in a building with many national security-types and found the printout in the trash area. sounds crazy, not sure who's it was or why they took it out of a secure facility, but weirder things have happened. in a past life i used to work in government and even held a security clearance at times, and the program seems plausible to me. not going to post the slides themselves, don't want anyone to get in trouble, but i have no problem summarizing.Firefox SUCKS
Mozilla is removing dozens of about:config settings in every firefox update. At this rate, about:config will be completely empty in no timeCollaborative Version Control Websites
Do you use or have any opinions on for lack of a better term collaborative version control hosting websites? As non-registered user there seems to be constant issues with github search, excessive slow-downs, and of course there are concerns with over-centralization. However it seems to be one of the best places for marketing projects to others. Here are some collaborative version control hosts am aware of:anti-scientific infantilization in todays technological society
you wake up and start checking out whats happening in the world right now: a bunch of big global events are going down that you cant really change. when you try to voice your disagreement about whats happening, youre told to shut up.several Russian developers removed from Linux maintainership
https://lwn.net/Articles/995186/Portable Music Players
I need a good portable music player, so I don't rely on my phone for audio. I already have a quad-driver IEM, hence a good one with a good card is necessary. I will definitely buy it used, so make sure it's affordable and under 100 Euros. For products over 100 Euros that are worth it please mention why.Full disk encryption and secure boot
I'm kinda novice at these things, but I started to install gentoo linux into my computer for learning. If I don't implement secure boot during the installation process how hard it would be to implement after the installation process?SALVAGE
I find so much electronics on the street in my town. All my hifi speakers and some wharfdales I dont use, printers, flat screen tvs, a box full of manga VHS I didnt keep cause no player (well I kept 3)..my amp, the busted PA speakers Im using as a table for my laptop right now. I love making as use for this stuff. Today I found a flat screen tv/DVD combo, and althought the screen was cracked I got a cd to play. I put in a throw away just like last time cause these thing eat cds. Cracked screen had a nice aesthetic and whilst I was fkn with the menu that I couldnt read, I was trying to dim the screen to save on power. For some reason I went through every menu the function obscured, even tho I pretty much knew Id exhausted the screen options. I did this until I selected a function that locked the settings and so turned it off to reset it. Of course it wouldnt turn on again from standby and is basically fuarrrked now. So there goes my short lived attempt at having a cd player in my kitchin next to the radio I also found. I even tried pluggin my PS4 into as this turns on my other tv when it boots up thru the hdmi. This didnt work however. Im gonna leave it til tmr, I think my only other option is a remote of amazon. I just wanna play some tunes on this glitchy fuarrrked up thing.Unprotected Security Cams
Recently my asshole father installed a bunch of cameras all over the house, after a sleepless night where he threatened to kick me out and accused me of stealing his iphone and razor. So it was either cameras or a homeless shelter. With how little privacy I have now (I used to cook food and talk to myself for hours in the kitchen, dont feel comfortable doing that anymore with big brother watching), this got me thinking about all of those unprotected security cameras that anyone can easily figure out the passwords to, and play creepy sounds/noise music to mess with people. I'm seriously considering doing this to scare the fuarrrk out of him nonstop so he'll return them.FSF vs Corporate COINTELPRO?!
an anonymous group is trying to cancel rms (and the entire fsf) yet again: archive.md/Pt37W (stallman-report.org). the pretext? protestant hysteria and prudishnessDownloads get cancelled and it only works with a vpn
Hi! Im trying out leftying because I don't have a reddit and I hate that place, and because I fucking hate 4chan and cause im kinda desperate at this point and this seems to be a rare problem. Basically whenever i wanna download something, be it over browser or steam it first starts downloading normally, but then for no apparent reason cancels the download. It doesn't have anything to do with the wifi since the internet works fine (i can watch streams, game etc), only the downloads don't work normally. They ONLY work without interruption once im connected to a VPN. I already tried resetting my pc and got new drivers but i still have that problem. The problem suddenly started appearing half a year ago and I haven't really been able to fix it. My best guess is that it has to do something with the IP adress, since using my VPN somehow fixes it, but without it, it cancels all the time. Im on windows 11 and if anyone would be able to help me out it would be more than appreciatedcheck out my website, become the first user
https://waleesworld.yooco.org/home.htmlAustralia to ban social media for people under 16
Forgib if there's already a thread somewhere, didn't see. Kangaroos want to ban socials for people under 16Smart TVs take screenshots every 10 milliseconds & send AI analysis of results to their company
https://alltechmagazine.com/smart-tvs-spying-on-you-up-to-several-snapshots-per-second/Trying to improve the UX thread
In an attempt to make the website more usable, I wanted to try introducing some changes, manly on the CSS side of things. By which I mostly mean: bigger fonts, trying to increase contrast and adjust the size of things. The raison d'être of this thread is to try to collect ideasWinamp is now source-available
> "Winamp will be Open-Sourced"tracker3 can be used as spyware
Hello, consider me a guy who happens to know top secret leakers because I've been interacting with amateur researchers that recovered a computer the US Government hacked. And apparently they declassified federal (glowie) tricksTV is worse than smartphones
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.i delete the archive
ADHD anon who post thread about OCD symptoms here a while back./nu-imageboard/ megathread
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./ttg/ - Tech Team General
This thread is only for feedback related to technical issues (bug reports, suggestions).Fate of abstraction based programming languages
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?i HATE phones
I HATE PHONESLogitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/logitech-has-an-idea-for-a-forever-mouse-thatrequires-a-subscription/Smartphone Thread
What smartphone do you have? What you recommend? Also share your recommended apps.Thanks Bill
So something went wrong with last Windows update, it wont boot, recover, or do anything at all, my laptop appears to be completely bricked, Ill have to do factory reset (and even then Im keeping fingers crossed it will actually work). This is the last fucking drop, Im switching to Linux. The thing is, I have virtually no IT skills, so what is your advice? What type of Linux is most noob friendly? I use computer basically just for internet browsing, some graphic software and bideo games.BSD
Imma do it. Gonna switch to FreeBaSeD on my servers. ZFS goodness, raidz2, stability, pkg, serious people.Tor Thread
General thread about Tor.EU slashes funding to thousands of FOSS projects
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/17/foss_funding_vanishes_from_eus/origins of Google
interview with Bill Binney, the talks about crowdstrike, data collection lots off insider stuff and the origin of Google http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k6uKtvuKIQcWhat to do?
Hello fellow anons, i really enjoy programming mathematics and computer science and I'm going to do high performance computation next year in school. I'm also really into leftist politics and was wondering how can I cross both subjects. I not really into hacking but developing software is my thing but what kind of tools. I've also seen stuff about paul cockshott and planification which is really interesting. are there ressources to learn more about leftist computer science engineers. Thanks for the advice nerdsDeveloper Recruitment Thread
Made as an extension of the main moderation recruitment thread, this thread is meant specifically for developer recruitment for /leftypol/.Post RSS feeds you enjoy.
Post quality RSS feeds for whatever. Blogs, news sites, even a YouTube channel RSS feed or other video content. As long as it has an RSS (or atom I guess) feed attached to it.Future of Chinese made CPUs
Since US tech embargo on China is still in effect and US plans to squeeze Chinese tech companies by restricting their access to computer chips. China's reaction to this was to make one of their goals to have a home-grown alternative for Intel, AMD, TSMC and the like to decrease dependence on the US. So I was wondering what kind of progress have they been making lately and what are their prospects of ever having a viable alternative to Intel and AMD?Webdev General
Frontend tutorials and resources https://neocities.org/tutorialsElement Groups for Communists
Does anyone know if there are any active groups on Element that people can join to discuss Marxism?DDoS party
Hey comrades, I have some shitraeli, etc… government IPs.Simples searches engines; preferably without javascript
>TitleOpen source software is anti capitalist but pro free market
Has anyone taken the time to examine "left wing market anarchism"? and how open source software relates to it. The way I see things open source software can help entrepreneurs and small business owners make money without having to pay royalties or subscription fees to companies like Adobe and give up their right to own software. After all "capitalism" requires patents and IP law and heavy Government involvement where as FOSS is decentralized and allows anyone to profit off it without all the legal government middle man stuff.Mozilla is an advertising company now
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/mozilla-is-an-advertising-company-now/Only blue-pilled socialists use proprietary software.
All of my software exists to destroy capital.GPL violations are about to get much easier to prosecute
https://blog.tidelift.com/will-the-new-judicial-ruling-in-the-vizio-lawsuit-strengthen-the-gplAV1 video codec
Is this gonna be the replacement for both VP9 and H.265/HEVC?My "dark" web experience -- is tor useful even?
Saw Mental Outlaw's videos on the tor network. Thought I'd give it a try. Evidently, it is filled to the brim with exit scams and glowie pedobait. And I found it funny how Tordex/Torch admins try to justify not censoring such garbage.Uhm we have found le backdoor :3
This is why I don't trust nerds. Computer systems have become too complex and nobody actually knows, whats happening under the hood. When nerds say: "Bro, it's totally secure! Trust me!" Don't trust them! Don't trust computers! I have no clue how I will organize my life in the future, but I tell you this much, I will try to rely as less as possible on computers.ExpressVPN
Former Israeli Malware Distributor Kape Technologies Now Owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, Zenmate, and a Collection of VPN “Review” Websites.It's mind boggiling how people still don't use crypto as a currency
So you have this technology that is effectively electronic cash, you get to send any amount of money with all the benefits of cash and without all the problems of a centralized middle man service. but still after about a decade not enough people believe in crypto as a currency. the hate from the left is especially strange.Tumblr joining fediverse
https://nitter.net/photomatt/status/1594587024245260289Leave a message in my guestbook please
/leftypol/ was instrumental in helping me make my personal site. An eternal thank you.Is there a cooperative Liberapay/Patreon?
Is there an explicitly cooperative FOSS crowdfunding solution?Fediverse general
Does /tech/ participate in the Fediverse? Seems to me that this is the sort of social media we should be trying to get people into, even if social media itself is kinda trash.Linux Musicians' Thread
Some breakthroughs have led me to finally and definitively abandon microshit's spyware.scraping images from imageboards
how do i scrape images/webm/videos from imageboards like this one or any other using wget, how?backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4"TECH ISNT ADVANCING IT'S ALL HYPE HONEST, TECH STOPPED ADVANCING IN THE 70S"
Stalinists and many other types of leftists are about to be fully jettisoned into the fucking dustbin of history if they never manage to overcome their history LARP. You unironically have nighas on this board arguing the OGAS cybernetic system of the fucking 70s USSR was the last actual technological advancement meanwhile American and Chinese research firms are building general purpose humanoid robots (androids that can take any basic command and execute it), building the infrastructure for a fully digitized real world visible only through headsets, neuro-chips that control computers with thoughts, successful gene therapy, and successful eye transplants; but keep fapping to tech from a literal century agoInternet archive censorship
What is the endgame of the internet archive? An "archive" which refuses to save specific sites? I just tried to check out some articles on the wayback machine for the site compactmag.com and I reveived picrel. I can understand, that an internet archive will refuse to host CP, but why are they blocking pure text sites???AI
hi guys long time lurker but haven't posted until now.free software for transcription and translation
Firefox recently got a translation feature for Bulgarian, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, based on the public-funded EU project https://browser.mt/ and this works WITHOUT SENDING DATA.Dark Nets
Share and discuss various p2p alternatives to HTTP/SWe need to start making proprietary software illegal
We need to make it hard for proprietary software to exist in certain sectors in life. if not outright illegal.Letterboxd alternative for desktop
I'm getting tired of relying on this website to log stuff that I watchAltman out at OpenAI
https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transitionApple's sideloading tomfoolery
So Apple announced how they're going to comply with the EU DMA. Frankly, I was surprised at how brazenly they're circumventing this shit.Libreddit working again.
FYI libreddit no longer suffers from rate limit errors, you can now ethically browse reddit again.Keeping OGAS secure
Suppose you live in a country that has adopted a planned economy. The transfer of production data and consumption data from various workers' enterprises (factories, offices, stores, etc.) to a central planning office is necessary for the planned economy to function. These data transfers must be kept secure against threats such as sabotage form imperialist countries. How would you design your society's OGAS to be resilient to attacks? The goal is to prevent the transfer of malicious/false economic data from the worker's enterprises to the central planning office and vice versa.Sandboxing WINE
Is adding the wine binary to a user with no internet access enough to securely use Windows programs under Linux? It seems using thewinetricks sandboxcommand also removes all links to $HOME.
Uploaded Harmy's Despecialized version to some servers hosted by mates in Finland
Uploaded it here: https://harmy.link/linux for noobs
where should i start with linux? i really want to jump ship, but i've been on windows since 2000/xp and really don't know were to start. i want to be able to customize my desktop gui, use video editing software (it's for work), and still play my video games. i've been looking into Nobara and it seem like a good place to start. Should I dual boot it on my main OS, or put it on my old labtop to get use to it?Howdy, so what's the best antivirus for cuckdows?
Yeah I still using it, in fact anyone still kinda using it cuz we can't just abandon our normies facade.AmeriKKKa is a fucking hellhole
Just found out about "invention clauses". In the US there are about 10 states which have 3 conditions: they own everything you name that was made on company time, using company equipment, or using trade secrets taught to you by the company.The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment, Mike Hearn - Jan 14, 2016
An article from 2016 on how the Bitcoin blockchain was reaching its limit and being controlled by a tighter and tighter pool of speculators. Even more relevant with the rise and crash of tethercoins lately.The Personal Computer – The Best We Can Do?
Has anybody else thought about how personal computers might just actually suck? What is the personal computer, really? Is it not just "the car" of all the vast potentials computer science offered us? I'm not saying that personal computers aren't impressive and highly practical. What I'm saying is that as soon as our first computer engineers thought of something that could be mass produced and sold to the individual consumer, they said "bingo!" and stopped dreaming.Intel or AMD?
I am currently on a tight budget (Broke uygha alert) whilst looking for a new mini PC. Due to being broke, i'm leaning towards buying an intel I3-1220P NUC since it's cheaper and has thunderbolt, but given recent events with Israel, would it be worthwhile to consider getting a more expensive AMD mini PC instead (since only the newer AMD mini PCs come with thunderbolt)?/ditg/ Dead Internet Theory General
Talk about why every single site except reddit and fbi.gov has been complete and utterly abandoned."Discord as a filehost will no longer be possible"
<I once rolled out emergency patches for millions of people by posting the game files in D1scord and copy-pasting that linkThey want to create mass consumers who value convenience
"I don't know how to torrent. It's too complicated and scary for me, so I'm happy to pay corporations a regular fee for temporary access to their content" is exactly the learned helplessness corporations have been pushing for years with their UI streamlining and walled gardens. It's symptomatic of a bigger problem: "The internet shifted and I don't know (or never learned) how to seek valid information in this new environment." Adding "reddit" to every Google search you make isn't a sustainable solution, it's just one most people landed on for now.AI art thread
Does anyone know where I can get one of these bad boys on my PC and without limitations? One of the ones that can actually do faces obviously./shebang/ - scripting general
Post shell scripts and other small utility programs.#!/bin/sh wget -O- $1 | fgrep '"images":' test.html | cut -d ']' -f 1 | cut -d '[' -f 3|tr , ' ' | tr -d '\' | xargs wget
#!/usr/bin/awk -f BEGIN { FS="\n"; } /^$/ { print ".sp"; do getline; while($0 == ""); } /^*/ { i=index($0, " "); if(i != 0) { print ".NH " i-1; print substr($0, i+1); print ".LP"; next; } } /^#\+/ { i=index($0, " "); switch(substr($0, 3, i - 3)) { case "TITLE:": print ".TL"; print substr($0, i); break; case "AUTHOR:": print ".AU"; print substr($0, i); print ".AB no"; print ".AE"; print ".LP"; } next; } /;/ { i=(i=index($0, ";") + index(substr($0, i), " ")); split(substr($0, i-1), s, " "); # r=0, ul=1, bl=2 printf("%s", substr($0, 0, i-2)); d=0; for(i in s) { f=""; g=""; w=s[i]; switch(substr(w, 0, 1)) { case "*": if(a[d] == 2) { if(--d == 0) f="\\fR"; else if(a[d] == 1) f="\\fI"; } else { f="\\fB"; a[++d] = 2; } w=substr(w, 2); break; case "/": if(a[d] == 1) { if(--d == 0) f="\\fR"; else if(a[d] == 2) f="\\fB"; } else { f="\\fI"; a[++d] = 1; } w=substr(w, 2); } switch(substr(w, length(w))) { case "*": if(a[d] == 2) { if(--d == 0) g="\\fR"; else if(a[d] = 1) g="\\fI"; } else { g="\\fB"; a[++d] = 2; } w=substr(w, 0, length(w)-1); break; case "/": if(a[d] == 1) { if(--d == 0) g="\\fR"; else if(a[d] == 2) g="\\fB"; } else { g="\\fI"; a[++d] = 1; } w=substr(w, 0, length(w)-1); } printf(" %s%s%s", f, w, g); } print ""; next; } /./ {print}
#!/bin/sh file=$1; shift printf '/^FILE/c\nFILE "%s" WAVE\n.\nw\n' "$@" | ed $file
ChatGPT
what does /tech/ think of chatGPT? does it have any utility with regards to leftist organizing?idk thread
>checking for web hostsIntellectual property was a mistake
The Internet Archive being in danger is another good reminder that YA writers fucking suck. Neil Gaiman especially is a hack.