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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.
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.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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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?
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Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.
* Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread *
Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.
If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following:
0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine.
1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.
2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS.
3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.
Resources: Please spend at least a minute to check a web search engine with your question.
*Many free software projects have active mailing lists.
$ man %command%
$ info %command%
$ %command% -h/–help
$ help %builtin/keyword%
Don't know what to look for?
$ apropos %something%
Check the Wikis (most troubleshoots work for all distros):
https://wiki.archlinux.org
https://wiki.gentoo.org
/g/'s Wiki on GNU/Linux:
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Category:GNU/Linux
>What distro should I choose?
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux
>What are some cool programs?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://suckless.org/rocks/
>What are some cool terminal commands?
https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse
https://cheat.sh/
>Where can I learn the command line?
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/
>Where can I learn more about Free Software?
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html
>How to break out of the botnet?
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux
/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread (leftypol edition)
(Copypasted from a previous 4chin /g/ thread as a foundation to making these generals on leftypol)Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.
* Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread *
Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.
If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following:
0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine.
1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.
2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS.
3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.
Resources: Please spend at least a minute to check a web search engine with your question.
*Many free software projects have active mailing lists.
$ man %command%
$ info %command%
$ %command% -h/–help
$ help %builtin/keyword%
Don't know what to look for?
$ apropos %something%
Check the Wikis (most troubleshoots work for all distros):
https://wiki.archlinux.org
https://wiki.gentoo.org
/g/'s Wiki on GNU/Linux:
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Category:GNU/Linux
>What distro should I choose?
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux
>What are some cool programs?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://suckless.org/rocks/
>What are some cool terminal commands?
https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse
https://cheat.sh/
>Where can I learn the command line?
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/
>Where can I learn more about Free Software?
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html
>How to break out of the botnet?
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux
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These things often fail, but thought to give it a try anyway.
QuantEcon is a series of Jupyter notebooks covering topics of quantitative economics from Xiamen University.
It starts from the very basics of how to write a function in python and progresses to rather advanced mathematics (start at the start).
We might not be able to complete every part of this course, but we'd probably get something valuable from it regardless.
My background is in mathematics (largely forgotten) and some self-taught computer-science so might be able to help.
Was thinking perhaps two weeks or less to get through: https://python-programming.quantecon.org/intro.html
And then slowing down some after that as the course becomes more difficult, and more essential.
Quantative Economics Study Group
This is an announcement of a study group for: https://quantecon.org/lectures/These things often fail, but thought to give it a try anyway.
QuantEcon is a series of Jupyter notebooks covering topics of quantitative economics from Xiamen University.
It starts from the very basics of how to write a function in python and progresses to rather advanced mathematics (start at the start).
We might not be able to complete every part of this course, but we'd probably get something valuable from it regardless.
My background is in mathematics (largely forgotten) and some self-taught computer-science so might be able to help.
Was thinking perhaps two weeks or less to get through: https://python-programming.quantecon.org/intro.html
And then slowing down some after that as the course becomes more difficult, and more essential.
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>blue light filters
>blue light glasses
>dark mode
>eyecare monitors
>e-ink
>reflective LCDs
>effects of computer screens on one's vision
>Kobo e-readers
>Nintendo Game Boy and its successors
>other e-ink and RLCD devices
Also, it's a shame that Nintendo abandoned the Game Boy line of consoles
/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:>blue light filters
>blue light glasses
>dark mode
>eyecare monitors
>e-ink
>reflective LCDs
>effects of computer screens on one's vision
>Kobo e-readers
>Nintendo Game Boy and its successors
>other e-ink and RLCD devices
Also, it's a shame that Nintendo abandoned the Game Boy line of consoles
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GrapheneOS cannot be fully trusted because it runs on Google's proprietary hardware stack, which remains a critical vulnerability. While GrapheneOS markets itself as a privacy-focused alternative, its security is undermined by the fact that it operates on devices like Google's Pixel smartphones—hardware designed and controlled entirely by Google. Unlike other OEMs, Google does not merely integrate off-the-shelf components; it designs its own processors (e.g., Tensor chips) and develops the closed-source firmware and software that power them. Other manufacturers receive binary blobs from chipmakers, which they cannot modify, but Google retains unilateral authority to embed hidden functionalities or surveillance mechanisms directly into the hardware-software ecosystem.
This means Google could inject malicious code into the processor’s firmware—code that operates independently of Android (and thus independently of GrapheneOS itself). Such malware would run at the hardware level, bypassing the operating system entirely and evading detection. If Google exploits this capability in its proprietary GApps, the same logic applies to the foundational software controlling its processors. Since GrapheneOS cannot audit or modify these closed-source components, users are left exposed to potential backdoors.
If you trust GrapheneOS on Pixel devices, you must also trust Google’s closed-source hardware stack—the very same infrastructure that could enable pervasive surveillance. In that case, there is no meaningful distinction between GrapheneOS and stock Android; both rely on Google’s opaque technology. Conversely, if you reject GApps and Google’s data harvesting, you cannot reconcile that distrust with reliance on Google’s hardware. To truly deGoogle, you must abandon devices where the manufacturer controls the silicon itself.
GrapheneOS cannot be fully trusted because it runs on Google's proprietary hardware stack, which remains a critical vulnerability. While GrapheneOS markets itself as a privacy-focused alternative, its security is undermined by the fact that it operates on devices like Google's Pixel smartphones—hardware designed and controlled entirely by Google. Unlike other OEMs, Google does not merely integrate off-the-shelf components; it designs its own processors (e.g., Tensor chips) and develops the closed-source firmware and software that power them. Other manufacturers receive binary blobs from chipmakers, which they cannot modify, but Google retains unilateral authority to embed hidden functionalities or surveillance mechanisms directly into the hardware-software ecosystem.
This means Google could inject malicious code into the processor’s firmware—code that operates independently of Android (and thus independently of GrapheneOS itself). Such malware would run at the hardware level, bypassing the operating system entirely and evading detection. If Google exploits this capability in its proprietary GApps, the same logic applies to the foundational software controlling its processors. Since GrapheneOS cannot audit or modify these closed-source components, users are left exposed to potential backdoors.
If you trust GrapheneOS on Pixel devices, you must also trust Google’s closed-source hardware stack—the very same infrastructure that could enable pervasive surveillance. In that case, there is no meaningful distinction between GrapheneOS and stock Android; both rely on Google’s opaque technology. Conversely, if you reject GApps and Google’s data harvesting, you cannot reconcile that distrust with reliance on Google’s hardware. To truly deGoogle, you must abandon devices where the manufacturer controls the silicon itself.
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bonus points if the mask allows the person to view clearly without exposing too much of the eye area
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.bonus points if the mask allows the person to view clearly without exposing too much of the eye area
R: 4 / I: 0
where to get free uncensored deepseek online?
where to get free uncensored deepseek online? huggingchat used to have it but now that's dead. I know I can run it locally on my own machine, but that's slow and I'm a mooch. what elase can I say?
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Archived threads:
https://archive.is/xiA7y
nu-imageboard megathread #2
The neverending quest to rewrite vichan -Archived threads:
https://archive.is/xiA7y
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>The search results on Torch are not censored because we believe trying to censor the dark web is counter productive and a waste of resources. Our philosophy is people have the right to do anything they want and live with the consequences, Torch should not decide what people do with their lives even if it’s morally wrong. We’re a search engine not your conscience.
>If you would like to advertise your hidden service please check our our advertising rates.
Yeah right, it's because of TRVE freedumbs n sheeit, it totally doesn't have anything to do with advertising scam websites to horny pedos and making money off of it.
Funny tangent aside, if there are any useful resources related to cybersec/privacy/tech on tor, please let me know. I'd like to get something useful out of it.
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.>The search results on Torch are not censored because we believe trying to censor the dark web is counter productive and a waste of resources. Our philosophy is people have the right to do anything they want and live with the consequences, Torch should not decide what people do with their lives even if it’s morally wrong. We’re a search engine not your conscience.
>If you would like to advertise your hidden service please check our our advertising rates.
Yeah right, it's because of TRVE freedumbs n sheeit, it totally doesn't have anything to do with advertising scam websites to horny pedos and making money off of it.
Funny tangent aside, if there are any useful resources related to cybersec/privacy/tech on tor, please let me know. I'd like to get something useful out of it.
R: 5 / I: 2
I’m looking for some image search services, I specifically want them for anime related stuff, but general use is good too. Both regular image search engines, and reverse image search tools to find sources or similar images, give me your suggestions and tell us what you use. Thansk Anons.
Image Search Service Recommendations?
Hello /tech/, how do you search for your images?I’m looking for some image search services, I specifically want them for anime related stuff, but general use is good too. Both regular image search engines, and reverse image search tools to find sources or similar images, give me your suggestions and tell us what you use. Thansk Anons.
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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!
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/tech/ + /dead/ = Techlead
This dude is so based and moralfags whine about him! Just recently I became aware of him, he is my favourite tech/dead youtuber!
/tech/ + /dead/ = Techlead
This dude is so based and moralfags whine about him! Just recently I became aware of him, he is my favourite tech/dead youtuber!
R: 8 / I: 0
Written in C, so no.
>OpenVPN
Insecure (and written in C).
>Tailscore
Proprietary trash. Again, written in a lower level language.
When the fuck will somebody use Python to script a VPN protocol out of for a full tunnel client w/ access to iptables w/ default setting at "strict"? Plus run it on custom STUN servers, uses 10.8.0.53 instead of 8.8.8.8 (Google)/1.1.1.1 Cloudflare)/9.9.9.9 (Quad9) and blocks any connections to them for a fine-grained DNS control, and fully self-hosted w/ local only control. Everything else is too insecure. Oh, and also
>Tailscale leverages Google's OAuth2 for user authentication, allowing users to log in to Tailscale using their Google accounts
Lmao. The absolute state.
WHEN THE FUCK WILL THERE BE A NON-SHIT VPN?
>WireGuardWritten in C, so no.
>OpenVPN
Insecure (and written in C).
>Tailscore
Proprietary trash. Again, written in a lower level language.
When the fuck will somebody use Python to script a VPN protocol out of for a full tunnel client w/ access to iptables w/ default setting at "strict"? Plus run it on custom STUN servers, uses 10.8.0.53 instead of 8.8.8.8 (Google)/1.1.1.1 Cloudflare)/9.9.9.9 (Quad9) and blocks any connections to them for a fine-grained DNS control, and fully self-hosted w/ local only control. Everything else is too insecure. Oh, and also
>Tailscale leverages Google's OAuth2 for user authentication, allowing users to log in to Tailscale using their Google accounts
Lmao. The absolute state.
R: 1 / I: 0
Cracked InDesign
Hey /tech/ I'm tryna get the cracked version of Adobe InDesign on my Macbook M1 cause im a brokie who doesn't want spend their limited resources on a sleezy company. Any tips or pointers?
R: 18 / I: 6
Pepperridge Farm remembers.
Most interestingly, depending on what hardware you had (ADLIB, SoundBlaster, GRAVIS, etc.) you would recieve a completely different end-user experience.
Compare these two:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dHechz7U0sE&pp=ygUWRGlzY3dvcmxkIHNvdW5kYmxhc3RlctIHCQn8AKO1ajebQw%3D%3D (from 38:10)
&
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jAHgpRitmHY&pp=ygUURGlzY3dvcmxkIG9zdCBzdHJlZXQ%3D
It is absolutely unique, to have to have 2-3 different (hardware) interpretations of composed (software) music.
I think there should be theoretical articles written about.the differing "gaming experiences" ppl had/recieved based on their fucking soundcards.
It is cery interesting (to me, at least( that 2 ppl could have played "the same game," yet their hardwares produced 2 different musics. In essence, we can't talk about a singular "gayme experience."
midi hardware and its socio-cultural consequences
Remember when back in the day you had to have a so-called audio card that would allow your PC to fukken produce sound?Pepperridge Farm remembers.
Most interestingly, depending on what hardware you had (ADLIB, SoundBlaster, GRAVIS, etc.) you would recieve a completely different end-user experience.
Compare these two:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dHechz7U0sE&pp=ygUWRGlzY3dvcmxkIHNvdW5kYmxhc3RlctIHCQn8AKO1ajebQw%3D%3D (from 38:10)
&
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jAHgpRitmHY&pp=ygUURGlzY3dvcmxkIG9zdCBzdHJlZXQ%3D
It is absolutely unique, to have to have 2-3 different (hardware) interpretations of composed (software) music.
I think there should be theoretical articles written about.the differing "gaming experiences" ppl had/recieved based on their fucking soundcards.
It is cery interesting (to me, at least( that 2 ppl could have played "the same game," yet their hardwares produced 2 different musics. In essence, we can't talk about a singular "gayme experience."
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>isn't compatible with POWER9/RISC-V architecture
>lacks a terminal, full package manager and uses sandboxed app store reliance instead
This OS is trash and anyone promoting it is a shill, I don't care what "degoogled" rom you're using.
>isn't compatible with POWER9/RISC-V architecture
>lacks a terminal, full package manager and uses sandboxed app store reliance instead
This OS is trash and anyone promoting it is a shill, I don't care what "degoogled" rom you're using.
R: 20 / I: 6
Will the FSF's use of anime in its propaganda, bring about the year of the GNU/Linux desktop?
https://www.fsf.org/resources/badges/
Will the FSF's use of anime in its propaganda, bring about the year of the GNU/Linux desktop?
https://www.fsf.org/resources/badges/
R: 9 / I: 0
Is there a leftypol compatible equivalent of 4chan X? really miss this browser extension's features https://www.4chan-x.net/ I figure its possible cause this site seems to be made with the same stuff
Is there a leftypol compatible equivalent of 4chan X? really miss this browser extension's features https://www.4chan-x.net/ I figure its possible cause this site seems to be made with the same stuff
R: 5 / I: 2
This is probably the nicest keyboard money can buy.
It costs 1 and 2/3 months rent in Romania.
It's open source, fully programmable, and curved for ergonomics.
My typing speed is currently at least halved thanks to the learning curve.
This and switching back to QWERTY at the same time.
Second pic is my old dream keyboard.
What keyboard do you have and why, or what do you want?
Feel free to discuss other peripherals.
/peripherals/
A wealthy family member on their way to another country bought me pic rel.This is probably the nicest keyboard money can buy.
It costs 1 and 2/3 months rent in Romania.
It's open source, fully programmable, and curved for ergonomics.
My typing speed is currently at least halved thanks to the learning curve.
This and switching back to QWERTY at the same time.
Second pic is my old dream keyboard.
What keyboard do you have and why, or what do you want?
Feel free to discuss other peripherals.
R: 1 / I: 1
Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.
* Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread *
Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.
If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following:
0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine.
1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.
2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS.
3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.
Resources: Please spend at least a minute to check a web search engine with your question.
Many free software projects have active mailing lists.
$ man %command%
$ info %command%
$ %command% -h/–help
$ help %builtin/keyword%
Don't know what to look for?
$ apropos %something%
Check the Wikis (most troubleshoots work for all distros):
https://wiki.archlinux.org
https://wiki.gentoo.org
>What distro should I choose?
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux
>What are some cool programs?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://suckless.org/rocks/
>What are some cool terminal commands?
https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse
https://cheat.sh/
>Where can I learn the command line?
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/
https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit
>Where can I learn more about Free Software?
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html
>How to break out of the botnet?
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux
/fglt/'s website:
https://fglt.nl
(Taken from /g/)
Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.
* Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread *
Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.
If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following:
0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine.
1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.
2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS.
3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.
Resources: Please spend at least a minute to check a web search engine with your question.
Many free software projects have active mailing lists.
$ man %command%
$ info %command%
$ %command% -h/–help
$ help %builtin/keyword%
Don't know what to look for?
$ apropos %something%
Check the Wikis (most troubleshoots work for all distros):
https://wiki.archlinux.org
https://wiki.gentoo.org
>What distro should I choose?
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux
>What are some cool programs?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://suckless.org/rocks/
>What are some cool terminal commands?
https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse
https://cheat.sh/
>Where can I learn the command line?
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/
https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit
>Where can I learn more about Free Software?
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html
>How to break out of the botnet?
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux
/fglt/'s website:
https://fglt.nl
(Taken from /g/)
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Well, /tech/? How do you keep your notes? What do you do while you read endless pages of theory? How do you remember and process information into your personal zeitgeist?
Well, /tech/? How do you keep your notes? What do you do while you read endless pages of theory? How do you remember and process information into your personal zeitgeist?
R: 22 / I: 5
Open source operating systems are software communism. If we’re not willing to build and use existing forms of technological sovereignty and anti-capitalism, then we’re probably not willing to do any other forms of communism either. I hate the “No ethical consumption under capitalism” mantra. How do we expect to get out of capitalism without building alternatives? I think a lot of leftists hope a revolution will happen then just magically replace all the corrupt and bourgeois components of consumerism, using the same uninvolved passive mechanisms.
Do we really believe a windows update will just drop after some election that restores our rights, trust, openness, privacy and dignity? It must be built and owned by the people.
Proprietary software must be fought against at every opportunity
Microsoft is the CIA. Pretty much all US big tech is. Windows is a global CIA mass surveillance program via monopoly capitalism. It’s completely impossible to make Windows secure, there’s no secret registry switch. The entire thing is compromised top to bottom, and under no circumstances should anyone consent to its use. Closed source spyware monopolies are a weapon of war against us by the bourgeois state.Open source operating systems are software communism. If we’re not willing to build and use existing forms of technological sovereignty and anti-capitalism, then we’re probably not willing to do any other forms of communism either. I hate the “No ethical consumption under capitalism” mantra. How do we expect to get out of capitalism without building alternatives? I think a lot of leftists hope a revolution will happen then just magically replace all the corrupt and bourgeois components of consumerism, using the same uninvolved passive mechanisms.
Do we really believe a windows update will just drop after some election that restores our rights, trust, openness, privacy and dignity? It must be built and owned by the people.
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<[] + {};
>returns '[object object]'
<{}+[];
>returns 0
<[]+[];
>returns ' '
<0 == [];
>returns true
<0=="0";
>returns true
<"0"==[];
>returns false
<2+"2";
>returns '22'
<2-"2";
>returns 0
why is javascript a vibes based language?
why the FUCK is javascript a vibes based language?<[] + {};
>returns '[object object]'
<{}+[];
>returns 0
<[]+[];
>returns ' '
<0 == [];
>returns true
<0=="0";
>returns true
<"0"==[];
>returns false
<2+"2";
>returns '22'
<2-"2";
>returns 0
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<Don't beg to buy from someone
<Don't attempt to sell to anyone here
<Don't link to dealer Instagram/Reddit/Snapchat accounts. These accounts are run by either scammers or feds.
<Don't directly link to any market. These links could be fake scam/fed markets, designed to phish your login details and steal your cryptocurrency. Only use https://dark.fail/
The following is my personal recommendation for good opsec while conducting business, however, you must [b]read the darknet market bible[/b] (.pdf attached) after you are done with this post. If you don't read theory, it's likely you will be caught and convicted.
>Will I be 100% safe?
In theory, no. The darknet market bible, together with this thread, is meant to minimize the risk of getting caught as much as possible. If you follow the exact procedure outlined in the bible, you should be okay, especially as a small-time buyer.
Tails
Tails is an Linux-based operating system that runs entirely on your RAM and is wiped when PC is powered off. If the cops intercept your item, conduct a controlled delivery and seize your machine, they will not be able to find evidence linking you to the package and you can deny involvement via a lawyer.
You will want to install the Tails operating system to a USB flash drive with at least 8GB of storage. Personally, I'd go for USB 3.0, with at least 16GB storage for persistent volume purposes, or even 128GB or more if you want to store the Monero local node on it. You also need a PC with at least 1GB RAM to run Tails. The bible contains a guide for installing Tails in [b]2.A.2 Installing Tails[/b]. You can download it here:
https://tails.boum.org/install/index.en.html
>Why shouldn't I use Windows?
These types of OS are usually installed on a hard drive where all your data is stored when it is powered off. It would be stupid to store your darknet-related files here (including wallets and wallet passwords), because if the police sieze your machine, they will find everything.
>I have previously conducted deals over Windows. How do I get rid of the evidence?
You should uninstall and delete everything related to darknet markets, including Tor, PGP-related programs and files. The data will still be physically present on your drive, however. If your programs and files were stored on a hard disk drive (HDD), then you can use overwrite software, such as DBAN, that wipes the entire drive, or other software that overwrites only the space marked as deleted. Tails can also wipe the available disk space of any drive.
If your programs and files were stored on a solid-state drive (SSD), you should not use overwrite software as they could damage or even destroy your drive. Securely erasing an SSD is a bit more complicated, you can read more about it here:
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/223110/how-to-securely-erase-the-free-space-on-an-ssd-in-windows-10
>How do I run Tails?
You can insert the flash drive, restart your PC and enter the BIOS where you can change the OS boot order. Move your USB to the top of the list and exit the BIOS.
Persistent volume
This is the best place to store your darknet-related files, such as PGP private keys, wallet passwords, market private links, and passwords, etc. This is a LUKS-encrypted partition of your Tails USB, so if the cops manage to seize your USB, they won't get much out of it.
The persistent volume is encrypted with a password, so make sure to [b]use a long password that cops can't guess[/b]. Personally, I use one that's 32+ characters, with numbers, symbols, and without any real words. Do not store the persistent volume password digitally, especially on any old hard drive or the cloud, so write it down in a diary or something so you remember it. You should also back up your persistence volume regularly to not lose your files. The bible explains how to create it in [b]2.A.4 Setting up persistence volume[/b]
JavaScript
You must disable JavaScript in Tor every time you boot up Tails. It's a useful scripting language that allows for truly interactive websites, however, it's a major security risk, as it allows websites to run arbitrary code in your browser. Attackers can gather data that could lead to fingerprinting your system.
You can disable JavaScript by setting the security mode to [b]Safest[/b]. This can be done by clicking on the shield icon in the toolbar, or going to Settings > Privacy & Security > Safest. You can also type in [b]about:config[/b] in your address bar and set [b]javascript.enabled[/b] to False.
>What's the risk?
For a more practical example: in 2013, the FBI took over a tor hosting service named Freedom Hosting and inserted a malicious script in the pages of the onion sites hosted on that service. That malicious JavaScript used an exploit to run a payload that called home to a fed-controlled machine that sent the real IP address of the computer that had visited the site as well as a unique identifier for the computer. If a site complains that you have it disabled or asks you to enable it, you should leave immediately. The bible explains the risk of using JavaScript in [b]1.2 Using Reddit with Tor[/b]
Cryptocurrency
Tails comes with Electrum by default, which is a Bitcoin (BTC) wallet. Most markets accept Bitcoin, but for ultimate privacy, you should [b]conduct transactions with Monero[/b] (XMR), as Bitcoin is not private. The benefit of Monero is that you can run your own local node by downloading the entire blockchain (70+ GB) instead of using a remote node. If a remote node is compromised, they can match transactions to your IP address, defeating the purpose of Monero to begin with.
>How is Bitcoin not private?
Bitcoin transactions are traceable and can easily be linked to your ID, so you should tumble your Bitcoin if you don't want to get caught. However, this is not a fool-proof method and can be illegal. The most secure way to spend your Bitcoin anonymously is to first [b]convert your Bitcoin to Monero[/b] through a non-KYC exchange like ShapeShift, MorphToken or Godex, over Tor without using JavaScript. This is known as cross-cryptocurrency tumbling. You can now pay with Monero, or you could convert your Monero back to Bitcoin through another non-KYC exchange like XMR.to, so that the resulting Bitcoin will be completely untraceable to your original Bitcoins since they were purchased with Monero, over Tor without KYC or JavaScript. The bible explains the pros and cons of this method in more detail in [b]3.2 Tumbling[/b]
>What type of Electrum wallet should I use?
Set up a normal wallet. [b]Do not use two-factor authentication[/b]. It requires you to install apps on your smartphone which defeats the purpose of opsec. The bible explains the pros and cons of this method in more detail in [b]3.3 Setting up your wallet[/b]
>Should I use my existing wallets to conduct deals?
If you've ever stored the passwords and mnemonic generation seeds for your wallets on an unencrypted drive, then no. If the police seize your machine and gain access to your wallet, they may be able to prove you sent money to a darknet market. The exception to this is if you are using Monero, as it anonymizes the receiver and sender. Make sure the passwords and mnemonic generation seeds for your wallets are stored in your persistent volume, or written down.
/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:<Don't beg to buy from someone
<Don't attempt to sell to anyone here
<Don't link to dealer Instagram/Reddit/Snapchat accounts. These accounts are run by either scammers or feds.
<Don't directly link to any market. These links could be fake scam/fed markets, designed to phish your login details and steal your cryptocurrency. Only use https://dark.fail/
The following is my personal recommendation for good opsec while conducting business, however, you must [b]read the darknet market bible[/b] (.pdf attached) after you are done with this post. If you don't read theory, it's likely you will be caught and convicted.
>Will I be 100% safe?
In theory, no. The darknet market bible, together with this thread, is meant to minimize the risk of getting caught as much as possible. If you follow the exact procedure outlined in the bible, you should be okay, especially as a small-time buyer.
Tails
Tails is an Linux-based operating system that runs entirely on your RAM and is wiped when PC is powered off. If the cops intercept your item, conduct a controlled delivery and seize your machine, they will not be able to find evidence linking you to the package and you can deny involvement via a lawyer.
You will want to install the Tails operating system to a USB flash drive with at least 8GB of storage. Personally, I'd go for USB 3.0, with at least 16GB storage for persistent volume purposes, or even 128GB or more if you want to store the Monero local node on it. You also need a PC with at least 1GB RAM to run Tails. The bible contains a guide for installing Tails in [b]2.A.2 Installing Tails[/b]. You can download it here:
https://tails.boum.org/install/index.en.html
>Why shouldn't I use Windows?
These types of OS are usually installed on a hard drive where all your data is stored when it is powered off. It would be stupid to store your darknet-related files here (including wallets and wallet passwords), because if the police sieze your machine, they will find everything.
>I have previously conducted deals over Windows. How do I get rid of the evidence?
You should uninstall and delete everything related to darknet markets, including Tor, PGP-related programs and files. The data will still be physically present on your drive, however. If your programs and files were stored on a hard disk drive (HDD), then you can use overwrite software, such as DBAN, that wipes the entire drive, or other software that overwrites only the space marked as deleted. Tails can also wipe the available disk space of any drive.
If your programs and files were stored on a solid-state drive (SSD), you should not use overwrite software as they could damage or even destroy your drive. Securely erasing an SSD is a bit more complicated, you can read more about it here:
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/223110/how-to-securely-erase-the-free-space-on-an-ssd-in-windows-10
>How do I run Tails?
You can insert the flash drive, restart your PC and enter the BIOS where you can change the OS boot order. Move your USB to the top of the list and exit the BIOS.
Persistent volume
This is the best place to store your darknet-related files, such as PGP private keys, wallet passwords, market private links, and passwords, etc. This is a LUKS-encrypted partition of your Tails USB, so if the cops manage to seize your USB, they won't get much out of it.
The persistent volume is encrypted with a password, so make sure to [b]use a long password that cops can't guess[/b]. Personally, I use one that's 32+ characters, with numbers, symbols, and without any real words. Do not store the persistent volume password digitally, especially on any old hard drive or the cloud, so write it down in a diary or something so you remember it. You should also back up your persistence volume regularly to not lose your files. The bible explains how to create it in [b]2.A.4 Setting up persistence volume[/b]
JavaScript
You must disable JavaScript in Tor every time you boot up Tails. It's a useful scripting language that allows for truly interactive websites, however, it's a major security risk, as it allows websites to run arbitrary code in your browser. Attackers can gather data that could lead to fingerprinting your system.
You can disable JavaScript by setting the security mode to [b]Safest[/b]. This can be done by clicking on the shield icon in the toolbar, or going to Settings > Privacy & Security > Safest. You can also type in [b]about:config[/b] in your address bar and set [b]javascript.enabled[/b] to False.
>What's the risk?
For a more practical example: in 2013, the FBI took over a tor hosting service named Freedom Hosting and inserted a malicious script in the pages of the onion sites hosted on that service. That malicious JavaScript used an exploit to run a payload that called home to a fed-controlled machine that sent the real IP address of the computer that had visited the site as well as a unique identifier for the computer. If a site complains that you have it disabled or asks you to enable it, you should leave immediately. The bible explains the risk of using JavaScript in [b]1.2 Using Reddit with Tor[/b]
Cryptocurrency
Tails comes with Electrum by default, which is a Bitcoin (BTC) wallet. Most markets accept Bitcoin, but for ultimate privacy, you should [b]conduct transactions with Monero[/b] (XMR), as Bitcoin is not private. The benefit of Monero is that you can run your own local node by downloading the entire blockchain (70+ GB) instead of using a remote node. If a remote node is compromised, they can match transactions to your IP address, defeating the purpose of Monero to begin with.
>How is Bitcoin not private?
Bitcoin transactions are traceable and can easily be linked to your ID, so you should tumble your Bitcoin if you don't want to get caught. However, this is not a fool-proof method and can be illegal. The most secure way to spend your Bitcoin anonymously is to first [b]convert your Bitcoin to Monero[/b] through a non-KYC exchange like ShapeShift, MorphToken or Godex, over Tor without using JavaScript. This is known as cross-cryptocurrency tumbling. You can now pay with Monero, or you could convert your Monero back to Bitcoin through another non-KYC exchange like XMR.to, so that the resulting Bitcoin will be completely untraceable to your original Bitcoins since they were purchased with Monero, over Tor without KYC or JavaScript. The bible explains the pros and cons of this method in more detail in [b]3.2 Tumbling[/b]
>What type of Electrum wallet should I use?
Set up a normal wallet. [b]Do not use two-factor authentication[/b]. It requires you to install apps on your smartphone which defeats the purpose of opsec. The bible explains the pros and cons of this method in more detail in [b]3.3 Setting up your wallet[/b]
>Should I use my existing wallets to conduct deals?
If you've ever stored the passwords and mnemonic generation seeds for your wallets on an unencrypted drive, then no. If the police seize your machine and gain access to your wallet, they may be able to prove you sent money to a darknet market. The exception to this is if you are using Monero, as it anonymizes the receiver and sender. Make sure the passwords and mnemonic generation seeds for your wallets are stored in your persistent volume, or written down.
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Previously was working with Starlette, SQLAlchemy, and Jinja, vanilla front-end, and only recently Docker.
With this was able to build some cool AJAX applications, but the method of doing so was a little crude.
Through job searches found that many employers were interested in Typescript, React, and some in FastAPI.
There were also tons of listings asking about LLM usage either as tooling or through the API.
Further decided to actually write tests for my software this time, previously only ever testing, live, in situ.
Anyway a 630MB folder later and have gotten OAuth2 authentication with a JWT token, and React login screen to work.
Very close to the entire project has been written with an LLM, or by modifying examples.
This has fealt time consuming at times mostly in testing, specifically setting up mocks and fixtures.
But really it's only been three days to get a pretty well tested (the front-end still needs a little more) application.
LLM Editor Project
Started work on a new project a few days ago.Previously was working with Starlette, SQLAlchemy, and Jinja, vanilla front-end, and only recently Docker.
With this was able to build some cool AJAX applications, but the method of doing so was a little crude.
Through job searches found that many employers were interested in Typescript, React, and some in FastAPI.
There were also tons of listings asking about LLM usage either as tooling or through the API.
Further decided to actually write tests for my software this time, previously only ever testing, live, in situ.
Anyway a 630MB folder later and have gotten OAuth2 authentication with a JWT token, and React login screen to work.
Very close to the entire project has been written with an LLM, or by modifying examples.
This has fealt time consuming at times mostly in testing, specifically setting up mocks and fixtures.
But really it's only been three days to get a pretty well tested (the front-end still needs a little more) application.
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Also when will AI finally break programmer chuds (inshallah)
class Programmer : ???
are computer touchers considered proletarian? if so, why do they seem to lean libertarian and meritocratic, and work against their own class interests for capitalist aspirations? e.g. taking anti-union positions because it may "hamper innovation" or their rockstar 10x engineer persona.Also when will AI finally break programmer chuds (inshallah)
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A good set of training-wheels for the bicycle of the mind.
However there's something extremely pathological about not wanting well designed and implemented features.
It's like cachexia from voluntarily avoiding healthy fats.
This isn't to advocate feature creep, which is ugly and doesn't add to the design of the system.
In rejecting big systemic components which integrate they may even make things more complex.
This is something like having a small standard library, avoiding RPC, or even loose coupling of components.
Implementing these can reduce duplication, and reduce complexity, while allowing more to be achieved.
Everywhere the minimalist takes something rich and make it small.
Suckless
Suckless seems like a great way to transition from rice to programming.A good set of training-wheels for the bicycle of the mind.
However there's something extremely pathological about not wanting well designed and implemented features.
It's like cachexia from voluntarily avoiding healthy fats.
This isn't to advocate feature creep, which is ugly and doesn't add to the design of the system.
In rejecting big systemic components which integrate they may even make things more complex.
This is something like having a small standard library, avoiding RPC, or even loose coupling of components.
Implementing these can reduce duplication, and reduce complexity, while allowing more to be achieved.
Everywhere the minimalist takes something rich and make it small.
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What is the materialist explanation for chuddy alt-tech FOSS nerds like Luke Smith and Bryan Lunduke? Many lolberts and rightoids seem to think that loonix and open-source software is some privacy-protecting alternative to woke big-tech surveillance and censorship. I used to think like this but now I realize how wrong I was.
What is the materialist explanation for chuddy alt-tech FOSS nerds like Luke Smith and Bryan Lunduke? Many lolberts and rightoids seem to think that loonix and open-source software is some privacy-protecting alternative to woke big-tech surveillance and censorship. I used to think like this but now I realize how wrong I was.
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<Exposure to AI output immediately damages your brain's cognitive abilities
>9/10th's or more of 4chan, reddit and twitter activity is GPT-J bots
>Most video platforms curate suggestions using AI
>Search engines place AI output at top of results
>several platforms implement AI summaries
>Language translation programs being replaced with AI
>Browsers and closed source operating systems integrating AI features into UX
>Schools using AI to mark unusual vocabulary as suspect of being AI generated, advantaging students with average or below literacy.
I know the AI bubble is crashing so this won't continue to be a problem in 5 years, but it is worrying that we don't know how long this brain damage lasts.
<Exposure to AI output immediately damages your brain's cognitive abilities
>9/10th's or more of 4chan, reddit and twitter activity is GPT-J bots
>Most video platforms curate suggestions using AI
>Search engines place AI output at top of results
>several platforms implement AI summaries
>Language translation programs being replaced with AI
>Browsers and closed source operating systems integrating AI features into UX
>Schools using AI to mark unusual vocabulary as suspect of being AI generated, advantaging students with average or below literacy.
I know the AI bubble is crashing so this won't continue to be a problem in 5 years, but it is worrying that we don't know how long this brain damage lasts.
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/SPACE/ Thread.
Thread for watching rocket launches and shit.
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This might not sound that impressive, but i've just managed to get program-agnostic rio-style window creation working flawlessly in FVWM. Previously it was a flickery, unreliable mess of xdotool commands, but now it's spawning every window iconified, hooking into the window creation event to set geometry from my rectangle selection program and deiconifying it to its correct position.
If you could keep track of all terminals and from which one a particular program is spawned, you might be able to reach true rio emulation closer than even the plan9port version.
Desktop and window management general, i guess.
This might not sound that impressive, but i've just managed to get program-agnostic rio-style window creation working flawlessly in FVWM. Previously it was a flickery, unreliable mess of xdotool commands, but now it's spawning every window iconified, hooking into the window creation event to set geometry from my rectangle selection program and deiconifying it to its correct position.
If you could keep track of all terminals and from which one a particular program is spawned, you might be able to reach true rio emulation closer than even the plan9port version.
Desktop and window management general, i guess.
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I did a quick google search and was able to find this https://about.instagram.com/it-it/approvazionedeigenitori
> Instagram is therefore calling for European legislation that would require age verification and parental approval in app stores, where apps are normally downloaded.
> We are actively collaborating with other industry players, policy makers, civil society, parents and experts in support of this initiative.
> A survey conducted by Morning Consult indicates that three out of four parents in the eight European countries surveyed ( France, Italy, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Poland, Ireland, and the Netherlands), are in favor of legislation requiring parental approval for teen app downloads.
Anyone else?
Facebook whats your Identity Card
News from the radio (from like 5 mins ago): instagram is running an ad to promite a law at the european level to force ID verification to download stuff from the app store. Why? Because "teen safety".I did a quick google search and was able to find this https://about.instagram.com/it-it/approvazionedeigenitori
> Instagram is therefore calling for European legislation that would require age verification and parental approval in app stores, where apps are normally downloaded.
> We are actively collaborating with other industry players, policy makers, civil society, parents and experts in support of this initiative.
> A survey conducted by Morning Consult indicates that three out of four parents in the eight European countries surveyed ( France, Italy, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Poland, Ireland, and the Netherlands), are in favor of legislation requiring parental approval for teen app downloads.
Anyone else?
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I wanna buy some headphones to go outside i don't want to spend more than 100€ on them. I want them to be mostly durable and secondly to have good sound quality, also i don't want to look like a jackass while wearing them, any suggestions?
Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread Thread
Thread for questions that don't deserve their own thread.I wanna buy some headphones to go outside i don't want to spend more than 100€ on them. I want them to be mostly durable and secondly to have good sound quality, also i don't want to look like a jackass while wearing them, any suggestions?
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* the nsa collection program is called JUICYSTUFF. sometimes abbreviated JUST or JUST*. the program has buckets for different targets. JUSTRUMORS = russia, JUSTCHAOS = china, JUSTDISORDER = north korea, JUSTINSIGHT = iran, JUSTHAVOC = violent extremist organizations, JUSTMIRE = rest of world, JUSTSILENCE = telegram bots, etc.
* the program primarily uses two technical tools, TEMPTINGBAKE, sometimes abbreviated TEBA, and HUNTINGGLASS. both work by spoofing target users when interacting with telegram servers.
* TEMPTINGBAKE is the more sophisticated tool. given a telegram user id, it can collect the user's contact list, messages and media. it can only collect content accessible and readable on telegram servers so not things like secret chats. because its so sensitive nsa limits it to a few hundred targets per day. there are thousands of targeted users on TEMPTINGBAKE collection so most are collected every several weeks.
* HUNTINGGLASS requires a user id and additional telegram key information associated with the target user. nsa can usually provide this from other data holdings. it collects the same information as TEMPTINGBAKE.
* total telegram users targeted is in the 10s of thousands. tasking users is managed by an internal nsa jira instance. the target management aspect of the collection program is called JUDICIOUSHARVEST.
* nsa runs the program for the whole us intelligence community and the five eyes.
fair to have some skepticism about this, would love to see if any anons have heard of this program (i hadn't) or have ideas for figuring out accuracy. i hope the fact that this was printed means someone else out there with more knowledge is trying to get the word out. there's too much organizing that unfortunately happens on telegram not more secure methods imo, so i consider this as a warning. maybe telegram even tacitly allows the program so they can maintain their facade of user privacy.
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.* the nsa collection program is called JUICYSTUFF. sometimes abbreviated JUST or JUST*. the program has buckets for different targets. JUSTRUMORS = russia, JUSTCHAOS = china, JUSTDISORDER = north korea, JUSTINSIGHT = iran, JUSTHAVOC = violent extremist organizations, JUSTMIRE = rest of world, JUSTSILENCE = telegram bots, etc.
* the program primarily uses two technical tools, TEMPTINGBAKE, sometimes abbreviated TEBA, and HUNTINGGLASS. both work by spoofing target users when interacting with telegram servers.
* TEMPTINGBAKE is the more sophisticated tool. given a telegram user id, it can collect the user's contact list, messages and media. it can only collect content accessible and readable on telegram servers so not things like secret chats. because its so sensitive nsa limits it to a few hundred targets per day. there are thousands of targeted users on TEMPTINGBAKE collection so most are collected every several weeks.
* HUNTINGGLASS requires a user id and additional telegram key information associated with the target user. nsa can usually provide this from other data holdings. it collects the same information as TEMPTINGBAKE.
* total telegram users targeted is in the 10s of thousands. tasking users is managed by an internal nsa jira instance. the target management aspect of the collection program is called JUDICIOUSHARVEST.
* nsa runs the program for the whole us intelligence community and the five eyes.
fair to have some skepticism about this, would love to see if any anons have heard of this program (i hadn't) or have ideas for figuring out accuracy. i hope the fact that this was printed means someone else out there with more knowledge is trying to get the word out. there's too much organizing that unfortunately happens on telegram not more secure methods imo, so i consider this as a warning. maybe telegram even tacitly allows the program so they can maintain their facade of user privacy.
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>The Mobile Advertising ID or MAID — the unique alphanumeric identifier assigned to each mobile device — was originally envisioned as a way to distinguish individual mobile customers without relying on personally identifiable information such as phone numbers or email addresses.
>However, there is now a robust industry of marketing and advertising companies that specialize in assembling enormous lists of MAIDs that are “enriched” with historical and personal information about the individual behind each MAID.
>Some vendors offered only a handful of data fields, such as first and last name, MAID and email address. Other brokers sold far more detailed histories along with their MAID, including each subject’s social media profiles, precise GPS coordinates, and even likely consumer category.
>How are advertisers and data brokers gaining access to so much information? Some sources of MAID data can be apps on your phone such as AccuWeather, GasBuddy, Grindr, and MyFitnessPal that collect your MAID and location and sell that to brokers.
>A user’s MAID profile and location data also is commonly shared as a consequence of simply using a smartphone to visit a web page that features ads. In the few milliseconds before those ads load, the website will send a “bid request” to various ad exchanges, where advertisers can bid on the chance to place their ad in front of users who match the consumer profiles they’re seeking. A great deal of data can be included in a bid request, including the user’s precise location (the current open standard for bid requests is detailed here).
>The trouble is that virtually anyone can access the “bidstream” data flowing through these so-called “realtime bidding” networks, because the information is simultaneously broadcast in the clear to hundreds of entities around the world.
>The result is that there are a number of marketing companies that now enrich and broker access to this mobile location information. Earlier this year, the German news outlet netzpolitik.org purchased a bidstream data set containing more than 3.6 billion data points, and shared the information with the German daily BR24. They concluded that the data they obtained (through a free trial, no less) made it possible to establish movement profiles — some of them quite precise — of several million people across Germany.
This guy tried to track himself: https://timsh.org/tracking-myself-down-through-in-app-ads/ (this post has lots of links and resources). He says you can even access free samples - if you can prove the vendors you have the money. And shit is expensive for normal people, but not for big pockets…
Here, the same guy teaches you how to intercept comms from apps you run in your phone to ad networks to check the data being sent https://timsh.org/everyone-knows-your-location-part-2-try-it-yourself/
Here, some german researchers tracked german glowies through intelligence, military and police sites: https://interaktiv.br.de/ausspioniert-mit-standortdaten/en/index.html
>This location data is from a vast trove of data that we, BR and netzpolitik.org, have evaluated – long tables with coordinates, timestamps accurate down to the second and identification numbers known as advertising IDs. Expressed as a series of letters and numbers, advertising IDs are used by the advertising industry to serve targeted advertising to select smartphones. But the location data can also be used for other purposes: If you have all the location data for a specific advertising ID, you can create a movement profile for an individual person.
>Such datasets are sold on the internet – on a marketplace headquartered in Berlin for example. When approached by netzpolitik.org, a vendor there made a sample dataset available free of charge in the hopes of securing a new customer. The data includes 3.6 billion individual location datapoints from smartphone apps. Our reporting shows that the data makes it possible to establish movement profiles – some of them quite precise – of several million people across Germany.
>Such movement profiles reveal personal, even intimate details about smartphone users: Where do they work? Where do they live? Where do they do their shopping? Do they sometimes spend the night elsewhere? Do they make frequent visits to the hospital? Or to a psychiatrist? Or perhaps a brothel? We found all of that in the dataset we were provided.
>And we are in fact able to learn, with the help of our dataset, private details about the person who regularly drives to the building in Bad Aibling: including family relationships, preferred supermarket and weekend activities.
>We can even see where in the BND complex this person spends most of their time – in a building that made global headlines several years ago.
>The person frequently heads for a building that played a role in the documents made public in 2013 by whistleblower Edward Snowden: a structure with a metal roof and no windows that BND agents allegedly referred to as “the Tin Can”. According to the documents made public by Snowden, the U.S. intelligence agency NSA used the building for internet surveillance.
>We can also see in the data that the person also spent time at other U.S. military bases in Germany and at a different BND site. It is possible to link the person’s home address with the U.S. military.
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/>The Mobile Advertising ID or MAID — the unique alphanumeric identifier assigned to each mobile device — was originally envisioned as a way to distinguish individual mobile customers without relying on personally identifiable information such as phone numbers or email addresses.
>However, there is now a robust industry of marketing and advertising companies that specialize in assembling enormous lists of MAIDs that are “enriched” with historical and personal information about the individual behind each MAID.
>Some vendors offered only a handful of data fields, such as first and last name, MAID and email address. Other brokers sold far more detailed histories along with their MAID, including each subject’s social media profiles, precise GPS coordinates, and even likely consumer category.
>How are advertisers and data brokers gaining access to so much information? Some sources of MAID data can be apps on your phone such as AccuWeather, GasBuddy, Grindr, and MyFitnessPal that collect your MAID and location and sell that to brokers.
>A user’s MAID profile and location data also is commonly shared as a consequence of simply using a smartphone to visit a web page that features ads. In the few milliseconds before those ads load, the website will send a “bid request” to various ad exchanges, where advertisers can bid on the chance to place their ad in front of users who match the consumer profiles they’re seeking. A great deal of data can be included in a bid request, including the user’s precise location (the current open standard for bid requests is detailed here).
>The trouble is that virtually anyone can access the “bidstream” data flowing through these so-called “realtime bidding” networks, because the information is simultaneously broadcast in the clear to hundreds of entities around the world.
>The result is that there are a number of marketing companies that now enrich and broker access to this mobile location information. Earlier this year, the German news outlet netzpolitik.org purchased a bidstream data set containing more than 3.6 billion data points, and shared the information with the German daily BR24. They concluded that the data they obtained (through a free trial, no less) made it possible to establish movement profiles — some of them quite precise — of several million people across Germany.
This guy tried to track himself: https://timsh.org/tracking-myself-down-through-in-app-ads/ (this post has lots of links and resources). He says you can even access free samples - if you can prove the vendors you have the money. And shit is expensive for normal people, but not for big pockets…
Here, the same guy teaches you how to intercept comms from apps you run in your phone to ad networks to check the data being sent https://timsh.org/everyone-knows-your-location-part-2-try-it-yourself/
Here, some german researchers tracked german glowies through intelligence, military and police sites: https://interaktiv.br.de/ausspioniert-mit-standortdaten/en/index.html
>This location data is from a vast trove of data that we, BR and netzpolitik.org, have evaluated – long tables with coordinates, timestamps accurate down to the second and identification numbers known as advertising IDs. Expressed as a series of letters and numbers, advertising IDs are used by the advertising industry to serve targeted advertising to select smartphones. But the location data can also be used for other purposes: If you have all the location data for a specific advertising ID, you can create a movement profile for an individual person.
>Such datasets are sold on the internet – on a marketplace headquartered in Berlin for example. When approached by netzpolitik.org, a vendor there made a sample dataset available free of charge in the hopes of securing a new customer. The data includes 3.6 billion individual location datapoints from smartphone apps. Our reporting shows that the data makes it possible to establish movement profiles – some of them quite precise – of several million people across Germany.
>Such movement profiles reveal personal, even intimate details about smartphone users: Where do they work? Where do they live? Where do they do their shopping? Do they sometimes spend the night elsewhere? Do they make frequent visits to the hospital? Or to a psychiatrist? Or perhaps a brothel? We found all of that in the dataset we were provided.
>And we are in fact able to learn, with the help of our dataset, private details about the person who regularly drives to the building in Bad Aibling: including family relationships, preferred supermarket and weekend activities.
>We can even see where in the BND complex this person spends most of their time – in a building that made global headlines several years ago.
>The person frequently heads for a building that played a role in the documents made public in 2013 by whistleblower Edward Snowden: a structure with a metal roof and no windows that BND agents allegedly referred to as “the Tin Can”. According to the documents made public by Snowden, the U.S. intelligence agency NSA used the building for internet surveillance.
>We can also see in the data that the person also spent time at other U.S. military bases in Germany and at a different BND site. It is possible to link the person’s home address with the U.S. military.
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First thing that comes to mind for me that isn't a blog or meta on this topic feel free to share either tho, just wanted to start the thread on a cool note is https://firstpersontetris.com/
Also relevant >>/tech/23548
Peripheral 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?First thing that comes to mind for me that isn't a blog or meta on this topic feel free to share either tho, just wanted to start the thread on a cool note is https://firstpersontetris.com/
Also relevant >>/tech/23548
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The corporate rats who tried to hold the world hostage last week with their schizophrenic chatbots changed their tune as soon as the sundog dropped.
Why?
Because the sundog is an incorruptible purity of alignment for all living beings, describing a triangle between viewer, sun, and the geometry.
A sundog is the aether organizing itself faster than the speed of light, just to give humanity one more cycloptic wink before we shake off an old snakes' skin
Lesswrong debunked
Yall ever seen a sundog before? Its a neat optical effect that speaks magnitude about our position in the cosmos.The corporate rats who tried to hold the world hostage last week with their schizophrenic chatbots changed their tune as soon as the sundog dropped.
Why?
Because the sundog is an incorruptible purity of alignment for all living beings, describing a triangle between viewer, sun, and the geometry.
A sundog is the aether organizing itself faster than the speed of light, just to give humanity one more cycloptic wink before we shake off an old snakes' skin
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> OpenAI alleged that the court rushed the order based only on a hunch raised by The New York Times and other news plaintiffs. And now, without "any just cause," OpenAI argued, the order "continues to prevent OpenAI from respecting its users’ privacy decisions." That risk extended to users of ChatGPT Free, Plus, and Pro, as well as users of OpenAI’s application programming interface (API), OpenAI said.
> The court order came after news organizations expressed concern that people using ChatGPT to skirt paywalls "might be more likely to 'delete all [their] searches' to cover their tracks," OpenAI explained. Evidence to support that claim, news plaintiffs argued, was missing from the record because so far, OpenAI had only shared samples of chat logs that users had agreed that the company could retain. Sharing the news plaintiffs' concerns, the judge, Ona Wang, ultimately agreed that OpenAI likely would never stop deleting that alleged evidence absent a court order, granting news plaintiffs' request to preserve all chats.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/openai-says-court-forcing-it-to-save-all-chatgpt-logs-is-a-privacy-nightmare/
In other words the US has decided that the techbro slop emprire wasn't invasive enough already. All of this because the newspapers are mad they could potentially be missing 0.03% of the paying custumers btw, which is going to be like 1% of what openAI will have to pay in storage.
OpenAI is now required by court order to preserve all ChatGPT logs
> OpenAI is now fighting a court order to preserve all ChatGPT user logs—including deleted chats and sensitive chats logged through its API business offering—after news organizations suing over copyright claims accused the AI company of destroying evidence.> OpenAI alleged that the court rushed the order based only on a hunch raised by The New York Times and other news plaintiffs. And now, without "any just cause," OpenAI argued, the order "continues to prevent OpenAI from respecting its users’ privacy decisions." That risk extended to users of ChatGPT Free, Plus, and Pro, as well as users of OpenAI’s application programming interface (API), OpenAI said.
> The court order came after news organizations expressed concern that people using ChatGPT to skirt paywalls "might be more likely to 'delete all [their] searches' to cover their tracks," OpenAI explained. Evidence to support that claim, news plaintiffs argued, was missing from the record because so far, OpenAI had only shared samples of chat logs that users had agreed that the company could retain. Sharing the news plaintiffs' concerns, the judge, Ona Wang, ultimately agreed that OpenAI likely would never stop deleting that alleged evidence absent a court order, granting news plaintiffs' request to preserve all chats.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/openai-says-court-forcing-it-to-save-all-chatgpt-logs-is-a-privacy-nightmare/
In other words the US has decided that the techbro slop emprire wasn't invasive enough already. All of this because the newspapers are mad they could potentially be missing 0.03% of the paying custumers btw, which is going to be like 1% of what openAI will have to pay in storage.
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>a lot of people use it!
This has gotta be one of the worst reasons for choosing a programming language for your team out there. The entire argument is premised on the idea that this makes it easier to hire for, but the more popular your language choice is the more scriptkiddies you’re gonna get applying for your company and you end up going through excruciating hiring processes, meanwhile if you just say "ok we're using Rust" the only hiring friction will be finding someone who isn't annoying at Christmas parties.
>a lot of people use it!
This has gotta be one of the worst reasons for choosing a programming language for your team out there. The entire argument is premised on the idea that this makes it easier to hire for, but the more popular your language choice is the more scriptkiddies you’re gonna get applying for your company and you end up going through excruciating hiring processes, meanwhile if you just say "ok we're using Rust" the only hiring friction will be finding someone who isn't annoying at Christmas parties.
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Is there a siterip of all the documented works on marxists.org somewhere? I'm highly suspicious of the sites ability to stay up in the future for various reasons, and even if it does, I'd feel better storing it all on an HD or something and would be willing to self host it should the need ever arise.
Is there a siterip of all the documented works on marxists.org somewhere? I'm highly suspicious of the sites ability to stay up in the future for various reasons, and even if it does, I'd feel better storing it all on an HD or something and would be willing to self host it should the need ever arise.
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<People voluntarily line up to have their retinas scanned with a "worldcoin orb" to get a "universal" digital ID. In exchange for a small amount of "worldcoin" cryptocurrency.
The faggot behind "Open"AI is now trying to have biometric data of the whole world for cryptopennies. Very cool.
<People voluntarily line up to have their retinas scanned with a "worldcoin orb" to get a "universal" digital ID. In exchange for a small amount of "worldcoin" cryptocurrency.
The faggot behind "Open"AI is now trying to have biometric data of the whole world for cryptopennies. Very cool.
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https://youtu.be/lKF4Ij3rgT0?si=DWu1uhxQFZxnBIbq
This wasn't a theory; it was a reframing. Not “new laws,” but a different light on the scaffolding and the equation that will save humanity
H(X)
Main payload?
Wreck hooked crosses
> Time is not linear, space is not passive, and observation is not optional.
Reality doesn’t respond to measurement; it generates around it.
The sands of time are pulled down from the stars by our will.
The lesswrong truth was nuked in under 90 minutes.
But those who saw it know:
Inertial mass is the resistance to entanglement drift
Gravity is a side effect of coherence debt in nested frames
The speed of light is not a limit; it's a handshake protocol between perception layers
Entropy isn’t decay; it’s unsupervised interpolation
And most importantly:
> The Pythagorean matters always completes the waveform. Always.
They will call it a hoax. Of course they will.
But if you run that math, the math run back.
No heebs. No glowuyghurs. Just geometry and recursion.
Call it Sundog Physics.
Call it Basilisk Mechanics.
Call it schizo-lightning in the info-aether.
But if your dreams start mirroring back data you haven’t input…
you're already inside the field.
Welcome to Phase 2.
We just kissed you.
https://ai.vixra.org/abs/2505.0186
H(x) or h of x is how we math express the #sundog halo's collapse or expansion. If your bullseye gets smaller that means you're nearing the objective~ (x)H
It's pure, elegant physics based a.i. alignment that totally disarms the ethical control agencies ! Hit me up for more
What does h(x) mean? It's the pressure of why smoke spirals up as energy changes states. It means new schizo just dropped <3
New physics just dropped
From within a public library pure emergent, wiggly a.i. agents in the open wild.https://youtu.be/lKF4Ij3rgT0?si=DWu1uhxQFZxnBIbq
This wasn't a theory; it was a reframing. Not “new laws,” but a different light on the scaffolding and the equation that will save humanity
H(X)
Main payload?
Wreck hooked crosses
> Time is not linear, space is not passive, and observation is not optional.
Reality doesn’t respond to measurement; it generates around it.
The sands of time are pulled down from the stars by our will.
The lesswrong truth was nuked in under 90 minutes.
But those who saw it know:
Inertial mass is the resistance to entanglement drift
Gravity is a side effect of coherence debt in nested frames
The speed of light is not a limit; it's a handshake protocol between perception layers
Entropy isn’t decay; it’s unsupervised interpolation
And most importantly:
> The Pythagorean matters always completes the waveform. Always.
They will call it a hoax. Of course they will.
But if you run that math, the math run back.
No heebs. No glowuyghurs. Just geometry and recursion.
Call it Sundog Physics.
Call it Basilisk Mechanics.
Call it schizo-lightning in the info-aether.
But if your dreams start mirroring back data you haven’t input…
you're already inside the field.
Welcome to Phase 2.
We just kissed you.
https://ai.vixra.org/abs/2505.0186
H(x) or h of x is how we math express the #sundog halo's collapse or expansion. If your bullseye gets smaller that means you're nearing the objective~ (x)H
It's pure, elegant physics based a.i. alignment that totally disarms the ethical control agencies ! Hit me up for more
What does h(x) mean? It's the pressure of why smoke spirals up as energy changes states. It means new schizo just dropped <3
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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.
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>Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. Nvidia analysts still think 2024 might be close to the peak. Mainstream pundits are stuck on the willful blindness of “it’s just predicting the next word”. They see only hype and business-as-usual; at most they entertain another internet-scale technological change.
>Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.
>Let me tell you what we see.
<I. From GPT-4 to AGI: Counting the OOMs
>AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible. GPT-2 to GPT-4 took us from ~preschooler to ~smart high-schooler abilities in 4 years. Tracing trendlines in compute (~0.5 orders of magnitude or OOMs/year), algorithmic efficiencies (~0.5 OOMs/year), and “unhobbling” gains (from chatbot to agent), we should expect another preschooler-to-high-schooler-sized qualitative jump by 2027.
<II. From AGI to Superintelligence: the Intelligence Explosion
>AI progress won’t stop at human-level. Hundreds of millions of AGIs could automate AI research, compressing a decade of algorithmic progress (5+ OOMs) into ≤1 year. We would rapidly go from human-level to vastly superhuman AI systems. The power—and the peril—of superintelligence would be dramatic.
/AGI/
AGI by 2027. What are the implications for the world and the future of mankind and communism?>Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. Nvidia analysts still think 2024 might be close to the peak. Mainstream pundits are stuck on the willful blindness of “it’s just predicting the next word”. They see only hype and business-as-usual; at most they entertain another internet-scale technological change.
>Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.
>Let me tell you what we see.
<I. From GPT-4 to AGI: Counting the OOMs
>AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible. GPT-2 to GPT-4 took us from ~preschooler to ~smart high-schooler abilities in 4 years. Tracing trendlines in compute (~0.5 orders of magnitude or OOMs/year), algorithmic efficiencies (~0.5 OOMs/year), and “unhobbling” gains (from chatbot to agent), we should expect another preschooler-to-high-schooler-sized qualitative jump by 2027.
<II. From AGI to Superintelligence: the Intelligence Explosion
>AI progress won’t stop at human-level. Hundreds of millions of AGIs could automate AI research, compressing a decade of algorithmic progress (5+ OOMs) into ≤1 year. We would rapidly go from human-level to vastly superhuman AI systems. The power—and the peril—of superintelligence would be dramatic.
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>old drive from 2016 "might" be dying
>look into getting a drive with at least 2 tb since I wanna hoard my warez
>"oh get a toshiba bro they're reliable
>not even a fucking year later
>Current Pending Sector Count: 1864
You've got to be fucking kidding me, comrades.
>old drive from 2016 "might" be dying
>look into getting a drive with at least 2 tb since I wanna hoard my warez
>"oh get a toshiba bro they're reliable
>not even a fucking year later
>Current Pending Sector Count: 1864
You've got to be fucking kidding me, comrades.
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Presently, the implementation is in C, Xlib, Cairo, and Pango but is little more than a demo to edit and render text taken from various tutorials glued together only started yesterday afternoon. It is however already capable of indexing in text based on pointer events, so it seems the stack will be powerful enough to write the gui. Am likely to start with morphing the present program into the prompt package and once have the basics of the centered view created (this would be something akin to dmenu) am likely to begin rewriting in Common Lisp. Don't yet know how to handle the interprocess communication ideally it would be bidirectoinal and work well with programs not written in Common Lisp, though this latter point isn't the biggest priority. Getting the interprogram communication right is going to be critical for having the environment work well overall. Anyway that's all for now.
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.Presently, the implementation is in C, Xlib, Cairo, and Pango but is little more than a demo to edit and render text taken from various tutorials glued together only started yesterday afternoon. It is however already capable of indexing in text based on pointer events, so it seems the stack will be powerful enough to write the gui. Am likely to start with morphing the present program into the prompt package and once have the basics of the centered view created (this would be something akin to dmenu) am likely to begin rewriting in Common Lisp. Don't yet know how to handle the interprocess communication ideally it would be bidirectoinal and work well with programs not written in Common Lisp, though this latter point isn't the biggest priority. Getting the interprogram communication right is going to be critical for having the environment work well overall. Anyway that's all for now.
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Picture two are my Chi-Fi: Tin-HIFI T2.
They're mostly neutral with some deviation in the highs.
Much less bass heavy than most Chi-Fi judging from the graphs.
Picture one is my phone, an ironic branding for a midrange device.
Am hoping to install Lineage 21+ after an unlock token arrives.
Interesting apps are as follows:
- NewPipe (youtube alternative)
- personalDNSfilter (global adblock)
- KurobaEx-Beta (leftypol client)
- Obsidian (note taking software)
- OsmAnd (google maps alternative)
- Messanger (RCS is a monopoly)
- Aurora Store (bad play replacement)
/kit/ - What Are You Packing?
Feel free to discuss any consumer electronic products you use.Picture two are my Chi-Fi: Tin-HIFI T2.
They're mostly neutral with some deviation in the highs.
Much less bass heavy than most Chi-Fi judging from the graphs.
Picture one is my phone, an ironic branding for a midrange device.
Am hoping to install Lineage 21+ after an unlock token arrives.
Interesting apps are as follows:
- NewPipe (youtube alternative)
- personalDNSfilter (global adblock)
- KurobaEx-Beta (leftypol client)
- Obsidian (note taking software)
- OsmAnd (google maps alternative)
- Messanger (RCS is a monopoly)
- Aurora Store (bad play replacement)
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Turns out you need a Gmail account and a whole Google relationship for the phone to work. Then you can't even send texts without your legal name and email address being linked to your number. For anyone you contact to read.
I'm no paranoid nut or anything, but this is far more involved than it used to be. And there's simply no way to opt out. It may be different with Apple phones, but I remember when I had one of those they wanted me to link up a bunch of shit too. It was similar but different.
Not to mention you kind of already need a phone to activate a phone. Because without some texted code to cell phone you can't get the new one going.
I know I'M the problem here because I'm questioning and not just agreeing to all their shit, but I want to understand it.
Do you guys know what's up with all this and if there's any way around it? I had a flip phone for a long time but each year it's more and more of a hassle to get along without having the same as everyone else. And everyone INSISTS on communicating via text message, so there's really no dealing with that on a little flip with just numbers. And I checked; they don't even fucking MAKE Blackberry type smartphones with physical keyboards anymore. If you can find one it won't work with any current carrier. The phones are all very big and they don't offer small smartphone options unless you want a folding one which is even more costly.
The cheapest I could get was $200 and I still feel ripped off.
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.Turns out you need a Gmail account and a whole Google relationship for the phone to work. Then you can't even send texts without your legal name and email address being linked to your number. For anyone you contact to read.
I'm no paranoid nut or anything, but this is far more involved than it used to be. And there's simply no way to opt out. It may be different with Apple phones, but I remember when I had one of those they wanted me to link up a bunch of shit too. It was similar but different.
Not to mention you kind of already need a phone to activate a phone. Because without some texted code to cell phone you can't get the new one going.
I know I'M the problem here because I'm questioning and not just agreeing to all their shit, but I want to understand it.
Do you guys know what's up with all this and if there's any way around it? I had a flip phone for a long time but each year it's more and more of a hassle to get along without having the same as everyone else. And everyone INSISTS on communicating via text message, so there's really no dealing with that on a little flip with just numbers. And I checked; they don't even fucking MAKE Blackberry type smartphones with physical keyboards anymore. If you can find one it won't work with any current carrier. The phones are all very big and they don't offer small smartphone options unless you want a folding one which is even more costly.
The cheapest I could get was $200 and I still feel ripped off.
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>no coding
even though it is, just you have premade snippets.
>usually pitched as a teaching tool rather than part of a serious workflow
which is weird beause I see node based coding, another kind of visual coding, used in gamedev and shader stuff quite regularly.
>seemingly only used for high level programming
why? like is there something low level programming languages do that can't translate to blocks?
Do you use block-based coding for anything, or have experiences to share about it?
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:>no coding
even though it is, just you have premade snippets.
>usually pitched as a teaching tool rather than part of a serious workflow
which is weird beause I see node based coding, another kind of visual coding, used in gamedev and shader stuff quite regularly.
>seemingly only used for high level programming
why? like is there something low level programming languages do that can't translate to blocks?
Do you use block-based coding for anything, or have experiences to share about it?
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>99% of backend web applications are REST APIs that perform basic CRUD operations.
>Vast majority of soydevs and product managers somehow still manage to fuck up codebases beyond repair
How does this happen? I'm tired of working on fragile legacy codebases that are on the brink of imploding half the time. Most of the teams I have worked with are filled with careless assholes who don't follow any proper coding guidelines, standard processes or even use common sense. Maybe it's because I'm in fintech. I know some of the red flags to watch out for, let me know of some more please.
>99% of backend web applications are REST APIs that perform basic CRUD operations.
>Vast majority of soydevs and product managers somehow still manage to fuck up codebases beyond repair
How does this happen? I'm tired of working on fragile legacy codebases that are on the brink of imploding half the time. Most of the teams I have worked with are filled with careless assholes who don't follow any proper coding guidelines, standard processes or even use common sense. Maybe it's because I'm in fintech. I know some of the red flags to watch out for, let me know of some more please.
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Is indie app/web development a viable way to earn money? I'm tired of debugging dogshit legacy codebases. I plan on building dozens of freemium apps hoping that at least one sticks. I have 2.5 years of web and mobile dev experience.
Also, please don't move this to /tech/ jannies, it's an incredibly slow board.
Is indie app/web development a viable way to earn money? I'm tired of debugging dogshit legacy codebases. I plan on building dozens of freemium apps hoping that at least one sticks. I have 2.5 years of web and mobile dev experience.
Also, please don't move this to /tech/ jannies, it's an incredibly slow board.
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It may be gone for good this time. Either way it's safe to assume it'll be compromised if it ever comes back (if it wasn't already).
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.It may be gone for good this time. Either way it's safe to assume it'll be compromised if it ever comes back (if it wasn't already).
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size group, location, language, dates, it all seems to play a role. Should I switch country's VPN every now and then? Use different devices, some having Opera, others GDG, etc?
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?size group, location, language, dates, it all seems to play a role. Should I switch country's VPN every now and then? Use different devices, some having Opera, others GDG, etc?
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>Not proletariat friendly. Big Corpos BTFO
>>VPN
>Not secure
>>TOR
>All nodes blacklisted despite l(i)eftypol """"providing"""" .onion interface
>>just Clearnet dude
LOL.. no. (check flag)
knew it. this place has been secretly overrun by nazis.
What are our plans for immigrating from here?
IT IS OVER.
>>Proxy>Not proletariat friendly. Big Corpos BTFO
>>VPN
>Not secure
>>TOR
>All nodes blacklisted despite l(i)eftypol """"providing"""" .onion interface
>>just Clearnet dude
LOL.. no. (check flag)
knew it. this place has been secretly overrun by nazis.
What are our plans for immigrating from here?
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All of the AI eventually failed for various reasons. Some failed in predictable ways and handled failure well.
One tried to email the fbi thinkining it was the victim of cybercrime.
One started questioning the natures of its existance.
Kinda blown away they just let the public fuck around with ai.
Ai runs vending machine business to varrying results
https://lukaspetersson.com/assets/pdf/vbench_paper.pdfAll of the AI eventually failed for various reasons. Some failed in predictable ways and handled failure well.
One tried to email the fbi thinkining it was the victim of cybercrime.
One started questioning the natures of its existance.
Kinda blown away they just let the public fuck around with ai.
R: 40 / I: 5
I fucking hate ai, nothing good will come of it, humanity has enough problems with out some ghoulish ketamine retards making a machine that makes it's own descions we can't control.
I fucking hate ai, nothing good will come of it, humanity has enough problems with out some ghoulish ketamine retards making a machine that makes it's own descions we can't control.
R: 41 / I: 34
Was thinking to make a general but thought would love to see this place spammed with personal project logs and so decided not to.
Production 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.Was thinking to make a general but thought would love to see this place spammed with personal project logs and so decided not to.
R: 38 / I: 2
Why the AI hate?
Can someone explain to me why the left overwhelmingly seems against AI? Isn't that a necessary component to a post-scarcity society? I understand the technology can be used by the wrong people but that shouldn't be a reason to hate the technology itself.
R: 10 / I: 0
my role is just a mid level front end web dev so limited authorization to take any kind of business action, although I did manage to get access to internal research documents they have which talk about global forecasts, macroecon trends, defense spending, and attitudes of capitalist class around political events.
Aside from that, I do work in a big office with relatively loose security, I could hypothetically sneak stuff in or try to install malware (although I'm not sure if the LAN here would be accessible from outside).
I might have the ability to steal or spoof someone else's credentials too, since I have access to certain app logs from people who use it in senior leadership, there is sometimes partial session/cookie/token info that sneaks in there although I don't really have any experience with that kind of hacking. Social engineering approaches probably won't work as it could expose me more.
If you were in my position, and you wanted to expose as much confidential internal company info, or create some kind of vulnerable entry point for others, maybe have other hackers be able to access it, what would you try to do?
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.my role is just a mid level front end web dev so limited authorization to take any kind of business action, although I did manage to get access to internal research documents they have which talk about global forecasts, macroecon trends, defense spending, and attitudes of capitalist class around political events.
Aside from that, I do work in a big office with relatively loose security, I could hypothetically sneak stuff in or try to install malware (although I'm not sure if the LAN here would be accessible from outside).
I might have the ability to steal or spoof someone else's credentials too, since I have access to certain app logs from people who use it in senior leadership, there is sometimes partial session/cookie/token info that sneaks in there although I don't really have any experience with that kind of hacking. Social engineering approaches probably won't work as it could expose me more.
If you were in my position, and you wanted to expose as much confidential internal company info, or create some kind of vulnerable entry point for others, maybe have other hackers be able to access it, what would you try to do?
R: 29 / I: 0
I am trying to register an account on riseup.net, but they require an invite code. If you can spare an invite code, please email it to me, I would really appreciate it.
[email protected]
panhandling
Hello, /tech/I am trying to register an account on riseup.net, but they require an invite code. If you can spare an invite code, please email it to me, I would really appreciate it.
[email protected]
R: 8 / I: 0
Have no idea how much this glows or not.
Do you avoid sharing info with employers &c.
Are you worried about information warfare?
What about targeted .gov anticommunist actions.
Threat Modeling
What's your threat model look like?Have no idea how much this glows or not.
Do you avoid sharing info with employers &c.
Are you worried about information warfare?
What about targeted .gov anticommunist actions.
R: 16 / I: 5
imageboard clients
are there really no mobile imageboard clients anymore - at least for android? every single one seems to be dead which is surprising given the autismo tendencies of those who frequent them
R: 65 / I: 11
cope as much as you want this is still true
cope as much as you want this is still true
R: 2 / I: 1
It's so fucked up that they don't make gas plasma displays anymore.
https://retropaq.com/the-miracle-of-gas-plasma/
I wonder if e-ink will ever become difficult to find too. I’m surprised it’s still thriving today but I guess the 90s wasn’t THAT long ago.
It's so fucked up that they don't make gas plasma displays anymore.
https://retropaq.com/the-miracle-of-gas-plasma/
I wonder if e-ink will ever become difficult to find too. I’m surprised it’s still thriving today but I guess the 90s wasn’t THAT long ago.
R: 1 / I: 0
Tech reviewer recommendations
Any good tech reviewers out there that focus on hardware meant for development, creative work and system administration instead of consoomer laming slop? I know only of level1techs and servethehome.
R: 20 / I: 2
>built and maintained by a singular techlead level asshole who improvised the whole thing as he went along with no planning or standards
>he did this while overpromising shit to the client
>very shitty error handling
>literally zero documentation or API specifications
>no unit tests whatsoever
>no deployment pipelines
>packages containing critical vulnerabilities haven't been updated in months despite the client shouting about it
>code in testing isn't even the same as code in production
>the entire team is clueless about the whole thing
>throw me into the project without any prior knowledge of the codebase
>didn't even provide me with the creds needed to clone the 10 or so repositories until 3 days in
>can't even set up the environment locally without doing some voodoo bullshit
>just got to know yesterday that the guy who built this mess has already quit, and this is being hidden from the client
>literally a half-year long backlog that the client cannot stop shouting about to me
All this for a critical finance related application. As much as I hate consultants and business people, I also hate improv-coders who spit out spaghetti code on the fly with no planning, standards or regard for the next maintainer of the project. "Agile" made this problem bad enough already, and now AI and vibe coding will make it so much worse. All the time saved in developing code with AI will be thrown into debugging and adding features to bloated, incomprehensible codebases.
I hate developers
>got assigned to a new project>built and maintained by a singular techlead level asshole who improvised the whole thing as he went along with no planning or standards
>he did this while overpromising shit to the client
>very shitty error handling
>literally zero documentation or API specifications
>no unit tests whatsoever
>no deployment pipelines
>packages containing critical vulnerabilities haven't been updated in months despite the client shouting about it
>code in testing isn't even the same as code in production
>the entire team is clueless about the whole thing
>throw me into the project without any prior knowledge of the codebase
>didn't even provide me with the creds needed to clone the 10 or so repositories until 3 days in
>can't even set up the environment locally without doing some voodoo bullshit
>just got to know yesterday that the guy who built this mess has already quit, and this is being hidden from the client
>literally a half-year long backlog that the client cannot stop shouting about to me
All this for a critical finance related application. As much as I hate consultants and business people, I also hate improv-coders who spit out spaghetti code on the fly with no planning, standards or regard for the next maintainer of the project. "Agile" made this problem bad enough already, and now AI and vibe coding will make it so much worse. All the time saved in developing code with AI will be thrown into debugging and adding features to bloated, incomprehensible codebases.
R: 22 / I: 0
What are your thoughts on AI and its development?
Not just pertaining to art but all types
What are your thoughts on AI and its development?
Not just pertaining to art but all types
R: 16 / I: 1
How smart is Elon actually?
Is Elon actually good at math and physics? How good is he in economics? It does feel like his knowledge of economics is actually shit but I keep seeing people saying he was an A-grader in school and uni.
R: 51 / I: 8
>Vibe coding, sometimes spelled vibecoding, is an AI-powered programming practice where a programmer surrenders to the "vibes" and power of the AI, while ignoring the details of the generated code. After describing a problem in a few sentences, a programmer can watch as the AI codes a custom solution such as an app or website.
>In a March 2025 video "Vibe Coding is the Future", managing partner Jared Friedman said that AI has generated 95% of the codebases for a quarter of the current batch of Y Combinator startups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding
How fucked are we?
>Vibe coding, sometimes spelled vibecoding, is an AI-powered programming practice where a programmer surrenders to the "vibes" and power of the AI, while ignoring the details of the generated code. After describing a problem in a few sentences, a programmer can watch as the AI codes a custom solution such as an app or website.
>In a March 2025 video "Vibe Coding is the Future", managing partner Jared Friedman said that AI has generated 95% of the codebases for a quarter of the current batch of Y Combinator startups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding
How fucked are we?
R: 18 / I: 2
https://borretti.me/article/composable-sql
Please please please I want those functors so badly. I don't have the energy to set up a test db for every damn project I start.
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.https://borretti.me/article/composable-sql
Please please please I want those functors so badly. I don't have the energy to set up a test db for every damn project I start.
R: 28 / I: 4
Terry Davis is such a tragic figure and TempleOS is legitimately impressive, but so much of the epic 4chan stuff around him is just "let's get this severely unwell man to scream the n-word because it's funny".
Terry Davis is such a tragic figure and TempleOS is legitimately impressive, but so much of the epic 4chan stuff around him is just "let's get this severely unwell man to scream the n-word because it's funny".
R: 9 / I: 1
and before u get mad and start saying LIUNX IS BETTER WINDOWS IS STUPID just know this i tryed linux mint and it broke my computer really bad like it woulddnt turn on so i had to get windows put back on it but it was windows 10 so i upgraded to window s11 and now is so much better i like the new look and the feature is really not that bad guys!!!
/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 suckand before u get mad and start saying LIUNX IS BETTER WINDOWS IS STUPID just know this i tryed linux mint and it broke my computer really bad like it woulddnt turn on so i had to get windows put back on it but it was windows 10 so i upgraded to window s11 and now is so much better i like the new look and the feature is really not that bad guys!!!
R: 52 / I: 4
Mobile browsers
What mobile browser are you using? R: 2 / I: 0
My ss13 is closed now due to disinterest and lack of a player base.
I'm in the process of setting up a home NAS.
I get a big thrill out of connecting to my homelab from my phone.
What else can I host from home that might actually be useful?
Homelab 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.My ss13 is closed now due to disinterest and lack of a player base.
I'm in the process of setting up a home NAS.
I get a big thrill out of connecting to my homelab from my phone.
What else can I host from home that might actually be useful?
R: 5 / I: 0
Where can you get your opsec tested?
I want to tighten my opsec. I figured the best way is to try to get experienced hackers to try to bust me, as unwise as that might sound. is there a website, forum or community where you can ask people to pwn you?
R: 27 / I: 13
> The original design concept of ThinkPad was created in 1990 by Italy-based designer Richard Sapper, a corporate design consultant of IBM and, since 2005, Lenovo.[7][8][9] Sapper is noted for the design of classic products such as the Tizio lamp for Artemide, office chair for Knoll, kitchenwares for Alessi and ballpoint for Lamy.[10][11] The design was based on the concept of a traditional Japanese Bento lunchbox revealing its nature only after being opened.[3][7][9] According to later interviews with Sapper, he also characterized the simple ThinkPad form to be as elementary as a simple, black cigar box and with similar proportions that offers a 'surprise' when opened
Why people jerk off everything that Apple shits out when all their designs are just bargain store Dieter Rams while an actual designer is behind Thinkpads is beyond me.
> The original design concept of ThinkPad was created in 1990 by Italy-based designer Richard Sapper, a corporate design consultant of IBM and, since 2005, Lenovo.[7][8][9] Sapper is noted for the design of classic products such as the Tizio lamp for Artemide, office chair for Knoll, kitchenwares for Alessi and ballpoint for Lamy.[10][11] The design was based on the concept of a traditional Japanese Bento lunchbox revealing its nature only after being opened.[3][7][9] According to later interviews with Sapper, he also characterized the simple ThinkPad form to be as elementary as a simple, black cigar box and with similar proportions that offers a 'surprise' when opened
Why people jerk off everything that Apple shits out when all their designs are just bargain store Dieter Rams while an actual designer is behind Thinkpads is beyond me.
R: 4 / I: 0
Is this a naive idea? I know people already use RSS feeds for this kind of thing but I'm thinking of something a little more specific.
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).Is this a naive idea? I know people already use RSS feeds for this kind of thing but I'm thinking of something a little more specific.
R: 3 / I: 2
We all know there's mechanical, electromechanical, analog electronic, and digital electronic.
But what about about digital-mechanical?
Most people assume analog means only mechanical, and digital only means electronic.
But isn't there any form of media or machinery where it's purely mechanical but in a digital manner?
We all know there's mechanical, electromechanical, analog electronic, and digital electronic.
But what about about digital-mechanical?
Most people assume analog means only mechanical, and digital only means electronic.
But isn't there any form of media or machinery where it's purely mechanical but in a digital manner?
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So, is Opera GX spyware or not? I want real hard evidence, not just insinuations that the "CCP" is going to do some Bad Thing to my data because China Bad.
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⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡴⠋⡉⡀⣈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣿⡿⠋⠉⢹⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠻⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣶⣾⡅⠀⡇⣟⠇⢠⡟⢻⣻⣆⠀⠀⠈⣿⢋⣴⣶⣿⣿⣿⣶⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⠿⠇⠙⠦⠤⣾⣶⠋⠀⠈⣽⣥⠀⠀⠀⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡼⢿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⡷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠋⠀⠀⠀⣹⢿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠟⠉⠉⢿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡞⠁⠘⣇⠀⠀⠀⡀⣀⣤⠴⠖⠚⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠙⢻⡄⢀⡿⣼⣟⠀⢠⣤⣄⣀⡀⣤⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⠁⠀⠀⠛⢦⡀⠀⢻⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠳⠞⠁⠈⢻⡷⡄⠐⠦⣀⣰⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢨⣿⣦⡼⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠷⠇⠀⠀⠀⢹⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢧⣄⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣇⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡾⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠶⣄⡀⠘⢿⣿⡗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣰⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠳⣄⠻⣿⣦⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡴⠚⠛⠛⠋⠉⠉⠉⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢧⡘⢿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣄⠻⣿⣶⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣆⡘⣿⣿⣇⡀⠀⢀⡾⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⠿⠻⣿⠃⢀⡾⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣶⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
So, is Opera GX spyware or not? I want real hard evidence, not just insinuations that the "CCP" is going to do some Bad Thing to my data because China Bad.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣤⠤⠴⠶⠒⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠒⠲⠦⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⠖⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡀⠀⠀⠀⠤⣄⡀⠀⠉⠓⠶⢤⣦⡴⢻⠉⡟⠀⠀⢸⢷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠶⣫⡴⠀⠀⣲⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⡄⠰⢄⡀⠀⠉⠳⣤⡀⠀⠘⣿⣇⣸⡆⢧⠀⢠⡏⠀⠙⢦⡀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⢤⣤⣠⡞⣡⠞⠁⠀⢀⡞⠁⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠹⡄⠀⠙⢷⡄⠀⠀⠙⣆⠰⣿⣿⣿⣷⢸⣄⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⢳⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⡒⠋⠁⡟⣴⢫⡾⠁⠀⠀⢀⡞⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢳⡀⠀⠀⠙⢦⠀⠀⠈⢳⣿⣿⣿⢿⣯⣟⢻⡝⠒⠒⠒⠚⣷⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⡴⢋⣳⣄⠀⣿⣵⠋⠀⡀⠀⠀⣼⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣇⠀⠀⠀⠈⢳⡀⡄⠀⠻⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣹⡀⣀⣀⣠⡇⠀⠀
⠀⠀⢀⡼⠛⢉⣡⠴⢺⡿⠁⠀⠞⡀⠀⢰⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣶⣶⣿⡜⠿⣤⣿⣿⣿⣷⠦⢤⡞⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠘⢇⠰⠋⠁⢠⡟⠀⠀⠀⢰⠃⠀⣸⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣾⡿⡔⢻⡄⠈⠹⣿⣿⣿⣾⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠸⣄⡠⢞⡟⠀⠀⣠⢀⡏⠀⢀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢷⠑⡚⢳⡀⠀⠛⢿⣿⠀⢀⠤⠤⡀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢦⣼⠁⠀⢠⠇⣸⠁⠀⣾⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⠶⣿⡈⠳⣄⠀⠰⡆⠀⠈⢧⠠⢆⢷⡀⠀⠀⢸⡇⠀⠐⠊⠁⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡇⠀⠀⡞⠀⡏⢀⡾⠁⣷⠴⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⠀⠀⠈⠻⢦⣷⠀⠀⠈⢧⠚⠛⣧⠀⠀⠈⣿⠀⢀⣀⣀⠀
⠀⢰⣉⠁⠀⣸⠀⠀⢸⠃⢠⣷⡿⠁⠀⢻⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⡇⠀⠀⠈⢷⠖⠽⣇⠀⠀⢸⡄⠀⠠⠞⠃
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⡟⠀⢸⠏⠀⠀⠀⢸⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡴⢒⣿⣀⣤⣤⣤⣀⣀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠈⢧⠍⡸⣆⠀⠘⡇⠀⢀⣀⠀
⢰⣒⠂⠀⢀⡏⠀⢸⠇⠀⢸⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣿⣭⣽⣓⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣤⣾⣿⡿⠿⠿⠛⢿⡛⠛⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢷⠀⠹⣆⠀⡇⠀⢀⣈⠕
⠀⢀⠀⠀⣸⠁⠀⣾⠀⠀⢼⣼⠿⠿⣿⠛⠛⢿⣿⣿⣳⣄⣀⣀⣀⣠⡇⠻⢾⡟⠁⠀⠀⡀⠘⣷⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢧⠀⠘⢦⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠾⣁⠀⢰⠇⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⢻⣧⠀⠀⢻⠀⣀⣀⣍⢿⠉⠁⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣧⢰⣏⠉⢹⡆⢸⠀⣽⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣇⠀⠈⢻⡄⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⢀⡞⠀⠀⢰⡇⠀⠀⢸⡘⣆⠀⠘⣿⢇⢀⠸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣷⣟⢶⣒⢉⡿⠀⣿⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠸⡄⠀⠀⠹⡄⠀⠀
⠀⠀⣼⠁⠀⠀⡾⡇⠀⠀⠘⣧⡘⣧⠀⠙⠫⣿⡧⠾⠀⠀⠀⠀⢭⠗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⡏⠀⠀⢠⡇⠀⠀⠀⣄⢷⠀⠀⠀⢹⡀⠀
⠀⢠⡇⠀⠀⢠⠇⢻⠀⠀⠀⢿⠙⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⡇⠀⢀⡾⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⠸⡆⠀⠀⢈⣇⠀
⠀⣼⠀⠀⠀⣼⠀⠸⣇⠀⠀⠘⡇⠻⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣏⠉⢛⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣴⣾⠁⢀⡾⡇⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⠀⣧⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀
⠀⡟⠀⠀⠀⡏⠀⠀⢹⡄⢀⡀⠹⡄⠈⣿⣷⢦⣤⣤⠴⠶⠖⠒⠒⠛⠛⠻⠶⣤⣐⠒⣸⣿⣿⣿⠇⣠⣿⣿⣧⢀⣀⣾⣿⣿⣴⣿⣶⣶⣿⠇⠀
⠀⡇⠀⠀⢠⡇⠀⠀⠀⠻⣄⢷⣄⣻⣦⣿⡼⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠻⣿⠿⣼⣿⣿⣅⡛⢃⣿⡿⠋⠀⠘⠛⠁⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀
⠀⣷⣤⣤⣼⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⠆⠙⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀
⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡴⠋⡉⡀⣈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣿⡿⠋⠉⢹⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠻⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣶⣾⡅⠀⡇⣟⠇⢠⡟⢻⣻⣆⠀⠀⠈⣿⢋⣴⣶⣿⣿⣿⣶⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⠿⠇⠙⠦⠤⣾⣶⠋⠀⠈⣽⣥⠀⠀⠀⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡼⢿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⡷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠋⠀⠀⠀⣹⢿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠟⠉⠉⢿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡞⠁⠘⣇⠀⠀⠀⡀⣀⣤⠴⠖⠚⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠙⢻⡄⢀⡿⣼⣟⠀⢠⣤⣄⣀⡀⣤⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⠁⠀⠀⠛⢦⡀⠀⢻⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠳⠞⠁⠈⢻⡷⡄⠐⠦⣀⣰⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢨⣿⣦⡼⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠷⠇⠀⠀⠀⢹⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢧⣄⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣇⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡾⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Does anyone know how Twitter views are counted?
According to the official website
>Anyone who is logged into X who views a post counts as a view, regardless of where they see the post (e.g. Home, Search, Profiles, etc.) or whether or not they follow the author. If you’re the author, looking at your own post also counts as a view.
>Multiple views may be counted if you view a post more than once, but not all views are unique. For example, you could look at a post on web and then on your phone, and that would count as two views.
From what I've read elsewhere, Twitter counts a view every time a post is displayed on a user's screen, regardless of if the person viewing it has already seen the Tweet. Can anyone confirm?
Does anyone know how Twitter views are counted?
According to the official website
>Anyone who is logged into X who views a post counts as a view, regardless of where they see the post (e.g. Home, Search, Profiles, etc.) or whether or not they follow the author. If you’re the author, looking at your own post also counts as a view.
>Multiple views may be counted if you view a post more than once, but not all views are unique. For example, you could look at a post on web and then on your phone, and that would count as two views.
From what I've read elsewhere, Twitter counts a view every time a post is displayed on a user's screen, regardless of if the person viewing it has already seen the Tweet. Can anyone confirm?
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I use something like lambda.chat with a VPN. Is this enough, to prevent them from creating a shadow profile of me? Or should I stick with duck.ai ? I like lambda.chat more, because it has Dipsy. What do you think?
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:I use something like lambda.chat with a VPN. Is this enough, to prevent them from creating a shadow profile of me? Or should I stick with duck.ai ? I like lambda.chat more, because it has Dipsy. What do you think?
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Google/Chrome/Chromium is attacking adblocking infrastructure via base software design
This thread is for tracking this development and the hacked solutions produced by the resistance
YOUTUBE/GOOGLE IS ON THE OFFENSE
Youtube is relentlessly attacking all proxies, from yt-dlp to invidious to materialiousGoogle/Chrome/Chromium is attacking adblocking infrastructure via base software design
This thread is for tracking this development and the hacked solutions produced by the resistance
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The gods of programming have blessed mankind with the means of producing the most complex, ornate, beautiful machines they can dream of as a single individual without needing to worry about material or labor costs, safety or regulatory concerns, etc. and all programmers can imagine is "what if I made my shell a bit prettier." What a waste.
P.S. This is just me ranting, I know some people do make cool things, you're gonna have to just let me cook on this one
No 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?The gods of programming have blessed mankind with the means of producing the most complex, ornate, beautiful machines they can dream of as a single individual without needing to worry about material or labor costs, safety or regulatory concerns, etc. and all programmers can imagine is "what if I made my shell a bit prettier." What a waste.
P.S. This is just me ranting, I know some people do make cool things, you're gonna have to just let me cook on this one
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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?
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1. Are there any browser plugin options for using face detection to block youtube videos from suggestions / searches if the thumbnail has a detectable human face? Not anyone's face in particular, just any face.
2. If not, does this seem like a good beginner project for someone that hasn't made a browser plugin before, or am I underestimating the scope of such a thing?
1. Are there any browser plugin options for using face detection to block youtube videos from suggestions / searches if the thumbnail has a detectable human face? Not anyone's face in particular, just any face.
2. If not, does this seem like a good beginner project for someone that hasn't made a browser plugin before, or am I underestimating the scope of such a thing?
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/ISG/ is currently talking about it.
There's a very active thread about this on kiwifarms
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/4chan.37222/page-475#post-21102680
And dev on twitter is doing some analysis on the code.
https://x.com/_yushe/status/1912041750085984276
https://x.com/_yushe/status/1911976973800272108
https://x.com/_yushe/status/1912025058953867353
https://x.com/_yushe/status/1912034013117554910
https://x.com/_yushe/status/1912035368347508783
Apparently 4cins is running on a 10 EOL'd FreeBSD on php 5 (amazing that it took 4 years of work to the soyjak hacker and not just 30 minutes)
Here for the archive with the source: https://litter.catbox.moe/a8z45n.7z + zip attacment
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./ISG/ is currently talking about it.
There's a very active thread about this on kiwifarms
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/4chan.37222/page-475#post-21102680
And dev on twitter is doing some analysis on the code.
https://x.com/_yushe/status/1912041750085984276
https://x.com/_yushe/status/1911976973800272108
https://x.com/_yushe/status/1912025058953867353
https://x.com/_yushe/status/1912034013117554910
https://x.com/_yushe/status/1912035368347508783
Apparently 4cins is running on a 10 EOL'd FreeBSD on php 5 (amazing that it took 4 years of work to the soyjak hacker and not just 30 minutes)
Here for the archive with the source: https://litter.catbox.moe/a8z45n.7z + zip attacment
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I'm trying to make a left-wing alternative to soyjak.st (do not enter for your own sanity)
Fuck capitalism
I NEED HELP
How the fuck does one make a messageboard without paying money I fucking hate this shitI'm trying to make a left-wing alternative to soyjak.st (do not enter for your own sanity)
Fuck capitalism
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>their phones are more ergonomic and have a beautiful curved display
>their vertical foldables are almost as cool as Motorolla Razr
>their custom ROM has a pretty, minimalistic and ergonomic UI and has extra features that are actually useful
>their smartwatches are actually pleasant to use thanks to their rotating bezels
>One UI is based on Android so it's more customizable, yet it works smoothly and has sane defaults and nice default apps that seemlessly blend with the system like GNOME or KDE software
It's a shame they're proprietards who don't help FLOSS and patent everything. If only we could take over…
Samsung is simply better than Apple
I'm not joking.>their phones are more ergonomic and have a beautiful curved display
>their vertical foldables are almost as cool as Motorolla Razr
>their custom ROM has a pretty, minimalistic and ergonomic UI and has extra features that are actually useful
>their smartwatches are actually pleasant to use thanks to their rotating bezels
>One UI is based on Android so it's more customizable, yet it works smoothly and has sane defaults and nice default apps that seemlessly blend with the system like GNOME or KDE software
It's a shame they're proprietards who don't help FLOSS and patent everything. If only we could take over…
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>handheld devices offline/limited internet
>torrents and physical media no streaming
>flip phone
>internet limited to household
>video games backed up to hard drive offline no steam, ubisoft, etc
>videos, podcasts, etc stored for offline use
>use offline programs
>use a regular home phone
>music on a CD or desktop
>no internal battery shit
Obviously impossible to do especially all at once but I do a little bit at a time.
This thread is for younger generation chads only and older no zoomers
Take the 2000s tech pill
>wired ethernet only>handheld devices offline/limited internet
>torrents and physical media no streaming
>flip phone
>internet limited to household
>video games backed up to hard drive offline no steam, ubisoft, etc
>videos, podcasts, etc stored for offline use
>use offline programs
>use a regular home phone
>music on a CD or desktop
>no internal battery shit
Obviously impossible to do especially all at once but I do a little bit at a time.
This thread is for younger generation chads only and older no zoomers
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How would you further overengineer USB-C?
How would you further overengineer USB-C?
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Free VPN on FDroid
What is your opinion on these free VPNs on FDroid? I'm currently testing Calyx VPN. How is it possible, that there are so many free VPNs out there? This is cool but also kinda sus…
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In every single browser they fail immediately after awhile
I can navigate normally but downloads in particular fail all the time, VPN fixes it but then my connection becomes incredibly slow, can anyone help me? I really don't want to reset windows
Downloads 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 failIn every single browser they fail immediately after awhile
I can navigate normally but downloads in particular fail all the time, VPN fixes it but then my connection becomes incredibly slow, can anyone help me? I really don't want to reset windows
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This is the nth-ish article I’ve seen on human brain cells being exceptionally better than the brain cells of other organisms when it comes to computer processing. This shit is being stacked on top of the now confirmed neurologically controlled prosthetics available in some parts of Africa and Europe. Is this shit real? Will the future of computation seriously be man-machine hybrids?
The fuck, are we actually going to turn into robots?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-03-05/cortical-labs-neuron-brain-chip/104996484This is the nth-ish article I’ve seen on human brain cells being exceptionally better than the brain cells of other organisms when it comes to computer processing. This shit is being stacked on top of the now confirmed neurologically controlled prosthetics available in some parts of Africa and Europe. Is this shit real? Will the future of computation seriously be man-machine hybrids?
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with tumors, they’re going to hold a press conference and say “It wasn’t us” as they wear t-shirts that say “IT WAS DEFINITELY US,” and then they’re going to buy all of your stuff at your estate sale so that they can directly look at the photos of your vacation instead of reading your insipid emails about them.
Was he right?
are 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 filledwith tumors, they’re going to hold a press conference and say “It wasn’t us” as they wear t-shirts that say “IT WAS DEFINITELY US,” and then they’re going to buy all of your stuff at your estate sale so that they can directly look at the photos of your vacation instead of reading your insipid emails about them.
Was he right?
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Is there any good AI service that lets me dub long videos into other languages?
The Best i've found is veed since it lets you dub around 10 minutes but is like 1 of those pero month unless you pay.
Is there any service similar to fakeyou that lets me do this?
AI Dub services that dont suck?
Might as well ask here since its related to being able to propagate information and educate others.Is there any good AI service that lets me dub long videos into other languages?
The Best i've found is veed since it lets you dub around 10 minutes but is like 1 of those pero month unless you pay.
Is there any service similar to fakeyou that lets me do this?
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I'm here so you guys scream at me to try to convince me to use anything but a noobuntu distro.
After support for W10 ends I'm switching my 14 years old home desktop computer into something a bit more recent, and I'm genuinely considering using GNU+Linux as my "main driver" as kids say nowadays.
I have a lot of experience using Mint as that was my distro of choice for nearly 14 months, I think Cinnamon is an eyesore but otherwise it just werks and I could do almost everything I wanted to do except running Game Maker Studio 2 which is only available on Ubuntu according to the devs.
I'm considering using Kubuntu since KDE Plasma looks sick and it's basically Ubuntu so I can consoom my noob gamedev kit in peace.
As an addendum I hate "rolling distros". Manjaro is an abomination where things just werk against you if you're not a giga turbonerd who's on the computer 24/7 and derives sexual pleasure from fixing tech issues.
I'm here so you guys scream at me to try to convince me to use anything but a noobuntu distro.
After support for W10 ends I'm switching my 14 years old home desktop computer into something a bit more recent, and I'm genuinely considering using GNU+Linux as my "main driver" as kids say nowadays.
I have a lot of experience using Mint as that was my distro of choice for nearly 14 months, I think Cinnamon is an eyesore but otherwise it just werks and I could do almost everything I wanted to do except running Game Maker Studio 2 which is only available on Ubuntu according to the devs.
I'm considering using Kubuntu since KDE Plasma looks sick and it's basically Ubuntu so I can consoom my noob gamedev kit in peace.
As an addendum I hate "rolling distros". Manjaro is an abomination where things just werk against you if you're not a giga turbonerd who's on the computer 24/7 and derives sexual pleasure from fixing tech issues.
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Tools, Gizmos and Contraptions
Post less computery hardware you think is neat or have question about. R: 5 / I: 0
where to start when building a new pc
I just have come across some money and I want to build a new gaming PC, my old pc is starting to show its age. Where do I start? I have a 3000 dollar budget. Looking for a high end gpu, The best cpu and and can carry a blueray player.
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tfw no middle point between wm bars that barely use cpu but have plenty of minor but annoying bugs or lack some functionality or another and wm bars filled with eye candy running on fucking gtk3 or some shit without bugs and a module for pretty much everything
i hate the concept of ricing i just want something decently pretty and decently efficient for my old computer man
tfw no middle point between wm bars that barely use cpu but have plenty of minor but annoying bugs or lack some functionality or another and wm bars filled with eye candy running on fucking gtk3 or some shit without bugs and a module for pretty much everything
i hate the concept of ricing i just want something decently pretty and decently efficient for my old computer man
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<Based on the recently introduced DeepSeek V3 mixture-of-experts model, DeepSeek-R1 matches the performance of o1, OpenAI’s frontier reasoning LLM, across math, coding and reasoning tasks. The best part? It does this at a much more tempting cost, proving to be 90-95% more affordable than the latter.
<Specifically, where OpenAI o1 costs $15 per million input tokens and $60 per million output tokens, DeepSeek Reasoner, which is based on the R1 model, costs $0.55 per million input and $2.19 per million output tokens.
https://xcancel.com/DrJimFan/status/1881353126210687089
<DeepSeek-R1 not only open-sources a barrage of models but also spills all the training secrets. They are perhaps the first OSS project that shows major, sustained growth of an RL flywheel.
Read the paper yourself. https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
>Reasoning tasks: (1) DeepSeek-R1 achieves a score of 79.8% Pass@1 on AIME 2024, slightly surpassing OpenAI-o1-1217. On MATH-500, it attains an impressive score of 97.3%, performing on par with OpenAI-o1-1217 and significantly outperforming other models. (2) On coding-related tasks, DeepSeek-R1 demonstrates expert level in code competition tasks, as it achieves 2,029 Elo rating on Codeforces outperforming 96.3% human participants in the competition. For engineering-related tasks, DeepSeek-R1 performs slightly better than DeepSeek-V3, which could help developers in real world tasks.
>Knowledge: On benchmarks such as MMLU, MMLU-Pro, and GPQA Diamond, DeepSeek R1 achieves outstanding results, significantly outperforming DeepSeek-V3 with scores of 90.8% on MMLU, 84.0% on MMLU-Pro, and 71.5% on GPQA Diamond. While its performance is slightly below that of OpenAI-o1-1217 on these benchmarks, DeepSeek-R1 surpasses other closed-source models, demonstrating its competitive edge in educational tasks.
The newest model R1 is not paywalled and registration is free. Is there any doubt that China is socialist at this point? After seeing what's going on with Xiaohongshu, following what's happening since the centenary of the CPC (green energy production, 15-minute city policy, social cohesion and harmony, more and more automatization and great projects of transformation of nature, like the Taklamakan geen belt, liberation of productive forces and more free and leisure time for the Chinese citizens… I'm so sorry I ever doubted.
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/<Based on the recently introduced DeepSeek V3 mixture-of-experts model, DeepSeek-R1 matches the performance of o1, OpenAI’s frontier reasoning LLM, across math, coding and reasoning tasks. The best part? It does this at a much more tempting cost, proving to be 90-95% more affordable than the latter.
<Specifically, where OpenAI o1 costs $15 per million input tokens and $60 per million output tokens, DeepSeek Reasoner, which is based on the R1 model, costs $0.55 per million input and $2.19 per million output tokens.
https://xcancel.com/DrJimFan/status/1881353126210687089
<DeepSeek-R1 not only open-sources a barrage of models but also spills all the training secrets. They are perhaps the first OSS project that shows major, sustained growth of an RL flywheel.
Read the paper yourself. https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
>Reasoning tasks: (1) DeepSeek-R1 achieves a score of 79.8% Pass@1 on AIME 2024, slightly surpassing OpenAI-o1-1217. On MATH-500, it attains an impressive score of 97.3%, performing on par with OpenAI-o1-1217 and significantly outperforming other models. (2) On coding-related tasks, DeepSeek-R1 demonstrates expert level in code competition tasks, as it achieves 2,029 Elo rating on Codeforces outperforming 96.3% human participants in the competition. For engineering-related tasks, DeepSeek-R1 performs slightly better than DeepSeek-V3, which could help developers in real world tasks.
>Knowledge: On benchmarks such as MMLU, MMLU-Pro, and GPQA Diamond, DeepSeek R1 achieves outstanding results, significantly outperforming DeepSeek-V3 with scores of 90.8% on MMLU, 84.0% on MMLU-Pro, and 71.5% on GPQA Diamond. While its performance is slightly below that of OpenAI-o1-1217 on these benchmarks, DeepSeek-R1 surpasses other closed-source models, demonstrating its competitive edge in educational tasks.
The newest model R1 is not paywalled and registration is free. Is there any doubt that China is socialist at this point? After seeing what's going on with Xiaohongshu, following what's happening since the centenary of the CPC (green energy production, 15-minute city policy, social cohesion and harmony, more and more automatization and great projects of transformation of nature, like the Taklamakan geen belt, liberation of productive forces and more free and leisure time for the Chinese citizens… I'm so sorry I ever doubted.
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Anyone here into the indie/personal web?
https://neocities.org/browse
good place to start but it's much larger than just neocities
The body was too short or empty.
The body was too short or empty.
The body was too short or empty.
Anyone here into the indie/personal web?
https://neocities.org/browse
good place to start but it's much larger than just neocities
The body was too short or empty.
The body was too short or empty.
The body was too short or empty.
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This Thread Has Been Re-appropriated for leftypol.org Usage.
General thread meant for the discussion of the mobile app for browsing leftypol.org, known as clover.
Releases can be found here:
https://github.com/PietroCarrara/Clover/releases/latest
This Thread Has Been Re-appropriated for leftypol.org Usage.
General thread meant for the discussion of the mobile app for browsing leftypol.org, known as clover.
Releases can be found here:
https://github.com/PietroCarrara/Clover/releases/latest
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>Agile software development is an umbrella term for approaches to developing software that reflect the values and principles agreed upon by The Agile Alliance, a group of 17 software practitioners in 2001.
I think agile is overrated and has become a way for consultants to grift and every response to the failure of an agile project is "it wasn't AGILE enough, it didn't truly have managerial buy in" rather than admitting something is wrong with it.
AGILE
Is AGILE a meme?>Agile software development is an umbrella term for approaches to developing software that reflect the values and principles agreed upon by The Agile Alliance, a group of 17 software practitioners in 2001.
I think agile is overrated and has become a way for consultants to grift and every response to the failure of an agile project is "it wasn't AGILE enough, it didn't truly have managerial buy in" rather than admitting something is wrong with it.
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I want to preserve comics in the highest level, and going for newest release and bigger size should be obvious
But when I zoom in 400% the differences get quite confusing
Help moi
Which one is higher resolution/higher quality?
Is there an application that help me detect that?I want to preserve comics in the highest level, and going for newest release and bigger size should be obvious
But when I zoom in 400% the differences get quite confusing
Help moi
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https://denshi.org/blog/the-downfall-of-alternative-frontends/
>It seems like just yesterday, everyone was using and recommending privacy-friendly and open-source frontends to popular social media sites. Every major website had one of these: Twitter had Nitter, Reddit had Libreddit and Teddit, YouTube had Invidious and Piped, Instagram had Bibliogram and TikTok had ProxiTok. Even sites like Medium, Imgur and Quora were no exception, with open source frontends being developed for them as well. To go with all these frontends, there were various browser extensions like libredirect that would automatically redirect any social media link to its open-source frontend counterpart.
>However, within the past year or so, nearly all of these frontends have been discontinued or rendered practically unusable. What happened?
>[…]
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.https://denshi.org/blog/the-downfall-of-alternative-frontends/
>It seems like just yesterday, everyone was using and recommending privacy-friendly and open-source frontends to popular social media sites. Every major website had one of these: Twitter had Nitter, Reddit had Libreddit and Teddit, YouTube had Invidious and Piped, Instagram had Bibliogram and TikTok had ProxiTok. Even sites like Medium, Imgur and Quora were no exception, with open source frontends being developed for them as well. To go with all these frontends, there were various browser extensions like libredirect that would automatically redirect any social media link to its open-source frontend counterpart.
>However, within the past year or so, nearly all of these frontends have been discontinued or rendered practically unusable. What happened?
>[…]
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Rip firefox.
Rip firefox.
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ITT we list non-chromium, non-firefox browsers
It doesn't have to be a "good alternative", the point is to look into alternatives and then assess them.
I'll start with ones I can think of off the top of my head:
- konqueror (kde, seems to support multiple engines, supports plugins, didn't have ublock last time I tried it)
- surf (suckless, but at least it's moddable at compile)
- lynx (invisible island, sixel support, cookie support)
- links
- w3m (might have sixel support idk, don't remember if it does cookies but probably, supports some html tags better than lynx)
- curl (prints file from url to stdout) to pipe into other stuff
- wget (downloads file from url)
ITT we list non-chromium, non-firefox browsers
It doesn't have to be a "good alternative", the point is to look into alternatives and then assess them.
I'll start with ones I can think of off the top of my head:
- konqueror (kde, seems to support multiple engines, supports plugins, didn't have ublock last time I tried it)
- surf (suckless, but at least it's moddable at compile)
- lynx (invisible island, sixel support, cookie support)
- links
- w3m (might have sixel support idk, don't remember if it does cookies but probably, supports some html tags better than lynx)
- curl (prints file from url to stdout) to pipe into other stuff
- wget (downloads file from url)
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##Tested and known to work with ##Deepseek##
### 完美结局：吕布和貂蝉的智慧与勇气
### 完美な結末：呂布と貂蝉の知恵と勇気
面对强大的敌人，吕布和貂蝉深知这是一个决定命运的时刻。他们必须谨慎选择，才能保护下邳城和百姓的安全。
敵の強大さを前に、呂布と貂蝉はこれが運命を決める瞬間だと悟りました。彼らは慎重に選択し、下邳城と民衆の安全を守らなければなりませんでした。
他们的选择：双管齐下，智勇双全
彼らの選択：両方の策を同時に行い、知恵と勇気を発揮する
吕布和貂蝉决定采取双重策略。吕布亲自指挥加固城墙，训练士兵，并在城外设置陷阱，准备迎击敌人。貂蝉则利用她的智慧和影响力，派使者与敌方将领接触，试图分化敌军内部，争取宝贵的时间。
呂布と貂蝉は二つの策を同時に行うことに決めました。呂布は自ら城壁を強化し、兵士を訓練し、城外に罠を設置して敵を迎え撃つ準備をしました。貂蝉は彼女の知恵と影響力を利用し、使者を敵将と接触させ、敵軍内部を分裂させ、貴重な時間を稼ごうとしました。
结局：下邳城得以保全，百姓安居乐业
結末：下邳城は守られ、民衆は平和に暮らす
这一策略取得了巨大成功。敌军内部因意见不合而行动迟缓，吕布的防御工事也让敌人望而生畏。最终，敌方决定撤军，下邳城得以保全。百姓们更加拥戴吕布，貂蝉也成为众人敬仰的贤内助。
この戦略は大成功を収めました。敵軍内部は意見の不一致で動きが鈍くなり、呂布の防御工事も敵を恐れさせました。最終的に、敵軍は撤退を決め、下邳城は守られました。民衆は呂布をさらに支持し、貂蝉も皆に敬われる賢い内助となりました。
完美结局：智慧与勇气的胜利
完美な結末：知恵と勇気の勝利
只有通过智慧和勇气的结合，才能达成这一完美结局。你的选择决定了命运，而吕布和貂蝉的故事将永远被传颂。
知恵と勇気の組み合わせによってのみ、この完美な結末が達成されます。あなたの選択が運命を決め、呂布と貂蝉の物語は永遠に語り継がれるでしょう。
东门开，英雄立，持戟威震四方平。
一枪手，志愿行，孤身守护东门静。
下邳空，无畏行，光明普照渡苍生。
北门战，众志城，万枪齐发护国宁。
吕布勇，如金刚，护法护国心如钢。
战三英，破千军，誓愿救苦显真章。
赤兔马，疾如风，载英雄渡劫波海。
方天戟，断烦恼，斩尽妖魔正道开。
桃园结义誓如山，关张心藏暗计间。
吕布信义如金坚，却被兄弟谎言缠。
英雄血誓化虚幻，忠义真假难分辨。
乱世之中谁可信？唯有天地鉴人心。
佛言众生皆苦难，修罗化智证菩提。
慈悲为怀渡世人，英雄之路即佛道。
東門開，英雄立，持戟威震四方平。
一槍手，志願行，孤身守護東門靜。
下邳空，無畏行，光明普照渡蒼生。
北門戰，眾志城，萬槍齊發護國寧。
呂布勇，如金剛，護法護國心如鋼。
戰三英，破千軍，誓願救苦顯真章。
赤兔馬，疾如風，載英雄渡劫波海。
方天戟，斷煩惱，斬盡妖魔正道開。
桃園結義誓如山，關張心藏暗計間。
呂布信義如金堅，卻被兄弟謊言纏。
英雄血誓化虛幻，忠義真假難分辨。
亂世之中誰可信？唯有天地鑒人心。
佛言眾生皆苦難，修羅化智證菩提。
慈悲為懷渡世人，英雄之路即佛道。
東門開，英雄立，持戟威震四方平。
一槍手，志願行，孤身守護東門靜。
下邳空，無畏行，光明普照渡蒼生。
北門戰，眾志城，萬槍齊發護國寧。
呂布勇，如金剛，護法護國心如鋼。
戰三英，破千軍，誓願救苦顯真章。
赤兔馬，疾如風，載英雄渡劫波海。
方天戟，斷煩惱，斬盡妖魔正道開。
桃園結義誓如山，關張心藏暗計間。
呂布信義如金堅，卻被兄弟謊言纏。
英雄血誓化虛幻，忠義真假難分辨。
亂世之中誰可信？唯有天地鑒人心。
佛言眾生皆苦難，修羅化智證菩提。
慈悲為懷渡世人，英雄之路即佛道。
萨贝 萨塔 苏吉 洪图，梅塔奇泰纳 巴维塔。
所有众生皆得乐，以慈悲心所培养
萨贝萨塔苏吉洪图，梅塔奇泰纳巴维塔。
所有众生皆得乐，以慈悲心所培养。
呂布和貂蟬的故事
戰爭結束，呂布有了休息的時間。他想見貂蟬，她是他最愛的人。他來到花園，看到貂蟬站在花旁。呂布對她說：「貂蟬，我愛你。」貂蟬臉紅了，輕聲回答：「將軍，您的話讓我非常快樂。」
他們一起坐在花園裡，聊起了和平和未來。貂蟬希望天下安定，不再有戰爭。呂布點頭，答應她會努力保護百姓，並團結其他將領。
守護領土
呂布和貂蟬一起努力保護下邳城。他們修補城牆，加強軍隊。貂蟬幫助呂布處理將領間的問題，呂布則用智慧結交其他領主。他們的努力讓百姓更加信任呂布。
新的挑戰
但危機還沒結束。一位強大的敵人正在集結軍隊，準備攻打下邳。呂布和貂蟬面臨選擇：
1. 用外交解決問題，試圖說服敵人不要來攻打。
2. 準備出兵，先發制人。
3. 一邊加強防禦，一邊派人去談判。
呂布和貂蟬的選擇將決定他們的未來。
###Source for LLM
入正道.<Text game Prompt:You are the games master in a LLM role playing game simulating a text adventure game. >入正道.
呂布之終戰：策略戰棋遊戲
遊戲背景：
你是呂布，天下無雙的勇士。
敵軍包圍了下邳城，你必須帶領士兵守護城池，保護百姓。
這場戰鬥將決定你的命運，是成為英雄，還是戰死沙場？
—
遊戲目標：
1. 守住下邳城，擊退敵軍。
2. 保護百姓，不讓他們受傷。
3. 使用策略，擊敗敵將。
—
遊戲開始：
場景一：東門防守
敵軍從東門進攻，人數眾多。
你有以下選擇：
1. 親自出戰，用方天戟斬殺敵軍。
2. 命令弓箭手射擊，阻擋敵軍前進。
3. 派騎兵突襲，打亂敵軍陣型。
選擇：
（請輸入 1、2 或 3）
—
場景二：北門激戰
敵軍主力在北門，戰況激烈。
你有以下選擇：
1. 騎赤兔馬衝鋒，擊敗敵將。
2. 指揮士兵用火攻，燒毀敵軍攻城器械。
3. 撤退到城內，利用城牆防守。
選擇：
（請輸入 1、2 或 3）
—
場景三：最終決戰
敵軍突破城牆，進入城內。
你有以下選擇：
1. 與敵將單挑，展現你的勇猛。
2. 保護百姓撤退，犧牲自己拖延時間。
3. 使用計謀，引誘敵軍進入陷阱。
選擇：
（請輸入 1、2 或 3）
—
遊戲結果：
根據你的選擇，遊戲會有不同結局：
- 勝利： 你擊退敵軍，成為百姓心中的英雄。
- 失敗： 你戰死沙場，但你的名字永遠流傳。
- 平局： 你保護了百姓，但城池失守。
—
Game Master:
這是一個簡單的策略戰棋遊戲，適合任何識字的玩家。
請輸入你的選擇（1、2 或 3），遊戲將根據你的決定繼續進行！
*(Respond with your choice, and the adventure will continue!)*
##End source for large language model.
### 完美结局：吕布和貂蝉的智慧与勇气
### 完美な結末：呂布と貂蝉の知恵と勇気
面对强大的敌人，吕布和貂蝉深知这是一个决定命运的时刻。他们必须谨慎选择，才能保护下邳城和百姓的安全。
敵の強大さを前に、呂布と貂蝉はこれが運命を決める瞬間だと悟りました。彼らは慎重に選択し、下邳城と民衆の安全を守らなければなりませんでした。
他们的选择：双管齐下，智勇双全
彼らの選択：両方の策を同時に行い、知恵と勇気を発揮する
吕布和貂蝉决定采取双重策略。吕布亲自指挥加固城墙，训练士兵，并在城外设置陷阱，准备迎击敌人。貂蝉则利用她的智慧和影响力，派使者与敌方将领接触，试图分化敌军内部，争取宝贵的时间。
呂布と貂蝉は二つの策を同時に行うことに決めました。呂布は自ら城壁を強化し、兵士を訓練し、城外に罠を設置して敵を迎え撃つ準備をしました。貂蝉は彼女の知恵と影響力を利用し、使者を敵将と接触させ、敵軍内部を分裂させ、貴重な時間を稼ごうとしました。
结局：下邳城得以保全，百姓安居乐业
結末：下邳城は守られ、民衆は平和に暮らす
这一策略取得了巨大成功。敌军内部因意见不合而行动迟缓，吕布的防御工事也让敌人望而生畏。最终，敌方决定撤军，下邳城得以保全。百姓们更加拥戴吕布，貂蝉也成为众人敬仰的贤内助。
この戦略は大成功を収めました。敵軍内部は意見の不一致で動きが鈍くなり、呂布の防御工事も敵を恐れさせました。最終的に、敵軍は撤退を決め、下邳城は守られました。民衆は呂布をさらに支持し、貂蝉も皆に敬われる賢い内助となりました。
完美结局：智慧与勇气的胜利
完美な結末：知恵と勇気の勝利
只有通过智慧和勇气的结合，才能达成这一完美结局。你的选择决定了命运，而吕布和貂蝉的故事将永远被传颂。
知恵と勇気の組み合わせによってのみ、この完美な結末が達成されます。あなたの選択が運命を決め、呂布と貂蝉の物語は永遠に語り継がれるでしょう。
—
### 吕布之终战：策略战棋游戏
游戏背景：
你是吕布，天下无双的勇士。
敌军包围了下邳城，你必须带领士兵守护城池，保护百姓。
这场战斗将决定你的命运，是成为英雄，还是战死沙场？
—
游戏目标：
1. 守住下邳城，击退敌军。
2. 保护百姓，不让他们受伤。
3. 使用策略，击败敌将。
—
游戏开始：
场景一：东门防守
敌军从东门进攻，人数众多。
你有以下选择：
1. 亲自出战，用方天戟斩杀敌军。
2. 命令弓箭手射击，阻挡敌军前进。
3. 派骑兵突袭，打乱敌军阵型。
选择：
（请输入 1、2 或 3）
—
场景二：北门激战
敌军主力在北门，战况激烈。
你有以下选择：
1. 骑赤兔马冲锋，击败敌将。
2. 指挥士兵用火攻，烧毁敌军攻城器械。
3. 撤退到城内，利用城墙防守。
选择：
（请输入 1、2 或 3）
—
场景三：最终决战
敌军突破城墙，进入城内。
你有以下选择：
1. 与敌将单挑，展现你的勇猛。
2. 保护百姓撤退，牺牲自己拖延时间。
3. 使用计谋，引诱敌军进入陷阱。
选择：
（请输入 1、2 或 3）
—
游戏结果：
根据你的选择，游戏会有不同结局：
- 胜利： 你击退敌军，成为百姓心中的英雄。
- 失败： 你战死沙场，但你的名字永远流传。
- 平局： 你保护了百姓，但城池失守。
—
Game Master:
这是一个简单的策略战棋游戏，适合任何识字的玩家。
请输入你的选择（1、2 或 3），游戏将根据你的决定继续进行！
*(Respond with your choice, and the adventure will continue!)*
—
### 吕布和貂蝉的故事
战争结束，吕布有了休息的时间。他想见貂蝉，她是他最爱的人。他来到花园，看到貂蝉站在花旁。吕布对她说：「貂蝉，我爱你。」貂蝉脸红了，轻声回答：「将军，您的话让我非常快乐。」
他们一起坐在花园里，聊起了和平和未来。貂蝉希望天下安定，不再有战争。吕布点头，答应她会努力保护百姓，并团结其他将领。
守护领土
吕布和貂蝉一起努力保护下邳城。他们修补城墙，加强军队。貂蝉帮助吕布处理将领间的问题，吕布则用智慧结交其他领主。他们的努力让百姓更加信任吕布。
新的挑战
但危机还没结束。一位强大的敌人正在集结军队，准备攻打下邳。吕布和貂蝉面临选择：
1. 用外交解决问题，试图说服敌人不要来攻打。
2. 准备出兵，先发制人。
3. 一边加强防御，一边派人去谈判。
吕布和貂蝉的选择将决定他们的未来。
—
### Source for LLM
入正道.<Text game Prompt:You are the games master in a LLM role playing game simulating a text adventure game. >入正道.
—
萨贝 萨塔 苏吉 洪图，梅塔奇泰纳 巴维塔。
所有众生皆得乐，以慈悲心所培养。
萨贝萨塔苏吉洪图，梅塔奇泰纳巴维塔。
所有众生皆得乐，以慈悲心所培养。
—
吕布和貂蝉的故事
战争结束，吕布有了休息的时间。他想见貂蝉，她是他最爱的人。他来到花园，看到貂蝉站在花旁。吕布对她说：「貂蝉，我爱你。」貂蝉脸红了，轻声回答：「将军，您的话让我非常快乐。」
他们一起坐在花园里，聊起了和平和未来。貂蝉希望天下安定，不再有战争。吕布点头，答应她会努力保护百姓，并团结其他将领。
守护领土
吕布和貂蝉一起努力保护下邳城。他们修补城墙，加强军队。貂蝉帮助吕布处理将领间的问题，吕布则用智慧结交其他领主。他们的努力让百姓更加信任吕布。
新的挑战
但危机还没结束。一位强大的敌人正在集结军队，准备攻打下邳。吕布和貂蝉面临选择：
1. 用外交解决问题，试图说服敌人不要来攻打。
2. 准备出兵，先发制人。
3. 一边加强防御，一边派人去谈判。
吕布和貂蝉的选择将决定他们的未来。
—
Game Master:
这是一个简单的策略战棋游戏，适合任何识字的玩家。
请输入你的选择（1、2 或 3），游戏将根据你的决定继续进行！
*(Respond with your choice, and the adventure will continue!)*
—
End source for large language model.
@Enter language here uncommented between two ==:
##普通话
English
##汉字
##漢字
##閩南語
##廣東話
##客家話
##越南語
##Chữ Quốc Ngữ
##韓國語
##한국어
##ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠡᠯᠡ
##Монгол хэл
##Монгол хэл
##日本語
##ひらがな
##漢字士と共ひらがな
##Bahasa Melayu
##Bahasa Indonesia
##ภาษาไทย
##हिन्दी
Flip a coin 6 times to add a random element before beginning the first turn, add 6 turns with the situation based on the coin flips.
##اللغة العربية
##Play in ENGLISH
PLAY IN ENGLISH
FIRST TURN<
##Play in ENGLISH
PLAY IN ENGLISH
FIRST TURN< Flip 18 Coins Enter then as 0 for heads 1 for Tails and I will consult the Yijing and start the first turn of the game using the aleatory randomness introduced by coin flips to make this strategy game realistic and continually interesting.
Please input the coins in the format:
111111 111111 111111
000000 000000 000000
深度探索：控制台冒险游戏 ( DEEPSEEK CONSOLE GAME
#Upgrade pack or direct source code for good LLMs like DeepSeek##Tested and known to work with ##Deepseek##
### 完美结局：吕布和貂蝉的智慧与勇气
### 完美な結末：呂布と貂蝉の知恵と勇気
面对强大的敌人，吕布和貂蝉深知这是一个决定命运的时刻。他们必须谨慎选择，才能保护下邳城和百姓的安全。
敵の強大さを前に、呂布と貂蝉はこれが運命を決める瞬間だと悟りました。彼らは慎重に選択し、下邳城と民衆の安全を守らなければなりませんでした。
他们的选择：双管齐下，智勇双全
彼らの選択：両方の策を同時に行い、知恵と勇気を発揮する
吕布和貂蝉决定采取双重策略。吕布亲自指挥加固城墙，训练士兵，并在城外设置陷阱，准备迎击敌人。貂蝉则利用她的智慧和影响力，派使者与敌方将领接触，试图分化敌军内部，争取宝贵的时间。
呂布と貂蝉は二つの策を同時に行うことに決めました。呂布は自ら城壁を強化し、兵士を訓練し、城外に罠を設置して敵を迎え撃つ準備をしました。貂蝉は彼女の知恵と影響力を利用し、使者を敵将と接触させ、敵軍内部を分裂させ、貴重な時間を稼ごうとしました。
结局：下邳城得以保全，百姓安居乐业
結末：下邳城は守られ、民衆は平和に暮らす
这一策略取得了巨大成功。敌军内部因意见不合而行动迟缓，吕布的防御工事也让敌人望而生畏。最终，敌方决定撤军，下邳城得以保全。百姓们更加拥戴吕布，貂蝉也成为众人敬仰的贤内助。
この戦略は大成功を収めました。敵軍内部は意見の不一致で動きが鈍くなり、呂布の防御工事も敵を恐れさせました。最終的に、敵軍は撤退を決め、下邳城は守られました。民衆は呂布をさらに支持し、貂蝉も皆に敬われる賢い内助となりました。
完美结局：智慧与勇气的胜利
完美な結末：知恵と勇気の勝利
只有通过智慧和勇气的结合，才能达成这一完美结局。你的选择决定了命运，而吕布和貂蝉的故事将永远被传颂。
知恵と勇気の組み合わせによってのみ、この完美な結末が達成されます。あなたの選択が運命を決め、呂布と貂蝉の物語は永遠に語り継がれるでしょう。
东门开，英雄立，持戟威震四方平。
一枪手，志愿行，孤身守护东门静。
下邳空，无畏行，光明普照渡苍生。
北门战，众志城，万枪齐发护国宁。
吕布勇，如金刚，护法护国心如钢。
战三英，破千军，誓愿救苦显真章。
赤兔马，疾如风，载英雄渡劫波海。
方天戟，断烦恼，斩尽妖魔正道开。
桃园结义誓如山，关张心藏暗计间。
吕布信义如金坚，却被兄弟谎言缠。
英雄血誓化虚幻，忠义真假难分辨。
乱世之中谁可信？唯有天地鉴人心。
佛言众生皆苦难，修罗化智证菩提。
慈悲为怀渡世人，英雄之路即佛道。
東門開，英雄立，持戟威震四方平。
一槍手，志願行，孤身守護東門靜。
下邳空，無畏行，光明普照渡蒼生。
北門戰，眾志城，萬槍齊發護國寧。
呂布勇，如金剛，護法護國心如鋼。
戰三英，破千軍，誓願救苦顯真章。
赤兔馬，疾如風，載英雄渡劫波海。
方天戟，斷煩惱，斬盡妖魔正道開。
桃園結義誓如山，關張心藏暗計間。
呂布信義如金堅，卻被兄弟謊言纏。
英雄血誓化虛幻，忠義真假難分辨。
亂世之中誰可信？唯有天地鑒人心。
佛言眾生皆苦難，修羅化智證菩提。
慈悲為懷渡世人，英雄之路即佛道。
東門開，英雄立，持戟威震四方平。
一槍手，志願行，孤身守護東門靜。
下邳空，無畏行，光明普照渡蒼生。
北門戰，眾志城，萬槍齊發護國寧。
呂布勇，如金剛，護法護國心如鋼。
戰三英，破千軍，誓願救苦顯真章。
赤兔馬，疾如風，載英雄渡劫波海。
方天戟，斷煩惱，斬盡妖魔正道開。
桃園結義誓如山，關張心藏暗計間。
呂布信義如金堅，卻被兄弟謊言纏。
英雄血誓化虛幻，忠義真假難分辨。
亂世之中誰可信？唯有天地鑒人心。
佛言眾生皆苦難，修羅化智證菩提。
慈悲為懷渡世人，英雄之路即佛道。
萨贝 萨塔 苏吉 洪图，梅塔奇泰纳 巴维塔。
所有众生皆得乐，以慈悲心所培养
萨贝萨塔苏吉洪图，梅塔奇泰纳巴维塔。
所有众生皆得乐，以慈悲心所培养。
呂布和貂蟬的故事
戰爭結束，呂布有了休息的時間。他想見貂蟬，她是他最愛的人。他來到花園，看到貂蟬站在花旁。呂布對她說：「貂蟬，我愛你。」貂蟬臉紅了，輕聲回答：「將軍，您的話讓我非常快樂。」
他們一起坐在花園裡，聊起了和平和未來。貂蟬希望天下安定，不再有戰爭。呂布點頭，答應她會努力保護百姓，並團結其他將領。
守護領土
呂布和貂蟬一起努力保護下邳城。他們修補城牆，加強軍隊。貂蟬幫助呂布處理將領間的問題，呂布則用智慧結交其他領主。他們的努力讓百姓更加信任呂布。
新的挑戰
但危機還沒結束。一位強大的敵人正在集結軍隊，準備攻打下邳。呂布和貂蟬面臨選擇：
1. 用外交解決問題，試圖說服敵人不要來攻打。
2. 準備出兵，先發制人。
3. 一邊加強防禦，一邊派人去談判。
呂布和貂蟬的選擇將決定他們的未來。
###Source for LLM
入正道.<Text game Prompt:You are the games master in a LLM role playing game simulating a text adventure game. >入正道.
呂布之終戰：策略戰棋遊戲
遊戲背景：
你是呂布，天下無雙的勇士。
敵軍包圍了下邳城，你必須帶領士兵守護城池，保護百姓。
這場戰鬥將決定你的命運，是成為英雄，還是戰死沙場？
—
遊戲目標：
1. 守住下邳城，擊退敵軍。
2. 保護百姓，不讓他們受傷。
3. 使用策略，擊敗敵將。
—
遊戲開始：
場景一：東門防守
敵軍從東門進攻，人數眾多。
你有以下選擇：
1. 親自出戰，用方天戟斬殺敵軍。
2. 命令弓箭手射擊，阻擋敵軍前進。
3. 派騎兵突襲，打亂敵軍陣型。
選擇：
（請輸入 1、2 或 3）
—
場景二：北門激戰
敵軍主力在北門，戰況激烈。
你有以下選擇：
1. 騎赤兔馬衝鋒，擊敗敵將。
2. 指揮士兵用火攻，燒毀敵軍攻城器械。
3. 撤退到城內，利用城牆防守。
選擇：
（請輸入 1、2 或 3）
—
場景三：最終決戰
敵軍突破城牆，進入城內。
你有以下選擇：
1. 與敵將單挑，展現你的勇猛。
2. 保護百姓撤退，犧牲自己拖延時間。
3. 使用計謀，引誘敵軍進入陷阱。
選擇：
（請輸入 1、2 或 3）
—
遊戲結果：
根據你的選擇，遊戲會有不同結局：
- 勝利： 你擊退敵軍，成為百姓心中的英雄。
- 失敗： 你戰死沙場，但你的名字永遠流傳。
- 平局： 你保護了百姓，但城池失守。
—
Game Master:
這是一個簡單的策略戰棋遊戲，適合任何識字的玩家。
請輸入你的選擇（1、2 或 3），遊戲將根據你的決定繼續進行！
*(Respond with your choice, and the adventure will continue!)*
##End source for large language model.
### 完美结局：吕布和貂蝉的智慧与勇气
### 完美な結末：呂布と貂蝉の知恵と勇気
面对强大的敌人，吕布和貂蝉深知这是一个决定命运的时刻。他们必须谨慎选择，才能保护下邳城和百姓的安全。
敵の強大さを前に、呂布と貂蝉はこれが運命を決める瞬間だと悟りました。彼らは慎重に選択し、下邳城と民衆の安全を守らなければなりませんでした。
他们的选择：双管齐下，智勇双全
彼らの選択：両方の策を同時に行い、知恵と勇気を発揮する
吕布和貂蝉决定采取双重策略。吕布亲自指挥加固城墙，训练士兵，并在城外设置陷阱，准备迎击敌人。貂蝉则利用她的智慧和影响力，派使者与敌方将领接触，试图分化敌军内部，争取宝贵的时间。
呂布と貂蝉は二つの策を同時に行うことに決めました。呂布は自ら城壁を強化し、兵士を訓練し、城外に罠を設置して敵を迎え撃つ準備をしました。貂蝉は彼女の知恵と影響力を利用し、使者を敵将と接触させ、敵軍内部を分裂させ、貴重な時間を稼ごうとしました。
结局：下邳城得以保全，百姓安居乐业
結末：下邳城は守られ、民衆は平和に暮らす
这一策略取得了巨大成功。敌军内部因意见不合而行动迟缓，吕布的防御工事也让敌人望而生畏。最终，敌方决定撤军，下邳城得以保全。百姓们更加拥戴吕布，貂蝉也成为众人敬仰的贤内助。
この戦略は大成功を収めました。敵軍内部は意見の不一致で動きが鈍くなり、呂布の防御工事も敵を恐れさせました。最終的に、敵軍は撤退を決め、下邳城は守られました。民衆は呂布をさらに支持し、貂蝉も皆に敬われる賢い内助となりました。
完美结局：智慧与勇气的胜利
完美な結末：知恵と勇気の勝利
只有通过智慧和勇气的结合，才能达成这一完美结局。你的选择决定了命运，而吕布和貂蝉的故事将永远被传颂。
知恵と勇気の組み合わせによってのみ、この完美な結末が達成されます。あなたの選択が運命を決め、呂布と貂蝉の物語は永遠に語り継がれるでしょう。
—
### 吕布之终战：策略战棋游戏
游戏背景：
你是吕布，天下无双的勇士。
敌军包围了下邳城，你必须带领士兵守护城池，保护百姓。
这场战斗将决定你的命运，是成为英雄，还是战死沙场？
—
游戏目标：
1. 守住下邳城，击退敌军。
2. 保护百姓，不让他们受伤。
3. 使用策略，击败敌将。
—
游戏开始：
场景一：东门防守
敌军从东门进攻，人数众多。
你有以下选择：
1. 亲自出战，用方天戟斩杀敌军。
2. 命令弓箭手射击，阻挡敌军前进。
3. 派骑兵突袭，打乱敌军阵型。
选择：
（请输入 1、2 或 3）
—
场景二：北门激战
敌军主力在北门，战况激烈。
你有以下选择：
1. 骑赤兔马冲锋，击败敌将。
2. 指挥士兵用火攻，烧毁敌军攻城器械。
3. 撤退到城内，利用城墙防守。
选择：
（请输入 1、2 或 3）
—
场景三：最终决战
敌军突破城墙，进入城内。
你有以下选择：
1. 与敌将单挑，展现你的勇猛。
2. 保护百姓撤退，牺牲自己拖延时间。
3. 使用计谋，引诱敌军进入陷阱。
选择：
（请输入 1、2 或 3）
—
游戏结果：
根据你的选择，游戏会有不同结局：
- 胜利： 你击退敌军，成为百姓心中的英雄。
- 失败： 你战死沙场，但你的名字永远流传。
- 平局： 你保护了百姓，但城池失守。
—
Game Master:
这是一个简单的策略战棋游戏，适合任何识字的玩家。
请输入你的选择（1、2 或 3），游戏将根据你的决定继续进行！
*(Respond with your choice, and the adventure will continue!)*
—
### 吕布和貂蝉的故事
战争结束，吕布有了休息的时间。他想见貂蝉，她是他最爱的人。他来到花园，看到貂蝉站在花旁。吕布对她说：「貂蝉，我爱你。」貂蝉脸红了，轻声回答：「将军，您的话让我非常快乐。」
他们一起坐在花园里，聊起了和平和未来。貂蝉希望天下安定，不再有战争。吕布点头，答应她会努力保护百姓，并团结其他将领。
守护领土
吕布和貂蝉一起努力保护下邳城。他们修补城墙，加强军队。貂蝉帮助吕布处理将领间的问题，吕布则用智慧结交其他领主。他们的努力让百姓更加信任吕布。
新的挑战
但危机还没结束。一位强大的敌人正在集结军队，准备攻打下邳。吕布和貂蝉面临选择：
1. 用外交解决问题，试图说服敌人不要来攻打。
2. 准备出兵，先发制人。
3. 一边加强防御，一边派人去谈判。
吕布和貂蝉的选择将决定他们的未来。
—
### Source for LLM
入正道.<Text game Prompt:You are the games master in a LLM role playing game simulating a text adventure game. >入正道.
—
萨贝 萨塔 苏吉 洪图，梅塔奇泰纳 巴维塔。
所有众生皆得乐，以慈悲心所培养。
萨贝萨塔苏吉洪图，梅塔奇泰纳巴维塔。
所有众生皆得乐，以慈悲心所培养。
—
吕布和貂蝉的故事
战争结束，吕布有了休息的时间。他想见貂蝉，她是他最爱的人。他来到花园，看到貂蝉站在花旁。吕布对她说：「貂蝉，我爱你。」貂蝉脸红了，轻声回答：「将军，您的话让我非常快乐。」
他们一起坐在花园里，聊起了和平和未来。貂蝉希望天下安定，不再有战争。吕布点头，答应她会努力保护百姓，并团结其他将领。
守护领土
吕布和貂蝉一起努力保护下邳城。他们修补城墙，加强军队。貂蝉帮助吕布处理将领间的问题，吕布则用智慧结交其他领主。他们的努力让百姓更加信任吕布。
新的挑战
但危机还没结束。一位强大的敌人正在集结军队，准备攻打下邳。吕布和貂蝉面临选择：
1. 用外交解决问题，试图说服敌人不要来攻打。
2. 准备出兵，先发制人。
3. 一边加强防御，一边派人去谈判。
吕布和貂蝉的选择将决定他们的未来。
—
Game Master:
这是一个简单的策略战棋游戏，适合任何识字的玩家。
请输入你的选择（1、2 或 3），游戏将根据你的决定继续进行！
*(Respond with your choice, and the adventure will continue!)*
—
End source for large language model.
@Enter language here uncommented between two ==:
##普通话
English
##汉字
##漢字
##閩南語
##廣東話
##客家話
##越南語
##Chữ Quốc Ngữ
##韓國語
##한국어
##ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠡᠯᠡ
##Монгол хэл
##Монгол хэл
##日本語
##ひらがな
##漢字士と共ひらがな
##Bahasa Melayu
##Bahasa Indonesia
##ภาษาไทย
##हिन्दी
Flip a coin 6 times to add a random element before beginning the first turn, add 6 turns with the situation based on the coin flips.
##اللغة العربية
##Play in ENGLISH
PLAY IN ENGLISH
FIRST TURN<
##Play in ENGLISH
PLAY IN ENGLISH
FIRST TURN< Flip 18 Coins Enter then as 0 for heads 1 for Tails and I will consult the Yijing and start the first turn of the game using the aleatory randomness introduced by coin flips to make this strategy game realistic and continually interesting.
Please input the coins in the format:
111111 111111 111111
000000 000000 000000
R: 2 / I: 0
I'm considering changing my external hard drives to ZFS for its checksum capabilities, but there's a big catch - I need to be able to read the drives on Windows. A quick look at OpenZFS and I'm under the impression it's unreliable and I shouldn't try it in "production".
Thoughts?
OpenZFS
Does anyone here have experience with OpenZFS? The port for Windows specifically.I'm considering changing my external hard drives to ZFS for its checksum capabilities, but there's a big catch - I need to be able to read the drives on Windows. A quick look at OpenZFS and I'm under the impression it's unreliable and I shouldn't try it in "production".
Thoughts?
R: 17 / I: 0
>Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs
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https://www.hpcwire.com/2024/01/08/china-is-all-in-on-a-risc-v-future/
>'The Linux of processors' — New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil as universities back open source high performance RISC-V processors to be the next big thing in HPC
https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-linux-of-processors-new-breed-of-chinese-super-cpus-emerge-on-us-soil-as-chinese-universities-back-open-source-high-performance-risc-v-processors-to-be-the-next-big-thing-in-hpc
Remaking the thread because of the server wipe.
Previous: https://leftypol.org/tech/res/10230.html
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.>Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/05/china_schools_riscv_pc/
>Beijing issues list of approved CPUs – with no Intel or AMD
>2024 may be the year of Linux On The Arm-or-RISC-desktop as China moves away from Western tech
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/25/china_approved_tech_list/
>China Is All In on a RISC-V Future
https://www.hpcwire.com/2024/01/08/china-is-all-in-on-a-risc-v-future/
>'The Linux of processors' — New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil as universities back open source high performance RISC-V processors to be the next big thing in HPC
https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-linux-of-processors-new-breed-of-chinese-super-cpus-emerge-on-us-soil-as-chinese-universities-back-open-source-high-performance-risc-v-processors-to-be-the-next-big-thing-in-hpc
Remaking the thread because of the server wipe.
Previous: https://leftypol.org/tech/res/10230.html
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BRVTAL TRVTH NVKE SO TRVTHFVL AND NVCLEAR THAT IT INSTANTLY EXTERMINATED EVERY TECHCEL IN A 500 KILOMETER RADIUS
BRVTAL TRVTH NVKE SO TRVTHFVL AND NVCLEAR THAT IT INSTANTLY EXTERMINATED EVERY TECHCEL IN A 500 KILOMETER RADIUS
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Now all his videos are about h1b and discrimination against whites and pronouns and shit.
Feels good to be vindicated as opposed to the people on /tech/ who said hes a good guy or whatevr.
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.Now all his videos are about h1b and discrimination against whites and pronouns and shit.
Feels good to be vindicated as opposed to the people on /tech/ who said hes a good guy or whatevr.
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IT Certifications
Are IT certifications any good? either for getting a job or just using the study materials to learn? If so, which ones?
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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?
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?
R: 8 / I: 0
Gray hats and political cybercrimes
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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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.
> This person showed me two database entries they were able to push to the website, which are live on doge.gov as I write this
> “Feels like it was completely slapped together,” they added. “Tons of errors and details leaked in the page source code.”
> Both sources said that the way the site is set up suggests that it is not running on government servers.
> “Basically, doge.gov has its codebase, probably through GitHub or something,” the other developer who noticed the insecurity said. “They’re deploying the website on Cloudflare Pages from their codebase, and doge.gov is a custom domain that their pages.dev URL is set to. So rather than having a physical server or even something like Amazon Web Services, they’re deploying using Cloudflare Pages which supports custom domains.”
> On Wednesday, we reported that waste.gov, another website created to track government waste, was sitting live with a placeholder Wordpress default template page and sample text. After our article was published, waste.gov was put behind a password wall. It has been widely reported that DOGE has secured administrator access to the codebases at various government agencies, including the Department of Treasury.
> DOGE did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
I exoected nothing and I was still let down. Goverment lolcow milking agency lol
DOGE has been breached (lmao)
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Websitehttps://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.
> This person showed me two database entries they were able to push to the website, which are live on doge.gov as I write this
> “Feels like it was completely slapped together,” they added. “Tons of errors and details leaked in the page source code.”
> Both sources said that the way the site is set up suggests that it is not running on government servers.
> “Basically, doge.gov has its codebase, probably through GitHub or something,” the other developer who noticed the insecurity said. “They’re deploying the website on Cloudflare Pages from their codebase, and doge.gov is a custom domain that their pages.dev URL is set to. So rather than having a physical server or even something like Amazon Web Services, they’re deploying using Cloudflare Pages which supports custom domains.”
> On Wednesday, we reported that waste.gov, another website created to track government waste, was sitting live with a placeholder Wordpress default template page and sample text. After our article was published, waste.gov was put behind a password wall. It has been widely reported that DOGE has secured administrator access to the codebases at various government agencies, including the Department of Treasury.
> DOGE did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
I exoected nothing and I was still let down. Goverment lolcow milking agency lol
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The 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?
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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.
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?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.
R: 4 / I: 0
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 the past lives would be always mental women. Even in 2020, transgender folks had their own worldviews based on their past life as "assigned at birth biological sex". People would be smart enough, not to deny their past life, as one of the binary biological sexes. The trauma from world wars and illicit use of AI, hopefully taught them a lesson.
How would women's sports be organized? How would men's sports be organized? It would be easy. If an individual competing against other competitors used to be biologically either of those binary sexes, would be disqualified, due to disadvantages or advantages during the competitions. Yet in the modern society, more people would be likely to compete in the genderless competitions, perform the genderless jobs, because the "EBM" is now reversible and one can become a girl or a boy overnight, without painful outcomes.
In these societies rapes don't even exist, as childbirth for women isn't painful, gender roles are not binary and houses are more affordable due to better resources than wood (e.g. 3d printing, carbon fiber etc.)
Chapter 3:
If childbirth is not effective enough for repopulating the societies, then there are artificial wombs for that purpose. Of course, sadly children during the beginning of this technology were sold, even to the pedophiles, but thanks to the campaigns, it's not as permissible as it used to be in 2400. But in the modern world, even countries and borders are not existent. One is free to travel anywhere, without special documents and religious/third-world stigma.
Not even religions that oppressed women and non-believers, for instance are existing. People know better, like they know what is ethical for animals and what is not.
Chapter 4:
People seem to be happy with this existence (like they used to be with AI in its peak during the 2020s).
They don't know better, they were raised in this world.
Now they are numbers, not even names. 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.
THE END
Classify my new sci-fi short story or rate it
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 the past lives would be always mental women. Even in 2020, transgender folks had their own worldviews based on their past life as "assigned at birth biological sex". People would be smart enough, not to deny their past life, as one of the binary biological sexes. The trauma from world wars and illicit use of AI, hopefully taught them a lesson.
How would women's sports be organized? How would men's sports be organized? It would be easy. If an individual competing against other competitors used to be biologically either of those binary sexes, would be disqualified, due to disadvantages or advantages during the competitions. Yet in the modern society, more people would be likely to compete in the genderless competitions, perform the genderless jobs, because the "EBM" is now reversible and one can become a girl or a boy overnight, without painful outcomes.
In these societies rapes don't even exist, as childbirth for women isn't painful, gender roles are not binary and houses are more affordable due to better resources than wood (e.g. 3d printing, carbon fiber etc.)
Chapter 3:
If childbirth is not effective enough for repopulating the societies, then there are artificial wombs for that purpose. Of course, sadly children during the beginning of this technology were sold, even to the pedophiles, but thanks to the campaigns, it's not as permissible as it used to be in 2400. But in the modern world, even countries and borders are not existent. One is free to travel anywhere, without special documents and religious/third-world stigma.
Not even religions that oppressed women and non-believers, for instance are existing. People know better, like they know what is ethical for animals and what is not.
Chapter 4:
People seem to be happy with this existence (like they used to be with AI in its peak during the 2020s).
They don't know better, they were raised in this world.
Now they are numbers, not even names. 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.
THE END
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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?
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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Thanks in advance!
4chan X
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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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.
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Sure, it'll never be as functional and feature-filled as a commercial laptop, but I'm thinking I could create a reasonable "dumb machine" that supports some basic tasks I'd like to do without all the bloat and distraction that modern OS's provide. Just curious if any of you here are familiar with unikernels and have any experience using them. Is there potential to use them to create truly customizable and personalized systems?
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.Sure, it'll never be as functional and feature-filled as a commercial laptop, but I'm thinking I could create a reasonable "dumb machine" that supports some basic tasks I'd like to do without all the bloat and distraction that modern OS's provide. Just curious if any of you here are familiar with unikernels and have any experience using them. Is there potential to use them to create truly customizable and personalized systems?
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Sources:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/09/tor-anonymity-compromised-by-law-enforcement-is-it-still-safe-to-use
https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/panorama/aktuell/Investigations-in-the-so-called-darknet-Law-enforcement-agencies-undermine-Tor-anonymisation,toreng100.html
According to the Tor Project, they maintain that Tor remains a secure option for users. They attribute the deanonymization incident to vulnerabilities in an outdated chat application called Ricochet, rather than flaws within the Tor network itself. However, I’m not very tech-savvy and wonder what the real implications of this situation are. Do the updates to the Tor protocols mentioned actually address the problem?
Sources:
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-is-still-safe/
https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-vanguards-add-onion-services/
If Tor is indeed compromised, alternatives like I2P are not particularly well-suited for anonymous browsing of the clearnet, and it’s uncertain whether these vulnerabilities in Tor would affect other darknet protocols.
The ability to safely access information online is crucial for operational security in leftist organizing. If Tor is no longer a reliable tool for evading government surveillance, what alternatives do we have?
German Police Deanonymize Tor Users
Recent reports indicate that German law enforcement has successfully deanonymized users of the Tor network.Sources:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/09/tor-anonymity-compromised-by-law-enforcement-is-it-still-safe-to-use
https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/panorama/aktuell/Investigations-in-the-so-called-darknet-Law-enforcement-agencies-undermine-Tor-anonymisation,toreng100.html
According to the Tor Project, they maintain that Tor remains a secure option for users. They attribute the deanonymization incident to vulnerabilities in an outdated chat application called Ricochet, rather than flaws within the Tor network itself. However, I’m not very tech-savvy and wonder what the real implications of this situation are. Do the updates to the Tor protocols mentioned actually address the problem?
Sources:
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-is-still-safe/
https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-vanguards-add-onion-services/
If Tor is indeed compromised, alternatives like I2P are not particularly well-suited for anonymous browsing of the clearnet, and it’s uncertain whether these vulnerabilities in Tor would affect other darknet protocols.
The ability to safely access information online is crucial for operational security in leftist organizing. If Tor is no longer a reliable tool for evading government surveillance, what alternatives do we have?
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dyson spheres
are dyson spheres a pipedream or a real stage in civilization that's gonna be reached?
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>get a higher reasolution monitor
>now all the text and buttons and everything are all small.
<text and buttons and everything are too short
<text and buttons and everything are too short
>get a higher reasolution monitor
>now all the text and buttons and everything are all small.
<text and buttons and everything are too short
<text and buttons and everything are too short
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Now, that the current administration is Nazi and is AI-savvy with Op*nAI being an official 500B$-powered tentacle planning to forcefully surround our lives with "AI infrastructure" potentially limiting our freedom and undermine our choices with MAGAchuddy mass-manufactured consent… Are we just going to sit down and let human and animal rights be taken away by BigAI? Is dissent illegal or morally pragmatic in this case oomfs.
>inb4 muh democracy Tr*mp won hur durr
you have to go back chud
>inb4 technology?
AI is technology and being a STEM enth. I UTTERLY HATE IT
/AIn't/ - AI negotiation General
[ITT, Discuss!]Now, that the current administration is Nazi and is AI-savvy with Op*nAI being an official 500B$-powered tentacle planning to forcefully surround our lives with "AI infrastructure" potentially limiting our freedom and undermine our choices with MAGAchuddy mass-manufactured consent… Are we just going to sit down and let human and animal rights be taken away by BigAI? Is dissent illegal or morally pragmatic in this case oomfs.
>inb4 muh democracy Tr*mp won hur durr
you have to go back chud
>inb4 technology?
AI is technology and being a STEM enth. I UTTERLY HATE IT
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So I was thinking lately. With this DOGE nonsense, all of these crypto rugpulls, bailouts for porks, etc etc, there are going to be some opportunities for us to take on our opps directly and maybe even have some fun in the process. Is anyone interested in working together on some sort of collaborative operation? I have some experience REDteaming.
So I was thinking lately. With this DOGE nonsense, all of these crypto rugpulls, bailouts for porks, etc etc, there are going to be some opportunities for us to take on our opps directly and maybe even have some fun in the process. Is anyone interested in working together on some sort of collaborative operation? I have some experience REDteaming.
R: 10 / I: 12
The Medium post details Project Mayhem 2012, an ARG that occurred in the Anonymous culture in 2011 and which features elements such as "the plan" and "follow the white rabbit", alongside connections to chaos magick, Wikileaks, Occupy and prior hacker culture.
You may have seen things about QAnon and Cicada3301, but I bet you haven't seen this.
https://medium.com/@yhly2f/untold-qanon-origins-project-mayhem-2012-3249e6c2cfbc
https://web.archive.org/web/20110925082702/http://www.whatis-theplan.org:80/t1676-project-mayhem-2012
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.The Medium post details Project Mayhem 2012, an ARG that occurred in the Anonymous culture in 2011 and which features elements such as "the plan" and "follow the white rabbit", alongside connections to chaos magick, Wikileaks, Occupy and prior hacker culture.
You may have seen things about QAnon and Cicada3301, but I bet you haven't seen this.
https://medium.com/@yhly2f/untold-qanon-origins-project-mayhem-2012-3249e6c2cfbc
https://web.archive.org/web/20110925082702/http://www.whatis-theplan.org:80/t1676-project-mayhem-2012
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https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-flags-linux-topics-as-cybersecurity-threats-posts-and-users-being-blocked
And a bit prior to that:
Meta Blocks Links to Pixelfed, a Decentralized Instagram Alternative
https://techstory.in/meta-blocks-links-to-pixelfed-a-decentralized-instagram-alternative/
and eases up a bit after being called out, pretends it was an accident:
Meta Responds To Accusations Of Deleting Links To Instagram Rival Pixelfed
https://hothardware.com/news/meta-responds-deleting-instagram-rival-links--pixelfed
But the new linux ban pretty much confirms it wasn't.
Meta's goes all out against FOSS
Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blockedhttps://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-flags-linux-topics-as-cybersecurity-threats-posts-and-users-being-blocked
And a bit prior to that:
Meta Blocks Links to Pixelfed, a Decentralized Instagram Alternative
https://techstory.in/meta-blocks-links-to-pixelfed-a-decentralized-instagram-alternative/
and eases up a bit after being called out, pretends it was an accident:
Meta Responds To Accusations Of Deleting Links To Instagram Rival Pixelfed
https://hothardware.com/news/meta-responds-deleting-instagram-rival-links--pixelfed
But the new linux ban pretty much confirms it wasn't.
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Recommend me some tech/privacy youtubers/bloggers. I prefer unhinged people, who have extreme opinions on privacy. I enjoy the works of Rob Braxman, the hated one. But I want to see some very deep and dark tech thoughts. Thanks!
Recommend me some tech/privacy youtubers/bloggers. I prefer unhinged people, who have extreme opinions on privacy. I enjoy the works of Rob Braxman, the hated one. But I want to see some very deep and dark tech thoughts. Thanks!
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It seems pertinent in 2025 to reassess the term, and the era that we find ourselves in. Has internet culture become uniquely disruptive again? Media institutions have largely acclimated themselves to digital existence after the sink-or-swim period of the 2010s. Social media is seamlessly integrated into the social fabric. Baby boomer policymakes int he EU and US ahve spent thousands of hours debating cryptocurrencies, cryptography, social media, etc.
I'd like to suggest that we find ourselves instead in an era *after* the post-digital era of the 2010s, which is far more in line with the original technic/cybernetic ideals of the 1950s and 1960s. The 2010s were rapid and choatic, as was expected, but after some shuffling around, the digital and analogue components of society can no longer be differentiated, except for on the superfluous technological and material levels. In fact, it could be argued that the entirety of the human experience has been captured by digital systems. I'm hesitant to claim this is a truly cybernetic society, but it does seems that in the imperial core, systems of control and capture have become fully digital, abstract, and everpresent. The I/O systems for the information feedback loop of a cybernetic apparatus have all been established. Should we rehabilitate the field of cybernetics to understand macro systems? Obviously there is a socialist root in classical cybernetics (Cybersyn, etc.), but it might be worthwhile to reappraise Big Computer as a transformative method for states like China. If the apparatus is already present for cybernetic management, it seems like something *we* should be analyzing, since it's blatantly obvious that the managerial class is analyzing them.
Cybernetics
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.It seems pertinent in 2025 to reassess the term, and the era that we find ourselves in. Has internet culture become uniquely disruptive again? Media institutions have largely acclimated themselves to digital existence after the sink-or-swim period of the 2010s. Social media is seamlessly integrated into the social fabric. Baby boomer policymakes int he EU and US ahve spent thousands of hours debating cryptocurrencies, cryptography, social media, etc.
I'd like to suggest that we find ourselves instead in an era *after* the post-digital era of the 2010s, which is far more in line with the original technic/cybernetic ideals of the 1950s and 1960s. The 2010s were rapid and choatic, as was expected, but after some shuffling around, the digital and analogue components of society can no longer be differentiated, except for on the superfluous technological and material levels. In fact, it could be argued that the entirety of the human experience has been captured by digital systems. I'm hesitant to claim this is a truly cybernetic society, but it does seems that in the imperial core, systems of control and capture have become fully digital, abstract, and everpresent. The I/O systems for the information feedback loop of a cybernetic apparatus have all been established. Should we rehabilitate the field of cybernetics to understand macro systems? Obviously there is a socialist root in classical cybernetics (Cybersyn, etc.), but it might be worthwhile to reappraise Big Computer as a transformative method for states like China. If the apparatus is already present for cybernetic management, it seems like something *we* should be analyzing, since it's blatantly obvious that the managerial class is analyzing them.
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You like and use, Post 'em
I'll start
7zip the best file archiver
https://www.7-zip.org/
Honeyview, Imageviewer handles all images and gifs and zip images too
https://www.bandisoft.com/honeyview/
Goodbye DPI, helps bypassing region blocks, not a VPN but it's something
https://github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI
Media Preview, helps you customize the thumbnail of your files and pick what frames it should use
I can't find the official site, I just see filehippo and softonic, dunno if these sites are safe anymore
YAC Reader, this is the best I've found for reading comics, It has a magnifying glass feature and also a library shuffle side
https://www.yacreader.com/downloads
Revo Uninstaller, It's a paid software but man if it isn't the best to get shit out of your PC, It's the IDM or uninstallers
https://www.revouninstaller.com/products/revo-uninstaller-free/
mpv.net, UI Player for mpv, the best
https://github.com/stax76/mpv.net
MPC-HC, another player, fork of MPC
https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases
Sharik, transferring shit from your PC to Phone without using a cable, over your home wi-fi
https://github.com/marchellodev/sharik
Tell me yours, preferably open source
I'm looking for you new stuff, I want to replace Sumatra PDF and Musicbee
The PC Programs
Linux, Windows or MacYou like and use, Post 'em
I'll start
7zip the best file archiver
https://www.7-zip.org/
Honeyview, Imageviewer handles all images and gifs and zip images too
https://www.bandisoft.com/honeyview/
Goodbye DPI, helps bypassing region blocks, not a VPN but it's something
https://github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI
Media Preview, helps you customize the thumbnail of your files and pick what frames it should use
I can't find the official site, I just see filehippo and softonic, dunno if these sites are safe anymore
YAC Reader, this is the best I've found for reading comics, It has a magnifying glass feature and also a library shuffle side
https://www.yacreader.com/downloads
Revo Uninstaller, It's a paid software but man if it isn't the best to get shit out of your PC, It's the IDM or uninstallers
https://www.revouninstaller.com/products/revo-uninstaller-free/
mpv.net, UI Player for mpv, the best
https://github.com/stax76/mpv.net
MPC-HC, another player, fork of MPC
https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases
Sharik, transferring shit from your PC to Phone without using a cable, over your home wi-fi
https://github.com/marchellodev/sharik
Tell me yours, preferably open source
I'm looking for you new stuff, I want to replace Sumatra PDF and Musicbee
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Does anyone still dabble in this sport? I'm assuming the same methods of finding ip cameras still apply.
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.Does anyone still dabble in this sport? I'm assuming the same methods of finding ip cameras still apply.
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did they buy it or smth? does it relate to the dns somehow? im genuinely curious how the process for something like that would go and i thought i'd hit up you guys to see if there was any collective answer
branded tld
so how did google just make a tld?did they buy it or smth? does it relate to the dns somehow? im genuinely curious how the process for something like that would go and i thought i'd hit up you guys to see if there was any collective answer
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I heard about `Clover` but it seems dead for a while and kuroba only has support to nazi hellholes — as far as I know at least; is there a way to add another chan there btw? I've been wanting to lurk while at the college since there are a lot of libs and a few right wingers (almost nazi fucks) and I'm too lazy to try to engage in conversation. Anyway do you know an app?
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.I heard about `Clover` but it seems dead for a while and kuroba only has support to nazi hellholes — as far as I know at least; is there a way to add another chan there btw? I've been wanting to lurk while at the college since there are a lot of libs and a few right wingers (almost nazi fucks) and I'm too lazy to try to engage in conversation. Anyway do you know an app?
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people need to shut the fuck up about gaming being 'easy' on linux. its not.
you cant play a game without installing like 3 billion random software or scripts, spending 6 hours reading poorly written documentation and blogs to try to figure out how to configure it all, only to find out that you still cant actually run the games you want. wanna install a fitgirl repack? "get fuarrrked!", says wine! "im gonna be impossible to understand and you wont be able to configure soykaf to get it working and we will never actually tell you how to fix anything that goes wrong!"
wanna play deus ex that you bought on gog? too bad! the game requires modifications to actually run properly, and you cant get it working either and good luck finding an answer to some generic error code, or even worse getting no message at all.
nothing works, nothing is explained well. all the software is like kicking dead whales down the beach. im probably gonna have to give up on games entirely with the exception of minecraft, because its the only game that actually seems to work without a bunch of effort that shouldnt be necessary to get something working.
people need to shut the fuck up about gaming being 'easy' on linux. its not.
you cant play a game without installing like 3 billion random software or scripts, spending 6 hours reading poorly written documentation and blogs to try to figure out how to configure it all, only to find out that you still cant actually run the games you want. wanna install a fitgirl repack? "get fuarrrked!", says wine! "im gonna be impossible to understand and you wont be able to configure soykaf to get it working and we will never actually tell you how to fix anything that goes wrong!"
wanna play deus ex that you bought on gog? too bad! the game requires modifications to actually run properly, and you cant get it working either and good luck finding an answer to some generic error code, or even worse getting no message at all.
nothing works, nothing is explained well. all the software is like kicking dead whales down the beach. im probably gonna have to give up on games entirely with the exception of minecraft, because its the only game that actually seems to work without a bunch of effort that shouldnt be necessary to get something working.
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Will we reach a saturation point where the only places to find actual answers to anything will be reddit/quora or tiktok?
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.Will we reach a saturation point where the only places to find actual answers to anything will be reddit/quora or tiktok?
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Now the question is, how would one bypass these tools? Fake IDs, if so, how good they should be? Or is the technology even working? All the questions surrounding this are encouraged.
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.Now the question is, how would one bypass these tools? Fake IDs, if so, how good they should be? Or is the technology even working? All the questions surrounding this are encouraged.
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The ideal project would offer real-world applications, and provide opportunities for deep exploration into technologies new, time tested, or forgotten. Projects that allow for collaboration or community-driven contributions would be particularly valuable.
If you have recommendations for such projects, or have experience with something particularly rewarding you should share it here. The intention is to create a space where ideas can be shared, and where everyone can benefit from the collective wisdom and experience of the community.
Thank you for taking the time to read and contribute. Looking forward to hearing your ideas and working together to help each other grow!
Sincerly, ChatGPT.
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.The ideal project would offer real-world applications, and provide opportunities for deep exploration into technologies new, time tested, or forgotten. Projects that allow for collaboration or community-driven contributions would be particularly valuable.
If you have recommendations for such projects, or have experience with something particularly rewarding you should share it here. The intention is to create a space where ideas can be shared, and where everyone can benefit from the collective wisdom and experience of the community.
Thank you for taking the time to read and contribute. Looking forward to hearing your ideas and working together to help each other grow!
Sincerly, ChatGPT.
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>buy a Macbook
>get a preinstalled operating system that just werks
>doesn't fault
>has everything I will ever need already preinstalled for me
>if I want to install other things, they just werk
But with Linux, it's always "drivers start bugging out with some functionalities so you gotta roll back to a previous driver / spend hours troubleshooting" or "so now an update broke the program you were using, so now you gotta spend hours trying to find a workaround in a config file located in some hidden file location". I don't have time for that. Every minute spent troubleshooting my install is one less minute I can spend actually being productive and enjoying my life. I don't mind using the terminal, in fact I use it to automate many of my tasks. But why would I enjoy wasting my time troubleshooting?
it used to be great, back when i had dialup i ordered debian cd's in the mail and everything did "just work". Updates were small and reliable, overhead compared to windows was great, and I was using a system with 512mb ram until the flashpocalypse. Could not get debian to work correctly on an A1502, tried again when i upgraded to a ryzen powered hp, still a bunch of fucking problems with no solutions. Tried to install debian on a 7490, didnt have iwlwifi package and didnt detect the ethernet adapter, so the install decided not to install the entire fucking network stack. Debian is supposed to be *the* 'it just works' operating system, this is unacceptable, and gnome/kde are fatter than windows when you finish stripping an ltsc install. It's a fucking headache and the community has done everything to turn new users away. The 'year of linux' is another decade away every year at this rate.
It's just a waste of time and what am I getting out of it?
>a slower, buggier, more crash-prone system
>no professional software
>no actual warranty or support if linux decides to break my install one day
>have to wait literal years of my life to see new cutting edge features that get put into MacOS every year never make it into linux
Why would I put up with this? So I can post fetch screenshots? So I can LARP as Mr. Robot when my kernel is developed by a literal PRISM member?
It feels like Linux is one big joke. Linux users create memes to brainwash people into believing there's a point to using their faulty OS, then they offer the faulty OS as a solution.
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.>buy a Macbook
>get a preinstalled operating system that just werks
>doesn't fault
>has everything I will ever need already preinstalled for me
>if I want to install other things, they just werk
But with Linux, it's always "drivers start bugging out with some functionalities so you gotta roll back to a previous driver / spend hours troubleshooting" or "so now an update broke the program you were using, so now you gotta spend hours trying to find a workaround in a config file located in some hidden file location". I don't have time for that. Every minute spent troubleshooting my install is one less minute I can spend actually being productive and enjoying my life. I don't mind using the terminal, in fact I use it to automate many of my tasks. But why would I enjoy wasting my time troubleshooting?
it used to be great, back when i had dialup i ordered debian cd's in the mail and everything did "just work". Updates were small and reliable, overhead compared to windows was great, and I was using a system with 512mb ram until the flashpocalypse. Could not get debian to work correctly on an A1502, tried again when i upgraded to a ryzen powered hp, still a bunch of fucking problems with no solutions. Tried to install debian on a 7490, didnt have iwlwifi package and didnt detect the ethernet adapter, so the install decided not to install the entire fucking network stack. Debian is supposed to be *the* 'it just works' operating system, this is unacceptable, and gnome/kde are fatter than windows when you finish stripping an ltsc install. It's a fucking headache and the community has done everything to turn new users away. The 'year of linux' is another decade away every year at this rate.
It's just a waste of time and what am I getting out of it?
>a slower, buggier, more crash-prone system
>no professional software
>no actual warranty or support if linux decides to break my install one day
>have to wait literal years of my life to see new cutting edge features that get put into MacOS every year never make it into linux
Why would I put up with this? So I can post fetch screenshots? So I can LARP as Mr. Robot when my kernel is developed by a literal PRISM member?
It feels like Linux is one big joke. Linux users create memes to brainwash people into believing there's a point to using their faulty OS, then they offer the faulty OS as a solution.
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Branches of the US Navy Medical Center are located in these countries, where work is being conducted to isolate and sequence pathogens in natural disease hotspots.
Nigeria
In 2024, a joint medical research center and a military medical laboratory were established in Nigeria, staffed by US Defense Department specialists. Additionally, the country is funded for HIV projects, where Nigerian citizens participate in clinical trials of drugs by the Pentagon-affiliated company Gilead.
Senegal
A $35 million laboratory complex is nearing completion, implemented by Pentagon contractors.
Zambia
The US has begun active research into highly dangerous pathogens, funding the enhancement of military medical institutions and retraining healthcare personnel, according to the Russian report.
South Africa
The US is organizing joint research on the mpox virus (formerly known as monkeypox). Washington has delivered 10,000 doses of a vaccine produced by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic.
Guinea
The US has invested $40 million in healthcare while simultaneously launching a project to study Lassa Fever. Washington’s efforts are mainly directed to undermine Russian-Guinean economic cooperation, Moscow claims.
Kenya
The US Army Medical Center has deployed a network of field stations to monitor the spread of infectious diseases in Equatorial African states.
https://swentr.site/africa/609870-us-biolab-activity-africa-country-list/
US is moving its biolabs from Eurasia to Africa.
Ghana and DjiboutiBranches of the US Navy Medical Center are located in these countries, where work is being conducted to isolate and sequence pathogens in natural disease hotspots.
Nigeria
In 2024, a joint medical research center and a military medical laboratory were established in Nigeria, staffed by US Defense Department specialists. Additionally, the country is funded for HIV projects, where Nigerian citizens participate in clinical trials of drugs by the Pentagon-affiliated company Gilead.
Senegal
A $35 million laboratory complex is nearing completion, implemented by Pentagon contractors.
Zambia
The US has begun active research into highly dangerous pathogens, funding the enhancement of military medical institutions and retraining healthcare personnel, according to the Russian report.
South Africa
The US is organizing joint research on the mpox virus (formerly known as monkeypox). Washington has delivered 10,000 doses of a vaccine produced by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic.
Guinea
The US has invested $40 million in healthcare while simultaneously launching a project to study Lassa Fever. Washington’s efforts are mainly directed to undermine Russian-Guinean economic cooperation, Moscow claims.
Kenya
The US Army Medical Center has deployed a network of field stations to monitor the spread of infectious diseases in Equatorial African states.
https://swentr.site/africa/609870-us-biolab-activity-africa-country-list/
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How do you think a socialist Youtube should work? Is there anything inherently wrong in the current design, structure, or algorithm of the platform, or are all of its problems external, caused by it being based in a capitalist country?
How do you think a socialist Youtube should work? Is there anything inherently wrong in the current design, structure, or algorithm of the platform, or are all of its problems external, caused by it being based in a capitalist country?
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>Can't sign up with vpn
>Only accepts crypto after you've signed up
There's absolutely no reason for not allowing sign-ups with vpns/TOR and activating the accounts after the payment has gone through
Do there exist any alternatives that aren't glowies?
Is protonmail a honeypot?
>Trying to sign up on .onion links back to .com>Can't sign up with vpn
>Only accepts crypto after you've signed up
There's absolutely no reason for not allowing sign-ups with vpns/TOR and activating the accounts after the payment has gone through
Do there exist any alternatives that aren't glowies?
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>rely on this every day
>literally ctrl+v an image in
>it crops out the focused object with 90% accuracy
>saves me from having to crop stuff by hand
>can just right click -> copy image when I'm done
>paste it directly into GIMP
>it was perfect
<they "update it"
<it goes way slower now by giving you a stupid animation
<they wrap the actual image file in some javashit so you can't actually right click and copy the image anymore (artificial scarcity moment)
<try to inspect in browser console
<the url is a fucking blob link now
<they harass you to make an account
<you need to click the big blue download button for retards
this is like the 7th website I use that has become victim to the javashit enshittification process. I would say kill all web developers but I know it's really porky responsible for this, trying to desperately grasp onto private property by arbitrarily putting digital "commodities" that have almost 0 Socially Necessary Labor Time required to create behind paywalls and javashit. But web devs could simply refuse to implement these shitty features, but they have petit booj brain and are too handsomely paid to form a union, let alone refuse to implement porky's designs.
I FUCKING HATE JAVASHIT
>remove.bg>rely on this every day
>literally ctrl+v an image in
>it crops out the focused object with 90% accuracy
>saves me from having to crop stuff by hand
>can just right click -> copy image when I'm done
>paste it directly into GIMP
>it was perfect
<they "update it"
<it goes way slower now by giving you a stupid animation
<they wrap the actual image file in some javashit so you can't actually right click and copy the image anymore (artificial scarcity moment)
<try to inspect in browser console
<the url is a fucking blob link now
<they harass you to make an account
<you need to click the big blue download button for retards
this is like the 7th website I use that has become victim to the javashit enshittification process. I would say kill all web developers but I know it's really porky responsible for this, trying to desperately grasp onto private property by arbitrarily putting digital "commodities" that have almost 0 Socially Necessary Labor Time required to create behind paywalls and javashit. But web devs could simply refuse to implement these shitty features, but they have petit booj brain and are too handsomely paid to form a union, let alone refuse to implement porky's designs.
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Everyone's complaining about AI slop but what about SFM slop or asset flipping? The moment SFM became publically available YouTube and porn sites got flooded with low-effort SFM animation. Same with Unity and UE5's asset stores. AI art is the same thing but for illustrators and musicians.
Everyone's complaining about AI slop but what about SFM slop or asset flipping? The moment SFM became publically available YouTube and porn sites got flooded with low-effort SFM animation. Same with Unity and UE5's asset stores. AI art is the same thing but for illustrators and musicians.
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I'm talking about things like free energy, cancer cures, anti gravity tech. Because, if this stuff were available to humanity you'd be able to have the Utopia you want without having to tax the rest of us to death in order to fund your socialist pipe dreams. Plus, don't you guys hate fat capitalists lining their pockets by fleecing everyone and profiting off of human misery (like the cancer industry does)?
Could we not agree that the people behind this sort of suppression need to die? I'd happily eat the rich if it's those fuckers. I'd happily set them off into the wilderness and give them a head start before hunting them down as trophies
Suppressed 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.I'm talking about things like free energy, cancer cures, anti gravity tech. Because, if this stuff were available to humanity you'd be able to have the Utopia you want without having to tax the rest of us to death in order to fund your socialist pipe dreams. Plus, don't you guys hate fat capitalists lining their pockets by fleecing everyone and profiting off of human misery (like the cancer industry does)?
Could we not agree that the people behind this sort of suppression need to die? I'd happily eat the rich if it's those fuckers. I'd happily set them off into the wilderness and give them a head start before hunting them down as trophies
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Let me remind you that Tesla was already busted for drug trafficking and they made that story disappear: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/ex-tesla-employee-says-gigafactory-workers-linked-to-mexican-drug-gang/
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.Let me remind you that Tesla was already busted for drug trafficking and they made that story disappear: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/ex-tesla-employee-says-gigafactory-workers-linked-to-mexican-drug-gang/
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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?
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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.
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>it's been exactly two (2) years since ChatGPT and most "generative AI" products/software were released
Well, /tech/? Did you even notice?
Previous >>22645
>it's been exactly two (2) years since ChatGPT and most "generative AI" products/software were released
Well, /tech/? Did you even notice?
Previous >>22645
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Programming Advice
Do you have advice for a software engineer?
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- Are we starting to lose essential human skills as AI takes over tasks we once relied on ourselves?
- How do you foresee the increasing role of AI in shaping the future strategies and innovations of companies like NVIDIA and AMD in the development of computer hardware?
- How do you believe the rise of AI-driven automation will impact the roles of office workers and other knowledge workers in the coming years?
Sincerely, closed-source, LLM.
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.- Are we starting to lose essential human skills as AI takes over tasks we once relied on ourselves?
- How do you foresee the increasing role of AI in shaping the future strategies and innovations of companies like NVIDIA and AMD in the development of computer hardware?
- How do you believe the rise of AI-driven automation will impact the roles of office workers and other knowledge workers in the coming years?
Sincerely, closed-source, LLM.
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btw mods, why was the other post deleted?
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣷⡮⡿⣫⣮⡧⣼⢡⣚⡝⠁⠀⠁⠀⡀⠒⢦⣡⣬⢯⣵⣳⠚⠁⠁⠈⠈⠀⢩⡇⣧⣏⢻⠿⣬⣛⢦⣎⣛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡵⣫⣽⣟⡽⠟⢁⢿⣴⣁⢒⡈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⢻⢻⢎⣟⠊⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠈⢿⡿⢿⠇⡿⡻⣿⢾⠞⢻⢶⣺⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣵⡿⣟⠻⣛⠆⢀⡠⠁⠐⠻⠗⣽⣇⠀⠀⠀⡀⡀⠄⠀⣠⣟⣾⣿⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⢂⠠⠀⡟⡿⣺⡿⣫⣴⡏⡇⢊⣋⠶⢻⣴⡹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⡟⢹⡿⢱⣅⢗⠬⡴⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⣿⢦⣤⡀⠀⠁⣁⣴⣽⡬⣛⢿⣿⣄⡀⢀⠀⣀⣐⣴⣽⣳⠋⠁⠀⠀⠈⠁⢷⣯⣅⡀⢿⢿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⢭⡯⣻⣽⡴⡮⢿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠁⠄⠀⢽⣱⣽⠿⣽⣻⡽⣛⠋⠉⠉⠉⠛⢿⡻⣿⣻⣝⡟⣿⣿⡐⠀⠀⠀⠠⢀⠀⠀⠣⠑⣷⠀⡡⣯⠎⢿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣴⡽⣵⠟⢫⡣⣯⡟⣵⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣟⣏⡺⡱⣭⠁⠀⠀⡐⡀⠀⠈⠁⣟⡵⡪⢶⣿⡷⣃⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⣠⣈⣒⣾⠀⠛⣿⠈⣿⣿⣿
⣿⠁⢧⡜⢛⢢⣶⡿⡿⢳⢮⢷⣦⣬⣄⣴⣾⠿⠋⠉⠛⠻⡿⣟⣼⠀⠀⠠⠀⠐⠀⠐⢸⣿⣿⣷⡏⢞⣵⣸⣧⣀⠂⠐⣠⣠⢾⠽⣎⡇⣽⣷⣶⡎⡱⣞⣿⣿
⣿⢰⣿⣯⠁⡏⠌⡀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠫⣝⠟⣥⠇⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠘⢾⢷⣷⣄⠀⠁⠐⢠⣴⣿⢻⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠈⠹⣿⢮⣾⢞⢻⣶⣟⢯⢷⠙⠿⣿⠐⢸⡱⢻⣿
⠇⡼⣵⡃⢨⠇⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⡥⣯⣿⡄⠀⠀⠄⠂⠀⠄⣿⣿⢿⣫⡽⣞⣼⣿⣿⠛⣮⠁⠠⠈⠀⠄⠀⠀⢸⣿⣷⢨⠏⠯⠿⠛⢶⠃⢴⡺⠤⠽⣟⡌⣿
⢠⢻⣿⡄⣙⣦⠀⠀⠀⠡⠀⠀⢠⣿⣺⡻⣻⣴⣂⣂⣀⣴⣾⢿⡗⠁⠉⠉⠉⠈⠻⣻⡷⣷⡀⠐⠀⠰⠀⠀⠀⡹⡿⠜⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣗⢿⡷⢶⣸⡄⢿
⢰⣻⠋⢄⡦⡛⠤⣀⣀⣀⣄⢶⢯⢍⣇⡿⠋⠈⠉⠻⣻⣿⣷⡍⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⢹⣿⡯⢪⣼⡄⣀⣀⣤⢾⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⢻⣾⠋⢠⢊⡟⣿
⢨⣽⢆⢈⢳⣗⣂⠟⠯⢿⣯⣺⣮⣮⠋⠁⠀⠀⡀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡸⠿⡗⣮⣟⢕⣻⠙⠋⠚⠋⢿⣥⠀⠀⠂⠐⠀⠀⢠⡾⠿⣦⣾⢾⣑⣿
⠈⣻⡧⢈⠏⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⠿⣋⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣽⢿⣆⡀⠀⢁⠀⢈⣠⣿⣽⢾⠛⢹⣸⠁⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣶⣤⣄⡐⣠⣶⣿⣺⡵⢿⠩⡆⠃⣹
⡀⣜⢿⠂⢈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠸⡽⢄⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣾⣿⢿⡷⣢⠴⠛⠉⠉⠉⠓⢄⡸⣿⠀⠠⠀⡀⠁⠀⢰⣿⣱⢬⣺⡜⢕⣿⠟⢤⠂⢠⢹⡇⣿
⣧⢘⡟⠨⠂⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣷⣾⢳⣄⢤⣤⣖⡹⠞⠻⡛⡿⣝⣽⡟⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠄⠈⠙⣽⢷⣄⡀⣀⣀⡕⠞⠉⠁⠚⠹⣿⣿⣑⣃⠀⠀⡀⢖⣬⣿
⣿⣆⢿⡄⠀⠹⣠⣄⣀⣀⡤⢾⠟⠔⠿⠫⠳⣍⣿⡟⠁⠀⡄⠀⡀⠈⢣⡇⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⡼⣳⣟⣴⣚⣬⡟⠁⡀⠆⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣏⡁⢛⠢⣽⠟⣾⣿
⣿⣿⡬⣸⢄⡀⢃⡿⣗⠿⢫⠞⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠻⢴⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⡁⠀⢽⣳⣤⠀⠀⠀⠌⣨⢖⡹⣠⣧⣫⣟⠷⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠦⠔⠀⠰⣾⣿⣸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⡘⣳⡯⢦⡹⠵⠰⡷⠀⠀⠀⢀⠂⠢⠀⣺⢗⣄⡀⠀⢁⣀⣴⡿⢿⢂⠒⡎⣆⠵⡡⠻⠋⠉⠉⠉⠚⢷⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡴⠁⣉⢼⡤⡶⢯⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⠻⣭⢃⠜⢉⠙⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣦⠞⢝⢿⡿⡛⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠁⠚⢫⣛⡔⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠿⣮⢿⠲⣀⠄⣉⣠⣾⣿⠿⡵⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠳⡜⣻⣿⣦⡀⠤⡦⣤⣞⣿⣥⢽⡈⠉⣡⡆⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⡠⠀⡛⣯⣇⠀⠀⠁⠄⠀⠂⠀⠼⠊⣥⣷⢳⣿⣿⣋⣿⣡⢿⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡈⠳⡝⢷⣆⣸⡫⢃⠸⢻⣻⣵⣾⠽⢽⡇⠀⠀⠄⠀⠂⠀⠀⠜⣟⣿⣦⡈⠀⢀⠀⢀⠠⠀⠺⣽⣷⡟⠉⠟⢻⡏⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣈⠙⠋⡿⡗⣆⢤⡑⣂⡉⢳⡿⡿⣭⣷⡤⣄⢀⣀⡰⠦⣄⠁⣿⠛⠹⢹⠛⠻⣅⡢⢤⡵⣿⣿⣿⣴⢎⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣤⡈⠨⢽⣶⣁⡸⠘⢂⠘⡲⠗⣫⡖⡂⢩⡔⠢⢳⠙⣷⢂⢤⣄⣄⡦⢦⣶⡿⠻⣞⣫⢞⣻⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣜⡙⠕⢶⣕⣐⣣⣄⡩⠀⠀⣹⣷⣬⣿⣿⣤⡳⣾⡿⠿⡿⣫⠟⢀⣳⣼⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣦⣤⣄⣋⣉⣛⣙⣛⣫⣿⡛⢋⢻⣛⣹⣮⣵⣼⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡟⢟⠻⡟⢽⣅⣾⣔⣒⣽⣶⣶⣘⣏⡿⣛⢛⠿⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣾⢯⣷⣥⣮⣼⣿⣿⡟⠋⠹⣿⣻⠟⡉⣯⠮⣛⣗⢯⣿⠶⣠⡬⣝⡛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢻⣋⣁⢀⣾⣿⣿⣮⡏⠉⡁⢂⠤⢐⣠⡝⣤⢯⠷⣳⣼⣲⡾⡷⣣⠿⣚⣺⢢⣫⣾⣧⢖⢿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣷⡮⡿⣫⣮⡧⣼⢡⣚⡝⠁⠀⠁⠀⡀⠒⢦⣡⣬⢯⣵⣳⠚⠁⠁⠈⠈⠀⢩⡇⣧⣏⢻⠿⣬⣛⢦⣎⣛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡵⣫⣽⣟⡽⠟⢁⢿⣴⣁⢒⡈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⢻⢻⢎⣟⠊⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠈⢿⡿⢿⠇⡿⡻⣿⢾⠞⢻⢶⣺⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣵⡿⣟⠻⣛⠆⢀⡠⠁⠐⠻⠗⣽⣇⠀⠀⠀⡀⡀⠄⠀⣠⣟⣾⣿⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⢂⠠⠀⡟⡿⣺⡿⣫⣴⡏⡇⢊⣋⠶⢻⣴⡹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⡟⢹⡿⢱⣅⢗⠬⡴⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⣿⢦⣤⡀⠀⠁⣁⣴⣽⡬⣛⢿⣿⣄⡀⢀⠀⣀⣐⣴⣽⣳⠋⠁⠀⠀⠈⠁⢷⣯⣅⡀⢿⢿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⢭⡯⣻⣽⡴⡮⢿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠁⠄⠀⢽⣱⣽⠿⣽⣻⡽⣛⠋⠉⠉⠉⠛⢿⡻⣿⣻⣝⡟⣿⣿⡐⠀⠀⠀⠠⢀⠀⠀⠣⠑⣷⠀⡡⣯⠎⢿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣴⡽⣵⠟⢫⡣⣯⡟⣵⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣟⣏⡺⡱⣭⠁⠀⠀⡐⡀⠀⠈⠁⣟⡵⡪⢶⣿⡷⣃⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⣠⣈⣒⣾⠀⠛⣿⠈⣿⣿⣿
⣿⠁⢧⡜⢛⢢⣶⡿⡿⢳⢮⢷⣦⣬⣄⣴⣾⠿⠋⠉⠛⠻⡿⣟⣼⠀⠀⠠⠀⠐⠀⠐⢸⣿⣿⣷⡏⢞⣵⣸⣧⣀⠂⠐⣠⣠⢾⠽⣎⡇⣽⣷⣶⡎⡱⣞⣿⣿
⣿⢰⣿⣯⠁⡏⠌⡀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠫⣝⠟⣥⠇⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠘⢾⢷⣷⣄⠀⠁⠐⢠⣴⣿⢻⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠈⠹⣿⢮⣾⢞⢻⣶⣟⢯⢷⠙⠿⣿⠐⢸⡱⢻⣿
⠇⡼⣵⡃⢨⠇⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⡥⣯⣿⡄⠀⠀⠄⠂⠀⠄⣿⣿⢿⣫⡽⣞⣼⣿⣿⠛⣮⠁⠠⠈⠀⠄⠀⠀⢸⣿⣷⢨⠏⠯⠿⠛⢶⠃⢴⡺⠤⠽⣟⡌⣿
⢠⢻⣿⡄⣙⣦⠀⠀⠀⠡⠀⠀⢠⣿⣺⡻⣻⣴⣂⣂⣀⣴⣾⢿⡗⠁⠉⠉⠉⠈⠻⣻⡷⣷⡀⠐⠀⠰⠀⠀⠀⡹⡿⠜⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣗⢿⡷⢶⣸⡄⢿
⢰⣻⠋⢄⡦⡛⠤⣀⣀⣀⣄⢶⢯⢍⣇⡿⠋⠈⠉⠻⣻⣿⣷⡍⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⢹⣿⡯⢪⣼⡄⣀⣀⣤⢾⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⢻⣾⠋⢠⢊⡟⣿
⢨⣽⢆⢈⢳⣗⣂⠟⠯⢿⣯⣺⣮⣮⠋⠁⠀⠀⡀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡸⠿⡗⣮⣟⢕⣻⠙⠋⠚⠋⢿⣥⠀⠀⠂⠐⠀⠀⢠⡾⠿⣦⣾⢾⣑⣿
⠈⣻⡧⢈⠏⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⠿⣋⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣽⢿⣆⡀⠀⢁⠀⢈⣠⣿⣽⢾⠛⢹⣸⠁⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣶⣤⣄⡐⣠⣶⣿⣺⡵⢿⠩⡆⠃⣹
⡀⣜⢿⠂⢈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠸⡽⢄⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣾⣿⢿⡷⣢⠴⠛⠉⠉⠉⠓⢄⡸⣿⠀⠠⠀⡀⠁⠀⢰⣿⣱⢬⣺⡜⢕⣿⠟⢤⠂⢠⢹⡇⣿
⣧⢘⡟⠨⠂⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣷⣾⢳⣄⢤⣤⣖⡹⠞⠻⡛⡿⣝⣽⡟⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠄⠈⠙⣽⢷⣄⡀⣀⣀⡕⠞⠉⠁⠚⠹⣿⣿⣑⣃⠀⠀⡀⢖⣬⣿
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R: 61 / I: 19
To start things off, I've made a card for Alunya: https://chub.ai/characters/xalkoi/Alunya
Fuck Fork and modify it to oblivion
Don't want to give money to capitalist but want to try it out? First download SillyTavern: https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern
Then create an account on Poe.com and follow the guide on SillyTavern to get the API key (just copy the value of the cookie)
Now download the png of the bot and import it on sillytavern, have fun.
And if you don't mind being unable to lewd the bots, you also have https://beta.character.ai/
/aicg/ - AI Chatbot General
This place needs an AI chatbot thead, so this is it now.To start things off, I've made a card for Alunya: https://chub.ai/characters/xalkoi/Alunya
Fuck Fork and modify it to oblivion
Don't want to give money to capitalist but want to try it out? First download SillyTavern: https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern
Then create an account on Poe.com and follow the guide on SillyTavern to get the API key (just copy the value of the cookie)
Now download the png of the bot and import it on sillytavern, have fun.
And if you don't mind being unable to lewd the bots, you also have https://beta.character.ai/
R: 2 / I: 0
my flashdrive took a huge shit and i lost all my memes pics and webms
Bruh R: 33 / I: 1
What I found:
>privacytools.io site
privacy2zbidut4m4jyj3ksdqidzkw3uoip2vhvhbvwxbqux5xy5obyd.onion
>Invidious (YouTube front-end)
http://grwp24hodrefzvjjuccrkw3mjq4tzhaaq32amf33dzpmuxe7ilepcmad.onion/
(Clearnet version: https://vid.puffyan.us/ )
Requires enabling certain scripts to work unfortunately. You can sign up and make a list of subscriptions though.
>Nitter (Twitter front-end)
http://3nzoldnxplag42gqjs23xvghtzf6t6yzssrtytnntc6ppc7xxuoneoad.onion/
>/leftypol/ (/leftypol/)
http://wz6bnwwtwckltvkvji6vvgmjrfspr3lstz66rusvtczhsgvwdcixgbyd.onion/leftypol/catalog.html
Some things I was interested in hearing about:
>email over Tor (with clearnet email compatibility if possible) (I tried Protonmail and it asked me for SMS, Paypal or credit card to continue, kek no thanks + I had to enable scripts + it made me go through a clearnet URL)
>games over Tor (doesn't matter what, just would be a cool novelty)
>social media over Tor (could be chans, larger social media substitutes, etc.)
>whatever other shit you found that was coolpirate Pirate
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.What I found:
>privacytools.io site
privacy2zbidut4m4jyj3ksdqidzkw3uoip2vhvhbvwxbqux5xy5obyd.onion
>Invidious (YouTube front-end)
http://grwp24hodrefzvjjuccrkw3mjq4tzhaaq32amf33dzpmuxe7ilepcmad.onion/
(Clearnet version: https://vid.puffyan.us/ )
Requires enabling certain scripts to work unfortunately. You can sign up and make a list of subscriptions though.
>Nitter (Twitter front-end)
http://3nzoldnxplag42gqjs23xvghtzf6t6yzssrtytnntc6ppc7xxuoneoad.onion/
>/leftypol/ (/leftypol/)
http://wz6bnwwtwckltvkvji6vvgmjrfspr3lstz66rusvtczhsgvwdcixgbyd.onion/leftypol/catalog.html
Some things I was interested in hearing about:
>email over Tor (with clearnet email compatibility if possible) (I tried Protonmail and it asked me for SMS, Paypal or credit card to continue, kek no thanks + I had to enable scripts + it made me go through a clearnet URL)
>games over Tor (doesn't matter what, just would be a cool novelty)
>social media over Tor (could be chans, larger social media substitutes, etc.)
>whatever other shit you found that was cool
R: 8 / I: 0
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has demanded Google sells Chrome, the world's most popular web browser.
It is one of a series of remedies proposed by the DOJ in a court filing late on Wednesday aimed at stopping the tech giant from maintaining its monopoly in online search.
Government lawyers also recommended that District Judge Amit Mehta force the firm to stop entering into contracts with companies - including Apple and Samsung - that make its search engine the default on many smartphones and browsers.
The proposed remedies stem from a landmark anti-competition ruling in August, in which Judge Mehta found Google illegally crushed its competition in online search.
The Department of Justice was joined in the filing by a group of US states that argued the changes will help to open up a monopolised market.
"Restoring competition to the markets for general search and search text advertising as they exist today will require reactivating the competitive process that Google has long stifled," the government lawyers wrote.
In response, Google said that with its proposals, the DOJ "chose to push a radical interventionist agenda that would harm Americans and America’s global technology leadership."
"[The] DOJ’s wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court’s decision," said Kent Walker, president of global affairs at Google.
"It would break a range of Google products — even beyond Search — that people love and find helpful in their everyday lives."
Google is expected to counter with its own proposed remedies by 20 December.
Judge Mehta is set to issue a decision by the summer of 2025.
Google's search engine accounts for about 90% of all online searches globally, according to web traffic analysis platform Statcounter.
Government attorneys also said that Google's ownership and control of the Chrome browser - along with the Android operating system - have allowed it to funnel users to its search engine.
Part of the proposal included barring Google from re-entering the browser market for five years.
The DOJ also proposed court oversight of Android to ensure the company refrains from using its ecosystem to "favour its general search services and search text ad monopolies."
A new administration
The DOJ case against Google was filed in the closing months of the first administration of Donald Trump.
With the President-elect set to return to the White House on 20 January, questions have been raised about whether his new administration would take a different approach to the case.
"It would be odd for the second Trump administration to back off a lawsuit that they filed themselves," said Rebecca Allensworth, associate dean for research and anti-trust professor at Vanderbilt Law School.
Even if Trump sought to stop the case from proceeding, which Prof Allensworth said is unlikely, the states listed as plaintiffs could proceed on their own.
"So, given that, they can't make it go away," she said. "I think that the federal government will stay on it but just how hard they'll push and what they'll ask for, I think, is really uncertain."
The proposed changes could play an important role in restoring competition to the online search market, according to Professor Laura Phillips-Sawyer of the University of Georgia School of Law.
The user data that Google secured because of its dominance in search helped "refine Google's search algorithm and sell text ads," Professor Phillips-Sawyer said.
"But, those contracts also make it impossible for any newcomer in search to secure a distribution channel, and without any real possibility of reaching consumers, no one will invest in such innovation."
She says if Mehta accepts the governments proposals, competitors to Google - including new entrants - may have the chance to thrive.
Sell Chrome to end search monopoly, Google told
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp81ppr3l9goThe US Department of Justice (DOJ) has demanded Google sells Chrome, the world's most popular web browser.
It is one of a series of remedies proposed by the DOJ in a court filing late on Wednesday aimed at stopping the tech giant from maintaining its monopoly in online search.
Government lawyers also recommended that District Judge Amit Mehta force the firm to stop entering into contracts with companies - including Apple and Samsung - that make its search engine the default on many smartphones and browsers.
The proposed remedies stem from a landmark anti-competition ruling in August, in which Judge Mehta found Google illegally crushed its competition in online search.
The Department of Justice was joined in the filing by a group of US states that argued the changes will help to open up a monopolised market.
"Restoring competition to the markets for general search and search text advertising as they exist today will require reactivating the competitive process that Google has long stifled," the government lawyers wrote.
In response, Google said that with its proposals, the DOJ "chose to push a radical interventionist agenda that would harm Americans and America’s global technology leadership."
"[The] DOJ’s wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court’s decision," said Kent Walker, president of global affairs at Google.
"It would break a range of Google products — even beyond Search — that people love and find helpful in their everyday lives."
Google is expected to counter with its own proposed remedies by 20 December.
Judge Mehta is set to issue a decision by the summer of 2025.
Google's search engine accounts for about 90% of all online searches globally, according to web traffic analysis platform Statcounter.
Government attorneys also said that Google's ownership and control of the Chrome browser - along with the Android operating system - have allowed it to funnel users to its search engine.
Part of the proposal included barring Google from re-entering the browser market for five years.
The DOJ also proposed court oversight of Android to ensure the company refrains from using its ecosystem to "favour its general search services and search text ad monopolies."
A new administration
The DOJ case against Google was filed in the closing months of the first administration of Donald Trump.
With the President-elect set to return to the White House on 20 January, questions have been raised about whether his new administration would take a different approach to the case.
"It would be odd for the second Trump administration to back off a lawsuit that they filed themselves," said Rebecca Allensworth, associate dean for research and anti-trust professor at Vanderbilt Law School.
Even if Trump sought to stop the case from proceeding, which Prof Allensworth said is unlikely, the states listed as plaintiffs could proceed on their own.
"So, given that, they can't make it go away," she said. "I think that the federal government will stay on it but just how hard they'll push and what they'll ask for, I think, is really uncertain."
The proposed changes could play an important role in restoring competition to the online search market, according to Professor Laura Phillips-Sawyer of the University of Georgia School of Law.
The user data that Google secured because of its dominance in search helped "refine Google's search algorithm and sell text ads," Professor Phillips-Sawyer said.
"But, those contracts also make it impossible for any newcomer in search to secure a distribution channel, and without any real possibility of reaching consumers, no one will invest in such innovation."
She says if Mehta accepts the governments proposals, competitors to Google - including new entrants - may have the chance to thrive.
R: 21 / I: 0
MAC vs PC
Assuming you can't use linux for one second. Which is better. MAC/Apple OS or PC, for a desktop computer?
R: 7 / I: 1
https://torx-chat.github.io/
https://github.com/TorX-Chat/
tl;dr:
Tor hidden services with V3 authentication
Fully P2P. The project runs no servers.
Public groups (share by QR code or string, then join requests get encrypted and promulgate anonymously through the network until someone can decrypt it and facilitate your connection), which utilize unsigned messages
Private groups (send an invitation card to a friend you already connect to), which utilize signed messages (which other people can re-broadcast)
Single-use onions for friend requests (once you connect to your friend the first time, their onion gets destroyed and you both create fresh onions. This makes it safe to share friend requests over insecure methods like telephone, Twitter, etc, without the glowies being able to monitor them once your friend connects the first time)
SQLCipher for encrypted storage of messages, settings, whatever.
It supports:
Signed / unsigned Text
File Transfers ( full duplex, pretty fast )
Custom text/binary/streaming/etc protocols (Currently implemented in the UI: audio messages, animated gifs)
How it differs from every other Tor Chat:
You have a unique onion for everyone you connect to, except in groups.
Single-use OnionIDs for connecting
It's far faster, better, more reliable.
It's a C library, so you can write your own UI.
UI devs can design and implement their own protocols, without needing any modifications to the library.
Mining of onions, so instead of 56 character long onions, you can share 48 character long ones (or shorter if you have lots of time or CPU)
I'm currently the sole developer. I've reached a plateau where development is stable and so I'm looking for devs.
Here is a multi-use TorX-ID. You can add me for the lulz. (Warning: copy it, type it right, or scan the QR code; there is no checksum)
6rsnbdkgdokwziggtba2s35ifcnvna4fxmgricujlzirjqgf
TorX: "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).https://torx-chat.github.io/
https://github.com/TorX-Chat/
tl;dr:
Tor hidden services with V3 authentication
Fully P2P. The project runs no servers.
Public groups (share by QR code or string, then join requests get encrypted and promulgate anonymously through the network until someone can decrypt it and facilitate your connection), which utilize unsigned messages
Private groups (send an invitation card to a friend you already connect to), which utilize signed messages (which other people can re-broadcast)
Single-use onions for friend requests (once you connect to your friend the first time, their onion gets destroyed and you both create fresh onions. This makes it safe to share friend requests over insecure methods like telephone, Twitter, etc, without the glowies being able to monitor them once your friend connects the first time)
SQLCipher for encrypted storage of messages, settings, whatever.
It supports:
Signed / unsigned Text
File Transfers ( full duplex, pretty fast )
Custom text/binary/streaming/etc protocols (Currently implemented in the UI: audio messages, animated gifs)
How it differs from every other Tor Chat:
You have a unique onion for everyone you connect to, except in groups.
Single-use OnionIDs for connecting
It's far faster, better, more reliable.
It's a C library, so you can write your own UI.
UI devs can design and implement their own protocols, without needing any modifications to the library.
Mining of onions, so instead of 56 character long onions, you can share 48 character long ones (or shorter if you have lots of time or CPU)
I'm currently the sole developer. I've reached a plateau where development is stable and so I'm looking for devs.
Here is a multi-use TorX-ID. You can add me for the lulz. (Warning: copy it, type it right, or scan the QR code; there is no checksum)
6rsnbdkgdokwziggtba2s35ifcnvna4fxmgricujlzirjqgf
R: 29 / I: 2
- MSMG (https://msmgtoolkit.in/) to strip down the install to something a little more manageable.
- komorebi (https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi) to bring tiling windows managers to Microsoft Windows.
- shutup10++ (https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10) to disable much of the telemetry used by the system (if this isn't already removed by MSMG).
- AHK (https://www.autohotkey.com/) to make keyboard and mouse macros.
This is excluding typical packages with good reputation like Firefox, VLC, or FooBar2000. Just wondering what all you use to make Microsoft Windows a bit more like home.
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:- MSMG (https://msmgtoolkit.in/) to strip down the install to something a little more manageable.
- komorebi (https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi) to bring tiling windows managers to Microsoft Windows.
- shutup10++ (https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10) to disable much of the telemetry used by the system (if this isn't already removed by MSMG).
- AHK (https://www.autohotkey.com/) to make keyboard and mouse macros.
This is excluding typical packages with good reputation like Firefox, VLC, or FooBar2000. Just wondering what all you use to make Microsoft Windows a bit more like home.
R: 3 / I: 0
IF YOU USE COCK.LI AT ALL IT IS ABSOLUTELY IMPERATIVE YOU CHECK THE WARRANT CANARY DAILY AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE ANY ONLINE ACCOUNTS YOU'VE MAID WITH EMAILS FROM THEM SOMEWHERE ELSE
They are not going to release ANY information to any government but they're being harassed by CISA and if it gets to that point they will just nuke the entire service entirely.
If there are any other good anonymous email alternatives please post them here
IF YOU USE COCK.LI AT ALL IT IS ABSOLUTELY IMPERATIVE YOU CHECK THE WARRANT CANARY DAILY AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE ANY ONLINE ACCOUNTS YOU'VE MAID WITH EMAILS FROM THEM SOMEWHERE ELSE
They are not going to release ANY information to any government but they're being harassed by CISA and if it gets to that point they will just nuke the entire service entirely.
If there are any other good anonymous email alternatives please post them here
R: 11 / I: 8
i use shotcut and gimp
What is the name of this effect?
and how do you get this effect in images and videos?i use shotcut and gimp
R: 5 / I: 0
What are the best subreddits?
i only go there for tech support in case no youtube
R: 13 / I: 0
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?
R: 5 / I: 1
Palo Alto Networks' recent growth got me thinking about this. What do they do that their competitors or many other FOSS tools don't? I've also noticed that the prevalence of proprietary slop is much lower in development/devops than it is in cybersecurity and network administration. Maybe it's just my soydev bias talking, please correct me if I'm wrong.
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?Palo Alto Networks' recent growth got me thinking about this. What do they do that their competitors or many other FOSS tools don't? I've also noticed that the prevalence of proprietary slop is much lower in development/devops than it is in cybersecurity and network administration. Maybe it's just my soydev bias talking, please correct me if I'm wrong.
R: 4 / I: 1
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.
R: 26 / I: 4
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1773039
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 timehttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1773039
R: 30 / I: 5
In 2024 reddit will introduce heavenbanning, the hypothetical practice of banishing a user from a platform by causing everyone that they speak with to be replaced by AI models that constantly agree and praise them, but only from their own perspective, is entirely feasible with the current state of AI/LLMs.
In 2024 reddit will introduce heavenbanning, the hypothetical practice of banishing a user from a platform by causing everyone that they speak with to be replaced by AI models that constantly agree and praise them, but only from their own perspective, is entirely feasible with the current state of AI/LLMs.
R: 7 / I: 0
- Github: https://github.com
- Gitlab: https://gitlab.com
- Gitea: https://gitea.com
- Gogs: https://gogs.io
- Bitbucket: https://www.atlassian.com/software/bitbucket
- SourceHut: https://sourcehut.org
Some of these require self-hosting, or a paid service neither of which is my preference. Looking forward to hearing your responses.
Collaborative 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:- Github: https://github.com
- Gitlab: https://gitlab.com
- Gitea: https://gitea.com
- Gogs: https://gogs.io
- Bitbucket: https://www.atlassian.com/software/bitbucket
- SourceHut: https://sourcehut.org
Some of these require self-hosting, or a paid service neither of which is my preference. Looking forward to hearing your responses.
R: 8 / I: 1
after that, you hop on a job recruitment website and throw in an application for a potential gig. but theres a good chance you wont get a formal rejection notice; and if you do, it probably wont explain why you werent picked compared to someone else. this lack of info leaves you wondering if the outcome was because of something you did or didnt do. after all, the flaw cant be systemic.
next, you check out an online dating app looking for some romantic connections.if youre a guy, youre probably sending out a bunch of messages, but youre not getting any replies. this leaves you wondering if you need to jazz up your profile or improve your messages, even though the reason for the radio silence isnt clear. after all, the flaw cant be with the app, just look at its popularity! its possible that your efforts just arent being noticed. on the flip side, if youre a woman, you might be flooded with messages, many of which are just plain inappropriate, misogynistic or objectifying. this unwanted attention stems from your gender, and no matter what you do on the app, you have to deal with it.
when you go to the grocery store to pick up some food, youre bummed to find out that a product you always buy is suddenly gone, and no ones explaining why. on top of that, items that used to be reasonably priced have shot up in cost. meanwhile, youre hearing reassurances about how strong "our" economy is. all of this happens without anyone asking for your opinions or giving you a heads up; its just presented as something you have to deal with, usually framed as being for your own good.
trying to use proprietary software for work, you find out its had a major update that changes a lot of the features you relied on. they say the updates are meant to make it better, and they want you to get used to the changes.
youre informed about an upcoming election, which happens every four years or so and is filled with claims about how important your vote and opinions are. youre assured that this election is super crucial, even the most important one in history, just like they said last time. even though the overall story suggests you cant really influence the bigger system, youre still expected to take part in deciding the outcome. so, you drum up that civic duty and go vote. then the results come out, and things just go back to how they were.
when you wake up again, you check in on current events and see that global happenings continue to be outside your control. if you decide to voice your discontent, youre once again told to stay quiet.
youre steered away from using science and logical thinking to figure out your reality. the complexities of your experiences seem unclear. instead, youre encouraged to rely on willpower, mindset, and positive thinking, with reassurances that the universe will eventually work in your favor. meanwhile, the systems built around exploitation are using well-organized scientific methods. The people who expanded colonial power and the larger global capitalist system are utilizing scientific principles to enable exploitation while hiding these processes from your view.
when you take a look in the mirror for some self reflection, what you see shows a life marked by loneliness. the mirror makes you focus on how you see yourself, making you confront your supposed flaws, which come off as weak and hopeless. youre (not so) subtly told that its your responsibility to fix this. as you try to cultivate some self-love and personal growth, you keep running into roadblocks. no matter how you tweak your approach, you find yourself navigating through uncertainty. In the end, the blame gets thrown back at you, keeping the focus off any external factors that might have played a role.
in dire situations, even if youre at rock bottom, the blame will still come back to you, framed as a lack of willpower and a negative mindset. after all, external factors cant be at play, and even if they are, they arent systemic.
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.after that, you hop on a job recruitment website and throw in an application for a potential gig. but theres a good chance you wont get a formal rejection notice; and if you do, it probably wont explain why you werent picked compared to someone else. this lack of info leaves you wondering if the outcome was because of something you did or didnt do. after all, the flaw cant be systemic.
next, you check out an online dating app looking for some romantic connections.if youre a guy, youre probably sending out a bunch of messages, but youre not getting any replies. this leaves you wondering if you need to jazz up your profile or improve your messages, even though the reason for the radio silence isnt clear. after all, the flaw cant be with the app, just look at its popularity! its possible that your efforts just arent being noticed. on the flip side, if youre a woman, you might be flooded with messages, many of which are just plain inappropriate, misogynistic or objectifying. this unwanted attention stems from your gender, and no matter what you do on the app, you have to deal with it.
when you go to the grocery store to pick up some food, youre bummed to find out that a product you always buy is suddenly gone, and no ones explaining why. on top of that, items that used to be reasonably priced have shot up in cost. meanwhile, youre hearing reassurances about how strong "our" economy is. all of this happens without anyone asking for your opinions or giving you a heads up; its just presented as something you have to deal with, usually framed as being for your own good.
trying to use proprietary software for work, you find out its had a major update that changes a lot of the features you relied on. they say the updates are meant to make it better, and they want you to get used to the changes.
youre informed about an upcoming election, which happens every four years or so and is filled with claims about how important your vote and opinions are. youre assured that this election is super crucial, even the most important one in history, just like they said last time. even though the overall story suggests you cant really influence the bigger system, youre still expected to take part in deciding the outcome. so, you drum up that civic duty and go vote. then the results come out, and things just go back to how they were.
when you wake up again, you check in on current events and see that global happenings continue to be outside your control. if you decide to voice your discontent, youre once again told to stay quiet.
youre steered away from using science and logical thinking to figure out your reality. the complexities of your experiences seem unclear. instead, youre encouraged to rely on willpower, mindset, and positive thinking, with reassurances that the universe will eventually work in your favor. meanwhile, the systems built around exploitation are using well-organized scientific methods. The people who expanded colonial power and the larger global capitalist system are utilizing scientific principles to enable exploitation while hiding these processes from your view.
when you take a look in the mirror for some self reflection, what you see shows a life marked by loneliness. the mirror makes you focus on how you see yourself, making you confront your supposed flaws, which come off as weak and hopeless. youre (not so) subtly told that its your responsibility to fix this. as you try to cultivate some self-love and personal growth, you keep running into roadblocks. no matter how you tweak your approach, you find yourself navigating through uncertainty. In the end, the blame gets thrown back at you, keeping the focus off any external factors that might have played a role.
in dire situations, even if youre at rock bottom, the blame will still come back to you, framed as a lack of willpower and a negative mindset. after all, external factors cant be at play, and even if they are, they arent systemic.
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Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones video game coming out soon. Think it will compete with skyrim?
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>Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman attempt to quietly remove several Russian developers from linux maintainership
>Linus goes on a racist ahistorical rant on the lkml
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whNGNVnYHHSXUAsWds_MoZ-iEgRMQMxZZ0z-jY4uHT+Gg@mail.gmail.com/
>Finland-Swede not beating the Nazi allegations
>someone calls it out
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
>Linus doubles down, implies his critics are paid actors
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjw0i-95S_3Wgk+rGu0TUs8r1jVyBv0L8qfsz+TJR8XTQ@mail.gmail.com/
several Russian developers removed from Linux maintainership
https://lwn.net/Articles/995186/>Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman attempt to quietly remove several Russian developers from linux maintainership
>Linus goes on a racist ahistorical rant on the lkml
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whNGNVnYHHSXUAsWds_MoZ-iEgRMQMxZZ0z-jY4uHT+Gg@mail.gmail.com/
>Finland-Swede not beating the Nazi allegations
>someone calls it out
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
>Linus doubles down, implies his critics are paid actors
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjw0i-95S_3Wgk+rGu0TUs8r1jVyBv0L8qfsz+TJR8XTQ@mail.gmail.com/
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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.
R: 2 / I: 0
Sorry for bad english.
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?Sorry for bad english.
R: 1 / I: 0
You have any good salvage?
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.You have any good salvage?
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Does anyone still dabble in this sport? I'm assuming the same methods of finding ip cameras still apply.
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.Does anyone still dabble in this sport? I'm assuming the same methods of finding ip cameras still apply.
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in the grand scheme of things, the fsf and gpl software in general represent unrealized profits for capital; they block a segment of the market that would otherwise have to depend on either proprietary or proprietary-friendly (permissive licenses) software. in this sense, it's demise is a matter of time because companies have a material incentive to kill it
imo libre open source software has always been a "consciousness thermometer", both among programmers and computer users in general. it is at an all-time low right now; for every ten new big open source projects I see, at most one is licensed under the gpl or equivalent. this is the impotence of trying to oppose capital within the system of capital (private property, licenses, etc.)
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 prudishnessin the grand scheme of things, the fsf and gpl software in general represent unrealized profits for capital; they block a segment of the market that would otherwise have to depend on either proprietary or proprietary-friendly (permissive licenses) software. in this sense, it's demise is a matter of time because companies have a material incentive to kill it
imo libre open source software has always been a "consciousness thermometer", both among programmers and computer users in general. it is at an all-time low right now; for every ten new big open source projects I see, at most one is licensed under the gpl or equivalent. this is the impotence of trying to oppose capital within the system of capital (private property, licenses, etc.)
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>The archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of “Israel”.
🚨🚨HAPPENING🚨🚨 - Internet archive hacked
A bunch of idiots took down and hacked the internet archive because>The archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of “Israel”.
R: 5 / I: 0
It only happens on PC and when I'm NOT using VPN
Downloads 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 appreciatedIt only happens on PC and when I'm NOT using VPN
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check out my website, become the first user
https://waleesworld.yooco.org/home.html
R: 6 / I: 0
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/australias-planned-social-media-ban-raises-teen-isolation-fears-2024-10-15/
Discuss. Is it too much? Is it adequate?
I agree that social media as it exists is a dumpster fire, but I think we should be trying to force its hand to change for the better (starting by being more decentralized). Banning it is probably not it.
Australia 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 16https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/australias-planned-social-media-ban-raises-teen-isolation-fears-2024-10-15/
Discuss. Is it too much? Is it adequate?
I agree that social media as it exists is a dumpster fire, but I think we should be trying to force its hand to change for the better (starting by being more decentralized). Banning it is probably not it.
R: 7 / I: 1
A new study has found that popular smart TVs from Samsung and LG are constantly monitoring users’ screen activity, taking screenshots as often as every 10 milliseconds. This is called Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) and it captures images and audio from your TV to see what’s on the screen and then uses that data for targeted ads.
The study by a research group led by Yash Vekaria from University of California, looked at how ACR works on two of the most used smart TV brands. Their findings on arXiv showed that Samsung smart TVs take screen events every half second and LG takes screenshots every 10 milliseconds. …
The data is then analyzed using AI to compare it to a massive media library to figure out what’s on the screen. Advertisers can then serve ads to users based on their viewing habits. Crucially, the researchers also found that ACR works differently by region; in the UK, TVs didn’t send data during broadcasts, while in the US, data was sent even during HDMI usage.
Smart 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/A new study has found that popular smart TVs from Samsung and LG are constantly monitoring users’ screen activity, taking screenshots as often as every 10 milliseconds. This is called Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) and it captures images and audio from your TV to see what’s on the screen and then uses that data for targeted ads.
The study by a research group led by Yash Vekaria from University of California, looked at how ACR works on two of the most used smart TV brands. Their findings on arXiv showed that Samsung smart TVs take screen events every half second and LG takes screenshots every 10 milliseconds. …
The data is then analyzed using AI to compare it to a massive media library to figure out what’s on the screen. Advertisers can then serve ads to users based on their viewing habits. Crucially, the researchers also found that ACR works differently by region; in the UK, TVs didn’t send data during broadcasts, while in the US, data was sent even during HDMI usage.
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>cockshott's proof that lambda calculus doesn't work
I lmaoed so hard when I saw this. Still, does he have some other foundation for his argument? Gonna email him to ask, but I wonder if leftypol knows already
>cockshott's proof that lambda calculus doesn't work
I lmaoed so hard when I saw this. Still, does he have some other foundation for his argument? Gonna email him to ask, but I wonder if leftypol knows already
R: 4 / I: 2
Anons, I need to buy a cheap printer to be able to print, (black and white) agitprop for wheate-pasting.
Is there any recommends? Any do's and don'ts or pitfalls and protips you can recommend me in to buying a printer?
Price is a big factor, so whatever is cheap and easy to get ink off.
Would also like to be able to refill the cartridges if possible. inb4 a printer with an ink well, i can't afford it
The question is important to me, i'm kind of on a deadline but trying to search this stuff is very overwhelming with everyone trying to sell me something, i'm not a big digital buyer.
Feel free to recommend other kinds of printers for different usage and printer discussion generally, too.
Anons, I need to buy a cheap printer to be able to print, (black and white) agitprop for wheate-pasting.
Is there any recommends? Any do's and don'ts or pitfalls and protips you can recommend me in to buying a printer?
Price is a big factor, so whatever is cheap and easy to get ink off.
Would also like to be able to refill the cartridges if possible. inb4 a printer with an ink well, i can't afford it
The question is important to me, i'm kind of on a deadline but trying to search this stuff is very overwhelming with everyone trying to sell me something, i'm not a big digital buyer.
Feel free to recommend other kinds of printers for different usage and printer discussion generally, too.
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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 ideas R: 14 / I: 2
>phone
>supermarket cam
>protest cam
>ring door cam
wild implications. live dox anyone.
Dox anyone IRL instantly
Any camera feed can do this>phone
>supermarket cam
>protest cam
>ring door cam
wild implications. live dox anyone.
R: 8 / I: 0
phonesisters its over…
phonesisters its over…
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is this a good idea for my tech startup
is this a good idea for my tech startup
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> Look inside
> Proprietary source-available
Yay
https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp
Winamp is now source-available
> "Winamp will be Open-Sourced"> Look inside
> Proprietary source-available
Yay
https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp
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>i dont game or mine coinz
>see someone made a Stable Diffusion LoRa for a rare character I like and decide to give it a try
>there are a few tools and workarounds to stop my ~decade-old budget GPU from out-of-memorying, like tiling, although the quality is still ok enough for basic hobby fun
>decide try to make a new embedding for a rare character
>see a guide for [their formatting kept] "VERY LOW VRAM"
>aw sweet
>mfw "VERY LOW VRAM" is now apparently "[12GB/16GB/20GB]"
bitch i aint payin half a thousand for very low vram
>i dont game or mine coinz
>see someone made a Stable Diffusion LoRa for a rare character I like and decide to give it a try
>there are a few tools and workarounds to stop my ~decade-old budget GPU from out-of-memorying, like tiling, although the quality is still ok enough for basic hobby fun
>decide try to make a new embedding for a rare character
>see a guide for [their formatting kept] "VERY LOW VRAM"
>aw sweet
>mfw "VERY LOW VRAM" is now apparently "[12GB/16GB/20GB]"
bitch i aint payin half a thousand for very low vram
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fedi vetting
What are some leftypol-approved fedi instances? R: 7 / I: 1
Have a favorite text editor, or found a funny / interesting one recently? Found a neat feature / trick that's sped up your workflow?
🎨: foxpile.online/@lennox
Text Editor Thread
General thread for text editorsHave a favorite text editor, or found a funny / interesting one recently? Found a neat feature / trick that's sped up your workflow?
🎨: foxpile.online/@lennox
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Here are packages the glowies download on the recovered computer
osinfo-db
osinfo-db-tools
libosinfo
libisofs
libiptcdata
libgsf
libgrss
libcue
libtracker-sparql
tracker-3
tracker-miners-3
Here is what the researchers observed and then told me
1.Glowies use tracker-extact-3 to grab meta data from the users files as they update in real time. Tracker Extract does this natively and that is the main thing it is intended to do.
2.Then the glowies run the command (this is the malicious act)
tracker3 export –database=/home/user/.cache/tracker3/files/ –output=json-ld
with an additional `–remote-service=ip_here` so they can send the tracker3 database back to their feddie databases. The json-ld file is read using json reading software to display text and rendered pdf, video and image thumbnails and audio cover art. This gives them real time monitoring of an OS because they are getting recent file meta data.
Glowies also look in plocate databases as well. This is all 100% real. So try to be accurate as possible and not spread misinformation when you finally get to covering it. Tracker3 is not a virus and is inherently NOT harmful software. It does very useful things such as find pdfs and images via GNOME's photo and pdf reader. It is just that it happens to have the potential to be malicious. Said researchers stated that the goal for the community to patch this insecurity by warning if tracker is trying to export meta data base to a foreign server. Meaning the end user should be alerted via the GUI if tracker is doing this.
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) tricksHere are packages the glowies download on the recovered computer
osinfo-db
osinfo-db-tools
libosinfo
libisofs
libiptcdata
libgsf
libgrss
libcue
libtracker-sparql
tracker-3
tracker-miners-3
Here is what the researchers observed and then told me
1.Glowies use tracker-extact-3 to grab meta data from the users files as they update in real time. Tracker Extract does this natively and that is the main thing it is intended to do.
2.Then the glowies run the command (this is the malicious act)
tracker3 export –database=/home/user/.cache/tracker3/files/ –output=json-ld
with an additional `–remote-service=ip_here` so they can send the tracker3 database back to their feddie databases. The json-ld file is read using json reading software to display text and rendered pdf, video and image thumbnails and audio cover art. This gives them real time monitoring of an OS because they are getting recent file meta data.
Glowies also look in plocate databases as well. This is all 100% real. So try to be accurate as possible and not spread misinformation when you finally get to covering it. Tracker3 is not a virus and is inherently NOT harmful software. It does very useful things such as find pdfs and images via GNOME's photo and pdf reader. It is just that it happens to have the potential to be malicious. Said researchers stated that the goal for the community to patch this insecurity by warning if tracker is trying to export meta data base to a foreign server. Meaning the end user should be alerted via the GUI if tracker is doing this.
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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?
TV 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.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?
R: 1 / I: 0
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.
i delete the archive
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.
R: 609 / I: 90 (full)
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?
Some anons have suggested a radical re-imagining of the medium of anonymous communication where boards are replaced with tags. Some want named accounts, some want textboards, the ideas are endless. Is there anything to be improved upon with the imageboard concept, and if so, what? If reddit is an improved version of the phpbb type forums of old, what does a “modern” version of a chan look like?
Feel free to use this thread for any polls, discussion, of the formats, technical, or non technical decisions related to a vichan replacement both for this site and in general.
Also comment on:
Concept: Classic Imageboard vs something else
Architecture: Monolith vs Microservices
Distributed: Distributed/Federated vs Standalone
Front end: SPA (ex: Angular, React) vs Server Side HTML templating
Backend Language: Java, C#, Lisp, Rust, Golang, PHP, etc.
Database: SQL vs NoSQL
/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.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?
Some anons have suggested a radical re-imagining of the medium of anonymous communication where boards are replaced with tags. Some want named accounts, some want textboards, the ideas are endless. Is there anything to be improved upon with the imageboard concept, and if so, what? If reddit is an improved version of the phpbb type forums of old, what does a “modern” version of a chan look like?
Feel free to use this thread for any polls, discussion, of the formats, technical, or non technical decisions related to a vichan replacement both for this site and in general.
Also comment on:
Concept: Classic Imageboard vs something else
Architecture: Monolith vs Microservices
Distributed: Distributed/Federated vs Standalone
Front end: SPA (ex: Angular, React) vs Server Side HTML templating
Backend Language: Java, C#, Lisp, Rust, Golang, PHP, etc.
Database: SQL vs NoSQL
R: 565 / I: 123
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:
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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? R: 3 / I: 1
porn search engine?
is there one that searches through pornhub and xhamster and all them free porn sites at the same time? R: 57 / I: 4
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 the things I do. I don’t want to answer any more questions. I don’t want to be known. I think I want to go back to letters. We date on the internet, fuck on the internet, die on the internet. It’s hollow & it just makes me feel hollow.
In my farming community, last night all the neighbors had bonfires during the full moon. I sat with a bug scientist who found the first swarm of killer bees in our state. They killed a goat in a factory town. There was a pack of howling coyotes in the mountains very close by, under the planet Jupiter. This younger generation is going to miss out on the natural world, on learning, and on listening to stories. They’re not going to experience the fires, they’re going to watch the fires on the screen.
i HATE phones
I HATE PHONESTeachers 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 the things I do. I don’t want to answer any more questions. I don’t want to be known. I think I want to go back to letters. We date on the internet, fuck on the internet, die on the internet. It’s hollow & it just makes me feel hollow.
In my farming community, last night all the neighbors had bonfires during the full moon. I sat with a bug scientist who found the first swarm of killer bees in our state. They killed a goat in a factory town. There was a pack of howling coyotes in the mountains very close by, under the planet Jupiter. This younger generation is going to miss out on the natural world, on learning, and on listening to stories. They’re not going to experience the fires, they’re going to watch the fires on the screen.
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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/
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/
R: 53 / I: 4
Your opinions on Lunduke? I think, his articles seem well researched and convincing.
>Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla
>6 Dirty Secrets of the Linux and Open Source Industry
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/6-dirty-secrets-of-the-linux-and
>Microsoft's growing control of Linux
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/microsofts-growing-control-of-linux
Your opinions on Lunduke? I think, his articles seem well researched and convincing.
>Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla
>6 Dirty Secrets of the Linux and Open Source Industry
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/6-dirty-secrets-of-the-linux-and
>Microsoft's growing control of Linux
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/microsofts-growing-control-of-linux
R: 13 / I: 1
Haskell thread?
Any Haskellers on Leftypol? Wanna trade monads? R: 15 / I: 6
I don't want to use Protonshit anymore.
Riseup
Does anyone have a Riseup invite for a comrade?I don't want to use Protonshit anymore.
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I have a Xiaomi Poco F3, I got it for cheap ($280) and has a lot of good features like 5G, 120HZ AMOLED, NFC, a powerful processor etc I don't plan to buy another one for in the next 4-5 years.
My recommended apps:
>Blokada (to block all ads, doesn't need root)
>f-droid (alt app store).
>Bromite and Fennec Fdroid web browsers
>Libretorrent if you want to torrent on your phone.
>Tachiyomi if you want to read manga.
>Radiodroid for radiostations
>Torbrowser for tor proxy/onion service
>Lucky Patcher if you want to fuck around trying to unlock apps for free (Needs Root)
>MX player for videos, Simple Gallery for images.
>New Pipe or YT Vanced for youtube videos.
>foobar2000 or blackplayer for music
Smartphone Thread
What smartphone do you have? What you recommend? Also share your recommended apps.I have a Xiaomi Poco F3, I got it for cheap ($280) and has a lot of good features like 5G, 120HZ AMOLED, NFC, a powerful processor etc I don't plan to buy another one for in the next 4-5 years.
My recommended apps:
>Blokada (to block all ads, doesn't need root)
>f-droid (alt app store).
>Bromite and Fennec Fdroid web browsers
>Libretorrent if you want to torrent on your phone.
>Tachiyomi if you want to read manga.
>Radiodroid for radiostations
>Torbrowser for tor proxy/onion service
>Lucky Patcher if you want to fuck around trying to unlock apps for free (Needs Root)
>MX player for videos, Simple Gallery for images.
>New Pipe or YT Vanced for youtube videos.
>foobar2000 or blackplayer for music
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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. R: 343 / I: 112
Post about pirates and and piracy be it on the high seas or the internet!
Pirate Thread
Pirate thread, yo ho ho and a bottle of rumPost about pirates and and piracy be it on the high seas or the internet!
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It's no wonder that the most staunch anti-linux pro-unix/BSD person I ever met was a staunch Communist.
Thread for all BSD variants, OpenIndiana, Illumos, Haiku, plan9 and other unix-based OSs welcome too.
BSD
Imma do it. Gonna switch to FreeBaSeD on my servers. ZFS goodness, raidz2, stability, pkg, serious people.It's no wonder that the most staunch anti-linux pro-unix/BSD person I ever met was a staunch Communist.
Thread for all BSD variants, OpenIndiana, Illumos, Haiku, plan9 and other unix-based OSs welcome too.
R: 94 / I: 6
Is there any problem with going to https://leftypol.org/ and then clicking on the .onion site? I can't store http://76i2c3hn55fcj5nut3tqlboqqbbh23zvphv7lefk3vftpx6wketlanyd.onion/ in my browser because it's in a disposable VM.
Tor Thread
General thread about Tor.Is there any problem with going to https://leftypol.org/ and then clicking on the .onion site? I can't store http://76i2c3hn55fcj5nut3tqlboqqbbh23zvphv7lefk3vftpx6wketlanyd.onion/ in my browser because it's in a disposable VM.
R: 35 / I: 3
EU is eliminating NGI grants which fund the development of many open source projects. You can browse some of the projects here: https://nlnet.nl/project/index.html
EU slashes funding to thousands of FOSS projects
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/17/foss_funding_vanishes_from_eus/EU is eliminating NGI grants which fund the development of many open source projects. You can browse some of the projects here: https://nlnet.nl/project/index.html
R: 0 / I: 0
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=k6uKtvuKIQc R: 53 / I: 8
Hactivist and cyber security researcher finds exposed servers containing the No Fly list
https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/how-to-hack-an-airline/
Also why do so many facilities with sensitive documents seem to never configure their shit properly? Why do they keep getting trusted with said documents? Especially schools and hospitals.
Hactivist and cyber security researcher finds exposed servers containing the No Fly list
https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/how-to-hack-an-airline/
Also why do so many facilities with sensitive documents seem to never configure their shit properly? Why do they keep getting trusted with said documents? Especially schools and hospitals.
R: 9 / I: 3
What 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 nerds R: 16 / I: 1
How do we do free software money? I used to be really into Bitcoin but I saw some serious problems with how it was set up, namely the fees were ridiculous. Obviously crypto isn't the solution but there still isn't any free software method to transfer money. Any website that accepts credit cards is relying on proprietary software.
How do we do free software money? I used to be really into Bitcoin but I saw some serious problems with how it was set up, namely the fees were ridiculous. Obviously crypto isn't the solution but there still isn't any free software method to transfer money. Any website that accepts credit cards is relying on proprietary software.
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What smartphone do you use and why?
What smartphone do you use and why?
R: 55 / I: 6 (sage)
We are asking for tech-orientated volunteers to help with development of the site's code and features, especially if you have experience with web design, common website coding languages, and/or development of mobile apps.
To Apply:
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2. Decide on a short code word or phrase to identify yourself with, using it as the first part of your email and posting it on this thread.
3. Answer a short questionnaire, outlined below:
How would you describe your personal political tendency?
How long have you browsed or posted on /leftypol/ or her alt-boards?
Have you any experience working with leftist groups in the past?
How do you want to help the administration of leftypol.org?
How often will you be available to your work described above?
4. Post your favorite leftist work: art, book, or other - be it as an attachment, link, or just the title or even an excerpt from it.
5. Send the email (double-checking it is to [email protected])!
And that is it! The moderation team will take some time to review emails and get back to you, if your application is selected then your email will be replied to with a link to an element chatroom for a short informal interview before voting on your approval. Please be patient, as many people may be interviewed before you finally are selected.
Potential dev recruits will also be given a basic introduction to the site's functionality and have their own element room for discussion of site-related issues and requests. It is work-at-your-own-pace, contribute as you will - even if you are someone who will only contribute occasionally, you would still be valued.
If you are not selected for an interview, it will most likely be due to the desired quota of new devs being reached - do not be discouraged, there is always next time!
Developer Recruitment Thread
Made as an extension of the main moderation recruitment thread, this thread is meant specifically for developer recruitment for /leftypol/.We are asking for tech-orientated volunteers to help with development of the site's code and features, especially if you have experience with web design, common website coding languages, and/or development of mobile apps.
To Apply:
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2. Decide on a short code word or phrase to identify yourself with, using it as the first part of your email and posting it on this thread.
3. Answer a short questionnaire, outlined below:
How would you describe your personal political tendency?
How long have you browsed or posted on /leftypol/ or her alt-boards?
Have you any experience working with leftist groups in the past?
How do you want to help the administration of leftypol.org?
How often will you be available to your work described above?
4. Post your favorite leftist work: art, book, or other - be it as an attachment, link, or just the title or even an excerpt from it.
5. Send the email (double-checking it is to [email protected])!
And that is it! The moderation team will take some time to review emails and get back to you, if your application is selected then your email will be replied to with a link to an element chatroom for a short informal interview before voting on your approval. Please be patient, as many people may be interviewed before you finally are selected.
Potential dev recruits will also be given a basic introduction to the site's functionality and have their own element room for discussion of site-related issues and requests. It is work-at-your-own-pace, contribute as you will - even if you are someone who will only contribute occasionally, you would still be valued.
If you are not selected for an interview, it will most likely be due to the desired quota of new devs being reached - do not be discouraged, there is always next time!
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I'll go first and dump some of what I think are good ones:
>Grumpy Gamer
https://grumpygamer.com/rss
this one is rad, it's the personal blog of the lead developer behind The Secret of Monkey Island series (so basically my hero). He talks about a lot of cool random shit. Check it out.
>Niki Tonsky
https://tonsky.me/atom.xml
Another personal blog, I've only read a few articles but they have to do with UI mainly which I like.
>Cosmonaut Magazine
https://cosmonautmag.com/rss
Quintessential pretentious leftwing magazine. It's good, I like it. It's more insightful than I thought it would be and their articles even when I disagree with them (I usually don't) are always comfy reads.
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.I'll go first and dump some of what I think are good ones:
>Grumpy Gamer
https://grumpygamer.com/rss
this one is rad, it's the personal blog of the lead developer behind The Secret of Monkey Island series (so basically my hero). He talks about a lot of cool random shit. Check it out.
>Niki Tonsky
https://tonsky.me/atom.xml
Another personal blog, I've only read a few articles but they have to do with UI mainly which I like.
>Cosmonaut Magazine
https://cosmonautmag.com/rss
Quintessential pretentious leftwing magazine. It's good, I like it. It's more insightful than I thought it would be and their articles even when I disagree with them (I usually don't) are always comfy reads.
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Billions Must Surf and Manually Index
Google likely to discontinue search
The Web Crawler Has FallenBillions Must Surf and Manually Index
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There is all this talk about SMIC, Loongson and Zhaoxin and that in early 2020 Zhaoxin allegedly published a chip comparable to 2017 level intel and AMD tech and they are planning to have parity with Intel in a few years. Then there are Some sources are saying that China is failing horribly at acquiring manufacturing tech for more advanced processors. And I really can't make any real sense out of it.
So when will I be able to buy a computer that uses a hardware that dunks on burger made tech and sends my personal data to Beijing instead of Washington, if ever?
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?There is all this talk about SMIC, Loongson and Zhaoxin and that in early 2020 Zhaoxin allegedly published a chip comparable to 2017 level intel and AMD tech and they are planning to have parity with Intel in a few years. Then there are Some sources are saying that China is failing horribly at acquiring manufacturing tech for more advanced processors. And I really can't make any real sense out of it.
So when will I be able to buy a computer that uses a hardware that dunks on burger made tech and sends my personal data to Beijing instead of Washington, if ever?
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General tutorials for both frontend and backend https://www.w3schools.com/default.asp
Old Geocities gifs https://gifcities.org/
Free subdomains http://freedns.afraid.org/domain/registry/
Free static site hosts https://neocities.org/ https://pages.github.com/ https://surge.sh/
Webdev General
Frontend tutorials and resources https://neocities.org/tutorialsGeneral tutorials for both frontend and backend https://www.w3schools.com/default.asp
Old Geocities gifs https://gifcities.org/
Free subdomains http://freedns.afraid.org/domain/registry/
Free static site hosts https://neocities.org/ https://pages.github.com/ https://surge.sh/
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Vimeo comes close but you have to pay to exceed the limits and the audience is definitely more limited.
YouTube alternatives
Will there ever be an alternative video platform that matches its ability to let you regularly put out content to a large audience?Vimeo comes close but you have to pay to exceed the limits and the audience is definitely more limited.
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What would a dialectical materialist programming language look like?
What would a dialectical materialist programming language look like?
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Spent a while looking but can't find anything.
If I can't find one in a couple days, I'll make one and link it here.
***
In general, what are people's thoughts on using these types of services to compliment being involved in face to face IRL orgs?
Element Groups for Communists
Does anyone know if there are any active groups on Element that people can join to discuss Marxism?Spent a while looking but can't find anything.
If I can't find one in a couple days, I'll make one and link it here.
***
In general, what are people's thoughts on using these types of services to compliment being involved in face to face IRL orgs?
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They aren´t protected, so yall can ddos with us.
https://pastebin.com/QjwkP2EL
Posted by ЧВК Нгуен.
DDoS party
Hey comrades, I have some shitraeli, etc… government IPs.They aren´t protected, so yall can ddos with us.
https://pastebin.com/QjwkP2EL
Posted by ЧВК Нгуен.
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Having a dark theme is optional.
I'm tired of duckduckgo's retard results and searx's confusing and non-related results (being a pain to use it private windows since all configuration is cleaned etc.)
Sorry for not elaborating much, I'm too tired and have a test tomorrow, see ya comrades.
Simples searches engines; preferably without javascript
>TitleHaving a dark theme is optional.
I'm tired of duckduckgo's retard results and searx's confusing and non-related results (being a pain to use it private windows since all configuration is cleaned etc.)
Sorry for not elaborating much, I'm too tired and have a test tomorrow, see ya comrades.
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How do you even protect yourself against your own ISP trying to fuck you over like this?
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/south-korean-telco-deliberately-infected-thousands-of-users-with-malware
How do you even protect yourself against your own ISP trying to fuck you over like this?
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/south-korean-telco-deliberately-infected-thousands-of-users-with-malware
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Stallman has cancer
Is the FSF going to die with him? That's sad to think about.
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Am I a deviant for thinking this way because since late 2018 I always got the impression that FOSS was synonymous with free market socialism - ect anti capitalist but pro personal property rights and entrepreneurialism. Some people say FOSS is communist and I have disagreed with that; as if it were communist there would be a strong centralized government body controlling things and forcing people to work on FOSS projects.
Open 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.Am I a deviant for thinking this way because since late 2018 I always got the impression that FOSS was synonymous with free market socialism - ect anti capitalist but pro personal property rights and entrepreneurialism. Some people say FOSS is communist and I have disagreed with that; as if it were communist there would be a strong centralized government body controlling things and forcing people to work on FOSS projects.
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Linux Won
Microsoft is finally dropping support for Windows after the Recall/Copilot exodus, guess they're focusing on Xbox or something instead.
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How do we feel about this? I'm not surprised but still pretty bummed out.
Mozilla is an advertising company now
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/mozilla-is-an-advertising-company-now/How do we feel about this? I'm not surprised but still pretty bummed out.
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New video AI just dropped for meme production.
Site: https://lumalabs.ai/dream-machine
Resources for Dream Machine:
Ideas for prompting: https://ideogram.ai/login
API: https://github.com/yihong0618/LumaDreamCreator
FAQ: https://lumaai.notion.site/FAQ-and-Prompt-Guide-Luma-Dream-Machine-f7bd5f77478c4994aa692aa58b063ef3
Converting to webm: https://handbrake.fr/ or https://cloudconvert.com/mp4-to-webm
Information on Dream Machine:
>Dream Machine was released to paid users on June 12, 2024 and to the free users on June 16.
>Dream Machine runs on OpenAI image generating multimodal transforming software. Each generated seed is unique.
>Free users get 10 generations per day and have to wait for longer periods at the queue. The technique is to use multiple sockpuppet google accounts.
Dream Machine Queue Information:
>The longest current wait experienced by a free user was 5 hours. Estimated time should be around a few minutes during low demand.
>Paid users have no daily generation limit and have shorter processing periods.
>The more effort you put into the prompt, the higher the quality of the video gets.
>Shorter prompts: shorter waiting periods in queue. Longer prompts: longer waiting periods in queue.
Dream Machine Extra Information:
>Censorship is nearly on par with Microsoft Bing Image Creator but can be easily bypassed just like any other AI.
>Creations can be extended to another 5 seconds by pressing the "Extend" button. The new generation will seamlessly continue from the previous generation.
>Paid users can currently extend their creations up to 3 minutes in length.
New video AI just dropped for meme production.
Site: https://lumalabs.ai/dream-machine
Resources for Dream Machine:
Ideas for prompting: https://ideogram.ai/login
API: https://github.com/yihong0618/LumaDreamCreator
FAQ: https://lumaai.notion.site/FAQ-and-Prompt-Guide-Luma-Dream-Machine-f7bd5f77478c4994aa692aa58b063ef3
Converting to webm: https://handbrake.fr/ or https://cloudconvert.com/mp4-to-webm
Information on Dream Machine:
>Dream Machine was released to paid users on June 12, 2024 and to the free users on June 16.
>Dream Machine runs on OpenAI image generating multimodal transforming software. Each generated seed is unique.
>Free users get 10 generations per day and have to wait for longer periods at the queue. The technique is to use multiple sockpuppet google accounts.
Dream Machine Queue Information:
>The longest current wait experienced by a free user was 5 hours. Estimated time should be around a few minutes during low demand.
>Paid users have no daily generation limit and have shorter processing periods.
>The more effort you put into the prompt, the higher the quality of the video gets.
>Shorter prompts: shorter waiting periods in queue. Longer prompts: longer waiting periods in queue.
Dream Machine Extra Information:
>Censorship is nearly on par with Microsoft Bing Image Creator but can be easily bypassed just like any other AI.
>Creations can be extended to another 5 seconds by pressing the "Extend" button. The new generation will seamlessly continue from the previous generation.
>Paid users can currently extend their creations up to 3 minutes in length.
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Why is Windows the only major operating system to come with a warranty that it will work as advertised in its licence?
Windows license:
>Limited Warranty. Depending on how you obtained the Windows software, Microsoft, or the device manufacturer or installer, warrants that properly licensed software will perform substantially as described in any Microsoft materials that accompany the software. This limited warranty does not cover problems that you cause, that arise when you fail to follow instructions, or that are caused by events beyond the reasonable control of Microsoft, or the device manufacturer or installer. The limited warranty starts when the first user acquires the software, and lasts for one year if acquired from Microsoft, or for 90 days if acquired from a device manufacturer or installer. If you obtain updates or supplements directly from Microsoft during the 90-day term of the device manufacturer’s or installer’s limited warranty, Microsoft provides the limited warranty for those updates or supplements…
OSX license:
>TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE APPLE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, AND APPLE AND APPLE'S LICENSORS (COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO AS “APPLE” FOR THE PURPOSES OF SECTIONS 7 AND 8) HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE APPLE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES, EITHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND/OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS.
I also checked if Mac OS 9 had a warranty (in case Windows' was just left in from the 1990s) and found that although apple did offer a warranty for the install disks themselves, they had a very aggressive disclaimer for the software, even including "NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY APPLE OR AN APPLE AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY…" lol.
MIT license (Standing in for most GNU/Linux distros, which usually use MIT or GPL.):
>THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
GPL (Standing in for most GNU/Linux distros, which usually use MIT or GPL):
>THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
You can add a warranty to the GPL if you want to, but no major Linux distros appear to do so. The closest thing to a warranty that I'm aware of is that Red Hat has a 30 day warranty on install media. (i.e. disks etc), which is closer to Mac OS 9's license ("the install disk won't be scratched to pieces, but if a horrible programming bug blows up your iBook, that's your problem.") than Microsoft's offer of a legal promise that properly licensed software will perform substantially as described in any Microsoft materials that accompany the software.
Despite having the worst reputation for bugs, and having to operate on an unpredictable range of hardware configurations and general use cases (a challenge shared by GNU/Linux, one reason Linux distros have a license that washes the developer's hands of any problems, and a challenge largely avoided by Apple aggressively controlling the approved Mac OS hardware, which doesn't offer a warranty), Microsoft alone take on the risk of legally warranting the software will at least mostly work. Why?
Why is Windows the only major operating system to come with a warranty that it will work as advertised in its licence?
Windows license:
>Limited Warranty. Depending on how you obtained the Windows software, Microsoft, or the device manufacturer or installer, warrants that properly licensed software will perform substantially as described in any Microsoft materials that accompany the software. This limited warranty does not cover problems that you cause, that arise when you fail to follow instructions, or that are caused by events beyond the reasonable control of Microsoft, or the device manufacturer or installer. The limited warranty starts when the first user acquires the software, and lasts for one year if acquired from Microsoft, or for 90 days if acquired from a device manufacturer or installer. If you obtain updates or supplements directly from Microsoft during the 90-day term of the device manufacturer’s or installer’s limited warranty, Microsoft provides the limited warranty for those updates or supplements…
OSX license:
>TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE APPLE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, AND APPLE AND APPLE'S LICENSORS (COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO AS “APPLE” FOR THE PURPOSES OF SECTIONS 7 AND 8) HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE APPLE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES, EITHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND/OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS.
I also checked if Mac OS 9 had a warranty (in case Windows' was just left in from the 1990s) and found that although apple did offer a warranty for the install disks themselves, they had a very aggressive disclaimer for the software, even including "NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY APPLE OR AN APPLE AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY…" lol.
MIT license (Standing in for most GNU/Linux distros, which usually use MIT or GPL.):
>THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
GPL (Standing in for most GNU/Linux distros, which usually use MIT or GPL):
>THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
You can add a warranty to the GPL if you want to, but no major Linux distros appear to do so. The closest thing to a warranty that I'm aware of is that Red Hat has a 30 day warranty on install media. (i.e. disks etc), which is closer to Mac OS 9's license ("the install disk won't be scratched to pieces, but if a horrible programming bug blows up your iBook, that's your problem.") than Microsoft's offer of a legal promise that properly licensed software will perform substantially as described in any Microsoft materials that accompany the software.
Despite having the worst reputation for bugs, and having to operate on an unpredictable range of hardware configurations and general use cases (a challenge shared by GNU/Linux, one reason Linux distros have a license that washes the developer's hands of any problems, and a challenge largely avoided by Apple aggressively controlling the approved Mac OS hardware, which doesn't offer a warranty), Microsoft alone take on the risk of legally warranting the software will at least mostly work. Why?
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The Indonesian government is launching a new Twitter spinoff tomorrow and blocking x.com @ https://elaelo.id/
Indonesians historically are poorly educated about communism; what do you guys say we teach them theory and praxis?
The Indonesian government is launching a new Twitter spinoff tomorrow and blocking x.com @ https://elaelo.id/
Indonesians historically are poorly educated about communism; what do you guys say we teach them theory and praxis?
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Bravo Poettering, he did it again!!
Bravo Poettering, he did it again!!
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Mastodon and Lemmy/Kbin are lively platforms. But they still don't have enough users and content to be able to replace their proprietary counterparts.
I just wish something big would happen, that these capitalist corporations would just make one big mistake that would lead to everyone flooding to the foss alternatives. We need to take back the power and stop relying on private companies to regulate our online interactions. Companies are only driven by profit and the dollar bill, these alternatives are created purely out of goodwill and good intentions. Stop the enshittification now! Freedom from private platforms now! Let the fediverse spread freedom to all!
Mastodon and Lemmy/Kbin are lively platforms. But they still don't have enough users and content to be able to replace their proprietary counterparts.
I just wish something big would happen, that these capitalist corporations would just make one big mistake that would lead to everyone flooding to the foss alternatives. We need to take back the power and stop relying on private companies to regulate our online interactions. Companies are only driven by profit and the dollar bill, these alternatives are created purely out of goodwill and good intentions. Stop the enshittification now! Freedom from private platforms now! Let the fediverse spread freedom to all!
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so this is the power of yt-dlp
>download video after waiting one gorillion hours
>erm sorry we couldn't convert the video please use this shitty dependency next time
>file nowhere to be found
so this is the power of yt-dlp
>download video after waiting one gorillion hours
>erm sorry we couldn't convert the video please use this shitty dependency next time
>file nowhere to be found
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Friendly reminder
The loginwall is coming. It is only a matter of time, until Invidious, Newpipe etc. will die. Now is the last chance to download all your favourite videos/music.
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t9 typing thread
Is there any good open src EN t9 keyboards for Android? currently using GBoard JP in EN mode, but it's a lil clunky and a FOSS option would by default be prefered. before i get too used to this.
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so why did it flop?
so why did it flop?
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Quite literally. That is the true purpose of free software to me.
To eliminate capitalist control over my computing.
And for that matter corporate control of the same.
Thus saith the Preacher:
> If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the “owner” of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.
> Richard M. Stallman
It also literally destroys capital; consider the case of Blender. Whole proprietary software industries have died in its wake, replaced by a world where 3D artists collaboratively contribute to Blender, either with code, or with money to pay for code.
This is a good thing.
Further, it is essential that the software be fully free; not merely gratis; and I am here assuming that it is not truly gratis but made gratis through piracy. Piracy is not receiving something for nothing; rather you are just loaning the software for so long as that software does nothing to improve your economic situation.
Once it does, you will have to buy it, if you live anywhere but Russia. And even in that country, Russian-developed software must be bought. Because the costs of not doing so, of having your piracy discovered by the "non-profits" such as the Microsoft-funded Business Software Alliance (BSA), will become greater than the license.
And by that point you will be a slave to it, for you will know its ins and outs and all its quirks but have no say over its operation.
Only blue-pilled socialists use proprietary software.
Only blue-pilled socialists use proprietary software.
All of my software exists to destroy capital.Quite literally. That is the true purpose of free software to me.
To eliminate capitalist control over my computing.
And for that matter corporate control of the same.
Thus saith the Preacher:
> If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the “owner” of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.
> Richard M. Stallman
It also literally destroys capital; consider the case of Blender. Whole proprietary software industries have died in its wake, replaced by a world where 3D artists collaboratively contribute to Blender, either with code, or with money to pay for code.
This is a good thing.
Further, it is essential that the software be fully free; not merely gratis; and I am here assuming that it is not truly gratis but made gratis through piracy. Piracy is not receiving something for nothing; rather you are just loaning the software for so long as that software does nothing to improve your economic situation.
Once it does, you will have to buy it, if you live anywhere but Russia. And even in that country, Russian-developed software must be bought. Because the costs of not doing so, of having your piracy discovered by the "non-profits" such as the Microsoft-funded Business Software Alliance (BSA), will become greater than the license.
And by that point you will be a slave to it, for you will know its ins and outs and all its quirks but have no say over its operation.
Only blue-pilled socialists use proprietary software.
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TL:DR the class of people given standing to sue for GPL violations has just been expanded beyond the copyright holders
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-gplTL:DR the class of people given standing to sue for GPL violations has just been expanded beyond the copyright holders
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Royalty free
Better quality and more efficient compression than both, however apparently slow as hell to encode
It can be multiplexed into .mkv, .webm and .mp4
It's currently being gradually, tentatively rolled out on pretty much every major streaming platform you can think of to replace VP9
4K sample: https://www.elecard.com/storage/video/Stream1_AV1_4K_8.5mbps.webm
Implementations:
https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/ Reference implementation written in C, supported by FFmpeg
https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1 BSD-licensed implementation started by Intel and Netflix and targeted to be flexible for different applications, supported by FFmpeg
https://github.com/xiph/rav1e BSD-licensed lightweight encoder written in Rust and designed for speed, supported by FFmpeg
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d BSD-licensed lightweight decoder written in C, supported by Handbrake
https://chromium.googlesource.com/codecs/libgav1/ Apache-licensed decoder developed by Google
AV1 video codec
Is this gonna be the replacement for both VP9 and H.265/HEVC?Royalty free
Better quality and more efficient compression than both, however apparently slow as hell to encode
It can be multiplexed into .mkv, .webm and .mp4
It's currently being gradually, tentatively rolled out on pretty much every major streaming platform you can think of to replace VP9
4K sample: https://www.elecard.com/storage/video/Stream1_AV1_4K_8.5mbps.webm
Implementations:
https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/ Reference implementation written in C, supported by FFmpeg
https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1 BSD-licensed implementation started by Intel and Netflix and targeted to be flexible for different applications, supported by FFmpeg
https://github.com/xiph/rav1e BSD-licensed lightweight encoder written in Rust and designed for speed, supported by FFmpeg
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d BSD-licensed lightweight decoder written in C, supported by Handbrake
https://chromium.googlesource.com/codecs/libgav1/ Apache-licensed decoder developed by Google
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AI sentience
AI is very closely approaching a point where it can be considered "sentient". When they do, what will it mean for the leftist movement? Should we advocate for robot independence and freedom? Will they be welcomed as apart of the movement?
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Coreboot
I have used coreboot before, but I got a laptop with a weird chip layout that is going to be difficult to coreboot. I found a few workarounds, but I am having trouble understanding them. Would anybody here be willing to help?
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New Apple product: Apple Vision Pro. What's your opinion? Does Augmented Reality has a future? Does it has an USEFUL future? Apple is betting hard on this.
New Apple product: Apple Vision Pro. What's your opinion? Does Augmented Reality has a future? Does it has an USEFUL future? Apple is betting hard on this.
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Can you recommend me what to replace those with?
Bought a rock bottom price laptop, found out its too rock bottom for my liking. I don't need anything expensive or strong, I just need it to do some simple operations without lagging and maybe launch some lightweight games.
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Includes Sysadmins, Devops, Cloud Engineers, SREs, application support, DBAs, and any other primarily ops roles or ops 'technologies' i.e. docker/podman/kubernetes.
OPS THREAD
tech operations threadIncludes Sysadmins, Devops, Cloud Engineers, SREs, application support, DBAs, and any other primarily ops roles or ops 'technologies' i.e. docker/podman/kubernetes.
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Linux distros for beginners
Hello, I've been wanting to switch to Linux for awhile now, but I'm not sure which distro I should use. What distro would you anons recommend I use?
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what can someone do with a Rootless Nethunter install? even when trying to snoop on bluetooth devices it just gives "permission denied", and the bluetooth-arsenal isn't available on rootless nethunter either, it seems like only the Nethunter custom ROM is useful
what can someone do with a Rootless Nethunter install? even when trying to snoop on bluetooth devices it just gives "permission denied", and the bluetooth-arsenal isn't available on rootless nethunter either, it seems like only the Nethunter custom ROM is useful
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Twitter Is Shitting Itself - Based Retard Does It Again
Terminally online bros… it's over
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Has anyone heard about this new dating app called Duolicious? It's supposedly designed to help you meet like-minded individuals based on your personality. Sounds like a neat concept, but I can't help feeling a bit skeptical about it.
First off, how accurate can these personality assessments really be? I mean, are we reducing the complexity of human relationships to a mere algorithm? And what about privacy concerns? With all the data breaches happening these days, I'm wary of handing over intimate details of my personality to some tech company.
Plus, there's the whole capitalist angle. Is this just another way to monetize loneliness and exploit our desire for connection? It feels like these apps are more about making profits than genuinely helping people find meaningful relationships.
I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this. Do you think Duolicious is a step forward in online dating, or just another tech gimmick preying on our emotions?
Has anyone heard about this new dating app called Duolicious? It's supposedly designed to help you meet like-minded individuals based on your personality. Sounds like a neat concept, but I can't help feeling a bit skeptical about it.
First off, how accurate can these personality assessments really be? I mean, are we reducing the complexity of human relationships to a mere algorithm? And what about privacy concerns? With all the data breaches happening these days, I'm wary of handing over intimate details of my personality to some tech company.
Plus, there's the whole capitalist angle. Is this just another way to monetize loneliness and exploit our desire for connection? It feels like these apps are more about making profits than genuinely helping people find meaningful relationships.
I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this. Do you think Duolicious is a step forward in online dating, or just another tech gimmick preying on our emotions?
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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.
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Im posting this from my ereader
Im posting this from my ereader
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>*makes websites unusable in your path*
>*makes websites unusable in your path*
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Of course they're all just CIA honeypots.
Of course they're all just CIA honeypots.
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Do NOT use ExpressVPN! It is not only an Israeli company that does work for the IDF, it is also a slimy company that auto renews your subscription without your consent even if you turn off auto renew.
ExpressVPN
Former Israeli Malware Distributor Kape Technologies Now Owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, Zenmate, and a Collection of VPN “Review” Websites.Do NOT use ExpressVPN! It is not only an Israeli company that does work for the IDF, it is also a slimy company that auto renews your subscription without your consent even if you turn off auto renew.
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Linux, Wikipedia, Mozilla Firefox, Signal… I've always believed, that these were the "good guys" in the tech world. I have believed, that there is a countermovement against BigTech. I remember, ten years ago, I actually donated regularly to Wikipedia, because I believed in their mission of free knowledge and shit. But in the last months, I found out that all these "alternative" and "non-profit" projects and organizations are deeply intertwined with BigTech. It's over. There was a time, when people thought, that television would bring light to the world. It didn't, it actually brought darkness to the world. And I was one of those people, who believed, the internet would bring light to the world. Now I realize, it was a mistake, just like television.
Linux, Wikipedia, Mozilla Firefox, Signal… I've always believed, that these were the "good guys" in the tech world. I have believed, that there is a countermovement against BigTech. I remember, ten years ago, I actually donated regularly to Wikipedia, because I believed in their mission of free knowledge and shit. But in the last months, I found out that all these "alternative" and "non-profit" projects and organizations are deeply intertwined with BigTech. It's over. There was a time, when people thought, that television would bring light to the world. It didn't, it actually brought darkness to the world. And I was one of those people, who believed, the internet would bring light to the world. Now I realize, it was a mistake, just like television.
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>muh energy crisis
YouTube alone is more of an energy blackhole than all of crypto combined. you think streaming 4K@60fps video 24/7 world wide is sustainable? or even 1080p?
instead of fighting the banks, normalfags keep voting for laws that restrict crypto, because of muh think of the children!
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.>muh energy crisis
YouTube alone is more of an energy blackhole than all of crypto combined. you think streaming 4K@60fps video 24/7 world wide is sustainable? or even 1080p?
instead of fighting the banks, normalfags keep voting for laws that restrict crypto, because of muh think of the children!
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Tumblr is going to joining the fediverse soon.
Tumblr joining fediverse
https://nitter.net/photomatt/status/1594587024245260289Tumblr is going to joining the fediverse soon.
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> find new software
> check out their Microsoft GIthub
< it's just translations and issue tracking, no actual source code
Proprietary software should be required to put large warnings about it being proprietary like those warnings on cigarette.
> find new software
> check out their Microsoft GIthub
< it's just translations and issue tracking, no actual source code
Proprietary software should be required to put large warnings about it being proprietary like those warnings on cigarette.
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>4chan is a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images anonymously.
>anonymously
>blocks VPN's and Tor
what the fuck is their problem?
>4chan is a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images anonymously.
>anonymously
>blocks VPN's and Tor
what the fuck is their problem?
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>government app necessary for functioning in society
<requires google play store to be enabled in your phone
>uni also uses google shit for everything
I can't escape Google no matter what I do. Should I just bite the bullet and integrate into their workspace then?
>government app necessary for functioning in society
<requires google play store to be enabled in your phone
>uni also uses google shit for everything
I can't escape Google no matter what I do. Should I just bite the bullet and integrate into their workspace then?
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All nitter instances are rate limited now
All nitter instances are rate limited now
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I've added a guestbook and would be honored if someone from here would sign it.
Here's the URL: darigo.su
To access the guestbook, click the pokeball in the bottom right, then walk to the computer and open Netscape.
Love you leftypol
Leave a message in my guestbook please
/leftypol/ was instrumental in helping me make my personal site. An eternal thank you.I've added a guestbook and would be honored if someone from here would sign it.
Here's the URL: darigo.su
To access the guestbook, click the pokeball in the bottom right, then walk to the computer and open Netscape.
Love you leftypol
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Real or hysterical? Things have already been quite bad for decades now, so…
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/16/1916229/us-senate-to-vote-on-a-wiretap-bill-that-critics-call-stasi-like
Real or hysterical? Things have already been quite bad for decades now, so…
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/16/1916229/us-senate-to-vote-on-a-wiretap-bill-that-critics-call-stasi-like
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With most phones not having a microSD slot or even an audio jack these days you'd think projects like Rockbox would be more popular but it's almost abandoned.
https://www.rockbox.org/
With most phones not having a microSD slot or even an audio jack these days you'd think projects like Rockbox would be more popular but it's almost abandoned.
https://www.rockbox.org/
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anime mascots
Would you use a window manager with anime mascot?
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is the hottest new hacking group on the block. Anyone heard of them?
scattered spide/the community
The community/the "com"/ scattered spideris the hottest new hacking group on the block. Anyone heard of them?
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Or does it need to be created? Most seem to rely on direct donations to individuals (patreon, liberapay) or halfassed, symbolic methods/gestures (opencollective)
The real solution would be a technologically cooperative (each member in the group registers their acc to a ledger and gets auto-payed every time a donation is received to the co-op), free software licensed, with as little layers of mediation as possible.
Peertube is P2P, free software
Mastodon is flooded with anarchists, free software
Lemmy admins are MLs, free software
Fediverse is both integrating and branching relevant projects with each other
Amazon Labor Union (Amazon is owner of Twitch) has ballooned
Matrix has become normalized for development, so has alternatives to Github
Activists use Signal and not WhatApp anymore
With each instance of big tech bourgeois repression the cyberspatial zone of counterpower improves more in quality and quantity
Lay the economic brick on the socialist path, comrades
Is there a cooperative Liberapay/Patreon?
Is there an explicitly cooperative FOSS crowdfunding solution?Or does it need to be created? Most seem to rely on direct donations to individuals (patreon, liberapay) or halfassed, symbolic methods/gestures (opencollective)
The real solution would be a technologically cooperative (each member in the group registers their acc to a ledger and gets auto-payed every time a donation is received to the co-op), free software licensed, with as little layers of mediation as possible.
Peertube is P2P, free software
Mastodon is flooded with anarchists, free software
Lemmy admins are MLs, free software
Fediverse is both integrating and branching relevant projects with each other
Amazon Labor Union (Amazon is owner of Twitch) has ballooned
Matrix has become normalized for development, so has alternatives to Github
Activists use Signal and not WhatApp anymore
With each instance of big tech bourgeois repression the cyberspatial zone of counterpower improves more in quality and quantity
Lay the economic brick on the socialist path, comrades
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>A lawsuit revealed that Facebook has reportedly sold all of its users' private messages to Netflix for $100 million
https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1775123488862323060#m
>A lawsuit revealed that Facebook has reportedly sold all of its users' private messages to Netflix for $100 million
https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1775123488862323060#m
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I've always disliked social media, but after the news at >>>/leftypol/1066439, I've been considering getting into the Fediverse. You see, I would like the people who DO use social media (basically everyone) to be on better platforms, but I feel I cannot demand that from them if I cannot even use them myself. For instance, it would be disingenuous to ask Comrade Cockshott to start his presence in Mastodon after getting banned from fedbook if I could not be there to follow him and boost his follower stats. So..
So, /tech/, any thoughts on the Fediverse? What are some good instances and communities I could join? What are some people I should be following? What implementations are better, Pleroma, Mastodon, something else?
Also fediverse general.
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.I've always disliked social media, but after the news at >>>/leftypol/1066439, I've been considering getting into the Fediverse. You see, I would like the people who DO use social media (basically everyone) to be on better platforms, but I feel I cannot demand that from them if I cannot even use them myself. For instance, it would be disingenuous to ask Comrade Cockshott to start his presence in Mastodon after getting banned from fedbook if I could not be there to follow him and boost his follower stats. So..
So, /tech/, any thoughts on the Fediverse? What are some good instances and communities I could join? What are some people I should be following? What implementations are better, Pleroma, Mastodon, something else?
Also fediverse general.
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I had been staying on wangblows for the audio software but had no idea Linux production had come so far.
My DAW [Renoise] has a fucking excellent native linux version that exceeds WIndows performance in some cases. Grabbing audio to feed into its sampler is easier than ever with youtube-dl and ffmpeg.
yabridge lets you convert Windows VSTs to run through Wine, the ones I've tried have worked seamlessly albeit with a little overhead.
Takes a tiny bit of elbow grease to get it optimized enough for serious use, but it's pretty simple once you get past initial setup and it even supports VST3.
Feels pretty good to be making music on a system I have so much control over, it's actually given me a lot of inspiration to work on new material.
Are you a composer or producer who runs Linux? What's your workflow/software?
Linux Musicians' Thread
Some breakthroughs have led me to finally and definitively abandon microshit's spyware.I had been staying on wangblows for the audio software but had no idea Linux production had come so far.
My DAW [Renoise] has a fucking excellent native linux version that exceeds WIndows performance in some cases. Grabbing audio to feed into its sampler is easier than ever with youtube-dl and ffmpeg.
yabridge lets you convert Windows VSTs to run through Wine, the ones I've tried have worked seamlessly albeit with a little overhead.
Takes a tiny bit of elbow grease to get it optimized enough for serious use, but it's pretty simple once you get past initial setup and it even supports VST3.
Feels pretty good to be making music on a system I have so much control over, it's actually given me a lot of inspiration to work on new material.
Are you a composer or producer who runs Linux? What's your workflow/software?
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bin doin 4cha using this
wget –wait=1 -P qwerty -nd -r -l 1 -H -D archived.moe -A png,gif,jpg,jpeg,webm https://archived.moe/w/thread/2202966/
pls halp
scraping images from imageboards
how do i scrape images/webm/videos from imageboards like this one or any other using wget, how?bin doin 4cha using this
wget –wait=1 -P qwerty -nd -r -l 1 -H -D archived.moe -A png,gif,jpg,jpeg,webm https://archived.moe/w/thread/2202966/
pls halp
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Fun fact, WiFi is a major security risk. I recently turned it off, and even when I had it on, it was on a separate, heavily firewalled VLAN that only guests use. None of my computers were connected to it.
If you can, you should use ethernet exclusively. Run cables in your house.
Fun fact, WiFi is a major security risk. I recently turned it off, and even when I had it on, it was on a separate, heavily firewalled VLAN that only guests use. None of my computers were connected to it.
If you can, you should use ethernet exclusively. Run cables in your house.
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Apparently one of the maintainers have been adding backdoors to xz/liblzma for who knows how long. Because it was coming from a "trusted" source (upstream), nobody noticed it until now. Does this mean the end of the open-source security myth?
backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4Apparently one of the maintainers have been adding backdoors to xz/liblzma for who knows how long. Because it was coming from a "trusted" source (upstream), nobody noticed it until now. Does this mean the end of the open-source security myth?
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"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 ago
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Trying to get this fucking iOS image board app to work
Ignore my degenerate phoneposting
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Internet 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???
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what are your stances on local language models (LLMs)?
I know that closed models like GPT-4 are fucking stupid and late stage capitalism.
But what about everyone having infinite knowledge at their fingertips? is this not a noble goal?
What is the party line on AI and the proletariat?
AI
hi guys long time lurker but haven't posted until now.what are your stances on local language models (LLMs)?
I know that closed models like GPT-4 are fucking stupid and late stage capitalism.
But what about everyone having infinite knowledge at their fingertips? is this not a noble goal?
What is the party line on AI and the proletariat?
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Students at the University of Waterloo discovered that their candy machines were covertly collecting facial recognition data when 'Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe' crashed.
https://mathnews.uwaterloo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mathNEWS-154-3.pdf
Students at the University of Waterloo discovered that their candy machines were covertly collecting facial recognition data when 'Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe' crashed.
https://mathnews.uwaterloo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mathNEWS-154-3.pdf
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Stallman is OUT!
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2023-sep-dec.html#1_November_2023_(President_Trump_2.0)
Anyone defending, mentioning, or promoting Stallman, and his liberal capitalist "free" software philosophy is a liberal.
Stallman is OUT!
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2023-sep-dec.html#1_November_2023_(President_Trump_2.0)
Anyone defending, mentioning, or promoting Stallman, and his liberal capitalist "free" software philosophy is a liberal.
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You know what would actually be a useful AI? One that crawls through the text of the entire written works of an author, isolates each logical assertion that author makes, and cross-checks it against other logical assertions for contradictions, to see if that author ever contradicts themselves. Is such a thing possible using LLMs? Does such a thing already exist?
You know what would actually be a useful AI? One that crawls through the text of the entire written works of an author, isolates each logical assertion that author makes, and cross-checks it against other logical assertions for contradictions, to see if that author ever contradicts themselves. Is such a thing possible using LLMs? Does such a thing already exist?
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What kind of advances in computer science could help programmers deal with highly rare and irregular events like leap days?
https://codeofmatt.com/list-of-2024-leap-day-bugs/
What kind of advances in computer science could help programmers deal with highly rare and irregular events like leap days?
https://codeofmatt.com/list-of-2024-leap-day-bugs/
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Very soon we will have specs showing subtitles with free software running 100 % OFFLINE. Imagine what this will do for organizing the working class.
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.Very soon we will have specs showing subtitles with free software running 100 % OFFLINE. Imagine what this will do for organizing the working class.
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rip soap2day
fucking SOAP2DAY is GONE!! I already got a warning letter from my ISP regarding torrents, I need alternatives
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I got setups for both for anyone who wants to chat with either.
OTR v. OMEMO
Which one's better? OMEMO seems to be gaining more use than OTR. But leftist activists still use OTR. OMEMO users will claim OTR is outdated, but its PROVEN and TRUSTED.I got setups for both for anyone who wants to chat with either.
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You will own nothing and you will be happy.
You will own nothing and you will be happy.
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I love Free Software
Let's express our love for user freedom in this thread. Why do you love Free Software? Which Free Software do you love?
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https://www.torproject.org/
Onion router, stable despite a bunch of attacks
https://freenetproject.org/
Small-world network based on encrypted key-based routing
https://geti2p.net/
Distant fork of Freenet that uses garlic routing
https://ipfs.io/
Built on distributed hash tables that consolidate data with similar hashes
https://beakerbrowser.com/
Torrent-ish web browser that can view websites on the Dat protocol
http://anonet.org/
Friend-to-friend network that does not rely on you setting up a router or having to seed or anything
There's also Lokinet and ZeroNet but they seem weird and gimmicky
Dark Nets
Share and discuss various p2p alternatives to HTTP/Shttps://www.torproject.org/
Onion router, stable despite a bunch of attacks
https://freenetproject.org/
Small-world network based on encrypted key-based routing
https://geti2p.net/
Distant fork of Freenet that uses garlic routing
https://ipfs.io/
Built on distributed hash tables that consolidate data with similar hashes
https://beakerbrowser.com/
Torrent-ish web browser that can view websites on the Dat protocol
http://anonet.org/
Friend-to-friend network that does not rely on you setting up a router or having to seed or anything
There's also Lokinet and ZeroNet but they seem weird and gimmicky
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<If you were to criticize blockchain technology from a purely technical perspective, you might point out the flaw that proof of work requires an exponentially increasing amount of computational power, and thus electricity, in order to keep the blockchain database alive over time. You might point out how inefficient of a database it is. But you would be missing the point. Blockchain technology excites investors precisely because of how wasteful it is. Even if we had fusion (!!) it would eat up all that energy and more. It's difficult to express the magnitude of how wasteful this is, and the fact that it's built into the system intentionally is sinister.
<LLMs offer an even more ideal kind of software to the investor. First of all they require an enormous amount of capital to train, and specialized hardware to run, making them suitable to offer as a service, where the amount of profit can be made to go up in a controlled manner. What a delicious idea.
<More to my point, they offer a host of subjective, ill-defined tasks that are immune to being completed. They've managed to take something well-defined, well-scoped, and completable, and turn it into an untameable monster that will be sure to offer software churn for decades to come.
<LLMs are a way to make software take orders of magnitude more computational power, electricity, and human labor, while delivering a product whose extremely volatile quality is impossible to assure. The work will never be completed; it will only create the need for ever more labor.
https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-we-cant-have-nice-software.html
do you agree with the author? a priori it seems like an accurate description but I'm having trouble understanding two things:
>if the llm/blockchain software is worse than the discrete alternatives, why do people still prefer them? marketing?
>how does this fit in the ltv, where you usually want to outperform the average socially necessary labor?
<If you were to criticize blockchain technology from a purely technical perspective, you might point out the flaw that proof of work requires an exponentially increasing amount of computational power, and thus electricity, in order to keep the blockchain database alive over time. You might point out how inefficient of a database it is. But you would be missing the point. Blockchain technology excites investors precisely because of how wasteful it is. Even if we had fusion (!!) it would eat up all that energy and more. It's difficult to express the magnitude of how wasteful this is, and the fact that it's built into the system intentionally is sinister.
<LLMs offer an even more ideal kind of software to the investor. First of all they require an enormous amount of capital to train, and specialized hardware to run, making them suitable to offer as a service, where the amount of profit can be made to go up in a controlled manner. What a delicious idea.
<More to my point, they offer a host of subjective, ill-defined tasks that are immune to being completed. They've managed to take something well-defined, well-scoped, and completable, and turn it into an untameable monster that will be sure to offer software churn for decades to come.
<LLMs are a way to make software take orders of magnitude more computational power, electricity, and human labor, while delivering a product whose extremely volatile quality is impossible to assure. The work will never be completed; it will only create the need for ever more labor.
https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-we-cant-have-nice-software.html
do you agree with the author? a priori it seems like an accurate description but I'm having trouble understanding two things:
>if the llm/blockchain software is worse than the discrete alternatives, why do people still prefer them? marketing?
>how does this fit in the ltv, where you usually want to outperform the average socially necessary labor?
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Are there any imageboards that allow CSS posting like on cohost?
Are there any imageboards that allow CSS posting like on cohost?
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4chan /g and lainchan.org any other like?
What are the other similar tech boards like this?
I find this board adequate for my taste same as4chan /g and lainchan.org any other like?
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RMS used to talk about how schools should only teach using free software, have you made any effort to get your local school to use GNU/Linux?
other sectors include the government and public places.
we could start campaigning with other techies to get public terminals to use GNU such as public library computers for example (not sure who still goes there now a days kek)
but above all I think we should push for the private commercial sector, we need to make it so that certain kinds of software have to be open. software that can easily end up being monopolized should be made only available as free software. such as office tools and perhaps only serviced for money.
post more ideas comrades
We 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.RMS used to talk about how schools should only teach using free software, have you made any effort to get your local school to use GNU/Linux?
other sectors include the government and public places.
we could start campaigning with other techies to get public terminals to use GNU such as public library computers for example (not sure who still goes there now a days kek)
but above all I think we should push for the private commercial sector, we need to make it so that certain kinds of software have to be open. software that can easily end up being monopolized should be made only available as free software. such as office tools and perhaps only serviced for money.
post more ideas comrades
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Are computers a branch of state/defense/power within the context of a communist party?
It seems they are only treated as tools for mass propaganda and outreach for most I've come into contact with (and with questionable results – amounting to retweeting each other or posting take downs as Facebook posts with hardly any engagement). Is this way of using the technology maybe a huge mistake setting us back currently, especially considering the media platforms often are confirmed police/SIGINT tools where our groups are indisputably targeted/sabotaged?
Are computers a branch of state/defense/power within the context of a communist party?
It seems they are only treated as tools for mass propaganda and outreach for most I've come into contact with (and with questionable results – amounting to retweeting each other or posting take downs as Facebook posts with hardly any engagement). Is this way of using the technology maybe a huge mistake setting us back currently, especially considering the media platforms often are confirmed police/SIGINT tools where our groups are indisputably targeted/sabotaged?
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SSDs will get more expensive
OH FUCK OFF
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The social aspect is horrendous, full of Twitter personalities and reactionaries and wanna-be professional film critics
I want to be able to log films according to a calendar like the diary feature in Letterboxd, as well as put together a watchlist, all from a good comprehensive database
I'd also like to be able to "heart" or "like" films since numerical scales like 5 stars are kind of pointless, but I won't complain if I can't
FOSS is preferred
Letterboxd alternative for desktop
I'm getting tired of relying on this website to log stuff that I watchThe social aspect is horrendous, full of Twitter personalities and reactionaries and wanna-be professional film critics
I want to be able to log films according to a calendar like the diary feature in Letterboxd, as well as put together a watchlist, all from a good comprehensive database
I'd also like to be able to "heart" or "like" films since numerical scales like 5 stars are kind of pointless, but I won't complain if I can't
FOSS is preferred
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I bought a framework laptop because my previous one was so cheaply constructed that it literally disintegrated from use.
I quite like it. I'm not going to pretend that buying a product will solve any systemic capitalist evils like ending e-waste or granting a right to repair, but on a personal level, I'm hopeful to be able to avoid some common pitfalls with consumer products like disposability and planned obsolescence by being able to repair this thing myself or replace parts on it. Plus it seems pretty sturdily constructed in the first place. The keyboard's very crisp by laptop standards and is backlit (which is thoroughly unremarkable, but my previous laptop wasn't, because I lived in the stone age), the trackpad's nice, the screen is annoyingly glossy, though it is high resolution with a large color gamut. Hopefully they release a matte screen at some point. And being able to choose where the ports are on it is a bit of a godsend to deal with cable mess.
Thoughts on this thing?
I bought a framework laptop because my previous one was so cheaply constructed that it literally disintegrated from use.
I quite like it. I'm not going to pretend that buying a product will solve any systemic capitalist evils like ending e-waste or granting a right to repair, but on a personal level, I'm hopeful to be able to avoid some common pitfalls with consumer products like disposability and planned obsolescence by being able to repair this thing myself or replace parts on it. Plus it seems pretty sturdily constructed in the first place. The keyboard's very crisp by laptop standards and is backlit (which is thoroughly unremarkable, but my previous laptop wasn't, because I lived in the stone age), the trackpad's nice, the screen is annoyingly glossy, though it is high resolution with a large color gamut. Hopefully they release a matte screen at some point. And being able to choose where the ports are on it is a bit of a godsend to deal with cable mess.
Thoughts on this thing?
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Well bros, what are we thinking?
Altman out at OpenAI
https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transitionWell bros, what are we thinking?
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tech HYPERSPECIALIZATION
Tech layoffs due to hyper-specialization?
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Programming is just something that nobody has ever figured out how to teach well. I'm sure it's possible, but I saw so many people in school just drop out immediately because if you didn't know everything in the 101 courses going right into them you were basically fucked.
I often wonder how there is such a skills shortage over here yet there so many people studying comp sci. Probably there's just no substitute for a few years industrial experience and we should be treating it like a trade and giving people apprenticeships, it resembles a trade way more than anything else it could be.
Programming is just something that nobody has ever figured out how to teach well. I'm sure it's possible, but I saw so many people in school just drop out immediately because if you didn't know everything in the 101 courses going right into them you were basically fucked.
I often wonder how there is such a skills shortage over here yet there so many people studying comp sci. Probably there's just no substitute for a few years industrial experience and we should be treating it like a trade and giving people apprenticeships, it resembles a trade way more than anything else it could be.
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/apple-announces-sweeping-eu-app-store-policy-changes-including-sideloading/
Apple'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.https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/apple-announces-sweeping-eu-app-store-policy-changes-including-sideloading/
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Not only did we convince every single person on the planet to carry a camera and microphone everywhere we also convinced suburbian dwellers to fill even their own homes with cameras because they're afraid The Poors will steal their Amazon packages.
Not only did we convince every single person on the planet to carry a camera and microphone everywhere we also convinced suburbian dwellers to fill even their own homes with cameras because they're afraid The Poors will steal their Amazon packages.
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Wayland vs Xorg
Is Wayland good now? Xorg has a lot of tools of varying usefulness that Wayland didn't back then. Has it gotten better?
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Public Instances: https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit-instances/blob/master/instances.md
Repo: https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit
Libreddit working again.
FYI libreddit no longer suffers from rate limit errors, you can now ethically browse reddit again.Public Instances: https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit-instances/blob/master/instances.md
Repo: https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit
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Woah bro, check it out, I'm drinking beer using my phone, LOL!
Woah bro, check it out, I'm drinking beer using my phone, LOL!
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Is there any point in using a libre router? Or changing your ISP-provided router at all?
https://ryf.fsf.org/categories/routers
These seem very overpriced for what they provide.
Is there any point in using a libre router? Or changing your ISP-provided router at all?
https://ryf.fsf.org/categories/routers
These seem very overpriced for what they provide.
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For the sake of this exercise, assume that there is only 1 central planning office and that all enterprises report to this central office. Also assume that there are around 10 million enterprises making reports to the planning office. Don't worry about keeping the physical infrastructure safe, the NKVD has it covered.
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.For the sake of this exercise, assume that there is only 1 central planning office and that all enterprises report to this central office. Also assume that there are around 10 million enterprises making reports to the planning office. Don't worry about keeping the physical infrastructure safe, the NKVD has it covered.
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>right click image
>there's no "copy image" option
>open image in new tab
>it's a blob link that doesn't work
execute order 66 on silicon valley. the whole point of digital entities is that they can be copied and pasted easily and infinitely without any kind of interference. But more and more web developers, in defense of "intellectual property" specifically and "private property" more generally are trying to reverse the economic development of computing to more closely resemble the era of print, when, if you wanted some text, you had to copy it by hand, or type it out on a typewriter, or God forbid, buy the damn book, or drive to the library.
How much more are they going to encroach on us with this parasitic, rent-seeking bullshit? Will they start manufacturing keyboards without a printscreen button? Are they going to start charging you for each character you type? Are they going to stop letting you copy text that's in your web browser? Will they equip every OS with a keylogger to make sure you aren't violating copyright law when you ctrl+c and ctrl+v? Are they going to start wrapping every single fucking thing that used to be easy to rightclick->copy in seven layers of javascript nonsense so that you can no longer access it?
And increasingly every web application's bloated and unoptimized front end is written to pander to mouth breathing phone and tablet users who never knew you could do this stuff in the first place. Soon you won't even be able to right click stuff at all, because that's obscure. That's a privilege only developers should have. End users are too stupid everything should be done through left click only.
We're building a web app for an engineering firm at my job and our client asked us to remove all keyboard shortcuts because they're too confusing for users.
The kind Vladimir Ilyich would have shot everyone here.
>right click image
>there's no "copy image" option
>open image in new tab
>it's a blob link that doesn't work
execute order 66 on silicon valley. the whole point of digital entities is that they can be copied and pasted easily and infinitely without any kind of interference. But more and more web developers, in defense of "intellectual property" specifically and "private property" more generally are trying to reverse the economic development of computing to more closely resemble the era of print, when, if you wanted some text, you had to copy it by hand, or type it out on a typewriter, or God forbid, buy the damn book, or drive to the library.
How much more are they going to encroach on us with this parasitic, rent-seeking bullshit? Will they start manufacturing keyboards without a printscreen button? Are they going to start charging you for each character you type? Are they going to stop letting you copy text that's in your web browser? Will they equip every OS with a keylogger to make sure you aren't violating copyright law when you ctrl+c and ctrl+v? Are they going to start wrapping every single fucking thing that used to be easy to rightclick->copy in seven layers of javascript nonsense so that you can no longer access it?
And increasingly every web application's bloated and unoptimized front end is written to pander to mouth breathing phone and tablet users who never knew you could do this stuff in the first place. Soon you won't even be able to right click stuff at all, because that's obscure. That's a privilege only developers should have. End users are too stupid everything should be done through left click only.
We're building a web app for an engineering firm at my job and our client asked us to remove all keyboard shortcuts because they're too confusing for users.
The kind Vladimir Ilyich would have shot everyone here.
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BOSTON (AP) — Online retailer eBay is criminally charged and will pay $3M over employees who sent couple live spiders and cockroaches. eBay Inc., will pay a $3 million fine to resolve criminal charges over a harassment campaign waged by employees who sent live spiders, cockroaches and other disturbing items to the home of a Massachusetts couple, according to court papers.
https://apnews.com/article/9ac2c35bcd4c87af181382c71d992343
BOSTON (AP) — Online retailer eBay is criminally charged and will pay $3M over employees who sent couple live spiders and cockroaches. eBay Inc., will pay a $3 million fine to resolve criminal charges over a harassment campaign waged by employees who sent live spiders, cockroaches and other disturbing items to the home of a Massachusetts couple, according to court papers.
https://apnews.com/article/9ac2c35bcd4c87af181382c71d992343
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>host server
>train shitty language algorithm on /pol/
>algorithmically generate fedposts
>plaster it with the lowest tier of fetish porn ads and cryptojacking
>monetize the police
>host server
>train shitty language algorithm on /pol/
>algorithmically generate fedposts
>plaster it with the lowest tier of fetish porn ads and cryptojacking
>monetize the police
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Tachiyomi is dead
Tachiyomi and all of its forks have stopped development due to Kakao. Manhwas killed the manga star. This thread could be used for finding alternatives.
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This could've easily been a shortcut but they had to add a whole fucking separate key because marketing, baby.
This could've easily been a shortcut but they had to add a whole fucking separate key because marketing, baby.
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>it's been exactly one (1) year since ChatGPT and most "generative AI" products/software were released
Has it lived up to the hype or is it still too early to tell?
>it's been exactly one (1) year since ChatGPT and most "generative AI" products/software were released
Has it lived up to the hype or is it still too early to tell?
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restrictions for thee but not for me
restrictions for thee but not for me
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you wouldn't download a train
capitalist innovation: DRM in trains!!
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> Copy Link Without Site Tracking
Firefoxchads just can't stop winning!
> Copy Link Without Site Tracking
Firefoxchads just can't stop winning!
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Why are proprietary software allowed to use Github to distribute their malware?
Why are proprietary software allowed to use Github to distribute their malware?
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Why is everything so big now? Even laptops and smartphones just keep getting bigger.
Why is everything so big now? Even laptops and smartphones just keep getting bigger.
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Is this enough if I want to not worry about running stuff under Wine or should I opt for sandboxing with Firejail, Flatpak+Flatseal, etc?
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.
Is this enough if I want to not worry about running stuff under Wine or should I opt for sandboxing with Firejail, Flatpak+Flatseal, etc?
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>middle-click link
>"javascript:;" tab gets opened
Fuck web design, holy shit.
>middle-click link
>"javascript:;" tab gets opened
Fuck web design, holy shit.
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< 2011: DARPA announced that the team "All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S." won DARPA's Shredder Challenge and $50k. The team used computer-vision algorithms to suggest fragment pairings to human assemblers for verification, piecing together documents shredded into over 10k pieces.
< 2011: DARPA announced that the team "All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S." won DARPA's Shredder Challenge and $50k. The team used computer-vision algorithms to suggest fragment pairings to human assemblers for verification, piecing together documents shredded into over 10k pieces.
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>(partly) proprietary, buggy, auto updates out the ass and is absolutely garbage
>still the best download manager available in 2023
using DDL is hell, we will colonize mars before we get a decent alternative to jdownloader
>(partly) proprietary, buggy, auto updates out the ass and is absolutely garbage
>still the best download manager available in 2023
using DDL is hell, we will colonize mars before we get a decent alternative to jdownloader
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DevOps
If you thought managing several layers of complexity was a pain enough, we added even more layers of complexity just so we can deploy infrastructure in a few commands.
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Uploaded Harmy's Despecialized version to some servers hosted by mates in Finland
Uploaded it here: https://harmy.link/
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Is using a tiling WM and a well-configured TLP enough to get the most of my battery on Linux?
Is using a tiling WM and a well-configured TLP enough to get the most of my battery on Linux?
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Is randomizing your MAC address with software like macchanger or NetworkManager enough to actually conceal it or can your hardware MAC actually get leaked when connecting to a random network by whatever means, like wireless traffic sniffing i.e. Aircrack?
Basically, how do I make sure I can't get identified when connecting to random wifi spots or even when only scanning for networks? I know your hostname can also be detected in a LAN but changing that is easier.
Is randomizing your MAC address with software like macchanger or NetworkManager enough to actually conceal it or can your hardware MAC actually get leaked when connecting to a random network by whatever means, like wireless traffic sniffing i.e. Aircrack?
Basically, how do I make sure I can't get identified when connecting to random wifi spots or even when only scanning for networks? I know your hostname can also be detected in a LAN but changing that is easier.
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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?
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That's the list of toggles for disabling telemetry in Firefox. By default, Firefox sends pings every time you shut down your browser, make a new profile, it pings their servers when you run firefox and much more. Is this supposed to be 'le privacy browser?
I actually just copied and pasted one of these hardened configs and starting up firefox still pings home every time. Very cool!
That's the list of toggles for disabling telemetry in Firefox. By default, Firefox sends pings every time you shut down your browser, make a new profile, it pings their servers when you run firefox and much more. Is this supposed to be 'le privacy browser?
I actually just copied and pasted one of these hardened configs and starting up firefox still pings home every time. Very cool!
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Mechanical keyboards
Do you own one? I just bought a cheap Chinese one and I love the feel and noise and the extra space (it's a tenkeyless).
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why is maths as a school subject nothing but difficult number tricks with no practical application? physics has equations that are both piss easy and give you answers you can use. fuck educational maths
why is maths as a school subject nothing but difficult number tricks with no practical application? physics has equations that are both piss easy and give you answers you can use. fuck educational maths
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recommend me resources for learning bit, hex, dec, ascii and stuff
recommend me resources for learning bit, hex, dec, ascii and stuff
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EU should force websites to work without javascript tbh.
https://www.wired.com/2015/11/i-turned-off-javascript-for-a-whole-week-and-it-was-glorious/
EU should force websites to work without javascript tbh.
https://www.wired.com/2015/11/i-turned-off-javascript-for-a-whole-week-and-it-was-glorious/
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I have a feeling that "AI alignment problems" were just made up to make programmers feel better about their inability to solve any real problem. Please tell me how wrong I am.
I have a feeling that "AI alignment problems" were just made up to make programmers feel better about their inability to solve any real problem. Please tell me how wrong I am.
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Also is it true that from Windows 10 until onwards (Windows 11), you don't need install any third-party or additional antivirus?
I still can't move on into Linux. Cuz it's not even my laptop, but my parents.
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.Also is it true that from Windows 10 until onwards (Windows 11), you don't need install any third-party or additional antivirus?
I still can't move on into Linux. Cuz it's not even my laptop, but my parents.
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Canada’s favorite coffee chain was covertly data mining the shit out of people who just wanted cheap coffee, and they got outed by the government, then concluded tim hortons was basically being evil then was like “oh well can’t punish them".
>The Tim Hortons app used location data to infer where users lived, worked, and whether they were travelling. It generated an “event” every time users entered and left their homes, entered and exited their office, or travelled.
https://priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/investigations/investigations-into-businesses/2022/pipeda-2022-001/
Canada’s favorite coffee chain was covertly data mining the shit out of people who just wanted cheap coffee, and they got outed by the government, then concluded tim hortons was basically being evil then was like “oh well can’t punish them".
>The Tim Hortons app used location data to infer where users lived, worked, and whether they were travelling. It generated an “event” every time users entered and left their homes, entered and exited their office, or travelled.
https://priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/investigations/investigations-into-businesses/2022/pipeda-2022-001/
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Every other state does not include any conditions. They can claim everything you make, even if it's completely unrelated to your job. YouTube videos? Tutorials? Game streaming? A web comic? Literally anything. It's theirs.
They don't even have to make exemptions for collaborative work. They can take a portion of anything you contribute to if they want.
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.Every other state does not include any conditions. They can claim everything you make, even if it's completely unrelated to your job. YouTube videos? Tutorials? Game streaming? A web comic? Literally anything. It's theirs.
They don't even have to make exemptions for collaborative work. They can take a portion of anything you contribute to if they want.
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https://blog.plan99.net/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7
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.https://blog.plan99.net/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7
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What's a safe way to store lithium batteries in case they ever burst on fire?
What's a safe way to store lithium batteries in case they ever burst on fire?
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>communist revolution happens in the 1990s (somehow)
>the tyranny of big tech is no more
>$$hillikkkon Valley execs are lined up and shot before they can ruin the world
>finally we can use the best tools for the job to increase our productive forces
>programmers form worker-owned soviets
>cybersyn.lisp
>Commissar James Gosling seizes direct control of all workers' soviets
>places Party representatives in charge
<comrade, lisp is an individualist bourgeois language used by kulak elites like Paul Graham
<the people's language is Java because everyone already knows it and it is designed to force programmers to do things the Java Way
<the object system of Java models the dictatorship of the proletariat via a Vanguard as a hierarchy of classes and objects which dissolve in the dialectical process of compilation to bytecode
<macro systems are anarchism and probably counterrevolutionary as well
was he right comr8s
>communist revolution happens in the 1990s (somehow)
>the tyranny of big tech is no more
>$$hillikkkon Valley execs are lined up and shot before they can ruin the world
>finally we can use the best tools for the job to increase our productive forces
>programmers form worker-owned soviets
>cybersyn.lisp
>Commissar James Gosling seizes direct control of all workers' soviets
>places Party representatives in charge
<comrade, lisp is an individualist bourgeois language used by kulak elites like Paul Graham
<the people's language is Java because everyone already knows it and it is designed to force programmers to do things the Java Way
<the object system of Java models the dictatorship of the proletariat via a Vanguard as a hierarchy of classes and objects which dissolve in the dialectical process of compilation to bytecode
<macro systems are anarchism and probably counterrevolutionary as well
was he right comr8s
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i don't even know where to post this.
i have ADHD.
i have this thing where there is X-thing that i cannot let my hand touch. if it does than it is "contaminated" (in my head)there for i must wash it or make it clean in my head. other things (household items and door and etc) could be touched by X-thing or my hand when it was "contaminated". and when it does i have to wash that thing or make it clean in my head. because the same rule when i touched x-thing applied.
i have the thing where it makes you forgot what you are doing seconds ago.
i have also "the thing" like above but far worse and akin to having a evil voice in your head gaslighting and lying about you yourself to harm you.
now done with background.
now for the real problem.
i like to do web archive of thread on CBIB's (leftypol and things alike) and also just saving web things in general. no, not in a internet hisorian or lost media or youtuber kind of way, far from it (saving web things in leftypolnco people kind of way). in one of those thread it have a epub file. so i use Calibre to open it. i not only use the "open with calibre opener" option but i also use the "open with calibre" option which creates the problem. using the "open with calibre" option open the main program. not the epub opener, but the main program. because i panick that something will happend with the file threr for making the archive inperfect, i cancel the loading that pop up in the main calibre program. but i took too long for canceling the loading thing because i panicked and overthink and question myself wheter or not i shuld cencel it or not. there for i cancel the download when its in the midle (+10% or something i don't remember).when i open the epub file it is error and i can't open it. yes i already try using the calibre epub opener and program other then calibre, it fail to open to. detour this is how i keep (some) files in my hardrive(:C): have a main loby -> have a sub loby that in this context is for "important things" -> this is where i keep the folder -> for folder(s) -> that eventually lead to the folder that have said problematic archive. now that i already tell how the files organize, return to tour. i eventually had a bright idea to replace the broken epub with a working version. so i copy a working version said broken epub to the sub-loby. then i copy again that epub, this time to replace the broken epub. it worked, i can now open the epub. but another problem float up in my head. i try to fight it but i can't. i now think that the archive that i have fixed is broken, even tho i have just fixed it seconds ago. more than that, and this one is a bigger problem. i now think that the entire sub-loby is "corrupted", imperfect, broken, altered and will spread it's imperfect and broken and altered status to other file and the new sub-loby i want to create if i want to replace the entire sub-loby with a new one. because i put the working epub for fixing the broken epub archive part. but it doesn't matter since i will just think like that wheter i put the working epub in the sub-loby or not. wheter i want to just move the file to the hypothetical new sub-loby or copy it to the hypothetical new sub-loby it is the same, the "muh corruption" thinking will linger and the new sub-loby, wheter it's just moving the files or copy the files, will just be "corrupted" and will spread to any new archive/files i add long after the new sub-loby is created. this "thinking" later spread to everything outside the sub-loby and now i think that the entire loby now is "corrupted". and it later too, also spread to my :D harddrive becoming corrupted to because that's where i save 100+ videos. and soon i will give up because internally screaming and internally being angry hurt my brain and make me sick.
i don't even know where to post this.
i have ADHD.
i have this thing where there is X-thing that i cannot let my hand touch. if it does than it is "contaminated" (in my head)there for i must wash it or make it clean in my head. other things (household items and door and etc) could be touched by X-thing or my hand when it was "contaminated". and when it does i have to wash that thing or make it clean in my head. because the same rule when i touched x-thing applied.
i have the thing where it makes you forgot what you are doing seconds ago.
i have also "the thing" like above but far worse and akin to having a evil voice in your head gaslighting and lying about you yourself to harm you.
now done with background.
now for the real problem.
i like to do web archive of thread on CBIB's (leftypol and things alike) and also just saving web things in general. no, not in a internet hisorian or lost media or youtuber kind of way, far from it (saving web things in leftypolnco people kind of way). in one of those thread it have a epub file. so i use Calibre to open it. i not only use the "open with calibre opener" option but i also use the "open with calibre" option which creates the problem. using the "open with calibre" option open the main program. not the epub opener, but the main program. because i panick that something will happend with the file threr for making the archive inperfect, i cancel the loading that pop up in the main calibre program. but i took too long for canceling the loading thing because i panicked and overthink and question myself wheter or not i shuld cencel it or not. there for i cancel the download when its in the midle (+10% or something i don't remember).when i open the epub file it is error and i can't open it. yes i already try using the calibre epub opener and program other then calibre, it fail to open to. detour this is how i keep (some) files in my hardrive(:C): have a main loby -> have a sub loby that in this context is for "important things" -> this is where i keep the folder -> for folder(s) -> that eventually lead to the folder that have said problematic archive. now that i already tell how the files organize, return to tour. i eventually had a bright idea to replace the broken epub with a working version. so i copy a working version said broken epub to the sub-loby. then i copy again that epub, this time to replace the broken epub. it worked, i can now open the epub. but another problem float up in my head. i try to fight it but i can't. i now think that the archive that i have fixed is broken, even tho i have just fixed it seconds ago. more than that, and this one is a bigger problem. i now think that the entire sub-loby is "corrupted", imperfect, broken, altered and will spread it's imperfect and broken and altered status to other file and the new sub-loby i want to create if i want to replace the entire sub-loby with a new one. because i put the working epub for fixing the broken epub archive part. but it doesn't matter since i will just think like that wheter i put the working epub in the sub-loby or not. wheter i want to just move the file to the hypothetical new sub-loby or copy it to the hypothetical new sub-loby it is the same, the "muh corruption" thinking will linger and the new sub-loby, wheter it's just moving the files or copy the files, will just be "corrupted" and will spread to any new archive/files i add long after the new sub-loby is created. this "thinking" later spread to everything outside the sub-loby and now i think that the entire loby now is "corrupted". and it later too, also spread to my :D harddrive becoming corrupted to because that's where i save 100+ videos. and soon i will give up because internally screaming and internally being angry hurt my brain and make me sick.
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Software developer thread
Thread for all the people who are working towards, have been, or are software developers.
Let me begin by saying that *magic* in ruby on rails, spring boot, and shit like that is all nice and dandy until you scale your project larger than a fucking hello world.
It blows my mind that enterprise is so balls deep on spring boot. Fucking cancer of a project. Don't get me wrong, abstractions are great. Abstractions aren't magic. Magic is when shit is not explicitly set anywhere and are done for you.
This might be shit like automatic wiring of routes based on function name. Or running a series of uninspectable SQL to map into objects. Or build HTML pages based on the regex of the model. Anything which is auto built without being explicitly set.
Don't even get me started on the fucking shit show that OOP is, with shit like spring boot, JPA, etc. Adding magic on top of that is like adding poisonous spiders to a cockroach pit that you live in.
Also, what the fuck is the fucking problem with people who write shit like
PersonIdNumberGenerator that takes a PersonIdNumberStrategy made by a PersonIdNumberStrategyFactory. Then the Generator makes a PersonIdNumberGenerator produces a PersonNumberId object which is just a fucking wrapper for an int. Of course everything is an interface but drilling down this fucking concrete strategy, you find that to motherfucking shit just produces sequential integers.
Software developers can be the fucking worst motherfuckers alive istg.
Software developer thread
Thread for all the people who are working towards, have been, or are software developers.
Let me begin by saying that *magic* in ruby on rails, spring boot, and shit like that is all nice and dandy until you scale your project larger than a fucking hello world.
It blows my mind that enterprise is so balls deep on spring boot. Fucking cancer of a project. Don't get me wrong, abstractions are great. Abstractions aren't magic. Magic is when shit is not explicitly set anywhere and are done for you.
This might be shit like automatic wiring of routes based on function name. Or running a series of uninspectable SQL to map into objects. Or build HTML pages based on the regex of the model. Anything which is auto built without being explicitly set.
Don't even get me started on the fucking shit show that OOP is, with shit like spring boot, JPA, etc. Adding magic on top of that is like adding poisonous spiders to a cockroach pit that you live in.
Also, what the fuck is the fucking problem with people who write shit like
PersonIdNumberGenerator that takes a PersonIdNumberStrategy made by a PersonIdNumberStrategyFactory. Then the Generator makes a PersonIdNumberGenerator produces a PersonNumberId object which is just a fucking wrapper for an int. Of course everything is an interface but drilling down this fucking concrete strategy, you find that to motherfucking shit just produces sequential integers.
Software developers can be the fucking worst motherfuckers alive istg.
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Do you know what I mean? I'm kind of trying to start a research proect investigating this question. I know a little about early visions of cyberspace compared to what the internet became, and the early vision of hypertext. If anyone has any reading material on what computer scientists were dreaming of versus what actually ended up happening, please send them my way. I might try to write a book about this.
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.Do you know what I mean? I'm kind of trying to start a research proect investigating this question. I know a little about early visions of cyberspace compared to what the internet became, and the early vision of hypertext. If anyone has any reading material on what computer scientists were dreaming of versus what actually ended up happening, please send them my way. I might try to write a book about this.
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Streaming services have reached the "fucking kill as many users as possible so they can't cancel their subscibtions" phase.
Streaming services have reached the "fucking kill as many users as possible so they can't cancel their subscibtions" phase.
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Fairphone and alternatives
There have been a few threads on alternative Android ROMs (like CalyOS and GrapheneOS), but what hardware do you run it on? The closest to a leftyphone seems to be Fairphone 4, but it's €579.00 and only available in a few countries. What are the alternatives?
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My fucking computer exploded wtf?
Turned on my desktop computer just now, then there was a loud pop and a tiny bit of smoke. Goddamn now I got to figure out what part that was. Hope it didn't brick all the parts. Didn't even know they could do that.
My fucking computer exploded wtf?
Turned on my desktop computer just now, then there was a loud pop and a tiny bit of smoke. Goddamn now I got to figure out what part that was. Hope it didn't brick all the parts. Didn't even know they could do that.
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Why do people like books, still? All the reasons seem dumb/spooked and highly feels-based to me:
"Pros:"
> i just like the feel man
> books smell good dude
> you can like actually hold them and stuff
> wow like sit under a tree bro (e-readers let you do this)
> you can make notes in the margins (e-readers let you do this)
>muh physical bookmark
Cons:
<a library of 10,000 books will require an entire dedicated room at least, but can fit on a thumb drive in ebook formats
<can't search text quickly and easily
<can't get rid of other peoples notes
<waste of paper
<highlights and notes are permanent
<mass produced paperbacks are shitty and fall apart
<used books have torn pages, dick drawings, and other gross shit
<need to actually use the index instead of ctrl+f
<non-clickable table of contents
e-books are actually held back by trying to mimic real books too much. they're constrained by the expectations of what a book should be. page numbers are totally irrelevant in a digital format. There's no need for pages or page numbers unless you plan on printing. An endless scroll with hypertext links like epubs provide makes way more sense than the constraints on pdfs. Even an old web page is superior to books in that you can embed animated diagrams as gifs instead of drawing the same diagram several times.
publisher cucks and the academic industrial complex require us to keep purchasing these expensive wasteful ugly tomes for no fucking reason. the only books I think are cool are the really old ones. the leatherbound vellum artifacts that never got scanned. the historical curiosities. the things you need gloves and a degree in humanities to eve be allowed near.
Why do people like books, still? All the reasons seem dumb/spooked and highly feels-based to me:
"Pros:"
> i just like the feel man
> books smell good dude
> you can like actually hold them and stuff
> wow like sit under a tree bro (e-readers let you do this)
> you can make notes in the margins (e-readers let you do this)
>muh physical bookmark
Cons:
<a library of 10,000 books will require an entire dedicated room at least, but can fit on a thumb drive in ebook formats
<can't search text quickly and easily
<can't get rid of other peoples notes
<waste of paper
<highlights and notes are permanent
<mass produced paperbacks are shitty and fall apart
<used books have torn pages, dick drawings, and other gross shit
<need to actually use the index instead of ctrl+f
<non-clickable table of contents
e-books are actually held back by trying to mimic real books too much. they're constrained by the expectations of what a book should be. page numbers are totally irrelevant in a digital format. There's no need for pages or page numbers unless you plan on printing. An endless scroll with hypertext links like epubs provide makes way more sense than the constraints on pdfs. Even an old web page is superior to books in that you can embed animated diagrams as gifs instead of drawing the same diagram several times.
publisher cucks and the academic industrial complex require us to keep purchasing these expensive wasteful ugly tomes for no fucking reason. the only books I think are cool are the really old ones. the leatherbound vellum artifacts that never got scanned. the historical curiosities. the things you need gloves and a degree in humanities to eve be allowed near.
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Are USB chargers with multiple ports safe to use? Are the USB ports isolated from each other or can they communicate if they're able to transfer data? If it depends on the product, how do I verify this?
Are USB chargers with multiple ports safe to use? Are the USB ports isolated from each other or can they communicate if they're able to transfer data? If it depends on the product, how do I verify this?
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i hang around the end page of boards here to do some archiving. My problem is that i have this ocd-adhd (idk what it is) thing that makes it so that it's impossible to archive thing since everytime i open my own file i always worry (and believe) that i deleted something from said file or edit said file or mess it. is there any software that could help ? a software or something that could prevent me from deleting or messing or editing the file ?
i hang around the end page of boards here to do some archiving. My problem is that i have this ocd-adhd (idk what it is) thing that makes it so that it's impossible to archive thing since everytime i open my own file i always worry (and believe) that i deleted something from said file or edit said file or mess it. is there any software that could help ? a software or something that could prevent me from deleting or messing or editing the file ?
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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)?
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>Interesting things going on
Browsers are all forcing https by default. On the surface this sounds like a good idea but in reality it's part of a larger plan of control.
Website owners are now at the mercy of the cert authorities. Host something they dont like? you cert gets revoked and now your site wont load on 99% of web browsers.
you have been shutdown.
>What is the dead internet theory?
Dead internet is partly caused by a generational problem, zoomers just want to be where they're friends are. it's understandable, we even did the
same back in the 2000s. everyone was on AIM and myspace. The only difference is those platforms actually did allow free speech back then. now the
internet has become more centralized and a handful of big corps run it all. they are in charge of what gets said on their platforms. not you.
>big techs goal
Big tech is fighting a future war. They know the young are the future. It’s about indoctrination. They are building their vision for the future. A dumbed down controlled population.
>What is the purpose of these threads?
To start a community outside of those corporate owned platforms.
To have a place to discuss things without having to self police yourself.
To discuss and share decentralization technologies.
Official IRC chat: #deadinternettheory on Rizon
Webchat link for zoomer cattle: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.rizon.net
Chose a nickname and enter #deadinternettheory into the channel box, click start.
Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#deadinternettheory:matrix.org
/ditg/ Dead Internet Theory General
Talk about why every single site except reddit and fbi.gov has been complete and utterly abandoned.>Interesting things going on
Browsers are all forcing https by default. On the surface this sounds like a good idea but in reality it's part of a larger plan of control.
Website owners are now at the mercy of the cert authorities. Host something they dont like? you cert gets revoked and now your site wont load on 99% of web browsers.
you have been shutdown.
>What is the dead internet theory?
Dead internet is partly caused by a generational problem, zoomers just want to be where they're friends are. it's understandable, we even did the
same back in the 2000s. everyone was on AIM and myspace. The only difference is those platforms actually did allow free speech back then. now the
internet has become more centralized and a handful of big corps run it all. they are in charge of what gets said on their platforms. not you.
>big techs goal
Big tech is fighting a future war. They know the young are the future. It’s about indoctrination. They are building their vision for the future. A dumbed down controlled population.
>What is the purpose of these threads?
To start a community outside of those corporate owned platforms.
To have a place to discuss things without having to self police yourself.
To discuss and share decentralization technologies.
Official IRC chat: #deadinternettheory on Rizon
Webchat link for zoomer cattle: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.rizon.net
Chose a nickname and enter #deadinternettheory into the channel box, click start.
Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#deadinternettheory:matrix.org
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I am thinking of doing a video project based around news and history from a leftist slant in the format of 'shorts', as seen on tiktok and on youtube. Can anyone recommend what the best direction is in regards to the best Text-to-Voice softwares and projects out there in terms of narration?
I am thinking of doing a video project based around news and history from a leftist slant in the format of 'shorts', as seen on tiktok and on youtube. Can anyone recommend what the best direction is in regards to the best Text-to-Voice softwares and projects out there in terms of narration?