/tech/ - Technology

https://www.maximumtruth.org/p/deep-dive-ai-progress-continues-as
This blog claims that AI is actually still growing
And some people are saying Gemini 3 is a huge improvement is this true

>>31751
I heard this exact same thing from several different people, like in that order, AI progress still ongoing despite the bubble and Gemini 3 is the bestest model yet. My hunch says it's probably a little bit of both, Gemini 3 is better than ChatGPT 5 and its release is being astroturfed by the usual suspects. Gemini 3 seems to have dominated the ARC-AGI test shit by quite a mile, but that has always been a dubious benchmark for me. On xitter I see the same threeJS demos being one-shotted, the same landing page stuff that you have been seeing since ChatGPT 4. I think these frontier models releases are starting to blur between each other because the hype for this one didn't quite make a splash. Also something to keep in mind is that ChatGPT 5 performance degraded immensely a literal week after release, just as hype techbros stopped covering it.

>Measuring autism score in LLMs
lmfao

I detected a new scam modality where someone advertises that some new frontier model has ome-shotted their platform to grab eyes onto it, whether the thing was actually made by AI or not doesn't matter. This one requests access to your crypto wallet before letting you see what I'm assuming is nothing, they just steal your shit.

>>31751
>maximumtruth
>IQ tests for ai

Lmao

At least irt Gemini 3 , and it's impact on Google stocks in a bearish environment, is that Google is lowkey expected to win the AI race and survive the bubble.

>>31708
Sir I have pockets

>>31717
Yeah and I bet they are empty.

Why is this news? It's literally just clothing lmao

>>31723
Bedause making fun of apple is fun in this depressing era

>>31750
Please actually learn how web infrastructure works instead of trying to figure the world through memes.

>>31750
The Internet already is very centralized or federated among a moderate number of backbone providers, depending on how you see the role of organizations like ICANN or the IETF.

Cowerflare primarily acts as a CDN and DDOS protection. The former means users access a cached version of the site on servers geographically closer to their location. Both are accomplished by configuring hosts to essentially hook into an overlay network, that is accessed through a number of local, DDOS-resistant Cloudflay servers. Consequently they control the sites DNS record, any TLS certificates for https, as well as any traffic between the site and other Internet hosts.

This is why some people call it an MITM. It's also far from an essential service. As you might know other forms of DDOS protection exist, but Cloudfer often presents itself as the path of least resistance.

tl;dr >>31753

>>31750
> central planning is the same as central infrastructure.

Absolute braindead take, bravo

I would install Windows if it meant a Linux lady bossing me around.

I know that it's in theory possible to be a Windows user who actually has technical knowledge but in practice I've only ever met Windows sysadmins who do everything in the stupidest, least efficient ways possible or otherwise rely on off-the-shelf products for literally fucking everything because none of them have even basic programming/scripting knowledge. I fucking hate working in IT

>>31759
what particular field do you work in anon that you meet so many win sysadmins who are shite
>>31758
your rhetoric and tone here sound way too dominant

>>31754
Damn if only I was a rich employer

>>31759
I hear you comrade, it's the worst.

>>31705
i genuinely haven't used windows for more than a couple mins here and there for about a decade now. at this point i can't even use it very well. it's always funny when word and excel ninjas ask me to check something on it and i tell them i don't know how to. "b-but you're a programmer! how can you not know simple <random windows use case>??" is their usual complaint.

>>31764
>4mb ai slop image
>ai slop paragraph to bypass minimum length
>literally no content in the OP
why do mods allow this garbage. I always report and the always dismiss my reports

Relevant keywords:
>Operational Security
>Information Security
>Communications Security
>Signals Intelligence
>Social Engineering

Software:
>Tor
>I2P
>Tails
>Linux-based operating systems

There is no magic bullet:
>https://support.torproject.org/faq/
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The purpose of TOR is to help the USA / israel overthrow the Chinese, Iranian, etc society. So no it doesn't actually work.

>>24009
Riseup is the most obvious honeypot ever
>Erm, hello fellow leftists, here's an e-mail service and a vpn you should all use for maximum privacy and security!
How can you fall for this?

>>31729
It doesn't need to be a honeypot to be a bad idea. Although I can't see how Riseup email is worse than any other email provider.

>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.

Like you didn't already know that. That's like the one thing everyone knows about the darkweb is that it's like 99% CP. Tell us more about your trip to Thailand.

GPU but the G stands for Gay

Machine learning specific processors have been around for a long while. Tensor processing units. Mostly good for regression, running cnns, rnns.

>>31631
yeah intel went really hard with their neural sticks, google had their tensor cores, apple had their own name for it too, mostly for computer vision, when AI was still cool in the eyes of consumers.

Excellent news kiddo
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/quantum-computing/new-chinese-optical-quantum-chip-allegedly-1-000x-faster-than-nvidia-gpus-for-processing-ai-workloads-but-yields-are-low
Prices on those babies should now eventually come down in a short time, around two years. You can get what is essentually a devkit for your forthcoming vidya console from orangepi starting at, too much for a mass console … for now

Eventually a lowmem board won't cost too much at which point have fun

>>31727
ps. Softbank just dumped NVDIA
Those who know know

Office hours I guess, any questions?

>>31578
I feel you brother, I go walking and camping alone in the woods and mountains on the regular, and it's great because you're just there, one foot in front of the other, taking a break when you feel like it, getting dirty,…

I feel like I've become increasingly Luddite over the last years, like, I'm not stupid. Loads of technological development is good ofcourse, but we've become so alienated from literally everything, all life is now nothing more then passive media consumption. No experiences, no hardships, no relations, no fun. Just stare and stare at that fucking screen in your hands.

The only reason I'm still working in tech now is so I can get money to buy some abandoned orchard or something, because modern society is absolutely crushing my soul and the only time when I had any semblance of feeling alive was when I was being a fucking hobo.

In SWE it's blatantly obvious. AI pretty much has to remain the primary, and will eventually be the sole, mode of software development because SWEs can't code anymore. They have, through sheer laziness, lost the ability to program a computer.

I have very little respect for SWEs, they always had the easiest job and absorbed the greatest surplesses. So their field is gone already. They simply cannot do it and will never be able to do it again.

>>27264
It's very good at two things: writing slop reports, and writing slop computer software. So rank-and-file reporters, who do not produce creative work, and software engineers, who also do not produce anything worth thinking twice about, are the most impressed and most impacted by the ability to automate their jobs. Unfortunately, these two have an outside impact on the overall evaluation of the technology.

Unfortunately, this won't be able to be corrected in the future. The children who are learning today are being totally annihilated by AI. They are not simply one or two years remedial. They are basically incapable, full stop.

>>31219
It doesn't matter if it gets anything wrong. People think people care if things are wrong. Actaully, they don't. It just looks like it works, in mostly works, whatever. The idea that people want high quality stuff that is carefully made by an attentive and diligent master of their craft is not true. They want MORE things. The MORE the BETTER.

Really. Nobody even cares if anything actually works anymore. As long as it is apparently there and apparently works, just plow through and make more $$$. Slop world is not a meme.

>>31712
>It doesn't matter if it gets anything wrong.
if your job is stupid bullshit, sure. if you're like an accountant or handle finances in any way, which is historically the profession that lead the rise of PMCs (it's in the name!), then your boss will get really mad if your numbers are off.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-developer-verification-early.html
>While security is crucial, we’ve also heard from developers and power users who have a higher risk tolerance and want the ability to download unverified apps.
>Based on this feedback and our ongoing conversations with the community, we are building a new advanced flow that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn't verified. We are designing this flow specifically to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren't tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer. It will also include clear warnings to ensure users fully understand the risks involved, but ultimately, it puts the choice in their hands. We are gathering early feedback on the design of this feature now and will share more details in the coming months.
Looks like they might give you a way to get around it, we will see how it will work in practice.

Has anyone attempted to make a phone operating system on BSD?

>>31713
most people run BSD desktops either because of the server features on FreeBSD or some variation of it being a trve vnix. those aren't huge consideration for a phone though and linux userspace phones presently fill every other niche, so no.

>>31713
Not just attempted, the Sidekick LX 2009 used NetBSD as its kernel: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/109338988718834042

>>31715
>@pfr There's videos of the UI on YouTube. It's java-based. Had some cool features, like you could zoom around web pages, since nothing was mobile-optimized yet.
so it's just a forgotten android precursor then.

>>31645
what if videos are ephemeral, and also hosting uses some p2p to alleviate costs, if you wish to keep an archive, you keep an archive yourself, only the latest videos are hosted on the p2p network, this way the trendiest videos are the less costly to host

>>31667
I mean, compared to an html and an audio track a guy talking over a slideshow is wasteful, but among video types it compresses extremely well and you could host it on something like vimeo without problems or even your own site. Client-side rendering only seems realistic in the vtuber case, where you have reusable, high-definition textures, or full-blown machinima if that wasn't dead.

This seems to be built on Pixelfed (which was more of an Instagram style federated platform) so its good that its open source and federated. It seems to be making progress for interoperability at least according to that blog, such as the way it structures a video-centric platform in a way that will work with non-video centric alternatives (ie microblogging and photo-style tech like Mastodon or Pixelfed). Now the big thing they need to do if they want some actual fucking progress is to
>Not allow overzealous moderation by instance owners; leave it up to individual users.
One of the biggest problems I've had with the 'fediverse' is that it becomes a fractious culture war battleground with nodes/servers run by the most obnoxious people who you can imagine, perpetually offended. This means that, for most 'less technical' users - anyone who isn't running their own entire server that is - their ability to communicate with others comes down to what their admin deems worthy of federating with. If I am on Instance A, and you are on Instance B, yet instance A's admin decided that B is full of degenerates or nazis or fascists or communists or pedos or whatever they find problematic, I can't talk to you. This was always one of the weaknesses of not the fediverse itself but the individual projects within. THe "maximum" amount of defederation should be "nothing from your server is showed on my server's public/universe etc..feeds" which would still leave individual users the chance to make their own choices about what to do, where they want to go, and who they wish to connect with. Loops coding this in from the start would be a help, especially considering that it appears their "instance inbox" thing suggests that all the federated messages go through one server side pipe as it were which is more of a hole for both security and overzealous moderation.

>>31665
PeerTube is the best alternative so far and handles this situation by far. It allows both instances to do some degree of the heavy lifting, but if users are watching the same thing there's p2p webtorrent. As it grows the costs go down both with users and servers - its the only way to really handle something like this…along with usage of better codecs for bandwidth.

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>Instead of being trapped in walled gardens, your content, your followers, and your identity can move freely across the open web.
I've always felt TikTok is bad for this reason
>>31657
>format cancer
"Zionists need to buy TikTok for peoples own good, we need harm reduction anti-fascism" - cancerous socialists

To the people suggesting offloading video hosting to peers, this is mobile-centric short-form content. I'm guessing you understand neither the technology you're talking about nor how people use Tiktok.