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 No.19118[Reply]

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:

1. Log into your e-mail site of choice, and compose an email directed towards [email protected]
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?
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 No.23180

>>23025
>I don't think mkproof is currently needed.
People are always talking about spam and tor drama, why not implement it as a trial? Is it a lot of work?

 No.23722

>>23180
https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-proof-of-work-defense-for-onion-services/

August 23, 2023

>Today, we are officially introducing a proof-of-work (PoW) defense for onion services designed to prioritize verified network traffic as a deterrent against denial of service (DoS) attacks with the release of Tor 0.4.8.


Look into this first. It seems that current versions of Tor can use PoW on the Tor service layer, in which case you would not need to add PoW into your image board software itself.



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 No.6724[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

This thread is only for feedback related to technical issues (bug reports, suggestions). Otherwise use /meta/.
Public Repo:
https://git.leftypol.org/leftypol/leftypol
If you have any grievances you can make a PR.

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

Onion Link:
76i2c3hn55fcj5nut3tqlboqqbbh23zvphv7lefk3vftpx6wketlanyd.onion

Cytube:
https://tv.leftypol.org

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 No.23246

>>23213
I'm a tor user and down with it if it slows a torrent of shit. Yeah, it's a pain not being able to attach files sometimes.

 No.23622

The RSS feeds using relative links seems to break certain browser-based RSS readers, namely fraidycat. It tries to go to that link relative to the page the link is on.



 No.23711[Reply]

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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 No.23719

I feel like a good example would be something that:
- meets the criterion to count as peripheral web
- links to other sites that also meet that criterion

OP's Tetris example is more of a couldesac, the only links in it go back to the core web. There's probably a reason that the video focuses so much on the personal website aspect, that's gonna be the webbier parts of the periphery.
Could've just linked to the video series's accompanying site, the links section has some better examples: https://loveweb.neocities.org/main/

 No.23720

>>23711
>peripheral and core web
web imperialism?

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 No.23728

You mean like, websites that aren't social media platforms?

 No.23738

https://www.vipvgm.net/
It's a music player with a bunch of videogame music on it.



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 No.5053[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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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 No.18634

where are the based socialist mastodon instances?

 No.20969

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Mastodon mentioned in Eizouken manga

 No.20999

Wrote a post in the online craziness thread that was topical to the Fediverse - https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/941093.html#q1546940

We're getting opportunities when big social media corps do massively offputting things, but I'm concerned that a lot a lot of Fediverse platforms are not only failing to take advantage, but are shooting themselves in the foot. To a much smaller degree its some actual development or technical issues in a project - Lemmy had both usability/feature and privacy/security issues that, when revealed by the new influx of users after the Reddit debacle a month back, was seemingly met with hostility or derision (Kbin, a similar project's devs reacted a lot better last I saw) etc. However, the bigger issue comes down to admins of individual servers behaving not just badly to the point it disrupts the benefits of an open, federated, interoperable protocol or platform itself.

Its bad enough if admins refuse to use several tiers of moderation tools up to and including essentially preventing a user/server from having any public presence on their node while still allowing their users to make their own decisions about what users and servers to whom they'll connect, but instead uses the maximal block that prohibits any contact between users on their server and those on the node in question (frankly, I don't see any technical reason for this option to exist when others solve the problem but that's another discussion), treating one's users like children. Its even worse when this is done not in reply to any actual event the vast majority of the time, but rather because of tenuous claims of finding someone or something objectionable allowed and therefore marked as "bad'; many of these are laughably poorly justified if it wasn't for the fact it affects hundreds or thousands of users on both sides when one admin takes offense. Blocklists with the hardly substantiated "proof" and the list of their sins show up and admins on the same ideological side are encouraged to wall off all the problematic locations, disrupting the interoperability benefit of federation. Even worse is the childish extrapolation where one can be blocked for simply NOT blocking servers someone considers 'bad", which sounds a lot like schoolchildren (or regrettably, enough adults it seems) that because X and Y broke up, you can't be frienPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.21071

>>20999
>I've been thinking of some small ways to start remedying this facilitate moving in the right direction, but I guess we'll see how things progress.
Such as? This is also an issue with leftist organizing in general.

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 No.23640[Reply]

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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 No.23732

>>23731
>people get lazy with autocomplete
wow!!!!!!!

 No.23733

>>23732
Let me guess: You are an autocomplete-user.

 No.23734

>>23733
my phone is too old for that dipshit

 No.23735

>>23734
Good. Then help spreading awareness about the issue.

 No.23736

>>23731
This article is even better:
>Writing with AI help can shift your opinions
>Artificial intelligence-powered writing assistants that autocomplete sentences or offer “smart replies” not only put words into people’s mouths, they also put ideas into their heads, according to new research.

http://web.archive.org/web/20240205045643if_/https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/05/writing-ai-help-can-shift-your-opinions



 No.20842[Reply]

Post less computery hardware you think is neat or have question about.
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 No.22953

Hurdy Gurdys are pretty neat. Saw a kit for building one using just wood cutouts and wax, could be a fun CNC project.

 No.22971

I like the idea of just being able to slap more hands / devices onto a clock as needed. Fill a whole wall with time related information of varying usefulness.

 No.22985

>>20850
this is tech. self powered, elegant, zero maintenance. post more please.

 No.23730

Snatch blocks, they're a pulley you can put on a rope, rather than having to thread it through. So like how zipline hooks work.



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 No.17661[Reply]

Thread for watching rocket launches and shit.
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 No.21408

>>21407
I also heard that a bunch of top companies' books are basically lies. Not only that, a lot of them have very fragile basis, like being very sensitive to oil prices or sensitive to the mood of investors.

Apparently it's an open secret that top auditing firms are running cover for the top companies too.

 No.21410

>>21406
>>21407
>>21408
It makes sense that with re-usability of hardware you offer cheaper services, I don't understand why it's so unfathomable, for a higher launch cadence if anything else.
People who didn't believe in private space companies 15 years ago had good arguments because the capital that had to be put in front was so high for a high risk enterprise that was tied to governmental whims with few commercial applications. But now it's just plain denial, it is no secret that SpaceX is loosing money right now because they are launching so much starlink sats but they will have a monopoly on LEO internet constellation for years and years, which will be used by the US military and by most of the boats and planes. Their business model is sound, they are supported by the US government, and they are at the bleeding edge of space tech. Meanwhile almost every country, even Russia or China, who has stakes in space activities is pursuing re usability, sponsoring "newspace start ups", and "funneling public funds for government created billionaires", so they clearly don't think SpaceX is cooking the books and will collapse any day.

 No.21411

>>21410
Can't help but think that a government research institution is way more productive than a for-profit rocket and satellite company. They're doing different things for different reasons. Pushing innovation forward including rocket tech is not necessarily profitable and at some point (very quickly) it simply doesn't give a good ROI.

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>>21411
I somewhat want to agree with you but the data doesn't. In a way it reflects the behavior AES countries in regard to economy, it's clear you need states and governments to organize and pay upfront for the beginning of a space program, because technological and manufacture knowledge are commodities that need to be accumulated in a coherent manner for a full fledged economy to develop and opportunities to appear. For example a cryogenic engine is twenty years of development for a big country, no business can pay for that development… but they can refine and exploit it.
But that's it, planned economies crunched or collapsed, pure state owned space programs ossified or are repeating missions that "only" have scientific value and we are here now, so even an AES country like China is pursuing market based strategy because they chase what works, and anyone looking to the future expects humanity to spread out in the solar system.
Maybe it's just time to not put space industry in a special place full of that cold war glitter and human accomplishment and consider it's now just infrastructure building and commercial enterprise that obeys to market conditions in a capitalist mode of production. We built railroads and locomotives in the past, we're building rockets and satellites now, with capitalism.

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Awesome plasma filmed during Starship's rentry



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 No.23075[Reply]

Would you use a window manager with anime mascot?
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 No.23558

>>23075
question: is this different from /pol/tards who whine about their software having rainbow splash screens in june?

 No.23560

Already have been. Kemono albeit.

 No.23568

>>23558
>rainbow splash screens in june?
Lolmao, is this real?
>>23560
Fucken Digimon.

 No.23572

>>23470
so i've recently switched to stumpwm after using rio from plan9port for 3 years and added a root window middle button click hook to cycle through groups with the left and right buttons.
now i had a dream where both rio and stumpwm where running. the middle button opened the virtual desktop menu and after selecting one it somehow bugged the rendering of the current stumpwm group, looking like the gpu was fried. just tends to show how deep window managing habits go.

 No.23718

>>23477
StumpWM, like Ratpoison, is manually tiling WM. You don't need to use the tiling features if you don't want. But if you don't use them, all windows are maximized. You can cycle through them with a keybinding. StumpWM also has support for click-to-focus and sloppy focus. There is extension for Ratpoison that adds sloppy focus.

>>23510
>Is it on Wayland?
No. But there is a Wayland compositor called "CageBreak" that is a clone of Ratpoison (StumpWM is a extended clone of Ratpoison). CageBreak is not feature complete, however. But it works.

>Is it in any mainstream distros' repos?

You can get it from Debian, Arch and Gentoo repos.



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 No.4951[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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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 No.23503

>>23502
You can't, it's not implemented

 No.23528

I am thrilled to report I can now phonepost to my heart's content.

 No.23553

Videos aren't working. 403 errors. Bumner

 No.23705

Anyone else having issues with Cloudflare on KurobaEx still? Raised an issue with the dev and I can at least browse on the beta branch, can't post though.

 No.23717

>>23705
Never had a cloudflare challenge on leftypol



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 No.23515[Reply]

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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 No.23570

>>23515
>sexy m&m lady
had to look up if theres rule 34 for m&m and there is lmao

 No.23571

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>>23570
Did they switch back to the sexy stilhetto version because of Tucker complaining?

 No.23628

>>23570
>a candy with legs
Damn, that's hawt.

 No.23703

>>23519
monster hydro

 No.23706

>>23523
>>23529
>>23532
To be fair, they probably don't own the machine, whatever subcontractor they hired to provide vending machines does.



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