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Quick Question Anonymous 2021-01-18 (Mon) 01:47:34 No.6564 [Reply]

Does discontinued shit like windows 7/vista still have feds spying on you thru it?
Im planning on having a 32 gb usb stick so I can flash w*ndows 7 on it, and I don't want to give it any network access, just use it to run applications that Linux cannot run and record footage for stuff (I'm planning on becoming a content creator, not the point here)

My question is that, are there still feds spying on you even on old discontinued stuff?

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Anonymous 2021-01-18 (Mon) 02:04:22 No.6565

The feds don't really target any one single individual unless they are suspect. They spy by dragnet surveillance and build dossers on people and then if you start acting sus they pull your name and interrogate you. That's how it works.

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Anonymous 2021-01-19 (Tue) 05:45:13 No.6568

On this note, what is the true extent of the CIA/NSA being able to spy on you through Windows? Are there actual backdoors that are meant specifically to be backdoors?

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Anonymous 2021-01-19 (Tue) 06:22:30 No.6569

The last service packs for W7 that came out around the same time as W10 added the same spying shit. W7 now has unpatched, widely-known vulns. You will also likely be running proprietary software in userspace in W7, which compromises your security.

> I don't want to give it any network access
if it's offline/airgapped that's pretty good.

Overall you should always assume a proprietary OS is spying on you.

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Anonymous 2021-01-22 (Fri) 18:32:43 No.6580

Remove telemetry updates for Windows 7 and 8.1
https://gist.github.com/xvitaly/eafa75ed2cb79b3bd4e9

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tv.leftypol.org/r/tech/ Anonymous 2021-01-12 (Tue) 19:24:05 No.6444 [Reply]

So, this is a thing now.
Come hang out with us fellow tech junkies.

https://tv.leftypol.org/r/tech/

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Anonymous 2021-01-17 (Sun) 22:14:23 No.6563

k

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Anonymous 2021-01-17 (Sun) 08:05:53 No.6549 [Reply]

Don't listen, the wunderweapons are not worth the effort compared to good workers' unionization efforts. If the feds actual go for action that's more useful than any of the lifestylist solutions here.
Boomers didn't stop the January coup attempt because there wasn't anonymity.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:57 No.6296 [Reply]

>rioting in India $6 against Apple is BASED

Is Louis becoming a comrade???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeEERdbfH0c

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:57 No.6300

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iTODDLERS BTFO

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Anonymous 2020-12-27 (Sun) 11:12:55 No.6334

Rent must be something awful in New York

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Anonymous 2021-01-11 (Mon) 01:02:53 No.6416

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>Is Louis becoming a comrade???
Nah.

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Anonymous 2021-01-16 (Sat) 02:04:37 No.6531

>>6416
Sectarians just love to scare resources away from their flock, don't they.

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Anonymous 2021-01-16 (Sat) 02:06:45 No.6533

>>6416
what a fucking jew lol

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:52 No.5736 [Reply]

Do you use any proprietary garbage against your own will because your peers refuse to switch to better alternatives?

Pic related, though only the web client. I don't use anything else that's proprietary, not even youtube.

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Anonymous 2021-01-14 (Thu) 08:06:14 No.6477

>>5750
You are a winrar!

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Anonymous 2021-01-14 (Thu) 11:35:09 No.6479

You have to take yourself by the balls and organize the means of communication yourself. Pool a couple of bucks with your comrades for server hosting each month. Don't forget about threat modelling and police investigations. Let's say being a person under 30 using Discord on their ISP logs against person under 30 who visits same jabber server with 10 other people looks entirely different from investigator's perspective and the latter is much easier to investigate since the metadata is already there, no need to send a warrant or set up wiretaps on foreign networks. It becomes even easier with f2f protocols like Tox, Retroshare or Scuttlebutt since traffic never leaves the country if you chat with a neighbor, and it plays on hand with ISP and police profiling. Popular proprietary chat software hosted within foreign jurisdictions is objectively harder to investigate for third world police, bear in mind they can pull tricks like number revocation and reissue to access your chat history on apps that require phone registration, and you already used your real number there. Take adequate precautions with burner phone numbers not associated with your identity, locations, and set up security confirmation codes if available. Otherwise I strongly recommend on utilizing anonymous darknets like Tor and i2p for hiding both server and chatters locations, obfuscating their destinations from ISPs and local law enforcement to a higher degree than using popular chat software which would more eagerly cooperate and in a faster manner than mailing in abuse to all 7 Tor nodes. Anon darknets are not suitable for low latency large capacity voice chats, but otherwise are adequate for file sharing, and probably you shouldn't do voice chats when planning a coup online.

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Anonymous 2021-01-14 (Thu) 20:15:07 No.6483

>>6479
Is there some onion service that lets you set up chats through tor?

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Anonymous 2021-01-15 (Fri) 00:49:24 No.6493

>>6483
You can run XMPP chats through Tor.

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Anonymous 2021-01-16 (Sat) 00:04:08 No.6514

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>>5736
Discord, and I fucking hate my guts for using it
Pretty much everyone uses discord, it's programmable with all the bots and whatnot
Every single human on earth that i've ever spoken to uses discord as a side effect of using social media
It's proprietary shit outside of the bots that are programmable, it scans every word you say so you can't be a meanie butthead (god forbid) and it does deals with the feds, its a psych ops done by the agents in ((Langley))

Element is bare bones in userbase compared to discord
and there's literally no other alternative for socializing with people who aren't total schizoids most of the time

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:51:19 No.4884 [Reply]

lol…

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Anonymous 2021-01-15 (Fri) 12:38:49 No.6500

>>4884
The writer is such a faggot I want to rip his skull off

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Anonymous 2021-01-15 (Fri) 14:35:31 No.6502

Why the fuck do I have to upgrade my phone at all?
The things a smartphone can do didn't change at all in 10 years yet every fucking year I need more battery and more CPU, what for? To display a bunch of text and pictures on a fucking screen?

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Anonymous 2021-01-15 (Fri) 15:03:03 No.6503

>>4884
Nothing new from CONSOOOOOMERS. You would be surprised at how many articles out there are as dull and lifeless as the one in the pic.

>>4910
>Why fight it?

>4 IPs:9 posts

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Anonymous 2021-01-15 (Fri) 18:56:37 No.6507

>>4884
Jokes on you, I have no one to communicate with. Eat shit porky.

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Anonymous 2021-01-15 (Fri) 19:24:10 No.6509

>>6502
Because your phone is full of proprietary shit that makes you vulnerable. Here, upgrade to this:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/arsenijs/zerophone

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lrn2code Anonymous 2021-01-14 (Thu) 23:07:31 No.6491 [Reply]

Been teaching myself to code recently, I won't make a rambling OP because the replies will probably be more insightful.
I've been using Codecademy and I found it's really good except for when the bash terminal decides not to work (and then works perfectly when I reload the exercise and copy and paste the code from the old one). I don't learn skills particularly well from reading, so actually get walked through the doing is a major plus for me.
Is it the best thing going? Are there better sites? Are there other self-taught people here? I don't want to spend years in a university and would rather get some qualifications rather than fuck around any longer (opinions on things like CompTIA?)

Course I've been doing for people more clueless than me (you don't need to buy the pro stuff, just try to figure everything out before using hints, and always read the hints even when you've finished it):
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-c-plus-plus

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Anonymous 2021-01-15 (Fri) 00:10:01 No.6492

Books with practice problems are the ideal way to learn since they actually put some pressure on you to commit your full conscious brain to the work.
I tried codecademy for some time off and on but that shit never got me the skills I needed to actually figure out how to write and make a program from scratch. Learn Python the Hard Way did, although it doesn’t exist online for free anymore, I’m sure there are other websites like it.

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Anonymous 2021-01-15 (Fri) 00:49:26 No.6494

You really need to eat your own dog food to learn coding. You can go through all those technical books and run examples and exercises to familiarize yourself with runtime environment and syntax BUT you will never be a productive programmer.

Pick a project/topic you are genuinely invested in and try to utilize language of your choice in its problem domain. Language like c++ is too generic and big so you might end up learning to use somebody else's library but that's OK. I truly 'got' c++ while writing opengl demos despite using it 4+ years solving artificial algorithm problems.

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Anonymous 2021-01-15 (Fri) 00:53:49 No.6495

>>6494
This. I've tried learning to program many times before, but it only amounted to anything when I had some kind of project to actually build. You can't learn programming in the abstract sense, only in the concrete sense of actually doing something.

I tip I can give is to check out this repo (or any of the other ones like it) https://github.com/tuvtran/project-based-learning
. It's a list of programming projects and tutorials, structured around the languages they teach. Choose a project that intrests you and do that. I'm currently doing buildyourownlisp.com and it's been going well enough, though it's not a perfect introduction to C, so I'm going to check out other books like C Programming Language and Modern C as supplementary material.

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Anonymous 2021-01-15 (Fri) 01:23:59 No.6496

>>6494
I'm probably more project orientated than most, I want to make some cash coding obviously but most of the compsci students I've heard about have no real vision of a thing they'd like to create, and I've already got a notepad full of things I'd like to do. Not to shit on compsci students but I thought they'd be more technical-creative kinda people rather than plumbers that learn plumbing because plumbers make bank.
I want to learn C++ because it's been sold to me as a very good foundational language to branch off from, and my limited understanding of compsci tells me it will make me more understanding of the other branches as I go into them.
>>6495
Thanks for the list, I will come back to it.

One thing I think I will struggle with is that lots of projects are complex and involve lots of files all referencing each other, is there a way to understand this other than poring over it for hours?

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Anonymous 2021-01-15 (Fri) 01:36:32 No.6497

>>6496
you get used to it as you familiarize yourself with tooling for your language.

it's worth investing your time and energy because 75% of programming is about structuring/packaging your idea. core algorithm/optimization is too fun to be a burden anway 24.999% of work is finding witty name for it

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Making a portable USB of any linux OS Anonymous 2021-01-14 (Thu) 21:26:57 No.6484 [Reply]

So I have been wanting/needing a portable Linux drive for a while, having just explored some of the versions tonight I am quite interested in POP_OS or just standard Ubuntu but it seems for installing onto a USB Manjaro might be easier just because of the installation process and less messing around.

Do any comrades have experience in this or just linux distros in general, maybe give me some guides or point me in the right direction

I will mostly using it for programming and work (networking) and its just going to be easy to have one if not a couple of USB's ready to go at any time.

p.s fuck CURRENCY (dollars)

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Anonymous 2021-01-14 (Thu) 21:35:16 No.6485

Why would you start with pop_OS? I have never used that, but, that isn't something I would recommend. How much experience with linux distros do you have? Because, you are going to have a hard time if it is none. If you want to install something on a USB I would suggest Trying your hand at tails, or, lubuntu. I dunno, ubuntu is probably too bloated for a USB drive and prolly Linux mint too.

Alternatively you could always just accept the meme and install gentoo.

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Anonymous 2021-01-14 (Thu) 21:38:31 No.6486

>>6485
I have I'd say medium experience and have used some to set up servers at work and have have used linux OS for personal use years ago, but installing an OS to a USB is completely new to me

I am about to give manjaro a whirl though but I have never used arch before to my knowledge

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Anonymous 2021-01-14 (Thu) 21:51:25 No.6487

>>6484
>POP_OS or just standard Ubuntu but it seems for installing onto a USB Manjaro might be easier just because of the installation process and less messing around.
What's the difference? Any distro can be installed on a USB, plus both of those you mentioned have simple graphical installers which will make that even easier. In this sense, what distro you choose makes no difference whatsoever.

If I were to give you tips, I would advise choosing a system with a fixed release schedule over a rolling release system. You don't want your USB system to die when you update after 3 months of no usage and have a bunch of packages break. Get something like Debian or Ubuntu/Mint/Pop. It might also be worthwhile to get a system that comes with nonfree drivers installed out of the box, in case any of the machines you plug the drive into need those. Debian offers the nonfree iso, and Ubuntu/Mint/Pop already come with those.

In any case, why would you want a USB like this for work? Do you often work in machines that don't belong to you? I understand doing this for something like Tails, but if it's just for normal usage, you'd be better off dual booting, or better yet, wiping windows and installing gnu/linux.

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Anonymous 2021-01-14 (Thu) 22:03:55 No.6489

I regularly work on machines that don't belong to me, I also think (assume) having some usb's about set up would be very useful.

after testing manjaro im going to stop being a lazy nigger and do the partitions needed for something ubuntu based, its just going to be much more simplistic

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Anonymous 2021-01-14 (Thu) 23:02:38 No.6490

Update: I just got it done with Ubuntu no problem seems I over thought the process, thanks for the help anyway comrades

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Anonymous 2021-01-09 (Sat) 03:31:07 No.6394 [Reply]

Is there anything I should be wary of with bluetooth dongles? I might grab a random one off aliexpress unless you guys tell me not to.

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Anonymous 2021-01-09 (Sat) 05:53:22 No.6395

Just that the whole protocol is super insecure and a vector for exploits.

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Anonymous 2021-01-09 (Sat) 07:23:58 No.6396

>>6395
Isn't bluetooth 5 pretty secure now?

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Ram won't go back to how it was before Anonymous 2021-01-08 (Fri) 05:30:43 No.6384 [Reply]

Okay so I was trying to fix my PC but I'll skip past the details, eventually found out it was a case issue, but in the process of trying to diagnose issues I ended up removing 3/4 of my ram sticks. 1 was locked in place by cpu cooler so didn't get that far. Anyway, I got my PC running once again but only if I don't have those other three ram sticks in. I can't figure out how to get it back how it was. If I try to put the three sticks back in the PC just turns on and then turns off. I don't remember what order they were in before but they are all from the same set so it shouldn't matter right? I tried inspecting them for damage from removing/installing them but the sticks all look fine, and I can't see any obvious damage to the ram ports. Is there a special way to get 4 channel ram working that I've messed up by booting the PC with only one stick in it?

Sorry I know you guys deal with more complicated stuff than this usually but I don't really know who else to ask. Thanks!

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Anonymous 2021-01-08 (Fri) 06:30:16 No.6386

>>6384
Never mind, I got it eventually, just needed to try insert a few more times.