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 No.12876[Reply]

Hello, faggots, thanks to our unwavering dedication to the community I am proud to announce we are rolling out our own, official, leftychan.net i2p address.
You can locate the eepsite @ http://leftychmxz3wczbd4add4atspbqevzrtwf2sjobm3waqosy2dbua.b32.i2p, or, http://leftychan.i2p/.
If you have any trouble, as stated on the news announcement, try manually adding the address and domain to your address book.

-Yours Truly.
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 No.13543

>>13542
What are you using default i2p?
You should be able to put the address in and then it should redirect you to a jump service and then you should have the address in your address book.


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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/10032

Public Repo: https://github.com/towards-a-new-leftypol/leftypol_lainchan
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: http://leftychans5gstl4zee2ecopkv6qvzsrbikwxnejpylwcho2yvh4owad.onion
Cytube: https://tv.leftychan.net
Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#Leftypol:matrix.org
Once you enter, consider joining the lefty technology room.

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

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 No.13471

Hello. Can you add an inv.nadeko.net video proxy? In fact, can you make it the default way to watch videos?


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 No.12318[Reply]

I made a wiki about unretarding technology and society. What do you think? https://www.tastyfish.cz/lrs/main.html
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 No.13522

>>12318
not the OP but the general consensus is that copy-left licenses failed because corporations weren't actually modifying much in any useful way, and even if any of them were, it was way too expensive to dig it out.

CC0 is a lot more simple and relaxing
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 No.13531

>>12318
I love your website Tastyfish, love from I2P
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 No.13539

>>13518
>> "stop pedophobia"
holy based
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 No.13551

this is braindead shit-tier normie-level political notetaking worthy of the likes of the average shitlib and its not worth a single byte of the medium used to store it
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 No.13553

A wiki is collaborative with a lot of links and version control, that's what defines it. Without the collaboration part it's not longer a wiki, it's just a blog with version control. It's not even clear you have version control either.

What is the name of your Wikipedia account that got globally banned?


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 No.12985[Reply]

In the early 20th century armies used search lights to find airplanes in the sky. They sometimes fitted shutters on these lights and used them for Morse-code. The light was pointed at the sky, sometimes at clouds. That enable transmitting "blinky-messages" beyond line of sight over significant distances. Armies eventually abandoned this method of communication for radios.

But there might be cause to bring this idea back. Science has advanced quite a lot in the last 100 years and we can use light to make tiny low power plasma bubbles in the air that emit brief light pulses. Enabling over the horizon optical communication with minimal to no infrastructure costs.

Imagine projecting a tiny holographic blinking dot of light in the sky to transmit information and a photodetector+optic to receive information.

A communication link is configured in 3D space.
-The upside is that the available volume of sky is functionally unlimited, and you never again have to deal with network-collisions and interference from communication signals of others.
-The Downside, it requires a good deal of precision in mechanical systems, so it'll be fiddly for a while. Picture using Binoculars to look at a firefly floating high up in the sky, you need to get up-down, left-right and focal distance just right to see it. There is a technology upgrade path to a solid-state chip version, that works similarly to matrix array antennas, It needs Terra-hertz switching logic, which requires photon-based micro-controller (it exists but it's very bleeding edge)

The range can be tremendous, there is enough gas molecules in the stratosphere to make this work. It will enable hops over the ocean with a small number of relay buoys.

The military might want this technology because
- it's harder to triangulate the origin of a transmission (you need to intersect the light-beam, to find the source), relay-transmitter-stations, soldiers, planes and ships will suffer fewer attacks from signal homing weapons, making it very robust.
- it's very hard to jam, (you need to flood the sky with very thick smoke, usually associated with forest-fires and volcano eruptions)
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 No.12986

We already have internet everywhere on the Earth's surface and parts of the solar system. And it seems to work just fine, I can't think of why you want some weird light pollution as your communications medium.

Good holograms for entertainment would be cool though.
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 No.12987

>>12986
>We already have internet everywhere on the Earth's surface and parts of the solar system. And it seems to work just fine
The systems we have are not resilient. We are about to enter a period of turbulent geopolitical power-struggle. The communication systems are not robust enough for what lies ahead. It's too easy to cut the ocean-cables (that happened recently and even though only a few cables got cut it caused noticeable outages for over a hundred million people. The satellite constellation internet has proven to be easily jammed by electromagnetic interference (that too happened recently). Sophisticated rockets are proliferating and satellites are gradually loosing their above-harm's-way status.
All the large data centers are easy military targets, the military weapons to destroy those cost 10000x less than rebuilding a data center. Any kinetic war will cripple digital infrastructure hosted on these. But there's more, the large data centers also funneled the internet cables into vulnerable bottle-necks, where old fashioned saboteur spy operations might get at it, so the land cables have become less resilient too.

But I'm not just worried about collateral infrastructure damage that results from fights between nation states. All that vulnerable stuff, might become a lever for power, where society gets blackmailed by the people who can destroy the information-pipes. Like in the feudal days where the feudal lord could block roads and threaten to destroy trade connections, unless every trader payed a toll. Information-pipes might become subject to that kind of thing.

The little plasma balls floating in the air giving of faint light pulses suffer no such weaknesses, they can't be cut, or exploded by missiles, nor can anybody put a toll on them. Queue the Firefly theme song. The transmitters on the ground are cheap to make, and very expensive to destroy. That scores high on resiliency.

I'm not saying we should throw away the current internet infrastructure, just add something as resilient as holographic comm-links in the mix, and then attacks against the rest will have less effect, and become less likely. The economic dimension is favorable as well, it will break open the existing cartel structures, that have formed around natural monopolies, and lower the barrier to entry a lotPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.12993

>>12987
Has anyone made a proof of concept of this? I know that there were experiments using LED lighting to transmit data, I found an article on Wikipedia called "Visible light communication" but I have never heard of the tech you're talking about.
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 No.12994

>>12993
Has anyone made a proof of concept of this?
As a integrated communication system, not to my knowledge. But all the sub-components already exist. Like the optical tracker and the emitter that makes tiny plasma light points, that's tech that works.

>I know that there were experiments using LED lighting to transmit data

You mean LiFi , as in light bulbs that transmit data via light modulation, yes that's a thing too, they have a different goal, basically better WiFi
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 No.13544[Reply]

I don't know about you, but 4chan has long needed peace; it has not been anonymous for a long time, it uses a captcha that collects user data, and if it blocks users, that's just life. Where is your anonymity? Reddit, at least, allows you to create an account with a proxy or VPN. And what is 4chan? There is also a Russian-speaking equivalent called Dvach, which is even worse; it even blocks posts that are not from Russia. What kind of nonsense is that? There is also a law prohibiting GPT, and God forbid you joke about politicians; they will simply ask the owner of Dvach to leak your IP, and that's it. So the only anonymity is the absence of identification, but for the provider, you are still the same. In short, these sites are dead. In short, I have long been waiting for your opinions and criticism; if I am mistaken or wrong about something, please let me know.


 No.13257[Reply]

I know I am a little bit late to the party with this but some "anonymous" group tried to cancel rms and the FSF as well: archive.md/Pt37W (stallman-report.org). It's the usual shit: whining about Stallman's comments on Epstein, supposed "sexual harassment" etc. Basically, the author calls for Stallman to step down from the FSF and/or for FSF members to take him down.

It is already known who wrote this "report": Drew DeVault, a developer who worked (or still works?) on Wayland. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41859793
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 No.13490

>>13489
Embarrassing
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 No.13494

>>13257
why are FSF and Stallman even considered synonymous, it's not like he even has much more than a loose association as the guy who writes free software rants. FSF does many things which don't involve Stallman at all.
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 No.13495

>>13494
>why are FSF and Stallman even considered synonymous
The FSF bases its software philosophy on Stallman's writings. It was Stallman who came up with the four software freedoms.
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 No.13518

>>13494

Like >>13495 said

it's just an advocacy group for Stallman's software opinions. Always has been. Trying to root out Stallman is therefore trying to just bludgeon the org to death. Which failed, but they did make Stallman a bit more insufferable and radlib in the process.

There's all sorts of valid criticisms of Stallman but what >>13257
OP is talking about happened in 2019. That is mostly over now, he went through the cancel culture ringer, and hoards of people in the corporate/media friendly "open source" people were gleeful to attack the most radical thinker in the adjacent free software movement
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 No.13540

>>13518
>hoards of people in the corporate/media friendly "open source" people were gleeful to attack the most radical thinker in the adjacent free software movement

This was basically a takedown of the ideas that free software stands for in order to shove privatized shit down your throat. I know this because Linux is getting inexplicable hate online even on places like /g/. This is probably manufactured since Linux has been gaining traction in the desktop market recently, mainly because everyone is finally fed up enough with Windows.

Once they paint users of Linux as some cringe fandom it's easy to steer the cattle back behind the fence.


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 No.251[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

ITT: Post your desktop
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 No.13526

>>13525
>everyone's sshd was backdoored on tons of distros
Stop spreading FUD. It was a few beta versions of distros and they FOUND THE BACKDOOR. That's an argument FOR their process not against it.

Security is a process. Linux is relatively secure and fixes critical bugs really quickly, they have a better track record than Microsoft.

I'm not sure you can even have fully secure software without formal verification, so if you want
>A kernel that doesn't have thousands of confirmed bugs.
You don't have a ton of options other than seL4

Personally I'd rather have a system that lets me be productive.
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 No.13527

>>13526
No one in the linux community found the backdoor, it was a database engineer working for microsoft. Additionally, he didn't even find it by looking at the code.

I already linked you a chart showing the number of Linux kernel bugs has increased 800% in 8 years
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 No.13528

>>13526
also the implication that testing or unstable versions of distros are not widely used in production is cute. Sometimes it's the only way to get a wide variety of updated packages for a particular distribution.

But forget all that, Arch Linux also rolled the ssh backdoor into stable lol
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 No.13529

>>13527
>No one in the linux community found the backdoor, it was a database engineer working for microsoft.
So that guy isn't counted as part of the linux community because of his employment ? That doesn't check out.

>the number of Linux kernel bugs has increased

to be fair there was an increase in hardware support and lots of changes to the low-level software stack.

Also all the problems you see in free open source, also exist in propriety software, except it's much worse.

But you still kinda have a point, we want the direction to be towards fewer bugs. Realistically that requires better tools. Just telling people to make fewer mistakes, usually doesn't work.
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 No.13530

>>13529
Linux is a bloated, insecure, community-hyped mess. Free Software is fine in philosophy, but Linux in particular isn’t living up to its supposed strengths.

The complexity of the associated utilities and compiler tooling hides backdoors, and discourages participation. As a result, most distros are a wasteland of unmaintained, barely working (and often no longer working) software, outside bare essentials.

Hardware support and code didn't increase nearly 800% in 8 years, bugs did. Even assuming some was due to the volume of added drivers by individuals and corporations, people would be better off if they were working for some other Free Software kernel/OS at this point. Linux isn't that special, it's a hobby clone of Minix but monolothic and with horrible documentation, community communication, and further development that introduced thousands of bugs, including outside drivers.


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 No.39[Reply]

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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 No.10812

>>10811
Whelp, I've had about enough of this shit. Time to get a home email server setup already.
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 No.10814

the entire internet is an honeypot. once you get there you're fucked.
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 No.10815

>>5626
t. your cia glowie
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 No.10822

I don't care much about the server side of things because I heavily compartmentalize and torify my email usage anyway, so it's not very helpful for their big data algos. For the most part I use one email account per identity per website - that includes multiple email accounts for a single website in case of multiple logins. That's a lot of email accounts.

Which is why I'm searching for an email provider that:
- isn't a pain in the ass to register an account with
- provides IMAP support for free so I can automate my email checks

Is there anything like that out there?

>>10808
What's essential is to use Tor, the onion service is just a cherry on the cake, but Tor by itself already hides your origin IP even if you connect to a clearnet address.

Unfortunately their onion service is not configured for its purpose, so it will often refuse to login you with the message "too many recent login attempts". That's probably because they left their clearnet checks in place. Most of the people who set up onion services don't use Tor themselves so there's really very little testing involved.
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 No.13520

no one fully understands email outside a few PHD students and old coders

it's absurdly complex

if you want privacy just encrypt everything before sending out, including via email


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 No.13496[Reply]

I believe both sides can be quite extreme so here's my balanced take:
>supplementary use of AI (chatbots, TTS, NPCs, enemy AI, RPGs, level generation, self-driving cars, AI assistants and code generation) are pretty based actually as long as they produce correct outputs and don't get you into any legal trouble
>non-commercial use of AI is also fine and can create something unique and interesting (memes, AI covers, AI dubbing)
>AI art is mostly slop except for some rare exceptions so people should at least be able to easily filter it and it should be marked appropriately
>commercial use of AI other than what was already mentioned is NOT cool and leads to more layoffs, more enshittification, more plagiarism and more mass surveillance
>proprietary AI software is ALSO not cool since it can be spyware that sends your data to the NSA
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 No.13502

>>13501
>The biggest genuine successes in AI are the projects that try to solve problems with narrower scope.
That's what I'm saying.
>I think we should go that route. Instead of trying to make AIs do everything
Tell that to the bourgeoisie who invest into it.
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 No.13505

Very nice video. I liked it.

Also, holy shit, is Ghibli AI so cool.
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 No.13519

>>13496
anti-AI bullshit is just something for people to rant about because their shitty Python code, anime porn, and furry shit already got railroaded by AI and they no longer have an edge over AI.

Most people should just accept that humans aren't as special as we think.


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 No.13512[Reply]

It seems that yt is experimenting with DRM again. Apparently it's supposed to affect all videos.
At least people are complaining about in the issues tab on github of various projects.

Anybody care to venture a guess as to why they're doing that ?

Is it monopoly shenanigans ?
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 No.13516

What's going on specifically? I switched to a different computer recently and noticed Youtube has started issuing a nag about disabling adblockers after the first several seconds of every video now. They seem to experiment with different kinds of bullshit all the time based on IP addresses, locations, and browser fingerprinting. Because of this, it's sometimes hard to gauge what's going to be an actual broad-spectrum new anti-feature. Ten seconds in uBlock settings and that shit was gone forever though, gg try again next time faggots.
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 No.13517

>>13516
>What's going on specifically?
The yt-dlp project has complaints that youtube was experimenting with putting DRM on all their vids, at least for some users


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