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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.13711

Amazing, thank you.

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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

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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.13602

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At last! The onion mirror is back online once again, THANK FUCKING GOODNESS!

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 No.13716[Reply]

>Why yes, I daily drive Tails OS. How can you tell?

What OS do you use and why?
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 No.13730

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I will fully shill NixOS every chance I get because it genuinely solved a lot of problems for me.

> I can set up a new computer exactly the same as an existing one very easily
> It doesn't break when a new release comes out, at least not in a way that I can't fix and have to clean install (this eventually happened to me with every other distro)
> having services configured in a central place without having to go looking for separate configurations everywhere, and also services configuring other services they depend on more or less automatically means I simply am doing more with Linux than I ever would otherwise, because it would just be too much of a pain to set up.

bonus:
> Using nix for development environments is amazing (but you don't need nixos for that)

People say there's a learning curve, but do you really know your current OS all that well? I think if you bother with NixOS and make it do what you want it to do, which is easier than ever with LLM chatbots, it is easier to become a powerful admin than with other distros in my opinion.

For context, and to brag, I have for my own personal gains a desktop pc, a home server (which is really another desktop), a laptop, and three VPS servers. They all run NixOS, and I use them for shitposting, watching video, developing software projects, hosting said projects, making and recording music, and hosting websites.

I don't think I could get all of that done and manage to keep it up to date with any other software. I've used Kubernetes at work it was a god damn nightmare.
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 No.13732

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>>13730
The only major issues with NixOS are that it's difficult to install and not security-hardened. Otherwise, yeah, I can see the appeal.
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 No.13733

>>13732
>difficult to install
Now they have a live cd with an installer like any other distro, you don't have to do it from the cli anymore, but even if you want to put it on a server, you literally just boot up the minimal install ISO and step-by-step follow the manual.

What's cool is that there's simple tools on NixOS to make a custom iso from your specified config, and it can make container images and even a tarball for kexec that when you unpack and run it will tell the running Linux kernel to replace itself in memory by booting your nixos. This last part is useful if you ever rent a VPS and they don't let you choose your own iso to boot up, so you just boot up Ubuntu and blow it away in memory without actually rebooting.

>security
Well I am going to be tough to be convinced to care about security, but what do you think your OS needs to do security-wise for you? And if you have this, what does that give you?

I find a lot of security stuff just makes my computer a nuisance to use.
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 No.13734

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>>13733
>What's cool is that there's simple tools on NixOS to make a custom iso from your specified config
That's genuinely cool. 👍
>Well I am going to be tough to be convinced to care about security
It's for countering snitches, feds, and cybercriminals. But if you're not a political extremist and don't live under an authoritarian regime and visit only trusted websites and asocial media then you'll be fine. But at that point, what are you even doing here?
>I find a lot of security stuff just makes my computer a nuisance to use.
A lot of BADLY IMPLEMENTED security stuff makes your computer a nuisance to use. Security should be seemless, baked into the very fabric of your operating system instead of being a bajillion applications and restrictions. Security shouldn't restrict and overwhelm, it should protect and work in a background while you're eating chips and drinking Coca-Cola. That's why antiviruses are a huge pile of garbage.
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 No.13735

Yeah I ran the pipeline. Started on Kubuntu, moved to linux mint, moved to arch, moved to gentoo, went backwards to debian…..moved…..was lazy…..used windows for a while….now I mainline mint like a G. It just werks.

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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.13611

>>13519
>they no longer have an edge over AI
That's just not true. The recent DLSS 5 disaster proves this. This technology is simply not the same as AGI: it does not understand anatomy and lighting, it cannot create something original, it constantly forgets small details, it uses literally random pictures from the Internet as a training data (including AI-generated ones) which leads to output quality degradation and it often gives inconsistent results because it's just a random image generator that doesn't understand what an art style is.
>Most people should just accept that humans aren't as special as we think.
I'm not saying that humans will always be special but for now AI is like a monkey stroking a brush againt the canvas. It's not intelligent enough to have the same creativity and vision as humans do. Believe me, I want AGI to be real too, it feels lonely for the human species to be at the top of evolutionary development. But until AGI is made I do not think AI will make as good of an art as meatbags do. Yeah, some stuff created with the use of AI like Neuro-sama, Fortnite's Darth Vader, Sora 2 memes or Angel Engine are entertaining but image generation specifically just does not cut it.
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 No.13614

It's funny how the alt-right is associated with AI slop because the Nazi aesthetic is made entirely out of plagiarized symbols
>the swastika is taken from Buddhism
>the SS symbols are taken from paganism
>the Aryan race is taken from Indians and Iranians
>the ideology's name is taken from socialism
>the Roman salute is taken from Romans
>the architecture and art are taken from Romans as well
Like, there's literally nothing original that the Nazis did. In fact, they burnt entire libraries of """Jewish""" literature. I think that's very ironic in hindsight.

Also, has anyone noticed how diffusion models fuck up the Brazilian flag? I'm so sorry, Brazilian bros.
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 No.13615

>>13496
Yup, most of the REEEEEing about AI comes from Western wagecucks butt mad that their degree and birth into a first world nation isn't going to protect them from the type of brutal and alienated work that the global south has always endured.
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 No.13624

Oh, I forgot to mention two other major drawbacks: increased hardware prizes and environmental impact. The corpos, due to the AI craze, started buying GPUs and RAM en masse while gamers and Earth-chan got fucked in the ass. But instead of the corpos reducing their use of AI they're trying to push it on people as a solution to a problem they created. And that solution makes games look like shit.

Man. Remember when high-budget games looked actually photorealistic and didn't require a data center to run? Me neither.
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 No.13729

This might sound absurd but AI will only be relevant once people give a shit about its opinions on the work people create. In other words AI has to become a consumer and humans the producer.

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 No.13728[Reply]

Could a somewhat Jupiter brain be fashioned from some mass botnet of AI computers? Perhaps a near worldwide botnet cyber attack???

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 No.13720[Reply]

If you hate Microsoft, seed this I2P torrent with 43 GB of compressed source code they've leaked over the years. It feels so good having it on my disk and sharing it anonymously!

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3d8b16242b56a3aafb8da7b5fc83ef993ebcf35b&tr=http://tracker2.
postman.i2p/announce.php

http://tracker2.postman.i2p/index.php?view=TorrentDetail&id=84911
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 No.13721

Is there anything actually useful in this leak?
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 No.13725

>>13721
Oh absolutely. The explorer.exe windows manager was a huge deal for open source coding. Even if the leaks are XP years old they are still massively influential for that reason alone. Windows has, more or less, been a black box since, well, forever. It's a big deal, imo.

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 No.13603[Reply]

https://odysee.com/@SomeOrdinaryGamers:6/stop.-normalizing.-this.:3
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 No.13620

Not just glowies, employers are too so they can figure out if you're struggling and pay you less.
Y'all need to start figuring out how to not just protect your privacy, but actively poison the information there is online about you.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept-c2b968fb

>According to Nina DiSalvo, policy director at labor advocacy group Towards Justice, some systems use signals associated with financial vulnerability — including data on whether a prospective employee has taken out a payday loan or has a high credit-card balance — to infer the lowest pay a candidate might accept. Companies can also scrape candidates' public personal social-media pages, she said…

>A first-of-its-kind audit of 500 labor-management artificial-intelligence companies by Veena Dubal, a law professor at University of California, Irvine, and Wilneida Negrón, a tech strategist, found that employers in the healthcare, customer service, logistics and retail industries are customers of vendors whose tools are designed to enable this practice. Published by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a progressive economic think tank, the August 2025 report… does not claim that all employers using these systems engage in algorithmic wage surveillance. Instead, it warns that the growing use of algorithmic tools to analyze workers' personal data can enable pay practices that prioritize cost-cutting over transparency or fairness…

>Surveillance wages don't stop at the hiring stage — they follow workers onto the job, too. The vendors that provide such services also offer tools that are built to set bonus or incentive compensation, according to the report. These tools track their productivity, customer interactions and real-time behavior — including, in some cases, audio and video surveillance on the job. Nearly 70% of companies with more than 500 employees were already using employee-monitoring systems in 2022, such as software that monitors computer activity, according to a survey from the International Data Corporation. "The data that they have about you may allow an algorithmic decision system to mPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.13640

god odysee is such a piece of shit

you serve a video tag anyway, why do i need javascript to watch this
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 No.13697

>>13620

Why hasn't someone do that to them and their networks? Can they keep their data off?
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 No.13714

>>13640
Because they're using your browser to mine cryptocrap.
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 No.13715

>>13640
because (((they))) need to datamine you

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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.13586

>>13553
wiki does refer to collaborative editing in the status quo, but the format has innovated encyclopedic knowledge management in general, and the novel aspects typical of this form are also commonly referred to by "wiki" for uses that aren't collaborative
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 No.13587

>>13551
argumentum ad shitlib
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 No.13709

>>13586
no wiki doesn't mean encyclopedic knowledge management and never did retard
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 No.13710

the first wikis weren't even encyclopedias at all, they were mostly manual type stuff, the thing that made wikis wikis was the collaborative part
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 No.13713

>>13709
maybe not before, but now it does

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 No.13647[Reply]

I have been wanting to learn cybersecurity, but I want to get into the ways of the darker stuff. I thought I'd console people on a forum or some shit, cause they'd probably have info. Thanks!
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 No.13693

>>13692
Silence Nazi. And you hate the eugenics thread because it exposes your collaborators. All Nazis will get the wall during the revolution.
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 No.13695

>>13693
>everyone I disagree with is a nazi.

Classic.
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 No.13696

>>13695
It's literally in your flag's name Nazi Bolshevik
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 No.13698

>>13696
>The meme flag is to be taken super serious

Go back to reddit fag
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 No.13712

>>13698
>I'm only pretending to be retarded.
But you're so good at it.

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 No.13626[Reply]

What's the best LLM chatbot?

I was messing around with free chatbots, got bored of their copypasted and formulaic responses and then I find out that there are premium versions of them? And then I find out there are FLOSS Chinese LLMs? And apparently Deepseek V4 got released which is way more precise while being way less resource-hungry? I'm so confused.

My questions are:
>What is the best LLM chatbot?
>What is the best FLOSS LLM chatbot?
>How do both of them compare?

In my experience, Claude seems to be the best and GPT is hot garbage but I've only tried their free versions so I don't know how their paid versions stack up.
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 No.13704

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"You're articulating something real here, although it's more complicated than that. I shall proceed with making basically the same argument but using a different combination of words."
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 No.13705

"You didn't write a specific sequence of words to clarify the meaning of your message. Therefore I'll proceed writing a huge document about a completely unrelated thing that fits into a broader category of what you were vaguely describing."
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 No.13706

>>13626

Depends on the use case. I use them for hours a day.

Claude for not making shit up as much. Claude for code. Claude has major issues with catastrophizing, assuming worst case scenarios, and stopping converstaions arbitrarily for 'safety'. It isn't as glazing and agreeable as Gemini though.

Gemini for problem solving. But it also glazes and agrees too much over time.

And Fuck ChatGPT
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 No.13707

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>>13706
>Claude
Which version do you use?
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 No.13708

>>13707

Claude Sonnet 4.6
and Gemini 3.1 Pro

could be Claude Opus 4.7 is better at problem solving

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