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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.13342

>>13341
What do you mean? there's no more risks using i2p than anything else. If you mean "What are the vulnerabilities located in i2p? I am unsure what if any exist but I am sure some exist. You probably could locate some on the website or forums. But it has advantages over tor which is why using it over tor is encouraged. tor is just more normie friendly and can be good for the lower autism score people.


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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
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If you have any grievances you can make a PR.

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 No.13323

>>13234
I would be open to changing the main post font for bunker-like (the default theme, or copying it and naming it something else) else but not changing everything at once.


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 No.13245[Reply]

Well it looks like the United States and NATO finally figured out a way to sabotage the Linux kernel. Several Russian kernel developers have just had their contributions removed and their kernel contributor status revoked due to being on the receiving end of US economic sanctions.

https://lwn.net/Articles/995186/

Torvalds himself is playing along with this enthusiastically because of his own moronic Finnish national politics. This is an extremely concerning development that affects all of free software. If this can happen to the Linux kernel it can happen to any other libre software projecting, poisoning the entire concept of international software development.
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 No.13353

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>>13351
<3. Avoid Two-Way Engagement
<Reviewing an unsolicited patch from a contributor in a sanctioned region should generally be fine, but actively engaging them to better understand their issue, diagnose the problem, or help improve a patch or modify code would likely cross the line. If the contributor is linked to a sanctioned entity or region, in general, it is best to keep communications strictly one-way. If a patch is received and you improve it and submit it upstream, that should be fine, but going back and forth in communications with the SDN developer likely would not.
<4. Avoid Contributions Enabling SDNs
<Accepting unsolicited patches that fix general issues in your open source project should be okay. However, if the changes directly benefit a restricted party’s products or services, it could be a problem. For example, if a developer from AcmeSDN (and AcmeSDN is an SDN subject to OFAC sanctions) contributes a driver that enables the AcmeSDN processor to work in your software, that contribution would likely be an issue. Think carefully not just about the source code, but the impact of these unsolicited patches.
<5. Avoid Indirect Contributions
<Sanctioned entities might try to contribute indirectly through third parties or developers acting "individually." Developers should understand other contributors' affiliations and raise any concerns with their community and legal counsel. For example, if in the prior example, AcmeSDN paid a developer in a country not subject to sanctions to make the driver contribution enabling AcmeSDN’s processor, that would still likely be an issue. A common pattern is that an SDN’s developer is blocked from making a contribution, but then a very similar (or the same) patch is submitted to the project from another account or email address. It could be an anonymous email account. Just because the contributor has been obfuscated does not change an assessment of the situation.
So basically the sanctions are placing an enormous burden on libre projects to both a) keep extreme track of the identity and national origin of contributors in order to avoid the wrongPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.13354

>>13351
been reading this, it seems that the "OhFuck" sanctions, mean that everybody can use each others code, but devs aren't allowed to talk directly to each other anymore, they have to talk past each other. Bunch of confusing shit.
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 No.13355

>>13353
I don't see why this is such a big deal. Can't we just move to an open source repo or something?
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 No.13356

>>13353
>keep extreme track of the identity and national origin of contributors in order to avoid the wrong ones, making software projects about people instead of the software
Yeah that's the difference between technical people and non-technical people.
Technical people absolutely despise this kind of "personality drama", the reaction to this will be: there are no people, there's only code
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 No.13357

I'm so angry at how little attention this controversy is getting in other places of libre software enthusiasm.


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 No.13350[Reply]

It could be illegal, but perhaps a botnet network could be fashioned from some sort of self written AIs modeled on something like the new Chinese DeepSeek AI?


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 No.13348[Reply]

Yeah this shit works better than my paid chatgpt account, what else is there to say?
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 No.13349

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>>13348
>what else is there to say?
Apparently deep-seek caused a big sell-off in tech stocks. There's a lot of speculation on that. Mine is that it proved that the big players aren't the only game in town, and that new competition can emerge, and that the trend probably goes towards commodity AI rather than siloed monopoly rent AI.

Deepseek being open source is also nice.

With it being a pure reinforcement learning design it doesn't need fine tuning and that's probably why it only cost like 6 million to make.

If you want to run the big boy model with 600+ billion parameters you need like 405 gigabyte of memory preferably speedy video memory. Graphics cards need an entire order of magnitude increase in video memory capacity. The 8-16 gigs on consumer cards and the 24-48ish gigs on profesh cards doesn't cut it anymore. Maybe this is finally whats going to cause mainstream PCBdesing to incorporate optical data-lanes.


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 No.13159[Reply]

https://archive.is/Qt0n1
So it seems a US court has just ruled that Google monopolized the online search market. Now the Department of Justice is "considering" breaking up Google as a potential option in response.

At long last is there finally some hope for the future of the web?
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 No.13322

>>13320
Online advertisement is broken for a fundamental reason. It's inverted the intended logic of consumer-markets. Which is the customer chooses which product to buy. Online Advertisement is about letting the product(technically the seller) choose its customer.

This inversion has existed in all advertisement long before the internet, but it mostly didn't work with old-school media because those couldn't nail down individual people.

Google and most other online ad business' that operates by tracking people, is driving people to adblocking because they want to be the ones that choose. Forcing the issue by messing the browser will not counteract the online ad-revenue decline.

They have to change their advertisement system from scanning people to scanning the context. Want to display an add on a webpage, read/analyze the page and display an add that's related to the content of that page. That doesn't need any people tracking and it returns choice to consumers.

To answer your question, i don't think that they can do anything that can't be changed or reverted later, because it's software.

>>13321
I've wondered about such a scheme also, but i do wonder how much controle they would be able to exert once there's those extra steps.
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 No.13343

So the worms in charge of the Linux Foundation just officially endorsed Chromium as the hegemonic web browser.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/supporters-of-chromium-based-browsers
>The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the launch of Supporters of Chromium-Based Bowsers. This initiative aims to fund open development and enhance projects within the Chromium ecosystem, ensuring broad support and sustainability for open source contributions that will drive technological advancement.
>"With the launch of the Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers, we are taking another step forward in empowering the open source community," said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. "This project will provide much-needed funding and development support for open development of projects within the Chromium ecosystem."

Is this really the ship they wanna tie themselves to right now? Right in the middle of Google's potential break up by anti-trust rulings?
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 No.13344

>>13343
I don't really know what to make of this either
but lets wait and see what comes out of:
<empowering the open source community
<funding and
<open development of projects within the Chromium ecosystem

Could be marketing word salad for a corporate enshitification project or something worthwhile that's beneficial to quality libre tech.
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 No.13345

>>13343
>Is this really the ship they wanna tie themselves to right now? Right in the middle of Google's potential break up by anti-trust rulings?
Yes. Obviously they are positioning themselves to take stewardship of chrome after the state wrestles it away from google.
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 No.13347

>>13345
>they are positioning themselves to take stewardship of chrome
People seem to think that Google would retain most of it's controle over the chrome project.

I take it that means that all the boneheaded design decisions that everybody hates, like crippling extensions, that would continue.

Kind of a bummer.


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 No.11956[Reply]

Recently there has been a lot of commotion around large language model text based AI.
They are able to do impressive stuff, they give useful answers, and even can write somewhat usable programming sample code.

The most famous one currently is chatgpt, but all of those AIs are basically black boxes, that probably have some malicious features under the hood.

While there are Open-Source Implementations of ChatGPT style Training Algorithms
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/open-source-chatgpt/
Those kinda require that you have a sizeable gpu cluster like 500 $1k cards that are specialized kit, not your standard gaming stuff. To chew through large language-models with 100 billion to 500 billion parameters.

The biggest computational effort is the initial training run, that chews through a huge training data-set. After that is done, just running the thing to respond to your queries is easier.

So whats the path to a foss philosophy ethical AI ?
Should people do something like peer to peer network where they connect computers together to distribute the computational effort to many people ?

Or should people go for reducing the functionality until it can run on a normal computer ?
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 No.13054

The Hated One made a good and brief vid about big tech lobbies trying to kill Open source AI because bigtech can't compete with the open stuff on cost efficiency. His take is to go bug your political representatives to not let big tech hord all the AI-tech for it self.

My question is, could the tech monopolies really block Opensource AI ?

Can't the computer wizards just go to some other country and ask for opensource friendly regulations. That country could import a massive tech-boom for free. Possibly even get better AI. It's not like this is huge immobile industrial technology.

https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=5NUD7rdbCm8
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 No.13304

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 No.13306

>>13304
> face ATTENDANCE
Bio-metrics is a cyclical fad.

The very technology that enables you to detect a bio-metric feature also allows you to make fake duplicate, that circumvents it. It's conceptually flawed.
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 No.13310

https://github.com/hanweikung/face_anon_simple
Simple face exchange for anonymity
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 No.13339



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 No.11967[Reply]

So the EU is apparently pondering to make a mandatory pedo scanner for software.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2022%2F05%2F11%2Feu-csam-detection-plan%2F

Many people have pointed out that this is just a pretext to attack:
privacy
IT security
and maybe even free open source software.

Many people think it's surveillance organizations them selves that are uploading the CSAM on purpose to push for laws that expand their legal permissions.

And all of the above is undoubtedly true.
Consider that if you invert the assumption of innocence and declare that wanting privacy makes you into a pedo-suspect that means that secret organizations have to be considered pedo-guilty by default, because they can't prove their innocence while keeping their secrets either.

If you argue that effective encryption that can't be broken which is absolutely necessary for the very concept of privacy, has to be undermined for the pedo-scanner. Then that same argument has to be made for proprietary software. Many pieces of proprietary software are in the range of tens or hundreds of gigabytes, and without publicly available source-code it's possible to hide a huge assortment of pedo-content in there. By contrast it's not possible to hide pedo-stuff in open source software.

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 No.13325

This shit still isn't dead.

about 6 days ago was the latest political round, it was once again averted.
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 No.13327

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>>11967
>>13326
wait what the fuck, did you catch that last part? Why would it matter if children have access to the service or not?
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 No.13336

This has always been used as a "chilling effect" to justify control of technology, hence why the right wing is really, really into it (beyond their affinity for pederasty which is common for their race and proclivity). Think for five minutes about what it would require to be "doubleplus certain" that there is no CP being delivered, and you would have to process all of the data and its reassembly, if you think of it in this way. Of course, they can find pederasts and pedophiles easily enough. It's not hard to know which people are into that. But, that requires human intelligence which would be contrary to the real purpose of imposing the law, which is to create this chilling effect on all expression.

All of that said, the idea that the state has no right to do this is ludicrous magical thinking. It's their internet, their computer, their society. They have all of the right, the moment it is technologically possible. Whether they would want to, or would gain anything from it, is another matter. If you do anything online, NSA and its counterparts will know about it and link it to permanent records. The inquisition didn't gather all of this knowledge about you for nothing, didn't force you through those Satanic schools because they wanted you to be smart.

There are other reasons for pushing pornography and sexualism and child sacrifice which I don't need to elaborate on too much, but this purpose was especially necessary to create a fear of being seen with the wrong material, and there is a psychological game with sexual ideology played where any display of honesty or kindness is now "pedophilia", especially if you would protect children from this Satanism or so much as warn them about what is happening. That's really how the rightist think. They laugh at the idea that their god-given right to pederasty would be disturbed by those do-gooder leftists. Laugh. But, the idea that you had computer security has always been a fantasy. The use of the pedo excuse is entirely about creating fear in the most important part of the network—the human user, who would access potentially sensitive information that is crimethink.

If you're anyone important by the way, you're going to be psychologically screened over and over, and the moment you don't march in tune with the Nazis, you're out. They throw you out of the service for having an affair. They're going to find out who has any homosexual tendency or thinks it is cute to diddle little girls and Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.13337

>>13336
I don't think there's any real support for this, it's not about protecting children, they would be putting child psychologists into schools or something like that to find out if children get molested. Child-protection associations are condemning the attack on privacy because it endangers children.

The internet belongs to all of humanity, it's ours. The individual computers are entirely personal, nobody but the user has any claim on that, people are using it like it's a part of their brain. It's mental-rape if you touch that. And the state is the property of the citizens, not the other way around. Where did you get this aristocratic concept of a state ? The state gains legitimacy by upholding rights like privacy, the surveillance lobby is sabotaging the state. And the mass-surveillance NSA type shit was ruled illegal even in bourgeois courts. It's ludicrous ideology of surveillance extremism what your spewing here.

>There are other reasons for pushing pornography

Politics isn't about sexuality, you're a moron if you think that. There's so much pornography because people like it.
If there is a instrumental purpose, it's about creating what the Soviets called a "compromat" you know people that can be put into important positions that can be blackmailed.

>But, the idea that you had computer security has always been a fantasy.

Well there's 2 paths, either we go for a lawful society where the technology isn't compromised and people have privacy and controle over their personal property and their computers are truly theirs. Or it turns into might makes right, the Chinese have the largest highly educated population, and the most compute resources, they'll win this. Compromising our own computers is retarded.


 No.13328[Reply]

I DON'T HAVE ANY SMOKING GUN EVIDENCE BUT I INSTINCTUALLY KNOW IT IS HAPPENING. FALSEFLAGGING GAMES AS VIRUSES, TELLING ME MY DOCUMENT IS/ISN'T CORRUPTED BASED ON THE TEXT EDITOR I OPEN IT WITH, MY COPY OF MTPAINT HAS TOTALLY DISAPPEARED BUT RE-APPEARS SOMETIMES. MY PROPERIETARY PROGRAMS ARE ALWAYS OFFERED TO ME AHEAD OF FOSS AS CHOICES. PROPEITARY PROGRAMS WORKING SUSPICIOUSLY FASTER THAN THEY SHOULD BE AS IF THEY ARE BEING PUSHED TO BE FASTER. THIS COMPUTER OTHERWISE WORKS FINE. THERE ARE NEFARIOUS FORCES TRYING TO MANIPULATE ME TOWARDS ANTI-FOSS OPINIONS BY SABOTAGING/IMPROVING PERFORMANCE. DOCUMENT SAVES BETTER AFTER REMOVING MENTIONS OF NUKES TYPE SHIT.
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 No.13330

>>13328
It's time to stop being a faggot and switch to Linux. What do you use your computer for mainly? Gayming might be harder to set up, but I hear a lot of popular games run well these days.

To be honest Linux has it's own set of problems, but I have yet to run into any that I wasn't able to overcome with the help of the internet and by not giving up. With Windows you don't know wtf is going on and you can either clean install and hope it doesn't happen again or wait for Microsoft to fix it.
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 No.13331

>>13329

NOT MUCH OF A GAMER BUT TELLING THIS COMPUTER TO CALM IT'S ASS DOWN EVERYTIME I OPEN STEAM IS ANNOYING. I TOLD IT TO REMEMBER STEAM AS "FRIEND/OK/UNINFECTED" MULTIPLE TIMES.

I MANAGED TO SAVE THAT DOCUMENT AS THE LAST MINUTE BY CONVERTING IT TO A PDF.

I HAVE BOTH MTPAINT AND MSPAINT (MARK TYLER PAINT) I SOMETIMES KNOW IT IS SOMETIMES NOT. LAUNCHES WHEN I ASK MTPAINT TO EDIT MY IMAGE SOMETIMES NOT, SO FORCED TO USE MS-PAINT TO SAVE TIME.

THERE IS A DEFINITE MICROSOFT CONSPIRACY TO KEEP ME ON THE NON-MS AND MS PROPIETARY STUFF 100% MAYBE IT HASN'T BEEN DISCOVERED OR REACHED THE NEWS YET AS A HIDDEN THING THEY HAVE BUT'S ITS THERE.

TONING DOWN THE ANTIAMERICANISM INTO FRIENDLY SOUNDING THINGS OR BLANK SPACES. MAYBE THAT ONE I AM HALLUICINATING.

I ACTUALLY HAVE LINUX MINT 19.2 ""XFCE"" ON A CURRENTLY-BROKEN LAPTOP BUT IT ISN'T RUNNING XFCE TECHNICACLLY BECAUSE THAT INSTALL IS RICED AND RUNNING LXDE ISNTEAD. I CAN'T USE THAT NOW I AM WAITING FOR A BATTERY THAT WILL ARRIVE IN JANUARY. NOT THAT LONG AWAY.

I ALSO HAVE A PC WITHOUT A SCREEN AND MISSING CORDS WITH A FAULTY INSTALL OF EIHTER ARTIX OR NETBSD I THINK IT WAS. CAN'T USE THAT EITHER. FASTEST ROUTE TO USING A LINUX IMMEDIATELY IS SOMETHING LIKE LINUX FOR THE PS2. THIS COMPUTER IS MY FATHERS, HE LETS ME, IT IS JUST, NOT DONE, TO FUCK WITH SOMEBODY'S PC "OH HEY THIS IS NOW LINUX" . HIS BELOVED/IRREPLACABLE VIRTUDALDJ IS WINDOWS ONLY.
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 No.13332

>>13330
>With Windows you don't know wtf is going on
Looking back in retrospect, back when I used to be a Windows wizard and was really into tweaking things to run run well, I would say most of my Windows skills and knowledge really did revolve around mitigating the lack of information from Windows' various obscure and arcane functions. Getting good at Windows means trying to the best of your ability to reduce or subject to regular audits these various processes. What other operating system needs a third party tool like CCleaner to be run regularly just to deal with the tendency of its stupid fucking Registry to accumulate a bunch of crap over time?
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 No.13334

then stop using windows retard
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 No.13335

>>13330
>>13334
this
and stop using caps for gods sake


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 No.12988[Reply]

The internet is dying, maybe it's actually already dead. This is a general thread about the dead internet theory. Share articles, first hand proof that the internet is dead, discuss etc. There is alot going on which indicates, that the dead internet theory is becoming reality.
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 No.13020

>>13019
https://archive.ph/20240422172830/https://www.wired.com/story/section-702-reauthorization-expansion/

>Legal experts—including a rare few attorneys who’ve argued cases before the FISA court in the past—say the new ECSP text ensnares owners of facilities housing equipment used to store and carry data, as well as commercial landlords and virtually anyone with access to communications equipment in those spaces. The text, they argue, may be interpreted by the government as granting it authority to compel the assistance of “delivery personnel, cleaning contractors, and utility providers,” among others.

How they can reconcile forcing normal people to become spies, is hard to fathom. Ethically and strategically, it sure is egregious, however abusing people like that, fosters malicious compliance.
>Criticism of the 702 program largely stems from revelations of abuse in a declassified court filing from 2022, which describes rampant misuse of the 702 database by the FBI. Investigators at the bureau have been caught unlawfully scouring 702 data for information on American protesters, journalists, and political donors.
This type of hard persecution is what kills the legitimacy.

>What's next for the internet?

it's hard to predict technological trends, a new counter strategy to surveillance extremism might be increasing data noise, if enough useless data clogs up the system, that might mitigate the harm it does.
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 No.13024

Good post by Kevin Gosztola on the recent history of domestic spying with a foreign pretext:
https://thedissenter.org/biden-expands-ranks-government-spies/

Seems like one of the aims of this bill is to go after Gaza genocide protestors by pretending they're Hamas.
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 No.13025

>>13024
>Seems like one of the aims of this bill is to go after Gaza genocide protestors by pretending they're Hamas.
Peak Zionism ended a while ago, the political pendulum had already begun swinging in the other direction. The Zionists going full retard with the mass-murdering are accelerating that process. And it's not just mass-politics that are changing, the militarized Zionism project is more trouble than it's worth in material terms as well. Soon everything tied to it will become politically tainted.
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 No.13026

https://noyb.eu/en/ag-cjeu-facebook-must-minimize-personal-data-ads-eu
Here's an interesting case about minimizing personal data collection and retention.

This ties in well with what i think the near future privacy politics will become, where people consider data related to people as analogous to some kind radioactive waste material.


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