/tech/ - Technology

>>9247
Why don't you?

>>9258
LM was the first OS I ever used for Linux and if you are openly making declarations of your laziness then I can't fault you. Hell, I use Gentoo on my desktop but i installed Ubuntu on my laptop just out of sheer laziness. Mint is a great Os though and I can't knock you for using it for the sake of laziness.

Fedora for desktop and Centos for servers.

Debian, because it just werks

Debian. Works for almost every use case from making old computers still useful to my daily programming work, container shit, server side stuff, etc. and has a massive community that ensures that you have reasonably up-to-date versions of every software within the linux/unix ecosystem.

Also it helps that at least some who use and develop for it still have an ideological inclination towards the FSF and real free software instead of being fronts for corporate shit (Fedora, Ubuntu, etc) or total sellouts like the user-focused ones whose priorities lie more towards being Apple clones in functionality instead of free software.

>>8742
is it better than briar?

wait what happened?

>>8742
What are you suspicious about? The concept you just laid out sounds highly solid to me. Paying people to host a node sounds like a wonderful idea in terms of keeping a network uncompromised?

>>8742
>This network is built around some cryptocoin

ugh no thanks

https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issuecomment-217211165
Remember when Marlinspike got his panties in a bunch over someone making a version of signal that doesn't need google?

>>8216
>BadBIOS (uses radio, not sound)
Just don't have a radio mic or speakers?
Whats to stop you from popping open your laptop or cell phone and wireclipping the LTE/speaker cables.

>>8216
honestly who cares if ur not gonna do a crime

>>9314
well he can't admit to planning one nowadays can he?

>>9314
>honestly who cares if ur not gonna do a crime
>>9314
well he can't admit to planning one nowadays can he?
it's never been about crime
Knowledge is power, if corporations or other organisations know more about you as you know about them, they have an knowledge advantage over you that lets them politically disenfranchise you. Class societies have a class war going , and the surveillance stuff is them following the doctrine of "know your enemy". Even if you are just a rightist social democrat that wants bourgeois democracy with welfare capitalism, you have to insist on completely removing the state and corporations from personal devices and home networks, or you' won't even be able to have bourgeois democracy.

Even if the proletariat has robust control over the state you would still make personal devices off limits, people store their personal lives in these things and it's almost like violating bodily autonomy if you give powerful organisations access to personal devices. You wouldn't want to be frisked by the police in the offline world even if you have nothing to hide, so it's not ok to do that in the online world.

It's also really stupid for strategical considerations, the NSA or big tech is not securing the access they have to your machines, so even if you are fine with making people corporate serfs without political rights, you would still hand them over to basically moderately tech-able organisations that can buy cyber-break-in tools from the grey market. Basically the backdoors to your computer and communications will become available to your local mafia, eventually, because big organisations leak what ever trick they develop.

For a strong socialist society the reasons are different, people cannot be politically disenfranchised even if you backdoor devices. But it would still compromise your technology and infrastructure. You have no reason to believe that a socialist society would be better at securing "the other end of the backdoor". It makes your society vulnerable to coordination-collapse-attacks. An example of this type of attack was the Soviet block dissolution. The entire economic system relied on the central planning buro for economic coordination and once the neo-liberal coup was able to bPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>9327
GOOD post.

>>8621
Fuck u irc is based

>>8652
the underlying technology is more or less fine but in recent years i rarely find non-software IRC channels that aren't just a shit circlejerk of cunts who've been on there since 2001, which has about one conversation a day which you've got no hopes of breaking into because people are here to talk to their friends, not the "new" guy who'll fuck off after 6 months of being ignored.
the internet is shit.

>>9319
What happened to Undernet at the same time?

>>9279
it depends on what you're using the matrix account for. If you want them to be linked, then use your personal email. Otherwise, get a new email.
Simple flow chart to use when deciding what emails and information to use with everything, i guess. FWIW I recc using a different email for everything, unless you have a strong need to tie together a persona like for work, or between social media accounts.
>>8403
I think that's just how it is. It's shit if you log out. (actually some anon said there's a way to preserve sessions while opening a new one?) Maybe XMPP+OMEMO is better???
basically tho don't ever log out, and use the element client not web client
i havent tried any other than element, like nheko and others

>>9284
Thanks for your reply. Any advice on secure email providers? I remember reading that the Russian one is good for privacy.

>>9285
>secure
oops!

Secure from who? Hackers? Surveillance capitalism? The NSA? Your boyfriend? Bears?
Email in general is shit, avoid where you can, but I know you can't always.

>>9288
>Hackers? Surveillance capitalism? The NSA?
I meant from these lot. I know it'll never be completely secure, but is there anything better than Gmail?

>>9285
>>9292
i used to use cock.li but they stopped letting you make new ones because supposedly glowies were using their shit for anonymous emails or something
honestly i suspect the exact opposite is what's happened, but whatever

basically anything that lets me register an email with no identifying data over tor is all i want. There's mail2tor or something, and there's DNMX which i guess advertizes scam sites but just don't click on shit basically.

Always assume your email provider sees everything, because they can. If you dont want them to see contents, encrypt it. If you dont want them to know who you are, tor is good enough for me but maybe just consider hosting your own email server at that point, or at least using a mail server on your computer rather than webmail just so you can avoid javascript… if that's not enough, i dont know i mean there's always contrived ways to increase security like if you're not wanting to be found literally (literally) by nsa investigations or very motivated hackers rather than just random bullshit, this might not be enough, but for the non-hyperterrorist basically that should work, just any email u can register over tor anonymously and for free, and then assume they read ur emails or sell the contents and then just don't use email for important shit unless ur using pgp

>>9287
What does the picture mean and what is a t-shirt license ?
I was expecting to hear about men with peg legs, eye patches and hook-hands.

yes

>defends BLM destruction
>proud LGBT supporter
>forces ((privacy)) snippets down your throat
>contains lots of proprietory blobs from chrome
>1 milion a year income based on wikipedia information
>gets their funding from guliible individuals while being ((nonprofit))
>duck go is probably backdoored (opensource server backend is a meme)
i miss good old IE (no tracking/flash enabled/works with unity/can open local html5 games) all checked

>>9267
Is TOR the only safe browser these days? Or is that backended too?

>>9270
>TOR
Tor Browser is based on firefox. It's not a fork, just firefox with minor modifications, so, if it isn't backdoored already, it will eventually be. Use links or w3m. links2 if you absolutely need a graphical browser (you don't)

>>9242
Tl;dr engineers, people working on privacy features, browser security and the like. Relocated workers primarily moved to so-called "Products and Operations team", according to Ars Technica.

I'm cushty on IceCat 78.11 right now, but I really don't know what I'll do once EOL hits in October. The new UI is ugly, unintuitive, and leans further into the trend of removing customization for no reason as well as favoring form over function.

I was looking at Mozzilla Corporation's wikipedia
>Notable past employees:
>Inventor of Javascript
>Now at Facebook
>Now at Facebook
>Now at Facebook
>Now at Square, Inc
>Now at Google Chrome
>Now at Google Chrome
wtf?

>>9050
Yeah I'm retarded, I misread the chart. It seems there is no alternatives to MX Clears which sucks because Cherry is overpriced.

Sexy.

>>8859
Yeah I like them a lot. I'm sick of rubber domes and their shitty responsiveness/feel. Mechanical are hyper responsive, easier to type on, more comfortable and better for pretty much everything. The one I have is loud as fuck but I don't really care it's worth the trade off

I don't get what people like about mechanical keyboards. I find it so much easier to type on a flat keyboard

>>9219
>Mechanical are hyper responsive, easier to type on, more comfortable and better for pretty much everything.
Unless of course you're typing on weak tactile switches or shitty fucking linear switches. Then you might as well be using a worn out silicone membrane.

I-i-is that…
Is that s..something that can connect t-to the power grid?
S..so, what you're saying i-is that it can use electr-ricity?

H-HOLY SHIT..
I-I'M
I-I'M GONNA C-COONEEEECT
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W-WIFI ENABLED BOTNET SPYWARE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I'M
I'M
I'M GONNA MAKE IT SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART
I NEED IT TO CONNECT TO S-SOCIAL MEDIA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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>>8970
My inclination to be a luddite is directly proportional to the more I learn and know about technology. Is there a word for this phenomenon yet?

>>9220
sanity

>>9220
Seems pretty sensible to me. Ever heard how the big brains of the silicon valley don't let their child use computers?