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Anonymous 2021-07-23 (Fri) 02:56:58 No.10398 [Reply]

>corporation threatens to deport man to China and report him for protesting the CCP because he developed a sheet music downloading program that they claim violates their copyrights

What's your take on this?

https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5
https://archive.is/qmPFa

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Anonymous 2021-07-23 (Fri) 04:41:09 No.10399

>>10398
>What's your take on this?
He's a Chinese dude who hates the Chinese government, they don't want him deported back to China. They probably helped him to get a gig outside of China to get rid of him in the first place. The copyright trolls are crazy if they think they can commandeer the resources of the Chinese authorities to do their bidding, especially when he doesn't seem to have violated any laws.

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Anonymous 2021-07-23 (Fri) 06:45:05 No.10401

Yet again, porky enforcing copyright on behalf of artfags.
Reminder that artfags (and other cuckmanities sorts) are the greediest rent-seekers to ever exist.

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Anonymous 2021-07-23 (Fri) 09:20:41 No.10402

>>10398
https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5
>Otherwise, I will have to transfer information about you to lawyers who will cooperate with github.com and Chinese government to physically find you and stop the illegal use of licensed content.

Believe me, faggot. My dad works at China.

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Anonymous 2021-07-23 (Fri) 20:40:50 No.10417

>It is entirely reasonable to find the idea that some rando from 4chan actually went to some guy's house, brandishing an allegedly illegal weapon, with the intention of causing physical harm to somebody – regardless of the potential legal consequences – over a fork of an audio editing program. The premise is mind-bogglingly stupid on its face and clearly the product of a deranged, overactive imagination.
why are they talking about sneed

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Anonymous 2021-07-23 (Fri) 20:48:46 No.10418

>>10417
Same company bought Audacity

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Anonymous 2021-07-19 (Mon) 16:17:14 No.10302 [Reply]

Here's a shitty design for an oil powered gun

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Anonymous 2021-07-21 (Wed) 01:05:55 No.10348

>>10340
Dont higher temperatures allow for faster and more dense gases allowing for more powerful blasts?

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Anonymous 2021-07-21 (Wed) 11:44:14 No.10364

>>10348
Higher temps and low molecular weight gases are needed for higher velocities. Guns powered by the usual smokeless powders max out at ~6000 fps because their combustion makes higher molecular weight gases. Light gas guns used by NASA that use hydrogen as a working fluid reach 23,000 fps.

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Anonymous 2021-07-22 (Thu) 01:09:34 No.10379

>>10364
Low molecular weight per individual particle right? Since you would only need enough mass per particle to overcome the resistance of the object your trying to create a force on and thus too much mass wastes energy?

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Anonymous 2021-07-22 (Thu) 11:34:30 No.10385

>>10379
I think it has to do with the fact that low molecular weight means easily compressible and it has a high speed of sound.

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Anonymous 2021-07-23 (Fri) 02:49:16 No.10396

>>10302
peestol

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Linux Musicians' Thread Anonymous 2021-07-19 (Mon) 10:28:51 No.10298 [Reply]

Some breakthroughs have led me to finally and definitively abandon microshit's spyware.
I had been staying on wangblows for the audio software but had no idea Linux production had come so far.

My DAW [Renoise] has a fucking excellent native linux version that exceeds WIndows performance in some cases. Grabbing audio to feed into its sampler is easier than ever with youtube-dl and ffmpeg.
yabridge lets you convert Windows VSTs to run through Wine, the ones I've tried have worked seamlessly albeit with a little overhead.
Takes a tiny bit of elbow grease to get it optimized enough for serious use, but it's pretty simple once you get past initial setup and it even supports VST3.

Feels pretty good to be making music on a system I have so much control over, it's actually given me a lot of inspiration to work on new material.
Are you a composer or producer who runs Linux? What's your workflow/software?

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Anonymous 2021-07-23 (Fri) 02:41:19 No.10394

>>10298
Based

I use Ardour, Vital, Helm, Geomkick, Surge, Stochas, sfizz, eq10q, and some other stuff like calf plugins.

I'm a total noob though so those might be terrible tool choices.

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Is there any good streaming services? Anonymous 2021-07-13 (Tue) 22:23:30 No.10131 [Reply]

Does anyone know of any none fucked streaming services? Particularly ones that aren't shit on android? Youtube is trash for a whole host of reasons, especially on mobile. I'm not paying for spotify ever and doing anything on there just assaults you with an infinite amount of adds. Choose something — adds, rewind something — adds, don't skip a song in days — adds. I've always liked pandora and always thought it's a great idea but the execution is rather flawed. It seems to only play new or rarer stuff once in a blue moon. So does anyone know of any non-shit tier streaming?

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Anonymous 2021-07-21 (Wed) 00:48:40 No.10346

Channel7 is fun: https://7chan.org/ch7/

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Anonymous 2021-07-21 (Wed) 05:55:13 No.10353

>>10346
>7chan

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Anonymous 2021-07-21 (Wed) 07:32:25 No.10354

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>>10353
Yes.

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Anonymous 2021-07-21 (Wed) 07:37:41 No.10355

>>10346
I was never able to take them seriously considering that 95% of their content was coping and seething over 4chungus

It was manic about it, so fucking weird

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Anonymous 2021-07-22 (Thu) 06:55:11 No.10381

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>>10354
No.
Sure give me your ip and home address

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Future of Chinese made CPUs Anonymous 2021-07-16 (Fri) 21:04:48 No.10230 [Reply]

Since US tech embargo on China is still in effect and US plans to squeeze Chinese tech companies by restricting their access to computer chips. China's reaction to this was to make one of their goals to have a home-grown alternative for Intel, AMD, TSMC and the like to decrease dependence on the US. So I was wondering what kind of progress have they been making lately and what are their prospects of ever having a viable alternative to Intel and AMD?

There is all this talk about SMIC, Loongson and Zhaoxin and that in early 2020 Zhaoxin allegedly published a chip comparable to 2017 level intel and AMD tech and they are planning to have parity with Intel in a few years. Then there are Some sources are saying that China is failing horribly at acquiring manufacturing tech for more advanced processors. And I really can't make any real sense out of it.

So when will I be able to buy a computer that uses a hardware that dunks on burger made tech and sends my personal data to Beijing instead of Washington, if ever?

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Anonymous 2021-07-20 (Tue) 20:01:15 No.10339

>>10337
> Is there any way we can verify that the manufacturer actually made the chips according to the published plans?
No.
> Could they still insert backdoors that we can't find?
Yes.

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Anonymous 2021-07-21 (Wed) 02:31:56 No.10350

>>10278
Oh ok. Should be no problem to come up with better chip designs soon then 👍

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Anonymous 2021-07-21 (Wed) 02:39:05 No.10351

>>10350
This issue is not chip design but instead, the production of chip manufacturing machinery.

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Anonymous 2021-07-21 (Wed) 14:57:35 No.10365

>>10337
>Is there any way we can verify that the manufacturer actually made the chips according to the published plans? Could they still insert backdoors that we can't find?
You can take the official chip plans and scramble the design, that "encrypts" the hardware level so that you need special encoded binaries for software to run, it also makes inserting a hardware backdoor impractical because the backdoor circuits would only see scrambled signals. So it's possible to design around an untrustworthy hardware maker, even if technically you can't verify the contents of a chip. You will however need to compile every software from source to install it, with a special -scrambler compiler flag.

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Anonymous 2021-07-22 (Thu) 00:59:01 No.10378

>>10365
That sounds interesting, do you have more resources to learn about it?

>>10337
What about a microscope?

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Email Providers Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:41 No.2718 [Reply]

So based on basic Opsec I've been reading about you should have a seperation of your identity from your logins on TOR and whatnot for reddit or twitter or whatever the fuck. But all that shit requires emails and all these damn email providers require a phone number which defeats the whole purpose? Which email service can I use that won't demand my phone number and let me stay as anonymous as possible online?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:43 No.2739

>>2718
autistici.org, riseup.net, or protonmail.com are examples I’ve seen, but I can’t speak on the legitimacy of any of them with confidence

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:43 No.2741

If temporary mails are blocked I usually try create a Protonmail account. If they want a phone number, I just reset Tor identity and try again, until they give me an option to verify with an email instead, then I just try a few temporary emails until one works. Lately it's taken me only one retry at most to get through.
In the past I also used Yandex since it was really easy to register while most websites consider it a legitimate provider. However their own captchas don't work over Tor anymore.

A much bigger problem than creating and using throwaway emails is that lots of websites effectively block Tor via infinite Google captchas on their registration and/or login forms.

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Anonymous 2021-06-01 (Tue) 03:25:06 No.8896

>>2718
It looks like riseup is the best email provider so far. Is that right?

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some based email providers Anonymous 2021-06-01 (Tue) 10:11:48 No.8906

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https://mailbox.org/en/ German mail provider, server in Germany, accounts from 1,- € per month, PGP encrypted inbox, encrypted mail delivery and receipt can only be activated via SSL/TLS, DANE, private IP addresses and user agent are removed from the mail header, anonymous accounts possible, aliases and temp. address can be used, OTP login for web interface, Tor Onion Service for POP3, IMAP, SMTP, video conferencing for up to 25 participants

The owner of https://dismail.de/ is a guy named Stefan Sieg the whole thing is a one-man-show but nevertheless meets highest security standards. Offered are security extensions like DANE, SPF, DKIM as well as cipher suites (TLS encryption), to secure the connection between user <-> dismail.de or dismail.de <-> email server of other providers, meet high security level requirements without neglecting the downward compatibility. IP addresses of users are removed from the email header.The provider is sponsored by donations.

The servers of https://disroot.org/en are located in the Netherlands and are operated by a small circle of volunteers who care about decentralization, open source, privacy and so on. The security extensions offered by disroot, such as DANE, SPF, DKIM, are also state of the art - as are the cipher suites. IP addresses of users and user agent are removed from the email header.The provider is sponsored by donations.

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Anonymous 2021-07-20 (Tue) 21:42:12 No.10345

>>8906
> https://dismail.de/
>2021-05-28: Too much, too many people, too much … so I have decided to stop registration of new users
NOoOOoOoooooOOooOoOoo that looked perfect

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A lot of "social media celebrities" are pushing for this shit and their followers are following suit Anonymous 2021-07-15 (Thu) 01:15:02 No.10176 [Reply]

I try to tell myself the "normalfag"/internet loser divide is a false dichotomy made up by people trying to cope with being outliers and then this shit happens. Literal cattle, holy shit.

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Anonymous 2021-07-17 (Sat) 03:52:43 No.10235

With the advent of GPT-3 this is going to become inevitable.

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Anonymous 2021-07-19 (Mon) 09:11:49 No.10293

>>10235
Why? Is anonymity worth giving up just because you fear that you may be talking to an AI instead of a person?

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Anonymous 2021-07-19 (Mon) 09:29:34 No.10294

>>10235
Mandatory ID is not going to prevent bots, fake IDs are a thing, and governments bots could become a thing too.
If you want to defend against bots you have to create chains of trust, where people validate cryptographic keys in meat space.
>>10293
It would be nice if we could train a theory bot, as long as it's not pretending to be a human.

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Anonymous 2021-07-20 (Tue) 20:53:39 No.10342

imagine what the internet will look like in 2030

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Anonymous 2021-07-20 (Tue) 20:59:05 No.10343

>>10342
IPv6 adoption will reach like 50%

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Anonymous 2021-07-19 (Mon) 06:57:01 No.10288 [Reply]

Hey /tech/, I got a popup of a phishing site (sweetrebecca) a week ago while browsing on mobile. Has anyone else had this happen before? I didn't install any apps recently so I don't think it's adware.
Picrel is the virustotal page listing other sites suppected to be run by the same phishers.

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Anonymous 2021-07-20 (Tue) 01:38:07 No.10320

Bumping myself for visibility.

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Anonymous 2021-07-20 (Tue) 02:12:19 No.10322

>>10320
maybe do a malware scan.

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Anonymous 2021-07-20 (Tue) 20:01:14 No.10338

Did you type leftypol into your browser or did you search by google and click a link?

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Anonymous 2021-07-23 (Fri) 05:48:31 No.10400

mystery solved, it's the tiny board url

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Windows 11 Anonymous 2021-07-02 (Fri) 12:11:59 No.9717 [Reply]

What the hell is this garbage? I thought it was a practical joke for a solid 5 minutes before realizing that it's actually real. It looks like a GNOME knockoff. Thoughts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFW27oG9gs8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_11

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Anonymous 2021-07-15 (Thu) 02:01:14 No.10187

>>10171
From checking online, I think I actually went to school with that guy. Basically Ballmer 2.0 but more self-aware.
Good on him though, seems like he climbed the corporate ladder very well.

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Anonymous 2021-07-15 (Thu) 10:29:42 No.10201

>>9754
Did you know that I had boobie pictures saved on my computer???!?

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Anonymous 2021-07-15 (Thu) 10:32:44 No.10202

>>9798
wtf is tech debt

bro please tell me if i shouldn't make MS Edge my main browser

Are they going to shut it down?

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Anonymous 2021-07-15 (Thu) 13:25:33 No.10209

>>10202
>wtf is tech debt
Code jank. It technically works but will make going forward harder.

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Anonymous 2021-07-20 (Tue) 10:35:15 No.10329

>>10202
>bro please tell me if i shouldn't make MS Edge my main browser

Are you just not connected to the internet? There's a win10 feature update, months old now, that physically deletes the Edge.

You're can also mostly-delete Edgium, but that leaves you with MSIE11. You can install Firefox, but at this point it uses all the same code as Chrome, like the Edge. You can install LibreWolf, but that's just a fork of Firefoxium with a little less call-home code.

I use Pale Moon, which in addition to being open source is also an actually different browser but is still "modern" allowing for nearly the full experience of the internet once you set it to spoof FF useragent strings. But the developer has stated he won't ever add WebRTC, so no google meet, some sites like how my workplace has timesheets oddly break, and of course Facebook is actively hostile to Pale Moon in particular, and they've finally started querying capabilities as manual spoofing of the latest UA headers doesn't change the fact that comments are getting reversed requiring writing your comment in Notepad first and copypasting in one "keystroke" to prevent the go-to-home invisible character being added.

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Anonymous 2021-07-16 (Fri) 22:01:19 No.10232 [Reply]

I am sending books to my kindle via email. Amazon then asks for confirmation. I obviously haven't paid for those mobis. I wonder if they will eventually knock the door and say I own them all the hundreds of books I might have sent.

I really wonder how copyright laws work especially in the age where everything is datamined. The probably know every single porn I may have downloaded too.

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Anonymous 2021-07-17 (Sat) 03:58:19 No.10236

You fucked the moment you connected that thing to wi-fi instead of turning airplane mode on.

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Anonymous 2021-07-19 (Mon) 10:12:44 No.10296

Does there happen to be a method to disable the autoupdaters on Kindles? They force updates if available, whenever there is connection to the Internet, and then custom modifications get broken. What is a method which allows someone to obtain the offline copies of ebooks for Kindle without this always online shit?

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Anonymous 2021-07-19 (Mon) 18:38:10 No.10310

>>10296
buy a kobo

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Anonymous 2021-07-20 (Tue) 00:02:52 No.10314

probably nothing will happen so don't sweat it. but stop using kindles and other proprietary spyware in the future