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 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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 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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 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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 No.10346

Channel7 is fun: https://7chan.org/ch7/
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 No.10353

>>10346
>7chan
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 No.10354

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>>10353
Yes.
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 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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 No.10381

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

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 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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 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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 No.10350

>>10278
Oh ok. Should be no problem to come up with better chip designs soon then 👍
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 No.10351

>>10350
This issue is not chip design but instead, the production of chip manufacturing machinery.
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 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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 No.10378

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

>>10337
What about a microscope?

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 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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 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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 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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 No.8896

>>2718
It looks like riseup is the best email provider so far. Is that right?
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 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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 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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 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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 No.10235

With the advent of GPT-3 this is going to become inevitable.
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 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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 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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 No.10342

imagine what the internet will look like in 2030
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 No.10343

>>10342
IPv6 adoption will reach like 50%

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 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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 No.10320

Bumping myself for visibility.
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 No.10322

>>10320
maybe do a malware scan.
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 No.10338

Did you type leftypol into your browser or did you search by google and click a link?
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 No.10400

mystery solved, it's the tiny board url

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 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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 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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 No.10201

>>9754
Did you know that I had boobie pictures saved on my computer???!?
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 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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 No.10209

>>10202
>wtf is tech debt
Code jank. It technically works but will make going forward harder.
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 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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 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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 No.10236

You fucked the moment you connected that thing to wi-fi instead of turning airplane mode on.
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 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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 No.10310

>>10296
buy a kobo
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 No.10314

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

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 No.10173[Reply]

I was logging all network traffic and noticed requests to googleusercontent at seemingly random times and also to Amazon's AWS. Now I'm worried what it could be sending/receiving.
All I could find was a couple of stackoverflow questions about the same thing saying it was apparently NetworkManager (thanks, GNOME!) but I don't have it installed.
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 No.10214

>>10173
Are you sure "pozzed" is the right word, anon?
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 No.10217

i checked my arch and mint partitions and they kept pinging (ip).(letters).googleusercontent.com, what the fuck?
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 No.10218

>>10173
its probably 100000 sites using google fonts and aws hosting
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 No.10220

>>10218
I hadn't loaded any websites at the time I checked and I also use an adblocker with everything blacklisted by default.
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 No.10253

>>10220
If you want to inspect anything you have to close down your browsers, torrents, the usual and wait for existing connections to close so you have a clean slate. Modern websites for example are constantly connecting in the background via JS, browsers themselves make connections in the background, and torrent peers can take a while to figure out you're not participating anymore.

Then use netstat + wireshark to see which processes are still connecting to the Internet and to where.
- netstat will tell you which process is connected to what IP(s)
- wireshark will tell you about the packets being sent to and from that IP, you can also inspect DNS requests to figure out what domain it's connecting to, if any

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 No.7827[Reply]

Hello lads, I'm looking to start a conversation on a topic that's been popping up alot recently, and will likely develop further as the technology gains more adoption. As I'm sure you know, robotic dogs from the likes of Boston Dynamics are being rolled out at police departments and military bureaus across the US, and I'd bet we see widescale adoption as the technology is fleshed out further.
So as a result, I'd like to start a conversation on the best feasible means, both expensive and DIY, to deal with these fuckers. With the advent of home-based 3D printing, easily accessible lasers, and other modern user tech, I believe there are a number of options available to us.
In the resistance against drones being used by the police in Chile, Argentina and now in Portland, lasers were used to incapacitate drone dogs during protests. However, this incapacitation *only* makes these dogs unusable at that single protest; any police department will simply repair their $75k digidog and send it back at the next protest. So, what I'm interested in is ways to make them *inoperable* for extended periods of time, whether physically or electronically. I was bouncing around the idea of somehow using very strong magnets to damage the internal electronics, but this may be unfeasible due to the size of magnet that would be needed. Other options that seem viable would be permanently damaging the optics being used by the dogs, but I'm not sure on the best option for this. As such, I'd like to open this to conversation. I'll be posting this thread here, as well as on a few other imageboards that may be interested and able to help in this discussion.
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 No.10098

How about smoke, could that screw up the sensors on the device?

What about covert methods to disable these pricy toys?

Guns would draw the attention from the officers if they were used to disable these robots.
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 No.10110

>>10098
event paintball guns may work if it has optical sensors
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 No.10189

>>10110
then theyll just install little eye wipers…
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 No.10227

paint isn't that easy to scrape off by simple wipers though
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 No.10228

I’ve never wanted to violently destroy something more than these disgusting fucking robots

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