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 No.13750[Reply]

So the US Congress has been busy the last four years or so trying to build a draconian internet surveillance bill under the guise of protecting the children. Britain has been trying to push something similar to this for the past year, and many other countries in the American hegemony have working for several years now to outlaw encryption. The good news at the moment is both chambers Congress seem unable to reconcile the differences between their two bills and combine them into one.

https://reclaimthenet.org/the-house-just-voted-for-kosa

Let's say they finally do pass a bill like this though. Would it be the outright end of anonymous forums based in Western countries? Is it even enforceable? Will people revolt to decentralized/distributed protocols?

What would be the future of online discussion?
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 No.13754

>>13753
>shudder
I knew it. Friggin' autocorrect
*Shutter, as in shut it down.
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 No.13755

>>13753
This is one of the reasons I've been using OpenNIC servers as my DNS resolvers for many years now.
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 No.13756

>>13755
Excellent. Guess I'll finally give it a try.
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 No.13757

relevant: https://8chan.moe/t/res/26981.html
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 No.13758

>>13757
>server timeout
What even is this imposter site pretending to be 8ch?

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 No.13544[Reply]

I don't know about you, but 4chan has long needed peace; it has not been anonymous for a long time, it uses a captcha that collects user data, and if it blocks users, that's just life. Where is your anonymity? Reddit, at least, allows you to create an account with a proxy or VPN. And what is 4chan? There is also a Russian-speaking equivalent called Dvach, which is even worse; it even blocks posts that are not from Russia. What kind of nonsense is that? There is also a law prohibiting GPT, and God forbid you joke about politicians; they will simply ask the owner of Dvach to leak your IP, and that's it. So the only anonymity is the absence of identification, but for the provider, you are still the same. In short, these sites are dead. In short, I have long been waiting for your opinions and criticism; if I am mistaken or wrong about something, please let me know.
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 No.13745

>>13544
You are correct, sir. And just as online retail killed brick and mortar, ai killed the internet that isn't retail. The end.
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 No.13747

every time a website asks me to register or install an app i want to throw my phone against the wall (or smash my pc)

i can't take that bullshit anymore

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 No.13562[Reply]

Downloading youtube

I'm tryna download this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVlfNtIml2U and yt-dlp gives me a 403 error

wat do
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 No.13565

type in:
>yt-dlp -U

without the >



also update ffmpeg

also maybe try JDownloader 2
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 No.13566

>>13565
Thanks that worked. I found some info on why it wasn't working:

Beginning very soon, you'll need to have Deno (or another supported JavaScript runtime) installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal.

>Why?

>Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its built-in JavaScript "interpreter" to solve the JavaScript challenges that are required for YouTube downloads. But due to recent changes on YouTube's end, the built-in JS interpreter will soon be insufficient for this purpose. The changes are so drastic that yt-dlp will need to leverage a proper JavaScript runtime in order to solve the JS challenges.
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 No.13567

>>13566
sauce: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404
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 No.13568

If you're on any mainstream distro, your repositories most likely already have yt_dlp ready to be downloaded without having to use pip or compiling from source. Downloading it from the repo usually breaks the functionality of it if you downloaded it using pip or from source.

When you initiate a system update, it will update ytdlp from your repo's and thus break it again.

>>13565 's suggestion should fix it regardless of where you got the download from, so it's best to run that after an update.
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 No.13740

Deno 2.8 for Linux:

curl -fsSL https://deno.land/install.sh | sh

get ClipGrab from repos for a GUI

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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.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.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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 No.12803[Reply]

Hello people. I'm looking for an instant messenger which satisfies most of those needs:

Anonymous, private & secure [decentralised, encrypted & safe] (Hard necessary)

Audio & video calls [configure volume, deafen, mute, select camera/screen/window & support for group chats] (If there is an app which satisfies most other needs but does not have audio/video, I might do fine just using Jitsi instead, so it's mid-necessary.)

Clean, fast, professional, responsive & smooth design (Can also go with terminal)

Cross-platform [android, linux & windows] (Hard necessary)

File transfer [no limits] (Hard necessary)

Free & open source (Hard necessary)

Group chats [customisation & moderation] (Hard necessary)
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 No.13388

>>13370
>Maybe we need a comparison spreadsheet so we can all agree on like one thing?
https://www.securemessagingapps.com/
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 No.13389

>>13388
Thanks!

Anyone using Briar?
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 No.13390

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>>13387
I'm back. Trying SimpleX made clear that the battery drain I was seeing was an Android issue, not a Signal issue.

At some point my dumbass disabled microG cloud messaging registration, so apps weren't using it. That's the fix for that and, as such, I'm staying on Signal.

I guess I still recommend SimpleX as well. I did like it.
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 No.13582

>>12805
p2p shit that exposes ip. horrible interface. horrible message syncing (as it is with p2p clients)

no
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 No.13694

>>13389
I've used it. Key exchange is very clumsy and message exchanges can be very slow.
It's very secure and journalists use it but you're not going to be able to get any of your normie friends to use it.

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 No.13637[Reply]

I severely lack meaning in my life and I have the urge to to participate in schizo computing. What I mean by that is, I have the urge to lock myself in my room at night, hunch over my keyboard and:

use Tails OS, Tor, Whonix, Qubes, OpenBSD, virtual machines, Linux, alternative internet forums, use flip phones, use physical media instead of digital content where possible, air gap computers, use internet archives, improve my general knowledge on mass surveillance and other cucked things.

I'm not even that good at computers but I just feel the need to schizomaxx and become redpilled on susciety. Any things you recommend I should learn or delve into, given the things I'm interested in?
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 No.13638

start binging some NBTV and Mental Outlaw

btw, flip/feature phones aren't automatically safer or more "privacy" (schizo) friendly. their main purpose nowadays is to break the habit of constantly checking your phone
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 No.13644

Those people who made learning all those things simultaneously sound easy all lied. Learn to understand basic EBNF, learn to love reading man pages and learn unix on a BSD or very clean linux like slackware. Give it a year.
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 No.13645

>>13637
The most important skill is organizing information - all of the websites, articles, services, threads, etc.
Work with text files.

You can already use Tor Browser without a special OS if you keep it on "Safest".
I would not recommend I2P at this point.

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