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 No.13583[Reply]

Picture this:

>Armed citizens surround ICE as they're arresting someone
>ICE calls for backup
>Nobody hears them
>They have no choice but to let the person go

I'm assuming they are using off-the-shelf radio equipment.

Is it easy to jam their signal with portable equipment?

How hard/expensive is it to build a DIY radio jammer?

Would it be more effective to have a directional antenna to avoid jamming everything in the area and concentrate on one area, or it doesn't work that way?
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 No.13584

>>13583
IIRC someone I knew once got into HAM and they ended up hearing about a gold heist in Brazil
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 No.13585

>>13584
That's sick!

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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.13387

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Bumping for interest as I'm looking at getting off of Signal.
Signal, on paper, seems to be the best, but it has this retarded bug on some Android forks where, on data, the app checks for push notifications too often or just inefficiently and that leads to a noticeable battery drain.

WhatsApp, Messenger and Telegram glow, and I'm not paying for Threema. You're a chat app, know your place, lmao.

Thanks to this thread I looked into Tox, it seems interesting and they addressed the issue mentioned by >>12820
but they admit it's still very experimental and hasn't been audited, so for now I'll pass.

>>13370
>>12870
At a glance, simplex and Delta also sound interesting and I've not seen anything discouraging yet, from neither. I might give them a go and report back.
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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.13577[Reply]

I found this abandoned repository https://gitgud.io/parley/Haruko.
It's imageboard software that's not that old but still works. This is what it looked like: https://archive.is/qiLyz.
and I would like your help in updating it. It would be a project for “new” imageboard software made with PHP because, from what I've seen, there aren't many like this left, so I created this repository: https://github.com/bigdustycheese/AobaIB which I will update and you will also help me with.

>>Why should we help you with this? What do I get in return, OP?

It's simply a collaborative fork. If you want to help me, that's fine. No one is forcing you.

(If you see this on other imageboards, it's not spam.)

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 No.11235[Reply]

So apparently Palemoon became the first browser to officially implemented JPEG XL a week ago. At the same time, Google just dropped it from Chromium despite supporting it behind a flag for months. What the hell is going on here? Is Google that desperate to push their video-codecs-as-image-formats that they're willing to sabotage a massive step forward for the web? JPEG XL is capable of replacing both original JPEG, PNG, and animated GIF/PNG all at once with a single file type that produces superior file sizes for all three categories of use cases. Neither WebP, HEIC, nor AVIF were ever able to make such a broad, sweeping improvement because they are geared more towards features important to video encoding than still images or lossless animation.

It seems like every few weeks these days I find something new to get mad about in the world of web development.
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 No.12399

>>12397
>Read digdeeper:
Have you, contrarian edgelord? They still openly admit that Palemoon is the best of a bad situation.
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 No.12400

>>12399
>However, it recently went off the deep end so much that I cannot in good conscience call it an "alternative" to anything anymore.
>Now, the stage is clearly advanced, the cancer has metastasized and cannot be removed anymore.
<Can't even install your own addons to block pozz
Curl back into your arsehole, retarded bitch.
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 No.12501

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>>12399
>Palemoon is the best of a bad situation.
[citation needed]

On the contrary, they recommend Webbrowser aka WereFox.
And the Palemoon website blocks Tor users so fuck them.

FYI you can use Tor Browser without tor:
network.proxy.type 0
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns false
extensions.torlauncher.start_tor false
TOR_SKIP_LAUNCH=1 TOR_TRANSPROXY=1 ./start-tor...

You're welcome.

For some reason those settings change back to default when I restart the browser, it's seriously about fucking time that someone who isn't evil or an idiot creates a web browser.
Or to ditch the concept entirely and create usable P2P software for content and thought sharing.
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 No.13574

Looks like Google could no longer resist the pressure and has been forced to bring JXL back to Chrome:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/JPEG-XL-Possible-Chrome-Back

Seems like the major deciding factor was Adobe's recent decision to support JXL in the PDF format.
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 No.13576

oh god please no more image formats on browsers. 9 is plenty, and some of these are incredibly complex formats.

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 No.13571[Reply]

So it seems that after decades of neglect and sabotage by the cuclear weapons industry, China has successfully built a fully functional molten salt thorium reactor and is preparing to revolutionize global shipping by sticking it in cargo ships.

https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/thorium-powered-nuclear-cargo-ship

They've even appl the supercritical CO2 generator idea that was a nascent engineering concept by Western thorium power advocates. This could have applications even beyond nuclear power generation.
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 No.13572

>appl
applied*

When you're too excited to proofread your OP.
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 No.13573

What about me? Where's my breakthrough in nuclear power, fully functional molten salt thorium reactor, and supercritical CO2 generator?

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 No.12341[Reply]

Google wants to put DRM into the web, and lock everything into their chrome browser and make privacy violations even worse.

I think this is part of bigG's war on addblocking and of course they're a monopoly that wants to be the entire web. But there is more, web-advertising has been sort of dying a slow death for some time now. Not because of addblock but for other reasons. Neo-liberalism/capitalism is making people poor and that's shrinking the economic pie in general. If people see adds they ignore them more often. And there is of course the scheme for generating fake views for add-farming.

The drm googl wants to insert into the web is super terrible, if they can push this through it will destroy the web. There is no hyperbole here, the web will become like one of those locked down alternate versions of the internet from the 80s that failed so hard that barely anybody remembers that they even existed. It's possible that EU regulations against anti-competitive behavior, and monopoly-busting in the US could cock-block google, but it would be better to fight tooth and nail to kill this one in the crib, before it gets anywhere near that point. And then outlaw DRM for violating personal property (if you can't fully control your gadgets you've been expropriated)

If this monstrosity were to happen, it would probably take over 10 years to polish one of those decentralized peer to peer alternative web-protocols to the point where we get something like an open web back.

For more details see

The Linux Experiment
https://invidious.0011.lt/watch?v=Aj2s3DVSlHw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj2s3DVSlHw

Brodie Robertson
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 No.12466

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>>12465
>What would you call the hardware shenanigans?
Hardware Restrictions Management? Physical Restrictions Management?

We should really get out ahead of the IP lawyers and come up with a good name that sticks and describes the injustice unambiguously, before they try to invent their own twisted Orwellian terminology to make the practice seem innocuous. Perhaps something that references rent, since these techniques are used to control what someone can do with their own property.
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 No.12470

>>12466
>since these techniques are used to control what someone can do with their own property.
Hm, this is kinda difficult to name:
Hardware based property infringement
Hostile hardware environment
Imprisoned hardware
Tainted hardware

>Perhaps something that references rent
This is even harder, perhaps:
Tollbooth hardware

Technically this would stop it from being a full Von-Neumann machine. So maybe it could be called
compute-incomplete hardware
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 No.12479

>>12438
It's interesting how the leftist brain works. You associate thing with "bad" people and that somehow makes the thing bad. Hitler was a big fan of consuming water and oxygen by the way, might want to stop consuming those bad things yourself comrade.

>>12464
>Does not exist. You mean "hardware-based restrictions", "locks", "copy protection", etc.
He obviously means hardware that prevents you breaking DRM like secure enclaves and efuses. Taking the most uncharitable interpretation of somebody's words and pretending that's what they really meant is such a slimy tactic.

>>12392
That's a decent video. I think he oversells it abit though, if the firmware is burned into ROM or cryptographically verified before execution then power glitching will not open up a permanent solution to anything.

The other thing to consider is that some middle class NPC who takes out a $100,000 loan to buy a Tesla is not going to risk his warranty to save $1000 on a DRM locked feature. And if the globalist billionaire class get their way then all cars will be $100,000 EVs that few people can afford to drive and even fewer people can afford to monkey with.
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 No.12493

>>12479
>It's interesting how the leftist brain works. You associate thing with "bad" people and that somehow makes the thing bad.
Not really, i think DRM is shit because on a technical level it's basically the same as malware, that fucks up your system. I know that it's intellectual dishonest and pure opportunism to link DRM to Scientology's cringe, but this is how DRM shills argue, and this presents an opportunity to throw some crazy shit back at them.

>if the firmware is burned into ROM or cryptographically verified before execution then power glitching will not open up a permanent solution to anything.
A special chip that works like a walled castle, which will definitely keep out the undesirables is a really old sales pitch, including all the invulnerability claims of this time we build the wall high enough. Don't count on it. In the long run people will probably move towards re-chipping with open chips that aren't locked down.

>And if the globalist billionaire class get their way then all cars will be $100,000 EVs that few people can afford to drive
Well if most people can't afford cars, we'll only need bus-lanes and bicycle lanes.
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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.13564

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>>13563
obs saves it on barebones linux without even nvidias precious spoopy drivers

stupid way to archive videos though
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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.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.13424

>>13423
>I don't have anything worth saying so meds or something

Like, the whole point of image boards is to practice your right to freedom of speech. Just shutting down everything that crosses your path is pathetic and it highlights how stupid you are.
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 No.13425

>>13424
On the other hand all you seem to have to contribute is straw men and dated liberal propaganda.
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 No.13429

Amazingly, the Department of Justice seems to still be sticking to their demand that Google divest from Chrome and stop funneling money to (fake) competitors for setting their search engine to default.

https://archive.is/4eBDL
Google still wants us to believe that they are essentially part of the US government and thus need to be protected:
>A spokesperson for Google said the "sweeping proposals continue to go miles beyond the Court's decision, and would harm America's consumers, economy and national security."
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 No.13430

The last time they did something like this was with anti-trust laws from the 1910s thru the 40s.

Thats how ABC, the American Broadcasting Corporation, was born.
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 No.13561

A little late on this, but it looks like the ruling came out last month and nothing substantial is going to happen.

https://news.itsfoss.com/mozilla-lifeline-is-safe/

Google will not be forced to divest from Chrome. Mozilla will continue being controlled opposition. The web will continue to get worse.

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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.13386

>>13384
LLMs with RAGs are closer to AI… but can you actually use them for this, efficiently?

Teach an AI to debug a fuzzer, choose a profitable target and buy it's own cloud computing. How much does each of those operations cost? Could it earn enough to cover that? Can you make them more efficient with caching? I honestly don't know.
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 No.13404

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Facebbok AIs shutdown for talking to each other in some undetermined language, possibly becoming intelligent?
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 No.13405

>>13404
8 years ago but still spooky
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 No.13406

>>13404
>>13405
I don't think this is spooky or a sign of intelligence, because the most likely explanation is that they weren't talking at all, just posting gibberish back and forth. Feedback-loop errors are somewhat common bugs.

The motivation for spinning this into a story where AIs might be scheming in a secrete language, is because that makes their tech look more advanced than it is.
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 No.13560

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Videos about current science like lab growing animal and human brains to us as artificial intelligence brains to power robots or from scientists like Cabriel Torch on youtube seem good.

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 No.13402[Reply]

For an entire month now, Cloudflare has been discriminating against alternative web browsers to the Google hegemony by refusing to "verify" them as legitimate browsers through their browser check loop. On some browsers this has been blatantly malicious by designing the loop to hang indefinitely while it rapidly consumes all of the user's memory until a program crash. This has included Palemoon, Librewolf, Waterfox, IceCat, Seamonkey, Falkon, and more. Basically it seems like anything that isn't a subservient Chrome fork or Firefox itself is being gatekept out of the web by Cloudflare. The likelihood that this is being done deliberately is high because a) they have been doing it for an entire month, b) the entire time they have refused to respond to developers reaching out asking them to fix it, and c) Cloudflare themselves have stated that their secret proprietary methods of fingerprinting "human" browsers are tailor-fit to each browser. Some links following this story:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32045
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953508
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/02/07/044225
http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/20/Instead_of_DoS_Protection_Cloudflare_is_Allegedly_Conducting_Do.shtml

In only the span of a few years, DDoS "protection" services have grown to exert so much control over the web that they can now play kingmakers in browser competition and coerce user choice. We need a solution to the DDoS protection racket more than ever. What can be done about this?
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 No.13485

>>13484
Interesting.
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 No.13503

Recently Cloudflare really is the most bothersome tick to deal with. The fact of how this is silicon valley selling protection against a silicon valley made problem is unsettling. That's something the mafia would do. I think this protection Cloudflare is providing to it's customers is working, but yes, the way they do it is malicious towards the user. A complete Denial of Service for users wanting to block traffic towards Cloudflare, when visiting a site not owned by Cloudflare is the the text book definition of a gatekeeper. "If we can't calculate the unique fingerprint of your browser and send them to our servers, you will not pass" is what I'm getting from this. There are other ways of protecting a site from bot traffic. The ones mentioned in this thread remind me of the 'Cypher Punks' ideology.
Links (1994):
https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/crypto/cypherpunks/may-virtual-comm.html
https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/crypto/cypherpunks

And the book 'Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Zuboff', also comes to mind. But these days basically everything internet related reminds me of this book.

> What can be done about this?

I guess don't rely on the internet, if possible. Wait and pressure governments to outlaw this way of business… yeah who am I kidding here. I guess there is no simple answer to a complex problem.
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 No.13504

>>13503
If the problem to solve simply was bots causing too much load on web-servers, one could use a protocol that makes everybody a load-sharing node, that way the bots would not matter, because they too would have to be load sharing.

But i get the impression there is more going on here.
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 No.13507

>>13503
I never put that together that it was silicone valley fixing something created by silicone valley.
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 No.13554

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare

"Prince and Holloway had previously collaborated on Project Honey Pot, a product of Unspam Technologies that served as some inspiration for the basis of Cloudflare."

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