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▶ No.13402[Reply]>>13408

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.13403>>13408

This seems to be the basis for a class-action lawsuit under anti-trust law.
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▶ No.13407

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Month? This has been the case for years. Cloudfare are an enemy, yes. We should do something about it, don't know what though, other than noise
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▶ No.13408

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>>13403
Not a lawyer, but I would think it might be hard to argue if there isn't really anything preventing someone from buying up blocks of IP addresses and selling MITM load balancing. The popularity of shitty services seems to be an accident of business.

Beyond that, there is obviously advantage to doing fingerprinty stuff to filter bots. The obscure browsers are going to take time to work around, and that's not even if they are less fingerprinty.

We need something beyond browser fingerprints, or even IP addresses.

>>13402

A cool idea that has been banging around in my head (and some other heads) for a while is a proof of humanity based on peer-to-peer web of trust. There are projects that work semi-centralized like this, saves the cost of PoW for a local blockchain.

It would be cool if it were so prevalent that you just centralize around yourself- "you" being the web server that wants to filter bots. They send you some signature chain that shows they are vouched for by a chain of people… people who you, transitively, trust enough to serve them a page.

But this would mean the end user has to store a private key securely… which I have a feeling is somehow a psychotic expectation, even if we could cheaply revoke them.

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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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>>13382
You're right, but we could consider it a subsystem of an AI, you know like the language/speech center in your brain.
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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>>13405>>13406

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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>>13406

>>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.13057[Reply]

FUCK YOU MOZILLA!

YOU PROBABLY SABOTAGE YOUR OWN PRODUCTS YOU FUCKING FEDS

WHAT IS THIS SHITT????
WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE SUCH FUCKING GARBAGE AND BECOME MORE AND MORE SHIT BY THE MINUTE, HUH?

ON THIS STUPID GOD DAMN APPLICATION CALLED FIRE FUCK-OFF IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE WHICH OF THESE GOD DAMN TABS IS ACTIVE!!!!
THEY"RE ALL EXACTLY THE SAME FUCKING COLOR AAAAAAHHHHHAHGGGHG HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO USE THIS SHIT!! FUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKETR;OLJDFGVJNASDF

WHY THE FUCK DO I HAVE TO GO INTO THE SETTINGS AND CHANAGE THE THEME JUST TO SEE WHAT FUCKING TAB I"M ON HUUUUUGGGGHHHH??

FUCK YOU COCKSUCKERS!!! IT WAS FUCKING FINE. OKAY!? IT WAS FINE AND YOU MAKE IT MORE SHIT WITH EACH ITERATION!!
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>>13393
Are there any Firefox alternatives?
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▶ No.13395>>13398

>>13391
this seems bad, can people at least opt out of if ?
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▶ No.13396

Immensely disappointing. I'll see you guys on LibreWolf I guess
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▶ No.13398

>>13395
>>13394
No you can't opt out. The problem with switching is finding an alternative that still supports all the extensions
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▶ No.13399

they have backpedaled

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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.13370>>13387>>13388

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Delta-chat has entered the… uhm chat. I haven't used it yet. Ideally we need something every normie can just use, like whatsapp or fbi.gov. Maybe we need a comparison spreadsheet so we can all agree on like one thing?
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▶ No.13387>>13390

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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>>13389

>>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.13380[Reply]>>13383

Unlimited energy from fusion of materials like lithium deurtride ignited in something like antimatter in a vacuum pointed at gold plated disc or something? The antimatter created from the antiamtter gun experiment with a Hercules tabletop laser or something like that?
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▶ No.13381>>13383

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What happens when you've fused all the lighter elements into iron or nickel? Turns out your "unlimited" energy wasn't so unlimited after all.
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▶ No.13383

>>13380
Catalyzing fusion with anti-matter is a very good idea, because that can potentially be made very small. If you tear a hole into space-time with lasers you do loose some energy because of the Schwinger effect (i think that's what it's called, i'm not sure) so there still is some engineering difficulty with regards to getting net-energy.

>>13381
Yeah you stop fusing at carbon, if you want energy. Multistage fusion sometimes gets called nova generators, in hard scifi, and the amount of energy you get from this is staggering. People saying it's unlimited energy can be excused, because from our perspective it would be. At that level of power generation, people might actually consider energy-consuming fusion to generate heavy elements, as in energy-to-mater conversion.

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▶ No.12318[Reply]>>12323

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.12320

>>12319
Dead links are articles I haven't written yet, they should appear as red. For countercomplex see http://countercomplex.blogspot.com/.
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▶ No.12323

>>12318
I read the section about licenses , and i still don't understand why you consider publicdomain CC0 licenses to be better than copy-left and FOSS licenses.

Wasn't FOSS and copy-left created specifically because it was possible to modify public domain works and then close off the modified version.
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▶ No.12505

I see a blank web page and can't even rightclick -> view source.
Is this spam?
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▶ No.13376

Me like

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▶ No.13371[Reply]>>13373

The irc and the matrix down for anyone else or is it just me? Zero fix the irc I am scared.
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▶ No.13372

I made a post here >>>/meta/11897 just now. I'm still looking into it.
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▶ No.13373

>>13371
Okay it should be fixed now

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▶ No.13365[Reply]

Who else uses RetroShare? Lets change IDs, here is mine: ABATxeFjmzv8pgGufEl3IT6TAxTfwbjsCaLHZ+biHt803TDGPDGXMgEGa2xvcHBvkEIAAAAEAApyZXRyb2JhbmhhcTJ6eHpvMmo0 M3FzYW5icXlvYm5sYXVqanh5eHFkenlkY3Vzb2E1NXpxLmIzMi5pMnAEAy1eVw==
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▶ No.13366

forgot to tell that it is over I2p, only
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▶ No.13367

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Yo this program is cool!

Add me up

ABDLMfpspD4l+lNrIyRvJqy7AxQk7E2eN/O4zDCw2/tp5ULtSOTm2AEGcG9vXzIykEIAAAAEAApkemZzaGplbnp4anh2d2trb2xl
c2VtNm5pNHduemFsN2RwZmljd212bW02NnZ1cjNwZ2dhLmIzMi5pMnAEA6Fl6Q==

I got this working with i2pd, let me know if anyone is having trouble!
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▶ No.13368>>13369

great! add me, too, please


ABDsbkCPRyGWb9+8AhKQVhiEAxS4w6eI4rfD6x+TN+POaViiYB2X6wEKQmlmaVJhbmdlcpBCAAAABKEGcmV0cm9zaDZscnN4NHB5
ajV6em1tdmJ4d3JmdHl5cmU0eGtnM2RrZXd1d3dyeWJkdnJoYS5iMzIuaTJwBANIz0A=

A tutorial on how to set it up is here:
https://retroshare.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/i2p-hidden-rs-node/
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▶ No.13369

>>13368
Another tutorial if you use i2pd (I followed this):

https://i2pd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/retroshare/

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▶ No.13328[Reply]

I DON'T HAVE ANY SMOKING GUN EVIDENCE BUT I INSTINCTUALLY KNOW IT IS HAPPENING. FALSEFLAGGING GAMES AS VIRUSES, TELLING ME MY DOCUMENT IS/ISN'T CORRUPTED BASED ON THE TEXT EDITOR I OPEN IT WITH, MY COPY OF MTPAINT HAS TOTALLY DISAPPEARED BUT RE-APPEARS SOMETIMES. MY PROPERIETARY PROGRAMS ARE ALWAYS OFFERED TO ME AHEAD OF FOSS AS CHOICES. PROPEITARY PROGRAMS WORKING SUSPICIOUSLY FASTER THAN THEY SHOULD BE AS IF THEY ARE BEING PUSHED TO BE FASTER. THIS COMPUTER OTHERWISE WORKS FINE. THERE ARE NEFARIOUS FORCES TRYING TO MANIPULATE ME TOWARDS ANTI-FOSS OPINIONS BY SABOTAGING/IMPROVING PERFORMANCE. DOCUMENT SAVES BETTER AFTER REMOVING MENTIONS OF NUKES TYPE SHIT.
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>>13335
I WILL NEVER STOP USING ALL CAPS UNLESS I AM FEELING LAZY THEN I WILL TYPE IN PROPER ENGLISH. CAPS LOCK NEEDS TO BE INSTITUTED WORLDWIDE BECAUSE HUMANITY IS HEADED TOWRADS AN ALWAYS LOWERCASE FUTURE. THAT IS WAY WORSE. ALWAYS CAPITALIZED IS FAR BETTER THAN ALWAYS USING SMALL LETTERS.

I MANAGED TO GET MY OLD LAPTOP WITH LINUX MINT WORKING AGAIN, SO I DON'T NEED TO USE MY FATHER'S COMPUTER. HOWEVER I AM USING A PLUGGED IN KEYBOARD BECAUSE THE BUILT IN KEYS ARE BROKEN. ALSO THE CHARGER I BOUGHT IS TUNED IN AT THE TOTALLY WRONG VOLTAGE I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT WILL CAUSE IN THE FAR FUTURE.

BUT YOU COULD SAY THAT THE PROBLEMS THIS THREAD WAS CREATED FOR ARE FIXED IN THE SENSE I AM NO LONGER NEED TO FACE THEM. MY FATHER CAN NOW MAKE VIRTUAL DJ REMIXES 247.

THANKS TO ALL PEOPLE THAT GAVE ADVICE.
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▶ No.13359>>13360

RUNNING SIMULATIONS OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF VARIOUS AMERICAN CITIES GOT NUKED FELT MEAN SO I SCRAPPED THE IDEA. AMERICA HAS 7000 NUKES AVAILABLE TO RETALIATE WITH AND THE RADIATION WILL FUCK UP THE CITIZENS OF INNOCENT NATIONS
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▶ No.13360>>13361

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>>13359
That's funny
I just ran a simulation myself
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▶ No.13361>>13362

>>13360
THAT'S COOL
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▶ No.13362

>>13361
Everything gonna be alrite

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▶ No.13245[Reply][Watch Thread]

Well it looks like the United States and NATO finally figured out a way to sabotage the Linux kernel. Several Russian kernel developers have just had their contributions removed and their kernel contributor status revoked due to being on the receiving end of US economic sanctions.

https://lwn.net/Articles/995186/

Torvalds himself is playing along with this enthusiastically because of his own moronic Finnish national politics. This is an extremely concerning development that affects all of free software. If this can happen to the Linux kernel it can happen to any other libre software projecting, poisoning the entire concept of international software development.
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▶ No.13353>>13355>>13356

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>>13351
<3. Avoid Two-Way Engagement
<Reviewing an unsolicited patch from a contributor in a sanctioned region should generally be fine, but actively engaging them to better understand their issue, diagnose the problem, or help improve a patch or modify code would likely cross the line. If the contributor is linked to a sanctioned entity or region, in general, it is best to keep communications strictly one-way. If a patch is received and you improve it and submit it upstream, that should be fine, but going back and forth in communications with the SDN developer likely would not.
<4. Avoid Contributions Enabling SDNs
<Accepting unsolicited patches that fix general issues in your open source project should be okay. However, if the changes directly benefit a restricted party’s products or services, it could be a problem. For example, if a developer from AcmeSDN (and AcmeSDN is an SDN subject to OFAC sanctions) contributes a driver that enables the AcmeSDN processor to work in your software, that contribution would likely be an issue. Think carefully not just about the source code, but the impact of these unsolicited patches.
<5. Avoid Indirect Contributions
<Sanctioned entities might try to contribute indirectly through third parties or developers acting "individually." Developers should understand other contributors' affiliations and raise any concerns with their community and legal counsel. For example, if in the prior example, AcmeSDN paid a developer in a country not subject to sanctions to make the driver contribution enabling AcmeSDN’s processor, that would still likely be an issue. A common pattern is that an SDN’s developer is blocked from making a contribution, but then a very similar (or the same) patch is submitted to the project from another account or email address. It could be an anonymous email account. Just because the contributor has been obfuscated does not change an assessment of the situation.
So basically the sanctions are placing an enormous burden on libre projects to both a) keep extreme track of the identity and national origin of contributors in order to avoid the wrongPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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▶ No.13354

>>13351
been reading this, it seems that the "OhFuck" sanctions, mean that everybody can use each others code, but devs aren't allowed to talk directly to each other anymore, they have to talk past each other. Bunch of confusing shit.
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▶ No.13355

>>13353
I don't see why this is such a big deal. Can't we just move to an open source repo or something?
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▶ No.13356

>>13353
>keep extreme track of the identity and national origin of contributors in order to avoid the wrong ones, making software projects about people instead of the software
Yeah that's the difference between technical people and non-technical people.
Technical people absolutely despise this kind of "personality drama", the reaction to this will be: there are no people, there's only code
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▶ No.13357

I'm so angry at how little attention this controversy is getting in other places of libre software enthusiasm.

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