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 No.11967[Reply]

So the EU is apparently pondering to make a mandatory pedo scanner for software.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2022%2F05%2F11%2Feu-csam-detection-plan%2F

Many people have pointed out that this is just a pretext to attack:
privacy
IT security
and maybe even free open source software.

Many people think it's surveillance organizations them selves that are uploading the CSAM on purpose to push for laws that expand their legal permissions.

And all of the above is undoubtedly true.
Consider that if you invert the assumption of innocence and declare that wanting privacy makes you into a pedo-suspect that means that secret organizations have to be considered pedo-guilty by default, because they can't prove their innocence while keeping their secrets either.

If you argue that effective encryption that can't be broken which is absolutely necessary for the very concept of privacy, has to be undermined for the pedo-scanner. Then that same argument has to be made for proprietary software. Many pieces of proprietary software are in the range of tens or hundreds of gigabytes, and without publicly available source-code it's possible to hide a huge assortment of pedo-content in there. By contrast it's not possible to hide pedo-stuff in open source software.

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 No.13433

>>13410
>>13426
Dev here, how are you motherfuckers doing this?
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 No.13434

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 No.13435

>>13434
I am a genius
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 No.13436

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>>13435
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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.13423

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>>13422
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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.13038[Reply]

A terror group with japanese origins (that calls it self "Neentendoh" or something like that) has just launched a mass dmca cyber attack against github where they managed to destroy 8500 forks of an open source project. In their terror manifesto they tried to justify their crusade with other people making software they didn't like.

Is there a better place for hosting source code that isn't so vulnerable to this kind of organized crime ? Github seem to have become a precarious place.
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 No.13051

>>13047
>I don't even think Nintendo has a legal foothold here. You're allowed to write software that does the function of a physical electronic device, but in software (virtualization). The only caveat is that you can't redistribute their software, so no operating system, games, or any firmware needed to boot the device.
Interesting, thanks for the explanation, so how does this shake out in praxis. Obviously EvilCorp will try to lock their games to their devices. Can they use this to cheat by pretending a part of the game is device firmware ?
>You also shouldn't reference stolen software in your implementation, because if they see that your code is too close to their proprietary code then they might have a case.
Wait a minute they can claim somebody else's code if it's similar to theirs, what if there is only one efficient algorithm for a specific problem, are they allowed to monopolize math now ? That is some Bullshit.

>There's even a re-implementation of windows called ReactOS and they can't do anything about it because the devs agreed to do what they called "clean room reverse engineering" meaning they weren't taking apart windows using a de-compiler and looking at how it works, they simply implemented what they had to in order to get software packaged for windows to run.
<interesting tangent
So the ReactOS team has to play by much stricter rules, than anybody else ?
Because literally every single big tech companies either steals designs from competitors via corporate espionage or they do it by ripping designs from the products directly.
Its the main reason why it's so fucking hard to get chips with open source firmware. Closed proprietary firmware is hiding infringerinos on a massive scale. If they ever enforce this shit, the only electronics you'll be able to buy will be somebodies hobby project.
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 No.13052

>>13048
I never understood the argument on
>"circumventing technological protection measures"
It seems to require an extreme subjective bias to see it that way.
Consider other perspectives.
What if somebody buys a Snitch because they see it as a Japanese puzzle box, and their fun is solving the technological puzzle. You're gonna criminalize playing the wrong way with a toy ?
From the perspective of consoomers who actually try to game on this thing, it's just malware, a defect, or a personal property circumvention measure.

It feels like somebody legislated extreme anti consumer bias into law. The fundamental legal argument for having any kind of Intellectual monopolies at all, is that it's in the public interest. How does the general public benefit from having their personal property expropriated ?

If they went back to games cartridges, like in the olden days and each cartridge had a special ASIC chip specifically optimized to run a particular game. They would have a legit case, because there would be a benefit for consumers as well. Asic cartridges could be super power efficient and make the battery last a long time, while also ensuring that games never stutter. And the base compute device could be cheaper because heavy duty processing gets offloaded to the cartridge chip. And they could hold on to their scarcity business model.
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 No.13053

>>13049
Understanding what Intellectual monopoly laws actually mean is as confusing as trying to understand religious interpretation of holy scriptures. From what i gather reading the other posts in this thread the emulator software contained a fragment of code or data that wasn't copy-halal or copy-kosher.

So at best the big N had claims regarding that fragment within the logic of the copy-monopoly church. However not against the other parts of the emulator software. So attacking the distribution of the non-heretical parts was a cyber attack.

The dmca mechanism it self is questionable as well. Because from a neutral point of view it's a censorship mechanism. It's not only threatening to freedom of expression rights. Ironically it's also a tool for stealing authorship-rights from the original authors.

You could go to a number of popular websites (that i won't mention here). Copy somebody else's content and republish it there with a false date, pretending you published before the original creator. And then you use the dmca mechanisms of search engines, social media, and so on to get the original author black-listed, from most of the ways other people can discover content. There are already automated services for this scheme and some have estimated that this praxis might make up 53% of dmca claims. I have no clue how accurate this estimation is, but you have to admit there is cause for looking at this thing as an attack vector for a new type of denial of service.
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 No.13413

>>13053
>republish it there with a false date

How? Most user generated content platforms provide their own timestamps, you can't fake those without their backend DB write access. Vulnerabilities? Design flaws?

>>13053
>automated services for this scheme

Any links?
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 No.13415

>>13413
There are technical manipulations of time-stamps, that are being exploited by weaponized copy-monopoly "services"

But legally if you say "originally published in … " then that supersedes any automatic time stamping.

The copy-monopoly mafia wants their copy-repression license imposed as the default and therefore everything that gets published is by default copy-repressed unless the author makes an effort to attach a better license like copy-left. The self-declared date of publication is taken as valid unless there is litigation. They could easily close the back-dating-loophole, but then they have to make people register for their copy-repression license. The date of registration would be stored, and then it would be difficult to pretend to be the "true true author" that "pre-published". Many people would not make that effort and just not use any license at all. If people made the effort to attach a license many would pick a different one then the repressive one the copy-monopoly mafia wants. So this shit isn't gonna get fixed.

>Any links?
nope I'm not leading you to the dark side my young padawan

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 No.8337[Reply]

You guys are aware that everybody connects you to idpol transhumanists, liberals LARPing as AntiFa and cuckold fetishists, and that this is hurting your cause?
I lurked this website for a month now and i noticed a fundamental difference between the posters who are here to actually talk to others and the posters who link to 4chan to ask for support in some ridiculous bait thread where you just waste time.

I also noticed that you have a thread talking about if an imageboard would be better as a single-page-application.
I am currently working on my own imageboard from scratch. I am actually a web-developer and know my stuff, so (i hope) it won't be just another 4chan rip-off. I am going to use node - react - redux - sequelize for mysql - redis.
I am visiting different boards to gather ideas, but i see the same sorry state everywhere. I seriously want to make something good.
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 No.8640

Please be bait lol
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 No.8645

>>8349
it's also so that people get drip-fed dopamine and keep coming back for more. If you gave them everything at once, they'd take a second to look, see everything, and leave.
If you make them scroll up and make it so that they never really are in control of what they see, they stay on your service longer because they have an incentive to keep pushing the stupid button to get a treat
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 No.13411

>>8337
>idpol transhumanists

What's wrong with those? Eroding focus of attention?

I'd like to be able to live longer and photosynthesize to be more independent…
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 No.13412

>>8337
>node - react - redux - sequelize for mysql - redis

Please don't. That's a bunch of junk. Would be better to have a completely no-JS one, maybe with SSR on Pug templates.
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 No.13414

I have been a janny for several imageboards for like 24 years now and I can say they are all mostly the same thing. What separates them is a matter of ideology and world view. The most unique one in terms of style was 420chan.
Like think about it; 420chan was about drugs, 7chan was about being not 4chan, 4chan was about coping 2chan but for English, leftypol is about the liberal left and being a caricature of the left. We are about open free a speech on the left and still remaining a leftist board. We don't need broad overreaching rules that stifle conversation and we can do it some what democratically.

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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.13384

>>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

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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.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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 No.13394

>>13393
Are there any Firefox alternatives?
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 No.13395

>>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

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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

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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.13380[Reply]

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

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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]

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]

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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