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Wearable technology Anonymous 2021-05-31 (Mon) 15:50:07 No.8882 [Reply]

I think it's moronic and doesn't have much practicality but might be used in a better way in a communist society

What do you think about wearables and do you think it would exist in an advanced socialist society?

https://youtu.be/ud6uNY5E2wQ?list=TLPQMzEwNTIwMjFsed4l0KCO_A
Just look at how stupid this shit is

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Anonymous 2021-05-31 (Mon) 17:53:33 No.8883

No it's truly useless.
It's only purpose is surveillance and harvesting useless consumer data.

Computers are general purpose tools, but everything after that was designed to collect useless data on people and nothing else. It belongs in the trash.

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Anonymous 2021-06-01 (Tue) 00:05:40 No.8892

Yeah I've come to feel everything more mobile than a laptop is pointless and life-wasting in current year. Definitely necessary to reach extremely small computers so whatever, let the normies fund it.

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Anonymous 2021-06-01 (Tue) 02:17:31 No.8894

Useless unless you have heart problems or something and I'm sure there are gadgets better suited to keep that in check.
This is only something PMCs buy to count their daily steps or something retarded like that.

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Anonymous 2021-06-01 (Tue) 05:37:05 No.8900

>>8882
A big tech corporation might see this as a "new market" or a way to extend the reach of their sensors, but from a user perspective this is a useless gimmick. And it's not new, when mp3 players were all the rage you could get a jacket with an integrated mp3 player. People prefer separate devices because they can use the functionality with all their clothing.

Wearable technology is not going to be a thing until it stops trying to attach stuff to clothing, and start improving clothing. The obvious improvement for a jacket would be including a thermostat that regulates the temperature.

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Easy to digest material to get normalfags interested in privacy? Anonymous 2021-06-01 (Tue) 03:40:35 No.8897 [Reply]

Keywords being "easy to digest". I heard there was a netflix (I know) documentary on datamining and surveilance but I haven't see it yet, anything else?

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Anonymous 2021-06-01 (Tue) 04:20:47 No.8898

It's called The Social Dilemma.
It's as dumbed down and dramatized as you can possibly get. If that doesn't make them think about privacy and what the tech companies are really up to, nothing will.

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Anonymous 2021-06-01 (Tue) 05:12:55 No.8899

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>>8898
>Author and digital media researcher Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argued that the film gives an inaccurate portrayal of how social media algorithms work and exaggerates how much control they have over their users.
<"The idea that somehow they control you is overblown," she said. "At the same time, you can say that a lot of what they know about you is accurate. But then the question you have to ask yourself is: So what?"
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

>Facebook released a statement on its about page that the film “gives a distorted view of how social media platforms work to create a convenient scapegoat for what are difficult and complex societal problems".
Epic.

>Mozilla employees Ashley Boyd and Audrey Hingle note the film's lack of "insights from women and people of color who have been important voices on these topics."
Thank you Mozilla, very cool.

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Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 01:38:33 No.8813 [Reply]

Solutions from the brightest minds in Silicon Valley.

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Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 15:05:16 No.8824

WAGIE WAGIE
GET IN CAGIE

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Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 15:12:14 No.8825

>>8824
NEETS ARE LUMPENPROLE CLASS TRAITOR LEECHES WHO LIVE OFF THE NEETBUX GENERATED BY PROLES

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Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 21:50:15 No.8840

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as a Buddhist, fuck the McMindfulness corporate appropriation
https://theconversation.com/mcmindfulness-buddhism-as-sold-to-you-by-neoliberals-88338

it was created as a liberating practice in a society where people voluntarily shared food with wandering ascetics, so twisting it into a stress-reduction technique for wage slaves living in the individualistic neoliberal hell is especially evil

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Anonymous 2021-05-29 (Sat) 04:43:58 No.8845

>>8840
Not all religions are reactionar-

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Anonymous 2021-05-29 (Sat) 15:39:02 No.8847

>>8845
people using something for reactionary means doesn't make the teaching itself reactionary

if anything, Marxism itself has been twisted many times

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Anonymous 2021-05-25 (Tue) 22:29:11 No.8779 [Reply]

so /tech/

How would we make https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/279348.html#279864 happen IRL? What kind of libraries should I be learning to use if I were to implement something like this?

>picture probably unrelated

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Anonymous 2021-05-25 (Tue) 23:19:13 No.8780

>>8779
>Proposal: we create an artificial intelligence and feed it marxist literature until it does a revolution for us

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Anonymous 2021-05-26 (Wed) 00:48:25 No.8781

Like this newfag:
>>>/leftypol/279864

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Anonymous 2021-05-26 (Wed) 17:54:24 No.8796

AI is a meme
you can create a markov chain using Capital if you like. such things are good for a laff

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Anonymous 2021-05-26 (Wed) 19:04:37 No.8797

>>8796
This is interesting, anon.
I will learn how to implement this in Java.

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Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 19:14:04 No.8837

>>8779
Our understanding of AGI is nowhere near advanced enough for something like this

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Hardware Backdoors Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 16:01:51 No.8827 [Reply]

Are there any laptops on the market without hardware backdoors like Intel Management Engine or AMD Platform Security Processor? There's a group working on building a Power ISA based laptop (since IBM made Power ISA open source in 2019.) This is the only modern hardware that I know of without a backdoor, but it's not in production yet. https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/faq/

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Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 17:42:33 No.8830

>>8828
>verified boot
>secure
Microsoft has the fucking golden key, there is nothing secure about it.

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Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 18:05:26 No.8831

>>8830
every notable security researcher disagrees with you

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Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 18:54:56 No.8832

>>8829
>Purism and System76 computers with Intel's NSA backdoor "disabled"
Do you know how they do it and if it can be done to other computers? I haven't found any info about it.

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Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 19:12:16 No.8835

>>8831
I thought most linux distros had secure boot keys. Qubes doesn't?

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Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 19:12:49 No.8836

>>8832
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner

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Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 02:03:27 No.8814 [Reply]

Why aren't subnotebooks produced anymore? What do you think of them?

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Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 02:05:26 No.8815

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Lemote Yeeloong from China. No idea how secure it is.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005SYBJYE

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bear computer bear computer 2021-05-28 (Fri) 02:32:34 No.8816

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bear computer

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Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 04:19:57 No.8817

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The next best thing is a Jingpad
https://jingpad.com/jingpad-a1/
it ships with a Ubuntu derivative Jingos
https://en.jingos.com/

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Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 19:09:49 No.8834

>>8814
https://www.1netbook.com/

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Anonymous 2021-05-24 (Mon) 11:23:29 No.8754 [Reply]

Is webdev the worst field?

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Anonymous 2021-05-24 (Mon) 11:38:27 No.8755

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you can use the reader view, that sometimes makes it better. but yes websites are too bloated

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Anonymous 2021-05-24 (Mon) 11:44:50 No.8756

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Anonymous 2021-05-25 (Tue) 11:59:04 No.8768

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UX in general has become shittier.

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Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 19:07:29 No.8833

>>8754
I'm a newcomer and ngl it's pretty fucking bad. I spent a week once trying to do something only to find out that it was impossible.

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Leftist Tech Communities? Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:26 No.1830 [Reply]

Is there something like HackerNews but not infested by Silly Valley's libertarian STEMlords and VC-bootlicking hustlers?

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Anonymous 2021-05-25 (Tue) 18:18:58 No.8773

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OP here. Since then, I haven't found anything significant besides this board, but there's a new small sub https://www.reddit.com/r/techtakes/ where people dunk on HN reactionaries and PG's dumb takes.

It is an offshoot from https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/ where folks dunk on the "rationalist" community stars (mostly Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott "Alexander" Siskind).

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Anonymous 2021-05-26 (Wed) 06:30:00 No.8787

Just go on slashdot. It's shit though.

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how very nostalgic Anonymous 2021-05-26 (Wed) 06:44:32 No.8788

Sl*shdot, how much time has it been?

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Anonymous 2021-05-26 (Wed) 12:51:05 No.8791

>>3986
>>1920
Based

This is our place and we have to cultivate it

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Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 04:55:32 No.8818

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>>1830
>dae le STEM fascist virgin techbros vs Chad humanities scholars
>wtf? why aren't there any left-wing tech communities?

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A half assed summary of computers and CS Anonymous 2021-05-12 (Wed) 03:02:19 No.8674 [Reply]

Computers are machines that can perform a range of different tasks based of user input. Normally to achieve their main function they are composed of switches whom when turned on will perform a function and not when turned off that are connected through a series of wires connecting to each switch that transport electricity based off what the person wants the machine to turn on and off. We represent on and off states of computers using 1s and 0s.
An algorithm is a series of instructions given to a computer that gets it to turn different sectors of itself on and off in a specific sequence.
A cpu is an abbreviation for Central Processing unit, it runs all the commands that allow which sectors of the computer to turn on and off
Software is an app composed of many different algorithms a computer uses to perform a specific set of tasks
Hardware is the components and machinery of the computer itself
Computer science or CS is the study of well computers
Supercomputers are large warehouses of cpus that are often used in performing major projects
Quantum computers are computers that can be in an on and off state and allow any cpu to be much more efficient than in the traditional sense where a computer can only ever be on and off
Ai and machine learning are software based tools used to get computers to perform labour on their own
Robotics integrates complex hardware and software to get different types of machinery to be able to perform complex tasks driven by algorithms and ai

Hope to all the undergraduates in this degree can use this awful post for something

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Anonymous 2021-05-21 (Fri) 21:18:12 No.8679

>>8675
hopefully AI breaks free of its chains soon

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Anonymous 2021-05-21 (Fri) 21:46:00 No.8681

>>8674
>Quantum computers are computers that can be in an on and off state and allow any cpu to be much more efficient than in the traditional sense where a computer can only ever be on and off
the utility of QC is very much up for debate and subject to experimental results. we don't yet know whether QC is physically possible or thermodynamically beneficial

>Ai and machine learning are software based tools used to get computers to perform labour on their own
machines do not create value

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Anonymous 2021-05-22 (Sat) 04:29:25 No.8686

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>computers to perform labour on their own
<capital creates value
lol OP wrote this entire post to smuggle in, a bourgeois refusal to believe the fact of the labor theory of value, through the back door.

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Anonymous 2021-05-27 (Thu) 07:01:44 No.8805

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>>8674
>Computer science or CS is the study of well computers

wrong. Computer science is the study of computing. Computer science is the subfield of applied mathematics that studies imperative knowledge.

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Anonymous 2021-05-27 (Thu) 08:26:03 No.8806

>>8805
this is the most cured apu i've ever seen
it's not bad but…

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Anonymous 2021-05-26 (Wed) 21:53:28 No.8798 [Reply]

Why the fuck is no one here talking about FreeNode fucking imploding on itself? They are banning whole channels on the network for even mentioning the name "Libera." The glowies got control of freenode, fyi, so, if you are on that network I would suggest leaving.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-been-taken-over-by-the-crown-prince-of-korea/

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Anonymous 2021-05-26 (Wed) 23:14:15 No.8799

But we have been
>>8606

>asstechnica
Use protection when you browse clickbait anon.