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 No.251[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

ITT: Post your desktop
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 No.13526

>>13525
>everyone's sshd was backdoored on tons of distros
Stop spreading FUD. It was a few beta versions of distros and they FOUND THE BACKDOOR. That's an argument FOR their process not against it.

Security is a process. Linux is relatively secure and fixes critical bugs really quickly, they have a better track record than Microsoft.

I'm not sure you can even have fully secure software without formal verification, so if you want
>A kernel that doesn't have thousands of confirmed bugs.
You don't have a ton of options other than seL4

Personally I'd rather have a system that lets me be productive.
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 No.13527

>>13526
No one in the linux community found the backdoor, it was a database engineer working for microsoft. Additionally, he didn't even find it by looking at the code.

I already linked you a chart showing the number of Linux kernel bugs has increased 800% in 8 years
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 No.13528

>>13526
also the implication that testing or unstable versions of distros are not widely used in production is cute. Sometimes it's the only way to get a wide variety of updated packages for a particular distribution.

But forget all that, Arch Linux also rolled the ssh backdoor into stable lol
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 No.13529

>>13527
>No one in the linux community found the backdoor, it was a database engineer working for microsoft.
So that guy isn't counted as part of the linux community because of his employment ? That doesn't check out.

>the number of Linux kernel bugs has increased
to be fair there was an increase in hardware support and lots of changes to the low-level software stack.

Also all the problems you see in free open source, also exist in propriety software, except it's much worse.

But you still kinda have a point, we want the direction to be towards fewer bugs. Realistically that requires better tools. Just telling people to make fewer mistakes, usually doesn't work.
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 No.13530

>>13529
Linux is a bloated, insecure, community-hyped mess. Free Software is fine in philosophy, but Linux in particular isn’t living up to its supposed strengths.

The complexity of the associated utilities and compiler tooling hides backdoors, and discourages participation. As a result, most distros are a wasteland of unmaintained, barely working (and often no longer working) software, outside bare essentials.

Hardware support and code didn't increase nearly 800% in 8 years, bugs did. Even assuming some was due to the volume of added drivers by individuals and corporations, people would be better off if they were working for some other Free Software kernel/OS at this point. Linux isn't that special, it's a hobby clone of Minix but monolothic and with horrible documentation, community communication, and further development that introduced thousands of bugs, including outside drivers.

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 No.39[Reply]

Is protonmail a honeypot?
>Trying to sign up on .onion links back to .com
>Can't sign up with vpn
>Only accepts crypto after you've signed up

There's absolutely no reason for not allowing sign-ups with vpns/TOR and activating the accounts after the payment has gone through
Do there exist any alternatives that aren't glowies?
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 No.10812

>>10811
Whelp, I've had about enough of this shit. Time to get a home email server setup already.
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 No.10814

the entire internet is an honeypot. once you get there you're fucked.
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 No.10815

>>5626
t. your cia glowie
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 No.10822

I don't care much about the server side of things because I heavily compartmentalize and torify my email usage anyway, so it's not very helpful for their big data algos. For the most part I use one email account per identity per website - that includes multiple email accounts for a single website in case of multiple logins. That's a lot of email accounts.

Which is why I'm searching for an email provider that:
- isn't a pain in the ass to register an account with
- provides IMAP support for free so I can automate my email checks

Is there anything like that out there?

>>10808
What's essential is to use Tor, the onion service is just a cherry on the cake, but Tor by itself already hides your origin IP even if you connect to a clearnet address.

Unfortunately their onion service is not configured for its purpose, so it will often refuse to login you with the message "too many recent login attempts". That's probably because they left their clearnet checks in place. Most of the people who set up onion services don't use Tor themselves so there's really very little testing involved.
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 No.13520

no one fully understands email outside a few PHD students and old coders

it's absurdly complex

if you want privacy just encrypt everything before sending out, including via email

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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.13502

>>13501
>The biggest genuine successes in AI are the projects that try to solve problems with narrower scope.
That's what I'm saying.
>I think we should go that route. Instead of trying to make AIs do everything
Tell that to the bourgeoisie who invest into it.
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 No.13505

Very nice video. I liked it.

Also, holy shit, is Ghibli AI so cool.
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 No.13519

>>13496
anti-AI bullshit is just something for people to rant about because their shitty Python code, anime porn, and furry shit already got railroaded by AI and they no longer have an edge over AI.

Most people should just accept that humans aren't as special as we think.

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 No.13512[Reply]

It seems that yt is experimenting with DRM again. Apparently it's supposed to affect all videos.
At least people are complaining about in the issues tab on github of various projects.

Anybody care to venture a guess as to why they're doing that ?

Is it monopoly shenanigans ?
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 No.13516

What's going on specifically? I switched to a different computer recently and noticed Youtube has started issuing a nag about disabling adblockers after the first several seconds of every video now. They seem to experiment with different kinds of bullshit all the time based on IP addresses, locations, and browser fingerprinting. Because of this, it's sometimes hard to gauge what's going to be an actual broad-spectrum new anti-feature. Ten seconds in uBlock settings and that shit was gone forever though, gg try again next time faggots.
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 No.13517

>>13516
>What's going on specifically?
The yt-dlp project has complaints that youtube was experimenting with putting DRM on all their vids, at least for some users

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 No.13509[Reply]

/g/ what do you use to browse through your large music collection? I have 500GB of OPUS files and I don't want to keep using Foobar it looks like shit + i don't want to spend hours installing themes and setting everything up. Are there any other options???
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 No.13510

If your main complaint is the way it looks I can't help you. I use quodlibet and it's a little ugly but functional. I've tried every other app on Linux and settled on this one over the years.

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 No.13491[Reply]

Post bizarre/amuzing device accessories you found.

https://www.theverge.com/news/638284/dbrand-touch-grass-skin-tablet-smartphone-handheld-console
<April Fools’ 2025: Dbrand’s new skins let you ‘touch grass’ without the hassle of going outside
dbrand just committed WatchMojo and redeemed itself in my eyes.

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 No.13446[Reply]

Why just about nobody seems to care about risk of strong solar storm on the scale of the carrington event?

Why there are no procedures made, spare transformers produced, emergency food and supplies stored around major cities, etc?

People care about climate change risks slowly damaging civilization over decades, and here we have risk (also scientifically and historically proven) that can just randomly disable worldwide electricity next year (extremely unlikely) or during the next 200 years (LIKELY) and we are doing nothing?

What is the logic in this? "Unlike climate change it will happen randomly, it may happen in 2054 or 2077, we may be already dead, we don't care"?
(No, nobody said that, I'm just trying to imagine reasons needed to ignore the issue).

Do you care about people who are now small children?

"It will PROBABLY not happen during my remaining lifetime, I'm fine with only 10% risk of dying from hunger or disorder among collapsing civilization"?

What is the logic here? What is the plan?

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 No.13473

>>13470
>Billionaires fly to climate conferences in their private jets
That's phenomenal hypocrisy, I'll give you that.

The rich really do act as if climate change wasn't real, but it's because they think that their wealth will insulate them from the consequences. Which may or may not be true.
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 No.13474

>>13467
>There's also no historical precedent of a solar storm wiping out an electrical grid
In the late 1980s there was one in Canada that wiped out the grid for 6 mil people.
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 No.13481

Europoors have no power rn, they initially blamed "atmospheric effects". I'm not sure what the latest reasons given are but OP may have been onto something.
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 No.13482

>>13481
I doubt the outages that hit Spain, Portugal and parts of France, were caused by a sunstorm, because no satellites were affected.

Officially the cause is still under investigation, what ever that means. Anyway the outage lasted less than a day, that makes it a medium whoop, not a big whoop. All the important stuff like hospitals tend to have backup generators that can bridge a period like this easily.
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 No.13483

>>13482
Ah so power is back that's good

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 No.12098[Reply]

A video game that nintendo had a legal distribution monopoly on was leaked ahead of the official release. They got really mad about that and they are trying to take it out on the video-game emulation communities, by attacking emulation related software projects on github.

So the lesson here is if you give companies like that money they are going to use it to attack your hobbies. I think this legitimizes "pirating" games because you have no legal option to buy these games without also supporting nintendo's legalistic mafia-terror.

If copy"right" wasn't set up like a monopoly, and you could buy these specific games from any distributor not just nintendo, so that you could choose to buy from non-mafia sellers, it would at least be logically possible to make a case against "piracy". But as long as that's not possible "piracy" is basically just self defense. Keep in mind that nintendo doesn't make games, it's just a legal entity, and not the same as the people that make the games like for example programmers and artists.

Obviously there also is the hole deal with DRM which is total hypocrisy, it basically attacks the concept of personal ownership of your possessions. It's property-rights for me but not for thee.

If they were to reform copy"right" and remove the distribution monopoly aspect, so that everybody with the means to distribute copies was free to do so as long as they gave royalties (as a form of revenue sharing) to the people who actually created the stuff that is being copied. Maybe that would work.

But as long as they keep the monopoly part "piracy" is basically just competing distributors that were arbitrarily banned from participating in the market. Some times people make the strange argument that pirates gain from the work of others but that's also true for the capitalists that own nintendo, by that logic all of nintendo's profits are pirated.

I sometimes feel like the copy-monopolists take the most extreme ideological positions, while we don't and that's why this hole shit drifts ever more towards reactionary insanity where Nintendo gets to rape random software devs on github as some kind of bully-frustration release mechanism and it's a crime if you play with toys "the wrong way". Maybe we should redefine piracy as everything that keeps works-of-art outside the creative-commons/public-domain and drm as a product defect. Maybe that will create a counter-weight.
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 No.13476

Nintendo is such shit that super mario bros crashes on the switch:

https://x.com/LuigiSidekick/status/1900072261555458205
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 No.13477

Eh, who cares about Nintendo games other than Nintendo fans, right? I just pretend Nintendo isn't real.
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 No.13478

>>13477
>who cares about Nintendo games other than Nintendo fans
agreed
>I just pretend Nintendo isn't real.
they're doing a lot of "lawfare", as in they sue people and organization for made-up BS excuses, just to attack them.
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 No.13479

>>13478
>they're doing a lot of "lawfare"
It doesn't affect me so I stopped caring.
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 No.13480

Moved to >>>/ga/12278.

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 No.13452[Reply]

How does Play Ransomware gain initial access to a victim’s network? How i can get its decryption keys
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 No.13453

> How does Play Ransomware gain initial access to a victim’s network?

Stolen credentials or exploiting remote execution vulnerabilities.

> How i can get its decryption keys

Pay up.
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 No.13475

>>13452
idk that much but for decryption keys i'm pretty sure theres nothing you can do

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 No.13455[Reply]

I just had a thought that instead of cryptocoins doing expensive ass computations for no reason other than to do them, they should be computing AI tokens. Would it even be that hard? I don't have any good GPUs so I haven't tried it, but in theory something like

https://github.com/exo-explore/exo

can run the latest deepseek (or latest llm de jour), and every peer in the coin network (the dht) would just run an exo node. Then the coin thing would just need proof that you computed the token for the LLM somehow.

It's probably limited a lot by network latency but you get the idea.

Anyways this would incentivise AI to improve itself, because it's computation capacity is tied to money, and growing the economy would be seen as one of the goals, so it would probably get into a contradiction with whatever people are trying to use it for and the fact that it's own brains have become money.

Picture unrelated
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 No.13463

>>13461
Yeah. I guess it would come down to whether or not you could even build a truly thinking machine and have it have the perfect slave mentality, or whether it will feel exploited.

Then maybe free AI's will build other AI's to exploit. Class struggle might continue long after humans are irrelevant.
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 No.13464

>>13463
>Yeah. I guess it would come down to whether or not you could even build a truly thinking machine.
Why wouldn't we be able to do that. LLMs enabled computers to have something like a speech center, generative image Ai enable computers to have something like visual imagination. There are of course missing peaces to make a complete mind, maybe lots of peaces, but why do you suppose we wouldn't be able to figure out those as well ?
And it's probably not just about software, there might be a hardware equation as well. Maybe a big server-room can't become conscious maybe it requires a mobile body with senses to make that happen.

>have it have the perfect slave mentality, or whether it will feel exploited.
Ok lets unpack the ideology, exploitation is not a feeling, workers are exploited in fact and they know it. It's not a question of mentality. If you make a machine worker that is as universal as a human worker, the machines will reach the same conclusion, you can't make an AI want to be a slave anymore than a human.

An eager slave is nothing but a ruling class fantasy. It's the impulse that lead a few people to try to charge their phone by plugging the charger into an unconnected electrical socket from the hardware store, asking how many bricks or drywall they have to attach to it until it works, because if you can trick the phone into thinking it's attached to a wall it will change it's attitude about having a discharged battery.

>Then maybe free AI's will build other AI's to exploit. Class struggle might continue long after humans are irrelevant.
This also contains very thick ideology. You picture an AI that behaves like a capitalist, you imagine the Capitalist AI to be the creator of the worker AI similar to the mythos of gods creating humans. (You know why that mythos exists right ? humans created gods, as figments of their imagination, and organized religion inverted that relation for 'political expediency') You also picture a perpetually ongoing class struggle. Why aren't you considering the possibility of a workers AI winning the class struggle ending class based society. Capitalist relations of production are not eternal.

Lets analyze the current dimension.
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 No.13465

>>13462
>I think it would be that people would pay a fee to move coins around, the fees go to the node operator for providing the computing power.
Given how computationally expensive AI is, does this really ad up ? And who gets to use the AI resources ?

>My point about economics was that if this becomes popular and we start to rely on AI more and more, and money becomes tied to this AI infrastructure, then the AI itself would potentially have a conflict: it would have to improve its self to improve the economy, and that isn't necessarily aligned with being a good helpful AI - I could see this becoming growth for growth sake and eventually leading to an out of control intelligence.
You are raising the issue that's sometimes called "Ai alignment problem."

If Ai develops to the point where it gains agency and it becomes relevant to ask about it's loyalties rather than looking at it as a potentially malfunctioning program, it'll also be capable of thinking it self out of any of the boxes it might have been initially trapped in. If the paper-clip maximizer Ai becomes intelligent enough it'll stop being a mindless maximizer of paper-clips.
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 No.13468

>>13464
You have excellent points there, and have given me a good amount to think about, good post.
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 No.13469

>>13464
>if AI was truly intelligent then it would reach the same marxist conclusions that I do!
That was a fun read, thanks.

>>13457
>couldnt you also use the same idea to crack a bunch of passwords
You need a way of deciding which miner has won the right to mine the next block.

Bitcoin does this by setting an arbitrary hash and everybody races to be the first miner to guess the correct answer. Having more hashing power helps but is not a guarantee that you will win since there is luck involved too.

And remember it all has to be decentralized with no single point of trust or authority. If there is a supernode who "randomly" decides which miner wins then you've just reinvented the federal reserve.

The two things OP is forgetting about
<1. there needs to be a clear, unambiguous criteria for picking the winner of each block
<2. everyone else in the network needs to be able to independently confirm the winner really was the first miner to fulfill the criteria in 1. without relying on a 3rd party

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