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 No.12220[Reply]

Prove me wrong.
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 No.12221

Offtopic:
<A top secret military acoustic detection system designed to spot enemy submarines first heard what the U.S. Navy suspected was the Titan submersible implosion hours after the submersible began its voyage," and that "the U.S. system detected what it suspected was the sound of an implosion near the debris site discovered Thursday."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/distraction-questions-swirl-over-timing-sub-story-biden-bombshells-hit-target
They probably knew these people were dead all along, but for several days after they lead everybody to believe they might still be rescued. And that might have been to distract from a tax-scandal.

Ontopic:
Yeah remote controlled drone submarines have existed for decades. Of course 3d-goggles are much nicer than a closed-circuit-camera feed on a 480-lines cathode-ray-tube screen from the 80s but it's essentially the same thing.

The next technical evolution of this is going to be swarms of AI controlled drone subs that use cameras and a bunch of other sensors to do a volumetric scan of an entire area and then you get like a detailed 3d render with a video game interface.


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 No.12110[Reply]

So apparently google is going to attempt force-feeding ads to everybody, including those who really really don't want it, and they will try to break ad-blocker functionality. Many people think that there will be a war on ad-blocking.
Here is a short recap from a tech-channel that's pretty black-pilled about the future of technical work-arounds to ads.
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=oQL9dVsEXT0

I think it's unreasonable to accept adds because they represent a security risk, because ads load random executable code on your computer. Ads also tend to infringe on privacy by data mining and tracking people. Adds have become crazy intrusive which probably is bad for your mental health, and use too much bandwidth and compute resources. Going online without ad-blockers is the technical equivalent to having unprotected sex with a hooker in a failed state where 30% of the population is infected with an incurable STD.

The tech-porkies will want subscription for freedom from ads, but:
Subscriptions suck in general because it's paying without getting ownership in return, which is a bad deal.
It'll be too expensive for many people who can't afford the paywall and still need another way to protect them selves.
Those platforms are not politically neutral, you'd expect that if you have to pay that you get unfiltered access, but they probably won't do that.

Many fear that if this spreads beyond the googstuff like YouTube, it will become a nightmare to manage a bazillion subscriptions even for those that are loaded enough to afford it. It could create even more walled-garden type distribution monopoly platforms, because the average person probably can't manage more than a handful of subscriptions and that will cause consolidation into a few distribution gate-keepers.

My questions:
1. Will there be a new type of adblock as a technical-fix that will overcome all the attempts of undoing ad-blocks, and all the black-pilled people are wrong ? Will there be new programs that can separate the content from the ads, what will that look like ? ad-blocking is human species being and nothing can prevent it
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 No.12188

>>12182
>I suppose you can simulate IP with a contract, I share this digital asset on the condition that you don't share it with anyone else. But then you can only sue for damages from the specific people you had contracts with. This idea that a corporation can use the state to go after everybody who ever made of copy of "their" digital asset is bullshit on every level.

I guess that libertarian contractual style Ip is less egregious. Tho i'm not entirely convinced that somebody couldn't find a scheme to use this for mass copy-ban abuse. In that environment they could try to create chain-contracts that force people to rope others into their copy-ban schemes.

>copy-left is Reverse stupidity

What objections do you have against copy-left license ?

>Why would your communist legal system enforce "un-free" licenses?

Well ideally it wouldn't and the entire communist legal system was committed to upholding communist ideals. But realistically you'll always have people trying to screw it up from within. So you gotta have multiple layers of protection. If you make sure that all the things have a free license, all the schemes for inserting unfree licenses would have a much harder time. Also the proprietarians made their thumbscrew-licenses the default that automatically applies to everything even if people don't put a license on something, and if you don't want that, you need to take extra steps. We gotta learn that lesson that not setting a sane default, can leave the door open to this kind of stuff.

>A license is just a post-card to santa claus if there is nobody with a gun to enforce it.

That's partially true, there are other methods for coercion.
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 No.12189

>>12188
>they could try to create chain-contracts that force people to rope others into their copy-ban schemes.
<You are not allowed to share this but if you do then everyone you share it with are also not allowed to share it
Maybe you can word it in a way that makes sense. I don't think it works though because every link in the chain would be responsible for enforcing the contract on the next link and why would they.

>Well ideally it wouldn't and the entire communist legal system was committed to upholding communist ideals. But realistically you'll always have people trying to screw it up from within.

The whole point of copyleft is to exploit the machinery of copyright law to enforce a license that does the opposite of what copyright was originally intended to achieve. If your side already controls the machinery you don't need to exploit it from outside anymore.

>What objections do you have against copy-left license ?

It doesn't matter if you're trying to use IP law to keep things secret or keep things open, I'm against the principle of IP law itself.
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 No.12190

>>12189
>Maybe you can word it in a way that makes sense.
Chain-contracts is my attempt at word-smithing a generic term, a specific example would be a pyramid scam that obligates people to sign up others.

>I don't think it works though because every link in the chain would be responsible for enforcing the contract on the next link and why would they.

Yeah if there's no leverage differential that's true. But if you got big corporate doing this, they usually do have a lot of leverage, they probably can find ways to force people to make the enforcement propagate through the chain. Remember every big corporation eventually tries to be like a state.

>The whole point of copyleft is to exploit the machinery of copyright law to enforce a license that does the opposite of what copyright was originally intended to achieve. If your side already controls the machinery you don't need to exploit it from outside anymore.

Copy-left doesn't actually eat copy-right (by exploiting the machinery of copyright law). That's wishful thinking. It's more like people living at the edge of town who do their own thing, and nobody cares because it doesn't affect anybody in power living in the town-center.

But for the sake of the argument lets say hypothetically copy-left could eat copy-right. You would keep it in place even after you control "the machinery" because if anybody ever tried to restart the copy-ban praxis it would get eaten again. I'm assuming that even after civilization got "re-arranged" for the better, that the old abusive ways will reverberate like historic echos a number of times. If you don't plan for that your "new ways" might get knocked back.

>I'm against the principle of IP law itself.

Fair enough, how do you make it go away ?
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 No.12191

>>12190
>pyramid scam that obligates people to sign up others
This is all irrelevant in the digital realm anyway. Once the bits are free they're free.

>Remember every big corporation eventually tries to be like a state

The whole concept of a corporation is a legal fiction invented and maintained by the state. The dividing line though is that the state can initiate violence to get what it wants, a corporation can't. I know to spoiled commie brats not getting what you want is literally violence but it's not. Violence is violence. Until the day that men in McDonalds uniforms come to your house, beat you up and take 40% of your salary, a corporation is not a state.

>Copy-left doesn't actually eat copy-right (by exploiting the machinery of copyright law). That's wishful thinking. It's more like people living at the edge of town who do their own thing, and nobody cares because it doesn't affect anybody in power living in the town-center.

We're talking about the GPL right. This software is free and everyone who uses it must also keep it free. Otherwise we use the same legal system that enforces copyright secrecy to enforce copyleft openness.

>It's more like people living at the edge of town who do their own thing, and nobody cares because it doesn't affect anybody in power living in the town-center.

Except literally everyone depends on GPL software including Google, Microsoft and Apple.

>Fair enough, how do you make it go away ?

How would I make it go away. By removing state interventions. There's no such thing as intellectual property in a free market because there is no one to enforce it outside the scope of a contract between two specific parties.
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 No.12192

>>12191
>Once the bits are free they're free.
Probably, but capitalism is still trying to enclose the commons.

>The whole concept of a corporation is a legal fiction invented and maintained by the state. The dividing line though is that the state can initiate violence to get what it wants, a corporation can't.

Corporations did try to field private mercenary armies, that failed spectacularly, but they still are doing private security forces and private spies and private hitmen. There also is the CEO of Exon Mobile saying that his corporation wants the same international legal status as sovereign countries. Corpos may not have the power of states but they sure are striving for it.
>Violence is violence.
<Ah a fellow member of the tautology club, greetings.
Violence is what causes harm/death to people, there is no reason to discriminate with regards to methods.
Violence can be many things, it might be overt physical attacks like your MC-storm-troopers example, but it can also be obfuscated structural violence that harms or kills people.

>We're talking about the GPL right. This software is free and everyone who uses it must also keep it free. Otherwise we use the same legal system that enforces copyright secrecy to enforce copyleft openness.

The GPL gets violated alot though.

>Except literally everyone depends on GPL software including Google, Microsoft and Apple.

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 No.8003[Reply]

    #!/usr/bin/bash
    mkdir tmp out
    for i in {1..16}
    do
      p=`hexdump -n 3 -v -e ' 3/1 "%02X"' /dev/urandom`
      convert -size 32x32 xc:#$p tmp/${p}.png
      ffmpeg -loop 1 -i tmp/${p}.png -c:v libx264 -t 0.1 -pix_fmt yuv420p tmp/${p}_1.mp4
      ffmpeg -loop 1 -i tmp/${p}.png -c:v libx264 -t 0.01 -pix_fmt yuv444p -vf scale=15000:15000 tmp/${p}_2.mp4
      echo -e "file ${p}_1.mp4" "\n" "file ${p}_2.mp4" &gt; tmp/${p}.txt
      ffmpeg -f concat -i tmp/${p}.txt -codec copy out/${p}.mp4
      rm tmp/*
    done
    rmdir tmp


Batch upload the content of ./out on gfycat.com, and paste the URLs in 4 lines (Discord will only display 4 images per line). In case your victim's client can handle the cursed video format change, each animation will consume around 2Gb of RAM and you have 16 of them.

Adapt the script to suit your needs. Enjoy the termination of your account and your newfound freedom!
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 No.12183

>>8046
>explain this nerd shit
It's making a 15000x15000 resolution video from random data (so it can't be compressed) which will consume tons of CPU and RAM to play. And apparently fbi.gov autoplays videos without checking for stuff like this. Or used to. This is a 2 year old thread your dumbass comrade necroed. fbi.gov probably fixed this by now.
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 No.12184

>>12183
>fbi.gov
A thread so old it predates the wordfilter.
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 No.12185

>>12183
you're the tard for thinking trotfag was doing anything other than a test post
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 No.12186

>>12185
Two years and nobody could explain what OP's code did. The absolute state of leftist /tech/ boards.
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 No.12187

>>12186
it appears to be the same as a "zip-bomb" except it's not using archive compression it's using video compression.


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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.12154

>>12153
>Nintendo is now trying to get emulators kicked off steam
Based. Fuck Steam.
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 No.12155

>>12154
This is not harming steam tho, because if Nintendo gets away with this crap they'll likely be able to pull this shit on other software distribution platforms as well.

If Nintendo can de-platform enough emulators, that means software preservationists either have to fully embrace the ways of software-"piracy". Or completely change their technical base towards recreating old programs from scratch. That means for example making a special game engine that can mimic the appearance and behavior of older tech. It also means they'll have to recreate the art assets as well. That is probably doable with a reasonable effort considering that ai-tools will speed up the process but it'll become significantly divergent clone-ware and not authentic preservation. Maybe future generations will think that people played Hyper Dario from Eightendo in the software stone-age.

I doubt this cancel-tendo business is even profitable for them, because all those crusading lawyers combing through the internet ain't doing it for free. I think this is born out of spite and vitriol.
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 No.12156

>>12155
>because if Nintendo gets away with this crap they'll likely be able to pull this shit on other software distribution platforms as well.
why do you need distribution platforms for emulators lol?

>that means software preservationists either have to fully embrace the ways of software-"piracy"

wat
majority of emulators are open source, you only need to "pirate" bios files on some of them

>It also means they'll have to recreate the art assets as well.

wat 2x
art assets are just art assets lol, emulator doesn't give a shit if they are "pirated" or not
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 No.12157

>>12156
>why do you need distribution platforms for emulators lol?
>majority of emulators are open source, you only need to "pirate" bios files on some of them
that's true but for long term preservation it would probably be help-full if it was normie friendly, and you know preservation is easier if the preservers are not being persecuted.

>art assets are just art assets lol, emulator doesn't give a shit if they are "pirated" or not

Yes but if software preservation shifts from software-emulation to software-recreation old assets won't be compatible anymore.
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 No.12168

>>12157
>for long term preservation it would probably be help-full if it was normie friendly
Normies just download dolphin.exe from the website.

>>12156
>you only need to "pirate" bios files on some of them
… and the games. It's not like breaking the encryption on the DVD and making a digital copy is any less illegal than just torrenting someone else's ISO.


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 No.12054[Reply]

It's potentially possible to use modified low-yield fusion bombs for power generation.

It's definitely not the first choice for generating fusion energy, but since the technology has already been developed, and the production-facilities are build, one might as well repurpose military tech for civilian use. Weaponized bombs and energy-generating-bombs are similar but not the same, so the currently existing low yield bombs aren't directly usable for this but they could be modified or recycled for raw materials. Existing weapons-stock can be burned up in power generation.

The technical principle is that you put a low-yield thermonuclear device into the center of a giant hollow vacuum "filled" metal-sphere that is lined with led, and by detonating the fusion bomb, the big metal ball gets really hot, and you can use that as a high-grade heat-source for power-generation.

It might be useful to do this as a power-satellite in earth orbit, because space already has a gratis vacuum and you can use a mirror array to send infrared heat-energy to many different power-receiver stations which reduces the load on electrical grids. It can also be used to power container ships and huge water desalination plants.

This would use mostly off-the-shelf parts which would greatly reduce the engineering requirements, and could be build very quickly. As a parallel development high priority project, this could go online in a few years.

The economics on this are pretty good, even capitalism might be able to pull this off, because this is not a long term project and upfront capital costs aren't that high. The political aspect might be harder however, because mass-producing tiny h-bombs might ruffle some feathers.
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 No.12055

>>12054
okay, suppose I want to build one of your engines in my backyard, how thick should the metal-sphere be? can I use recycled steel cans?
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 No.12056

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>>12055
>okay, suppose I want to build one of your engines in my backyard, how thick should the metal-sphere be?
It just has to be strong enough to hold a vacuum inside, while being really hot.
>can I use recycled steel cans?
In principle yes, just consider that most cans are made from aluminum these days.

I'm not sure if you meant this request in earnest, but in principle this can be miniaturized, and build like a steampunk fusion reactor. Except for the small fusion bombs that essentially are the fuel, those get more complicated to make the smaller the reactor gets.
The fusion reaction is set off by a fission reaction that needs a critical mass of fissionable materials. You would need exotic materials to make that happen in a small size. For example Californium-252 reaches critical mass at 1.8 grams, and that would allow you to make a really tiny fusion bomblet for a small reactor. You have to store it in cold conditions below -15°C / 5°F to keep stable. So a really reliable freezer is a must-have to store your fuel igniter-caps.

You would place the ball into a tank filled with salt. Purge the tank with nitrogen gas before adding salt to avoid corrosion problems. You run radiator pipes through the salt and if you put water into one end of the pipe it will come out as steam on the other end. The salt is a cheap way of storing lots of heat energy in a smallish space, it's not critical and you can also use something else like quarts-sand or graphite-powder.

Even if you could manage to get Californium, i don't recommend building this as the most ambitious diy project in history, because if your vacuum seal fails it will vaporize your yard and a bunch more.
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 No.12094

nukes aren't real
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 No.12095

>>12094
This is why I come to leftypol.


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 No.12089[Reply]

A topic that was almost completely neglected in Marxist circles , was the privatization of online reputation systems. Most of the big tech corpo platforms just deploy some kind of algorithms or payed reputation badges. Technically this isn't a new phenomena the first privatized reputation system probably was something like banking credit-scores.

I think that maybe the toxic elements of social media like cancel-ism might have been the result of those privatized reputation systems.

I'm wondering why there don't seem to be any prominent non-commercial community p2p driven scoring systems ?
There seem to be very few people working on stuff like this, i only know of Ian Clarke the Creator of Freenet that is talking about this stuff.
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 No.12090

>>12089
>I'm wondering why there don't seem to be any prominent non-commercial community p2p driven scoring systems ?
because it's gay
go back to reddit if u want upvoots
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 No.12091

>>12090
>reddit upvoots
That's a rating system, which is something else entirely.


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 No.11948[Reply]

Samsung is lobbying to get a general exclusion order against phone-screen imports in the US.
They claim it's because screens that are imported by the phone repair-shops do a muh-patent-infringerino.

The real reasons is because Apple wants to switch their screen supplier to BOE, and Samsung wants a monopoly on screens.
Samsung can't go after Apple directly because Apple has enough money to wage patent-warfare until the end of time.
Samsung can't go after BOE because that's a Chinese company, and patent-trolling doesn't fly in China.

The result is going to be the destruction of the repair industry, and a precedent for banning technology parts as a means for installing a monopoly. If you aren't allowed to get parts for fixing your stuff, it's more corporate shit encroaching on personal possessions.

here is a video from Rossmann going into more details
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=HD8Y4xS7fMU
His take is to make Samsung a dirty word.

My questions:
Would it not be a better strategy to bypass this by (legally grey) relabeling tech parts and importing them anyway. So that Samsung gets cut out completely ?
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 No.11952

>>11948
intellectual property must be destroyed
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 No.11961

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>>11948
>Would it not be a better strategy to bypass this by (legally grey) relabeling tech parts and importing them anyway. So that Samsung gets cut out completely ?
Based accelerationChads on leftychan identifying lines of flight and creating Zones of Offensive Opacity against the monopolization of capital. Remember, Marx voted for free trade specifically for it's accelerating, destabilizing effects against the companies.
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 No.12059

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EU right to repair legislation has dropped

the official document says:
https://cyprus.representation.ec.europa.eu/news/right-repair-commission-introduces-new-consumer-rights-easy-and-attractive-repairs-2023-03-22_en
<1 - A right for consumers to claim repair to producers, for products that are technically repairable under EU law, like a washing machine or a TV. This will ensure that consumers always have someone to turn to when they opt to repair their products, as well as encourage producers to develop more sustainable business models.
<2 - A producers' obligation to inform consumers about the products that they are obliged to repair themselves.
<3 - An online matchmaking repair platform to connect consumers with repairers and sellers of refurbished goods in their area. The platform will enable searches by location and quality standards, helping consumers find attractive offers, and boosting visibility for repairers.
<4 - A European Repair Information Form which consumers will be able to request from any repairer, bringing to repair conditions and price, and make it easier for consumers to compare repair offers.
<5 - A European quality standard for repair services will be developed to help consumers identify repairers who commit to a higher quality. This ‘easy repair' standard will be open to all repairers across the EU willing to commit to minimum quality standards, for example based on duration, or availability of products.

I don't know if those rules are any good because you usually have to be a level 12 legal wizard to understand what it really means, so I'm deferring to somebody else for that judgement.

here is a video of Louis Rossmann ranting about the centralized database (point 4) where repair services have to compete on price
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=-aKw5pSR5uk
The reason he's upset is because if all repair shops have to compete in a central market place their margins will be razor thin and won't be able to accumulatePost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.12068

>>11961
Did Marx actually do this though? I've never seen any proof of this but I've heard it said.
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 No.12069

>>12068
Marx scarcely took direct positions on policy.
However Marx seems to lean towards unrestricted commodity exchange with strong capital controls. So free-flow of goods but not free flow of capital. But i'm not entirely sure that Marx would be happy if you turned this into a generality, he'd probably tell you that everything depends on the material conditions.


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 No.11964[Reply]

What's your take on linux software distribution ?

There's a lot of buzz around flat-pack and flat-hub atm, they are currently implementing a monetization feature. And for some reason Eric Schmidt the google-guy is involved somehow.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/27/flathub_app_store/
flathub isn't calld flub
I'm worried that once money is involved it will attract scammers and litigation for a payout type people. Also the payment processor they want to use is stripe, that's probably not anonymous

Ubuntu has removed flat-pack from it's official releases, to push it's snap package manager instead, i wonder if they have other reasons than "we're going to make our own pack-manager with blackjack and hookers" to yeet flat-pack from their system.

I think the best package manager in the end might be NIX

Is going from distro repositories to this type of stuff going to improve software distribution on linux ?
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 No.12051

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>>11964
I think the main problem is that there should be a clear delimitation between gnu/linux as a tool (gentoo, nix, guix, etc.) and gnu/linux as a consumer OS

I use gentoo as my daily driver because I like foss and programming (as a hobby) and portage is more or less what I would do if I decided to write a personal package manager. if I also wanted reproducibility, the end result would be very similar to guix. these package managers are just what a programmer would expect, the intuitive approach to the problem so to speak

I have no idea what people who want to use linux as a consumer OS to do office work or play windows games need, but I'm sure their requirements are not the same as mine. I don't want them to modify my tools to accommodate for their needs, and the feeling is probably mutual

so that's my take I guess. I had to program on windows at work some years ago and it was terrible. the one size fits most approach is a waste of time

>>12035
>meson
>unneccesarily convoluted build system
you probably use shit like autotools and cmake already. meson is way less convoluted than the alternatives
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 No.12061

>>12051
>I think the main problem is that there should be a clear delimitation between gnu/linux as a tool (gentoo, nix, guix, etc.) and gnu/linux as a consumer OS

I think if you do this and appeal to normies by making gimped distros like silverblue to more easily facilitate browsing facebook, you get hordes of screeching uneducated retards like the userbase of /r/linux going WHY DOESN'T THE DOLBY ATMOS FOR MY NETFLIX WORK, WHY DOES THE SETTINGS MENU HAVE SO MANY BUTTONS, IT'S CONFUSING, LINUX IS SHIT!!!

and in response to that you have huge developers like redhat pandering to them by writing software like GNOME that is intentionally gimped in functionality yet at the same time crowds out all other alternatives from the ecosystem because it has such institutional force behind it, and shit like baked-in DRM, TPM attestation (to enforce the DRM), immutable root (to keep the retards from breaking their distro and whining about it), wayland shit which screenrecording and keybinding doesn't work half the time (because some retard might download malware which will keylog them), ad nauseam.

linux should always remain a tool. if the tool can be made easier to use without compromising on functionality, then fine. but it should always remain a tool.
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 No.12062

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>>12061
>I think if you do this
do what? keep a delimitation? do you think there should be no difference between gentoo and ubuntu?
from the rest of your message I can see that you are not as retarded as to suggest that. in principle we agree, but it is not like you can stop ibm and redhat from doing what they are doing. the best and only realistic alternative is to try to keep the tool separate from the consumer environment - this is what I call delimitation
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 No.12064

>>12062
the problem is it's difficult to keep "linux the tool" and "linux the consumption device" segregated so that the latter doesn't crush the former
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 No.12066

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>>12064
Isn't that what computers and technology fundementally are? I guess phones are probably a more extreme example because computers you can program on and create with, but, I would say that computers are, to some degree, inherently consumption devices.


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 No.12053[Reply]

Recommend a virtual phone number, to register on Telegram
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 No.12057

register at a gym namefag


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 No.11980[Reply]

What would a video conferencing application that can support multiple billion users look like?

Can it be made decentralized with guaranteed high availability?

How can moderation be organized in such an application? I guess some aspects can be programmed in, like speaking time limits, and speaking order could be randomized. Also considering all users would be authenticated could muting or kicking be organized on a voting basis?

I honestly was thinking about VR chat based assembly but that seems far more cumbersome.
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 No.12028

Anyway, this is just me entertaining the possibilities.

One thing is certain - digital spaces allow humans to go beyond physical limits. To not take advantage of this in collective decision making is foolish. The possibilities outweigh the risks in my opinion.
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 No.12029

>>12023
You want to combine both physical and virtual space, i guess that could work, but i think you are taking IT Security too lax.
How do you organize the token issuers, so that it doesn't become a gate-keeper organization that has too much power ?

>How is it not democratic when majority votes to burn someone at the stake?

Are you trolling me ?
If you want the rule by the demos, you can't just burn a part of it to death.

>You seem to think that democracy only means pacifism. When democracy perfectly can be bloodthirsty.

If you mean engaging in warmongering like the neocon-regimes, no democracies tend not to do that because most people loose out in wars.

>Democracy is a dictatorship of the majority. Nothing more, nothing less.

If that's what you want, why are you trying to create a dictatorship of the ostracisers, which are by no means a majority.

>why would the majority undermine a majority principle that empowers it?

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 No.12031

>>12029
>you are taking IT Security too lax
well assuming there are hundreds of millions of nodes to compromise the network you would need to compromise hundreds of millions of machines

hardware tokens would ensure authentication tied to real unique identities

open voting means that any results could be independently analyzed and verified for meddling

so that leaves the development platform and distribution channels

development should be carried by some government institution
how you would control this institution is how you would control any public institution that manages critical infrastructure

and there is always going to be critical infrastructure in society

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 No.12032

What I'm getting at is that assembly can't just be a rubber stamp organ with passive public who only listens and doesn't have any control over the agenda or the means to punish individual speakers.
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 No.12033

>>12031
>well assuming there are hundreds of millions of nodes to compromise the network you would need to compromise hundreds of millions of machines
There is evidence that pretty much all consumer computers are already back-doored.
You can't brush this off, you would be handing over political-power to what ever organizations are able to exploit the backdoors.
There is no inherent security in having large numbers of computers.
You have to assume that all the computer technology you can't inspect is compromised.

independent vote-verification can't fix vote-manipulation on the massive scale that's possible with computers, the verification process doesn't have enough through-put.

>how you would control this institution

You develop all the technology in the open so that everybody can inspect it, we'll be able to make it secure enough that, it'll cost more to break the security than what can be gained from doing so. Additionally we could fund competing security checking organizations.

>look man, in any assembly there is a speaker and a public he is speaking to

>the public needs to have control over the speaker, which is done through moderation

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