/tech/ - Technology

There's new buzz around JpegXL apparently apple is now putting support into their safari browser and other programs, so maybe there's a chance it'll become a web-standard after-all.

>>11235
>what is private property
>what is market share
>how owning the infrastructure leads to ownership of other things it connects to

>>11245
You're using the internet, retard. It is spyware by design.


ahem
FUCKING FINALLY, coming from someone who waited for FLIF to become a(n) (A)PNG succeeding standard for 6 fucking years.

Also, Pale Meme is the memeiest shitty spyware shyce with retarded shitty devs as its parents. Read Bordigdeeper:
http://5essxguxi5enurgtuquvrjuvikss4gc5lbhmtz57cq4cedqx5tqvaxqd.onion/articles/browsers.xhtml#palemoon (https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/browsers#palemoon)
A frighteningly autistic List of browsers with quick notes (there's one on email operators too)
http://abrx6wcpzkfpwxb5eb2wsra2wnkrv2macdtkpnrepswodz5jxd4schyd.onion/browsers.xhtml#PaleMoon (https://m.13f0.net/shadow_wiki/browsers.xhtml#PaleMoon)

>>12397
>Read digdeeper:
Have you, contrarian edgelord? They still openly admit that Palemoon is the best of a bad situation.

>>12399
>However, it recently went off the deep end so much that I cannot in good conscience call it an "alternative" to anything anymore.
>Now, the stage is clearly advanced, the cancer has metastasized and cannot be removed anymore.
<Can't even install your own addons to block pozz
Curl back into your arsehole, retarded bitch.

>>12399
>Palemoon is the best of a bad situation.
[citation needed]

On the contrary, they recommend Webbrowser aka WereFox.
And the Palemoon website blocks Tor users so fuck them.

FYI you can use Tor Browser without tor:

network.proxy.type 0
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns false
extensions.torlauncher.start_tor false
TOR_SKIP_LAUNCH=1 TOR_TRANSPROXY=1 ./start-tor...

You're welcome.

For some reason those settings change back to default when I restart the browser, it's seriously about fucking time that someone who isn't evil or an idiot creates a web browser.
Or to ditch the concept entirely and create usable P2P software for content and thought sharing.

>>12421
It's not just MP3s dude it's lossless. I've never done CompTIA so I can't comment.

>>12426

thanks bb. i appreciate it

>>12421
>buy on Bandcamp
For those who can't afford to buy all their music:
yt-dlp worked fine last time I tried it on bandcamp.
You might have to play around with stuff like –sleep-interval, –playlist-random and –limit-rate to avoid temporary b&.

>>12500
Stop bumping dead threads so much, uyghur.

>>12508
>Stop bumping dead threads so much, uyghur.
Why, did bandcamp disappear or something?

>>12464
Sorry for conflating the two.

I haven't looked into the hardware side of things, i always thought that nobody would bother with that because once a "hardware-restriction" gets liberated, it'll stay that way forever.

Anyhow, suggest better names-for it.

Here's what i got: From a technical standpoint DRM behaves like malware and from a legal standpoint it's post-transactional expropriation.

What would you call the hardware shenanigans ?

>>12465
>What would you call the hardware shenanigans?
Hardware Restrictions Management? Physical Restrictions Management?

We should really get out ahead of the IP lawyers and come up with a good name that sticks and describes the injustice unambiguously, before they try to invent their own twisted Orwellian terminology to make the practice seem innocuous. Perhaps something that references rent, since these techniques are used to control what someone can do with their own property.

>>12466
>since these techniques are used to control what someone can do with their own property.
Hm, this is kinda difficult to name:
Hardware based property infringement
Hostile hardware environment
Imprisoned hardware
Tainted hardware

>Perhaps something that references rent
This is even harder, perhaps:
Tollbooth hardware

Technically this would stop it from being a full Von-Neumann machine. So maybe it could be called
compute-incomplete hardware

>>12438
It's interesting how the leftist brain works. You associate thing with "bad" people and that somehow makes the thing bad. Hitler was a big fan of consuming water and oxygen by the way, might want to stop consuming those bad things yourself comrade.

>>12464
>Does not exist. You mean "hardware-based restrictions", "locks", "copy protection", etc.
He obviously means hardware that prevents you breaking DRM like secure enclaves and efuses. Taking the most uncharitable interpretation of somebody's words and pretending that's what they really meant is such a slimy tactic.

>>12392
That's a decent video. I think he oversells it abit though, if the firmware is burned into ROM or cryptographically verified before execution then power glitching will not open up a permanent solution to anything.

The other thing to consider is that some middle class NPC who takes out a $100,000 loan to buy a Tesla is not going to risk his warranty to save $1000 on a DRM locked feature. And if the globalist billionaire class get their way then all cars will be $100,000 EVs that few people can afford to drive and even fewer people can afford to monkey with.

>>12479
>It's interesting how the leftist brain works. You associate thing with "bad" people and that somehow makes the thing bad.
Not really, i think DRM is shit because on a technical level it's basically the same as malware, that fucks up your system. I know that it's intellectual dishonest and pure opportunism to link DRM to Scientology's cringe, but this is how DRM shills argue, and this presents an opportunity to throw some crazy shit back at them.

>if the firmware is burned into ROM or cryptographically verified before execution then power glitching will not open up a permanent solution to anything.
A special chip that works like a walled castle, which will definitely keep out the undesirables is a really old sales pitch, including all the invulnerability claims of this time we build the wall high enough. Don't count on it. In the long run people will probably move towards re-chipping with open chips that aren't locked down.

>And if the globalist billionaire class get their way then all cars will be $100,000 EVs that few people can afford to drive
Well if most people can't afford cars, we'll only need bus-lanes and bicycle lanes.

>>12456
The oculus rift is not AR nor is it capable of it. What Apple's headset will do is superimpose images on top of your real vision and perfectly track it in 3d space.
A real life example is how they put graphics on football fields in live action video of games. creating the illusion that the graphic is really painted on the ground.
But this headset will go far beyond that. Imagine being able to complete complex tasks far beyond your skill set because you can have the headset walk you through it as though a master technician were present.
Imagine looking at a car engine and then having wrench appear on the bolt you need to loosen, turning in real time in front of you as if it were being demonstrated to you in real life, and then every step in the process illustrated to you in the same way.
And like I said, humans remember things spatially the best.
Imagine being able to store your computer files by placing virtual folders in your real life bookshelf.
I know it sounds silly but it's going to expand people's ability to recall information exponentially.

>>12458
Apple's head-set might technically be capable to do all those things, but Apple will never let that thing become a sufficiently open platform for any of that cool stuff to happen.

>Imagine being able to store your computer files by placing virtual folders in your real life bookshelf.
Especially this bit, you'll have to jailbreak that thing and install some kind of gnu linux OS on it in order to experiment with cool user interface concepts. Apple will just implement a few hand-motion tracking gestures derivative of touchscreen gestures for a slightly modified ios-UI and call that revolootionary.

>>12459
>Apple's head-set might technically be capable to do all those things, but Apple will never let that thing become a sufficiently open platform for any of that cool stuff to happen.
They already demonstrated this in their ads. None of this requires an open platform.
>Apple's head-set might technically be capable to do all those things, but Apple will never let that thing become a sufficiently open platform for any of that cool stuff to happen.
It's in their ads that this is what it will be able to do. You'll leave something virtually on your coffee table and it will remain there when you boot up the headset again.
They showed some watching television and the television remains fixed in the middle of the living room as a the person gets up.

>>12459
>Especially this bit, you'll have to jailbreak that thing and install some kind of gnu linux OS on it in order to experiment with cool user interface concepts.
Why? The whole point of this headset and AR in general is to present information completely in 3d. You'll be able to walk around an object. Several doctors will be able to examine a 3d scan of your body at once.
We loose an incredible amount of information when you present it on screens, I'm telling you this will be a watershed. Tons of things will become obvious that were never before. Kind of line how scientists argued whether horses galloped with all four legs or two at a time. It seems so obvious now but before movie camera we could never prove it.

Rossmann had a doomer-pill moment, he worries repair could be going away and "undo his legacy"
https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=oMPxr7I90JM

His argument for this is that he thinks that machine-capital for producing tech-gadgets will get optimized to the point of being fully depreciated after a production-run is complete. He thinks that this would negate the economic viability for making spare parts of letting the production machine run a little longer because parts can be sold for profit as well. However most production machine-capital isn't product specific anymore, save for a few specialist components like plastic-molds. Most of the stuff in a production line gets re-used for other stuff once a product-batch has completed. There are costs involved in puzzling together a modular production line, and because of that the economic viability to getting extra profits off a line from spare-parts remains.

Repairing tech will not go away, because it costs less labor to repair than to build new. You have to consider more than just the last manufacturing step. The entire supply-line that precedes that last step does not have to spring into action if you repair, but it does if you build new instead. The age of just throwing shit out and buying new, even for tiny defects, was only viable because for a limited time there was near endless cheap labor in Asia.

Repairing also reduces waste-streams and resource consumption. The cost of those are going to go up, new resource extraction will get more expensive, considering that you either have to dig deeper or go into space, recycling also isn't free and it's probably going to get more expensive to throw shit out because dealing with trash gets harder too.

If you look at the technology design from the perspective of a physicist, a machine is a collection of matter with low internal entropy. If you use the machine the internal entropy increases. If you don't want the machine to fail, you have to somehow remove "chaos-energy". That can be done in the form of cooling. But one particularly effective way is to replace wear-parts, where the "chaos-energy" is concentrated into.

There are structural developments that favor repair too. The biggest hindrance for repair has always been managing parts logistics, but computer-data-bases and object-storage-automation have removed that hinPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Muahaha now storeshitters and japs have to suffer as I did back in the day
y do I habe to suffer w/ them doe?

>>8869
good job united states for forcing diversity in the chip market. if china figures out how to produce, for example, the equivalent to a gtx 1050ti for cheaper and cheaper and releases it on the global market, it will fuck up nvidia dominance and force them to lower prices thanks to laws of supply and demand. I really look forward to it, honestly.

>>12433
Nvidia, Ati/Amd started out making cards for gaming and then later transitioned into server/supercomputer compute-cards.

China's GPU makers had the reverse development of western GPU makers. They started out with compute-cards and they are now trying to also do gaming cards.

While you are correct that they will relatively quickly become price competitive with western offerings on a bench-mark performance basis because the compute-market is hyper competitive, game compatibility and driver quality will take a very long time. It requires cultivating a detailed understanding of all the game engines.

Go look at old forum posts of people trouble shooting game compatibility and driver-bugs to get an idea what it's gonna be like. I think that chinese Gpus will become an option for people willing to put up with that stuff.

>>12434
it will still affect the economy. China is a huge gaming market, and Alibaba has their own hosting that is bigger than amazon. im not saying it wont be buggy, but its going to change things in the next 10 years

>>12417
>Isn't there a way to do quasi invisible encryption that looks like random unused data ?
There are plausible deniability tactics that you can use, but they're so niche and so restricted, that you'll basically have a machine for single use. Not only that, but if the bait system doesn't look like it's used, then they're also going to suspect something. If it's serious enough for you to go that far for using systems like this, it's serious enough for them to torture you for information.

>>12418
I don't disagree with you, but in practice, everything the state could do to a citizen for the retrieval of data they deem to be important for national security will be gotten this way. Of course, I don't delve much into the cryptonerd space because, while it is a lot of fun to think about how cool it would be for the NSA/FBI/CIA to be unable to break your system, chances are that the worst that's going to happen to it is that it gets stolen and sold for the hardware that carries it, and not for the actual information you have inside. The most valuable files I have are .rmvb files with anime from 2004. Now that was real fansubbing.

>>12428
So you seem to be saying. That we need a political movement to create deterrence against torture. Like fore example punishing torture with the death penalty. And a similar, albeit less severe, logic needs to be applied to political intimidation. We need to take the barbaric option from the table.

>There are plausible deniability tactics that you can use, but they're so niche
I think that unbreakable encryption is basically a requirement for privacy. However not all attacks against privacy are obvious and straight forward. The attempt to make effective privacy a legal liability, is the use of law-fare against privacy. While that is crazy illegal, and requires a political correction. It would be prudent to harden cryptographic privacy to withstand more than just technical deciphering attacks.

You say that making encryption invisible is not practical enough, idk. maybe that's a technical feature that could be enhanced to make it more practical. However if that's not possible are there other options ? For example can you make an encrypted vault that spits out decoy data if a coerced cipher key is used to decode it. My priority here is about rendering coercion moot. In this example with the decoy data, the utility would be to make it futile to beat a cypher-key out of people in order to render such barbarism impotent.

>>12429
>the retrieval of data they deem to be important for national security
Maybe that's also a lie. Maybe there is no such important data.

>>12345s
>Since as societies we can't abandon secure and private communications because that is indispensable for democracy, how can people resist this terror once institutions go bad ?
Steganography
>Is there deniable encryption ?
Yes, steganography
>And where is this coming from, who are the criminal actors pushing for this ?
The intelligence community and fascists amongst the political class
>Are we fighting the political battles the wrong way by making general political appeals ?
That's only a tool in the toolkit
>Should we be focusing our political energies against these specific criminal threat-actors instead ?
The threat is so expansive that it would require toppling the state to uproot completely.

>>12411
I'm talking about graphical shells, anon. You used to be able to rice windows like you do GNU/Linux.

i don't 'member, only the default ones on XP

>>12414
XP had some interesting shells. I had the Cairo Desktop on that. It was the only way to get multiple desktop spaces. Nowadays Windows comes standard with them. I never did manage to get a shell with spinning cubes and wobbly windows, though. Now that shit, I was really into.

>>12413
What you can't do this anymore? I have 1 windows machine and it's souly for gaming.

>>12419
I haven't found any that work on Win7, which was the first time I upgraded windows since XP, and I don't have Win11 because it won't run on my AMD chad CPU. All of my other computers run GNU/Linux except my one Windows laptop that is used exclusively for work. It's kind of sad, but the level of control MS now has over Users' computers is too much for anyone to waste time developing shells for it, especially since MS has implemented most of the features people wanted from these shells.

>>12082
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the whole principle of scientific inquiry was supposed to be based upon something like the open source ethic, otherwise the fundamental criteria of Peer Review would not be possible… right? Mind you I am talking about science before the advent of The Science™

>>12087
>Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the whole principle of scientific inquiry was supposed to be based upon something like the open source ethic, otherwise the fundamental criteria of Peer Review would not be possible… right?

Some parts of research are open, although many scientific papers are blocked off behind paywalls. Other parts of research are fully closed, like military secrets or commercial unpublished research. Science isn't merely research, it's also education. Scientific education is also only partially open, like you get some scientific education in public schools and some of it's also freely available online, but a sizeable chunk is pay-walled.

I think that there are conspiracies to disperse false information too. Like for example a few years ago the quantum computer industry all of a sudden started pushing bits of quantum-theory that had been refuted in the late 1980s.
<Science minutia start
There was an attempt to rule out all hidden variables theories using Bell's theorem. But as it turns out that Bell's theorem only rules out local hidden variables, while it does not rule out non-local hidden variables theories, like for example the de broglie-bohm interpretation of quantum theory.
The refutation came from: Carl H. Brans in February 1988
The paper is called "Bell's theorem does not eliminate fully causal hidden variables"
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227200042
<Science minutia end
This erroneous bit of information has made it into scifi Television shows, various youtube edutainment and potentially even into some of the online science education services. I'm relatively sure that it's quantum computer companies doing this because the people who proliferate this, often say that they have consulted with people working in the quantum computer industry.

I've considered that it might be something motivated by ideology, like for example the physicist David Joseph Bohm was exiled for "unamerican activities" from the US by McCarthyism in 1951. I somehow doubt that quantum computer companies in the 21st century are still worried about something as moronic as "communist physics". Realist/Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

This keeps happening.

https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/14/internet-archive-responds-to-recording-industry-lawsuit-targeting-obsolete-media/

<some of the world’s largest record labels, including Sony and Universal Music Group, filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive and others for the Great 78 Project, a community effort for the preservation, research and discovery of 78 rpm records that are 70 to 120 years old.

<Of note, the Great 78 Project has been in operation since 2006 to bring free public access to a largely forgotten but culturally important medium. Through the efforts of dedicated librarians, archivists and sound engineers, we have preserved hundreds of thousands of recordings that are stored on shellac resin, an obsolete and brittle medium. The resulting preserved recordings retain the scratch and pop sounds that are present in the analog artifacts; noise that modern remastering techniques remove.

So it's ancient music where all the authors are dead, and it also crappy quality.
Clearly bad faith actors abusing the legal system to attack the internet archive.

>>12395
Looks like everyone is trying to extract their pound of flesh from them now. These fucking idiots need to spin off the original Internet Archive from their other media activity right now, I do not want to see the most important preserver of web history destroyed over this shit.

>>12396
You are probably right it would be legally prudent to do this.

However that's probably not going to be enough. These record labels might once have served a function for music distribution, today they are just predators and have to be killed off, otherwise this shit won't stop.
Check out this
https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-dl-site-goes-offline-as-hosting-provider-enforces-court-ordered-ban-230809/
There was an attempt to ban youtube-dl. Which is a piece of open source software. It's not even possible to pretend that software logic contains music. Their interpretation of copy-"right" is expanding into the absurd. They're basically on a trip of defining everything they don't like as violating "their IP". Or in legal terms they want their rights to extinguish yours.

I think the best business model today is musicians uploading their music online for free and when they get enough fans they become professionals that sell concert tickets and merchandise. This has made concert tickets very expensive but I've been and it's usually worth paying 50-150 bucks for the experience. For this you only need trademark law, no copy-ban crap. Capital accumulation is shifted away from music distributors to the musicians them self's and the companies that do the technical support and crowd-wrangling services for concerts as well as merch producers.

That said there still is demand for physical copies. There are loads of audiophiles that want lossless digital audio with all the features and all the fidelity, and they want it stored on indestructible memory crystals that will still work a thousand years from now. They like the take media from the collection and insert media in the machine ritual, as well as glowing electronic components. There are hundreds of research papers where scientists used lasers to store data in crystals, satisfying the durability and light-show aspect. That won't need either copy-ban or drm shit because those people want functional items for their collections. This could have been a chance for the old music distributors to survive but they decided to invest in legal copy-trolling instead of data-storage engineering. If the music crystals ever happen it'll be becausPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

How does this work? Aren't they only accessible over tor?

>>12379
It's just a reddit style site but different instances of the site can talk to each other. lemmygrad is lemmygrad.ml and hexbear is hexbear.net (formerly chapo.chat which started because reddit banned chapotraphouse).

I guess as a user you can see posts from other instances and jnteract with them without leaving your instances website. Of course freedom of speech loving liberal instances are already defederating from communist ones like lemmygrad.

>>12383
Ohhh I see.
So a a .onion website is still a .onion website but federated it can still communicate with a clear net instance.

>>12383
So it's like mastodon

>>12384
I think so, I haven't seen a federated onion site yet.

>>12385
Yes