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 No.12876[Reply]

Hello, faggots, thanks to our unwavering dedication to the community I am proud to announce we are rolling out our own, official, leftychan.net i2p address.
You can locate the eepsite @ http://leftychmxz3wczbd4add4atspbqevzrtwf2sjobm3waqosy2dbua.b32.i2p, or, http://leftychan.i2p/.
If you have any trouble, as stated on the news announcement, try manually adding the address and domain to your address book.

-Yours Truly.
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 No.13711

Amazing, thank you.


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 No.6724[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

This thread is only for feedback related to technical issues(bug reports, suggestions). Otherwise use >>>/meta/10032

Public Repo: https://github.com/towards-a-new-leftypol/leftypol_lainchan
If you have any grievances you can make a PR.

Mobile Support: https://github.com/PietroCarrara/Clover/releases/latest
Thread For Mobile Feedback: >>>/tech/6316

Onion Link: http://leftychans5gstl4zee2ecopkv6qvzsrbikwxnejpylwcho2yvh4owad.onion
Cytube: https://tv.leftychan.net
Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#Leftypol:matrix.org
Once you enter, consider joining the lefty technology room.

We are currently working on improvements to the site, subject to the need of the tech team to sleep and go to their day jobs. If you need more immediate feedback please join the matrix room[s] and ask around. Feel free to leave comments, concerns, and suggestions about the tech side of the site here and we will try to get to it as soon as possible

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 No.13602

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At last! The onion mirror is back online once again, THANK FUCKING GOODNESS!


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 No.13716[Reply]

>Why yes, I daily drive Tails OS. How can you tell?

What OS do you use and why?
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 No.13738

>>13736
GNU people tend to not use github, hate MIT licensed software, and are generally their own club. I haven't heard of the drama of them sabotaging the rest of the GNU project, what's that about?

In short I think there's very little cross pollination but I've heard Guix can use nix packages (but so can any distro, you can install nix the package manager as a standalone thing). I've never heard of using guix packages or modules on nixos or anyone wanting to.

IMO guix fails right off the bat because they are using scheme as a configuration language. While the nix language is technically a turing complete programming language in practice it's more like writing json with some helper functions sprinkled in if you need them. It's a much better tool because it's a domain specific language purpose built to write configs, where as scheme is a general purpose langauge.
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 No.13739

>>13738
>GNU people hate MIT licensed software
they want people to use a different license, but they don't hate it
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 No.13741

MX Linux, optional systemd, everything just works and its made for really old computers
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 No.13742

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>>13741
>MX Linux
It's my favorite OS and distro to date. Instead of two ISOs for sysinit, they let me choose sysVinit during install.
>really old computers
I saved an overheating R9 290X by replacing the TIM, found a $5 AX200 card for BT and an nvme when they were cheap for a franken-build.
My only gripes were u have to click advanced options in the liveusb maker for GPT partitioning or it defaluts to MBR, which won't boot or install for UEFI. Then to restore numlock on startup, use settings editor. And after initial install, upgrade replaced the working mesa driver and left me with the black screen and blinking cursor on reboot. AI ruined search engines so I figured it out by right clicking the updater, preferences, then 'basic upgrade' to keep what was working in the live session. Now it's great.
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 No.13743

>>13742
also, in case anyone was wondering, I don't remember if systemd does fstrim by default but instead of a cron job I just run fstrim every few days (since it hangs during) to maintain solid state drives e.g.
sudo fstrim / -v
sudo fstrim /home -v

HTH


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 No.13562[Reply]

Downloading youtube

I'm tryna download this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVlfNtIml2U and yt-dlp gives me a 403 error

wat do
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 No.13565

type in:
>yt-dlp -U

without the >



also update ffmpeg

also maybe try JDownloader 2
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 No.13566

>>13565
Thanks that worked. I found some info on why it wasn't working:

Beginning very soon, you'll need to have Deno (or another supported JavaScript runtime) installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal.

>Why?


>Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its built-in JavaScript "interpreter" to solve the JavaScript challenges that are required for YouTube downloads. But due to recent changes on YouTube's end, the built-in JS interpreter will soon be insufficient for this purpose. The changes are so drastic that yt-dlp will need to leverage a proper JavaScript runtime in order to solve the JS challenges.
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 No.13567

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 No.13568

If you're on any mainstream distro, your repositories most likely already have yt_dlp ready to be downloaded without having to use pip or compiling from source. Downloading it from the repo usually breaks the functionality of it if you downloaded it using pip or from source.

When you initiate a system update, it will update ytdlp from your repo's and thus break it again.

>>13565 's suggestion should fix it regardless of where you got the download from, so it's best to run that after an update.
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 No.13740

Deno 2.8 for Linux:

curl -fsSL https://deno.land/install.sh | sh

get ClipGrab from repos for a GUI


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 No.8984[Reply]

FOSS will give Tesla a run for its money. It works with many newish (2018 onwards) cars. The hardware costs $1k versus $10k+ for Tesla autopilot.
https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/wiki
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 No.12315

>>12313
>Right now I'm really just heavily considering an electric bike or motorcycle.
At the moment you're best bet might be to go for an electric bicycle, you can get relatively open technology, for motors, controller circuits and battery packs.

Louis Rossmann the youtube repair-guy said the stuff from this shop is open and reasonable quality
https://ebikes.ca/product-info/grin-products/phaserunner.html
https://em3ev.com/

here's a forum for ebikes
https://endless-sphere.com/sphere/
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 No.12321

>>12315
Thanks, anon. That might actually be a better choice, considering I don't have to go and get the license. I always like the stuff by Rossman. That manlet knows what's up.
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 No.12322

>>12321
Consider sharing how it went in case you decide to build an electric bicycle
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 No.12324

>>12322
Will do. The area I'm working in certainly lends itself to an offroad electric bike, and it might be easier to carry to and from.
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 No.13737

I thought this was interesting but didn't know what thread to put it in. There's not hardware general thread and it's not something that deserves it's own thread.


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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.13611

>>13519
>they no longer have an edge over AI
That's just not true. The recent DLSS 5 disaster proves this. This technology is simply not the same as AGI: it does not understand anatomy and lighting, it cannot create something original, it constantly forgets small details, it uses literally random pictures from the Internet as a training data (including AI-generated ones) which leads to output quality degradation and it often gives inconsistent results because it's just a random image generator that doesn't understand what an art style is.
>Most people should just accept that humans aren't as special as we think.
I'm not saying that humans will always be special but for now AI is like a monkey stroking a brush againt the canvas. It's not intelligent enough to have the same creativity and vision as humans do. Believe me, I want AGI to be real too, it feels lonely for the human species to be at the top of evolutionary development. But until AGI is made I do not think AI will make as good of an art as meatbags do. Yeah, some stuff created with the use of AI like Neuro-sama, Fortnite's Darth Vader, Sora 2 memes or Angel Engine are entertaining but image generation specifically just does not cut it.
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 No.13614

It's funny how the alt-right is associated with AI slop because the Nazi aesthetic is made entirely out of plagiarized symbols
>the swastika is taken from Buddhism
>the SS symbols are taken from paganism
>the Aryan race is taken from Indians and Iranians
>the ideology's name is taken from socialism
>the Roman salute is taken from Romans
>the architecture and art are taken from Romans as well
Like, there's literally nothing original that the Nazis did. In fact, they burnt entire libraries of """Jewish""" literature. I think that's very ironic in hindsight.

Also, has anyone noticed how diffusion models fuck up the Brazilian flag? I'm so sorry, Brazilian bros.
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 No.13615

>>13496
Yup, most of the REEEEEing about AI comes from Western wagecucks butt mad that their degree and birth into a first world nation isn't going to protect them from the type of brutal and alienated work that the global south has always endured.
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 No.13624

Oh, I forgot to mention two other major drawbacks: increased hardware prizes and environmental impact. The corpos, due to the AI craze, started buying GPUs and RAM en masse while gamers and Earth-chan got fucked in the ass. But instead of the corpos reducing their use of AI they're trying to push it on people as a solution to a problem they created. And that solution makes games look like shit.

Man. Remember when high-budget games looked actually photorealistic and didn't require a data center to run? Me neither.
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 No.13729

This might sound absurd but AI will only be relevant once people give a shit about its opinions on the work people create. In other words AI has to become a consumer and humans the producer.


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 No.13728[Reply]

Could a somewhat Jupiter brain be fashioned from some mass botnet of AI computers? Perhaps a near worldwide botnet cyber attack???


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 No.13720[Reply]

If you hate Microsoft, seed this I2P torrent with 43 GB of compressed source code they've leaked over the years. It feels so good having it on my disk and sharing it anonymously!

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3d8b16242b56a3aafb8da7b5fc83ef993ebcf35b&tr=http://tracker2.
postman.i2p/announce.php

http://tracker2.postman.i2p/index.php?view=TorrentDetail&id=84911
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 No.13721

Is there anything actually useful in this leak?
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 No.13725

>>13721
Oh absolutely. The explorer.exe windows manager was a huge deal for open source coding. Even if the leaks are XP years old they are still massively influential for that reason alone. Windows has, more or less, been a black box since, well, forever. It's a big deal, imo.


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 No.13603[Reply]

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 No.13620

Not just glowies, employers are too so they can figure out if you're struggling and pay you less.
Y'all need to start figuring out how to not just protect your privacy, but actively poison the information there is online about you.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept-c2b968fb

>According to Nina DiSalvo, policy director at labor advocacy group Towards Justice, some systems use signals associated with financial vulnerability — including data on whether a prospective employee has taken out a payday loan or has a high credit-card balance — to infer the lowest pay a candidate might accept. Companies can also scrape candidates' public personal social-media pages, she said…


>A first-of-its-kind audit of 500 labor-management artificial-intelligence companies by Veena Dubal, a law professor at University of California, Irvine, and Wilneida Negrón, a tech strategist, found that employers in the healthcare, customer service, logistics and retail industries are customers of vendors whose tools are designed to enable this practice. Published by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a progressive economic think tank, the August 2025 report… does not claim that all employers using these systems engage in algorithmic wage surveillance. Instead, it warns that the growing use of algorithmic tools to analyze workers' personal data can enable pay practices that prioritize cost-cutting over transparency or fairness…


>Surveillance wages don't stop at the hiring stage — they follow workers onto the job, too. The vendors that provide such services also offer tools that are built to set bonus or incentive compensation, according to the report. These tools track their productivity, customer interactions and real-time behavior — including, in some cases, audio and video surveillance on the job. Nearly 70% of companies with more than 500 employees were already using employee-monitoring systems in 2022, such as software that monitors computer activity, according to a survey from the International Data Corporation. "The data that they have about you may allow an algorithmic decision system to m
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 No.13640

god odysee is such a piece of shit

you serve a video tag anyway, why do i need javascript to watch this
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 No.13697

>>13620

Why hasn't someone do that to them and their networks? Can they keep their data off?
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 No.13714

>>13640
Because they're using your browser to mine cryptocrap.
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 No.13715

>>13640
because (((they))) need to datamine you


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 No.12318[Reply]

I made a wiki about unretarding technology and society. What do you think? https://www.tastyfish.cz/lrs/main.html
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 No.13586

>>13553
wiki does refer to collaborative editing in the status quo, but the format has innovated encyclopedic knowledge management in general, and the novel aspects typical of this form are also commonly referred to by "wiki" for uses that aren't collaborative
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 No.13587

>>13551
argumentum ad shitlib
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 No.13709

>>13586
no wiki doesn't mean encyclopedic knowledge management and never did retard
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 No.13710

the first wikis weren't even encyclopedias at all, they were mostly manual type stuff, the thing that made wikis wikis was the collaborative part
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 No.13713

>>13709
maybe not before, but now it does


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