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 No.6724[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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 No.13471

Hello. Can you add an inv.nadeko.net video proxy? In fact, can you make it the default way to watch videos?

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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.13342

>>13341
What do you mean? there's no more risks using i2p than anything else. If you mean "What are the vulnerabilities located in i2p? I am unsure what if any exist but I am sure some exist. You probably could locate some on the website or forums. But it has advantages over tor which is why using it over tor is encouraged. tor is just more normie friendly and can be good for the lower autism score people.

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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.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.12505

I see a blank web page and can't even rightclick -> view source.
Is this spam?
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 No.13376

Me like
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 No.13521

>>12318
Your wiki has some good things to say about software but it could read less like a 13 year old

> "stop pedophobia"
sigh
here we go

> gives free links to far-right wing sites on main page

-facepalm-
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 No.13522

>>12318
not the OP but the general consensus is that copy-left licenses failed because corporations weren't actually modifying much in any useful way, and even if any of them were, it was way too expensive to dig it out.

CC0 is a lot more simple and relaxing

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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.

 No.13257[Reply]

I know I am a little bit late to the party with this but some "anonymous" group tried to cancel rms and the FSF as well: archive.md/Pt37W (stallman-report.org). It's the usual shit: whining about Stallman's comments on Epstein, supposed "sexual harassment" etc. Basically, the author calls for Stallman to step down from the FSF and/or for FSF members to take him down.

It is already known who wrote this "report": Drew DeVault, a developer who worked (or still works?) on Wayland. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41859793
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 No.13489

Looks like wreckers are still wrecking.
>invite kind old man to give talk about software freedom
>immediately turn around and kowtow to bully demands of cancellation while hiding behind "inclusivity"

https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/news/2025-05-06_0002-keynote-announcement-richard-stallman/
https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/news/2025-05-07_0001-keynote-will-not-go-forward/
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 No.13490

>>13489
Embarrassing
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 No.13494

>>13257
why are FSF and Stallman even considered synonymous, it's not like he even has much more than a loose association as the guy who writes free software rants. FSF does many things which don't involve Stallman at all.
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 No.13495

>>13494
>why are FSF and Stallman even considered synonymous
The FSF bases its software philosophy on Stallman's writings. It was Stallman who came up with the four software freedoms.
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 No.13518

>>13494

Like >>13495 said

it's just an advocacy group for Stallman's software opinions. Always has been. Trying to root out Stallman is therefore trying to just bludgeon the org to death. Which failed, but they did make Stallman a bit more insufferable and radlib in the process.

There's all sorts of valid criticisms of Stallman but what >>13257
OP is talking about happened in 2019. That is mostly over now, he went through the cancel culture ringer, and hoards of people in the corporate/media friendly "open source" people were gleeful to attack the most radical thinker in the adjacent free software movement

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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.13402[Reply]

For an entire month now, Cloudflare has been discriminating against alternative web browsers to the Google hegemony by refusing to "verify" them as legitimate browsers through their browser check loop. On some browsers this has been blatantly malicious by designing the loop to hang indefinitely while it rapidly consumes all of the user's memory until a program crash. This has included Palemoon, Librewolf, Waterfox, IceCat, Seamonkey, Falkon, and more. Basically it seems like anything that isn't a subservient Chrome fork or Firefox itself is being gatekept out of the web by Cloudflare. The likelihood that this is being done deliberately is high because a) they have been doing it for an entire month, b) the entire time they have refused to respond to developers reaching out asking them to fix it, and c) Cloudflare themselves have stated that their secret proprietary methods of fingerprinting "human" browsers are tailor-fit to each browser. Some links following this story:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32045
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953508
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/02/07/044225
http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/20/Instead_of_DoS_Protection_Cloudflare_is_Allegedly_Conducting_Do.shtml

In only the span of a few years, DDoS "protection" services have grown to exert so much control over the web that they can now play kingmakers in browser competition and coerce user choice. We need a solution to the DDoS protection racket more than ever. What can be done about this?
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 No.13484

Something caught my eye recently in the on-going Cloudflare discussions on the Palemoon forums. In response to some of Cloudflare's demands to be an "approved" browser, the lead dev of Palemoon writes the following:
>In fact, from my own inspection of web logs to check bot behaviour, it seems these automation APIs inside browsers is exactly what is being used to drive a good portion of bots (a majority seems to be running on top of automated Chromium instances!); so we're actually against giving bots the tools to abuse the web by refusing to make this available, and I'm against even having this implemented at all in our platform.

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=32190&start=80

In other words, in order to pass their browser verification checks, Cloudflare is strongarming browser developers to put the very tools into their browsers that make it easy for people to create the bots that Cloudflare is supposedly there to protect websites from. People have asserted in the past that Cloudflare essentially operates as a protection racket. I haven't seen a better case made for it than this.
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 No.13485

>>13484
Interesting.
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 No.13503

Recently Cloudflare really is the most bothersome tick to deal with. The fact of how this is silicon valley selling protection against a silicon valley made problem is unsettling. That's something the mafia would do. I think this protection Cloudflare is providing to it's customers is working, but yes, the way they do it is malicious towards the user. A complete Denial of Service for users wanting to block traffic towards Cloudflare, when visiting a site not owned by Cloudflare is the the text book definition of a gatekeeper. "If we can't calculate the unique fingerprint of your browser and send them to our servers, you will not pass" is what I'm getting from this. There are other ways of protecting a site from bot traffic. The ones mentioned in this thread remind me of the 'Cypher Punks' ideology.
Links (1994):
https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/crypto/cypherpunks/may-virtual-comm.html
https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/crypto/cypherpunks

And the book 'Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Zuboff', also comes to mind. But these days basically everything internet related reminds me of this book.

> What can be done about this?

I guess don't rely on the internet, if possible. Wait and pressure governments to outlaw this way of business… yeah who am I kidding here. I guess there is no simple answer to a complex problem.
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 No.13504

>>13503
If the problem to solve simply was bots causing too much load on web-servers, one could use a protocol that makes everybody a load-sharing node, that way the bots would not matter, because they too would have to be load sharing.

But i get the impression there is more going on here.
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 No.13507

>>13503
I never put that together that it was silicone valley fixing something created by silicone valley.

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