/tech/ - Technology

>>33867
>basically for compliance with US law

it wasn't for that. US economic sanctions don't forbid international developers from contributing to open-source software projects, there's never been an instance of that happening. linus torvalds is just a nationalist bigot who doesn't like russians. this is a very common sentiment in finland, finland has a lot of immigrants from russia and the finns hate them even more than people in the us hate immigrants from latin america.

>>33868
I mean no one twisted their arm into allying themselves with the Nazis. Pointing at the Winter War and saying “oh I KNEW they were going to do that!” doesn’t cut it as a retroactive excuse.

>>33797
Mach has been an outdated research design since the 90s, even moreso when there is close to thirty additional years of academic and industry experience behind us. The only reason Apple keeps their implementation around is, that they're intent on holding onto XNU, and the fact it's mostly used to emulate Unix doesn't put much stress on the slow IPC. Linux has for the time being absolved the GNU project of the need to ship it's own kernel, so HURD has been allowed to limp along the same dogged development path, that lead to its irrelevance in the first place.

The GNU model has often been described as cathedral-like, yet even their best software tends to be somewhat overengineered. In practice the fast-moving "bazaar" software in use by Linux today is usually propped up by Redhat employees or software engineers employed by other companies with a stake in the ecosystem. If the absolute state of modern GCC is any indication, then too many GNU projects move at a pace that's simply not conducive to high-quality software with their current pool of developers.

This state of things feels extremely frustrating, when it has already been shown there is another way, from enduring if mismanaged corporate products like Solaris or QNX, over the BSDs and other venerable communities, to smaller software projects carefully cultivated by lone developers. Many of these have almost passed into the realm of public infrastructure (recall Minix3 use in IME), precisely because they are reliable and don't require a near-constant stream of development to keep functioning.

The scope of the GNU project in combination with its license has always seen itself as the real movement, that would enable access by the public to high-quality software and ideologically it is still the closest to this in the current software ecosystem. However the last few decades force us to soberly regard it as a net failure. Few notable GNU projects are currently on par with the corporate-driven project landscape, permissively-licensed or not. Projects like the almquist shell, busybox, libarchive or libedit, which were started by individual developers, have routinely shown even their most reliable and widely-used code to be comparatively subpar in execution. Unfortunately i can't help but conclude, that up to now both small-scale, "artisinal" software development and the limited cooperPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>33898
>Many of these have almost passed into the realm of public infrastructure (recall Minix3 use in IME), precisely because they are reliable and don't require a near-constant stream of development to keep functioning.
*because they have a cuck license
ftfy

>>33899
Counterpoint: Microsoft's source offerings are permissively licensed, yet no sane developer would rely on them, since they usually remain tied to their internal development and are generally horrible to work with.

I wouldn't trust an android device with anything important whatever rom it runs.

isn't graphene only compatible with pixel phones? how do you degoogle something that is designed to run solely on google hardware? it seems like they made android even less free in that respect, at least vanilla android runs on tons of different devices and not just google's.

people have some weird interpretations of what liberated software/hardware is, i've always sort of suspected the whole idea was ill-founded and unworkable from the beginning, and seeing maga get in on the act with the "freedom phone" pretty much sealed the deal for me.

>>33871
Vanilla android doesn't run anywhere, android is always customized to run anywhere other than in a vm, it's a cursed shitware os. But yes lineageos supports waaay more devices, and the benefit of graphene seems highly questionable to me.
That said all hardware is aids-ridden, google's hardware is not even the worst, probably by far not the worst. Btw assuming you're the guy from the samsung thread - in the past replicant devs found a modem-level backdoor in a samsung phone. And that's just what the found - it's a very small team and the number and complexity of devices is huge and ever growing, so you can safely assume EVERY device has something like that or worse.

looks like GrapheneOS has fixed this now by mirroring the files on their own servers. but I wonder why they do this all the time for every connection rather than say once per hour or once a week
also yes trusting GrapheneOS instead of Google is not without problems but there are degrees in hell

why do people on here argue over what to trust as if anything could possibly be trustworthy.

one thing i am happy about that LLMs will accomplish is they will put clickbait writers out of work and put companies like buzzfeed out of business, and that's a good thing because none of these people even deserve to live, let alone work or make money. i think what i'll do is keep track of all the notable clickbait writers who commit suicide over the following years and save their pictures and eventually make it into a big mosaic of all their faces that collectively form a photograph of a turd floating in a toilet.

>>33886
Was running without Internet access to solve some shit as a test and find a way to work around that to still connect to the Internet to fullfill the test task.

>>33890
>notable clickbait writers
lmfao uygha you really think people were actually hired to write clickbait, and weren't like freelancers getting a few extra bucks. "notable" clickbait writers lmaoooo

if there's even such a thing as a "notable" clickbait writer then they have been on substack since 2020 at the latest

>>33892

you're probably too young to remember the early days of web 2.0 in the late 2000s and the digital content boom, before the enshittification and cost-cutting era. in the early days of vice and gawker and buzzfeed, the amounts of money getting thrown around were fucking stupid, the more money that got splashed out the more venture capital rolled in, that was basically the early web startup business model. the people who write the clickbait slop you see today get paid pennies, but the talentless entitled trustfund babies who were writing it back then, the ones hired very early on at places like vice and gawker and buzzfeed at the beginning of the digital content boom, they were lavished with wealth and groomed into young hip microcelebrities living among the urban elite, it was really something else.

>>33876
>>33882
OP here. What about Xiaomis?

ive had my samsung A32 for probably more than 6 years, it works fine, cant name one thing about it thats an active annoyance.

>>33885
CCP aids. I mean their quality is surprisingly good but they're full of spyware and bloatware. If you want to install lineage you have to fetch like half a gig of unsigned firmware from some shady source

what do we actually need phones for anymore? nobody leaves their house except to go to work or run errands, don't need a phone for that. nobody talks to their friends or relatives by telephone or sms anymore, don't need a phone for that. need gps for your car, just buy a gps receiver it's much cheaper than a phone and works better and access to the gps network is free. if you have to make a phone call to some business for whatever reason they never answer the phone or they do answer it's a machine and if it's not a machine it's a person on other side of the world who can't speak or understand english and it's not that it's a checked out receptionist who just lies to get you off the phone and doesn't relay whatever message you give them. mobile apps are all malware garbage. mobile websites are all malware garbage. social media websites are all horrible and constantly harass you to install malware ad-infested apps and you're not allowed to use the web browser on your own phone. you have a mini-anxiety attack every time your phone rings or gets a notification and 90% of the time it's just ads and spam, you waste your time and make yourself miserable scrolling mindless bullshit instead of doing something productive, you stress about plugging it in and keeping it charged every day like the whole world will end if your phone battery dies. why are we buying $500+ phones and paying $50+ a month for this?

>>33889
for those damned two-factor authentication text messages

ill take your ram and leave you for dead

>>33807
At least it's not a cause of poverty
>5 grand for mid

Old hardware can be fun! Not to long ago ended up writing an OpenGL text-renderer using skyline binpacking with a shader to get alpha and color on the text. No pango, no cairo, just GLESv2. Plugged it in to wterm and wmenu to have functioning hardware acceleration in Wayland on a nearly twenty year old machine. Would like to write a custom Wayland PDF viewer and ebuild for https://github.com/Igalia/cog so that I could have a minimal completely workable machine one day. Well that and tape the battery which I recently recelled in place, because it keeps falling out.

>>33860
Funnily enough this was also a "no-AI" system because the dependencies for the agent systems are nuts for what they are.

>>33860
By popular demand, pics from my phone…

>>33488
I have already put

lz4 and lz4_compress

into my /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, it still does not work.
>memory overcommitment
I generally do not run memory intensive applications, but I will look into this.

>>33489
Well, i can't reason about your your initramfs build process, if i don't even know what distro you're using. Always make sure /boot is mounted while rebuilding. For debugging your initramfs in general, i recommed removing root= from the kernel commandline and poking around with the emergency shell.

>>33490
In the end I just gave up and used the solution that already worked, thanks for helping anyway!

Basically all third party gentoo repos are unsigned, and ssl is trivial to mitm for any three letter agency. It was only recently that gentoo even started signing their main repo (and it wasn't even ssl so anyone could mitm to root your system).

maybe you can flash it with FOSS distro?

That's free market for you. So much choice! Now even monitors have AIDS in them.

>>33673
you don't actually know what you're hosting if I remember correctly, so it's fine

>>33674
>you and the other 90 people using it still, 89 of which are convicted sex offenders
you can do that if you want

What measures exist to prevent botting in projects like this?

>>33654
It's actually not as bad as it initially seemed. Uploads are much slower than downloads, and even those get faster once the node exists for some time and integrates, like i2p
>>33657
Many more hurdles. Freenet is a storage, i2p is a transport, so on top of it I'd need some decentralized storage model, which I guess could be torrent, but the torrent client needs to have an api and have advanced features like updateable torrents. So such a project would be an order of magnitude more complex for questionable benefit.

>>33673
Hate to break this to you i2p also transmits other people's data through your node
And i2p doesn't even attempt to "solve the problem" because it's anonymized transport, not anonymized storage.

>>33825
Spam prevention works the same as on regular imageboards with the added benefit that if a mod lets spam through you can unsubscribe.

Today had opencode add the thread posts, I didn't really like the way it structured the model code so I had to fix this.

Had another idea: a "difficult" POW for newly created accounts. This is roughly equivalent to banning everyone by default and having a default ban length. With this you could have actual user Actors instead of just the Group, but purely optional usernames, and still have bans that make some sense. Sort of think I no longer have the energy to dedicate to this project. Might just wait for the LLMs to get good enough to write this themselves.

Reincarnating this project once again.
Another cycle around the wheel.
Some interesting technical deviations.
Post-modernist feature set planned.
Skepticism of synthesizing the negated.
Leaving the unnegated pieces whole.
Designing to leave nothing behind.
Pragmatic enough to be completed.
Performance somewhat lacking.

Islands from Deno/Fresh.
Repos injected into functional cores.
Design to test, though I haven't yet.
MongoDB instead of translation or SQL.
Zod for schemas, and form validation.
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Drafted a two-thirds page "spec", and stepwise "plan" for implementation of Group Person interactions. It's closer to what you'd use for a shed, than for the golden gate bridge, still way better than what have been doing. The only trouble which seems legitimate was that for threadiverse Groups to receive inReplyTos you have to Follow. The solution to this is that you can't Undo Follows, because this would break listening for inReplyTos, and so we replace it with a toggle for various visibilities. You also must Follow in order to Create(Note) on these other communities, which is not so bad.

guess tor is kill, rip; imagine how bad it would be if this site was compromised…

I didn't want to post this yet as the projects still in infancy.
But here's a somewhat topical list of features planned:

• Follows and feeds (including for remote).
  
• federated cross-posts a la >>33832 (You)
  
• option for Group's which can post as the Group without login.
  
• tags on Groups.
  
• granular per tag moderator permissions.
  
• "invisible" local karma (HN algo. sorting)
  
• LLM rewriting of posts.
  
  • raw site with original Notes.
    
  • cooked site with rewritten, and click to raw view.
    
  
  
• tor posting with email verified accounts.
  
• websockets for liveboard.
  
• pagenated CDN caching.
  

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