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 No.13057[Reply]

FUCK YOU MOZILLA!

YOU PROBABLY SABOTAGE YOUR OWN PRODUCTS YOU FUCKING FEDS

WHAT IS THIS SHITT????
WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE SUCH FUCKING GARBAGE AND BECOME MORE AND MORE SHIT BY THE MINUTE, HUH?

ON THIS STUPID GOD DAMN APPLICATION CALLED FIRE FUCK-OFF IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE WHICH OF THESE GOD DAMN TABS IS ACTIVE!!!!
THEY"RE ALL EXACTLY THE SAME FUCKING COLOR AAAAAAHHHHHAHGGGHG HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO USE THIS SHIT!! FUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKETR;OLJDFGVJNASDF

WHY THE FUCK DO I HAVE TO GO INTO THE SETTINGS AND CHANAGE THE THEME JUST TO SEE WHAT FUCKING TAB I"M ON HUUUUUGGGGHHHH??

FUCK YOU COCKSUCKERS!!! IT WAS FUCKING FINE. OKAY!? IT WAS FINE AND YOU MAKE IT MORE SHIT WITH EACH ITERATION!!
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 No.13394

>>13393
Are there any Firefox alternatives?
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 No.13395

>>13391
this seems bad, can people at least opt out of if ?
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 No.13396

Immensely disappointing. I'll see you guys on LibreWolf I guess
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 No.13398

>>13395
>>13394
No you can't opt out. The problem with switching is finding an alternative that still supports all the extensions
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 No.13399

they have backpedaled

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 No.12803[Reply]

Hello people. I'm looking for an instant messenger which satisfies most of those needs:

Anonymous, private & secure [decentralised, encrypted & safe] (Hard necessary)

Audio & video calls [configure volume, deafen, mute, select camera/screen/window & support for group chats] (If there is an app which satisfies most other needs but does not have audio/video, I might do fine just using Jitsi instead, so it's mid-necessary.)

Clean, fast, professional, responsive & smooth design (Can also go with terminal)

Cross-platform [android, linux & windows] (Hard necessary)

File transfer [no limits] (Hard necessary)

Free & open source (Hard necessary)

Group chats [customisation & moderation] (Hard necessary)
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 No.13370

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Delta-chat has entered the… uhm chat. I haven't used it yet. Ideally we need something every normie can just use, like whatsapp or fbi.gov. Maybe we need a comparison spreadsheet so we can all agree on like one thing?
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 No.13387

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Bumping for interest as I'm looking at getting off of Signal.
Signal, on paper, seems to be the best, but it has this retarded bug on some Android forks where, on data, the app checks for push notifications too often or just inefficiently and that leads to a noticeable battery drain.

WhatsApp, Messenger and Telegram glow, and I'm not paying for Threema. You're a chat app, know your place, lmao.

Thanks to this thread I looked into Tox, it seems interesting and they addressed the issue mentioned by >>12820
but they admit it's still very experimental and hasn't been audited, so for now I'll pass.

>>13370
>>12870
At a glance, simplex and Delta also sound interesting and I've not seen anything discouraging yet, from neither. I might give them a go and report back.
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 No.13388

>>13370
>Maybe we need a comparison spreadsheet so we can all agree on like one thing?
https://www.securemessagingapps.com/
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 No.13389

>>13388
Thanks!

Anyone using Briar?
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 No.13390

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>>13387
I'm back. Trying SimpleX made clear that the battery drain I was seeing was an Android issue, not a Signal issue.

At some point my dumbass disabled microG cloud messaging registration, so apps weren't using it. That's the fix for that and, as such, I'm staying on Signal.

I guess I still recommend SimpleX as well. I did like it.

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 No.13380[Reply]

Unlimited energy from fusion of materials like lithium deurtride ignited in something like antimatter in a vacuum pointed at gold plated disc or something? The antimatter created from the antiamtter gun experiment with a Hercules tabletop laser or something like that?
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 No.13381

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What happens when you've fused all the lighter elements into iron or nickel? Turns out your "unlimited" energy wasn't so unlimited after all.
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 No.13383

>>13380
Catalyzing fusion with anti-matter is a very good idea, because that can potentially be made very small. If you tear a hole into space-time with lasers you do loose some energy because of the Schwinger effect (i think that's what it's called, i'm not sure) so there still is some engineering difficulty with regards to getting net-energy.

>>13381
Yeah you stop fusing at carbon, if you want energy. Multistage fusion sometimes gets called nova generators, in hard scifi, and the amount of energy you get from this is staggering. People saying it's unlimited energy can be excused, because from our perspective it would be. At that level of power generation, people might actually consider energy-consuming fusion to generate heavy elements, as in energy-to-mater conversion.

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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.12320

>>12319
Dead links are articles I haven't written yet, they should appear as red. For countercomplex see http://countercomplex.blogspot.com/.
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 No.12323

>>12318
I read the section about licenses , and i still don't understand why you consider publicdomain CC0 licenses to be better than copy-left and FOSS licenses.

Wasn't FOSS and copy-left created specifically because it was possible to modify public domain works and then close off the modified version.
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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.13371[Reply]

The irc and the matrix down for anyone else or is it just me? Zero fix the irc I am scared.
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 No.13372

I made a post here >>>/meta/11897 just now. I'm still looking into it.
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 No.13373

>>13371
Okay it should be fixed now

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 No.13365[Reply]

Who else uses RetroShare? Lets change IDs, here is mine: ABATxeFjmzv8pgGufEl3IT6TAxTfwbjsCaLHZ+biHt803TDGPDGXMgEGa2xvcHBvkEIAAAAEAApyZXRyb2JhbmhhcTJ6eHpvMmo0 M3FzYW5icXlvYm5sYXVqanh5eHFkenlkY3Vzb2E1NXpxLmIzMi5pMnAEAy1eVw==
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 No.13366

forgot to tell that it is over I2p, only
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 No.13367

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Yo this program is cool!

Add me up

ABDLMfpspD4l+lNrIyRvJqy7AxQk7E2eN/O4zDCw2/tp5ULtSOTm2AEGcG9vXzIykEIAAAAEAApkemZzaGplbnp4anh2d2trb2xl
c2VtNm5pNHduemFsN2RwZmljd212bW02NnZ1cjNwZ2dhLmIzMi5pMnAEA6Fl6Q==

I got this working with i2pd, let me know if anyone is having trouble!
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 No.13368

great! add me, too, please


ABDsbkCPRyGWb9+8AhKQVhiEAxS4w6eI4rfD6x+TN+POaViiYB2X6wEKQmlmaVJhbmdlcpBCAAAABKEGcmV0cm9zaDZscnN4NHB5
ajV6em1tdmJ4d3JmdHl5cmU0eGtnM2RrZXd1d3dyeWJkdnJoYS5iMzIuaTJwBANIz0A=

A tutorial on how to set it up is here:
https://retroshare.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/i2p-hidden-rs-node/
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 No.13369

>>13368
Another tutorial if you use i2pd (I followed this):

https://i2pd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/retroshare/

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 No.13328[Reply]

I DON'T HAVE ANY SMOKING GUN EVIDENCE BUT I INSTINCTUALLY KNOW IT IS HAPPENING. FALSEFLAGGING GAMES AS VIRUSES, TELLING ME MY DOCUMENT IS/ISN'T CORRUPTED BASED ON THE TEXT EDITOR I OPEN IT WITH, MY COPY OF MTPAINT HAS TOTALLY DISAPPEARED BUT RE-APPEARS SOMETIMES. MY PROPERIETARY PROGRAMS ARE ALWAYS OFFERED TO ME AHEAD OF FOSS AS CHOICES. PROPEITARY PROGRAMS WORKING SUSPICIOUSLY FASTER THAN THEY SHOULD BE AS IF THEY ARE BEING PUSHED TO BE FASTER. THIS COMPUTER OTHERWISE WORKS FINE. THERE ARE NEFARIOUS FORCES TRYING TO MANIPULATE ME TOWARDS ANTI-FOSS OPINIONS BY SABOTAGING/IMPROVING PERFORMANCE. DOCUMENT SAVES BETTER AFTER REMOVING MENTIONS OF NUKES TYPE SHIT.
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 No.13358

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>>13335
I WILL NEVER STOP USING ALL CAPS UNLESS I AM FEELING LAZY THEN I WILL TYPE IN PROPER ENGLISH. CAPS LOCK NEEDS TO BE INSTITUTED WORLDWIDE BECAUSE HUMANITY IS HEADED TOWRADS AN ALWAYS LOWERCASE FUTURE. THAT IS WAY WORSE. ALWAYS CAPITALIZED IS FAR BETTER THAN ALWAYS USING SMALL LETTERS.

I MANAGED TO GET MY OLD LAPTOP WITH LINUX MINT WORKING AGAIN, SO I DON'T NEED TO USE MY FATHER'S COMPUTER. HOWEVER I AM USING A PLUGGED IN KEYBOARD BECAUSE THE BUILT IN KEYS ARE BROKEN. ALSO THE CHARGER I BOUGHT IS TUNED IN AT THE TOTALLY WRONG VOLTAGE I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT WILL CAUSE IN THE FAR FUTURE.

BUT YOU COULD SAY THAT THE PROBLEMS THIS THREAD WAS CREATED FOR ARE FIXED IN THE SENSE I AM NO LONGER NEED TO FACE THEM. MY FATHER CAN NOW MAKE VIRTUAL DJ REMIXES 247.

THANKS TO ALL PEOPLE THAT GAVE ADVICE.
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 No.13359

RUNNING SIMULATIONS OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF VARIOUS AMERICAN CITIES GOT NUKED FELT MEAN SO I SCRAPPED THE IDEA. AMERICA HAS 7000 NUKES AVAILABLE TO RETALIATE WITH AND THE RADIATION WILL FUCK UP THE CITIZENS OF INNOCENT NATIONS
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 No.13360

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>>13359
That's funny
I just ran a simulation myself
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 No.13361

>>13360
THAT'S COOL
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 No.13362

>>13361
Everything gonna be alrite

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 No.13245[Reply]

Well it looks like the United States and NATO finally figured out a way to sabotage the Linux kernel. Several Russian kernel developers have just had their contributions removed and their kernel contributor status revoked due to being on the receiving end of US economic sanctions.

https://lwn.net/Articles/995186/

Torvalds himself is playing along with this enthusiastically because of his own moronic Finnish national politics. This is an extremely concerning development that affects all of free software. If this can happen to the Linux kernel it can happen to any other libre software projecting, poisoning the entire concept of international software development.
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 No.13353

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>>13351
<3. Avoid Two-Way Engagement
<Reviewing an unsolicited patch from a contributor in a sanctioned region should generally be fine, but actively engaging them to better understand their issue, diagnose the problem, or help improve a patch or modify code would likely cross the line. If the contributor is linked to a sanctioned entity or region, in general, it is best to keep communications strictly one-way. If a patch is received and you improve it and submit it upstream, that should be fine, but going back and forth in communications with the SDN developer likely would not.
<4. Avoid Contributions Enabling SDNs
<Accepting unsolicited patches that fix general issues in your open source project should be okay. However, if the changes directly benefit a restricted party’s products or services, it could be a problem. For example, if a developer from AcmeSDN (and AcmeSDN is an SDN subject to OFAC sanctions) contributes a driver that enables the AcmeSDN processor to work in your software, that contribution would likely be an issue. Think carefully not just about the source code, but the impact of these unsolicited patches.
<5. Avoid Indirect Contributions
<Sanctioned entities might try to contribute indirectly through third parties or developers acting "individually." Developers should understand other contributors' affiliations and raise any concerns with their community and legal counsel. For example, if in the prior example, AcmeSDN paid a developer in a country not subject to sanctions to make the driver contribution enabling AcmeSDN’s processor, that would still likely be an issue. A common pattern is that an SDN’s developer is blocked from making a contribution, but then a very similar (or the same) patch is submitted to the project from another account or email address. It could be an anonymous email account. Just because the contributor has been obfuscated does not change an assessment of the situation.
So basically the sanctions are placing an enormous burden on libre projects to both a) keep extreme track of the identity and national origin of contributors in order to avoid the wrongPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.13354

>>13351
been reading this, it seems that the "OhFuck" sanctions, mean that everybody can use each others code, but devs aren't allowed to talk directly to each other anymore, they have to talk past each other. Bunch of confusing shit.
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 No.13355

>>13353
I don't see why this is such a big deal. Can't we just move to an open source repo or something?
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 No.13356

>>13353
>keep extreme track of the identity and national origin of contributors in order to avoid the wrong ones, making software projects about people instead of the software
Yeah that's the difference between technical people and non-technical people.
Technical people absolutely despise this kind of "personality drama", the reaction to this will be: there are no people, there's only code
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 No.13357

I'm so angry at how little attention this controversy is getting in other places of libre software enthusiasm.

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 No.13348[Reply]

Yeah this shit works better than my paid chatgpt account, what else is there to say?
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 No.13349

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>>13348
>what else is there to say?
Apparently deep-seek caused a big sell-off in tech stocks. There's a lot of speculation on that. Mine is that it proved that the big players aren't the only game in town, and that new competition can emerge, and that the trend probably goes towards commodity AI rather than siloed monopoly rent AI.

Deepseek being open source is also nice.

With it being a pure reinforcement learning design it doesn't need fine tuning and that's probably why it only cost like 6 million to make.

If you want to run the big boy model with 600+ billion parameters you need like 405 gigabyte of memory preferably speedy video memory. Graphics cards need an entire order of magnitude increase in video memory capacity. The 8-16 gigs on consumer cards and the 24-48ish gigs on profesh cards doesn't cut it anymore. Maybe this is finally whats going to cause mainstream PCBdesing to incorporate optical data-lanes.

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 No.11956[Reply]

Recently there has been a lot of commotion around large language model text based AI.
They are able to do impressive stuff, they give useful answers, and even can write somewhat usable programming sample code.

The most famous one currently is chatgpt, but all of those AIs are basically black boxes, that probably have some malicious features under the hood.

While there are Open-Source Implementations of ChatGPT style Training Algorithms
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/open-source-chatgpt/
Those kinda require that you have a sizeable gpu cluster like 500 $1k cards that are specialized kit, not your standard gaming stuff. To chew through large language-models with 100 billion to 500 billion parameters.

The biggest computational effort is the initial training run, that chews through a huge training data-set. After that is done, just running the thing to respond to your queries is easier.

So whats the path to a foss philosophy ethical AI ?
Should people do something like peer to peer network where they connect computers together to distribute the computational effort to many people ?

Or should people go for reducing the functionality until it can run on a normal computer ?
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 No.13054

The Hated One made a good and brief vid about big tech lobbies trying to kill Open source AI because bigtech can't compete with the open stuff on cost efficiency. His take is to go bug your political representatives to not let big tech hord all the AI-tech for it self.

My question is, could the tech monopolies really block Opensource AI ?

Can't the computer wizards just go to some other country and ask for opensource friendly regulations. That country could import a massive tech-boom for free. Possibly even get better AI. It's not like this is huge immobile industrial technology.

https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=5NUD7rdbCm8
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 No.13304

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 No.13306

>>13304
> face ATTENDANCE
Bio-metrics is a cyclical fad.

The very technology that enables you to detect a bio-metric feature also allows you to make fake duplicate, that circumvents it. It's conceptually flawed.
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 No.13310

https://github.com/hanweikung/face_anon_simple
Simple face exchange for anonymity
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 No.13339

https://github.com/harishsg993010/HawkinsDB

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