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 No.13173[Reply]

https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=py4Tc-Y8BcY
https://github.com/hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam

This is a piece of software that does deep-fake face-swaps but it's fast enough to do it live.

While everybody lost their minds over how to use this maliciously.

I think this is some really empowering technology for video creators. It enables super low budget movies to be shot by a very small number of actors that play multiple roles, each with a different fake-face, they can also economize on stuff like make-up and hairdressing (especially for scifi alien foreheads) .

For people that wanna be actors but didn't win the genetic lottery on looks this might be the time to shine. (at least briefly until more advanced tech comes along)

it will also level the playing field for e-thots somewhat.
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 No.13174

>>13173
Notice that with all this AI shit there are no new hobbie produced movies making heavy use of AI that you have seen.
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 No.13175

>>13173
>>13174
Also if the default model was someone good looking this might gain more traction lol
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 No.13176

>>13173
>there are no new hobbie produced movies making heavy use of AI
I think that's because most of the video-Ai stuff doesn't run fast enough for real-time. Hobby movie makers won't do extensive post-production, basic video and audio editing, is already time consuming. For Ai-stuff to be adopted by hobbyists, it needs to work like a what you see is what you get video filter that can be applied while filming.

>>13175
your not wrong
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 No.13177

>>13176
>what you see is what you get video filter that can be applied while filming
Lol that's what v-tubers already do I guess
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 No.13199

Vtubers… and those weird hyper-warped and edit Chinese streamers


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 No.12098[Reply]

A video game that nintendo had a legal distribution monopoly on was leaked ahead of the official release. They got really mad about that and they are trying to take it out on the video-game emulation communities, by attacking emulation related software projects on github.

So the lesson here is if you give companies like that money they are going to use it to attack your hobbies. I think this legitimizes "pirating" games because you have no legal option to buy these games without also supporting nintendo's legalistic mafia-terror.

If copy"right" wasn't set up like a monopoly, and you could buy these specific games from any distributor not just nintendo, so that you could choose to buy from non-mafia sellers, it would at least be logically possible to make a case against "piracy". But as long as that's not possible "piracy" is basically just self defense. Keep in mind that nintendo doesn't make games, it's just a legal entity, and not the same as the people that make the games like for example programmers and artists.

Obviously there also is the hole deal with DRM which is total hypocrisy, it basically attacks the concept of personal ownership of your possessions. It's property-rights for me but not for thee.

If they were to reform copy"right" and remove the distribution monopoly aspect, so that everybody with the means to distribute copies was free to do so as long as they gave royalties (as a form of revenue sharing) to the people who actually created the stuff that is being copied. Maybe that would work.

But as long as they keep the monopoly part "piracy" is basically just competing distributors that were arbitrarily banned from participating in the market. Some times people make the strange argument that pirates gain from the work of others but that's also true for the capitalists that own nintendo, by that logic all of nintendo's profits are pirated.

I sometimes feel like the copy-monopolists take the most extreme ideological positions, while we don't and that's why this hole shit drifts ever more towards reactionary insanity where Nintendo gets to rape random software devs on github as some kind of bully-frustration release mechanism and it's a crime if you play with toys "the wrong way". Maybe we should redefine piracy as everything that keeps works-of-art outside the creative-commons/public-domain and drm as a product defect. Maybe that will create a counter-weight.
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 No.13163

>>13104
>We know they'd kill your grandmother and sell her soul for profit if it was legal, you don't need the extra baggage of trying to be a moral pirate weighing you down on the high seas.
Apparently murder is now legal for corpos, if you buy Disney-streaming you grant them the right to kill you.
Piracy just won the moral question.
https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=ikA9KkiTH-c

>>13114
>We know they will kill your grandmother and sell her soul for profit when it was will be profitable enough
>bruh like cmon bruh bruh
I kneel, you're a prophet
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 No.13184

Fuck Nintendo, I refuse to buy anything other than consoles from them. And that's only if they can be hacked. It would give me great pleasure if it were still true that hardware is sold at a loss.
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 No.13190

>>13184
Sony and Microsoft consoles were game-sales subsidized loss-leaders. But Bigtendo never did that. So you're making them money even if you only buy their console hardware.

I don't know why you would bother doing that, when you can get better bang for the back hardware from the steam-deck type consoles, which usually also come with a normal operating system that isn't crippled.
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 No.13193

>>13190
I agree with the steam deck-likes bit, but this was before they existed. I've had a Switch basically since the exploit for their first gen was announced, the Steam Deck only came out years later.

Buying a Switch *now* wouldnt make sense, its been made obsolete by the deck and the rog
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 No.13194

>>13193
So you got lucky, the early models had the hardware feature that let users have more controle over their device. Later models were changed and no longer have that.

>its been made obsolete by the deck

indeed


 No.13191[Reply]

So in Malaysia they tried to ban public DNS servers, because people used those to avoid censorship
It's another case of legislative-pedophilia (attacking civil liberties by claiming it's for pRotecTing tHe cHildRen)
The law got canned because of public outcry.

Louis Rossmann vid for more context:
https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=itj3Z43QAf8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itj3Z43QAf8
https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/malaysian-prime-minister-tries-to-ban:f

I don't know much about that country but it seems pretty shit, they still have archaic medieval laws that punish criticizing or satirizing royalties. The guy wears a fucking bath-towel as his official costume, how people avoid snickering at that is beyond me. By the way the artist of the clown-face (thread picture) got arrested because it insulted the queen or something (not quite sure i understand why that face would…no matter)

Anyway whats the cure for those attacks on digital infrastructure like DNS ?
-vpns ?
-recursive DNS server locally hosted on a remote-vps
-entirely new network protocol that has a resilient name-resolver directly built in
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 No.13192

>>13191
DNS over TOR is a good fix for now. Most of my TCP traffic goes over TOR, but if someone were to run it as a DNS resolver only, the possible attack vector requiring large amounts of infrastructure would become even more infeasible, as the only exploitable resource would be a sparse metadata trail of website visits.

In any case you should set up a local DNS cache. Have some resources on djbdns http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html http://www.lifewithdjbdns.org http://thedjbway.b0llix.net/djbdns.html


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 No.13179[Reply]

Fermilab is a big atom-smasher particle-accelerator physics research project, in the US.It's no longuer the biggest project of this type, the currently biggest is the LHC in Switzerland. Threat-title is a Swiss-French speaking physicist quip about that. The biggest smasher under construction is in China

The fermilab had an interesting research project for neutrinos, and sort of was the front-runner in that area. However they had funding problems and might not be able to continue and there was some drama as well. There was a death and some close calls too.

Neutrinos are very light, low energy particles that don't interact much and hence can pass through matter without getting blocked. They occur naturally in the sun's core as a byproduct of nuclear fusion, but they are also generated by technology without nuclear reactions.

These neutrinos have interesting technological applications.
high power applications: is a neutrino-ray-cannon that can disable nukes by making them cook-off with 1-5% of their specified yield. Regardless where the nuke is or how fast it's going. No matter of shielding or how deep they are buried/submerged. It also doesn't do damage to anything else, so there's no political complications.
low power application is neutrino based communications. Those could become very energy efficient and no longer suffer from signal degradation from passing through objects (including the entire earth). So you can send signals to somebody on the other side of the planet by pointing the neutrino transmitter straight down. Jamming neutrino transmission would be impractical. The military obviously wants this for their ships, subs, bunkers and bases, the first generation of such devices (derived from research instruments see picture) would be super bulky , and likely limited to such niche applications. However eventually could be shrunk down to fit very small electronic devices.

I wonder whether this project is being sabotaged because the anti-nuke-ray would finish off the nuclear weapons industry, and neutrino communications would use a different more 3 dimensional network-topology and reshuffle the deck in communications, upstarts could potentially up-root the entrenched 2 dimensional telecoms.

Fermilab isn't the only research project that's doing neutrinos, so if this was industriaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.13180

There's implications to technology being held back
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 No.13181

>>13180
>There's implications to technology being held back
Sure, historically it tends to be the loosing strategy, but at the same time it's also really common.
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 No.13182

>>13179
i really hope some far left, oppenheimer level genius that is too dirty to hire for the government finds a way to just completely destroy all nukes on the planet. I would be so happy. It honestly would be such a blessing


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 No.10298[Reply]

Some breakthroughs have led me to finally and definitively abandon microshit's spyware.
I had been staying on wangblows for the audio software but had no idea Linux production had come so far.

My DAW [Renoise] has a fucking excellent native linux version that exceeds WIndows performance in some cases. Grabbing audio to feed into its sampler is easier than ever with youtube-dl and ffmpeg.
yabridge lets you convert Windows VSTs to run through Wine, the ones I've tried have worked seamlessly albeit with a little overhead.
Takes a tiny bit of elbow grease to get it optimized enough for serious use, but it's pretty simple once you get past initial setup and it even supports VST3.

Feels pretty good to be making music on a system I have so much control over, it's actually given me a lot of inspiration to work on new material.
Are you a composer or producer who runs Linux? What's your workflow/software?
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 No.10394

>>10298
Based

I use Ardour, Vital, Helm, Geomkick, Surge, Stochas, sfizz, eq10q, and some other stuff like calf plugins.

I'm a total noob though so those might be terrible tool choices.
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 No.13178

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I can't believe I only just found this great thread.

>>10394
I also use Ardour (now on version 8 it's getting pretty good) and some of the plugins you mentioned (others I need to check out).

I'm currently using my linux system for real-time jamming and recording. I use NixOS so I can have the same audio setup on my laptop and my desktop. I'll attach my config. NixOS also has I guess what you would call a plugin that sets your system up for real-time audio called musnix, I turn on some of its settings but not the rt kernel (which causes some instability), but I can get the latency down to 10.7msec in jack with a very stable sound.

I have an arturia audiofuse interface, and today I took that and my laptop to a band practice, as well as my synth, a Yamaha DX7 (which weights 30lbs lol don't use this for practice) and I was using Yoshimi, Pianoteq (only non free software on my computer I swear, but I needed piano) and the synth's own sound (plus other shit), and i just used the midi selector on the dx to change busses. So I has a left and a right going from the interface into the mixer and it worked rock solid for 12h.

Literally we had practice for 12h today idk why we elected to do that, but this isn't even something that's ever going to make us money lol. Anyway shit worked the entire time without a hitch, I'm at this point more worried about the interface's shitty power socket than the software.

I'm not comfortable with posting my band here so maybe in another 3 years I'll bump this thread with some solo OC.


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 No.13157[Reply]

>300 torrents
>18 terabytes were seeded
>4 of them thanks 2 fallout new vegas
Is this truly so over for people rn?
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 No.13158

fuck wrong board i guess kms rn


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 No.13115[Reply]

Back when they were making 200-300k a year if you mentioned unionizing they would laugh and scoff and snub all the proles. They saw anyone making a normal prole wage as subhuman.

Now that porky decides theyve forgotten their place and lays them off, they have no savings left, and no jobs like every other prole they come crawling back and start talking about unionizing.

Tech workers are class traitors, barely different from cops. Its a great time to see them get crushed and experience the poverty they thought they were so immune to. Their demographic is literally typical smug atheist centrist libs, let them burn

This. Find an apolitical woman from a conservative family that way you make sure her core values are in the right place. Ideally working class. Then you introduce her to communism as an strictly political ideology keep her away from libshittery at all costs. You'd be surprised how much she will relate to it.
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 No.13137

>>13125
>You can book a plane ticket to Venezuela or Cuba or North Korea right now if you wanted to.
I can't just go on vacation, I have work on Monday.

Also North Korea doesn't just give out citizens to randos, if you mean immigrating there.
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 No.13148

>>13126
>I don't see anything else in terms of economic theory
And how many have you looked at? I don't know you but you really sound like a fundie who thinks the bible is true because it's the only book he's read.

>The highest returns are on wallstreet

That's because they are close to the money spigots. Money is not real. The federal reserve adds money to the economy in order to centrally plan the market according to political interests. Banks and hedge funds and the stock market in general is one way the new money is transferred into the economy. And the people who work in those industries take a cut of the money passing through and use it to buy up hard assets like real estate before the extra money pushes prices up. That's the real reason you can't afford a house.

>the second highest go to arms dealers

The second way that new money is injected into the economy is through government spending. The government creates bonds or gilts out of thin air and exchanges them for money the central bank created out of thin air. The government then spends the fake money on real shit that is relevant to their interests. Like weapons.

>the capitalists who make the most profits don't produce anything

The people who print money out of thin air and use it to centrally plan the economy are not "capitalists". Central banking is part of Marx's communist manifesto. Throwing central bankers out of a helicopter because they're communists is part of Kiyosaki's capitalist manifesto.

>used to be a satirical comment to mock attempts at polishing a turd

I don't see any argument here. You just take it on faith that "inequality" is bad or "capitalism" is inefficient but you don't have any arguments to back it up.
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 No.13149

>>13148
>And how many have you looked at?
I went by process of elimination.
First thing i did was eliminate the loony theories like praxology that don't explain shit.
Second thing that got eliminated was theories that assumed market equilibrium, it's obviously not in equilibrium, so those theories contradict reality.
Third round of elimination was every theory that tried assign a beneficial purpose to the boom-recession cycle. Having an economy that behaves like a mental patient with severe bi-polar disorder isn't beneficial. If you want a machine analogy a boom is a feed-back-loop that builds up an overload, and the recession is a cascade failure. Theories that try to gaslight you into thinking that's a good thing are obviously not applicable. Then i was left with Marxism.

>I don't know you but you really sound like a fundie who thinks the bible is true because it's the only book he's read.

I don't treat it like a orthodox holy scripture. Marx is wrong about the tendency for profit equalization, that doesn't happen. That's been fixed by other marxists who corrected Marx's theories with a tendency for demographic decline caused by the rise in the rate of exploitation.

>That's because they are close to the money spigots. Money is not real. The federal reserve adds money to the economy in order to centrally plan the market according to political interests. Banks and hedge funds and the stock market in general is one way the new money is transferred into the economy. And the people who work in those industries take a cut of the money passing through

I mostly agree with this, but i just see monopoly power extracting rent. Capitalist monopolies do get destroyed sometimes and then they grow back in a different form. That's what this is, it's not set up like historic monopolies, but it still is the old phenomenon.

>The people who print money out of thin air and use it to centrally plan the economy are not "capitalists". Central banking is part of Marx's communist manifesto. Throwing central bankers out of a helicopter because they're communists is part of Kiyosaki's capitalist manifesto.

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 No.13152

>>13149
>Marx is wrong about the tendency for profit equalization
Are you the same blowhard who ghosted me in the book thread. Go and respond there instead.
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 No.13153

>>13152
You said
<a fundie who thinks the bible is true because it's the only book he's read.
in your previous post

There are a few "textual" Marxists, who are not religious fundies by any stretch, but they do care more about reading the contents of marx's books than treating Marxism like a more scientific discipline that does empirical reality-checks from time to time. An example would be the TSSI marxists, they have something called temporal pricing that is supposed to rescue marx's profit equalization tendency. To me it always sounded like mental gymnastics for the sake of treating Marx as infallible.

The reason for bringing this up, is because the accusation you made, would not be entirely wrong, with regards to the textual wing of Marxism. I'm on the more scientific wing of Marxism, that does throw out elements of marx's original theory that didn't pan out.

This is a rather academic dispute within Marxism and i realize that you probably didn't even know about it. Anyway, now you know why this hole profit equalization topic came up.


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 No.13147[Reply]

same guy who posted this:
https://leftychan.net/tech/res/12471.html

i deleted all of the archives i have. none of you have to worry that anything from this site is sitting is somebody's computer. all gone. all of the stupid bad compas-dichotomy-isms are now gone for good. nobody have to worry.
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 No.13150

>>13147
Glad you're back.

>none of you have to worry that anything from this site is sitting is somebody's computer

I wasn't worried anon, archiving content is generally a good thing.

What made you get rid of it?
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 No.13151

>>13150
first, mental-illness madness. second, I don't want future people to know what an (insert name)-ism or what a "compass" is


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 No.13141[Reply]

Why is the Linux desktop still such a fucking ghetto? They rewrite their crap every couple of years but it's getting shittier every time.
linux is just the project car version of mac os

I'm tired of this bullshit.
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 No.13142

>>13141
The Linux desktop is currently replacing the old display-server X11 with the new one Wayland.
I think X11 might be something like 40 years old and predates linux. So it's not like "crap" gets rewritten every couple of years.

>it's getting shittier every time.

A lot of stuff has to be adapted to the new display server, and that's causing some transitional bugs. But if you compare it to windows, it's looking pretty good.

>linux is just the project car version of mac os

Not really comparable, Linux is very modular, runs an pretty much any hardware, while macos is monolithic and only runs on a very small hardware selection.
Apple probably wants to kill off macos and convert their entire product-line to ios. If you want any of the power-user features you will need to think different or switch to linux.
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 No.13143

Xfce and LXDE are working great for me, dunno what you're talking about…
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 No.13144

Because real ones use I3/DWM
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 No.13145

>>13141
speaking from a programmer's perspective, there is no reliable API or good low level library for graphics on Linux. The only "solution" libraries are bloated, hacked together and incredibly complex.

Both GTK and QT are poor solutions to a lack of a consistent and sensible graphics API. Even expert GTK programmers hate GTK.
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 No.13146

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>>13141
Have you tried not using the latest gnomeslop? Why would you need anything more than XClock and a couple of XTerms? FVWM is 90s yet it's still the most advanced desktop. Unironically the only progress happening during the last decade was shoving inane freedesktop standards into every system component and making everything a mobile UI.


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 No.13087[Reply]

Hello lads. I was recently released from prison, come home to find I do not know where to lurk anymoar. I used to hang out on lainchan and 8chan. Reincarnations of both are still around but they have changed quite a bit.


I don't want consoymerism threads. I just want to know where the similar faggots are gathering these days. I know that there are people like me too stubborn to give up on this so I'm sure they are all congregating somewhere in a virtual valhalla. I've tried here for a few days but this is too fringe for my liking although I may share your politics.

Any advice appreciated
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 No.13108

>>13107
No. The full list right now is:
alogs.space
anon.garden
erischan.org
junkuchan.org
prolikewoah.com
smuglo.li
trashchan.xyz
tvch.moe
zzzchan.xyz

leftypol.org threw around the idea of joining in late 2021, but there was a lot of backlash from both sides of the fence. Obviously it's not the same situation as leftychan (disproportionate userbase at the time, for one, isn't a major factor)
https://web.archive.org/web/20240315000728/https://anon.cafe/meta/res/14926.html
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 No.13109

>>13108
>there was a lot of backlash from both sides of the fence
I don't remember much backlash from our side of the fence. The cries of "pls no politics ;_;7" in that cafe thread are pretty funny though, considering pretty much all of the webring boards are polluted with obnoxious /pol/ fuckers who can't keep their politics out of apolitical boards.
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 No.13110

>>13109
Yeah it's pretty funny that the site hosting /fascist/ (most active board on the site at the time) had someone seriously trying to say 'no politics in the webring pls'. Not to mention the popular board /dup/.
I wonder if it was dissonance or just plain old insincerity.
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 No.13112

>>13105
tech was the only board i cared about, the managers of that board fucked it so hard it was in limbo for months after the reboot which was valuable time to make a bunker or send everyone somewhere else officially. This never happened and here we are. I couldn't give less of a fuck about politics, everyonbe is always trying to shoehorn their off-topic beliefs into pretty much everywhere they go, tech was hostile enough to tell you to shut the fuck up reguardless of which garbage someone thought was so much more imprtant than the board subject and that's what made them special.
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 No.13113

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>>13112
Once I found lainchan, I never looked back. /tech/ was filled with 8chins crying about trans and coc all day. I checked it daily but can't say I miss it.


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