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 No.13069[Reply]

So OpenClosedAi has appointed a NSA-guy as director.
So it's probably best to avoid that one.
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 No.13208

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>>13202
>We might fuck up AI
Yup probably

<Larry Ellison says AI will enable a vast surveillance system that can monitor citizens.
<Ellison, the billionaire cofounder of Oracle, shared his thoughts on AI during a recent meeting.
<Walking down a suburban neighborhood street already feels like a Ring doorbell panopticon.
<But this is only the start of our surveillance dystopia, according to Larry Ellison, the billionaire cofounder of Oracle. He said AI will usher in a new era of surveillance that he gleefully said will ensure "citizens will be on their best behavior."

https://12ft.io/https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/billionaire-larry-ellison-says-a-vast-ai-fueled-surveillance-system-can-ensure-citizens-will-be-on-their-best-behavior/articleshow/113373120.cms

What he is proposing is essentially behavior modification via psychological torture.
Technology as a whip In this case surveillance-stalker-wares and AI-stalker-wares.

It'll go beyond what people can tolerate and cause the 3 conflict reactions (flight,freeze and attack). People will figure out how fragile all the digital support infrastructure is and it'll get destroyed. It took over 3 decades to build and it'll be torn down in a fit of rage, lasting maybe a week. All the digital niceties will probably be lost too. And it will take forever to recover it. It'll be back to square one.
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 No.13209

>>13208
>It took over 3 decades to build and it'll be torn down in a fit of rage, lasting maybe a week

Hopefully, but I'm not that optimistic. I think if it's done slowly enough people will hold the L and accept it.
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 No.13210

>>13209
I don't think the tear-down scenario is particularly hopeful. Consider all the things that'll be lost. The hopeful scenario is where the digital infrastructure is corrected in order to serve the interests of the people.

As far as the surveillance-aggressors are concerned, their end goal is a device attached to your neck (and everybody else's) that can punish by electroshock, chemical-pain-injections, and ultimately death by blowing up a small charge Zionist pager style. I don't know how to categorize this, regression to serfdom, probably.

If you are still asking your self how surveillance leads to exploding neck-devices (which would be odd considering recent events), it's the logical conclusion of trying to controle people via fear.

I'm not making this up, ten years ago i read an article by a consulting-guy for super-rich people from roughly the same milieu as this Ellison guy, maybe we could name it the SIC (surveillance industrial complex). He said that he got requests for technological control-bracelets to put around people's necks in order to ensure reliable controle over people for "end of the world emergency scenarios"

They'll keep pushing unless they are stopped. So if you harbor any illusions for a boring dystopia that might just be bearable enough, keep in mind they're building the Torment Nexus, intentionally so.

Also the Normies aren't taking the L they're just pursuing a different strategy than privacy conscious techies. They think about the surveillance machine like a reputation/public-image management problem. They're going to push for the ability to curate their "surveillance profile", and they'll be able to do this to a great extend. And possibly also to ruin the profiles of others (1) . Privacy conscious techies are opposed to observation because they are builders, who don't want bullies to take what they made from them. Bullies don't take what they can't see. The paniopticon probably comes with a heavy economic penalty, because it demoralizes many builders.
(1) the surveillance ideologues who think that the surveillance data will be a record of reality are delusional

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 No.13220

>>13208
>Corpo glowie casually proposes Skynet dystopia
>Soydevs rejoice

If such a thing even gets considered seriously, I'm gonna kill myself
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 No.13221

>>13220
If only you knew how bad things were.
A major application for AI is going to be for Bioinformatics.
Normies were stupid enough to give large chunks of their genomes to 23&Me, who then used AI to fill in the blanks for people missing from the global family tree. All this shit got "leaked"; what will it be used for?

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 No.13164[Reply]

So Intel processors are crapping out and they're already on the financial downturn. Intel might go under or continue on in a diminished fashion.

Many think that the X86 platform will stagnate without the competition between AMD and Intel.

I don't know, but there's always Risk-V, with it being a very open platform, there is nothing stopping anybody from taking a RISC-V design with small low-power cpu cores and adding a few really powerful chunky desktop type cpu cores to it, to make a hybrid processor. Lowering the barrier to entry for companies to make desktop-type processors.
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 No.13187

Fault of gamers for demanding technology so complicated they couldn't understand it if they studied for 40 years.

So chip manufacturers put in all this cheating into the chips since the early 90s and now they are riddled with bugs, security holes, and breakage

What a joke
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 No.13188

>>13183
>which leads to hyper deflation of chip prices
that sort off happened, for cost-per-processing
you can get a micro controller with 1980-85 era desktop computer specs for 25 cents

Or do you mean lowering the commodity price of chips all together ?
As in cost-per-chip-area
That would come from improving production technology to reduce the manufacturing cost.

>start pumping out risc-v
>finally the year of the open source linux desktop.
So Risc-v makes TYotLD happen ?
Maybe…
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 No.13189

>>13185
>I'm very curious to see what will ultimately spark the big move to the next architecture.
same here
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 No.13218

>>13188
good point that it already happened.

I think the first two have actually happened already and will continue to happen as long as there is competition.

As for the third that I mentioned, I'm honestly just super hopeful. I wish it would happen- assuming the us doesnt just sanction chinese chips and makes two markets with no competition
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 No.13219

>>13218
>good point that it already happened.
It already happened for processing cost, but for the die-area of chips, those haven't really increased that much. There are large chips like the size of post-cards, but those are not cheap. The wavers (chip-blanks) haven't really scaled up that well, it's probably because growing large silicon crystals is kinda hard.

>I wish it would happen- assuming the us doesnt just sanction chinese chips and makes two markets with no competition
Yeah RISC5 is open-source, so if they segregate the market, both sides still can copy each others designs. Which kinda happens in tech a lot. Also its capitalism, sanctions can't stop anything from getting sold, if there's money to be made somebody will find a loophole. I think the point of these tech sanctions might be a shake-down. It could be people who are trying make money by first blocking Chinese goods so they can sell access for a premium.

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 No.13123[Reply]

halp. bitch neighbors
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 No.13156

>>13154
Science fiction unfortunately created the expectation of high-powered lasers as some kind of weapons, when it should have depicted lasers as the equivalent of a power-drill where the drill-bit never dulls and always extends as deep into the hole as you need it too.
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 No.13201

China employs lasers in the South China Sea though so they can be violent but not be at war
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 No.13203

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>>13201
>China employs lasers in the South China Sea though so they can be violent but not be at war
And what are they lasering with that ?
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 No.13204

Other countries' coast guards potentially blinding them, blockading them too but hey not at war
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 No.13207

>>13204
So dazzling lasers ?
I thought that was pointless because of the technology that automatically dims welding goggles effectively neutralizes that.

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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.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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