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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.6724[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

This thread is only for feedback related to technical issues(bug reports, suggestions). Otherwise use
>>>/leftypol/30356
Public Repo: https://github.com/towards-a-new-leftypol/leftypol_lainchan
If you have any grievances you can make a PR.

Mobile Support: https://github.com/PietroCarrara/Clover/releases/latest
Thread For Mobile Feedback: >>>/tech/6316

Onion Link: http://wz6bnwwtwckltvkvji6vvgmjrfspr3lstz66rusvtczhsgvwdcixgbyd.onion
Cytube: https://tv.leftychan.net
Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#Leftypol:matrix.org
Once you enter, consider joining the lefty technology room.

We are currently working on improvements to the site, subject to the need of the tech team to sleep and go to their day jobs. If you need more immediate feedback please join the matrix room[s] and ask around. Feel free to leave comments, concerns, and suggestions about the tech side of the site here and we will try to get to it as soon as possible

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 No.13323

>>13234
I would be open to changing the main post font for bunker-like (the default theme, or copying it and naming it something else) else but not changing everything at once.

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 No.13451[Reply]


I don't consider it to be bad experience I had my fair share of fun and comfy times, but as time progresses I am losing something important
lots of people I used to interact and have fun with are gone, maybe they grew up and found life
many accounts I created have been just laying around aimlessly and they feel more like a burden on my consciousness that I want to get rid of but I can't cause they encompass some important pieces of memories from my past self
I want to delete all of my tens of thousands of anime and meme images spread around my countless internet accounts and personalities because they feel like a deadweight on my brain making me slow and filled to the brim with useless information that makes me dull, but for some reason I can't do that
many group chats and servers are filled with new people who still have that youthful vigor and carelessness in them but I feel like I am getting too old to participate in their games anymore, and anons my age are getting increasingly more political and boring,
the feeling that I should finally delete my internet personality for good and finally do something with the real me is growing ever so worryingly, and I am starting to feel a little anxious over it
but I can't do that cause that's all that I am - an internet shadow lurking around and watching what other people do with their lives while I just archive data inside my mind
I would like to become a historian and work with archives locked inside a room filled with papers and books, but I don't think that's ever going to happen
I'd also want to delete some unpleasant stuff I did during my journey through the internet but I guess some things are just there forever, oh well
the more comfortable and not toxic parts of the internet are being covered under layers of useless momentary anger and political discourse that was close to absent when I was just starting my journey
maybe it's just my mind, tricking me into believing that the grass was greener in the past, or maybe it is actually the truth, it doesn't matter anyway
I guess my biggest mistake was thinking that I can combine two and more lives and not damage my mental abilities and/or moral compass, now I feel like I am a half-man in every field and aspect. I should've been smarter, but I guess I never really was.
it's okay though, things could've been way worse, I just wish I could have that sense of tranquility more often, but I guess choosing the internPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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 No.13446[Reply]

Why just about nobody seems to care about risk of strong solar storm on the scale of the carrington event?

Why there are no procedures made, spare transformers produced, emergency food and supplies stored around major cities, etc?

People care about climate change risks slowly damaging civilization over decades, and here we have risk (also scientifically and historically proven) that can just randomly disable worldwide electricity next year (extremely unlikely) or during the next 200 years (LIKELY) and we are doing nothing?

What is the logic in this? "Unlike climate change it will happen randomly, it may happen in 2054 or 2077, we may be already dead, we don't care"?
(No, nobody said that, I'm just trying to imagine reasons needed to ignore the issue).

Do you care about people who are now small children?

"It will PROBABLY not happen during my remaining lifetime, I'm fine with only 10% risk of dying from hunger or disorder among collapsing civilization"?

What is the logic here? What is the plan?

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 No.13449

>>13446
We probably would need more than a few spare transformers. I think it would be a rather daunting task to create redundancy for a big Solar storm.

The best way to deal with this might be to have a reliable way to forecast this in advance so that we can uncouple the systems wait out the storm and then re-engage. That way we only need to have downtime rations. Oh and we'd have to replace satellites, all the satellites would be fucked. Yeah it would probably be wise to have back-up gps satellites, given how few people likely are still capable of navigating with a map.

>fall of the industrial civilization
It wouldn't do that. Industrial civilization would get knocked down a peg or two, but it would start up again.

>Or perhaps nobody outside of 20 scholars and Wikipedia heard about this issue?
Maybe we should tell the super-rich that wallstreet runs on computers, that might not like getting solar stormed.

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 No.13437[Reply]

In this week edition of China lapping everybody else's tech:

BYD's new battery pack can be recharged to half full in 5 minutes, adding 400km or 250miles of range to the car it comes installed in. Which is on paar with refilling a gas tank. Soaking up those electrons at a whopping rate of One Megawatt. To be fair, that's probably not going to be the mode that maxes battery health. And if you want to install a bunch of charging stations you might have to look into small modular nuclear reactors.

I really did not expect big leaps in tech for batteries, batteries are over 200 years old, as such one would expect only incremental improvements. They're approaching hybrid capacitor territory in terms of power density.

I also just realized that this means they have to do 1000 amps at one kV for the charging cable. It's going to be a thick boy, and likely need water cooling. It also likely will vaporize you if you short it out.
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 No.13443

>>13438
Depending on how they achieved this, other types of battery packs could receive the same benefits.

Cars can have very sophisticated battery management that includes things like active cooling, which is not practicle for most battery packs.
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 No.13444

>>13439
>If anything, battery advancements have been lagging behind. They should be much more advanced by now,
Ok i've never heard that perspective before. I guess it's reasonable, batteries have been a weak-spot in many technologies.

>and there's been a longstanding theory that part of the reason they aren't is that if they were massively improved then they'd sell less of them.
I can see the logic, making batteries that wear out quickly, makes for a convenient way to introduce obsolescence. But there are a lot of people who still avoid battery operated devices where ever possible because they do not want to deal with "battery-headaches". If batteries were as robust as a "electricity bucket", they would likely see an overall increase in use. When LEDs had massive improvements adoption increase exponentially. If there really was something like cartel shenanigans, that probably was to their detriment.

I guess we'll see what's what. If they really shelved battery tech because it was too good, the Chinese will likely figure those out and just run with it. And the "tech-shelvers" will have egg on their face for having missed the opportunity to take the industry crown while they had the chance.
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 No.13445

>>13441
>What kind of batteries are they, though?
Don't know. TBH haven't looked into it, i guess we'll have to wait until this gets reverse engineered.

>I won't be impressed by electric vehicles until they can store large amounts of energy in a way that doesn't require enormous amounts of scarce metals. Advancements in pure carbon batteries are what we should be looking towards.
Pure carbon batteries ? I'm having trouble imagining what kind of battery chemistry that would be.

I think you're waiting for sodium(Na) or aluminum batteries ? As far as metals go those are pretty abundant.
I mean Lithium is kinda rare, but it's not that bad. The politics around Lithium are a bigger problem, Lithium deposits are concentrated in certain regions, that creates geo-political struggle. Sodium and Aluminum can be had almost everywhere, so there is less potential for shitfuckery.

Also i think that the future of cars will not be in the form of personal vehicles. They'll become part of the infrastructure, … eventually. In the soon-ish future cars will become mostly rentals that substitute public transport. Once auto-pilots work flawlessly they will eventually shift towards turning into a component of a road network. Big cities will go for fully integrated transport systems that not only drive on auto-pilot but also optimize traffic flows to fix or at least reduce congestion. The org that builds roads, tunnels and bridges will also be the one that furnishes those with cars. I hope people will not start calling those "pods" The point of bringing this up is because in that environment it'll probably be rather easy to optimize away a lot of need for huge battery capacity. Personal vehicles will remain outside of cities, tho.
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 No.13447

>>13445
Cars are a stupid highly inefficient form of mass transit. The future is the death of cars and sane rail transportation.
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 No.13448

>>13447
Cars are not mass transit at all. But i do get what you mean, leveling up rail seems like the best bet for the future.

I wouldn't shit on this because what they are doing is leveling up batteries, which is a useful technology far beyond cars.

Also you are going a little far with the death of cars, they're the only viable option for people living outside of cities. We can't run trains in small villages.

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 No.11967[Reply]

So the EU is apparently pondering to make a mandatory pedo scanner for software.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2022%2F05%2F11%2Feu-csam-detection-plan%2F

Many people have pointed out that this is just a pretext to attack:
privacy
IT security
and maybe even free open source software.

Many people think it's surveillance organizations them selves that are uploading the CSAM on purpose to push for laws that expand their legal permissions.

And all of the above is undoubtedly true.
Consider that if you invert the assumption of innocence and declare that wanting privacy makes you into a pedo-suspect that means that secret organizations have to be considered pedo-guilty by default, because they can't prove their innocence while keeping their secrets either.

If you argue that effective encryption that can't be broken which is absolutely necessary for the very concept of privacy, has to be undermined for the pedo-scanner. Then that same argument has to be made for proprietary software. Many pieces of proprietary software are in the range of tens or hundreds of gigabytes, and without publicly available source-code it's possible to hide a huge assortment of pedo-content in there. By contrast it's not possible to hide pedo-stuff in open source software.

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 No.13433

>>13410
>>13426
Dev here, how are you motherfuckers doing this?
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 No.13435

>>13434
I am a genius
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 No.13436

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 No.13159[Reply]

https://archive.is/Qt0n1
So it seems a US court has just ruled that Google monopolized the online search market. Now the Department of Justice is "considering" breaking up Google as a potential option in response.

At long last is there finally some hope for the future of the web?
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 No.13423

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 No.13424

>>13423
>I don't have anything worth saying so meds or something

Like, the whole point of image boards is to practice your right to freedom of speech. Just shutting down everything that crosses your path is pathetic and it highlights how stupid you are.
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 No.13425

>>13424
On the other hand all you seem to have to contribute is straw men and dated liberal propaganda.
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 No.13429

Amazingly, the Department of Justice seems to still be sticking to their demand that Google divest from Chrome and stop funneling money to (fake) competitors for setting their search engine to default.

https://archive.is/4eBDL
Google still wants us to believe that they are essentially part of the US government and thus need to be protected:
>A spokesperson for Google said the "sweeping proposals continue to go miles beyond the Court's decision, and would harm America's consumers, economy and national security."
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 No.13430

The last time they did something like this was with anti-trust laws from the 1910s thru the 40s.

Thats how ABC, the American Broadcasting Corporation, was born.

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 No.13038[Reply]

A terror group with japanese origins (that calls it self "Neentendoh" or something like that) has just launched a mass dmca cyber attack against github where they managed to destroy 8500 forks of an open source project. In their terror manifesto they tried to justify their crusade with other people making software they didn't like.

Is there a better place for hosting source code that isn't so vulnerable to this kind of organized crime ? Github seem to have become a precarious place.
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 No.13051

>>13047
>I don't even think Nintendo has a legal foothold here. You're allowed to write software that does the function of a physical electronic device, but in software (virtualization). The only caveat is that you can't redistribute their software, so no operating system, games, or any firmware needed to boot the device.
Interesting, thanks for the explanation, so how does this shake out in praxis. Obviously EvilCorp will try to lock their games to their devices. Can they use this to cheat by pretending a part of the game is device firmware ?
>You also shouldn't reference stolen software in your implementation, because if they see that your code is too close to their proprietary code then they might have a case.
Wait a minute they can claim somebody else's code if it's similar to theirs, what if there is only one efficient algorithm for a specific problem, are they allowed to monopolize math now ? That is some Bullshit.

>There's even a re-implementation of windows called ReactOS and they can't do anything about it because the devs agreed to do what they called "clean room reverse engineering" meaning they weren't taking apart windows using a de-compiler and looking at how it works, they simply implemented what they had to in order to get software packaged for windows to run.
<interesting tangent
So the ReactOS team has to play by much stricter rules, than anybody else ?
Because literally every single big tech companies either steals designs from competitors via corporate espionage or they do it by ripping designs from the products directly.
Its the main reason why it's so fucking hard to get chips with open source firmware. Closed proprietary firmware is hiding infringerinos on a massive scale. If they ever enforce this shit, the only electronics you'll be able to buy will be somebodies hobby project.
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 No.13052

>>13048
I never understood the argument on
>"circumventing technological protection measures"
It seems to require an extreme subjective bias to see it that way.
Consider other perspectives.
What if somebody buys a Snitch because they see it as a Japanese puzzle box, and their fun is solving the technological puzzle. You're gonna criminalize playing the wrong way with a toy ?
From the perspective of consoomers who actually try to game on this thing, it's just malware, a defect, or a personal property circumvention measure.

It feels like somebody legislated extreme anti consumer bias into law. The fundamental legal argument for having any kind of Intellectual monopolies at all, is that it's in the public interest. How does the general public benefit from having their personal property expropriated ?

If they went back to games cartridges, like in the olden days and each cartridge had a special ASIC chip specifically optimized to run a particular game. They would have a legit case, because there would be a benefit for consumers as well. Asic cartridges could be super power efficient and make the battery last a long time, while also ensuring that games never stutter. And the base compute device could be cheaper because heavy duty processing gets offloaded to the cartridge chip. And they could hold on to their scarcity business model.
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 No.13053

>>13049
Understanding what Intellectual monopoly laws actually mean is as confusing as trying to understand religious interpretation of holy scriptures. From what i gather reading the other posts in this thread the emulator software contained a fragment of code or data that wasn't copy-halal or copy-kosher.

So at best the big N had claims regarding that fragment within the logic of the copy-monopoly church. However not against the other parts of the emulator software. So attacking the distribution of the non-heretical parts was a cyber attack.

The dmca mechanism it self is questionable as well. Because from a neutral point of view it's a censorship mechanism. It's not only threatening to freedom of expression rights. Ironically it's also a tool for stealing authorship-rights from the original authors.

You could go to a number of popular websites (that i won't mention here). Copy somebody else's content and republish it there with a false date, pretending you published before the original creator. And then you use the dmca mechanisms of search engines, social media, and so on to get the original author black-listed, from most of the ways other people can discover content. There are already automated services for this scheme and some have estimated that this praxis might make up 53% of dmca claims. I have no clue how accurate this estimation is, but you have to admit there is cause for looking at this thing as an attack vector for a new type of denial of service.
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 No.13413

>>13053
>republish it there with a false date

How? Most user generated content platforms provide their own timestamps, you can't fake those without their backend DB write access. Vulnerabilities? Design flaws?

>>13053
>automated services for this scheme

Any links?
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 No.13415

>>13413
There are technical manipulations of time-stamps, that are being exploited by weaponized copy-monopoly "services"

But legally if you say "originally published in … " then that supersedes any automatic time stamping.

The copy-monopoly mafia wants their copy-repression license imposed as the default and therefore everything that gets published is by default copy-repressed unless the author makes an effort to attach a better license like copy-left. The self-declared date of publication is taken as valid unless there is litigation. They could easily close the back-dating-loophole, but then they have to make people register for their copy-repression license. The date of registration would be stored, and then it would be difficult to pretend to be the "true true author" that "pre-published". Many people would not make that effort and just not use any license at all. If people made the effort to attach a license many would pick a different one then the repressive one the copy-monopoly mafia wants. So this shit isn't gonna get fixed.

>Any links?
nope I'm not leading you to the dark side my young padawan

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 No.8337[Reply]

You guys are aware that everybody connects you to idpol transhumanists, liberals LARPing as AntiFa and cuckold fetishists, and that this is hurting your cause?
I lurked this website for a month now and i noticed a fundamental difference between the posters who are here to actually talk to others and the posters who link to 4chan to ask for support in some ridiculous bait thread where you just waste time.

I also noticed that you have a thread talking about if an imageboard would be better as a single-page-application.
I am currently working on my own imageboard from scratch. I am actually a web-developer and know my stuff, so (i hope) it won't be just another 4chan rip-off. I am going to use node - react - redux - sequelize for mysql - redis.
I am visiting different boards to gather ideas, but i see the same sorry state everywhere. I seriously want to make something good.
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 No.8640

Please be bait lol
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 No.8645

>>8349
it's also so that people get drip-fed dopamine and keep coming back for more. If you gave them everything at once, they'd take a second to look, see everything, and leave.
If you make them scroll up and make it so that they never really are in control of what they see, they stay on your service longer because they have an incentive to keep pushing the stupid button to get a treat
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 No.13411

>>8337
>idpol transhumanists

What's wrong with those? Eroding focus of attention?

I'd like to be able to live longer and photosynthesize to be more independent…
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 No.13412

>>8337
>node - react - redux - sequelize for mysql - redis

Please don't. That's a bunch of junk. Would be better to have a completely no-JS one, maybe with SSR on Pug templates.
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 No.13414

I have been a janny for several imageboards for like 24 years now and I can say they are all mostly the same thing. What separates them is a matter of ideology and world view. The most unique one in terms of style was 420chan.
Like think about it; 420chan was about drugs, 7chan was about being not 4chan, 4chan was about coping 2chan but for English, leftypol is about the liberal left and being a caricature of the left. We are about open free a speech on the left and still remaining a leftist board. We don't need broad overreaching rules that stifle conversation and we can do it some what democratically.

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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.13403

This seems to be the basis for a class-action lawsuit under anti-trust law.
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 No.13407

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Month? This has been the case for years. Cloudfare are an enemy, yes. We should do something about it, don't know what though, other than noise
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 No.13408

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>>13403
Not a lawyer, but I would think it might be hard to argue if there isn't really anything preventing someone from buying up blocks of IP addresses and selling MITM load balancing. The popularity of shitty services seems to be an accident of business.

Beyond that, there is obviously advantage to doing fingerprinty stuff to filter bots. The obscure browsers are going to take time to work around, and that's not even if they are less fingerprinty.

We need something beyond browser fingerprints, or even IP addresses.

>>13402

A cool idea that has been banging around in my head (and some other heads) for a while is a proof of humanity based on peer-to-peer web of trust. There are projects that work semi-centralized like this, saves the cost of PoW for a local blockchain.

It would be cool if it were so prevalent that you just centralize around yourself- "you" being the web server that wants to filter bots. They send you some signature chain that shows they are vouched for by a chain of people… people who you, transitively, trust enough to serve them a page.

But this would mean the end user has to store a private key securely… which I have a feeling is somehow a psychotic expectation, even if we could cheaply revoke them.

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