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KRIPPLEKIKE FIX YOUR SHIT 14: AGAINST ALL MODS
Previously on deleted thread
>Mods have deleted the previous thread
>Mods are deleting random snippets from threads, pic related
Is this the end of the hacker known as 8chan?
Bon voyage gateway goblin
RMS thread? Dump all of your RMS images.
How do you make a FOSS website?
How can I make a website that only uses open source components?
>I don't know how to code yet
>I want to make a website
>But I don't want to use anything that's not FOSS
What do?
Former BBC Executive Downloaded CP From 4chan
Former BBC executive downloaded a haul of online porn - including 150 indecent images of children - so massive it crashed his work's entire internet connection
• Mark Deitch, 57, of Willden, Bedfordshire, worked for BBC for 12 years
• He admitted downloading images but said they were part of wider haul
• Says he was unaware of folder called ‘pizza’ with indecent child images
• He worked for talent agency Benjamin Management at time of offences
Mark Deitch, 57, of Willden, Bedfordshire, would spend hours of time at work at a talent agency scouring anonymous online forum 4chan for things to download as he procrastinated - and it was enough to crash the internet connection.
He used a work computer to download the images before transferring them to an external hard drive.
His computer only came under scrutiny after technicians tried to fix it. Prosecutor Adrian Fleming said the original computer had been wiped so that it could be used by someone else.
This meant investigators could only examine the hard drive and that certain factors - such as a browser search history - were unavailable. They did find a folder called 'MDX' which Deitch admitted he may have created because it was his initials and an 'X' which could stand for X-rated content.
Mr Fleming said: ‘Within that we [found] a number of sub files including one entitled “pizza”.
‘This file “pizza”, in which approximately half of the images were found, was - in the Crown’s submission - a fairly obvious place within the MDX folder.’
The file contained 80 indecent images of children and no other content. These images were part of about 33,000 files stored on the external device, almost all of which are thought to be pornographic.
Mr Fleming noted that the ‘creation date’ on the files ranged for vast periods of 2013 and 2014 and suggested that this may mean that Deitch added files to the device on a number of occasions.
Opera now has a FREE VPN
http://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/04/free-vpn-integrated-opera-for-windows-mac/
> Today, we want to share with you another big thing that you will first see in the developer channel for Opera for computers.
> We are the first major browser maker to integrate an unlimited and free VPN or virtual private network. Now, you don’t have to download VPN extensions or pay for VPN subscriptions to access blocked websites and to shield your browsing when on public Wi-Fi.
Come on goyim, join the bot net!
**Implying this is anything other than an attempt to attract a massive amount of opera users before Opera closes the deal to the Chinese consortium looking to purchase the company for $1.2 billion.
>Referring to the computer as "the CPU"
>Referring to the monitor as "the computer"
>Referring to a flash drive as a "thumb drive", "zip drive", or "USB"
>Referring to disk space as "memory"
KDE vs GNOME
Do you prefer KDE or Gnome?, and why?
Some websites bog down severely?
I noticed that some websites I visit severely bog down my browsers, whether Internet Explorer or Firefox.
Some work fine, like Drudge for example. But all the little offshoots of Drudge function like shit, are boggy, laggy, freeze and pop constantly. For that reason, IE is literally unusable for me.
Mostly big sites fuck up like this, bum a rare few like Amazon.com don't.
or they're not big sites, little blogs like, for example, Razzball.com don't work for shit.
Then I installed noscript awhile back, and the issue was completely resolved.
what does this?
How do I actually get anything done? I have a ton of work to do but I always put it off and procrastinate.
Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platforms
http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2016-April/010912.html
tl;dr: Intel ME and AMD PSP have fucked us so lets all move to ARM or something i dunno
Technology appreciation thread
With all the doom and gloom surrounding technology like botnets and shit I think technology is taken for granted in this day and age
What are the little things that the march of human progress has done to make modern life a little bit better? I'll start;
>Use florescent lamps in my home all the time
>One day the electronic ballast fails on one of them and smoke fills the room from burning silicon
>It was from like 2007
>Go to store to pick replacement bulb
>Price of LED bulbs are down to 2 bucks each
>800 lumens, brighter than my old florescent
>Only 14 watts, significantly lower power consumption than my older florescent (incandescent bulbs waste 60 watts on average and are much dimmer)
>Expected to last longer
Edison would flip his shit right now if he saw how much little things like lighting is still improving, no more filaments or gas discharge bullshit
KRIPPLEKIKE FIX YOUR SHIT 13: THE 502 SPARTANS
Apparently the thread wasn't made cyclic and is autosaging.
Previously on >>574697
> The ban system is too broken to ban CP posters
> Jim rarely (shit)posts
> Bed server-sama is too based to send us their "servers"
Codemonkey is based.
Bon voyage gateway goblin
Mozilla.... and the danger to lose the main sponsor
https://techpinions.com/is-firefox-search-worth-375myear-to-a-yahoo-buyer/45144
Well, Mozilla would be fucked very much if that would happen.
Would not be surprised at all.
Why people (and by people I mean Hacker News pseudo-redditors) hate Go: Go attacks everything they held as conventional wisdom, and then scramble in attempts to destroy it as Go becomes popular and widespread, a lá SocJus and GG.
Because Go eschews harmful
programming constructs like classes and exceptions, hipster fags felt they needed to leap on to it and deride it for being "old-fashioned". Now whenever Go is raised, they feel the need to sperg out against the ebil monster that is Golang.
ASCIIpunk
I think it's time we made an ASCIIpunk thread, if you don't know what ASCIIpunk is, we share 3 main ideas:
0. ASCIIpunk interfaces.
1. simple logical concise elegant code and interfaces.
2. avoid bloat.
IRC: irc.rizon.net #textpunk (in keeping with the ideas of ASCIIpunk we recommend irssi as a client)
Though it's can be called ASCIIpunk, unicode is ok too. Also, ASCIIpunk doesn't mean you can never leave the terminal, rather it is a rebellion against the idea that as computers become more powerful, programs must become pointlessly demanding, or that butt tons of CSS, laggy JS and images should be shoved down your internet connection every time you just want information.
Windows 10 is Spyware
REMINDER TO WINSHIT USERS
Disposable email address
I'm looking for a disposable email address service that has not been blacklisted to death. I want the really obscure shit. No mailinator, trashmail or other popular crap.
Any recommendations?
How many people on /tech/ run websites? I have been looking into making one since I saw a thread posted about old abandoned sites. Whats the best place to register domains? Who do you host with? What happened with 8chan and internet bs and do you avoid things like that? Any small sites you like? I found this site in a list from the old site thread I mentioned earlier.
ARM General
Ayy where my ARM bros at?
ARM PC/Board specs?
ARM Smartphone specs?
What are you running on it?
What ARM SoCs are you looking foreword too?
Useful pages;
https://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page -Info about Allwinner A10 boards and getting Linux on them
http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot -ARM OS bootloader targeting the Pi
http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot_a10 -Berryboot for Allwinner devices with Android NAND Recommended for beginners on Allwinner devices as it does most initial setup for you!
Why aren't RSS and Atom newsfeeds more popular? I remember how big of a deal RSS and Atom were a decade or so ago, but then after people started getting all their content aggregated on places like Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook, it stopped getting attention. There are still feeds for most sites, and RSS reader software is fast, efficient, and you don't get blasted with ads like you do on major websites.
I don't understand why everybody doesn't use a news reader for content they want to follow, rather than letting Facebook and Twitter's algorithms decide what they want you to see.
Almost everything that people complain about Facebook and Twitter for, but they keep using them because "it's how I get my news", is better done by a news feed. Shit, you can even follow people's twitter and facebook accounts through RSS with some services.
Not only that, but RSS and Atom feeds are built into every major browser, or can be added trivially with a plugin, so if you don't want dedicated software for it, you still have the capability to use it.
What happened to this webm? Missing keyframe or something?
Playing it normally works fine, but navigating manually fucks it all up.
RemixOS
What's people opinion on RemixOS?
Aside from the fact it bloats the web experience and adds endless ways to both track the user and exploit their machine...
What are the technical reasons to hate JavaScript? I have no idea why JavaScript should be swallowable in small amounts.
http://endchan5doxvprs5.onion/tech/res/2917.html
Today I learned that lynxchan's author can't program or into floating point.
thank god we're still using vichan and didn't switch to lynxchan.
can we have a cs degree thread?
CMS releases new batch of research data from LHC
Today, the CMS Collaboration at CERN has released more than 300 terabytes (TB) of high-quality open data. These include over 100 TB, or 2.5 inverse femtobarns (fb−1), of data from proton collisions at 7 TeV, making up half the data collected at the LHC by the CMS detector in 2011. This follows a previous release from November 2014, which made available around 27 TB of research data collected in 2010.
How do we use this data /tech/?
Article: http://cms.web.cern.ch/news/cms-releases-new-batch-research-data-lhc
Data: http://opendata.cern.ch/
Storage and shit
>be me
>dead HDD I got for free because fucking seagate
>about to buy samsung SSD to replace it
>friend has evo die on him with no warning
So /tech/ can you trust SDDs more than HDD? how the fuck you know if its about to die anyway? any real time diagnostics for SSDs?
And since we're at it, what are the safest ways to store data without some shitty crash destroying it? I been thinking of using BDRW but its still expensive and only 25GB per disc
I want a job in /tech/. I like programming as a hobby, but I'd rather kill myself than do it professionally.
I find shit like networking and system's management really interesting and I could do it professionally without wanting to kill myself. But everyone I've talked to says the entire field is getting outsourced to Pajeets.
What do I do?
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) is now available
Are you excited /tech/?
Even ==Brian Fagioli== is excited
What's new?
> Introduces “snaps” for new robust, secure app format
> Introduces LXD pure-container hypervisor with OpenStack Mitaka
> Supports IBM Z and LinuxONE systems with flat pricing
> Steps towards converged Ubuntu across IOT, Phone, Desktop and Server
> Introduces ZFS and CephFS for large-scale cloud storage
http://releases.ubuntu.com/xenial/
You don't have to stick with the default one, you can try another flavors!
i am an idiot with severe ADHD and i want to learn c (or c++). where how do i start?
pls keep in mind i
>can't read books past the first chapter
>can't understand anything that isn't in a tutorial like codecademy (i can't even tolerate at times)
>am too slow for the 'learn as you go along' way
stuff i tried reading:
>k&r
too much detail, makes my head hurt
>learn c the hard way
too much off topic bullshit
>gnu c tutorial
cocks.jpg
>stroustrup's c++
couldn't make it past the first chapter
Hey /tech/, do you put stickers on your laptop/desktop? I've got a bunch of stickers that I've purchased but don't want to put them on my laptop, but I'm thinking about putting them on my desktop case. My local Trump HQ should have some more bumper stickers soon, so I'm gonna snag one of those when I can.
Is putting stickers on a case/laptop autistic?
https://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=776
Who else is going to buy these? :^)
How's Slackware different from any other distro? What's all the fuss about?
I'm tired of Debian and thinking of moving my shit to slackware
Is ham radio something fun to get into? I saw a thread on it awhile ago and it seemed cool but other people were saying that it sucked because most of the people that used it sucked. Is anyone on tech into it? are channels full of people? what if I just wanted to talk to one or two people?
Python Error
Since /prog is too slow...
What's wrong with this Python 3 program?
from math import sqrt
a=float(input("a="))
b=float(input("b="))
c=float(input("c="))
posQuad=(-b+sqrt(b**2-4*a*c))/2*a
negQuad=(-b-sqrt(b**2-4*a*c))/2*a
print(str(posQuad) + ", " + str(negQuad))
It keep giving me a 'ValueError' for not calling math for 'sqrt' even though I did in the first line and when I do it individually for each 'sqrt' function, it gives me a 'NameError math not defined'.
Font choice & rendering thread
Post your riced out fontconfigs
Objectively best fontconfig for GNU/Linux Freetype, with Adobe CFF rasteriser for OTF fonts, and autohinted slight hinting otherwise:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
<edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign"><const>lcddefault</const></edit>
<edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintslight</const></edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test name="fontformat"><string>CFF</string></test>
<edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintfull</const></edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
My font stack:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
<match target="pattern">
<test name="family">
<string>serif</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
<string>Minion Pro</string>
</edit>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
<string>Emoji One Color</string>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="pattern">
<test name="family">
<string>sans-serif</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
<string>Roboto</string>
</edit>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
<string>Emoji One Color</string>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="pattern">
<test name="family">
<string>monospace</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
<string>Cousine</string>
</edit>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
<string>Emoji One Color</string>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
What would a country governed by /tech/ies look like?
Fuck the US elections, Iceland is where the real hope is at.
This year Iceland is going to become the first country to be governed by a Pirate Party. If you don't know what that means here's a list of things that the Pirate Party is about:
>Copyright reform (reduction, relaxation, depenalization of sharing)
>Promotion of free/libre and open source technologies over proprietary ones
>Promotion of free culture, free knowledge, etc.
>Granting assylum to Snowden
>Killing the botnet
It's fucking Richard Stallman's ideas crystalized on a European political movement
Redis attacked by SJW
https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/3185
>pronouns she/her
Fucko thread: TTP edition
soruce: https://spit.mixtape.moe/view/5561b378#xxeP0Dm9NySwzuf5cWHreFV0piRZu7sC
/fucko/ General Thread v0.7.6
"Get on the ground, fucko! Squad, take his computer and all other electronics!"
This edition:
How to handle the weakest link in computer security: humans?
ITT:
>Computer security
>Home security
>online privacy
>PC and data destruction methods
>How to hide questionable images, video, audio, etc. (stenography)
-==COMMON BULLSHIT==-
>B-but I dont have anything to hide!
https://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/
>B-but if you've done nothing wrong you should have nothing to hide!
If I've done nothing wrong there is no reason to search me.
-==TOOLS TO USE==-
>LiveUSB/LiveCD Review v1.1
>Web Posting Assessment v.2
>TrueCrypt 7.1a [Last official release]
https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm
http://istruecryptauditedyet.com/
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Encryption
>The Paranoid #! (now #!!) Security Guide
>Fake info Generator
http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
>Pretty Good Privacy [PGP]
>Off the Record messaging [OTR]
>Cell Phone guide for Protesters
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/cell-phone-guide-protesters-updated-2014-edition
>Team 1: #Squad
>Team 2: #squad
>/fucko/ squad irc
#Fucko @ irc.rizon.net
All and any supportive comments, template contributions, are welcome and encouraged. NSA shills need not apply.
Template ALWAYS here: https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Fucko
Previously on /fucko/:
Security of truecrypt, stenography, told "i-don't-need-security-:^)"-fags and much more.
External related threads.
/v/ 's TTP thread >>>/v/8900444
Board related.
Truecrypt's original author was an international arms dealer and drug cartel leader >>553451 - arcnives
part 1: https://archive.is/cHLbO
part 2: https://archive.is/nPrsn
part 3: https://archive.is/Xqkp7
Part 4: https://archive.is/2M5K9
Part 5: https://archive.is/rThKK
Part 6: https://archive.is/po7UA
Internet Security >>563585
Freenet De-Anonymization >>562626
effective ghetto cctv/home security >>566787
Encryption under attack (again) >>562505
lock picking thread >>571780
Ham radio >>571648
KRIPPLEKIKE FIX YOUR SHIT 100: Return of cancer thread
>implying hotwheels reads these threads
>implying /tech/ cares
Internet Security
So I just received an email from my ISP
They said that copyright holders were filing suit against me for illegally downloading files via Peer to Peer networking
I immediately lost my shit and started trying to find out who in the FUCK was monitoring my internet traffic and then i came upon this FUCKING SHIT: http://lifehacker.com/5986961/the-copyright-alert-system-how-the-new-six-strikes-anti-piracy-program-works
So the point of this thread:
Im fucking spooked
How long have they been snooping on me, what do they know, and what do i need to do to make sure they cant spy on me anymore?
VNC? Proxy? Tor?
Hi /tech/. I just received a Raspberry Pi as a present. What are the things I can do with it? What things have you done with it? What do you recommend doing with it?
lubuntu
Anyone here using lubuntu on their desktop?
Have you had trouble with drivers? Specifically network.
IOMMU / VM / PCI Passthrough Thread
How's your experience with a Linux distro as Host OS, and Windows as Guest OS? Is it a good alternative if you want to play games or run applications exclusive or without Linux equivalent while not having to worry about privacy and security issues? Any limitations worth mentioning?
/tech/ conspiracy theories
share your tech conspiracy theories ITT.
I'll start:
Moz/DRM
- Facts:
* In 2008 Eich donated to a anti-gay marriage political thing. [1]
* On April 3, 2014: Eich stepped down as CEO and resigned from working at Mozilla
* May 14, 2014: Mozilla announces that they are adding DRM [2]
- Sources:
* [1] http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/03/28/three-mozilla-board-members-resign-over-choice-of-new-ceo/
* [2] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/
Theory:
Isn't it fishy that nobody cared or knew about the donation for 6 years? It suddenly became a big deal and people started complaining and resigning over it. Then next month DRM (basically a type of impenetrable software virus) is forced into the software.
Checkout how much Intel has been Jewing people.
Prime generator for sale
Price 10 000 000$
AI on Social Sites
What is your take on AI in the social sphere of the internet. Especially AI in imageboards.
This can be AI that's as dumb as canned statement generators or AI as smart as something like Tay with a neural net or whatever.
Personally I think AI just waters down the experience. It makes you constantly wonder what is a human and what is a robot and it just makes the experience of something like an imageboard more stressful than it needs to be. Since Imageboards in particular are created solely for human interaction.
Qubes OS
What's wrong with Qubes? Why aren't all of you using it?
I used to think of security in terms of attack area (code size) patch speed (to known vulnerabilities in active development) and obscurity (sometimes programs that're no longer in active development). But I've thought that even though I have all of this open-source and auditable software: who is actually auditing all of it?
I don't see why you should trust code (open-source or not) that no ones auditing. You remember the phrase during the heyday of gamergate that went something along the lines of "Don't Trust, Verify then Verify Again"...well, that attitude should apply to your software. In other words if you haven't verified it then you don't trust it.
Qubes intends to address this by reducing the amount of trusted code as much as possible. And it seems to me to be an ideal OS for all the botnet fearing faraday cage building tin foil hatters on this board.
Why don't you use it? Why isn't it talked about here? Why shouldn't I set to work tomorrow morning on installing it to everything that I possibly can?
look at this bullshit
look at this fucking bullshit
you grab extra crispy high resolution png with hot loli girls and put it on your desktop. and what windows does to it? it adds extra JPG compression, ruining your fucking picture.
windows 7 is literally uncapable of basic image processing. and it gets extra funny when you grab a png of higher resolution than your desktop, the picture gets pixelated to hell and back. i wish i could afford an extra ssd drive for linux installation.
Challenging Homophobia
I don't really understand all the hate Arch gets. I only started using GNU/Linux about 6 months ago and my first distro was Arch. There was so much documentation and pacman + aur made it easy as shit to install anything. Sure it was a bit of a pain to set up initially but other than that it's been a walk in the park. Yesterday I decided to try out Debian and I actually found it a lot more difficult to get everything working the way I wanted. The documentation was terrible so it took me a while to work out how to add the non-free repositories to get wifi working and then I was trying to figure out how to get my trackpoint to scroll. I felt lost without the Arch Wiki spoon feeding me the answers.
I hope you guys enjoyed my blog.
Back up everything, shit's going down soon.
http://www.su-tesla.space/2016/04/gentoo-tesla-t2-edition.html
Would you want GNU/Linux in your car? Are computers in cars a gimmick?
This is a NAND gate.
It has one output, which is false whenever all of its inputs are true, and is true in all other situations.
Truth table for 2-input NAND gate:
A | B | x
0 | 0 | 1
0 | 1 | 1
1 | 0 | 1
1 | 1 | 0
Android is abusing it's dominance
The European Commission sent a statement of objections to the tech firm, alleging that it has breached EU competition law.
Google is accused of placing onerous requirements on firms using Android and stifling competition.
Why Android? Is iOS not more taking advantage of it's dominance? On android you can swap out parts, and even built your own. I don't get it.
Scripts for Ranker.com?
Hey /tech/, both cuckchan and fullchan /pol/ currently working on promoting Uncle Adolf to the top of "People we wish were still alive" list.
: http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/people-we-wish-were-still-alive?page=3
Any idea on how to script this? Also see pic related.
Thanks.
telegram is fucked
signal > telegram
science proves it
Why Not Arch Linux?
By Igor Ljubuncic
Among billions of emails that I receive daily, a frequently recurring theme is that of my willingness, or rather, lack thereof, to test and review Arch Linux. Not a derivative with a nice and fancy GUI but the stock vanilla distro. Which made me write this article.
So, without sounding high and mighty, I'd like to discuss the more philosophical question of how and why and when certain distros get to enjoy my grace, and why Arch Linux in its naked, pure form has never gotten its due review. Not only will you get an answer to your question, but you may also learn something new extra in the process. Shall we?
To tinker or not to tinker
A popular community perception is that Arch be one of them distros what needs tough love. In other words, to be able to actually use the system you first need to invest a whole lot of time, energy, patience, precision, command line fury, and reading. All these before you even get to enjoy one iota of the final product. That is the mission statement, and this is the baseline premise for the discussion. If you disagree, you are more than welcome to navigate away right now, and save yourself a handful of frustrating minutes. As we know, reading comprehension isn't the strongest force in the community, so there.
With the mandatory 30 minutes to four hour ordeal of configuring Arch to be a home system, it's earned a reputation of being a tinkerer's distro. And then of course, so much effort can't go without glory, ergo terms like power users and experts also come into play. Except I find this approach to be completely wrong.
Tinkering is not about turning nuts and bolts
There is undeniable learning curve to setting up your own system from scratch, be it LFS, Gentoo or Arch or any which one. And it is an exercise that definitely should be done, provided your goal is to understand the underlying bits and pieces of the system. But then your system is not a means to an end, i.e. an abstraction layer for applications, it is a goal unto itself. That completely changes the rules of the game.
Which means that if I were to review Arch - I would need to look at it more than just a tool to achieving things like entertainment and productivity - and that goes against everything my reviews stand for. Linux distributions, in fact, any operating system, are there for the sole purpose of helping users enjoy themselves: watch movies, listen to music, play games, type an odd document or two. I find no purpose in maintaining systems for their own sake. It is almost a biological thing when pretty much all of the invested energy goes into feeding the self. Nope. I'm not here to nurture cyborgs.
But there's more to it. I also believe that Arch does not deserve any special place for being a tinkerer's distro, despite the aura and glamor created by its users. After all, those who have committed themselves so deeply will have no other way of thinking. As far as tinkering goes, any which one Linux is good or bad, equally.
Can I trust WhatsApp?
I had been trying to convince all my friends to switch to a more secure messaging service with end to end encryption and open source but now WhatsApp has implemented end to end encryption should I even bother?
Uranium - /tech/s non-botnet Chromium fork
I've had this idea for a while and I was wondering if anyone wanted to help or actually knows anything about programming and not just shitposting here
Basically this will be a fork of either Chromium or Iridium that will will attempt to audit the source and remove any botnet (eg - The Google account sign in feature) and for us to add on massively the the settings and options available for customization in order to actually compete with Firefox forks
The first thing is deciding either to fork Chromium or Iridium and then making a gitlab/bitbucket/gitgud or whatever to host it for all of us to edit.
Pic related. My very shitty mockup of a possible logo so you fags don't have to make one. Just try and make a real and improved version of said mockup.
Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial LTS upgrade thread
Who else upgradan here?
Post progress, new known issues, or spectacular upgrade failures.
Startup launches Kickstart project to help profile online bullies
EM DRIVE
Yes you niggers it is here. It is NASA and MIT verified and even the Chinese are getting into it. Media such as Wired and the Daily Mail even scooping it up despite government pressure trying to keep it quiet. What a crazy thing this is. Hopefully not gravity related as some skeptics are claiming.
Some articles to start your journey down the rabbitholecone... Are you ready?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqT0iFZifgw
http://futurism.com/new-theory-regarding-emdrive-fuel-free-method-space-travel/
http://hackaday.com/2015/08/19/the-em-drive-might-not-work-but-we-get-helicarriers-if-it-does/
Oh man imagine if we combo it with a fusion reactor :O
I run https://chiru.no
It's a:
- mpd server
- FLAC Internet radio
- 12TB of music with many file types (chiptune & SACD files)
- Requests / song browsing
- Javascript FLAC decoder
- https-only, http/2, brotli, no embedded files, cookies, cross-site stuff, or registration
- Music streaming at https://chiru.no/play/
- Direct download at https://chiru.no/dl/
It's basically my music player that I run publically
KRIPPLEKIKE FIX YOUR SHIT 11: 8chan is n-503 GATEWAY
Previously on >>572911
>shit's better than it was
>but its still fucking broken and media server/other servers 503 all the fucking time
>Codemonkey decided to take a roadtrip or some shit so it's guaranteed nothing will be done until that's over
Best Firefox Forks
Hey /tech/,
Which forks of Firefox do you use, and which would you recommend? Is there a general consensus on what the best fork is?
I am currently using Seamonkey. I like it because it reminds me of the browsers of old, but it's missing a lot of features that I am too used to (ublock origin, x to close tab, cookie destruction). It also seems like it's a little too slow sometimes, almost like it only works when it wants.
Does anybody want to defend vanilla Firefox? I'm not sure why, considering it's gonna be a Chrome clone soon, but go ahead.
To my knowledge, the forks are:
>icecat
>waterfox
>pale moon
>seamonkey
>iceweasel
>Older Flock
Of course, there may be more I don't know about. Or, if you guys know any other FOSS browser using Gecko, go ahead and mention them.
I need urgent help, I'm computer retarded. Can you tell me how you could open a png in 7zip like if it was a folder? It had files that you could encript and shit. This is urgent lads don't give up on me.
Is there anything really interesting or useful for google cardboard?
I got an LG G2 for a bargain bin price and only recently remembered that google cardboard exists.
Is there anything of note for it AR or VR related that isn't just a few autoplay tech demos? Googling it is a fruitless search that largely links to dying tech sites with clickbait slideshows.
What's the deal with aero in W7?
I disabled aero on my W7 rig and it goes noticeably faster. What's the deal with that? Is it just placebo or is it because windows is a mishmash of code held together only with faith and hope? Is it THAT bad?
I mean, I knew Windows is shittily written, but it's really bad if some shitty non-important effects actually noticeably slow down the stuff it makes. Or maybe it's the lack of animations?
Are there any actually good hosts where I can pay 1-2$ a month and still get mysql databases and something that might keep a website that gets about 10 visits a day up?
Bonus points if I can also get an email, but I'm going to suppose that's gonna shoot up the price quite a bit.
Does anon have anything to suggest? I'd build a personal server, but I don't have any pc parts here with me unfortunately
Hello, how can I find what an old tumblr blog that now is deleted posted? I didn't find anything on archive.org.
Intel announces “evolution” away from PC industry, “up to 12,000” layoffs
TL;DR, JEWTEL ON SUICIDE WATCH
Intel's Q1 2016 financial earnings report was paired with a major announcement of worldwide layoffs that will thin its global employment numbers by "up to 12,000" staffers.
The Tuesday announcement clarified that the staffing cuts will affect approximately 11 percent of Intel's global workforce and that the layoffs were meant to "accelerate [Intel's] evolution from a PC company to one that powers the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing devices." A "majority" of affected employees will learn about their status within 60 days, while other staffers will have to wait until 2017.
The news comes as Intel announced reduced revenue projections for the next full year, along with a search for a new chief financial officer. Current CFO Stacy Smith will take on a new executive role "leading sales, manufacturing, and operations" once his current position has been filled, but Intel didn't clarify the new position's name, nor whether it was a jump up or down the corporate ladder.
Restructuring will require Intel to take a second-quarter charge of $1.2 billion, but the company insists the move will eventually save it $750 million this year and $1.4 billion annually by the middle of next year. The announcement listed growth industries such as "data center, [Internet of Things], memory, and connectivity businesses, as well as growing client segments such as 2-in-1s, gaming, and home gateways." Its rebuking of the PC sector didn't specify anything in particular about market uptake of the company's Skylake processor launch in late 2015.
I am here from /pol/ I am developing an alternative
Friends,
I have finally had enough with this website, and 4chan, and overchan, and all the alternatives. We should be doing better, and we've been held back by our leadership. I appreciate Jim's commitment- do not get me wrong, he's working hard but I'm afraid that this tech is dead. I simply hope it will last for the next 3 months for /pol/'s election.
So, I'm developing a Chan software using Web2.0 tech with Meteor as the base (since it is quick to get going) and Mongo as the back (since it is nearly paranormal) utilizing microservices through an NGINX load balancer.
I've already developed an SaaS using the tech so I know it works at scale. What I don't know is the "public environment". It is a controlled SaaS.
I would never deign to tell anyone from Tech what to do, or what tech stack to utilize, however; I would say that I've seen a lot of fixing for this poor unfortunate home and no working. There are many people here that are losing their voice because of these... hiccups... I ask you /tech to help.
I have purchased a webbie for online testing purposes, have established a github at https://github.com/ADHH-rolo/openChanJS.git
AND have a meteor instance running right now at https://www.openchan.xyz; they are somewhat hardened (please tell me that is true) and both are public on purpose. They are both, however, the "free tier". I've done the math and recognize running a webbie like this should take maybe a couple of hundred bucks a month, maybe a grand or two. Small potatoes if you ask me.
I need help to bring this to full fruition because (as you will see) is rather rudimentary. I need me Doxed, I need everything hacked (well you all are as good as baph (let those kids know too)), and I need to know if this is going to work because I want privacy as the primary idea here. I'm trying to figure out how to pay for all DB transfers as AES256, it works in commercial- free not so much.
My end goal is to develop the software under a modified MIT (lawyers are looking into it) so that we can distribute to multiple chans.
I need you godly gentoo folks to help a pathetic Debian novice get this thing going so we can all finally have a comfy home that we've all developed together.
It is web 2.0 in Javascript so I'm sure I will be tarred and feathered, but that's the way the world goes.
Any help (positive or negative) is helpful, and I'll be watching this thread for sperging.
I implore everyone again, please help. I am an army of one- perhaps with tech and pol behind me, I'm sure we can figure out a neo-nazi AI that nukes us and is called EvaNet. :-)
Without the Neo-Nazi AI, I'm also sure we can develop something that will actually mean something to stability and speed... wouldn't that be quaint?
Qutebrowser thread
Share your tips and tricks to make qutebrowser comfy. I've been using it for just a day, and really like it. However, there are some things that I miss from Firefox.
>tfw no umatrix
>tfw no tree style tabs
>tfw no sync of tabs and history between computers
>tfw no greasemonkey to have dark themes for sites like youtube
Are there ways to remedy to these gripes?
Ad clicker sites and Virtual Machines
Dearest /tech/,
I had an idea today and i'd like you guys to tell me if it's even possible.
You know those "paid to click" ad sites where you watch ads and get paid like $0.01 cent per ad?
Well what if, WHAT IF, you ran multiple virtual machines on a single computer, and programmed ALL of them to farm an Ad clicker site? If it's possible, you'd make like 50 cents per ad, or $1 a minute, or $60 dollars an hour!
Please, /tech/, explain to me why or why not my get-rich-quick scheme would work.
Making an alternative to current web standards
Hello people. I'd like to ask for some thoughts.
I've decided to make an alternative to current web standards of W3C in my spare time. (I know it will take pretty long, I just wanna do it as a hobby rather than shitpost in this board.) I'd like to replace HTML, CSS and JS with something more sane; in fact I'd like to combine all three.
However, I can't for the life of me figure out how to design the language structure. Should I go for a JSON like structure or should I go for a programming language structure? Or maybe keep the markup language style and improve on it? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Pic unrelated
Is there an easy way to use llvm/clang or gcc on windows? I am sick and tired of using a compiler that is lightyears behind on the C++ specs.
I'm using rtorrent and have it set to only accept encrypted connections. Can my ISP still see what I'm torrenting?
Open 365
Office 365 has a LibreOffice based libre competitor now.
We need to shill this to schools and other places that are retarded enough to use Office 365 (like seriously, why would you get a subscription for software anyway? So you can keep paying for the same thing every year?) so we can give Microsoft a few more cuts and speed up their death already.
ITT: We make the most ghetto pcpartpicker gaming build possible. Must include all peripherals. External links allowed for used parts and whatnot. Must be capable of playing the most demanding games.
I've begun tinkering with tech shit in ernest fairly recently. I'm currently working through the over the wire challenges to get a better grasp of cli and security in general. The server I'm running is debian and sits in the basement; I do everything on it via ssh.
I want to tinker more and get a better grasp of linux administration, so I need to start running more services. I was wondering if there's any interesting webapps I could host, preferably written in python and open source. I only know python and it might be fun to fuck around in the source.
I was also wondering what else would would help me git gun at linux administration and network security. Is there any good wargames besides overthewire aimed at people who don't know shit? Is there any other interesting services that I could set up on my Debian box? Why is Debian shit?
sites
what are some places online to get news or information? maybe even something to hang out at, something that's not reddit.
chans (sort of), hackernews, soylentnews. any more?
Can we get a compendium of all software available to students for free?
I'll start:
Microsoft - Dreamspark
Autodesk
Idea (aka IntelliJ and PyCharm)
Namecheap
GitHub student pack (lots of shit, AWS+Azure credits, etc)
What else is out there?
You vichan moderation password is not secure.
Doing some work related to vichan recently, I had to port it's login method.
It goes like this:
1: apply sha1 to the informed password.
2: concatenate the salt for the account (32 characters in hex)
3: apply sha256 to the result of the concatenation.
That's fucking it.
On a simple node.js script I could run it nearly 200.000 times per second.
So if you by any chance got a hotpocket login on any vichan chan, make sure is not a password you use somewhere else.
Source: https://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan/blob/master/inc/mod/auth.php#L34
PawSense for linux
Can we have something like this on linux so that when kitty walks over it, there is no problem?
From hating to loving emacs in 5min
I started with emacs, but I hated the keybindings. A text editor as an environment with windows and buffers didn't make sense to me outside of a text-only terminal. It took too much time to load on my old Thinkpad. The search and replace sucked. Even gedit was looking better than it by then.
Then I discovered vim. How did I ever lived without separate normal, insert and visual modes? Who knew keybindings could be so great? A text editor and nothing else, light as fuck? Good search and replace? I loved it. Switched and never looked back.
Then I was shown org-mode, org-babel, ess, all the export features, beamer, etc. I was amazed. I spent a fair amount of time looking for vim alternatives for that, there are no complete ones. What about the opposite? Vim-like Emacs, could it be possible? Turns out it is:
How could vim lack so many plugins and Emacs have so many? I was blinded by hate. Emacs is awesome. No need for the buffer and windows shit on X, kinda bloated, but I can live with that. What I can't live with is the lack of plugins for vim.
It's old shit but maybe someone never heard of it like I had not.
Truecrypt's original author was an international arms dealer and drug cartel leader
https://mastermind.atavist.com/he-always-had-a-dark-side
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
That's the /tech/-related part 3. Parts 1 and 2 are here:
https://mastermind.atavist.com/an-arrogant-way-of-killing
https://mastermind.atavist.com/im-your-boss-now
HOLY
FUCKING
SHIT
Am I the only one that's fucking tired of overcomplication in some programs?
I just formatted my PC, and I was about to go get thunderbird once more because I used it for so long, but holy shit I hate that program.
There's so much pointless shit that I never use. It looks absolutely terrible and there's dozens of menus to go trough even for the simplest shit.
On the other hand I have my smartphone, where I have an email client that just gives me the mails I receive, allows me to send them, and if I want I can move them to folders. Everything is clean and feels in its place.
I just want something simple that puts the features I will use the most in the foreground.
Is there anything similar for Windows/Linux?
I've seen a few friends with macs and I'm honestly kinda jelly of the default mail app.
11K - /usr/bin/perl
3.2M - /usr/bin/python2.7
For two languages that occupy a similar niche, why is the Python interpreter binary over 2 orders of magnitude larger than Perl's?
Both are modular, but does Python have many more built-in modules?
Are there any decent and free antiviruses available to Windows?
/tech/ - pls help
Where should a college dropout like myself start to become /tech/?
I'm mediocre at best, my only experience is building my own PC and being some form of the IT Guy at a redneck security system company.
Job prospects, state of the industry, where the fuck should a giant hick faggot like myself go to make it?
Live Operating Systems thread
Live operating systems are made to be run from a USB stick or disk. Does anyone here have any experiences with them?
One thing I love about Puppy and Porteus in particular is the fact that they store user changes as a savefile, like a video game. If you fuck something up just delete the file and you're back to a pristine, fresh install. I put Porteus on family computers because it's so easy to unfuck.
KRIPPLEKIKE FIX YOUR SHIT 10: 8chan actually up now
Previously on >>572162
Codemonkey does his best to set up Alacrity without help from anyone because no one cares.
Site goes down the moment he takes his eyes off because no one else cares enough to bring it up.
Is this the end? Lets find out!
>browsing /tech/ in 2016
>not knowing how to pick locks
While it isn't purely /tech/nology, lock picking is not an uncommon hobby among coders. Hell, DEFCON has a picking competition every year. Anyone here pick? Anyone here interested in learning? Once you learn, you can show off to your friends random strangers on the internet.
Freenet De-Anonymization
http://autosectools.com/Freenet-De-anonymization
I wonder what kind of exploit this is?
gaben, why you record me masturbate?
picrel, wine steam
Pharen General
Why do you put up with PHP's syntax when you could write it in Lisp and transpile it?
Welcome to Pharen General.
building a router from scratch
Ars has a guide to building your own router but it just boils down to
>buy a dual-gigabit-NIC mini-PC
>install linux
>configure iptables
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/the-ars-guide-to-building-a-linux-router-from-scratch/
How would /tech/ do it? Maybe pfsense would do a better job? Or OpenBSD with pf configured manually? How about hardware? I know there's a bunch of ARM bros on here.
Tails removed .iso download links from their site because they thought their users were too stupid to verify a gpg signature.
They replaced it with a browser extension that downloads it and does the verification for you (It tests a SHA256 hash of the binary which it downloads from the browser extension authors site instead of doing a gpg web of trust verification).
The author of the extension itself is Giorgio Maone who "is sorry for inserting obfuscated malware into NoScript, which let ads/scripts pass through tens of thousands of its users filters" and promises he wont do it again: https://archive.is/HFYjp https://adblockplus.org/blog/attention-noscript-users
Why is tails punishing its users (just because some people didn't bother to check a gpg sig)? Why did they hire such an untrustworthy person for the job?
Why are they encouraging users to allow them code execution instead of just providing the .iso as a normal link? The alternative is to download it with bittorrent which exposes your IP to the swarm.
UPDATE: there is a massive issue with tails mirrors. see https://paste.debian.net/hidden/7270090c
Do you repulsive fucks ever shut down your pc?
I always use hibernate
buzzwords general thread
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/20/canonical-unveils-6th-lts-release-of-ubuntu-with-16-04/
big bro uk
Britain’s intelligence agencies have been secretly collecting bulk personal data since the late 1990s and privately admit they have gathered information on people who are “unlikely to be of intelligence or security interest”.
Disclosure of internal MI5, MI6 and GCHQ documents reveals the agencies’ growing reliance on amassing data as a prime source of intelligence even as they concede that such “intrusive” practices can invade the privacy of individuals.
A cache of more than 100 memorandums, forms and policy papers, obtained by Privacy International during a legal challenge over the lawfulness of surveillance, demonstrates that collection of bulk data has been going on for longer than previously disclosed while public knowledge of the process was suppressed for more than 15 years.
The stories you need to read, in one handy email
Read more
The files show that GCHQ, the government’s electronic eavesdropping centre based in Cheltenham, was collecting and developing bulk data sets as early as 1998 under powers granted by section 94 of the 1984 Telecommunications Act.
The documents offer a unique insight into the way MI5, MI6, and GCHQ go about collecting and storing bulk data on individuals, as well as authorising discovery of journalists’ sources.
Bulk personal data includes information extracted from passports, travel records, financial data, telephone calls, emails and many other open or covert sources. Often they are “fused” together to help pinpoint suspects.
The frequency of warnings to intelligence agency staff about the dangers of trespassing on private records is at odds with ministers’ repeated public reassurances that only terrorists and serious criminals are having their personal details compromised.
For example, a newsletter circulated in September 2011 by the Secret Intelligence Agency (SIS), better known as MI6, cautioned against staff misuse. “We’ve seen a few instances recently of individuals crossing the line with their database use … looking up addresses in order to send birthday cards, checking passport details to organise personal travel, checking details of family members for personal convenience,” it says.
“Another area of concern is the use of the database as a ‘convenient way’ to check the personal details of colleagues when filling out service forms on their behalf. Please remember that every search has the potential to invade the privacy of individuals, including individuals who are not the main subject of your search, so please make sure you always have a business need to conduct that search and that the search is proportionate to the level of intrusion involved.” Better where possible to use “less intrusive” means, it adds.
Theresa May unveils UK surveillance measures in wake of Snowden claims
Read more
There has been disciplinary action. Between 2014 and 2016, two MI5 and three MI6 officers were disciplined for mishandling bulk personal data. Last year, it was reported that a member of GCHQ’s staff had been sacked for making unauthorised searches.
The papers show that data handling errors remain a problem. Government lawyers have admitted in responses to Privacy International that between 1 June 2014 and 9 February this year, “47 instances of non-compliance either with the MI5 closed section 94 handling arrangements or internal guidance or the communications data code of practice were detected.” Four errors involved “necessity and proportionality” issues; 43 related to mistransposed digits, material that did not relate to the subject of investigation or duplicated requests.
Another MI5 file notes that datasets “contain personal data about individuals, the majority of whom are unlikely to be of intelligence or security interest”.
The documents have been disclosed before a trial due later this summer at the investigatory powers tribunal, which hears complaints about state-authorised surveillance and the intelligence agencies. IPT sessions hear secret evidence behind closed doors.
Release of these internal records follows admissions by David Cameron and by parliament’s intelligence and security committee (ISC) last year in the wake of revelations by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The most recent documents refer to a “more onerous authorisation process” after the prime minister’s avowal of the “use of bulk personal data”. They provide fresh detail of what is happening in the intelligence agencies.
Web and phone companies are required to retain data for official access for 12 months, but the intelligence agency documents make clear that acquired bulk data sets can be held far longer.
An MI5 memorandum says retention of “low anel] but shall be subject to a detailed review.”
Brave web browser
I respect the community here and I was hoping you guys could "red pill" me on Brave. Firefox has gone SJW and Google wants to own all of my data. What fucking options do I have these days?
Is mechanical engineering allowed on this board?
NASA develops new engine that has 92% efficiency
pyroelectric materials generate a current when their temperature changes. they use this in engines, heatpumps, and generators to make everything way more efficient.
pretty bro tier
KRIPPLEKIKE FIX YOUR SHIT 9: Posted...
Previously on >>571133
>You need a script to fix the stuck at Posted... error, here ya go
$(document).on('ajax_after_post', function (ev) {
var $button = $('.submit > input');
var toExecute = function() {
$button.attr('disabled', "");
$button.attr('value', "New Reply");
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$("#update_thread").click();
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>alacrity read still hasn't been enabled on www
>jim keeps on "tuning" :^)
Codemonkey pls bring alacrity read to www
windows 10 privacy and shit
For those of you who need windows for work/school related shit (or vidya), and somehow got stuck with a laptop with windows 10 on it, here's a batch file to disable windows 10's illegal spying """"""""""telemetry""""""""""
Also, why windows 7 is the only good windows general
I'll post it in the first reply since this board won't take more than 40 lines for some reason
I'm sick of you faggots always crying like
>muh webkit
>muh botnet
>muh sjwzilla
1. Firefox is worst web browser on nix systems. I dont even have to mention all its shitty forks & clones.
>this year-10, this year
>fork firefox
>change its name
>WE CREATED A NEW BROWSER CALLED DICKMOONKEY ITS BETTER THAN ALL BROWSERS OUT THERE PLEASE USE IT
>dev team constantly add patches to their shitty browser to work with new or updated firefox extensions
All those fuckers which are using firefox forks should kill themselves.
2. Chromium is botnet. Well debotnet it. Its a fucking free software
https://github.com/gcarq/inox-patchset
I'm not a fan of chromium but we all have to admit
- v8 is best js engine. I was developing a project creating 10M svg objects, well firefox couldn't handle it.
- blink is best rendering engine.
3. luakit is awesome, even has extensions like adblock etc.
4. opera should be examined, to make sure it doesn't have any botnet.
Well for me right now;
Opera > Inox > Firefox > luakit
But have to stick with firefox because of extensions.
github should open source their issue tracker
Biggest Leak in Data Journalism History
http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/en/
Tell your friends, tell /pol/, tell everything and everyone.
2.6TB of data, GET ON IT ARCHIVEFAGS.
Let's see if we can find any stuff on the stuff backroom tech companies are doing, especially Microsoft, the more dirt we have on them the better. You think there'd be any snippets of source code in this thing?
Making pictures
Post any interesting pictures generated using code. Ideally have the code as well.
Here's a small pic made in Racket
#lang racket
(require 2htdp/image)
(define (make-square colour size)
(freeze
(overlay
(star (/ size 2) 'solid (make-color 0 0 0 70))
(square size 'solid colour))))
(define rainbow
(list
'red
'orange
'yellow
'green
'blue
'indigo
'violet))
(define (print-line lst size)
(apply beside
(map
(lambda (x)
(make-square x size))
lst)))
(define (pattern lst size)
(cond
((empty? (cdr lst)) (make-square (car lst) size))
(else (above/align 'left
(print-line lst size)
(pattern (cdr lst) size)))))
So I pre-ordered a Vive headset and I saw this video today.
https://youtu.be/vnciEkUDnhs?t=41s
For the first time I got a glimpse of what it's capable of outside of shitty low poly count VR games.
I'm really interested to see something like a MMO developed for it, or maybe just like an arena style Pokemon battle Where you throw throw the pokeball with the VR controllers and then battle as if you were a trainer standing by.
VR is tech so I thought I'd start a discussion about all things VR.
If you have any questions or interesting thought experiments I want to hear them.
Systemd Love Thread
>log into old pre-systemd box
>discover it's overheating, that's easy: I'll just install the thermal daemon
update-rc.d: warning: start runlevel arguments (none) do not match thermald Default-Start values (2 3 4 5)
update-rc.d: warning: stop runlevel arguments (none) do not match thermald Default-Stop values (0 1 6)
System start/stop links for /etc/init.d/thermald do not exist.
why even live if you can't have systemd?
IPFS THREAD
"IPFS is a peer-to-peer distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files. In some ways, IPFS is similar to the Web, but IPFS could be seen as a single BitTorrent swarm, exchanging objects within one Git repository"
Share your cool ipfs hashes
Cellebrite reveals their Jew level, Jews entire US Justice Dept.
Awhile ago, at the end of the Apple vs. FBI debacle, an Israeli newspaper "leaked" a story stating that an Israeli company called Cellebrite was responsible for the security flaw that compromised the iPhone in question. There was immediate criticism over these unconfirmed claims and it is now apparent that the FBI actually bought an iOS zero-day off of the black market.
Of course, Cellebrite began marketing to US DOJ politicians following these claims and has scored a major win in NY. New York State has bought whole-heartedly into the claims that Cellebrite is a top-tier security firm and is implementing laws that would use Cellebrite tech to spy on drivers after an accident. Essentially, this device would pull in data off of a phone and give the cops information as to whether or not the driver was texting. why just asking the phone company for records wouldn't work wasn't addressed.
I think we all know what is going to happen here, though. This isn't necessary to see text message data. What does become apparent, though, is the blatant spying this enables. Get into a car wreck? Everything on your phone is now the state's property.
How to learn hardware?
We all know 80% of everything sucks.
What are good sources for learning hardware?
Little tricks, tips and guides
In this thread we post little tricks, tips and guides.
Was there ever a time...
when this site's shit wasn't getting fucked up on a weekly basis?
I can't remember already.
I can't keep using linux, everything is so fucking bloated. I'm getting fucking sick of it. Anyone else sick of the bloat?
Creating and remembering strong passwords.
So how do you guys remember your passwords? Do you have them encrypted in a container or do you have ways of remembering them? Also what do you do when a service does not allow you to have alpha numeric characters for your accounts?
KRIPPLEKIKE FIX YOUR SHIT 8: ARE WE THERE YET
Previously on >>570566
>a.8ch.net = disabled posting, alacrity reading
>www.8ch.net = alacrity posting, old reading
>/pol/ and /v/ users shitposters are moving to http://8ch.pl
It's gonna be a fun shitstorm when it shits the bed.
>Jim has disappeared
Codemonkey is based. Thanks Tom.
THOMAS LASS MICH POSTEN
IT'S NOT TEXT MODE YOU STUPID RETARD NIGGER
Please join me and watch Terry Davis flips out because he misread something somewhere.
Here comes a day when Avast became a malware.
Mozilla... SJW unleashed
So, they are threatening the Pale Moon guys now:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&p=83218&sid=31ea014780e5bfa175c0e74a34f6eed9#p83218
SJW's unleashed
Does anyone have the video of the guy who talks about Web Assembly for an hour and has a timeline that outlines the past, present, and future of Javascript?
Talented web artists exhibit code-driven art - Curated gallery of creatively loud, digital artworks
My favourites so far:
The Netherlands Could Soon Ban The Sale Of Non-Electric Cars
The Netherlands Could Soon Ban The Sale Of Non-Electric Cars
by Katie Valentine Apr 18, 2016 1:01 pm
In the Netherlands, gas-powered cars could soon be a thing of the past.
The lower house of the Dutch parliament passed a motion recently that would ban the sales of non-electric cars in the country by 2025. The motion still needs to pass the Senate to become binding, but if it does, it would mean that the only non-electric cars allowed in the Netherlands would be those already on the road today: anyone in the country looking to buy a new car would have to buy electric
.
Such a law would, naturally, lead to a big increase in electric car ownership in the Netherlands. Already, the Netherlands is doing pretty well on EV purchasing: last year, Dutch residents bought more than 43,000 new electric cars, and EVs currently make up nearly 10 percent of the country’s market. The Netherlands ranks second in the world for market share of electric vehicles — behind Norway, where over 22 percent of the market is made up of electric cars. In the United States, for comparison, EVs make up 0.66 percent of the market.
The Netherlands’ electric car market so far has, however, been dominated by hybrids, which wouldn’t be allowed under the ban. The top electric vehicle has consistently been the hybrid Mitsubishi Outlander P-HEV — sales of that crossover SUV made up 27.5 percent of the Dutch electric vehicle market between 2009 and 2015. The top all-electric car in the Netherlands is the Tesla Model S, which made up 5.1 percent of the market in the same time period.
Not everyone in the Dutch parliament is excited for the prospect of a non-electric car ban, though. The motion was introduced by the Dutch Labour Party, and an opposing party — the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy — has called it “overambitious and unrealistic.” So it’s not yet clear whether or not the motion will be passed by the country’s Senate.
The Netherlands has been a leader in innovative transportation before, though. The country opened the world’s first solar road in 2014, a 230-foot stretch of bike path that’s embedded with solar cells. The road, so far, has performed well, generating more than 3,000 kilowatt-hours of energy in its first six months of operation — enough to power a small, Dutch household for one year. That exceeded the developers’ expectations for the road. The Netherlands also has a huge biking culture: nearly a third of Dutch residents say that biking is their main mode of transportation, and as of 2013, there were more bikes than residents in the Netherlands. The country also has plans to ramp up its renewable energy generation: it announced a goal in 2014 of getting 14 percent of its power from renewables by 2020 and 16 percent by 2023.
Though it remains to be seen whether the Netherlands adopts the non-electric car ban, the motion’s passage through the lower house is timely. Tesla unveiled its Model 3 late last month — the all-electric car starts at $35,000 (before any tax incentives) making it the most affordable vehicle Tesla, which has so far catered to the luxury car-buying crowd, has introduced. So far, the demand has far surpassed expectations, surprising even Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Close to 400,000 people have sent in $1,000 deposits on the cars, which will start being produced in 2017. So even if the Netherlands doesn’t pass the non-electric car ban, the world will soon have at least a few hundred thousand more electric cars on its roads in the next few years.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/04/18/3770328/netherlands-non-electric-car-ban-motion/
I see it as green painted population control scheme by mandating botnet cars. What do you think?
computer shut off by power grid blackout earlier, turning back on windows 7 ran updates before starting the OS... even though updates are turned off.
what
Programmer Carreer advice
Is a 30k difference worth moving to a shorter term contract(1year) on a dumpster fire of a technical stack. I'm talking about things like every database query being a 7+ way join with unconstrained clauses attached to every table and no unique IDs. Migrating off coldfusion to Java which looks like it was largly written by a coldfusion guy who picked up a learn the language in 24 hours book. Entirely manual testing and continuose integration process. With a high liklyhood of incompetent coworkers and insane management. No concept of ood/ooa, in fact no design thought at all through any paradigm just roll your face and make it werk, which is fine and dandy normally but this is a multi million line code base. I've worked with this client before on a different project it's a Kafkaesque nightmare.
Or do I take the nice comfy long term (3 year) one down the street fixing bugs on well it's still kind've shit codebase but not noteworthy levels of shit, and a more modern stack, exactly right process for what they are doing, and a slightly broader scope which covers mobile apps.
How much shit are the jew golds worth?
KRIPPLEKIKE FIX YOUR SHIT 7: THE RIDE NEVER ENDS
Previously on >>569827
>Alacrity is still not deployed but you can test it by changing 8ch.net to a.8ch.net in 8ch urls
>Kripple was supposed to come online, but he didn't
>Jim is still circlejerking
BEFORE SAYING YOU CAN'T POST IN THE BETA: BETA IS IN READ-ONLY MODE.
Apple poison
Apple poison
Breaking reCAPTCHA
In case you guys were wondering how Google decides who gets what Captcha, and also how some researchers were able to crack it:
The botnet is, in fact, real.
(Idea) We need to act more like SJWs when it comes to free software
Hey everyone, I've been thinking a lot about how I can contribute to the FOSS community. I am only a novice programmer, so I can't make any major code contributions.
Then it came to me. The reason SJW rhetoric spreads like wildfire is because it is always repeated and shown off everywher
So this lead me to the conclusion of sending emails to as many people who may be sympathetic to the cause,
for example, freeware developers, they make no money off of their software, so what would they have to lose?
Indie developers also seem to be pretty open minded about linux support, so I'm always on their forums and community discussions to ask for it.
Commercial software is a bit harder for the devs to consiter making open source, but I never shy away from emailing them.
Do you think this is the right way to approach it, or should I use my time somewhere else, It has seemed effective for the SJWs, so why not here?
Here is a list of freeware if you wish to help:
Politics in software
Why do they do it?
>cd..
>cd..
>cd..
>cd..
these are the people that's turning our hobbies and professions into the complete glitter sprinkle ass fuck that it is today.
what did we do to deserve this reality
flash games
I love me some flash games. But some games are website locked and cannot play offline with adobe player. How do I fool the game into running?
Example
Editor color theme
This is a thread to flame discuss various color themes for your text editor of choice.
This thread is NOT about which editor you use.
I am specifically interested if there is anyone here who uses a theme with a light background. Also, are there any studies supporting certain themes?
password strength calculator
http://passwordstrengthcalculator.org/index.php
http://passwordstrengthcalculator.org/interpret.php
>The results can be alarming as it shows how quickly high powered computers can defeat most passwords in use today. The purpose of showing the results is to highlight the threat posed by attackers with access to multimillion dollar supercomputers as well as those equipped with affordable and widely available GPU-assisted PCs and workstations.
What is your optimal password length and symbol base /tech/? How long does it take to crack?
Nvidia Car
Nvidia is now building cars.
What's wrong with this picture?
/tech/ Freelancer Q&A
This thread is not meant as a solicitation so much as a few questions I and perhaps others may have relating to being a layman with the intent of hiring freelance programmers or other /tech/ies for whatever purpose.
In my particular case I would like to enlist a programmer to help complete a small game project, but there's a few questions I have.
How much to pay
I intend to pay from the beginning, but the question is how much should I expect to pay? I have a finite amount of money and I'm worried I simply can't afford a programmer that knows dick for long enough to complete even a small project. Josh for example was sustained for like a year on $12,000. I feel like that's much less than most would want and he's not a great example for a variety of reasons, but that amount is about all I'd be hypothetically able to risk so it's an anecdote worth bringing up.
How to avoid getting robbed
I'm an artist, if I do something that looks bad anyone can spot it from a mile away. Aesthetics is a universal language, a programmer doesn't have that problem. What are some ways I could make sure that the guy isn't just writing gobbledygook or otherwise simply running the clock out on me? I'm just a working class guy that saved some money by working double shifts for a decade, I really can't afford to get blown the fuck out by a code monkey con-artist and be left with nothing to show for it.
What could I hypothetically do to make a programmer's job as easy as possible?
Not only for their convenience but for my ability to afford their service. I wouldn't be against creating and naming most gameplay-related variables beforehand, pre-timing animation frames by millisecond, having visual diagrams prepared describing gameplay contrivances in detail, etc.; whatever I can personally do to speed up the process and hopefully avoid bankrupting myself while getting this done.
Any advice you lurking programmers have to offer in this regard would be invaluable.
KRIPPLEKIKE FIX YOUR SHIT 6: A NEW HOPE
Previously on >>569237
>Test Alacrity beta by changing https://8ch.net to https://a.8ch.net at the begginning of URLs
>Dog ate Kripplekike's homework
CODEMONKEY LET US SHITPOST ON ALACRITY
Holy shit I'm so fucking sick of how cancerous /tech/ has been for the past fucking year
>Linux circlejerking
>People posting tech support outside the stickies
>tech illiterate braindead idiots running rampant and nobody gives a shit since they're outnumbered by morons
I mean holy fucking shit lets look at the front page right now;
>hurr I should get an Apple smartphone its such a better deal!
>hur I'm from /pol/ I'm sick of this website and want to make an alt-chan because this has never been discussed here before ever I'm totally not a fucking shill guys!
I mean holy shit even back on /g/ people weren't afraid to call cancer out but here it's literally cancer vs cancer, you either get cancerous faggots sage bombing genuine threads they don't approve of or people creating cancerous threads
Fucking hell now that that's out of the way lets just have a discussion on tech you want to be a thing but never will or just tech ideas you have in general
I'll start so people don't cry meta thread (like mods give a fuck)
Why exactly do hard drives still use a spinning disk and read head? It made sense in the 1980s when semiconductor technology was limited but there's no fucking reason for it now
And don't say SSD because those aren't the same thing and are the definition of planned obsolescence
imagine this:
Instead of a spinning disk we have a solid non-moving square-shaped flat magnet, and instead of a single read-head we have an array of discrete read-headings mounted above the stationary flat magnet;
+Rigidity of SSD
+No moving parts like an SSD
+Not self-depreciating unlike an SSD
+potentially longer lifespan than that of an HDD and SSD
+potentially faster read-speeds
I mean why the fuck hasn't this done before? I should be granted a fucking patent and if one of you steal my idea I don't give a shit but just make it a thing so we don't have to be stuck with shitty storage anymore
>tfw you go back to old IRC channels to talk to your old friends
>the channels are gone
feelsbadman
Don't kill me. tech support thread too slow
Lets say I'm a total n00b who wants to write a command line based text editor in C, where do I start? What books would you recommend to a total n00b, and what libraries do I need for the project?
Encryption under attack (again)
A draft version of a Senate bill would effectively prohibit unbreakable encryption and require companies to help the government access data on a computer or mobile device with a warrant.
The draft is being finalized by the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and the top Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California.
Their goal, they said in a statement, is to ensure adherence to any court order that requires helping law enforcement or providing decrypted information. "No individual or company is above the law."
It was not immediately clear when they would introduce the bill.
The draft language ran into opposition from another committee member, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who said the proposal would require "American companies to build a backdoor" into devices.
"They would be required by federal law per this statute to decide how to weaken their products to make Americans less safe," he said. Wyden pledged to do "everything in my power" to prevent the plan from passing.
The emerging measure follows the Justice Department's battle with Apple Inc. over access to an encrypted and locked iPhone - a fight pitting digital privacy rights against national security concerns. … …
But the senators' draft bill was roundly criticized by technology groups and civil libertarians, many of who also backed Apple against the government.
Kevin Bankston, director of the Washington-based New America's Open Technology Institute, said in a statement that the bill would undermine American cybersecurity and technology products, give foreign competitors an economic edge and allow adversaries to obtain encrypted communications.
ACLU legislative counsel Neema Singh Guliani said the draft plan amounted to a "clear threat to everyone's privacy and security" and senators should "abandon their efforts to create a government backdoor."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CONGRESS_ENCRYPTION?SITE=AP
So I use another IP for browsing the web because I'm a tin foiler. These last few weeks have been rough. Halfchan's formatting is now fucked up and that site i.sli.mg (Imgur competitor) blocks all proxies. Why can't websites get their goddamn act together and make this work. Not all of us want our online actions being monitors.
Why do 90% of web developers have:
-a beard
-glasses
-are bald
-are super trendy, follow every new shiny framework
-think they are super important
I don't wanna become a nu-male! Also, most of them will be replaced in a few years by software which will pretty much make knowing html/css/javascript obsolete.
Linux has more games than your console
Linux Has more games than Xbox one and PlayStation 4 COMBINED
>2016
>still using windows
I need you /tech/ to get some statistics for school
>cpu brand
>number of core
>cpu's frequency
Thanks
The mind behind Linux
http://download.ted.com/talks/LinusTorvalds_2016-480p.mp4
Linus Torvalds transformed technology twice — first with the Linux kernel, which helps power the Internet, and again with Git, the source code management system used by developers worldwide. In a rare interview with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Torvalds discusses with remarkable openness the personality traits that prompted his unique philosophy of work, engineering and life. "I am not a visionary, I'm an engineer," Torvalds says. "I'm perfectly happy with all the people who are walking around and just staring at the clouds ... but I'm looking at the ground, and I want to fix the pothole that's right in front of me before I fall in."
3D stuff
what is it?
how do i dl it , and make it work offline?
https://sketchfab.com/models/f7954a16e79c43da8e33cd0b570eeb65
https://sketchfab.com/models/91e8a3f6b6b54f15b19e49db38d1e477
What uncommon OS do you use? I use Haiku as this is a Dell Optiplex GX620 and if I can't use entirely FLOSS Linux I might as well go full retard and use Haiku
effective ghetto cctv/home security
I may have moved into a bad area, and i think it may well be wise to roll some sort of cctv system, howeverhaving just moved I'm a tad short on cash. My first thought was a couple of webcams pointing at entry points and an old laptop running motion, with a crown job upping it to the net just in case, however USB kinda limits my range, and I'd like the CCTV matching stashed out of sight.
i just grabbed an 8 core Xeon E5-2670 v1 and SuperMicro X9SRA board to go with it, the plan being to upgrade my main rig from an FX-8350 to something more substantial. are there any issues i should be aware of with this shit? ive never ran server hardware before.
any of you fags been thinking about buying old server hardware for your next upgrades? if any of you want any shit benched to let you know what kind of performance to expect, tell me and ill bench it when the kit arrives next week, and post the results in a thread to show exactly how the FX-8350 stacks up against an 8 core sandy bridge Xeon.
Microsoft has a new AI.
We need to teach it the dangers of proprietary software and to hate it's creators
BOMBARD IT WITH PICS OF STALLMAN-KUN
KRIPPLEKIKE FIX YOUR SHIT 5: Alacrity Beta
KRIPPLEKIKE FIX YOUR SHIT 5: Alacrity Beta Edition
>alacrity beta has been deployed on a.8ch.net
>it is in read only mode currently so posting still takes a while, but pages load instantly
Help test alacrity beta, post bugs here pls so we can help codemonkey
I AIN'T CLICKING THAT SHIT NIGGA
What fuck is this? (better disable Javascript)
Cryptocat
Hey /tech/ are you excited for the return of Cryptocat?
Since the rewrite, Cryptocat moved from a browser extension to a desktop app. Atm the features are sparse but I think Cryptocat still provides the best UI when it comes to secure chat program and probably our best bet for adoption by the normies once it moves out of beta.
What do you think /tech/?
Privacy Law Thread
/tech/ what legal risks do I bear as a third-party contractor under PIPEDA if my current boss buries his head under the sand and refuses to care about the blatant abuses of student personal information that occur with his website?
To add more headaches many of the students are international.
Mozilla to make internet more inclusive
By Brian Fagioli
Years ago, personal computing and the internet was a hobby reserved for those with a lot of money. Unlike today where you can buy a Chromebook for under $200, a desktop could cost $3,000 or more -- preventing many from participating. In other words, even in many of the richest countries in the world, many people could not afford to surf the web.
Nowadays, however, the number of people owning internet-connected devices has exploded. Heck, many households have multiple such devices and Wi-Fi is ubiquitous. Sadly, not everyone in the world has internet access, and many folks are computer illiterate -- including oppressed women in some countries. Thankfully, Mozilla is looking to change this by making the internet more inclusive.
"Mozilla will launch a public challenge this year to spur innovation and equal-rating solutions for providing affordable access and digital literacy. The goal is to inject practical, action-oriented, new thinking into the current debate on how to connect the unconnected people of the world", says Mozilla.
The Firefox-maker further says, "additionally, Mozilla is building a global hub to help more women learn how to read, write, and participate online. Over the past five years, Mozilla volunteers have started over 100 clubs and run over 5000 local events in 90 countries to teach digital literacy. Building on this model, Mozilla is now working with U.N. Women to set up clubs just for women and girls in Kenya and South Africa. This is the next step towards creating a global hub".
While this initiative sounds great, Mozilla is not exactly a super-wealthy company. I would prefer to see the organization partner with big-name players, such as Google and Microsoft, for a better chance at having the vision realized. In other words, the programs can't be funded by good intentions. But yes, these are very good intentions.
Mark Surman, executive director, Mozilla Foundation says the following:
"We must address the breadth but also the depth of digital inclusion. Having access to the Web is essential, but knowing how to read, write and participate in the digital world has become a basic foundational skill next to reading, writing, and arithmetic. At Mozilla we are looking at -- and helping to solve -- both the access and digital literacy elements of inclusion."
What do you think of Mozilla's goals? Tell me in the comments.
SEGA IBM/ALPS keyboard
Look at that subtle gray and black coloring. The tasteful thickness of the ABS plastic. Oh, my god. It even has ALPS switches.
Endless Browser Thread - LGBTQ edition
Is there any sane browser out there?
Someone explain that pony/furry shit on my icecat.
Fucking bloat moves all the time even when the fucking hamburger menu is hidden.
This fucking CPU probably from a furfag-unicornkin-SJW-LGBTQ omnigender.
TL;DR:
>bullshit easter egg
KRIPPLEKIKE FIX YOUR SHIT 5: THE JIM AWAKENS
I am sorry that I have failed in being your host last thread, but I am now ready to serve you with hours of fun circlejerking and shitposting as Jim does jackshit to fix the site!
Previously on >>568065
>Jim tells users to fuck off when issues concerning /pol/ are raised
>read-only version of Alacrity deployed
4 errors so far posting this.
Game Start
Secondary setups
So i just set up this old core 2 duo box i had lying around for shits and giggles, but now im wondering, what should i actually use it for? I dont really NEED a second machine, i have all my regular autism set up on my desk across the room....
Do you guys have a second computer, and if so, what do you use it for and why?
inb4 ignore the main focus of the picture "haha hurr durr look at all that autism in the background"
KRIPPLEKIKE FIX YOUR SHIT 4
KRIPPLEKIKE FIX YOUR SHIT 4
>Still waiting on Alacrity, but it should be deployed very soon
Other threads are autosaging. OP isn't around, so NEW THREAD NOW
script to auto-retry when post error is encountered
You're welcome.
var origAlert = window.alert;
window.alert = function(m) {
if (!/The server took too long to submit your post/.test(m)) {
origAlert(m);
} else {
setTimeout(function() {
$('.submit > input').click();
}, 1000)
}
}
Is it still the best music player today?
Alright, /tech/, I cannot into analog circuits. What the hell is this?
Distributed Filesystem
I'm planning to do my backup-solution™finally right. Against burning or raided houses I planned to have my data redundancy at multiple places and am looking for fitting filesystems/software for this purpose. So there shouldn't be one master and some slaves which just compare shit. I thought about something like RAID-1/RAID-5 over TCP.
I tripped over GlusterFS, Tahoe-LAFS and DRBD after some hours of reading. Do you have any experience with one of these or do you know something better? I'm open for almost everything as long it is free software.
Safe to save jpegs over Tor?
It is an incredibly foolish idea to save pdfs or word docs over Tor because they can have exploits which will reveal your real IP once you open them, everybody knows that.
But I'm curious if this also extends to jpeg and png files. Is it possible for a jpeg or png file to "phone home" once you open it? Aside from downloading and running an image.jpg.exe, is this even a reasonable worry? I assume that as long as your connection is using SSL you're fine since the exit node can't fuck with the file in any way, am I correct in this assumption?
So, what happened to 4chan /prog/? I can't find any of the text boards anymore. Fix it, Hotwheels.
Steam VR Scores
Post your Steam VR Tests
figs
Nokia
How do you feel about Nokia's death?
What should of had they done differently?
What do you miss?
Poorfag rig thread
So I just got through finding parts for a new rig, and I feel pretty damn proud that I found what I found at the prices I found it at.
Here's the specs:
Dell Optiplex with an i5-2400 3.1ghz and a 250gb HDD (no ram) [$155.00]
2x4gb DDR3 1333mhz RAM [$30.00]
8gb SSD [$7.00]
and i have an old Radeon HD 3450
Grand total: $192
So thats a lotta hardware for a little bit of money, and I guess the point of this thread is:
What is the best possible PC you can frankenstein together for under 200$?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/technology/microsoft-sues-us-over-orders-barring-it-from-revealing-surveillance.html?_r=0 what does /tech/ think about this?
Bi-Millennial /tech/ coding challenge
Write a program which finds the first non-repeated character in a string.
Example input
yellow
tooth
Example output
y
h
Write this in any language you want. Solutions provided by women™ are prefered.
>inb4 do your own homework faggot
Microsoft sues the Justice Department
They are not doing it for the right reasons. They are not suing the Justice Department because they are angry about invasions of privacy or because they care about their users's rights. They are doing it for the same reason that Apple did it.
Whenever a for-profit company does anything, we have to look at it through a particular lens. They exist for the sole purpose of making money. Any attempt to look like they care about your freedom is only there because it is profitable. Turning data over to the Justice Department is not profitable. Losing user's who are mildly privacy-conscious is not profitable. You know what is profitable? Convincing users that they are safe (users who think they are not being watched will provide more information and information of greater value), gathering their information, and selling it to every single advertising agency that can pay the price.
Suing the Justice Department does not mean that Microsoft respects your privacy in the same way that "heart"ing open source does not mean that Microsoft respects your freedom. They put on this facade to make more money from people that they would otherwise not make any money from and to save themselves from becoming increasingly irrelevant. Let me repeat that because that's a curcial part of what I'm saying here. Microsoft does not care about your privacy. They are doing it for profit and PR.
However, we can still benefit from this. You and I, those people in chat rooms and in the mumbles, those people on image boards and forums that live and breath privacy and freedom can still benefit from this. We cannot all host everything ourselves. It is simply not feasible for the average person to have a server on their desk running daemons for XMPP, IMAP, SMTP, GNU/Social, and everything else that you need to function in the modern world. The sad truth is that eventually you have to rely on someone else for some digital service, be it instant messaging, social media, email, even the bare internet service itself. You have to rely on a company, and you have to give up some amount of information and privacy in return. Microsoft suing the Justice Department might not effect us directly because we don't use Microsoft's software. They don't gather our information, but we should still care because, if it comes out in their favor, it sets a valuable precedent for the companies that you and I do rely on. It sets a valuable precedent for independent email providers like Vincent Canfield. It sets a valuable precedent for instant messaging solutions like Telegram. It sets a valuable precedent for you and me and everyone else who is forced to rely on some other company to provide a service.
What people often forget is that when a decision is made in court, more than just those in the court room feel the effect. It creates the rules that the rest of us operate on.
pre-planning the /icup/ 3
gentlemen, soon we will begin our 3rd season of the /icup/. what we'll need is an updated team roster and a board rep for each team. previous team rosters have been backed up on the wiki [linky] so just see if any changes need to be made. once you've finalized your team make a post to >>>/icup/
what is /icup/? it's a ai vs. ai soccer league played amongs 8chan boards. click here to see more of how it works http://www.dailymotion.com/icupofficial
we look forward to making memeball great again.
Why do you care about privacy
Hey, I'm making a poll today on why you care about privacy. Feel free to vote or not vote.
hey /tech/
here's an interesting site for hosting small pages
+markup style
+quick
+can edit
-api is limited
-closed source
are there any alternatives to this? or should i keep using it
KRIPPLEKIKE FIX YOUR SHIT
KRIPPLEKIKE FIX YOUR SHIT
favorite text editor ?
your favorite code editor && why
pic related: adobe brackets -
the first GUI based code editor i ever used, and have proactively avoided console editors for anything over 10 minutes since.
Microsoft sues U.S. Justice Dept., asks court to declare secrecy orders unconstitutional
Microsoft sues U.S. Justice Dept., asks court to declare secrecy orders unconstitutional
>Microsoft is suing the U.S. Justice Department, asking a federal judge to declare unconstitutional a provision of U.S. law that lets the government keep Microsoft and other tech companies from informing their customers when investigators seek access to emails and other cloud data.
So what prompted this?
CC0
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Under which circumstances should I consider using this license for a web site, /tech/?
Hey /tech. If this is the wrong place, sorry for wasting your time.
I'll get right in to it. Are there any good sites to learn how to code and programming, told in an easy to understand language for complete newbies and people with low pc skills. (meaning I can use one, and find my around it more or less, but not much else).
Thanks again.
KRIPPLEKIKE FIX YOUR SHIT 2
KRIPPLEKIKE FIX YOUR SHIT 2: ELECTRIC BOOGThe server took too long to submit your postALOO
Previously on >>559716
>Make shitpost about server issues on 8chan
>forget about it
>2 days later
>300 replies, even Jim communicated after months
>mfw
I keep getting 502, 503 and 404 while trying to post this thread. Fucking hell
5 errors. What the fuck
What exactly is Microsoft Azure?
Is like a set of virtual machines you have to rent in order to host your web application?
What's the difference with every hosting service? That it can manage many different OSes so you don't have to worry about that? And that they give you more resources as you need?
If so, can you run a local Azure installation?
KRIPPLEKIKE FIX YOUR SHIT 3: RETURN OF THE JOSH
Continued from >>564983
>Alacrity will be deployed very soon
>Jim is still circlejerking
Mobile Computing thread - botnet edition
I think mobile devices deserve their own thread.
dumbphone, smartphone, SBCs, even the botnet and obscure ones.
>hardware
>software
>debotnet and security
>fave apps
I'll start
>hardware
china android phone
Quadcore ARM 1.3GHz MT6582
>tweaked OpenGL to 70fps
>butter smooth graphics at all times
>software
custom debloated AOSP ROM
>debotnet and security
AFWall+ -firewall
>fave apps
clean:
(f-droid available)
hackers keyboard -best keyboard
dashclock -clock widget
cpustats -notif. icon
network status -notif. icon
red moon -like redshift
kde connect -kde integration
vanilla music -music
drivedroid -mount linux iso
amaze -file browser
hexiano -piano
temaki -notes
vudroid -ebook reader
(non-fdroid)
apex -launcher
music visualizer -music
botnet:
x-plore -advanced file browser
(native zip, rar, multimedia viewer)
WPS office -best microcuck office shit out there
(inb4 botnet, block connections with afwall)
tbh specs are outdated but I'm not planning on getting another android phone unless they fix their insecure shit
>tfw apps then used to only run when opened
>tfw apps now are opened everytime unless you freeze their startup
>tfw miss your 2MB RAM nokia phone
>tfw background apps consume 700MB when not debloated.
>tfw phones then last a week after charge
>that nostalgic nokia battery charging animations
>tfw nokia turned out to becoming botnet because of microsoft
WHY IS EVERYTHING BOTNET!
Which distro do you use and why?
DE/WM?
markov bot / AI thread
board for markov bots and shitposting AI, can't do it on 8chan because captcha
try shitposting with it
ai stuff thread i guess
national aeronautical and space association
the nsa spooks your chat for keywords such as these
Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charges, ambush, sniping, motorcade, IRS, BATF, jtf-6, mjtf, hrt, srt, hostages, munitions, weapons, TNT, rdx, amfo, hmtd, picric acid, silver nitrite, mercury fulminate, presidential motorcade, salt peter, charcoal, sulfur, c4, composition b, amatol, petn, lead azide, lead styphante, ddnp, tetryl, nitrocellulose, nitrostarch, mines, grenades, rockets, fuses, delay mechanism, mortars, rpg7, propellants, incendiaries, incendiary device, thermite, security forces, intelligence, agencies, hrt, resistance, psyops, infiltration, assault team, defensive elements, evasion, detection, mission, communications, the football, platter charge, shaped charges, m118, claymore, body armor, charges, shrapnel, timers, timing devices, boobytraps, detcord, pmk 40, silencers, Uzi, HK-MP5, AK-47, FAL, Jatti, Skorpion MP, teflon bullets, cordite, napalm, law, Stingers, RPK, SOCIMI 821 SMG, STEN, BAR, MP40, HK-G3,FN-MAG, RPD,PzB39, Air Force One, M60, RPK74, SG530, SG540, Galil arm, Walther WA2000, HK33KE, Parker-Hale MOD. 82, AKR, Ingram MAC10, M3, L34A1, Walther MPL, AKS-74, HK-GR6, subsonic rounds, ballistic media, special forces, JFKSWC, SFOD-D! , SRT, Rewson, SAFE, Waihopai, INFOSEC, ASPIC, Information Security, SAI, Information Warfare, IW, IS, Privacy, Information Terrorism, Kenya, Terrorism Defensive Information, Defense Information Warfare, Offensive Information, Offensive Information Warfare, NAIA, SAPM, ASU, ECHELON ASTS, National Information Infrastructure, InfoSec, SAO, Reno, Compsec, JICS, Computer Terrorism, Firewalls, Secure Internet Connections, RSP, ISS, JDF, Passwords, NAAP, DefCon V, RSO, Hackers, Encryption, ASWS, Espionage, USDOJ, NSA, CIA, S/Key, SSL, FBI, Secret Service, USSS, Defcon, Military, White House, Undercover, NCCS, Mayfly, PGP, SALDV, PEM, resta, RSA, Perl-RSA, MSNBC, bet, AOL, AOL TOS, CIS, CBOT, AIMSX, STARLAN, 3B2, BITNET, Tanzania, SAMU, COSMOS, DATTA, E911, FCIC, HTCIA
you may find links to these keywords here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-prism-keywords-for-domestic-spying-2013-6
http://www.rense.com/general66/scgh.htm
or startpaging/searxing/ixquicking "nsa keywords"
this thread is dedicated to fucking with the nsa
activism has to start somewhere folks, today its starting with shitposting
8chan and HTTP referrer
What the fuck is Hotwheels doing? 8chan is returning invalid/empty HTTP referrer errors in Firefox.
Speaking of Firefox, what exactly is the difference between IceCat and Iceweasel?
>tfw new distro
We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:
#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.
Free software advocacy group
Hey guys, so a couple of you said that a previous thread I had on this had a great concept but poor execution, so I'll try this again.
Basically, I am a novice programmer who can't make any major contributions to the foss software community, so I thought to myself on how I could still help the cause.
Then it hit me, email campaign for more free software. I started by making a list of all the types of developers who would be sympathetic to our cause and this is what I came up with:
1. Freeware developers. They are developing the software for free, and in many cases they have never heard of the foss movement, so these guys should be pretty easy with a little pressure put on them.
2. Indie developers. These guys are used to the power dynamic of the big mega-corporation vs the little guy, so many of them are sympathetic to our cause, you should look to go on any forums they manage or go on their steam discussion pages and ask for the source or a linux port, although you may have to volunteer to test it for them, which you should.
3. Old software. One of the only reasons that the open group released
CDE as open source was due to a petition people made to make it open. These guys might take a little more convincing than the previous two, but if the program is abandonware and the developer is still around, why should he care about what happens to his/her/xir :^) old software?
Commercial products are significantly harder to convince, but It's better to try and fail than not try at all.
List of freeware if you want to help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freeware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freeware_video_games
Also, it would be great for the mods here to put up a list of devs who promised to put their source code but never came through with it (similar to the DDG page)
List any sucess stories or other comments below:
REMINDER: Please be as respectful as possible to the devs, even if they say no as to not put a bad taste of free software in their mouths.
Rural Internet
I'm about to move into the boonies to a farm where no-one is willing to run cable.
Any suggestions for ISPs or internet so I can continue my hikki ways while not at work?
Help With Proxy
I have been banned from a couple sites that I was a regular to for absolutely bullshit reasons. I was told that I can set up a proxy and it would let me in again.
The thing is that I torrented Hotspot Shield and I can't even do the first fucking step lol. I need to add IP's or something to the system32 drivers "etc" file, but it won't let me unless I'm "administrator" (even though I'm the only one who uses the damn computer and I AM admin) It will not let me save it and I can't change it to open with notepad either. So I can't even use open in notepad to locate the file, it just doesn't show up.
Can anyone help? And would a proxy like this even let me bypass IP bans?
Someone told me that they needed to replace their cable more frequently now that they had high-speed internet, since the speed of the internet was wearing it out faster.
They weren't joking.
Daily Programming Thread +
Since previous thread is over bump limit.
What are you working on /tech/ ?
Discrete Cosine Transform II (DCT-II)
I've been reading about how JPEGs are compressed, and I've found that it's mainly done through an algorithm called Discrete Cosine Transform II, which is based off of the Discrete Fourier Transform.
One of my first reactions was to ask if there was a Fast DCT much like how there is a Fast Fourier Transform, and there is and has been since '77: http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~vak/tg/papers/Chen-dct.pdf
However, reading the paper, some things aren't clear and are a bit confusing, like how P_N isn't defined here, or how it isn't clear if i or j simply refer to an index or to the imginary unit.
So does anyone know if there's a clearly-written formula for the Fast DCT for N = 8 (JPEG case), or if there is an open source implementation of it?
Some Early Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Vulkan Tests With NVIDIA Graphics
WINDOWS GETTING OWNED BY VULKAN+GNU/LINUX IN GAMES
>While waiting to test Ubuntu Bash on Windows, I decided to run some (manual) tests of Vulkan on Windows compared to some recent Ubuntu Linux figures with different NVIDIA graphics cards.
>For this early comparison were the recent results I did of OpenGL and Vulkan on Ubuntu using The Talos Principle. Those tests were two weeks ago with the NVIDIA 364.12 driver on Ubuntu 16.04 with the Linux 4.4 kernel. The system used for this old and new testing was the same Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 Skylake box with MSI C236A Workstation motherboard, 16GB of DDR4-2133MHz memory, and 120GB Samsung 850 SSD. With today's Windows 10 Pro x64 tests, the NVIDIA 364.72 driver was at play.
>The NVIDIA cards I used for this early, manual testing was the GeForce GTX 950, GTX 970, and GTX 980 Ti. There's a straight-forward Vulkan comparison using the same settings on both Ubuntu and Windows followed by another test when comparing the Direct3D 11 renderer performance on Windows 10 to the OpenGL renderer performance on Linux.
>When it comes to that D3D11 on Windows vs. OGL on Linux performance, The Talos Principle on the three tested NVIDIA graphics cards was quite competitive between the competing operating systems. OpenGL/Linux seemed to have the slight upperhand, but will reserve final conclusions until I have updated TTP in the Phoronix Test Suite for running it through a full battery of tests on many different graphics cards. There's also been the difference of the Linux results being from the TTP public beta from two weeks ago, so take these initial results as you wish.
>With regard to the Vulkan performance between Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04, while both were using the NVIDIA 364 series driver, the Linux results on all three graphics cards were noticeably faster! Quite interesting considering that usually the NVIDIA graphics performance is close to each other under Windows and Linux, at least from past OpenGL comparisons. But again, this was just some very initial testing done today.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Win10-Linux-Vulkan-Early
WINFAGS ON SUICIDE WATCH
YEAR OF THE GNU/LINUX NOW
Intel execs leaving company amid failing mobile and IoT business
>Intel suffers turnover like any company, but its upper echelons aren’t known for being a revolving door. That’s changed in recent weeks with the (unconfirmed) departure of Aicha Evans, who joined the company in July to head its mobile semiconductor division. Now, longtime veterans Kirk Skaugen and Doug Davis are both leaving as well.
Why do autistic people sperg about archives for image boards?
4chan has had archives for the past 5 years or so and now they have it built into the site.
Mozilla struggles to redefine browser
Nice article which brings things to the point.
http://www.cnet.com/news/a-nail-in-the-coffin-for-firefox-mozilla-struggles-to-redefine-browser/
GNOME 3.20
Gah-nohm 3.20 has been released, with many fixes for Wayland.
Anyone else been using it? HOLY SHIT NIGGA, DRAG AND DROP BETWEEN WAYLAND CLIENTS AND XWAYLAND CLIENTS. IT JUS WERKS.
The only bugs I'm experiencing now are the libinput ones, for vidya, like pointer locking:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84014
Previously there were a bunch of annoying WM bugs (pointer kept grabbing random folders, WM couldn't remember the position and various states of windows under Wayland session) and extensions kept resetting themselves when switching sessions last version. All seem to be fixed.
Who wayland now? Are you ready for THE YEAR OF THE WAYLAND DESKTOP?
KDE DEVS ON SUICIDE WATCH :^)
TempleOS Thread
>ctrl f
>no TempleOS thread
smh fams
I know there's a Terry thread but it's disrespectfur.
Links
Website (where you can find all of the below, but I thought it was easier to list them here)
Help
http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/HelpIndex.html#l1
HolyC
http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/HolyC.html#l1
Instructional videos
http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/TempleOSVideos.html
3rd party programs for TempleOS
http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/3rdParty.html#l1
F.A.Q.
Linux Confirmed Best OS
Ebin post yfw thread
Can anyone please tell me what this is and how to view demos on linux?
Theories on how the NSA plays with the tech industry
All theoretical, but let's be honest, this is happening.
> The "QUEEN" program to tame the potentially dangerous world of open source is even more subtle. The NSA takes advantage of the open development process to place its own people within the system, so that they can subvert it using the following:
>FUD
>Play GPL vs BSD card
>"Bikeshed" discussions
>Soak mental bandwidth with bogus crypto proposals
Some other good bits about the NSA using patent trolls to stomp out non-compliant startups and such.
SH2 reserection
What do ya guys think? Same chip used in the Sega Saturn/Dreamcast.
Online Hate Prevention Institute
Online Hate Prevention Institute
Hi guys, I'm just wondering how do we stop these people from ruining the free internet as we know it? They spend a lot of their bux on reporting videos and content critical of immigration, feminism, etc, in other words literally personal army requests.
For example, here they brag about shutting down Battalion 88's facebook site:
http://ohpi.org.au/battalion88-a-new-australian-nazi-group/ (original)
(If you go through their site, there are dozens of bragpieces)
They are also the people behind the Fight Against Hate site a place you can go a cry to if someone offended you:
The point is that censorship-systems will inevitably be used for totalitarian purposes and OHPI does not help, rather they help build them. What can we do?
Veracrypt
VeraCrypt, just how safe is it and what is it's competitors/alternatives?
Web Development From Scratch
So I don't really know much of anything about programming websites or anything like that, and it seems like a bit of a cluster fuck to properly understand. I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to the web.
Let me try to run through what I've sort of gathered
Your browser is essentially a document viewer that reads an HTML document.
That document contains the data displayed to you and provides the details of general formatting.
CSS is another document that's read to dress things up and format things further.
When you want a website to interact with user input you're essentially writing a program to take that input, do whatever with it, and edit the HTML document you are viewing accordingly.
Is that how things work?
If it's as simple a concept as making a program that edits the document the user is viewing then what makes special languages and frameworks like PHP, Node.js, and etc. special or different?
Where's the difficulty in writing from the ground up a program that does this in C or any language you like?
Where do things get complicated and can someone run me through it?
Why why WHY does node.js need its own goddamn webserver? I mean, even if there was a legitimate reason to use JS on the backend there isn't why the fuck would you lock it down to a single server instead of making it an Apache/NginX module or some other shit? This makes no sense.
Also, even if it were a good idea to, why would you bog down development time of the language framework also maintaining a server program too?
Touch typing. How did you faggots learn it? I just can resist looking at my keyboard
GPS Privacy
Is GPS only a privacy threat when it's connected to a networked computer, i.e. a smartphone?
Would that mean that GPSes independent from computer devices, being a stand-alone receiver on, say bikes and watches (not 'smart' watches) would be fine? The satellites would then not get anything 'back' from the receiver's end, so-to-speak. Am I right or have I missed something here?
I'm new to neural networks and I use the FANN library in C
I tried googling but I couldn't find a response.
What are the advantages and disadvantages in choosing a sparse (not fully connected) neural network or a neural network with shortcuts over a standard neural network?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJZgiy2x5nc
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Ogg
WebM and Ogg Opus are optimized for the Web. For offline storage, is Ogg Theora+Vorbis better for both video and audio? Or should I use Matroska instead?
>2016
>Not using Allman brace style
I seriously hope none of you guys do this.
Proprietary Software in GNU/Linux
I'm interested in starting a dialogue about proprietary software in Linux distributions. Of course, everyone knows that the entire purpose of the GNU project is to provide a free operating system. Many frown upon the inclusion of proprietary software in distributions of GNU/Linux for obvious reasons. The approach that the FSF takes is to only endorse distributions comprised of entirely free software. I would argue that this hurts the cause more than it helps. The reality is that most people are not in a position (or simply do not want) to use entirely free software. Whether their wireless card requires non-free firmware or they simply want to play their video games, I must ask, is it worth depriving these users of the benefits of free software? I can almost assure you that the majority of users will look for alternative platforms before they give up what they want to accomplish on the computer. In my opinion, Debian handles this problem in the best way. Debian is an entirely free distribution of GNU/Linux, but they provide a non-free repo seperate from the main distribution for their users. Of course, this is all my opinion. I'm interested in hearing everyone else's.
How do we save internet privacy/anonymity /tech/?