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 No.20484[Reply]

Is there an explicitly cooperative FOSS crowdfunding solution?
Or does it need to be created? Most seem to rely on direct donations to individuals (patreon, liberapay) or halfassed, symbolic methods/gestures (opencollective)

The real solution would be a technologically cooperative (each member in the group registers their acc to a ledger and gets auto-payed every time a donation is received to the co-op), free software licensed, with as little layers of mediation as possible.

Peertube is P2P, free software
Mastodon is flooded with anarchists, free software
Lemmy admins are MLs, free software
Fediverse is both integrating and branching relevant projects with each other
Amazon Labor Union (Amazon is owner of Twitch) has ballooned
Matrix has become normalized for development, so has alternatives to Github
Activists use Signal and not WhatApp anymore

With each instance of big tech bourgeois repression the cyberspatial zone of counterpower improves more in quality and quantity

Lay the economic brick on the socialist path, comrades
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 No.20505

What is it solving?

 No.20506

I'll add another perspective from praxis. This thing would have members all over the world. Cooperatives need to be incorporated in a state somewhere. I've looked into starting cooperatives and some jurisdictions have tight requirements for who can be a member. Which jurisdiction is the easiest if you have members all over the world?

 No.20561

>>20506
A country like Bolivia or Venezuela maybe?
I know that imperialist west social democratic governments passed some laws making it easier for their co-ops, but we wouldn't want to base there for reasons already mentioned (imperialist government, bound to bend over backwards in order to make it frustrate the transition I mentioned here >>20493 )
But that risk may be considerably reduced when the country in question already chooses to integrate into an alliance like ALBA-TCP, which includes a country like Cuba.

 No.24538

i'm, in this year, writing my university dissertation about donations systems for opensource developers, focused more on the points you said, like bulk donations rather than individual donations.
i believe this can work in FLOSS development or other highly specific areas, not everything, so i dont believe for sure in the so-called market socialism.
my reasons for believing that approach can work in floss is that software development does not need tons of constant capital, it basically needs computers and internet access what everyone already has, doing developement or not.
you just need to cover the sallaries of open source developers, and my sollution of bulk donations would help normies to donate, they dont need to know especific people to donate (tough having this option is good too).
crypto doesnot work simply because is not a good currency. it takes too much time to do transactions, and as that cant be used to buy food (the most important point of donating). although i like the open source and flexibility to do bulk transfers from crypto.

 No.24539

>>20498
I really hope Lemmy posters ditch the training wheels and start posting on the microblog instances with hi charcounts and group posting. It's like forcing yourself to use a folder system instead of tags. Also, the upvotes thing is such a waste of time. Seeing moderators police it and bot vote counts is hilarious. Serious problem, some of the tenderqueer instances that are nominally "left unity" take this to an extreme, one anarchist reddit clone is literally just one guy and his sockpuppets, insanity. Never seen anything like that happen on Mastodon or Misskey forks.


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 No.24511[Reply]

Real or hysterical? Things have already been quite bad for decades now, so…
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/16/1916229/us-senate-to-vote-on-a-wiretap-bill-that-critics-call-stasi-like

 No.24512

>>24511
don't Google and AT&T already give the government all their data? but sure things can always be worse

 No.24537

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Here's the bill that was proposed. It looks concerning, but that's just from these spooky scary headlines I found from searching it. I'll start to read it now and share my thoughts.


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 No.20665[Reply]

This place needs an AI chatbot thead, so this is it now.

To start things off, I've made a card for Alunya: https://chub.ai/characters/xalkoi/Alunya
Fuck Fork and modify it to oblivion

Don't want to give money to capitalist but want to try it out? First download SillyTavern: https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern

Then create an account on Poe.com and follow the guide on SillyTavern to get the API key (just copy the value of the cookie)

Now download the png of the bot and import it on sillytavern, have fun.

And if you don't mind being unable to lewd the bots, you also have https://beta.character.ai/
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 No.24522

>>24513
Count me the number of cards on that site beyond mentioning the word Soviet in their descriptions that actually has a positive or neutral interpretation of the USSR or even Communism in general, and that doesn't regurgitate CIA propaganda.

 No.24527

>>24522
>>24513
Check these out
https://venus.chub.ai/characters/CommissarCletus/alunya

 No.24528

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>>24527
Ayy, that's me!

 No.24532

>>24528
LOL, nice bot m8

 No.24536

>>24532
Thanks m8 there's more where that came from.


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 No.23288[Reply]

So you have this technology that is effectively electronic cash, you get to send any amount of money with all the benefits of cash and without all the problems of a centralized middle man service. but still after about a decade not enough people believe in crypto as a currency. the hate from the left is especially strange.
>muh energy crisis
YouTube alone is more of an energy blackhole than all of crypto combined. you think streaming 4K@60fps video 24/7 world wide is sustainable? or even 1080p?
instead of fighting the banks, normalfags keep voting for laws that restrict crypto, because of muh think of the children!
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 No.23430

>>23427
the gains are privacy and anonymity.
keep getting spied on, faggot.

 No.23445

>>23427
Crypto "gains" is itself misnomer, as they can't be (legally and especially reliably) solidified. It's one big ball of obfuscation. See OPs kneejerk response to the advertising being poorly received.

 No.24533

crypto is bad as a currency because it takes 1 hour or more for each transaction (if you use centralized methods to do transactions whats the point of using crypto?), decentralization is also bad because you cant return money if an error occurred or someone gets robbed

 No.24534

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>>23288
>high transaction fees
>price completely unstable
You'd be better off using shells as money.

 No.24535

>>23430
>privacy
>every transaction you ever make is on a public blockchain


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 No.24524[Reply]

> find new software
> check out their Microsoft GIthub
< it's just translations and issue tracking, no actual source code
Proprietary software should be required to put large warnings about it being proprietary like those warnings on cigarette.

 No.24525

>find neat looking project on shithub
<all commits are readme edits
there was this guy who had like five repositories of this and spammed links to his "firefox fork" on reddit and hn

 No.24526

>>24525
I hope he died tbqh

 No.24529

90% of accounts I see on github are just people forking highly starred repos or posting their homework assignments. There's this idea that github is a community of artisans sharing and reacting to each others work but it just isn't true


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 No.24100[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Pirate thread, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

Post about pirates and and piracy be it on the high seas or the internet!
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 No.24515

>>24514
there are checksums for .sh installers here: https://github.com/GOG-Games-com/MD5-for-GOG.com

 No.24516

>>24515
I only see exes and bins…

 No.24517

>>24516
https://github.com/GOG-Games-com/MD5-for-GOG.com/blob/main/AiO.sfv
clone the repo because the file is huge, there's a few .sh entries there

 No.24518

>>24517
Yeah, only 30, when their native Linux games are much more. Thanks anyway, I guess I'm fucked because this is the official list lol.

 No.24519

>>24518
if you're worried about the files just get them from rutracker or torrminatorr, they're trustworthy


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 No.24099[Reply]

This is why I don't trust nerds. Computer systems have become too complex and nobody actually knows, whats happening under the hood. When nerds say: "Bro, it's totally secure! Trust me!" Don't trust them! Don't trust computers! I have no clue how I will organize my life in the future, but I tell you this much, I will try to rely as less as possible on computers.
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 No.24427

I'd like to believe all those dozens if not hundreds eyes overseeing the kernel over the decades checking for clean and proper code would prevent any backdoor from making it to upstream.
Also this is why you don't update your system all the time.

 No.24428

>>24427
It's like a huge Mexican standoff among glowies, each trying to get in their own backdoors while keeping the others away.

 No.24456

i feel like this is irrelevant considering backdoors are baked in at a hardware level in most consumer products

 No.24457

>>24456
You mean inside CPUs? Yeah, I read this claim already on 4chan, but I'm not sure how real this actually is.

 No.24510

>>24427
>Also this is why you don't update your system all the time.
I'm considering moving to Void which uses a "stable rolling-release" model.


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 No.24450[Reply]

Any Haskellers on Leftypol? Wanna trade monads?
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 No.24463

>>24454
Thanks, I will check it out and come back here with my progress.

 No.24465

>>24451
Honestly LYAH is not bad but it's very limited. I learned the basics on my own and then the book was kinda moot. It's a fun language for sure, but I'm a Scala evangelist now.

 No.24466

I tried it a bit during uni on the side, I gave up after typeclasses, but I still use Haskell notation to reason about type or processes sometimes. Very interesting language, but I have no idea what to do with it.

 No.24496

>>24466
It’s an algorithms prototyping language limited by performance, otherwise it’d be dominant (cuz 2x Rust isn’t good enough).

Web apps are reasonably mature, and being able to functionally manipulate DOM is quite nice. There’s also adequate GUI apps in Monomer, and fast games terminals up right now.

You don’t need to go past a single monad transformer layer for most uses, and effect systems have replaced deep stacked monad trans.

We also finally have GHCJS and WASM backends, although those are new and not really mature.

We need money to jazz up GHC, unfortunately.

 No.24509

Haskell is bretty cool, despite all the memeing it gets I think monads for structuring programs are an excellent innovation and seem like a great example of the "stop and think about how to really do this correctly" approach winning out versus the "just git 'er dun" style.

Typeclasses are nice in the small (Eq, Ord, etc) but there is an annoying tendency of Haskellers to abuse them to write ostensibly modular code where something like OCaml's modules would be more appropriate. The same Haskellers also want to pack more and more fancy types into Haskell even though fundamentally Haskell is not dependently typed and never will be. Why not leave dependent types to actual dependently-typed languages?

The community also cannot seem to decide if they want industrial buy-in or if they want to stay a "weird" language


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 No.24069[Reply]

>A lawsuit revealed that Facebook has reportedly sold all of its users' private messages to Netflix for $100 million
https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1775123488862323060#m
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 No.24074

>>24073
Capitalism.

 No.24084

>>24070
well netflix will recommend them some hecking lefty content for them to entertain themselves, i say it's a good deal for everyone involved as far as i can see

 No.24503

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https://blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-lavender/

 No.24504

>>24503
And people wonder why opsec is important.

 No.24505

>>24069
Way waaaay more egregious is this story. Facebook should have been shut down at this point and Zuckerberg should be in jail for cybercrimes at least, if not other crimes. It is absolutely baffling how bad this is.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/
In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understand users’ behavior and help Facebook compete with Snapchat, according to newly unsealed court documents. Facebook called this “Project Ghostbusters,” in a clear reference to Snapchat’s ghost-like logo.

On Tuesday, a federal court in California released new documents discovered as part of the class action lawsuit between consumers and Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

The newly released documents reveal how Meta tried to gain a competitive advantage over its competitors, including Snapchat and later Amazon and YouTube, by analyzing the network traffic of how its users were interacting with Meta’s competitors. Given these apps’ use of encryption, Facebook needed to develop special technology to get around it.


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 No.24006[Reply]

Frontend tutorials and resources https://neocities.org/tutorials
General tutorials for both frontend and backend https://www.w3schools.com/default.asp
Old Geocities gifs https://gifcities.org/
Free subdomains http://freedns.afraid.org/domain/registry/
Free static site hosts https://neocities.org/ https://pages.github.com/ https://surge.sh/

 No.24502

Open source font libraries https://fonts.google.com/ https://fontlibrary.org/ https://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Guide for loading web fonts https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Styling_text/Web_fonts
Minimalist style sheet https://newcss.net/
HTML5 game engines https://github.com/Calinou/awesome-gamedev?tab=readme-ov-file#html5
Resources and tutorials master list https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome?tab=readme-ov-file#front-end-development


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