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Comrade 04/26/2020 (Sun) 12:38:52 No. 1412 [Reply]

Since there's talk about discord on /leftypol/, we should discuss the alternatives. Here's four that look decent. https://zulipchat.com/ >open source >Apache license >threaded conversations https://rocket.chat/ >open source >MIT license (except the enterprise part) https://mattermost.com/ >open source >AGPL https://getsession.org/ >you have to use their servers, can't deploy your own

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Comrade 04/26/2020 (Sun) 19:31:32 No. 1431

>>1421 TBH I've never used retroshare's chat functionality, only the sharing stuff.

Comrade 04/26/2020 (Sun) 19:49:19 No. 1432

>>1421 I've been using RetroShare daily for five years and it is just fine.

Comrade 04/26/2020 (Sun) 19:51:38 No. 1433

>>1429 What the fuck are rooms that have no equivalent in Matrix?

Comrade 04/26/2020 (Sun) 20:55:20 No. 1434

retroshare://forum?name=%2Fleftypol%2F&id=a0b9bb668a8ffbf0970b6d5c1c22551b idk if a retroshare leftypol already exists? made one anyways if people feel the need to use it

Comrade 04/27/2020 (Mon) 10:41:21 No. 1439

Maybe add a client to the site that connects to IRC? I've some sites do that.

Comrade 04/18/2020 (Sat) 13:41:48 No. 1232 [Reply]

Hi /tech/, I'm trying to improve my general online security and was wondering is there a short list stickied somewhere? As I become more active, I realise I need to become more responsible for my information in case it impacts others negatively, but just reading some of the threads here as a generally non-tech person is doing my head in. What I hope it would cover would range from consoomer grade (where I'm at because I'm an idiot), all the way to clandestine opsec or whatever (I guess I wouldn't know, which is the point). Any recommendations would be appreciated. N.B.: I cannot code. I'm trying to learn Python because I'm dumb, so minimal faffing about initially would be ideal. >picture unrelated

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Comrade 04/22/2020 (Wed) 14:24:40 No. 1315

>>1302 if u remember your password to anything then you can "delete" from public access like myspace i randomly remembered my password (idk how I did) and i deleted plus other facebooks, and see if you can delete all google data and emails. you should remember all your passwords somewhere so you can delete your footprint as your done using service

Comrade 04/22/2020 (Wed) 14:56:34 No. 1316

>>1314 Are you okay, do you need an ambulance?

Comrade 04/22/2020 (Wed) 15:04:19 No. 1317

>>1316 God damnit, i'm just going to go drinking. Fuck this keyboard.

Comrade 04/24/2020 (Fri) 04:26:45 No. 1364

https://www.privacytools.io has good software recommendations

Comrade 04/25/2020 (Sat) 04:58:01 No. 1402

>>1364 interdasting hm

Leftypol Mastodon Comrade 04/24/2020 (Fri) 09:19:19 No. 1365 [Reply]

I think that leftypol should have a mastodon server of some sort.

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Comrade 04/24/2020 (Fri) 15:34:07 No. 1377

>>1375 It's a federated twitter clone. Imagine twitter, but with the addressing of e-mail: a gmail user can write to a yahoo mail user, etc.

Comrade 04/24/2020 (Fri) 15:42:34 No. 1378

>>1375 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_services (FB, Twitt, IG) vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_social_network (Diasp, Mastodon, Matrix) >>1368 Would you mind copy-pasting the article for the thread? Can't browse the website via tor browser

Comrade 04/24/2020 (Fri) 16:18:11 No. 1379

>>1378

Comrade 04/24/2020 (Fri) 18:33:17 No. 1386

>>1379 Ah okay (that's not that big of a deal even). Still far preferable to the alternative of the Big Blue Bird. (The software is the main thing that matters here, if you already assume that everything is getting bulk collected by the NSA anyway, which it is. Then it's about secure standards, i.e. the actual software, encryption, privacy standards, etc.).

Comrade 04/24/2020 (Fri) 18:40:12 No. 1388

>>1386 Mastodon is not "secure", your posts are meant to be public. There are "private messages" but they are broken as they rely on federating servers honouring the "private" setting. It is roughly as secure as plain text e-mail.

Comrade 04/23/2020 (Thu) 02:00:12 No. 1331 [Reply]

Can some on explain to me how to get this pos installed?

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Comrade 04/23/2020 (Thu) 14:34:19 No. 1348

>>1344 >PlayOnLinux is a graphical frontend for the Wine software compatibility layer which allows Linux users to install Windows-based video games, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Internet Explorer, as well as many other applications such as Apple iTunes and Safari. Wikipedia

Comrade 04/23/2020 (Thu) 17:24:09 No. 1352

>>1339 >>1344 Lutris is better.

Comrade 04/23/2020 (Thu) 20:18:47 No. 1355

>>1352 In what way?

Comrade 04/23/2020 (Thu) 22:23:26 No. 1356

>>1355 Every way.

Comrade 04/24/2020 (Fri) 00:16:06 No. 1361

>>1331 Use a distro that has it packaged. And/or use playonlinux.

Comrade 04/22/2020 (Wed) 20:54:26 No. 1323 [Reply]

If my non-gaming laptop overheats everytime I try to game, should I buy a cooling pad or buy better fans? is the cooling pad just a temporary fix or is it actually a solution to hot laptops?

Comrade 04/22/2020 (Wed) 21:09:03 No. 1324

>>1323 Depends. However, laptops are built with compactness in mind and heat transfer is limited by everything being crammed tightly together. A better fan can help and a cooling pad certainly drains off the heat that builds up on the outside, but there's only so much they can do.

Comrade 04/22/2020 (Wed) 21:24:40 No. 1326

>>1324 Aight, if it's so hot it hurts a bit to touch (not frying your hand like a hot stove, but just uncomfortably hot) is it a good moment to stop playan? it's so fucking weird, my computer ran most games like shit, never heated up, my laptop DOES run them, and here's what happens.

Comrade 04/23/2020 (Thu) 00:14:06 No. 1329

>>1326 Usually discomfort means your body doesn't want any more of what it's getting. But yeah, much like with people working (processing) harder means more heat is being generated. Of course more modern processors are more efficient and the amount of produced heat hasn't followed the near-exponential growth of processing power, but combining less ventilation with more power... A cooling pad, as said, might help. But honestly I fear it would only slow down the buildup of heat. More time for you, sure, but just an extension. How much? I don't know, but something. I'm not an expert. Try turning down the settings in the games, in case you haven't done so yet. Less work means less heat.

Secure audio communication Comrade 03/24/2020 (Tue) 21:37:35 No. 615 [Reply]

Tech nerds will not comprise the entirety of the revolution. We know this. It's going to include a lot of normies, who can't exactly communicate and coordinate everything through text messaging. As we also know, we live in a world of mass surveillance. We have to give normies options for communicating that can protect themselves from the corporate surveillance state. This thread is for evaluating those options. I am currently looking at phone conferencing options and can't make up my mind on these: -some Matrix protocol tool -some XMPP protocol tool -Jitsi -Jami What I really want is something supporting phone call-ins, for stupid old people who cannot into computers. Phone OS support may also be important. Some options are more suited to these things than others. Maybe even better ones than I've listed. Discuss, please.

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Comrade 04/20/2020 (Mon) 17:46:16 No. 1281

>>1278 Is this cause for alarm?

Comrade 04/20/2020 (Mon) 17:56:40 No. 1282

>>1281 Not really, it wasn't some giant security breach or anything. It's to do with a reduction in possible bugs around this major release, a lot of people are probably awaiting shilling this release just like I am to people using other software and they want the first impression to be good (previous Skype, Discord, Signal users).

Comrade 04/20/2020 (Mon) 18:16:27 No. 1283

>>741 If the Wienerlauncher is so knowledgeable, why is he using YouTube instead of PeerTube or Mediagoblin?

Comrade 04/21/2020 (Tue) 00:39:58 No. 1294

>>1283 He could upload to both of course, but probably because he wants people to actually hear what he's saying. Social coercion sucks.

Comrade 04/22/2020 (Wed) 21:15:14 No. 1325

Conversations is the easiest XMPP client to set up on your phone. https://conversations.im/ It costs money on the app store, but on F-droid it's free. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.siacs.conversations/

Web-conference and webinar software Comrade 04/20/2020 (Mon) 09:02:41 No. 1262 [Reply]

Tech, which ones are good and encrypted and open source?

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Comrade 04/20/2020 (Mon) 16:26:31 No. 1273

>>1263 Riot uses Jitsi for video-calls, which is known to be less than ideal: https://mastodon.social/@FuckOffGoogleZurich/103874561229216970

Comrade 04/20/2020 (Mon) 16:52:01 No. 1274

>not using the catalog >>615

Comrade 04/20/2020 (Mon) 17:11:54 No. 1275

>>1273 They have/will surely be updated with this new e2e encryption by default update (20th) and https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2359 says riot applies their megolm encryption to their implementation of Jitsi voIP.

Comrade 04/20/2020 (Mon) 17:15:59 No. 1276

>>1275 see >>615

Comrade 04/20/2020 (Mon) 17:39:03 No. 1279

>>1276 Calm down.

golang thread Comrade 04/12/2020 (Sun) 10:05:22 No. 968 [Reply]

Post any Go-related projects and questions!

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Comrade 04/12/2020 (Sun) 16:25:44 No. 997

>>993 Don't know a lot about emulators, but i think that you'll need to learn low level stuff. Architectures and such. For web devel go with javascript, html, php and python flask/django.

Comrade 04/15/2020 (Wed) 15:35:19 No. 1139

They really should change that fucking mascot.

Comrade 04/16/2020 (Thu) 06:19:46 No. 1168

>>1139 I agree, it looks hideous

Comrade 04/20/2020 (Mon) 07:35:05 No. 1260

Here's a go project that was fun working on, while I had the time: https://github.com/xatasan/kagami The idea was to have a universal backend for various Image- and Textboard engines, but I never finished it :k

Comrade 04/20/2020 (Mon) 12:38:40 No. 1264

If only they added generics to go. No inheritance or whatever though. I would be able to make result monads and handling errors would be so much less messy than it currently is.

Wobbly: an app for 21st century workers’ power. Comrade 04/16/2020 (Thu) 16:01:23 No. 1177 [Reply]

Wobbly is a workplace organising platform, being designed and prototyped by a small voluntary team of developers. It’s a communication and coordination tool, with structures and processes modelled on the IWW’s organising style (hence the name, coming from the IWW nickname). We’re creating a space for energetic, powerful, and democratic unions to win struggles, grow. https://notesfrombelow.org/article/an-introduction-to-wobbly https://github.com/Wobbly-App

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Comrade 04/16/2020 (Thu) 19:06:25 No. 1184

AAHHHHHHH mother fucker I had this idea a couple of months back. I wanted to name it syndicat though.

Comrade 04/16/2020 (Thu) 19:27:52 No. 1187

Sadly it does not seem to be a very active project. Maybe Bunkerchan could set things into motion. A good first step would be to get wobbly-mobile a proper license.

Comrade 04/16/2020 (Thu) 20:34:44 No. 1190

Interesting. Crosspost to /leftypol/?

Comrade 04/17/2020 (Fri) 17:07:22 No. 1220

>>1187 yeah it looks kinda dead

Comrade 04/19/2020 (Sun) 13:55:04 No. 1253

Here's the code for the programmers here: https://github.com/Wobbly-App

Comrade 04/17/2020 (Fri) 11:55:04 No. 1201 [Reply]

Could kovri be better for anonymity than tor?

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Comrade 04/17/2020 (Fri) 14:42:25 No. 1215

>>1211 Also this image

Comrade 04/17/2020 (Fri) 22:46:12 No. 1226

Doesn't look like it's available. Is there a download link?

Comrade 04/18/2020 (Sat) 00:14:01 No. 1228

>>1213 i2p is mostly for accessing services in their network afaik, but there's exit nodes as a service (rather than protocol) from what ive heard too i havent played with i2p yet tho

Comrade 04/18/2020 (Sat) 00:48:21 No. 1229

>>1228 Yeah but they aren't actually publicly available to my knowledge,

Comrade 04/18/2020 (Sat) 13:59:42 No. 1234

>C++ for secure netcode literally Java was a better choice than that.