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 No.17430[Reply]

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html
This article shows a plethora of holes in Linux, problems which even Windows has methods to curb. It seems like the current model for linux kernel development somehow is failing (either in lacking funding, or something else). What will it take for Linux to catch up to corporate alternatives?
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 No.18186

tanenbaum was right about microkernels. having separate containers and systems that don't rely on each other is the most important thing in security right now. QubesOS literally runs a bunch of VMs, sandboxing sensitive ones from the safer ones (AdminVM, VaultVM…). Of course that won't happen to Linux because it's already a huge bloated codebase with millions of lines of code, so the only way out is doing something closer to OpenBSD, QubesOS or MINIX, if you don't want to contribute to those directly for some reason

 No.18187

>>18186
also, using a memory safe language is a must. C is completely outdated for modern OS development

 No.18190

Linux was never designed to be a super duper tight-asshole security magic pill. If you want that, go deal with OpenBSD or whatever.
>>18187
C can be memory-safe, it just requires a skilled eye for vulnerabilities instead of relying on a run-time program to handle it for you.

 No.18192

>>18186
HURD is already a functional OS!! It's microkerneled and modular all the way down

 No.18194

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Well I wouldn't call it catch up. Linux is still secure in a lot of ways that it's corporate competition lags behind in. So like the user is in a pickle rn of chosing between a bunch of OSes that are all vulnerable in some glaring, publicly known way.

I assume these are the case for linux-hardened too, or is this just for the vanilla kernel?


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 No.16953[Reply]

Linux, Windows or Mac

You like and use, Post 'em

I'll start

7zip the best file archiver
https://www.7-zip.org/

Honeyview, Imageviewer handles all images and gifs and zip images too
https://www.bandisoft.com/honeyview/

Goodbye DPI, helps bypassing region blocks, not a VPN but it's something
https://github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI

Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.17318

>>17309
pretty is subjective, which is why quod libet with a GTK theme that you like and a customized layout is best

 No.18168

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https://lzone.de/liferea/ RSS/Atom reader in GTK
https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard RSS/Atom reader in Qt

 No.18170

>>17012
https://gajim.org/ for XMPP only chat

 No.18174

>>17309
If you're on Android poweramp is pretty great with luminous dark skin it fits pretty well with amoled displays.

 No.18178

Why is MS Paint so fucking good, and why can't a single FOSS programmer replicate its simple genius


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 No.20348[Reply]

https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/10/australia-lagging-behind-on-ai-learning-tech-for-classrooms-report-suggests
>Australian schools are “flying blind” and lagging globally on the use of artificial technology in classrooms, the author of a report on edtech has argued.
As long as the teacher critiques the text in dialogue with each student individually it's fine and likely more beneficial for each student than a world without automatic text generation however flawed
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 No.20356

>>20355
ChatGPT is unreliable, it makes things up all the time. It was made to produce convincingly looking text, which makes the bullshit harder to spot. It is not useful as a learning tool, especially not for children. If you want to improve educational outcomes, the single most effective (and actually backed by science) policy is providing students with free meals. All edtech nonsense is just a way to funnel public money into private hands while making education worse for both student and teacher.

 No.20357

>>20356
>it makes things up all the time
So no change from the current educators

 No.20358

>>20357
If that was true, a lot more people would fail standardized tests. Unless you believe that students can learn the curriculum despite their teachers misleading them.

 No.20359

There's a serious point I'm making here if the student cracks the bullshit code, and education is largely lies to children and this is not a bad thing because they need to learn those simple lies to have a hope in hell of learning complex truths, by and large the teacher is upset if they're not overworked and utterly stressed then they'll give a good educational response if they are we'll…

Robot nanny doesn't have feelings or an ego and sometimes for the student cracking the bullshit code will get very interesting responses >>20353

>>20358
The first subsaharan PhD at a German university delivered their thesis orally with few to no notes

They passed inb4 hurrdurr affirmative action
This was in the 17th century or so, if anything
the bias would be in the opposite direction

Automatic text generators can pass medical exams education will change for the better or it will become even more disconnected from reality

Most factories have multiple break shifts and the break shifts aren't governed by a bell btw

 No.20360

>>20359
It can pass the (written) medical exam because there are canned answers for it. It's a fault of the exam, not an achievement of ChatGPT. It would absolutely fail an oral exam. The examiner would very quickly figure out that it does not actually understand anything it says.


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 No.17847[Reply]

>Software architecture refers to the fundamental structures of a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems. Each structure comprises software elements, relations among them, and properties of both elements and relations. The architecture of a software system is a metaphor, analogous to the architecture of a building. It functions as a blueprint for the system and the developing project, which project management can later use to extrapolate the tasks necessary to be executed by the teams and people involved. Software architecture is about making fundamental structural choices that are costly to change once implemented. Software architecture choices include specific structural options from possibilities in the design of the software.

This is a thread for general discussion of software architecture, the high level design of software and software systems. PDF dumps also appreciated.

Note: Software architecture is separate and at a higher level of abstraction that for example, object oriented design. There are specific patterns, methodologies, etc. for software architecture just as there are design patterns for OOAD.
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 No.17913

>>17891
>>17892
Update. Predictably did like shit actually designing the system. It was a very naive approach, but I dropped more buzzwords than a clickbait tik tok video, but the engineer was pretty smart, so probably not impressed.

The hardest part was gathering requirements correctly. I stumbled through that and my requirements were shit. Then the design was half-baked, not thought through and mediocre. The engineer was cool and helped me along at least.

The most significant barrier to acing this was probably practicing. The problem was rather easy, tbh, and it didn't require any of the fancy shit you see on the design interview questions while studying. Still I struggled to design it. I was also nervous and figuratively shitting my pants all, so it could have been worse.

All things considered I'd say I did 6/10. At least my other interviews were strong so hopefully they balance out.

 No.17914

>>17849
>has different study plans depending on how much time you have left
You're going to die in seven days, why did you watch that cursed vhs tape anon???
>>17854
>In a world with infinite labor power, the solution would be to simply do it, and then check where you fucked up with your unknown assumptions, delete everything and start again with a better understanding. Obviously, this is never practical nor feasible in real life.
Feasibility is a bourgeois metric. In reality any rushed product is trash. Actual historical progress is only achieved through dialectical struggle through contradictions.

 No.17915

>>17913
GJ anon, especially on short notice

 No.17916

>>17915
Thanks :) much appreciated.

 No.18135

https://github.com/arpitbhardwaj/architecture-diagrams

repo containing a bunch of diagrams for common system design questions


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 No.18106[Reply]

i use text-to-speech to generate audiobooks from large amounts of text. However when I use ebooks as the input there's a lot of shit like line breaks, end-line hyphens, page numbers, citations, headers, footers, and other junk that I don't want in there. Within reason, what's the best way (other than manually doing find and replace with regular expressions) to clean up text before processing it with TTS?

 No.18107

>>18106
On linux you can use ebook-speaker that does skip some of that stuff . It's a command line tool to help visually impaired people. It doesn't have an inbuilt TTS so you have to install one beforehand, like for example espeak or festival.

You can also use pdftotext to turn pdfs into regular text files and then use the utilities sed and awk to remove all the crap you don't want the TTS to read aloud. It's easy to put sed and awk commands into a bash script, so that once you have exactly how you want it, you can apply it to other files.

 No.18108

>>18107
thanks!

 No.18109

>>18107
i use festival already to generate ebooks. sounds like what i need is sed and awk

 No.18129

>>18107
i looked into sed/awk tutorials

I found it easier to just convert PDF to text and then brute force through all the stuff with just find/replace using regular expressions in notepad++

I've already made a couple of audiobooks this way and listened to 1 of them

 No.18130

>>18106
>>18129
maybe upload the audiobooks to youtube or some other video platform?


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 No.18097[Reply]

My pc is turning only the led and fans, no peripherals and no image, I tried changing the memory slots but no success, what could be the culprit?

 No.18098

>>18097
What make and model, and how long have you had it?
What distro of linux are ya using?
Are you sure the monitor is plugged in correctly?

 No.18099

>>18098
What do you mean make and model? I have my computer since 2020, and yes everything's plugged correctly

 No.18100

>>18099
Who make your motherboard and CPU? Is there a beeper if so what beep code?

 No.18103

if there is no beep,then your motherboard is probably fucked,that's what happened to me.

 No.18128

either a bent pin on the CPU/mobo or a dead CPU


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 No.18068[Reply]

i would like to discuss an idea thats been floating around in my head for a while, i haven't seen this brought up anywhere yet

trying to devise a way to actually organize effort around a common goal, primarily a primary defense against getting psy-op'd

the general idea is to make an ML algorithm, NN, what-have-you, that is designed to filter out common idpol/psyop from discussion and return concrete, actionable information. what's being suggested is essentially a great equalizer, it flattens the playing field so that the work necessary can be done without worrying who's glowing. typical glow tactics would be programmed in, and divisive messaging would simply come out as 'please remove me from the group cause i'm not in a position to actually help'.

for example, your org is going to do up a mutual-aid. someone still liberal would typically be crying and complaining about how they're oppressed black disabled lesbian muslim etc. etc. the algo would filter that to the recipient and turn it into something like, "I'm in a position where I need financial assistance before I can actually help with this thing". Then resources could be distributed to them accordingly, freeing them up to be actually useful.

maybe not the best example but interested in feedback
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 No.18081

Hi

 No.18084

>>18068
Meds

 No.18092

the people you don't like are trying to use censorship to suppress "misinformation", right? in that case, your best bet would be to keep an eye on what kind of technology they develop to achieve their goal, copy it from them and apply it for your own goals. both sides want to control the narrative, so it makes sense that the means to achieve it would be the same.

 No.18096

>>18068
id-pol operates by self-referencing
you'd have to make a heuristic linguistic filter algorithm to detect self-referencing.

AI stuff uses a lot of computational power, i don't know if that's really viable.

The least effort variant is word-substitution for identities.

However be warned that if you make a censor system, all the identitarians are going to flock to it in order to let their id-pol pass through while they block the id-pol of the rest. You somehow have to find a mechanism that plays the different id-pol factions against each other so that they all block each others id-pol. Seems like a tricky thing to get right.

I don't know maybe it's better to train a gpt-bot on marx's collected works and use it to drown out idpol with in depth economic discussion.

 No.18113

Topic blocking is a cat and mouse game, but it could help.
Account blocking becomes a cat and mouse game but can be done.
If capital wants to obstruct something, they will make it so.


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 No.15646[Reply]

There are no search results after page 40.
Try every category, every word the millions are a lie.

05:30
https://www.bitchute.com/video/4XukZxTIIQ74/

Every search engine is the same.
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 No.18074

>>18064
It's also because Google search works differently than it used to. Now it operates on the same algorithmic content delivery social media uses based on data harvesting taken from both the aggregate of all users and specific users. Search results will be slightly different based on your prior search history and whatever data Google gets from cookies, browsing history, watch history on youtube, and whatever other data they get from you.

 No.18076

>>18074
That makes it less useful as a technical resource when you are searching a model name and just wanting anything that matches that is on the Internet. For example I remember a year or so ago coming across on the Internet hex edits instructions for IBM PC Dos 7 files to fix bugs but I can't find it with Google searches even though it should be easy and I don't know if it is Google being Google or the page is no longer up.

 No.18077

It never used to be like that. I remember in the earlier 2000s you would not get repeating results.

>unironically using Bitchute a rightoid run site
Why? There is other options you know.

 No.18083

>>15646
No shit, ever since the war in the ukraine started and DuckDuckGo announced they would counter disinformation along with everyone else and added the Bing telemetry to their site, every search engine just gives me stuff one grade above the Epoch Times. Really makes you think.

 No.19419

Ӏ've been very happy throughout the experience.
Іt'ѕ a great company too work witһ.


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 No.18021[Reply]

https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/zmomxw/stable_diffusion_can_texture_your_entire_scene/

Stable Diffusion can now texture your entire scene automatically in blender. This will greatly increase the output of small devs IMO as it will multiply the amount of content they can create.
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 No.18038

>>18026
probably due to lighting in blender

 No.18040

>>18021
>>18035
This is terrible if you want any kind of control over the art direction of your game.

 No.18043

>>18040
In time you'll be able to create something like a more advanced color-scheme that makes the AI generate in a style you defined with some kind of script language that's optimized for describing aesthetic patterns.

 No.18045

>>18043
So how the holodeck worked in Star Trek?
If it progresses to that point why would artists be afraid of this? At that point it's just a faster tool than the tools that already exist to streamline the digital artistic process that no one feared will destroy jobs or end the human creative experience.

 No.18048

>>18040
>This is terrible if you want any kind of control over the art direction of your game.
… you can modify the uv map still and touch it up anon. its not set in stone. Just like you can edit images from stable diffusion in Gimp/photoshop


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 No.8164[Reply]

How bad is Spotify?

It's a bourgeoise vice, but I really like it. I hate having to search all over the web to pirate albums, organize those albums in my desktop, and transfer transfer both to my phone and laptop from my desktop. Spotify just makes the process so much easier. I can listen from any device I want. I want to add some songs to my playlist? I search it up and add it in a matter of seconds. I want to share music? I copy a link and send it over in seconds. Spotify has 99% of the music I listen to and I don't even listen to mainstream stuff.

Should I really make the effort to switch back to pirating? Should I stop prioritizing comfort over data security? What does /tech/ think?international_brigadeInternational Brigade
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 No.18025

>Should I
>Should I
>But should I
>why should I
What is it with people who need to be told what to do? And what makes them think that anyone gives a fuck about what they do?

 No.18028

>>18025
Lots of people use streaming platforms and have doubts over them
It’s a conversation starter

 No.18029

>>18025
Shut the fuck up Stirner
'Should' has the implied question that they're deciding whether an action will or will not be beneficial to their goals. That's a valid course of action.

>>8164
>paying a middleman host
>ever
>especially when they take a HUEG FUGGIN CUT
Unironically, pirate and donate directly to artists to incentivize them under capitalism.
It's usually really easy once you have a few sites.

 No.18036

>>13430
you can use an invidous exclusively for sourcing music

 No.18037

You could host your own streaming service. That way you'd have access to all of your pirated (and legally acquired) files, potentially from anywhere, without having to manually copy them to your destination device everytime.

There are different ways of doing this depending on your situation and your needs. I currently have a basic setup, which consists of a physical server PC at my bro's place, a Wireguard tunnel between my house and his, DDNS to keep track of our IP addresses, and media stored on a TrueNAS volume, which I access via NFS/SMB shares. There are ways to expand on this, such as by installing a media player like Jellyfin, and by making it accessible from anywhere on the Internet (not just through Wireguard).

It's a nice personal project if you're into this kind of stuff. There is an initial cost, especially if you're looking to host from home, but you can repurpose an older PC for this, and if you decide to buy a server, then at least then you get to keep all the hardware (eventually upgrade it, repurpose it or sell it), not to mention you have full control over the content and how long it stays there, and you don't have to keep paying subscription fees and lose everything if you stop paying. You could also just rent a VPS if you can't or don't want to mess with hardware yourself, or if you want to just simplify the whole process to just installing Jellyfin/Plex and dropping some files on there.


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