If they are
> in another super-cluster
we will never know

> in another galaxy
we won't know for a long long looong time from now and it's probably irrelevant for us today

> in our galaxy and we detect them in the near future
we are totally fucked, as their first radio signals will reach us thousand years after they have broadcasted them, meaning they have a technological lead of their distance divided by lightspeed minus the few years we use radio signals

> in our galaxy and they detect us first
things will be interesting, as this is the only scenario contact to aliens could be as it is depicted in media with the slight difference that we are actually the far superior civilication

> in our galaxy and we receive their first radio signals from a distance that, devided by lightspeed, is approximately the time we use radio signals ourselves
prepare for interstellar war!

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>>1891
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/im-convinced-we-found-evidence-of-life-on-mars-in-the-1970s/

Perseverance have just successfully landed in Mars.

>>1889
It's a statistical impossibility. Not just a little one like how it's statistically impossible that you will win the lottery, bigger than that. Much, much bigger. The chances are something like 1 in 10^100

They're Ruskies, so I don't care.

>>2196
An imageboard doesn't need "features." Tinyboard/Vichan basically nailed it. The edit feature available on TC is perhaps the only real improvement that upstream tinyboard is missing.

All you need is text + file upload. Other stuff is bloat that you can tack on later.
In regards to coding one, HTML5+CSS has actually helped quite nicely. Use custom HTML tags and CSS selectors and things will be much easier.

Gurochan is back and it's being hosted or something like that by the same Russians as heyuri, kolyma network. I found this cease and desist letter they sent to "guroboard", since kolyma apparently now owns the tradmark gurochan. Don't know if this is real, but it's weird.

https://2ちゃん.net/src/866.txt

Oh, apparently it's real. Imagine if tohno trademarked tohnochan
https://img.gurochan.ga/dis/res/11127.html

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>>2199
Far too much of the stuff I need sporadically requires js for me to disable it automatically. I used to have it disabled, and once had to wait 6 hours to make a financial transaction because some security authorization component on a website needed it and that not working tripped a wire or something.

Firefox ESR has been pretty bad for a long time now, but I'd still rather use it than Chromium. One thing that concerns me about switching to one of the forks is whether they get timely security updates.
>>1654
For downloading large files, there's megadl, which is part of Megatools.
>>2199
I do. Disabling JS breaks many websites, which is a pain. >>/ot/33997 and >>/ot/37266 have been pretty useful, even though some functionality is still missing or partially broken with them. The public Invidious instances in particular tend to be somewhat flaky, which is why I hesitate to link people to them.
>>2200
Couldn't you disable it for general web browsing and only enable it for financial stuff? You could set up separate browser profiles for this.

>>2201
I use pale moon and switching pale moon profiles is a pain and requires restarting the browser or screwing around in ways that break its interaction with other apps.

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>>2201
Cool I didn't know about teddit. There's also "old.reddit.com" which they still seem to keep alive: it preserves the older layout and works mostly fine with JS disabled. Although they've been caught doing shady stuff before [1] so I should probably switch to that.

>Couldn't you disable it for general web browsing and only enable it for financial stuff
Not him but I think he was saying that he didn't even know that the site required JS to avoid tripping the fraud detector or whatever, so he didn't think to enable it. I've noticed this a lot – sites just break in random ways, and if I hadn't used them before disabling JS then I wouldn't even have realized that some dropdown or feature was supposed to exist. It'd be nice if all sites at least supported the noscript tag to let you know that some features are missing.

[1] https://smitop.com/post/reddit-whiteops/

Oh how I wish for mutability during compile-time. The amount of recursive templates upon which I'm relying is making me sweat a bit.

I was trying to get a program I always use to do something for python 2.7 and it wasn't supported anymore. Looking up the changelog discussions, I saw a poster say "We shouldn't support such ancient distros". Christ... it's really bizarre to me just how much the attitude among programmers is now. Granted, decade old software tends to be forgotten, but I have a hard time thinking of 2010 as "ancient", even as far as tech goes. Guess this is just me griping, but damn. I thought python 3.3 and 2.7 were still being used on the same systems.

>>2193
What a mess the python 2->3 transition was. Whose boneheaded idea was it to make things non-backwards compatible.

>>2194
>Whose boneheaded idea was it to make things non-backwards compatible.
I don't know, but there's a growing philosophy that old digital technologies should be forcefully cut out from any currently updated projects. Windows 10 for example has some serious fundamental flaws that make windows 7 look comparatively like a masterpiece, yet it's being prioritized so heavily that now people are cutting windows 7 support from their projects. This in particular is infuriating, to especially because when I'm not on a linux machine I want to use windows 7. In my brief stint with windows 10 I discovered some horrific design flaws regarding path variables, registries, and worst of all administrator permissions. As it turns out it is relatively easy on windows 10 for a file to revoke absolutely and forever any access to any users including the system user itself. This is, particularly, unpleasant when said file is malware.

I once put ubuntu on my dad's computer because he kept getting viruses, and he used it for a while, but he had me switch him back to windows because he liked it better. To each his own.

I found something called Gobolinux which looks kind of interesting because the file system is more intuitive. This system allows you to have multiple versions of the same software.
https://github.com/gobolinux/Documentation/wiki
>GoboLinux is an alternative Linux distribution which redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy. In GoboLinux you don't need a package database because the filesystem is the database: each program resides in its own directory.
>In other words, instead of a package manager placing executable files in /usr/bin, libraries in /usr/lib, and other resources in /usr/share, a program's files are all stored in one tree, such as /Programs/Firefox or /Programs/LibreOffice. This way the user, and package utilities, can remove software by deleting a single directory rather than keeping track of where individual files have been installed.
>Through a mapping of traditional paths into their GoboLinux counterparts, we transparently retain compatibility with the Unix legacy. There is no rocket science to this: /bin is a link to /System/Links/Executables. And as a matter of fact, so is /usr/bin. And /usr/sbin... all "binaries" directories map to the same place. Amusingly, this makes us even more compatible than some more standard-looking distributions. In GoboLinux, all standard paths work for all files, while other distros may struggle with incompatibilites such as scripts breaking when they refer to /usr/bin/foo when the file is actually in /usr/local/bin/foo

On a review from 2009, I found this comment which is really illuminating and illustrates a kind of mindset that seriously pisses me off.
>Okay, when I first saw the directory tree, I freaked out. That's, well, scary. Come on, can we be a little more civilzed? We don't need to type "system", do we? "sys" will do.
>Furthermore, I don't know how Gobo manages, but the idea of "one directory per application" seems to be anti-productive, since in Free and Open Source world, an "application" is built upon many many other packages, which may be languages (P

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>>2190
Another comment from that review.
>The filesystem should be intuitive, someone who has never used the system before should be able look at it and be able to instantly have a basic understanding of what is where.
>I find it strange that people are trying so hard to make linux into a desktop OS, and then resist as hard as they can any thought of changing the innate organizational shortcomings which confuse anyone who doesn't wish to spent the time to memorize its archaic "logic".
>Instead they spent many hours making layer after layer to try and hide these things from the user. If you have to hide stuff in a "user friendly" OS, it is not user friendly.

>>2190
> because the filesystem is the database: each program resides in its own directory.
That sounds really similar to how osx's container system works. Each application is assigned its own container in ~/Library/Containers so it's hermetically isolated (osx enforces that an app doesn't write outside its container). In fact even without containers osx has a general rule: preference plists go in ~/Library/Preferences, application-specific crap goes in ~/Library/Application Support/bundle_id, and the application itself is basically a self-contained bundle in /Applications. Almost every app uses this structure, and the only ones that deviate from it are (surprise surprise) apps ported from linux (*).

>apt and yum has resolve this problems ages ago
>To me, the issue of managing applications for GNU/Linux is rather a done deal.
Ha! Definitely a "done deal" that they invented (at least) three different container formats to work around how much of an issue this is (snap, flatpak, appimage). I'd argue that the whole docker craze generally came about from the difficulty of deploying applications because of dependency hell. The holy distro package manager works fine if you stick to the paved road (and are ok with obsolete, out-of-date packages), but the moment you want to install something that's not on there, good luck running around to get the right versions of the libraries you need. And pushing the burden back on the developer to create a deb package or yum archive or whatever is a terrible idea, because the packaging steps are tricky enough that nobody's going to bother.

>Can remove software by deleting a single directory rather than keeping track of where individual files have been installed.
That's the key issue. You need developer buy-in, which is basically non-existent in the linux world. There's the XDG spec but even that's rarely obeyed by applications. It's more of a social issue than a technical one, since getting the linux guys to agree on a standard.

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>>2184
Legal questions are fairly local, you can't give a real answer without having at least a specific country, even a specific state, in mind.
Very generally though, there needs to be intent to commit a crime. And since there's legal eepsites (most of them, even) the more act of using i2p cannot be intent.
And to even get there, they'd have to know what content you're routing in the first place, but that's heavily encrypted.
>>2185
I2P does not itself contain data storage. There's Lahoe if you want that, but I'm not sure it even works anymore.

>>2186
By distributed data storage I meant stuff like torrents.

Zeronet, perfect dark and the work in progress safenet(maidsafe) are entirely reliant on distributed storage.

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>>2184
I remember hearing stories about people who ran a Tor exit node and were contacted by the three letter agencies a few times for suspicious activity, but upon seeing that they were only running an exit node they were off the hook. I don't know how true those stories are, and running entirely within i2p is probably safer than running exit nodes. I think the risk is fairly trivial though since I haven't seen any stories of people arrested for using Tor for legitimate purposes, and i2p is even more obscure.

>>2188
>Tor exit node
That's why you should run hidden services and avoid using Tor to browse other websites. However, there's a guide about that on the Tor project website.
https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/tor-exit-guidelines/

My thought is that they have low adoption rates, which means standards that advance at the pace of a dead snail. People fill their sites with slow, pointless/malicious scripts and bad design because they can. People can also choose not to do those things. "Quality" via stringent restriction is unecessary and misguided.

I've tried gopher before, and it really does all it needs to (there's even an imageboard available, 1436chan, gopher://khzae.net/1/chan).
I like how it forces everything to be usable be text-only browsers, text being the universal interface.
Making a gopherhole is also fun because it's so easy. It is what the web should be.
If Gemini is pretty much that but in encrypted, then I'd probably be on board as well, but I haven't tried it yet.

>>2173
I really like Gemini. I believe Gemini has some kind of scalability issue however so it could never become a replacement for HTTP. Nonetheless, I intend to use it myself at some point. I do like the idea of forcibly keeping things simple.

>>2167
Back up your data, wipe the HD, and restore from scratch?
You can back up your data by booting from a linux live ISO which should then allow you to mount your HD and copy files off of it.

>>2169
Can no longer edit, but if you want to be really safe then you should clone your HD to another one before wiping it. That you have a backup for the future which you can retrieve files from if you need it.

>>2168
Unless you really don't know what you're doing then going to a repair shop is pointless. They'd just do the above and charge you for it.

>>2167
I'm not a tech expert but I had a rather similar experience not too long ago with the exception of a blue screen. Try to wait it out a little longer and see, I remember it taking quite a long time as well.

>>2167
Thanks for all the help. In the end the restauration thing worked, some sites said it takes only a couple of minutes, but it was around 3 hours of restauration time like >>2171 said too.

>>2162
Mozilla has shifted from focus on the web ecosystem to being more of a "feel-good" organization that wastes money on random crap. You can see it in their recent actions such as firing a lot of core employees who worked on the browser, inflating exec pay, and shifting their focus from improving the browser to pushing things like their vpn and bookmarking sevice.

>>2161
Marketing works, to a degree - but it's assuming there are no right wing programmers with enough talent to roll their own system, and considering what's considered "right wing" these days, that's certainly an erroneous assumption. Hell, there's Loki, which got started by the guy that defended White Lives Matter being on I2P.
Isolating peers:
Only works in that it keeps people from interacting with icki opinions on accident. You can't prevent Person A from peering with Person B in general. You'd end up with 2+ mostly separate networks. They even quote proof of this with the whole Fediverse thing.

Honestly, the thing reads to me more like someone wanting grant money, for which social issues are great because it's easy to make the "problem" understood and you don't need to deliver measurable results.

All v3 Onion Addresses Down After Attack On The Tor Network
https://darknetdaily.com/?p=1030

I've been playing around with i2p and so far the experience has been leaps and bounds more enjoyable than any attempt I've made at using tor. I don't get why tor has gotten so much more attention over the years.

>>2165
I was pondering just yesterday what prevented DDoS type attacks on Tor. The type of attack mentioned in that post seems to be targeting the bootstrap nodes from which info about the relays is obtained.

Another type of attack alluded to in there is a more standard type of DDoS like you might see on the "clearnet." The fact that crypto operations are inherently expensive (to connect to a hidden service you require the other side to build a circuit to a rendezvous point) seems like it should make traffic amplification attacks quite feasible. Even worse, someone with a global view of the network topology could possibly use the DDoS as an opportunity to discover the server hosting a hidden service (find the "hot" node with a lot of incoming traffic).

>>2132
Yes it should be kept around as well.
>>2133
Yes, but that looks very difficult. They say the questions and answers are pretty easy, but I always found it to be very complicated.

>>2134
I think the questions are actually drawn from a fixed pool which they publish ahead of time, so worst case you can just brute-force memorize them, although from a pedagogical standpoint that's not very useful for fundamental understanding.

I also realized I never actually looked through the question set before: I just did, and the questions seem to be divided into five rough sections
* Trivia - FCC Rules, descriptions; Operating Procedures
* EE knowledge – Radio wave characteristics; Electrical principles; Electrical components
* Basic Antenna Theory
* Physical(?) knowledge – Station equipment; Electrical safety
* Signals Knowledge – Modulation modes

The trivia is stuff you've just got to memorize since they're just arbitrary conventions. The physical knowledge is stuff you can probably study last since it's basically an application of the theory things; for instance, if you learn the basic circuit theory you'll be able to get most of the electrical safety ones correct. The difficulty of the other four probably depends on whether you've already been exposed to those topics.

>>2130
My primary interest in Ham Radio would be due to Broadband-Hamnet. I think it would be cool to host an imageboard using radio in a post-apocalyptic world. Outside of that though, I don't see the point of Ham Radio. To me, it's inferior to forums because the two of you have to actually be available at the same time in order for communication to be successful and due to time-pressure, you can't structure what you want to say as well as you could in a forum.
I understand the technology had a former glory and I do support archiving and preservation of history but it's still generally irrelevant to me as I have little interest in using something purely because it's an older way of doing things.
Ultimately, if you just want to talk to random people around the world, why not just go on Omegle? I don't know if people still use Omegle like they did in the late noughties or early 2010s but nonetheless, I don't think there's anything wrong with it.
From what I've read on the Ham Radio subreddit, it seems Broadband-Hamnet or some technology like it is what's really rejuvenating the Ham Radio scene.
Anyway, for the time being, as I haven't got the funds, I'll ignore it for now but I have to say, I'm greatly looking forward to where things could end up going.

>>2145
In the US doesn't all communication over ham radio have to be done in cleartext (i.e. you can't encrypt things)? How does that gel with broadband-hamnet? It means that you can't do any sort of encryption and that means you can't use almost any of the modern application protocols.

>>2102
>deanonymize users
Stay safe.
Keep posts short.

>>2103
Ironically, unless everyone does it you'll stick out the most. What would be neat is a technique that makes use of a GAN-sort of thing that will "normalize" any input you give it, making it impossible to distinguish different users. Maybe this already exists in the literature somewhere, but given that things like word-vectors and GPT already perform some sort of dimensionality reduction, there's probably a way to go from "input sentence" -> "sparse representation" -> "normalized input."

Unfortunately there's an inherent limitation/asymmetry in that no amount of normalization can remove distinguishing features based on content. For instance, if poster A talks about a specific technology a lot, and you come across someone mentioning that same technology on another board, there's a very high chance that you've run into poster A. And there's no way to normalize that since the content being talked about is inherently identifying.

>>2104
Some Drexel students tried making something that could "anonymize" text input, but it doesn't use machine learning.
https://github.com/psal/anonymouth

>>2105
Hm it doesn't seem like it automatically does the anonymization yet. As of now it seems to just highlight the distinguishing features which the user can manually edit.