/kc/ - Krautchan

Bernd probably knows that search engine crawlers go around indexing websites, following links to one site from another.
But does Bernd know, that Google crawlers can find a webpage without it being actually linked on another website, I'm guessing from other kind of linking like in chat (on an android) or maybe from searching the website name in their service. BUT. They won't include it among their search hits, until the "owner" of the website explicitly tells them, that he has this google account, and he has that website?

 >>/48538/
Tell me more.

 >>/48543/
Not sure what to tell.
Google is good at gathering information, they built their whole enterprise on it, they have great amount of direct and indirect ways of gathering it, then they figure the rest of out from what they have. Whatever one's do in some ways it'll be known by Google. So getting the domain and IP of a website not much of a challenge for them.
What they show in their search results on Google Search, is just tip of the iceberg (databerg) what they have knowledge of, and they can decide what to display. They won't make you a favor to add your site in their search results, they want something in return. They know you made a website, they know where it is, they know the content, but they won't spill it that they know all this. They want you to be a user of their services (have a Google account). They want you to acknowledge it yourself that you have that website (tie the website to the Google account by registering it in Google Search Console). And they want more data, or ways to gather more data.
At the moment I can't demonstrate this (because what I found is replicable ofc), maybe I'll in the future.

 >>/48538/
> But does Bernd know, that Google crawlers can find a webpage without it being actually linked on another website,

It happens often. Near 10 years ago there was a story that Yandex crawled order information links from some sex shop, and they were easily found by search with some specific options. Reason was yandex browser add-on that sends visiting URL every time. That was fun.

Now it is even easier. Most of sites have some kind of remote analytic software that records everything visited, even if it has no links. Most popular messengers also do link preview and of course remember those links (even when they say they don't). I guess android and chrome send everything to Google anyway.

So any link that is seen by anyone except you may be treated as known for everyone - there is so much ways to leak it.

> BUT. They won't include it among their search hits, until the "owner" of the website explicitly tells them, that he has this google account, and he has that website?

I wouldn't recommend to rely on this behavior (if it is true). There is nothing that prevents search engine from publishing everything it knows.

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> yandex browser add-on that sends visiting URL
Should have list this. People install bunch of addons to their browsers. Some do a bit more than advertised.
> Now it is even easier...
I concur.
> There is nothing that prevents search engine from publishing everything it knows.
Yes, upstairs they can decide to change the behaviour of their service any time.
But I meant the other way around. From the viewpoint of someone who wants his site to be displayed among the search results, this sucks. Imagine one has several sites, even if all linked on each other, and it's 100% sure if one gets indexed, the rest will do too, they won't appear in any search until manually registering them with Google.
Not sure how others work. Bing, DDG. Searx I think aggregates others (and even DDG relies on something else).

Aren't domain registrations public? If they are, no Jewish tricks need to happen for Google to figure out a new website was published.

I guess that wouldn't work for sites that don't have a domain and are only accessible by their IP address.

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Registering a domain not necessarily equals to a webpage. I saw people registering bunch of domains then trying to sell those.
But yes, that seems to be one source for Google to gain information. I wrote they have many sources.
I again have to add, what I wrote wasn't scaremongering against Google, but to note an interesting practice they use.

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Now this one is fun.
https://dezgo.com/
You give a description (maybe a bs text suits too taken from wherever) and it generates a pic from that. The simps highly appreciated userbase of /rapport/ uses this for generating big booba palvin barbi and alexandra daddario images. Let me tell you, the hedas a bit wierd but bodies are gettin better.
I think this is the program itself:
https://github.com/sd-webui
https://sd-webui.github.io/stable-diffusion-webui/docs/2.linux-installation.html
I'm not sure how strong iron you need for a working installation.

Here's "krautchan".
Also generated couple of cyberpunk/sci-fi stuff.

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I wonder where "Krautchan" looks from. The flamingoes (?) at the front don't fit the climate.

"Endchan" seems to come from some specific set of characters, I guess someone on the weeb boards could identify them. "Ebin" must've been mistaken for a place name. "KC tier" is a video game advertisement on a magazine. "Spurdo Sparde" at least guessed that it was meant to be a fluffy mammal.

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"The wages of destruction" and "industrial output of the Ottoman Empire in World War I" are Powerpoint slides, the second one not so clearly. "Why worry" is a motivational picture. "Haplogroups" is actually from infographs of phenotypes.

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Not much to add on these, but "Assad curse" might've tried to draw a happy merchant.

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> based

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> worir

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I liek it
But all the art looks kinda "off". I don't know why

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I know there is at least one very serious AI generating 3d art if supplied with sufficient input. This dezgo thing seems like a toy compared. What I noticed that all the living things heads/faces are kinda surreal. Maybe it's intentional so noone creates something lifelike about irl living peeps.
That cyberpunk style city however looks absolutely good. I generated couple more pics along these  >>/48784/ Not bad. I think one has to find the proper wording, maybe there is a niche this AI thing is very good at. Plus I think if you install it yourself you could train it to be better, or different.

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Tested this thing quite extensively, since then rarely a day when I not put it in place. Can't do it outside now, too cold, and had lots of rain in September, so set up a place inside, behind window. Due to the parabola the light hits the barrel from ~8-9 to ~16, but way less hours fully.
In rain there is no way the water can get warm, not even lukewarm. Still it becomes warmer than fresh from the tap. It cannot take much from the room's temperature, because we had liek ~15 C in the house.
In slight overcast (no Sun peeking behind the clouds) it gets lukewarm. Still colder than my hand. Short intervals of direct sunlight can make wonders.
Full sunny day I can warm the barrel of water, but won't be as warm like it was during summer.

The question still is the winter Sun.

https://www.youtube.com/c/MentalOutlaw/videos

Found this guy recently. Does various videos on topic of IT, data security, privacy, Linux etc. Most of those seems to be covering some news which is sometimes interesting, sometimes not so much, but occasionally he does more educational videos for basic but important things like how to pick a good password. He explains it in a way that is digestible for a newbie. Ofc tech oriented Bernds will know all of this or most of those tips but perhaps its worth showing to other people. For me personally he showed that I have a flaw in some of my passwords that I should have think of but I didnt. 
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Klx5gVol9dA

His pronunciation is very good, most videos aren't super long (10 minutes or so) and he gets straight to the point so it's actually nice to listen to him.

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Oh kek, I was initially going to post it in the youtube thread but I couldnt find it, meanwhile it was literally 3 threads below. But I guess it fits here as well.

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 >>/48900/
It's tech. Good music in one of his videos.

 >>/48899/
Legit advis.
> hackers first get the db with the hashed (and salted) passwords
Aren't they hackin the hackerino to get that deeberino in the first place????
Also I think the salt is added to make the hash comparison technique useless. But I'm really not sure at the moment, I read about lots of stuffs and most are blur... Oh well.

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This is interesting. Sand battery.
https://energycapitalmedia.com/2022/09/13/sand-battery-power-storage-finland/

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Interesting. Lack of proper energy storage technology is the main obstacle from introducing more solar and wind power. Im glad someone is actually looking into this matter instead of screaming about ecology like a madman.
I looked at their website and they have this sand battery somewhere in Finland that has capacity of 8MWh. They didnt say how big it is or how expensive it is.
I looked up Poland's electrical grid production and it was 173 583 GWh for year 2021. We would need a lot of those sand batteries to cover our needs nation wide.

Do you know what gene modification would be useful, Bernd? If the foodstuff we produce displayed its nutritional facts. Each individual product (like an egg) would gather this info from within itself, and would display it somewhere (leik on the shell) how much nutrients it contains. No more average bullshit, we could know for sure in case each individual items we consume.

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I haven't looked into the details, but it's a good question how feasible is it on large scale. How giant dunes we would need to build.
It could be awesome if one could build a concrete tub with some cubic meters of sand in the garden and use that. Cheap as fuck, basically never breaks down. Then state would start regulating it, only certified companies could install for millions of HUFs, after 3 official inspections (each costing much), with additional safety gadgets which would need regular maintenance, and replacement parts and certified mechanics to repair.

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Hey, you're that guy that runs the Endchan movie corner, right? Some Bernds on KC want to make a Halloween movie watch-along and I wanted to ask, if you have any tips on how to do that? I've seen that Cytu.be is very limited regarding codecs and you need to setup some kind of json files. How do you do it usually?

 >>/49108/
Yeah.
Videos are need to be in mp4 containers with libx264 codecs (265 is no go), or webm but not sure v8 or v9 codec (I'm also not sure the exact name of the codec, but I can find what I'm talking about). If something doesn't conform then convert it with ffmpeg.
You need an cytube acc. Register and create a room.
You need to host the videos somewhere, unless it's on a streaming service like youtube (or can host on one of those, there is a supported list.) Maybe there is a free hosting service somewhere where you can just upload a file, leave the filename "naked" (and get a link liek: https://something.com/video.mp4) and doesn't mask it with a random id, and offer a reasonable speed to stream it from there. But your best bet would be renting a VPS, set up SSL Cert (Let's Encrypt for free) and stream it from there. I think you'll need a domain name too, both for the SSL cert, and so you can get a video link properly. For free you can register .tk, .ga, and .ml domains which are just fine (maybe others too). But the VPS will cost money, and probably can't get away with the cheapest solution, but who knows.
Maybe you'll even a need a cdn to "accelerate" the stream to make it watchable everywhere on the globe.

 >>/49108/
Oh, you don't need json to stream. Supposedly if you want to include subtitles you can do it with a json method, but for me only worked with hardcoding the subs.

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Thanks for your tips, fren.

 >>/49111/
I think hosting companies also offer storage too, but I dunno if the files can be accessed in a way that cytube could stream them.

 >>/49112/
A Bernd on KC recommended to upload the movies to odysee or archive.org. I looked and there are already so many movies there.

 >>/49113/
Test it. I dunno if it is a solution or not.

 >>/49114/
Playback from Odysee works well at least. Will try uploading something later.

 >>/49115/
That sounds promising.
Not sure how serious they take copyright, or can be avoided the complication with setting the video private or something. But I think, if can you upload just before the stream, and delete right after, this could work out for longer term too.

 >>/49117/
There are channels there which are months and years old. I think, if you especially upload obscure movies, nobody gives a fuck. Odysee is probably still obscure on itself enough.

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Winter assessment, behind window.
In perfect sunny weather it is still producing one batch of warm water. Not hot, and I don't think it's well suited for washing greasy dishes. But just for washing hands, or rinsing a cup or something, it works out.
In somewhat sunny weather, with thin layer of clouds, the Sun peeking out, it make the water about body temperature - when I reach out I don't feel it warmer or colder.

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Snopes has to update this article now:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/facebook-implementing-user-fees/
Here's Time article about Meta Verified:
https://time.com/6256881/meta-facebook-insta-subscription/

Essentially they'll ask for money so you can give them your ID!
They serve it as to make sure the authenticity of their users, they are those whomster they say they are. Are they preparing for the AI fake user menace?!
They test it on the penal colony. I wonder who would pay for it on the Hungary.

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So these blokes in Jordan use AI tech to tell early signs of weevil infestation in palm trees, enabling the farmers to act early and with precision, so they don't have to mindlessly spread pesticides that harm useful insects like bees.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/2/26/using-ai-to-listen-to-jordans-date-palms

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99 per cent of today’s globally produced hydrogen is ‘grey’ hydrogen made from fossil fuels, with annual CO2 emissions exceeding those of the entire country of Germany. Second, fossil-based ‘blue’ hydrogen, which is being promoted as a ‘low-carbon’ alternative, has a climate footprint that is nearly as bad when its total emissions are taken into account. Finally, even ‘green’ hydrogen, which is considered ‘carbon free’ but accounted for only 0.04 per cent of global hydrogen production in 2021, comes with serious challenges and risks. It is energy inefficient, behaves as a potent indirect greenhouse gas, and production on a large scale requires vast amounts of land, water and renewable energy. Its production can fuel ‘green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends. An inflated demand for hydrogen is also being used as a Trojan horse to prolong the use of fossil fuels.
Kek.

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Smart Homes, their Control - and the Self-Appointed Police and Government
Might be better in the politics thread, but it's tech enough.

https://medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-unwanted-disruption-my-week-without-amazon-df1074e3818b
This guy who always looks like he never sleeps discuss the issue in two videos, the event, and the discourse following the first video:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=NfiIXooD77s
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PRGszw0KubQ

tl;dr: bloke with an Amazon smart home got accused of racism, his house got turned off (lol) by Amazon.
This Louis chap says a lot and I don't want to cover it just write my own two cents.
Democracy means participating in the decision making process. It is there so a group of people (a nation or in worse cases: citizens of a country) can self-regulate their own issues, govern themselves. To act out the decisions there is the state structure which acts according to the decisions (laws) the said group of people make. Out of necessity - to make society livable along the rules (laws) we agreed upon - the state reserves certain roles to itself, like the police, or the judges. If someone steals my shit, I can't just go after him and shoot him - I'd break the law. The justice system is there to mediate, get the thief, and give him negative feedback for the crime, and make it possible for me to seek relief. 
I see this tendency that more and more people think they have the right to certain laws and act like if they weren't part of this system of nations-countries-states. When the Russo-Ukrainian War broke out, the states of countries that decided to help Ukraine issued sanctions against Russia. Private companies followed suit saying they'll embargo Russia too - as if they were state actors not private ones. Even worse, private individuals also thought they can wage their own war like that developer faggot who changed his code so those who dl'd his program from a Russian IP got their hard drive filled with crap.
Now here comes Amazon. Perceives something as a transgression, something that itself defines as a crime, he gets the "criminal" and punishes him for his misdeeds. The people sitting in the offices of Amazon know the power they wield, the power over their customers, whom they perceive as subjects, and they act without remorse, without supervision, accountability. I could say without investigation - but they don't even have investigative power. They have nothing just self-appointed authority based on the trust people put into them when they become their customers, with their use of service.
They are creating a parallel state to take care of the issues of their parallel society. It's like a mafia. Well not like a mafia, it is a mafia. They are breaking the law, they state should intervene, and stop these criminals.

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Google started to crack down on alternative frontends.
No youtube videos can be played now on cytube, and they made it hard for those who host invidious instances:
https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3822

Cloudtube is working. At least at the moment. Perhaps because it's small, but I highly doubt it Google doesn't know about it, so I'm expecting it going down.
Wat nau?

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> Google started to crack down on alternative frontends.
This shit sux. I use so many of those alt services and have so many bookmarks with them. They've made it so hard using any of them these last few weeks

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I'm looking up youtubers on odysee. I think I'll post links into the youtube thread.

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Sounds ebin. Unfortunatelys, Endchan is crashings right now. Liek I can't go to page 3 on /kc/ because it gives out a 404 error on me. srs

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Since then I shared links of some I found and regularly/semi-regularly check, and I try to watch these there.
I also found that Odysee is a hog, bloated as fuck - compared to alternative yt frontends - and sometime hangs on Palemoon. Perhaps it works better in other browsers.
> Endchan is crashings right now.
Yeah, happens sometimes. I also get 500 errors all the time. No way to fix it for now.

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Google started experimenting with adding delay to Firefox browser on Youtube. Mental Outlaw's video about this:
https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/youtube-has-gone-too-far-this-time:8
What would happen if websites started adding delay for Chrome? Would Google relegate those sites in Google search? Don't answer this, Bernd. I know they would. One of the metrics of ranking websites is their speed - apparently they still have various metrics beside what they want you to be able to access or not.

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Not too sure if this is the thread but tech jobs seem to be fubar in my perspective.
I've been applying for a good amount of time, to say at least a year and a half and didn't get anywhere besides almost entering a company with a bootcamp.
I'm not too sure if the side of web development is fucked, or if i should learn a new stack, or whatever, but it makes me squirm because I know i got the skill to get things done.
I think I should've chosen a different career but what can I do now

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> this is the thread
Sure why not. The situation is the result of the changes in "tech", although has social and political aspect. I think it's a bit early to blame it on ML.
We were told in the last decade or two that IT is a field with many opportunities for lack of professionals and exberts, so many went to IT and now it gets oversaturated perhaps. I dunno.
It's lot about how pushy the job seeker is, how he can sell himself (the world of whores we live in), and ofc what connections he has. For example on the Hungary the well connected web developers can get around $250 000 with a public contract for a couple pages WordPress site (for building and hosting it for 2 years). I'm not joking, was just in the news last week. Well, perhaps it's the juicy top. And probably they don't get to keep the whole sum, and have to give most of it to pal in the bureaucratic machine, I dunno, I don't see that part. So I suggest schmoozing with politicians and officials.
Thing is what makes you different than the next codemonkey? They all write in their shit how special they are and how they know everything. I think RMS wrote something that should work on FLOSS stuff, contributing to projects, which isn't a bad idea, that way one can build some contacts and find some work through them.

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> We were told in the last decade or two that IT is a field with many opportunities for lack of professionals and exberts, so many went to IT and now it gets oversaturated perhaps. I dunno.
That's what it is for the most part, a company may be hiring trainees/jr devs and they can get 6k for a bootcamp alone. It's crazy.
> For example on the Hungary the well connected web developers can get around $250 000 with a public contract for a couple pages WordPress site (for building and hosting it for 2 years). I'm not joking, was just in the news last week. Well, perhaps it's the juicy top. And probably they don't get to keep the whole sum, and have to give most of it to pal in the bureaucratic machine, I dunno, I don't see that part. So I suggest schmoozing with politicians and officials.
May be ole' money laundering
> Thing is what makes you different than the next codemonkey? They all write in their shit how special they are and how they know everything.
Well I personally believe I have a good foundations and that I am quite dedicated and can go to miles others may not. People recognized from me that I can really push the limits.
>  I think RMS wrote something that should work on FLOSS stuff, contributing to projects, which isn't a bad idea, that way one can build some contacts and find some work through them.
I do search for OSS proyects here and there, but it's a bit complicated. I can never tell when a proyect is good or if it's just something that realistically has no use case. I have built myself with the .Net stack and back end development so I can't really just jump into a decompilation project with no C knowledge for example.

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This sounds cool: The DECRYPT Project
Includes history and AI/ML tools.
https://de-crypt.org/
About:
Thousands of enciphered historical manuscripts are buried in libraries and archives. Examples of such material are diplomatic correspondence and intelligence reports, private letters and diaries as well as manuscripts related to secret societies. The bulk of these historical manuscripts will remain undeciphered unless we can automate the processes involved in decoding them. Our aim is to develop resources and computer-aided tools for decoding of historical source material by using AI and cross-disciplinary research...
Tools:
collection of digitized images of ciphertexts and encryption keys along with metadata information about their provenance, location, transcription, and possible cryptanalysis or commentary.
all records in thedatabase are open to the public
tools for transcription and decipherment of historical ciphers
Historical cipher images can be transcribed, i.e. transformed into a computer readable text format
transcribed ciphertext can be corrected
Decode Database, HistCorp, TranscripTool, CrypTool whatnot.
open source under the Apache license v.2.0  with the exception od Decode db.
Quite a few Hungarians in the project apparently. They started publications in 2019 so fairly new thing this is, probably the emergence of these machine learning models allowed them to form this team.

Looking at the Decode db, the earliest dated document is from the 15th century. There is one that says 1300-1699. I think accessing documents needs a registration, at least when I tried to enlarge the photo of the document it said I have insufficient permissions.

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Oh and "Access mode" says "Authentication required".