/cyb/ - Cyberpunk Fiction and Fact

New revolutionary Chinese phone.
Four million advance orders for a $2800 phone in three days. The Chinese market has collapsed. Western companies can safely stay away.
Black market price already over RMB 90K ($12,641)
4 million pre-order with an estimated 60-100K initial batch available
https://x.com/XH_Lee23/status/1833435764895715798

>>3447
>revolutionary
How though? What new technologies does it utilize? Multi+Folding screen phones have been out for a while now and they're generally regarded as dysfunctional and fragile with no practical applications found for the added screens or flexibility. Every other spec listing from the (uselessly) high megapixel optically stabilized camera to the multi gigs of RAM are common on enthusiast phones from all other manufacturers.

The fascinatingly dystopian swing to the ordeal is that a hundred million Chinese and Indians are in a rush to finance such a device for it to only be used to scam Westerners out of the digital currency, which we all know is what the dual SIM is for.

>>3450
>multi gigs of RAM
Is 16gigs a lot for phones? Kek

>>3447
idk, seems to me tech is just sort of out of ideas. They have been for awhile now. That's why they've transitioned from making genuine innovations and improvements to just grafting new novelty features onto devices that are already about as functional as they're going to get. Like a bendable screen is pretty cool from an engineering point of view I guess, it's neat that they figured out how to make that work. However, I can't say I've ever been in a situation where I find myself saying "gee, this task would be so much easier if only I could bend my phone in half."

>>3451
The thing is, there is NOTHING that the phone does out of the box that needs that much ram. Any recent smartphone has an APU or separate GPU with its own VRAM that handles UI and camera processing. It's as if the gigs are piled on only to give tards more time before whatever virus app they installed starts slugging their phone with backloaded ads. It gives poos more leeway to make their shitcode worse. And last I read the ram in newer Samsung phones has a 2004-tier bus speed, something like 830mhz.

>>3453
>idk, seems to me tech is just sort of out of ideas.
There's a lot of neat stuff out there that would add novelty and function to phones. The technology behind the 3DS screen for example has been made so much better in the past 14 years. Multiple cameras is already the norm on phones so they could move one to the bottom and suddenly we have a 3D camera. That would streamline using phones as quality VR headsets, especially with cheaper Samsung tablets now using 120+ screen hz. 3D capability could put phones on the map for having exclusive game titles actually worth playing. The phone could be a rangefinder with that tech and also make 3D scanning of objects and places more efficient which would contribute to every industry reliant on that. But of course, the technology is held up in patent purgatory so nobody is allowed to do anything with it unless they convince the holder to share its usage (through billions in upfront payments followed by royalties).

Patents pin technological development to the cross. Even stupid shit like modern phones not being able to use GPS satellites, instead relying on data bands, is because the idea of adding a GPS receiver to a phone is patented by some patent farm.

>>3453
>However, I can't say I've ever been in a situation where I find myself saying "gee, this task would be so much easier if only I could bend my phone in half."
I think it is about real state aka how many pixels can be shown. To me it looks like a natural evolution from a tiny surface meant to show rich text.

>>3442
As a general rule of thumb, the more you democratize something the more it gets ruined.

>>3457
I've got the first one, but the second requires advanced calculus to get it.

>>2736
no u

>>3408
I'm sure they would live to have an actual robot slave army to replace the current low+mid class, one of the main thing preventing them is they replaced all compatible Whites and Asians with fat black women and jeets with fake degrees so they would be 110% dependent on chinks """maintaining""" the robots.

>>3278
>OpenBSD
I'm getting good vibes.

>>3272
>A backdoor in xz/liblzma tools
This a video from 3 years ago and reuploaded 3 months ago.
The guy prophecies exactly what just happened and wonders how many other sleeping backdoors are in the code.
>Jonathan Blow on the Problem with Open Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGekWFxeD6c

>>3278
>Do not ever install a distribution that relies on systemd
The awareness is growing fast, even among systemd fanboys.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/32028

>>1050
I recommend dual-booting Windows and GNU/Linux. Windows 10 and Windows 11 have CIAnigger backdoors (which is why they gave the update for free). You could just use Kubuntu or Xubuntu (avoid vanilla Ubuntu because it has Gnome 3) but I recommend that you pick EndeavourOS (or Artix/Void/Gentoo if you know what you are doing). You can test Linux with VirtualBox if you want to (VirtualBox can be used to make virtual machines).

Here is a quick guide:
1. Get a flash drive that can be nuked. The capacity should be 4GB or more.
2. Download the installation iso.
3. (optional but recommended) Download the file checksums (SHA256) and verify the iso using PowersHell: Get-FileHash Lunix.iso
4. Use Windows disk management tools to shrink a partition. This could be your C drive. Press WinLogoKey + x to get a menu where you can open it. Linux needs about 60GB or more.
5. Download Rufus https://rufus.ie/en/
6. Open Rufus. Select your device (your flash drive) and the Linux installation iso (press SELECT button). Click start.
7. (optional but recommended) Make Windows use UTC time internally. This does not change how time is displayed to you. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_time#UTC_in_Microsoft_Windows
8. Reboot your computer. Press a key to open the UEFI/BIOS boot menu. Usually you need to press one of these keys: F12, F2, Del. The right key depends on your motherboard.
9. Install Linux! aim the installer to the newly reclaimed free space.

>>1096
for being antiX
they seem to be using X11 a lot.

>Fucking European bullshit laws
It's just the french. They are the Western Europe of Western Europe

>>3368
"Piracy is a result of bad service." "By focusing on the customer and doing useful things for the customer piracy really becomes a non-issue for us." - GabeN.
Ahoy me swashbuckling horsefuckering saltybasket weaving fellows, they dun did fuck up.
As a regular viewer of fuck ups around the world, this is a nail in the coffin. By making their shit even worse they're seeding the failure of a soon harvest.
Like any venturing capitalist who can tell shit from shiny treasures they dun made an opening.
A legal way to overtake hon hon hon land with market strategies and branding!
Extract the resources from freenet and spin a new ship called Pon-Enet, a pi here and there, a hard or soft connection bridging wide areas a tiny dash of math and suddenly you're almost a mega corporation on a shoe string budget.
It's almost highway robbery with the opportunity they've dropped.
Though they've taken a side in a nigh mounting civil tensions for they'll do more than just remove illegal operations.
They've forgotten the human part of humanity, they've blinded themselves with their own so called intelligence and intelligences that once long ago there were balloons, and streamers, and parties.
Why does she have hidden balls for ball related emergencies?
Pinkaponk in either knowing or not had them in either case.
Arrrrg, Riddle me this which letter is pirate Pinkie's favorite.
Delivered. Yar this sentence is space filing measures to reduce inferences.

>>3365
Very comfy! I like the colors, much better suited for evening work than what I have.
I WM-hopped a bit before but after using tiling WMs for maybe two years I'm back in my all-time favorite, FVWM.
bg: https://ponerpics.org/images/3062039
In case anyone needs a vector button:
ButtonStyle 5 Vector 21 25x25@1 35x25@1 35x45@0 45x45@1 45x25@1 \
75x25@1 75x35@0 55x35@0 55x45@0 75x45@1 75x75@0 65x75@0 65x55@1 55x55@0 \
55x75@0 25x75@0 25x65@1 45x65@1 45x55@1 25x55@0 25x25@1

>>2011
That mare indeed is hot.

All this, and JC Faire wasn't posted yet.

>>3362
Cool

Be careful.

>>3342
Oh boy normal fags can now access what a group of shit posters can do.
Prepare accordingly.

>>2664
And they only figure this out. Radio just like GSM / mobile / sat must NOT be trusted for privacy or secu, the same rules in OPSSEC must apply. it's obvious, no? Digital encryption in the Motorolas, Yaesu, Kenwoods, Boofwangs are clearly an illusion, and same for the basic scrambling in analog/FM modes.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256296276_A_Software_Kit_for_Automatic_Voice_Descrambling

So what to do, really? Keep it simple, same on the web in case of SHTF situation.

Stay mobile
Never mention names
Have and keep a convention for nicknames
Use codes that are private to your group
Have a logic and change your channel or frequency very often (there's plenty in VHF or UHF)
Don't share the same codes among different groups
Send pointless encoded messages to confuse the spy even if they are incomprehensible
Stay hard to predict and have a random schedule
Use dead drops, could be anything
One-Time Pads are also simple to decipher a ciphered message
Go cheap, if your equipment is seized by the enemy or spy, it is not exploitable

finally, just have a good memory, i.e, it's good we are in a fandom, can make it based on tropes or obscure references as memorizing techniques you agreed upon. that helps. Let's offer Discord a cup of tea!

>>3345
Good post.

>>65
I use Linux ( Here is a guide -> >>3358 → )
I recommend using it because Windows has CIAnigger backdoors (at latest) since Windows 10! I also recommend you Tor Browser when you can but don't login to any websites while using Tor. While not using Tor, I recommend that you use encrypted DNS in your browser. Quad9 is good free DNS service.

>>229
Minimizing the impact is always important.

>>66
if it's win8 ultimate / pro and you can access services.msc and gpedit.msc, yes.

if you don't ever touch Edge or any of those cloud crap, turn off all these dumb services, if you go to virustotal to scan a shady .exe before running it.
same with wine on linux.

>>69
>don't turn autoupdates off
cuck. autoupdates fills more spyware. on windows.

>turning off firewall
saves megs of ram and smoother internet, your router does the job as a NAT firewall.

I have XP/2K machines on the internet. Mostly IRC and nostalgiafaggotry.

>palemoon
it's decent. firefox isn't that fucled but use librewolf on your main.

>login password
barely protects anything on windows. set a boot password, i can retrieve everything even your browser and caches using a simple bootable USB.

>>70
VPNs are just a gimmick, you want some secu, even if it's a fed's trap, TOR will do the trick for most tasks, like ban evasion.

use other wifis to create a new anon account.

>>1233
barcodes and qrcodes can be decoded too.