Tech Questions #9

>>53307 reached the limit Ask tech questions not worth its own thread here.

What does lain use for 2FA?

My laptop has a Broadcom wifi card and it doesn't seem to work very well with Linux. What should I replace it with?

>>60794 Well, I don't have a phone, so no SMS 2FA for me... I have used email as an option, I've considered the concept of using an authentication application. Yubikeys are pretty cool, though. >>60796 Broadcom works fine with Linux, it's probably just a crappy card. I've used a lot of different cards and they work mostly fine. Most of them go into monitor-mode, too. I got an Alfa (AR9271), TP-Link TL-WN722N (RTL8188), EASTECH (RT5370), Some soykafty chinkware raspberry pi WiFi adapter (RTL8811CU) It all worked fine with Linux.

>>60796 it's probably disabled for your safety due to broadpwn's theoretical privilege escalation. i recommend realtek 8xxx series although i would recommend a usb wifi more than a wifi card since cards suck and require antenna. some cards can have up to 3x u.fl antenna connectors and some laptops only house 1x or 2x u.fl antenna on them while cards do constantly sap power unless the pcie slot was competely turned off (it also is not hotplug either) and can be a security issue too (broadpwn dma + smm). booting up with a card also can accidentally leak and broadcast your original MAC address during bios boot and as we all know all devices with the cough notification are eating wifi broadcast beacons 24/7 "for medical purposes" or is it. probably nicer if you had dual intel card but for that price you can just buy a usb wifi6 with wpa3 support. >>60799 some newer broadcoms do work but older ones aren't on the kernel or you require an older one or manual installation of the driver.

>>60794 I haven't needed to use 2FA in years but I have a script that parses qr info from zbar and gives it to pass. Won't help if you want to use your phone, though.

Any lain can recommend a small hidden camera, ~3cm or less, that just streams http video over wifi and doesn't need some soykafty proprietary phone app to view from the chinese cloud like all the ones on ebay. I'm willing to go the DIY route if not.

>>60820 haven't tried those but chinese android/smart cameras over e27 are probably cheaper but if you're good at android stuff you can probably hax it to some degree of control. other than that just get a nano SBC, flash openwrt and take out a camera from a laptop, those cameras are usually just a 4-pin usb device you can either rewire as usb although you will need batteries, other recommendation is a small phone with Haven app so you have a battery. there are hidden cameras sold around ali but they only save to sd card and probably lack usable interface.

Doesn't RADAR work over land? Does anyone believe in anti-facial-recognition makeup/masks when passive CELLDAR can track everything moving against the ambient backscatter? Warriors in Camouflage is a PSYOP, isn't it? NORAD can track individual birds, FFS, but such things don't work over land? Fully populated city sized "simulations" are used by think tanks, but none of these are connected to any real-time RADAR input? What if govs had just a bit more advanced tech than they let on? Given current tech, in 50 years what would anyone imagine surveillance to be like? Isn't that future now? Hasn't Lain's All Seeing Eye been watching us masturbate since before Egypt? Am I just totally paranoid or aren't we all connected?

>>60794 >using 2FA >not using SSH for authentication

How do I configure the Linux kernel? Every time I've tried to do it, I get bupkis.

I'm going furreaking nuts trying to find this document. Does anybody know of this one old Unix manual, with a vector sun graphic for a cover (no relation to sun microsystems)?

>>60868 Linux Kernel in a Nutshell http://www.kroah.com/lkn/ This book available free online is a little old but very straight forward. Go through it chapter by chapter and follow what it says. Come back here in a couple weeks and you can teach us how to configure the Linux kernel.

>>60868 It can take a few tries at first. Make sure you get the LTS version if you aren't using a system that manages the kernel sources (like the portage package manager on Gentoo or Arch Build System aka asp on Arch). Otherwise getting updates requires a lot of manual work. If the relevant kernel config option has been enabled, you can obtain the config of the running Linux kernel from /proc/config.gz (sometimes there is also a copy of the config in /boot dir). >How do I configure the Linux kernel? # Use utilities like dmesg, lscpu, lspci and hwinfo to get info about the system. # Also refer to Gentoo wiki pages. # I recommend you open 2 terminal emus or use tmux. # Get the Linux source code. USE="symlink initramfs" emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-sources bc sys-kernel/linux-firmware sys-firmware/intel-microcode sys-kernel/genkernel # On Gentoo, /usr/src/linux should be symlink to the latest version of kernel sources. # you can use symlink USE flag (automatic) or eselect kernel (manual) to manage the symlink cd /usr/src/linux # if you are upgrading, copy the old .config file from the old kernel src dir # and run: make oldconfig # Pro Tip: it is recommended to select display drivers as modules. # Pro Tip: press ? to get help on the highlighted config option. # Pro Tip: press / to search for config options (You can use number keys to jump to a search result) # Pro Tip: you don't have to (or shouldn't) enable NTFS write support in the kernel. you should use sys-fs/ntfs3g instead. make menuconfig # build and install the kernel and the modules: make -j4 make modules_install make install # rebuild initramfs and update Grub # Important: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Microcode genkernel --microcode --install initramfs # or you could also use dracut grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

>>60853 Maybe paranoid. But not wrong. Playing close to chest = good practice. Once read doc about us mils saving certain last resort tech. Heard 3rd hand that 2000s us mil tech was 10 yrs ahead. Prob same difference now. Assume worst case

I need to download the audio of an 8 hour video from youtube. This is proving more difficult than I thought. I know that there is youtubedl but almost everything is timing out or corrupting horribly. Is there anything that works that is even remotely uninvasive and muh freedoms, I know there were some unique workarounds lately

>>60942 Use savefrom.net a.k.a. "ssyoutube". Then select "with low quality" and from all the options select "mp4 360". For some reason only this option redirects you directly to the source video file. Then you can convert the .mp4 to .mp3 by using any online file converter. Just search for "mp4 to mp3" in your favorite search engine.

>>60942 1. Use yt-dlp 2. Try different qualities/formats 3. Some Invidious instances provide downloads

How do I know if my thread is worth making?

>>60968 The criteria I tend to use are: 1.) Is it unique? Could it fit in anything else on the board? 2.) Can it have follow up conversation? If so is it enough that it would flood any other thread it would be in (and would that be negative)? 3.) Is it worth killing the thread at the bottom of the catalog for it? It's worth noting that this question probably belongs in /q/ but I guess it could fit here too. What would your prospective thread be about if you don't mind sharing?

>>60969 Technomancy, Technology + Magick(k) = Technomancy >In science fiction and fantasy, technomancy, also called technomagic, is a category of magical abilities that affect technology or magical powers that are gained through the use of technology. Technologically assisted location magic edition (my favorite) >OpenRandonaut https://github.com/openrandonaut/openrandonaut-bot ... >Is it worth killing the thread at the bottom of the catalog for it? I'm not worth anything

>>60968 >Is it a simple question? - Don't make a new thread for it. >Would other people also enjoy it or benefit from it? - If yes, go ahead and make your thread. >If you are unsure, find an existing thread. >If it's a question: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >>60969 this. >>60972 Perhaps this kind of thread would be better suited in >>>/zzz/ (especially if you call it "Technomancy And Occult" or something similar) or the occult book thread in /lit/ >>>/lit/3549 >Is it worth killing the thread at the bottom of the catalog for it? >I'm not worth anything That's your perception. And we are talking about your texts here. I would be interested in the topic, I think.

>>60968 If you have to ask, it's not.

I used to use Virtualbox on my linux host to run various guest OSes occasionally. Needed to run a few VMs for a project again and it's driving me crazy now >every distro fails to install multiple times for some unspecified reason, installers quit, give errors that they shouldn't regardless of distro >when I get them installed, constant seizure-inducing flickering and artifacting, firefox crashes instantly on every single VM I've used, even with 3D acceleration off >even something as simple as apt upgrade fails with weird errors on every VM If my hardware (GPU/RAM) was dying I assume I would notice it on my host OS. Should I try something else for my VMs? I've only ever used virtualbox so that's what I'm used to, I like the GUI.

Why does my Portable 8TB Hard Drive keep on corrupting itself, I bought it for around £60 off of Ebay and it is a Seagate.

>>61062 >bought if off ebay You were probably sold a bad drive, Run a SMART tool on it and see if it has bad sectors or something

>>61061 Done some more troubleshooting and figured out that Firefox flickers and crashes in every VM regardless of distro, this also includes firefox-based browsers like TOR browser on Whonix. Now I have to narrow down whether this has something to do with kernel version, graphics drivers or some other soykaf. It didn't start happening until recently (past 6 months)

>>61067 And issue resolved. Kernels between 510 and 515 inclusive all seem to have this issue on virtualbox according to a forum post on Whonix. Went up to 518 and it's gone now. https://forums.whonix.org/t/tor-browser-crashing/13767/22

hello bros, lainchan new user here with some questions 1. what is the quickest and easiest way to share a large amount of files between two computers? have a macbook pro running mint and a windows laptop, with said files. 2. i bought this laptop to teach myself programming, what are the best resources? (books, videos etc.) 3. have a somewhat underpowered mini pc, has 4gb of ram, and an i3 from i dont know what year. it was built to run windows 8 so really not too bad. anyways what do i have to do to run a fileserver on it? thanks in advance

>>61078 dukto >>61067 >crashing in vm yikes! sounds like it was [[[absolutely intended]]] that's a huge red flag have you tried older versions of TOR browser though? >>61062 worse is it's a seagate. you can simply look up the firmware version on smartctl. although it could be something to do with how americans handle packages, they just love to wrestle and throw them at your porch or even when at the delivery vehicle. never base off the quality/health of the drive with SMART since there are eBay/Amazon sellers that will use bad sector remover tools. even if you had received the drive at 100% health which they would try to prove (sending you pics) there's a chance they're one of those people that actually use that "tool" and it's a good idea to run the drive and write 1-pass over the entire disk or maybe 1-pass delete just to find out whether if there's bad sectors almost immediately. >>60972 that's such an old code but whatever. telegram is soykaf but so is the actual app which had shady trackers (which they have removed, you could use classyshark3xodus to find it). you can simply just use any open QRNG api out there and use that personal result you get over your very own program. as example, you can overlay https://qrng.anu.edu.au/random-image-bw/ over OpenStreetMaps, it's up to you whether how you'd interpret black or white since location is flat in the map, then it's fine to use 2d image or numbers in matrix (but requires more code to do). it's up to you. the weird stuff is you might get unknown caller when you start dabbling in qrng, and electronics might act weird or shut itself off and on. happened with my phone and the thing is I didn't even use the app, just installed the app and tried to make it work since I had gmaps blocked on my router but it did not work (app was also buggy as fuarrrk and crashes or blank screen).

>>61104 I've explained in a later post my issue with VMs was due to the Linux Kernel, moving to a newer one fixed everything.

>>61078 >1. what is the quickest and easiest way to share a large amount of files between two computers? have a macbook pro running mint and a windows laptop, with said files. rsync (but it has notoriously bad man page; use https://cheat.sh/rsync) For example: rsync -arvhPc --exclude '.cache' --exclude 'VirtualBox VMs' /home/lain /mnt/backup But there are other options: You could set up OpenSSH daemon and use SFTP. Use NFS for permanent sharing. >2. i bought this laptop to teach myself programming, what are the best resources? (books, videos etc.) It depends on why you want to learn. The pedagogically best option would be to learn a simple and small high-level language that doesn't have stuff that distracts you from learning the actual concepts, and you want to have at least 1 language that you know inside out. High-level languages provide instant feedback. For these reasons I recommend Lua or Scheme (use Guile or Chicken): >https://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html (Lua) >https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html or https://ds26gte.github.io/tyscheme/ (Scheme) The best way to learn is to write programs! Type the example programs from the book and run them (also, try modifying them). Do the exercises. At first it's best to follow a book. Once you have learned the basics, I recommend you do some exercises at https://projecteuler.net/ or https://exercism.org/ and then start writing your own programs. There are also some programming channels on YT: >https://www.youtube.com/c/Freecodecamp/videos >https://www.youtube.com/c/Bisqwit/videos >https://www.youtube.com/c/javidx9/videos Most of programming videos on YT are kind of hit and miss... You also need a good text editor. I recommend you try VSCodium (sic.), NeoVim and GNU Emacs and pick the one you like the most. NeoVim and Gnu Emacs have tutorials (C = ctrl, Meta (or M) = Alt, Super = windows key.): > Gnu Emacs: Start emacs and type C-h t > NeoVim: Start nvim and type :Tutor I also recommend you install GNU/Linux (Like Xubuntu, Debian or Arch Linux/Artix Linux). You need to choose a distro you can trust. Also, I recommend you read The Linux Command Line book: https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php If you want to use Arch Linux, read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide and I also made a little copy paste a while ago: https://bpa.st/OLLA (or https://paste.debian.net/hidden/880e847d/ if you want to install Gentoo). Don't use unofficial Arch Linux installers because they suck. At some point you may want to start using git or fossil version control system: >Git (recommended): https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2 and https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials (<= start with this) >Fossil: https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/quickstart.wiki >3. have a somewhat underpowered mini pc, has 4gb of ram, and an i3 from i dont know what year. it was built to run windows 8 so really not too bad. anyways what do i have to do to run a fileserver on it? Install Debian stable on it: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-11.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso You also need to decide which kind of file server you want. The easiest option is to use the antiquated TFTP protocol or install the OpenSSH daemon and use SFTP (recommended). Also, set up ufw: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ufw

I have an unnecessary question: When I used to use Windows, I conducted an experiment: I opened up an image in Notepad. Needless to say, the text in the Notepad window was complete gibberish. Nonetheless, I thought, that if this is the image in text-form, then I should be able to copy and paste the text into a different notepad window, save the text as a .jpg, and then open the image again. The experiment however, failed. Why? Why wouldn't this work?

>>61179 I just tried it with a small picture and the NULLs don't get pasted properly. After pasting you can see the text files look different. So the copy-pasting is changing something.

What do lainons use for VPNs on Linux? I ask as I'm going to be out and about more and likely visiting more cafes, part of me is a bit more paranoid about hackers, despite the fact that just about everyone around me right now is using a macbook

>>61220 if you are concerned and HTTPS isn't enough for whatever reason... then you have to roll your own, paying for a service has the same risk.

I use an .onion version of an Invidious mirror. Is it safe to log in with my YouTube account details in an .onion Invidious mirror? From my understanding, the danger with using Tor as your regular browser is that you can't trust the exit node, so if you log in into your regular accounts, the exit node may capture the data (somehow?) thereby exposing your account information, which may potentially leak your real information. From my understanding, with an .onion link, the connection is completely private and completely secure. In theory, it should be safe for me to log in with my actual account details that are connected to my Google Account and my actual real-life information. So, is it safe for me to log in to an .onion Invidious mirror?

>>61283 Its safe if you trust the instance owner but you will be de-anonymized.

>>61283 If you're going to log in to youtube why even bother using Tor? You'll completely deanonymise yourself and have lower data rates to watch the videos. >the exit node may capture the data The last node has to decrypt your torified requests in order to be able to actually send them to the destination server. If you're logging in through HTTPS which you most likely are then the exit node shouldn't really get any valuable information.

>>61283 >From my understanding, with an .onion link, the connection is completely private and completely secure. Correct. Nothing between you and the onion site can see soykaf, including all the Tor nodes. >In theory, it should be safe for me to log in Assuming you trust the onion site itself to not steal your password. >my actual real-life information As >>61289 points out you've lost most of the advantages of using an onion site at this point. If the goal is to hide from everything in between you and youtube (but not youtube itself) then this will be safe though.

>>61283 not like browsing youtube is in anyway "suspicious" maybe that depends on you but you can always just create a new account over a factory reset or a fresh phone assuming it wasn't previously used by anything tied to you personally nor was it bought in such a way, if bought on CC it's pretty much in the EMV blockchain, remember how transactions work? and just use that dummy to login on tor-invidious. the isp will still see your tor IP dst/src packet sizes/shape and timings/timestamps to be compared over whatever exit node or exit isp. tor isn't gonna make your browsing 100% anonymous but rather it will inform the ISP's middleboxes/tools that "this guy (subscription ID XXX) has tor traffic so let's watch his p2p/udp traffic too in case it hits one of the abuse IPs let's flag him and report over 100+ companies for internet threat" you might as well just login to invidious normally and simply grab all your subscriptions or download your data over vanilla youtube then make a dummy afterwards. although adding tor will NEVER make your browsing experience 100% anonymous. that never works, tor is more effective if you're using a throwaway for everything (devices) that hasn't been tied to you or people around you.

How can I archive, download the entire Twitter account? I need to archive someones Twitter account.

>>61330 >How can I archive, download the entire Twitter account? nitter.net + wget + grep

My university uses Office 365 and I use neomutt + mbsync + msmtp. Recently, I've been unable to send/receive emails. >First, I assumed my password expired.. So, I changed it. >Then I assumed my packages were out of date. They weren't. >Then I assumed the server was down, but after checking the status, it wasn't. >Then I assumed maybe something was wrong with my email itself, so I sent an email in the actual browser. It worked fine. >I contacted support. They basically didn't read my report nor logs and suggested I use "official Microsoft software". >I found out about azure providing oauth, so I checked to see if that could be the issue.. But I don't have permissions, and IT won't give me the client secret code. Does anyone have any ideas what I can do to read and send emails using (neo)mutt?

>>61332 I just tried davmail - It didn't work. Pic related.

>>61283 That's not recommend. But if you want to log in anyway, make sure you use both HTTPS and onion address. >>61332 Some universities block 3rd party mail clients by disallowing POP3 and IMAP.

I've finally installed gentoo in a serviceable capacity. I did some distrohopping, first to Artix and then to Debian to get some experience with simpler installations, but Artix's installer overwhelmed me with options and Debian, which I thought would be the most professional, ended up causing a ton of headaches. I'm not finished yet, but now that I have Plasma working, I finally have a proper environment to make configurations rather than just reading books and wikis off my phone. I'll read the paste and I'm sure I'll find my answers soon enough, but here's a list of things I need to do and if anyone has suggestions about going about them it would be much appreciated. I know so little about Linux or computing really, but I'm proud that I've stuck it out to get to this point. I just switched from Windows 8. >enable keyboard in GRUB >build custom kernel (already learning about this) >configure openrc to start sddm on boot >customize sddm and plasma (open to alternatives to either of these) >learn to ssh (I want to install gentoo on some soykafty laptop and figure this might help) >enable mesa or some other AMD drivers instead of being stuck on llvmpipe (it's my understanding I shouldn't use proprietary ones?) >switch from X to Wayland >get some nice ASCII gentoo logo when starting a console because I liked that from Arch (I think I just figured out half of it, I just installed neofetch) >figure out why the fuarrrk Chromium takes forever to build despite having a 12900k and 32gb of memory

>>61377 >get some nice ASCII gentoo logo when starting a console because I liked that from Arch (I think I just figured out half of it, I just installed neofetch) maybe use pfetch instead of neofetch, it loads faster and is more muh minimal. >>figure out why the fuarrrk Chromium takes forever to build despite having a 12900k and 32gb of memory web browsers are huge. don't compile them, you can install the already-compiled binaries instead.

>>61379 I did cancel the build process, but will anything be left over on my system or is it all automatically deleted?

>>61377 https://paste.debian.net/hidden/880e847d/ has some tips that can be helpful. >enable keyboard in GRUB You mean correct keymap in the GRUB menu? This might help: https://superuser.com/a/1188564 If keyboard doesn't work at all in GRUB, you may need to add this to your /etc/default/grub: GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT=console >build custom kernel (already learning about this) See: >>60902 >configure openrc to start sddm on boot >customize sddm and plasma (open to alternatives to either of these) Easy. Just use rc-update add sddm default . I would use lightdm+lightdm-gtk-greeter or Xinit+startx instead. >learn to ssh (I want to install gentoo on some soykafty laptop and figure this might help) Just install OpenSSH daemon and enable it (rc-service sshd start). You probably need to enable root login (make sure to set/switch the root passwd on the LiveUSB). You might want to install and enable ufw as well (allow SSH only from LAN). >enable mesa or some other AMD drivers instead of being stuck on llvmpipe (it's my understanding I shouldn't use proprietary ones?) If you have AMD GPU, you need to add VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu radeonsi" to your make.conf. Then just emerge x11-base/xorg-drivers or just the x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu package. See the link in the beginning of this post for details. >switch from X to Wayland Your main choice is Sway (which is a clone of i3/i3-gaps). I think KDE also supports Wayland (just select the wayland session using the DM). You need to enable "wayland" USE flag in your make.conf and install xwayland (and run emerge --ask --update --deep --newuse --with-bdeps=y --keep-going @world). See >>58654 and the link in the beginning of this post for details. >get some nice ASCII gentoo logo when starting a console because I liked that from Arch (I think I just figured out half of it, I just installed neofetch) See >>61377 (add it to your .bashrc or .zshrc or whatever). >figure out why the fuarrrk Chromium takes forever to build despite having a 12900k and 32gb of memory Have you configured your makeopts in your make.conf? The optimal value would be the amount of threads you have. Chromium is notorious for taking a long time to build.

Hello Lain! I just took apart my Thinkpad cause the plastic thingy that supports pins in one of my usb ports cracked and I wanted to see if I could solder some new ones from the other, same model that I have, and accidentally I noticed that the cpu fan on my other model is 0.25A while the one I have now is 0.24A, should I replace? does it matter? is it better when it's lower or higher? Thinkpad T400 btw also does it matter and I should buy epoxy glue or can I just use like superglue (ECA) for that plastic usb thing?

>>61104 I see no use for things that don't work.

I stuck my hand of my new computer to change a HD and i must have knocked something loose the rest of the pc looks fine so must be this fan control hub i don't understand . Can any make heads or tails?

>>60792 What language should I use if I wanted to build a faux desktop environment in a website? I don't know if vanilla JavaScript can even do it efficiently. I don't know how I would draw windows. Just tell me a language and I'll try my best to learn and implement it

>>61403 You mean like the Window Maker website (https://www.windowmaker.org/)? They used only HTML+CSS to do it. FVWM site also did something similar (https://www.fvwm.org/). HTML+CSS and perhaps JavaScript (perhaps with jQuery or Ajax) should be enough to build the site. If you are looking for server-side languages, try Ruby (Rails). Read the "Pickaxe Book".

I've had this PC for a little over 5 years. I wanted to look into CPU overclocking for a one-off task and noticed the temp reporting as 100°C. Room temp is 15. T Case spec is 70°C. I let it rest for a bit, and just by booting to BIOS it shot from 55->70 and climbing in half a minute. On a scale of 'clean the dust on the fan and buy a new CPU this month' to 'you should have bought a new CPU yesterday', where am I at? Anything potential damage to other components I should look for? I suspect the main issue is the thermal paste drying up, but I think it's too late for this CPU and I was looking into upgrading anyway

>>61415 The CPU will be fine, just clean the dust and reapply thermal compound and it will work like new. Modern CPUs just throttle frequency when they reach high temperatures, worst case they shut down, maybe your CPU won't last as long but it will work just fine for now.

>>61416 Thanks, I assumed that they were more prone to heat damage once they went far above the 70s. Probably me remembering old comments.

Recommend good wifi cards for Linux. My connection is very unstable.

>>61427 anything intel is good(for the latest ax210 based cards make sure you have linux 5.10+) https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005511/wireless.html avoid anything tp-link.

>>61415 >>61416 Now running two VMs @ 35°C. I assume my issue is that last time I blew dust from the fan, I didn't fasten the stock cooler back into the motherboard the whole way (how it feels like it's going to snap when you push all four corners in), which I assume meant there was an airgap where most of the thermal compound goes. Which means it's probably been throttling for months. That was stupid.

Considering the vision for COBOL, the human-readable programming language, could one consider Ruby to be COBOL's spiritual successor?

I have hundreds of gigabytes of unstructured data (compressed archives, databases, plaintext) I want to fuzzy search and see extracts of. How do? I've been trying to Google software for this but I have no idea what to search for apparently, I've only found stuff like Hadoop, BigQuery, "data Lakes" and other webshit garbage Thanky

>>61348 >make sure you use both HTTPS and onion address. onions are already end-to-end encrypted and authenticated. https doesn't add anything here. >>61289 >If you're going to log in to youtube why even bother using Tor? You'll completely deanonymise yourself and have lower data rates to watch the videos. could be for many reasons. maybe he wants to hide his traffic from his isp/university/etc, maybe he wants to hide his current actual ip from youtube /the invidious instance, maybe he wants the lower entropy fingerprint of the tor browser.

>>61434 Write an extractor that dumps the unstructured data into a Lucene index. Then query that index.

>>61429 that's funny cuz I got a USB TP-Link wifi antenna for free and it works flawlessly on my desktop. Maybe I was lucky. Meanwhile the internal wifi card is pure soykaf.

I feel bad that I keep using this thread for Gentoo questions, but I guess that's what the thread is for. How the hell do I set up sound drivers? I figured that the distribution kernel had all that covered, but for the life of me I can't get anything to work. Also, what is the best torrent client nowadays?

Beautiful morning, Lainons. Guess this is quite the entry-level question, but as I'm struggling to become a Linux sysadmin in the "near" future before I die of old and currently trying to implement this, I humbly ask you, smart anonymous techies of /tech/. Sorry in advance for being too verbose, but I don't know how to communicate in any other way. I have a disorganized insecure Windoze file server at work and I want to use Debian as a NFS server for a soykaf-ton of Windows clients. I'm trying to implement department-oriented shared folders with user passwords. I've already made some tests with NFS and I made it work in a weird way: >installed Debian 10 and the necessary NFS tools >created shared folder, applied all permissions >enabled NFS services on windoze client >mapped shared folder, soykaf only appears on command line >mapped shared folder through explorer, it starts existing to the user >have no idea how Kerberos implementation on a server would work on windoze environment >have no idea how to make a fairly secure user/group ecosystem work for both server and client environment Is there a "right" way to do this? I'm open for all sorts of hints and tips, other GNU/Linux tools that would be more adequate, texts, etc. I've read the Debian documentaton on NFS/Kerberos but learned nothing to solve this specific problem.

Can anybody reccomend any silly programs I might not know that I can install on Mint. Stuff like cowsay, desktop gadgets. Like maybe a virtual cat or something.

Does Vanadium browser have bulti-in adblocker like bromite?

>>61460 >How the hell do I set up sound drivers? The distribution kernel should work. But you need to enable alsa USE flag or (if you use it) pulseaudio USE flag in your make.conf and run emerge --ask --update --deep --newuse --with-bdeps=y --keep-going @world . Read the wiki pages for ALSA/Pulseaudio/Pipewire (depending on which you want to use). >Also, what is the best torrent client nowadays? Transmission, qBittorrent or Deluge. The rest are garbage. >>61476 >Is there a "right" way to do this? Your main ways of sharing files are Samba and NFS But I don't have any experience with either. >>61482 >https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications >https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_games >https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Amusements.html >https://github.com/Cloudef/macopix-fork >https://ratrabbit.nl/ratrabbit/xsnow/

I'm looking for a privacy respecting email client I could use for Windows, any recommendations? I discovered Claws Mail and it seems like something I might like, but I don't know much about it or the alternatives so I've held off and wanted to get some opinions first.

how to hack 'reality', Lain? I want infinite supplies of donuts, each with their own unique colour, shape, odour, texture, that is squirted out of my 3d printer, shaped in the form of my own butthole.

>>60792 what would you guys recommend for a linux noob, program wise. I'm talking just in general, I see a lot of people using different mp3 players etc etc. This is both a question for myself and so I have an answer when someone asks me the same question.

>>61490 awesome. i just discovered cool-retro-term yesterday, put an ascii image of lain as a welcome message and use it to play telehack or whatever.

>>61497 >Claws Mail It's one of the best email clients: https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/software.html#claws Most techies use Claws (if they want a GUI) or Mutt/NeoMutt. >>61499 >how to hack 'reality', Lain? >>>/lit/3549 >>61504 These are good places to start: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications & https://apps.kde.org/ I recommend starting with Xubuntu distro (Arch Linux is also a good option, if you are willing to read the Wiki and man pages. Just do not use Arch Linux installers because they suck and you must be able to use and maintain the system anyway). Here are some program recommendations: >i3, Sway (if you want wayland, you also need xwayland.), Awesome, Ratpoison, OpenBox, IceWM - WM (Xfce is good DE) >MPV - media/video player >Quod Libet, DeadBeeF, Clementine - music player >LibreOffice - office suite (Some also use LaTeX: https://www.overleaf.com/learn & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwnYHoNtfJ0&list=PL-p5XmQHB_JSQvW8_mhBdcwEyxdVX0c1T&index=1) >NeoVim, VSCodium (sic.) or GNU Emacs - text editor >Rofi/Wofi or dmenu - program launcher >xterm, RXVT Unicode/URXVT, Alacritty - terminal emulator >mupdf - PDF reader >feh, imv or nsxiv - image viewer >lxappearance - select GTK theme easily >Rua - The best AUR helper for Arch Linux and Artix Linux (it allows you to easily review changes and apply patches)

>>61396 bump pl0x halp i didn't touch that laptop for like a week now

>>61508 thank you baby, now i'll figure out how to switch my manjaro kde to something not ugly.... i've just been using factory programs (as in the soykaf it installed in the first place like kate) i already have lebreoffice because it's what I use on my windows machine too... awesome, thanks.

In my never-ending quest to getting ALSA working, I was wondering why some directories seem to be ending with .d. Isn't that for systemd instead of openrc?

I figured out my sound issue. I didn't add my account to the audio group.

>SMART Extended Comprehensive Error Log Version: 1 (64 sectors) What does this mean in a SMART test? Do i actually have 64 or so bad sectors? The rest of the logs seems completely fine, SSD seems to be working with no problems in general, no badblocks or something either. I'm terribly paranoid ;__;

How can I limit programs on my phone and computer in a safe non-spyware way? For my phone I still want to be able to use the phone app, photos, camera, maps, weather, notes, messages, spotify, etc. And for my computer: anime streaming site, manga site, tv/movie streaming site, online shopping, spotify, etc. How can this be done?

I don't even know if this is a question or a vent, but shortcuts are now broken in my Win 7 dual boot. That includes all the start menu items. I can launch the source .exe's fine but all file and folder links just do nothing, even ones linking to something in the same folder. >>61626 Limit them from what, exactly?

>>61626 You could use /etc/hosts to block stuff. For your desktop, you could use Qubes OS if you are really paranoid. >>61637 >dual boot. That's irrelevant. GNU/Linux or the installer won't touch the windows partition, unless you tell it to do so. I would make a backup and then restore earlier Restore Point (i can't remember what windows calls them).

>>61640 >Qubes OS if you are really paranoid Even though it uses the unaudited systemd? A low attack vector system running virtual machines isn't a terrible idea though. Look into having AIDE, snort, chkrootkit, and so on... Oh and packet filtering is about to become your neediest, best friend.

>>61640 >GNU/Linux or the installer won't touch the windows partition Unless he repartitioned the disk, which is likely because builtin windows installations span the whole disk. Now his symlinks (whatever they're called in NTFS) all gone whack.

>UN*Xtards cant tell if a hotkey is a bug or a feature in the termial do they really?

>>61664 i mean bug or glitch

>>61637 >>61640 Sorry guys, I wasn't clear. What I meant was that I wanted to limit programs on my phone and computer whether through barring or through only allowing certain ones because I think the internet is garbage and only want my phone for navigation, messaging, calls, music, and stuff and my computer only for streaming, music, shopping and whatever. Namely I want to limit Youtube, imageboards, forums, and social media

Is LineageOS a fuarrrking meme? I want GrepheneOS, but I don't have any Pixels. Is LineageOS enough to use? How about its forks like /e/, resurrection etc? Any recommendation?

>turn on desktop (one SSD, one HDD) >it starts making a loud grinding noise while the disk read light is fully on fuarrr >force turn off, restart >disk check turns out fine, nothing seems broken any ideas what happened? my guess is maybe a fan?

>>61674 >any ideas what happened? Probably something with the head, since thats the only moving part in HDD's, simillar experience happened to me but instead of makeing a loud noise, it was acting like a cd that had scraches on it, trying to read from a sector again and again, if you listened you could hear the drive going back and trying again, slowed my whole system down, had to unplug the SATA cable otherwise i would have to literally wait for hours for the OS to start up.

Share your quality of life tech improvements, folks. Perhaps there's something that wasn't obvious, and yet when you implemented or started using that, your tech QoL improved, I would love to hear about such things, software or hardware or anything else.

Less of a tech question and more of asking for opinions Is using a RasPi (or any other similar small PC, ARM or not) as an access point a good idea? I have one of those cheapy TP-Link ones when I was first setting up PFSense, and now I'd like something that I have more control over rather than waiting for firmware updates that will never come. >>61677 Depends on what you consider QoL and your setup. If it's just general use sewing keyboard and mouse rests helped with wrist pain while working.

im trying to install a new smart thermostat in my house to save power and survive the ever inflating currency some people say i should shut the circuit breaker but wouldnt that damage the machine since it would interrupt it?

i recently installed xubuntu, but the audio is kind of soykafty in comparison to when I had windows on this machine. I've looked at a few fixes for it, and nothing has worked so far. I use an HP laptop by the way. Should I just try to figure out realtek sound drivers for linux (this is what I had when it was windows)? when I tried to compile it I got a weird error, so I went onto another option. Thanks in advance

>>61670 Lineages with GApps (or any ROM that has GApps, for that matter) is just slightly better than stock Android. If you don't install GApps, it's clearly better but GrepheneOS is probably the best ROM in terms of privacy and security. >>61704 You shouldn't need any extra drivers. If you are using a LTS version try upgrading to non-LTS release. Use the upgrade settings GUI and make it upgrade to any new release (see: https://itsfoss.com/upgrade-ubuntu-version/). Also, open the volume mixer (like pavucontrol) and make sure that the volume is not over 100%. >when I tried to compile it I got a weird error, Post the error (use a pastebin like https://dpaste.com/).

is splitting on words instead of characters bloat?

I'm running an Apache httpd server, dns, etc are set up properly, but virtualhosts don't seem to be working: # ... Listen 80 DocumentRoot "/var/www/html" ServerName server.net <VirtualHost 10.0.1.99> DocumentRoot "/var/www/other" ServerName other.server.net </VirtualHost> # ... Both other.server.net and 10.0.1.99 (as well as all other subdomains?) serve the same content as the main server. I'm following the official docs, is there anything that I missed?

I want to get a new laptop and I'm thinking of running a dual boot Mint/Arch Linux. My old laptop is just hanging in there and currently running Mint. I have an ipad now though, and I'm not sure of the best way to transfer books and music to it. Should I just upload files to mega and download them from there to my ipad?

>>61796 If you use Goolag/M$ products, you could also share files with Goolag Drive/OneDrive. Keep in mind that these Google Drive and OneDrive aren't private. There is also libimobiledevice and gvfs-afc that can be used to connect your ibad to GNU/Linux with a cable (but I don't know whether it works). >Should I just upload files to mega and download them from there to my ipad? That works, too.

>>61784 ` sed -i 's/^#\(NameVirtualHost\)/\1/g' httpd.conf `

>>61704 try another distro. I think xubuntu is probably just broken for you. mine uses realtek alc2xx and it recently only got implemented properly in the kernel what do you mean "soykafty" does the quality sux? you can change pulseaudio config if you do. try: resample-method = ffmpeg below are optional "enhancement": (avoiding resampling reduces battery draw from resample calculation) default-sample-format = s24 avoid-resampling = true alternate-sample-rate = 44100 default-sample-rate = 96000 I advice removing google chrome or chromium if the problem was with your microphone.

>>61682 is pfsense really that good? I think openwrt's graphical firewall/iptables settings is god-tier if you have something in layer2/l2tp or similar (which require a really functioning firewall to block ddos or probes/hax). They also implement bcp38. Most of RasPi is supported by them but you can probably find something better with built-in WLAN hardware for AP capabilities (not sure but RasPi might need proprietary as always). As far as I know there's no other firmware that actually patch krack or modern attacks except openwrt. Some official proprietary firmware do but those have/had backdoors and updates will never come for those, also their site page and firmware links gets deleted after 2 years.

>>61812 It's an ip virtual host, the server listens on .1.99 and .1.100. On that note, name virtualhosts don't work either for whatever reason. I can only get it to serve different content based on ports. The output of `httpd -S ` is completely fine as well.

>>61849 Oh okay. I'm more familiar with nginx, does httpd -S reflect if sites are in sites-enabled correctly, or strictly vhost config? Any difference with `VirtualHost 10.0.1.99:80` ? >Each <VirtualHost> directive should have an IP:port inside it, in httpd prior to v2.3.11 this should match the NamedVirtualHost directive. Unless you know exactly what you are doing, do not mix IP:port and *:port as the results may be unpredictable. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HTTPD/TroubleshootingVhosts Are you doing this on a machine listening on the public internet or are you testing locally where you may need to set up hosts entries to make use of private hostnames? `Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf` in httpd.conf?

so if I used android subsystem or similar on linux over a vm/waydroid I wouldn't be able to benefit by using a proprietary gpu. does amd graphics running foss drivers solve all my problems? or I'd still not be able to use android emulation and virtual machines in general that need proper graphics support (open source) because nvidyuck is fuarrrking trash, don't buy it lainons it a waste of money. I might just get a intel gpu/chipset next purchase if amd would have terrible support for something as basic as fuarrrking virtual machines and even android emulation or subsystem. too bad nvidyuck isn't gonna open source my card anytime soon (but they had the guts to "partially" open source 3080 which most strictly-open source people don't even fuarrrking own since it's useless on foss distros and inflated prices since forever make it yuck). so yeah, I'm kinda stuck with x11 and poor wayland performance (xwayland only works on it but is way slower than when I used intel hd grapics with pure wayland), while my tty displays are also unchangeable and disgustingly locked to 60hz due to nvidyuck not accepting my kernel command line display settings, and I overall stopped from accessing my tty since my display would blink blink blink.

>>61856 >httpd -S httpd -S runs a config test and prints enabled vhosts and their ips, main server info, module info, and the values of some options. By the way, the server is running on almalinux 9, so config files under /etc/httpd look like: >conf/ > |- httpd.conf > `- magic >conf.d/ > `- ssl.conf, php.conf, etc >conf.modules.d/ > `- 00-lua.conf, 00-base.conf, etc My vhosts are in /etc/httpd/vhosts.conf, which is `Include`ed. >Are you doing this on a machine listening on the public internet or are you testing locally It's set up on lan, my machines are using my server's dnsmasq. I've tried more/less specificity with the VirtualHosts directive (10.0.1.99:80, *:80), and only *:$port entries seem to work. I think the issue might be with my routing, seeing as how only port vhosts work, with name and ip being seemingly ignored. Although that may also not be true, as 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.1.1 are likewise ignored, and when the configs are copied exactly to my laptop (arch), everything works perfectly. Anyways, thank you very much for the help.

I want to buy a laptop. I'm somewhat interested in being able to game on it, but to be honest, if I can smoothly emulate PS1 games, that's good enough. I want the laptop for internet-browsing and programming. I want to install Linux on it and I want it to run smoothly whilst I browse the internet. My issue with my Thinkpad X60 after installing Lubuntu was the warning that my Thinkpad's CPU uses some kind of old form of processing data (SSE1? It looked familiar due to my experience with PCSX2) and so, in time, as Lubuntu gets updated, my Thinkpad will become incompatible with the latest version. Considering this, the feature I desire most in a laptop is knowing that it's going to be a long time until "lightweight" Linux distros leave the hardware behind. Preferably, I'd like to use Linux Mint though, rather than Lubuntu again. I'm still new to Linux and wish to slowly ease myself into all of this.

What's your opinion about yunohost? https://yunohost.org/ I'm pretty lazy to host and edit config. And I found yunohost which makes self-hosting more easier. Anyone use this? if yes, how about it?

>>61898 >I want to buy a laptop. I'm somewhat interested in being able to game on it I recommend buying a desktop if you want to play games. Whatever you do, get a computer with Intel or AMD graphics. I heard Dell XPS laptops are good. But again, I highly recommend buying the parts and assembling a desktop PC yourself. There are at least 2 reasons for this: Laptops overheat way more easily and laptops can't be upgraded nowadays (most laptops are even hard to get open and some refuse to work with other than stock parts). I recommend you visit https://www.logicalincrements.com/ and pick a build and tweak it as needed. I highly recommend you get a ATX or EATX case with dust filters. Also, don't bother getting a SSD since Linux boots so quickly even without it (this way you can also save some money). Some parts and brands I can recommend: >MoBo: Asus, MSI > CPU: either the recommended on logical increments site or AMD Ryzen 5 5600/AMD Ryzen 5 5600x > RAM: G.Skill, Kingston, Corsair (I recommend G.Skill RipJaws DDR4 RAM) > GPU: Using Nvidia GPU is not recommended. Recommended brands: Sapphire (best but can expensive), Asus, MSI. Get one with at least 4GB VRAM. > HDD: either Western Digital or Toshiba > PSU: corsair or seasonic (use a PSU calculator and get a slightly better PSU than you need) > Case: Corsair, Cooler Master, Fractal Design (if you can get it at a low price), BitFenix. You want a ATX or EATX case with dust filters! > Coolers: use the stock cooler for CPU or the recommended choice on logicalincrements. >inb4 don't know how to build a computer Just watch a couple vids online and use the motherboard manual. It's not actually hard. >My issue with my Thinkpad X60 after installing Lubuntu I think trying Debian might be a good choice. Debian still offers x86/i386 version: >https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/i386/iso-cd/firmware-11.4.0-i386-netinst.iso (32-bit version) If you go with Debian, I recommend upgrading to testing at some point (https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting). Basically, you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace "stable" and "bullseye" with "testing" and run sudo apt update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Don't use 32-bit OS for your new laptop/desktop computer, however. After installation, you can select a different Desktop Environment using tasksel (you need to install it). I recommend you select Xfce4 DE. If you want to squeeze more power out of your thinkpad, I recommend trying a WM, like icewm. Just install Lightdm + lightdm-gtk-greeter (this is the DM or the login screen) so you can easily switch to the WM/DE you want. >I'm still new to Linux and wish to slowly ease myself into all of this. If you encounter any issues, I recommend you read Arch Linux wiki (even if you don't use Arch). Also, The Linux Command Line is great and free book: https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl

Can anylain give me a quick rundown on what laseroptics are and how I could benefit from learning about them?

For someone else, my mom is in an old folks home and her wifi is like kicking dead whales down the beach so she can't watch her TV Land Andy Griffith crap off of the box she has because they wired the room retarded. Everyone has their own isp in there so is it better to just blow everyone the fuarrrk out with a amplifier mesh from the gateway or just to find something decent on the H band for her?

>>61898 I recommend Toshiba or Acer if you can find nice old laptops but those are kinda expensive now (despite used or about 10 years old/2012 model) so you might get cheaper stuff by purchaisng used desktop. If you have the funds I recommend getting AMD APU thinstation, or maybe even a Intel NUC. If you like a little risk you can buy used laptops or broken ones, and fix them yourself if you own a universal AC adapter. It's usually just >reseat ram/replace and reset cmos. Modern laptop keyboards are kinda mediocre and more modern ones tend to lack SATA connections (they use mpci SSD), have no aftermarket battery (unless you hardcore DIY), lack ports, and may degrade easier than you think that's why I'm also kinda not attracted on getting a new one anytime soon (and also a phone probably has better specs and SCREEN). . Dell and HP office thinstation/sff desktops tend to have cheap and good refurb and quality. recs by >>61902 are great too. keep in mind a good PSU is the most critical part, fake/unknown ones tend to have weaker peak wattage and may cause more problems (zap your HDDs) when it craps out. Both HP/Dell usually use really good PSU despite being usually proprietary (there are pin adapters available out there but funnily enough there's tons of original factory replacement PSU aftermarket available out there that cost like $10 only but are 80 plus gold and above so you can just stock on plenty of them).

>>61923 >Everyone has their own isp in there so is it better to just blow everyone the fuarrrk out with a amplifier mesh from the gateway or just to find something decent on the H band for her? I didn't understand any of that. What is H band? Why everyone has isp? and what the heck is amplifier mesh? "AmpliFi mesh(tm)" wifi extender? Keep in mind increasing the "gain" won't amount to anything if the entire network is Glitched (as explained below). Here's the problem: The wifi device can be affected by neighboring devices - that are already authenticated to it. Say the main wifi was made 2012+ and the device "box" you're trying to connect was made in 2008 or uses wifi 2 or wifi 3, even wifi 4 draft, there would be connection f**k ups since the AP was higher version and deprecated the old ones. you need all devices to be modern in a network otherwise it downgrades everything to wifi 1 and drops devices not capable of wifi 1, vice versa. If someone had samsung corby connected to the AP there will be f**k ups for sure.

In detail: Let's say a 2012 "wifi 4" AP router has a PSP 2000 (wifi 1 or 802,11b) client: the main wifi device will downgrade to 802.11b if it is not multiband and then if there is a 2010 laptop with "wifi 4 draft" Intel NIC, the "wifi 4" AP router will also glitch and kill the connection of rest of the clients (including the PSP and all phones). This happens a lot, if I see a intel wifi on a network, that's usually the culprit. Intel WiFi Link 5100 series NIC are draft-N and will degrade the ENTIRE network. I'm thinking the main router of the "old folks home" has a "wifi 1" client hiding somewhere and the "box" you're trying to connect to AP is strictly wifi 2/3/4 only so it might get NO data at all even if authenticated since the AP was running in "wifi 1 mode". The solution is to just either find the right mix, experiment with plenty of other router/bridges which mixes well with whatever wifi generation the AP has (making the bridge/router do automatic band) and then use the ethernet connection over the "box". Maybe a wifi extender might work or might not, make sure the wifi extender supports "802,11a/b/g/n" and is NOT authenticated to anything else (remmeber the PSP 2000 and the draft N f**king everyone?). I figured out these problems on my own but it seems to have never been talked about on sites. Also, sometimes it requires a restart of the AP, especially when a f**king draft N device is around. Check the wifi generation numbers on the right table in here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11a-1999

>>61930 You may try these apps for troubleshooting WiFi~~An~~~alyzer Ni~~~ng (csicar) both are on fdro~~~id fuarrrk your w0rdfither

>>61485 No, but I believe it and Bromite intend to at least somewhat merge as projects, so it's quite possible it will in the future.

>>61932 fdroid? WiFi Analyiser? Csicar Ning? None of that should be tripping the word filter.

I want my PFSense to deliver DHCP only to wireless APs and end devices, also the wireless DHCP network can't see what's going on in my main guided network. What to do, frens? Yes, I am a fuarrrking giddy goat, sorry.

I've had this persistent issue where my computer will not power on or after s2ram unless I turn off the PSU for a couple of seconds. It's my understanding this is either a motherboard issue or the PSU, possibly overvoltage protection. I am overclocking both my CPU and memory, so is there anything I can do to diagnose the issue before disassembling my computer?

Please help. I want to create an ovs-bridge for multiple VMs to communicate with one another but it keeps screwing up left and right. Using KVM/libvirt 1) How can I verify my VM is actually using it? 2) When I add my ethernet-connection to the bridge it dies immediately. No way to access it as long as the bridge is master of eno1. Why is that and how do I prevent it? 3) Number 2 happens with regular, non-ovs bridges as well. 4) Virt-Manager never shows the bridge as a network option. How do I make it show? Alternatively, please rec books because the net shows 10 million ways to do it and none work.

Whats an easy way to make a multiboot USB pen with Linux mint? I'm a real smoothbrain so right now I can just handle downloading an iso and writing it to a formatted USB pen? Is there an easy GUI I can use to assign a couple of distros to a single 16gb USB pen?

>>62000 I’d also like to create a bootable USB pen with a bunch of PDF’s on. That’d mean designating part of the drive as persistent storage, right?

>>61902 >All that gaming advice Thanks, but I already built a desktop for myself. I built it in 2015 admittedly, but I think the knowledge I gained in the process is still relevant today. Ultimately, I thought it was clear but, gaming was just an afterthought. I really want internet browsing and programming. >Debian Even if Debian supports i386 today, who's to say for how long? Lubuntu sells itself on being compatible with old computers and even it warns of moving away from i386. I'd prefer a newer laptop that, at least for a long time, won't bring me any incompatibility issues. >>61928 Thanks for the advice. I actually did consider smartphone computing but what I realise is I want a laptop because it's got a bigger screen. If I have to get an old one, then that's that.

>>62000 >Whats an easy way to make a multiboot USB pen with Linux mint? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Multiboot_USB_drive#Automated_tools There is also Unetbootin. And if you have access to windoze there is YUMI.

Easiest way to get Audio for a VM with OSSv4? Host: Win 10

Do you use your real name on the internet? Should one? Or do you remain anonymous? Perhaps you balance both? Perhaps there is also a distinction between privacy and anonymity

>>62076 Also, do you use your real name for your local system, PGP, etc.? Like when BSD systems will ask for a user's "full name" during setup?

>>62081 Some OSs don't respect user privacy - or should I say, they'll allow telemetry to be sent including perhaps the username. fuarrrk that soykaf. My full name is "Sys OP", and that's all a system needs to know about me. Username: Either "branch" or "root" depending on administration mode. Tech Question[s]: Since FILE is an anagram of LIFE, then don't we have a Tree of Life instead of a File Tree? Also, is it OK if I name my watchdog script Anubi.sh? It watches (owls) for dead programs (life file), then brings them brings them back (via Osiris?) depending on some contingency test/scale (such as system not in shutdown state, hasn't been restarted >10 times in 1 minute). However, this implies the programs are fair and light-weight... like the Fair Roh (as opposed to the black sun). What if computers existed in "ancient" Egypt? Wouldn't that explain why the eye of Wadjet has (binary) PoT fractional parts, and Ancient Egypt's multiplication method (when written in binary) is just bit shift and conditional add, like a modern CPU's multiplier fabric? Final Question: Didn't they label this Eye of Horus wrong? It would trace a Z shape if the spiral was last... and various [bu]Zzzz'zz or /\/\/\/\/'\/\ be the sound the all seeing ones make?

>>62081 I don't because I don't want to risk it being exposed to local devices, e.g. "Lain's Computer" showing up on bluetooth searches or in routers.

>>62076 >>62081 I think you should remain anonymous or use an alias. I think there is nothing to be gained if you use your real name on the Internet or on your own computer. If you want to make a portfolio or something, then that's an exception. But otherwise you wouldn't want to leak your real identity. >systems will ask for a user's "full name" during setup? I just input my username.

Not sure where to ask, so I'll ask here. What's the best way to go about locating "floating" watermarks in an image, given a clean copy of said watermark? I want to unwatermark a scraped comic but one of the watermarks drifts around on the page so I can't use any of the usual whole-image, mask-based methods. I'm also leery of general techniques since they still leave visible artifacts. The ideal that I'm going for would be to position the watermark, "subtract", then use a GAN to clean up the artifacts.

how can i set mlocate to ignore hidden folders? i know i need to edit PRUNEPATHS in updatedb.conf but i don't know which path to add to ignore all of them. would make this rofi script much cleaner.

>>62093 >>62085 Perhaps it's best to have a personal website, programming projects, etc under an alias? I wonder why so many developers use real names, like on git, system messages, mailing lists, etc. Perhaps there is not much to be gained from it but there is a certain simplicity. I'm not sure if I should jump in to using it though. Maybe I should consider why I am considering it. I used to reference my real name, and it makes sense for communication and if I want to present myself, but I would need to come up with an alias alternatively. It is perhaps somewhat annoying needing to decide such matters and how to present myself to whom, etc etc

>>62093 Also, certain (public) things like PGP keys, seem like they are supposed to have an actual name attached and displayed so that that person can be encrypted with – though perhaps an actual name is not needed and instead a pseudo-person can be sought through their fake name

>>62109 >>62113 Also, if I'm going to have, for instance, a domain under an alias, should I mix this with my real identity (e.g. an email address to contact with people I know IRL or other instances where I'd use a real name) or should I have a completely different and separate domain if I'm going to link myself at all?

>>62115 If you're willing to spend a moderate amount of money, maybe as much as three figures per year, you could open your email server up for public registration, or else randomly distribute invite codes, and obscure your personal connection to the server that way. You would just be one of the people who signed up for a burner account.

Is there a tool for compressing filesystem images by separating out the files? That is, you'd get a metadata-only image, some kind of mapping file, and a folder full of files identified by their hash? It'd be really nice for deduplicating unrelated disk images even if it didn't work on sparse files.

What are people's preferred calendar solutions? I'd like to be able to get desktop notifications of events as well as potentially be able to view the calendar on my phone. I'd like the desktop notifications even when the calendar is closed. On arch linux with xfce.

I'm looking for a new motem and router for my internet. Currently using Cox which is like kicking dead whales down the beach cock but can't do soykaf about that rn.

>>62126 >tfw you waste hours of time because one of your tools was subtly unreliable This is why I don't code anything. The tortured grep invocation I scraped together apparently doesn't like certain, unusual binary sequences despite ostensibly being escaped. I was convinced the data was more fragmented than what filefrag was reporting, and that somehow the raw blocks requested from block_dump weren't representative of the underlying disk image. It was only after systematically comparing the other tools I had built up to pick apart the filesystem that I eliminated the grep invocation as being responsible. Now the problem looks easy again with many contiguous blocks. smh. At least the use of these tools lets me ditch the slow substring search method for working directly with the FS. I should be done by tomorrow.

>>62115 I think the biggest reason I should use my real name is for an email address or similar to use with "official" things; it also makes sense to do with people I know in non-official settings Sigh... maybe I'll just have one under my real identity and one under a fake one, and maybe I'll use one more than the other

In my house, we have a pre-built PC with Windows 10. It's slow now, presumably due to the internet activity of less internet-savvy members of the house. I literally don't know how to deal with viruses or spyware and so I apply a scorched-earth solution and wipe the drive. It always works so I've got no complaints. If I wipe a pre-built PC that came with Windows 10, how do I re-install Windows 10? It didn't come with the Windows OS on an installation disc, so what do I do? Am I forced to buy a Windows 10 disc, on top of paying for Windows 10 with the pre-built?! (I know where I am but, legal solutions only) Like, isn't that kind of exploitative? You basically have to buy the OS twice! Man, I should just build my own cheap pre-builts in the future. It's not even remotely acceptable to buy pre-builts. TL;DR Anyway, yeah, I want to wipe the HDD on my pre-built, but it didn't come with Win10 on a disc. Wiping the HDD would wipe Win10. Do I really have to buy Win10 again, but in disc-form? Or is there something I can, legally, do?

>>62150 idk who knows maybe there is also some way to view and note the activation key before reinstalling perhaps there could also exist some method by which you can reinstall windows from inside windows without having to actually perform the full windows installation from the beginning some kind of revert or renew or something like that, to return the computer to the way it was when it left the factory or wherever those things are born

>>62151 Thanks for your post.

>>62150 >Settings >Update & Security >Recovery --> Reset this PC --> Get started I'm sure you can figure it out from there, I highly doubt Window's erase functions are secure but for your purposes it should be fine.

My soykaf's always hard crashing and I think it's the RAM. I'll be running memtest, sure, but while I wait on the results, I'm wondering: what can I do to log hardware crashes? So far I'm just running top and watching the temperature of my devices in another monitor waiting for another crash to happen. I'm not running any systemd if it narrows things down. Most advice online is kind of obtuse. >>62150 look for a product key under Settings -> Update & Security -> Activation. Pre-builts have product keys I'm pretty sure.

>>62150 >how do I re-install Windows 10? It didn't come with the Windows OS on an installation disc, so what do I do? I think you can download windows 10 iso from Microsoft's site (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO) and the installer should detect the license (even without product key). If you want to be extra sure, I recommend this tool for getting the product key: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html

>>62156 Well, without knowing what you use instead of Systemd's journal it's difficult to give specific instructions. Look around in /var/log.

>>62144 I did it! I had to cut some corners to get it done today, but I've proved you can efficiently separate out files from ext2/3/4 images and recombine them. Is gitlain still a thing? It'd be nice to publish.

>>62165 >>62165 yes https://git.lain.church/

Everytime there is a power outage (happens frequently) the HD presents file system errors (Input/Output errors at a certain block) and a manual fsck file system check is needed. Should that be fixed if I format and install a new OS?

>>62208 Probably not. It's not just requesting fsck because the dirty bit is set? Can you get exact wording of the errors and associated messages? What filesystem is it?

What are some good stacking window managers for wayland and BSDs that support wayland?

>>62218 I think only Hikari has official support for FreeBSD (and GNU/Linux). The problem with Hikari is that one of libs Hikari uses has a open bug report that worries me a bit (https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl/issues/255). I think Labwc is better (it's clone of OpenBox) but it's not as polished as Sway. Don't use Weston because it's the reference implementation and it is like kicking dead whales down the beach. >https://www.freshports.org/x11-wm/hikari/ || https://repology.org/project/hikari/versions >https://www.freshports.org/x11-wm/labwc/ || https://repology.org/project/labwc/versions

mp4 or mkv? which is better in overall quality and compression?

>>62150 You can maybe factory reset (>>62155). You can also skip verification in W10 and use it normally, but with a message that says to verify it which normally stays on the corner of the screen But I encourage you to stop using windows

>>62150 Win 10 activation is tied to the motherboard. Just re-install (make sure it's the same version, probably Home) and try to activate it. It'll verify the UID of your MB has a license and you're good to go. Or just install Ubuntu or something on there.

Does anyone have a recommended setup for using a usb cellular modem on arch linux to send and receive sms? This is the best documentation on the issue I can find and it only has a single recommended product which allows what I want to be done with a gui. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mobile_broadband_modem#With_email_like_web_interface

>>60792 I want an app for my Android smartphone that lets me play audio files, and it lets me do the 15-second rewind/fast fwd thing that Spotify has when you're listening to a podcast. I download podcasts and lectures off of YouTube and put them on my phone, but when I want to go back a little bit, I have to go back several minutes, because the VLC app only has a seek-bar. Help.

I'm the guy desiring a better app for sound file-playback on Android smartphones. I mentioned what Spotify can do but never provided a picture, which, in hindsight, feels a bit lazy. So here it is. There's the usual, recognizable play/pause, previous track and next track buttons, but then there's also a 15 on both sides with arrows pointing to the respective side, relative to the play-pause button. Those buttons let you go back 15 seconds or skip ahead 15 seconds, rather than relying on the seek bar which, for a 1-hour+ talk, can be quite painful to use. The 1x is my selected playback speed. I'm sure you know YouTube offers speeds up to 2x, and down to 0.25x. So there it is, a more complete help-request.

>>62343 >>62342 I think you can do that with android vlc by tweaking some settings. It's not on their wiki but here's a forum post about it https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=159688

>>62349 Hey, alright, cool. Thanks.

what is the safest (in the context of security) way to log in to my personal computer remotely, if I have my laptop and I am on the road? I'm thinking of setting up ssh with a public key and piping xorg. Is this a good idea or would something like RPC or VNC be safer?

>>62400 SSH. I wouldn't trust something that doubles as, and is primarily know for, being a DVD player even remotely in terms of security, regardless of it being open source. >The only system which is truly secure is one which is switched off and unplugged locked in a titanium lined safe, buried in a concrete bunker, and is surrounded by nerve gas and very highly paid armed guards. Even then, I wouldn't stake my life on it. -- Gene Spafford, Director, Computer Operations, Audit, and Security Technology (COAST) Project, Purdue University

>>62401 >I wouldn't trust something that doubles as, and is primarily know for, being a DVD player even remotely in terms of security are you talking about RPC? lol. Thank you for the reply. I figured hardened SSH would be my best bet.

I gave up programming. I realize my brain can't hold math/computer related things. I'm a fuarrrking totally type of liberal arts, not natural sciences. But I can't give up using Linux. Also I can't stop being interested in Computer things even I quit programming/coding. How can I cope myself? Does really have enough worthy/benefits if I use my computer only for pure happiness? I'm not sure I can tell it as "Pure Happniess", But I can get rid of one of cancer cells from my hobby -- programming.

>>62400 I would use SSH for terminal access but TigerVNC+SSH Tunnel (https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000016665) for GUI access. >>62412 Consider becoming a sysadmin? Also, there is no shame in pursuing liberal arts major as long as you avoid the cyberhump (avoid sociology). >I gave up programming. >math You don't need that much math to make small but useful programs/scripts. You can accomplish a lot just with the knowledge of high school math/precalculus. I recommend reading Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell by George F. Simmons (use libgen or buy it; it's really cheap book) and looking up 3brown1blue and The Organic Chemistry Tutor on YT. The choice of the programming language you use also matters a lot. Do not start with C or C++, Scala or Rust (I also recommend avoiding Java/C# and Kotlin as well). I recommend that you start with something simple like Lua or Racket/Scheme (use Guile or Chicken). Ruby, Python or Go (if you want to specify the types for your variables) are also good options. To help you choose the language, I recommend that you look up code examples at: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code and pick the one you like the most. >But I can't give up using Linux. There is no reason to stop using Linux, even if you stopped writing programs. GNU/Linux respects your freedoms and doesn't spy on you. Linux is also faster and both fully libre and free of charge. You can also even play games on Linux now (Wine and Proton have improved the situation a lot). You can use LaTeX or Scribble (part of Racket) for writing papers: >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwnYHoNtfJ0&list=PL-p5XmQHB_JSQvW8_mhBdcwEyxdVX0c1T&index=1 + https://www.overleaf.com/learn >https://dustycloud.org/misc/digital-humanities/HowTo.html + https://prl.ccs.neu.edu/blog/2019/02/17/writing-a-paper-with-scribble/ You could also learn HTML+CSS and make a NeoCities site (idk, add a blog to your site and join the Lainchan webring). >https://www.w3schools.com/html/ (use W3Fools only for learning HTML+CSS. The rest of the tutorials suck) >https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML + https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS If you want to have your own VPS and domain, check out this guide: https://landchad.net/ (I highly recommend that you start with NeoCities, though). You can use https://terminal.sexy/ or https://paletton.com/ for generating a color scheme for your site. Use https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ and https://gifcities.org/ for getting images/gifs for your site.

>>62412 there's a whole world to explore in IT, cyber security, etc. You don't have to be a software engineer, and regardless of the job you do, you can likely do it with free software. Don't be unreasonable hard on yourself. Maybe you should walk away from programming for a bit, try something else, then come back to it and see how you feel.

hypothetically speaking, if someone from USA were to go to nhentai and read all of the hentai there, would they be arrested? For the sake of argument lets say that they were a person of interest and being investigated.

Where are STM32F7 chips made?

>Have mmcblk mount errors at boot causing very slow boot >Never bothered restarting computer in past so not really an issue but travelling more now so its becoming one >Begin diagnosing and realise I've somehow created nested partitions that are playing havoc with my boot loader >Start trying to find a solution before realizing that I barely have any files on my boot drive and it would be faster just to reinstall >Boot up usb iso >It boots extremely quickly despite booting just as slowly as my main drive with the same errors the last time I thought about starting from scratch >Restart computer to see if OS is now behaving itself >It is, error's gone >Didn't do anything to fix the problem Is my computer haunted?

>>62464 at foundry >>62481 it's possessed because you had FreeBSD installed and running multiple demons

Not sure if right thread, but could someone recommend me some articles that goes over monero? I heard lot of praise for it, so I wanted to see if someone here can point to something about it that goes into detail

>>62546 https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/privacyweek/2022/01/25/monero-the-privacy-coin-explained/ https://learn.bybit.com/altcoins/what-is-monero-xmr/ https://academy.moralis.io/blog/what-is-monero-xmr https://coincentral.com/what-is-monero/

I flashed DivestOS on my old android phone. I'd used LineageOS before. And the reason why I moved to divest from lineage is divest has better security when comparing with lineage. But I can't really recognize how it is great. It still feels like lineageos but little bit different default settings. Also I'm little bit annoyed with divestos came with mull, simple gallery and others while lineageos came with its softwares even they are kinda bad. It's kinda autism things, but lineageos has more light weight than divest. It makes me suffer, like I was suffered by distro-hopping. Thanksfully, I run away from distro-hopping meme. But now, smartphones custom roms make me deadly.

>>62546 https://moneroinfodump.neocities.org/

>lainchan >51 scripts and 1 cookie why

>>62563 Try asking a proper question next time.

I have a suspicion that my computer has been using the iGPU instead of the dedicated as I have discovered I cannot use Vulkan. How do I go about verifying this?

>>62459 you probably will be fine, its just drawings. If you want to be safe clear your cache.

>>62571 On a Linux just try to unload the driver of the iGPU, it shouldn't allow you to do so if in use, but you should be able to unload it if you drop to a tty and kill the display manager that is using the driver. Send distro info if stuck `lshw -c video | grep driver` [output e.g.: ...` configuration: driver=i915 latency=0`...] `sudo modprobe -r i915` Windows just try to disable the device in ⊞+R 'devmgmt.msc'

>>62576 configuration: depth=32 driver=amdgpu latency=0 I'm using an Intel CPU and AMD GPU, so I guess I at least set that up properly. I'm using Gentoo, rather unsuccessfully but I am making an earnest effort. Running lshw without grep also shows that the iGPU is in fact disabled and that no display is claimed.

How to get a small number of ghost followers for a Telegram channel?

I know nothing about network stuff but I'm trying to configure something on my router. Problem is that the router belongs to the landlord, and although the internet I connect to comes from an Araknis router, accessing the router gateway and the router login screen suggests that the internet is actually coming from a Comcast Business router. I guess the landlord has the comcast router hooked up to the whole building and the Araknis in my apartment is more like a modem? How would I be able to get the password/locate the "actual" router (sent the landlord an email but I suspect he doesn't know either and paid someone to set it all up). If someone could point me to read more on how this router to router thing works I'd also appreciate that thanks

I need to send links from my computer to my phone, and vice versa. Some of the current programs look invasive and questionable to privacy. Is there anything that does this that isn't botnet and justworks? I appreciate the help.

>>62599 unless you have access to the physical device, you don't have the password. There might be 'ways' to get it, but it could be one of any devices. What you have is a router, if there is another modem actually providing the internet. To be honest, you're not very clear as to what the structure is, and what you're trying to do, which is needed to provide more specific help. Your internet isn't coming from the thing in your possession then? what does it do? Does it only provide wireless? etc>>62599

>>62601 Yeah, I have no idea how it works and as an aside I'm curious as to how its all setup; landlord confirmed it was setup by someone else and he doesn't really know where the physical device is. When I connect to the WiFi it seems to be connecting to the router in my room (which goes to some wlan cable in the walls of the apartment complex), but the gateway ip I'm getting via ip route and such points to a different router model. I'm curious what this setup is as again I know nothing about networking; is it some kind of extender? I would like to access the configuration for the router but without the password obviously I cannot. I'm wondering if I can track it down by finding the signal, but I don't know how it shows up on the scanned wifi sources, since my wifi just points back to the router in my apartment. Thanks for the help; even if my question is too vague to really work if you could point me to a book or smt to learn more about this stuff I would appreciate it since I've found a workaround for what I was trying to do for now

[Distro thread hit reply limit, post doesn't deserve thread] Thanks to the lainon who recommended against trying Manjaro instead of Arch. I always thought it was wrongly recommended to beginners for practical reasons but wow, two days later they've let their SSL cert expire for the fourth time, and a major Pinephone community dev just left PINE64 (not PostmarketOS) today because of Manjaro and PINE64 screwing over all the other OSs. [ https://blog.brixit.nl/why-i-left-pine64/ ]

>>62605 Manjaro was the distro that got me to stop distro hopping, but that was more thanks to xfce than anything about Manjaro itself. I slowly realized that basically everything I liked about it was arch and every headache I had with it was the manjaro team's fault. It really feels like a mistake that it's been allowed to be paraded as the beginner distro lately.

I'm looking for a VPS that can host something like vichan/jschan. I don't know the traffic but I'd be impressed if there are 50+ people there so I'm just looking for the cheapest option. Preferably with anonymous payment options. I'm sure one of you lainons has done all the research I dread so much and is willing to spoonfeed me :D

>>62615 >I'm sure one of you lainons has done all the research that wouldn't be me but have you considered a web3.0 option? I know that ICP exists to host services and being crypto you should be able to pay anonymously

>>62602 Again, what you want to specifically do will help me point you in the right direction. It sounds like the device you have with you is either a: a repeater or b: just providing wireless for a device that doesn't provide wireless (wireless router, a common setup as many modems from the company won't provide it) I could see a potential issue if you needed to port-forward something and the modem was blocking it, but again the structure could be one of ten things and without seeing it. but one way to tell if your router is doing anything is to see if it is bridged. I would start there on your reading: what is bridge mode, how it works, access point, (AP mode on many) etc. might be a good place to start since this is so general and you are not mentioning exactly what you are trying to do

>>62619 I'm just trying to set up a VPN for my apartment's network and I was also curious about pihole. Given how the router services the whole complex I guess I wouldn't be able to do that without affecting others anyways.

>>62599 Figure out what hardware you're talking to first Use incomplete commands or /? to get details about syntax in netsh if you want to poke around Use traceroute to look for other local network addresses along the path out to the internet, maybe you're not looking at your first hop but something further upstream

does anybody know full pasta? >You will never be an engineer. You're bad at math, you know no rigor, your only mathematical skills are regex. You are a sysadmin twisted by shell and un*x braindamage into a crude mockery of man's perfection. > >All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your parents are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “friends” laugh at your ghoulish code behind closed doors.

>>62626 Only found this one so far >You will never be a real game developer. You have no imagination, you have no vision, you have no skills. You are a soykafcoin developer twisted by rugs and scams into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection. All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your parents are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “friends” laugh at your ghoulish code behind closed doors. Gamers are utterly repulsed by you. Decades of computer game design have allowed players to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even minigames which are “playable” look uncanny and unnatural to a gamer. Your attribute system is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a drunk gamer to play it, he’ll turn tail and bolt the second he gets a whiff of your diseased, infected pvp matching. You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight. Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll buy a rope, tie a noose, put it around your neck, and plunge into the cold abyss. Your parents will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment. They’ll bury you with a headstone marked with your real profession (soykafcoin developer), and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a jeet is buried there. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is some untradable NFTs that are unmistakably unplayable. This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.

I only have very basic bitch understand of tech. I recently made my own PC (from 2 junked pieces of soykaf), and got the HD out of an old vista computer from back when I was a teenager. Honestly I just want to go back through all the WC3 mods I made and see whatever other kind of soykaf I had on there to enjoy the memories. My monkey brain was like well soykaf just slap that thing in there then open it and click on it. When I did so, a window in vista style opened (while running win 10) asking for my old password. This froze everything, I had to hard reset with the HD not attached to get it going again. Not sure if it's relevant, but my other two drives are an SSD with the win10 OS on it and another HD for storage. Any idea how I could get those old files? I've played with the idea of setting up and learning linux, and I know there is a way to run virtual environments for old OS in it so maybe thats one way to it. Just asking if anyone knows an easier fix than that, or if there's a general direction you could point me in.

>>62647 >Any idea how I could get those old files? I've played with the idea of setting up and learning linux, Easy. Download Rufus (https://rufus.ie/en/) and Xubuntu iso (https://xubuntu.org/). You should also verify the integrity of the Xubuntu iso you downloaded. You can use PowersHell: Get-FileHash xubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso -Algorithm SHA256 You also need 1 empty flash drive. If you want to dual-boot Xubuntu and windows you need to use Windows disk management utilities to shrink the windows partition or another partition (reserve 20GB or more for Xubuntu if you want to dual-boot it.) Use the GUI method: https://www.diskpart.com/disk-management/shrink-volume-6289.html But you can also just boot the live system, if you want to. Then use Rufus to make a USB that can be used to boot Xubuntu live system. Power off your PC and Connect the HDD back. Boot up Xubuntu LiveUSB (you need to use BIOS boot menu). Then you can just mount the partition with the files (use lsblk command to determine the right partition and then mount it or use the thunar GUI file manager). After this, just copy the files to another flash drive or partition. If you want to install Xubuntu, just open the installer and select the free space as the destination. I recommend that you create a separate /boot partition that's ~512MB. You don't need a swap partition, if you do not want to hibernate to disk. If you want a swap partition, it should be about 2x as large as the amount of RAM you have (use free -h). Keep in mind that a swap partition can cause unnecessary writes (wear) on a SSD. The idea of a LiveUSB environment is that you don't write anything on the PC, until you mount a partition or install the distro (Xubuntu in this case). I recommend you do a full installation (and not a minimal installation), if the installers asks you. You can keep the defaults (install without non-free codecs; you can install the stuff you need later using apt ). If you do something that has system-wide effects (like install new software), you need to become root/Superuser (admin) using sudo For example, to fetch the list of new packages and update your system you need to open the terminal and type: sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade But if you only want to search for a package you don't need to become a superuser. For example: apt search emacs or apt show neovim I recommend that you start with the nano editor and then try both NeoVim (nvim) and GNU Emacs (emacs). Both (Neo)Vim and GNU Emacs have a build-in tutorial (in addition to the man-pages). If you want to learn more about Linux, I recommend this free book: https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

I like *booru style imageboards (and derivatives like Hydrus). Provided that users have a basic competency and care, they provide an effective way to catalogue and search content through a thorough tagging system. 1) Is there any similar archiving system that is also worth looking into? Or is this outright the best we have so far? 2) Is there a public web equivalent for video media?

>>60792 https://weirdlog.net/

>>62747 Cool site man, but I have no clue how you didn't post in the right thread for like the 3th or 4th time by now

Does anyone remember that cyberpunk logo designing thread? Where the hell did it go?

>>62749 When going to the specific thread, the system does not allow posting. If you guide me I will correct. : )

I know you shouldn't use a debit card on the internet, but surely its safe to give YouTube my debit card info, right?

>>62777 Safe from who? Financial hackers and identity thief? Probably safe, yeah.

I try to organize my files with only [a-z._-]. '.' is for file extensions (if applicable), '-' is for a delimeter, e.g. between number/year and title for music/shows/etc., and '_' is used for spaces within each delimited category. Should I ever use '-' as a "delimiter" within e.g. titles (e.g. if there are logical separations in a title like the given title, movement, and opus of a classical piece, or would it seem more faithful to the organizational technique to simply get rid of all characters within each delimited character that cannot validly be represented by [a-z_]? Also, when, if ever, should I delimit between "items" outside of track number/year in media files (in your thinking)? Does it make any sense to do clumsily in various file types?

Is there any (maybe open source) conversational AI that can be then made to output custom speech (choice of voice TTS)? It doesn't have to be super good, just wondering if there is something like this that can be played around with. Considering a small project.

The wired version of the Xbox 360 Controller had this feature that I thought was so clever. It had this "easy detach" feature where the wire itself, is split into a plug and plug-socket along the wire, so if you pull the controller too harshly, the controller's plug doesn't pull your console down off the table, the plug-socket along the wire would separate instead, thereby preserving your console. Are there any headphones with this feature? The Xbox 360 was such a popular console, and gaming is associated with headphones, so I imagine this idea was either already popular before they implemented it, or it got popular after it was implemented. In my experience, with my uncontrolled daydream-pacing and my now-damaged front-panel headphone-socket, headphones really need a feature like this. Surely it's been done?

Does anyone know anything about the internals of Wine? I've been trying to make a shared library that loads from Linux into the .exe process's memory space and then injects a library into the emulated Windows program (no, I don't want to do this literally any other way, I appreciate you looking out for my sanity though) but when I call where LoadLibraryA should be in kernel32.dll I get a return code of 0 and nothing happens. I know it's running because if I intentionally mess up the offset the SEH fires. What am I doing wrong?

Does anyone have a tutorial for using acme-tiny to get an ssl cert for a simple site running on lighttpd? I think acme-tiny is what i want.. I have a debian server with a domain pointed at it and a site, i just need to figure out the cert part..

>>62975 For anyone also wondering i found this: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-configure-lighttpd-web-server-with-free-lets-encrypt-ssl-certificate-on-debian-or-ubuntu-linux/ which worked up until systemctl restart lighttpd at which the service fails. I haven't had time to mess with it anymore yet though so that's what i know.

>>62989 should elaborate in `systemctl status lighttpd`

When I follow this guide to install docker on fedora: https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tools/docker/docker-installation.html Are the things I install fully open source? I know docker desktop (which is for windows and mac) is proprietary. But for the rest of docker components I'm not sure.

>>63117 Docker Engine (essentially the CLI version of Docker) itself is released under Apache license but Docker Desktop is proprietary (as you said). It also depends on what Docker image you use. >https://www.docker.com/community/open-source/ >https://docs.docker.com/engine/ You might be interested in https://docker-handbook.farhan.dev/ (after reading the Fedora guide).

I need to archive some Kiwifarm thread for offline viewing. I only want to get the thread. let's say this thread: https://kiwifarms.ru/threads/emerson-eduardo-rodrigues-setim-engenheiro-emerson-capataz-sancto-engenheiro-mijao-pedolao.56217/ How can I do it?

>>63165 Ctrl + S for each post in the thread.

>>63169 it would take too long time and it seems retarted ...

>>62910 I'd ask /robo­wai­fu/. Not even into that stuff, but their index and threads are useful.

>>60796 On debian you'd install firmware-iwlwifi from non-free repo

>>61476 Samba is what you are looking for my fren

>>61784 did you chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/{html,other} >>61981 I don't know about ovs, but on Debian Let's say your device IP is 192.168.178.10 and your ethernet interface is eth0, you'd want something like this. Then in virt-manager you just assing the br0 in VM settings auto br0 iface br0 inet static address 192.168.178.10 network 192.168.178.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.178.255 gateway 192.168.178.1 dns-nameservers 192.168.178.1 bridge_ports eth0 bridge_stp off then you can assign the br0 directly in virt-manager vm NIC settings like Pic related (sorry, it's german) >>62000 try easy2boot https://easy2boot.xyz/ >>62138 thunderbird with my calendar caldav url >>62076 I have a domain with firstname-lastname.homecoutry for public institutuions / facillities / medical stuff and people I know privatley, I don't use it for logins or share it anywhere >>62208 maybe getting an UPS is an option for you, so you can safely power off your system >>62622 you could assign your piholes IP manually on your devices DNS Settings >>63165 use torsocks with wget with browser cookies, it sould look something like this torsocks wget -mkEpnp -e robots=off --convert-links --load-cookies cookies.txt --random-wait https://kiwifarms.onion/threads/.... Now you just have to export a browsercookie.txt with active Kiwifarms login to a txt

>>60792 my country's about to roll out SIM user registration. is there anything that I can do to circumvent this? any pdfs/djvus or tips you know?

>>60792 When you use the g command to delete something in vi how do you delete the blank line with it? g/pattern/d

why do programmer spend so much time implementing lint and CI? in the last few code bases i worked on, there was a total of 250KLOC across them all for this stuff

>>63388 it's due to a few big past incidents that almost never happen and aren't preventable anyway but since software is just a contest of politics they will all go to "solve" these problems for instance that bug in Apple's SSL stack where some code formatting mistake caused a vulnerability. lint for instance heartbleed where C caused a vulnerability. rust for instance when it's revealed that some big company never even tested some obvious code path. CI this happens all the time, even outside of programming. for instance when "child pornography" became illegal because some weirdo had sex with a kid and it made the news and now we have to search everyone's computers every day for no reason and all the convictions are usually just for people attracted to older teens who don't know she's under 18 of course this is all a mix of virtue signalling and ignorant little newgrad soyglitterboys who think they are fixing everything by adding yet another checkbox to their best practice check list

>>63368 That shouldn't leave behind a blank line where the matching string was. It deletes the entire line for me in neovim, vim, and vi. Delete blank lines: :g/^$/d Delete whitespace-only lines: :v/\S/d

so recently i've finished my discrete maths and calculus, now i think i can go for cryptography as that was my main interest, then i search over tech, sec and programming there was no cryptography thread. You cryptography guys should start a thread and share some your knowledge and preferred books

I found a website that offered free domains a while ago. Does anyone know where I can get a domain for free?

>>63397 Thanks, I maybe guess it's just a OSX vi quirk.

>>63439 Didn't know that there is a site that gives away domains. I know there is one that gives away subdomains[https://freedns.afraid.org].

Does anyone have experience with PureOS? It's a FSF approved distro based on Debian. I just librebooted my X200 and am looking for a disto that won't be bothersome to set up and have libre kernel. It looks interesting but it being developed by american company sounds a little scary. Also would something debian based even work well on X200? I assume running latest kernel and packages would at least give a little performance boost?

Is the whole software abstraction thing there so we can more easily mentally model and emulate the hardware or is the hardware emulating an abstract software machine? Which is the real computer: the actual silicon chip + memory etc or the abstract machine with "stack frames" and so on. I'm not talking about the virtual environment really but that could also affect the way you view this.

>>63502 >Is the whole software abstraction thing there so we can more easily mentally model and emulate the hardware or is the hardware emulating an abstract software machine? It's both, the worst of both worlds. >Which is the real computer: the actual silicon chip + memory etc or the abstract machine with "stack frames" and so on. Unfortunately, the actual silicon chip and memory are the real computer. For an interesting and different stack model, look into Forth machines, such as the F18A. Now, some machines implemented high-level machinery in hardware, like type checking and garbage collection, but they lost in the marketplace. After all, businesses make more money selling anti-virus and other snake oil than a working computer.

>>63504 To be clear I'm not talking about OOP or abstract data types etc but abstraction in tech. >Unfortunately, the actual silicon chip and memory are the real computer. Yeah but the logic of operation that the real hardware is trying to get close to (or imo, emulate), is modeled by an abstraction. An abstract machine is emulated by hardware. It's not perfect just like any emulation but if it were the other way around: the hardware is abstracted away for us to do the "emulation" of it, that would seem like an improper hierarchy situation. Because if the HW doesn't act according to the abstract machine, we consider it "inaccurate", "buggy", "incomplete" etc. Idk if that makes sense.

I have some issues on lf file manager. I want to open .webm .flac .mp3 with mpv but it is not working. Can you help me fixing my config? my lfrc config: https://paste.rs/UIN

>>60818 I've tried using pass for 2fa but it never gives the correct code. What means?

>>63514 okay I made things better but .mp3 .flac still not opening when I try open on lf. my latest lfrc: cmd open ${{ test -L $f && f=$(readlink -f $f) case "$(file --mime-type "$f" -b)" in text/*) nvim $fx;; audio/*) mpv --audio-display=no $f ;; *) for f in $fx; do xdg-open $f > /dev/null 2> /dev/null & done;; esac }}

Trying to: ---Create an Open Wifi network with Wlan 2 ---DHCP assign and route all traffic from Wlan 2 to Wlan 1 which has internet connection ---Run SSLSTRIP/BEEF on connected devices Airgeddon does this automatically but only in Evil Twin mode, and I'm not going to impersonate someone else's WiFi. Me no likey federal prison. I'm a bit of an older neckbeard whose been around since 1.44 floppies were still new-ish, so I'm not some snotnosed script kiddie, but I have very limited time to learn new tech skills. Can I get some advice/help? I've already checked that both USB WiFi modules I'm using are confirmed as supporting monitor mode.

>>63527 Okay did some setings I realized it is about file name XD I have file named "Vengaboys - Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!.flac" I tried opening that, it gave this error: --: line 2: test: syntax error: `-' unexpected I changed name to "boom.flac" for testing, now I can open the file. Any idea why this happens? I don't want to change my musics file names fr. I think it is about spaces between file names. If there is space, then it does not oppen.

>>60792 Hi, is there a good alternative to Piratebox? it seems deprecated, Is there something similar, that's more recent but also works offline? preferably for an rpi

why does the nano app break every day now? isnt this something endodomo can fix? how do you fix an app that constantly says "Onionsite Not Found" every second day?

>>63587 i just realized why doesnt he make it run off a blockchain that way it will never be down even when he shuts is computer

>>62599 in most cases the "gateway website" you see on your side is actually the remote router. it means your router acts more like a thin client that screenshares a (desktop) server (like a workspace mainframe where you are a virtual client). there is sadly no amount of customization you could do if that's the case. they also disallow modifications since someone could replace the ipv4 dns to manual and put a malicious dns server in the main router. >the Araknis in my apartment is more like a modem? a wifi extender is a modem so maybe yes (wifi is analog heat). > >>62602 >When I connect to the WiFi ... but the gateway ip I'm getting via ip route and such points to a different router model. I'm curious what this setup is as again I know nothing about networking; is it some kind of extender? it might be a seamless extender. I suggest avoiding wireless and use wired if possible > >>62622 >VPN It's not good if you use wifi connection. I suggest you do it over the wire. It's probably a better idea to just get your own internet connection. There's really nothing you could do if the topology is vague enough, it could be behind 3 routers and extenders if the building is that huge. If there's really nothing in between, you could ask the ISP to set up a lan port on the main router for your "ip camera cctv" or "xbox" (be sure to already imitate the device as it might be only whitelisted to such mac) so you get a lan port that's perfect for l2tp vpn or basically a lan port that needs no further "port forwarding" as the lan port itself has every port opened (which also means poor security so you gotta set up your pihole if you do). >>62571 i915.modeset=0 video=vesafb:off,efifb:off

>>63587 I don't know, but he's been mostly ignoring his own site for a while so it's not surprising things would break eventually. What do you think of other Tor boards like lambdaplusjs?

>>63587 >nano app wtf are you talking about?

>>63627 I think extreme egotism and aggressive verbal diarrhea about nothing of substance aren't even a little bit fun.

>>60792 Does an sshfs mount count as an ssh connection? Is it possible to activate the sshrc when an sshfs has been mounted?

>Have dual boot windows and Linux on laptop w/separate drives for each >Essentially never touch the windows drive, never have any issues >have to log into windows today to run a piece of proprietary software for coursework >Work done, boot back into Linux after hard shutting down windows >IBM ultranav keyboard that I have been using almost everyday for 15 years now has a garbled, nonsensical layout that is seemingly unfixable >pressing g once causes the computer to pick up f1 being held down >super now scroll lock >half the keys don't work if you hold down shift while pressing them >seemingly unfixable How, I don't know how its even possible for just booting into windows to clusterfuck a USB 1 keyboard from 2002, who do I blame for this? IBM, MS or God?

Recommend me some good Torrent Clients for Debian.

>>63750 >Recommend me some good Torrent Clients Transmission and qBittorrent.

>>63670 The sshfs command does trigger the sshrc. Fix might have been to remove one of the default sshfs arguments[-oClearAllForwardings] & change the way mounts are disconnected. kill $(ps aux|grep "[1]hostname.*sftp"|cut -d" " -f7)

>>63705 >Have dual boot windows and Linux on desktop w/separate drives for each >Essentially never touch the windows drive, never have any issues >have to log into windows a while back to run a piece of proprietary software for coursework >Wanna listen to music while working >No audio from headphones <Whatever >Work done, boot back into Linux after hard shutting down windows >Headphones that I've been using for over a year now almost everyday don't work >Spend the next week fuarrrking around with audio soykaf to make them work again Linux is a piece of soykaf but winblows is just on another level. Beyond fuarrrked.

I'm thinking about hosting my own services. Should I go with a VPS or a local computer? Any good VPS services you recommend?

>>63798 Local poses a larger security & privacy risk than using a vps. Lowendbox lists cheap vps and I've found buyvm.net to be very friendly. Ultimately it will depend on what you're wanting to host.

>>63800 Just want to host Nextcloud and VPN.

>>63440 Does it have anything to do with Mac-style line endings? Can you check output of `file <filename>` and experiment with unix2mac/mac2unix/dos2unix/unix2dos? (dos2unix -id / ... -iu / ... -im, to check number of dos/unix/mac style line endings detected in each file)

how can I scrape all images on this site? https://booru.soy/post/list please tell it detalied and easy I don't have scraping experiences

>>63813 You're in luck! This is an easy site to scrape. First, you want to check the sitemap to see if it lists the pages you're interested in. soybooru's is fuarrrkhueg and malformed, so I recommend downloading it directly and processing it as rendering in the browser will kill your cpu: wget https://booru.soy/sitemap.xml sed -nE 's|.*<loc>(.*)</loc>.*|\1|p' sitemap.xml | grep '/view/' > pages.txt Normally it's bad to use sed for processing xml, but the more appropriate xml sel -t -v '//*[local-name() = "loc"]' won't work on malformed xml. Anyway, you're in luck that the image pages are listed. The alternative would've been iterating through ids. With the pages at hand, we need to download them for processing. I'm a retard, so I'll use bash again: mkdir -p cache xargs basename < pages.txt |\ while read id; do wget -nc "https://booru.soy/post/view/$id" -O cache/$id.html && sleep 1s done If you open a page like https://booru.soy/post/view/1 in devtools (firefox, rightclick->inspect), you can poke around at the html. The images are embedded directly, so you just need to search on the general pattern and extract the src . mkdir -p images for page in cache/*; do pup '#main_image attr{src}' <$page | xargs -I{} wget -nc 'https://booru.soy/'{} -P images && sleep 1s done And done! The only thing easier would've been asking the admins for a db dump.

why do person whose company I enjoys make their core tools rely on php? from `info sed`: '--regexp-extended' Use extended regular expressions rather than basic regular expressions. Extended regexps are those that 'egrep' accepts; they can be clearer because they usually have fewer backslashes. Historically this was a GNU extension, but the '-E' extension has since been added to the POSIX standard (http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=528), so use '-E' for

not sure if such things belong here, but can anyone tell me what it is? 01 01 84 02 83 81 01 5A 80 01 3C 7F 04 7F 80 82 03 81 82 82 02 82 83 05 7F 0D 05 80 0A 00

>>63819 Thanks but I don't get it. I did the first part and got pages.txt and sitemap then the scond and third commands I tried both on shell and as script but didn't worked. What to do

>>63832 My bad. Change xargs basename < pages.txt to xargs -n1 basename < pages.txt , and make sure you have all the mentioned programs installed. It's likely you don't have pup . Besides that, the code should work - I ran it now to confirm. It would also be a good idea to study it in case you're interested in scraping other websites in the future. Normally scraping is far more involved, but this just happened to be a nice "toy problem" for teaching the basics. >shell and as script Generally speaking, there's little difference between running from the commandline or as a script. Sometimes, you might need to run a script as if it were done from the commandline by using source somescript.sh or just . somescript.sh , but that's usually only when you want to keep the variables or declarations in scope. E.g., if you have some handy functions or aliases, you can use them from the commandline by sourcing the file you declared them in.

what is the point of "else if" when 99% of the uses are just emulating a switch? if eq_fn(x, val1) a() else if eq_fn(x, val2) b() else if eq_fn(x, val3) c() else if eq_fn(x, val4) d() else if eq_fn(x, val5) e()

>>63837 switch statements only allow you to operate on one variable of one type which can be limiting and unergonomic. They also don't handle range conditions well in most languages. Complex types/structs/objects may not be supported (Java didn't supporting switching on strings for a long time, for example) without adding extra boilerplate. if (x == SomeEnumValue && y.len() == 0) { a() } else if (z) { b() } else if (x == SomeOtherEnumValue) { c() } else if (y.len() > 0) { d() } else { e() } Would be ugly to make that into a switch. Some languages use match expressions that use more powerful pattern matching and alleviate some of those issues. For example, an equivalent to the above code is match (x, y.len(), z) { (SomeEnumValue, 0, _) => a(), (.., true) => b(), (SomeOtherEnumValue, .. ) => c(), (_, y, _) if y > 0 => d(), _ => e(), }; But you can probably see that doing that can get messy quickly for certain situations, even with a small number of variables. >99% of the uses are just emulating a switch? If 99% of the if/else-if blocks you're writing are just emulating a switch, you're probably writing unidiomatic code. if eq_fn(x, val1) a() else if eq_fn(x, val2) b() else if eq_fn(x, val3) c() else if eq_fn(x, val4) d() else if eq_fn(x, val5) e() In this code, eq_fn() is preventing you from using a switch, since switches don't let you use whatever function you want. if x and val1..val2 are of types that your language will default to eq_fn() when checking their equality, you could use a switch, otherwise you can't (unless your language lets you tell switch to use an arbitrary equality function)

>>63842 >But you can probably see that doing that can get messy quickly for certain situations, even with a small number of variables. Yes and hence why these advanced switches with additional crap and elseif mechanisms are useless. They are made after some naive interpretation of the English language which never matches up to code anyway. I'm pretty sure most programmers actually just use else if because they are spelling out what their code does in English. But since 99% of code is just a bunch of disjoint clauses, they may as well have used a bunch of if statements one after the other and would have achieved the same effect (yeah there may be some performance differences, when not given a sufficiently smart compiler).

>>63804 For hosting a VPN, you will definitely want a VPS! >>63837 >what is the point of "else if" when 99% of the uses are just emulating a switch? If you can replace if/else if with a switch statement, you should definitely do it.

>>63836 Ok well it works. Actually it was kinda bad. I downloaded cache for 2 days, my pc was open. It seems scraping take lots time now I'm downloading images. It is working well, thank you again. Would you recommend sources to learn web scraping? I heard python is good for scraping with libraries. Should I check phython for scraping? Is it worth?

>>63885 >Actually it was kinda bad Yes, the code was made to be simple/instructional, not necessarily efficient. However: > I downloaded cache for 2 days This is to be expected for a single-threaded process on a domestic internet connection. Scraping should be a last resort because it is the epitome of inefficiency. Sometimes you're lucky and a website exposes a useful sitemap or API you can tap into directly, but too often you'll be forced to navigate like a user and waste time pulling resources you don't actually care about to get to the ones you are interested in. >Python This will help. Python will allow you to re-use connections (less time wasted!) and write more intelligent scrapers that can work around anti-bot measures (very common!). That said, if you're interested in tackling larger problems and/or lack patience, invest in a (scraping-friendly) VPS. Doesn't have to be fancy. Datacenters get lower ping, higher bandwidth, and a VPS provides you with more "pipes" to draw from - all help to speed up the job. Keep in mind whatever laws are relevant in your jurisdiction, and that aggressive scraping will not make you friends with the site owner; serving pages/data to scrapers costs them money and makes no revenue in return. >thank you again The best way you can thank me is making the data from your scrapes available. Throw it on Archive, a mega, a torrent, whatever. In a perfect world, websites like booru.soy would pull its soyjacks from a mutable torrent that anyone could directly download from so the data wouldn't be gatekept by a web interface. People could make their own websites, even, to interact with the data on whatever terms they think are most appropriate. Scraping should not have to exist.

>>63889 Yes I will look/learn more about web scraping. You seem wise man. Yes you are right about that part, scraping shouldn't exists in perfect world. But at least sites like that offering you to save the image, instagram does not even let you view the image without login. We are living with perfect opportunities with stupid decisions. >The best way you can thank me is making the data from your scrapes available I would if I had decent upload speed ;_;

>>63890 >>63885 >Would you recommend sources to learn web scraping? I heard python is good Try to use gallery-dl and yt-dlp (and similar tools) if you can. Make the script wait a random amount of time (say 1-3 secs) before downloading a file to avoid getting derezzed (wget has --random-wait option. read the man-page). You could also limit your download speed. Start learning Python here --> https://automatetheboringstuff.com/ (P.S. Mark Lutz's books are good!)

I'm having this weird issue where my mouse and keyboard drivers aren't loading. The only way I have access to GRUB is via a setting in the UEFI that allows me to boot straight into it by holding the power button for a brief period of time. After exiting the UEFI, I can use my keyboard and mouse and select what kernel I'm booting. Anyone experience anything similar and have a fix?

>>63916 You meant mouse/keyboard don't work in UEFI firmware? If that's the case, you need to update your UEFI firmware. You could also try plugging your mouse and keyboard to different USB ports. Also try disabling fast boot/fast startup on Windows control panel (it's in the power settings) and the UEFI settings can help (you should disable them anyway...)

>>63940 No, it's just not working in GRUB. I have to boot into UEFI and exit it before I can use my keyboard with GRUB and select which kernel I'm loading in. My default kernel isn't configured properly and I don't have the patience to redo anything. I'm very lazy.

Hello lainons... I'm not the smartest one around and only picked up what you guys seemingly have already done pretty well on recently, and I'm at a bit of trouble. You see, I was using win10 (i know, sorry) because I was an idiot, and apparently lots of data is currently on my disk, and I still would like to play some games sometimes so abandoning windows isn't a complete option for me, so I'm thinking about modifying an win7 for this computer. What should I do? should I completely destroy all data and just find them later on? what version should I get? what should I do after installation? I really have nobody better to ask, sorry to bring this onto you.

>>63969 >What should I do? I recommend that you dual-boot Botnet 10 and Linux (such as Xubuntu. Check the distro thread for other options, if you don't like Xubuntu). Use Linux for everything else besides gaming. I recommend you move all your data to the Linux partition (except gaming stuff), if you can. The easiest way is to first use Windows disk management tools to shrink a partition (reserve at least ~20-30GB for Linux). Then use Rufus (https://rufus.ie/en/) to create a USB flash drive that can be used to test and/or install Xubuntu (this is called "LiveUSB" or "LiveCD"). You can also use the liveUSB to test Xubuntu without installing anything on your HDD. If you want to practice installing Linux, you can use VirtualBox. If you want to lean more about Linux CLI/Bash, I recommend this free book: https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php Also, you can use PowersHell to check the integrity of the Linux installation iso: Get-FileHash gentoo.iso -Algorithm SHA256 >I'm thinking about modifying an win7 for this computer. I don't recommend doing that since Windows 7 is no longer supported. It doesn't get any new upgrades and new games and HW don't support it well.

>>63890 >I would if I had decent upload speed ;_; Torrents are good for this. Seeding a torrent is a bit like hosting a server that lets people download whatever bits and pieces of the torrent they want. If your computer is only online 1hr of every day, someone interested in downloading the whole torrent would still be able to eventually download it because they just ask for bits they don't have yet each day until they're finished. It's not like an upload that can "fail" partway through. Better yet, when that person has downloaded some part of the torrent, they are able to contribute to other people interested in downloading, making everything faster for everyone. Not trying to pressure you to do so, but as someone with a similar connection, torrents are downright magical.

>>63973 thanks lainon! I have a question though. I've tried installing linux on hard drive 1(not the integrated hard drive 0, I'm using a laptop), and though I didn't remember the specific details, I remember having trouble when I was choosing to install the OS on there. It was saying out of range or something. what's up with that? (just curious, I've prepared 200 G space on hard drive 0 for a BSD setup which I plan to make this laptop a server and the linux setup which I plan to make this machine do some router work) I would really appreciate any advice on what I just said as well, that is if it's not so bothersome for you to explain. sorry if I don't reply immediately, I think I might be in a time zone far away from yours. you could ask for an email if you like.

Hey. I work in IT right now and we have to install Microsoft software center for the desktop replacements. I'm more accustomed to Linux, so terminals telling me what's going on would be helpful. It feels like SC installs randomly after given access to our network, but I want to see if there's a way of viewing what's happening during this installation. Thanks if anyone has answers.

What solar charger does lain use? Energy is becoming expensive fast, especially during winter. It's a good idea to have an alternative power source, even just to keep the phone alive.

why do people work in tech but don't like tech?

>>63977 you mean you cannot install it or just unable to boot it? if you unable to boot,check your bootloader program like GRUB (if you do use grub iirc you also need to install os-prober and add os-prober line in grub.cfg)

>>64043 I know what it does to people, but I can't work anywhere else.

Can anybody recommend email forwarding/aliasing services for personal identities? Thanks.

>>64066 Email forwarding like spam gourmet?

Are IDE cables supposed to have a hole like the one in the picture??

>>61078 If you're still around: 1. What's the graphics hardware on the macbook? 2. Does sleep/suspend work? 3. If so, did you need to do anything to get it working? Asking because I once tried to install mint on an old macbook with nvidia optimus and it went about as well as you'd expect. Any tips are mightily appreciated.

>>64084 yea, https://anonaddy.com/privacy/ seems ok. Thoughts?

>>64094 Never used it before. Looks good, even lets you use your own domain, PGP. Complies with GDPR. Depends on the service but some places are denying accounts made with some email forwarders.

So I downloaded rtspbrute from here https://gitlab.com/woolf/RTSPbrute And then I downloaded python, av, pillow, rich, just like they asked me to. But when I try to run the .py file in Visual Studio Code, it does not work. For example I put in /h, for help and yet nothing appears. And I read through README.md textfile attached and yet I still don't get it. How do I brute the rtsp with this program and find those webcams etc...

>>64118 You did follow the readme and used pip to install the package, right? Also, make sure that Python is included in your Path env variable. Install Linux if windows doesn't work. > /h The readme only lists -h option. And post the actual error message.

>>64123 Ok for some background, I always looked for unsecured cameras using google dorks and never like this, so I am completely new to this. And the "pip install" worked for av, rich and pillow but not for python. And in the readme, it says "USAGE $ rtspbrute -t TARGETS [-p PORTS [PORTS ...]] [-r ROUTES] [-c CREDENTIALS] [-ct N] [-bt N] [-st N] [-T TIMEOUT] [-d] [-h]" and where am I supposed to paste that? And I made sure python is included in my path environment. I attached some screenshots.

>>64125 Pip is part of Python and it used to install Python packages. You need to download Python from https://www.python.org/ if you are on Windows. But on Linux you can (and should) just use the (OS) package manager, but Python is preinstalled on pretty much all Linux distros. Also, you are supposed to use rtspbrute at command line. If rtspbrute -h doesn't work, you could try python -m rtspbrute -h I also highly recommend that you use Linux (especially for cyber security related stuff). The easiest way to start is to dual boot Linux and Windows. First, use Windows disk management tools to shrink a partition (reserve at least 20-30GB or more for Linux). Then use Rufus (https://rufus.ie/en/) to make a flash drive (LiveUSB) that can be used to install a Linux distro. I recommend you start with Xubuntu (https://xubuntu.org/). The Xubuntu LiveUSB can be used to test Xubuntu without installing anything, and you can launch the Xubuntu installer from the desktop. The installer will ask you if you want to use the largest portion of free space as destination.

>>64126 Okay thanks it worked. Also yeah, I'll look into linux. I just created a virtual disk of 30 GB. And yeah I know when it comes to privacy Linux is the best. And that corporation can track my info. But as long as I don't do anything stupid online I should be okay privacy wise. I always try to use sites java script disabled, when posting images/videos I remove data, things like that. Especially it's not like I'll be doing anything illegal.

>>64125 >>64127 But brute forcing passwords of cameras is illegal...

>>64129 True but it’s on the same illegal level as streaming/pirating movies online like fmovies.to, sure it’s illegal but the police aren’t going to do anytime because they’ve got better things to worry about. And it’s not like I’m going to be that guy speaking through the camera to a baby lol. Stalking a certain female sure but not that creepy stuff.

Anyone know a good way to organize files or data with tags on my Linux OS? For example, if I have files that have tag "x", I can search files with the tag "x" to get matching results.

How, and in specifics, would I go about exposing someone's ip & uname info with javascript or php as an attack method with a honeypot or malicious link? I'm dealing with a particularly nasty spammer who I want to get rid of that is tucked behind vpns or using cell service. Additionally, is there any tool to expose imei or carrier provider information from a cell? I just want to know what book I have to read and what I have to cook up to get rid of this pedophile so I can get his ass in jail.

>>64136 >assuming There isn't an easy way to get the ip of someone behind vpns. A honeypot or malicious link might get you an imei, somehow. You can send a link to them to get their carrier provider, but even then, it's a hit or miss.

>>64136 You would have to know a honeypot or already have malicious links that can get an imei or their carrier provider, unless you mean their isp.