Tech Questions #10

>>60792 reached the limit Need another tech questions thread

>>64140 I just made the leap to Linux today (Mint, MATE) My Wifi adapter (Alfa AWUS036ACM) seemed to be working perfectly fine apart from the fact that the 5G version of my wifi was not showing up as an option, only the 2G. I would really appreciate it if any more experienced Linux users could help me out here. Thanks!

>>64182 I just fixed it. The adapter was plugged into a USB 2 port while it needed to be in a USB 3

If I buy an Android device with 4GB of RAM, will it most likely be running a 32-bit or 64-bit OS?

>>64228 RAM doesn't determine the OS. You're better off looking at the specs of the phone you want to buy first than guessing.

>>64228 most 4gb memory phones are still running at 32-bit compiled OS. at 6gb you're guaranteed it is 64-bit you can always install or compile a custom OS or sys-image that is 64-bit or try to verify it with other's claims.

>>64261 >>64258 Unless, ARM has something similar to PAE? I don't know if it does.

>>64258 Why are 4GB phones running 32-bit and why is it guaranteed to be 64-bit for 6GB phones?

>>64260 >why is it guaranteed to be 64-bit for 6GB phones Maximum amount of RAM in 32-bit systems is 4GB.

>>64140 does lain have a decent guide on file naming and folder structuring conventions? I remember seeing a guide posted a few threads ago earlier this year and my dumbass didn't save it for whatever reason but now i realized i should've since now i need to rename and reorganize all the data i hoarded

>>64296 Well, I don't have anything perfect. But this is how I handle media.

>>64305 >artists only have one genre and don't change across their discography Worst mistake you can make unless you have extremely plebeian taste, tag this soykaf per album. How do you handle splits/VAs and artists with the same name? Or different versions of the same work (e.g. classical)? Here, it's "$artist[ (#)]/($year[-#]) $album/$tracknum. $title.xxx". For classical music, I use the compositor name as artist and première date as year. What's cool, is that having a strict format allows path based tagging: https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/scripts/tree/master/item/flac_path_tag.sh

>>64310 typo I meant: https://gitlab.com/woolf/RTSPbrute

is coffee good for you? too short or empty.

>>64310 on linux files that are marked executable can specify their own script interpreter when you run them, thats why the guy in the video can just type the name of the script to execute it automatically with python. Windows CMD cant do this, so u have to run python manually. The error you get means the script cant find the hosts.txt file that you are specifying with the -t argument. Is there actually a hosts.txt file in the directory? If not you need to make one and put the IP of your target in there

>>64329 I got them from here https://onlinerandomtools.com/generate-random-ip, but now I realize that was stupid since, none of those are running rtsp. So then how do I find ip's that are running rtsp.

>>64330 yeah the chance that 30 randomly generated IPs run rtsp is pretty low you just have to try alot more from the README it looks like you can also specify ip ranges so just type 0.0.0.0/0 to search through the whole ip space

>>64331 Wait so do you mean type 0.0.0.0/0 in the hosts.txt file?

>>64331 yeah but its going to take a while so you can also specify smaller ranges like 123.45.0.0/16 maybe also enable torsocks proxy so people cant trace it back to you via your IP. Not that theres a high chance anybodys gonna care, but trying to bruteforce credentials on other machines isnt exactly legal

>>64333 So in the hosts.txt file I typed in 123.45.0.0/16 And when I did the command after some time, it didn't even give me any streams or screenshots. So out of those thousands of ips, none of them were running a rtsp

>>64335 It's just an example to illustrate specifying a range, you still have to make decisions about what will be a reasonable range of addresses to probe

>>64335 hmm yeah very odd i just tried downloading the script as well and pointing it on an ip i know is running an rtsp stream (23.88.67.97) without password protection made sure the port & route was in the list as well so idk whats happening it should be able to connect to it & take a screenshot but it didn't it could be that the script logic is written in a bad way such that it only tries to take a screenshot after having successfully bruteforced the credentials, so if the host doesn't require a password in the first place it might just skip to the next one, but idk im not really a python dev so i cba reading through the code to find out

>>64338 So for me to find any streams, I just have to try a bunch of different ip ranges, until one of them is running a rtsp and it is password protected?

>>64337 Don't help this guy. He is just trying to stalk someone... https://lainchan.org/%CE%A9/res/60792.html#64130

what happened to https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ ? :(

>>64362 still exists, this is why you bookmark mirrors: https://digdeeper.club/ as for why the neocities site is dead, i dont know

How would I go about setting openvpn to run on startup? All of the methods I've found online have been systemd-specific using logind, but I do not use systemd

Does anyone know why sometimes brave stops working?, I'm using it and it just randomly stops loading new stuff, and the stuff that I was consooming stops playing, the audio does keep playing though. I close it and open it again, that fixes it, but, I want to know why is it crashing ?, so that maybe I can fix that and it stops happening

getting a new laptop in a couple days and it has an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U Processor at 1.80ghz. however, the amazon page and notebookreview claim that it can go up to 4.3ghz. how would i activate this? would it be in the bios, or does it automatically engage when i launch a program needing it?

I'm attempting to update my kernel to the latest gentoo fork, but I'm having an issue with eselect showing a kernel I removed previously. How do I go about updating that? Also, how do I remotely install and maintain gentoo on my laptop while not messing up anything on my workstation?

>>64402 Remove old sources in /usr/src. When you really don't know what paths a utility searches, remember strace -f.

Is there any practice material for getting good at command line? I don't want to be stuck reading man pages all day.

>>64443 Install a tilling windows manager. Install a terminal emulator like urxvt or xterm. Do the tasks that you normally would do with gui: extract/compress files, create/delete folder, copy/move files, takes notes with vi/nano/emacs, take advantages of redirection & piping, if you have to mass rename files make a bash script, etc.

>>64443 Unironically http://bropages.org/ Seeing examples first will make it much easier to put the manpages in context.

I'm a broke college student. Now that WPS attacks are unfeasible, what tools should a poor boy use in order to get free WiFi?

>>64140 my thinkpad x201 became really slow, have been bluescreening a lot and the wifi card doesnt even seem to get detected anymore. Will jumping to linux rekindle life into it? I have a p15 for work and would prefer to use my smaller one for everyday fuarrrk around use

why are they always talking about avoiding using the mouse lke wtf just flick the mouse to the spot its faster than pressing 2 keys on the keyboard https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33221901 wait maybe using a keyboard for 5 hours a day will rot your hands? i didnt get into programming yet so only have to use it for 1 or 2 hours when i use the computer, but now i think i should avoid programming until amazon finishes a brain interface so we dont have to use muscles to control the computer?

Hello lainons. I was thinking about buying a wireless headphone at a budget and I have started take a liking into the Anker Life Q35. I am planning to buy it but maybe you have some even better choices in your mind. My restrictions: >Similar price to q35 >ANC >Atleast BT 5.0 >Announced less than 2 years ago

>>64439 Try another OS like OpenBSD, Haiku or 9Front. Install it in VirtualBox and play around. >>64481 If your WIFI card is supported you can use: >NetworkManager (recommended). It has both GTK GUI (nm-applet) and a TUI (nmtui) >Connman (there are multiple GUIs available. Try cmst) >Plain wpa_supplicant or iwd (but these aren't as convenient as NetworkManager or Connman) You may need to use ip link and sudo ip link set wl0 up and sudo rfkill unblock wifi before you can use WIFI (replace wl0 with your actual interface). Use ip link to get the name of the device). Be sure to also install a package called "linux-firmware" (use sudo apt install). Also, do not enable both Connman and NetworkManager at the same time because it will cause a conflict! >>64443 Read https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php (and actually try the commands! You can also create VirtualBox VM for just trying out thins safely.) After reading it, ontinue with https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ Beware: Bash does non-standard stuff. It's best to stick to POSIX sh. And if you want to do something non-trivial, it's best to use Python, Perl or another programming language. Use shellcheck or pylint or Perl::Critic to check your scripts! >>64494 Go to a library if your school doesn't have a free WIFI. >>64508 >Will jumping to linux rekindle life into it? Very likely. As an anecdote, my old and a bit broken GPU crashed Windows multiple times (BSoD) but Linux didn't crash at all (it just sometimes caused a blank screen for a short moment). Just try it. It's free: >https://rufus.ie/en/ >https://xubuntu.org/ || https://linuxmint.com/ If you want to dual-boot, first use Windoze disk management tools to shrink a partition. Reserve at least 20-30GB for Linux.

How should i secure my home network

I just shrank my qcow2 windows disk image with qemu-img resize --shrink but the guest still thinks it's the same. Why?

>>64494 >deauth >hashcrack If your computer can handle it, of course. Reminder that you can deauth on a laptop, then pass the pcap to a better machine to do the hashcracking for you.

How many people here actually fully configure their kernels? The quantity of configuration options is obscene and even though I've read that O'Reilly book, it is just so much to cover.

>>64535 Make sure to change the default password and update the software. Disable the WIFI if you don't use it. Some routers have an option to automatically disable it at night (for example). Disabling SSID broadcast (usually called "hidden network" or something) keeps the normal people out. Enable AP isolation, too. Enable firewalls (ufw) on all of your PCs. I guess you could also set up a Pi Hole? >>64552 Configuring and compiling the kernel yourself used to be the only option on Gentoo (nowadays they have a bin package and there is a package that automatically configures and compiles the kernel). The gentoo-sources package automates the downloading and unpacking the Kernel source code (and emerge often warns you if you are missing some kernel config option that's needed by some package). Configuring the kernel is not that difficult once you have done it couple of times. Use hwinfo and lspci (etc.) to determine the HW you have and then just go quickly through all options in the "Device Driver" category. tl;dr guide: #see the documentation of symlink and initramfs USE flags. #install gentoolkit and run: equery u my_pkg #alternatively: euse -i symlink Also works. USE="symlink initramfs" emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-sources sys-kernel/linux-firmware sys-firmware/intel-microcode emerge sys-kernel/genkernel bc hwinfo sys-apps/pciutils #if you are on Debian/Devuan/Mint/Xubuntu: install build-essential package first! #Other distros have similar packages as well: #Arch and Artix: base-devel #Void: base-devel #Alpine: alpine-sdk # 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 (semi-manual) to manage the symlink cd /usr/src/linux # if you are upgrading, copy the old .config file from the old kernel (uname -r) src dir and run: # make oldconfig #tip: #if you have it enabled in the kernel .config, #you can get the .config file that's used by the kernel that's currently running from #/proc/config.gz #just remember to run make oldconfig as usual (you can use make menuconfig after that) # use hwinfo, dmesg, lspci, Gentoo wiki pages, etc. to select the config options. # 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 use dracut grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg If your distro/package manager doesn't provide a way to automatically fetch updated Kernel sources, I recommend that you don't build the kernel yourself! It's hard to keep track of updates. The main benefit from building the kernel yourself, is that you can select security options that are usually disabled by distros (but Arch Linux provides linux-hardened package, for example). Another benefit is that your kernel won't be as bloated.

Does anyone have any information on AI tools that are used to make music? What's good?

Crux Linux doesn't provide gpg signatures for it's installation ISO, relying only on a MD5 checksum. Is it really overkill to include gpg signatures when you have hashes? Am I safe installing Crux Linux, afterall?

>this codebase is like kicking dead whales down the beach, it's full of commented code why do people say this? comments help explain the hard parts of an algorithm.

OK need help don't know lainanons can help about samsung but I was debloating my phone with root, I propbaly deleted some screen lock program so I can't see clock on lock screen. I use Samsung Galaxy A3 2017 what should I do? any lainanon know that?

>>64705 Clocks are bloat (^:

>>64705 How do you loose the clock?

>>64632 >What's good? To ditch the artificial and just keep your own human intelligence.

I can't get Transmission to consistently work. It keeps saying the port is closed despite me forwarding it, and it's not connecting to >95% of the trackers. Has anyone encountered anything like this?

Does anyone know how to get the dynamic compressor working in mpv? Whatever I do to the settings, it either doesn't kick in at all or if it does it makes the entire track crackly and hollow.

this is such a smart way to teach sql am i stupid cuz i cant keep up with it in a 30 minute lecture in my first year coming from high school? stuff like >TRUE AND (FALSE OR NOT(UNKNOWN)) = MIN(1, MAX(0, (1 - 1/2 ))) = MIN(1, MAX(0, 1/2)) = MIN(1, 1/2 ) = 1/2 and >Tuple-variable t loops over all tuples >Formal Semantics >- Almost the same as for single-relation >queries: >1. Start with the product of all the relations >in the FROM clause. >2. Apply the selection condition from the >WHERE clause. >3. Project onto the list of attributes and >expressions in the SELECT clause.

>>62649 just wanted to say thanks to this lainon. this worked and I found the book mentioned very easy to read and very informative. I did have to end up installing nautilus because the user i needed the files from was password protected. the experience was very educational. i'm still working my way through the book you linked and i highly recommend it to any beginners getting into linux.

Hey Lain, are you using KOrganizer as your calendar? I'm not sure why, but magically almost all my events descriptions (summary) were filled with random backslashes. I looked at the project repository and this month's commits and bug reports but I couldn't find anything relevant. Did you hear anything about this? Maybe I came across a bug.

>>64861 oh yeah, and the CPU fan didn't fit the mount. Even though it's fuarrrking stock. Either they're dumb as soykaf or I am. As you can probably see I used a keyring to get the other side to lock into place, but it isn't touching any other metal so I doubt it matters.

>>64863 The CPU has an integrated vega 3. The video cable and monitor are one I use for another PC, in fact I'm using them now, so I'm pretty sure it works. Display input is usually automatic but I have manually cycled through to the same result. No speakers came with the board. I'll run through the manual again and try to post without the SSD. Thanks lainon

>>64865 Be absolutely sure your CPU is compatible with your motherboard This means double checking that the CPU you have can run on your motherboard's revision version and current firmware version. As some CPUs are only compatible with some motherboards starting from a certain firmware revision. Theres a CPU compatibility list usually found on the motherboard's manufacturer site. The attached picture is an example from a Gigabyte motherboard. You can also update your motherboard's firmware without a CPU in some cases, check if there are any bios updates for your board. Be sure that your CPU is seated correctly, same with your heatsink. I'm assuming you know all your hardware is not faulty. I'd buy a PC speaker to check what the POST code is. When you turn on the computer the speaker makes a few long and/or short beeps. These have different meanings and you can find a list online about them to help you troubleshoot the problem.

>>64861 Make sure you have plugged in all power cables on the motherboard. Again, check out the motherboard manual and check all connections (I think you might be missing one power cable on mobo, above the SSD). And seriously get a case for your PC. If you don't have much money, you can get a cheap PC/case from recycling center. Can you post your build here? Use https://pcpartpicker.com And Try updating the UEFI firmware without installing a CPU (newer motherboards support it: https://www.cgdirector.com/update-bios-without-cpu/).

>>64887 Listen, if that's your only reason not to use the cloud, just use the fuarrrking cloud, you think Google or amazon care that you sandpaper your dick to images of obese wolves eating cars or whatever? They already know, you're already on that list. Practice good digital hygiene and don't leave any human followable trace from whatever service you use for Stable Diff. back to your regular internet presence and you're good, i.e. auto generate a username and password for the service and use a dummy email. I'm assuming your greatest fear is somebody finding the stuff and managing to link it back to you IRL, so doing that would cover you. I don't use the cloud for anything personally because I've worked for a cloud company in the past and know they're all ran by incompetent scum, and I have ideological issues with it, but nothing bad is going to happen to you so long as you're using the cloud services for perfectly legal, utterly hideous fetish content. >Spending all your NEETbux frivolously >On a 24GB professional GPU >Specifically for Furry porn, which you can get FOR FREE I wish I could believe this was a troll, how often do you really beat your dick to justify this kind of purchase?

>>64888 >how often do you really beat your dick to justify this kind of purchase? My whole entire life, ever since puberty, has been designed around my sexual fetishes. After reading a book in high school, I've determined that satisfaction of the sexual drive through artistic means is the highest good. I jerk off 3x per day at least, while high as fuarrrk; it's my whole entire world, and I refuse to change. All I do is lay around with a mind filled with sexual fantasies, nothing more and nothing less. Why would you even need to ask this on Lainchan of all places?

Inspired by our beloved furry AI artist, I realized I have a GTX 1660 gathering dust, just lying there doing nothing practically 6 out of 7 days of the week. What can I use it for besides some acceptable video gaming and rendering Kdenlive videos? Crypto mining is not something I'd like to do seriously but I could just try to get the hang of what the (in my opinion) crazy cryptolains are chasing. Any ideas of what to do with a spare GPU like that are very welcomed. And if it can be remote over the internet fun, even better. >>64890 Lain, I wish your post was a troll. It's so on the edge, I have my doubts. If it it's, please reconsider. >>64869 Any updates?

why do images load in firefox about 7000 times slower than if you right click -> save image as? why have i asked this exact question in 2016? even palemoon and tor browser have the same bug. have those retarded faggits even fixed one thing since the year 2003?

>>64921 😂 Using it. How else you want to do that?

>>64894 See --> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blu-ray#Revoked_Host_key/certificate You should also try using MakeMKV to extract the video from the disc. >>64916 Probably some kind of lazy loading? >>64921 A Raspberry Pi (but your smartphone/termux might also work)

My Ubuntu server is exactly synchronized to the time stamp on TV ATSC broadcasts. How is this possible? I have never installed NTP. So there must be a backdoor that was installed without my consent that bundles in NTP but I just can't see it because it's part of the backdoor. How can I remove this?

>>64319 It's not bad for you.

>>64736 I have this problem frequently but I don't have a solution for you sadly.

>>64901 >>64928 In order to update the BIOS without posting an asus MB seems to need a magic flashback button that I dont have. Guess I'm fuarrrked. Maybe the CPU is just bad. The pc wont start at all with no CPU so I can't really test it without getting another one. Had to be the most expensive piece on the damn thing.

>>64972 anyone know if theres a way to figure a CPU that is *certain* to work regaurdless of BIOS version? I may just order the cheapest oldest piece of soykaf I can to get this thing to post so I can update BIOS

>https://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html >They wanted Mel to modify the program >so, at the setting of a sense switch on the console, >they could change the odds and let the customer win. > >Mel balked. >He felt this was patently dishonest, >which it was, >and that it impinged on his personal integrity as a programmer, >which it did, >so he refused to do it. >The Head Salesman talked to Mel, >as did the Big Boss and, at the boss's urging, >a few Fellow Programmers. >Mel finally gave in and wrote the code, >but he got the test backwards, >and, when the sense switch was turned on, >the program would cheat, winning every time. >Mel was delighted with this, >claiming his subconscious was uncontrollably ethical, >and adamantly refused to fix it. was this the first programmer autist?

>>64736 Do other clients work? Is it explicitly allowed in your firewall rules? Other than that, your ISP or VPN provider keeping things closed?

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Taler >taxable private cryptocurrency >NOOOO I GOTTA PAY MY LIEGE ^U I mean how else would roads be built y-yeah, thats it why is the hacker community full of autistic FA99OTS? like why are they maximally rulecucced and happily jump on every yuppy bandwagon like muh cp muh racism etc do we need to start a new hacker community from scratch?

>>64916 Probably goes with "why do web browsers constantly need 99% of you CPU for some text and a few pictures. Everytime you load a webpage, you are loading all the other trash that goes with it. saving a file is just saving a file so you are limited only by your network and system speed. >>65121 Tax evasion is almost universally a good way to fuarrrk your life up if you have a lot to loose, no matter what country you live in. And CP is pretty much universally frowned upon because diddling kids is wrong.

>>64887 >actually had the money to buy enterprise GPU i have no idea how quickly you guys earn NEETbux but damm i kinda envy you >i have an interest for machine learning with how furries take over the tech sector more and more i am genuinely concerned about the future of humanity why do you despise us so much? please dont ever write a world conquering AI to kill us all thats all we skin users really want >>64890 holy soykaf for real? im just a weeb who faps to loli once in a while but im not even that close to to cooming every day i guess im just too busy focusing on my important work >>64901 i dunno maybe crack some passwords with hashcat or just use GPU passthrough if you have a second slot 1650 should be enough for low profile tensorflow >beloved this part has to be bait right? >>64888 highly competent guy with trips is has a valid point furries are a waste of money like prostitutes >google knows that hes a virgin getting off to disgusting animal porn i kekked on that one nice >>64397 i think i runs dynamically whenever CPU is stressed mostly my fans stay idle unless run something intensive like a game or a couple of server app VMs

I haven't been around these parts of the internet for some weeks... BUT >>64910 >>64914 Thanks for the memo on crypto mining. >>64928 No gemu weeb sensei. Only compootah. >>64973 With every motherboard you can check the supported CPU list (as I hinted before if I recall correctly). If it's not in the manual, try the manufacturer's website. I still find it plain weird that your CPU might be dead. >>65123 >hashcat Cool beans. >GPU passthrough I used to do that for a gaming vm, it was a very fun project. I used an old 700 GTX series as main and my current GPU for the vm. Though now I know you can do a single GPU passthrough. >low profile tensorflow I guess my hardware is not good enough. >this part has to be bait right? Only ironic, no intention to play with fellow lainon's emotions.

Whats the name of the clock used? Looks sick af. Can you run it on GNU/Linux or BSD?

>>65132 it's catclock, and there are various ports of it to unices

>>65133 >there are various ports of it to unices Well, to be pedantic, the Plan 9 version is a port of an X10 program which, as far as I know, is the original one.

>>65054 It's down and it hasn't even been a week. Why is the world like this? >>64921 You don't need a VPS to mess around with SSH. If you have sshd running locally you can ssh into localhost. If that isn't interesting enough, use a VM running locally. Typically a VPS is running in a VM anyway.

>>64967 Why would you not want it to be synced to the correct time, though? >>65160 systemd strikes again.

why is ethereum 99% websh1t? why do they use google why do they use discord why do they use javascript why do they use npm why is solidity a piece of soykaf made in one week, is it because they were inspired by JS? why are "dapps" hosted on centralized websites that can change their code each time they load the page, and can be MITMd each time because the browser will just accept any cert from any CA? do they unironically think solidity's "modifiers" are a good idea when anyone with more than a month of PL design experience would know it's a stupid gimmick? or do they know its a stupid gimmick but consider it "pragmatic" somehow?

When I download an mp4 this pops up. Anyone know why / how to stop this?

>>65253 Check for an equivalent settings section on your browser and do things to it

>>65253 look for default apps in windows settings, and change the video player

...Just how difficult is it to design a laptop motherboard PCB? I absolutely adore the form factor and build quality of my x200, but the processor and somewhat limited IO is a hindrance. I was thinking I could use a raspberry pi compute module or somesuch in order to simplify things. I have little to no training in electronics or PCB design. How long would this take me?

>>65260 The easiest way to "make" a laptop is to get a Raspberry Pi or a clone and then just buy a battery, a LCD screen and a small keyboard. Then put it in a suitcase or pizza box. If you really want to design your own board, start with Nand2Tetris and start playing around with a breadboard and Arduino.

does anyone know of a 250gb or 500gb ssd that would last for at least 5 years of daily usage?

>>65276 I heard that Crucial MX500 is good.

>>65274 Sorry if it wasn't clear. I want to keep the x200 hardware, but replace the motherboard. Hence I have* to make a new PCB.

Does javascript really danonymize me, give me a bigger fingerprint? Should I keep javascript enabled then?

>>65254 >>65258 Thank you guys!

>>65292 Of course having JS on/off can be used to put you into a category. But JS can be used to gather info about you and your hardware. Moreover, JabbaShit can be used to exploit a vulnerability in your browser. The most convenient way to disable JS is to use Ublock Origin or NoScript to whitelist sites that need JS. >https://coveryourtracks.eff.org

How do I get a valid ssl certificate? More importantly, what is "validness", how is it checked and why do I have to get a valid certificate (last part of the sentence rephrased: what happens if I don't get a valid certificate and use my generated from command line?)

>>65370 look into the concept of Certificate Authorities. you can self-sign your cert but will experience a variety of failure or prompt behaviors on clients. https://letsencrypt.org/

What's the best scripting language for doing miscellaneous stuff, especially network-oriented stuff such as web scraping and making simple clients for services like irc? I was thinking of going the perl route, but I want opinions. Is it still usable? I wouldn't want to have to use python. I like ruby but idk if it's usable too. Any other recs? Thank you.

How do I get Tor Browser to stop switching to the onion version of sites? browser.urlbar.onionRewrites.enabled and privacy.prioritizeonions.enabled are set to false but it still keeps happening. Alternatively, is there another way to access pornhub with Tor Browser? The onion address is down by the looks of it.

what is the difference between Standard ML or SQL, vs some autist's graph drawing library or PHP?

>>65458 >Standard ML This one is a functional programming language, it has nothing to do with SQl, graph drawing library and PHP(which is the closest one just for being a programming language).

>>65474 forgot to say it happens on Windows 7. not sure about any other version

>>65542 I would do something simpler like a virtual machine for the VPN applications.

>>64267 For what it's worth I have an ARM Chromebook with 8GB of RAM running 32-bit ChromeOS according to the settings page so I'm thinking ARM PAE is a thing

Hi, I am thinking of selling my Microserver Gen8 due to increased power bill. It's by far cheaper to run my server stuff on a VPS and most of my data lays untouched on my raid. At the time a 3TB hdd was the same price as today 18TB. I could easily fit all my nas data and hook up a rpi. I have put much love to this server, cleaned it. build in a Xeon CPU 16GB ECC RAM 4HDDs with HBA Card for ZFS and a boot / system SSD. On the other hand, Hardware prices are torpeding to the roof and the trend is going from owning hardware to service / cloud based solutions. I am afraid that If I sell my Server, that I probably never get my hands on a neat homeserver. What would you do? risk that I get a huge energy bill and enjoy my device or get 500€ for a lovley server

Why the nigger does every website fail to lazy load some image 50% of the time. No seriously, how does EVERY single website have the same bug? You reload the page and it appears instantly, so it's not even a connection issue (I mean it's probably a timing issue induced by connection characteristics but that's still a separate issue). And why haven't I seen anyone from the """hacker""" community explain this? Like what the nigger, it's something I could figure out in an hour if I gave enough niggers, but then again that's just one of the list of thousands of major problems with modern websites.

>>65458 the former two are nice composable, reusable, decent abstractions. the latter two are dognigger that spills implementation details all over the place to the point that 99% of programs making use of them crash if you look at them funny

I've had two different chicks I know mention odd behavior with their crapple phones. Both situations had a lot of similarities. Neither had been installing anything outside the basic normal person toolkit (fb, snap, insta, ect). One of them had received the basic "gimme dollas or I post nudes" emails but nothing ever came of it. Both mentioned instances where when the camera was open it would take pictures by itself, noticeably more while they were taking sexual photos or in a revealing position. I always figured crapple phones were so closed up and monkey safe that doing things like remotely accessing the camera or turning on location services would be impossible for an attacker. However with the similarities of both stories I got curious. Couldn't find any concrete info outside the obvious from a few searches so I came to ask is this possible or is it just paranoid fems? I'm assuming it would be done by abusing the permissions of an installed app, but with nothing out of the ordinary installed I'm confused how it works.

>>65657 Android's stock camera app has a feature where it will take a picture when you show your palm or some other hand gesture. It was enabled by default on my phone. I don't know got certain but I'd expect iPhone to have a similar feature. They're probably just unwittingly triggering that feature.

why is there not even one single based and reasonablepilled person in "the hacker community"? how hard is it for a non autistic person to get interested in computers?

>>65757 what about chinks? ive heard they really excell at tech related stuff and ive seen a lot of jap students on github with normal anime pfps write better code than what your typical fur user/tranny can dream of inb4 wumao

>>65761 dark blue sliver in the younger male population is a large number of chinamen who can't get married. Lots of time to learn computer.

I can no longer use tab completion in bash. I don't know what could have changed in the last three hours, but I didn't update or install anything. It happens in TTYs too.

>>65788 Check your .bashrc and make sure you have bash-completion package (still) installed. Another thing you should try is sourcing /etc/profile or logging out.

I'm gonna install void on an old toshiba, I started using mint on my main computer a few months ago because I was tired of windows ass raping me everyday, now, I could just install linux mint on this old toshiba, but I wonder if installing something else like void linux, parabola or bedrock is... worth it? Thanks in advance for any given advice

>>65804 When you are choosing the distro, the differences are most often related to: * Which package manager it uses * Which init system it uses * What packages are available (https://repology.org/projects/) * Whether it's a rolling release distro or not (a rolling release distros don't have releases in traditional sense, instead they keep constantly getting updates) In addition to these, you should also consider whether you can trust the maintainers/developers of the distro. Also, some distros (like Gentoo) have some other advanced features that other distros don't have. >Void Void Linux is pretty comfy and it's really fast (thanks to Runit). tl;dr Install Void.

Is it okay to make a Battlestation thread here, is that okay or would I get a strike for it?

I manage my KVM vm's with virt-manager, and i was wondering what is the easiest way to encrypt my vm's, do i just do a full disk encryption during installation time?

>>65780 False. Computing is plagued by the autistic hall monitor. Look at when you try to open the same file in vim twice. Instead of just letting you press one standard button like q or esc (or whatever would be suitable in terminal land), it goes beserk and gives you a giant paragraph of text saying OMG THE FILE IS ALREADY OPEN!!!!111 and if you press any button a bunch of red text starts flying around the page. It then goes into ultra nuanced details like which process and which host or username has the file open and you even get weird bugs when copying a folder containing the open file (along with its hidden vim turd file) to another machine and it often will say the soykaf is still open even though it's not even the same machine. Now what happens when you SSH into a server but it changed key? You get a paragraph of text saying the key (which nobody ever verifies anyway) might of changed. With ascii characters flying all over the page. In fact, Windows seemed to be immune to this form of autisim until about Windows 7, where you press the shutdown button and it spins for an average of one hour with 3 different message boxes asking you some form of question related to if you want to wait for programs to finish closing or force shut down (and of course the force button doesn't actually work, for Safety(TM) reasons).or was this their plan all along as a front? dum dum dum

>>65813 Just store your qcow2 files on an encrypted disk

how anonymous is this tiktok downloader? https://snaptik.app/en

>>65963 https://snaptik.app/landing/privacy-policy

>>65826 CSAM being on the internet and in your servers is a problem. You should care about it. The problem now is how companies scan and use that technology. A company can start scanning for more than CSAM. The code for scanning CSAM can be written to scan for more than CSAM. The company scanning may not notify users that they scan for more than CSAM, even if they said they are not.

>>65992 >CSAM being on the internet and in your servers is a problem. you mean a legal problem or are you some dildo ass moron who thinks hypothetical problem #359823652 needs to be solved by me taking time out of my day to go look for it? old vendors didnt care about CP because it literally was not a problem. CSAM is literally a propaganda word because "child pornography" doesnt hit good enough. a teenager uploaded a photo of herself somewher? bro thats CSAM fug yeah admin #5892687236 was arrested for child abuse for not deleting it fast enough (really i dont get how people dont understand this concept where a server holding files does not require someone to go check every single one of the billions of them for muh contraband)

>>66250 >And youd be limited to phones that open source their kernels which is what... 3 phones? it's more than that, anyone using the linux kernel is obligated to give you the source code if they gave you the binary. sure, some don't but just send them an email threatening to sue.

What does lain use for remote, encrypted backups? I've been looking into borg https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ which seems good, but I'd like to explore more options. Looking for a FOSS, self-hosted, solution that encrypts data on the client-side before sending. One downside with Borg is that it uses AES in CTR mode and there are edge cases where nonce reuse can occur. My understanding is that this is limited to when there are multiple clients for a single repo, which won't be my use case, or if the nonce file on the client is tampered with. This shouldn't happen in my use, but I'd prefer a solution that uses encryption that is nonce reuse resistant, like chachapoly or aes-gcm-siv.

>>66255 A lot of people say that using Borg is the best option. Personally, I just use tar + gpg --symmetric + rsync. If you want to be able to easily extract just 1 file from the backup, I recommend you use mksquashfs instead of creating .tar file(s) because you can use mount -o loop backup.squashfs /mnt/filez to mount it (read-only). Read https://cheat.sh/rsync instead of reading the man-page of rsync because it is like kicking dead whales down the beach (it's only useful as reference when you forget what a cmdline switch does). If you need to backup a lot of data, I recommend you create multiple .tar/squashfs files. Also. do not use ZFS/Btrfs/LVM snapshots as your only way of backing up your system because they don't protect you from a catastrophic failure (but you can use them to augment your backup strategy, for example when you want to be able to roll-back an upgrade).

I have an ultra-lowend laptop that I'm looking to install SOMETHING on. By low-end, it's a 2008 HP mini with an Intel Atom and I think 2gb of memory but I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually 1gb. I have gentoo on my workstation, but I'm not a proficient Linux user and only got it because I thought it would help with my learning curve. 1) What should I use it for? I originally intended to have it for ssh, but I don't have my workstation all the time. If I wanted to ssh over the Internet, I would think I would need to get some SBC that can run 24/7 and have that set up as part of a VPN. I would also need some sort of controller that would be part of this network to be able to remotely turn on my workstation. All in all, I just don't know enough about server administration to be able to set up much less maintain such a system, and I'm most likely overlooking a lot. Can I use it for work or should I just use it for fuarrrking about and learning Linux? 2) What should I install on it? I know gentoo is probably as lightweight as it can be since I can build everything on my workstation, but as I said, I'm not a proficient user and have barely a handle on gentoo. Linux is only something I started toying with over the summer, and I couldn't even get Debian working properly.

I use WMP play all function for my music I often notice that WMP likes to play a few songs over and over again, while almost completely ignoring the rest of my rather large collection. It is possible to diversity it? Or set custom priorities on how often this or that song should be played?

>>66433 I used Alpine Linux as my daily driver for a month or so, and I have used Void Linux and Gentoo in the past. I think Alpine Linux is a good choice because it's one of the most lightweight Linux distros there is. It's perfectly usable as a desktop/laptop OS, provided that everything you need is packaged for it (but you may need to use the Edge version of Alpine, which is the development/unstable version). Also, the web interface to package search is a bit weird and you probably need to use a wildcard when you are searching: for example, instead searching for emacs you would write emacs* IIRC, the only thing I couldn't get to work was xinit/startx but using a DM (lightdm+lightdm-gtk-greeter+lightdm-openrc) just works without any problems. It could have been caused by something breaking in Edge, since I was using Alpine Edge at the time. But, overall, Edge was very stable (but you don't need to use it, if you don't want to). >Can I install the i686 implementation or are there some 64-bit instructions that Atom'can take advantage of? 64-bit/AMD64 version is superior but it also uses more memory (I mean literally.). I wouldn't use a 64-bit version on a computer that has less than 4GB of RAM. >Now, I could do gentoo, but the maintenance seems rather tedious. I think Gentoo is comfiest GNU/Linux distro because you can easily pick and disable the features you want/don't want during compile time by using USE flags (it's mostly automated using the Portage package manager). Applying custom patches is really easy, too. Using Gentoo doesn't cause that much extra maintenance when compared to something like Arch or Void. >Gentoo >Is there a significant benefit to be gained or is the computer so old that it hardly makes a difference? With those specs, installing Gentoo is not worth it. The only way to make it feasible is to use distcc (and have a different computer build packages for your low-end laptop). But I would much rather install Gentoo on a desktop (or use VirtualBox (VM)).

What's the best "just-works" Live linux image that I can use when in a pinch (A.K.A, most drivers are present) or for trouble resolution?

>>66591 SystemRescueCD: https://www.system-rescue.org/ But note that it starts sshd by default. Knoppix is probably a good alternative but I prefer SystemRescueCD.

why does wireguard work okay for weeks and then just dies remaking the keys or changing mtu fixes this but its really annoying am i going schizo or do other people also deal with this

Let's say I wanted a better way to view the networks around me at any given time--to visualize their arrangement, if possible. NOT to gain access to any of these networks, just to passively observe them and get a better picture of what's around me than, say, the default wlan viewer. Are there android applications suited to that task? I have a couple old android devices I was hoping to convert and put to use.

I have a file that file says is "data", but when I open it in nano I can see that it's readable text, but with strings of symbols like ^A and ^@ everywhere. 1. Is there a way to convert those symbols back into their original form? 2. The file displays nicely in nano, but if I open it in vim, even the readable parts become a bunch of symbols like º and §, and all line formatting is destroyed. What does nano do that vim doesn't?

htop reports maximum cpu usage and max ram usage while no running process seems responsible; any clues? My laptop (corebooted t420s) became totally unresponsive after so I had to pull the power, it has happened one more time since. >pic related

>>64140 How do I start troubleshooting this error? NMI received for unknown reason 00 on CPU 0. Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled? Dazed and confused, but trying to continue. It gets displayed on all ttys four minutes after boot. I'm running linux on hyper-v. To test my kernel configuration, I ran the gentoo admincd & the error does not appear when using that livecd so I asume I'm missing some config option but I'm not sure how to find out which one it is? I looked at this page on redhat which says it's some kind of hardware related error but it does not happen with other kernels & the OS does not reboot.

What are some good settings for pdf2djvu? With the default settings I usually end up with a slightly smaller Djvu file, but sometimes it's actually 5-10 times larger than the original PDF.

>>66791 lain I meant advertising a product am individual instead of company so I can't really afford a ppc ad

>>66718 sorry to say i have never had an issue with my wireguard, but i'm building mine into a container

on a scale of one to ten with ten being the highest, how retarded would it be for me to buy a macbook, harden it for privacy and security and use it as a daily driver? is it even possible?

Hello everyone, I want to ask about sleep settings in my windows 10. I've reinstalled my windows 10 and somehow my Sleep Mode is missing from my power option. Is there any thing I could do for showing it again? I'm currently using hibernation in case urgency only .-. (since I'm using SSD right now, I don't want to use hibernate option too often). Thank youu

what is this thin, flimsy, papery feeling i get with all modern web software? It feels different than the java / C# era. that was like molasses and extreme heat It feels different than the php era (they do overlap, perhaps era's not the best term). because php never crashed except in rare cases (instead youd just get hacked) i guess this is mostly about npm now you have these json files that you pass around and never know if youre filling out the right keys / values if you click the wrong button you get a stack trace you have these make scripts that always crash from syntax errors or some dependency slightly changing and they break around your os environment not being the same way some coder in the office set it up how to better sum up this feeling?

So I just found out an ISP in my country actually "kanged" openwrt for their modems. Correct, there was no licenses/attribution page (notice). They sold it commercially into the general public (and enterprise) BUT they did not only: (1) not put the GPL license anywhere (maybe it's in a file inside but how to see) but also (2) they did not release their modified source code. It's also pretty obvious from glance since the status page looks like openwrt's modem page. What are the chances I could get FSF to pressure them to release their source.zip ? I mean they could ignore the legal consequences but maybe they just might release their source code (anyway the router was already hacked by some generous people so it's not big deal anyways). I am assuming all if not most of their routers were using openwrt so it would be nice to have some of the source code for them (albeit it's really old version of openwrt). I'll report them anyways though.

>>66875 Did you try emailing them and asking for the source?

they said it wasnt peer reviewed tho

What payment methods do lainons use for online shopping? (inb4 crypto currency -- the websites I want to buy from do not accept crypto) I attempted to use a prepaid visa, but none of the vendors would accept it. Also, prepaid visas can not be used overseas. This is an issue because most of the stuff I want to buy online is niche foreign stuff. I am mainly concerned about my data being sold to third parties. I was looking into getting one of the credit cards at my bank. The privacy policy for the card was really nice. They did not sell any data or share your info to third parties as per the privacy notice. Exactly how bad of an idea is it to get a credit card? (I am not concerned about making payments on time or getting into debt -- I have good impulse control.) Any ideas? Thank you.

I have been using the same disk image since 2018. It is a Devuan system. Back in 2018 due to lack of time I installed Devuan onto this HDD then copied all my system directories (including the binary directories) from my old install. In the time since I have had recurring permission errors that come and go, without end. I feel that I am patching it with band aids when I may have a deep gash that needs to be sewn together. Some of the problems that have occured include: * A former inability to use audio without changing ownership of /dev/snd/* upon each boot (this went away) * An inability for torified mutt to write to my spool or to my sent folder (in $HOME/mail/sent) * General Setguid errors throughout the system * Havng to run as Root repeatedly to get system-level programs to run correctly * Inability to have some applications use PulseAudio sinks (installed PulseAudio after apulse stopped working for several programs) Should I just back up everything on my drive, and reformat/reinstall or is there a good solution to this problem? Searching for fixing the individual problems has been quite laborous, expecially with trying to find Torified Fetchmail+Mutt+MSMTP setups which finds the error reported in multiple places with no solution. Further, if your advice conclude to just start over, is there an easy way to export apt's installed-package list so I may easily reinstall all my apt-downloaded packages in my next system?

What are some internet services to receive SMS? If it's not free, it should accept crypto. I shouldn't have to leave a literal money trail to play a video game online. Bonus points if it works over Tor but the internet is so Indian'd these days that I wouldn't hold my breath. I have used those phone numbers provided by free services like receivesms.org, but half of the time their numbers are blocked or, "this number was used too recently".

What are lainons thoughts on locutus? https://github.com/freenet/locutus

>>64140 i found my old nokia n95, what apps should i get on it

Is it possible to clone a sim card to use in a router for the internet at the same time as a cell phone?

don't know why but mothers phone became FULL of data photos videos not so much, there are no so much apps however data is full like 50 GB I think reset would solve but it's not easy for old people. old people just want something run forever. where is this too much data hidden? literally can't find how this data so much

>>67070 android or iphone? i know for android you can clear app cache. if you're not on top of it and use a lot of apps it can add up quickly, god knows what those app developers are doing though

I'm a novice Linux user who decided on Gentoo as being my first distro, and I have been thinking about switching to something Arch-based. Gentoo hasn't been too terrible to me and I would like to use it again in the future for other things, but I know I'm not taking advantage of all the benefits Gentoo has to offer when it comes to package management and customization. My Gentoo expertise pretty much boils down to sort of knowing how to use emerge, a little bit about openrc, fuarrrking up my USE flags, and struggling to install the binary kernel because my custom kernel doesn't work. Does anyone else use or has used Gentoo as their desktop with success and, if so, what advice do you have?

Have anyone of you been working on creating own protocol? I dunno but sometimes I wonder how it'd be creating own protocol. Maybe with some crypto stuff. But something simple like IRC or smf-alike soykaf.

>>67202 > try to communicate 2 applications through raw sockets (or not); > implement rules to evade problems you get in your communication; > once it's done you got your protocol.

>>67191 >Does anyone else use or has used Gentoo as their desktop with success and, if so, what advice do you have? Basically this: >>>/λ/34247 >https://dpaste.com/7SDBRZFPG Some highlights: * It's highly recommended that you use a desktop profile if you are new to Gentoo. * Do not enable ~amd64 globally. Instead enable it only on the packages that need it. * Install eix (and read its man-page for important details about installing it. Run eix-update to generate the search index and eix foobar to find a package). * Always have gentoolkit installed! * It's better to use your make.conf to -disable stuff (but you can enable things like the X USE flag (etc.) in you make.conf). Use your package.use for enabling USE flags, unless it makes sense to enable it globally in make.conf. * Always mask all packages from a overlay before you even add it. Add */*::my_overlay to your package.mask. P.S. Layman is deprecated, don't use it. * Adding -O3 to your CFLAGS does not always (usually) make sense. In fact, some binaries may get slower when using -O3. You need to benchmark and enable -O3 to only some specific packages that benefit from using it. Generally, using -march=native -O2 -pipe (perhaps also: -fno-plt) is good enough. Gentoo is very comfy but you should know how to use GNU/Linux CLI before you start using it (the same applies to Arch, too). I highly recommend you work through this book: https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php >thinking about switching to something Arch-based. I recommend you avoid most Arch derivatives. The only good Arch Linux derivatives are ALARM and Artix Linux.

>>67268 well there is things I can do I guess thats why I'm asking if there is solution

>>67233 I don't know why, but GNOME has been going downhill since the first release of GNOME 3. I think KDE is much better, if you want a ton of features. If you want a DE that just works, I recommend installing MATE or Xfce4 (or just a WM, like IceWM). If you use Debian netinstall iso or do a "expert install", you can choose the DE you want (the installer lists all major DEs). If you don't want to reinstall, you can use aptitude (tasks tab) or tasksel to do this on any Debian installation. >>67267 The best way to mitigate Botnet 10 and Botnet 11 is to dual-boot it with GNU/Linux. Running some script is not enough. Use Windoze for games and programs that require it. Then do everything else on Linux. I recommend you buy SSD (or two) for the operating systems, so rebooting doesn't take much time. You might want to get a HDD (or two) for data. I recommend getting 2 Crucial MX500 SSDs and a large 7200RPM HDD that's made by either Toshiba or Western Digital (whichever is cheaper). I recommend getting SSDs with capacity of 1TB or more (but you probably don't need more for your OS). Samsung SSDs are also good.

i hate webshit so much. why is there webshit in every electronic item now? and why do they all have the same 3 vulns as in 1998 caused by the fact that they are webshit? why arent webshitters immediately denounced in every venue the same way soykafcoiners are? there should be name for them, they are niggers and everything they do is invalid. person whose company I enjoy?

>>67283 https://codeberg.org/gothub/gothub there is this one however I never tried so good luck

Opinions on a thinkpad e580? supposed to be the same internally as the t580. it's on sale locally.

>>67526 What's your use-case for your laptop? Is it just for taking notes or is it the only computer you have? >Intel Celeron Look its specs up on Intel's site. I have a laptop with Intel Celeron N3060 and it's not good enough for general use (Botnet 10 doesn't work very well on it and using M$ Word or VisualStudio slows it down so much that you can't really use it). But installing (the musl version of) Void Linux helped quite a bit (the battery life is also better, it used to be around 2 hours with Botnet 10 but on GNU/Linux and tlp, it's around 5 hours). >how fast will be? The SSD will improve load times (for example, it will boot faster, launching programs is faster and opening/writing files is faster). However, old laptops gain a significant performance boost from getting a SSD (and upgrading the RAM). More RAM always helps. Also, is it faster RAM than what you have atm?

>>67562 do you mean backing up everything but some folders? you can use the rsync --exclude flag if on linux CLI: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Rsync#Full_system_backup

I'm currently using a Lenovo laptop but would like to start using Whonix or tails, and keeping files on mega.nz and external HDD's. I know my current laptop only allows me to connect to the Internet with Tails using my phone which kind of defeats the object. I'd be interested to know what hardware people use for Tails, I'm looking at purchasing a new laptop so this would be something I'd like it to be capable of.

>>67565 i'm sorry, i don't really get what do you mean by "duplicity"? is it a concept or a program of some kind? >>67630 you don't really need a good laptop to use tails, even a spare one is good! although it kinda defeats a good pro of tails, which is to run on a machine without leaving trace so that you can use one without buying another. if i were in you i would buy a usb wireless adapter for your laptop, there's a page on the tails website about the supported ones (i did this, because fuarrrk realtek wireless cards) whonix is not really an OS but a couple of VM (iirc the debian OS + the gateway to connect to TOR) that run on a host OS. so for example i can run arch linux, and install a vm software that runs whonix on top of it. if i got something wrong feel free to correct me anyone! good luck!

>>67632 I’ll go with a USB adapter if the wireless doesn’t work itself. Never considered that. I plan on getting the cheapest pre owned laptop I can, probably dual boot windows and Mint, and use tails for day to day stuff.

>>67633 >I plan on getting the cheapest pre owned laptop I recommend getting a used business laptop. Consumers try to make money if they sell their old laptops (unlike businesses) and business laptops tend to be in better condition (and the SSD is usually switched to a brand new one).

any tips for listening to podcasts/lectures and skipping the silent pauses to save time? I use an android app called newpipe that has this feature for playing youtube videos but often times using my phone isn't an option and I have to use my pc.

I need help picking an (external) hdd enclosure. I don't want something cheap because my main hdd became corrupted inside of the last one. Not sure why, possibly just natural lifespan, but I definitely want to invest in any possible features for safeguarding my data in the future. I just don't have the time right now to figure out how best to setup that suits me, I've observed that a separate computer/server(NAS?) with internal hdds seems like the main option /g/ considers legit but I won't have enough time for at least a month to take on a task like that. If there are any features, e.g. protecting the hdd from ejecting/unmounting incorrectly, protecting from unexpected power outage, that's the kind of thing I'm looking for, something simple that I can just plug into various computers and offload/re-organize etc. I have 20+tb across 4-5 hard drives (+2-3 computers) and it's a mess, especially since I need to figure out the full extent of unrecoverable files from the previously-explained fuarrrk-up from one of the HDDs. Thanks for reading, apologies for the spoonfeeding request, sorta just wish I could pay someone $20 and he'd say "buy this" to save time. Money isn't the issue.

can a GUI be ghey? it is just an inanimate object why does it come off as ghey to me?

>>67742 Last I heard he uses KDE but I don't know which distro he uses. But does it matter? Just use a sane distro (like Void, Debian/Devuan, Arch/Artix, Gentoo). >>67742 >Any recommendations on sites, tools, and resources for making my own 2channel kareha/wakaba style textboard? Basically: >>>/λ/34555 + Debian stable + https://landchad.net + Kareha. If you want to make your own textboard software, read Kareha src and learn something like Python ( >>>/λ/33751 ) or Go ( >>>/λ/24685 ) but almost any language works fine. You also want to also learn SQL (don't bother with NoSQL unless you know it's good for your use-case). >Are there any good free webhosting services you guys could recommend? No. All free webhosting sites suck. The only good one is NeoCities but you can't run a textboard on it. Instead, buy a domain and rent a VPS (read landchad website). >>67749 Sir, are you perhaps suffering from UNIX induced GUI-phobia?

Anyone know what the best open-source solution is for getting text-to-speech to read ebooks? I've tried calibre but whatever voice samples it was using were awful, way too robotic. I've only discovered this the last year there's an android app called librera and you can use any installed tts you have on your phone. But I'd like to do it from my computer and not have to rely on some samsung or google voice samples, unless I can be sure there's no spyware involved.

>>67632 yes, duplicity is a program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicity_(software)

>>67810 I think it is compatible. https://linux-hardware.org/?id=pci:10de-0ffb-17aa-21f5

where to get high quality images? where does wikipedia get them? (scratch that, on closer look it seems most are not high quality and are own work or from some photographer) bonus: where to get a good amount of adobergb / dci p3 / rec2020 images? preferably pirated and not some public domain bs

>>67897 >where to get a good amount of adobergb / dci p3 / rec2020 images Self sourced, next silly question.

>>67897 >>66804 linked some sources: >https://gifcities.org >https://pixabay.com/photos/ >https://www.flickr.com >https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page >where does wikipedia get them? From volunteers and from public domain (etc.) sources.

>>67950 removing oxygen shouldnt matter, removing air will have a few effects, less effective cooling may be the biggest depending what we're talking about here. Vacuum is a good insulator, so so long as the thing doesnt depend on in air arcs most other things will be fine. I could imagine getting some weird chage buildups after a lot of use. What voltages are you talking about ? what levels of vacuum? why not just do the test?

hello Lainons, doors are technology could use some ideas for pic related currently working the nightshift and have to deal with this soykaf door design fuarrrking over my sleep. cant screw around the actual door since i want as much of my deposit back and my landord not to bitch at me.

>>68043 You can also tape cardboard to the glass. If you don't mind your neighbors thinking you're weird

How often should I open up my computer to clean it? For reference the PC I'm putting together has a case with a built in dust filter, but I'm living with a grown cat.

>>68088 neighbors are nosy and uptight, they can get bent. did hear hear rodents feed on cardboard tho if i can find the right shapes(s)/size(s), will probably paint it black if i get to that point actually just gave me the idea of using black aluminum foil and duct tape Thanks Lainon

>>67742 rossman is a normal person windows user

Do lainons know if there is any real difference/improvement to using computer hardware than websites? Tried on the computer and the results were lackluster, pretty sure this is due to being new to it.have been playing around with anything v2 and berry mix(from https://rentry.org/hdgrecipes). not sure if the trouble is with input or prompt to get any real decent quality commie waifus or lain tier waifus for online used this site: https://huggingface.co/spaces/anzorq/finetuned_diffusion and anything v4 negative prompt:deformed, blurry, bad anatomy, disfigured, poorly drawn face, mutation, mutated, extra_limb, ugly, poorly drawn hands, two heads,child, kid, gross, mutilated, disgusting, horrible, scary, evil, old, conjoined this is a semi repost from leftypol since commies cant solve for soykaf pics are from link btw

>>67831 DVD-A is a thing, but it's a different standard and not every player supports it. You could always burn them as mp3s, most CD players can play those.

So Verizon shut off the 3G bands, and VoLTE doesn't really work with LineageOS. I'm thinking about finding a way to route my calls via VoIP and something similar for SMS, what's a good way to do this? I'd like to keep the same number, and preferably it would use FLOSS.

>>64140 Where would Lain obtain a burner laptop? I'm looking for something that is either pre-2008 (no Intel Management Engine) or comes corebooted. I also don't want to spend too much money on what will essentially be a netbook.

>>68268 I don't know about something that old, but you can get something cheap from your local recycling center.

>>68278 this! but I recommend that you look for used and refurbished business laptops instead. raspberry pi is another option if you don't require much processing power.

>>64140 where can I find a list of all CPUs with the Intel Management Engine? Most source say that the IME was added to "all Intel CPUs" since 2008, but other sources say that Intel started adding it in 2006. I'm asking this because I would like to get an older laptop without the IME

Lainons, any good use for an old netbook? I've got an HP Mini from 2010 that I want to try and restore + adding SSD on it

Lainons, what's the cheapest solution for powering a laptop, some synths and a speaker while outside for a couple of hours?

>>68336 Look into used solar equipment or a generator

I recently bought a Thinkpad yoga s1. I've heard it's the worst model because of how angry it gets with changing the OS. Its true... I've been messing with mine all day, after a misguided factory restore on windows 10 nothing runs anymore. I click something in the boot menu. It loads. I'm back in the boot menu. I have done all sorts of diagnostics, changed HDD to SSD, uninstalled and reinstalled both windows and Ubuntu. Could someone please just give me a clear direction on installing windows 10 from a ventoy that has xubuntu, windows 7, windows 10, refind, etc. I've been trying to reformat the SSD as a windows partition... But then the windows instal USB says "you're trying to create this where there isn't anything dumbass" please guys I'm just a soykafty little compsci retard who needs windows 10 for class. Right now I'm going to bed. I reset the bios settings so it should be good to go when I work on it again.

>>65623 I really like your catchphrases.

>>68337 how about a good rechargable battery thingy, how should i go about buying that

this isn't exactly a tech question but i feel like i shouldn't make a whole new thread because of it. I've stumbled upon a site that is themed like the SICP book and contained a torrent link to a big collection of computer science books, over 20GBs probably. But I forgot the name of that site. Can anyone give me the link to that site?

I have a private and a company phone, an android and an iphone. Most of the time i double carry, sometimes even in the same pocket. Both phone have wifi, bt, nfc. I am wondering if one can hack the other via those wireless communication ways. What do you think, should i keep a secure distance between them, and if so, how much distance is considered secure?

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why does my grandparents wifi work for me if i only use tor

>>68631 The proximity that they spend next to each other has already associated them with one another. Both advertising IDs on the back end are probably already associated with you as a person, and by proximity with one another. The company already knows you are one in the same.

Does creating a separate partition for /home/ aid in distro hopping or reinstalling? I used to always do this then started having problems with Debian (prob Wayland related... Or old/failing hardware) anyhow I've ignored doing this the last two reinstalls I've had to do in the last 3-4 years but my last reinstall Debian kept failing so I went with Ubuntu ... Not realizing mint was the ideal option (kde fan boy here) ... Now I've finally got my soykaf straight... Zsh,omz,go,etc tons of soykaf I don't constantly put my hands on and forget about... Dot files, configs, etc... Would having home on separate partition been one way to recover from a crash and not have to redo or copy paste or reconfigure a bunch of settings and configs and stuff?

>>78252 Well, yeah. That also makes it easier to use Veeam or whatever to do backups of certain partitions containing important stuff that you might accidentally blow away while distro-hopping. Making separate partitions for certain directories has been a thing (at least in enterprise) for, like, ever. That's mainly concerning stuff like /var/ (/var/log/ has always been particularly at risk of being filled up with bullshit, plus other caches/temp stuff in /var/). If you are running, say, a network edge firewall and you don't give /var or /var/log its own partition (or logical volume)* then when the filesystem fills up because you didn't configure log rotation, now your sh​it is fu​cked and you might have to actually drive over to wherever it is to intervene because it won't be responding over SSH, lol. As far as stuff you give a soykaf about: - Yes, it's pretty much never not a good idea - You should also consider giving /etc/ its own volume - If you are making actual partitions in fdisk for this, please figure out how to use LVM, geez - Also: using apt/dpkg to export installed packages list and bulk install them elsewhere https://askubuntu.com/questions/1092567/how-to-get-package-list-from-one-pc-and-install-that-on-another-pc

Can I use Termux to expose a LUKS-encrypted external drive to the normal Android apps? It's connected through the USB-C port, not a microSD slot.

>>68268 Get a chromebook and coreboot it >>82289 good question can I use my external yagi if its plugged into phone cuz idk if you can enable using another wifi adapter in android or graph3n3 ?

>>82289 >Can I use Termux to expose a LUKS-encrypted external drive to the normal Android apps? It's connected through the USB-C port, not a microSD slot. Even if you could do this it probably wouldn't be a good idea. You would be entering the passphrase on a device that's very insecure be nature. It might be better to plug the encrypted drive into a computer, open it, then plug the cellphone into the same computer and access the opened encrypted drive.

>>82312 >>82334 Damn, so I'd have to spend extra for more on-board storage? RIP card slots. What a cash grab.

>>82348 just so you know android isn't meant to be usable it's literal goyslop that only exists to make spying on you easier.

>>64319 Coffee itself is really good for your gut microbiome, and is high in fiber, but if it inturrupts your sleep you can get those things elsewhere. Everybody has different tolerances to caffine, so how much you can have before it becomes unhealthy depends on you. For me, I can have a coffee a few hours before I go to bed and sleep just as well as if I hadn't, but my dad can't have caffine after noon.

>>82289 >>82334 https://blog.ja-ke.tech/2020/04/04/android-luks2.html You'll need root.

>>82358 Awesome. I had no idea cryptsetup was available for Android. Thanks. Best one-in-a-million tech post of 2024 on Lainchan.

i want to look at porn but im underage and my state requires websites to verify my digital id how can i bypass it

>>82373 he would no longer be underage by the time he finishes

>>82372 >Kids finishing hackthissite just so they can watch porn Future accredited engineer chasing that carrot to be honest, BORN2SIMP

>>82372 Buy a thinkpad x230 and install heads. Write protect the flash chip. Put nail polish on the screws and take high resolution pictures to ensure signs of tampering. Do NOT use a HDD or SSD. They have DMA so a malicious firmware could do a lot of damage, use of USB is preferred since they do not have DMA. Completely remove the microphone, sound card, webcam and the WWAN card from the laptop. Remove the fan to prevent binary acoustic data transmission. Replace the default wifi card with a supported atheros card. Disable wifi when not in use, preferably by physically removing the card. Make your own independent Linux distro from scratch. Most Linux distros value convenience over security and will thus never have good security. Your only option is to make your own. Use musl instead of glibc, Libressl instead of openssl, sinit instead of systemd, oksh instead of bash, toybox instead of gnu coreutils to reduce attack surface. Enable as little kernel modules as possible. Use a hardened memory allocator. Apply strong SELinux and sandboxing policies. Restrict the root account heavily to make sure it never gets compromised. Disable JavaScript and CSS in your browser. Block all FAGMAN domains in your hosts file. Monitor all network requests. Do not use a phone. Never speak near anyone who owns a phone, they are always listening. Never use any non-corebooted technology made after 2006. Never leave your devices unattended. Tape triple layer aluminum foil all around your room as tempest shielding. Type really quietly as defense against audio keylogging. Use ecc ram to minimize rowhammer and rambleed. Encrypt everything multiple times with various different encryption implementations. Compile everything from source. Use hardened compilation flags. Always read through the source before installing something if possible. Only use the internet when absolutely necessary.

I have security cameras that work over wifi. Is there any way to make it so that thieves can't use wifi blockers to shut them down when breaking into a house? I was thinking that there might be a way to have the cameras and the box run on different signals by changing the circuit that makes and receives the signals. Then I thought that would be dumb because you can't access the cameras using an app or the computer without taking the hard drives out. Is there a way to make an anti wifi disruptor? >pic related I wanted to change a circuit like this at first.

>>82382 Why rely on the Linux kernel? One security flaw in that hairball of code and you're cooked. Do you trust the Linux foundation? I certainly don't!

>>82386 >Why rely on the Linux kernel? One security flaw in that hairball of code and you're cooked. People rely on the Linux kernel because of its enormous track record of reliability and security in technical, military, intelligence, supercomputers, internet, and commercial use all over the world for many years. >Do you trust the Linux foundation? I certainly don't! There's no accounting for stupid opinions. [shrug]

>>82348 How much space do you even need on a phone? I don't know how I'd fill up 128GB, never mind 1TB that some phones come with now.

>>82535 If you have a big collection of movies you watch on your phone, or a lot of ROMs stored on it, or a big collection of books you read on it, or a lot of hi-res videos you made with your phone, storage can get used up pretty fast.

>>82547 Sure, big things are big. But why would you want to watch movies <7-inch screen? Having space for shooting a ton of video at once makes sense, if you're a vlogger or something. The nice thing about books is their hours-to-size ratio. If we assume 50GB for system files and apps, you could fit 130,000 of 600KB epubs into the remaining 78GB. Reading one every single day, you would die before finishing 20% of it. I'm not into emulated games so I'll pull the number 500MB out of my ass and say you can fit 156 games into 78GB. Although having played games on a touchscreen before, I don't know why you would want to do that either.

>>82573 What is the median PDF size though?

its about time for me to get a new laptop -- i like small pcs and am thinking about the GPD pocket 4 bottom spec model (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pocket-4-modular-full-featured-handheld-ai-pc#/) or a thinkpad x1 nano. does anyone have any experience with GPD? ive seen a lot of hate for their QC on reddit etc

When you flash a custom ROM, does it overwrite the version of Android that comes pre-installed on the phone? If it does, does that mean that factory reset is no longer possible after flashing? If it doesn't, does it mean you'll have less storage space after flashing?

>>82639 >When you flash a custom ROM, does it overwrite the version of Android that comes pre-installed on the phone? It overwrites some of the partitions, like the system partition, but not others, like the bootloader and radio. >If it does, does that mean that factory reset is no longer possible after flashing? If Factory Reset works with the custom ROM, all it will do is wipe out any configurations you've made, and your data, just like it does with a factory ROM. It will not restore the factory ROM. But you can reflash a factory ROM if one is available for download. They're usually available for Motorola and Google phones, and a few others. >If it doesn't, does it mean you'll have less storage space after flashing? It does (overwrite), so the only relevant factor is whether the custom ROM is bigger or smaller than the factory ROM (usually about the same).

I'm trying to install this pirated version of ck3 but I get the following error back Image mounted as /run/media/user/disk binaries/ck3: /usr/lib64/libtinfo.so.6: no version information available (required by /run/media/user/disk/binaries/libdxcompiler.so.3.7) Warning: 2 log categories not defined in log_settings_live.json Game AI Game Tests Trying to Write minidump to dir: /home/user/.local/share/Paradox Interactive/Crusader Kings III/crashes/ck3_20241222_215346/ Created Minidump: /home/user/.local/share/Paradox Interactive/Crusader Kings III/crashes/ck3_20241222_215346//d90f73cc-dfe7-44ca-0bbd5589-d314a18c.dmp Unmounting /dev/loop0... Error unmounting /dev/loop0: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Error.DeviceBusy: Error unmounting /dev/loop0: target is busy Failed to unmount /dev/loop0 CD from the mounted directory in another terminal/FM CD from the mounted directory and press ENTER Unmounted /dev/loop0.

if i run a linux distro on a VM in windows, does this circumvent privacy concerns about windows? or can windows obtain significant data and phone home? any elaboration on this would be super helpful

>>86229 Running trusted system on top of an untrusted is meaningless. I'm not sure there are any people left on this imageboard who are competent enough to know even superficially what spying techniques windows employs. The most involved way of spying on a virtual machine is analyzing RAM and maybe even executing CPU instructions. Since virtualization is assisted by the kernel, it is not impossible to implement such tools. On the other hand, it is involved as fuarrrk and I really am not sure if indians who program windows really could be prodded into implementing it. With my schizophrenia in head, I'd assume they could, but still this seems highly unlikely. Another much less involved method is taking regular screenshots and transmitting them to microsoft. With modern AI image recognition tools this can be implemented even by a single indian. I have never seen any evidence that they actually take screenshots, but because it's so easy to implement I would assume they absolutely do. They can also conceal it easily and since they constantly transmit data to and from your computer you can never know when it happens. The easiest way and one you can be absolutely sure is implemented is key logging. This is a no brain solution that has existed since long before AI. It is quite sufficient to know everything they care about and can be used to guide the timing of more involved techniques. Keep it mind that while there is no evidence, they might have found a way to recognize patterns of mouse movements as well. So you see, spying on your virtual machine is not really different than spying on your firefox window, if slightly more complicated due to nested application windows. This is a highly amateur reply take it with a huge grain of salt.

>>86229 >>86231 Even without going into "conspiracy" territory (as you said, there is no evidence that microsoft spies to that extent), using a VM doesn't protect you from "normal telemetry". When your VM needs to write to disk or send stuff over the network, it's logged by the system. Obviously, using a VM doesn't prevent the system from knowing about when and where you use your computer either.

>>86229 Remember Micro$oft Recall? Similar AI tools can take screenshots of your screen and "read" and otherwise analyze what you are currently doing on your computer. I suggest that you look into dual-booting or possibly running Botnet 11 on a VM. QubesOS is a way to easily run multiple virtual machines on your PC. Just make sure to have at least around 16GB (or more) RAM.

Dual booting is moot unless you sign the boot loader and the kernel AND also encrypt everything, preferably using the lvm on top of luks scheme.

My old PC with Kubuntu recently died but thankfully I saved all my AppImages on an external hard drive, so I could reuse them on my new PC with the last version of Kubuntu. ...or so I thought. Now, for whatever reason, about half of them don't work anymore. Wtf is this bullshit? They're all the SAME exact AppImages, and they ALL worked perfectly! And I just moved them, not even on a different distro, but literally just from a slightly newer version of the same one. How the actual fuarrrk is this even possible??? The entire reason I moved from Windows to Linux was to avoid soykaf like this from happening! Is there any OS in existence that's not actively anti-freedom?

>>86366 >Is there any OS in existence that's not actively anti-freedom? BSD, Gentoo. That's beside the point. It's the software's fault that the retarded developers fall for the wayland/libadwaita meme

>>86366 P.S.: btw, here's some examples: Kazam.AppImage: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libgiognomeproxy.so: undefined symbol: g_uri_is_valid Failed to load module: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libgiognomeproxy.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libdconfsettings.so: undefined symbol: g_assertion_message_cmpint Failed to load module: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libdconfsettings.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libgiolibproxy.so: undefined symbol: px_proxy_factory_free_proxies, version LIBPROXY_0.4.16 Failed to load module: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libgiolibproxy.so /tmp/.mount_Kazam.9bgWoQ/lib64/libgnutls.so.30: version `GNUTLS_3_7_4' not found (required by /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libgiognutls.so) Failed to load module: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libgiognutls.so /tmp/.mount_Kazam.9bgWoQ/bin/python3.8: symbol lookup error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-cursor.so.0: undefined symbol: wl_proxy_marshal_flags Kolourpaint.AppImage: Appears to work, but it freezes whenever I try to save a file. Mednafen.AppImage: Starting Mednafen 1.26.1 Build information: Compiled with gcc 10.2.0 Compiled against zlib 1.2.11, running with zlib 1.3.1(flags=0x000000a9) Compiled against SDL 2.0.12(hg-13609:34cc7d3b69d3), running with SDL 2.0.14(hg-14525:e52d96ea04fc) Running with libsndfile-1.0.31 Base directory: /home/[REDACTED]/.mednafen Emulation modules: apple2 nes snes gb gba pce lynx md pcfx ngp psx ss ssfplay vb wswan sms gg snes_faust pce_fast demo cdplay Opening lockfile... Loading settings from "/home/[REDACTED]/.mednafen/mednafen.cfg"... Loaded 7544 valid settings and 1 unknown settings. Initializing joysticks... ID: 0x0003054c05c481110008000d00000000 - Sony Computer Entertainment Wireless Controller Loading /home/[REDACTED].cue... Loading SBI file "/home/[REDACTED].sbi"... Error: Error opening file "/home/[REDACTED].sbi": File o directory non esistente CD 1 TOC: Disc Type: 0x20 (CD-XA) First Track: 1 Last Track: 1 Track 1, MSF: 00:02:00, LBA: 0 DATA Leadout: 280425 DATA Using module: psx(Sony PlayStation) Loading override settings from "/home/[REDACTED]/.mednafen/psx.cfg"... Failed: Error opening file "/home/[REDACTED]/.mednafen/psx.cfg": File o directory non esistente Loading override settings from "/home/[REDACTED]/.mednafen/pgconfig/[REDACTED].psx.cfg"... Failed: Error opening file "/home/[REDACTED]/.mednafen/pgconfig/[REDACTED].psx.cfg": File o directory non esistente Emulated Disc SCEx IDs: Disc 1: SCEE Region: Europe Multitap on PSX Port 1: Disabled Multitap on PSX Port 2: Disabled Error opening file "/home/[REDACTED]/.mednafen/firmware/SCPH5502.BIN": File o directory non esistente mpv.AppImage: libEGL warning: did not find extension DRI_IMAGE_DRIVER version 1 libEGL warning: did not find extension DRI_IMAGE_DRIVER version 1 libGL error: image driver extension not found libGL error: failed to load driver: iris Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory /tmp/.mount_mpv.ApJiA1cb/bin/mpv: symbol lookup error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-cursor.so.0: undefined symbol: wl_proxy_marshal_flags Ungoogled Chromium.AppImage: Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped) Wine.AppImage: 0009:err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows" could not be created, error 2 0009:err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows\\system32" could not be created, error 3 wine: cannot find '/home/[REDACTED].exe' >>86367 >It's the software's fault that the retarded developers fall for the wayland/libadwaita No because they all worked properly in my old system. It should be responsibility of the platform developers' to make their platform backward-compatible, not the software developers to make their software forward-compatible.