Tech Questions #11

Tech Questions #11 Old thread: >>64140 Ask your simple questions in this thread. Be sure to also check out the documentation of the distro/program you are having trouble with. ArchWiki is a good resource even if you do not use Arch Linux. For learning basic GNU/Linux skills, check out this free book: https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php If you are new to GNU/Linux, I recommend you pick a distro that's easy to use (such as Xubuntu or Linux Mint). The easiest way to try Linux is to use a VirtualBox (a VM) or to install GNU/Linux as second OS on your computer (this is called "dual-booting"). I recommend you use Windows disk management tools to shrink a partition (reserve at least ~30GB or more for GNU/Linux). If you don't use Windows, you can use gparted to do the partitioning. You can use Rufus for making the installation USB flash drive. >>68432 Do not make a R*ddit clone! R*ddit is like kicking dead whales down the beach. The "karma" points cause people to believe a poster just because he has more forum points than another poster. Upvotes have a similar problem and (in addition) they encourage posters to downvote posts just because they disagree with them (in practice, this means that posting new points of view is discouraged by the design of the site). After all, it's much easier to downvote than to write a reply that's well-written and debunks the points that one disagrees with. Account registration means that some posters just won't post on your site because they do not want to make an account. >https://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/shiichan >how do i create my own reddit style website? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCm5RVYKWVg But FreeCodeCamp is not very good...

How do I register a domain name anonymously? I use namecheap to register my domains with the privacyguard thing on which hides the whois information. How to truly get a domain anonymously so that the government can never find out. Just curious :)

>>68503 A straw purchase. Buy cryptocurrency and pay a teenager to buy a prepaid card with cash, and then use the card to register the domain. I say teenager because if it's a minor they won't get charged as hard even if they somehow get caught buying a card.

How to share a directory with www-data? So I have a few Laravel PHP projects. And when in production, they are owned by www-data recursively... I just realized I only wanted to give www-data permission to logs, cache and public folder. If I want to run some commands on my application, I have to take permission back from www-data to my current user if that command, say, requires caching something or writing to logs. Or I can just sudo run those commands. My question is how can I co-own the files with www-data? Is it good practice? What is best practice?

>>68503 Njal.la's quite good. They only take an e-mail/XMPP address, and you can pay with crypto. I've been using it for a while, highly recommend.

Generally for services paid in cryptocurrency you can browse: https://cryptwerk.com/

Does anyone know what happened with gigablast?, since a time ago i cant reach their site or search anything.

Does anyone know any information on how to run text generation natively on your own GPU? I don't trust the cloud services when I'm mostly going to use it to fix up erotic stories.

>>68432 (last thread %CE%A9/res/64140.html#68432) you can use existing forum engines like myBB and others, you can do things from scratch if you want as well using existing forum scripts or just mae your own its just CRUD model in the beginning anyways >>68417 (last thread %CE%A9/res/64140.html#68417) i think you're referring to this one https://g.sicp.me/books/ (my opinion: although it looks promising it doesn't live upto expectations given its enormous size, all the books available around half or more are garbage, i recommend downloading individual books of interests from other libraries amd just use it to browse different topics of interests) *end now for my question, if anyone here is knowledgable in servers or just experienced in computer in general, can you people provide some information whether i would be fine keeping my pc 24/7 to use it as a server(self hosting my website or email service), i don't have raspberry pi, are there any problems my pc and i might face related to hardware failures?(pc having ryzen 3 (quad core) with 8GiBs of ram) if anyone have any wiki/docs related to self-hosting hardwares in general please share as that'd be really helpful

>>68549 LLaMa? I don't know if facebook has messed with it, though

>>68549 4chin /g/ has /lmg/ which is all about this.

>>68601 >self-hosting from your PC Your specs are fine but I do not recommend it for these reasons: (0) getting a domain and a cheap VPS doesn't usually cost that much (1) the energy bill (2) you want to separate your own data and the server (helps as protection against successful crackers) (3) this may or may not affect you, but some ISPs make self-hosting hard because they block some ports. >hardware failures If you have proper cooling (fans) then the only thing you need to worry about are (possibly) the PSU in the long run and your SSD(s) and HDD(s) that wear down. There are special NAS HDDs that are meant to be powered on 24/7., Also, I recommend you get thunderbolt protection and a UPS (note that a laptop doesn't need a UPS). Raspberry Pi 4 would be a much better choice but note that it has limited HW power. On the other hand, it's affordable (you can get Raspberry Pi 400 for 100€ and it has everything you need) and the electricity bill won't be as high as it consumes a lot less energy. Another option is to get an used business laptop but a Raspberry Pi/a clone is perfect for starting to self-host at home. But before you buy or set up anything, try seeding a torrent (for example Linux iso) for 24-48 (or more) hours and see if your PC gets any issues (check temps) and you also need to test whether the sound of your computer bothers you (especially when you are reading or when you are sleeping). Some recommended links related to hosing services in general: >https://www.debian.org || https://www.devuan.org || https://alpinelinux.org >https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Home_server >https://landchad.net >https://cheat.sh/rsync >https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/General_recommendations >https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Security (set up UFW and OpenSSH server (and use SSH keys). You may want to also set up fail2ban.) >(only if you are new to GNU/Linux): https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php Also check out the email thread >>66976 (it has some pointers about hosting email).

Not sure if this works but is there a way I can get jazz jackrabbit to run on modern Mac OS? I also wish I could get powerpc software to work.

Anyone have a recommendation for a modern sounding text to speech tool ghat can be ran entirely locally on a Linux machine? espeak is too robotic and dated.

how can I use openai or chatgpt anonymously? someone linked me this https://adultopenai.pythonanywhere.com/ but it requires a key, which I can only get if I sign up on openai. but when I try sign up I get a message that my account is locked as it's suspicious - no idea if it's my vpn, email address or something else that sets it off.

I missed the 2023-04-20 Mumble meet up. Damn! I really wanted to go. Did anyone of you go? How was it?

>>68627 game is so old and low spec just VM windows 98 if you want to use the original version or use gog if you prefer paying over making it work. Just ceck if they support mac cause i dont know. Does anyone know how windows apps handle Input? The official model is a window has a thread with a queue for input, does every app follow this sheme? I've been wondering if there was a way to tell hardware sources for input apart. Ive already checked mouse vs digital pen but that seems to be done by a flag on digital pen input so not applicable to something what if you have a touchpad+pen both using same flag.

I have a motherboard with integrated Intel® Celeron® Dual core N6210 CPU. I tried to run different OSes (at least 3 different linux distros and a BSD distro) as guest OSes in qemu. I use absolutely the same software (arch linux with every necessary packages) for host as on my large PC (Ryzen CPU). The Virtualization is enabled in BIOS. On my large PC, every guest OSes i've tried so far worked perfectly fine, on the small Celeron PC, it doesn't work. There isn't any crash, error message, or such, but it's just so extremely slow, that it is unusable. I'm not talking about simple annoying slowness, i mean it took more than 1.5 hours to reach the livecd environment welcome screen of a virtual livecd. Trying to install it would be impossible, just as trying to use it if it somehow managed to success withing several days. The Celeron of course is severalfold slower than a middle class Ryzen, but this kind of extreme slowness is impossible to be linked to that. The host OS on the Celeron PC runs perfectly fine without any slowness. I gave all the recommended virtual hardware capacity (RAM, etc) to the guest OSes, and i observed in the host OS, that they are not exhausted at all. Qemu didn't use significantly large amount of hardware resources, while this was happening. Any idea, dear lainons, why could this happen and how to solve it if it is solvable? Thanks for any help.

The new PC I'm putting together will have two 1 TB SSD drives I'm planning to save for essential or frequently used software and two 16 TB HDD I want to switch between for dual booting. Though if I installed an OS to either SSD but ran software from harddisk, would I still see the performance improvement SSDs are used for?

>>68874 I recommend you use the SSDs for your operating systems. At least install Windows on a SSD because GNU/Linux loads much faster even if you installed it on a HDD. But do not put swap partition or swap files on a SSD because it would cause it to wear down faster! As a side note, you do not even need to have swap if you don't want to suspend on disk. If you worry about low-memory conditions, you should buy more RAM instead and optionally use earlyoom daemon. However, having a small swap partition (say 512Mib if you do not suspend on disk) can have some benefits according to a systemd developer: https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html To get ideal amount of swap for suspending on disk: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq#How_much_swap_do_I_need.3F But you can always just not have a swap partition/swap file and you can use suspend on RAM instead and just power down your PC when you aren't using it for longer periods of time. In my opinion, the boot time of GNU/Linux is so short that you don't even need to install it on a SSD but if you are concerned about boot times, you can make it even faster by just using SSD for your both operating systems. If you are unsure, just test it by installing GNU/Linux on a HDD first (you can then use gparted on a Linux LiveUSB to nuke everything and create a new GPT partition table). Also, swap is not good (or even useful) for low-memory conditions because it's just too slow and it's better to either crash (and potentially automatically make Linux reboot on kernel panics) or let OOM daemon do it's thing (if you want to have control over it, you need to use an (additional) user-space OOM daemon). >Though if I installed an OS to either SSD but ran software from harddisk, would I still see the performance improvement SSDs are used for? If you have OS installed on a SSD, you will have fast boot times. But if you install software on a HDD, the program in question will load slower vs, if you installed it on the SSD instead. But this only matters for large programs (like games). Also, if you had a PC called "foo" with 2 HDDs and a PC called "bar" with just 1 HDD, the PC called "foo" (with 2 HDDs) would be a bit faster than bar (with otherwise identical specs).

>>68870 I would discard storage problems since you said that even liveCD are slow to boot... Maybe one of the VRMs or other component is starting to fail? i had incorrect behavior on an old machine just because of a bad VRM affecting the cpu it can also be something just messing up the northbridge in any case, give void linux with some light WM a try i hope you can solve this, it's always nice to see Lainons trying to get the most out of machines considered slow by normal people

why my minimal ubuntu installation is still slow? I have good CPU, good ram and SSD. Just the browser and wps offce eats a lot of ram and system lags sometimes

>>68915 Try using htop (or something else) to find out if there is a process that uses a lot of resources. Ubuntu has automatic updates. Turn them off (and use apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade) or install Debian/Devuan. Ubuntu also uses GNOME 3 which is like kicking dead whales down the beach.

If you were to use some absolutely proprietary software like Zoom or something like that, what would be better for limiting its telemetry: - installing some web browser and using Zoom's web interface or - installing some FOSS Zoom client from the AUR

I've recently decided to rewrite my nvim config in lua. It naturally involves splitting it in a bunch of files. Doing vim ~/.config/nvim/init.vim was pretty bad but vim ~/.config/nvim/lua/modules/remaps/init.lua is kind of a nightmare . Navigating through vim file explore feature is not too good either. Is there a solution to make it less tedious that doesn't involve aliasing the hell of it and that potentially could work for other configs?

>>69081 using a FOSS client for zoom if that's available

are inbox passwords worth using with protonmail?

>>69122 >>FOSS Client for Zoom is that even a thing?

Since i have one, i'm looking into bad usbs to automate some of my workflow. Would it be possible to install everything i need on a computer using one? I want the interactions to be offline/local to the machine preferably, so all the installers/packages i need would be on the usb. I just need the appropriate resources to learn all this. Any lainons have experience with these gizmos?

>>69128 Not that I know of. Regardless, fuarrrk Zoom. Even Google Meet is better.

hey all, i wanted some recommendations on server OSes for my personal use, basically host some minetest, irc and xmpp servers, although i'm aware of popular options like debian, ubuntu, opensuse and any other gnu/linux or bsd distro, i wanted to know what do you people use: I have an old pc, which i would want to make use of, which has 4 GB ram and decent amount of space for my own private irc, xmpp server that i want to host myself should i use, some sort of hypervisor like Xen? https://libreserver.org/admin.html this one looks very easy since it has a web panel in it, although i'm completely fine with only terminal, but it looks good and seems like i don't have to put in lot of time configuring things myself, just set things here and there and be done, although i'm unsure of how it actually is, just speculating from the images it has on its site. the one problem with libreserver is its out of date, the last release for its iso was in 2021, have anyone tried it? should i use it? or just pick debian? already mentioned that i'm completely fine with cli, but you know, its the convenience we programmers want ;)

>>69133 >should i use, some sort of hypervisor like Xen? That's not necessary. >or just pick debian? Yes. Debian stable is probably the most popular distro for servers. Ubuntu Server or Devuan are also good.

Is Debian Stable decent as babby's first Linux? I know most people would prefer to recommend Debian based systems like Mint or Ubuntu to beginners. Though from what I know it gives the impression of a no frills, general purpose OS that has very thorough QA and "just works." The main downside I see is that the long wait between stable releases means getting stuck with older versions of software for a bit of time.

>>69138 >Is Debian Stable decent as babby's first Linux? It's alright if you learn to use the Debian installer's partitioning tool using VirtualBox before you install it (if you want to dual-boot, use Windows disk management tools to shrink a partition). Linux Mint is probably the best newbie distro. The problem with Debian is that they only release security fixes to stable release. But do not use GNOME 3 because it absolutely is like kicking dead whales down the beach. Use Debian installer or tasksel or aptitude to install Xfce4 Desktop Environment or Mate DE.

How do you work with external drives on GNU/Linux? Do you just mount particular directories in your home to other drives?

>>69251 I personally do it like this: #mkfs.ext2 /dev/external1 or format it FAT32/NTFS mkdir /mnt/externaldrive chown lain:lain /mnt/externaldrive mount /dev/external1 /mnt/externaldrive cp stuff /mnt/externaldrive #rsync is better: https://cheat.sh/rsync

>>69138 Don't go for Debian because nobody gets it right the first time trying to wrap their heads around the "non-free" packages stuff before they've had any experience using a package manager like apt. Use Kubuntu. All of the benefits of using a Debian-based distro but its using a DE more familiar to Windows users.

Hey Lainons. I'm just set up a web server and I want to set a blog, something simple (maybe a static web blogging engine) or based in a Image Board software (I don't know nothing about that). Nothing too fancy. What do you recommend for me?

>>69261 Hugo is the modern choice. LAMP stack (the MP is optional) if you want foundational knowledge. Finally, writing a webserver in any language with a HTTP library is really easy. You could write a program that dumps HTML into the HTTP library and that's your own custom blogging engine. Good imageboard software takes far too much setup and maintenance for a personal blog, Simple imageboard software might work, but I wouldn't know which one, try to find one with the easiest installation instructions?

>>69254 That's similar to what I have at the moment, but it is very separate from my regular home, so it seems... unorganized? I used to symlink e.g. music or videos in home there, now it is sort of like a backup storage that I don't directly access (since I still do most things in ~). However, I am still experiencing filling / drive and lots of space on other drives — I just don't know a good way to make use of them

>>69261 >maybe a static web blogging engine based on your OP that got deleted with pic related, you'd probably like https://github.com/cfenollosa/bashblog

>>69261 Jekyll is a popular static blog generator

>>69261 I can vouch for Pelican (Python) or Zola (Rust) is nice too. Both have all the common blog features without getting too bloated.

I would've asked this on /sec/'s stickied thread instead, but that one seems to be full. What's a good Tor-accessible site for getting magnet links (preferred just so I don't have to download torrent files) for movies and TV shows that doesn't need JavaScript? Dumb consumer question I know, but I just want a site that works with my uMatrix blocking all the soykaf ads and whatnot. I've found two sites so far, but they have very small collections and one is one of the classic Russian-UI sites and is horribly neutered by the lack of JS. Thanks in advance.

Are there any reasons to use Debian testing over Fedora? One of the things I read was that Debian testing did not receive security updates regularly. In addition, you had to make a couple of tweaks to get these updates. I am not fully knowledgeable enough to make a judgement on this, but it appears that testing is not intended for regular desktop-use. I may be wrong on this, though. >>Compared to stable and unstable, next-stable testing has the worst security update speed. Don't prefer testing if security is a concern. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting Otherwise, what other distributions are there for someone who wants newer packages that are not full-on bleeding edge like Arch Linux but are not as old as Debian stable?

>>69322 I'm going to be honest with you. Most of the time "Bleeding edge" doesn't really mean anything. There are certain softwares (yt-dlp) that are inteded to only be used when they're "bleeding edge", but that just means it's the latest version and that's usually something you want. I get what you mean when you're saying "bleeding edge", but Arch isn't bleeding edge, it's just a poorly ran distro. I don't mean to start a flame war here, but even Arch users, when they're honest, will admit it. It's just not a considerate distro. >Debian-testing vs Fedora That's two separate schools of thought here, right? Debian-testing is basically for the developers of Debian. Just avoid it. If you use debian (which I don't recommend due to the sheer volume of issues with a low return. But, of course, it's ultimately your choice.) you'll want to just use sid (unstable.) -- Ironically, sid is the most stable option, I've found. Of course, it still requires a lot of modification for that stability... and, granted, that's my usecase and it could be very different for you. Now with that said, I haven't touched Fedora since we were on Linux-3.9 or so, but I did find Fedora to be alright when it comes to security and such. I don't have much to say on the matter, but I think most people who use it today seem to just think of it as redhat experience lol. I guess they're technically right but... Well, it doesn't matter. >Otherwise, what other distributions are there for someone who wants newer packages that are not full-on bleeding edge like Arch Linux but are not as old as Debian stable? I personally find Gentoo to be very beginner friendly, provided the beginner has some slight experience with basic commands and isn't afraid to read the manual on the website (or ask questions.) -- But this also requires you to either be patient (for compiling) or have a relatively decent cpu + plenty of ram. Outside of that, I enjoyed OpenSuSe (It used to be a contender for replacing Fedora, I don't know how it is now.), I hear that Mint is good and Manjaro is basically Arch but kinder. I don't have much else to say but I hope it helped in one way or another, even if it just leads to more questions.

>>69322 >Are there any reasons to use Debian testing over Fedora? Yes: * On Debian testing, you don't need to do any release upgrades. * Debian ships codecs, on Fedora you need to use the 3rd-party RPF Fusion repo * Debian has larger repos and it supports more architectures. * Fedora may or may not be the equivalent of Windows Insider Program but for Red Hat Linux. * SELinux can be sometimes a pain in the ass if you program. Apparmor has better usability. > but it appears that testing is not intended for regular desktop-use Desktop use is literally the use-case for both testing and unstable. I ran Debian testing for a year and it just works. As a safeguard, you may want to have apt-listbugs package installed. >Otherwise, what other distributions are there ... Gentoo and Alpine Linux. The only caveat is that Alpine Linux uses musl and proprietary programs work poorly on a musl system. >>69323 > Manjaro is basically Arch but kinder. I don't recommend Manjaro: https://manjarno.snorlax.sh (they also replaced LibreOffice with some freeware proprietary crap) "Arch but kinder. " would be EndeavourOS.

>>69325 >they also replaced LibreOffice with some freeware proprietary crap Wow. Yeah, I retract Manjaro then. libreoffice is a top-tier replacement and I actively use them in academia.

Would anyone know of software that can recover licenses from dead installations of windows or macOS? No boot, no possible repair system blue screens out to death and there is nothing you can do to save it. Trying to recover some passwords and export a file from something so I can import it in new software but I can't import it without putting it in this special format.

Hello, I have been trying to run airodump-ng, however, I am only able to recieve beacon frames, probe requests, and probe responses. I am not getting any authentication packets, and I know my device does support monitor mode. In the right corner of the screen I get fixed channel: -1 I am running airodump-ng --channel 6 -w test wlan1 results of iwinfo wlan1 info: wlan1 ESSID: unknown Mode: Monitor Channel: 6 (2.437 GHz) HT Mode: NOHT Center Channel 1: 6 2: unknown Signal: unknown Noise: unknown Bit Rate: unknown Encryption: unknown Type: nl80211 HW Mode(s): 802.11b/g Hardware: unknown [Generic MAC80211] TX power offset: unknown Frequency offset: unknown I would be grateful of any suggestions.

>>68915 For me it's not slow and I'm running it on T460. What desktop/wm are you running? Even on Gnome3 it's fine.

Why is risc-v this holy grail miracle work against the glow in the dark cianiggers?

If one can do the same simple operation in a script to modify some text, but it can all be done with several UNIX tools like cut, awk, sed, or grep, which should be preferred? Is there a general ranking of what is less bloated? Maybe `time` could be used on larger examples (what I currently am working with takes much less than a second but I still want to use what is "best")?

So, is `youtube-dl` broken on a developer level, or a YT level?

>>69461 Because it's open-source hardware and royalty-free. Any corporation can just start producing it. >>69489 >what is "best")? The standard UNIX programs are all lightweight. Some even prefer to use Perl to replace Sed and Awk, which is actually fine, too. If you don't need AWK to easily accomplish your task, you shouldn't use it (or Perl). Also, a side note: If someone is interested in learning the standard UNIX tools, I recommend you start with grep and then learn Sed and finally AWK. >>69495 I just tested it and yt-dlp fork just works.

i got a problem with HDMI. I have a laptop and 3 monitors (not high end), how can I use 3 monitors with only 1 HDMI output on my laptop? Is there a HDMI switch or something like that?

>>69535 Hmmm... I don't know about a sort of HDMI hub/switch. You'll probably need something like a docking station for your laptop that can have 3 hdmi ports (or displayport, you'll just need adapters extra.) pic rel, example of what it usually looks like. this is what my workplace use for the lenovo laptops in the office. Don't go with it if ur laptop is not a lenovo. don't know if they'll be compatible with yours.

stop making websites that need a phone number to use how is it that every kid says >hurr durr isp and phone prices bad it should be illegal yet then every fuarrrking website needs one to use if you fall into both groups you need to kys IMMEDIATELY if you make a website that needs texting at all you still need to kys thats not you is it?

>>69496 >The standard UNIX programs are all lightweight. Some even prefer to use Perl to replace Sed and Awk, which is actually fine, too. >If you don't need AWK to easily accomplish your task, you shouldn't use it (or Perl). So, you are saying to avoid using languages like awk or perl when another tool could be used? This makes sense, but one source said that using awk was quicker with what I'm doing. But I guess generally, avoiding awk or perl (which seem like larger programs) is good advice? >Also, a side note: If someone is interested in learning the standard UNIX tools, I recommend you start with grep and then learn Sed and finally AWK. Yes I have a decent understanding of regex and I use sed substitutions and grep searches a lot. I also try to use ed if I'm editing files in automation, e.g.: ``` ed file <<EOF s/^text/ c whatever . wq EOF ```

Danbooru or Shimmie: Does anyone have advice on which is better, and why? I'm looking to host migrate a booru to a VPS, about 20-30 thousand images but few concurrent users (between 1 and 10) and no AWS/cloud/etc. so no need for overkill like Philomena (derpibooru) or e621ng, I don't have the spare RAM for that.

how can I become like guy from mr. rob0t after learning programming?

Is there any forum that uses sshchan? I think I saw links to some of those in Lain but couldn't find it anymore.

>>69643 Not sshchan but similar ssh-based textboard: bit@whisper.onthewifi.com password is byte

Looking for search engine recommendations. DuckDuckGo is just straight-up ignoring quote marks and not coming up with some basic results. Not looking for niche content, must be usable over Tor.

>>69694 SearX. You can find instances from: https://searx.neocities.org and https://searx.space

I really like the early 80s era home computer look. Is it possible to build a sleeper PC with a Commodore 64 style form factor? Has anyone done this?

>>69741 >Is it possible to build a sleeper PC with a Commodore 64 style form factor? You can use a Raspberry Pi 4 (or something similar) and make it. In fact, they are selling it as a product called Raspberry Pi 400. But making an actual PC would be impossible because there is no way you can fit even the smallest mobo inside a keyboard.

Is it harmful to use a laptop on my lap?

>>70414 Having your head bent down for a long time isn't good, I've heard.

>>68504 How the fuarrrk would you get a teenager that would do that? Im a little to old to be talking to teenagers that arent related to me..

>>70414 If you are a man, then there is also the issue of heat because your balls don't like heat. It's also bad from ergonomic point of view. A desk also allows you to use a proper pointing device.

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Does anyone have recommended resources to study up for certification with CompTIA/Cisco? I've always had a bit of interest in computers and if I don't get marketable skills I'll end up working low end jobs forever.

>>70498 Look into Professor Messer for the A+.

>>70498 I recommend you learn basic Linux skills by working through this free book: https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php (for practical Windoze stuff, check out a book called "Learn Windows PowerShell in a month of lunches", there are also some vids on YT by the author.). Also, start dual-booting GNU/Linux (I recommend Linux Mint) and Windows ASAP. Download the Linux Mint iso file (Mate or Xfce4 version) and use Rufus to make a flash drive for installing it. But before rebooting, use Windows disk management tools to shrink a partition (reserve about 30GB or more for Linux), and point Linux Mint installer to the newly reclaimed free space. For learning computer networking, check out "Computer Networking: a Top Down Approach" by Kurose and Ross , or "Computer Networks" by AST. I'm not aware of any free resources for learning Cisco IOS (I can't remember if Cisco's Packet Tracer requires a product key?).

I have Samsung 870 EVO 500GB SSD. Recently when I was setting up my backup program on, Torvalds forgive me, Windows. It was reading files in a folder on an NTFS partition and when it encountered four big archives (~10GiB) it reported an error on two of them. It was a standard Windows error complaining about invalid CRC, thought there were no actual checksums anywhere and it's just a relic of Windows. Google said that this error indicates disk corruption, which is obvious. After I booted in Linux and ddrescued the SSD onto another drive. Ddrescue said that the it has ~4000KiB of dead sectors spanning over ~650 bad areas. This is strange because it is only 1.5y old and had 3.382TiB of writes out of 5y and 300TB guaranteed by Samsung. SMART report is ok as far as I understand. And from what I'v googled some people say it is normal for an SSD to have thousands of bad sectors? Others say even one bad sector means a dead SSD. As far a I understand it may not be enough to ask for replacement. If this is true this is fuarrrked up, because how I'm supposed to use a hard drive if after half a year files and potentially filesystem start to die. The fact is than the popular filesystems (NTFS, EXT4, APFS) fail not only to repair corrupted files, they fail to even detect them lacking checksums and scrubbing. Am I supposed to run every drive with RAIDZ or BTRFS with data duplication or what? Or recover from backups on schedule? I could "fake" SMART report by repeatedly reading dead sectors and skyrocketing UNC count which is already 21436 from ddrescue, and then asking for a replacement but it's kinda stupid.

Has anyone thought of this, or am I the first: A pair of shoes with razorblades on them so you can shave while you walk

Does anyone have a good resource for learning java? I did a java bootcamp earlier for university this year but barely passed and over break I need something to do as a NEET. I was thinking of working through learning python on freecodecamp but heard it isn't the best.

>>70655 >Does anyone have a good resource for learning java? Yes! Head First Java and Head First Design Patterns are 2 best books on Java, the only downside is that they are filled with "funny humor". >Python Learning Python is a good idea in the future, but try to focus on 1 language and learn it well before you start learning more languages (also, if you will have an OOP course, you will most likely use Java or C#). The MOOC on https://www.mooc.fi/en/ is pretty good for learning Python. and so are these books from >>>/λ/33751 >Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: https://automatetheboringstuff.com >Learning Python by Mark Lutz >Learn Python the Hard Way by Zed Shaw

>>70643 The more I think about it, the more I realize: its undeniably a brilliant idea.

>>69275 >use some soykafty soy language >or use some half defined garbage where you cant even tell if your if statements are portable and merely doing an if statement also leads to RCE, this is the real man way bruhh yeaaaaaahhh so trad ah, the dilemma of the wh*teoid

>>69129 Not entirely clear what your use case is but in my own workflow, I just use VMs loaded with what I need. Easier to manage/duplicate/transport/spin up than USB installs.

Finally installed Arch. I'm on the GUI setup part right now. What is the most lightweight console display manager? I've been looking through Arch wiki and I'm not really sure what to pick. Apparently ly is really lightweight but it does have a few dependencies.

>>68489 I have recently (well, 2 months at most) seen a thread on some imageboard (maybe lainchan itself?) there was this discussion about AI waify and stuff. And then I saw some anon linked Lain TTS generational model (some Chinese anon made it, if I recall correctly) So, I got this model, it's cool and all, but I completely lost that thread and discussion there, if anyone seen stuff like it, could one kindly share a link?

>>70735 >What is the most lightweight console display manager You don't need one if you use startx (or just type the name of your wayland compositor (like "sway") and press the enter key). Before you can use startx, you need to set up xinit: doas pacman -S xorg-xinit cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc $EDITOR ~/.xinitrc #Comment out the lines at the bottom that start some programs and twm and change them to the programs you want. Make sure that the LAST line starts your WM, it should look something like exec ratpoison or exec startxfce4 After this you can just use startx command. You may want to follow these instructions also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit#xserverrc (the greenbox, add -nolisten tcp (at least) and possibly -nolisten local) If you want a easy DM, just install LightDM or ly.

hey guys can someone tell these guys milkymist is now a site advertising crypto casinos? They block tor and I can't be bothered to make an account. https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Hackerspace_Hardware

Is there a program or script to force my art tablet to recognize other pens? I bought a new tablet pen because I lost my old one before figuring out my tablet isn't compatible with it. though that's on me If it helps you find something my setup has an UGEE brand art tablet

>>70766 forgot to mention but specifically it's an UGEE M708

If someone who lives in the US did something like break into a website would they be arrested immediately or would feds wait for them to do something else illegal to gather more points? Is there any reason why they wouldn't be arrest immediately but they would wait a couple months/years to do it?

I want to set up a spam honeypot website. just set it up, it exists in the public and gets found by spammers on search engines, they post, it logs or sends across their user agent/post contents/etc. However, I don't want my identity involved and, if possible, I don't want to pay money. Is this possible or just a dream? Are there any free web hosts, even soykafty ones, without KYC? Otherwise, closest I can think is setting up a neocities static phishing site that uses client-side JS to send their request data to a requestbin site. Although I recall neocities being hard to set up with a proxy. >>70787 >what kind of website >does it actually matter >do the relevant LEA have the technical/legal ability to investigate it >is the attacker's identity obfuscated all kinds of questions come to mind.

does anyone know from which image board is /lmg from? i saw abt it in a twitter post and am interested

>>70810 it's some AI stuff from /g/

Would installing Debian on a raspberry 3B+, be better than Raspberry Pi OS, for a headless server?

>>70814 I trust the Debian project more to not mess up any updates and that it will push security patches quickly (but that being said, I haven't heard anything bad about Raspberry Pi OS in this regard). Debian can be more lightweight as well but you can just disable Lightdm (or whatever) and other services that you don't need. I don't know if Debian provides the required firmware files out of the box, though.

why do ubuntu and fedora not shut when you run halt? ive never had this problem on gentoo. and those os have been doing that for 2 years. they will just leave the computer on with a blank screen forever. is this part of systemd / pam / one of those garbages?

>>70787 they will try and jail you for 30 years for an "advanced" cyber hacker terrorist operation (and usually fail if the court is competent), and youll end up getting only 2 years, for hacking someone's blog

>>70818 halt is not supposed to power off your PC (in some setups, it's a symlink => poweroff, though). You need to press pwr button if you halt. Use poweroff or shutdown --poweroff

>>70787 Depends on how loud your activity was. A US residential IP with no prior rep isnt going to immediatey throw red flags, so unless your attack is loud as soykaf, or your impact is loud as soykaf, it could be until next quarter when executive reports go out and someone audits the soykaf that your attack is even noticed.

>>70818 halt -p

Can you suggest some simple script or program that will rename pdf, epub, or djvu by (TITLE - AUTHOR)? and maybe it can also search online book database for those info? many books I've downloaded have messy file names or just numbers. I just use file manager and zathura for reading so it's a bit inconvenient. yeah I know Calibre but just want a small tool to do what I just described.

>>70917 >I want to buy a new computer. Building your own PC saves money in the long run and it's fun hobby thing. You will also get the parts you want. I recommend you try these sites: >https://www.logicalincrements.com/ >https://pcpartpicker.com >https://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator >https://cpu.userbenchmark.com >https://www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/ But don't trust any of these sites blindly! Post your build here to get comments! Some PC part recommendations: * Buy a full tower ATX case aka EATX case if you can, so you have a ton of room. I recommend getting a PC case that has dust filters! * Fractal Design is expensive but good brand * you can also get a mid-tower case * Fractal Design Focus G and Fractal Design Focus 2 are good Mid-tower cases. * Buy a slightly "better" (higher wattage) PSU than you need. * Buy a Corsair or Seasonic PSU! Do not save money by buying a cheap PSU because cheap PSUs suck. * Intel and AMD CPUs are almost as good. The choice (Intel vs AMD) doesn't matter much. * I recommend one of these CPUs: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G, Intel Core i5-13400, Intel Core i5-13500 or AMD Ryzen 5 7600. * But avoid Nvidia GPUs (intel integrated graphics and all kinds of AMD GPUS just work out-of-box). * Don't buy Intel Arc GPUs. * You can start with integrated graphics initially and buy a good GPU later. * Buy Kingston or G.Skill RAM. They make good quality RAM. I recommend getting 2 x 8GB DDR4/DDR5 (depending on your MoBo) G.Skill RipJaws kit. * Test your RAM with memtest86+ (included with most Linux distro LiveCDs/LiveUSBs). * I recommend you get a SSD for your OS and a HDD for your data. * Buy a large (2+ TB) Toshiba or Western Digital HDD * I recommend getting a Samsung or Crucial SSD. I think 1TB Crucial MX500 is the best SSD for the price. I can post an example build later. >What are the dos and don'ts of buying kompyuta? Avoid gaming laptops because a laptop is generally good for gaming. Lenovo ThinkPads are great if you are looking for a laptop. If you want to save money and buying used stuff is okay, I highly recommend buying an used Business ThinkPad (regular consumers want money for their used devices, while businesses throw out their devices on a regular basis!).

>>70917 >>70946 >I can post an example build later. Okay, here is the example build: >https://pcpartpicker.com/list/76sdNc You can save some money by picking a cheaper case. Note that the build also includes an USB wifi adapter. Also, note that the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G CPU has integrated graphics, so you don't need to buy a GPU right now (buy it later). And if you want, you can also replace the stock cooler of AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with ARCTIC Freezer 34 eSports DUO or something else but the stock cooler is good enough.

What's a good alternative to namecheap for cheap reliable web domains these days?

how do image boards work? if i create a new thread will that cost other thread in the same board to disapear to fit my new thread ?

>>71123 >if i create a new thread will that cost other thread in the same board to disapear to fit my new thread ? the last thread on the last page will "drown" if you create a new one, so yes

>>71002 Porkbun.com Epik.com Dynadot.com https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/domains

>>71022 2009 was after HDMI and DisplayPort came out so you may not need anything, but assuming it wasn’t a really nice monitor in 2009 you’ll need a DP or HDMI to VGA at most

>>71123 as is a bump so is a delete - Hermes Postmigistest

why does ctrl+q close all windows of the program in linux? why would i ever want to do that? it sounds like what a fat 40 year old bald loser in the 2000s would care about he just wants to make sure the entire process proper is closed instead of a more utilitarian concern like just closing what is in front of you they do this programs with multiple windows and tabs like gedit and firefox, it makes no fuggin sense is this what happens when vid related develops software?

>>71160 macOS uses cmd+q to quit the program (as opposed to closing it's window, since mac programs often stay open even if you close all of theirs), so perhaps copied from there?

>>71160 When you first start babby's first window manager tutorial they tell you about how a window can be iconified etc then they point out that it can be "rolled up". >rolled up >rolled up LMAO they think this is a fundamental stuff like algebra >bro make sure u got it before proceeding, the windows can be rolled up Indeed, the same retards made ctrl+q.

Where to get ARM/MIPS/8-bit surface-mount microprocessors? All I could find are MCUs like STM32, RP2040 and ATmega328p. I can only order from China/Vietnam.

I may make a thread for this but how would I download this whole website and run it locally on a computer in my network forever? https://www.rockauto.com/ The database and parts interchange in it is really useful for cross reference and I worry one day it will stop existing so I want to prepare for it.

For lains who use a VPS for hosting, what measures do you take to prevent running over the allotted bandwidth and incurring extra charges for it? Any unlimited bandwidth VPS recommendations?

how long will devices with an apple a12 be supported for? a11 devices aren't getting ios 17 so i'm a bit worried that iphones with the a12 won't get ios 18.

I know how to use Tor/Tor Browser but which one of alternative anonymity networks (I2P/GNUnet/FreeNet) is the best and how to use it? I'm interested because of recent bad news (reposted below): Google proposes DRM for web pages >Users often depend on websites trusting the client environment they run in. This trust may assume that the client environment is honest about certain aspects of itself, keeps user data and intellectual property secure, and is transparent about whether or not a human is using it. >They need to do it to protect IP >You can't use inspect element anymore? Are you even allowed to copy-paste in the future?? Do you need to pay them to be allowed to view a website??? >They need to be able to verify that it's really you who is accessing the website! https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md Posting your response in the Github issues section is also important, if you have a Github accoutn!

>>71293 I've played with I2P a bit. It's not as simple to set up as TOR. You probably want a dedicated server machine to run the router, and then connect to it via ssh tunneling. At least that's what I did, more experienced lainons might know a better method.

>>71293 So is it over for us?

Can anyone recommend a simple/minimalist email client, preferably one that can be used in browser? I don't mind using hotmail, gmail etc but I don't want to use their soykafty bloated slow interfaces. I know this is a similar question to a thread that exists but I don't want a new email host I just want something that lets my check my emails across multiple accounts in one place and loads super fast. And by minimalist I mean I want it to look 20 years old, I dont mean the nu-web corpo kind of minimalist. I just want to read emails, see embedded images, reply...

>>71326 You might want to check out squirrel mail: https://squirrelmail.org/about/ I haven't tried hosting it, so not sure how light on resources it is on the server side. But I used the frontend on several occasions and it was very lightweight and without js.

>>71333 Thanks, this looks pretty close to what I want. I took a look at the security tab though and the list of past vulnerabilities seems scarily long. Not a web dev or anything so is this normal, cause I'm kinda hesitant

>>71340 Do you mean this page? https://squirrelmail.org/security/ There are 30 something issues listed for 19 years. I'd say that's a surprisingly low number. I'd use the stable version snapshots though to not be subject to the ones fixed after current stable. Also, depending on your way of hosting you might mitigate other potential issues even more by using containers and restricting online access to the service.

>>71326 Claws Mail is the best client, (Neo)Mutt is 2nd best.

My ThinkPad's fan has suddenly started making a loud grating noise. I cleaned the fan but the noise keeps coming back. What could the problem be and how could I fix it?

>>71496 bearing is worn out, probably. Easiest would be to replace the fan.

>>71513 Where can I buy a replacement? I can't imagine that it would be easy to find.

>>71515 Get the manual from lenovo's website, get the part number, type it into ebay, you'll find it in about 5 minutes

Any reason to avoid Codeberg for hosting public git and basic issue tracking? I don't do anything advanced like pipelines, CI/CD, etc., so basic Forgejo (Gitea) features should be enough. The main requirement is that no-one will object to it (e.g. GitHub is M$, GitLab requires JS and is for-profit), and that it won't shutdown any time soon.

Heya I'm moving out and got a dozens of old phones around the house none of them works, won't start or anything, how do i wipe them clean of whatever was left in them in their current state and maybe sell them or use the parts for something else, no idea how to get started though. Most weren't encrypted, so i can't just give them away or let them to gather dust.

Is there anything special I need to do to upgrade the screen on a Dell Latitude E6440? I know when I upgraded my T420 I needed a separate LCD controller. Do I need something similar for the Dell, or is it just plug n play?

I am setting up an Ubuntu server for hosting a few long-term services (including an imageboard and FOSS tools). What kind of performance improvements can I expect from Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) over Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)? This includes differences like kernel version (>=6.2.0 <=> 5.15.0), nginx version (1.22.0 <=> 1.18.0) and ffmpeg version (5.1.2 <=> 4.4.2).

Getting a smartphone after years of dumbphone, anyone has a recommendation for a FOSS Android music player that supports random album (as in: play an entire album in order, then pick another album at random) and parametric EQ?

>>71572 Pulse, clementine, foobar2000, timusus/Shuttle2 if you want to pay or steal it

>>71572 How about Auxio? https://f-droid.org/packages/org.oxycblt.auxio/

>>71609 FOSS: https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine OSS: https://github.com/timusus/Shuttle2 F: https://www.foobar2000.org/

>>71650 Your sure it does have album shuffle? https://github.com/OxygenCobalt/Auxio/issues/221 is still open >https://github.com/OxygenCobalt/Auxio/issues/110 No gapless playback in CY+8? Wew. >>71655 Clementine isn't an android app, though.

>>71655 Reccing Strawberry over (ded) Clementine

Man, I have been getting loads of issues upgrading from Debian 11 to 12, nothing I can't solve or anything. I don't know whether it is my installation or if it is genuinely worse

>>71683 can you elaborate? i'm still alternating between upgrading and not upgrading and can't quite make up my mind.

>>71688 Some soykaf with systemd and a whole lot of fuarrrking usrmerge soykaf.

i want to download a youtube playlist playlist that have 1000+ video. i want them to be in the best quality. can anyone write me a wget script for it ?. im a win10 normal person not a linux wizard. pls

>>71729 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

Would it be a violation of GNU public liscense if you sold computers that came with GNU/Linux pre-installed?

>>71731 There are several versions of the GPL, and most Linux distros include a wide variety of software licensed under a few dozen different FOSS licenses. You would need to be in compliance with all of them, and if you aren't confident that you can read, understand, and comply with all of them, you should seek competent legal advice. That said, the short answer to your question is no, it's not a violation of any of the versions the GPL to sell computers with a Linux distro preinstalled. You would have to do something dumb like modify a GPL program that you ship, but refuse to provide the source code for you to be in violation. There are companies that sell computers with Linux preinstalled.

How am i using negative ram? Is this bad or good?

>>71730 youtube-dl cant download anything. people also complain about this in their website. now the website is also shut downed.

>>71739 Features of FreeBSD. The extra decimal on the CPU is one I've never seen before. >>71743 Those who know, know.

>>71743 Literally just used it to dl a music video. Works fine in other parts of Europe. Just use a VPN. Also, fuarrrk Germany apparently, ew.

>>71745 any reccomendation alternative of yt-dl ?

>>71746 Ah soykaf, sorry, I misread. yt-dl is deprecated and is now replaced by yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp The API hook or whatever on the former is pretty scuffed and I had trouble using it a year ago. I wrote myself a python script which auto-downloads any yt link in my clipboard, very handy.

>>71749 yt-dlp also can't download anything.

>>71746 i think anythink that uses yt-dl cant work

>>71746 any alternative to replace yt-dl?

>>71735 Your answer is highly appreciated.

>>71729 idk what all these people are talking about lol you can pull it off using just curl/wget/whatever but the annoying part that youtube-dl/yt-dlp/etc. takes care of is a) parsing the source code of the video page to find the URL to the actual video and b) casting arcane ffmpeg incantations to put the video and audio streams together into the desired container

>>71753 Make sure you also have ffmpeg or just use GNU/Linux (Linux Mint or Xubuntu). Use Windows disk management tools to shrink a partition and point the Linux Mint/Xubuntu installer to the free space.

WHY CAN'T I FREAKING UNINSTALL ANYTHING?!?!

>>71779 This is on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS btw

Alright, so here's the thing. I want to play Touhou 12 on Arch Linux, but I am having a little trouble. I have wine and winetricks installed with a 32-bit wine prefix. Here is the error that I am getting when I try to open up the game. info: DXVK: v2.2 info: Vulkan: Found vkGetInstanceProcAddr in winevulkan.dll @ 0x6fa837c0 info: Built-in extension providers: info: Win32 WSI info: OpenVR info: OpenXR info: OpenVR: could not open registry key, status 2 info: OpenVR: Failed to locate module info: Required Vulkan extension VK_KHR_surface not supported 00e8:fixme:service:QueryServiceConfig2W Level 6 not implemented 00e8:fixme:service:QueryServiceConfig2W Level 6 not implemented I know that this is a vulkan issue. I have dvxk installed through winetricks. In addition I have vulkan-icd-loader, lib32-vulkan-icd-loader, nvidia-utils, and lib32-nvidia-utils installed as recommended. However, it still does not mend the problem. Upon running vulkaninfo, I get this error. ERROR: [Loader Message] Code 0 : loader_scanned_icd_add: Could not get 'vkCreateInstance' via 'vk_icdGetInstanceProcAddr' for ICD libGLX_nvidia.so.0 ERROR: [Loader Message] Code 0 : vkCreateInstance: Found no drivers! Cannot create Vulkan instance. This problem is often caused by a faulty installation of the Vulkan driver or attempting to use a GPU that does not support Vulkan. ERROR at /usr/src/debug/vulkan-tools/Vulkan-Tools-1.3.255/vulkaninfo/vulkaninfo.h:676:vkCreateInstance failed with ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER The arch wiki recommends to set the environment variable VK_ICD_FILENAMES to /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json. I have done this, and I have also tried running VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json with the Touhou executable, but it still does not work. In addition, I have also ensured that no conflicting drivers are enabled and have re-installed the existing drivers several times to no avail. I *think* my GPU is compatible with vulkan (it's on the older side), but I am not entirely sure. I have googled my own GPU, and it is not clear whether it is vulkan-compatible or not; I know that I have had no issues with vulkan and Touhou on previous distributions I have used, and I have had dvxk installed on my previous wine setups. For reference, I am using the NVS 5200m by itself with no optimus. Despite googling all of these issues and errors and trying different things, I am at a loss. Does anyone have any ideas?

>>71790 Oh snap, had a brainfart on the formatting there info: DXVK: v2.2 info: Vulkan: Found vkGetInstanceProcAddr in winevulkan.dll @ 0x6fa837c0 info: Built-in extension providers: info: Win32 WSI info: OpenVR info: OpenXR info: OpenVR: could not open registry key, status 2 info: OpenVR: Failed to locate module info: Required Vulkan extension VK_KHR_surface not supported 00e8:fixme:service:QueryServiceConfig2W Level 6 not implemented 00e8:fixme:service:QueryServiceConfig2W Level 6 not implemented ERROR: [Loader Message] Code 0 : loader_scanned_icd_add: Could not get 'vkCreateInstance' via 'vk_icdGetInstanceProcAddr' for ICD libGLX_nvidia.so.0 ERROR: [Loader Message] Code 0 : vkCreateInstance: Found no drivers! Cannot create Vulkan instance. This problem is often caused by a faulty installation of the Vulkan driver or attempting to use a GPU that does not support Vulkan. ERROR at /usr/src/debug/vulkan-tools/Vulkan-Tools-1.3.255/vulkaninfo/vulkaninfo.h:676:vkCreateInstance failed with ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER

>>71779 That thing is saying there is the word "sudo" in the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list There should not be a sudo word in there. Did you edit it yourself and mess up?

>>71802 >Did you edit it yourself and mess up? I did not! I swear!

>>71802 This is what the file says

>>71820 that is troll-tier levels of stupid. delete that file. there is nothing good about it.

>>71821 >that is troll-tier levels of stupid. Don't be rude, nigger! >delete that file. there is nothing good about it. The whole problem is I CAN'T delete any files!

>>71834 sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list

>>71840 Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you You are a god!!!!

Why do programs freeze, when I'm copying data with dd from a slow USB drive in the background? I tried saving this page and the animation in the banner still played but I was unable to change tabs or scroll for a second after saving the page.

>>71850 Because of lack of memory, no?

>>71855 I don't think it's memory: I've had it happen to me as well; anything that tries to do IO simply freezes for seconds a time until the transfer is complete, even though the USB isn't nearly as fast as to saturate my hard drive's bandwidth. Maybe a bad IO scheduler (or scheduler configuration?), but I don't know either.

Would anyone spare a cock.li invite code for me? I used to have an account years ago but I think it got purged for inactivity. Thanks.

>>72020 That's why I am here

>>72020 also before asking why i did specifically what the note DIDN'T want me to do I already disabled fullscreen in the ThCrap instance of the program beforehand. It's just the vsync instance of the program that kept fullscreen enabled before launch. I didn't break stuff on purpose and the fact this happened at all is annoying.

>>68549 Use llama c++, it's very easy to use and setup- and runs on almost anything (my 10 year old laptop can run the smallest model at a usable speed). https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp It's amazing how quickly AI has become accessible.

I want to run a bash script in order to display on cobky the cover album currently playing in cmus. I use this script based on the one I use for mocp : #!/bin/bash filename="$(cmus-remote -Q | grep file)" dirname="${filename%/*}" cp "$dirname"/cover.jpg ~/.config/cmus/cover I use grep to get the current file playing path but it gives me : file /media/g0d/Stockage/Musique/747/2018. Paleo/04. Pangea.mp3 And I want to remove file at the start of the line. Don't even know if the rest of script is good but I first want to know if it's ok using grep to isolate the result I want then using something to exclude part of the said result to just have the path of the file (maybe using echo ?) I will then see for the rest of the script. I'm a newbie regarding bash scripts but learning a bit like this so any good advice are more than welcome. Thanks in advance.

>>72036 >display on cobky *conky

>>72036 https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Shell-Parameter-Expansion >This is referred to as Substring Expansion. If using bash. See also https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cut.1.html if you do not want to use bashisms. If you want to be even more POSIX, see man awk. I will not elaborate on awk because I'm not within reach of my computer and don't speak awk by memory, but other lainons might be helpful.

>>72036 Try using `sed`: ``` filename="$(cmus-remote -Q | sed -n 's/^file //p')" ``` And you could use `ln -sf` instead of `cp`. It doesn't really matter but it's more elegant than writing another copy of the file.

>>72040 >>72045 Thanks guys, I had the intuition I could use sed but not sure about what to put besides. Will look at it when back to home.

>>72045 sed is like kicking dead whales down the beach.

>>72048 Been a while I'm using lainchan but one of the language enhancer I still don't figured the meaning is the kicking whale thing.

>>72054 It's when you type the same word as we use when we say someone is eating dick. I on other hand have no clue what activates the PRESENT DAY, PRESENT TIME, HAHAHAH thing

>>72054 It really is like kicking dead whales down the beach that you haven't figured it out. >>72055 I, on the other hand, am 100% in the know. Present Day, Present Time! AHAHAHAHAHA!

>>72054 I typed it manually. These prideful occultists will never tell you the shortcut, so there's no helping it. You can go live a few years in USA to learn their slang, but USA is like kicking dead whales down the beach. Typing it every time is tiresome, but it is funny, so I don't mind. >>72068 >elaborate Too GNU. They could deign to write a man at least instead of their soykafty info. I had to use info to figure out how to use tr and that was fuarrrking painful. I use sed for simple 's///'s, but anything more complex and I find it easier to refer to goddamn gawk man page.

>download sketchy mp4 file >think "eh fuarrrk it, it's not like it's .exe or some soykaf" >open it with video player >green screen and a loud static within the first seconds of the video but it plays normally before and after that >start thinking it's some malware that makes use of my video player to do malicious things bros did the glowies just get me ;_; i'm just being a paranoid retard right, there's no way there's a vulnerability for vlc/mpv like that right now or is there? ;___________;

>>72073 Sorry for you. Good bye. >>72036 Here's my ultimate GAWK creature hahaha! Actually that's pretty simple. bash gawk '/file/ { $1 = ""; sub(/^[[:space:]]*/, ""); sub(/\/[^/]*$/, ""); print }' Use it like bash dirname="$(cmus-remote -Q | gawk '/file/ { $1 = ""; sub(/^[[:space:]]*/, ""); sub(/\/[^/]*$/, ""); print }' )"

Also should work OK with other POSIX awk implementations, I don't know why I made such accent on it being gawk. Perhaps because gawk is a very common awk implementation. Nevermind.

>>72074 stop memeing around anon am i fuarrrked or nah ;_;

Can anybody reccomend a cheap or even free method for sharing files, I have aroud 7gb to move around but that's likely to grow to around 20gb. Mega is too slow, it's slow to upload and even worse to download. I don't feel the amount I'm looking to share in terms of file size etc should mean I have to start paying subscription fees.

>>72076 It's over, lainon. Now there's no escaping. Almost no. There's that thread 'Performing a ruse to escape the cage' here or on /sec/, it explains what to do in cases like yours. But all you passwords and sensitive data are likely gone. https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=mpv https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=vlc >>72077 rsync? Or syncthing. You'll have to host that yourself, but DIY is the only free way to do anything nowadays.

So picrel was my first PC, well the first one I didn't have to go to a internet cafe for. I've had it since the early 2000s and its full of fond memories and after digging out of my closet its in good shape. But is there anything I can do with this now other than boot it up, run Windows XP and play some old games? Could I recycle the case and upgrade the components? Is there a modern OS I can install on this thing? I'm computer illiterate and figured this could be a good opportunity to learn a thing or two.

Could pirated books and shows put me in hot waters if i travel a lot? I heard countries like the US and Australia sometimes ask to check your messages/devices content and deny you entry if you don't comply. Should i just put them in mega or sis there a better solution?

>>72104 It isn't a crime in the US to possess pirated media afaik, only to distribute it. Even seeding a torrent isn't a "crime", the cases over that (which themselves have almost entirely stopped happening) all happen in civil court and involve a company tracking you down and suing you, the government won't do the legwork unless it's someone involved in running pirate websites etc. I feel very confident that the people at the border won't care about your entertainment media files.

>>72020 Just download a third-party file browser and launch it with your browser or do Win+R 'cmd', use `dir` and `cd` to navigate to where the file is and do `start "" file.exe`. I like NexusFile but this is not open-source so it may be haram for lainmen. Or browse to file:/// or file:///C:/Users/ in the web browser and use the browser to view/launch things Now that you have workarounds in place you can fix the issue with less stress at your own pace. Since you're having this issue right after something dealing with display/graphics, one possibility to have in mind is a screwed up display configuration making Windows think there are multiple displays or the display is larger than the area you can actually see (if you can move the cursor all the way off screen this is probably it). 1. Launch the file explorer 2. With the file explorer window in focus / active in the taskbar, press alt+space, then press M 3. Use the arrow keys to move the window to the visible region (most likely to the left) or you may be able to just tap an arrow key and move the mouse slightly. You might be able to simply hold the Windows key and press the left or right arrow keys to snap the window to one side of the display, or the up arrow to maximize it (can take more than one press). Or you could do Win+R 'regedit' and look somewhere in HKCU\Software\Microsoft (maybe HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer or something) for saved window position configuration like LastXPosition/ LastYPosition, iWindowPosX / iWindowPosY etc. Similar entries with DX and DY are dimensions of the window in pixels so these should be nonzero. Another option is to double-click the 'show desktop' button all the way on the right end of the taskbar (all the way) to pull all windows to the current desktop. Check in Display settings (Win key + X then press N) for an extended display / if your resolution is set to the monitor's native resolution.

>>72077 If you want to send them to another person / your other computer elsewhere, look into Syncthing, https://github.com/schollz/croc , magic-wormhole, or https://github.com/timvisee/send-instances/ If you need somewhere to leave your stuff and then retrieve it after some work is done on your end, just get a free trial of Bunny CDN (bunny.net) or Backblaze personal backup: https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/personal/free-trial (the trial is the fully featured product (i.e., unlimited space for automated backups of the entire device and all attached external storage); after 14 days there's a 7-day grace period to retrieve your files or you can extend the trial for $6 if you want If a lot of your data is video files then try transcoding a few of them in handbrake or ffmpeg as a test to see if you can save any space without too much effort. In ffmpeg you can use default encoding: ffmpeg -i <input-file> <output-file> or try something like: ffmpeg -i <input-file> -vcodec libx264 -crf 22 -preset ultrafast <output-file> Recursive: for /f "delims=" %a in ('dir /B *.*') do ffmpeg -i "%a" "%~na-enc.mp4" or for /f "delims=" %a in ('dir /B *.mkv *.wmv *.flv *.avi *.mov *.3gp *.etc') do ffmpeg -i "%a" "%~na-enc.mp4" or in Linux/cygwin/WSL/idk: for i in *.{mkv,wmv,flv,etc} ; do ffmpeg -i $i $i-enc.mp4 ; done or in general find duplicate files, largest files, visually similar images/videos, etc. with https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka (see also: WizTree)

>>72112 Your ffmpeg examples are a bit lame. It only reall makes sense to transcode into vp9 with 2 pass mode. This will likely give tolerable result even without fine graining. If you have powerful CPU consider av1. There's that x265 based encoder which scales well across many CPU cores. Don't remember its name... svtav1 or something like that.

>>68489 How do you solve compile errors like undefined reference, I assume its some function in a library, how do you find out which function is in a missing libraries/packages? I had an error before but I added the LDFLAGS environment variable with lots of options now I get a new error. I read the libraries have to be in a certain order, how do you know which order is the right one? 0:17.46 DEBUG: configure:2525: /usr/bin/clang -std=gnu99 --target=x86_64-mingw32 -o conftest.exe -D_HAS_EXCEPTIONS=0 -Qunused-arguments -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/10-posix -L/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib -L/usr/lib/gcc-cross/x86_64-linux-gnu/12 -L/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib -lmingw32 -lmsvcrt-os -lmsvcrt -lgcc -lgcc_eh -lmoldname -lmingwex -lpthread -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -luser32 -lkernel32 conftest.c 1>&5 0:17.46 DEBUG: /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/conftest-e92950.o:conftest.c:(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `main'; /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib/libmingw32.a(lib64_libmingw32_a-crt0_c.o):./build/x86_64-w64-mingw32-x86_64-w64-mingw32-crt/./mingw-w64-crt/crt/crt0_c.c:17: first defined here 0:17.47 DEBUG: /usr/bin/ld: /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib/libmingw32.a(lib64_libmingw32_a-crt0_c.o): in function `main': 0:17.47 DEBUG: ./build/x86_64-w64-mingw32-x86_64-w64-mingw32-crt/./mingw-w64-crt/crt/crt0_c.c:18: undefined reference to `WinMain' 0:17.47 DEBUG: clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) 0:17.47 DEBUG: configure: failed program was: 0:17.47 DEBUG: #line 2518 "configure" 0:17.47 DEBUG: #include "confdefs.h" 0:17.47 DEBUG: 0:17.47 DEBUG: int main() { 0:17.47 DEBUG: 0:17.47 DEBUG: ; return 0; } 0:17.47 DEBUG: configure: error: compiler is incompatible with sanitize options 0:17.47 ERROR: old-configure failed

>>72115 A friendly reminder that /lambda/ is better suited for such questions.

>>72108 Managed to fix the issue! For some reason my display settings had two monitors active despite only having one monitor hooked up. Set the multiple displays option to "show only on Monitor 1" and I feel like that should save future headaches. Thanx!

>>72073 There was a story I reafd about how facebook helped FBI to track a pedo using Tor to browse the social network and harass little girls. They uploaded an MP4 file on an honeypot profile. Once the MP4 was dl and played on the computer of the target it ran a malware to expose the real IP of the pedo. Don't have the link under my hand but it was discussed on a teck site.

>>72155 ok https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/06/12/facebook-paid-for-a-0-day-to-help-fbi-unmask-child-predator/

>>72156 For those, who don't want to spend a few hours to read through this garbage, I'll boil it down to 3 sentences. >feds developed zero day in Tails OS video player with facebook as the proxy who did the actual financing and coordination of the development >the vulnerability is severe enough to allow remote code execution and was used to spoof real IP adress of a person. Likely with other sensitive data, but we're not told about this explicitly >the vulnerability is not coordinated with Tails OS developed team, so most likely it's still UNFIXED You have no security. You have no privacy. Not even Qubes. If they hacked fuarrrking player it's nothing for them to hack a VM.

>>72166 I wouldn't be surprised if stories like this were fake. Like "we used some special technique to access someone's computer against their will" when really all they have to do is click click click and they can access anyone's computer.

>>72246 I guess it can took some more technical skills to de-anonymize someone using Tails than just click click click. But basically, yes some clicks were used in the process I guess.

>>72246 It's usually the other way around; glowies will invent a parallel reconstruction to hide some super seekrit 0day.

>create new torrent on seedbox >chinese ips immediately start downloading it despite posting it nowhere How do they find it? And don't these chinks know they can get v& for downloading porn?

>>72258 ... did you disable DHT+PEX+LPD / mark the torrent private?

>>72259 hey I don't have a problem with it, I'm just wondering why they're downloading it right away.

>>72166 >feds developed zero day in Tails OS video player with facebook as the proxy who did the actual financing and coordination of the development Feds didn't develop it. It was a 3rd party computer security firm and allegedly they never even gave the exploit to the feds. The FBI was involved in failed attempts to hack the guy (according to the article you linked, their hacks were even detected and mocked by the guy), and Facebook passed on information about him to the fbi, but it appears the fbi wasn't officially involved in the successful hack or development of the 0-day >the vulnerability is not coordinated with Tails OS developed team, so most likely it's still UNFIXED The vulnerability was already planned to be patched out before it was exploited. They didn't need to disclose it to the Tails team because they knew it wasn't going to work in upcoming versions. They still should have told the Tails team, but it's not a huge deal that they didn't and we know that it's patched now. >You have no security. You have no privacy. That sick fuarrrk spent 5 years harassing and extorting children for nudes, made countless murder, rape, bombing, and mass shooting threats, and he was only caught because a private company spent years trying to track him across his multiple aliases (they even developed new tools specifically for his behavior patterns, and had teams of people dedicated to tracking just him), they spent years coordinating with the fbi who failed to catch him, and then the private company finally dropped 6 figures on an exploit with a short shelf life solely to target him. An exploit that he could have avoided by following the basic opsec rule of "never open downloaded files on a machine with a network connection." This doesn't say "no security, no privacy" to me. It says that a piece of soykaf constantly doing some of the worst soykaf possible on a platform that makes its money by logging everything and violating everybody's privacy will last 5 years and catching them will require both extensive effort on the platform's end and an opsec failure on the piece of soykaf's end.

>>72296 You glow really bad. >Feds didn't develop it Sure thing. Feds are the most innocent organization that ever existed. They funded it, but formally everything was done by facebook. Corporation can't just develop malware and get on with it. If it didn't get charged then it was with feds' blessing. > fbi wasn't officially involved Of course, you nigger, feds will not ever be officially involved in any such thing I won't even deign to explain why. >we know that it's patched now. Citation needed. >This doesn't say "no security, no privacy" to me. Of course it doesn't cause you're glowie. >will last 5 years Nope. It means that if they want to get into your computer they will just drop 6 figures to develop a zero-day specially for you. The reason why this guy lived so long is likely because no one really does give a fuarrrk about a failed nigger abusing gullible children. If he ever did a thing of what he promised likely he wouldn't even live a year.

>>72309 >It means that if they want to get into your computer they will just drop 6 figures to develop a zero-day specially for you. Lmao. If they're willing to spend 6 figures and there isnt a 0day already available for it they'll just ship you off to a black site and torture you, then kill you. Way cheaper.

>>72311 Not unless I'm in USA which I'm not.

I paid for a burner number, Hushed, because I needed a google account for something specific. It's not accepting the number, did I just waste money? I thought a paid service would be able to function for 2FA at least. Does anybody remember when signing up to a website didn't mandate handing over personal information. It's as if they want to keep some blackmail insurance policy just in case, phone numbers are generally tied to real world identities and everywhere asks for your number now.

>>72156 >I want to leave a trail of death and fire [at your high school]. I will simply WALK RIGHT IN UNDETECTED TOMORROW … I will slaughter your entire class and save you for last. I will lean over you as you scream and cry and beg for mercy before I slit your f**king throat from ear to ear. I just don't get why you wouldn't reply to this cringey bullshit with the navy seals copypasta or that speech from Taken.

10 years ago on my gentoo box with quodlibet when i seeked in songs it would sometimes skip back after seeking to the position i want. 10 years later on rythmbox on ubuntu 20 it does the exact same thing. why the fuarrrk?????????????????????????

rfc-editor.org goes through cloudflare and is super tor sensitive. where can i find a mirror of rfc documents?

I'm looking for a FOSS software or plugin which will arrange multiple images into a single canvas of size (x,y), as automatically as possible. The best I can find so far is imagemagick's montage tool with `-mode Concatenate`, but requires manual (or non-trivial custom programming) configuration of tiling and pre-processing of each image so that they all fit in the final canvas size, which isn't great for efficiently combining images of different aspect ratios (see image). I'd like a tool that handles it all automatically.

>>72403 what do you need this for?

>>72403 That's relatively trivial, you should just do it yourself. Link against imagemagick or libpng, libjpg, libtiff, etc, look at the sizes, and allocate accordingly. There's actually even a booru (lol) userscript "Yande.re masonry" that does this. I've never implemented it, but naively, I don't see any real major difficulties.

>>72403 I believe several programming languages could be used to do this in the way you're describing. Bash could work, but it might be miserable to program. Maybe python would be better, I haven't touched that language in a while. Channel that punk DIY spirit and make a tool yourself :) I believe in you.

i am trying to host simple php website with infinityfree get error message "Server or website configuration is blocking you from viewing this page what do i do? also what other information can/should i provide for getting an answer?

I want to quit my phone, but I'm still struggling with finding a solution to sms and calls. I have a thinkpad with a sim card slot in it, but I now lack software. I need something to: send and recieve both calls and sms + some way to notify my system on incoming calls and sending a notification on boot for unheard ones and unseen sms. Any advice or experience?

Any lains know of a decent totally-local voice cloning tool? It doesn't have to be great quality. I'm just looking to clone a semi-niche TV character who hasn't been cloned by any of the existing platforms.

Just recently an issue's started for me where my PC will be running as normal. Then out of nowhere a tone will play, my screen will go black and system audio will play briefly before that's also cut. It isn't because of inactivity because this happens while tasks are open and both cables on my monitor are secured. I'm assuming this is an issue with RAM or the power supply but I'm willing to hear out any explanation.

>>71550 Thanks, guys. I appreciate the help

>>72500 Some part broke. The BIOS/UEFI firmware plays the tune (check out the manual or search internet). You should unplug everything you can and then check everything part by part. Use something like memtest86+ for RAM. It's included with most GNU/Linux liveCDs (like SystemRescueCD).

This is a dumb question but is there a Linux distro OOB that handles SMB shares via point and click in the GUI? Here is what I want: In Windows, I go to Network Folders, click on my NAS, put in info, and it mounts it and I can do whatever I want within my shares. In Linux (Fedora GNOME, Debian KDE, Ubuntu GNOME) I often don't even see the share, and have to manually mount in via cifs-utils with username and password and that doesn't always work and I end up tshooting different samba versions and stuff. Any ideas? I hate using Windows but the integration with my Synology is seamless

why do wh*teoids use github? do they not know its owned by microsoft? do they really think theres a point in open source when 99% of the code is hosted on microsoft's website? is it the foooken 80s again? imagine being this retarded. they can just put malware in any code you download and run ever

>>72559 I think it's not about distro, but your file manager or whatever you use to find shares. I'm pretty sure I connected to samba share with thunar in a point and click manner, thought I think it uses some plugin, which can be missing by default on some distros. Check Mint XFCE, I think it worked there.

>>72561 you would become very rich if you discovered that happening and sued them

>>68489 Is the IRC server down?

What are the negative consequences of running I2P and Tor website on a single server?

>>72628 Not much, but attackers might be able to carry out correlation attacks to determine that x Tor and y i2p site is on the same server and then do network timing based attacks on the 2 different connections. But really, unless your threat model is the NSA or mossad, you should be good.

I have a problem I think Lain can help with and I am thinking of two solutions. I need internet in one portion of my house but every commercial mesh solution in budget is very botnet and I wonder if lains have one they like or know how I could start blocking telemetry upstream in the firewall I'm putting in. The other idea I have is to use an old phone that uses lineage or something similar. I can put ethernet 50 meters through the house but every time you use a usb to ethernet adapter with linux and vpn or tor you get signal interrupts. This happens on different hardware and different adapters so i am thinking this is a feature instead of a bug and I don't know why the "usb0" interface is better than en0xlfd49p0 that you can't fuarrrking type in tty and have to copy paste. I am leaning towards the mesh because I need wifi there since I have 1.5 bars on the phone but I need something more reliable.

Alright guys, give it to me straight. Which is better, DNSCrypt, DNS over HTTPS, or DNS over TLS?

>>72658 DNSCrypt, as that does encryption+DNS server based authentication with minimal overhead. DoT and DoH are utter garbage, as you're including the bloat and overhead of TLS for no good reason and you're doing CA based authentication. The only reason why DoH exists is due to cyberhumpled networks with DPI that only allow TLS+HTTP over port 443, HTTP over port 80 and DNS over port 53 - except DNS is spied on and regularly censored and the only easy way to get a non-poisoned DNS over than sort of network is to do DNS over HTTPS.

>>72659 But DNSCrypt isn't in the debian 12 repo for some reason ?

>>72660 Install Gentoo-libre GNU/Linux-libre net-dns/dnscrypt-proxy Latest version available: 2.1.4 Latest version installed: 2.1.4 Size of files: 6,737 KiB Homepage: https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy Description: A flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols

what kind of dildo fukcing dipshit makes software where the menu drop downs visibly take time to appear after clicking them and of course the hamburger menu successor is usually just 10x slower

>what kind of dildo fukcing dipshit makes software where the menu drop downs visibly take time to appear after clicking them also how is it even possible

>>72587 okay, doesnt mean they arent doing it, retard

explain this soykaf: sleep 999 & ^D exit (console sits there doing nothing for 5 seconds and then closes) setsid sleep 999 ^D exit (console sits there doing nothing for 5 seconds and then closes) happens on stock ubuntu and stock debian on gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, but not konsole, nor stterm (unless stterm is run with GNU screen). must be related to the PAM/w/lastlog botnet

>>72725 Can't reproduce with xfce4-terminal.

why do downloads in firefox over a non perfect link often get stuck and you cant remove them and why did this happen for 10 years even in firefox forks even on multiple distros even with wayland

why the hell vichan based boards reset my zoom on opening threads? using librewolf latest build

>>72752 Sounds like PEBKAC, you're not meant to download files through a web browser. Use an actual file manager, such as https://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

>>72758 wtf it's proprietary. i don't know any foss download managers except wget. curl can also be used for such purposes. that said i use them instead. plus simple wrapper script that does the while ! "$@" ; do true; done thing in case download fails.

>wget thats not even a download manager >what is jdownloader >what is flashget oh no no no no no

how do you manage multiple downloads how do you change the target folder when its midway thru downloading, do you add a sticky note to your desk, like wtf? how do you pause some downloads to make speed for others? how do you even have a queue????

>>72758 >PEBKAC >Use an actual actual file manager >freedownloadmanager.org Come on...

>>72800 jdownloader seems open source, but doesn't look free. it's not clear how to commit code, because they don't have git repository, which is click-accessible. >flashget is it even open source? >thats not even a download manager what feature does wget not have, that you need to bloat your system with whatever the fuarrrk? >>72801 >how do you manage multiple downloads wget "$link1" "$link2" "$link3" >how do you change the target folder when its midway thru downloading, do you add a sticky note to your desk, like wtf? wget -c "$link" ^C mv "$path" "$new_path" cd "$(dirname "$new_path")" wget -c "$link" >how do you pause some downloads to make speed for others? ^C >how do you even have a queue???? wget "$link1" "$link2" will download sequentially.

>>72831 By "how do you even have a queue", I assume they meant "how do you have a queue you can append stuff to. So the answer would be: $ wget "link1" "link2" ^C $ wget -c "link1" "link2" "link3" This answer isn't so good though, since you need to interrupt the ongoing download to add a new one. Managing multiple concurrent downloads can quickly become a pain in the ass too.

>>72833 Literally apt search download manager and Uget (formerly urlgfe) is a simple, lightweight and easy-to-use download manager. It provides the following features: * Resume downloads. * Queue downloads. * Classify downloads in categories. * Mozilla Firefox integration (through Flashgot plugin). * Clipboard monitoring. * Import downloads import from HTML files. * Batch download. . It also can be launched from the command line. However, I am quite content with wget. It does everything I need so far. I don't have to manage tens of downloads simultaneously, so I don't care to seek for more.

Lains, what is the matrix client which is like kicking dead whales down the beach the least.

>he stopped replying >[reflects] >oh soykaf i was wrong my retarded script kiddie bullshit does not solve the stated problem >but wait its still his fault cus he didnt run apt search >still not getting that the poster was only making fun of his retarded script kiddie soykaf and isnt actually requesting anything >n*xoids.

Recommended WiFi cards for ThinkPad E430 (using linux)?

>>72837 I'll rephrase: what is the matrix client you use that you can tell is fine enough to recommend to another lainon?

>>72859 >script kiddie How does being content with command line tools make you a script kiddie? Did you read the definition? Also, why are you so butthurt? Is opening a terminal socially punished where you live?

>>72882 anything made by Intel

Linux is fuarrrking wonderful, really. It's the best thing that has ever happened to me in my entire life. >xfce4-power-manager reduces brightness when I'm on a different virtual console >asking myself what the actual fuarrrk >maybe it's because I don't use xfce4-session >start doing random soykaf with xfce4-session, trying to start it from i3, trying to start i3 from it and so on >install xfwm4 and xfdesktop again >confirm that everything work fine with pure xfce4 >revert things back to i3 cuz don't remember >everything works >xfce4-appearance suddenly works as well >wtf

why is every software since 1980 some garbage that has all kinds of useless features like "your news, sir" and it freezes every 5 seconds to implement them. i installed windows 10 a few years ago on a $1000 box and it literally did this. even opening the start menu froze the machine. their excuse was that i was supposed to buy an M.2 hard drive and $500 CPU, and "normal people" dont notice the start menu freezing for 2-10 seconds. does tech attract retards?

>>72948 windows is being intentionally killed, we just don't know yet for what purpose exactly. linux has this same kind of problem where you have to spend a year or two learning the whole ecosystem before you get trivial things to work. t. lain who never used gnome/kde for more than a few minutes

>>72948 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5NrevFtbU The end user and purpose of implementation are considered less important than maintaining the ease-of-integration of new, less expert and less expensive programmers into any given development role. Everywhere, all the time. Especially in open source projects, including those with user-vital functionality - Linus Torvalds was considered a member of the lunatical fringe for insisting that Linux kernel update versions not break userspace and not cause massive downgrades in performance on nominally supported hardware. Lennart Poettering for example infamously disagreed with Linus' philosophy of user first, performance second, developer experience never. The fact that Linus' deprioritization of developer happiness extended to creating an actively hostile social environment was considered a feature not a bug of linux development for decades but the project seems to have walked that back, which gives some of us a bad feeling in our guts about the prioritization of user experience in the project's future. So this isn't a Windows thing by any stretch of the imagination. If you want to see how bad this gets in the open source world rather than win10, you don't have to go any further than to check out our own Wayland thread on this very board. The Wayland advocates feel very strongly about things that affect the developer experience (X is unquestionably developer-hostile), and the anti-Wayland voices in turn are presenting themselves as examining failures of design rather than failures of implementation or failures of user-experience. There's no way that the entire discussion could in any way reflect reality. This board could not possibly contain that many DE, TWM, WM or graphical application developers. It seems more realistic that this board contains a very large number of programmers of multiple disciplines with strong ideological inclinations towards what a programmer's work and conventions ought be, and who think of that as overwhelmingly relevant. In the interest of honesty regarding my own opinions on Wayland, I'm firmly in the Jaron Lanier school of thought on UX. Graphical fidelity is vastly less important than responsive immediacy and rapidity of updates and the way ideologically pure wayland projects like swaywm have always historically sacrificed what I consider basic quality of life factors such as cursor immediacy has entirely soured me on the project.

Is archive.org Wayback Machine down? Do we know why?

any good maps/navigation software for gnu/linux? something similar to osmand on mobile, where you can download osm data for an entire country and generate routes offline and stuff

>>72982 the end is near the end is near the end is near the end is near the end is near the end is near

I looked at this but not sure what it does. Does it remove all unneeded optional dependencies? Is this safe? I only recognized 3 of the 50 packages it listed for me that should be kept https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks#Detecting_more_unneeded_packages

For some reason readline doesn't show the right cursor in bash. In /etc/readline I have (among other things): $if term=linux set vi-ins-mode-string \1\e[?0c\2 set vi-cmd-mode-string \1\e[?8c\2 $else set vi-ins-mode-string \1\e[6 q\2 set vi-cmd-mode-string \1\e[2 q\2 $endif When I open kitty in dwm it shows | cursor in both cmd and ins modes, instead of showing [] in cmd and | in ins modes how it's supposed. It shows correct cursors in a tty. If I set it as set vi-ins-mode-string wat1\1\e[6 q\2 set vi-cmd-mode-string wat2\1\e[2 q\2 I see the prefixes change when I change modes in kitty. If i run /bin/sh in kitty again it works as expected. If I ssh into a machine with the same config $ ssh redacted.local cat /etc/inputrc | sha256sum - /etc/inputrc 84a58464ddcdc82d5f538d5adbec19061a636475431664df0a485a2b04d02838 - 84a58464ddcdc82d5f538d5adbec19061a636475431664df0a485a2b04d02838 /etc/inputrc it works fine. Both machines run Fedora Server. I've tried sudo grep -r '\\e' /etc but it only found /etc/inputrc and another file in /etc/profile.d/ which again is the same on both machines. If I log as root it works fine. I assume the problematic config is in ~ . grep '\\e' ~ -r erturns 70 lines with garbage from all over, but grep '\\e\[[0-9] q' ~ -r only finds some lines in .bash_history What could be the problem?

where the fuarrrk did the thread with shared logins go? i forgot to bookmark it and now am fuarrrking clueless. how come i be so blind?

>>73121 >where the fuarrrk did the thread with shared logins go? >>>/Δ/7500 >how come i be so blind? It makes sense after realizing that it's in a different board, right?

>>73126 thank you, good Lain!

thunderbird does not send emails anymore. not even the latest version. "transaction lost in middle" or something to that effect. it read mails and saves them to draft but does not send. claws just works, but doesn't have oauth2 support (theoretically it does, but in practice i find it impossible to setup because it involves tons of bullshit i do not want to know about) i am so fuarrrking enraged. nothing except the fuarrrking stupid retarded web interfaces work anymore. this is beyond frustrating. i don't want to participate in this world any longer

why is it that plain text formats are always exploitable, like XML with its latest XXE problem, and binary formats are almost never (ASN.1 doesnt count) every time i see some plain text i just immediately assume its vulnerable and audit it and find 3 vulns in 10 minutes >>73205 thats what happens when you use soykaf plain text protocols that any retard can extend and interpret in his own canon

why the fuarrrk does gedit show a dash when the line is too long to fit in the window?? who the fuarrrk thinks its a good idea to put text in a text document that isnt really there? THIS SHIT WOULD HAVE PISSED ME THE fuarrrk OFF EVEN WHEN I WAS 8 YEARS OLD IT ISNT A SKILL TOO HIGH ISSUE YOU ARENT HELPING DUMB USERS YOUR SOFTWARE IS JUST SHIT KYS am i wrong in concluding that anyone who designs software like this is the default soyjak.jpg IRL?

>>73215 idk try writing your own xml library? it's hell to parse text, parsing binary is theoretically much simpler. just a wild guess.

is there anything except calibre to read ebooks (fb2, epub) on linux like a normal lain? i tried bookworm but it's as bad as it gets. took me less than a minute to delete it right after installing.

>>73229 It's also easier to fuzz, or otherwise play with, text-based formats, so it's easier to find the vulnerabilities in them. For xml specifically it's because the xml standard has a number of pitfalls and dragons that most devs who are just trying to serialize some simple struct aren't aware of.

whens that day of the seal thing again? october 11?

I am going to buy ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 AMD. Are there any restrictions on part repair/replacement? From what I found it wont't accept unofficial battery(?) and won't accept anything but certified card in WWAN slot, so no second SSD. But apart from that is there anything I should know about? Are there any restrictions on SSD replacement? What about screen/WiFi/etc?

>>73241 Graphical: fbreader Terminal: epy (https://github.com/wustho/epy)

If a program works on Debian, will it also work on Ubuntu? Or do you need different ISO files? I'm not a tech guy. If Netflix released an app just to work on Debian, would the app also work on Ubuntu?

>>73411 >If a program works on Debian, will it also work on Ubuntu? Yes, Ubuntu is more or less just Debian distributed with extra software.

>>73411 let me introduce you with the idea of "debian based distro" anon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions

>>73411 linux being linux not only will it very likely work on ubuntu or mint, it will also probably work on arch and gentoo and even most likely debian. A skilled user can probably make it work on nearly any system if it works.

>>73421 it's quite based actually

If you mean based as in, "retarded anarcho primitivist I don't even know what I am anymore conservative with no skills in tech other than virtue signalling (such as real man CLI, real man C)", then yes, based indeed.

>>73421 >>73427 >>73431 >>73378 here. Why are you all fighting over a simple software recommendation? >>73241 didn't specify whether they wanted a graphical or terminal application, so I provided one option for each. KOReader (graphical) is a good option as well that I forgot to put in my original reply. Don't treat others like soykaf and then complain that the quality of this hellsite is going downhill.

Is there any functional use-case, current or predicted, for GNU Hurd? Is it just an exercise in hobbyist microkernel development, any improvements long obsoleted? Does the microkernel structure give benefits over the monolithic kernels of Linux and the most popular *BSDs?

>>73435 >Does the microkernel structure give benefits over the monolithic kernels of Linux and the most popular *BSDs? Yes, but only if you can make context switching extremely cheap like L4 does.

Not important, but are there any funny or interesting ways to fuarrrk with crawlers for your public site? robots.txt stuff, "anti"-seo, whatever. An idea I had that might be more work than worth was to set, for example, a fake phpmyadmin page (or similar bait) that bots like to poke for possible attack vectors, and when perhaps human override takes place they're faced with some shock image. Are there more typical things that could be done? To be clear: This isn't a security thing, I'm just being cruel.

>>73453 In the past I would refer visitors with clear bot names in the User-Agent (or referers I didn't like) to https://theannoyingsite.com/ . But it looks like it's down right now. Thankfully the source appears to be at https://github.com/feross/TheAnnoyingSite.com if you want some home-grown fuarrrkery

Is there any way to stream 1080p or higher from YouTube using yt-dlp or am I stuck having to actually download the files?