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Tech Questions #12 Old thread: >>68489 Ask your simple questions in this thread. First question: What's that LARP thing web shotters do where they make a "CLI" and its just a bunch of soykaf to make "REST" calls?

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

>>73550 you walk on your back?

what the inform on passkey? Seems like a way to device fingerprint you when you're operating online. I'd argue getting a yubi key with FIDO2 is better?

>>73550 correct answer. thread closed.

>>73499 >What's that LARP thing web shotters do where they make a "CLI" and its just a bunch of soykaf to make "REST" calls? Those are sometimes helpful when you're running a headless system or when you want to use some web service's functionality as part of a shell script.

How do I set up an RSS feed? Also is there an easy guide to them? The results that pop up from looking online don't seem particularly helpful.

I was assembling an HF radio kit, but managed to rip off some of the pads. I think this particular failure is a recoverable one, but I'd like some advice. Order of events: 1. Through-hole component was soldered in place 2. Pliers were used to break off the excess of leads (but this was too brutal -- I also ripped off two pads) So, the through-hole component is secured. It only remains to route the signals. I think I should just be able to scrape away the visible traces with a knife, and use a solder blob to connect everything together. Thoughts?

>>73595 rss is just xml. You can manually create and update your feed pretty easily. https://www.w3schools.com/XML/xml_rss.asp is pretty straightforward. For more detail, you can use the specification to see what fields are required and all the otional fields that are available: https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification You can use https://validator.w3.org/feed/ to validate that your syntax is correct. If you're using some sort of content management system for your site, there is probably a config option or plugin to update the rss feed automatically.

>>73596 So yeah, i tried to solder directly to that short bit of trace, and it didn't work out. The whole thing formed a blob which didn't want to bond to the small exposed component leads. The one at left is fine though. So, my new plan is to connect these two component leads using ... a spare snipped component lead. Then, solder more component lead onto that bridge.

>>73607 Much of soldering skill is hard to communicate in words, but usually pads detach when using too much heat, go to something around 350 degrees and avoid heating it for longer than needed. Avoid lead-free if you can, just wash your hands after soldering. After a pad already detached, yes you can use a wire or a leftover of some component leg to bridge things.

Details about this project and source is in the link: https://github.com/Nemesis0U/I2P-Browser

Whenever I try to install something I get this error message. Ever since I tried (and failed) to install LibreWolf, its been this way. >>73550 That's a million dollar idea, lainon.

Kindof a dumbo question, but: Do all desktop environments on Debian come with the same software.

>>73495 Does MPV[https://mpv.io/] not stream above 1080p? I had to cap the resolution at 1440p since my CPU can't handle 2160p

>>73499 I can't get fire-fox 118 on Gentoo to compile for Wayland. It fails on compiling GtkCompositorWidget.o with error 1 Further up the log there is an error of widget/gtk/GtkCompositorWidget.cpp:50:7 'use of undeclared identifier `GdkIsWaylandDiskpay`: did you mean `GdkWaylandDisplay` /usr/include/gtk-3.0/gdk/wayland/gdkwaylanddisplay.h:34:20 `GdkWaylandDisplay` declared here The clang++ command has the -I flag to include widget/gtk folder which has https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/widget/gtk/WidgetUtilsGtk.{h,cpp} Which seems to contain the function bool GdkIsWaylandDisplay(GdkDisplay* display) But it's still not recognized. it also includes '/usr/include/gtk-3.0' does that mean that clang is ignoring all the other includes?

>>73631 >come with no, but you could install most software that another DE comes with on most other DEs, if not all

>>73639 That's cool, thank you. If I was in charge of a DE it would come with Files, Terminal, LibreWolf, Text Editor, and no other program. If someone wants another program, they can install it themself. Its easier to install extra programs than to uninstall them.

>>73627 I fixed it with: sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/librewolf.sources

>>73640 DEs really shouldn't come with other software; distros make it easy to install all of those packages on their own with 1 command

Do wigroids still put a bunch of web admins on the same box and use UN*X permissions to stop them from editing each other's sites?

so, if i'm using a website through a .onion hidden service it means that all the requests i'm making look like it's coming from localhost on their end, right? but how do non .onion elements in the page factor into this? let's say for example that a page on a hidden service has a youtube.com video embed and i start watching it, does that mean that the youtube video traffic is being proxied through the hidden service or am i making a connection to youtube.com skipping the onion site relays and directly through my exit node? my guess is that it's the latter since the former would probably be a PITA to host but i'm curious and my duckduck-fu wasn't strong enough to find good answers on this

How is a micro kernel better than a monolithic one? Are there any (semi-)usable libre operating systems that use a micro kernel? I'm not interested in GNU Hurd because I heard that Mach micro kernel has notoriously bad performance because it has some design faults.

>>73767 Hidden service will see localhost, YouTube will see the IP of your exit node.

>>73767 You'll have one circuit for the hidden service and one separate circuit for the clearnet resources embedded on the page. Every embedded clearnet resource will go through the same circuit, but if you open a separate tab and manually go to one of the embedded sites, you'll use a different circuit for the direct connection. Let's suppose you're at an onionsite that embeds a random image from lainchan and a random video from YouTube. You'll have two circuits: one for the requests to the hidden service and one for the requests to lainchan and YouTube. If you refresh the page and get a new embedded image/video, the same two circuits from the initial request will be reused. So you have: * circuit A1 - used for the hidden service * circuit A2 - used for clearnet resources embedded on the hidden service If you then open up two new, empty tabs and then open lainchan and YouTube in them, two new circuits will be used for them. So now you have: * circuit A1 - used for the hidden service * circuit A2 - used for clearnet resources embedded on the hidden service. * circuit B - used for the new lainchan tab * circuit C - used for the new youtube tab If you go back to the onion site and refresh again, getting a new image and new video, circuit A2 will still be used to load those resources. If you then go back to your lainchan tab and go to the thread that the image is from, you'll send a request for the image over circuit B (importantly: you are not going to see the cached image as it was when you got it from the onion service using circuit A2. The new lainchan tab won't know that you have that image already, so it will use its circuit, B, to request it). Likewise if you go to your separate YouTube tab and search for the video that was embedded, you'll reload that video over circuit C. However, if you do something like click on the "view on youtube" button of the video that is embedded in the onion service's page, then a new youtube tab may open but will still be using circuit A2. This is assuming you're using the tor browser bundle and not just a normal browser proxying through tor.

any recommendations for domain registrars? i don't want to use crimeflare and porkbun looks nice, should i go with them?

>be me, yesterday >decide to move my VPS/cloud stuff from vultr to hetzner >register account >add address, payment info etc and verify everything, hetzner makes a test invoice to my credit card and it werks >go to sleep thinking i'd start all the work after i wake up >wake up hours l8r >eating breakfast, checking e-mail >see hetzner deactivated my account while i was sleeping, before i could even try to rent a fuarrrking VPS >if i try to register another account on the same e-mail it says i should reset my password since it's already registered >if i try to reset my password it says my account is derezzed what kind of fuarrrking bullshit is this? do i need to call some soykafty support hotline and beg these german assholes to unban me? WHAT THE fuarrrk DID I EVEN DO TO TRIGGER THIS AUTOMATIC "REJECTION"? /rant

>>73818 openNIC body too short body too short body too short

>>73835 (me) checked the internetz for similar cases and apparently this is common, if you register an account with these assholes from outside america/canada/australia/europe they just exclude you for being a "high-risk customer" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29093190 (there's even one of their support desk gremlins in the comments of this thread running defense for this dogshit automated system) https://old.reddit.com/r/hetzner/comments/nofw6s/another_unfairly_account_rejected/ https://old.reddit.com/r/NextCloud/comments/l0khz2/can_i_do_anything_about_a_rejection_from_hetzner/ https://old.reddit.com/r/hetzner/comments/14fvotu/rejection_of_your_account/ going to try and somehow appeal this on their support line, if it doesn't work or takes too long there goes to another provider the ~700 EUR/month i was going to spend on their service

>>73835 RIP I see several complaints on Reddit and other places that Hetzner likes to pull this bullshit. You could probably send a data removal request to have them remove your email and payment information. It's unfortunately common with big hosting providers like this, they like to do random bullshit, ban and lock accounts completely at random. >>73818 Porkbun is probably good enough. They tend to have better prices than Namecheap. Njalla is good too but more expensive.

Is there a way to install Linux mint and dualboot it with win11 without a usb/cd? I already have the ISO and tried Unetbootin but it kept throwing errors even after turning off fast boot. Is PXE the only option?

>>73864 Which errors exactly?

>>73865 This: Windows Boot Manager Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer. 2. Choose your language settings, and then click "Next." 3. Click "repair your computer." If you don't have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance. File: \ubnldr.mbr Status: 0xc0000007b Info: The application or operating system couldn't be loaded because a required file is missing or contains errors

I took this screenshot as my Ubuntu laptop was crashing. Thoughts?

why has thunar segfaulted in multiple use cases on multiple architectures and multiple distros with completely different package managers / repo ecosystems? is the author retarded? but if thats true then why do 1/3 of un*x users use it (since its the main XFCE file browser)? something doesnt add up here

>>73913 going a little back in time to debian bullseye and xfce is still good, but now it's piece of crap. xfwm4 doesn't work with feh anymore, thunar is fuarrrking broken, etc etc. switched to i3wm + worker file manager, works OK. xfce4 devs are retards who can't understand that once software is written and working fine it must be left alone for the great good

>>73914 sorry i forgot to also mention that this was happening for 10 years. 10 years ago thunar segfaulted all the time. today it still does, and last year.

>>73872 It's Windows bootloader error, what the fuarrrk are you trying to do? Also, what the fuarrrk does 'without a usb/cd' mean? Also, you seem to be struggling to properly describe your problem how are you going to set up a PXE server? Also, why PXE at all if you have a USB stick? I've ever only used Debian and Arch, but installation process is more or less the same for every linux distro, so if you manage to at least explain what are you doing I might be able to help. Linux Mint has a scarce installation guide: https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ It will be helpful if you also read Debian's installation guide to get a broader picture: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ Linux Mint is fork of Ubuntu which is fork of Debian so they are likely very similar.

Copying all my files to a flash drive and I got this pop up. What does it mean?

>>73918 Probably your flash drive is formatted as fat32 or some other filesystem that doesn't support symbolic links, but the folder you're copying has one or more symbolic links somewhere in it. If you want to keep those links you'll need to format the usb to something that supports symbolic links. gparted is the easiest tool to use for this.

>>73918 rsync inores symbolic links by default use it. maybe even with --copy-links if that won't expand to too much space

>>73864 >Unetbootin Try Rufus. It's generally better (I have used both). >>73913 Works on my machine (Tm). But you might want to try XFE or pcmanfm instead. >>73872 Use the Linux Mint flash drive and check that you didn't overwrite or delete the Windows partition (C drive) or EFI System Partition ( should be the first partition on disk. It's a small FAT32 partition with capacity of 550MB or a bit less. It has partition type of EF00 ) If EFI System Partition is missing, you can recreate it (using the Linux Mint installer or gparted) and then you need to either reinstall Linux Mint or just grub bootloader (chroot, follow instructions in Gentoo Handbook (yes, really!) and look up how to reinstall Grub from Arch Linux Wiki. You need to do something like grub-install --efi-dir=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=LinuxMint and then regenerate grub config with grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg If you install and enable os-prober, Grub can be also used to boot Windows (with chainloader).

>>73923 >how to reinstall GRUB On UEFI it's as easy as grub-install --efi-directory=/efi --target=x86_64-efi where /efi is where the EFI System Partition is mounted.

has there been there any forum with free speech on the internet since 2009? like just one that deletes spam and $illegal_in_x_jurisdiction, nothing more. everywhere i go its just dead soykafhole with some tranny who spends 3 hours a day looking over every post and deleting the ones that violate what "reasonable moderation" means in his headcanon.

>>73931 no maybe tor maybe i2p maybe opennic

>>73931 There are boards that are completely unmoderated, if that's what you mean. Personally I would rather not have to listen to every soyjak poster but you do you I guess.

what is this fucing glitterboy soykaf where firefox and its forks suggest the domain name even though you didnt bookmark it. settings related

>>73934 tor is full of braindead baboons who think C programs are more secure than java. all the forums without CP are run by a tranny who spends 6 hours per day checking posts for anything bad. on that note all moderation on the internet has ever been is essentially deleting any post that would have been downvoted on reddit, the latter just being any post that is negative or "against the vibes" of some insider trading loser glitterboy OP >>73935 well enjoy your safe space then, li'l wheeler

>>73931 There's no incentive to running a site you can't stand looking at it. It's like opening your house to every homeless crackhead, out of altruism or some dumb soykaf. Would you really want to live there? The crackheads get a nice place to do crack whenever they're in the mood for that, but you don't get anything out of it. So you ignore it, and either your domain or hosting all together gets shut off when it gets overrun with illegal soykaf, but you can't be bothered to delete that anymore.

Hi lainons recently I was given a used samsung S8 as a gift, and decided that I would like to try rooting it since i've heard that it gives you a lot more customability options for your phone, but I have no idea where to even begin Could any of you anons point me in the right direction?

>>73960 The steps are essentially: 1. Unlock your bootloader. 2. Install a custom recovery like TWRP. 3. Flash Magisk. You can probably find a tutorial on forum.xda-developers.com

>>73919 >>73920 Thanks guys. I did not even want to copy the symbolic link, so I'm glad it rejected it.

>>73970 oh hey, never heard of that forum before I'll search around in there and see what I can find some not-too-hard-to-follow info about all this. Thanks for the help anon (*^ ω ^)b

>>73636 MPV can but if you try to get a higher resolution than 720p yt-dlp downloads separate video and audio files and then combines them. Unless I'm mistaken. What is your setup?

is there a comprehensive decentralized way to send an .exe file to my friend that is not fuarrrking broken out of the box? tox is dead, jabber maybe, but its clients fuarrrking suck, idk maybe onionshare or maybe retroshare idk never tried them are they even a thing or AM I DOOMED??

>>74047 Forgot to mention that no, I am unfortunately not in the position to brainwash my friends into installing gentoo and then contacting me via torified socat.

i am looking for an android app similiar to onenote it must have support for a pen, so i can mark things and make my math homework on it i also want to be able to write in pdfs or attach images to a note i am fine with paying a ONE TIME payment, no SaaS bullshit it must work offline with easy access to the files foss prefered but not a must thank you lains upfront :)

How does the domain name market work? As far as I can tell, registrars charge yearly fees for having your domain registered, those fees can be subject to any change (at least as long as this is not restricted in the contract, but do any registrars do this?) and after ten years or so you might lose the domain if the registrar decides it would be better to give it to someone else. How is this considered acceptable? It is not like I could just change the domain if I want to after a price increase, because then all the people that know my email and site would not find me anymore. Am I missing something here? Also what are the best registrars in your opinion and why?

>>74047 matrix? wormhole.app is e2ee and very easy to use. I dont know what you think decentralised means

>>74067 thanks. matrix is crap(?), because as far people's opinions go there's only one viable clients and it's electron. i'm not installing electron, sorry. >decentralized it was kind of rant, nevermind. but ideally it would be super nice to send files p2p in a relatively easy manner.

i've just discovered that [ is not shell builtin, but /usr/bin/[. holy soykaf. my life was a lie

>>74065 No reasonable registrar would really give the domain that you own (and are paying for) to someone else. Otherwise they would get the reputation for being soykafty and nobody would use them. Another way registrars can be soykafty is having an opaque pricing scheme where the first year or few years are extremely cheap, but then they hike the price in the future. This is obviously easier for people to put up with than losing your domain for no reason. Registrars who do this have a bad reputation. I personally use Cloudflare which is "nice" in that they don't try to scam me. It's trivial to find good registrars if you browse indie forums and such. Make sure to read the terms and conditions for the registrar you want to use, because companies generally also get in trouble for not following their own stated terms.

can anyone help me? I'm trying to scan rfid to tag an item and it pretty much works. on the dongle reader it outputs: 2723134212 But the problem is that on the mobile device, flutter outputs: {nfca: {identifier: [4, 187, 79, 162, 165, 108, 128], atqa: [68, 0], maxTransceiveLength: 253, sak: 0, timeout: 618}, mifareultralight: {identifier: [4, 187, 79, 162, 165, 108, 128], maxTransceiveLength: 253, timeout: 618, type: 2}, ndef: {identifier: [4, 187, 79, 162, 165, 108, 128], isWritable: true, maxSize: 868, canMakeReadOnly: true, cachedMessage: {records: [{typeNameFormat: 4, type: [97, 110, 100, 114, 111, 105, 100, 46, 99, 111, 109, 58, 112, 107, 103], identifier: [], payload: [121, 111, 117, 116, 117, 98, 101, 46, 99, 111, 109]}]}, type: org.nfcforum.ndef.type2}} i don't quite get it and googling didn't clear anything.

>>74141 >121, 111, 117, 116, 117, 98, 101, 46, 99, 111, 109 That's the decimal representation of the ascii string "youtube.com" What library are you using for the nfc stuff? Probably you need to call some method to convert the payload into human readable strings

how to be a sysadmin without college?

>>74144 crack out a bunch of certs and create a false persona on linkedin

Has anybody used PowerShell? Is it actually good as Windows users say? Or is it just slightly better than cmd.exe/Batch but not as good as Bash? I'm thinking about reading the book "Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, 4th Edition" but I wanted to know if PowerShell is worth learning. I might try to get into IT job or sysadmin job in the future. >>74133 Your shell very likely has [ (aka test) as builtin, too. It gets used instead of the bin in /usr/bin/[ if it exists. Use help builtin to check it. >>74144 It's pretty hard. Go to college if you can because it's much easier (if you can afford it)! If you can't, then getting CCNA (widely recognized) would be a good idea. I also have heard good things about CompTIA and LPIC. You should also host a site (with some services like a pastebin, but don't host an imageboard or image/file upload services unless you are 100% certain you can moderate it.). Also, learn a bit of Bash and a bit of Python. Some resources: >https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php >https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ >https://automatetheboringstuff.com/ (you can also participate in a free MOOC at https://www.mooc.fi/en/courses/) >https://gaia.cs.umass.edu/kurose_ross/online_lectures.htm (probably the best book on networking:; Computer Networking: a Top Down Approach) For future reference: >https://www.grymoire.com/computers.html >https://www.regular-expressions.info I also recommend getting a Raspberry Pi (any model will work but I recommend Raspberry Pi 4 or 5). You can host Apache/Nginx if you block everything outside of LAN with UFW. Use OpenSSH to access your Pi (on Windows you also need PUTTY, but I recommend you dual-boot Windows and GNU/Linux if you don't do that already).

>>74144 Find a community college with a CCNA class preferably led by a CCIE instructor. You can self-study this but taking at least the first mini-mester of the course will be very useful for understanding fundamentals quickly and if you go through the whole thing you should get an exam voucher. I got my old job in enterprise firewall vendor support (read: escalations for sysadmins) through such a class. It should be a short.standalone vocational/cert course that doesn't require you to take any other classes.

>>74187 Powershell is weird and I don't know why it exists. That being said it is definitely the future of windows system administration and you should learn it.

trying to create lzma compressed initrd on one core vm on a relatively average cpu was a terrible mistake to make

I've been using my X200 for over 3 years now, it's a great laptop, generally speaking, but one thing that long-term will be a problem for me, is the battery. It runs OpenBSD with coreboot, but even if I maximize all settings, reduce daemons and backlighting to an absolute minimum, enable apmd -Z basically constantly, it barely lasts over 2 hours. I bought different batteries off ebay, that are supposedly better, but they are soykaf too. Is there any laptop that runs coreboot/OpenBSD, but has an okay battery time? Doesn't have to be extremely long, but enough so, that I can use it on the go without constantly having to look out for sockets. It's really awful how short it lasts, even with those new batteries. I don't care about the price, as long it is long-lasting, good, quality hardware and isn't more than 300 dollars.

>>74223 >I don't care about price >So long as it isn't more than 300 dollars Save more money to buy a laptop from one of the handful of manufacturers that sell new equipment with coreboot or buy a T440p and DIY, I may be wrong but from what research I did looking into this myself I think the 440p is the most modern reasonably cheap laptop that supports coreboot. Battery life is probably not going to be amazing still, but should be more than 2 hours. I don't know about BSD support, I assume its fine, the T440p was really popular. >Ebay batteries Stinky, bad, buy OEM Lenovo batteries or recell the batteries yourself, knock off laptop batteries are generally terrible.

>>74226 >>74223 Or, you know, carry multiple batteries. Its inelegant but it works and it doesn't involve spending more money.

>>74226 >ThinkPad T440p Where do you even buy it? Looks like a good thing. 9 cell battery is promising.

Henlo, i want to watch pirated movies on my TV, wifi is bad so plex does not seem viable and i was thinking of using a mini pc with HDMI cable to watch it instead. is it a good idea? how powerful should the mini pc be?

>>74223 I corebooted my x220. I did some basic OpenBSD testing on it, but I wasn't using it extensively with OpenBSD. With Alpine + Xmonad it was on ~4 hours with a 6-cell battery from aliexpress and pretty much getting the same results now with FreeBSD. I used to have an 9-cell, I think was at around 6 hours of work. If you want to have something more powerful, I think t430 was considered to be the best because you can change the cpu on it. You might search for the modding guides, they are quite extensive. Though you'd need to check the corebooting and OpenBDS compatibility.

>>74229 Where do you get anything? Ebay or an IT liquidator. You can get them from some of the companies that sell pre core/librebooted machines but that's probably a bit outside your budget

>>74232 TV has no Ethernet? Is the wiring in your house too old for power-line networking, I think some do wireless too. I don't think a HTPC[home theater personal computer] is a bad idea you could run libre software on it. Most IGPU & GPUs have hardware decoding at certain resolutions & bit depth. If the resolution you want to play is not supported by the ASIC I think it does software decoding on the CPU. I just tried to play some 4k videos on an old[2010s] four core CPU & I got lots of dropped frames on the 10bit HDR 60fps video but I was able to able to play a video that was 30fps & lower bit depth no HDR. I guess any new quad core plus CPU should be able to handle software decoding OK for even AV1. You could have a look at some benchmarks https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/dav1d I was able to play a 25FPS 4K AV1 video with just a few dropped frames on the quad core.

>>73637 It took so long to fix that version 119 was released but it had the same problem. Not sure what config I'm missing in my system that causes this. Got it to compile by adding a patch to include; #include "WidgetUtilsGtk.h to GtkCompositorWidget.cpp & WindowSurfaceProvider.cpp

I can connect to YouTube again, but I got this error for a while.

fuarrrking X crashed again when switching tty. i fuarrrking had a lot of work open, switched to another user to open browser and switched back only to see login prompt. what the actual fuarrrk. i grow more and more inclined to think this has something to do with soykafstemd. otherwise why would the entire login session fuarrrk up. holy soykaf i'm so angry right now

journalctl says systemd just decided to do exit.target for zero reason. this is so fuarrrking surreal

>>73637 >>74237 You need to post the USE flags for firefox. Also, paste your make.conf and emerge --info somewhere. Do you run ~amd64 (aka unstable) system-wide? If yes, then that's a very bad idea. Enable ~amd64 just for packages that need it (like Firefox). I also recommend that you run emerge --ask --update --deep --new-use --with-bdeps=y @world before you try again. >>74223 I would guess that a light GNU/Linux distro (like Void Linux or Alpine Linux) or FreeBSD would probably offer better battery life than OpenBSD. >>74326 >>74327 You could try Void Linux? I have never had any issues with it and it doesn't use SystemD (it uses Runit and it's faster than SystemD). Moreover, writing packages for Void is very easy (read the readme and CONTRIBUTING.md from void packages git repo) but Void Linux has pretty much all common programs already packaged. Void also has a musl version (it uses a bit less RAM but proprietary software expects Glibc). Void also has a TUI installer that just works (I recommend you set the installation source to Internet repo) and the support IRC channel is pretty active, too (if you need help with something).

>>74332 I have no time to learn a new distro, but I'll try it eventually. Are all packaged up to date? Because if no I could as well try Devuan in hopes it's up to date, because downstream od Debian.

>>74335 >I have no time to learn a new distro, but I'll try it eventually. It's all documented in the Void Linux handbook. You only need to know the package manager and basics of Runit: * Upgrade all packages (apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade): xbps-install -Su # -S means sync aka apt-get update * Find a package (apt search foobar): xbps-query -Rs foobar # -R means remote repo * Install a package: xbps-install foobar * Remove a package: xbps-remove foobar * enable service (systemctl enable openntpd): ln -s /etc/sv/openntpd /var/service/ * get status of service (systemctl status openntpd): sv status openntpd * restart a running service (systemctl restart openntpd): sv restart openntpd * disable service (systemctl disable openntpd): rm /var/service/openntpd >https://docs.voidlinux.org/xbps/index.html >https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/services/index.html >Are all packaged up to date? Yes. It's a rolling release distro but more stable than Arch Linux. >Because if no I could as well try Devuan in hopes it's up to date, because downstream od Debian. You need to use testing or unstable because Debian stable and Devuan stable aren't up-to-date (they only get security updates).

>>74339 I mean, I really have no time. Setting up a distro is a few days of work and then a week or more of settling. Thanks for elaborate post. I have heard Void misses security updates that don't come in time. I need to recheck, but maybe you know already, so I asked. Debian stable is not up to date, but I am very happy on it because I do not need to stomach any changes in workflow for 2 years at least. I am autist, so I really do not like frequent changes.

Also, I have a lot of custom setup and scripts that rely on systemd, that would be cognitively very involved to port all of them to a new init system.

Remember Linux 5.19 happily killed screens on intel gpu machines? How do I monitor similar hardware fuarrrkups before updating kernel?

I need to run a specific program using a proxy, dont wan't it system wide, so I looked up and thought I could try proxychains-ng, but... How do I even specify a SOCKS proxy for proxychains? I thought I could simply change the .conf file with the address and port, but that doesn't work. I assume it works somehow like torsocks, that listens at localhost, then tor daemon will assign you the nodes. So what do I have to do here? I'm assuming it's not a standalone program.

>>74370 You can run the program in a net_cls cgroup and configure nftables to tproxy the cgroup to your proxy. Most socks daemons support tproxy or something similar AFAIK. I have never done it though because I have no time to mess with firewalls.

>>74371 Nvm, I was fuarrrking up the .conf file. Is there a good free API or list for HTTP/SOCKS proxies?

I recently learned about Kiwix, a software that lets you download all of Wikipedia and browse it offline. So I was wondering if anyone has tried to hook up a Kiwix database to a language model that runs on your computer, so that you could have a chatbot-powered Wikipedia offline.

>>74385 >Good morning, Wiki-Chan! How are you today? >Good morning Anon-Kun! I'm great! Today is the 20th of April, commonly celebrated as "Weed Day" due to a recent popular internet phenomenon[1]. On the same day 1902 where Marie and Piere Curie discovered radium chloride. Only 13 years after Adolph Hitler's birthday who after World War I founded the Nationalsocialsist party of Germany... >Wiki-Chan that's enou.. >followed by the Holocaust and World War II where according to historians 6 million jews were moved to internment camps and later systematically gassed and exterminated until they were freed in 1945 by the cooperation of allied forces and soviet union. In addition Hitler was a member of the alt right[citation needed] and according to historians had only one functioning testicle.. >Wiki-Chan stap!

>>74388 Haha, if that was a real thing I would totally use it every day. Took me long respond cuz i went to bed. Time zones and soykaf, sry. btw it took me 3 minutes to generate this image on my RX 580. Most of the time i get abstract fruit salad but this one turned out OK i think I like the idea of enhancing a chatbot with a huge local repository of knowledge without having to train the model. You could have specialized libraries. For example, You could have a separate library for warhammer wiki if you wanted to ask the chatbot questions about warhammer lore specifically. >Hey Evil Cortana, what are Archaon the Everchosen's titles? >According to my library, Archaon has several titles: Everchosen of Chaos, World Razor, Thirsting Predator, Thrice-Damned, Three-Eyed King, Lord of the End Times, Herald of the Apocalypse, and Exalted Grand Marshal of the Apocalypse.

>>74385 iirc Wikipedia makes a plaintext snapshot available that would be easier to feed to a LLM.

GNU/Linux comes with software pre installed. Does this vary by desktop or by distribution?

>>74424 >GNU/Linux comes with software pre installed. Does this vary by desktop or by distribution? Both. Example: most KDE distros (say Kubuntu and Fedora KDE spin) have more or less the same basic KDE apps (Konsole and the file manager from KDE) ... But a distro A might ship with Firefox ESR, distro B might ship with "normal" Firefox and distro C might ship with Chromium. You can install commonly used packages with a package manager after you have installed a GNU/Linux distro. I recommend starting out with Xubuntu or Kubuntu or Linux Mint because Ubuntu derivatives are easy to use and they have a lot of software available from their package repos. But I suggest using something else than vanilla Ubuntu because GNOME 3 is like kicking dead whales down the beach.

>>74427 Thanks for the awesome reply! I have a laptop with Ubuntu GNOME and a desktop with Debian KDE Plasma.

I'm forced to use a Raspberry Pi 2 as a desktop right now, but it's getting on my nerves how much you have to tweak just to replace systemd with sysvinit and OpenRC and how you're forced to install packages with soykaf you don't need and as an example how Chromium depends on libdbus-1-3 which in turn depends on libsystemd0. I still need a browser, so unless I get the precompiled binary, the hardware will soykaf the bed if I install Gentoo. So what I plan doing is using the debian server I have access to chroot into the armv7 stage3 tarball and use qemu-user to compile everything I need. Is there a better way, might that not work, even?

do you need a normal person browser or do you settle happily for something like w3m ? I'm not quite clear what precisely you need here but a minimalish raspi system can be comfy and entierly functional ime

>>74434 can't get used to text browsers. So far had almost no problems running chromium with 10+ tabs open.

I think the IT guy at my job is lying to me. The other day he told me that the way to update all the computers in the plant was to walk to each one individually and run the update binary. This process takes at least 3 hours. I asked him why we don't remotely install software on the hundreds of windows workstations in our domain using group policy. He said we don't have group policy or active directory. This is just untrue. I know it's false and I know he knows it's false because I overheard him on the phone bragging about the AD configuration and also I've logged into all the DC servers on the network and seen that we do actually have group policy and active directory. Also I noticed he doesn't know how to turn off a computer. He tries using the "shut down" button but on newer versions of windows it's actually the "restart" button that really turns off the computer. Also all the hardware he buys is trash and I don't know where he finds it. The warehouse manager was having issues with the internet on her computer so I checked it out, and the computer had a working ethernet interface, but the ethernet cable was connected via USB 2.0 Nintendo Switch LAN adapter. Also he gave me a USB to HDMI adapter which required me to install 3rd party software to use, and it makes my monitor blue and my inputs lag. All this to say: he claims to have A+ Security+ and Network+ certs from comptia and has the certs printed out and framed on his office wall. Also there are little comptia certification logos on his company business card. Is he just lying about having these certifications? Is it possible for someone to have so many comptia certs and still be completely incompetent?

>>74494 Also I forgot to mention, when I first started working here my network connection was stuck at 100 Mb speeds because my computer was daisy chained onto the network, through my office phone. I connected my computer driectly to the wall jack and I immediately had gigabit speed. When I pointed this out to the IT guy he seemed confused and thought "fast ethernet" was faster than "gigabit ethernet". This person who does not know how different ethernet standards work, also claims to have a network+ cert

hello sorry for my grammar since my english is bad but i am curious to know the best way i can learn C. does anyone have any manuals or any reccomended text editor for someone who has only a bit of knowledge in programming.

>>74494 > A+ Security+ and Network+ certs > it possible for someone to have so many comptia certs and still be completely incompetent? All they had to do was watch youtube videos and do practice tests.

>>74497 Read “The C Programming Language”. Only 200 pages and its considered a classic.

>>74497 The best book for learning C is "C The Modern Approach 2nd edition". K&R is outdated and it doesn't tell you which stdlib functions are unsafe. Other tips: >>>/λ/37756

>>74545 >which stdlib functions are unsafe. man does. K&R is good enough to learn the heck is C.

Are the developers of KDE and the maintainers of Kubuntu the same people, or is Kubuntu maintained by huge KDE fans?

hi lainons. found my PS2 Logitech Eyetoy recently while clearing some junk. i really want to try using it as a webcam / mic after i saw some videos of it on the tube. I tried downloading dozens of different drivers online to get it to work, but so far, i have only managed to get the audio portion working. have had no success with getting video. i'm pretty sure i'm installing everything correctly, too. any kind lainons happen to have the proper drivers for Windows 11? Pretty exhausted by this whole thing.

>>74566 It looks like windows drivers were only really available in XP. Linux should work out of the box though. https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/playstation-eyetoy-windows-ubuntu-mac/

>>74571 hmmm ok thanks. On another note, how feasible would it be for me to create the driver for the webcam myself as just a passion project? I have no knowledge on the matter but I have intermediate programming experience and I am of course willing to watch some tutorials (if they exist) to learn. I think it could be fun to try and make one from scratch in my free time but I have no idea what that actually entails. Is the process so complex that I should just forget about it, or do I have a chance? If so, anybody have some helpful links to get me started on creating my own driver? thanks again

>>74580 >how feasible would it be for me to create the driver for the webcam myself as just a passion project? Again linux would be the way to go because windows is a closed source ecosystem which is constantly changing in ways you can't control. You could spend a month writing this driver and then microsoft could push out an update which breaks it right away or forces you to upgrade to windows 12. Also if you actually want to use your driver on a non-developer version of windows you'll have to pay microsoft real money to get it digitally signed. This is where I would start if I wanted to do this project. If you don't know any programming though it is a tough thing to start with. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/usbcon/implement-driver-entry-for-a-usb-driver--umdf-

>>74582 appreciate it, i'm glad I asked here before I started bashing my head against a wall for the next month. Sorry, last question. >Linux should work out of the box though >linux would be the way to go what specifically do you mean by this? As in, switch my entire machine from Windows to Linux? That seems like a very big jump just to get a webcam working, I'm not sure I'd be willing to do that. Although, I have been toying with the idea of finally making the switch to Linux now that I've recently built my first PC. I've just been using Windows my entire life, so I've been hesitant. So, if I were to hypothetically switch to Linux, what then? How does that help my situation with getting the webcam to work? I would still have to go through the process of learning how to create my own driver, right?

>>74583 >As in, switch my entire machine from Windows to Linux? I wouldn't recommend that, especially if you haven't used linux before. It's like should you trade your scooter for a motorbike. Yes, maybe in the long term that would be better but you have to learn it first you can't just jump on and except everything to be fine. What I would do is install a program called virtualbox. It is a program that runs on windows but then you can install different operating systems inside virtualbox without changing anything on your PC. Install linux inside virtualbox (like mint or ubuntu or debian). Then plug in the camera and virtualbox has an option to do usb passthrough which means the operating system inside virtualbox can use the camera instead of windows. And then you should be able to open vlc inside linux inside virtualbox and it should be able to see what the camera sees. That doesn't really help you to use it as a real webcam but it will confirm that linux has the driver and you will get some experience with linux without risking any changes to windows or your PC. >switch to Linux Another thing you can do is buy another harddrive, it doesn't even need to be new. Disconnect the windows harddrive (just to be safe) and install linux on the new harddrive. You only need two computers if you want to run windows and linux at the same time.

>>74585 thank you so much. gonna install virtualbox and hopefully get this to work.

Good, to the point docs, about going ipv6?

>>74585 >Another thing you can do is buy another harddrive, it doesn't even need to be new. Disconnect the windows harddrive (just to be safe) and install linux on the new harddrive. >just to be safe what do you mean

why did it take 30 years for javascript to get numbers what were the blockers

>>74599 >what do you mean It's easy to get confused and install linux on the wrong harddrive. If the windows hardrive is not plugged in then you reduce the risk of accidentally deleting windows by 100%. >Another thing you can do is buy another harddrive, You can install linux on a usb drive too.

>>74604 >It's easy to get confused and install linux on the wrong harddrive. how is that easy? any normal partitioning software (even fdisk) prints partition type. simply seeing "Microsoft" is a good indicator that the partition is to be left alone. literally just lsblk -o+parttypename well whatever

Well I have a new stutter on my Ubuntu with AMD install since a couple of days ago. I have no idea what the problem is, I think it may have been the latest kisak-mesa updates. Every 15-30 seconds there's a little "skip" in the framerate, and it's super annoying. Mostly noticeable when playing games. Anybody ever experience this? This is going to take hours to figure out, if I ever do at all

>>74601 >blatant lack of awareness of what list of things have to be learned to do something that has become second nature to him >just learn a DSL that is used in no other tool bruh yeah i know you've never used one before but you can just learn 10 things at once >just know which of the 5 or so ways of classifying / naming hard drives is which bro its easy just read some specific 40 pages out of 1000 in various manuals good luck knowing which ones to look at >just run these linux commands from your windows computer and write down your sdb sdc or whatever and hope the iso you boot into on a completely different kernel orders them the same way checks out, we got an autistic zewmer here

>>74610 that would be the connection to the botnet remember when ubuntu asked you to sign into your google account right after you installed it? it has to upload every frame your computer generates, and pauses if your internet connection is too slow

>>74612 Well it didn't do this before a couple of days ago. And it's so fuarrrking annoying I think I might use Timeshift and go back a couple weeks. I think I found something related to the problem. It looks like only certain applications disappear then reappear in the dock every 15 seconds or so. I still get the stutters regardless of if they're open or not, but these may be a clue. It happens with and without extensions enabled too

>>74611 when i was installing linux for the first time it took me two weeks of research and then i successfully repartitioned my only disk with no issues or damage using gparted. the problem is on your side. you windows users are insufferable

>>74611 You can't even quote posts properly, linux isn't for the lowest denominator.

lains i need open source software to translate my digital voice over the cables of the wired to another person i need to contact. i also need to translate the array of pixels on my screen, so i can demonstrate exactly what my voice describes. so long as i have been into open source i have not stumbled on anything that worked, so i desperately repeat this question in hopes anylain has the wisdom to show me the way.

>>74626 recordmydesktop/testing,now 0.4.0-1+b1 amd64 [installed] Captures audio-video data of a Linux desktop session byzanz/testing 0.3.0+git20160312-5+b1 amd64 small screencast creator kazam/testing 1.4.5-6 all screencast and screenshot application created with design in mind screenkey/testing 1:1.5-3 all screencast tool to display your keystrokes shelr/testing 0.16.3-2.1 all Utility for plain text screencasting vokoscreen-ng/testing 3.7.0-1 amd64 easy to use screencast creator

>>74632 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VoIP_software I can vouch for voice working on Jami, Mumble, Linphone, Tox and the various XMPP clients (Pidgin, Dino, Gajim, etc). For screen sharing I don't know of anything that works as seamlessly as the proprietary equivalents (Teamviewer/Skype). Empathy used to support it over VNC protocol. You might have some luck using remote desktop software VNC/RDP in viewer only mode (not granting control). TigerVNC, TightVNC, FreeRDP and the ones included in Gnome and KDE by default. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_remote_desktop_software

>>74613 Just a lil update Turns out it wasn't a driver issue. I had a bad usb cord plugged into my PC. I guess it was either trying to connect or refreshing the connection every 15 seconds, because once I unplugged the cord in question the stutters went away.

why does LAIN dislike .webp? it making pictures smaller!

>>74654 Because JXL is better by literally every metric and google is pushing webp on everyone anyway

Can a lainon recommend me a guide for gettijg started with collecting and tagging songs?

>>74658 No. But I suggest you to use soulseek + foobar2k.

>>74657 lossless? >>74658 >collecting use a traditional file system! how many info can i get from a swap partition? it's basically ram dump, no?

Does anyone here have experience getting fcitx IME working in chromium on wayland/plasma? Works fine in firefox(gtk), and obviously native wayland stuff (Konsole terminal, Kate, etc). Installed: fcitx5-{configtool,gtk,qt,mozc} Tried setting environment like archwiki says but no luck. Just using VirtualKB(Fcitx 5) in plasma sys settings>Input. Sorry if this is not enough info. Kinda noob. I am lost now. Any diagnostic direction would help greatly.

>>74658 http://beets.io/ Is my goto but https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ is well respected AFAIK if you prefer GUIs.

>>74658 If you're just getting started, I would use soulseek and rutracker to collect as many FLACs as possible, but most of the people ripping CDs don't really put much care into the Exact Audio Copy (EAC) settings. If you want a quick and easy way to check files for transcodes, try Spek: http://help.spek.cc/ If there's an obvious cutoff point on your spectrals for a flac file, then it may be an mp3 > flac transcode. Keep in mind that a lot of newer independent and hip-hop music will appear as transcodes because that was the way they exported their music, so no better alternatives exist If you find an EAC log with a checksum at the bottom, you can verify it's integrity here: https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/log/checklog.html Then i would recommend you get into private trackers. Check r/trackers for an intro. Then I would recommend interviewing for OPS, building a ratio, then getting invited to RED from there. If you want an extra edge for building ratio on RED, I would suggest renting a $5/month shared seedbox from seedhost then using a Transmission Remote GUI for all your music torrents. This one's new but I really like it: https://github.com/openscopeproject/TrguiNG For a music player I would recommend foobar2000 with the Georgia theme: https://github.com/kbuffington/Georgia For tagging I would recommend Musicbrainz Picard but also add the Musicbrainz userscripts to your browser: https://github.com/murdos/musicbrainz-userscripts Not every specific release is tagged there properly. With the scripts you can visit a Deezer, Discogs, or bandcamp page and add the release with the click of a few buttons. Also start using Discogs to learn how different editions of albums are determined. It usually goes Label > Catalog number > Country > disc matrix. Those are the main factors >>74675 I've never heard of beets. How does it differ from Picard?

An aspie applied to my company, should I hire him? His resume contained his Github and I can see blatant signs of autism in his posts on websites like he wrote a text wall of no less than 10 paragraphs explaining how to configure zsh in response to someone asking how to fix one small thing.

>>74695 if he's smart what's the problem anyway no one cares about us autists so you might as well not give him false hope and reject him he'll likely kill himself anyway at least that's what i see happening to autists can't live in this soykafty world with autism

>>74696 Honestly, the most depressing thing here is that, once again, someone is viewing passion and elaboration as "autistic"

>>74695 Hell yeah. Get him on board. These folks are more likely to be hella passionate about what they are applying for. Autism (or not) be damned. I shouldn't have to tell you this, really. Just look where you are on the wired lol.

>>74697 That's a good observation. Normal behaviour is labelled with a 'diagnosis' label. This happens so much! I've had a girl - socially strong - label herself as autistic. She wasn't, at all, yet still she did call herself that. I have many more examples of, especially young people, labeling themselves with something. It's a load of crock. I suspect nefarious purposes, where each and every one is labelled as something crazy, in order to create a society of mentally suppressed people.

>>74698 What I'm worried about is that we will have long abandoned some task and I find he's still working away at it and I have to tell him to move on for the 15th time and he says "just one more week", while the the task is no longer is relevant in any way to the company. >I shouldn't have to tell you this, really. Just look where you are on the wired lol. That's why I asked here, as opposed to a place like HN: to get an honest, uncensored opinion, and some feedback from people with autism as well.

>>74701 I obviously havent seen what info you've seen, but based on what little you've told here i think it's awful if you just assume and generalise what problems he'll have just because he seems neurodivergent. >>74697 >>74700 Indeed. "Mental illness" is a broken term.

>>74695 I feel compelled to note that this usage of "wall of text" differs from what it seemed to commonly mean a while ago. Where (or rather, when) I come from, a wall of text isn't "a long body of text". It referred specifically to a long body of text -- or at least long enough to exceed one screen height -- without paragraph breaks, making it unwieldy to read. It was never quite about the length per se of the text. The problem was (usually) that the writer wasn't considerate enough to divide the text into digestible paragraphs, or perhaps that their writing wasn't concise or cohesive enough to lend itself easily to division, and they couldn't be bothered to do any substantive editing, or what have you (it was, from time to time, justifiable to write unusually long paragraphs: https://old.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/5gj367/why_would_an_author_only_use_one_paragraph_for/ ). The expression used to complain about text simply being too long was "tl;dr" and it was almost always about making OP buttmad that people weren't reading their screed. A sincere "tl;dr" -- an admission of finding a body of text actually too long to bother reading -- would have been too pathetic in all but the most extreme cases of wordiness. Ten reasonable paragraphs would have been nowhere near that; it should only take about three minutes at a very leisurely pace, and easily less if you're not stopping to smell the roses along the way, which is the usual case with nonfiction. I think you should ask yourself why you consider ten paragraphs a wall of text. Is it because it takes you a long time to read it? If so, could the problem in fact be in your reading speed or ease of comprehension or a compulsion to read thoroughly where you could skim? Are you limited by difficulty in not subvocalizing? Are your thoughts distracted along the way? Does the text feel long because you're reading it on a smartphone? (Does reading a two-page spread from a book feel like a lot?) The important questions about your applicant are: Did he answer the question and then provide elaboration or relevant information that would be of interest to someone asking that question? Or was he prompted by the question to launch into a tenuously related dissertation he found personally interesting? Or did he do something in between, addressing the question (at some point) and including some extra info for whatever reason? Does his online posting style provide reliable insight as to how he'll communicate in emails, Slack, tickets, comments, or the knowledge base? Or is it possible that he is, in fact, cognizant of context and audience and capable of keeping things as concise and relevant as professionalism dictates? What other insights about problem-solving, abstraction, depth of expertise, helpfulness, or other desired qualities can you find? Have you considered how to express your concerns to others involved in the hiring process without raising the blood pressure of the entire HR department? Are you even still reading th--

>>74702 >Indeed. "Mental illness" is a broken term. not broken just abused like virtually any other term normal users don't care to understand, so they just spell it left and right hoping for the best. nothing too unusual

NEVER. EVER. hire a sperg why would you hire someone who is mentally ill? yes, they are good at some quick syntactic manipulation like applying de morgans law but otherwise are completely clueless. like you are concerned about, they burrow themselves into some small domain, and they will create code that people have to maintain proportional to how long you let them be. a prime example of this is DSLs (autistic idioglossia for "domain specific language" - when the autist makes up a textual way of representing domain specific constructs and their compositions, instead of just using something existing that solves the "problem" of encoding a 2 level deep tree just as well) a prime example of this is how every GNU version of software has 10 billion options/features that have no coherent cross interaction and are harmful just for existing. someone may have the misfortune of misconstruing one of these GNU extensions as an actual complete feature and trying to use then finding out it breaks because it wasn't intended for their exact use case just something else with the same name and shape.

>>74757 >why would you hire someone who is mentally ill? true. exactly the reason i wonder why there is no law that would obligate people to indiscriminatingly kill those mentally ill. one mercy kill and everyone's happy

why is tor browser source code is somewhere i can't find it? what's the point

>>74766 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser

>>74767 what the heck i spend several hours googling the other day and not even a hint at gitlab am i retarded

I'm currently studying for an A+ but I want to also do some projects to practice IT and sysadmin stuff, I don't have multiple computers but I do have a pretty good PC with a lot of storage and RAM so I can create a virtualbox lab. Can any of you recc a youtube channel that teaches me projects I can do on virtualbox that I could potentially add to my resume?

>>74772 Have you ever worked in McDonald's for a lifetime? How did it feel?

>>74774 LFS (https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/) or your own OS (https://osdev.org/Main_Page)

What is the best way to make simple edits to installed scripts without them getting overwritten by updates?

>>74790 Also, when you need to give certain settings to launch a software, shoudl a different executable be made just to run that and maybe one other command? I suppose that at least allows it to be run as such outside of the shell, which an alias would case

>>74790 if its a single user installation just put them in your home folder. not sure how i might do it if its in root, but maybe a read only bind mount. >>74800 you can make a wrapper if you want, i do this sometimes for qemu

How do people sort books? I have tried to do "unix-like" filenaming but something like Calibre (which seems good to use) puts spaces etc in filenames. Same with beets for music. Is it best just to use what sorting programs generate rather than making unixy filenames? >>74801 >if its a single user installation just put them in your home folder. not sure how i might do it if its in root, but maybe a read only bind mount. I had not considered this and thought that the primary file would insert. I guess the custom directory could be put first in PATH? I tried that but it still seems to use the original file >you can make a wrapper if you want, i do this sometimes for qemu I did not know about wrappers, it seems like they are covered https://mywiki.wooledge.org/WrapperScript so I may have to read this and learn more Are they like separate files with a different name, that changes that inputs and outputs? I've found myself adjusting the code itself to change the way certain things output, but I'm not sure whether this use will work if that's how it works

>>74806 a wrapper is a script that uses the commonly used parameters for some command. say i call qemu with 75 parameters often, then its a pain to type out those parameters so i might make a single command script to call it with those parameters. they dont in my experience change the input or output just make a common parameter set less cumbersome to type, but they could. if you put the new directory in the beginning of the path it should check for the executable there first: >>74806

>>74807 a wrapper script is a program written in shell with the only goal of hiding the soykaf you came with so you don't have to cringe every time you type it.

How does GrapheneOS impact battery life? I'm considering installing it on my Pixel 6a and I like the enhanced privacy/security aspect of it, but something that's really important to me right now is getting as much use out of my phone's battery as I can. I'm already at 74 battery cycles (got the phone in September) and at this rate I'm probably going to kill the battery long before support ends. Won't be using the phone for much except calls, texts, email, music playback, and maybe browsing the web every once in a while. I'll set the brightness at around 20% and the network type to LTE too. >why not just replace the battery yourself once it dies? My motor skills are awful and modern phones are glass sandwiches filled with glue. I was considering taking it to a repair shop once the battery dies, but all of the ones in my area are sketchy.

>>74774 I think just making a simple website and watching all the bots and the weird packets and other activity that happens to an internet-accessible server would be educational. Setting up an e-mail server is a good learning experience also, it combines dns, multiple ports and daemons, getting other servers to not send your mail straight to spam etc. >>74818 Lmao, if you keep GApps in another profile and keep cell data off when you aren't using it, grapheneOS is the best way to increase battery life. This is because it doesn't have processes running in the background, also wifi and bluetooth can be auto disabled after a set inactivity period.

>>74818 Graphene is superior for battery life it seems, as the other commenter said. My pixel 6 can go multiple days. Ive never had a phone setup with better battery life. Google play services botnet soykaf uses a huge amount of battery

>>74790 sudo chattr +i /path/to/file

what rss feeds do you follow?

>>74831 none post too shortpost too shortpost too shortpost too shortpost too short

>>74821 If i rember correctly, weather report alone uses more cpu cycles than all graphene suite combined because of its insane "polling" >>74831 these, currently "https://vulonkaaz.flyingcube.tech/microblog/rss.rss" "https://maerk.xyz/index.xml" "https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/posts/index.xml" "https://blog.shr4pnel.com/rss.xml" "https://pxlnv.com/feed" "https://猫.移动/blog/rss/" "https://yukinu.com/feed/rss.xml" "https://drewdevault.com/blog/index.xml" "https://ratakor.com/rss.xml" "https://grafo.zone/index.xml" "https://risingthumb.xyz/Updates/index.rss" "https://risingthumb.xyz/Writing/Blog/index.rss" "https://starbreaker.org/feed.xml" "https://b4rkod.net.tr/rss.xml" I used to pull suckless and kernel updates too but realised idc.

>>73499 folks I need a vpn reccomendation for getting past ip bans on 4chan, sorry to soykaf up lain with this kind of low quality question, but I managed to recieve an ipban that's keeping me from participating in a favorite christmas giveaway of mine. Thanks.

What's a good app, on android, for telegram? The Google app one blocked a message someone had posted and Nekogram's developer apparently used his powers for evil and abused some user by sending him a message or something. Also, I'm unsure of a safe way to "root" my phone, and I don't think my phone is supported by pretty much any alternative operating system. So, if a solution requires "F-Droid" then can you point me to a guide on how to do this?

>>74850 >Nekogram's developer apparently used his powers for evil and abused some user by sending him a message or something. That might have been me. I received strange Chinese-language notifications from the Nekogram app that looked like new message notifications, but I couldn't find the messages in any of my chats. My ticket asking about this was closed without comment and when I complained in the app reviews, the owner replied "fake news" and made some config change that makes the Google Play Store say that Nekogram isn't available for my device. Nothing harmful really happened as far as I know, but the evasiveness was unsettling, so I decided to move on to other clients. Forkgram and Nullgram are the ones I've used more recently that could be what you want. I think there's one also called Owlgram that could be worth looking into. BGram was a favorite of mine some time ago (especially for the "confirm before sending sticker/gif" feature), but now includes ads in the chat list. You can get the F-Droid client from the F-Droid website at https://f-droid.org/ -- if this is the first time you have installed an app from an APK that you downloaded in the web browser, your phone should prompt you to allow this to happen and bring you to the appropriate places to toggle the relevant setting. Check settings in F-Droid client once you have it installed as there may be additional repos you can enable, and options that affect visibility of apps in search results.

>>74844 most vpns/proxys are derezzed on 4chan so your best bet is a random russian proxy or setting one up yourself

>>74831 https://lukesmith.xyz/index.xml

>try to make neocities site >cock.li isn't allowed for being "temporary email" somehow >airmail.cc isn't allowed either but it'll only tell you after you do every single registration step instead Is there a single fuarrrking email server that works with this soykafty site or do I have to get an actual temporary email because my real emails don't count?

>>74872 in this world of lies the only option is hosting your own web site which honestly is more involved than it seems at the first glance. a lot of soykaf you have to figure out. i wonder if there is some comprehensive way to just fuarrrking slap something working together and host it for god's sake without having to spend weeks fuarrrking around with some dumbass programming language you don't give a damn about. life for unprogrammers is tough these days. maybe it's better to dig a hole and live there people will think you're crazy and leave you alone. who knows

>>74874 >more involved than it seems at the first glance There's multiple tools for every step of the process. Something comparable to neocities could be done in a couple days tops without prior knowledge if you just knew what to look for. The downside is that you then have to pay for your own server and it's effectively impossible to find a reliable server that doesn't compromise your anonymity.

>>74872 thats funny cock.li worked just last month or so on there for me i warned you niggers in 2011 that this glitterboy snakeoil insider trade of all the email providers requiring phone numbers is unacceptable and must stop then (13 years ago)

>>74876 >i warned you niggers in 2011 that this glitterboy snakeoil insider trade of all the email providers requiring phone numbers is unacceptable and must stop then (13 years ago) I mean, on one hand I get the frustration. But there's a huge bot problem on internet and it seems to get worse every single year. So I can understand if someone wants to have a phone number or any other thing like that to identify a person. What else is there really to do? No one wants to deal with bots, yet bots become ever more easy and cheaper to produce. It seems obvious that there needs some kind of resistance from the outside to not make any service be filled up with AI crap

>>74877 Do what porn game forums do, give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You can make an account with any email, but your posts need to be manually accepted until the mods deem you can be trusted. I can't remember which distro it was but I once found the forum of a linux distro which explicitly required "trusted" email services which it limited to google and microsoft emails. For a fuarrrking linux forum of a distro with 3 users worldwide. I think I nuked the iso after that.

>>74878 >You can make an account with any email, but your posts need to be manually accepted until the mods deem you can be trusted. That works if you have 50 or so users. But scale it to 1000 or more and you essentially invented a new job for few people. Something like neocities could never do it. I believe it has million something of sites and to manually review all that is impossible. It's a solution that only works for small scale services

>>74881 There are already multiple ways to detect spam and whatever type of content you don't want on your platform. You just have to make it a bit sensitive and only manually check the updates that trigger the warnings until the user is at least a week old and has had 10 updates, or whatever metric you choose. Realistically, what are they trying to achieve with the current system? It still works with obscure email providers like tutanota, it just makes it it more of a pain in the ass for legitimate users to register and will most likely lead them to use a corporate email linked to their phone number, possibly compromising their identity and leaving them open to being doxed. Doubly so when some emails only trigger the "temporary" mail detection after you select a password, site name, and complete the captcha twice, that frustrates users and pushes them into just giving their ID to google and making a gmail address. Any bad individual that seriously wanted to ruin the site, or use it for scams or CP or whatever neocities is scared of, would be willing to wait the short period these fully anonymous "non-temporary" email providers require, or to just pay or look for a hacked email to register with. Their system does absolutely nothing to stop this while being straight up hostile to legitimate users that don't want the facebook approach to internet identities.

does lainchan conduct timing attacks on me? please give confirmation!!!

What happens when i watch a video on a higher resolution than my monitor? For example, let's say i choose to download the 4K format of a video with yt-dlp and i watch it on a 1920x1080 screen. Is it better than watching the 1920x1080 format? Or if i play a game on 4K instead of my native resolution? Is there a difference? Also, is there a difference on this between CRT, LCD and OLED screens about this particular thing? Really curious

>>74891 Your GPU just downscales it to fit the monitor. A video shouldn't be any different but >yt-dlp Youtube has atrocious bitrate for 1080p videos so they do look different but only because of the bitrate. Downloading 1440p is obligatory, but if you were to convert those 1440p videos to 1080p they would look the same on your monitor. >game Games might look better because it's rendering the scene at a higher resolution, that's how super sampling and the like work. At 1080p somethings might look jagged, hence why games rely on anti-aliasing, and rendering at a higher resolution allows the game to smooth those edges when downscaling leading to a better, and usually more consistent image.

>>74891 >CRT, LCD and OLED screens about this particular thing? Really curious for CRTs the cool thing is with low res videos, where you can just set the monitor to the closest resolution of the video and the video will end up looking very sharp. i've experimented with old 480p anime and it looks extremely sharp in a CRT when set to 480p

>>74893 do you use an old pc or do you use some adapters to connect old crt's to hdmi ports of modern gpu?

>>74892 just to explain: video compression algorithms divide the image into tiles and compress the tiles individually with a loss. This limits error size to tile size. Doubling resolution creates double tiles for same screen space which equals halved error size = sharper image. Especially important for text (guides/tutorial videos). >>74891 Your idea of high resolution not fitting to screenspace creating some blur when its not a direct multiplicative is right, the error size from video compression is much larger however so always go for max resolution when downloading videos.

How to activate windows 7 without a key?

>>74878 you use a captcha if you want to block spam but yes i understand having some major cognitive dissonance to the point where on monday you think email is the bot mitigation tool then on tuesday you think its the captcha is a basic part of the web tranny toolkit

>>74898 >you think its the captcha is a basic part of the web tranny toolkit But it is when you're using google captcha instead of any of the hundreds/thousands of free alternatives. Not only are you helping the botnet datamine by giving everyone's IP to google and telling them who's using your site, but because google is retarded you often completely lock people from accessing any other google captcha protected site for the rest of the day just because you gave your users one too many captchas.

>>74897 can you even activate it still? support is dead afaik. It works without anyway. Got 7 running on old laptop without.

>>74897 kms literally reddit or rutracker if you can read russian

>>74901 >recaptcha is broken horse soykaf correct >recaptcha datamines users correct and email is just a system of the same retardatioon and requires a phone number per account, except when you use cock.li, except when it's blocked let me restate what i said in an unambiguous way you use a captcha if you want to block spam but yes i understand having some major cognitive dissonance (to the point where on monday you think email is the bot mitigation tool then on tuesday you think its the captcha then on wednesday youre back to the start) is a basic part of the web tranny toolkit

some russian people reported to me that they successfully employed voip numbers to register accounts that require a number. iirc even google but that's not precise. please comment!

>>74069 just asking. do you have a public ip address?

>>74965 >do you have a public ip address? what do you mean? what is ip address? how do i get a public one? is my private, or can everybody see it?? i'm scared lain please answer!!!!

>>74966 its 192.168.0.1 I tunneled into the mainframe with kali linux sql injection. Get pwnd noob

>>74990 please no let go of my machine i need to use internet lain what do you want!?!? i'll do anything! please don't hack my machine i do not have money to buy another one lain! i have files they are important please do not corrupt anything i am so sorry for saying mean things on this chan i honestly didn't want please please don't mess my machine i'll do anything you want!!!!!

lain please im so veryy sorry please do not mess my pc i beg you my mmom has just started using im so afraid how would i even tell her please don't mess it at least wile shes working please lain!!!!!!!

Hello Lainons, I am attempting to do some homelab project(s) and I would like some general advice on what direction I should go. However, I generally consider myself lacking in knowledge of technology I have an Intel NUC with 32gb of RAM and if I remember correctly a 11th gen CPU, currently with x2 M.2 512gb worth of storage. Here's what I would like this machine to do (while headless): 1. Be quickly accessible via remote tools such as rdp or vnc, or a webbrowser based console 2. Run OBS up to 24/7 for some social experiment streams 3. Host a DNS Sinkhole for ad blocking (pihole most likely) 4. Host a personal, private VPN primarily to my laptop and phone and later down the line once I get more comfortable with these tools... 5. Host a/some personal website(s) 6. Host a personal email domain 7. Host an IRC server 8. Host a TOR or I2P relay, or both 9. Host torrent seeds Someone once mentioned to me about using a lvl I hypervisor, like ESXI, which I am luckily familiar with from work. Would that be the best method for this? If so would running a few Debian Stable VM's be the best course of action? It theoretically should be all possible on one single machine, but I imagine the VM separation would be best for security practices especially once I start opening ports on my network the public web. I have enough spare PC parts that I could spin up a 2nd physical machine if I need more hardware resources, but I'd like to save those for being the frontend to my NAS/Jellyfin server TL;DR- Given numbered bullet points of what I want my machine(s) to do, is ESXI or a similar lvl 1 hypervisor the right course of action?

Has anyone tried removing the Wi-Fi card from one of the newer Xbox models? I'm considering doing it to my Series S (I don't trust the UI saying it's offline) but I'm worried that it won't boot afterward. I believe the bluetooth chip is on the same board, but I'll just use USB controllers.

Mice with good sensors but that do not look like gamer mice? Curently using a Harpoon, but the switches are becoming tired and failing.

My website has malicious spammers and bots. This includes people who will *ahem* "solve a captcha" in order to spam their links. What can I do with them? - Is cryptojacking a few people for a few minutes negligible? $5 a month in anonymous crypto is valuable to me since I'm hosting copyrighted content anonymously, hypothetically a LEA may be bribed into caring and I don't want to be easily traceable through payments. - How about dodgy ads or perhaps malicious actors that will pay to get people tricked into clicking a link? - Can I exploit their labour? I don't care about training an ML dataset, but maybe there is something simple they could do.

I have this weird thing where I throw my polyester hoodie on my chair that it would make my PC resume from its sleep mode. I've tried shaking or pounding the table and this would not cause the same effect. Also I would see that the chair is not touching the table either. Or when I sit down with the hoodie on. When I place it carefully on the chair's back it also does not wake the machine. But only when I place the hoodie in a hasty manner. It's not strictly a problem but peculiar, isn't it?

>>75069 The ghost of one of the Chinese prison slave laborers that died in the factory that made your hoody is haunting it, when you throw his vessel down near the computer he's quickly logging on and checking his Weibo (ghosts are very quick so you don't have time to register what's happening before he reboots the machine, this is also why he doesn't do it when you're obviously paying attention and setting him down properly)

If I download a 720p video from Youtube, I can open the .part file as it's downloading and "stream" it at the same time I can't do this for higher resolutions because they're composed of separate video and audio files

how long has the PC industry been a complete scam? GPU, keyboard, mouse, monitor, RAM, mobo, PSU my guess is 20 years

>>75068 >- Is cryptojacking a few people for a few minutes negligible? $5 a month in anonymous crypto is valuable to me since I'm hosting copyrighted content anonymously, hypothetically a LEA may be bribed into caring and I don't want to be easily traceable through payments. do this. accept monero only

https://mebious.net new mebious site

>>75098 aaaand the soyjak spammers have already found it

what is semetic versioning? what is semetic versioning?

>>75088 capitalism. 'nuff said. >>75095 Is mining XMR even profitable on a CPU these days? Word I've heard is to just mine soykafcoins and then exchange.

hoping we have some greybeards lurking. Wikipedia says "With the development of virtual memory, kernels that supported this feature were given the vm- prefix to differentiate them". i don't get why this happened. Kernels support countless different features; why is virtual memory so special that this convention came about?

the bootparam(7) man page states that "The default of [root=] is determined at compile time, and usually is the value of the root device of the system that the kernel was built on". is this still true? is this controlled by a config option, or is it something in the source code? i checked do_mounts.c and couldn't see anything like that but then i'm not a programmer

>>75105 >what is semetic versioning? its is used to name the version of your software

>>75161 autistic details dont care, not a historian

Teach me the ways of scraping, specifically OpenAI keys...

when i build a kernel with make defconfig and boot it in qemu using OVMF, i get no console output. it works fine with -nographic. how do i fix this?

>>75105 It's when special, kosher versions of software are deployed for the Jewish community

Is there some kind of a rewards system in place at AskUbuntu? The atmosphere is very strange. Any time I ask a question I get immediate replies like "SIR DID WE ANSWER YOUR QUESTION SIR" and "PLEASE MARK THIS AS ACCEPTED IF IT SOLVED YOUR PROBLEM SIR", and they're very diligent about it. I recently asked a question where I felt that I was getting pre-made copypasted answers, because they were just too elaborate and answered way too fast, like within minutes of me asking. Some could argue that this helps the community, but I would say that it hurts it when you have people who are only trying to make some kind of rank/get a job instead of actually answering people's questions.

>go: downloading go.uber.org/atomic why am i seeing this when using a blockchain. i never want to see words like uber or google or zoom when dealing with ANY aspect of a blockchain, you are all fuarrrking gay. bitcoin was okay and everything else was always trash

>>75249 uber has several open source go libraries they've written that used to be accessible through github but have been moved to go.uber.org. whatever program you're building uses one of those libraries.

>>75243 Ubuntu is paying some warehouse filled with chatgpt users in an economically destroyed country who earn pennies per successful post

This may be a simple question or a dumb one. But I have a vm that I use that manages a closed off lan of devices I use that I use for testing. The host device is a server running linux and I have pfsense as one of the vms on it that manages the network for other vms and the physical hardware attached to it. This is a bit of a dumb question, but how do I setup NAT on localhost so I can vnc in to the vms without having to open the vm viewer in the host, or more annoying setup a monitor for the physical clients attached to the vm's lan network? I've done this with SSH a couple of times and I know it exists as a setting I just need to know where to look to enable it so that I open the port in the pfsense vm on it's external face, I don't know where to connect in to it from there.

>>75295 I think you want to configure a "hairpin NAT", it looks like this may be named (or related to) "NAT reflection" in pfsense If you have an option to configure a virtual router, this would be a more enjoyable kind of solution if it were my project but I don't know that it's necessary in any sense

>>75297 I access the the server a lot physically, but there are physical devices downstream of the server I want to vnc and ssh in to without having to hook up a monitor all of the time. Some of it's for research purposes like running everything through a packet sniffer, other stuff is legacy software that requires autistic levels of configuration to run and I can't have 20+ computers on my desk to do things that way when I have a xeon and raspberry pis handy. >hairpin nat >nat reflection Thank you, I'll look in to those.

I am getting gaslit by AI into believing that 50 meters per second is equal to 0.05 kilometers per second. Try asking your AI see what it says. I am so far gone that I can't even tell for sure if it is right and 50m/s=0.05km/h and my doubts are wrong.

>>75327 lol what are you on? do you even still care about whatever that was even about

What is the KISS/*nix way of finding files by name using the command line?

>>75330 50 meters per second is 0.05 km/s? Or hor many? How many minutes per hour is this on exchange rate?

>>75343 this is the manual for the find command in openbsd: https://man.openbsd.org/find look at the examples it's very simple. i don't know if there are differences with the linux find though

>>75345 1000m = 1km 1000m/s = 1km/s 50m/s = 0.05km/s You seem to be conflating km/s and km/h

>>75343 (((find))) >>0 just what the fuarrrk were the firefox trannies thinking when they added the F11 animation. when i was literally 9yo in 1995 i would have known better since that will trigger some callback on every single poorly coded element on some rando's web page 9000 times

>>75343 find . -iname '*blob*' find /somedir/ -name '*BloB*' if you run find in / especially, you will want to redirect stderr to avoid having your results drowned in a bunch of permissions errors for files in /proc and /run etc. find / -iname '*balls*' 2>/dev/null

>field full of charlatans >education, libraries, hardware, components all built on sand >smart people cannot contribute anything because it would go against the grain >even the midwit take is that everything is broken >argue with anyone ever who works in tech >he has completely invalid understanding of even basic things, like thinking sudo provides user isolation, or C++ doesn't have buffer overflows if you just use it like Java >blah blah blah i'm right you just don't make 300K/year at google microsoft whatever like me >[somehow ignores that everyone hates those companies and knows their products are soykaf] >this glitterboy argued against whatever is established now until it was established then he agrees with it (even though its actually still soykaf). for example when windows got memory protection why do these glitterboys exist? is it because tech selects for rejects = autists? is it because tech selects for rejects = mixture of autists and dumb people too dumb to even hang out with normal people? is it because tech selects for the most willing to suck cock and be proud of it?

Can anyone recommend a good way to back up SMS without root (I'm about to install a custom ROM on my phone) and without using jewgle? F-Droid has SMS Import/Export, but I am not sure if it is any good. Not sure if I should try something off of jewgle playstore via Aurora, but I'm not sure about using proprietary apps and where exactly that information will be going. Thoughts?

I have 2 disks with a gnu/linux installation Now i'm wondering if it is possible to boot into the second installation using QEMU/KVM or am I limited to chrooting? I'm pretty sure it should be possible, but I don't want to complicate things too much

I use a Fairphone smartphone running /e/os and I'm trying KDE connect to use it as a multimedia remote control and mouse when I'm in lazy mode in my couch to control videos and music (on my Linux Mint desktop). BUT KDE Connect comes with too many functions for my needs (file transfer, notifications, sms...) So do you know some simple application that can replace KDE Connect to control the multimedia players and use my smartphone as a control remote that is : >not bloated >not freemium >not having much trackers >not coded with feet by a monkey I've tried some in F-Droid and none was good regarding these requirements. I want it to be universal so VLC, CMUS or MPV remote are not an option (despite I use these programs on my desktop).

>>75548 It is possible. Just pass the disk as if it's a raw image file.

Why does my .desktop file for a java program in ~/.local/share/applications not show up? The same Exec line works in the terminal: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Type=Application Terminal=false Exec=LC_ALL=C java -jar /home/anon/dsd2flac/dsd2flac_gui.jar Name=DSD2FLAC Icon=/home/anon/.icons/dsd2flac.png

>>75577 It should be: `Exec= env LC_ALL=C java -jar /home/anon/dsd2flac/dsd2flac_gui.jar` You need to use the 'env' command in desktop files.

>>75578 well thank you, that worked

Is there a way to tell Firefox to open certain links in an external application? Maybe add a right-click context menu item? Namely I want to open SoundCloud links in my external app from Waydroid (Android emulator). With arkenfox+vpn it's impossible to log in to a lot of social media sites, but the Android apps work for some reason. Plus they're nice.

>>75630 You need a local http server and an extension that makes a request to that server. See https://github.com/woodruffw/ff2mpv for an example

>>75641 Actually I'm wrong, no http server required. I just read the source for that project and it uses https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Native_messaging

I want to make a home media server, how would I go about getting a relatively cheap server rack? Are sizes universale? and where would I go looking for a decent place to purchase one

hello, i was wondering if you can help me with a problem i am having. currently i have a server runing a imageboard engine and want to tun it on tor the problem is that i don't know how i would moderate the site properly. i can't ban their ip because tor is meant to mask you ip do you know any ways i can add some way to identify user so i can ban then

>>75650 i dont think there’s any surefire way to id users nowadays. i think the best you could do would be to add spam filters, assuming you haven’t put some up already

>>75644 Ok that's probably a bit better for me. Would it be hard to set up for a retard like myself? Looks like I need to know some Java, or are json files Javascript?

>>75646 Just get 20TB external HDD and use an old laptop or a cheap ARM board . A laptop/pc is better if you need transcoding, but otherwise any cheap SBC is more than enough to run something like Plex.

Hello, can you check, does posting works on mebious co uk? Last time I've checked - couple years ago there were forms for text input and image. But rn I don't see them. Idk if this me or they removed posting.

>>75657 Shit not a bad idea, thanks

When I use yt-dlp to download a 720p version of a Youtube video, I can open the temp file and play it while it's downloading. But if I download the 1080p or higher version, the audio and video files are separate so I have to wait until it's all downloaded before playing it. Is there a way to download and play 1080p videos simultaneously?

>>75675 yt-dlp -F $url will show you all the available formats for a video. You can see that for anything above 720p youtube only offers separate audio/video tracks. You can use mpv which hooks into yt-dlp to stream 1080p+ videos, but I'm not sure if there is an option to save the stream to a file as you watch.

If any Lainon uses Termux, I hope you can help me. I am using termux-launcher as my launcher and it provides a script called "launch" that I can use to launch applications from within termux. The problem is that whenever I install a new app, it does not immediately show up in the "launch" command and I have to usually wait for about a day to find it automatically show up somehow. So my question is that is there a way to list all the installed applications along with the location of their "activity launcher" from termux so that I can edit the script to make the changes immediately after installing the app?

>>75435 Any ideas? I need to unlock the bootloader to be able to do many of those methods, which wipes everything, but I need to make the backup before I can unlock the bootloader in the first place.

This might be kind of a stupid question, but does testdisk (data recovery) work on a cloned drive? Let's say you cloned a HDD with Clonezilla and did nothing else. Would testdisk be able to retrieve deleted files on the new cloned drive that were once on the original one?

>>75748 >Let's say you cloned a HDD with Clonezilla and did nothing else. >Would testdisk be able to retrieve deleted files on the new cloned drive that were once on the original one? Probably not because of this >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonezilla >Clonezilla uses a smart file system-aware approach. It uses information from the file system to determine which blocks on a drive require copying. This ensures that only the space currently in use on the drive is copied while empty space is ignored. The "empty space" is where the deleted file you want are. >Clonezilla can operate on block-level (sector by sector). This is what you want. If you can figure out how to enable this mode (it sounds like it's not the default) or find a tool that does this then every byte from the original will be in the backup and you can fish around for hidden files.

>>75748 Sometimes, depends on the image filetype and the type of image. If I made that img with dd so I get a raw block to block, the answer is sometimes. Data recovery in my opinion is more art than science. Also testdisk will make a raw block to block disk image for you. In my experience it misses sometimes, but it's good 90% of the time.

Are there any uses for old DDR3 RAM sticks? I was thinking of using it for a server but the DDR3 motherboard and CPU I have are too power hungry to leave running 24/7, even with undervolting, and buying hardware this old is never a fun task. I also considered making a volatile drive with it as I frequently use ram disk, but I think the speeds would be severely impaired regardless of interface.

What's the new linux distro for noobs? Ubuntu's now pushing snap way too hard, and Manjaro has gone full corporate (they have VPN ads on their website).

>75650 accounts, gpg.

I still don't fully understand paths and it's making me frustrated. I had a desktop file that works with this Exec line: Exec=/home/anon/LosslessCut-linux-x64/./losslesscut But there are other files in the binary directory, like libffmpeg.so, that wouldn't be loaded if the application called for them, right? Because it was launched as a single line without cd'ing there first. So just to be safe, I added a Path= line and modified the Exec line like so: Path=/home/anon/LosslessCut-linux-x64/ Exec=./losslesscut Now why the fuarrrk doesn't this work? If the previous exec command worked, why on God's green Earth wouldn't those two lines work?

>>75883 The first question to ask here is: do you have a compelling reason for not installing this application in a package manager? There should rarely be any reason to end up running applications from your home directory, unless either you're using a very obscure tool, or you are an unprivileged user on a free linux shell server 20 years ago. Path in the desktop file isn't the same thing as the environment variable $PATH. The env var tells the OS where to look for executables by default when no explicit filepath to an application is given. The desktop file key simply sets the working directory for running the executable that Exec points to. The effect of your new shortcut file is that the OS is looking in $PATH (`echo $PATH`) for an executable named losslesscut. To make it work, you would either add the directory where your binary lives to your $PATH (find the existing variable in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile or do `grep PATH ~/.*` and add to the end) -- especially if you have other binaries there, then you can easily refer to them by name without a full path in other desktop shortcut files. Or for a one-off, do this: Type=Application Exec=/home/anon/LosslessCut-linux-x64/losslesscut (the Path key is optional and likely not relevant here) https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html Exec Program to execute, possibly with arguments. See the Exec key for details on how this key works. The Exec key is required if DBusActivatable is not set to true. Even if DBusActivatable is true, Exec should be specified for compatibility with implementations that do not understand DBusActivatable. The Exec key The Exec key must contain a command line. A command line consists of an executable program optionally followed by one or more arguments. The executable program can either be specified with its full path or with the name of the executable only. If no full path is provided the executable is looked up in the $PATH environment variable used by the desktop environment. The name or path of the executable program may not contain the equal sign ("="). Arguments are separated by a space. Path If entry is of type Application, the working directory to run the program in.

>>75853 Yeah, give them to me. The only CPUs without NSA backdoors right now are old DDR3 CPUs.

>>75873 Install Linux Mint (I highly recommend the Linux Mint edition with Mate DE but Cinnamon is also ok.). I recommend that you avoid the Debian-based version of Linux Mint Debian (I used to use it back in the day (years ago) but it was less stable than the standard Linux Mint or the real Debian/Devuan. Linux Mint is almost the same as Ubuntu but without Snap and Gnome 3. But there is nothing wrong with using Xubuntu or Lubuntu if you are new to GNU/Linux. Even with Snap, it's still better than Windows or MacOS. If you want another choice, you could look into EndeavourOS (don't bother with Manjaro because it has a lot of other issues as well, and EndeavourOS provides what you really want, if you are looking for easy version of Arch Linux). But you can later install another distro (easy). You need to just make a backup on external HDD (or something similar) (but in theory, you can also make a separate /home partition (by default you only have / aka root partition)). But the easiest way is to just make a backup since you should have backups anyway.

>>75886 >do you have a compelling reason for not installing this application in a package manager? Yes, I refuse to use the Flatpak for an application like this, and I lack the proper libraries to build it into a deb package myself. I don't feel like explaining myself further, but let's just say Flatpak is annoying and a waste of time for this program, imo. I don't think adding this one program to my PATH is necessary, so I think what I'm looking for is this, right?: Path=/home/anon/LosslessCut-linux-x64/ Exec=/home/anon/LosslessCut-linux-x64/./losslesscut >Path >If entry is of type Application, the working directory to run the program in. This should mean that if my program needs one of those other .so files in it's directory while it's running, it will be able to use them now, right? P.S. The program worked before without the Path line, but I just wanted to be safe and make sure I wasn't missing out on any functionality. It works now with the two lines above, not sure if it made any difference

Actually, I don't see why I can't explain it now: The restrictions placed on Flatpak feel unnecessary for a quick and easy tool to losslessly cut video. I wasn't familiar with their programs' use of the /run/user/1000 directory. I learned about this the hard way. It takes the video you are currently editing out of it's original folder and puts it there until you close the program. I thought I had a duplicate, so I deleted the original video file I was working on from the /run/user directory, which defaults to permanent deletion. As soon as I closed the program, I realized what I had done, and was left with only the split video file I created. So I permanently lost a video I can never get back, because of overly complex Flatpak rules that were never outlined to me, the end user, and that I don't even feel like I needed in the first place. I use Flatpak for programs that I feel like actually could pose a threat to me/my security/my privacy - like Steam, Discord, or other things like that. When a simple lossless video editing tool needs to be wrapped in 20 layers of bubblewrap and apparmor, it annoys me. Thankfully the developer offers a portable binary for Linux, so I elected to use that. Another program I use that doesn't need to be a Flatpak is Wike, a standalone Wikipedia browser that uses webkit. This time the git page offers no alternative other than the Flatpak, even if you follow their instructions to build from source, you just build a Flatpak. It's either impossible or above my skill level to turn it into a deb package, but if I could I would

>>75897 >This should mean that if my program needs one of those other .so files in it's directory while it's running, it will be able to use them now, right? Yeah basically. So, like, if you're in an interactive command-line / shell, the working directory is where you are; you see what it is with "pwd" and change what it is with "cd". Processes not running in an interactive shell also have a working directory. Relative references are relative to that location. So if your [program's] WD is /home/slice/wack/ and in wack/ you also have a file phat.so, then you can refer to phat.so with only the filename because it's in the same directory where you are. If phat.so is at /home/slice/phat.so instead, you can refer to it as ../phat.so. Of course, absolute paths work from anywhere. Unless your program is doing things weird, the same directory where the binary lives is a reasonable choice, and I think the default anyway, which is probably why it's not a required key in the desktop file (while Type, by the way, is -- but I don't know if this means it can't work without it anyway). The last ./ in the path doesn't hurt but also isn't really doing anything. Single dot just means "this directory" and is necessary if you're in an interactive shell and want to run an executable in the working directory when it's not in PATH (or the wrong one would be found earlier in the PATH). But the absolute filepath can just be /home/anon/LosslessCut-linux-x64/losslesscut I'm noticing now that you used Exec=./losslesscut while it seems like I thought it said Exec=losslesscut. In the latter case the bit about adding the directory to PATH would be relevant but in this case it isn't. This also means that the reason it didn't work is actually because the Path key doesn't define where to find the executable, it just defines where it will start when it runs. The working directory isn't a thing that can exist before the process does, hence a setting that defines what the WD will be is of no help in defining where to find the executable in the first place. I think it helps if you picture the application having its own little interactive shell. "edit": that may seem to add nothing new -- what I mean is that running the program (via the desktop file) is an operation done by one process with its own WD. When the program runs, it will be another process with its own WD. The Path key sets what will be the initial working directory of that second process. It doesn't affect the WD of the first process, which is what would help it reach the executable using a relative path.

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>>75967 Never used it myself, but -icount seems like what you need: >Enable virtual instruction counter. The virtual cpu will execute one instruction every 2^N ns of virtual time.

Hello there. I installed Ubuntu 22.04 and I want to learn about the Apache web server. I found an old book from 2003 about Apache. In the very beginning of the book, the lines "user webuser" and "group webgroup" are specified for the .htaccess configuration file. However, the book does not explain how to correctly create this user webuser in the operating system and what access rights this user should posses. I read in the internet that there is an adduser command for Ubuntu, which includes the --disabled-login option. Could you advise me whether I should use the --disabled-login option when creating a webgroup user, or should I opt not to use it? Thank you.

>>76053 This should already be done for you grep APACHE_RUN /etc/apache2/envvars

>>76060 Many thanks for your wisdom, sir

I have a bunch of extra PCIE slots and I’m trying to think of things to do with them. Are there any reasons to get a dedicated sound card? What else is there?

>>76063 networking, storage, a second gpu (low grade) for virtualisation and GPU passthru

>>76065 I already have networking and plenty of storage. I guess I could use a second GPU, but that would still leave me with one or two slots left. It’s a Xeon so I want to make the most of it.

did you know you can press ctrl+click on a link in most terminals and it will open it in your browser?

I seem to have been locked out of my android phone. I changed the logon to a pattern swipe, but while I was able to do it last night, for some reason no pattern I try works. Escalating the problem is that it locks me out of even attempting to solve the problem for 60 seconds, and probably more if I continue to fail. Is my only option to just nuke it and "reinstall" android? I have installed TWRP, but no root.

I am designing a PCB of considerable compactness. Since the PCBA provider I've been working with doesn't have the parts to do this order, I'm looking at reflowing it myself. The majority of parts shown here are 0201 for-factor. Does anybody with SMD reflow experience here think that this is possible to do well without a pick and place machine? I'm not really sure, there's a lot of very small parts in a very tight space.

>>76239 If you used TWRP to make a nandroid backup, you can just reinstall that instead of starting from scratch with a stock ROM. If you didn't, and you have to start over, make a nandroid backup after you have everything tweaked to perfection. Then you won't face the same or similar predicament again.

>>76250 > start over I can't even bring up the factory recover screen. This is crap. Now it's up to 3 forking minutes between tries. And 90% of my errors are just me slipping past the wrong dot. Never using pattern ever again.

>>76251 There should be a power-on key-combination for your device that boots directly into recovery, bypassing any need for your authorization pattern.

>>76253 >power-on key-combination for your device that boots directly into recovery There is, but for some reason it doesn't work. I tried adb reboot recovery, and it says 'error unauthorized' or so. If I try up/down/up+down and power, it boots normally. I get a message about how my bootloader is unlocked and not to store "sensitive" files, but that always happens. Is there a method to retrieve files without TRWP? Just an unlocked bootloader? (all i care about is retrieving file, but getting the pattern key would be preferable.) I have no idea how it was working the other night, but not now. Also, is there a pattern code method similar to picrel? What hardware would I need to buy? For some reason I can't find how to do this, even with TOR.

Is it possible to access the android file system with odin? Yes, I have a samsung phone.

Has anyone else had problems with new cock.li accounts?. I can't access my emails again because it says the credentials are incorrect, even if use a copy-pasted password.

>>76266 >(all i care about is retrieving file, but getting the pattern key would be preferable.) I have no idea how it was working the other night, but not now. The only reason I can think of is your touchscreen went bad, but that's a longshot. If your whole phone isn't encrypted, maybe some file recovery servicec might be able to retrieve your files. That's all I can think of, sorry. Losing data suh x. Been there.

>>76320 Yea, in the future I'll be putting everything on the SD card.

How can I ensure reliable access to my files from my microPC whenever an internet connection is not available? I'm considering using a combination of syncthing for important "hot" work and sshfs to a NAS for things like bulk datasets I don't usually need. Any thoughts?

>>76319 Their Roundcube instance, somewhy, can't handle long passwords properly - you can log into the main site, but not their webmail. Change your password from the main site. Adding (too many?) UTF-8 characters to your password causes this result as well.

does lowering the volume in mpv reduce CPU usage?

>>76363 i really doubt so. the difference in cpu usage either way would be within the margin of error or something.

>>76363 why would it? at the logical level volume is just a number that's send to the sound card microcontroller. and eevn at volume 0 sound is still being transcoded

>>76370 with soykaf software, yeah

>>76363 no volume is just an increase in power of the sound device itself. look into amplification.

>>76363 you can test with rm -rf. it will show the cpu usage of the radio and audio processing stack

Is there a way to test if my connection is being throttled at the ISP level? I know I have DSL, but this is slower than 56k.

>>76382 Just press pause thew wait 20sec, unpause. Notice the unthrottled speed. Repeat ass neccesary.

>>76382 Most likely the server is doing the throttling. You can use one of those "bandwidth tests" to check your available bandwidth. This one works well in my experience: https://www.speedtest.net >this is slower than 56k. No it isn't. 13.5 * 8 = 108kbit/s. That's still soykaf, even for DSL. Possibly, using a proper download tool would be faster than whatever firefox is doing. Seriously, why are firefox downloads so slow?

>>76386 >No it isn't. 13.5 * 8 = 108kbit/s Huh? Normally it's >500KBs. picrel is speedtest.net. I guess it is the server throttling. But it's weird because

hello do you know how to install pyib( https://github.com/tslocum/PyIB ) on pythonanywhere.com ?