Tech Questions

Tech Questions #13 Old Thread: >>73499 Ask your simple questions in this thread. You will get replies more likely if you use this thread because many posters regularly visit this thread. I will start. I'm thinking about buying Acer Aspire 5 (the one that has AMD Ryzen 5 5625U). Does Acer make good laptops? I'm a bit hesitant to buy it because Acer has weird UEFI firmware that requires you to press ctrl+s to get full settings.

I've had my current acer laptop for 6 years and I'm quite content with it. I had several driver issues during the first ~2 years though, so you might need to be careful about which distro you choose. I very rarely needs to mess with the UEFI settings to be honest.

help i accidentally sudo cryptsetup luksClose /dev/mapper/kubuntu--vg--root ; sudo cryptsetup luksClose /dev/mapper/kubuntu--vg--swap won't this fuarrrk up everything once i try to reboot?

>>76481 I dont think it should unless the filesystems are sensative to unmounting

>>76482 it's the filesystem i'm posting from right now. is there a chance that next reboot everything will just... fix itself? and everything will be fine?

>>76483 My guess is that a reboot should go normally and everything should work as usual. After all, every time you shut down your system, the encrypted volumes are unmounted and closed. So your doing it accidentally prematurely shouldn't cause a problem. In fact, I'd reboot immediatedly because the system might have problems without those volumes available. Or if you know the pasphrases you can just open and mount them manually without rebooting, using cryptsetup commands.

>>76489 how do i do all that and is it dangerous to keep the stuff open as i have been doing for a few hours by now

>>76495 just press your power button buddy or how do you normally shut down. dont try saving soykaf onto the closed filesystems.

>>76496 alright but if it decides it doesn't want to go on then that'll count for me too

>>76391 Those speeds look right for rural DSL. The latency is way outta whack though even for DSL. Something is broken somewhere.

>>76525 provide examples of how terminals are losing to other uis in terms of all the things you said it is like kicking dead whales down the beach at. >performance cli is much better in terms of performance. anyone with a flawlessly working pc won't notice the change anyway, but on a machine with less resources availible it's an obvious truth. >ergonomics maybe, though anyone who can read and knows computer terminology won't feel horrified and bewildered by some lines of text. >security how a ui is connected to software security at all? >ease of use probably the only thing that might be the problem, and it's subjective. ease of use is also not >composability what is this supposed to mean, in terms of user interfaces? >compatibility with what? to be honest it's really pointless to brag about the compatibility of terminals, since they are only made to interact with a specific system they were created for. for instance, if powershell or cmd was compatible with linux, it still wouldn't be used by anybody since something like bash would be better at doing things on the os it was originally intended to be used at. i'm not really a great fan of clis myself, but sometimes it's just much easier to type in a couple of commands than click through the whole rabbit hole full of buttons.

>>76525 >composability i'm not sure what you think this means, also toasting in a whole bread, also what even is $PS1

>>76527 > if powershell or cmd was compatible with linux proven, powershell has a linux build but nobody cares

>>76457 Question: how do you get themes used in older Ubuntu versions on modern Ubuntu? I really like the themes used in older versions of Ubuntu, I'm assuming older themes use older versions of GTK and Gnome, but surely there are similar looking themes right?

>>76563 sudo add-apt-repository universe sudo apt-get update sudo apt install light-themes && sudo apt install humanity-icon-theme.

Why do members of the hacker community never call things "gаy" when its a common part of English speech and has been for many decades? even if you look at posts from 80s and earlier, they will not use the word even once. Are hacker community members just of higher caliber, and "gаy" is just peasant vernacular, or are they not allowed to say it, or are they all democrat voters?

>>76565 sauce please anyway idk its just kinda a gay word u no

>>76565 I call things gay all the time and I'm actually leet.

So I have a Quadro P series and specifically have a need for the supported stereoscopic 3D that these cards support... any later Quadros stopped with Syereo 3D support and the sync port! To support Stereo 3D I have to run older drivers, the latest version quadro driver to support stereo 3D is 452.06.... Thing is to run LLMs I need newer drives specifically CUDA... If I upgrade to latest Nvidia I loose support for Stereo 3D! To try and get around this I installed the latest CUDA development environment hoping that might update CUDA to work, but it has not helped me. Idealy I want the latest NVIDIA drivers but with rolled in support for Stereo 3D.... I have a standalone Stereo installer from time ago that adds stereo to older driver versions, but not to newer ones.... Does anyone think there is a way to roll this stereo driver into the latest drives? Forcing it in there? IF so how would I go about starting such a mission? Any ideas or hold appreciated Lains!

>>76565 Hackers call things gay and retarded all the time. Some of the best hackers are the most racist and homophobic people you'll ever meet. This sounds like wishful thinking from your side probably because you qualify as the aforementioned and like to think hacker culture has always condoned you. It hasn't. Not that there doesn't also exists faggy hackers who do condone you. Its a mixed bag, and always has been, is what im saying.

>>76565 out of sheer coincidence, not a single member of the """hacker community""" (which means all open source dudes and all infosec dudes) has ever used the word "glitterboy", despite that being an extremely popular word in contemporary spoken english to refer to someone who has caused an annoyance you can go into a warez irc and see ppl say it, but as soon as you go into any """hacker community""" place, even a bug tracker for some obscure library nobody cares about, it's as professional as a hollywood production. social skills are usually lacking, but they still get this part down warezdomos are on average intellectually above open source programmers yet a """hacker""" will sperg out when i say this and his entire objection will be that the warezdomo doesnt follow proper legal processes """hackers""" dont care about freedom, they value state more than anything, they value paying taxes. they value political correctness, because they arent actually grassroots in any way they claim to be, but 99% of them are either sponsored and their project is either for profit or their project is for their resume. they value regulation. they have no problem lving with a mask over their face inhibiting their every breath and utterance it's hard and unnuatural for the average person to avoid using "gay" to describe an unfortunate situation. the fact that it insults some very small amount of people (see end of post) does not justify suppressing every day common english speech. this is direct proof that the """hacker community""" does not give 2 fuarrrks about freedom.

2. these people who call themselves "hacker, not a cracker" should be referred to as [bold: trаnnies]. 'they are all autistic trаnnies. you went into their FPS game server in 2001 and one day you just so happen to say something like nigga, nigger, gay, or glitterboy like you would usually do in every day casual speech and they kick you and accuse you of being one of the nаzis (all 10 of them). this is also what XKCD is, an autistic trаnny. it took me years to come to calling them trаnnies, it used to just be /pll/ doing it for no reason all the time. >discord trаnny

but after a long time i realized these SJWs i hated since the 90s can be perfectly described this way, i always was looking for a word for it. these people who are two or more of: fat, balding, autistic, bum. who work on some inane pet project like ollydbg but of far worse quality. a game mod, an XML library, etc. little autistic goblins that toil away at their craft and form a community around it. coupled with this obnoxious high horse behavior where they ban you for doing a wrong, like calling something "gay". thats all they are, a tranny. they should be shunned into oblivion and never talked about again. if anyone brings them up i will say "oh, that tranny" and change the subject. them objecting to using tranny as an insult just further highlights their absrudity. they value legal punishments that as a false positive effect thousands of innocent people. yet they will complain that mere thousands (that is the likely number of genuine people with this rare genetic mutation) of people in total would be insulted by someone else being called a "glitterboy" or "tranny"

>>76577 Your great mistake is calling the professional corporate infosec employees "hackers." Hell, 99% of them do some kind of validation/compliance work rather than outright pentesting, anyway. Even the ones that do pentesting are barely hackers in the more politically charged sense of the word. Can't be a punk just dressing like one and then selling merchandise, you get?

how can i copy a file to multiple destinations? cp bugs when i try to do it $ cp a b c d e cp: target 'e': No such file or directory

>>76582 RTFM, you're trying to copy a, b, c and d to a directory called e (which won't be created by cp). Simplest way would be to run cp multple times, i.e. for dest in b c d e; do cp a "$dest"; done

I want to buy a domain, rent a vps and follow the tutorials on landchad.net to finally become free from the botnet. But I'm not sure how much it'll cost me. How little storage space, ram, etc can I get away with if I want: - a static personal website - an email server + webmail - a cgit server - an xmpp server (to talk to family) - a jitsi server (for video calls) Do you have any idea? Does anyone run a vps here?

>>76590 https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-guide-requirements

>>76591 Thanks a lot, that gives me a good idea of where to start.

Where can I host my own static site for free with rhe ability to host whatever file I want with little risk of it taken down for hosting "suspicious" content like FLACs and EXEs and torrents and the such? I've already tried nekoweb and github, but github really loves git which I dont need cuz it adds a layer of complexity that I don't want, and nekoweb is buggy and too new to find help (and i refuse to join their discord server becuse fuarrrk discord)

>>76590 My man do not do the e-mail guide, I think it's outdated or was written wrong or something, it just didn't work at all. I did it twice and ended up with a useless server both times. I'm reading through a book on Linux mail systems so I know what I'm doing next time. It's not setting up any of the basic things, it's all the extra million authentications you have to do and DNS configuration...

>>76602 https://surge.sh/ maybe?

HTTPS newb question: why shouldn't I just generate my own TLS certificate? Do I really have to obtain my TLS certificates from a centralized authority?

>>76654 you can but part of the point is that some theoretically third party can say you do indeed own that domain on the public internet and not some rando taped into your WiFi running a monkey in the middle sort of attack, or something like that. You can sign your own cert and that accomplishes some of the same objectives as HTTPS but not all.

I merged the two tech questions due to lots of activity in both, but only one #13 needed to exist.

>>76654 Every user that connects to your site will get a warning page about the cert not being signed. Other than the security problems that >>76655 pointed out a lot of people that click your link will see that then immediately leave. If you're just hosting it for yourself or a small amount of users you can always run your own CA.

pls help me understand how fonts work I installed Manjaro on my PC, the i3 image. I want to use the Cozette font, so I installed it's AUR package through yay. The installation seemingly went fine. The cozette.otb file is where it's supposed to be (/usr/share/fonts/misc), but the font doesn't seem to be installed correctly. It doesn't appear as selectable for gtk or qt applications, and it doesn't appear listed when running fc-list (what I run is: $ fc-list Cozette ). I've tried running fc-cache -v to make sure that fontconfig is looking in the right folders for the cozette.otb file, and sure enough it appears to do so. Among the directories returned by fc-cache -v is /usr/share/fonts/misc which where yay installs the font. Just to make sure though I copied the cozette.otb file to /home/me/.local/share/fonts. When running fc-cache -v the full entry for that directory is /home/me/.local/share/fonts: skipping, existing cache is valid: 1 fonts, 1 dirs . So that means that fontconfig is correctly recognizing the Cozette font in /usr/share/fonts/misc presumably. I thought maybe the font file is fuarrrked in some way but running fc-scan on it returns normal output as far as I can tell. I don't know what could be the problem. Digging around ancient forum posts people suggest making sure that the fontpath in xorg.conf does actually contain the directory where the font is, but Xorg doesn't use xorg.conf anymore. Instead the Xorg has several configuration files tucked in some root folder none of which has anything regarding a fontpath.

Why do distros have to get massively derailed? Is it possible to just update the linux kernel, libc and all packages recompiled into installation media with some of the bloat removed? Is it going to take a soykafload more of resources than compiling firefox? If this isn't the right board/thread feel free to move, my apologies

>>76582 If you want to make a "shortcut", read about symlinks (and hardlinks): https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/creating-soft-link-or-symbolic-link/ ... but if you want to make multiple copies, you need to use cp! >>76683 >but Xorg doesn't use xorg.conf anymore. Actually it does. Xorg is just able to automatically configure itself these days. It used to be so that you had to always write a xorg.conf. Now you can just put small config files (that contain only the config options you need) in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/42_something.conf (foobar.conf.d directories always work like that). You should look where and how font packages in official repos install stuff. Sorry, I can't help much since I have never needed to install fonts on my own. All fonts I want to use are already properly packaged. >>76711 If you are looking for a lightweight LiveCD, you should look into Puppy Linux or SystemRescueCD. But if you want a distro that doesn't come with a lot of things preinstalled, you can install Void Linux, Arch Linux (or Artix), Gentoo or (especially) Alpine Linux. Void Linux and Alpine Linux both have an installer while Arch/Artix and Gentoo do not (instead they provide wiki page that has installation instructions). These distros have been made for power users and they don't install much by default (not even a basic GUI). But you can very easily install everything you need with the package manager. Here is an example post-install script for Void Linux: https://dpaste.org/MWC8b Note that you need to enable the services, for example: # this only works on a running system! # consult the Void Linux Handbook for details! # be sure to rm dhcpcd and wpa_supplicant symlinks (and similar) from /var/service first! sudo ln -s /etc/sv/NetworkManager /var/service/ # equivalent of systemctl enable NetworkManager sudo sv up NetworkManager # equivalent of systemctl start NetworkManager

>>76714 Artix does have an installer m8, it's comfy

>>76714 Void is hardwired to reddit, which makes it impossible to reach out to the community. Perhaps maybe IRC, but if it's on Libera, you might need registration because they violently block VPNs and Tor. It's not like you will need it, but if you do, you're screwed. Their community is so small they can't afford a mailing list.

>>76782 I dunno what in the world you're talking about with Reddit, Void has a great IRC channel with nice helpful people, and a decent wiki as well.

>>76683 Update on this. Turns out I'm an idiot, big surprise. The problem was simply that Manjaro does not have bitmap fonts enabled by default. I assumed it would because it's based on Arch but well I'm not even sure if they're enabled by default on Arch. What you have to do is go into /etc/fonts/conf.d and delete 70-no-bitmaps.conf . >>76714 Thanks. Turns out it had nothing to do with xorg, I'm just an idiot.

not sure about void in particular but I agree with >>76786 for many distros IRC and forums are better info sources than official docs and wikis >>76714 thanks for the detailed answer, alpine and some arch flavors were nice, maybe my frustration comes from distro hopping hoping that something will arrive with my subjective definition of 'perfect' by default instead of sticking to something my idea was more like pre selecting the packages before install but I don't think any distro offers that so it probably leads into the whole LFS type of rabbit hole and ends up being the arch/gentoo case but in reverse

>>76786 Libera is scam. I wonder if they even allow cock.li mail to sign up.

>>76804 Do you have a single fact to support that assertion?

Is it a good idea to use a service like Real Debrid for torrents if I don't want to use VPNs or a torrent client? Especially when I don't torrent frequently?

>>76847 I guess the main drawback is that Real Debrid most likely doesn't seed the torrent (meaning you can't use private trackers as well). IIRC Real Debrid caches popular torrents so there's a chance you can start downloading instantly from their servers instead of having to wait for the torrent download to finish.

>enshittification Where did this retarded buzzword come from? Why do people use it to describe how corporate the internet has become? It's sounds so awful.

>>76853 >>enshittification People want to sound strong, particularly when talking about cultural conflicts. Corperatization, exploitation have been used by weak groups. They need to show they're 'rebellious hackers', which is the strong group, which eliminates serious language, but need to keep it SFW so as not to look like low class losers, this is the obsession with 'not seething' those brainrotted by psyopsites can't just love and hate, they must always appear better than the world. Thus, enshitification, it's safe edgy. And who do you think spread it? Correy doctrow. On linux mint, I tried to open Bluetooth Manager, which from what the link actually does, opens blueman-manager. I saw the window briefly pop up then disappear when I clicked it. System info said Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: <filter> ChatGTP says that means something's wrong with the driver. Restart, mounting and unmounting didn't help. Updating and restarting did, but IDK if it'll come back. How can I come to understand what went wrong? I glanced at the systemCTL log, but it's an awful lot of lines.

Bluetooth is nearly undebugguble for plebs on linux. Say thanks to God that it was not kernel panic. I couldn't use bluetooth on kernel 5.15, because I'd randomly get kernel panic. Holy crap I still shudder.

>>76855 Thanks for the reply anyway! Do you think it could've been written in a way which was easily debuggable? Is there a particular reason it wasn't? My instinct is that writing code in a way that it is understood and easily checked what each part is doing, it if it did it right would save programmers time, since they would get just what they expect each time they actually write something, and that should lead to a world where most problems are trivial to solve and submit to the repo, but as you can tell, I'm a pleb : ) >>76847 I just use tor and DDL sites like aniwave while I put off finishing my homeserver, or I2P for very easy to configure but slow torrenting

>>76804 There is nothing wrong with Libera. They made a new network after Freenode got bought. >>76854 I would debug it like this: Use sudo rfkill list to check if bluetooth is blocked. Try sudo dmesg | most #most is similar to less You can filter journalctl output: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Journal#Filtering_output For exmaple, try: sudo journalctl -b

My last thinkpad finally died from one-too-many falls onto a hard floor. I've heard the build quality has gone down, and I'm buying a decent one since I plan to keep it for 10 years again. Will a laptop sleeve protect the laptop from a fall while it's open? Any sleeve specs to look out for?

>>76923 For fall safety you'll need something like Dell Latitude Rugged, or Panasonic Toughbook. Ruggedized cases are available for Thinkpad tablets only.

I'm not fully understanding Arkenfox user.js. Am I supposed to run a git pull before the updater script? https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/3.4-Apply-&-Update-&-Maintain

>>76861 > or I2P for very easy to configure but slow torrenting Is it still a good idea to use I2P even if it's going to be vulnerable to Sybil attacks? https://i2pgit.org/i2p-hackers/i2p.i2p/-/merge_requests/191

Been running an aging Asus B150M board for maybe 8 years or so. I initially ran Win7 then 10 up until about 1 year ago I put Debian on it and have been using it since for my daily. I've been pretty impressed with Debian's performance on this system which put off my idea about upgrading to a newer mobo. I'm guessing I could keep running this machine for another 5 years, but the CPU is an i5 6600 and getting old (bottlenecks the video). Lately I've been considering buying a newer board that supports faster memory and chip. But I want to make sure I get something somewhat future-proof and will last me as much time as this system I have now. I'm just not sure what I should look into as I haven't stayed up to date on current standards/technology for a bit. I have a smaller case with this microATX board, but I do have a full tower around that I could use if I went with a larger board. I'm thinking "if it's not broke, don't fix it" which is why I haven't thought about upgrading after all this time. Only upgrades I've made were GPU, memory increase and an audio card. Right now it works and I'm still satisfied. My only concern is some major change in the wired rendering my system incompatible to interconnect. But I don't think that will happen in the next 5 years, maybe in 20 years. Time will tell. So far, this machine has been a trooper.

My home folder is started to get cluttered up with applications that aren't in my repos. Monero GUI, Gologin antidetect browser, Genymotion to name a few. Should I be moving these to /opt/? Is that a better, more "secure" option than just leaving them in my home folder?

>>77001 You could create a new user for each application or, if there's too many programs, set up a user for important things like crypto and then another for X11 applications. Then you could ssh into the user on localhost and have it run the program automatically, provided you've enabled X server access control using xhost(1). It's a little bit of a pain to set up but makes it much less trivial for a rogue program to grab everything in your home folder, for example. fuarrrk this "your request looks automated" garbage. Get fuarrrked vichan.

Are the cursors in pic-related considered proprietary?

>>77016 Yes. I once shared my screen to coworkers while using these cursors and got sued for violating copyright. Ridiculous, eh?

i need to hij my phone to make sure there are no working microphones (ik its up to 3) on my devices in the coming weeks. ive already disassembled iphones b4 but the snowden adjustment just kills them and they start restarting like every 5 minutes. i dont want to switch for android because that os gives me ass pain. should i try iphone 13 mini or same result? is it better to try sth like zenphone 10? (coz also aesthetically pleasing)

>>77028 why would you care about spying if you're going to use a phone?

>>77028 dont use a phone or get a pinephone

Anyway without proper tools you won't do much, except try and break the microphones physically. If you have good soldering tools you could do more, but that would need skill, not much else. Phone boards are crappy, it's often real hard to do something about them. Skill lain. You need skill.

>>77033 if you have a hackspace, someone there probably has the tools or the space has the tools. Desoldering isnt that hard.

does anyone have experience using printers on linux? i have heard that they usually dont function very well.

>>77063 Yeah, it should usually go smoothly enough. I would try this first: - Install CUPS - Don't look for specific driver packages for your printer - Configure a static IP address on the printer (and set it as a DHCP reservation in wireless router) - Add the printer in Linux by IP address using LPD protocol - If you don't use a desktop environment with some printer manager/wizard, do it in the web interface of CUPS - When selecting from the list of drivers, try first "generic postscript" or "[manufacturer] -> generic postscript"

>>77063 Used some canon laser printer with manufacturer's drivers. Don't remember the model, but no issues. Used lpadmin command line utility and some other crap, don't remember, it was the kind of experience when you just intuitively type some soykaf into your terminal and whoosh it works.

What are some good Linux/FOSS documentaries that I should check out?

>>77034 >>77033 familiar w desoldering as mentioned. so its technically possible to deso- an iPhone without it restarting every 5 minutes? likely, the whole act of the phone going bazonkers is a preventive measure against buyers doing that, so theoretically it should persist. ill try

Any good icon sets for XFCE that are like the old Gnome and KDE (Crystal) ones from back in the day?

>>77075 >hackspaces didnt sleep for days so mental energy leaves wishing for best, but I could attempt to infiltrate a sv-associated tech pool nearby. new location that tracks cashgrabbing whites and fvck if if I find someone who won't use me for connections or money, hence need to know if its possible in the first place, but maybe ill get some new skills, lain

>>77076 >>77076 I really like the Haiku OS icons.

About a week ago I noticed that dig was suddenly making connections to opendns.com. I've never used dig before, why is this happening? Is it my VPN? Pic related is OpenSnitch. I tried pasting the command into the terminal (after allowing dig to make connections) and it doesn't even work, the parameters are out of order: /bin/dig +short +time 3 +retry 2 myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com I have one IP in my /etc/resolv.conf and I don't think it's that opendns site. I still have trouble fully understanding how DNS works. Why is this suddenly happening? Those denied commands in the pic were being run by root

>Unless it is told to query a specific name server, dig tries each of the servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf. If no usable server addresses are found, dig sends the query to the local host. maybe use inotify to monitor the fuarrrk happens to resolv.conf, idk what's your setup.

ahh fuarrrk this phone, didn't see your whole cmdline man you should read the fuarrrking manual really > @resolver1.opendns.com it tells dig to use resolver1.opendns.com to resolve your queries, that's why

>>77099 I figured that much, but why is it doing it?

>>77102 Because you ask it to

Been trying to install KDE Plasma on my laptop for a couple hours and I cannot. Pls halp. https://files.catbox.moe/dvyp1l.mp4

>>77107 AFAIK windows has some tool... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/initialize-new-disks disk management apparently. You use to check if your USB stick is still alive. If it is reformat it again to whatever the fuarrrk windows recognizes (fat32, ntfs) and try again. If you stick is dead, game over. Also since you say you want arch https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/USB_flash_installation_medium#In_Windows

Well well don't jump on me reformatting isn't needed, unless windows devs decided to divorce with reason completely, but point is you need to reinitialize it again so it shows up at least. or maybe you don't. maybe it doesn't show up because filesystem is not recognized and indeed it's maybe ext4 or whatever the fuarrrk they invented with their hybrid isos, i honestly never bothered to check. maybe it's that weird splashfs, anyway, point is windows doesn't recognize it, so explorer shows nothing but the disk volume itself might still be there. do what you wish, but the idea is ensuring the stick it alive and then doing whatever it takes to reproduce the steps from arch wiki

ahh fuarrrk me it's actually squashfs, but you get the idea right?

Sorry for autistic spamming, but i also need to point out that pretty much every distro i know of does the same hybrid iso using the same tools, so whatever you do to prepare arch installation media is actually applicable to most if not all viable distros out there might want to keep that in mind for future

>>77111 tysm! I'm reading the microsoft page that you linked.

>>77106 I didn't ask it to, it's doing it on it's own, hence the point of my fuarrrking question. Put down your $7 latte and your Apple iPhone and learn how to read a post next time, idiot

>>77113 getting angry instead of reading manual is not doing you any good. you tell dig to use resolver1.opendns.com as the dns nameserver. it is a domain name, so it also needs to be resolved. dig will use /etc/resolv.conf to resolve resolver1.opendns.com and then use the ip to resolve myip.opendns.com. what's not clear here?

>>77114 What's not clear is why dig is being executed without my authorization in the first place. I never used dig before today and I never set up anything with opendns. I wouldn't have even noticed if I wasn't notified by my firewall. Are you not understanding this part? I never personally executed dig in my terminal. It just started happening on it's own

>>77115 here's the idea, although idk what the fuarrrk he's doing with file descriptors and why the fuarrrk he thought it necessary, you could just do something like 'exec 1>$logfile' and 'exec 2>&1' and not even bother with that bash and just use sh https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/63215/how-to-monitor-all-executions-of-an-executable-over-a-time-period i don't know what you would do next. maybe log /bin/pstree output for more or less complete picture and proceed from there. maybe you can also log /bin/env and contents of "$@". that's to get started at least. might be enough for all i know

>>77116 Does this not just tell me the times dig was executed and by whom? My firewall already shows that, included in my screenshot here: >>77090 and if I click for details it says that it was executed by root.

>>77121 you need to figure out parent process. environment and cmdline arguments are for future, just in case. when you figure out what process exactly starts dig you can go on to investigate that process and figure out why it needs dig at all.

>>77107 You are trying to boot from the USB drive that has a Linux ISO on it so you can install it, right? Set "USB HDD" first with the other "USB" entries or use the other key at power on for the boot menu. If it doesn't boot from the USB drive then try enabling legacy boot and/or disabling secure boot. If it still doesn't boot then post about what you did to prepare the USB drive (tool / file used). If this is what you're doing then diskmgmt isn't relevant, if you make a new filesystem (NTFS/FAT/etc.) on the USB drive it will be overwritten when you write the ISO to it. Connect the USB drive and press Win+R, "devmgmt.msc" and see if the drive appears with any problem. If there's a problem of the type that would show up there, then the category where it is will already be expanded and you'll see an indicator overlaying the device's icon.

>>77090 This command is using an OpenDNS service that returns your public IP address to keep dynamic DNS configuration updated https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/articles/227987727-Linux-IP-Updater-for-Dynamic-Networks If you don't have ddclient then try `grep -ri opendns /etc/`

>>77128 Thank you lainon, I'll try this

>>77116 That SO answer is for when you already know what's running and you want to find out how long it's taking to run in real time or CPU time. It won't help you figure out what's running in the first place. Descriptors 0, 1, 2 are stdin, stdout, stderr; 3 is an extra for shuffling stuff around when needed. First he moves the target executable (I'll call it "foo" here) to foo.bin. Now foo.bin is the actual executable that already existed. Then he creates foo as the wrapper script, so that users or other processes can run "foo" normally and it will transparently run the wrapper script. { time "$0.bin" "$@" 2>&3 3>&-; } 3>&2 2>> /tmp/times.log $0 is the name of the current script (so the wrapper script will work without needing to be changed no matter what actual executable filename is involved). $@ is all arguments to the command line. So when you run foo -b -a -r --baz it will run time foo.bin -b -a -r --baz . It then redirects this way: 2>&3 : Redirect the stderr of foo to fd 3 3>&- : Close fd 3 (I'm not sure if it makes a difference in this case, but if foo has child processes then the descriptor is inherited if not closed). Now the stderr of foo is in fd 3 which is not tied to a particular process. Outside the curly brackets we redirect fd 3 to the stderr of the time command (as opposed to the foo command that the time command runs) with 3>&2 . The fd 2 for the time command now contains the stderr of both time and foo. The rest of the line appends that to /tmp/times.log. It's not strictly necessary to do it this way; there are, as usual, multiple ways to get the same results. To find out what is running dig, you could move dig to dig.foo and create a wrapper script dig that logs the command line (with arguments) of its parent process: #!/bin/sh PARENT_COMMAND=${ps -o args= $PPID} echo $PARENT_COMMAND >> /var/log/procparent.log exec /bin/dig.bin "$@" (I didn't test this, dig may be in /usr/bin idk, need to make sure /var/log/procparent.log is writable (just chmod 777 /var/log/procparent.log since it isn't anything sensitive))

>>77132 your script is broken anyway i meant something like #!/bin/sh logfile=~/.local/share/crap.log exec 3>&1 exec 1>"$logfile" echo "# pstree #" pstree echo "# env #" env echo "# command line arguments #" echo "$@" exec 1>&3 exec $0.bin i thought it's pretty obvious

maybe also exec 3>&- to close it for good

>>77133 on second thought could just redirect a whole subshell as well, would be more readable & understandable. but i have that autistic obsession with trying to minimize performance cost, so avoided fork() caused by subshell

How does ISP to home IP addressing work? Like, how do I get my internet IP? My "on the internet" IP? When I goto whatismyipaddress.com it shows the location of (what I presume) my ISPs datacenter. That IP is associated with my physical street address for a specified time because my ISP has my address on file. Am I wrong? It's just someone told me that that IP isn't just mine. But I always thought that's how it worked.

>>77159 On Uverse for example, it would begin with 802.1X authentication (not 802.11 WLAN), which uses layer 2 addressing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1X#Typical_authentication_progression Once authenticated and traffic is being allowed through the switch port, the gateway (RG/CPE/"modem") broadcasts a DHCP request and receives a sticky dynamic address. This process is authenticated at various points using the MAC address of the RG, the connected pair in the DSLAM/VRAD, etc. Basically it's still just DHCP. Sometimes your public address can have multiple clients behind NAT. For opsec purposes you should assume that your ISP can still differentiate the traffic. Also, if there is an investigation and your ISP gets subpoenaed to reveal who was assigned a certain address, they'll just hand over the list and the police can just follow up with all of them as needed.

Would running an xmpp server over i2p suffice for encrypted messaging, or should I layer omemo on top of it? Also, where does i2p keep it's namespace? Does every machine on the network sync a namespace between them, or is there a central one that's reffered to?

>>77171 https://geti2p.net/en/docs/how/tech-intro been awhile since i touched this so i may be wrong, but you have a public key inside the i2p network, so you don't need additional encryption, just like with tor, so omemo is unnecessary.

https://geti2p.net/en/docs/reseed no central server, just a bunch of nodes you trust implicitly to populate you with valid hosts. as far as i understand it's all about trust, idk maybe there's some form of validation.

>>77171 >>77173 OMEMO provides end-to-end encryption, not having it would mean that admins can read all messages sent within the server. If you host the server to talk to friends who cares but if you intend to provide a private service then OMEMO is important.

>>77178 OMEMO assumes the communication channel is listened, but not tampered with, so you still need to verify fingerprints over a secure channel/offline. Just keep that in mind.

saw a reply on here (or diy or sec) a year ago about some guy that was developing a long range distributed wifi system that got shut down by feds came back for it recently but can’t find it does anyone remember his name or have a link to the post

i have been saving a bunch of files in firefox and on my disk they have their modification times set to all kinds of dates 5 years ago. does webshit have the ability to choose mtimes now?

>>77191 There is a "last-modified" http header. Firefox is probably using that

btw wget does the same by default, use --no-use-server-timestamps to disable. curl on the contrary doesn't do it by can if you set -R which is an alias for --remote-time

>>77184 maybe this? https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/firechat-was-a-tool-for-revolution-then-it-disappeared/

>>77192 ok but for about 30 years it didnt do that, and now it suddenly does who is even using that feature

why is every keyboard garbage at the store >wifi = lag + bugs + interference + usually mitm vuln >rubber dome, these used to be fine 20 years ago (contrary to autistic dick eaters who think linux is a good OS), now they are somehow intentionally made worse to make gaymer crap look better but none of them solve the task of being a plane of buttons >gaymer soykaf, literally full of bugs that only snot nosed glitterboys can come up with. like the cheap ones will not let you press two buttons at the same time, so autists can see this and think that the solution is NKRO and spend $300 on a bunch of buttons >annoying fuarrrking leds, stupid fuarrrking raised buttons unergonomic as dog soykaf, cables get stuck under the buttons (since you have a bunch of cables on desk due to comparing 50 keyboards to see if one is good), buttons fall off if you accidentally bump them from the side. they cant be double tapped, they might make obnoxious clicking noises to appease some autistic gaymer faagot. one literally exploded while plugged into the low voltage USB port why can i not buy a basic peripheral off the shelf and observe that it actually does the simple task it is meant to solve

fuarrrk the PC scene has failed because of you little pants soykafters for 20 straight years who responded to me with "ur just poor" every time i said >this game doesnt even play acceptably on low or even ultra low hacked .ini config on mid-high tier rig, i doubt your precious $2000 gpu alleviates the issue you are the same glitterboys who cry when your video games get haxx0red too, fuarrrking kysves

>>77198 im fully aware un*x garbage sets the timestamp which is the dumbest thing ever. esp, tar. the problem is windows doing this via firefox, now i can have downloads folder sorted by some meaningless timestamp instead of the order i downloaded things in

>>77276 Looking into my download folder, I see only one file with a "wrong" timestamp. I tried redownloading that file, but either I remembered where I downloaded it from, or something changed in firefox, what I downloaded had today set as mtime. Would you mind sharing an url to a file you experience this problem with?

I found this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178506 Are you perhaps using a firefox release from 14 years ago?

>>77271 >why can i not buy a basic peripheral off the shelf and observe that it actually does the simple task it is meant to solve Shut up, be a good guy and just consoom

I bought a random 1.2 euro keyboard some years ago and it just werks idk what you're talking about

I have an SSD that's only about twice as fast as a typical HDD (sudo hdparm -Tt) though its actually fast for thumbnails since HDD couldn't do thumbnails anymore without going crazy (I have a lot of images). The problem I face is that it started wearing out, it's at 94% now. (0) Though it still has a long way what's the cause of system slowdown/freezes? I am guessing it's the pending sectors that appear sometimes when I load images or screenshots or files, though nothing is corrupted ever really, it's probably read errors or maybe the electric current of my system is just bad (the ground leak) and there's a SMART reading for the current stuff that on windows crystaldisk (loonix can't detect it). (1) So what should I do next? I'm thinking on using TRIM but don't know if it's safe to do, I guess I'll just try it on my encrypted home folder after backing everything up, and it seems my unencrypted root does not need trimming but I'll back it up just in case. (2) So my other question is what are some great SSD brands and specs you can recommend? Something that does work well with linux or from your experience, doesn't need any kind of firmware stuff (like that crucial bug), I am on DRAMless since I don't have UPS but is DRAM good without UPS? (3)

Use TRIM https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive Every complaint about SSDs I've heard is because people forget to TRIM.

>>77276 LOL WUT and i heard firefox trannies want to support *n*x domain URLs too now so random websites can take over your X session these people are so fuarrrking oblivious, and they think they are the old guard. just look at this, peek wiggеry: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178506 imagine having a windows box and you download c*gw*n and a few other essential tools then some lamer whose obsessed with having everything the proper "*n*x way" decided that websites can save the "proper" timestamp now so that soykaf you downloaded 5 months ago has virus.exe interspersed and you have no idea just profile the user, if hes a gaymer then maybe give him a CPU-Z.exe. if hes a "hacker" give him c*ygw*n. chrome allows automatic downloads, firefox has it too now IIRC this is now the current situation. also its just fuarrrking stupid, if i manually download soykaf in a w*b br*ws*r, i want them sorted by MY time so i can remember, "hey wheres that movie i downloaded last month". and this is literally the only purpose of file times since 1995.

>>76457 I want to make a thread about high definition pictures of retro ThinkPads and other based laptops, where would be the appropriate place to create this thread?

>>77303 If you don't use trim, the performance will get bad. But you should search the web and confirm that it's safe to do on the filesystem you use (ext4 and xfs should be fine). > So my other question is what are some great SSD brands and specs you can recommend? Crucial, Kingston and Samsung. I recommend getting Kingston KC600 or Kingston KC3000.

>>76483 accidentally closing a LUKS partition is not at all that bad. It's just as bad as a power-off retract and would increase your power off retract count on SMART but instead it doesn't so it's fine. it just abnormally closes the mounted FS (/, /home, /media or whatever). A while ago linux had a bug with unmounting stuff safely so it would increase power-off retract count every hibernate/shutdown/sleep but it was fixed. It's no big deal though unless the drive had problems with cached or pending writes failing to commit (more an SMR HDD issue). LUKS provides at least another safety container (well it's just checksumming), it's like your built-in FS is within an "emulator" of sorts. it's only ever a problem when your luks header gets corrupted (which you can backup/escrow anyways!). well it really depends on the FS and how it works, I'd say NTFS over Windows is actually very aggressive at marking bad read spots as bad sectors, you should just check in case for logs whether there's disk related problems [dmesg | grep -i sector] (would contain sector errors), and then check your SMART monitoring tool [smartctl -A /dev/sdZ] for possible "pending sector" and "reallocated event/sector" counts. most FS would just self-repair and show that it did fsck (or its own fs checker) on logs [dmesg and your boot logs would show it].

>>77271 >wifi = lag + bugs + interference + usually mitm vuln wifi has issues, there's likely a party van sucking all keystrokes in a mile radius, it's also the reason we had a lot of supply-chain attacks, a lot of high-value employees bought some cheapo wireless keyboard during the lockdowns so remote work enabled a lot of the hax >rubber dome, these used to be fine 20 years ago (contrary to autistic dick eaters who think linux is a good OS), now they are somehow intentionally made worse to make gaymer crap look better but none of them solve the task of being a plane of buttons my issue was that bluetooth keyboards LOOK nice, they had scissor switch and quiet-soft rubber dome but they're >bluetooth, and it's not impossible that there's an exploit sold out there since it's auto-negotiation radio and works seamlessly with a "per-paired" dongle, they are rife of exploits too like above. the only ones that do GOOD scissor-rubber keyboards are Japanese brands. look up Elecom, it's my go-to standard, even though sometimes it's japanese localized it does work pretty well and passess the collision test (Lshift+Rshift the quick brown fox...). >gaymer soykaf, literally full of bugs that only snot nosed glitterboys can come up with. don't even bother, they cause strain since they are elevated like a typewriter (lul), might as well just get a magic keyboard which will probably last longer, lower profile also. >annoying fuarrrking leds, stupid fuarrrking raised buttons unergonomic as dog soykaf, such is the nu keyboard. just get the magic keyboard at that point or the imitation magic/apple keyboards, they are AT LEAST very sane compared to the nu ones. gaming keyboards also tend to have huge latency like with gaming mice, they have some proprietary firmware that is slow to load for its "programmable keys" so average 3-15 seconds bootup for them to read that cheapo eeprom that is failing. >>77278 firefox usually saves date modified as when you saved it. if you're using a downloader (like dta!) it will put the original date modified for the file.

people who use cameras with cloud storage and remote access are wrong. just needed to say that aloud

I wanted to be able to consult the sdl documentation offline, so I installed the package libsdl2-doc (debian). Does anyone know how it is meant to be used though? I can see that it consists in a bunch of html docs in /usr/share, and I can open them with firefox (not links2 because its a lot of javashit), but it isn't very convenient as there is no search function. Am I missing something here?

>>77369 Try offline wiki archive or manpages http://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/FAQGeneral#is_this_wiki_available_offline

Here's what I did: #check TRIM support: hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep TRIM ; #show SSD support (also refer to kernel blacklists) lsblk --discard #mapped encrypted devices show they're not supported above, add allow-discards flag #on GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="cryptdevice=UUID=???:encryptedhome:allow-discards ..." fstrim --fstab --verbose --dry-run ; #actual run will ignore HDDs sudo systemctl enable fstrim.timer; #enable fstrim weekly job cryptsetup --perf-no_read_workqueue --perf-no_write_workqueue --persistent open /dev/sdaX encryptedhome ; #some optimizations dmsetup table ; #shows all the flags used fstrim --verbose /mountpoint ; #forces trim job on the mountpoint [encrypted works as long as allow-discards flag is there], will actually take a long time since I had DRAMless which means it doesn't just fake TRIM, it took about 3 minutes or more for 400GB #fstab modifications: #/boot put discard flag, [encrypted] linux swap could also have discard flag but I think it will be harmful for swap hibernation [discarding upon S4] >>77304 >Every complaint about SSDs I've heard is because people forget to TRIM. You're correct and Thanks. Trimming did actually fix the underlying problem happening, which was hangups during file writes (such as during generation of thumbnails of new screenshots, or me just editing a text file with kate swapping a temporary file on disk (in case of a forced shutdown), or during sddm/xorg logging). >>77317 Thanks, I did use unencrypted xfs for root and encrypted my home. Performance is just as good as when I installed the new SSD, also had the sectors aligned perfectly which surprisingly did increase performance of disk writes vs non-aligned.

>>77159 >How does ISP to home IP addressing work? Usually you could find your own IP by issuing a ifconfig command on your: phone terminal/pc terminal/router's shell (via telnet or ssh) >Like, how do I get my internet IP? My "on the internet" IP? It really depends, on the case of phones they're mostly never static singular IP, it is always shared with someone else, the only time you own your IP is when you use IPv6, but with IPv4 it's only when you use a corporate/business/advanced plan from your ISP or when you're lucky enough to just get a dedicated/solo static(or even dynamic) IP. >When I goto whatismyipaddress.com it shows the location of (what I presume) my ISPs datacenter. That IP is associated with my physical street address for a specified time because my ISP has my address on file. Am I wrong? For phones it depends on which tower and its node basestation which may decide which server to give you, this is mostly why location data may not be accurate however since google+gps+enhancedlocation(which uses MAC address global map!) or beaconlocation(c0videxposureAPI) is a feature, it can snitch your exact location even if the one that appears on speedtest or sites is wrong, your location would still be accurate (to most services but not the geo location tag for that particular IP which is like pre-defined) The other is that most routers in US would have GPS built in them, you could check them, there's probably some quectel or GPS chip on that fiber/DSL router's mini PCIE which provides accurate time (during shutdowns, since routers have no cmos batteries) but also embeds location on packets for local gateway to read (traceback purposes!) this was an issue since it would back then get read by hackers who dump omegle packets raw, they can see your location data! and prank you telling you where you live (in US)! >It's just someone told me that that IP isn't just mine. But I always thought that's how it worked. It definitely isn't. Your router has its own NAT even with Fiber connection, this means your IP will be shared across all other devices in your home network UNLESS you have set up Wireless VLAN which is almost rare to have working. It only WORKS if you're using a smart IoT camera which most ISPs allow them to have their own IP so to make them accessible outside your network (you can call them to set it up), like when you're traveling on a different place you (and other hackers) could access your smart camera (or maybe NAS) by logging (or bruteforcing) into its IP and WAN-login, and to make matters worse there's also a thing with UPnP which could expose your device's sensitive ports (like LAN-login or device's debug ports!) even if you have WAN features disabled for the program!!! (auto opening of ports caused by UPnP would make WAN side requests look like local requests, allowing them to access your WAN-disabled programs like say qbittorrent, this is why you should always USE strong passwords! even on your own routers..)

>>77375 >>How does ISP to home IP addressing work? >Usually you could find your own IP by issuing a ifconfig command on your: phone terminal/pc terminal/router's shell (via telnet or ssh) This answer was incomplete, but I'll tell you it's mostly dependent on certain things, VLAN ID, identifiers (router hostname/username/MAC). IPv6 is heavily dependent on your own MAC but it is usually now standard to randomize it due to possibility of stalking (and also due to the underlying flaw of IPv6 making it possible to do neighboring scans on Trillion devices, making it easier to spy when your IPv6 is appending your built-in MAC!), on IPv4 case, it would depend on those identifiers, but on some cases it could also be that the connection you have is just an extender, this is sometimes true for places where you can't even login to your CPE Webpage during ISP downtimes, this means your router works more like an interface to their computers(internet) than it is its "own" computer, this is rare but it is nasty since you have not much control on your internet endpoint. Most of the time ISPs give you connection from their local gateway, which is probably some Class A reserved IP address (imagine it's like a personal hotspot but just larger), not like they'll give you a direct IP (which at that point you can even do hosting stuff yourself like the good old days!), they only do that for "IP cameras" but the dawn of IPv6 makes it possible for IP cameras to have their own IP and accessible webpage but it's still not common. To easily visualize it think of everything as some sort of a hotspot or wifi network of a wifi network and on the last mile it is you who has a wifi network yourself. They may use terrestrial or ocean wired cable networks, ground-space satellite wireless networks, through phone networks. Now how do you "get" into the network without paying a cent? That's the most interesting part!

>>77373 Thanks! They even have manpages, why isn't the debian package using those?

Why does PNG (and other formats for that matter) use CRC if there are already checks at almost every level (hardware, filesystem, protocol etc)?

>>77394 Because why would the file format rely on lower layers when it can (cheaply) do it? Most hardware and filesystems don't implement crc checks at the file level afaik

>>77395 Did some sleepy research. A quick glance at SATA reveals usage of CRC. Btrfs and ZFS, according to random SO answer, silently correct data corruption. Yeah, f2fs and ext4 (both of which I use) don't. There is wear leveling in SSDs which helps data integrity. PNG is designed for the web. IP uses basic error detection. TCP adds some more advanced checks (lost packets detection, checksum ...). Nowadays requests go through multiple routing servers, all of which obviously must ensure absence of errors. CRCs in PNGs don't quite work from my experience. I can change one byte (did that on android w/ a text editor) & my viewer would display a corrupted image just fine.

>>77396 CRC can't detect all possible errors. It is just fairly good at detecting many errors.

>>77398 Yeah CRCs are not that good, yet I once overwrote >10 bytes, that can't be not detected, right? The test image wasn't even that big. Also there are some randomly corrupted pngs on my decaying hdd, all can be displayed. Either crcs don't work or viewers ignore them. Whatever. Let me reword, is error checking in file formats necessary when there are *always* checks at the lower levels? Notably ELF, COFF and GIF don't use CRC or anything. Why? The GIF spec explicitly says >The Format is defined with the assumption that an error-free Transport Level Protocol is used for communications; the Format makes no provisions for error-detection and error-correction. Isn't a file format something high-level? Why not let the hardware and protocols do correction and all that stuff?

>>77396 >my viewer would display a corrupted image just fine. There being a CRC doesn't mean your viewer won't happily open a file with a bad CRC. A smarter program could detect (and sometime correct) the error though. See https://github.com/rvong/png-debugger for a program that detects errors (I didn't test it). I couldn't find one to correct errors, but according to wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_correction_code) it should be possible to correct 1-bit errors in chunks less than 2^31 bits (8MiB) long

>>77399 Another reason why you might have error detection/correction in the file format itself is because compressed data has substantially more entropy than the uncompressed data. Flipping a single bit in the compressed data stream can result in a completely broken image, which may not be detected by a filesystem-level checksum because it's just one bit.

>>77401 And it may not be detected by the format's own checksum as well. Is bit flip that frequent an occurence to justify putting checksums into possibly millions of files? [Why not create backups if that's a real concern?]

>>77402 (me) One more iteration.. Wouldn't it be more sane to apply error checking globally (that is, at the fs/hw level) no matter the format? Less complexity, less overhead, less independent checksum/correction implementations (each with its own set of bugs).

>(me) pls don't do it i had a fit over it thought maybe i have dementia already

>>77191 how long until you upload a file and it sends the mtime. now if you download some random file from some clearnet glitterboyry and upload it it will set the mtime to $current_time ("to emulate the user's expected behavior") and record that largely unique "number x file" combination to their database and they will instantly know who reposted it somewhere else is this clearnet IP in their database. it will take 3 years before wh*te people figure this out and then they will release some "mtime spoofing tool" that also has a backdoor. at year 4 they will figure out about the touch command, which still adds lots of uniqueness to your fingerprint. wh*teoids just want to be fuarrrked, they rather have a nostalgia trip and think they are accomplishing by making every tool in the world (except for these 5) transmit the mtime along with a file.

>>77406 >it will take 3 years before wh*te people figure this out and then they will release some "mtime spoofing tool" Hey my maximally pigmentated friend, you can already use imagemagik or some other batch processing tool to alter the exif data or remove it entirely. I'm not really sure what you're raving on about. Or alter the name since it's often terrible regardless. And if you're that concerned about your brewing soykaf being tracked online then always save files with their original filename to increase your plausible deniability and use tor or other IP obfuscation methods when possible.

>>77408 That's a lot of words to write for someone who didn't even read the post.

>BROOOOO alibaba has a java coding guidelines software >p3c WHO THE fuarrrk GETS HYPED LIKE THIS THEY ARE 1. A SHOP (this has fuarrrking nothing to do with programming) 2. A WEBSITE (so the 0.01% of their company that does the coding arent even real programmers) WHO THE fuarrrk GETS HYPED ABOUT SOFTWARE

>>77492 >WHO THE fuarrrk GETS HYPED ABOUT SOFTWARE you? And alibaba is basically chinese amazon. They do a lot more than online commerce, including cloud-hosting and developing consumer hardware.

Any interesting means of storing backup keys that is disaster, amnesia, and interrogation resistant? I'm thinking about shamir secret sharing with metal-stamping steel cards distributed among colleagues but that's been done a number of times -- wondering if there's something more esoteric that could be interesting.

>>77492 literal fuarrrking starbucks drinking drones, llms running on wetware.

Why do some people like using Palemoon over Firefox? What are the benefits? Does it work well as a daily driver?

>>77521 Palemoon spies a lot less, and is independent from corpos that control firefox. Lower memory usage. It's ok as a daily driver for me, though some js-heavy sites just display a blank page, fail to set eventlisteners or won't load specific parts (github release assets).

Not sure where to put this and don't feel like making a new thread My laptop broke down recently so I had to get an emergency second-hand Thinkpad of Craigslist. I got an X220 Tablet and it has this screen that swivels around like picrel (Fujitsu Lifebook T939) with the pressure sensitive pen it doubles as a wacom tablet. I immediately fell in love with this design. Are there any modern laptops with interesting designs like this or old laptops that can be upgraded? I tried googling but information on mods is sparse and "swivel screen laptop" just redirects to laptops like the MS Surface. I'd also like it to have docking station options if possible but will compromise if it has a sleek form factor like picrel.

>>77555 >you'll find it's become hostile unusable garbage today. how so?

>>77556 Did you read the full sentence? Obviously it's because Firefox keeps attacking user control and removing customizability. I'll give you a really simple example to illustrate. The compact but highly functional manner in which I have my Palemoon UI set up is nearly the same way I've had things arranged ever since Firefox v3.0. In fact the ability to customize things to this degree was one of the major reasons I used to recommend Firefox to people, so long ago. But in Firefox itself, this arrangement is no longer possible ever since 1) they pushed their awful Australis interface on people and later 2) they killed Classic Theme Restorer along with a mountain of other add-ons that people loved.

How do I troubleshoot what I suspect is a power supply issue? My desktop will basically "shut off" and reboot randomly for no known reason in particular. This will even happen when I'm doing pretty low-power tasks like web browsing for example (ironically it almost never happens when I'm playing Elden Ring). should I be checking the voltages of specific pins to see if there's some kind of over-exertion or spike in electric current causing my PC to do this? or am I looking at a different issue?

>>77603 Ultimately the problem with Firefox is that the overwhelming majority of Mozilla's funding comes from a company that does not want Firefox to succeed. If Mozilla was instead funded by a group of independent freedom and privacy enthusiasts, the culture and leadership of Mozilla would likely look completely different. Paying a CEO $7.000.000 dollars a year (non-profit organization btw) to oversee, by every single metric, failure would simply not happen in such a scenario. The only reason Mozilla exists in its current form is because of Google, and a dysfunctional main competitor only serves Google's interests. The only hope for a free Internet is for Mozilla to fail, and something else to be built from scratch that would fill the void left by Firefox's absence. (btw I know this lady stepped down, but the incentive structure remains the same so there's no reason to believe a new CEO will lead to a different outcome) (btw btw pail meme is not the solution to this problem)

Does lain know of an offline translation app? The translations don't have to be perfect but it has to work offline entirely so I can use it for airgapped translations. I don't care if it has to run on Windows, Linux or Haiku it just needs to run without needing network access.

>>77634 LibreTranslate https://libretranslate.com https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate Which itself uses Argos https://www.argosopentech.com https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate Crow Translate supposedly works offline but i havent looked into it. Seems it has OCR too unless I heard wrong. https://crow-translate.github.io https://flathub.org/apps/io.crow_translate.CrowTranslate https://github.com/crow-translate/crow-translate

>>77558 This sounds like a hardware problem and it is most likely a faulty power supply or thermal issue. If it's using a laptop chipset, you'll have to test things with a multi meter which may be beyond your skillset. If you think you're going to pop open the PSU box and test the insides not knowing what to do you're fuarrrking retarded, just replace the PSU. Might also be a thermal issue if it's shutting off randomly. If you have a prebuilt watercooled system easy bang that runaway buck got broke and you have to replace the cooling system.

I used to be a tech person but drifted away some 10 years ago, now I'm trying to get back. Anyone recommend reading material on system clock? Especially the hardware side of it. Something up to date anno domini 2024.

>>77802 That hasn't changed much if at all, some laptops tick it off of the battery it's attached to and other's have something embedded in to the board. I think it's still a 2302 nicad though in almost everything the fuarrrk else. If soykaf's breaking, get ntp up stat on the computer and fix stuff from there with system commands/settings.

Ever since I started using Linux as a daily driver, my Windows time no longer syncs automatically. I would have to click on the sync time button from the settings application every time i start up the operating system. Why does this happen and what can I do to solve this issue? Not a big deal as I only use Windows for one multiplayer game.

FFFFUUUUUUUU- There is not ONE desktop front end for SoundCloud that works on Linux ever since they changed their API. I'm seeing screenshots of apps that looked amazing, now I can't even access the fuarrrking website on my browser with my VPN and user.js settings. Is this a general trend with API changes sites have been doing lately? I know about the whole drama with Reddit. What is their problem? Why can't there be something like Freetube for SoundCloud? That would be so nice. And some of the other major sites like Twitch, Facebook etc. It seems like these kinds of apps are usually built with Electron, which itself seems to have a lot of updates which break things in older versions. It seems really hard to work with. Tried: Tomahawk music player - ABANDONED http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/06/tomahawk-music-player-essentially-abandoned Rhythmbox SoundCloud plugin - DOESN'T WORK, USELESS (link dead): https://github.com/GNOME/rhythmbox/tree/master/plugins/soundcloud Nuvola Player - EOL 2022: https://github.com/tiliado/nuvolaplayer Soundnode (this one looked like it was great) - UNMAINTAINED, WONT WORK: https://github.com/Soundnode/soundnode-app/issues/1176 Harmony player - ABANDONED: https://github.com/vincelwt/harmony Auryo - DISCONTINUED, WON'T WORK: https://github.com/sneljo1/auryo/pull/255 https://askubuntu.com/questions/92592/are-there-any-desktop-clients-for-soundcloud

>>77837 https://tizonia.org/ https://github.com/topics/soundcloud-client Try these, one of them might work.

How is KDE resource usage these days? I heard that it can be tuned to be quite lightweight (= similar to Mate and Xfce). Is this true? >>77828 No, the problem is that Windows is stuck in MS-DOS era where users used BIOS settings to change time and date. In other words, Windows excepts that RTC uses local time instead of UTC. Unix-like operating systems have always expected that RTC uses UTC. btw, this has nothing to do with how time and date is displayed to the user (it's just for internal representation). You can set Windows to use UTC and it's 100% supported since Windows 10 (maybe even earlier).

>>77837 https://tubo.migalmoreno.com/ this might work. i know it's a frontend for youtube by default but it works for soundcloud too

Reasking this, deleted previous comment. My Cannon printer just randomly stopped working while it was in middle of printing something and will not turn on even when I tried the Cannon reset pattern code. How many people have had something like this happen and did you find what the problem was? It is an old printer by now but Im hoping it is just a cable dislodged itself inside but i dont want to tear it open just yet

>>77869 Does it flash error codes or something? My deceased canon used to make a series of flashes on the "power on" led. Like, flash, flash, flash, wait a bit, repeat. The number of consecutive flashes was an error code I could use to refer to the documentation. In case your problem is similar: mine died because of a faulty print-head. Genuine print-heads are as expensive as a new printer, and buying a chinese knock-off killed the printer for good.

>>77871 No there is no lights on or anything. Though I havent pulled out the paper that's still in there that was printing but it doesnt look like it went through a paper jam, ive never heard of paper stopping the printer turning on but who knows with these things. Im just hoping it isnt a dead power supply. Ive been using Chinese print cartridges without much issue but the print head started being off and unable to be aligned so Id have to swap the print head with a Chinese one some time. How did the Chinese print head kill it? Does the printer run some sort of check and offs itself?

>>77558 If it's thermal it should be easy to know. Right after it happens the CPU/heatsink area would be too hot to touch with your bare hand and you would find event log entries about CPU reaching critical temp. Otherwise generally unless the issue was just power loss there should be something in journalctl/messages/kern.log. Output of 'last' can indicate time/occurrence of power loss. Connect a clock radio, or regular radio, or TV or something to the same power strip / outlet. Something that you turn it on and set it to a certain time/channel/state, and then if you unplug it or the power goes out for half a second, you can tell because it does not restore itself to the configured state when the power is restored. Now next time the computer reboots, you know if it happened because it actually lost upstream power supply for a moment. Maybe try to find a cheap used UPS on Craigslist. The battery will probably be worn out but also probably enough to absorb a momentary power loss. Blow the dust out of your sh​it and make sure there aren't any little stray wires or bullshit shorting anything out

>>77869 Make sure same outlet works to power something else (lamp, etc.) Reseat power cable printer end, if it has one of those little inverter bricks in the printer that can come out then reseat that too While you have it unplugged, hold power button for a good half a minute or so to make sure you don't have any charge still in capacitors, once power drained (generally good enough if you don't see any lights flicking on when you press it) then reconnect and see what it does. If nothing then possibly power brick is fu​cked, see if it's getting really hot or making high pitched noises or you can smell magic smoke escaping. If that still doesn't do it then it probably isn't worth spending any more time on because it sounds like your printer is gay and it was time for it to die

I have this insane graphical glitch on my PC running Ubuntu 22.04 that I haven't been able to find any solutions for over months now The attached webm only happens when a program is running in full screen, but sometimes it happens after rewaking the display after it's been idle, making me think it's related to gdm or gnome-shell It happens most when: >RAM and swap are filling up (≥60%) >CPU is in high usage >Program running fullscreen is resource-heavy It can usually be "fixed" by >Exiting and re-entering fullscreen many times >Closing a bunch of programs that are open >Rebooting Any ideas? This is driving me crazy

>>77912 What is your screen resolution set to? Have you tried changing that to see what happens?

>>77925 Well it's set to 3840x2160, or 4K, which is my monitor's native resolution. I could try setting it lower, but I don't really want to, I like having 4K. I've already tried changing the framerate between 60 and 59.94, it made no difference.

>>77912 what's your PC specs? also using X11 or wayland?

>>77946 Very weird. I wonder if its not some kind of hardware issue with the GPU. Try a few other DEs or maybe even distros and see if that happens with them. If thats the case the GPU could have something wrong with it. Great opportunity to check stuff like if the power cables are plugged in all the way on the GPU, if its in the right PCIe slot, etc.

>>77965 I will also say this, the RX 5500 is an extremely weird card. Not in the sense of "ehhh it doesnt perform well, it has bad thermals" like the usual drawbacks of GPUs. It has a very wimpy memory bus (128bit) and its not unusual to see it suffering from that even during actions it should be totally fine for (such as playing older games at 4k). It is possible you may have to play games at 1440p or 1080p bceause of this, sorry dude. Another thing to notice is that your CPU is actually an APU with graphics on board, and it is VERY possible that you have games actually using THAT gpu rather than your rx 5500. Try running mangohud on a few games and see what it says for your GPU. If it says RX 5500 obviously you're fine, but if it says "Vega" and then a number next to it, your games are trying to use the GPU in your APU rather than your actual dedicated GPU.

>>77912 have you tried a different DE

>>77912 I had quite similar artifacts when my system was lacking power.

>>78079 Piped seem to struggle, too. https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/issues/3658 Defo something from google's side.

>>78079 yt-dlp has been unusually slow this morning as well

>>77912 Try using X11 instead of Wayland (or the other way around). Gnome and KDE support both X11 and Wayland. Also try upgrading to 24.04 LTS: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo snap refresh sudo do-release-upgrade -d

>>78132 >>77912 Be sure to make a backup before doing this, or better yet just do a fresh install. dist-upgrades can be hit-or-miss depending on what all you have installed.

>>78144 >dist-upgrades can be hit-or-miss depending on what all you have installed. not on debian as long as you https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

hi, is there a simple way I can expand the range of my wifi network? The coverage is good besides the first floor. I would like to avoid putting cables on the wall. Can I use something like a phone as an AP or do I have to buy a proper one? I tried something like a wall plug but apparently the house is too old for that

>>78170 The most reliable way would probably be to use carrier current, but you'll need specialized equipment (a pair of modems, they are rather cheap) I don't think a phone would work well since they will typically be lower-power than your AP. It might work if you put it somewhere where there is less obstruction, like in the stairwell. If you can move the AP itself (and find a suitable place) it would be better than using a relay.

>>78170 Do you have coax cables ran through the walls? You can use those for data then setup an extra AP on that floor.

78231 In España probably Is your body short and empty?

>>78260 GNU/Linux is an operating system that is modern and supports legacy BIOS boot. I'd just say fuarrrk UEFI. You could probably get an LTSC build of Windows 10 working without UEFI too without too much hassle.

How on earth do I extract the icon from a Linux binary??? I've checked the source code, I opened it with Peazip, I've consulted Google, I cannot for the life of me find an icon for this program, yet one shows up in the dock when I launch it! The program (game) in question is 1oom, a Master of Orion source port: https://kilgoretroutmaskreplicant.gitlab.io/plain-html/ https://gitlab.com/KilgoreTroutMaskReplicant/1oom I checked everywhere, which makes me think the pixel art is being generated somewhere, like it's embedded in the code. I really wanted to make a desktop entry for this and I need an icon. Care to take a crack at it, Lains?

>>78269 Where have you looked? Any of these? /usr/share/icons/ ~/.local/share/icons ~/.icons /usr/share/pixmaps/ /usr/share/... /home/user/icons

>>78270 I didn't even install it! I compiled the binarys myself and then placed it in the folder with my game data, as per the instructions. I've looked everywhere, I ran find -iname '*1oom*' system-wide and couldn't find any icos or pngs. By all means, please clone the repo and see if you can do better!

>>78269 Linux binaries don't embed any icon. That's what .desktop files are for. What makes you think this program has an icon in the first place?

>>78272 >What makes you think this program has an icon in the first place? The fact that I can see an icon when I launch it.

>>78282 Thank you anon, I still don't know how to code but I plan on giving it another go some day, probably with C. So I just modify that line and recompile the program like normal? I'm afraid I don't know how to change headers, or really even understand what they are, but I'm going to try and figure it out.

Through common sense I figured out that the .h files are header files, but I'm not sure what I could add to it to get it to output the icon, or if it's even possible without the original game files. The game files are not needed until after compilation is complete. Adding the line to hwsdl2_video.h causes the program to fail compiling

I downloaded SDL_image.h for SDL2 and put it into the src folder https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_image/blob/SDL2/include/SDL_image.h Then I added #include "SDL_image.h" to the end of the #include lines in hwsdl2_video.c. I'm still getting this error when compiling: hwsdl2_video.c:376: undefined reference to `IMG_SavePNG'

>>78286 Don't ask me how or I'll have to insult programmers, their moronic automake scripts and their moronic code. I'm not touching this again, so you have to make do with this.

>>78290 >It's not transparent, and it's a bit small Maybe it could be better if I managed to make libpng to work properly, but it requires palettes and I'm just not going to do that. BTW if you're gonna try that crap out use clang instead of gcc, because this stupid piece of soykaf that's gcc is fuarrrking insane. Holy crap GNU wrote fuarrrking automake and they couldn't make their own fuarrrking compiler to work properly with it. What the fuarrrk!? No I'm quite done.

>>78286 >I downloaded SDL_image.h for SDL2 and put it into the src folder That's not how it works. You need the actual library (the package libsdl2-image-dev on debian), the header file on its own is useless. I attached a patch that makes it compile on my machine >>78291 >It's not transparent, and it's a bit small That's why I proposed making the program itself export the icon as it generates it. No need to deal with palettes, transparency and whatnot, the program already does that.

>You need the actual library (the package libsdl2-image-dev on debian) I have that package, why wouldn't it work? Does it have to be the i386 version?

>>78305 Because you need to tell the linker to use it. That's what the change in configure.ac is for

>>78303 IMG_SavePNG is broken and people report it doesn't work correctly with palettes, I used IMG_SaveBMP in hopes it's not broken as well.

>>78309 Ok, I didn't know that. Did it work?

>>78310 No. No problems making it compile, but it just crashes. Still trying to figure out why. I've put IMG_SavePNG(video.icon, "/tmp/icon.png"); at the end of video_hw_set in hwsdl2_video.c and it crashes without writing the file.

>>78311 Did you put it outside the if (video.icon) {...} block (L373)? If so, you're likely passing a NULL pointer to IMG_SavePNG.

>>78312 If you're so smug do it yourself and then report back how you did it. Otherwise you're not contributing anything except your overgrown ego.

really dont see how he was being smug

Referring illiterate people to configure.ac made me write a rant I barely found strength to remove. His little useless remarks are a way of being smug. Oh I'm so cool so I'll pretend to teach that poor lain programming. fuarrrk you.

>>78319 It's you who should take your pills. SDL segfault on a valid surface and you hang around pretending to have a clue. If you can't make it work these idiotic comments about {} are outrageous. Debian doesn't ship debugging symbols for sdl so I can't use gdb to debug this crap. I tried valgrind but it fails to read debugging symbols and I really have no clue why, so I give up for now.

hey anyone here knows about some tiny VPSes? Just need few hundred MiBs of RAM and a tiny CPU for hosting IRC/XMPP server

revxmiku is someone whose real name and owner is not clear, he uses the Hatsune Miku profile from Vocaloid and uses it as a symbol of his work. There are several websites in 2020 that have gone down at the same time as this logo image. His identity has still not been found. Important information ! This case is an old case and not very popular, but because he managed to penetrate the security of our website, we post it here and try to find out who he or 'they' are.

I'm currently running Debian on a cheap Dell laptop with an Intel N200, a 128GB UFS SSD and 8GB of RAM. It's not the fastest thing in the world, but it does what I need it to (mostly). However, I think I've encountered a major issue with its hardware. On all of my Linux machines I like to keep a Windows 10 LTSC VM ready to go just in case I need to use Windows software (big one is Microsoft Office 2010). Even with LTSC being relatively lightweight, it does not perform well in a virtual machine. There are noticeable stutters just navigating Microsoft Word and I believe it's negatively impacting my productivity. Is there anything I can do to make it run faster? I've heard about those custom ISO debloaters but I don't know if they'd help much. Running Windows 7 Embedded was also an idea I had until I realized I'd have to connect it to the Internet in order to download Office. Really just hoping I can somehow make this usable.

what do you use m$ office for that you can't do on libreoffice?

>>78347 Sorry you can't make this usable. Windows 7 and Word 2013 and I still have to suck up the sluggishness. Your CPU is better so this exact setup might work better for you.

>>78347 I seem to recall successfully running MS Office in WINE back in the day when I did audio transcription (they were extremely particular). I would install PlayOnLinux and see if there's a profile for your version of Office, or check ratings/reports/caveats on WineHQ. Also depending on how niche the stuff is that you're trying to do, check out the O365 web apps.

Speaking of Windows VMs, does anybody have any tips on how to put together an undetectable one? I've been using Linux for two years and I still haven't set one up, I've been putting it off. Is VFIO just for GPU passthrough? And does Hyper-V still help? I don't fully understand these concepts, even after researching them

>>78347 I use office 2003 with the docx plugin. It's very light weight and probably even runs in wine. I'm sure you're aware but it wouldn't be right not to mention there may be unpatched security vulnerabilities.

will freebsd work (on my host machine) if i install it through qemu? the command is >qemu-system-x86_64 -smbios type=0,uefi=on -bios /usr/share/ovmf/OVMF.fd -cdrom FreeBSD-14.1-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso -hda /dev/sda -boot d -m 2048

>>78370 I am not an expert here but I've heard qemu emulation is less detectable than virtualization.

>>78373 (me) (not you) ok it works but... >xorg failed to load module nv >xorg couldn't open /dev/dri/card0 no such file or directory >sway spits out some cryptic backend error >nvidia-driver is installed, modules are kldloaded >gp107 geforce gtx 1050 ti >add kld_list="nvidia" to /boot/loader.conf >also add vtsomething=sc to get 1080p console >now it hangs at boot, need to fix >linux can't mount freebsd-zfs >freebsd live iso can't mount freebsd-zfs /dev/ada0p4 no such file or directory >sysrc enable_zfs=YES ----> can't write rc.conf read-only file system >still stuck with bionicpup64 flash drive guess i'm not blessed to run freebsd. why are unices like this? sorry

>>78347 just use embedded 7 or hell, even xp. they're also not as insecure as you think, your vm don't be added to a botnet the second you put it online. but whatever, if ur a schizo then just use shared folders or drag n drop host to guest file transfer of passthru a disc drive if u need something more modern then try windows 10 ltsb 2016. u can get it from massgrave.dev alternatively try using wine, office 2010 apparently works perfectly under it, for example: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=22248

>>78347 What are you using for virtualization? Pure QEMU or libvirt/virt-manager?

do you understand why its a problem when a program has to tell you what to run on your command line to build it? do you really learn everything in your "secure" OS by just running gigabytes of random bullshit downloaded off the internet?

>>78393 >do you understand why its a problem when a program has to tell you what to run on your command line to build it It's called being nice. They could just leave you with a 5000 line GCC log and let you figure out what your system is missing.

>>78079 Update. Now 0/22. Some are blocked in Russia. Can't use Piped, requires some non-trivial javascript. Are there other, "unofficial" invidious instances? Yt-dlp is the only remaining option for me, installing python is like kicking dead whales down the beach though.

Having trouble connecting to IRC with WeeChat >connecting to server irc.lainchan.org/6697 (SSL)... >TLS handshake failed >error: Error in the push function. Already tried this from the FAQ: /set irc.server.lainchan.ssl_priorities "NORMAL:-VERS-TLS-ALL:+VERS-TLS1.0:+VERS-SSL3.0:%COMPAT"

>>78631 Damn it guys, I'm sorry I made a typo. The encrypted drive is in the /media/$USER folder, not /home/$USER like I said. Sorry for the confusion. Wish I could edit my post

I left the CS degree because i was in a very bad mental health state at that time, i then go to the IT degree but is just very very bad, i'm at theraphy now and i think if I had been better, I would have been able to handle that degree. I feel really sad because i study soykaf that i really don't like because i thought it would be easy and i would have better social life and be happier, i just want to be a good sysadmin and then devops but i really hate were now i study Anyone have any recomendation for this?

>>78631 Likely your umask is 022 so it has read only access to everything under /media/$USER

>>78636 Is there a way to only give it permission to one folder and none of the ones surrounding it? I mean I'm sure it's possible, since you can already do this with Flatpak via Flatseal. Do I need to learn how to use Apparmor?

>>78639 man chmod Using apparmor and other sandboxing software with virtual machines is potentially problematic. I've never tried it myself though.

BTW if you feel like linuxing https://7a6570.github.io/apparmor-profile-for-virtualbox.html just be mindful that you're going to suffer alot

>>78644 Interesting read, thanks for sharing. I was using Virtualbox before, but I just started using qemu for the added convenience of kvm. I've been going back and forth on whether or not Virtualbox is "more secure" as this guy puts it. On one hand, the kernel-level virtualization in qemu would make me think that's it's less secure, or more susceptible to targeted malware, but I'm really basing that off of my feelings and no technical expertise. On the other hand, Virtualbox is closed source, which makes you wonder how much they collaborate with foreign authorities, or how susceptible they are to 0 days found in data breaches.

I found this ancient/cheap camera at a thrift store around a year ago. It *seems* to be working, but Im not sure what type of connector I need to pull files off of it. Anyone here know what type of cable I need?

>>78665 >Virtualbox is closed source, only bios compiler afaik

>>78699 It is a Sakar 91379 VGA point & shoot 0.3 megapixel digital camera. All sources I find say it connects to a computer with a USB. It is a USB Mini 4-pin connector I think. I never saw one before.

>>78704 Im pretty sure your right about it being a USB mini 8 pin, the notches look like theyd line up perfectly. Knowing the name of the camera is super useful too, thanks :D

>>78340 https://lowendstock.com/deals/, had luck with one of the racknerd $10/year plans, don't wanna wage slave too hard as it's just the only one of the bunch I have experience with There are also free tier VPSes and free credits which might be perfect for you, just don't let yourself get suckered in down the road: https://github.com/cloudcommunity/Cloud-Free-Tier-Comparison

Lains... I need a hand. I just migrated to Artix-Mate distro and I'm stuck using the default Epiphany browser. The only damn thing I need from somebody is an answer as to how to actually bookmark a page. Every vid I've checked, every notation I've read by "techies" ignores the question and just tries to sell my anyLinux over windows via VM... No. I don't want Crome or Opera or Safari. Just a simple answer: How to I save a damn bookmark in the Artix-Mate Epiphany browser? It's been 3 days and NO ONE will answer the question. Blogs, YT, repo notes, nothing. Dev Notes? For some damn reason I can't even find them. How. Do. I. Bookmark. A. Page. In. Artix-Mate. Epiphany. Browser?

>>78776 https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/g0jdvz/bookmarks_in_epiphany/ https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-epiphany-bookmarks-and-extensions/18576

>>78776 Why are you stuck with Epiphany? Also isn't Epiphany like the only true Webkit-based browser for Linux? That's pretty good. I use it to check gift card balances

I have an old Linksys router that was randomly dropping dropping connections. Not sure if it was hardware issue or bad update or a bug in the software and already replaced now. Can I use this to connect with an out ethernet cable to a computer to indirectly connect to the wifi network instead of using the on board wifi or if there is no wireless card? I dont know what this is called. It's not a repeated/extender I know that much but it is all that comes up on searches. What is this called and can I do it? Can I just use something like OpenWRT to do this or is something else better?

>>78797 Yes, routers can connect to other WiFi networks, it's called "client mode WiFi". OpenWRT can do it even on old devices, regular consumer router OSes typically can't, but some newer TP-Links have this feature. Works just as you'd expect, plug the computer into the router via Ethernet, go to the admin interface, select a WiFi network and input the password like one would on a phone or laptop. You can connect multiple devices to the router, and I'm pretty sure you can also create a second WiFi network in OpenWRT and have your WiFi devices connect to it, all while the router is joined to a different WiFi network as a client for Internet uplink. It might be possible to make a bridge connection using WiFi, that way your router would instead behave as a switch, if you want your computer to have open incoming ports for some reason on the host WiFi network, or if you want to use the host's DHCP or if something like printer black magic requires this.

>>78799 Thanks, that helps knowing it has a name. I would have been surprised if it wasnt a thing because I can see all sorts of uses. I mainly wanted to do it for security reasons and run old stuff. Does that mean you set the router to have the same network name and password as the main router or is it in a different section of the settings specifically for client mode? I guess i can figure it out if i mess around with it enough and if the router will actually work still assuming it wasnt a hardware fault then otherwise id likely have capacitors to replace.

>>78801 Client mode is a whole different section or option as opposed to the normal access point (AP) mode. A router set to client mode doesn't even need an SSID if you're okay with only plugging wired clients into the router. Just like phones and computers don't have SSIDs. If you set two WiFi access points to have the same SSID and password, then e.g. a phone will automatically switch between the two, depending on which one has the stronger signal. It's basically how WiFi in large buildings is done. But the routers in that case won't normally communicate with each other by WiFi.

does anybody know how to fix this? it's been like this since i installed KDE

>>78814 thank you a lot, it worked!

I use my keyboard on two computers via a KVM switch. Everytime I switch, I need to reenter setxkbmap -option compose:sclk Any Idea how I can make this permanent? I don't use a DE, only dwm.

Is it normal for yt-dlp to take around 20 seconds before it starts downloading from YouTube? Are there ways to speed this up? I am using a VPN, but bandwidth clearly isn't a bottleneck. Compare Soundcloud which starts downloading in 10 seconds.

>>78921 --extractor-args=player_client:ios

>>78927 nginx reverse proxy for http, wireguard for everything else

keep in mind that wireguard is dumb by design

>>78947 >I mainly use the drives mounted there for backup purposes, and the speeds are fine. It needs it's own wall outlet though Is this still good for regular use? I plan on treating mine like an external which I can carry around. I'm going to have everything plugged in to use daily.

>>76457 My college wifi uses something called fortinet which blocks a bunch of websites including the image servers for 4chan and a lot of VPNs. How tf do I bypass this? >inb4 VPNs most of them are derezzed, and the wireguard handshake is also derezzed. most ports are also derezzed I would like to torrent since I use them extensively, and I'm a broke college student that can afford to spend 3usd/month at max, for this issue. maybe more if I convince my batchmates to pool some money

>>78962 >Is this still good for regular use? I believe so. Does your laptop have a USB 3.0 port? Because then it's pretty much like having a regular WD Blue internal drive, maybe a bit slower, but not much. I mean I've played games on it, but mainly PS1/PS2 and I don't notice any slowdowns. I just copied a few gigs of data over to it to test, and it was copying at about 330 MB/s, which surprised me because I thought it'd be slower. It's a WD Blue drive I had in there. I think you'll be fine

>>78983 I would not recommend Njalla https://crippled.media/free-speech-vps-providers-put-to-the-test >they do not hesitate in taking people's domains from them without any warning or compensation, the once great reputation of this service seems to be on a steep decline due to this >It is also the least professional reply we have received thus far. While saying, they "don't want racist soykaf on their services" is far from the worst thing they could have responded with, it was still unprofessional and could have been left out of the email entirely without changing the meaning of their reply. I personally use Privex, which is very reasonably priced.

>>78983 thank you very much for the detailed reply. I've found that psiphon works for unblocking sites, but it's pretty slow. I'm leaning more towards buying a VPS and setting up openVPN, but torrenting on VPSs is kinda frowned upon and the college may block the openvpn handshake. I know for a fact that wireguard is blocked. also, if I manage to setup a cheap VPS and run a VPN on it, will they be able to see what I'm doing with the traffic? They probably use deep packet inspection, and I do not want them to see which websites I visit. >tor Tor is also blocked, but I can get it working via a brdige. Anyhow, tor is not practical for my use case anyways, since it's too slow and I can't torrent over it(just overloads the network). another question: I'm based in a far away region in asia, and most cheap VPS-es are based in europe. I tried pinging a few servers from the cheaper providers and the latency is around 150-200ms on average. How will my internet speed be affected due to this, if I setup a VPN? the college has gigabit internet >seedboxes I looked into them, but I mainly use public trackers and most of them do not allow public torrents. I do not want to seed, as I do that when I'm on my home network. I don't think that investing money into a seedbox will be worth it for me, as I can't use them for anything other than torrents(VPSs can host stuff apart from acting like proxies) and they don't allow public trackers. thank you again

>>78986 So they're blocking the protocols, specifically? I don't have a ton of knowledge in this, but would something like shadowsocks possibly work for you? You might be able to still use Wireguard then https://shadowsocks.org/

>>78980 Any of either of these work for you? https://www.seedr.cc https://bitport.io/

Any good tools to rip videos from Vimeo? I've paid for a documentary and want an offline copy. I've tried yt-dlp but it didn't like it

>>82389 cry harder bitch, I found a dpi circumventing VPN protocol(amnezia-wg), hosted it on a vps and will torrent as much as I want there's nothing you can do about it, except cry and seethe

>>82529 That's nice, but you're the one who's gonna flunk or get expelled, not me [shrug]. Are you actually old enough to be in university? That was like something a little kid would write.

>>82381 Open network settings and download all the mp4 segments then concat them with ffmpeg although this process is a little manual. I searched up vimeo downloader and there were quite a few results including a chrome extension which probably does exactly what i mentioned, have you tried all of those first? Does anyone know how to scrape rentry sites whenever I wget the site I receive a 403, seems to be cloudflare. Here's the url in question https://rentry.co/firehawk52

>>82381 Nevermind, I was scrolling through their api responses and it looks like they have direct urls to the mp4 files in various resolutions. Just navigate here and open the url in a new tab.

>>82560 God bless you, brother, i tried the api responses but couldn't get anything. Though after that I tried 'video downloadhelper' extension and it worked. Thank you!

>>77912 as other lains have said try x11 instead of wayland, or play games in a window instead of going fullscreen.

Has anybody corebooted a w530? Did you have any struggles?

>>82607 Yes and yes. Maybe this post helps you: https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/103417915/#103421616

>>82531 >flunk I got the highest GPA in the entire department, for the first semester. so yeah, keep crying

Would a controller/gamepad have latency if I were to connect it to USB 1.0/1.1 ports? Those are the only ports I have on my front panel.

>>82699 No. "Human interface devices", mice, keyboards, controllers, are low bandwidth by nature and typically USB 1.0, the protocol upgrades are mostly for bandwidth. There is a technical difference in USB polling rate, USB 1.0 is only 125 Hz (8 ms reaction time) while USB 2.0 can go up to 1000 Hz (1 ms). But your controller is likely only 100-200 Hz (5-10 ms) and for reference game frame time at 60 Hz is 16 ms, meaning even at low end 125 Hz USB poll rate you can do multiple inputs in between frame renders. You won't be able to tell the difference in any way, and a lot of games have a much larger lag built into their software and hardware pipeline, in AAA slop it can take multiple frames, tens of ms, for your input to start showing up in the displayed frames even if polling is 1 ms.

Is it possible to reroute a portion of my Internet traffic through a friend's network? Do ISPs normally allow this? I'm too poor to afford a proper VPN, so I'm thinking if it would be possible to cooperate with my buddies abroad to be able to access the web sites I can't.

>>82703 Possible, and the ISPs don't care and can't do anything about it. One way is to set up an OpenVPN or WireGuard tunnel, and set certain IP addresses or IP ranges to pass through the tunnel.

>>82703 Most free VPNs are crap, but free-tier ProtonVPN is actually pretty good. Ditto for Riseup VPN.

>>82703 >I'm too poor to afford a proper VPN Cheap VPS plans start at $2/mo and you can tunnel traffic through a standard SSH client (OpenSSH allows this out of the box) The only reason to pay to a VPN provider is if you need MANY external IP addresses. I need only one and use an ad-hoc "VPN", via SSH.

There isn't a news thread so whatever. Youtube btfo'd VPNs and rate limited tor. You passport please, sir.

>>82711 Grim, now we have to pirate YouTube videos too for the best experience. This will never stop until people resist, and people never will because they're dumb and weak minded. They will say "just log in bro" As if you could register a Google account without doxx. Also an account isn't fundamentally required to browse and watch videos, it's artificially forced. Given the insane amount of content captured by YouTube, this is where a smart and non-corrupt government would step in, "hang on, shouldn't our citizens have some right to privacy" or "let's fund a public peertube instance to mirror important educational content". "who cares bro" People who realize all their activity will be tied to their real identity forever, for no plausible reason. What videos they watch, for how long, when, where they skip to, what section they rewatch, what videos you uploaded, all as good as filed under your driver's license. You should assume that data will be leaked or sold 5-10-30 years later. I don't feel comfortable browsing videos with "will this cost me a job later" in the back of my mind. "works on my machine" It does, with the equivalent of 10 surveillance cameras pointed at you, a net loss for you and payday for a corporation. "you have to pay somehow, hosting ain't cheap" It is cheap.You can rent a server with terabytes of monthly upload bandwidth for a few dollars. That's all I care about, I'd be fine with a list of <a href> to raw video files, rate limited but no IP bans. Storage expensive? It's dirt cheap, if it's not then publish torrents, let people host. Where's the option to buy simple and reasonably anonymous YouTube access like that? Nowhere, not even for $50 per month. Personal data is the only currency they accept because it has unbelievable value at scale. All in all not a huge loss, YouTube would be a great asset if used well, but nobody uses it well. It's too easy to get sucked into a shorts spree or the 15 seconds bloated into 10 minutes popular content, the midwit half-assed video essays and propaganda. Once it learns what you like, it'll waste your time with interesting but useless confirmation bias. For wasting time on media, watching a good TV show or playing a quality game can be more satisfying. Shame about all the excellent courses being gated, that is actually criminal, that stuff should be non-profit and funded with tax dollars. I'll use LBRY and PeerTube when I can. I wish creators published torrents.

>>82711 > Youtube btfo'd VPNs and rate limited tor. Use Invidious or Piped or one of the other YouTube proxies, or download the videos you want to watch. >>82713 > Grim, now we have to pirate YouTube videos too for the best experience. It's a matter of perspective. Pirating YouTube videos for the best experience has been the norm for some time now Use mpv for video, yt-dlp for saving from YouTube, Invidious or Piped for proxying videos, aria2c for fast downloads, Sponsorblock via lua scripts for, well, sponsor blocking. Or just use an app such as Grayjay from FUTO. If you've been aware that YouTube is a cesspool for some time now, this news is just confirmation bias. If this is the first time you're realizing that YouTube is a cesspool, you can complain about it and continue to use the platform as-is, or you can look into alternative measures. > This will never stop until people resist, and people never will because they're dumb and weak minded. Weak minded people will not resist, strong minded people will either resist or move on to a better platform. You're at least aware of this, so you can choose to be weak minded or not. Such is life. > They will say[...] Who cares what they will say? They will use the platform as they are told to. If and when they grow tired of it and seek other options, you can offer an alternative. > For wasting time on media, watching a good TV show or playing a quality game can be more satisfying. > Shame about all the excellent courses being gated[.] Anything you recommend? As per your note about wasting time on media, blogs and books are still interesting. As with YouTube, ignore the filler content and look for the smaller ones. > I'll use LBRY and PeerTube when I can. That's the spirit. You can also use alternative viewers such as Grayjay (which looks fantastic), or build your own with RSS feeds and yt-dlp. > I wish creators published torrents. Build your own with RSS feeds and yt-dlp (or gallery-dl, where necessary). Archive anything you want to see tomorrow, with the assumption it won't be there. Help build a torrent if and when your favorite creator gets deplatformed, so their work isn't lost forever.

>>82713 But I use youtube to listen to music and I don't a have a spare machine to host a media server. It isn't like there are any decent open source media servers anyway. Tl;dr it's very irritating that I have to waste a lot of time just trying to figure out if I like this album or not and then even more time to download it.

>>82716 >But I use youtube to listen to music and I don't a have a spare machine to host a media server. I yt-dlp music and videos to onto a RasPi next to my desktop, with some disks plugged into a USB hub for storage it doesn't need to be a Pi, you just want something cheap that you can attach a decent amount of storage to it my setup is ghetto and I just ssh or vnc in to change the playing song or play a video on the TV I plugged the Pi into but it means that if YouTube disappears tomorrow, I still have my videos and music lots was downloaded in 480 or 720p for space reasons, but whatever and I made sure to grab subtitles (and auto translations) so the experience isn't worse than directly using YouTube

>>82700 as someone who plays Beatmania IIDX, you can totally get a ton of frame perfect inputs in a row deliberately (or on accident lol, the early/late great windows are 1f, so if you get a bunch in a row, you repeatedly screwed up in a frame perfect way), and 125hz input can absolutely fuarrrk that up. this is an edge case game, and few input devices operate at 1000hz anyway (hell, I ended up building my own since you can use gp2040 or similar to get high speed polling), but it is worth considering if you're playing anything that demands precise input regularly

>>82715 yt-dlp for YouTube doesn't work anymore on VPN, not without signing in. It's residential IPs only now, loicense and registration please. I have dedicated IPs that are blocked too, not because of rate limiting but because they're datacenter. Wouldn't be surprised if Inviduous is eradicated by IP block and rate limiting measures, and if eventually home IPs needed to log in too. Nothing stopping these motherfuckers.

>>82740 > yt-dlp for YouTube doesn't work anymore on VPN, not without signing in. Use Invidious as a proxy to download with yt-dlp. > Wouldn't be surprised if Inviduous is eradicated by IP block and rate limiting measures, and if eventually home IPs needed to log in too. Probably. If YouTube means that much to you, buy a burner phone to set up a Google account with and use the browser cookies from that to download videos. Otherwise, wean yourself off YouTube and find alternate sources of media. >>82721 > I yt-dlp music and videos to onto a RasPi next to my desktop, with some disks plugged into a USB hub for storage This is incredibly jank. I love it. Have you considered automating the setup with RSS feeds and cron jobs?

>>82770 >Use Invidious as a proxy to download with yt-dlp. Is that possible? How? As far as I know, when you yt-dlp an Invidious link the default behavior is to parse the video ID and get the video from YouTube directly.

>>82783 I was mistaken, doesn't look like you can officially do this. Next best thing is to use the "download" feature on a given instance (if they provide one). The official stance from the devs says to simply use a different IP address, and that if someone wants to add support for Invidious/Piped instances they are welcome to do so via plugins for yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/11903#issuecomment-2561825060 There seem to be a few plugins that can bypass things like age restrictions: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Plugins#extractor

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/ oy vey what's this?? individous instances fail??? no way must be some new year joke to get spirits up!

if i run a proxy for all outbound traffic, then configure only certain trusted apps to use it on an otherwise offline windows system, would the m$ telemetry get through? by "proxy" i mean either 1. squid or other software running on a device on my lan. 2. squid running in termux on an android phone connected through usb with adb forward tcp:3128 tcp:3128 . this is a special case, since squid is localhost:3128 both on phone and pc.

Does anyone use Privoxy? Would it be security risk to reroute all lan http&https traffic through it? Could I use openwrt settings to do that? So I wouldn't have to change every devices browsers' settings.

Hello. I am starting in Reverse Engineering and I want to start experimenting with Windows in a virtual machine, but I don't know where to find an image that can serve only as a disposable test environment. Any recommendations for this rookie, pretty please?

>>86922 Make a fresh install of the operating system you want in your virtual machine and then install and configure the things you want in your test environment. Once done, you can use the snapshot feature and save the state of your VM which you can later rollback to after messing with it.

what is a good reverse proxy for my website and services? i am unable to rent a VPS(bank reasons and personally i would rather host stuff on my own hardware anyways) and my router is behind a CGnat, so i need a reverse proxy for my stuff to be accessible online. cloudflare is a last last last resort for obvious reasons. and currently trying out NGrok, tho the plan i am on doesn't allow TCP and i would like to still know if there are other options.

>>89508 Just use Tor a

>>89510 already do for hosting a .onion mirror of the site, but i need the site to be accessible on the surface web.

>>76457 Hi, I'm considering buying a Legion Pro 7 Gen 10 (16" AMD), both the AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX version and the AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D version, but I have some doubts: - Do they support battery bypass to use the laptop as if the battery wasn't connected? - Is Linux well supported in these laptops? - Does Nvidia work well with NVK?

>>78854 Check these threads for Xorg config, or else look up how to do it with a udev rule https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=194088 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=224181

How do I remove a ghost device? My LUKS drive randomly dropped and I can't remount it because it still exists, even after physically disconnecting. So I tried: udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sda1 >Error looking up object for device /dev/sda1 udisksctl unmount -b /dev/mapper/<UUID> >not a mountable filesystem udisksctl lock -b /dev/mapper/<UUID> >not an encrypted device The drive does not appear in lsblk or udisksctl status . rm ing the UUID file did not help.

>>89593 This can happen if the external storage gets pulled out while it's mounted, either by accident (bad hookup) or intentionally. If you mounted it for example on /mnt then umount /mnt and it should disappear, but this is just a guess since I can't go off by much, a dmesg --level warn+ would help.

>>89596 Forgot to mention, if using systemd, please leave the outputs of journalctl -u systemd-cryptsetup

which one is better ın terms of security? -whonix vms in kicksecure -whonix vms in qubes -fedora atomic on baremetal + tor browser

>>89596 >>89597 Thanks for pointing me to cryptsetup . I tried to do cryptsetup close <drive> which reported the drive was still in use, and it turns out... I had a bash session that was still "in" the drive. Oddly, lsof did not report this.

>>89596 Is it even possible to umount /mnt? Would you be able to restore it afterwards?