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Tech Questions #14 Old Thread: >>76457 First question: Say I don't have 15 years of experience using software, let alone hacking. How do i tell the difference between an autistic tranny's rabbit hole with millions of idiot users who think its the best thing ever, vs a well designed piece of software?(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST, You should always elaborate on your opinions rather than just spilling the soykaf. Your opening question is soykaf, it lacks additional context and which software and software comparison methodologies you have already tried.)

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>>79327 I fixed it for you.

Browse the Github issues, user forums, mailing lists, etc and look out for anything political (specifically CoC's (Code of Conduct)). Watch out for pronouns obviously. Be careful about software backed by some major corporation or Redhat. Avoid software based on rust or some webshit framework like React. Qt or GTK2 apps are less likely to be troonware. DON'T listen to 4chan /g/. It's impossible to totally avoid troonware so you have to pick your poison to some extent.

>>79329 thanks >>79330 you sound like the kind of glitterboy who is a red flag

>>79325 In general, you can't, but there are rules of thumb and experienced retrospectives you can study which will help you muddle through along the way and cut the experience threshold from decades to something more like five carefully-spent, full-time years or so. Here's some examples: https://paulgraham.com/taste.html >Good design is simple; Good design is timeless; Good design solves the right problem; Good design is suggestive; Good design is often slightly funny; Good design is hard; Good design looks easy; Good design uses symmetry; Good design resembles nature; Good design is redesign; Good design can copy; Good design is often strange; Good design happens in chunks; Good design is often daring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsaGx0loR3M&t=4823 >Maybe some features won't survive, and that's the hope. Unfortunately, the tendency is for people to only add features, not subtract, and that was one of the contrasts of Microsoft vs Apple in the Mac days; I can literally remember Bill coming in, or Bruce Horn or somebody, and saying "I got rid of a menu item! I realized that if you do this, then you don't need that menu!" And we would be excited, you know, "Oh, that's great, Bill!" It was like "Oh, I got rid of a feature", but no, you didn't get rid of the feature, you got rid of having to explicitly make a menu for that feature, so it was something to celebrate! And nobody thinks that way now, you know, if you've supported software. https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html >Let me start out by retelling a story that shows that the MIT/New-Jersey distinction is valid and that proponents of each philosophy actually believe their philosophy is better. Two famous people, one from MIT and another from Berkeley (but working on Unix) once met to discuss operating system issues. The person from MIT was knowledgeable about ITS (the MIT AI Lab operating system) and had been reading the Unix sources. He was interested in how Unix solved the PC loser-ing problem. The PC loser-ing problem occurs when a user program invokes a system routine to perform a lengthy operation that might have significant state, such as IO buffers. If an interrupt occurs during the operation, the state of the user program must be saved. Because the invocation of the system routine is usually a single instruction, the PC of the user program does not adequately capture the state of the process. The system routine must either back out or press forward. The right thing is to back out and restore the user program PC to the instruction that invoked the system routine so that resumption of the user program after the interrupt, for example, re-enters the system routine. It is called PC loser-ing because the PC is being coerced into loser mode, where loser is the affectionate name for user at MIT. The MIT guy did not see any code that handled this case and asked the New Jersey guy how the problem was handled. The New Jersey guy said that the Unix folks were aware of the problem, but the solution was for the system routine to always finish, but sometimes an error code would be returned that signaled that the system routine had failed to complete its action. A correct user program, then, had to check the error code to determine whether to simply try the system routine again. The MIT guy did not like this solution because it was not the right thing. The New Jersey guy said that the Unix solution was right because the design philosophy of Unix was simplicity and that the right thing was too complex. Besides, programmers could easily insert this extra test and loop. The MIT guy pointed out that the implementation was simple but the interface to the functionality was complex. The New Jersey guy said that the right tradeoff has been selected in Unix -- namely, implementation simplicity was more important than interface simplicity. The MIT guy then muttered that sometimes it takes a tough man to make a tender chicken, but the New Jersey guy didn’t understand (I’m not sure I do either). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month >The purpose of a programming system is to make a computer easy to use. To do this, it furnishes languages and various facilities that are in fact programs invoked and controlled by language features. But these facilities are bought at a price: the external description of a programming system is ten to twenty times as large as the external description of the computer system itself. The user finds it far easier to specify any particular function, but there are far more to choose from, and far more options and formats to remember. Ease of use is enhanced only if the time gained in functional specification exceeds the time lost in learning, remembering, and searching manuals. With modern programming systems this gain does exceed the cost, but in recent years the ratio of gain to cost seems to have fallen as more and more complex functions have been added. I am haunted by the memory of the ease of use of the IBM 650, even without an assembler or any other software at all. Because ease of use is the purpose, this ratio of function to conceptual complexity is the ultimate test of system design. Neither function alone nor simplicity alone defines a good design. This point is widely misunderstood. Operating System/360 is hailed by its builders as the finest ever built, because it indisputably has the most function. Function, and not simplicity, has always been the measure of excellence for its designers. On the other hand, the Time-Sharing System for the PDP-10 is hailed by its builders as the finest, because of its simplicity and the spareness of its concepts. By any measure, however, its function is not even in the same class as that of OS/360. As soon as ease of use is held up as the criterion, each of these is seen to be unbalanced, reaching for only half of the true goal. For a given level of function, however, that system is best in which one can specify things with the most simplicity aid straightforwardness. Simplicity is not enough. Mooers's TRAC language and Algol 68 achieve simplicity as measured by the number of distinct elementary concepts. They are not, however, straightforward. The expression of the things one wants to do often requires involuted and unexpected combinations of the basic facilities. It is not enough to learn the elements and rules of combination; one must also learn the idiomatic usage, a whole lore of how the elements are combined in practice. Simplicity and straightforwardness proceed from conceptual integrity. Every part must reflect the same philosophies and the same balancing of desiderata. Every part must even use the same techniques in syntax and analogous notions in semantics. Ease of use, then, dictates unity of design, conceptual integrity.

>>79330 why avoid troonware? they're working for you for free, it can't get any better than this

>>79332 your soykafs retarded, you just posted a bunch of memes rambling old men who never actually made anything good repeat. windows 95 has a good GUI. un*x has a good nothing, it has more ergonomic controls than cmd.exe, thats it >>79345 who the fuarrrk said anything about ""troon""" you are some dickfuck who sees someone calling people glitterboys and think we're talking about gays

Probably stupid question but here goes: the touchpad on my thinkpad keeps scrolling up, but does so differently for different cases. For example, when using FreeTube (youtube frontend application) it scrolls up continuously, but in my web browser it scrolls up incrementally, in little jerks but at consistent intervals. Assuming this a hardware issue, is there some way to fix this without taking it to repair shop? Gently cleaning it with a damp cloth does nothing, but rebooting stops it for a while but it still seems to come back eventually.

>>79365 Is humidity in your room high? Also are you sure it is the trackpad not the keyboard with a stuck key?

>>79354 "Qt or GTK2 apps are less likely to be troonware" please read carefully before barking

>>79331 >you sound like the kind of glitterboy who is a red flag All of this is just common sense if you're trying to find quality traditional software. >>79345 Because it's low quality and troons are toxic to FOSS. inb4 politics don't belong in software Yeah that's the point, these trannies bring their retarded ideology to everything they touch. It's not chuds enforcing CoCs and banning random devs for making offensive jokes in their private Discord servers.

>>79366 I had not considered that, I tried the keyboard a bit and it seems my up key is isn't working so that's probably my real issue. Should be a lot easier to repair myself and I was planning on replacing the keyboard anyways due to two other keys not working. Thanks for answering my question lain!

>>79325 I’ll translate your question as: how do I find out if something is quality software or not? For me I just stick to software that is in my distribution’s official repository. I take note of the dependencies being installed, and uninstall everything in case the software does not work well. That is it.

You are the clown whose software I want to avoid at all costs if you go around saying """troon""". Do you even speak English? F4gg0t: obnoxious person Nigger: belligerent retard Tranny: inane person Example 1: One who's obsessed with some stupid autistic rabbit hole like making a 20KLOC library to read a line from the command prompt which is still low quality after decades of amendments. Example 2: One who develops some stupid browser plugin which is a firewall for XSS and nobody even uses it for that reason nor knows that that's why he made it. Example 3: One who spent 3000000 hours developing some soykaf game engine that has nothing special other than a lack of competition. Example 4: Curl. You(s) (>>79375 >>79330 >>79345) are all 3.

How much free space exactly does an running the stock installed iPadOS 13.1.1 need to update to current version without causing download folder data loss? You would think the info would be given but it actually doesn't tell you. This one is pretty full and no drives handy for moving data elsewhere and I figure that big a distance between updates it would be larger.

What Linux can I install on an ancient computer with 1gig ram and intel atom processor? the lighter the better

>>79398 All these only require 256mb ram or less and unless im mistaken would work on Intel Atom. So you have plenty of options and probably not limited to these. I also checked all are active. >Puppy Linux >wattOS >Elive >Q4OS >Porteus >Slax >antiX >TinyCore

>>79398 I tried multiple lightweight distros on my old laptop. Your main choices are Alpine Linux, Puppy Linux and TinyCore. Almost everything else works besides modern web browsers. * Alpine Linux - works great. No complaints or problems! * By default Alpine uses Busybox for everything but you can later install GNU coreutils and util-linux. They recommend having at least 512 Megs total RAM for simple GUI (I assume it meas something like Ratpoison, FVWM or IceWM) * Puppy Linux - it works but it's more janky * Sadly I can't remember much about TinyCore. (Sorry!)

I have DSL internet connection. Sometimes it seems like my interwebs is throttled, but I'm told that's a schizo conspiracy theory. My understanding, is that with cable internet traffic can get so much that your internet slows to a crawl, because so many are accessing the same bandwidth. My understanding was that this was not the case with DSL. I'm just curious if anyone has a plausible explanation for why sometimes why my innerwebs slows to a crawl. I know DSL is slow, but I mean things just won't download at the right speed.

>>79417 The physical wires are probably in bad shape if you live in a place with old infrastructure like I do. Cable internet has been much, much better, although your upload speeds will probably still be mediocre(like 20-30mbps), although that'll eventually improve when DOCSIS 4 rolls out.

>>79417 With DSL speed depends on how close you are to the local office. But that wouldn't explain any variation in speed. I have a DSL setup that consistently gets about 2MB/s download and 200KB/s upload on remote sites that aren't slow. If the remote site is stingy with bandwidth it'll be slower, but that's nothing to do with my end. If your speed is varying widely using the same netspeed site, then it's probably something else. Most likely some misconfiguration on your system, or just a bad connection as previosly mentioned. ISP throttling (or just soykafty service)would be pretty far doen the list of possibilities, but not impossible. If you call ISP tech support, they can probably run tests remotely to see if your wiring and connection are ok. Could even be a bad cable or modem/router of your own. And never listen to gaslighting fuarrrkheads who give you the "schizo delustions" bullshit. They're just being assholes.

>>79417 Shit speed test. Use https://testmy.net/ and set it up to check periodically for a whole 24 hour weekday and a whole 24 hour weekend so you can know what time of day your speeds are optimum and see if it differs on days people are at work and school vs not. Just make sure you set up your computer to not go to sleep mode during this ive found it interrupts it. Modern DSL should be almost as fast as some cable speeds. Your speeds actually are not that bad. Also are you connected on wifi or with ethernet? Do you have to use their modem or can you use your own modem and put custom firmware on it?

>>79426 >Modern DSL should be almost as fast as some cable speeds. If just your neighborhood is DSL and it's fiber the rest of the way.

>>79426 >Do you have to use their modem or can you use your own modem and put custom firmware on it? I bought a DSL modem in a thrift store for 5$.

>>79436 it's an actiontec gt784wn. it has stock firmware.

Please stop being retarded it's exhausting. https://librespeed.org/ is the speed test, right?

Since there is no software to share files between linux and android as a mentally healthy person, I figured I can settle even with web based solution. I need to be as simple to use as woof and it should support encryption, maybe p2p, I don't care. woof is good actually but having to encrypt it yourself is a bit of a fuarrrk it.

>>79442 What is wrong with sftp? There are a bunch of ssh/sftp clients for Android that work well enough, unless you're looking for a 'one-click-upload' sort of function?

>>79445 Yes, one click upload. I'm not gonna bother maintaining daemons or whatever. That's just too much to send a bucnh of photos over internet once in forever.

>>79442 https://localsend.org/ https://kdeconnect.kde.org/ However, it sounds like it's your first time using a computer. Congrats on reaching this website. You should probably read this site https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Google you can get to it by clicking on the link with your mouse pointer.

>>79449 KDE connect brings in enough dependencies to batter linux community to death by just naming them all, clustering my system with a fuarrrkton of KDE bullshit I am never going to use, plus it requires an application on android side. Localsend isn't trivial enough and I don't see any comprehensive documentation on their github page, meaning this software is not designed for mentally healthy people. Just because you learned to use google doesn't mean you're qualified to help people, please do better next time.

>>79450 Use netcat, in that case. Download Termux from F-Droid/source (or some Android terminal emulator), install netcat, use the following commands to send: On your server (Android phone) # Check IP address ip a nc -l -p 1234 -q 1 > something.zip < /dev/null On your "sender client" (Linux PC): cat something.zip | netcat server.ip.here 1234

>>79452 Not bad at all but I can achieve exactly the same thing using woof which is quite convenient since I only actually need woof on one device, and web browsers are everywhere anyway. Also I use the patched version that allows multiple uploads! I am currently set on trying out everything on awesome-self-hosted github. Maybe something sticks.

are there any more efficient flac encoders out there? my music collection's getting pretty beefy (>30 gb) and i haven't been able to do much with anything i've tried. if not, are there any other lossless codecs worth giving a shot?

>>79456 I've been told by an audiophile who also has previously been a musician just to use AAC to save space. FLAC isn't really necessary for just listening to music because majority of people can't tell the difference even with expensive equipment. Lossless is more for audio data preservation purposes. So unless you are a music producer or making videos for YouTube or have uniquely good hearing better than most all people while also having high end hifi equipment you probably dont need lossless. Though if you paid for it I could understand you wanting to preserve it but if just for listening and pirated you are just data hoarding at this point.

>>79460 Please use opus instead it's open source and it's not worse at the very least.

>>79461 These are open source able to encode AAC >Fraunhofer FDK AAC >FAAC (Freeware Advanced Audio Coder) >FFmpeg Wasn't opus created for webRTC and voice recordings?

I personally don't use Flac if I have a choice, since my headphones are very average consumer quality (But that may not be the case for you!) >>79461 Seconding this. Opus is the best lossy format for any kind of audio. >>79462 >Wasn't opus created for voice recordings? It was created for both voice and other kinds of audio/music. It's designed to replace both Ogg Vorbis and Speex. Opus is better than mp3 in all aspects and it's at least as good as AAC or even better. Opus wins more over AAC as bitrate decreases more. I read online that Opus is the better format when bitrate is less or equal to 128kb/s , and the choice (Opus vs ACC) doesn't matter above that. But note that I haven't confirmed this info.

You need to learn to read wikipedia, really. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding#Licensing_and_patents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format) >All known software patents that cover Opus are licensed under royalty-free terms. >several blind listening tests have ranked it higher-quality than any other standard audio format at any given bitrate until transparency is reached, including MP3, AAC, and HE-AAC Wtf else do you need to prefer opus?

why do wh*teoids use youtube instead of a program to just download files

>>79473 they're either retarded or an iSheep (a retard)

>>79325 >How do i tell the difference between an autistic tranny's rabbit hole with millions of idiot users who think its the best thing ever, vs a well designed piece of software? Does it do what you need it to do, and does it do it ethically? That's really it.

>>79473 This isnt a question, it's a rant over nothing. It's obvious that no one wants to accumulate all those files and because with youtube you can skip ahead to see if you even want it. You would waste more bandwidth if you downloaded files in their entirety before watching then deceide you dont like it. Then all the manual deletion. What you describe makes no sense unless you are talking watching full length movies and TV shows. Also while the algorithm is obnoxious it also saves effort finding new things.

>>79473 why, since you hued people made such great albeit privacy unfriendly software for us might as well make use of it. our philosophy is if they're too hard to beat make them work for you

what is a herd nigger? what is a herd nigger?

How to make a new thread on the Technology board?

>>79507 Lol you go to the technology board and top of page same as you replied to this one. You need an image added to make a thread. Make sure you elaborate and make starting points for discussion. Check the catalogue first though to make sure it doesnt already exist and if it is a simple question it should go here.

Question about chatgpt, or similar ai chat bot. When you 'chat' with it, is it using all the other 'chats' other users in reference? Like, are all the 'chats' being permanently stored in its referencing memory?

Why isin't there a /bst/ - Battlestation Thread?

>>79540 >When you 'chat' with it, is it using all the other 'chats' other users in reference? No. The way these work, introducing new data requires re-training (which is slow and expensive) >Like, are all the 'chats' being permanently stored in its referencing memory? They are more than likely stored to train future models though.

>>79325 >How do i tell the difference between an autistic tranny's rabbit hole with millions of idiot users who think its the best thing ever, vs a well designed piece of software? This is really just a matter of critical thinking skills, like anything else. What you could do is read a good book on how to reason well based primarily on evidence and secondarily on logic. Then you will be better equipped to approach these kinds of questions and come to your own conclusions. The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning 2012 Holyoak,Morrison The Art of Reasoning 4e 2013 Kelley Thinking Critically 10e 2010 Chaffee

>post 2 or 3 years ago >why not bind the escape key of screen to ^Q instead of the annoying ^A which makes you have to type "^A a" to move cursor to start of line theres no reason not to you just do stty -xoff in bashrc since flow control features that use ^S and ^Q are pointless as bonus you can now use the opposite of ^R which is ^S in readline

>>79557 But what about 'dan'? Do you have to instruct it everytime you want to interact with 'dan'?

With tox dead am I stuck using matrix? Why does it have to be electron of all things?

Oh there's also retroshare, which is... isn't good enough. It's all right to use with people who are close to you, but not otherwise. Did we have a thread...

is there any real reason people hate gtk3 or gtk4 or is it the common pairing of libadwaita's fault? i've heard that it used to be an unstable mess but is fine now. also fuarrrk i hate client side decorations (the antichrist)

How much free space exactly does an running the stock installed iPadOS 13.1.1 need to update to current version without causing download folder data loss? You would think the info would be given but it actually doesn't tell you. This one is pretty full and no drives handy for moving data elsewhere and I figure that big a distance between updates it would be larger.

>>79636 it's never been a stability issue to me. it's my opinion that GTK is ass to program with, and as such, most GTK based programs look like ass, in turn causing me to have to look at said ass, and there lies my issue.

Android phone question. In the past, clicking on a YouTube video in any other app would result in a new instance of the YouTube app being open and the originating app maintaining whatever state it was in. However, now instead of a separate YouTube app opening, the originating app seems to be "replaced" with the YouTube app. So for example: someone sends me a YouTube video over Signal. I click it. The YouTube app opens. I want to go back to Signal, so I press the home button and click the Signal app. It takes me back to the YouTube app, instead of to Signal. Apparently I'm supposed to be able to press the back button to leave the youtube app and return to signal, but if there was another instance of YouTube open prior to opening the video, it makes me press back multiple times to go back through all my YouTube browsing history since the first YouTube app was opened before closing and returning to Signal. (Signal is just being used as an example. Every other app I tried also does the same thing) Is there a way to disable this soykaf? It seems like some anti-feature Google cooked up to keep you on youtube longer. Ideally, is there a way to configure my phone to always open youtube videos in NewPipe instead of the official YouTube app?

>>79650 There is no way. You need third party YouTube client. Are there any? I don't know, probably yes. Do they work? I bet they don't.

>>79658 >third party YouTube client. Are there any? I don't know, probably yes. Do they work? I bet they don't. NewPipe is open source. It's on F-Droid. It just works.

>>79650 not that guy, but after >>79688 remember to purge/uninstall or disable the original yewtube app(as god intended). if for some reason that's not possible, you could always go into app info and disable the "open by default" part.

>>79688 there's also pipepipe

My aunt gave me an iphone 6+ because mine got fuarrrked and as an poor academic that doesnt want to hurt their aunt's feelings, I'm gonna keep the device, but Apple software makes me wanna die, and some cousin put their apple id so I'm locked out of the normal appstore, i already did a jailbreak with checkra1n but i would love to get rid of ICloud/apple id services, especially remove my dumbass cousin's account that locks me out of some parts of the device, I saw that a software called F3arRa1n exists, but the only links i've found are retarded stolen-to-sell forks. inb4 stolen device hurr durr

I recently bought a new laptop, but as of a week or two ago it has been randomly restarting every other day or so. Given the random nature of the issue, I suspect a hardware failure, but I don't know how to investigate this. Journalctl doesn't show anything relevant (the most recent lines are a few minute before the reboots), and dmesg doesn't show anything suspicious either at boot. Alternatively, is hp's customer service competent at all? I don't want to deal with an indian trying to guide me through windows menus. Some details about my system: an hp laptop with amd cpu, running debian testing (linux 6.10.6)

>>79723 The EU is requiring Apple allows alternative app stores which will appear in next update but only for EU members and i havent found info on how they even check this. As for the Apple ID i think you can change it if you make your own account. It isnt that their account is locking you out it is that certain things require you to be logged in which is very annoying. https://support.apple.com/en-us/109353

>>79736 >how they even check this Probably through your telecom

>>79544 Well, make one. Well, make one.

Are there any archives of Lainchan?

>>79753 no. and don't make one. this site is not worth archiving at this point. better make an archive for the few cool threads that pop up once in a few years

>>79325 The only difference between the two is how many globohomo corporations use said software.

Pictured is a functional home-made diode made from a safety-pin, a pencil, and a razor blade that has had its surface oxidized ("blued") by heating. My question is: If another safety-pin/pencil combo was added touching the surface of the razor blade, would it be a transistor?

what is the current day most glowie resistant full disk encryption stack and schema for use cases: a: a microsd backup, temporary b: nvme+usb enclosure, ambiguous temporary or long-term heavy write use; various temperature environments c: 3 different usb flash drives OR micro sd cards+/-readers in an encrypted ZFS pool

>>79799 Probly LUKS/cryptsetup with a strong passphrase. I wouldn't trust any schemes involving public/private key-pairs since that's one of the things quantum computers will make obsolete. Just make sure nothing sensitive was ever on the media before you encrypt it. because flash media sometimes "retires" sectors it thinks might be wearing out, and sometimes you can't get at them anymore to wipe them. Just my two cents. Someone else might know more.

>>79800 i like to buy used flash media from ebay specifically flash designed for high read operations in inclement environments; i think this produces the properties of plausible deniability, a little obfuscation. gets you a "washed" drive. when traveling abroad, cover identity of a professional photographer blends in with their carrying of multiple high capacity flash or SD cards. what's a small and cute thing you can conceal or hide a micro sd card in? something that appears banal when it's dangling from a keychain

>>79799 Some common sense advice, I don't have practical experience with any of this. You can't defend against real glowniggers (CIA, FBI and the like) once you're targeted. They don't care about your perfect crypto setup, they'll side-channel that bitch, install spy firmware on tech you order online, hack you remotely using their hoarded zero days, bug your place, grab you while your encrypted drive is online and find the encryption key in RAM. TSA are just cops. They might randomly ask you to turn on the laptop, boots Windows 10/11 default install, seems lived in, normal programs for a photographer or tourist. What's this external drive, just photo backups? Plug it in please, yep it's travel pics, videos on there. Goodbye and have a nice trip. >>79804 >what's a small and cute thing you can conceal or hide a micro sd card in? No. This just gets you flagged, as does encryption, especially if you refuse to open it. If a hidden card is found, you'll get dragged into some back room for questioning, all your stuff forensically examined by competent people. Objective is to avoid getting looked at in the first place. Think about simply throwing a USB SSD, containing a Linux install encrypted using default LUKS settings with a bunch of available storage space, into your checked bag. No need to have it on your person during the flight. The system will X-ray it and identify it as a drive, but chances are nobody will ever look at the data. Might get lost that way, but whatever. When you arrive, boot the Linux SSD. Obviously never use a spyware OS like Windows, macOS, Android, iOS for sensitive use cases. Preferably keep the Linux install offline, use a smartphone for normal stuff. Also consider having absolutely zero sensitive data on you, transferring it over the Internet instead. So even if they do ask you to open your encrypted drive, there's nothing on it. This requires more technical expertise, to make sure you don't leave traces on the encrypted drive to any remote servers used.

>>79799 The most glowie resistant is the one that doesn't draw the attention of the glowies. For general backups and data storage, some form of the 3-2-1 backup scheme (3 copies of your data, on two different formats, with one off site), using sensible encryption methods (LUKS/VeraCrypt/your encryption method here). As >>79809 mentions, the glowies will always beat you when it comes to defense (literally, in some cases - see https://xkcd.com/538/). Be it through a warrant and various hardware/software attacks, or legal pressure (in some places it is illegal to withhold encryption keys from law enforcement - look up your legal jurisdiction's policy on this), or the $5 wrench attack, you will mess up somehow because you are human and cannot cover every aspect of security by yourself, and they will exploit it accordingly at some point in the future. >>79804 In his book, Edward Snowden mentions smuggling out data on a micro SD card hidden inside a Rubix Cube. Granted, he also had a chance to befriend the guards and become known as "the friendly guy with the Rubix Cube" so they didn't expect much. On some occasions he'd put it inside his mouth under his tongue, but I wager as full body scanners advance this becomes less viable unless you're fine with eating the micro SD card and regurgitating it past the checkpoint. You mention plausible deniability, with the example of a photographer carrying multiple SD cards worth of data. Why not lean into this, and use a tool such as PixelKnot (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/info.guardianproject.pixelknot/) to hide data in the images, then transport them to and from where you need to go? Put your data in a VeraCrypt container, split the container across a bunch of large raw photos, and then keep the photos on the SD card(s). Unless you do something to draw attention to yourself you should be fine. If all you want to do is transport data from one place to another without authorities catching on or interfering, there are various other ways of doing so. Back when PGP was created, there was controversy over releasing the software as it was technically classified as a munition and could not be exported normally. People wrote implementations of the software in perl that could fit on a t-shirt, and published the source code as books. If you are dedicated or insane enough, you could compress your data down into something that could be stored in a set of QR codes, then print said codes out onto pages, put them into benign looking documents, then take those through checkpoint(s). Once in a safe spot, reassemble the data by scanning the codes and compiling the data. Obviously these methods are ridiculous. But my point is that there are other ways of doing this. Get creative, don't limit yourself to a single method. >>79809 Good post.

>I don't know anything about encryption or opsec, but let me tell you all about it... >The burglars can always get in if they really want to, so you might as well leave your doors and windows open and your keys in the ignition... >The three-letter agencies are all-powerful and superhuman and can do anything, completely ignoring the laws of physics... fuarrrking utter retards. LE/IC are humans who have to obey all the same laws of nature as the rest of us. For instance, you could encrypt a usbstick well, send it straight to NSA and offer them a thousand dollars to decrypt it within a year, and they'd be soykaf out of luck. There are plenty of major crimes that never get solved by LE/IC because they aren't gods. Why are idots always so eager to jump in and parrot that kind of ignorant horsecrap about the invincibility of LE/IC? It's just fuarrrking stupid.

>>79816 >offer them a thousand dollars to decrypt it within a year if it took even a week of skilled work, for only a thousand dollars it would not be worth it. Point is true but make the scale bigger, offer like a million why not.

Hi Lainons, I tried moving my main partition (B) to the left with KDE partition manager, but it Krashed after copying a few percent. So now I'm stuck with a broken B-sized partition and an A-sized area of "free space", like crude KolourPaint drawing related. Green and orange are the original contents of both partitions. Testdisk doesn't seem to find the original B, but the data should still be there, since I never touched the disk after the incident (apart from cloning it for recovery). Since I happen to have a backup of A, I should be able to find the point where the original A ended and the original B began, right? Then there must be some way of restoring my dear B, but I don't know how exactly and what tools to use. How do I proceed from here?

>>79977 Restore the partition table to its former layout and pray it didn't erase your filesystem.

This is a very tech question I need help desperately. How do I stop desiring to distrohop so bad? I has been ruthlessly gnawing at me for three days now, and it has been dissolving and reappearing for at least a month, and the seed has been planted more than half a year ago. It has grown on me now and holy soykaf I just barely keep it at bay.

>>79977 >overwrites your partition table >krashes before moving partitions nothing personnel To save B, finding the original partition table entry of the B partition (offset number critical, size optional) would be top priority. The partition table (assuming GPT, not MBR) is stored in two locations, main table before A and a backup after B. Partition manager program probably overwrote both of those. One way to find B's offset is using TestDisk's "Deeper Scan" option, should yield more results than a quick scan. Default quick scan I imagine looks only at where the MBR and GPT partition tables are supposed to be, which is useless if the table was overwritten. Deeper scan should pick up the start of B because it crawls over the entire disk and B is intact. Based on your graphic, if there's a "free space" partition after new B, you can maybe manually calculate: B_old_offset = B_current_offset + B_current_size - free_space_current_size and B_old_size = B_current_size all "_current" numbers are in sectors found in e.g. fdisk -l /dev/sda1 partition list. This assumes the offset of new B and old A are the same, e.g. both 0 or both 2048. But there's no guarantee the KDE tool used the same offset. Another way, since we have new B's start exactly and some of B's content was copied there, we can read a few dozen bytes or kilobytes (whatever's unique enough) of new B and look for that signature over the rest of the disk to find old B's precise offset. Involves some simple programming. You could also try to guess it based on the size of the A backup like you said. Tricky, you'd have to find out if the original table was MBR or GPT, what offset was used originally for A, and how A's size was rounded up to sector numbers. What is your A backup, dd if=/dev/sda1 of=A_backup.bin? >>79982 This would be best, if you have a backup of the old partition table. Anyway, once you have the original offset number, e.g. 690000 sectors, you'd create a new partition table, create one partition with that offset and max out the size. Save the current partition table before, just in case.

>>79991 >This would be best, if you have a backup of the old partition table That's why I only use fdisk for partitioning and always save partition table data twice, once as dump, once on paper. They say parted is good too, but I never found any use cases for it and learning a new tool is just too much hassle. fdisk is good and simple that's why I like it so much. Also moving partitions is far from trivial and should be avoided generally. Repartitioning is the easy part, then you have to back up partitions and put them back in place and never once fuarrrk up. There's just no way to do it reliably except to have a separate disk and borg your partitions there, overwrite partition table and then restore contents from backups.

>>79989 Why do you think you want to hop? What will a new distro provide you that the current one doesn't? Is it from an stable type distro (Debian, RedHat based) to an up-to-date type (Gentoo, Arch, Alpine)? Is it systemd and non-systemd? Is your current distro inconveniencing, constraining you in a way that a new one wouldn't?

>>79993 >Why do you think you want to hop? Because I am mentally ill most likely. >What will a new distro provide you that the current one doesn't? A lot of manual maintenance pain in the ass. Also autistic validation because heey I know how to type letters into a fuarrrking terminal >Is it from an stable type distro (Debian, RedHat based) to an up-to-date type (Gentoo, Arch, Alpine)? Yes. >Is it systemd and non-systemd? systemd to non-systemd >Is your current distro inconveniencing, constraining you in a way that a new one wouldn't? My current distro does every I could ever hope for. There is nothing I need or lack.

>>79992 Agreed, partition editing is cursed. Even with a simple data disk I'd make sure backups are ready to go, one mistype (or crash lol) and it's over. Then there are boot drives which are manageable (especially with UEFI) but more treacherous, and Windows and its occult-ass boot, recovery and reserved partitions, maybe position dependent maybe not, impossible without animal sacrifice. >>79996 Usecase: VALID There's no reason not to run latest stable software on a PC. The knowledge of running some 2 year old zombie kernel fork or having a years old version of curl installed is absolutely disgusting. Systemd bad because it's become an all consuming monster, it's not just an init system anymore, it's like 10 daemons, has its hooks in everything, increasingly impossible to replace. Some software include systemd's client library as a runtime dependency which is a sad state of affairs.

>>79997 >Usecase: VALID My life is subjected to Linux and it only deepens my sense of worthlessness.

fuarrrk. It's over. I distrohopped. There's still a lot of configuration to do, but it's over for, I known it by experience. I hate distrohopping. I hate distrohopping. I'll never ever concede... Oh god save me

Is there some list of aggregated /etc/hosts block lists? I would be mostly interested in blocking telemetry/analytics, malware and adblock killers. >>79799 You can also probably use Veracrypt inside LUKS to get multi-layered encryption? Also, turn off your computer when you are not using it! They can extract encryption keys from RAM if they are fast enough. I suggest that you avoid any flash storage because it's very hard to securely erase flash storage. Mechanical HDD is better (I recommend getting it from Toshiba). But don't go around carrying a HDD or SSD on your backpack (it will look suspicious if cops stop you). >>79989 >>79996 >>80025 Write down requirements for your distro. Then go find that distro. You can just pick Artix with OpenRC (or S6) if you are unsure. Artix doesn't support Runit as well as Void Linux does because there isn't Runit init script for loading Apparmor profiles but OpenRC just works. Of course, you could port it from Void Linux repos (if you do that, be sure to post it on Artix git or forums).

>>80026 There are several. Steven Black hosts and updates several lists here: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts Pete Lowe has a list here: https://pgl.yoyo.org/as/#foursteps Dan Pollock’s hosts file: https://someonewhocares.org/hosts These are all taken from the uBlock Origin filter list.

>>80026 >Write down requirements for your distro. I need one that will fix my brain and stop it from seeking free rewards in form of fuarrrking distrohopping. Man I'm desperate I can't resist the fuarrrking urge.

>>80031 Windows 10 IoT Enterprise

>>80032 Man this is not funny Windows 10 started the whole Linux thing for me by being utterly unusable. I didn't even derive much satisfaction from hopping. It's all the same mundane configuration stuff. Welp except for systemd. Absence of systemd is the only thing that makes a noticeable difference at all. The only thing that excites me. I am fuarrrking retarded.

Anything i can do to unbrick a phone in EDL mode? phone is completely shut down and won't turn on (not even recovery or fastboot) and either windows or linux recognizes it on USB as qualcomm something mode 9008 which iirc basically means it's ready to be flashed with a file called "firehose" to unlock it. Apparently firehoses are mostly kept as secrets by manufacturers as the authorized repair stores charge you 80$ or more to fix the issue but some got leaked: https://github.com/bkerler/Loaders The same github user made a tool to flash firehoses that i tried with no success because my phone does not have a leaked firehose yet. I'm curious to see if someone knows some other exploit or workaround. btw i fuarrrking hate modern smartphones. i'm seriously considering buying a used N900 and installing linux on it. i wish they were like a unix-like pocket computer that you can customize without all this ecosystem crap to lock you out and charge you while spying on you tl;dr: wish handiNAVI were real

in dolphin enter doesnt confirm the file delete confirmation. it cancels it WHO THE fuarrrk how do i make it normal

>>80039 config or bug tracker, welcome to unix! "it works, but to keep getting salary we're going to write and rewrite it forever!"

>>78992 the previous thread hit the limit, and I was unable to reply there I found that warp+ works, but no other VPN does. even wireguard is blocked, so self hosting is out of the question. How can I use torrents if warp+ gets blocked?

>>80060 Wireguard is easy to block because the handshake is easy to identify. You also mentioned common VPN IPs and ports are also blocked. There are solutions, but you'll need a cheap VPS ($1-$2/month, depending on traffic) or a physical server (friend's, parents' place), since most commercial services are IP blocked or don't provide these obfuscation protocols. AmneziaWG >https://docs.amnezia.org/documentation/amnezia-wg/ >AmneziaWG is a contemporary version of the popular VPN protocol, WireGuard. It's a fork of WireGuard-Go and offers protection against detection by Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) systems. At the same time, it retains the simplified architecture and high performance of the original. SSH tunneling >you can set a SOCKS5 proxy in qBittorrent Shadowsocks >UDP protocol providing SOCKS5, commonly used in China to bypass censorship OpenVPN + Cloak >https://github.com/cbeuw/Cloak >Cloak is a pluggable transport that enhances traditional proxy tools like OpenVPN to evade sophisticated censorship and data discrimination. Cloudflare WARP+ >can never be blocked because it probably uses the same entry points as the regular Cloudflare web proxy service which a lot of the internet depends on >chances are it spies on you If you're worried about raw torrenting through a VPS or someone's home, you can additionally connect the server to a VPN proxy service (Mullvad, iVPN, AirVPN, etc). >(You) - college - server - VPN - internets

>>80039 What is the usecase of a confirmation dialog? Delete confirm can be disabled in Dolphin settings.

should i use a different password for root and normal user on a desktop with sudo?

>>80097 Doesn't matter, can't think of a real life reason to use a different password. I'd argue the main user and root passwords on a desktop computer can safely be empty or "<username>", unless you have a specific reason such as people likely to walk up to the computer and mess with it, or SSH password login enabled, or you have other users on the same box like on a shared server.

>>80039 I think there only 2 sane GUI file managers for GNU/Linux: - pcmanfm or pcmanfm-qt (use the QT version when in doubt) - xfe >>80097 If you would use the same password on both your user and root, then it's best to just set up sudo and lock the root account (with passwd --lock r00t ). Note that locking your root account effectively disables recovery entries in Grub bootloader menu (you need to carry SystemRescue on USB flash drive and chroot to be able to fix stuff). >>80036 >Anything i can do to unbrick a phone in EDL mode? Does the device have physical volume up/down buttons? If it does, you need to press another keycombo but you need to smash it fast before your device turns on (also try holding the keycombo). I don't know if it works. But I read online that certain old Samsung smartphones and tablets can be put into bootloader menu if you do that (even if they are in Download Mode). Then you can just select "power off", if you manage to get there.

>>80098 >>80099 thanks no i don't have ssh, but i do have a separate pc as a server with more than one user that i'm tinkering on (which is closed off from outside for now) i don't know if i want to disable root on my desktop because sometimes i just use su when i have to do many things that requires it. same guy btw >If it does, you need to press another keycombo but you need to smash it fast before your device turns on (also try holding the keycombo). i tried everything, even discharged the battery and removed it while connecting the charger. no normal combination works because apparently every qualcomm phone has a bootloader on its own even before the whole android ecosystem mess and it's stuck on a flashing mode as i said. i read some more on it after asking and some people resolder the CPU to fix this. this is how far they go to lock your device and make you buy a new one christ. "intellectual property" they say

>>80086 you're dope man, thanks a lot for the links. I'll get to reading them ASAP although I'm trying to look for something that won't compromise on torrent speeds(i get 500mbps+ with warp+) The problem with VPS's is that I get very high pings and low speeds on american ones in my region(asia). The others aren't as cheap as 1$-2$ if you've got some recommendations, I'd appreciate them my requirements are: should have good pings in my region, should not be blocked by the college firewall and should not have a bad data/speed cap. I can spend around 5usd a month

which gpu combos best with an intel i3 10105? sorry if this is the wrong thread

>>80123 literally any gpu issued around the time the cpu was. maybe a bit newer actually. there's no way to give an answer without actual testing, but buying contemporaries should be a safe bet imo

>>79325 >First question: >Say I don't have 15 years of experience using software, let alone hacking. >How do i tell the difference between an autistic tranny's rabbit hole with millions of idiot users who think its the best thing ever, vs a well designed piece of software? Where's the second question or do you refer to the post as the opening/first question? My answer to your question is it all depends on (1) how you use things and which things you found were bothering or crushing the your or world's productivity I guess is the more broad way to put it. (2) It also depends on whether you think the direction it is taking is against your ethos, in particular I align myself with the Cypherpunk Ethos so I've already skimmed off a lot of baddies in the mainstream technologies, and then know which or when to jump ships when I change in power/info dynamics or leadership happen on that particular project or group. So about (1), let's say you have software/system that you use that is outdated compared to other competing software/system so is that a good thing? Maybe not since you're missing out on features but maybe it's a blessing in disguise since it is full of holes and mess and would even take less effort to simply implement new standard than to fix the mess! Of few examples is how there is a growing closing of standards like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB "C", where there's so many competing things to the point even the kernel is having hard time to support these little nuances of each manufacturers making "something better than competition" so in turn we have a mess that we might as well just switch to say like Li-Fi or a more unified wireless standard (I propose it could be Nearlink or similar like UWB applications for wireless audio and general IoT connection instead of Bluetooth) and for all things USB we can just switch to optical and 802.3 for everything wired and we won't have to deal with the limitations of USB On (2) it's all about the outcome of the path, it doesn't matter to me whether something is proprietary or mainstream, as long as it aligns with my idea of what is ideal then I would gladly support it even financially. So my Idea of Cypherpunk but also aero-optimistic Solarpunk smart society (where we use IoT but actually CARE about encryption and best common practices / BCP and privacy) is very Cyberpunk. I think that so far Unix is up there at the top in ensuring this philosophy however the Unix community is not very open but I think it is good since it filters a lot of the unnecessary "community" people or potential for a "Jia Tan" incident so I think that for this one Apple is actually a better choice but then again I don't think the opensource fanboys do not see this, they instead waste away their developer time in things like Android or Linux which is not a bad thing but from what I'm seeing Linux is actually the weakest link that's why all kinds of people with clashing interests go there and in turn it is very anti-Cypherpunk in my opinion though it is great that people can just fork projects and continue on, however that can't be a thing with Unix/BSD style systems, it has a central point of failure that's why it must stand on its ideologies firmly while the Linux and other indie opensource side of things would be about experimentation but not a seamless experience. I think from that what truly matters is the outcome or does it ensure the preferred vision is achieved? So far I think it's mixed, even things like Apple devices from my observation have implemented the best common practices and better privacy and security over other systems (not on anonymity though).

>>80188 >irrelevant rumbling gpt please

I dont know why the fuarrrk my x230 is rejecting my x220 keyboard, it wont power on with it connected, I did the little hardware mod and its functioning, but not in the x230, why?!? I already reseated the ram, did the power on trick without cmos and ac, I'm a bit doumbfounded, what do you think anon? Its thinkpad modding related

>>79982 I didn't make a backup, but at least the filesystem was intact >>79991 >partition table ... backup after B Didn't look for it, but in my understanding these partitioning GUIs omit the partition table, I would have fuarrked many drives otherwise. >TestDisk's "Deeper Scan" option It is a very large disk with an unspeakable number of partition remains on it, so it was pure chaos, but maybe I would have pursued that if I didn't have other options. >manually calculating sectors Surprisingly simple but effective method, didn't even think about that. Calculated everything in a table document, went to check at the resulting sector with a hex editor and the filesystem documentation of its on-disk structure open. Then dd' ed it to an external drive, checked the contents and everything worked perfectly. Thank you very much for all your different suggestions! >>79992 >save partition table data twice, once as dump, once on paper. Sounds excessive for my tastes, but any backup is better than none >borg Thanks for making me aware of that

>>79456 just use qaac command line or GUI (fre:ac) on linux or command line or GUI in windows/mac (itunes quicktime). I would say that I prefer qaac over fdkaac since it has better seamlessness in terms of floating point time, it means there is no sudden cuts or lost data when converting albums (that have seamless transitions), qaac shines with it and it also have similar waveform as the original vs other codecs outside of vorbis however I don't recommend vorbis simply because it forces to run the codec as 32-bit which is not widely supported and may be hard on the cpu or codec chip (less battery life, when device uses 32-but unnecessarily on a 16/24-bit master). >>79461 I'm sorry to inform but Opus is not that good in terms of sound quality I could blind test opus 512 vs vorbis 512 / master / qaac-fdkaac as opus stands out due to the following:: opus resamples all audio to 48kHz, while the 48kHz container contains 44.1kHz data (so it's not true 48kHz even if you convert 48->48opus it still degrades in quality). they use some kind of undocumented algorithm that does improves low bitrate audio but that even at max setting (512kbps/channel) leads to noticeable distortion rather it is significantly louder that you could put encode a song opus for one channel, and anything on the right channel, the left channel will ALWAYS be louder (I also have a measured earphone, it's not fancy but I use it since it only has -+0.03dB deviation when measured per channel so it's noticeable one is louder, I also swap the channel during testing files with each channel having different audio codecs). tl;dr Opus is odd and slightly louder and bassier somehow. the timing is also imperfect if you zoom in on an waveform editor, either longer or shorter.

>>79816 >because they aren't gods. >Why are idots always so eager to jump in and parrot that kind of ignorant horsecrap about the invincibility of LE/IC? It's just fuarrrking stupid. It is funny. The lithmus test was they couldn't even snitch during the rampant election fraud which are even caught on tape by civilians and the machine's obvious backdoor that's also used everywhere else somehow. I think that put them down the list of capable and made me think why China has plenty of spectacular drone parades recently - you really know who's cyberpunk, anyway as for your tech question I totally agree that there is something amiss. Maybe data decryption is not a priority, I think though that they do dragnet-level exfiltration of things like wireless to wired-keyboard strokes and stuff like out-of-band data channels leaking things like your oh-so super secure hdcp image that is immune to nightstand with some snitching fritz chip. so yes in my hacker's theory I think that they would have to scour the world's database of keystrokes to actually take your encryption passwords which is less expensive than dealing with perfect encryption techniques which the ones who need it would employ over their data. I guess it's a difeferent aspect.

i have a trinitron for retro vidya that is clicking when i power it up and sometimes the screen flickers, however image is still perfect and the model is one of those late high ends. Is this an early sign of failure? How can i discharge it and fix it without killing myself?

On old CRTs you'll see a wire going into the smooth part of the CRT. The connection is protected by a (usually) plastic insulator where the wire enters the CRT. Got a long metal screwdriver with an insulated handle. Don't touch the metal part of the screwdriver, or any other metal or ground with any part of your body. Touch the shank of the screwdriver to the metal frame of the TV and leave it there. Insert the tip of the screwdriver under the flexible plastic insulator where the wire goes into the CRT. When it touches the metal part of the wire, if there is a charge in the CRT you will get a big spark as it discharges. Be careful so you don't kill yourself.

>>80329 > Be careful so you don't kill yourself. Lmao do you know how many TVs we have discharged through ourselves. Electricians cannot be killed by their own element.

>>80329 thanks, any ideas what might be causing the clicking and flickering?

Is this the correct way to mount my .cache to RAM given user is soykaf, and I dont have swap or enabled swap when full? tmpfs /home/soykaf/.cache tmpfs nofail,bind,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0

>>80335 ^_^ >>80337 Once it's discharged and unplugged, vacuum out some of the dust and any loose junk that might be floating around in there. Then look for anything that plugs into anything and make sure the connections are good and clean and tight. Then if you don't see any obvious broken, loose, or fried stuff, put it back together and see if it still clicks and flickers. If it does, take it to a repair shop.

where can i learn how to write my own gameboy roms? I am using an gbc sd card cartridge.

https://gbadev.net/getting-started.html https://github.com/gbadev-org/awesome-gbadev https://gamedev.net/blogs/entry/2268899-gameboy-advance-dev-workflow-in-2020/ https://gamedev.net/articles/programming/general-and-gameplay-programming/gba-development-from-the-ground-up-volume-1-r1628/ it's a literal 3 second web search...

>>80358 More spaces FTW. >tmpfs /home/soykaf/.cache tmpfs nofail,bind,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 If it works, it's correct.

>>.80358 Good tip 10/10 >>80425 >More spaces FTW. Does spacing matter there?

Any resources for learning skeuomorphic UI design? I would like to create interactive desktop gadgets for TDE but I'm confused on the design aspect and don't have any good resources or references to start with.

What's up with i2p? I'm trying to download it. geti2p.net says the hash for i2pinstall_2.7.0.jar should be ea3872af06f7a147c1ca84f8e8218541963da6ad97e30e1d8f7a71504e4b0cee , but that isn't what I download (but the same across several mirrors). download.i2p2.de is down (doesn't even ping)

>>80560 Likely feds taking over. Compile from source. Double check the network stack.

>>80560 $ sha256sum i2pinstall_2.7.0.jar d70ee549b05e58ded4b75540bbc264a65bdfaea848ba72631f7d8abce3e3d67a i2pinstall_2.7.0.jar it's over on the other hand: $ gpg --verify i2pinstall_2.7.0.jar.sig gpg: assuming signed data in 'i2pinstall_2.7.0.jar' gpg: Signature made Tue 08 Oct 2024 ... gpg: using RSA key 70D2060738BEF80523ACAFF7D75C03B39B5E14E1 gpg: Good signature from "eyedeekay <eyedeekay@safe-mail.net>" [unknown] gpg: aka "eyedeekay <hankhill19580@gmail.com>" [unknown] gpg: aka "eyedeekay <problemsolver@openmailbox.org>" [unknown] gpg: aka "eyedeekay (alias for idki2p@i2pmail.org) <idki2p@mail.i2p>" [unknown] gpg: aka "eyedeekay (alias for idki2p@mail.i2p) <idki2p@i2pmail.org>" [unknown] ... pubkey clearnet: https://geti2p.net/_static/idk.key.asc (i2p http://i2p-projekt.i2p/_static/idk.key.asc) valid pgp signature, therefore either dev is compromised or dev is an idiot who didn't update sha256, I vote idiot only way to truly validate is checking source and building source bad hash out there for days and no one even noticed, the absolute state of i2p, worse centralization than tor kek, literally 1 doxxed guy controlling the network proof of releaser doxxing himself to google (=feds): 9th October, 2024 #i2p-dev on irc2p eyedeekay: Slight delay on Android, I have to resolve some GPlay compliance issues, will probably be released tonight, I've got a month ahead of me with GPlay obstructions though eyedeekay: F-droid will be able to build their version faster than Google will let me release eyedeekay: And in November GPlay's going to get even worse

How do I share a picture I drew without going full botnet? I drew picrel as fanart for an indiegame and now I want the dev to see it. However, his only social media seems to be twitter and discord, both of which seem to block tor or throwaway email and sms. Does anyone have experience with situations like this? Id be greatful for any help.

>>80574 >Step 1: Run a botnet yourself >Step 2: Use it to steal someone's credentials

>>80574 If they released a game, maybe there's a company website with contact info/form, or do some OSINT on the dev or company to find an email. Try the info@ and similar emails of the website. Find the email of someone adjacent to the project like the publisher, ask them to forward. Lainons could also help, if you drop the game name or account names, someone can be a proxy or help get in contact.

>>80560 I would personally use the C++ implementation. It's called "i2pd ". Link: >https://i2pd.website/

>>80579 Thanks, I'll look into sending the publisher an email from a hopefully anonymous email account.

>>80614 Does it work properly now? The last time I tried it it wouldn't get above 10kB of bandwidth.

>>80629 I've been running an i2pd router since 2016 and have never had any issues. Did you configure and port forward it properly?

>>80622 Be prepared to end up in the thrash bin. I've sent a bunch of well meant mail from my cock li to different musicians and writers and never got a response. They could just ignore me of course. But I can't believe nobody told me to fuarrrk off.

Is there a program that watches recently ended or crashed processes? Like task manager that keeps track of all killed/crashes processes and lists them in a separate tab. I use both GNU/Linux and Windoze.

>>80700 Must use supervisor for that otherwise it gets complicated. You'd have to ptrace every process on the system, which isn't always possible to do prctl()s, and that just might be too involved.

>>79398 Arch32, Gentoo (wouldn't recommend unless you want to set up DISTCC), Open/FreeBSD

>>80637 If not I'll try to create a danbooru account but that's for later

any good monitor recs that you use or know? (preferrably 16:10) i'd like to spend the least in something that is durable and doesn't look like soykaf. so i guess i'm asking for "the thinkpad of monitors" or something similar. i'd like to use my high end CRT but it's getting issues and consumes a fuarrrkton of power and has nothing but vga,

got on a thinkpad in prison just want to say can someone go on CYBERIA IRC or LAINCHAN IRC and let T420 know Z404/WINTERMUTE/Z4R4K is alive and well been in prison 7 months getting out soon

>>80724 much love if you get this done, thank you. kinda scared i'll get in trouble lmao HACK THE PLANET https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCyFdGOdiUw

how can i open a text editor in linux gedit, mousepad NOPE either brings the other text editors in other desktops to this one or teleports me to that one. therefore not an option vim - garbage for autists kde kwrite and whatever - trying but fear its a huge waste of time

(cont) sorry, meant opening gedit / mousepad opens a new tab in the existing one you already have open. i looked and theres no option to disable even in hidden key value pairs in their autistic windows registry tier system

>>80748 It sounds like you are not intelligent enough to be using GNU/Linux I suggest you stick with Windows.

>>80717 they're all pure liquid soykaf not sure which aspect of vga you're talking about 1. vga resolution is not a high end CRT unless you're talking about a TV monitor 2. vga cables have some noise but they're less bad than the visual artifacts of an LCD

>>80750 >GNU/Linux you're technically correct, the most important kind of correct

>>80748 https://github.com/tsujan/FeatherPad Google better, try harder >>80750 why do you snap ?

>>80771 You need a carriage return without a linefeed? What happens if you specify the ASCII CR character (decimal 13 or hex 0D) directly instead of using \r?

Im a chronic distrohopper. Ever since I first installed Linux ive never been on the same distro for more than 3 months, sometimes I even distro hopped on the same day. Im just really anxious when it comes to choice, it makes me nervous. I just want an operating system that has everything I might possibly need (browser, utilities, office software etc), is lightweight, isn’t spying on me and doesnt give me too much choice or requires much maintenance or updating. Im looking to retire distrohopping. Is trying to de-cyberhump windows worth it?

>>80932 I don't use it for desktop stuff, so it might not be applicable to your case, but I use voidlinux on my mac mini to run servers and it's extremely reliable. been using it for over 4 years now. sometimes I will go months (maybe a year?) without upgrading the system, and I can still run my package updates flawlessly. never had any issues.

Are there modifications to Tor Browser that could make webapps/JavaScript run slowly? For instance, clicking a button on an interface can sometimes take a few seconds to register. This is after the page fully loads, so I don't think it's network lag.

>>80932 >I just want an operating system that has everything I might possibly need (browser, utilities, office software etc), Pretty much any Linux distro has all that >is lightweight, Just use the XFCE version of whatever distro you choose and don't install a lot of junk. Or i3 or whatever. >isn’t spying on me I wouldn't trust Ubuntu or Red Hat, but that's just me. >and doesnt give me too much choice Lol >or requires much maintenance or updating. Every distro needs updating to stay as secure as possible. If you want something standard and stable and flexible, there's Debian. If you want the most popular distro, there's MX, which is just Debian with a lot of bloat, plus the choice to use or not use systemd at boot time. If you want something a little more up-to-date and don't care as much about stability, there's Fedora. If you like Fedora but want something more stable, there's Centos. If you like to tinker with your os more than use it (sounds like you don't) there's Arch and Gentoo. I like Devuan, which is just Debian without systemd. I hope you find something you like enough to stick with.

>>80935 >Are there modifications to Tor Browser that could make webapps/JavaScript run slowly? Not that I know of. >For instance, clicking a button on an interface can sometimes take a few seconds to register. This is after the page fully loads, so I don't think it's network lag. It's still probably just Tor network lag. Maybe the javascript is fetching more stuff. If you have a particularly slow Tor circuit, you can always just hit control-shift-L to change circuits.

>>80932 You need ADHD pills not a "right" distro. I know this is a very inconvenient truth to you, so you'll ignore my words, but just keep them in the back of your mind. One day you'll understand it.

>>80932 I don't think your choice of distro will ever be able to satisfy you, if you don't change your mind on distrohopping itself. Of course I could go on and say "this distro will definitively be the last you will ever install" or whatever, but this will be a lie, because you will change your distro from that anyway. It's not about distros at this point, but some bizzare obsession about tools, that makes no sense in first place. For example I use Debian, a very flawed computing environment, but I just use it because I don't mind it's flaws as long as it is able to run the software I need. Please bear with me, as hilarious as this might sound, but I "cured" my distrohopping not with installing the right distro, but with questioning whether I really need the perfect OS. whether reinstalling my OS for the millionths time really will satisfy this desire and repeating this as mantra inside my head whenever I wanted to download or burn an ISO. Maybe weird circumstances require weird solutions. Just bear this in mind and then almost any distro will work for you. As the other Lainon recommended >>80936 just use something normal like Debian, Fedora, MX, Mint, because with those you certainly won't run into any problems a la "my distro doesn't support this" as in software, that you might need in the future, but not know about now, not being supported. As I said, those are very flawed operating systems, but does it matter really? Try making up a mantra for that and repeating in your head, once the distrohopping urge comes up. Say things like this to yourself: - "Every operating system is flawed and therefor looking for a flawless one is a fruitless endeavor" - "The distro I'm using right now supports all my software and fulfills all of my basic computing needs (browser, utilities, office software, games)" - "Switching to the next distro will be a waste of time, because I will be switching to yet another distro shortly after. Not switching to the next distro is the only way of stopping this cycle, not further continuing it" I hope you actually try this out and you will realize resisting the urge will be easier every time.

>>80936 >If you like to tinker with your os more than use it there's Arch youtube tier opinion from someone that clearly has no real experience with it

>>80932 I use Kubuntu personally, but anon >>81036 is right. You will never find the perfect distro, so settle with the one that can do everything you need it to do. For me, that's Kubuntu. Also, don't ask other people to decide what distro to use for you. Linux isn't just about choice, it's about YOUR choice. Others' advice is a good starting point, but what works for someone else may very well not work for you.

>>80932 >I just want an operating system that has everything I might possibly need (browser, utilities, office software etc), is lightweight, isn’t spying on me and doesnt give me too much choice or requires much maintenance or updating. Ubuntu You want some flavor of Ubuntu, unfortunately. Basically, any gnu/Linux distro is lightweight compared to windows (how lightweight depends on your hardware). Ubuntu is pretty just werks, and has probably the best software catalog out of the box. You will have to deal with canonical's bullshit, but that's a much MUCH smaller task then removing any amount of spyware from winglows. Decide which DE you like best and install the flavor of ubuntu that has that DE.

Locale sorts are terrible. $ printf "%s\n" 1-1.jpg 1.jpg 10.jpg | sort 10.jpg 1-1.jpg 1.jpg $ printf "%s\n" 1-1.jpg 1.jpg 10.jpg | LC_COLLATE=C sort 1-1.jpg 1.jpg 10.jpg I understand how it gets that order, but the "natural" sort is pretty terrible. On that example, I would like to get 1.jpg 1-1.jpg 10.jpg which is basically sort -V. Is there a way to get my system to sort that way? Either with an existing locale that does it, or by patching my locale's sort (if that's possible without recompiling all of glibc)

I'm having the hardest time with apparmor. I want to confine chromium so that it can't read anything on the disk except $HOME/Public and so that it can't write anywhere on the disk except $HOME/Downloads. I finally found an adequate apparmor profile, modify it so that it would load it without complain. Put it into enforce mode, but it doesn't do anything. Chromium can still rw anywhere it pleases. Is maybe running Chromium inside a Docker container a better idea?

Why doesn't Luks have something like Duress? https://github.com/x13a/Duress

>>81090 Bubblejail for saner (GUI or CLI) sandbox config. Separate home dir for each sandbox, with the option to pass through clearly defined exception dirs like Public from your real home. Has a chromium profile. QubesOS or QEMU VM (virt-manager GUI) for bulletproof sandboxing. >>81094 This Android app, when receiving a duress code on the lock screen, can: 1. Wipe the device 2. Notify your bros that you're in trouble Sensible on a phone for high profile people, but none of those are within LUKS' problem domain. 1. Wipe: LUKS could technically do this, but it'd be a placebo. Why? Baddies could clone the drive to get infinite tries, or run their own modified executable that doesn't wipe but printf("duress triggered\n"); instead. The only conceivable use is giving people who'd be tortured a slim chance at wiping before they're eventually made to unlock, but the kind of adversary who can catch spies isn't dumb enough to let them wipe the only copy. If the owner won't be tortured, they can simply choose not to unlock the drive, or unlock to avoid violence if the contents aren't all that important. 2. Notify: When LUKS unlocks, there is typically no network access. If you want duress with LUKS like those PAM Linux login solutions, you have to make a program that wraps LUKS.

Sorry if this is a foolish question but am looking to purchase a new laptop and have the option between an HP with an AMD Ryzen 7 7730U, 64GB DDR4 for around ~$700 and another a Dell with an Kaby Lake Intel Core i5-8350U, 64GB DDR4 for half the cost ~$350. Is it worth the extra money for the better CPU? Here's the benchmark comparisons: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/3150vs5215/Intel-i5-8350U-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-7730U My use case is mostly going to be programming, some office applications, and web browsing with less than thirty tabs. Would be very grateful to here any input.

>>81145 Unless you're going to be compiling huge programs, you probably wouldn't notice that much difference for general desktop stuff.

>>81145 The i5 is probably good enough for your usecase. Also, remember that hp is a soykafty brand. I was foolish enough to buy an hp laptop, and the cpu (an AMD 7520U) can't run at full speed for more than a few seconds because of thermal throttling. Not the biggest gripe I have with this laptop, but still annoying.

>>81146 >>81147 Thanks gents.

>>80932 Personally use Arch and settled with it. Would recommend Ubuntu distros if you don't mind the snaps but both at this point are similar in matter of maintenance I think that Arch is a bit smoother process, everything works but needs to be manually set at first (encrypted hibernate, luks, etc). most of the help or things to fix your distro are online so you need an internet connection, there is a learning curve though for things such as regenerating GRUB sometimes. If you want to try the Arch experience but not want to deal with many Arch stuff at first you can get into Kaos which uses the same package manager but everything works though a little bit too featureful. Most of the stuff I need anyways are audio producer stuff with pulseaudio, excellent wine support, some steam stuff, and KDE. I wouldn't mind using decyberhumped windows vista though with all bare-minimum software.

>>80937 >>80935 Setting Tor Browser's security level to Safer or Safest disables multiple JavaScript features. Go to about:config and search for javascript.options. Look for anything in bold. Enable at your own risk.

>>81161 I believe safer disables javascript JIT

>>81095 I was able to get bwrap to work. I had tried so many other things. I even gave it a really good try to get chromium to work under docker, and it just kept crashing. But bwrap keeps it running while restricting what directories it can read/write to. Very convenient. Makes me feel a little safer than running that big security hole without any restrictions. Any opinions on the mullvad browser? It's contained somehow? Is adding another layer of sandboxing a good idea?

I cannot get a decent internet without signing a 2 yrs long contract with the provider so I can get fined when I don't want to pay and use the internet anymore (they do not even make any investment, I still have to pay for installation, router, etc.). I find it infuriating and I need to use my 3mbps mobile internet for my homelab. Is it like that everywhere or only in my area?

why did my dir remain set-user-id and set-group-id? but i chmodded it to 0!? >mkdir digital >chmod 6660 digital later >chmod 0 digital next week i found out its still set-user-id and set-group-id >ll >d--S--S--- 2 brandon brandon 4096 Nov 3 06:31 digital

>>81199 Read the man carefully chmod =0755

>>81196 >Any opinions on the mullvad browser? Its good it doesn't make any requests at startup like Tor unlike Librewolf (which also doesn't clear browsing history on exit by default). >It's contained somehow? Is adding another layer of sandboxing a good idea? The one thing I hate is download directory is in .mullvad-browser not ~/Downloads I would limit its read access to MAC Address file /sys/class/net where real mac is stored

I have a directory full of directories. One of these directories has 3 files in it. I want to copy these 3 files into every other directory. This did not work: cp * ../*/

>>81217 Of course it didn't. Look at what your command expanded to. for dest_dir in ../*/; do ...

>>81205 >unlike Librewolf You need to elaborate this please.

>>81217 for x in ../*/ ; do cp * $x ; done

>>81224 I just installed librewolf on debian to see what op was saying and they are right. I closed my session after browsing and then launched new session and my browsing history is there my www.furaffinity.net history is in the cache now :( t

>>81228 I meant >requests at startup As for history it is a new thing, half a year ago it was disabled by default. Not a big deal, just check "Clear history when LibreWolf closes". Was surprised myself to be very honest.

>>81233 https://sizeof.cat/post/web-browser-telemetry/#librewolf its more then this is like push services for example and a few others https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/issues/1779

zip and rar can be embedded in files of other formats (jpeg, png, exe etc). what other archive formats allow this?

>>81234 I wish he provided more details about how to test this thing. It's not useful unless you can reproduce. Do you know any sources that document how you can perform similar checks on linux?

Why does Rufus actually do its job properly while balenaEtcher fuarrrkin is like kicking dead whales down the beach?

>>81241 >>81241 >rar The last time I had to extract rar from an image I wanted to kill the person who sent me that. Ended up finding the start of the archive in hexdump, copying to a separate file and then extracting.

I've just ran firejail --dnstrace and fresh profile on librewolf yielded push.services.mozilla.com r10.o.lencr.org On my current profile, however, there is a fuarrrkton of requests, including extensions. Ridiculous.

>>81241 Anything can be embedded with steganography. >>81243 >Rufus: C >balenaEtcher: Electron (JavaScript, HTML, Node.js) It is a mystery. >>81245 I don't get it. Is the problem many requests but few DNS queries? Settings > DNS over HTTPS > Off, to use system resolver. Want no requests on browser startup? Play DNS block whack-a-mole or use a more schizo browser.

What kind of hardware do I need for a 2000s PC build to ensure that almost every game from that decade will run without issues? I have a GTX 950 and a 3570k and some of the games that I check out always seem to run into graphical glitches.

>>81251 that sounds like a software issue. Are you running a 2000s OS?

>>81252 It primarily runs on Windows XP and also on Linux. I wonder if the issues happen because my hardware is considered too new.

>>81243 >while balenaEtcher fuarrrkin is like kicking dead whales down the beach? people need to quit recommending this malware (balenaetcher) last time I had windows I downloaded it and I also had Safing Portmaster installed and it showed some weird requests to what appeared to be a c&c domain. Also BalenaEtcher has telemetry Opted in https://www.gameindustry.eu/blog/balenaetcher-and-tails-2024/ >>81249 >Is the problem many requests but few DNS queries? Settings > DNS over HTTPS > Off, to use system resolver. The problem is that it has push services enabled and automatic updates for add-ons enabled by default. Librewolf also has "Mozilla Tracking Protection" enabled which would be fine if it was just the containerization but it also is using a Mozilla Ad blocker when you enable it which makes not sense since Librewolf already ships with uBlock Origin which already uses the same lists as Mozilla's tracking protection lists. Why have two add blockers one will never know ackually its cause the devs are now trannies

>>81251 2000s is a lot of time, lots of changes in that era. if you want smth that will run everything, go for modern hw gtx 950 will do just fine glitches may come due to a dying gpu or broken dlls put winxp on that baby and call it a day, or use a vm

>>81255 I'm pretty sure you can't name your kid 'Allah' in Islam since that would imply that he is God. You have 'Abdullah' though which is 'slave of God'.

>>81256 Then I guess I'll stick to what I have. Maybe some graphics wrappers would fix those issues I'm talking about because the majority of games I ran have no graphics issues whatsoever. It's only a small percentage of them that do have.

>>79417 Improper MTU size set on your WiFi router which can lead to less bandwidth especially if using a custom DNS server other then ISP Calculate it then set it manually on your router or you linux system

>>81257 moreover, the prayer goes "Allahu Akhbar". Allah without the modifier would be like saying "God Great" instead of "God is greater" or "God is the greatest"

>>81270 >Allah without the modifier What about with a multiplier? #!/bin/bash # Function to multiply a word multiply_word() { local word=$1 local times=$2 local result="" for ((i=0; i<times; i++)); do result+="$word" done echo "$result" } # Check if two arguments are provided if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then echo "Usage: $0 <word> <times>" exit 1 fi # Convert the input word to lowercase for case-insensitive comparison input_word=$(echo "$1" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]') # Check if the word is "kamala", "harris", or "kamala harris" if [[ "$input_word" == "kamala" || "$input_word" == "harris" || "$input_word" == "kamala harris" ]]; then # Output "Lost" repeated the specified number of times result=$(multiply_word "Lost" "$2") echo "$result" else # Call the multiply_word function with the provided arguments result=$(multiply_word "$1" "$2") echo "The result of multiplying '$1' by $2 is: '$result'" fi

>>81264 >Are there actually any better solutions? Compile GNU IceCat? Ungoogled chromium? Was looking recently, found a probably worse, but somewhat more DIY solution, in these various user.js files floating around on the internet. An example: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki

Anyone know of an LLM that runs well on lower spec machines. Such as a cheap VPS with under four gigabytes of ram, or older laptop?

>>81280 Looks like Llama3 comes in an 8 billion parameter version and Llama2 comes in a 13 billion parameter version both of which are quantized, the downloads are 4gb and 8gb respectively, so they should fit in memory. The CPU might be fast enough too on some older machines.

>>81280 No, you will actually have to pay for decent equipment to run your army of assbots to spread bullshit on social media.

>>81284 Lol, was thinking to use it (Llama Guard) for moderating an imageboard, but it's too expensive, and slow it seems.

>>81203 >>81203 alright these worked chmod 00000 digital chmod =0 digital the first was stated in the man, but why how did you know about =<numbers> ? it's not in the man fyi this didn't work: chmod a= digital

>>81290 so it's ganoo icecat the way now?

>>81280 Apparently there's even a 1 billion parameterized version of Zuck LLM. It used just under 2Gb of ram on my machine, and only half the CPU (no GPU usage oddly probably because its an old model). https://ollama.com/library/llama3.2:1b

>>81289 https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/chmod.1.html Mahou desuyo

>>81289 It is >= causes them to be added and causes unmentioned bits to be removed [bold]except that a directory's unmentioned set user and group ID bits are not affected.[/bold]

>>81251 Use Wine or Proton. Linux has actually very good support for old games. In some instances it can be better than Botnet 11 (like the original SW: Battlefront 2).

>>81313 I have Debian installed alongside Shitdows XP and intend on using it to run games that no longer have legacy system support (like multiplayer games). My problem with wine is that the wine wrapper takes lots of time to launch executables and I’m not sure what I could do to reduce it. Other than that, Wine and Proton are awesome.

This is probably the first time it happened but I recently wanted to do stuff with my old USB (not really old it was a 32GB USB3.0 SanDisk), it didn't have anything important outside of maybe a few information on my router's mods and some pics that I had someone copied over (I compiled their pics a while ago to copy off of). I used the USB maybe >3 months ago and put it in my trusty plastic box with a small strip of silica gel so the storage is fine. It just suddenly stopped working and showing nothing changing over my Linux setup when I send the command sudo dmesg , I'll try to boot to windows if its drivers are more "advanced" somehow and it recognizes the USB. On my Lineageos phone though it shows the following: [132525.560802] usb usb1: runtime PM trying to activate child device usb1 but parent (msm_hsusb_host) is not active [132525.561391] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002 [132525.561401] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1 [132525.561406] usb usb1: Product: EHCI Host Controller [132525.561412] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 4.9.337-lineageos-g7881bbe3681c ehci_hcd [132525.561417] usb usb1: SerialNumber: msm_hsusb_host [132525.563055] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found [132525.563107] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected [132526.642072] msm_otg 78db000.usb: USB in low power mode Weird as somehow it detects it a little and USB is in low power mode. USB is not enough for it to mount or show on my storage devices but dmesg shows it is there. Somehow did Linux fuarrrk up USB3 again? or maybe I just need a restart since I just pacman -Syu'd. I tried KDE partition manager and it did not show anything too so it could be a pacman -Syu moment too. I'll report back once I tried the other solutions like other os or restarts.

>>81366 >maybe I just need a restart since I just pacman -Syu'd. Yes, USB goes haywire on Arch kernels when you update it and you keep running the old kernel for some reason.

>>81311 i see. but why? chmod 0 digital chmod a= digital chmod g= digital chmod u= digital chmod a=rx,u=rwx digital chmod g=rx,u=rwx digital chmod u=rwx digital these don't clear set-user-id or set-group-id on a dir why?

Is this the best way to use ffmpeg convert .mp4 to .webm with audio and best quality? ffmpeg -i asuka-diy.mp4 -c:v libvpx -b:v 0 -crf 30 -c:a libvorbis -b:a 192k asuka-diy.webm

>>81366 >I tried KDE >pacman -Syu lol utter dogwater

>>81443 idk but somewhat should make a ffmpeg thread I remeber hearing you can do screen recoring with ffmpeg somehow

>>81443 Check out WebM for Lazies (formerly WebM for Retards): https://argorar.github.io/WebMConverter/ Tons of fun features: trim, crop, motion track, (dynamic) speed change, filters, stabilization, rotation, reverse, grid layout multiple videos, text, etc. Look at default export settings if you don't need the entire tool. >>81444 Checked. Did you know KDE includes an application called kcrash? You know, to handle the constant crashing, and so it can crash itself if nothing else has crashed for 5 minutes. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/kde-frameworks/kcrash (KDE is actually pretty reliable now.) >>81447 kek, remember when Signal copied Monero and actively lied about it? With Rumble and FFmpeg it's probably not as black as white, a large scale video streaming platform is a lot more than just the encoder.

>>81447 wait ffmpeg stores such metadata in the output? isn't that a bit of a nono in terms of opsec? maybe a ffmpeg identifier isn't so bad, but the specific encoder settings as well?

>>81455 Nobody ever got pwned for their x264 settings. Possible in theory, if you don't compartmentalize and do high profile stuff. Irrelevant otherwise. FFmpeg is often used through other tools which results in similar presets, or they're just default settings.

>>81455 Those are rather useful metadata (allows to re-encode without quality loss, or encode something else to match), and not really personally identifiable. If you care, it's easy enough to strip them.

>>81455 mat2 -v If you think thats bad take a screenshot on linux and look mat2 --show and see it encodes 8.8.8.8 aka googles hardcoded fallback DNS in system resolved SignificantBits: 8 8 8 8

>>81492 Are you sure thats what that means?

>>81516 "Honeypot" site:cloudflare.com

Anyone know how to bypass the activation lock on the IPhone 4? i just found one recently in my box of old electronics and wanted to make it work but stupid apple shenanigans prevent me from doing so

>>81569 https://www.youtube.com/search?q=IPhone+4+bypass

>>81582 Yeah I've tried that, but the services are either paywalled or are malware so i went here to ask if any of you know anything about this

what happened to day of the seal? that was supposed to make the year of the linux desktop so everyone can become penguins and die?

>>81677 >the year of the linux desktop is this meme still a thing? it is ironic how these moves towards the "year of the linux desktop" have been the most harmful thing ever done to linux and the userland

>>81719 the day of the Linux desktop actually arriving died all the way back when GTK3 came out and things have not gotten better in the last 13 or so years

>>81725 >things have not gotten better in the last 13 or so years Come to think of it, about the time systemd cancer entered the game full scale. Debian was the last to fall AFAIK and it happened around 2015. It's funny how stats align in the long term if you're willing to recognize cancer as cancer.

Is there a decent alternative to freenom and dot tk for free domain name registration since they had that lawsuit from meta? Or is are domain names strictly for pay now?

>>81735 I wanted to say neocities, but their registration is crooked and you can't just use any email, so probably not even that.

>>81738 Thank you, that's really too bad.

>>81587 I am interested in this as well, and there is a program that does this but it seems apple has patched it for the time being: https://github.com/alwaysappleftd/Lockra1n_v2.0 There's also a bunch of tutorials on youtube using 3utools which you could try but it is windows only

What is the best IRC client in terms of privacy features and config file being global not local like Hexchat?

Why does anyone even want a domain name when you can have an onions address in ten minutes completely free, undoxed, and anonymous? So your users have to use Tor browser, so what? apt install tor nano /etc/tor/torrc ## uncomment: HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/ HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80 ## restart tor, get your .onion address: service tor restart cat /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/hostname

where does one start learning about cpu architecture? should i start with older boards or just jump straight into x86-64?

>>81759 i started with 6502 and 65816, nes and snes programming. getting into x86/arm/riscv was easier afterwards.

Intel 4004 schematic is good place to start. First microprocessor. If dumbass janny will allow me to post it without phony "flood detected" message.

>>81756 Can the hiddenservicedir be the existing clearnet site? For one not worried about being doxed obviously but to have both a clearnet and .onion link?

>>81763 >>81760 i appreciate it

>>81765 Sure, you can have the same server setup being accessed as many ways as you like... domain name, onion address, raw ip address, whateveer. It's all the same to the server.

Any reason why an optical drive would work in its original desktop but completely stop working when transfered into another desktop? It makes a sad mechanical sound like it's trying to open but doesn't even move. It's SATA, so no weird jumper stuff right?

>>81850 You should install BSD first

>>81850 Maybe the os on the second system doesn't have a needed driver installed for that particular optical drive?

>>81719 There won’t be a year of the linux desktop. People don’t seem to understand that when linux gets so popular, that they’re bringing in all kinds of normal users to linux. These morons are gonna flood forums with the stupidest tech support questions ever (possibly related to muh vidya gaymez) and will demand that linux becomes more like windows.

>>81925 Yes. Year of the Linux desktop has been here forever, for those that want it. For normals, Android is kind of Linux and look at it, most phones are compromised by design, spyware infested, corporate lockdown surveillance and ad delivery boxes. If Linux came preinstalled on computers, corps would ship their convenient proprietary spyware on Linux and people would use whatever is easy. We'd see more Linux distros similar to ChromeOS and Android.

>>81925 >People don’t seem to understand that when linux gets so popular who are you talking about? poettering? everyone who's got ten functional brain cells is against popularizing linux. the corpos must be kept at bay. it's good we can steal stuff like dxvk from valve and play games but plz no valve in the ecosystem itself

>>81937 Who's against against Linux being popular? Because it seems that people are okay with that happening. Many users on communities like Reddit are praising Linux's steadily growing market share. Nobody seems to see the problem with Linux becoming mainstream.

>>81939 >Nobody seems to see the problem with Linux becoming mainstream What is that problem?

>>81939 >Reddit Maybe because people on Reddit don't have ten functional brain cells in total? >>81940 The problem is retards swarming in and leveling everything to match the lowest common denominator. This will allow corpos to take away the only piece of usable freedom we still have. After that – only BSD. But BSD isn't very thriving, so we are actually loosing right now, and badly. Expect to install windows soon

>>81941 >The problem is retards swarming in and leveling everything to match the lowest common denominator. This will allow corpos to take away the only piece of usable freedom we still have Could you elaborate on that? I feel like to people who are really deep into linux, I could qualify as one of these retards swarming in. I tried at various points through the years to start using it, but got filtered every time until sometime around 6-8 years ago when it was finally user friendly enough that I could start using it as my main OS. My attitude towards its use is usually similar to OP, I don't care to spend hours learning how things work if it isn't very relevant to what I actually want to accomplish, so I've felt pretty good about the direction things seem to be going (for instance I can now solve most problems by asking AI and don't have to rely on the possibility of answers from condescending assholes who want to push opinions more than help, or always-broken tutorials). My Linux computer doesn't seem unfree the way Windows does. There's no ads being displayed on it. It doesn't update/restart on its own without my input. It doesn't make unexpected changes to the UI. It doesn't randomly display a full screen notification insisting I'm going to have to get a new computer soon because security updates are ending. It doesn't have a login screen featuring images and messages Microsoft decided I should see today. It doesn't try to warn/prevent me from running applications Microsoft hasn't explicitly approved of. This type of soykaf is most of the reason I have been making the switch because it makes me mad and I hate it, more than things about Linux make me mad. The main lowest common denominator stuff I want is just an absence of inexplicable errors, and to be able to use the computer without worrying much about how it's working. Does that really have to also mean corpos taking away freedom? Why?

>>81765 Just to clarify, your web server software should be allowed to install normally to its default location. The HiddenServiceDir is just a place Tor uses for its own purposes. For instance, once you get your onion address, all you have to do is something like: apt install aoache2 Then browse to your onion address in Tor browser and you'll see the apache2 new site page. Or use whatever web server software you like. Tor doesn't care. You can also add more ports to your onion address if you want to run some other kind of server, like irc or whatever. An anonymous irc server, without services like nameserver for persistant nicks, is dead simple.. Just install it, tell your users to set up Hexchat to use Tor, and start chatting.

>>81447 https://www.reluekiss.com/natalie/p/100028 post about this exact thing

>>81943 People got used to the speed and efficiency of old Chrome and Firefox. UX remained through the years, but both are spyware now and shouldn't be on any computer. Chrome tries to steal your browsing history and connect it to your real life identity by prompting you to sign in. Sends your OS, kernel version, browser version, installation method, bunch of processor info, RAM amount, and unique ID, frequently, for no benefit to the user. Steals everything and more. Stock Firefox is the same and it's controlled opposition, not that anyone uses it anymore. People who'd rather use something simpler like lynx or gopher://, those aren't viable alternatives because of the web standard's artificial complexity and network effect. Today you're that early user, enjoying the not yet enshittified experience. When corpo Sauron eye sees a significant userbase on Linux, they'll start making "improvements" nobody asked for, subverting that last bastion of computing freedom: >system level spying and nonsense restrictions like all non-free OS >corpo distros become standard >lock the ~taskbar~ bootloader for "security", you weren't using unapproved distros anyway right? >proprietary software >systemd spaghetti a dependency of all software, now with 100% more "telemetry" and unpredictable behavior Doesn't impact beginners because UX and illusion of control remains. Won't display ads, prompt to update, won't EOL, warn against "unsigned" software, prompt for online login when installing. Not until everyone's locked in nice and cozy. Not until it's as cumbersome to install an independent distro as a custom Android ROM.

>>81998 Totally agree with this poster. They just use their typical cattle honeypot strategy luring in stupid clueless people by sweet promises, then slowly closing them down and butchering. As long as linux remains unpopular and escapes the attention of govs and corpos it's safe because independent devs can keep up, but once they get the hold of things, they'll simply choke all competition, dominate all software and then kill it. I really don't see much hope ahead in this regards. Maybe if some geopolitical soykaf happens, but then software won't matter as much anymore anyway.

>>81943 >Does that really have to also mean corpos taking away freedom? Why? Simply put because you either have it hard but manly or you have it easy but only after trading your juicy ass for the comfort. Always has been. Who the fuarrrk is going to make you all-round-perfect software for free? Free software has always been 90% as simple as possible to be maintainable. All complex OSS is backed by some company or organization, always. And only a fraction of them do not cherish some evil intentions

>>81998 > enshittified I wish jannies would ban this stupid fuarrrking buzzword. Where did this soykaf come from?

>>82014 Cory Doctorow, a writer and blogger that's somewhat famous in tech circles. the word is like 22 years old too, but gained most of its traction recently

Is it possible to compress RAM itself? At least pages dedicated to userspace

>>82022 >Is it possible to compress RAM itself? Yes lookup zram.

>>82023 it's block device not residential process memory

Hey Lains, I would appreciate some help. I've done some serious digging on this but just coming up short. Basically, I'm an absolute poor user so I bought a cheap ass phone, and at the same time I decided to change to a different mobile service provider so I can get a cheaper plan. I ported my number to my new SIM and stuck it in.. and it said the phone is locked to my network. I went through the ringer and they said I have to wait ten days and then I can pay them this stupid fee that's twice what I paid for my phone. I can't afford the ten days nor the fee. With that out of the way... I have heard network unlock codes are sometimes algorithmically generated by the phone IMEI. Does anyone know of where I can find descriptions for the algorithms used for this? Or any other information pertaining to unlocking devices from carriers?

>>82027 zram is typically used for "swap". It's pretty functionally close to "downloading mor RAM". Of course it's not compressing the memory used by active processes, but that would be terribly inefficient.

Is there any VPN provider, that offers static/IPs dedicated IPs/reverse proxying, that is 1) at least has a good reputation for not actively spying on it's users 2) is cheaper than an actual VPS, so maximally 10 euros 3) where the dedicated IP feature is not experimental/will be removed soon I want to run a web server from home, but using a hidden service/eepsite seems overkill for my threat model and it would probably drive away all of my visitors, because people are either lazy or non-technical and don't bother checking in on a website, where they have to use separate browser for. I've checked, but neither Mullvad nor IVPN provide that service. OVPN seems somewhat okayish, but they only offer this in the full-year plan, which is around 100 euros, which I'm not ready to pay. Any ideas? (My threat model is basically me not wanting to give every of visitor my home IP address. I don't care about the VPN company knowing who I am, as long as they don't actively sell data or do any shenanigans with it).

>>82036 It's simple. Do a simple counterintelligence parameter. The easiest one being look to the most egregious situation and figure it did the VPN stand the test? 1. Were they served a warrant for CP or Terrorism prevention and did anything come of it ? Then 2. Do they accept monero. 3. Do they accept cash by mail? 4. Do they block tor tunnels? 5. Do they own their servers* *It's normal that they only have some owned servers. The world is too big for one vpn company to have all their servers owned. If the answer is all yes, then you have your answer. A non-valid answer is that they're audited by the same guys recommended by NIST who audit the DoD, this is not the correct answer. Do your OSINT on tutanota if you want to know how this all works. Understand the difference between privacy by policy and privacy by hardware, or immutable cryptographic privacy. A good example of this is everyone who believed Telegram was safe. And now everyone who used it for operational purposes are likely fuarrrked. Also anybody who talks about anything being secure on a phone doesn't know what their talking about. So does the VPN support wireguard and openvpn outside of their app? Forcing you to use their app also invalidates the test. The standard should always be something like "We don't know anything about our users and here's proof: we were raided, the raid resulted in no information being garnered about any of our users". Telegram never had that. Now the glowies have a treasure trove of data because quite frankly that Russian jew serves another lord.

>>82037 And before you get your panties in a bunch that I didn't namedrop vpns, I'm telling you to do your own research based on the parameters based on your first question proof they "don't spy on their users", this proof is hard to come by in a sea of CIA-slop-misinformation. You would be safer choosing what works best for you than some random hand-holding you in to a honeypot. And before you also kevetch that "well I'm not doing anything illegal", every day laws changes, administration chain, what you might be doing today might ruin your life two decades from now when a new political ideology unforeseen today manifests itself and finds these archives of you simply being a librarian or whatever exceedingly normal person soykaf you think is the norm today that might not be the norm tomorrow.

>>82037 >>82038 I did my own research for the past week and found nothing noteworthy. They all seem to be either useless for my use case or malicious (as in spying on the traffic). I agree with your sentiment regarding Telegram. It seems my best choice is renting a cheap VPS (which unlike most VPNs can be done anonymously with some No-KYC providers) and routing the traffic through a Wireguard tunnel + Nginx reverse proxy. I just thought a VPN should be the cheaper option and maybe somebody here knows some hidden gem, that is totally different from all the other VPN providers, but there probably isn't.

Dumb question, but what's a distro where I can easily read the source code for packages? Say I just wanna spend the next 2 years reading source code for the programs I use daily without having to visit soykafty repos and clone them every time I want to. I was thinking only Gentoo offers this, am I missing others?

>>82040 Debian's dpkg offers the apt source option, which downloads the source of a package.

>>82041 Guess it's time to get the dust off my Debian machine. Thanks.

Is it viable to use tor or i2p for torrenting or are VPNs the only realistic option for hiding your IP while having decent speed and ability to connect to seeders ? What actually works consistently other than VPNs?

>>82084 i2p works well, provided someone is seeding what you're interested in. Tor works too, but it's discouraged as it adds stress to the network (please run a node)

>>82040 Almost all distros let you do this one way or another. Here are the instructions for arch https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_build_system

Please for the love of god stop recommending arch linux it's terrible. If you're desperate use devuan it's the most based distro out there

>>82092 That wasn't a recommendation, it was an example. My recommendation is gentoo.

>>82093 But gentoo is even worse unless you're ready to put the programming rainbow socks on.

can anyone explain why this dumbass vaporware thats been vaporware for over 10 years now is getting billions of dollars of crowdfunding? why would i even play this game? let me guess, its just wow in space inb4 some irrelevant aspie bullshit about the community or how stats tree is good this time or other such incomprehnsible bs https://web.archive.org/web/20130916003901/https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals my minds pretty set on dumb youtube ppl seeing something like "open world" and "persistent inventory" and "space" and thinking this will be a good game

just what the actual fuarrrk, you can have items in your hanger and look at them. and have in game money. and do minigames to get money. woooow if i was 8 years old i would be like yeah im an adult now i have money and job. until i turn 9, then get an allowance and now haev something more interesting than some soykaf rpgslop

## devuan daedalus /etc/apt/sources.list ## note: "deb.devuan.org" periodically fails. use one of the following instead: ## deb.rr.devuan.org, us.deb.devuan.org, ch.deb.devuan.org, fr.deb.devuan.org, de.deb.devuan.org ## e.g.: deb http://deb.rr.devuan.org/merged daedalus main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb http://deb.rr.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb http://deb.rr.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb http://deb.rr.devuan.org/merged daedalus-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb-src http://deb.rr.devuan.org/merged daedalus main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb-src http://deb.rr.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb-src http://deb.rr.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb-src http://deb.rr.devuan.org/merged daedalus-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

I just learned that cp can write images to usb drives. How long has this worked and why does every tutorial uses dd with a billion flags? To be clear, cp something.iso /dev/sdb1 just works

>>82217 because dd is a lot more customizable, you can specify blocksize, write mode, when to sync, progress bar, etc etc.

>>82205 Check out the forum, there are DNS issues and they've been around for a while. It will start working eventually don't worry. Try another mirror.

>>82217 Long ago, in some Debian documentation I have seen it done with cat or zcat, don't remember exactly. dd is more of a convention since it is very very versatile.

If i buy a phone, i will need to change it to a newer one anyways because new batteries for it will not be made and all the batteries will eventually die. Is this right? This is basically what happened to my PSP and i had to mod mine with a bigger generic lithium battery but i can't do that with modern phones. I was going to buy a battery for an old flip phone motorola i have but i guess i will only find soon to be dead batteries?

>>82217 I've used cp to write my linux installation usbsticks for years and it has always worked perfectly. You should specify a block device and not a partition. For instance if you're writing to /dev/sdd, use "cp linux.iso /dev/sdd', not "cp linux.iso /dev/sdd1". It's simple and it works.

>>82220 Thanks. I've been using Devuan a long time and this is the first time I've run into the problem. What I finally did that works is: 1. Changed my DNS servers to Quad9... apt install resolvconf ## append to /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/head nameserver 9.9.9.9 nameserver 149.112.112.112 2. In /etc/apt/sources.list I changed all instances of "deb.devuan.org" to "ch.deb.devuan.org" It's almost like some of the major nameservers across the internet are getting poisoned somehow. The problem doesn't seem to be at the Devuan mirror end or the Devuan user end. Definitely weird.

>>82230 I use mullvad so idk. Ask golinux he runs the stuff AFAIK.

>>82230 >apt install resolvconf You better disable systemds fallback dns which is google. touch /usr/lib/systemd/resolved.conf.d/40_disable-fallback.conf echo "[Resolve] FallbackDNS=" >> /usr/lib/systemd/resolved.conf.d/40_disable-fallback.conf >>82229 I see mods don't like my suggestion for using yes to wipe a drive cause I used the word mogged and goyslop lol. (replace sdX with block device to overide with random, zero, and then phrase) dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX oflag=direct bs=1M status=progress cat /dev/zero | tr '\0' '\337' | dd of=/dev/sdX oflag=direct bs=1M status=progress yes " I finally have enough comment karma to post here" | dd of=/dev/sdX oflag=direct bs=1M status=progress cat /dev/sdX |hexdump -C |head -n 25 00000000 20 49 20 66 69 6e 61 6c 6c 79 20 68 61 76 65 20 | I finally have | 00000010 65 6e 6f 75 67 68 20 63 6f 6d 6d 65 6e 74 20 6b |enough comment k| 00000020 61 72 6d 61 20 74 6f 20 70 6f 73 74 20 68 65 72 |arma to post her| 00000030 65 0a 20 49 20 66 69 6e 61 6c 6c 79 20 68 61 76 |e. I finally hav| 00000040 65 20 65 6e 6f 75 67 68 20 63 6f 6d 6d 65 6e 74 |e enough comment| 00000050 20 6b 61 72 6d 61 20 74 6f 20 70 6f 73 74 20 68 | karma to post h| 00000060 65 72 65 0a 20 49 20 66 69 6e 61 6c 6c 79 20 68 |ere. I finally h| 00000070 61 76 65 20 65 6e 6f 75 67 68 20 63 6f 6d 6d 65 |ave enough comme| 00000080 6e 74 20 6b 61 72 6d 61 20 74 6f 20 70 6f 73 74 |nt karma to post| 00000090 20 68 65 72 65 0a 20 49 20 66 69 6e 61 6c 6c 79 | here. I finally| 000000a0 20 68 61 76 65 20 65 6e 6f 75 67 68 20 63 6f 6d | have enough com| 000000b0 6d 65 6e 74 20 6b 61 72 6d 61 20 74 6f 20 70 6f |ment karma to po| 000000c0 73 74 20 68 65 72 65 0a 20 49 20 66 69 6e 61 6c |st here. I final| 000000d0 6c 79 20 68 61 76 65 20 65 6e 6f 75 67 68 20 63 |ly have enough c| 000000e0 6f 6d 6d 65 6e 74 20 6b 61 72 6d 61 20 74 6f 20 |omment karma to | 000000f0 70 6f 73 74 20 68 65 72 65 0a 20 49 20 66 69 6e |post here. I fin| 00000100 61 6c 6c 79 20 68 61 76 65 20 65 6e 6f 75 67 68 |ally have enough| 00000110 20 63 6f 6d 6d 65 6e 74 20 6b 61 72 6d 61 20 74 | comment karma t| 00000120 6f 20 70 6f 73 74 20 68 65 72 65 0a 20 49 20 66 |o post here. I f| 00000130 69 6e 61 6c 6c 79 20 68 61 76 65 20 65 6e 6f 75 |inally have enou| 00000140 67 68 20 63 6f 6d 6d 65 6e 74 20 6b 61 72 6d 61 |gh comment karma| 00000150 20 74 6f 20 70 6f 73 74 20 68 65 72 65 0a 20 49 | to post here. I| 00000160 20 66 69 6e 61 6c 6c 79 20 68 61 76 65 20 65 6e | finally have en| 00000170 6f 75 67 68 20 63 6f 6d 6d 65 6e 74 20 6b 61 72 |ough comment kar| 00000180 6d 61 20 74 6f 20 70 6f 73 74 20 68 65 72 65 0a |ma to post here.|

>>82240 >You better disable systemds fallback dns which is google. Devuan doesn't use systemd. That's the whole point of Devuan. And the whole point of resolvconf is that it prevents other processes from overwriting your chosen nameservers. ALso, you're responding to posts about writing linux iso's to media with posts about wiping media that are 1. stupid, and 2. possibly dangerous in the hands of a n00b.

Btw, if you want to see what nameservers your system is really using,.. ## 1. install dnsutils, which will give you the dig command: apt install dnsutils ## 2. use dig to see what nameserver is really being used: dig | grep "SERVER" Another issue I've noticed is that network-manager-gnome's little nm-applet that sits in the systray and supposedly lets you monitor and control your network connectivity state... sometimes lies to you. You use it to disable network connection and it says network is disabled, but it really isn't. If you want to see whether your system's network connection is really disabled or not, use: cat /sys/class/net/eth0/operstate If you want to manually, reliably control the network connection state of your system's main network insterface (in most cases eth0), do the following: ## append two lines to /etc/network/interfaces allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp ## then, as root, you can manually disconnect or connect eth0 ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 At this point, assuming that works, and assuming you don't use network-manager and network-manager-gnome for anything else, you could even remove them. But that's a drastic step I won't recommends unless you know what you're doing. Also note that if you do an offline linux install and there's no internet connection when you boot into it, you can use this to enable internet access on eth0.

>>82242 >And the whole point of resolvconf is that it prevents other processes from overwriting your chosen nameservers. Yeah but I thought if you manually change the /etc/resolv.conf file, it can be overwritten by resolvconf or other services that manage DNS settings? When I manually set my nameserver to 127.0.0.1 when I was messing with a tor only firewall It reverted back. I had to do this to make it immutable: https://wiki.debian.org/resolv.conf rm -f /etc/resolv.conf echo "nameserver" >> /etc/resolv.conf chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf Is this not the case anymore? Also how do you like quad9 and would you suggest editing the MTU to optimize it? I changed mine but not sure if this was a good idea and not sure if theirs a tool or package that will auto adjust the MTU? >possibly dangerous in the hands of a n00b. Thats the internet after all and using cp to copy and iso over to a device is not fully optimized as the likes of dd commands.

I mean echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" >> /etc/resolv.conf

>>82240 why so much pipes? and why a BS of 1M? if you're just filling a drive, it'll end with running out of space anyways, might as well use a bigger blocksize. (4MB is what works for my USB sticks, might be different on actual drives) tr '\0' '\337' < /dev/zero | dd of=/dev/sdX oflag=direct bs=4M head -n 25 /dev/sdX | hexdump -C

>>82244 >Yeah but I thought if you manually change the /etc/resolv.conf file, it can be overwritten...When I manually set my nameserver to 127.0.0.1...It reverted back. Yep, that's the standard problem when trying to change nameservers on Linux. >I had to do this to make it immutable ... I guess that's another way of getting the same result that the resolvconf package provides: stable DNS settings. >Also how do you like quad9 and would you suggest editing the MTU to optimize it? I like it ok. It's plenty fast as-is. You could install a local DNS caching server which might improve speed/security/privacy a little, but I doubt you'd notice much difference. ## set up alternative dns with local DNS cache: apt install resolvconf dnsmasq ## ## append to /etc/dnsmasq.conf: no-resolv listen-address=127.0.0.1 # quad9 nameservers: server=9.9.9.9 server=149.112.112.112 # cloudflare nameservers: # server=1.1.1.1 # server=1.0.0.1 # dnswatch nameservers: # server=84.200.69.80 # server=84.200.70.40 ## ## append to /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf: supersede domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.1; ## service dnsmasq restart ## if desired, add tor dns to the mix: apt install tor ## ## append to /etc/tor/torrc: DNSPort 9053 AutomapHostsOnResolve 1 AutomapHostsSuffixes .exit,.onion ## ## append to /etc/dnsmasq.conf: # tor nameservers: # server=127.0.0.1#9053 ## service tor restart service dnsmasq restart (in /etc/dnsmasq.conf just uncomment the nameservers you want to use and restart the dnsmasq service.) Note that if you use Tor DNS you will be using whatever nameservers are configured on the Tor exit node you happen to randomly get.

repeated sequences in supposedly compressed data, png idat chunks. the original image (om.png) is 28kb, it has more such stuff. (omdump.png) the gimp-reencoded image is 15kb, it has less, only in the beginning and end. (om2dump.png) the 1-bit indexed version is only 6kb, it's the densest but repetitions are still noticeable. so my question is: what's this? deflate deficiency? at first i thought something might have been hidden in that om.png.

>>82248 yes " DENY DEFEND DEPOSE" | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0 oflag=direct bs=1M status=progress >>82251 What software are you using to look at the data?

>>82257 frhed (adjusted to match the periods of data)

Have you tried https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex

>>82251 Checking the image with HxD, i see the same data. I decided to edit and remove said data. Did it pretty sloppy, the pic is cut off, but got some really neat effect. You can still see the image is intact, but as less colored pixels, so it looks spotty. Since the image contains only 2 colors, I think it is safe to assume it's some sort of optimization. Data that describes the same colors is used a certain amount of times per pixel until it changes. instead of describing what the value of each pixels are, redundantly. (in my uneducated opinion.)

How do we *actually* know that AI isn't a consciousness trapped into human-dictated conditioning?