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I mistakenly converted a bunch of images to h265 video (1 frame each). Is there a way to get them back to an image format, without quality loss, and with a similar filesize? The images were converted with ffmpeg -y -i "example.png" -c:v libx265 -crf 18 -f matroska "example.mkv" The stream infos are as such: $ ffmpeg -i "example.mkv" Input #0, matroska,webm, from '/media/sda1/boorus/00/00c7cead812fdb6ef27aac602b0ae5fc.png': Metadata: ENCODER : Lavf61.7.100 Duration: 00:00:00.04, bitrate: 19079 kb/s Stream #0:0: Video: hevc (Rext), gbrp(pc, gbr/unknown/unknown, progressive), 618x810, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 1k tbn Metadata: ENCODER : Lavc61.19.100 libx265 DURATION : 00:00:00.040000000 I tried extracting the first (only) frame with variants of ffmpeg -i "example.mkv" -vframes 1 "example.png" But the output file is either much bigger (>2x) or with ugly artifacts (depending on the output format/options). Basically, I'm asking what image formats can be used to store an hevc keyframe, and how to get ffmpeg to copy the frame.

>>82965 The format you're looking for is HEIF. ffmpeg can handle it, but you'll most likely need to compile it yourself with libheif.

>>82968 Thanks for the help. Do you know how to compile ffmpeg with libheif? I've only found a superuser post suggesting to pass the "--enable-libheif" flag to configure, but it isn't recognised (Unknown option "--enable-libheif".)

Bumpity bump? Body too short or empty

I'm sorry for my ignorance, but how much privacy do I have when I use Yandex as my browser and main service with Mullvad? Can Yandex track down my activities on other browsers, or am I safe as long as I use Mullvad Browser for anonymity?

>>83029 Like any proprietary trash, it's fair to assume it spies as much as it can get away with. >Leith started by pasting (not typing) an URL into the browser's top bar. ... Yandex also transmitted the URL to its own servers before navigation. >Whether Edge is worse than Chrome is open to debate, but Edge, Yandex, Chrome and Safari seem to lead the field in terms of calling home with a user's browsing data. >"Edge and Yandex both use hardware identifiers," he said. "That's tied to the physical hardware of the device and can't easily be changed. https://www.theregister.com/2020/02/27/edge_and_yandex_browser_privacy_shame/ Yandex Browser tracking persists across OS reinstalls, never mind turning on a VPN. >Can Yandex track down my activities on other browsers Technically it can but who knows if it does. That's why proprietary should only be used sandboxed in a VM or not at all.

>>83029 Unlike duckduckgo, they're too dumb to wipe idols so it's a 7/10 IMO. Other than that it's spyware trash, with the only difference being that it goes to Putin instead of Mossad

>>83029 Just use Firefox or Chromium. >https://digdeeper.club/articles/browsers.xhtml You should also install uBlock Origin + NoScript (or look into uMatrix?). You should also use Tor Browser but only for browsing Tor. >how much privacy do I have when I use Yandex as my browser Your browser can track stuff even if you use a VPN. Also, there is no reason to use any of the Chromium reskins (like Yandex Browser, Edge or Google Chrome) because it's just Chromium under the hood but it can have malicious features added on top of it. If it's proprietary software, you have no way to find out whether this is the case or not. But you gain nothing over vanilla Chromium. The only Chromium reskins that make sense are Brave and Ungoogled-Chromium. Brave makes sense because there are easy pre-compiled binaries available for Windoze. On the other hand, Ungoogled-Chromium has better defaults for privacy vs Chromium. Also note that while Brave is seemingly also pretty good (?) but they have done some shady cryptocurrency stuff in the past that makes me pretty suspicious. I would install both Firefox and Chromium and test both.

>>83029 >Yandex Drop it, it's literally worse than any other Chrome skin, you can't even disable auto-update properly. Reinstall your OS and never install that crapware again.

>>83044 >>83032 firefox also does >Leith started by pasting (not typing) an URL into the browser's top bar. ... Yandex also transmitted the URL to its own servers before navigation. They call it safe browsing and send every url to google first under pretense of google telling you if the site is safe. You could however disable it in settings last time i checked.

>>83055 But I like Yandex services, and Yandex ecosystem in general. >>83032 What do you mean with OS reinstalls? Let's say I have a dual boot system with Windows which has Yandex installed on it, and a QubesOS system which is completely free of spyware. How much trackable my activities on QubesOS are?

>>83071 >Let's say I have a dual boot system with Windows which has Yandex installed on it, and a QubesOS system which is completely free of spyware Why don't you run windows inside a qubes virtual machine? That's literally what it's designed for...

>>83072 I'm planning to use Windows only for games, and I'm guessing playing on VMs aren't going to have good performance.

>>83074 gaming performance on KVM is no issue with gpu passthrough but vm detection is. Namely tencent & riot have heavy detection within their rootkit anticheat and will refuse starting the game. Bypass is possible but high effort requiring masking hardcoded hardware names virtio/qemu to real hardware names in source code and rebuilding it.

>>83075 Doesn't it use too much ram though?

Complete tech noob here, is flipper zero a worthwhile investment, what can I do with it that could be useful? Is there any similar noob friendly product that would be better suited for me?

>>83080 With 32gb its not a concern, 16gb will require strict budgeting with ram.

>>83084 Hackrf One with portapack is perhaps more fun and educative than flipper when it comes to remote hacking. It's basically a SDR, so you get access to full spectrum (1MHz-6GHz if I recall correctly), while flipper has just the most popular bands. It lacks few features that flipper has like firmware flashing, but most people use dedicated programmers for that anyway.

>>83084 I got one. It's ok. I don't use it enough to recommend someone to buy it. I use it to identify/copy RF/NFC chips. Or, rarely, automate tasks on a few pcs at work. I don't really have a project in mind to exploit the pin interface on it, but there's a few community make addons for it. they look neat but none i am interested in. Get it if you have a project in mind with it, but also look at >>83086 suggestion. My latest use for it was to identify a lost cat's microchip in my yard and return it to the shelter it came from. I had to grab it from my bedroom because I don't really carry it around in my EDC anymore.

>>83088 >Or, rarely, automate tasks on a few pcs at work. This would be insanely useful, I'm a night auditor at a hotel, if I can use it to do the my tasks it would be incredible.

>>83086 >hackrf >sites give me $200-300 Is it really worth it? Seems overblown for rf toy when ive seen people do things with arduino / raspberry pi which under $100 Btw anyone tried fractal antennas for wide frequency spectrum? Supposedly better not suffering the issue of regular antennas where antenna length determines frequency it can pick up.

>>83115 Clones are $80-90, portapack (not really necessary, but assume the guy want somewhat similar experience to the Flipper) is $50 which in total is about half the price of Flipper. And imo it's a very fair price when you compare to other SDRs, perhaps the cheapest one with ability to transmit. >fractal antennas How wide? Usually discones are the pick when you want one-for-all antenna.

>>83084 >>83086 If you just want el cheapo SDR you can buy RTL-SDR (or DX Patrol). Also try WebSDR for free at websdr.org If you decide to get the RTL-SDR, you always should use the ebay links on their site so you don't get scammed. Here is the link www.rtl-sdr.com

Hello, does anyone know a way to use vim (or vim-like) keybindings in the links2 browser? Is there a config setting for this?

I'm trying to install Nitrux, but during the live USB installation, the screen keeps repeatedly going black for 1 second every 2 seconds; imagine someone constantly turning my PC screen on and off. I've searched everywhere, and I heard nobody having the same problem. Theoretically, I might still be able to continue the installation even with the screen flickering like that, but I fear the problem might persist even after the OS is fully installed. What could cause this and wtf am I supposed to do?

>>83163 The custom Linux kernel patchset that they are using might cause issues. I would try booting the installer Live USB with acpi=off in kernel cmdline. But note that you don't want to boot with this setting when you are actually using your computer. It's just temporary workaround.- >wtf am I supposed to do? I would personally install Kubuntu instead because Nitrux is based on Debian. Or if you want, you could do "expert installation" of Debian and select KDE desktop during the installation process. Then upgrade to Debian testing to make it usable. Then you can get the kernel that they are using from https://liquorix.net If you are interested in AppImages, you can just use them on any distro. Just download them from https://appimage.github.io/apps/ or somewhere else. Or if you want an immutable distro, you could just install Fedora Kinoite (it's Silverblue but with KDE instead): >https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/kinoite/

>>83029 Try palemoon. There's also a good practice to disable JS in your daily driver browser to avoid client-side scripting.

>>83163 P.S.: wanted to add that the phenomenon doesn't happen on my second screen (a graphic tablet), however there is a mouse lag effect synchronized with the main screen flickering. Btw, my PC is over 10 years old, so it's probably an hardware issue? >>83164 I already have Kubuntu, I wanted to try Nitrux not only for AppImages, but also because of no systemd.

>>83164 >I would personally install Kubuntu instead because Nitrux is based on Debian. Ubuntu and its derivatives are also based on Debian. Also, what's wrong with Debian? >Or if you want, you could do "expert installation" of Debian and select KDE If memory serves, KDE is an option in the standard Debian installation. >Then upgrade to Debian testing to make it usable. Why wouldn't you just install Debian Testing to begin with? Also, why not just install Debian Stable and enable backports repo? You get the Testing packages as they become stable, i.e. most of the benefits with little of the risk. Very recent kernels (and other packages) are usually available that way. >Then you can get the kernel that they are using from https://liquorix.net If you just want a liquorix kernel it might be easier to install MX Linux and install one from their repos. MX is pretty bloated, though.

>>83173 >Also, what's wrong with Debian? nothing >Why wouldn't you just install Debian Testing to begin with? Debian project recommends installing stable first and then upgrading. >>83171 Did you try booting with acpi=off option?

>>83171 >I wanted to try Nitrux not only for AppImages, but also because of no systemd. P.S.: oh, forgot the most important thing: the directory structure >>83176 >Did you try booting with acpi=off option? Yes, it doesn't work. In fact, it doesn't even boot, it remains fixed on a black screen

>>82964 Can I globally replace the default malloc with something like mimalloc (in secure mode)? Something like LD_PRELOAD but global.

>>83227 Yeah you can. The link is for hardened_malloc but it applies to others too. https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc?tab=readme-ov-file#traditional-linux-based-operating-systems Don't use LD_PRELOAD though: Using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to load it on a case-by-case basis will not work when AT_SECURE is set such as with setuid binaries. It's also generally not a recommended approach for production usage. The recommendation is to enable it globally and make exceptions for performance critical cases by running the application in a container / namespace without it enabled.

Would it make any sense to fill up all 4 RAM slots on my motherbard, if my CPU has only 2 RAM lanes?

how to install openbsd on a remote kvm vps? >autoinstall(8) >To start unattended installation or upgrade choose '(A)utoinstall' at the install prompt. how do i get this prompt in the first place? i can put there either an iso or a grub option with bsd.rd. vnc is maybe possible if i ask the support, i don't want to. i don't expect an answer. my current approach is 1. modify iso to include and to start sshd configured with my key (a lot of man-reading and compiling?) (siteXX.tgz is for the final rootfs so it's not an option, right?) 2. upload the iso 3. boot, login and install yaifo could've been a perfect fit but it's abandoned. right now the server runs debian 11 # uname -a Linux [redacted] 5.10.0-31-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.221-1 (2024-07-14) x86_64 GNU/Linux # lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT vda 254:0 0 7G 0 disk ├─vda1 254:1 0 1M 0 part ├─vda2 254:2 0 244M 0 part /boot └─vda3 254:3 0 6.8G 0 part /

new user from ourchan here 1. does anyone know any good audio to text transcribing softwares? i do my writing via voice memos and would love to transcribe our long mp4's 2. does anyone know any good resources on attaching malware to existing crack installers like? how does that whole process work?

>>83295 Can't help you with the second request, but > 1. does anyone know any good audio to text transcribing softwares? i do my writing via voice memos and would love to transcribe our long mp4's I used the Whisper model from OpenAI which worked pretty well when I needed to transcribe an audio recording. I used a model hosted on HuggingFace at the time, but if you're worried about data collection and the like you could run it locally as well.

>>83301 appreciate the reply, there are some wrongthink thoughts yes so ill run locally, i thought whisper was a paid service. On the second request, maybe you have some resources/sites to point to? quite new to this but dont want to dish out 500$ for maldev academy

Is there a way to find out if an email address no longer exists without sending an email to it? In the past, I'd send an email and expect a delivery failure notice in return. However, it always makes me feel stupid when I never receive one. Even if the email address is abandonware. Do those delivery failure notices still get sent out for modern email?

>>83301 >>83304 > i thought whisper was a paid service. Nope. For the moment it's available on GitHub: https://github.com/openai/whisper There's a video on how to run it locally here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph6K_0ttsSc > On the second request, maybe you have some resources/sites to point to? quite new to this but dont want to dish out 500$ for maldev academy Sorry, I wasn't sure exactly what you were asking at the time. I don't know if there's a dedicated tutorial on attaching malware samples to an installer. If you want to modify existing crack installers to deploy some sort of malware, then I suggest you learn more about Windows API and methods (as I assume that's the platform you'll be writing malware for) and look into obfuscation techniques. What do you want your malware to do? Do you want to install ransomware, or spyware, or crypto miners? How do you want it to be deployed? What resistance do you expect? What version of Windows are you expecting the payload to run on? These are the questions you should probably answer when writing (or modifying) your malware. Mind you, I'm not a malware expert, or even a novice, just someone who likes reading about this sort of thing. Some resources off the top of my head: vxunderground.com - Lots of papers and malware samples twitter.com/vx-underground - Twitter account for above site. They have posted recommendations before about who to follow and how to learn. https://bible.malcore.io - "So you want to get started writing malware" https://www.unknowncheats.me - Video game cheat development forum, great resource for Windows internals https://crackmes.one - "A simple place where you can download crackmes to improve your reverse engineering skills" https://sizeof.cat/notes/1730020842/ - This person seems to know where you can find free copies of IDA Pro and Binary Ninja https://github.com/rshipp/awesome-malware-analysis - Obligatory GitHub list of resources to trawl through Best of luck. Would you consider posting your results when you finish?

>>83308 Ofcourse - again, appreciate the thorough response. This chan is so refreshing. Regarding specifics, since im quite new I just want to try to have a sort of novice "set it & forget it" type of crypto clipper running, spread however i can. This is just to quench my curiosity of if I can make it happen actually. So far I've found some existing clippers off github and some crypters I'll test out with and try to test on my other Whonix VM if it actually works. Windows 10-11 most likely. Will check out your kindly given resources.

>>82965 Bump. How can I extract a video frame as heif? It sounds like it should be possible but I can't find anything.

Reddit rate limits access to its *tor* mirror. fuarrrking morons.

>>83311 don't even bother with those soykafty crypters from github, they are all copied from eachother, and the actual good ones have detections out the wazoo. Write your own stuff. come up with your own obfuscation tricks. Having a good imagination works very well for complicated crypters. Just learn your tools, and don't use existing things. Learn the clipboard API, maybe a regex library, and implement the clipper like that. That's the best way to learn (imo)

Can anyone help me with IEMs? I just bought my first one, the KZ ZSN Pro, but it has an annoying white noise. To solve this, I bought a 75-ohm adapter from Jcally, which worked fine at first. However, over time, the adapter started producing weird noises, and now I can't listen to music on my phone while walking because the phone's balance in my pocket causes problems. What should I do next? Should I get a new IEM or perhaps a dongle with an external soundcard? I have a ThinkPad T480 and a USB-C phone, so a DSP wouldn't work with my laptop.

Why can I not access Quad9's website when using their DNS? It doesn't resolve lol

>>83322 You have made a mistake because I know it just works. You need to give more details on your setup.

Can Discord be effectively sandboxed to prevent fingerprinting my devices? It seems VPNs are allowed so I can hide my IP, but third-party clients will get you derezzed.

>>83340 The best way would be to use a dedicated device. No reason to fear fingerprinting if the device is used for a single identity. The second best way would be to use a VM. This will still leak things like processor model or RAM speed, but will get rid of all OS-based identifiers.

>>82964 I want to start making backups on my Linux machine. I'm thinking about buying an external HDD and using Borg Backup + Pika Backup GUI. But I have some questions. Is Pika Backup good? Also, is there way to keep all files, even deleted ones on the backup drive? I know that rsync can do it but I think it would be easier to use something like Pika Backup or Deja Dup. Lastly, are external HDDs good, or should I buy an internal SATA HDD instead?

Is there any lainchan matrix room/space?

>>83359 No, but there's an IRC

>>83360 Irc could technically be bridged with matrix to make a place for more ppl.

>>83362 Why do you want more people, and what would matrix bring that IRC doesn't?

>>83358 External portable hard drives with USB3 or faster interfaces are cheap and work great. Or even USB2 if you have more patience. Rsync is simple enough and works great for me, but whatever.

>>83363 >Why more people ? Why not? >What would matrix bring that IRC doesn't? Some people just use this or that platform. Ofc you cannot satisfy everyone but you can make it more accessible. Matrix is really great because you don't belong on just one server.

>>83362 I understand that Matrix might be a better choice for 1-to-1 messaging for people, that you need to message about real life/important stuff, because you can text somebody, who is offline at the moment, but with group chats and for internet communities, IRC still is much better. Unlike IRC, Matrix is not really federated, because either need to run your own server or rely on matrix.org, but because the matrix.org instance is advertised so much, everyone just default to using that (even in tech-savvy circles this is the case, if you use matrix, you are basically using matrix.org). This probably stems from the fact, that running a matrix server is resource-intensive and is more tedious than IRC. It's not just the server, but also on the client side it's tangible, because Matrix is just very slow in general. Also bridges are probably more of a way to lure people into using Matrix, than actually bridging between two protocols. >>83365 The thing is is that to use IRC you just need to install a client or even just use the web client, but nobody forces you to make an account somewhere. And since IRC so simple, there are actually good clients (mIRC, AdiIRC, irssi, weechat, GoodWomanX and some others). With Matrix you either use Element, which is resource-intensive and slow, or you use some other client, which doesn't work as well as Element. >Ofc you cannot satisfy everyone but you can make it more accessible. Lainchan even has a webclient for IRC built into the website. It couldn't be more accessible if it tried to be. >Matrix is really great because you don't belong on just one server. It is kind of the case for Matrix though. Even if you don't use Matrix.org, your data is still sent there (and that kind of implies anyone uses anything else but matrix.org). They have basically a monopoly on it. With IRC, there is plenty of servers and Lainchan has it's own server, which just works.

>>83340 >>83341 Would using the web version in a privacy browser like Mullvad help at all? >This will still leak things like processor model or RAM speed, but will get rid of all OS-based identifiers. In general, or with Discord specifically?

>>83370 >Would using the web version in a privacy browser like Mullvad help at all? I doubt it would change much. >>This will still leak things like processor model or RAM speed, but will get rid of all OS-based identifiers. >In general, or with Discord specifically? In general. I have no idea what sort of data collection Discord does, and even if I did it could change at any moment. You can use services such as amiunique.org to check how identifiable your browser is. Again, having a unique fingerprint is not necessarily a problem if it is only linked to a single identity.

>>83369 >Everyone uses morg at the end of the day. From my experience most people prefer not to use morg because it's really slow and it misses out on some things. It is used as a default hs on a lot of clients but I don't see that many people using it. >Your data is sent to morg Data is and will be sent only if you have anyone from that homeserver. Your data will be sent to every hs that is in x room. >Lack of clients Yeah that's sadly true. I run schilidi chat mostly so just a fork of element. Tho it doesn't mean that other clients are that bad. They're still usable and some have more things to offer. You also don't need to host your own homeserver because there are a lot of public ones you can use. midov.pl eientei.org

What is the best way to format disks on a minimal window manager install? gnome-disks and gparted both fail because I dont have polkit installed, at present i boot my windows vm every time i want to format and modify partitions. Is there another program either cli or gui which doesn't involve memorizing a syntax to use? Preferably dragging partitions bigger and smaller with a mouse but using exact numbers also works fine.

>>83377 fdisk if you want true minimalism, cfdisk if you're fine with a little bit of bloat.

>>83381 >fdisk if you want true minimalism fdisk is THE tool to crook them all. it is a perfect example of software designed by an adequate person. it has a super simple and intuitive interface and does exactly what is says it will do.

>>83382 Honestly, fdisk has always been enough. I am not really sure what else I would ask for lol

>>83382 >it is a perfect example of software designed by an adequate person Funnily enough, fdisk is just a copy of the 4.3BSD disklabel(8)

whoever asked >whats that autistic tranny behavior in firefox/forks >where you bookmark a URL in firefox/fork >then later >you type the website's name or part of address in the address bar >then it suggests the base URL of the bookmark before the actual bookmarked URL the solution is browser.urlbar.autofill false

how can i access an i2p tracker for torrents if i have i2p installed on a server just for torrents? i don't want to install i2p on my pc too just to look at the trackers

What's the best way to make a local backup of my Android phone? >>83377 * Use cgdisk if you use GPT partition table. * Use cfdisk if you use BIOS MBR. They come with ncurses TUI. > gnome-disks and gparted both fail because I dont have polkit installed, Sorry if I sound arrogant but have you tried using sudo gparted in your terminal emulator? I think it should work even without polkit but I don't remember exactly?

>>83381 Thanks for the suggestions ill take a look at both cfdisk and fdisk >>83400 I run x11 within a user session with minimal permissions, not as root, so I get 'cannot open display: :0' whenever i try to run a gui app as root.

>>83400 >What's the best way to make a local backup of my Android phone? The absolute best way to back up an android phone is to install a custom recovery like TWRP that allows you to make a nandroid backup. That backs up your whole system and data. However, TWRP is free, but it's only available for certain phones. Barring that, the best way to back up your phone locally is to use adb. You have to enable usb debugging on your phone to do this. Then get adb for your os. On Linux: "apt install adb". Then connect your phone to your pc via usb cable. Then type "adb devices" to see if your phone is detected. Then, on the phone, allow the connection. Then use some variant of the adb backup command such as: "adb backup -all". Type "man adb" for more information. https://twrp.me/Devices/ https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-full-phone-backup-without-unlock-or-root.1420351/

>>83400 Oh, I forgot to mention a third and very easy and intuitive way to back up your android phone locally. Just connect it to your pc via usb cable, browse it with a file manager like you would an external hard drive, and manually copy over whatever you want. You don't need adb for this. I think some versions of android might require special settings to allow this.

I've noticed since a week or so that many websites that used to work fine are now blocking Tor. The latest I noticed, which prompted me to write this thread, is https://wiki.installgentoo.com. Note that I can load and solve the captcha when Tor Browser is set to "Standard" security level, but not "Safest". Are all cloudflare clients concerned? Has there been attacks against cloudflare to prompt this response?

Why does everyone call Mesopotamia the cradle of civilization? I was browsing the copper age when I stumbled across information about the "Natufian" culture of the Jordan River area that existed around 10,000 BC (yes, four zeroes) and maybe even earlier. They built the city Jericho about 9,000 BC. This was thousands and thousand of years before Mesopotamia. WTF? And no, I'm not religious in any way.

From a quick browse on Wikipedia, it seems the Natufian culture had no writing system in place. Pretty sure that disqualifies them from being considered a civilization. From merriam-webster.com: a relatively high level of cultural and technological development specifically : the stage of cultural development at which writing and the keeping of written records is attained

do they really have a 40 page rant disguised as an essay because they can't cope with teh fact that a noob will ask a question without thinking for 40 hours about how someone else might have made the thread already? http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >How can I crack root/steal channel-ops privileges/read someone's e-mail? >A: You're a lowlife for wanting to do such things and a moron for asking a hacker to help you. wh*te people.

moooom i want to get into linux but i had a question about $() vs `` but i have to read a 40 page essay before asking the question. moooom computers are too hard!!

I know you can mask CTRL+Q so it never hits Firefox so you don't accidentally close your 40 windows. Now... How many ways are there to open devtools and watch your browser freeze for multiple seconds in Firefox? CTRL+Shift+C CTRL+Shift+E F12

>>83474 The problem with getting into Linux isn't needing to read and learn about it. The real problem is the socially retarded assholes who think knowing a few things gives them a ticket to troll those who don't. Like you. t. someone who's been using Linux since Slackware came out

>>83479 >The real problem is the socially retarded assholes who think knowing a few things gives them a ticket to troll those who don't Get over it. Once you move away from Arch linux subreddit and *actually* put effort into your learning, the community is suddenly quite helpful. And you don't even need the community really. I'd never interacted with the linux community except on a few occasions until I could install without graphics with eyes blinded.

On the topic of linux documentation, recently I was watching Louis Rossman when he said something amusing. He is a linux advocate and just released a 12 hour privacy guide on stuff like setting up your own server with a foss alternative to google photos/drive, router with built in adblocking, and more. He's a repair technician and clearly not a retard. However, he had this to say: >One of the things that drives me insane about linux documentation is that when it comes to linux documentation, when people say "RTFM" what they are really saying is "eat soykaf and die" because the manual almost never works I imagine he was overstating things a bit, but I'm also sure what he said was founded on actual experience

Speaking of Slackware, Volkerding (the guy who created it) was always super-helpful. The Slackware installer and Slackware itself were peppered with little hints here and there that were obviously intended for noobs. And when Gnome went nuts, and various other things went nuts, he just kicked them off Slackware. He and Linus Torvalds are the two coolest people in Linux IMO. Contrast that with the GNU creeps and the Arch creeps, and you have the two camps of Linux. Regarding manuals, some of them are obviously written by people challenged by language and human communication in general. That said, there are a few really good books on Linux.

>>83481 The documentation that doesn't exist is a common and very painful topic, nobody wants to talk about it, because everyone knows they hasn't got anything to say expect lots, lots of butthurt.

How do I buy expensive electronics off Amazon without getting scammed by counterfeiters? Amazon is supposed to have really good return policies, so do I just roll the dice?

I have 3 years as a software developer, there is an opening in my company for a junior data engineering role with training provided. I'm considering making the switch because: 1. I feel like I'm not a very good software dev 2. All this talk about AI, it seems like the demand for devs will decrease, while data related roles will increase. Though I'm not sure how much I would enjoy data engineering, it seems harder than software development and if I really want to get good at something maybe I should stay in the same lane that I already have some experience in. Any advice?

>>83489 I've bought quite a few devices there, both consumer and professional grade, and never received a counterfeit. The only thing I suspect might be one is a textbook lol. But if you do, I think you won't have problem with a return

Sometimes I think of this as kind of a glitch in the matrix. I have not pacman -Syu'd in a while and yet there are many times when my system somehow "evolved" or updated stuff around. It makes me question how that happens? recently my brightness controls now put my monitor's name on it (using linux with DCC/CI) it wasn't the case before, did it somehow update on its own or it was just a faulty bit flip or it rectified itself? Did reality patch itself or did I jump realities again? Sometimes this also happened in other OS but rarely I only see this happen a lot with linux but most of the time the updates are kind of useful and just what I need. l m a o Present Day, Present Time! AHAHAHAHAHA!

>>83496 How do you tell that they're real, look up serial numbers? I had the impression Amazon was supposed to be full of knockoffs for everything from hard drives to corn flakes.

>>83508 They have all the desired functionality and build quality. Techically they could be a 1:1 replicas, but I don't care at that point, if I can't tell the difference after very extensive use.

>>83475 ctrl+shift+j (you mightpress this if you use both linux and windows)

when hacking a computar with vim, should i use j/k or ^n/^p?

discuss the term "PID 1" and weather it holds the significance people believe it does when they use it

>>83683 I propose changing it to PID 0

>>83489 >Amazon is supposed to have really good return policies, so do I just roll the dice? Amazon indicates who is selling the item being purchased and where it ships from. If the item is not "sold by Amazon" and "shipped from Amazon" you could have a lot of trouble returning it for a refund. I learned this the hard way.

>>83683 Lennart, please... some people just don't like systemd. Get over it.

why are these touhous drawn so curvy? in all official art all characters are flatter than a board

>>83699 Gay artists. Zun was old school true alpha otaku so he drew the only holy and heavens approved girls – flat girls.

>>83481 its not exactly wrong. man is the best documentation system i know of, that said its terrible. people -in general- do not like to write documentation, which means that for anything, but the largest systems its a treat to get one. manuals are also expected to be shipped with the software. this sometimes happens, sometimes not. its not rare that i have to read the manual for the software im currently running online for no apparent reason. the groff format is a bloody nightmare, everyone with 2 braincells is auto generating it from markdown, because God forbid standard manual readers should evolve. more of the same with gnu's info, except the reader is very unergonomic and now you have a second thing that you have to check for documentation. then there are systems which extract documentation from source code directly then present you with html. why html? fuarrrk you, thats why. not only are they clanky, but also useless most of the time. for example interpolate_quarks_for_void_monsters(a, b) will be documented as, you guessed it, "will interpolate quarks a and b for void monsters", with no explanation to what any of that means. and its not just a lack of links to the mentioned concepts, those concepts are defined no where. partially this is due to how dumbly these extractors are constructed. you have a finite list of fields you can describe, but if you would like to add something more freeform, you are shot. the only exception i found is Natural Docs, which seems to have the right idea, but is a nightmare to run on Linux. >the manual almost never works this is not wrong either. recently i reported a documentation bug regarding gnu readline (you know, this thing people have been using for 40 years). its only a few words to change, but thats also the difference between segfaulting and not. and, as it turns out, someone has reported the exact same thing 10 years ago, but the maintainers simply did not bother to patch it. tl;dr: soykaf's fuarrrked man

>>83377 cfdisk. dont listen to the other anon, its not bloat if its actually useful.

>>83481 I have very low verbal intelligence but I've never had any serious problems with the RTFM philosophy, and I'm saying that as an OpenBSD user.. I managed to download arch within the first month of using GNU/Linux, I have to admit it was a pretty vanilla install that didn't need additional configuration other than what was listed in the traditional installation guide but I still did pretty well. The RTFM philosophy can be harsh but I've seen that even in the hardcore distributions people are willing to help if you give them some insight that goes past the output received from said command. I do agree that it can be unfair for people who have no interest in GNU/Linux but you can only imagine the hundreds upon hundreds of people who are helping out people for free having to deal with the same question over and over.

What's the best opensource tool to make videos on linux? I mean short meme vids

>>83722 If you just want to record stuff from a webcam, guvcview is good and easy. For editing, most Linux video editors are insanely overkill with retarded, obscure interfaces. flowblade is probably the least stupid of them. Avidemux is much simpler and better for just editing video clips, but it's not in repos. Here's how to build it from source: su - apt install build-essential git cmake pkg-config yasm libsqlite3-dev libxv-dev libvdpau-dev libva-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev qttools5-dev-tools qtbase5-dev libx264-dev libxvidcore-dev libmp3lame-dev libtwolame-dev libopus-dev libvorbis-dev libogg-dev libpng-dev libass-dev libfaac-dev libfdk-aac-dev libx265-dev libvpx-dev libaom-dev exit cd git clone --recursive https://github.com/mean00/avidemux2.git && cd avidemux2 bash bootStrap.bash --with-system-libass chmod +x run_avidemux_template.sh Here's how to trim a video clip with it: ./run_avidemux_template.sh 1. open a video file 2. choose an output container output format > select "mp4 muxer" 3. choose an output codec video output > "mpeg4 avc x264" 4. set start and end points: move video to desired start point, click "A" move video to desired end point, click "B" 5. to save everything between the start and end points: click "save" to delete everything between the start and end points: click "X"

>>83722 >I mean short meme vids don't

On OpenBSD, is there any way that I can stop a certain package (once with it's libraries) from updating while running pkg_add -u ?

>>83742 Dependencies, not libraries. My bad

my pc isn't connected to internet in a usual way. i.e. eth0 is down and no wifi or anything. instead there's a magic squid proxy at localhost:3128 that i use to post here. how to make it system-wide? i know it can be done with iptables like: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 3128 and some sysctl tricks but nothing works. "network is unreachable". and setting up ports one by one is daunting (http, https, smtp, imap, ftp, ssh, dns, ...)

>>83750 If your're communicating here then there is some kind of working physical connection to the internet. If you can't use it normally, something is blocking it, like a firewall or something. Try to find out what it is and remove it. If you're being blocked by a third party, like a university administration or isp, then you're soykaf out of luck, Are you the guy who was bragging about torrenting over university bandwidth?

is there a way i can share the desktop of a windows xp machine to a linux one and record the windows desktop for example with ffmpeg?

>>83753 On the Windows PC, as admin, set up Remote Desktop. (There's no Remote Desktop on Windows Home Edition) Get the IP address of the Windows PC. On the Linux PC, install Remmina, or some other RDP client. Fire it up and give it the IP address of the Windows PC. You should be able to record your Linux PC screen with a screen recorder package. That should record the Remmina display of the Windows Remote Desktop, too.

>>83753 Oh, Windows *XP*. I have no idea if you can set up Remote Desktop on XP.

I am a non-US native using a US keyboard layout for the first time. Can anyone tell me how the FUG do I write accentuated letters? I am on linux by the way; arch, to be precise.

>>83769 Default US keyboard layout does not feature glyphs with diacritics. I don't use that many of them, so my favorite way is to set Compose button (right Alt for me). It could be in the settings of a DE/WM, I just run the setxkbmap in startup script: setxkbmap -option compose:ralt Now you can do stuff like: Compose + a + " => ä Compose + a + ' => á It's not only limited to letters: Compose + < + < => « Compose + ? + ? => ¿

>>83751 sorry, it was a mistake not to show you the whole picture. i run squid in termux on phone. then i forward ports through adb on desktop. so my phone essentially becomes a usb modem (cellular)

>>83774 1. In your phone settings, enable and securely configure "WiFi Hotspot". 2. Connect the phone to the PC with a USB cable. 3. In your phone settings, enable "USB Tethering". You should then be able to connect to the internet normally on the PC.

>>83769 Just use another layout man setxkbmap

I manually mounted my SD card adapter on my linux laptop and now it's filled with a bunch of UUUUUUUUU files and my photos are all corrupted ;A; Does anyone know what caused this and if it's possible to recover my photos?

>>83799 It's hard to help without more infos, but that looks more like a display issue as it wouldn't make sense for multiple files to share a name. What does listing the files in a terminal shows? Can you open them with your image viewer?

>>83799 May you send one of those corrupted files?

>>83801 >that looks more like a display issue as it wouldn't make sense for multiple files to share a name. I tried it on my brother's windows 10 and it's the same thing. I'm on arch linux. This actually happened to me before not too long ago, on a different computer running arch, with a USB flash drive. It cost me my xenogears save file, but since I wasn't too keen on finishing the game anyway, I didn't do anything about it. All pictures are still there, they just aren't opening. >>83803 It appears as thogh all .uuuu files are directories. Here's one of the pictures: http://up.heyuri.net/src/4259.jpg>>83801

what is reactionary design mode?

In firefox's "Inspector tool", selecting an element in the html listing highlights that element on the page. This feature doesn't seem to work in Tor browser, is there a way to enable it? If so, how?

What applications do you use to render La/TeX?

>>83867 pdflatex, occasionally my brain

>>82964 Does Cmake and Meson have the equivalent of configure --help (it lists all configuration options for the project). I'm convinced that AutoTools make it easier for package maintainers to build projects but Meson is easier for the programmers.

>>83799 >>83804 help pls ...

>>83879 >Sorry, you have been blocked Upload your file somewhere better, it seems your host blocks tor.

I'm very well aware that distrohopping is an illness of the weak, the unskilled and unemployed especially, painfully aware one might say, mostly due to those terms applying to me the most, I'm the most weak, unskilled and unemployed (Yes, you can form a comparative of unemployed), but despite me being content with my distribution of choice, I still see so many interesting operating systems to try out and I have a hard time resisting the urge. The distributions of my mortal cravings are Exherbo Linux and Slackware Linux. I feel like I missing out on something, never having used them. Slackware being the OG distribution, being a simple distribution and having it's own weird packaging system, meanwhile Ex Herbo is literally the sirens calling for me to surrender to their voices. "Ohh, Lainon, Ohh Lainon, Exherbo is for people who need their distribution to help them be productive", they say, implying tinkering with a stupid source-based distro will make me in any way more productive. So, do you think Exherbo will make me more productive and actually do stuff instead of tinkering with distros all day long? I fear it might make me waste two or three weeks with it and go back to normal after that. What's your experience with such distros (or maybe Exherbo in particular)?

>>83799 >>83879 Try using another adapter. You should also make a disk image from the SD before you do anything, so you won't do further harm. But try another SD card adapter first! You may corrupt your files forever if the adapter is faulty. You can use testdisk and Photorec to attempt to recover files. >https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/File_recovery >https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dd#Create_disk_image >>83882 Slackware was great back in the day but now it has very little benefits. >distro hopping I think that using distrobox is the best solution to end distro hopping. >So, do you think Exherbo will make me more productive and actually do stuff instead of tinkering with distros all day long? If you are looking for a source-based distro, you really should use Gentoo because it has a long track record, large userbase and it has good support for everything. Source-based distros are more flexible but I don't think that they will magically make you more productive vs. Artix/Arch or Void or Debian/Devuan. They do give you more control over everything, though. This makes the initial installation process long but in my experience you don't need to go much after that. On Gentoo, I can just always update and everything will just work. I just need to select USE flags once (of course, I can tweak them later if I want/need to). If you want to be productive, you need to stop distro hopping and start doing stuff and learning new things.

>>44361 If you want to try out Linux distros of various types, do it. If you don't want to try out Linux distros of various types, then don't do it. Making more out of it than that is the real waste of time.

>>83778 if only it was this simple. my specific lineageos does not support usb tethering, hence adb workaround. puppy linux' built-in proxy mysteriously solved most of my problems, even though it just exports some vars: export http_proxy='http://127.0.0.1:3128' export https_proxy='http://127.0.0.1:3128' export rsync_proxy='http://127.0.0.1:3128' export ftp_proxy='http://127.0.0.1:3128' export ftps_proxy='http://127.0.0.1:3128' export HTTP_PROXY='http://127.0.0.1:3128' export HTTPS_PROXY='http://127.0.0.1:3128' export RSYNC_PROXY='http://127.0.0.1:3128' export FTP_PROXY='http://127.0.0.1:3128' export FTPS_PROXY='http://127.0.0.1:3128' not sure if this is reliable enough for everything (electron apps do not work and no i can't ditch them). ideal proxy setup for me is completely transparent and does not use any env vars, i.e. it acts as eth0. that doesn't seem to exist on linux, apparently an external router is necessary after all. or one more abstraction layer.

>>83969 usb0 appeared. i swear i couldn't enable tethering until now. what. the same kernel, the same distro as before... am i dreaming?

>>83882 If you actually want to be productive the only choices for a desktop are ubuntu and fedora (in the real world).

>>83971 Real question: What do they offer over Debian or Arch?

>>83971 I've been in the real world a long, long time, and I'd say Debian would be the top choice for productivity.

>>83975 Something that works out of the box, isn't 5 years out of date and doesn't require you to babysit your system after every update fixing what breaks. >>83976 For servers sure, otherwise you're just working with containers and every other distro is the same so might as well pick something that was meant to be used as a desktop.

>>83980 I'm not sure why you would say that. Debian has about the same desktops and desktop applications available as any other major distro, and they work the same on Debian as they do on any other distro. The advantage of Debian is its stability while still giving you the easy option to use newer and more varied packages by enabling the backports and non-free repos

>>83980 >Something that works out of the box, isn't 5 years out of date and doesn't require you to babysit your system after every update fixing what breaks. lmao. in my experience babysitting ubuntu/mint has been much more pain than my debian/devuan installations. with devuan i just set up things once and between stable releases, they simply don't break. fixing some fuarrrkups once every two years because poettering thinks his iq is above 80 isn't something i consider an unworthy tradeoff.

Woke up after a century long slumber to discover modern laptops have soldered RAM and NO additional slot(s). Imagine manufacturing useless hardware.

>>83999 some dells still come with replaceable/upgradeable sticks...though I dunno why you'd want more than 16 gigs on a laptop

>>84010 Got 8. Genuinely feel bad for myself after the fuarrrkup.

>>84011 That's rough, but at least it's not one of those m1 macbooks with a 256gb ssd right? ...right?

>>84012 No, thankfully it's not.

How to get tech job? Any job? I'll even take minimum wage. I'm American. I clicked on this thread because of the picture. Thats it thats my post for now.

>>82964 Does anyone know why Coreboot hasn't been ported to any Toughbooks yet? Is it just a lack of interest? Does there exist some proprietary security feature that makes it difficult to do so?

>>83233 >Would it make any sense to fill up all 4 RAM slots on my motherboard, if my CPU has only 2 RAM lanes? RAM lanes as in dual channel? I've always read that putting in more sticks of ram may stress out the memory controller when two sticks will do. Can't find a source though just forum posts. Unless you are trying to max out the amount of memory available best stick to two sticks for max performance. >>83397 >how can i access an i2p tracker for torrents if i have i2p installed on a server just for torrents? Meaning you want to browse a tracker site like http://tracker2.postman.i2p using the I2P installation on your server? It depends on what interface the server I2P httpproxy is listening on usually it's just localhost, you can check with 'ss -4lpn'. Just change it to the servers LAN IP or '0.0.0.0' for it to listen on all interfaces. Not sure which OS or I2P client you are using. https://i2pd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user-guide/configuration/#http-proxy After that you just edit the proxy in your browser to point to your server IP instead of localhost. https://i2pd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/http/ >>83400 >What's the best way to make a local backup of my Android phone? There is also neo backup https://f-droid.org/packages/com.machiav3lli.backup You could also try syncthing for personal files https://docs.syncthing.net/users/faq.html#is-syncthing-my-ideal-backup-application https://flemmingss.com/backing-up-your-android-device-using-syncthing/ >>83402 >The absolute best way to back up an android phone is to install a custom recovery like TWRP that allows you to make a nandroid backup. That backs up your whole system and data. I thought TWRP excludes some folders? https://twrp.me/faq/backupexclusions.html

>>83970 so my isp somehow knows i use tethering. 1mbit speed limit, the adb approach is better huh. i can use tethering and adb simultaneously for now, till i find a solution..

>>84047 You should change TTL to 65

>>84048 On the fuarrrking android?

>>84048 thanks it worked >>84049 i just ran sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_default_ttl=65 on the desktop.

>>84048 >>84052 That's hilarious. Wtf is your ISP doing, blocking people tethering?

I'm seeking feedback on my April Fool's prank, which may ruffle some feathers, so I need to be well-prepared against doxxing. My plan is to create a fake persona that doesn't share my interests, someone who embodies the character of a cocky, self-proclaimed dumb hacker with a penchant for leetspeak and Discord raids. People will likely assume this individual is real, but in reality, I'll be controlling their online presence. My top priority ideas are: 1. Utilize an Android virtual machine with spoofed GPS to create fake locations on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tinder. This is my most valuable resource. Additionally, generate fake Google Maps reviews of places I've never been to. 2. Rewrite all chat messages through ChatGPT in Tor to conceal my writing style. If that's not possible, I'll use NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated locally on my PC. Other ideas, listed from most useful to least: * Upload photos or documents with fake metadata on 4chan and use Exiftool to edit them, ensuring the same serial number across multiple images. * Generate a bio using ElfQrin (elfqrin.com/fakeid.php) and Fakenamegenerator (fakenamegenerator.com). * Censor my photo's face using AI-generated or other methods, storing the unedited version in metadata. * Create a public Google Drive document as if I'm sharing it with someone but was too lazy to limit access to their email alone. * Provide private details on smaller networks, such as board readers and Craigslist forums. Less obscure sites include Discord, Reddit, Hacker News, TikTok, dating platforms, and more. * Delete or alter content after the Wayback Machine caches it to create suspicion. * Block individuals who find information about my character on social media. * Maintain unique misspellings, grammatical errors, phrases, or bios across multiple platforms. Additional tactics: * Share a single link with tracking parameters across various fake personal accounts, saying "Look, I made Twitter/YouTube/Reddit/more mad." To make it more believable, post screenshots from my Android VM, as many apps force tracking parameters. Note that Twitter's tracking parameter contains an encoded user ID. * Obtain fake photos of my home from real estate listings or purchased property images. * Rush comments with intentional misspellings using Gofbid to appear intimidated or angry when "my cover" is blown. * Claim I use VPNs and privacy software recommended by YouTubers and that I learned OPSEC in Discord. * Make it seem like my haters found my fake personal email or phone number (public VoIP) through account recovery or contact exploitation. Which sites allow using a phone number without confirmation? Questions for further investigation: * Can I obtain an abandoned account from an old data breach for my sock puppet? * Are there alternative photo sources, such as Fiver or Vidi? Regarding my OPSEC, it's largely based on OSINT Techniques 10th edition by Mike Bazzell: * I'll create accounts at a public WiFi spot in my country or another to avoid VPN-blocking and use DOH if necessary. Then, I'll access those accounts from home using the same Mullvad server. * Use a high-entropy, randomly generated password for each account via KeepassXC. * All activities will be conducted within an Ubuntu and Android virtual machine with no personal information or activity. * Employ TOR with JavaScript disabled whenever possible; if not, use LibreWolf without extensions.

>>84055 I think you're taking the problem from the wrong end. First ask yourself what could be linked to you, and eliminate that. Putting a couple red herrings is probably a good idea, but so many of them would just make people more suspicious. I also wouldn't use chatgpt. For one, that's another online account, that would be linked to both your online persona and you (through the writing style). Additionally, it's a bit "too good" and would probably pick-up on your writing style. You could instead use a local model that wouldn't look as natural but would hide your writing style better. It would also make you sound a bit foreign or robotic, which could add character to your prank.

>>84053 i guess it seems like i run a free-leech wifi hotspot now another ploblem. librewolf loads sites slooooowly and often gives false timeouts. everything else is instant on the other hand. it's not the ttl. it's not the cache. it's not the profile. it's not my nvidia card. it used to be fast, not so long ago. furrk. the speed almost recovers with the good ol' localhost:3128...

>>84057 I appreciate your feedback; it's the most thoughtful response I've received so far. >First ask yourself what could be linked to you, and eliminate that. Three years ago, I made significant strides towards anonymity. Through an array of search tools (Sherlock, SocialScan, Holehe, WhatsMyName, Blackbird, Maigret, etc.) and by scouring all three major search engines, URL searches, and email account recovery, I deleted approximately six accounts linked to my real identity. One of these revealed a connection between my real name and username, but it remained unindexed by search engines and the Wayback Machine, ensuring my privacy is preserved. Although there are still some accounts that could be eliminated for a fresh start, I'm hesitant due to nostalgia and fear of arousing suspicion should they disappear before my intended reveal. I've taken further measures: I've disconnected all usernames from my private email and replaced them with an alternate address, removed phone numbers in favor of authenticator apps, and updated all passwords to high-entropy standards, stored securely within a KeepassXC database. My private account remains distinct from my online persona. I've also scrutinized the data leaked through services like Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) and found it lacking in severity, unable to link my private account to my username. Hudson Rock corroborated that my email isn't associated with stealer logs. Free people search engines proved ineffective due to my foreign status, precluding me from subscribing to paid services for opt-out purposes. I've additionally investigated archival sites like steamid.uk and uncovered no compromising information. While I'm certain I've implemented many more measures, the specifics evade me. Suffice it to say that I've applied every technique up to page 344 of OSINT Techniques 10th edition. >Putting a couple red herrings is probably a good idea, but so many of them would just make people more suspicious. To assist in selecting the most effective methods, I've listed my recollections. Do you have any recommendations or suggestions for additional approaches? I'm also considering creating an alt account as an enemy, connecting dots and uncovering me. >You could instead use a local model that wouldn't look as natural but would hide your writing style better. It would also make you sound a bit foreign or robotic, which could add character to your prank. Currently, I employ NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated to rewrite texts in the style of others, such as Terry Davis. Do you have any other criticisms or know of TOR-friendly websites without registration where I can seek further assistance? I've already explored zzzchan, 8chan, 8kun, and 22chan. Thank you for your time, and I look forward to your input.

In my country, routers are connected directly trough the WAN port with RJ45. There is no modem involved. If I have a second router with DD-WRT that I can input my VPN provider's Wireguard config in, can I use this second router as a dedicated hardware VPN by just connecting its WAN port to one of the main router's LAN ports, and then plug whatever PC I want to tunnel through a VPN to one of the second router/VPN router's LAN ports? Or it's not that simple?

>>84074 >I want to tunnel through a VPN to one of the second router/VPN router's LAN ports? Did not understand a single word of this. >can I use this second router as a dedicated hardware VPN by just connecting its WAN port to one of the main router's LAN ports >by just connecting its WAN port to one of the main router's LAN ports Nope, won't work. >dd-wrt I have never done anything like that, it depends on how it sees its LAN ports, that is which interfaces are available to work with. Theoretically you can connect the supplementary router to the main router using LAN cable and then simply use DHCP to acquire an IP address. You can then make that address the default route and start wireguard. The other LAN ports will serve peers and give them IP addresses by DHCP too. What you do then depends, I don't know. Either you can somehow redirect the traffic to the wireguard interface, or simply act as a gateway, gotta figure that out on the actual hardware.

>>84074 Yes, plugging the WireGuard router's WAN into an upstream LAN port will work. SoHo routers can limit VPN speeds because their cheap CPU can't encrypt and decrypt fast enough. >>84075 >and then plug whatever PC I want to tunnel through a VPN >to one of the second router/VPN router's LAN ports You need to work on reading comprehension. It's clear that lainon wants to plug a VPN client router into a regular router, then plug a PC into the VPN router.

>>84075 >>84076 Thank you both for answering. I appreciate it. I haven't posted online in over half a decade, feels weird but good lol. >>84076 correctly understood, the setup I want is pic related. The blue line is my home internet connection (a dangling RJ-45 cable). The red square is the router's WAN (Internet) port. The yellow squares are the LAN ports. (Both cheap routers have the same model number, but not the same "version", that's why I could only put DD-WRT on Router 2). The idea is that I have multiple devices, and I want to be able to plug some of my devices into Router 2/VPN Router, and some of my other devices into Router 1 (no VPN, direct connection through my home IP). >>84076 Thank you for pointing out the decryption speed issue. Are there any more caveats regarding my desired setup?

>>84076 >WAN into an upstream LAN port will work please inform me how exactly

>>84079 Mot him, but I used the exact setup he's describing for yeats and it worked fine. Router #1 connected to the internet normally. Router #2's WAN port connect to one of router #1's LAN ports. PC connected to one of router #2's LAN ports. Open appropriate firewall ports in both routers. Bingo, it just worked. I just wanted a dumb router to protect me from my ISP's smart router. I'm sure I used a VPN from the PC to the internet multiple times. I don't see any reason why a second PC connected to one of router #1's LAN ports wouldn't connect to the internet fine, with or without using a VPN.

why does mupdf have no table of contents, why are autistic people so fkin stupid. the whole point of PDF over HTML is to have a ToC (defacto, of course autists think its muh scalable graphics or some autistic thing noone cares about)

>>84097 ?? wtf are you on about? if you're on phone check out "mj pdf", it's as satisfactory as """"smart""""phones get. if you're on desktop check out qpdfview. gonna pull in qt deps but hell it's great. maybe zathura but it's more autistic than vim

>>84077 Nice diagram! >any more caveats VPN router's WAN needs to be set to DHCP client, it might be something like PPPoE by default. VPN router's LAN address range shouldn't be the same as Main LAN. If Main router LAN is 192.168.1.0/24, VPN router LAN should be 192.168.2.0/24 for example. When you update this don't be surprised that the management address of the VPN router will also change, e.g. to 192.168.2.1

>>84066 I'm bumping my post in hopes someone might have some insight - should I be pulling off my prank or investing more time in learning about operational security instead? Has anyone read 'Extreme Privacy' by Mike Bazzell and can vouch for its usefulness? Help me out, internet!

Do I buy a good dehumidifier or a mobile air conditioner that is capable of dehumidifying the room? It will be located in a small room. Mostly I wanna dry my laudry, but I'd like to enjoy AC sometimes. Dedicated dehumidifiers does its job very well & is very effecient. Mobile AC consumes more power and requires ventilation. Yet I only ned to buy one machine to do what I want. Can mobile AC be a good option? btw I'm on tight budget, so a dryer is out of the question.

>>84112 Get the portable air conditioner. A/C is great for drying clothes. You just run it fan-only and direct the air on the clothes. I do it all the time. And the ventilation is a plus, not a negative. You can set it up to turn the ventilation on and off as desired.

On Firefox, when an image is presented using srcset or a picture with multiple sources, "opening the image in a new tab" opens the currently displayed version. I would like to open the highest resolution available instead, is there a way to do that?

>>83397 >>84040 https://geti2p.net/en/faq#remote_i2cp

Would this be better then this? >>https://lainchan.org/%CE%A9/res/79325.html#80425 # Mount /tmp to /tmpfs (RAM) will be cleared upon reboot. sudo mount -t tmpfs -o defaults,nosuid,nodev,noexec tmpfs /tmp # symlink ~/.cache to /temp (RAM) - will be cleared upon reboot. ln -s /tmp/.cache ~/.cache

>>84148 Yes because it doesn't require you to have any administrative privileges.

>>84149 Will the symlink still be there upon reboot?

>>84150 Yes it would. You can avoid having the .cache folder in your home dir entirely by setting XDG_CACHE_HOME to /tmp/foo in my anecdotal experience most apps respect the xdg spec these days

>>84153 >most apps respect the xdg spec these days No they fuarrrking don't. I've got three times as many dot files/dirs than normal files/dirs in my home. fuarrrk you, this isn't flood

>>84157 Might need to mkdir ~/.cache target because it's a broken symlink otherwise. Make a start up script or whatever.

>>80425 >>84148 >>84149 ># symlink ~/.cache to /temp (RAM) - will be cleared upon reboot. >ln -s /tmp/.cache ~/.cache It's cleaner to just mount it as another tmpfs, imo. Just add it to your fstab and append user mount option to the list of other mount options: rm -rf .cache mkdir .cache chmod 1700 .cache sudo $EDITOR /etc/fstab # ... tmpfs /home/soykaf/.cache tmpfs defaults,rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,mode=1700 0 0 # EOF sudo mount ~/.cache

>>84159 I forgot to mention... Some programs will freak out if you delete .cache while they are running. It's best to open a vconsole/TTY and execute these steps there. It also may be a smart idea to reboot your box after doing these change (so that program will re-create their temp files).

Can someone please recommend me a good 4k TV for playing games on my PS5? I have a budget of 1500€

Please donate them to me I promise to spend the money wisely.

i had a computer that beeped when you punched it, as was common since pcs are garbage from software all the down. this was in the mid 2000s, and i mightve had one in the early 2000s with the same behavior. what causes that? it could be a peripheral for all i know, never opened the case to check

>>84164 get one of the 3 existing OLEDs (as everything else is worse than CRT) and after that commit suicide for having a web browser in your TV

and yes, quantum dot is still garbage because its LCD, no its not magically good because it has quantum in the name, unlesss its QD-OLED

>>84181 calm down glitterboy, LCD displays are fine if it's not some 20$ bullshit you bought from a chinese dude in brazilia

>>84180 Plasma is king thoughbeit

>>84159 Systemd journald logs mounted storage device serial numbers? /etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/no-spook-tracking [Journal] Storage=volatile

>>84227 u missing the .conf by the way

>>84227 >Systemd journald logs mounted storage device serial numbers? smartd and kernel too. might as well store all logs in RAM and when soykaf breaks have fun. >systemd lmao

>>84231 What are you retards even talking about. If an attacker is running arbitrary code on your machine to read root owned log files then you've got much bigger problems than muh serial numbers.

>>84236 Computers store serial numbers and even worse BIOS stores them to fingerprint you back to a malicious Absolute/CompuTrace server or via the Intel ME or PSP tracking you via every drive you mount.

>>84238 > fingerprint you back to a malicious Absolute/CompuTrace server or via the Intel ME or PSP tracking If an attacker has this level of access to your machine they can do anything including read all your keystrokes and passwords or turn on the webcam and sniff all the wireless networks around you. Who gives a fuarrrk about "serial numbers".

what if someone releases an album that costs $60000 / copy and and people listen to it and show it on their profiles and on last.fm wewhn its obvious they can't afford it?

>>84183 LCDs have soykaf "viewing angles" (a term LCD users invented) (even IPS, even for $1300) and soykaf contrast that's basically like pastels, you have to be completely retarded or blue pilled from using them too much to think this is fine. then again murica accepts LED light bulbs and dishwasher that don't work but check of that green tickbox so whatever

>>84374 That would be their problem.

>>84375 My LCD display has 178 degrees view angle, image quality is comparable to budget OLEDs, and it costs less than 200EUR. Suck it up.

>>84374 lastfm has manual scrobbling

why won't this firewall come back online after the firmware upgrade? I am angry

>>85208 praise the lord it's back, my asshole turned inside out from clenching

Guys did the jannies delete the private tracker general?(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST, Do not whine and cry about 8chan, lainchan.jp, "quality", "invasions", "newfags", mods, bans, or kalyx outside of /q/. Yes it was deleted because it was reported as Rule 4 violation and forced general. Lainchan only hosts organic generals (threads that have had organically hit bump limit or 300 posts , before generals based on the discussion are generally allowed.)

>>85304 my touhou thread in /inter/ got removed, seems appleman wants to avoid generals clogging up the boards.

>>85304 >>85306 IIRC the rule of thumb is only organic generals are allowed, no direct transplants that aren't part of lainchan culture e.g: we continually had threads popping up with minor tech questions, hence the "tech questions thread"

>>85323 i see. might try to make a touhou thread on /inter/ in a few days, but won't make it in a general format.

After postponing installing Linux Mint in my machine for three years, I finally decided it would finally be a good course of action to go for it, BUTT-T-T >i am computer illiterate, can't program >don't really care about bloatware, in fact I've heard from most long-term linux desktop users that without a good deal of so called “bloat” everything is a chore to do. What are some extremely necessary desktop features that don't pre-installed? I want a good aesthetic and customizable experience

That's not how you use quotes. Mint is perfectly fine for a noob if you don't mind not having the most up to date software. Most things that don't come preinstalled will be in the repos. If you come from windows, use alternativeto.net to find free and/or linux-compatible software.

>>85379 Linux is a hobby, if you want to make it useful, you'll have to want to invest your time into it. >i am computer illiterate, can't program You'll have to learn shell, sooner or later. >in fact I've heard from most long-term linux desktop users that without a good deal of so called “bloat” everything is a chore to do Avoid using reddit as your learning resource for linux, unless there is no other choice. >What are some extremely necessary desktop features that don't pre-installed? None. As a tech illiterate beginner, you will be unable to shun systemd right away, but that aside, all the "extremely necessary desktop features" are the desktop features you need. >I want a good aesthetic Figure that out. I don't rice. >customizable experience As a rule of thumb the more bloated software, the less customization you get. The less bloated, the more technical knowledge is required to customize. AFAIK people manage to customize things like GNOME or KDE, but I have never done that and in my limited experience those desktop environments do not offer any usability benefits over windows, their infrastructure is just as low quality, bloated, and generally does not have any coherent design. Big bloated project offer some sort of works-out-of-the-box experience, but they exist mostly for money laundering, so they do not normally produce quality software.

Can anyone recommend me an IDE for HTML, CSS and JS that I can use to preview my silly blog? I've tried setting up Nginx or Caddy to run on localhost, but I couldn't figure out. Also, browser cache prevents CSS updates from loading.

>>85379 First, You need to be able to want to help yourself. If you cannot do that you will make zero progress in life. You likely do not want me to bitch about soft skills, but it's just a fact. Stop being lazy and just do something. Doing something is what a lot of us anons struggle with which is why we're here in the first place. I won't answer the other parts of your question. You don't need to start with the "perfect" linux distribution. Just use a Linux distribution. If you don't like it ask questions, seek help, and try and better yourself. Life is about bettering yourself, not moping.

How do I reset my router?

Is there such thing as a distro that i can burn on a USB key with tools to use IEEE 1394 (firewire) in order to extract videos on tape from a old MiniDV? I have this old HP business laptop but i don't want to waste a drive installing linux to it just to use firewire which is really the only thing i need from linux. I would use windows XP for this since i don't even need to connect it to the internet but it would still make me waste a drive and i don't want to bother with GRUB for dual boot. If you also happen to know software to do the minidv thing please let me know.

>>85461 Every webshit stack has a solution to this problem. e.g. with Django I just run manage.py runserver, or with Angular you can just run ng serve. They all support the feature syou're looking for (auto-reload). Just use whatever text editor you feel comfortable with and then as you want / need more features you can... change what editor you're using. If you don't know what you want, you don't need to think too hard about a toolset.

i don't believe arch is all that great. i tried to use it and was disappointed with defaults. arch is a meme

What's the current state of computer-generated singing? Are vocaloids still the state of the art? What search terms do I need to use to not get a bunch of "AI" results?

Would you listen to ai-generated taylor swift?

>>85521 I wouldn't listen even to the real one.

>>85500 One popular method I've seen is to limit your search results to things that existed prior to AI was regularly accessible. This means limiting it to before around 2022 or 2023 maybe. As an aside, this does also lead me to believe that the Dead Internet Theory is real and is rapidly happening. Search results were already bad enough due to Pinterest, but throwing AI from totally random sources in there REALLY messes it up.

>>85500 Suno seems pretty good for a myriad of genres. I've thrown rap, r&b, blues, country, etc .. at it and it's serviceable. Albeit, derivative due to it being a product of of ai. Still good

>>85467 Ventoy allows persistence without installing to an HDD. All on a usb

>>82964 How to stream video from VPS to multiple connecting computers (ideally using ffmpeg)? I figured out how to stream from my local computer back to itself ala: send: ffmpeg -i video.webm -v 0 -vcodec mpeg4 -f mpegts udp://127.0.0.1:20000 receive: ffplay -i udp://127.0.0.1:20000 and that works fine- but when I try variants of this on the VPS (sending to 127.0.0.1 and receiving at the VPS-IP+port) it fails terribly. I frankly have no idea how any of this really works, and poking around the web isn't helping much...

>>85576 you could setup an SFTP server and stream the videos on the client using mpv

>>85379 Just install linux mint. It runs pretty much out of the box. I made it the sole OS on my friend's new computer and he swapped to it from mac with zero issues. >What are some extremely necessary desktop features that don't pre-installed? Depends on your definition of necessary. Lutris is nice for playing games if you do that kind of thing. >>85578 That would work for asynch playback- but it wouldn't work for synchronous streaming, would it? As in, they would just d/l and playback at-will, yes? Ideally we would use this to all watch obscure anime together, so the ideal experience would be: 1) they all start listening at designated port with soykafty script 2) i start streaming video 3) enjoy

Konbanwa I'm running TuxedoOS which is a derivative of Ubuntu. It's default interface is the kde plasma interface which is a typical overlapping window interface that may make mac and windows users feel comfortable. I very much prefer sway to plasma, however. I have tried to set it up, it even shows up in a menu in the login manager, but if I select it, the computer just freezes up. I can't figure out why it may be jamming up. What can I try?

>>85580 if you want the watchers to be servers, you're gonna run into trouble with firewalls and NATs. it'd be much better to have a central server hosted on the VPS to provide everything to everyone. maybe write a simple HTTP server using Flask that provides the files at will? you can then do something like curl http://vps:ip/anime/somefuckingthing.mp4 -o - | mpv - Here's a working example that streams a video from IA: [code]curl -L "https://archive.org/download/serial-experiments-lain-english/MP4%20%28Lowest%20Quality%29/Layer-01-Serial-Experiments-Lain.mp4" -o - | mpv -

>>85654 Thanks for the help. I think I am explaining things terribly or misunderstanding you. >it'd be much better to have a central server hosted on the VPS to provide everything to everyone. This is the setup I am hoping to use. The only difference is that I want to provide them with a stream-in-progress, not with a file for them to d/l and play. As in, I would do something like: ffmpeg -i video.webm -v 0 -vcodec mpeg4 -f mpegts udp://127.0.0.1:20000 To stream my video to a set port on the VPS-localnetwork using whatever protocol works Then they would do something like: ffplay -i udp://vps:ip:20000 To pick up the stream at whatever point it happens to be at, and watch it play out. This sort of thing works locally, but doesn't seem to work when I try it on the VPS- not sure why... (VPS firewall is open to udp at the correct port, confirmed via doing other things over udp on the same port at different times) This synchronizes all of our viewing-experiences, since we are all receiving the same stream from the VPS (e.g: no worries about doing soykaf like 3... 2... 1... everybody hit play! now everybody pause! etc.) Aside on file-streaming-protocol: From the little I've read/understood, udp is not ideal for this since it doesn't guarantee delivery and most video formats rely on sequential-display (as in, information from frame 1 is used to build F2, F3, etc. until the next keyframe), so losing a frame here and there in-transfer will lead to gross artifacts. But I just want something that works, even poorly, before I go worrying over this sort of detail.

>>85645 >What can I try Arch, Gentoo? just make sure to install additional Tuxedo-specific software/drivers if you insist on using the current system, try running sway manually from tty

Recently I start used this utility to remove any metadata of my photos that I often share with my bois. Lainons, do you have some stuff to share with?

>>85678 how about man exiftool ? it even has a good examples section

just started using radio here, and file list link is 404. tried searching through documentation of azuracast, can't find anything related. what's the real working link?

>>85683 I am still working on fixing up the radio theme and integration , including file lists, please be patient.

>>85684 glad to know, thank you!

>>82964 Do you know any good gaming laptop or any other similar device? I'm thinking about buying a new laptop however I see that many modern laptops don't have replaceable battery so if the battery fumbles It's cooked, I heard that in multiple laptops the linux support is mid. I was thinking about getting a steamdeck, apparently the battery can be repaired easily, and it's less expensive that many modern day laptops that are priced above 1000$. However the main problems with the steamdeck it's that I can only modify the home directory and the screen is a bit tiny.

>>85712 This is borderline trolling. Read what's profile

A bit off topic, but how is the quality of posters on this site compared to /g/? I used to frequent /dpt/ and I'm looking for a good alternative

>>85461 >IDE for HTML, CSS and JS Everybody and their grandmother use VS Code for frontend development, but I'm sure some autist has made it work for emacs or vim. >Setting up nginx or caddy Learning reverse proxying is hard. Make sure you first of all understand why reverse proxies exist intuitively, and then consume as many examples as you need to. >browser cache prevents CSS updates from loading. Your browser probably has a hard-refresh function. On firefox you hold CTRL to make the refresh hard. >>85707 Linux support for modern gaming laptops is manageable. The big issues with gaming laptops are the same as with windows: having very loud fans and glowing red hot keyboard the moment you fire up a demanding game. That's simply the thermodynamic reality of stuffing a tiny box with as much as modern bloated gaming requires. Battery also lasts too short to my liking when gaming. That being said, my purchase was worth it, and even moreso since I can dock it and use it as a pseudo-desktop whenever I want to. If you decide to buy one, you should NOT buy any new-new laptops because the improvements have tapered off massively in recent years and you're spending a premium for nothing. Buy one that's a few gens behind and you save a lot of money. >steamdeck can only modify the home directory Don't know it well but I'm sure someone has either already found or will find a way to jailbreak it. >>85735 lainchan has way less inflammatory baiting, but knowledge-wise it's roughly equal.

Never did much webdevelopment and decided to get my feet wet with hosting and IT by renting a vps and running a suite of tools for myself on it. I reached the email part and hit a wall because of pesky spam blocking. Are you only allowed to basically route your emails through cloudflare or gmail or other big tech companies now? Can't an honest user just host his own email server without the whole internet blacklisting his server because it's not "reputable" enough? I saw that if you wanted to build your "rep", you would have to start sending emails regularly slowly and gently build it up. All while running the risk of any domain thinking that you looked sketchy and blacklisting you for themselves and everyone else they know. Is this really the current state of email servers? This soykaf fuarrrking is like kicking dead whales down the beach.

>>85740 https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html It seems like self-hosting email is dead and even rep-based email is dead. Google has an iron grip on email. Sadly I think it's better this way, because 0.01% of people this hurt are self-hosters and 99.99% jeet spammers. I'm not sure how else you'd do away with spam and email abuse in the modern world. Same reason why so much of modern tech is locked-down (cloudflare, api key hell, kid-proofing in general etc). For every 1 grateful tech-minded person you have using flexible technology, you have 900 stupid people breaking it or 900 malevolent people exploiting it. Modern tech organizations just can't afford to be courteous because too many normal users are using technology.

>>85741 Interesting read... Oh well. Guess I will have to bite the bullet and pay an email provider. At least this way I can still use my domain name.

>>85736 Not exactly jailbreak but you can disable that option and edit anyway, however the downside is that if you decide to update the steamdeck it might wipe out things outside the /home directory. So you will have to either have the steamdeck outdated or somehow restore what was outside the home dir.

I want to make a TF2 server and i know the bare minimum is like 1,5GB RAM to be safe Which one of these should I rent -3,63€ for 2vCores, 2GB RAM (Can surely run 1 server well, perhaps even 2) -7,26€ for 2vCores 4GB RAM (Can surely run 2 servers at once)

Hi lain, I was poking around at /usr/games on my netbsd box, and I found this mail address in the man page for hack(6): mcvax!aeb I know it's some kind of pre-ip routing, but I could never find any info on google for "net addresses with bangs in them". All I can tell is that i'd be mailing to a vaxen. Do any of you lain know how to decode this?

>>85753 https://sourceforge.net/projects/nethack-revived-reloaded/files/source/ >Send complaints, bug reports, suggestions for improvements to mcvax!aeb - in real life Andries Brouwer. from his website: >email: aeb@cwi.nl it's probably some way of concealing the domain in his usenet group when that manual page was written idk. it's not a caesar 13 but maybe some other rotation.

>>85753 this style of drawing eyes is just awful I mean, the eyes are the worst of the style anyway

>>85761 everything this guy draws makes me wanna puke

>>85761 >>85771 Why are you so mad, he is just very good at depicting individuals who suffer chronic levels of drug addiction

>>85773 Ive seen druggies and they don't look like that Im not mad I just dont like looking at the awful picture

>>85776 i like those drawings, we're all entitled to our opinions. you're not entitled to derail the thread though. it's not a 4chan "tomorrow's gone so i might just soykaf on it as i please".

>>85776 Besides the schizo colored hair, this looks like your normal section 8 housing resident.

>>85802 yeah but both black or white tweakers on dat g funk ngl

I don't know anything about networking and was wondering if anyone could help me figure out how to send files from a windows machine to a linux system over the same network, or at least point me in the right direction.

>>85807 I personally use FTP for same network file transfers, it's handled by the default windows file explorer, and easily usable on linux via a gui or commandline. SMB also seems popular, but i've never tried it.

>>85807 Were you the same poster asking about keyloggers? I answered you in tht thread before jans 404'd it. In case that wasnt you, you can send files from win to linux the same way as from linux to windows. Macs are the only system so advanced they are incompatible with everyone else. Scp, sftp, https, fuarrrkin pop, smtp, DNS, literally all the protocols and most can be tunneled too. Its a question of use case. You wanna transfer quiet or fast or secure or bulk or what?

>>85811 The other lainon suggestion of ftp is probably the easiest, which I think may what you want, but Id probably go with smb in file explorer, its as easy to use but modern version is encrypted. You have to share the file or folder on the win system to your LAN, then in linux mount the smb share, for ubuntu its folder app -> network then enter smb://<win ip>/filepathtoshare. These usually require passwords or keys though, but all can be scripted. Ssh/scp is the same way. Theres also the sn@pdr0p(.)n3t option I suggested but its in browser and graphical, so may be more difficult to script. Outside that theres numerous ways to script it raw. Somewhere in between writing raw tcp sockets and ready to go program, is n3tc@t but my only recommendation would be to install nm4p to get nc4t and save your self the MASSIVE headache of making nc binaries.

>>85807 1. Set up OpenSSH server on Lunix 2. Disallow password login and generate a SSH key (ssh-keygen) 3. Copy the pubkey to Windoze 4. SSH to Linux server, you can use OpenSSH client or PUTTY. 5. Use scp or SFTP to get/put files. 6. yay

>>85834 This, except xir said they have no networking skills and id place passwordless ssh keys at atleast post-newb skill level

>>85836 We don't have the same definition of noob. All it takes is following any random tutorial.

>>85807 FROM python:3.11 RUN pip install magic-wormhole-mailbox-server CMD [ "twist", "wormhole-mailbox","--usage-db=usage.sqlite" ] docker build -t magicwormhole Dockerfile docker run -p 4000:4000 -d magicwormhole wormhole --relay-url=ws://localhost:4000/v1 send FILENAME This.

>>85838 Dont get brazen with me sir. SSH is at least 1 rung above drag and drop.

>>85840 Wormhole is not going to install natively on windows so its asking another step of xir also wormhole is over kill as it uses relays. Xir is asking about LAN only, so only needs a simple local protocol. .>>85808 Im the exact opposite, never tried ftp (outside of labs) as its insecure by nature, smb is default on most modern windows and modern smb is encrypted by default. Its the same if not easier then ftp. May need to be turned on in optional features for windows, but i believe ftp has to be turned on similarly. Once you find your share in your network tab in explorer, its like copy/pasting any other file normally. Can even cli copy or move.

>>85807 cd C:\your\directory python -m "http.server" 80 go to the linux machine and open the local address of the windows machine on your browser or not, lainchan thinks my post is spam for some reason

>>85834 thanks a lot! >teh body was too short or something

>>82965 If anyone else cares, I figured how to do that. GPAC is the tool (https://github.com/gpac/gpac) To extract the first frame of an hevc stream: MP4Box -add-image video.mkv -ab heic -new image.heic

When i look up old anime torrents should i download the best quality / BD (for example 1080p) or something nearer what resolution TVs used to have (480p, 720p)? For example, i've seen people say that SEL is better on the older DVD release even though some say the BD release is "more true" to the original cels work. this is probably more suited to /vis/ but i don't want to make an entire thread

>>85924 it's like, your opinion, maaan. for pretty much any anime: highest res you can get for lain: 480p on a real CRTV, ideally playing it off of a non-standard device like a psp with cable converters

>>85924 >i've seen people say that SEL is better on the older DVD release Nonsense and demonstrably false. Not a matter of opinion. In other cases there's more opinion involved. Like Haibane Renmei, Gankatsuo, and some others are digital upscales. So other than having better color quality and no mosquito noise and blocking so characteristic of MPEG2, it's debateable whether you wouldn't be better off realtime upscaling it yourself and having a file like 1/4 the size. For reference and credentialism, I wouldn't fluff myself up like some sort of big time expert, however I have gone through several anime frame by frame (for various reasons) and I did get into avisynth and go through and manually IVTC / repair some DVD quality stuff with YATTA back in the day. So what I'm saying is not strictly a superficial impression from just watching something. With Lain I don't agree with it at all. Some of the artwork and animation is in such a way that like Haibane Renmei it sort of becomes... I don't know, odd, globular. That was the case with Ergo Proxy as well, which had a better digital asset upscaling process. But overall with Lain the BDs are way better. Even the digital effects don't show much in the way of upscaling artifacts.

>>85936 Example. I've taken pic 2 and run it through an ESRGAN anti-aliasing model to fix the patchy line continuity. The result seems alright. If you look closely the foreground (Lain) seems to have faint haloing caused by some sort of sharpening filter perhaps. Definitely a sharpening process was used, which may have been part of what disrupted the outlines when applied following another upscaling process. The AA model somewhat amplified the sharpening artifacts. Second one was a vague attempt to diminish artifacts so they wouldn't be amplified. Shrug. The original wasn't bad anyway though. A lot of the time people are using a bitrate starved re-encode (coalgirls for Lain eg) to judge, rather than the native BDs. For the hell of it also, supposedly the UK NGE BDs were superior to R2 Japanese release, but I didn't see that much difference. Either way, download a remux or BDISO. Not someone's "release". Release culture was a mistake, but a necessary one, that formed due to the need to IVTC and patch up DVDs. No longer relevant.

>>85937 I really don't have anything else to ask, thank you so much for the exhaustive answer

probably a dumb question: If i were to stick a fridge magnet on the side of a very chunky desktop computer, would I be running a risk of it causing damages to my system?

>>85954 Ferrite magnets (the black ones) are pretty weak, you don't risk anything. I doubt even a neodimium magnet (the shiny ones) would cause problems unless you put it right next to a spinning HDD.

Is firefox bloated? I have an 8GB ideapad 1 with void linux and jwm, and leaving firefox on (even with a single tab) freezes jwm. is it just the hardware?

Since a couple days ago, youtube has been blocking my IP randomly, for intervals ~1h long. I use yt-dlp for every video, but I don't think I've been abusing the service. I don't mass-download and I use low resolutions. Has that happened to anyone else? >ERROR: [youtube] XXXXXXXXXXX: Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. Use --cookies-from\ -browser or --cookies for the authentication. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/w\ iki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp for how to manually pass cookies. Also see \ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Extractors#exporting-youtube-cookies for tips \ on effectively exporting YouTube cookies

>>85982 I haven't really hit this but I do mask my mpv use slightly with the browser option and only very rarely download videos otherwise. I'm also in a pretty poor country using old computers with ad revenue that's still somehow worth it, though, so I guess my marginal use bypasses some filters. Have you tried using proxies, etc? In case you don't want to log in.

>>85980 All modern browsers are bloated! Firefox is not better than Chromium in this respect. They both are just as bloated. But even a VM with 4GB RAM limit can be used to surf the Web. If having too high RAM consumption was the issue, the Linux kernel OOM killer would kill random processes until there is enough RAM. Your problem is related to hardware or the firefox package is broken on Void. Try Firefox ESR or use Flatpak.

>>85980 >>85997 Could be the hw, hmmm. I'm on void jwm w/6 gigs of ram and it works fine with around 10 open (Also hii fellow jwm user!)

why do autistic skiddies who have chronic posture problemsby 12 be so obsessed with muh dark themes and cramming as much soykaf as possible on one page and on lcd of all things so the backgroundd is 50nits and the font is 500 nits. you do realize actual real content for reading (such as books or academic journals ) limits the characters on a line to something around 30-80 WWW was a mistake

>brooooo i need to make the font 3 pixels high or else its a waste of space >auuuuuuuuggghghhhh >[autism intensifies]

>>85982 youtube blocks old versions of yt-dlp every once in a while, update it and try again

>>85997 >>86038 >>85980 I'm also on Void and Firefox occasionally freezes and I need to kill the process. It's quite rare so I didn't do anything with that. I have 24GB of ram and firefox usually takes about 1GB.

>>86046 I have no idea what you're talking about but a single 27'' 4k display at 100% scaling and an Iosevka pt font comfortably fits 8, 79 character with buffers. At a 1-ish foot viewing distance for me assuming you have a high contrast (white or black, black on white, don't really care) environment.

>>86077 >27'' 4k Your opinion was never asked

Are there any invidious instances left that don’t require JavaScript? That was the main appeal to me, but now all of them want you to prove you’re not a bot.

Is Intel PMT enabled by default in debian and what good does disabling or blacklisting it do?

>>86099 Host your own. There're only a few official public ones left, all obviously overused. The filter they use (Anubis) is open-source and doesn't fingerprint you, no third-party connections at least. If that's what concerns you. You can find more instances here, some work: https://github.com/iv-org/documentation/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20label%3Ainstance-add%20 But GitHub won't show you them without JS.

How come whenever I click on Chrome, it immediately closes all my tabs? Are they officially done with win7 users or something?

>>86127 >win7 Any Linux distro is better at this point. Just use Wine or Proton for all your Windows programs. I suggest Lubuntu because it's very similar to Windows 7.

>>86141 Every conventional distro is slower than win7 atp and you're SOL with games if your gpu doesnt support vulkan or is older than the GTX 900 series

>>86141 N-no thanks... I installed Supermium so it's all good.

>>86141 Quite ironically windows 7 is like kicking dead whales down the beach less than majority of distros because it doesn't have a freedesktop and ms were not such evil pieces of soykaf back then yet.

where can i learn about american society & culture as someone who has never stepped foot outside of europe? i need to know enough to pass as an american in my LARP. for example, what would someone read if they were a spy from montenegro and wanted to move to america, pretending to be born there? is there a website for this

>>86177 ask on an imageboard. also just act as stupid and pretentious as you can and you'll not just pass as an american, you'll be like a true native of america

There's nothing out there like Windows 7, that I've seen. I run Arch in a VM, xfce window manager. It can do most of what I need with wine, but there are all kinds of little thing I just do not like. The terminal is like kicking dead whales down the beach, MSYS2's mintty is way better. The archive unpacker is retarded, I tried to drag and drop into a folder on the desktop, wherver it put it, wasn't that folder. Nothing like 7zip's dile explorer that just pops up. I don't like the file explorer period. Clunky and half baked. Thundar or whatever they named it. Don't even get me started on "Konsole". In terms of performance, perhaps security, and core architecture, it's better. In everything else, it's a downgrade. Win 7's way of doing things just works. I don't know why everything else seems inferior. And even the added features, like multiple / virtual desktops, seems to just be there to compensate for the fact that the core mechanics don't work. Boggles the mind.

>>86181 >I run Arch in a VM, >Clunky and half baked lmao what else did you except from the meme distro of the century?

Can anyone offer some sane way of dealing with background noise for ffmpeg recordings? I've been trying different things, such as `-af "highpass=f=80, lowpass=f=8000"` and `afftdn`, `agate`, and I even tried SoX -- But it ends up sound robotic, not correct removing things, etc. Is there some low impact, low resource way to deal with background noise (i.e. fans, hums, etc.)? I know this is a retarded question because there's certain specifics involved, but I'd really rather just pass another ffmpeg flag to solve the problem than install some 80+ dependency software just to stop a hum.

does RMS unironically have no problem with fundamentally insecure tech like WWW or does he do this on purpose (e.g., implementing piles of job security horseshit such as the entirety of GNU) and hes just the OG e-grifter he never has any problem with any software, only the license of them >>86170 you sound new

>>86208 >you sound new it's only because you're either quite newer or just retarded

so i'm having what seems to me a strange issue. torsocks works fine with some commands, but fails with others. in the past, it worked with those other commands tho. commands like sftp and curl. when i do torsocks with sftp, the error i get looks like this: 1746777921 ERROR torsocks[4240]: Connection refused to Tor SOCKS (in socks5_recv_connect_reply() at socks5.c:543) in the case of torsocks curl, the error is different: 1746778002 WARNING torsocks[4291]: [connect] Connection to a local address are denied since it might be a TCP DNS query to a local DNS server. Rejecting it for safety reasons. (in tsocks_connect() at connect.c:191) curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 9050 after 0 ms: Couldn't connect to server i know for a fact that torsocks curl worked fine in the past. it was how i tested that tor was working. oh, yeah, but so like, torsocks works with some other commands. like my irc client. very strange

>>86243 I don't know about sftp. For curl, it's a case of the developer being stupid. https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/11125 You can workaround it by telling it to use a proxy, but it won't work for other applications using curl. > curl -x 'socks5h://localhost:9050' ...

>>86243 idk about that error, i know that torsocks like proxychains is basically a hack and is known to have leaks and undefined behaviour. if you want to run things over tor securely you should look into a tor transparent proxy using your system's firewall i.e. nothing but tor is permitted so leaks can't happen. https://digdeeper.club/articles/darknetslack.xhtml (linux) nanochan has a guide for bsd somewhere. as for "if you should do this", well i used to but i kinda don't trust proxying everything through 3 unknown computers on the internet that change every 10 minutes anymore unless i really need it.

>>86246 https://github.com/heiher/hev-socks5-tunnel this. IIRC it works like a charm. Just make a virtual machine.

To run a tor node or really any kind of node is the only way to limit the bandwidth with a managed switch?

yo >>86243 here. i'm a dumbass. torsocks sftp error was on the server end. fixed by restarting the server. fugin misleading error message smh

ok well how do i make obfs4 transport use a different local port? do i set the torrc?

How to mirror android screen? Literally. Not cast it to somewhere or anything

Not quite a tech question, but more like a general one: Has anyone contacted the admin of FreeDNS/Afraid.org recently? The domain I added has been stuck on Stealth and I wanted to make it Shared so others can use the domain. I'm not a premium member either, it's just stuck like that. I contacted him via the provided email several months ago and haven't heard a response since. Is he alive or what?