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Tech Questions #14 Old Thread: >>82964 Ask your simple questions in this thread. You will get replies more likely if you use this thread because many posters regularly visit this thread.

I want to run a GOG game that require libgconf. However, as far as I'm aware, the library isn't available in debian 13. What are my options (short of reinstalling my OS to downgrade to debian 12)? t. computer noob. I think this could be done with docker, but I don't really know how.

>>86530 You have no options. Either maintain a chroot with an older operational system, or check out this https://gpo.zugaina.org/Overlays/kzd/gnome-base/gconf and build it yourself. You may also download the library and add it somewhere to LD_LIBRARY_PATH

>>86530 >>86534 I managed to create a docker image with the correct libraries, but now it segfaults... I ended up running the windows version in wine. It was missing a few dlls, but it worked once I had tracked them down. It's pretty ironic that it's easier to run a windows game than a native linux build.

>>86536 You have no one except yourself to blame because docker is probably the most wrong solution for your problem, since docker wasn't meant to run GUIs in the first place. https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/gno Just fuarrrking /bin/make it into /usr/local and put /usr/local/lib or whatever in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/gnome/GConf.html

>>86538 >>86539 Thanks. I tried that, but it still doesn't work. I don't mind using wine to be honest. >docker wasn't meant to run GUIs in the first place. I did use docker to run GUI apps in the past though. Thinking about it, it makes sense that it wouldn't "just work" since the container would need to be aware of the existing X server.

>>86556 >I tried that, but it still doesn't work If you elaborate on what exactly you did and what exactly failed, I might be able to help.

>>83489 >How do I buy expensive electronics off Amazon without getting scammed by counterfeiters? >>83496 >I've bought quite a few devices there, both consumer and professional grade, and never received a counterfeit. >>83511 >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. It's true that very extensive use can be a good indicator, but trial and error would not be not something I want to engage in. You could receive a malicious device that does the damage as soon as you plug it in. Or it could work fine, but only for half the normal lifetime. Also, very extensive use would probably put you outside of the return window?

Is there any advantage to an external SSD over a normal flash drive? Seems like the storage capacities are about the same for similar costs.

>>86582 External SSD's are cheaper from my experience, they're also more portable and easier to stack up. The only downside is the transfer speed

>>86583 Sorry, I mean external SSD vs thumb drive/USB stick, not vs an internally-mounted SSD.

>>86582 >>86586 Flash drives are not as reliable as external SSDs or external HDDs. I would get an external HDD, if I had to choose from these 3 options because they are cheaper and the most reliable one out of these options (if you want to use it for long-term data storage).

i'm a newcomer to gopher and i don't understand if communication on the protocol is encrypted or plain text. If it is, let's say i access a gopher:// link, how do i know if it's encrypted?

>>86689 Gopher is generally unencrypted, although nothing prevents you from using gopher over TLS. As for how to know whether the server you're talking to uses TLS, that will depend on your client... One way to be sure is to look at the packets with wireshark. If you want gopher but encrypted, use gemini.

>>86582 external ssds are sometimes worse than normal flash drive. I recommend getting japan-made flash drives. the generic sandisk out there can die at any moment but maybe you could snag a jp-barcode sandisk or from a jp-seller but... personally I would just buy a USB3.0-SDXC adaptor and a microSD: 128GB up to 2TB if I were you (or a high endurance one for extra TBW), it's faster, you can use it on phone or camera or laptop/tablet. use it via USB OTG, and it works well and is exFAT so it works across any device ootb, it doesn't die out randomly, waterproof xray-proof, portable, drop proof. the next best thing is preused 2.5 HDDs which are CMR, the new ones are now using less platters and SMR so I don't recommend them for intensive backups.

>>86692 Amazing, I have just read someone recommend an SD card as reliable data storage.

are engineers mentally ill? why did the java/oracle/sun website have fonts half a pixel tall for over 20 years? cbf to list other examples rn but you get the point

what is the point of escaping @ in bash? for example if you have a file named lol@wut, and type lol<tab>, it completes to lol\@wut (on certain systems) is @ a special character like ~ or $ in some context?

alright i stumbled on one example, even though it's probably not documented in man bash $ [[ gayniggers == @(gay|fat)niggers ]] && echo yes yes $ [[ fatniggers == @(gay|fat)niggers ]] && echo yes yes $ [[ dogniggers == @(gay|fat)niggers ]] && echo yes $ any more?

I need a new adblocker since ublock got shut down. I tried ghostly but it honestly just doesn't work as well as ublock did. is there anything else?

>>86731 I recommend you switch to Chromium, Firefox or some other browser that respects your freedoms. Alternatively, you can install uBlock Origin Lite (made by the same programmer as uBlock Origin).

>>86731 >ublock got shut down Did I miss some news somewhere? Still works great for me in Palemoon.

>trying out gentoo >emerging cryptsetup >latex USE flag on >>>>> Emerging (1 of 100) >latex use flag off >>>>> Emerging (1 out of 18) Can someone enlighten me on why the fuarrrk this happened? I would've actually sat through it if I didn't pay attention to all the latex popping up on the screen

>>86804 argon2 fips gcrypt kernel nettle nls openssl passwdqc pwquality ssh static static-libs test udev urandom i don't know, maybe you have other retarded use flags enabled that pull in latex in an attempt to compile some documentation. anyway you use gentoo so figure it out yourself ok?

>>86805 Some dependency of cryptsetup was probably using the latex flag. I'm guessing he enabled it globally in make.conf.

>>86806 he can mask latex then emerge and see what breaks that would be insightful though it's far easier to just not enable use flags globally. i mean only use global for what's very essential. like jemalloc or dkms or vulkan. you get the meaning

What's a good app for browsing imageboards on Android? Kuroba-ex is dead and it doesn't look like there's any good forks.

didn't take long. samsung rolled one ui 7 on me and it's noticeably slower and interface is worse that 6.1. not even mentioning the absolute lack of necessity of changing user interfaces ever. 1. everything gets worse 2. everything gets slower to force you to buy new fuarrrk

additionally openboard broke. amazing. installed heliboard, but holy soykaf it isn't the same at all. maybe i'll get used to it, but i really wish openboard just worked. i doubt anyone's gonna fix it. there hasn't been any development in years. i still hope. fuuuckk this piece of cancer. there are no legitimate reasons to keep updating the soykaf. android 8 had ALL you ever needed.

>>86829 Android 4.2 was all I ever needed, jumped ship to feature phones after the writing was on the wall for mobile FOSS around the android 7 days when the rot was obvious

invidious: >Your browser is configured to disable cookies. Anubis requires cookies for the legitimate interest of making sure you are a valid client. Please enable cookies for this domain. because third party cookies are blocked. fuarrrk you all. fuarrrk the world. even youtube works.

>>86840 inv.nadeko.net my friend, it is the best invidious instance and its not even close

>>86846 nadeko also requires Anubis, but for some reason it works without javascript now?

>>86804 You need to post your make.conf and relevant files from your package.use dir. You probably have enabled too many USE flags in your make.conf because everything in make.conf is global. You should use it only for basic things and for disabling stuff you don't normally need.

>>86846 It's one of like two public instances remaining. Google will kill it like the other instances and yt-dlp.

>>86879 The dude has been very diligent keeping it up, it has 7 hosts for redundancy in case 1 goes down or is under load and the google fuarrrkery is fixed within a couple of hours/1 day whenever it happens Ofc custom clients will have invidious compatibility broken due to forced API changes so Movian for instance cannot use any invidious instance, those ARE niggerfucked unless someone has the willpower to fix them every month Yt-dlp is far too supported to ever go bust, the only functionality thats lost is age restriction bypasses but somehow yt1s has gotten past it?? Yt-dlp self updates, downloads and even streams just fine on my powerbook and has done so for years so I think we're in good hands

>>86887 >7 hosts for redundancy Hats off to the dude, but when Google decides inv.nadeko.net is shut down, it will be. They can find the IPs or accounts he uses easily and ban them. >Yt-dlp is far too supported Supported by whom? It's a reversed unofficial ToS violating client. Google has been banning VPN and server IPs without accounts. Yt-dlp is heading toward mandatory account or at least a home IP. Neither of those is private, when Google can't serve someone ads they'll make them pay with their identity and YouTube history.

What's a good email client? I've used a few ones for short periods (claws, neomutt, and aerc) but I'm too lazy and always went back to webmail. I'm tempted to try thunderbird because it looks like the justworks option, but nonfat-soykaf drinkers tell me it's bloated and insecure :D

>>86993 what's wrong with claws? literally just werks

>>86999 I've been using it for a while (too lazy to either fix it or switch), but no it doesn't. Note that some of this is quite possibly from config issues on my hand > Hangs when it loses network (needs to be killed) > Duplicates mails when filtering (at least it has an option to delete duplicates) > Idk how it selects the account when sending mail, but it's never the one i want. > Doesn't allow searching in the mail body

>>87001 1. Socket timeout in preferences 2. ??? doesn't duplicate for me 3. Drop down menu above your subject in Compose window 4. Unfortunately

I thought my chromebook was a piece of junk, now I'm thinking 4G might be reasonable if the OS didn't take up 2.3G. Do OSs normally use this much?

Anybody knows why firefox stopped working with ALSA all of a sudden?

>>87052 You could try running top and sorting by memory usage to see if there are any obvious culprits

What are the steps involved in establishing a Wifi connection and what each side does? I was surprised to learn that a laptop/phone does not just listen for router's signals but also broadcasts some information.

>>87055 To make you dependent on redhat poetteringware rust pulseaudio. >>87058 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11#Management_frames This is the part that can be done passively by clients, scanning the list of access points: >Beacon frame: Sent periodically from an access point to announce its presence and provide the SSID and other parameters for WNICs within range. Connecting to Wi-Fi is two-way: >When shared key authentication is being used, the WNIC sends an initial authentication request, and the access point responds with an authentication frame containing challenge text. >The WNIC then sends an authentication frame containing the encrypted version of the challenge text to the access point. >The access point confirms the text was encrypted with the correct key by decrypting it with its own key. >The result of this process determines the WNIC's authentication status.

Hey guys. This is nothing at all, but I made this animation yesterday and I want to share it somewhere. I hope it's worth a post.

Do you need ChromeOS even? There are some much smaller resource OS out there

Why is moving files on android so fuarrrking slow? It took over a minute to move just 50 MB folder of small jpegs.

>>87066 Wrong thread, but that looks cool. What does it represent? >>87072 Probably for the same reason as on windows. It copies the files individually to a temp location to allow to cancel the move. I doubt it accounts for a full minute, but there is probably also an artificial delay so that it "feels like it's doing something".

>>87072 This is the future you chose. Or the one Google chose for you. install gentoo

>>87073 Thank you! Yes, I know thread / board was questionable, but I figured it will be okay because it is for minor things. It's really something I made because I was clueless about sin cos tan etc. Honestly, I am well into my 30s and I couldn't tell which sides the cosine divides. (Still can't really.) I am on "fails hs school hard" level. So I needed all the clues I could give me. So after some inspiration online like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TrigFunctionDiagram.svg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Circle-trig6.svg I gave adjacent and opposite "psychologically" suitable colors, then hypotenuse the remaining B from RGB. Then, as for colors of the six funcs, they are averages of colors of the sides they divide. E.g. sine and cosecant are violet because they divide opp / hyp and hyp / opp, respectively. And those are red and blue. Etc. (Identity of funcs within color pairs follows from which gets shorter as which sides of triangle get shorter / longer. Suppose I could have added labels, but it would clutter.) And also, co-functions cos ctg csc are dashed, regular ones are solid. (Applies also to circles whose radii are the given function.) Then, I marked tan and ctg in two places because it fit. It turned out it illustrates functions' range values nicely too. Note etymologies are relevant: secant "cuts" through circle, tangent "touches" one, sine is a bowstring. And co-functions seem to indeed complement the others. It looks neat, but first version was handdrawn. I got lucky. There were many lucky ideas. Made with matplotlib + numpy + a bit of ai (of course). Animation is just calling the script from Bash for values of angle from 0 to 90 (1 to 89 really) and ffmpeg for making webm from pngs.

>>87073 >>87075 If you like, I can post the code. It's short and simple.

>>87070 I have the ISO for nanolinux but I can't get it burn flashdrives https://sourceforge.net/projects/nanolinux/

>>87052 What does chromeOS do for you that a lightweight gnu/linux distro doesn't?

>>87077 Why not try another linux distro that utilizes the least resources like tiny core linux? What problem(s) are you running into when you say you can't burn it to a flash drive? Also to answer your OP question I'd say 4gb can be enough for light use but 8gb is still acceptable for heavy use. I've worked in GIMP on 2000x3000 canvas sizes easily, only experiencing 5-10 seconds of lag when applying a change to a large portion of the image.

>>87052 Chrome seems to preallocate %50 of RAM, probably to keep things snappy and responsive, and it releases that preallocated RAM as needed; starting up the linux VM actually drops RAM usage by 1gig on my Chrome tablet. If you watch the RAM usage while you use the device you see starting an app often decreases RAM use and even when it doesn't RAM usage often increases far less than you would expect. Are you encountering issues with RAM usage or did you just assume RAM was an issue because %50 usage with nothing open? >>87078 Multitouch and stylus support are infinitely better and the linux VM works flawlessly out of the box.

>>87052 >"MemorySaverModeSavings": 2, Try this enterprise policy then look at RAM usage: { "MemorySaverModeSavings": 2, "SavingBrowserHistoryDisabled": true, "ClearBrowsingDataOnExitList": [ "browsing_history", "download_history", "cookies_and_other_site_data", "cached_images_and_files", "password_signin", "autofill", "site_settings", "hosted_app_data" ] }

>>87083 Actually, I don't think preallocate is quite right, I think the RAM usage has something to do with how security on Chrome works and how it isolates apps, there is a hard line between app memory and user memory. Something like that, vague recollection of this being explained to me by someone who understands this stuff, main thing is that ChromeOS manages RAM very differently than most OSes and you can not compare them 1:1.

>>87082 >Tiny Core Linux Personally I was curious if OP could get EasyOS to run on their Chromebook. Not as small as Tiny Core Linux but still uses small memory and runs mainly in RAM to make things faster. I haven't used it myself but it looked like a good distro. Just don't know how polished it is currently. It doesn't use an ISO so OP might have better luck with it? I don't know.

>>87089 Generally the minimal distro's are not particularly lower on RAM usage than any distro as long as you avoid the big DEs. The minimal aspect mostly saves drive space but once you start installing stuff and their dependencies that is quickly lost unless you are very careful or stick to console. For years I have used notion for my window manager with no DE or anything fancy and regardless of distro it ends up about the same on base RAM usage. Saving a few dozen megs of RAM is almost never going to change anything if you are running out of RAM when you have 4G. Pick your distro by which is most suited to your needs, your use.

>>87075 In French we have great mnemonics for trigonometric functions: CAH SOH TOA (sounds like casse toi = fuarrrk off) CAH means "Cosine is adjacent over hypotenuse" SOH means "Sine is opposite over hypotenuse" TOA means "Tangent is opposite over adjacent Btw, the secant and tangent are found using similar triangles. Picrel

For a while now, youtube has been IP-blocking me. It isn't a permanent ban, just a couple of hours at a time during which I'll get the "Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot." message. For context, I never use the youtube.com site. The videos I want to watch are generally linked to from other sites, or I'll sometimes use an invidious instance to search for stuff. The videos themselves I download with yt-dlp. However, when the block is triggered, I can't use the official site either. Is that common? I think this started happening around the time I started self-hosting a website. Can it be related somehow? I doubt it since the website is hosted on IPv4 while my PC should use IPv6 by default.

>>87094 Well, yes, but my memory is ironically too bad for that. Mnemonics aren't. xkcd/809 and all that. I find etymologies are usually the best vehicle for me. Mnemonics are literally the opposite of etymologies; they are arbitrary breaks in causal chain. (And when there is no etymological/naming chain at all, i.e. the data is arbitrary to start, e.g. history, it is usually useless to study it in the first place.) Nice pic. But I think my pic reflects that too.>>87094

>>87097 >>87094 (It's just it, owing to my initial ignorance, it uses adjacent-unit rather than hypotenuse-unit, so tangent and secant are equal to hypotenuse and opposite. But I think this may be good. The number of functions hidden in sides is same as for hyp unit circle (in there, it is sin in opp and cos in adj), and the novel perspective may be nice. One of the pieces of luck. Perhaps.)

>>87055 They removed alsa support many years ago, but maybe you’re on debian. Install apulse.

>>87095 Yes, it's common. YouTube blocks server IP addresses and who knows what else. Google wants your personal data and having an account guarantees they get it. >website is hosted on IPv4 while my PC should use IPv6 by default Google probably extracts your IPv4 address from the browser as a telemetry data point. Enjoy your cyberpunk dystopia.

>>87122 >Yes, it's common. YouTube blocks server IP addresses and who knows what else. Where can I find discussions about this? All I could find were stale yt-dlp issues. >Google wants your personal data and having an account guarantees they get it. I don't doubt that's the reason. I previously lost access to a google account by refusing to give them my phone number. ("but muh 2fa", fuarrrk off. My password is good enough as long as you don't scatter it to the wind) >Google probably extracts your IPv4 address from the browser as a telemetry data point. As I said, I don't use the youtube.com website, so there isn't much they can extract from my browser. How would the browser even know its IPv4 address when it's behind a NAT?

>>87123 >As I said, I don't use the youtube.com website YouTube embeds are the same as visiting the website. It loads YouTube JS which amounts to unlimited tracking. Turn off JS and the embeds magically stop working. >How would the browser even know its IPv4 address when it's behind a NAT? Is your NAT blocking IPv4? If not, it's easy to find out the IPv4 address, put a YouTube's domains on IPv4 only and see where the request comes from. If no request arrives they know you have only IPv6 which is also valuable. Google probably maintains a mapping between your identity's addresses and used through yt-dlp, even if you're logged out and there's only IPv6 in network logs they probably know your other usual addresses because their business is hoovering up all your data and tracking you.

I've just installed Archlinux after quitting Windows 11, it was complicated at first but I started to enjoy the features and the programming. However, there's an issue with Nvidia that can't resolve it well. The screen freezes or starts to display error messages. I'm trying to fix it, but yet does not show to improve. It's supposed to support Nvidia Ampare GEFORCE RTX 3050 series. Does anyone can help me with the Nvidia problem?

>>87153 A wrapper is not an embed, a scraper script is also not one. JS is needed if a web wrapper wants to display things nicely and use a nice player, that does not mean they are from youtube. you can check in the developer tools, on the network tab, checking js only, while watching a video on an invidious instance. same is true for apps in electron like freetube, and maybe newpipe, idk, and scrapers like yt-dlp does not run any JS.

>>87153 It has been a while since I've seen a youtube embed that wasn't an empty frame. I generally block most 3rd party requests, so I'm quite sure the only things my browser loads from youtube are thumbnails (img.youtube.com and yt*.ggpht.com), or punctually some other google APIs whenever I have to use a soykafty site. But you're right it's likely they know that my IPv4 and IPv6 addresses come from the same network. From the tests I've done, it doesn't seem like either firefox or yt-dlp uses IPv4, but I haven't yet been able to check at a time I was blocked. Anyways, that wasn't my original question. Is it likely that the blocks are related to my hosting a website, or is it just that they want me to watch ads or at least give them more tracking data?

What do you need Linux for?

Are there any reliable YouTube frontends that exist for iOS? Yattee and uYou+ have failed spectacularly. YouTube has such a hardon for Piped and Invidious as well to the point where you cannot even use them in a browser. Every last instance either doesn't work or you have to 'sign in to prove you are not a bot' which also fails. I used to just have Newpipe on an Android device but was forced into getting an iPhone recently. Trying to see what my options are before resorting to jailbreaking the phone (if something goes wrong I could be in trouble; I'm not the one paying the bills on this thing). Any and all help is appreciated.

>>87246 For better liberties with programming, since Windows 11 and Microsoft haven't been softer on the restrictions with Powershell and Bitlocker over the past years.

Try adding nvidia.NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=0 to your kernel parameters.

>> fell for the linux and arch linux meme

>It's supposed to support It is supported and works well. Did you install the proprietary driver package? Did you do the suggested the kernel parameter config? What is your kernel command line? Is DRM enabled? cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset Wayland or Xorg? What DE? Everything up to date? Does it panic only on suspend? Try these: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Nvidia#Suspend_support >>87246 >>87249 These are astroturfers and maybe OP too. Yes, corporations pay some off-shore troll farm $20 to go to all the image boards to make Linux look bad.

>>87155 >A wrapper is not an embed Agree if you mean the Invidious proxy server. >scraper script is also not one Agree. I thought OP was loading embeds like everyone but in >>87157 he says that's disabled, maybe he's a uMatrix chad. In >>87095 he said: >For context, I never use the youtube.com site. >never False because in the same post he admits visiting the site: >However, when the block is triggered, I can't use the official site either. And there are a hundred other ways Google has the data, his phone, all the apps on his phone with Google libraries phoning home every minute. IP discovery doesn't need JS anyway, HTTP is enough. It's easy to find OP's IPv4 and IPv6 by sneaking in custom generated subdomains for a transparent pixel or empty CSS. >>87157 >Is it likely that the blocks are related to my hosting a website, or is it just that they want me to watch ads or at least give them more tracking data? The reason for your block is something YouTube's own support staff couldn't tell you, and it's irrelevant anyway. Google knows they got you by the balls because people can't go a week without watching slop. They can and will do anything to you while you rely on their service. fuarrrking torrent YouTube content at this point. Better yet, read blogs or a book. >>87159 >iOS >smartphones Stop feeding the gremlins. Does https://inv.nadeko.net/ not work on your iPhone?

Has anyone investigated whether utilizing a VGA monitor with TOR creates a fingerprinting risk due to its uncommon video resolution? I've been thinking, what if I repurpose an old monitor without a polarizing filter for private TOR browsing?

how do i got a xs4all acc? how do i got a xs4all acc?

>>87161 >Stop feeding the gremlins. I don't even want a smartphone, after months of begging from my parents I was eventually forced to own this stupid piece of crap. >Does https://inv.nadeko.net/ not work on your iPhone? It doesn't. After testing dozens of videos, each and every backend crashes and burns. If it turns out that iPhone users are just screwed when it comes to YouTube frontends, I've still got a (cumbersome) plan. On my laptop I've got Freetube, I can listen to music there, download songs I like onto the iPhone, then use a 3rd party app to create playlists. It's a lot of work relatively speaking but I refuse to use YouTube on any device. Not after all that Google has done.

>>87250 I've just picked restart, the this happens, and sometimes manifest again randomly.

Since ebooks' advantage is their adaptavility to any screen they are displayed on, why don't they use SVGs? It would make sense to use them whenever possible, like for displaying maps or simple shapes. They could be used for some book covers even. Why isn't this common practice?

>>87072 >>87073 I just copied a 600MB file and it took less than 2 seconds. There's a disproportionate overhead associated when moving small files, which disproportionately wears out flash memory. That's why SD cards in Raspberry Pis die so often. Assuming an average size of 50KB per "small" jpeg, you were moving around 1000 files, which would explain the whole minute. >It copies the files individually to a temp location to allow to cancel the move Got a source for this?

mumble-server is such utter thrash that they didn't even document how to set SuperUser password. umurmurd is orders of magnitude better, but under CPU load I have latency 10-15 seconds while in game ping is 50-100ms . Is this your state of art garbage?

Where is the toggle in tor browser now to not redirect me to an onion site? I keep typing in urls of certain sites and tb decides that I want to go to the onion site version of it despite the fact I don't need the extra latency for ddg.

Does Western Digital still have a reputation for reliable consumer HDDs?

>>87169 >I don't even want a smartphone >I was eventually forced to own this stupid piece of crap. >I refuse to use YouTube on any device. >Not after all that Google has done. Damn, I'd be so proud as a parent, you're 1 in 10,000 or 1 in 100,000. Wouldn't force an iPhone on you, that's for sure. >each and every backend crashes and burns It must be pure coincidence that the iPhone can't play back standard x264 aac mp4 that Invidious serves. Or that Google blocks the proxy. Try changing different "Preferred DASH video quality" in settings or refresh the page a few times, it might load. >download songs I like onto the iPhone, then use a 3rd party app to create playlists VLC on iOS can serve a web page, e.g. http://192.168.0.20 where you can upload and download media locally from your laptop. Maybe VLC can do playlists too, been a while since I used it.

It's humiliating how I feel like this should be in it's own thread, but here we go: >wanting to install Debian on my Arm Chromebook >had an ISO burned on my thumb drive from previous attempts >not debian, though. Another random distro I won't remember the name >finally bite the bullet, wipe the Downloads folder, and decompress the tarball >the built-in ISO burner is acting like a bitch >tries to change the language from Dutch to English >(i don't speak Dutch, but I learn it.) >it says it needs to restart >ok >>>>>>>total fuarrrkup >the settings won't even load Does anyone know what this is, and how can I finally burn the image (https://github.com/velvet-os/imagebuilder/releases/tag/230920-01) on the drive? Inb4, it's a Lenovo Chromebook 100e 2nd gen. I removed the TPM and WP and all of that. My struggle was burning the image into the drive. Thanks in advance.

Suffer for buying a chromebook

Do they word filter the email box? Test Test Test

>>87186 I skimmed through the page and thought it was an Ideapad with a smaller screen. :( Anyway, I found out the recovery utility does not accept .img files. What should I do? >>87187 It also doesn't filter the subject box.

Hello. I regret that a problem has arisen with installing Debian/any other Linux distribution on your Chromebook. Now I’ll try to clearly write out what and how needs to be done. Let’s begin with the disk image. The disk image (ISO file) can be downloaded from the official website (https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/arm64/iso-dvd/debian-12.11.0-arm64-DVD-1.iso), but if you are using a different processor architecture on your Chromebook (not arm64), then also try downloading the following image: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/armhf/iso-dvd/debian-12.11.0-armhf-DVD-1.iso, which should work if the first one (see the first link) didn’t succeed. P.S. You can check your Chromebook’s architecture using the built-in Chrome OS utility, which you can run by entering the following in the Google Chrome address bar: chrome://diagnostics. This will open a new window and immediately show CPU and RAM usage. Above the CPU usage statistics, you’ll see the name of the processor. You can send me this information as a photo or text, whichever is most convenient for you. The next step will be writing the Debian image to a flash drive or any other storage device. This is done using the Chromebook Recovery Utility (the one that was open in your photo). If you do not have it, you can install it from the Chrome Web Store by searching for “Chromebook Recovery Utility” and then adding this extension to your Chromebook. After installing or launching the Chromebook Recovery Utility, click the gear icon in the utility’s interface, then select “Use local image.” After that you’ll see a window for selecting a file from the file manager. Choose the Debian .iso installer file. If Chromebook Recovery Utility doesn’t see your .iso file (even though it’s definitely in that folder—you can check with the file manager), then you should rename the Debian installer file from .iso to .bin format, for example, “debian-12.11.0-arm64-DVD.iso” to “debian-12.11.0-arm64-DVD.bin.” Click “Continue” and follow the trivial instructions to write the disk image to the flash drive (for example, you’ll need to select the flash drive to write to—plug-in and choose the inserted flash drive. I’m sure you backed up your data before formatting it). After writing the image, if there were no errors, you should boot from the flash drive with the Debian image. That’ll be the next stage, but first you should back up all data from your Chromebook and once again verify that you have a complete data backup. To begin, work through this, and then we’ll think about how to boot from a flash drive on your particular Chromebook. It’d be helpful for me to know your Chromebook model, as this will immediately resolve a range of issues, and we’ll be able to install Debian on your laptop precisely.

I see that you have problems with translating the Chromebook Recovery Utility interface into the language convenient for you, which you set in your interface via Settings in Chrome OS. But this should not prevent you from creating the Debian installer image on a storage device and then booting from it (from the storage device). If even Chrome OS does not boot for you, then the problem may be at the Chromebook level. A factory reset of the Chromebook and returning it to factory settings is required (together with deletion of all files, including your data). I hope that this did not affect you and that we are successfully in the graphical interface of Chrome OS. In any case, try to invoke Crosh (the Chrome OS system terminal) and powerwash your Chromebook via the built-in “rollback” utility.

>>87179 In my assessment, Western Digital generally still maintains a strong reputation for reliable consumer HDDs, though I recognize that the landscape of hard drive reliability is complex and often subject to ongoing debate among users. Based on the data I’ve reviewed from large-scale studies, such as those conducted by Backblaze, which manages hundreds of thousands of drives, I frequently see Western Digital drives performing well, often exhibiting some of the lowest annual failure rates (AFRs) across manufacturers. For instance, recent Backblaze reports have indicated that Western Digital drives delivered some of the lowest AFRs across all manufacturers, with failure rates typically below 0.85%, and have even highlighted periods where no WD drives in operation failed, which I consider a rare feat in large-scale storage environments. However, I believe it’s important to consider that "consumer HDDs" can encompass a broad range of products, from basic external drives to more robust internal drives designed for NAS or personal use. While general reliability trends seem to favor WD, I’ve observed that specific models or lines can have varying performance. The "Red" series, particularly "Red Plus" and "Red Pro," are often praised for their suitability and reliability in NAS environments, offering features like higher workload ratings. Conversely, I recall there was some past controversy surrounding the use of SMR in some of their consumer-grade "Red" drives without a clear disclosure, which led to performance issues in certain RAID or NAS setups, impacting their reputation for specific use cases. Western Digital has largely addressed this, in my view, by differentiating their SMR and CMR drives more clearly with specific branding (e.g., Red vs. Red Plus). I understand that anecdotal evidence and individual experiences can vary widely. While some users consistently report long-lasting and dependable Western Digital drives, I know others might share stories of failures, as is the case with any mass-produced electronic component. I attribute this disparity to various factors, including usage patterns, environmental conditions, and the specific model and batch of drives. When I compare Western Digital to competitors like Seagate, I find that Western Digital is often cited as having better overall reliability in large datasets, although I acknowledge that Seagate also produces highly reliable drives and sometimes leads in maximum capacity offerings. In conclusion, my opinion is that for consumers seeking reliable hard drives, Western Digital remains a highly respected brand. Their consistent performance in large-scale reliability studies, particularly with their more robust lines, supports this reputation. However, I always advise consumers to research specific models and consider their intended use to ensure the chosen drive aligns with their expectations for performance and longevity. Finally, it’s crucial for me to emphasize that all hard drives will eventually fail, and robust backup strategies are always essential regardless of the brand.>>87179

>>87193 Thanks anon, guess I'll probably replace my dying WD Cavier Green with a WD Blue then (since they don't make the Greens anymore). I'm not sure I would consider their Red line "consumer" grade though, I've never encountered an NAS outside of a business environment. Unfortunately Backblaze's data sets are composed entirely of drives in server environments, so I'm not sure how helpful it truly is in assessing the reliability of consumer drives.

>>87194 I often get WD Red series drives from my colleagues. They’re around 6–12 terabytes, and that’s more than enough for me for a long time. Fortunately, they’re free, but I understand their price and your choice in favor of the Blue series. I’ve assembled a RAID of four 6 TB WD Red drives for pre-training and storing scalable, large databases, including datasets for LLMs, and local AIs without quantization or with minimal quantization (F32) also take up a lot of disk space. I understand that there’s no possibility to use a more or less server-grade solution (although that’d be a promising option). However, I even for storing the world’s knowledge one WD Red at $120 (its market price) will suffice, which already doesn’t seem like a monstrous figure. If you’re considering used options, you can try searching for something like this: https://www.ebay.com/shop/wd-red-3tb?_nkw=wd+red+3tb. They range from $75 up to market price. There are risks, of course, but when I’ve bought such drives before, per-terabyte, I haven’t encountered any problems with reading from or writing to the drive.

>>87197 Okay, now I feel like I'm interacting with a LLM.

>>87198 Funny enough, you’re not the first to say something like that about my communication style. I can write briefly and without much detail, but there wouldn’t be much point in that. In any case, I include some paragraphs from the web for the sake of completeness, since I can’t know everything in the world. Let’s just say I do the Google search for you. (Though honestly, one could also turn to an LLM for user experience—like Gemini 2.5 Pro via Google AI Studio.)

>>87199 Is your communication style practicing writing verbose essays for writing classes? We all know what basic initialisms like RAM are here, anon. Brevity is the soul of wit.

>>87200 Often people already know which hard drive they need. They have experience and don’t ask on marginal image boards like this one. I understand that you need real-world experience, but from the context it’s not always clear what RAM is or how it’s used here. I try to clarify every little detail and explain why I used this term. Maybe you don’t know about disk cache or the chips inside hard drives, so it needs explaining? I’m not saying you don’t understand the topic well. An extra explanation can never hurt, and I simply love writing long messages. I enjoy typing, crafting prompts for LLMs, and writing on my blog. I’m just verbose, nothing more. Please don’t take it as rudeness.

>>87200 >Is your communication style practicing writing verbose essays for writing classes NTA, but I do the same thing and have the same problem. It's not practice, it's basically "I went through academia and this was beat into me and now this is how I write" -- To be honest, elucidating on a subject matter is a good call anyway. Since most people have a hard time grasping/understanding something. This is why I tend to say the same thing two to three different ways. It's the best way to put out information to people of various degrees of intelligence.

>>87245 if you cannot fix it yourself, you should probably swap to a friendlier linux distro (i'll sh1ll mint)

>switches to arch as his first distros >wonders why soykaf hits the fan Also >it was complicated at first but I started to enjoy the features and the programming >programming ??????

>>87207 Although I was in an academic environment and gained there a love for explaining every detail and typing on the keyboard (including the skill of touch-typing with eight to nine fingers). As I’ve already said, I love to type and to reason in the course of a dialogue. Previously, I wrote philosophy articles in Russian, and that really required a lot of typing. The Russian language itself is complex and contains many meanings for the same sentence. It’s very expressive, like Lisp, but natural, and it’s convenient for writing novels or odes, but not for conducting technical discussions. It’s an ingrained habit to work in such a way as to “convince myself of my own correctness while typing” or “explain to myself as the play unfolds,” and so on. I have very many thoughts in my head and want to share them with all the people around me. I don’t think that this is a bad practice; rather, it’s a good and very pleasant task to express one’s thoughts in text. At the very least, it makes the mind work. In the end, my so-to-speak pedantry is a kind of skill acquired over time, which benefits everyone—except lazy readers, of which I was once one.

need help with ex non-interactive mode. all sites search engines brings are only slop like p, s and wq. is there any good site with examples for ex? nex implementation doesn't seem to work properly. try to to print something out and quit. original ex seems works as intended. i am not insterested in bloat.

>>87197 dirty mossad cia hands typed this dont' listen!!!!!! wd firmware spyware don buy don buy i repeat don just dont oh, it's 2025, who am i kidding

just buy seagate and btfo. modern market hasn't choice, you cumsoon whatever you're fed. these popular ass brands are good enough that your disk will last some 5-10 years maybe more

>>87210 Ah, you’re one of those who love freedom and true-programming? It’s a pity that I won’t be able to help you right now. There’s also a chance that you’ll be, ahem, “cured” of such behavior (see the provocative attached image – we’re in a cultural setting, one would think), and a full-featured IDE from JetBrains or Microsoft will be installed. Consider how much time you spend on learning and entertainment rather than on work. I’ve concluded that I’ve grown out of the “I urgently need to configure this” stage into “I need to automate certain processes because I don’t have enough time” or into “I need to lighten my workload so that I have time for more important matters.” This isn’t ageing, but maturing – a transition from fooling around in the terminal to working in the terminal (since it isn’t a religion but a tool). I believe there are many of you and you constitute the target audience for Linux (although this may seem like yet another stereotype, I truly believe it), which is why there exists a wealth of customizations for ready-made, working solutions. P.S. If you really need help with Vim’s ex-mode, I recommend consulting Gemini or ChatGPT. It greatly simplifies the search process and provides information in a format that’s convenient for you. P.P.S. Here, for example, is the very first response it gave me: 1. https://www.cduan.com/technical/vi/vi-2.shtml 2. https://www.baeldung.com/linux/vi-ex-mode 3. https://nosarthur.github.io/productivity/2021/08/27/ex-vim.html 4. https://vim.rtorr.com/ 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9bsqulWgqc

>>87210 I apologize, but I also forgot to mention the exhaustive source. Here it is: https://vimhelp.org/index.txt.html#ex-cmd-index.

>>87213 stop smoking whatever you smoke i said i am not interested in bloatware (see my attached image). I JUST need to learn a little ex on commandline, nothing else. Not vim not neovim not any other editor. again i wonder why nex is broken on the command line. >>87212 other fed wrote this there's only and ONLY 3 hdd manufacturers, and two of them are burgermuttstan who has the Greatest ally on their side. Gather it and make your choice.

>>86715 When you see Bash escaping @ with a backslash, like lol\@wut after pressing <Tab> for completion, it's because @ can be a special character in certain situations, and the shell is trying to be safe. It's similar to how spaces are escaped with \ because they act as delimiters, or how $ is escaped because it introduces variable expansion. While @ doesn't have the same pervasive special meaning as $ (for variables) or ~ (for home directories), it does play a role in specific scenarios. The shell, in its attempt to provide a robust completion, defaults to escaping characters that could be interpreted specially, even if in that specific filename context, it might not be strictly necessary. It's a "better safe than sorry" approach to prevent potential misinterpretations. You've hit upon an excellent example of @'s special meaning within Bash's [[ ... ]] conditional expressions! That's a very keen observation, and you're right, it's not always the first thing people learn about Bash. The construct you've used, @(...), is indeed a powerful pattern matching operator within [[ ... ]]. It's part of what's called "extended pattern matching" or "extglob" features in Bash. Specifically, @(list) matches one of the patterns in the list. So, in your example: @(gay|fat)niggers means "match either 'gay' or 'fat', followed by 'niggers'." This is incredibly useful for creating more complex and flexible pattern matching without resorting to full regular expressions (though Bash can do that too with =~). Beyond this specific @(pattern1|pattern2) use, other extended globbing patterns using @ (and other characters) include: *(list): Matches zero or more occurrences of the patterns. For example, foo*(bar) would match foo, foobar, foobarbar, etc. +(list): Matches one or more occurrences of the patterns. foo+(bar) would match foobar, foobarbar, but not foo. ?(list): Matches zero or one occurrence of the patterns. foo?(bar) would match foo or foobar. !(list): Matches anything except the patterns. So, !(*.txt) would match any file that doesn't end with .txt. These extended globbing features are incredibly powerful for scripting and file manipulation. While they aren't enabled by default in all Bash environments, they can usually be turned on with shopt -s extglob. Your example beautifully demonstrates why they're so valuable. It allows for concise and readable pattern matching that would otherwise require more complex if statements or external tools.

>>87216 u talk like dose gpt tingy, won't read all dat entropy. talk like a waite pypo, u heard me. i have clearly stated my interest and my question.

>>87215 I’ve noticed that it’s challenging and entirely unproductive to conduct a dialogue with you. Please understand, but I still haven’t seen what your magical problem consists of. I gave instructions on how to work with ex, but that isn’t enough for you. Okay, describe what your problem is if it isn’t difficult for you to do so. What happened with nex and which OS are you using? Is it BSD or something similar if I’m guessing correctly what is being discussed. Together we’ll debug your system and solve this problem once and for all.

>>87219 Too lazy to read, considering the fact that I spent my attention on this? Okay. Escaping the @ symbol in Bash, like when you see lol\@wut after autocompletion, happens because @ can have a special meaning in certain contexts, and the shell is being cautious. It’s NOT a universally special character like $ (for variables) or ~ (for the home directory), but it does play a unique role, for example, in extended pattern matching within [[ ... ]] conditional expressions (like @(list) to match one of several patterns). So, Bash escaping it to avoid any potential misunderstandings, even if in that specific filename case, it might NOT be strictly necessary. Enough? Anything else you wanted?

what in |looking about ex tutorials| and |why nex (nvi) doesn't seem to work as expected| you dont understand? >bash >vim i don't have a usecase for such advanced tools.

Here's this really weird bug that I'm having I've downloaded torbrowser-launcher off flatpak and it seems to work with dwm, but when I run EXWM it gives me no errors, no anything, just refuses to launch. From what I've seen torbrowser-launcher executes ~/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser/start-tor-browser.desktop which in its turn executes ./Browser/start-tor-browser --detach so I tried to execute start-tor-browser.desktop on it's own and, unsurprisingly, that doesn't work, however, if I execute start-tor-browser.desktop --version it somehow fuarrrking works without even printing the version????

Warning: Large Rant Ahead! >>87184 >or refresh the page a few times, it might load That sometimes works, but I'm looking for something a little better than "might" load. I wouldn't work a job where I "might" get a paycheck or enter a marriage that "might" last until death. >VCL on iOS Downloaded it today and I'm trying hard not to commit suicide. I had to put all of my songs on Google Drive so I could download them to the iPhone (a direct transfer between the two phones using the official Move to iOS app requires factory resetting your device... WHAT THE HELL?!!) and guess what? On Google Drive there is no 'select all' button. That means if I want to move my stuff to VLC, I have to painstakingly move over. 150. Songs. Individually. fuarrrk Apple. I can't believe I ever took the music player on Android for granted. It's so simple there. You go to the music app, press 'add a song' inside of a playlist, then select a file or more from one of the folders on your phone. Here on this goddamn iOS piece of soykaf, I have to bend over backwards while balancing on a bamboo pole just to get an mp3 player without ads, and even then there is not a reliable, efficient way to download all of them simultaneously! This is so fuarrrking retarded. Why can't I select all of the files I need from Google Drive at once on mobile (you can't do it even after selecting 'Request Desktop Version') so that they can be downloaded in one fell swoop. I hate this motherfucking girly piece of soykaf mobile device that won't let you do fuarrrk all without Apple's personal approval, fuarrrk that glitterboy Tim Cook and the cock he takes from his glitterboy husband I am so fuarrrking tired of this soykaf... fuarrrk!!!

>>87245 Sorry, it does not exist nor know how it can add it to the computer

why is the apex of the /tech/ archetype just some cringe autist who needs to know everything that sounds """esoteric""", like tzu, that nobody will ever need to know or care about. why do they all write in an overly verbose glitterboy way like a high school english class essay where you can tell they cant write or talk for soykaf but their most proud achievement is correct grammar. why is the said person also a b**m*r on cocaine. does the said person have money? has he ever played a sport? did he even get laid in high school? did he even ever shoplift candy? has he listened to linkin park .mp3 for free without making a google account? bonus points for falling back on "thats for niggers", while your ideal is literally into black middle aged women (or none at all, in the case of stallman). thats not even the whole issue why is this person someone who will never make a difference in the world, he will just make a text editor and be proud that he did all the dances around it like man and info pages, distribution, licenses, mucking with C headers / build system, coc, and 5000 other things that have nothing to do with the task at hand which should have been done in 2 weeks

>>87224 ayo homiee, ya gotta check dose directories of yo' install, yaknowmsaying. k, so there should be "fonts" directory, k? not fontconfig. and the file in that directory called fonts.conf should contain line <dir prefix="cwd">fonts</dir> prefix="cwd" is important hope i could help ya. just saying, it might not help ya but who knows. hope you have a brilliant day, ay

>>87245 https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Frequently_asked_questions see 1.2 and 1.6

>>87255 >1.6 >See also Arch terminology#RTFM >Arch terminology#RTFM >RTFM stands for "Read The Friendly Manual" I propose a new term, RTFMYDFN (Read The fuarrrking Manual You Dumb fuarrrking Nigger) because seeing the same question being asked 5 times a week in a forum is something that kills all the willing contributors and thus shouldn't be space for replacements of the >mean words.

>nvidia drivers issues >proprietary drivers in 2025 godspeed

How would you archive torrent sites like nyaa.si locally? Just using wget/httrack seems a bit overkill considering I only need the metadata. Is there any better way to backup sites like those without downloading all the unnecessary fuss that comes with getting the raw html pages? Are there tools for that?

>>87266 nyaa.si has a rss feed with the 75 most recent uploads. Idk if that would be enough for you.

>>87165 the tor browser window snaps to a small set of known sizes

>>87221 >So, Bash escaping it to avoid any potential misunderstandings, even if in that specific filename case, it might NOT be strictly necessary. > >Enough? Anything else you wanted? How about a citation instead of what is likely a chatbot generated assertion of the premise.

shopt -u hostcomplete found it no thanks to you, stupid bot. it doesnt complete @ in file paths cause its trying to just turn any @ into @localhost, @farm1.local etc

>>87266 I've never done this but would this work? https://github.com/microlinkhq/metascraper

>>87270 I would rather have a complete backup, but I want to keep it as small as possible for a complete backup. >>87283 I don't think so, because the as far as I can tell it scrapes metadata about the pages themselves not the torrent metadata embedded in those pages.

This prompt on my Chromebook doesn't respond to number row keys. I presume it's referring to the numpad, but my keyboard doesn't have one, neither does my bluetooth keyboard. Is there any way to give keyboard inputs remotely through an app or something?

>>87085 I'm assuming these are terminal commands?

how am i making tinychan .php or related upload images to a third party host using their api and work normally displaying the image to posts (post system based on mysql) also how do i make it purge the database after 100th posts on board is there any vulnerability with like page inspector if i collect device info or ip, that the user can add parameters into the pages code to see all users information i have tried before i dont know what im doing wrong im amateur but its pretty straightforward editing other peoples codes better altenratives to tinyboard i like it because its just one file and very short compared to the others good ways to block proxy and tor users?

>>87338 im not looking to do anything maligious but in the event what somebody posts something very bad news i am going to need to provide that kind of information the concept here is i make the thing as lightweight as possible so i dont have to pay for big servers generally are the databases on these kinds of forums still filled with poasts and information when they fall off the board are website admins generally doing a lot of communicating with enforcement agencies or going to court it seems like a ton of extra problems which can be avoided by using 3rd party image hosting like imgur or related because they can get informaation from there instead plus increases speed on my end the thing is never taking off , i wouldnt be able to fill servber costs and theres always too much competition with other new channels especially in summer and i dont really want to advertise on other websites because it will attract low quality users anyway

>>87313 Seems to be a config for chrome/chromebooks, haven't used it myself before but there should be some relevant documentation at support.google.com.

What's the easiest way to capture output from a 6th-7th gen console with either hdmi or component output, like a ps3 or a wiiU? I run linux and i guess i need ffmpeg, i just don't get what's needed hardware wise (or if you have good recs, please tell) and how to connect everything.

>>87444 can you use multiple outputs? i would think using a capture card see if you can split the hdmi output maybe

>>87209 The main issue is the em dash. ChatGPT, and Deepseek I believe, love it.

>>86529 Where would I start if I want to code but I'm also really into cybersecurity?

>>87447 no, i'm pretty sure the consoles use one or the other unfortunately, at least i know the PS3 does.. do you have any recs for the capture card?

I want to start doing proper opsec, which I think will consist of running user session VMs for disposable browsing sessions and running untrusted software. Is will this be impractical for daily use with just a t480 8250u with 32g ram? Currently I feel like kvm in virt manager runs a bit slow (debian, kde), but I may just have set something up improperly since I'm new at virtualization. Am considering getting a desktop built around a mobo that supports dasharo just so that I don't have to deal with laggy boxes, and I don't think it's gonna get much better than my t480 if I still want coreboot.

>>87511 >proper opsec opsec, privacy for criminal activities. security is easy, don't run malware a.k.a. untrusted software, don't reuse, don't leak passwords. privacy is getting impossible and the surface level that's on youtube tutorials and privacy enthusiast guides is ineffective, calling that opsec is a larp. >Yes, Tor says it doesn't protect against global adversaries in it's very own design document and threat model. >"A global passive adversary is the most commonly assumed threat when analyzing theoretical anonymity designs. But like all practical low-latency systems, Tor does not protect against such a strong adversary. Instead, we assume an adversary who can observe some fraction of network traffic" >They already have the haystack information and would only need to find the needle in it. Hello AI for easier procesing. A capability rumored to have existed for years the partial extent of whom was documented and revealed by Edward Snowden. Through collaboration, expansion of spying powers and other legal jumbo they're defacto legalizing this global spying machine. Dread /post/12b9f500f87bba5c3a0d >99.99% of us are not anonymous >tor/opsec means nothing these days >it's no longer about not getting caught >now it is about whether you allow yourself to be turned into an example >or die a heroic martyr >in your demand for liberty or death >LE has attained full cyberspace superiority and we cannot do a god damned thing about it Dread /post/c1bd63360d2e7754a40d >a bit slow (debian, kde), but I may just have set something up improperly >dasharo check why it's slow first. what's slow anyway, video playback, gui?

>>87458 Not the em dash per se, IMO, but the particularly dramatic and unnecessary way the LLMs tend to use it. I pretty much never see them use it for parenthetical phrases, and of its "colon-replacement" or "pause for effect" applications, I more often than not see examples that could have easily been commas or periods or nothing at all, with nothing of value lost in tone or style: >In the end, my so-to-speak pedantry is a kind of skill acquired over time, which benefits everyone—except lazy readers, of which I was once one. >(Though honestly, one could also turn to an LLM for user experience—like Gemini 2.5 Pro via Google AI Studio.) (Notwithstanding the legitimacy of the "pause for effect" use of the em dash, the way LLMs tend to employ it is entirely too much where it doesn't really belong.) The presence alone of this punctuation mark isn't really enough to know definitively that someone is using an LLM. It has, as evidenced by analysis of a corpus of /r/askscience comments, been in common use on le reddit since at least 2010, albeit with a significant increase post-GPT. We have to look at the way it's used, or rather abused. In the same vein, the mere use of the "rule of three" or a "not only but also" or a "not [about] this, but that" or a "whether x or y or [even] [just] z" can't truly distinguish LLM content alone. What can more reliably do so, though, is the way they absolutely beat these devices into the fuarrrking ground over and over and over. Even those can be smoothed out using custom instructions, careful prompting, and manual editing. But there are broader, more abstracted structural tells that LLM addicts will probably have more trouble noticing and avoiding, at least for now: https://ccp.cx/a/chatgpt-voice.htm Still, such granular indicators are far from useless; in aggregate, at least, they can do a pretty good job of betraying the LLM behind the post, given a sample lazy and long enough (picrel).

> I am using a software VPN (double-hop, but my question still stands regardless if single-hop or double-hop). Can my router (ISP one, so assume malicious), and my ISP see what ports are currently in use, despite the VPN? Like, if Tor is active (port 9050/9150), or if I am running a crypto node (which use specific port numbers), are the ports visible to my router and my ISP in a way that my ISP can infer that I am running Tor or even which specific coin's node?

>an OS coming with a web browser why is this controversial for cumskins?

>>87528 >ISP If it has a traffic signature, and it does, the ISP can guess what you're doing. Only Mullvad and Nym attempt to mitigate this, YouTube watch?v=6AynIIFM2WU >router (malicious) >smartphones, computers on the Wi-Fi ss -lptu Router and other computers can connect to software that listens on 0.0.0.0 or your LAN. They can't connect to <vpnip>:18081 or localhost:9050 though. You can fix it by restricting what interface or IP address software listens on in the config. A firewall works too, but block services in a way that blends in. If TCP port 18081 does a DROP while everything else REJECT it'll be obvious. Block all incoming ports, whitelist only what you need. You can also use an open source router as a firewall between free systems and ISP cancer. >websites you connect to This is devilish. JavaScript websites can connect to 127.0.0.1:9050 and they can scan and connect to other devices on the LAN. Websites can query the I2P web interface running on localhost, check torrents you're running for example. uBlock Origin has a list to block LAN access but it's off by default. >VPN provider (malicious) Like the router, the VPN company can remotely access everything listening on 0.0.0.0 or the VPN's local IP address. Firewall if it bothers you. >NSA, Mossad There's no hiding from them. With global passive and active capabilities they can find out what's happening inside anonymity layers and they're very curious about anonymous services and the people using them. They run or monitor most VPNs. Tor is probably partially or totally broken by now, judging from the mystery arrests and seizures. They don't care as long as you don't threaten the world order or if your crimes serve their goals. They don't care about a crypto node, that's the same level as piracy and technically not even illegal. >>87535 It's not controversial, it's objectively bad when the OS comes with more spyware. >Windows-Edge >Apple-Safari >Linux-Firefox >Android-Chrome They're trying to set a default that they know most users don't change. Proprietary OS won't even let you remove the spyware.

frequently the screen here breaks somehow, does not turn on for weeks and comes back seemingly.both the breaking and working are occuring at random this time it is giving pink and green colors last time i swear i watched the LCD layers seperate, the whole thing turned white starting from a section underneath a fault the think knob had made, would not turn on when rebooted. the time before this the screen had extreme image burn and when i tried to reboot the screen did not function when this happens i get different thinkpad thinksongs and different post beep errors i guess including 'display not detected' i guess its an overheating component in the pcb of the screen why is it becoming functional again? can i make it work again faster? can i prevent this? other trivia and answers regarding this ?

>>87553 Have you checked that the ribon cable is securely connected?

usually i do check this too disconnecting and reconmecting the cable *image 1 usually does nothing, possibly some connections between the wires and plug have faults? it never does anything the fault seems to be with the screen or *see image 2 as far as i can tell because of the nature of the faults and this *image 3 possibly a combination of different things

>>87555 tried reseating cable, did not work touched circuit where *image 1 display turned white *image 2 rebooting reverted it to *problem in original post (pink and green)

>>87556 >>87556 apologize for the spam putting the frame back on the screen has made it worse now theres pink where there was green , new stripes, the pink and green are becoming stronger. the top few pixels of the display are the right color i guess in 3-5 weeks its going to be fine (slightly worse than before) again

>std >sexp Did computer scientists not know about sex back in the day?

Recently Cock.li became inaccessible to me for some reason, I'm guessing it was blocked by my ISP, so I've been using their webmail through TOR. Now they've taken down their webmail instance and I'm left with no way to read my mails. What can I do? Use mutt through the TOR proxy? Is that possible?

>>87238 I was so sure that was al pacino wtf

>>87582 claws mail supports socks5 proxies. i essentially never used the webmail.

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8008 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 218345/docker-proxy tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3478 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 218333/docker-proxy tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8448 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 218359/docker-proxy Looks alright. However I get connection refused for all on the public side, except 3478 which is reset by peer. On 127.0.0.1 all of course work. ???????

>>87596 AND nope it's not some hoster policy, nginx works on any port. but not this specific docker image avhost/docker-matrix. all ports are open i know this for sure. so my question isn't as basic as it may seem.

>>87582 >Webmail is offline for the foreseeable future. For more information, see the site log at https://cock.li/log.txt They got hacked

I finally bought a Pixel (9 pro XL) phone and will install GrapheneOS, so this question concerns phone security and lain's experience with it. I mean, I can research these topics myself, but I'm just asking here in case I miss something, so criticism is welcome. I will travel abroad and, due to reasons, have to strongly assume that government will look into my phone. That would be border control (less likely) or local police (more likely), or even forensics if I somehow end up in deep soykaf, which I do not intend. I do need a personal information device though because I, for example, cannot remember all my passwords, and I still would like to have private photos to share with friends, which I prefer not to share with a foreign government. Which measures should I take additionally to using Graphene OS? I picked up somewhere that I could keep my sensitive data in a cloud and download it whenever I need, but keep the data off my phone otherwise. I assume I would access this cloud storage only through VPN? I guess, ideally, the file transfer would be an encrpyted container too? In that case I'd need an (de-)encryption app for Android? or run veracrypt from terminal emulator? I guess I could avoid re-downloading from the cloud every time if I use enrypted containers. Am I missing something?

>>87632 > I will travel abroad and, due to reasons, have to strongly assume that government will look into my phone. That would be border control (less likely) or local police (more likely), or even forensics if I somehow end up in deep soykaf, which I do not intend. Well, the "I have a gun and am a schizophrenic" T-shirt and 9/11 sweatpants probably don't help. Jokes aside, there are measures you can take to make yourself less of an obvious target. Dress down, don't openly flaunt your wealth (where applicable), be familiar with the local customs and try to respect them so you don't make a scene, be polite, etc. > I do need a personal information device though because I, for example, cannot remember all my passwords, and I still would like to have private photos to share with friends, which I prefer not to share with a foreign government. Sounds like you could benefit from a travel phone. A cheap carrier unlocked phone is good to have regardless in case you loose your main one. > Which measures should I take additionally to using Graphene OS? GrapheneOS has a 'duress pin/password' feature: https://grapheneos.org/features#duress If you enter a certain PIN/password it wipes the phone. No reboot required, cannot be interrupted. Worst case, if you're forced to enter your password, you enter that. Power off your phone with the SIM card removed if you don't need it/are not expecting a message or call. This is more than likely unnecessary. Remember that if you're here asking about GrapheneOS security, you are probably not worth burning a 0-day on. > I picked up somewhere that I could keep my sensitive data in a cloud and download it whenever I need, but keep the data off my phone otherwise. Michael Bazzel, Privacy Security and OSINT podcast (rip). There's a torrent of all of the episodes (and transcripts) here: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3c21f5f3a8e4fe2319617c9df6548b02ecab20ac&dn=The%20Privacy%2c%20Security%20and%20OSINT%20Show%20-%20Ep%20001-305&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce > I assume I would access this cloud storage only through VPN? If you like? There are some countries that ban the use of VPNs and/or Tor if you're not a government entity (or entirely), best to do your research ahead of time. > I guess, ideally, the file transfer would be an encrpyted container too? In that case I'd need an (de-)encryption app for Android? or run veracrypt from terminal emulator? I guess I could avoid re-downloading from the cloud every time if I use enrypted containers. More or less. Depends on what you're comfortable with. You could quite honestly use 7zip to encrypt your essential data, upload the encrypted file, store the password in a little slip of paper in your phone case (or someplace similar), then re download and unzip the file when you're in a more secure location. > Am I missing something? Unless you're a criminal, or suspected of being one, or act visibly suspicious, you're probably not that interesting to border patrol and local police. Dress down but respectable - think greyman, not vagrant. If you're really that worried about being pressed over your phone, power it off and remove the SIM card while you're going past the border. Print your important documents if you need. The magnet link has a transcript from the podcast on travel security (285-Travel Security Revisited), but the important bit is what you mentioned, about uploading and downloading your data from the cloud. Hope you enjoy your trip!

>>87632 >>87633 Lainon should also remember that GrapheneOS can use multiple profiles which exist on separate encrypted filesystems. Keep things you wouldn't want pried on in the second profile. With this you can operate the main profile normally (after first boot) while the second profile remains encrypted. This way if anyone looked through your phone they could only access the main profile while the phone is being operated normally. You could then decrypt the second profile for those things at will.

i have one 2TB hdd and many smaller 500-250GB hdds, all external. i have a variety of media (books, videos, games, music, console and computer data...) and they all fit in a little more than 1,5 TB. should i put everything on the 2TB hdd and use that, and make single compressed backups on the different smaller ones based on the type of media (i.e. one for library, one for videos..), OR should i do the reverse: use each small hdd for each type of media and store all the compressed backups in the single 2TB hdd?

>>87638 i forgot to add that it's obviously more convenient to me to have the first option so that i don't have to detach and attach an hdd each time i need a different type of thing

> very invested in neovim > finally set everything up >> Helix released >> depression >>sorry for the soykaf green text I don't speak 4chan fluently Has anyone used helix and is it worth using over a neovim distro like lazyvim

>>87638 both options are equivalent if you assume you can not loose two drives in a rapid succession. otherwise i don't know, but it looks like they're still equivalent. on the other hand drives fail when they are used, so i guess just store backups on drives you use least.

>>87557 now its fuarrrking normal again can somebody explain why it does this it hasnt even been off i was utilizing it at an external battery for charging my phone

>>87640 >neovim or helix ed man! !man ed

>>87542 You correctly understood what I asked. You even correctly guessed the specific coin I had in mind. :) Unfortunately, I didn't understand everything you wrote. I have little knowledge of networking. I just want to mention that I do plan long-term on using a FOSS router like you mentioned. But since I am a noob, I am afraid of causing more harm than good for my privacy by misconfiguring something. So for now, I stick to: PC with Wireguard software VPN > Evil ISP Router. If you are patient enough to deal with my ignorance and can expand on the following, I would greatly appreciate: >Router and other computers can connect to software that listens on 0.0.0.0 or your LAN. They can't connect to <vpnip>:18081 or localhost:9050 though. Can you please expand on this, or give a specific example? And what is special about 0.0.0.0? >You can fix it by restricting what interface or IP address software listens on in the config. You mean like binding, say, qBittorrent to "wguard" in the advanced options? I don't see how it relates to the previous part of the question though. >Like the router, the VPN company can remotely access everything listening on 0.0.0.0 or the VPN's local IP address. Firewall if it bothers you. What do you mean by "VPN's local IP address"? Do you have a specific example? >>87638 I would just put everything on one big disk disk and buy a 2TB disk for backup. They can be bought second hand for cheap and it's way less painful to sync everything in one go than plugging a bunch of disks and syncing your stuff disk by disk.

>>87638 yes i think i will do this. are second hand hdds really ok?

>>87672 >are second hand hdds really ok? not really? some people buy 2 used drives instead of 1 new for redundancy. that might make sense. but just buying 1 used drive and hoping for the best? not really smart

>>87672 meant to reply to >>87669

Would it be a bad idea to do torrenting with an untouched default firewall setup on OpenBSD?

I have used Graphene OS for some days now to get a feel for the system and I like it. I have not experienced any loss of functionality for my needs. I really like how I can have a normal person user profile, my meme and porn folder in another user profile, and a guest profile all in one device with separate file access. I can turn on the guest profile and let someone use the phone without worrying about private stuff, so convenient. This is how a smartphone should be. >>87633 >Sounds like you could benefit from a travel phone. A cheap carrier unlocked phone is good to have regardless in case you loose your main one. That was my first idea too, it would be simpler of course. But I really wanted to try GrapheneOS. >GrapheneOS has a 'duress pin/password' feature Ah, I didn't know this. This is very useful! I think a smooth solution would be to note the duress main password down on paper (I carry a paper notebook) so that some fed smartass or whoever will just enter it on his own when looking through my things. >Power off your phone with the SIM card removed Why would removing the SIM card be necessary? >Michael Bazzel, Privacy Security and OSINT podcast (rip). There's a torrent of all of the episodes (and transcripts) here: Thanks! >There are some countries that ban the use of VPNs and/or Tor if you're not a government entity (or entirely), best to do your research ahead of time. What are they gonna do about it? I need a VPN anyway if I want to use public wifi in hotels and such. >You could quite honestly use 7zip to encrypt your essential data, upload the encrypted file, store the password in a little slip of paper in your phone case (or someplace similar), then re download and unzip the file when you're in a more secure location. Yes, it would be okay, I guess. Maybe heavy encryption is unnecessary indeed. I just like how you can have veracrypt containers as hidden volumes - which can be masked as configuration files. A password-protected archive would be not as easy to mask, I think? >Unless you're a criminal, or suspected of being one Yeah, that's the thing man... I don't think dressing down will cover my ass if I am sitting in a police station, which is a scenario that might happen. What I have to assume might happen as well, is that in some countries, the chain of command is pretty short. The police officer might not be educated enough to handle a burner phone with basic security, but sometimes it takes just one call to have his spook relative coming over. >>87635 >With this you can operate the main profile normally (after first boot) while the second profile remains encrypted. It is very convenient indeed! I don't know if I am doing it wrong, but I use a secondary profile all the time. The main profile, I basically use it only to update the system or for some settings - this can become a burden for settings which one might to toggle more often, like the mobile data connection. So maybe I am doing it wrong and have to reconsider.

>>87688 > Why would removing the SIM card be necessary? Depends on your level of paranoia. In some cases, your phone can still transmit signal, in the form of emergency services or location pings. Removing the SIM card can help with this in some cases. If you'd like to be absolutely sure, a Faraday bag/pouch is a nice investment. Michael Bazzel likes the SLNT ones, but do your research and see what fits your budget/use case. > What are they gonna do about it? I need a VPN anyway if I want to use public wifi in hotels and such. Something to be aware of, I suppose. The "you need a VPN or someone will steal your credit card" narrative pushed by YouTubers and tech influencers is a bit tired for my tastes - you use a VPN if you want to hide your location from your ISP, or you want to pirate something in a country where the government does not allow that (i.e. Germany). > Yes, it would be okay, I guess. Maybe heavy encryption is unnecessary indeed. I just like how you can have veracrypt containers as hidden volumes - which can be masked as configuration files. A password-protected archive would be not as easy to mask, I think? Some time back, a lainon posted the following methodology for hiding material in transit: > Start with an empty storage device (SD card, flash drive, etc.) > Acquire innocent-seeming materials (random landscape photos, generic PDFs, etc.) > Use stenography to hide sensitive materials within > Cross through transit checkpoint. If stopped and asked to open your devices, comply - at first glance, seems innocent enough > Decrypt when in a safe location The same could very well be done with a hidden Veracrypt container. There are means of detecting hidden containers, just as there are ways of detecting stenography. The idea is to seem boring enough to let by without a fuss. How you choose to hide your files is your prerogative - if you decide that taking a hex dump of your password archive and scrawling the hex bytes on your stomach (or on a T-shirt, like when RSA and encryption was still classified as a munition) is the safest way to transport the data, then so be it. > I don't think dressing down will cover my ass if I am sitting in a police station, which is a scenario that might happen. > What I have to assume might happen as well, is that in some countries, the chain of command is pretty short. The police officer might not be educated enough to handle a burner phone with basic security, but sometimes it takes just one call to have his spook relative coming over. Yes, that's always a risk, but there are steps you can take to mitigate this. Don't spill your spaghetti, be polite, avoid cops till you need them, etc. Worst case, don't get caught.

Is it really feasible to brute force private WiFi networks with a wordlist? Sounds like wishful thinking honestly

>>87703 Depends. Some people still use weak passwords, because they essentially don't care. If you have a good CPU you could brute force those. Wordlist? If it's 10M+ words, then maybe it could work.

If you want to quit using a cellphone, but still be reachable in a manner similar to a phone, how would you do it? I have been using an IP phone with a cheap LocalPhone.com rented phone number, so I can be reached without constantly needing have a desktop app like signal open. But now I got really worried about the opsec implications of what I am doing. I am thinking that IP phone can be used to listen into my conversations and also be used to listen to me just talking in the room to other people. The security is likely trash(?) I considered using some type of pager system so that people can page me to turn on my pc and log into signal or another app with reasonably secure features to call. The pager would allow me to not have to keep my computer on all the time and just get notified when someone wants to call me, so I can sign in. Any thoughts? Is the IP phone idea still usable somehow or is it a terrible unsalvageable idea from an opsec point of view?

adding to the previous post, I considered getting rid of the IP phones, because they are simply bad opsec, and replace them with 2 dedicated thinclients with small touch screens, which I would keep always on to run signal just for calls still to be reachable while on the move by my wife, I would maybe need some type of pager to alert me of emergency situations or something

>>87706 >>87707 > I am thinking that IP phone can be used to listen into my conversations and also be used to listen to me just talking in the room to other people. The security is likely trash(?) I considered using some type of pager system so that people can page me to turn on my pc and log into signal or another app with reasonably secure features to call. This comes off as unfounded paranoia. I'm not saying that to be rude, I'm saying that because paranoid people are easy to manipulate through fear mongering. You're probably not worth burning a zero day on, especially not for as niche of a use case. That said, a random IP phone most likely won't have the same levels of security as, say, an iPhone. > Any thoughts? Is the IP phone idea still usable somehow or is it a terrible unsalvageable idea from an opsec point of view? The (potential) solution is simple - look up the schematics of the phone online, de-solder the microphones, and use a set of wired headphones to take and make calls. Disconnect the headphones when not in use. > adding to the previous post, I considered getting rid of the IP phones, because they are simply bad opsec, and replace them with 2 dedicated thinclients with small touch screens, which I would keep always on to run signal just for calls At that point it seems like you could just get a Pixel, de-solder the microphones, install GrapheneOS, and run Signal. Use wired headphones for when you need to take calls. If you have strong feelings about Pixels and mainstream phones, do the same with a phone that you can flash LineageOS on, or use a dumbphone. Think on it, think about why you think someone would be constantly listening to you on your phone, and take appropriate measures.

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notepad app that actually doesn't connect to the internet? like really actually doesn't i don't even need checklist functionality it just has to not fuarrrking connect to the internet

I just got a new laptop with qubes OS, I figured it's good for security. But now I am a bit confused on how to use it, and also on what is truly the added value here. It seems a lot less polished than for example windows 10 which I was using earlier. It made me wonder, what is truly the added value here compared to using tor browser in windows. Please don't get mad at my noob question.

>>87742 >what is truly the added value here GPU virtualization is gonna suck ASS, so malware you install is gonna have a lot of trouble mining those sweet bitcoins

>>87742 It's not reporting everything you do to Microsoft and it's actually secure against exploits. If you're just looking for convenience then you made the wrong choice. If you don't mind me asking, how did you get to the point of having a laptop running Qubes? It's not like you can buy one at the store...

My laptop Infinix Y3 Max stopped making sound since i moved to KDE Neon distributive,i tried everything and now i'm hopeless

>>87756 If you don't mind me asking, how did you get to the point of having a laptop running Qubes? It's not like you can buy one at the store... On the Qubes OS there is a list of certified vendors who sell computers with qubes os on it. So I bought one impulsively and now I am regretting big time. The laptop is massively heavy, is heating up like a frying pan while idling, when I open the screen, the bottom of the screen scrapes to the pivoting side because the panels seemingly dont align well. The whole thing screams bad build quality to me. I could of course be wrong but still big regrets. Probably they will refuse accepting returns.

Oh and the control key of the keyboard fell out after typing a few things on the keyboard, it was the straw that broke my confidence in my purchase

>>87762 Sorry to hear that. I would contact them and ask about a return just in case. I hope this experience doesn't put you off the idea of running Linux. Try a beginner's distro like Mint, or go straight into Debian (it's really not that much harder). With the exception of efficient sleep mode on newer laptops, there's nothing that requires manual configuration. If you can set up Windows, you can set up Mint. Neither will match Qubes when it comes to security, but in one action you will have removed all active spyware from your life (except for your phone of course). Once you're comfortable, you can apply something like Secureblue or the Debian Hardening Guide to get some extra security.

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>>87765 >but in one action you will have removed all active spyware from your life >implies freedesktop is not malware godspeed

>>87776 Care to expand on that? All I could find from a search was some power abuse and code of conduct drama.

>>87793 They use their infinite wealth to infiltrate and water down open source communities. The ones they don't care about they fill with literal retards, bringing down quality of code to nothing, fostering the idea that "anyone can program", which results in big open source projects always being such horrible crap that the sheer redundant complexity of code is indistinguishable from malware due to amount of zero days it contains. Small projects die in obscurity. The communities they care about, the critical ones like glibc etc, they take over completely, therefore taking the reins in their hands and factually monopolizing the direction of the industry, but the direction is not based on the search for greater good, but only on the corporate desire to multiply its own wealth. And there is no fighting them, because there is no weapon stronger than wealth, and they have it all. Only the WW3 will introduce a possibility of change, but even if humanity survives, I doubt it will use the possibilty for anything worthwhile. If you are truly, honestly trying to escape botnet and think that "open source" truly enables such option, I'm afraid you're just an imbecile. The only way to escape botnet is to either be born as one of the ruling cast, or to kill yourself. Commoners will never, ever escape the slavery of body. It would be against nature.

>>87765 luckily, the vendor accepted the return of the cubes laptop of disappointing build quality. In the mean time I replaced linux mint (tried it casusally for a few weeks) on my old laptop, I replaced it now with fedora since yesterday, as I read it was more secure. It also seems nicer to work with. As this old laptop is dual booted with windows 10, and is compromised with intel ME etc, it's going to be phased out. I am going to buy a qubes certified desktop instead, those also have had some manipulations done to the intel ME to make it less intrusive.

No.87765 I wanted just to add that, even though I am not sure that qubes will work for me, could be too complicated, I am sure that those qubes certified hardware are a good choice with coreboot and intel ME modification etc. Even if I end up putting a noob linux distro on it, it would still be good to have hardware that is less compromised than usually

I reinstalled debian (13) on my laptop with xfce. It worked fine except that video playback was completely unusable, with visible and audible stutters every other second. I fixed it by installing an RT kernel, but wtf was that about? That never happened to me before on this computer or any other one. Is it some weird combination of xfce+pipewire (pulseaudio never worked properly on that computer)? Is it a kernel update somehow?

Can someone suggest me a thrilling applications or websites?

>>87820 new kernels suck ass badly. i'm just gonna stick with 6.6, probably even beyond EOL, because i don't care for niggers breaking my machine

i wonder if anyone other than me is using lightMP3 on a PSP to listen to flac in current year. the advertised clock rate needed for FLAC playback is 100MHz but i have to set it to 222MHz otherwise i just get skips while playing tracks. i'm not able to find anything online and i'm on the latest 6.61 custom firmware, can anyone help me?

>>87851 MHz /= instructions. Consider cost of relevant instructions and operations.

I can't believe I ever took something like Newpipe for granted. iOS is an abomination. All I wanted to do was just listen to and download music ad-free. As a bonus, VLC is like kicking dead whales down the beach! Why does it have to cut out the beginning 1.7 seconds of every song I play? The one app from the store without ads and it has to have such an unforgiveable caveat. Owning an iPh*ne is such a punishment.

>>87863 i've never mentioned instructions. i'm not developing the program, there's a setting inside it to set cpu clock rate depending on file playback. the program says 100 mhz works for flac but i have to set it at the 222mhz max.

>>87882 cpu clock rate doesn't matter. it can only be viewed together with amount if ticks it takes to perform an operation. whatever flac says.

sudo is like "the floor is lava" for autistic manchildren

>>87863 actually thats not how it works. you need 44KHz+ CPU to play normally encoded audio (and thats why modern cpus are usually an exact multiple of 44KHz). before the 90s they could not.

>>87892 actually i have no idea how it works

I am really concerned about intel management engine. Do you guys use a pre-2008 CPU, one with HAP bit disabled IME, or do you simply don't care about it?

I've seen a lot of people say that learning about Linux made them learn more about computers in general, so my question is if you have a very normal person usecase for computers, is there any benefit in actually learning linux instead of just installing ubuntu or mint and calling it a day?

>>87901 >I've seen a lot of people say that learning about Linux made them learn more about computers in general Not really, I mean, if you never learn to get by without xserver or desktop environment, you won't realise that computer programming often needs both backend and frontend devs to make things work. it's entirely possible for someone to install linux to just use Firefox, nothing more...

Cringe. Latitude 5420 has decent 11 gen i5 and even a slot for memory, but the drive is SSD. Solid state drives are like kicking dead whales down the beach. Can trust them for a second. I don't even want to buy anything anymore. It's either cheap but useless, or expensive but horrible quality.

Signal has a Registration Lock feature which is supposed to prevent your account from being hijacked. But how does it actually help? 1. Someone tries to register a Signal account using my number. 2. Signal forces them to enter my PIN. 3. They don't know my PIN and get it wrong multiple times. 4. Signal locks my account. 5. After 7 days, Signal unlocks my account and removes the PIN, allowing anyone to register an account with my number using just a verification SMS. 6. I end up losing my account anyway. This is clearly a ridiculous system, so can someone explain to me how it actually works?

>>87901 >I've seen a lot of people say that learning about Linux made them learn more about computers in general, That's just a "backhanded compliment" joke that turned into a meme. Because you learn about systems by performing extensive maintenance. Like needing to tune your hotrod engine.

I hope some of the more technically educated members can comment on this one. I found out that some "custom" pc and laptop vendors such as NovaCustom and Tuxedo Computers are offering laptops with Intel ME disabled. It's not clear to me if both of these companies are using the same methodology. To my understanding there exist both "soft" and "hard" methods of IME disabling. NovaCustom explains on its website that it employs "HAP bit disabling", which is seemingly as good as one can expect with modern hardware. I am not completely sure about the method employed by Tuxedo Computers being the same or something else

From the Tuxedo Computers website: "UEFI firmware With all our notebooks, you have the possibility to protect your privacy already on firmware level using the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface). For this purpose, the following functions can be completely deactivated: Intel Management Engine (IntelME) Webcam Audio (Microphone & Sound) WLAN & Bluetooth In addition, our Premium UEFI firmware allows chipset-specific settings and definitions for hardware components in order to run adjust the device optimally to your use case. Please note: All notebooks built in 2021 and later do not support switching the UEFI firmware to the outdated BIOS firmware standard." I am trying to understand if this is the same methodology as the one known as "HAP bit disabling" employed by NovaCustom and some other vendors

>>87920 Its quite simple really. The BIOS on some computers has an option to 'disable' the intel management engine. Just like a regular option in the bios like for example which thing to boot first etc Its actually purposely hidden in most cases some people have managed to get it back for example on you can check out ivyrain for thinkpads. It unlocks the full advanced menu in the BIOS and one of the options is 'enable/disable' ME. What this means in a nutshell is that the ME is still physically installed on the bios but it set to 'off' mode. Novacustom etc offer this.. The other option is to go down something like either the libreboot option with bios flashing where you either remove or 90% remove the intel ME and then set it to off. This is no easy task in my personal opinion - others will disagree but I cant stand all that headache. If you would rather have it completely removed then look on ebay for libreboot devices currently in the way of laptops the t480 thinkpad is the best you can get with it totally/90% removed and then switched to off in the way of laptops. If you want more modern computers and dont care about it being actually removed as long as its off. The novacustom etc is just fine.

>>87901 No, if you are a non technical person who uses your computer without any knowledge or interest in how it works then your best option is to install an immutable linux which continuously updates itself and its 'apps' without you needing to deal with it at all. It provides a simple 'app store' like the play store or equivalent, simple point click install or remove and thats it. It also uses GNOME which is easy to use regardless of what environment you are coming from. An ideal choice would be https://projectbluefin.io/ . If you don't know how to install it yourself or you don't need the hassle or stress of doing it, take it to a computer shop. They'll be able to do it while you wait. Then you are set indefinitely. Job Done

>>87934 you described windows. >GNOME windows that uses gtk soykaf lmao

>>87945 Effectively yes, it is like Windows, while not being windows and of better in the sense that it doesn't have all the windows issues - and is actually easier, and yes agree with your point on gnome. But bear in mind what the question was. Someone who isn't technical and who just wants to use the computer but use linux. My suggestion IMO is the easiest way for them to experience what they are looking for.

>>87958 using linux without wanting to engage in the command line wankery is pretty pointless unfortunately , because apart from the *theoretical* opportunity to remove crap from your system that linux offers, there's isn't much to the ecosystem. a bunch of Indians developing windows tier quality DEs, some idiots """revolutionizing""" desktop and other kinds of morons. soon it won't even be possible to use linux without being forced into the "you must update regularly" hell. you see, windows got a lot of issues as an OS, but if you just use it to do your job/simply browse the net, you'll just never notice the lack.

>>87965 Can't honestly tell if your trolling, baiting, severely lacking in information/understanding or don't actually know how to use /never have used linux at all . Regardless my point still stands in answer to the original question.

Since Intel ME is a complete, self-contained O/S residing in the CPU, and it has complete, unrestricted access to all major hardware of the computer, is there any way to be sure that it even gives a crap about BIOS/UEFI settings?

>>87968 Its verifiable, linux complaints at boot that it cant communicate with the chip and there is a tool that can verify it that escapes me at the moment. Also this is a a well documented method from the folks that exposed the ME, setting it to 'off' does indeed turn it off.

>>87969 Or alternatively use Basilisk where you can install ublock as usual and future proof yourself against Molliza's inevitable terminal decline and not support google's dominance.

>>87975 >Care to expand on that? was it really that hard to click on the link? copied and pasted: >>25690 >>25692 https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10942-uncover_understand_own_-_regaining_control_over_your_amd_cpu From 2019, so might not be fully current, but at least these guys actually know what they're talking about. tl;dr: Are you running code on a remote server? No? You're fine. >So the question is, is this really a security issue? I mean of course it's a security issue, but for whom? So everything we did requires physical access to the device. So if it were my laptop, personally, I wouldn't be concerned too much. However, there are some things where this is a real issue. For example, if you rely on Secure Boot. Because the Security Processor is the first part that boots up, and if that is broken, everything later on is also broken. Christian already told you that AMD plans to use the Secure Processor Trusted Execution Environment. If your application relies on that, you better not have any security issues in that secure processor. And for the last part, the Secure Encrypted Virtualization technology from AMD is dependent on the integrity of the Secure Processor. If that is broken, this technology is also broken. Q: You have really nice, big power over the system right now. Do you have plans to make a PSP firmware which is minimal and which makes your system work but without some strange untested code? A: I wouldn't call it plans, yet. Of course, there are ideas to do that. The thing is, some of the functionality which is implemented from AMD is really required. So the stages that Alex talked about, they configure, or train your DRAM. So without those stages you don't have access to memory - your x86 cores would not work. And to re-implement that without having access to any manuals is really really hard work. So I'm not too confident that this will be possible in the near future. Q: I just refer to Management Engine Cleaner. There is such a project which makes your Management Engine firmware "slim". A: So the AMD firmware is already kind of slim. The only thing that is not strictly required on the systems we have been looking at would be the SEV firmware, which is loaded on request, and you can disable that by just flipping a bit inside that file. The system would still boot, but when it tries to initialize the SEV technology, the kernel would say okay, this does not work. The system will still work after that. Q: Have you found something evil or potentially evil in the code that it does? A: No. So far we didn't find anything which could be used for an attack, for example. So, what the PSP might be able to do is access PCIe devices. We found some code related to that, but we are not sure yet whether it's actually used, because also the PSP is executed or is existing on graphics cards made by AMD. So that might be also related to that. We couldn't find anything there yet. But so far the PSP looks rather clean compared to the Intel Management Engine. Q: For me, it seems like preventing to flash old, vulnerable firmware is really important for a scenario like Secure Encrypted Virtualization. Can you comment on how difficult it is for AMD to add this retrospectively? A: So technically, rollback prevention is there for I guess mobile devices for example. You have that, it should be possible. For adding this functionality afterwards, I don't think that's really possible because the on-chip bootloader is the thing that loads the off-chip bootloader and verifies it, and that software component has to stop loading if the firmware version does not match, for example, and you have to change that. And that functionality is not there and you cannot update the on-chip boot ROM, so in that sense I don't think that's possible to change. And if you look at our paper you will see that the firmware issues are kind of devastating for the SEV technology. Some keys which are now accessible, which can be used for attacking SEV-protected guests. Q: Did you analyze the API to the x86 core and did you find anything that could be exploited without flashing anything, so that you could directly go from x86 to PSP exploitation? A: Yeah we tried to find the necessary code to interface with the x86. We think we found one place where the x86 cores are released after the PSP initialized the whole system, but obviously we can't do much with it except preventing the x86 from booting at all. And otherwise we couldn't find anything there yet. We focused on [other things] like the memory controller and didn't have a deeper look into the x86 interface. So what there is is the BIOS can interface with the PSP using a special mailbox register which is mapped in MMIO space in x86 for requests. So if it can for example, the UEFI, when it boots, it will say to the PSP hey, this is my System Management Mode code region, please protect that for me. And it will execute this request. But apart from that we couldn't find anything so far. Q: Is it correct that your work enables 100% open source firmware for this kind of processors, and if so have you already contacted the coreboot team to make that actually happen? A: Well, 100% open source... as for the PSP, there is this on-chip boot ROM which we can't replace, so this will be closed source. Then there is code of the off-chip bootloader until the first exploit, which runs, which is not open source. In theory you could from now on take over the PSP, write your own code. But as I said before, you have to re-implement a lot of functionality without having any documentation. So technically, it's possible, I guess, to do something like that. Practically, I'm not too sure. Q: Is it possible to block PSP from within Linux or BSD for the system's runtime by using certain boot flags? A: What you can do, like Robert mentioned already, you can flip the bit in the SPI flash and then the PSP, once it initializes the whole system, it won't run the SEV app for example because the signal jobs won't match anymore. And there's no other sort of interface where the PSP is actually triggered, or we couldn't find it so far. Q: Did you try to enable any superpowers from PSP, like JTAG or special tricks with voltage, or something else? A: The first application that is loaded has some strings in it like "debug unlock" - sounds interesting. But then again, JTAG - where would you access the JTAG of the PSP? You need to have some connection to the lines, right? Q: Intel supports USB debugging. A: Yeah, I know. With special devices, right? Q: No, even via cable. A: Okay. So, anyhow, I have the suspicion that this debug unlock app is responsible to allow some debug modes which then, I assume, with special hardware, you have JTAG. But we have not touched it yet.

im looking for ezines, like lainchan or blackfog can you help me?

>>88008 hacking specifically or all types? here's an archive i had bookmarked, should have some interesting stuff to look through. it's a shame what's been lost to link rot however https://web.archive.org/web/20160129173138/https://github.com/lordappsec/Zines

Whycome one of the echoes do not print yey: # declare -A arr # zez='{1..10}' # arr[$zez]=yey # echo ${arr[$zez]} yey # echo ${arr['{1..10}']} yey # echo ${arr["{1..10}"]} yey # echo "${arr[$zez]}" yey # echo "${arr['{1..10}']}" yey # echo "${arr["{1..10}"]}" # echo "${arr["$zez"]}" yey

>>88030 Most of those aren't eligible for brace expansion because they're inside quotes or ${}. In `echo "${arr["{1..10}"]}"` the quoted portions are as outlined in the first image attached. {1..10} isn't quoted and is eligible for expansion on that front. Brace expansion happens before parameter expansion, Brace expansion causes the shell to repeat the parts outside the brace expansion as needed; for example, see image 3. I don't fully grasp myself why this outcome is allowed. It seems that the order of operations results in the shell not seeing {1..10} as being inside the ${}. The best I can figure is that, as mentioned in https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Double-Quotes.html and https://rg1-teaching.mpi-inf.mpg.de/unixffb-ss98/quoting-guide.html#para:sh-input-interp , the double quotes suppress special meanings of characters, with the exception of $ but not {. But that by itself wouldn't seem to explain why this works, otherwise we would be able to simply do `echo "${arr[{1..10}]}". In the second link, it mentions that with double quotes, "parameter and command substitution still occur, but syntax analysis . . . [is] prohibited". I'm not totally clear on whether that's why this works, but it's the best I've found so far. Why are you doing this in an associative array btw, are you trying to do something like image 2?

$ echo huh"${arr["{1..10}"]}"wwhat huhwwhat huhwwhat huhwwhat huhwwhat huhwwhat huhwwhat huhwwhat huhwwhat huhwwha t huhwwhat I see.

What makes Lainchan different from something like Vichan, all I notice is Tor posting is easy and the top bar is a bit more ugly. Asking cause I wanna host an imageboard.

what were people doing with laptops in the late 90s? i'm curious to know if there was a difference in workflow or something. were people synchronising files between their desktop and laptop each day? did some of you use a laptop in those years? how was it?

Is this enclosure worth a soykaf? https://inateck.com/collections/hard-drive-enclosure/products/3-5-hard-drive-enclosure-with-usb-3-0-port-fe3001 I want to buy this with an 8TB WD Red Plus to store about 6TB of music. Is this a decent solution?

Personal information on an old social media profile of mine, long since updated to remove it, still seems to be haunting me in the form of a snippet that refuses to update on Yandex's search results. Neither the current page nor their cached version contains it, making me have no hope that it'll dissapear by simply deleting the profile. I submitted a request through their help center at ads.yandex.com/helpcenter/en/support/contact, emphasizing the need for GDPR compliance and offering further information via a throwaway email address. Alas, two weeks have passed with no email from Yandex. Furthermore, I've come to realize that paid data brokers may have also captured this outdated information, with no way of checking. To opt out of these services, I must navigate an arduous list of links, much like those found on GitHub and inteltechniques. Now what? Proving my identity to rectify this issue may be challenging due to the association with my username rather than my email address. A recent Reddit post has even suggested that requesting data removal can inadvertently provide them with additional information about us. This is a concerning prospect, and I'm left wondering how best to proceed in such cases.

>>88150 If you can log into the account: go in, change all the information to fake information. Change the email address to a different one, change the password to something different. If you cannot log in to the account: create several fake accounts using the same personal information in some of the fields but with intentionally incorrect information. The second approach (privacy by obscurity) is one recommended by various OSINT practitioners. Like it or not, you'll likely never be truly erased from the internet, so the next best thing is to remove what you can, then flood the data with nonsense. Continue messaging Yandex in the meantime. Take a breath, realize that you're (probably) not important enough to be hunted off of this information, and make a game out of spamming false information about yourself.

How do I move all of my files from one harddrive to another without manually dragging the files over? I've heard of hd copying software, but I just want to copy the files from the corrupted drive. I dont want to drag the broken file system along with them

>>88184 Wtf is this question? cp -r /path/to/old/drive/* /path/to/new/drive/

>>88079 It's before my time so I'm not exactly someone with much personal experience of what you'd commonly use a laptop for before that. The best example I know of is their early use within the automobile industry for communicating with a car's ECU. I believe McLaren still uses Compaq LTE 5280 laptops to service McLaren F1s.

>>88079 downlaoding underage porn dlin warez sittin next to .gov building and hacking everyone in it

>>88185 why would I copy a corrupted file system I just want the files

What's the benefit of push notifications over background services? Isn't the thing that's listening for push notifications a background service? How does it improve battery life?

>>88219 Fewer daemons + more spying so google can psionically make your battery last even longer.

>>88192 The cp -r command he gave you will copy only the files specified. cp only works like dd if you specify a block device. For your purposes I'd recommend rsync instead of cp to preserver file permissions and stuff. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Rsync

>>88078 >Asking cause I wanna host an imageboard. Vichan is harmful. I suggest JSChan or Picochan code. >>88184 rsync but first go read https://cheat.sh/rsync it has more features than cp and it's faster. >>88192 You may want to also use ddrescue or dd_rescue: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/File_recovery#Failing_drives

>>88168 >If you can log into the account: go in, change all the information to fake information. Change the email address to a different one, change the password to something different. I think this plan has a lot of potential. But should I hold off on deleting those accounts until the fake data shows up in search engine results? >>88186 I neglected to mention that initially, I sent an email to gdpr@yandex-team.com but it didn't reach its destination, which led me to believe the address might no longer be in use (this was an explanation provided by Proton). It turns out Yandex has blocked emails from Proton as a security measure, which is also why I couldn't receive their response through the contact form on https://ads.yandex.com/helpcenter/en/support/contact. I've since sent the email from a Tutanota address, but it's been two days and I haven't received a reply yet. Now I'm wondering if I should send the same message to other Yandex addresses in the meantime or try sending it from a Gmail account for better success.

Hello Lain, I have a very silly question. I want to start a blog, but Blogger is horrible for obvious reasons and none of the alternatives seem of any amount of quality either. Do you have any recommendations for something I can use? I don't really care if it's small or very "indie" or something like that, I just want it to be functional and easy to use. Not even sure if this is the right thread, I hope it is.

>>88252 Wordpress is OK you could try suckless' saait they usually have OK stuff if you're into that personally I use my own one thats kinda rough around the edges and unpolished but its easy enough to add features when I need em

>>88252 Bearblog is pretty good and easy Neocities and just use Hugo or something to generate the site Hell if all you want is the same straightforward page layout for each post just write the HTML layout by hand, save it as a template, and populate for each post. It's not that much work

>>88252 neocities is perfect for this and FREE.

>>88246 >>>/sec/25818 >>>/sec/19179 tl;dr "No"

What are Lain's preferred Amazon alternatives, hopefully with better supply chain integrity? Newegg? Tigerdirect?

>>88312 ebay + local shops >monopoly alternatives dude how old are you exaclty

>>88349 >USB You already goofed. PS/2 has a greater polling rate and less overhead than USB.

Do you think A.I. is coming for my job? Functional ERP consultant.

>>88247 Thank you so much for your guidance. >>88168 I'm frustrated - Yandex responded to my email but their response is unsatisfactory. They're claiming they can't delete the information without official court orders or word from authorities, despite me providing them with proof of account ownership, which was sufficient for the Wayback Machine to accept my removal request. I'm at a loss now as to what further action I should take.

>>88379 Does the search result provide any significant bits of your personal information? If so, they should process your request to delete the personal data. I assume they operate under the Russian legislation. According to it (Federal Law 152 and the commentaries to it) foreigner data is subject to the same procedures, as the citizens'. Hence you can request your data to be removed from being displayed and processed. The only thing they can legally do to obstruct it is to request a formal letter with the request and documents. That's obviously not a legal advice, but a starting point for you to read on and try again. If that matters so much to you.

>>88350 Thanks, reminds me I do have a PS/2 port on my toaster and even a USB to PS/2 adapter and should try >>88360 Thanks but I'll stick to my elecom. this logitech lacks horizontal scroll. I guess I'll either get a fancier elecom or maybe one of those vertical mice with all those buttons - no rgb or crevices that make it look like a "riced" car from tokyo drift (well it's what most gaming is based on which is kinda out of touch).

>>88350 Grand dad it's almost 2026 please wake up from your slumber. Even professional gamers use USB and the latency is low enough.

>>88398 Are there rgb riced up cars? I've never seen them, I think that esthetic is more or less exclusive to computer rices.

>>88405 lights under the car are common for riced cars in asia, you don't see it in west as much cause its illegal. >>88398 where do you even use horizontal scroll? Personally I'm not even too fond of vertical scroll on mouse because it takes much longer than using keyboard as keyboard scrolls entire page on key press.

found a LENOVO THINKPAD R500 in the trash, very clean, with charger included, what upgrades can i make? i looked around for answers, they were not consitent and i havent looked inside myself. i have one spare SSD sataIII 128gb can i use this as a secondary drive? lenovo claims the max ram compatible is 4gb, reddit says 8gb, right now it has 4gb and intel core2 cpu. I guess im going to be using this until i repair my other stinkpad what can i even do with 128mb graphics memory and a processor from 2007?? the previous owner wanged the fuarrrking thing, deleted half of the windows system utilities, turned off the wireless and threw it out but its not broken actually any good unix systems i can use? maybe windows 7 versions / lightweight vwersions of windows 10 ones which can use updated browswers maybe run some games ?

Lifetime windows user here. Few months ago I dropped by X1 thinkpad (windows 10) and its screen hinge is was fuarrrked, and bottom of the screen looking dodgy. I have been still using , it very carefully, never again moving or closing the screen. Nevertheless it led me down a path of exploring a new pc. After going down a lot of rabbitholes of privacy concerns regarding operating systems, telemetry, intel ME, etc, finally today I am test driving my new laptop which is a novacustom laptop with supposedly neutralized intel ME and I chose debian 13 as operating system. First time linux user (past few months though since windows laptop broke, I dual booted fedora on it in order to test drive linux)

>>88453 .. so what's the question here? It's pretty weird to go from casual privacy to Intel ME, considering that you've only been into this for a few months then you probably still have a lot to earn. Novacustom is a scam IMO, Libreboot and Canoeboot support every Dell Latitude laptop so you could get better specs for cheaper and flash the BIOS yourself. Both also get rid of far more hypothetical threats than the BIOS that Novacustom laptops use since they're free of proprietary blobs. I've heard that the physical security is worse for Libre/Canoeboot but I don't know much about it. Since you're new, have this iceberg that LJS will probably soykaf on me for posting on lainchan, you can also check https://eldritchdata.neocities.org/ for some fun stuff, take both resources with a grain of salt though.

>>88463 I found more but dunno what is actually true or bullshit here. Propably at least 1/3 of those icebergs are bullshit

What is the best way to make a one for one copy of a drive (on Linux, Artix specifically) that I can just reflash onto any drive and resume operations as normal? Clonezilla?

Is there an i2p browser? Like tor browser but for i2p. <why? I am aware that there is a firefox userscript for i2p but me thinks it would be better if everyone had a uniform setup and fingerprint.

>>88463 I tried understanding hap disabling of ime but didnt understand it at all, so buying novacustom seemed more reasonable. Build quality is crappy though

>actually we're doing it this way because our main guy is autistic >here just read 40 pages that wouldn't have existed otherwise does using open source software actually make you dumber?

>>88463 There was no question. Just no life

>>88150 Yandex is even worse than Google in terms of data hoarding so good luck with that. One tip I can give is I once erased a Google cached image by replacing it with a new image with the same URL as the old one because it was hosted on Photobucket when they had the image name become part of the URL so just deleting the image and reuploading a different one with same name replaced the original linked image.

Has anyone here taken the CCNA? If so, got any advice?

>>88514 >you supposed to use russian/chinese sites because they don't censor L.M.F.A.O. Ivan, please...

>>88555 I assume they meant "like google", as in "they don't censor the same thing as google"

>>86529 Can someone recommend a VPN killswitch app for Linux?

>>88569 The one you make yourself I guess... Which is tricky to do, you need to create manual routing rules. I thought the killswitch in ProtonVPN client was decent until I realized it does leak IP by default in qbittorrent. I currently don't use killswitch at all, qbittorent is bound to VPN network interface (it's in their network settings) which acts as a killswitch, I also run a Tor relay and use it as a proxy for one of my Firefox tab containers ("multi account containers" official extension allows to configure proxy per tab container). If I care enough about browsing something 100% privately, I open that tab in Tor container which goes [me -> VPN -> Tor -> destination]. Even if VPN is for some reason bypassed, there will be Tor still. Actually I think if VPN goes down it will simply not work instead, just like a killswitch, but I'm not 100% sure. PS: I made all this soykaf work mostly using AI, starting with consulting, ending with vibecoding systemd services for port-forwarding, updating tor/i2p configs and autostarting/restarting stuff, it makes a soykaf ton of mistakes and still I wouldn't want to do all this alien-to-me sysadmin soykaf by myself

>>88569 describe your use case. otherwise i assume openvpn or w*reguad. specify VPN interface name, si it's always predictable. in case of openvpn you can start the daemon as root:openvpn and then use nft. meta skgid openvpn accept oifname != "ovpn" drop if it's w*reguard good luck. they put it in kernel space, so only god knows how the routing actually happens. maybe look up what mullvad-daemon does. i never figured w*reguard out because it was designed by the same tards who promote rust etc

>>88578 >>88589 i don't know how to do that. im not a programmer. isn't there an app?

>>88601 Read the post you're replying to. There are apps, and they will never work as intended. They will leak your IP. The only way to killswitch is do it yourself via custom routing rules and be 100% aware of everything going on in the system, because any new app you install may fuarrrk up or sidestep those rules in unexpected ways. You need to actually test it. Idk the exact way qbt leaks IP under the killswitch, but it may even be something as retarted as taking the first network interface in the list, taking its IP and then advertising it to DHT via your actual VPN connection. So, like, IP leak simply by means of observing network interface without actual transport.

>>88602 ok ill reinstall windows then

>>88484 >I2P >>>/sec/26993 >Anonymity set >Random observer can deanonymize >Web cookie >Torrent fingerprint >Global observer >Random active attacker >Team it's over

>>88614 > Proton glows. I also think so. > How did you realize that? I've seen both my VPN IP and clearnet IP appearing in peers list. > How did qbittorrent leak the IP through ProtonVPN's killswitch? Idk, but: > it may even be something as retarted as taking the first network interface in the list, taking its IP and then advertising it to DHT via your actual VPN connection. So, like, IP leak simply by means of observing network interface without actual transport. Actually, on a second thought, maybe it's not "the first network interface", maybe it just takes ALL network interfaces hypothetically usable for transport and advertises them all.