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/t/ech Questions and Support Anonymous 04/25/2020 (Sat) 07:16:43 No. 3
Bring all your hardware, software and other troubles here.
I'm using qemu/KVM for my virtual machines and every one I've created (Linux or Windows) has this issue where the first 2 turns of the scroll wheel in one direction don't get delivered to the guest OS. So if I want to scroll down, I need to turn the scroll wheel 3 times for the guest OS to register the first wheel turn and then scrolling downwards works okay, but if I want to then scroll upwards the same thing happens and the guest OS only notices after the third wheel turn. I've read from the mouse device on the Linux VMs and also used xinput to check whether the VM is receiving the missing scroll events but it seems it's not, they don't register at all, and searching for answers is difficult given that the problem is very generic. Any ideas?
>>17 Is the mouse USB or PS2? Does the issue happen on any other virtualization software? For example, does a VirtualBox VM have the same problem? Do you have any issues with any other inputs? Keyboard or other mouse events? Or solely scroll wheel?
>>18 The actual IRL mouse is USB, but as far as I've researched KVM forces you to use a virtualized PS2 mouse in the guest. As for other virtualization software, none are available in my distro as far as I know (yes, not even VirtualBox) so I haven't tried that, but it would be a good test. No issues with other inputs that I've noticed, everything else works great.
>>19 Have you tried using a different mouse? Some mice handle signals differently, and pretty much only Mouse 1 and Mouse 2 are universally supported with no differences. Could also look at your mouse drivers. If you're on a distro that doesn't support VirtualBox then I'll hazard a guess that you could be using drivers that are outside the standard generic set. If those aren't the issue, then I'm really not sure unless there's some configuration in your VM software that is trying to handle scrolls for something. Perhaps it's mapped to something and the software is eating the first couple indicators? Given your specific configuration, your best bet might be to drop into the qemu/KVM IRC rooms and see if one of them can direct you. If it's an issue with your configuration then they would be best-equipped to diagnose it.
>I'm looking for software that can open PDFs, ePubs, djvu, and (optionally) mobi files. I'd like it if it could have multiple files open simultaneously at the same time (like how Acrobat can have multiple PDFs open at the same time). Any suggestions? I kinda want a universal application but I'll use separate software if there isn't an application that supports all types.
>>44 I think SumatraPDF has support for all of those. I've also had an okay experience with Foxit. I also occasionally use Ice Cream eBook Reader on Windows but it's kind of a shit experience and they want you to pay to fullscreen. There's also some Firefox add-ons that support most of those, if you're into that sort of thing.
>>45 SumatraPDF seems to fill all my requirements. Thanks for the suggestion anon!
What is a good free software for editing large PDFs? I've got a 532 page PDF with high resolution backgrounds that I would like to shrink so ti loads faster and Libreoffice draw creates too many issues.
>>69 LibreOffice Draw is definitely pretty shit for anything but a quick edit job, unfortunately. Per >>45, I've had a lot of good luck with Foxit, although that was mostly on Windows. It's very feature rich and you can find a crack of it. As far as I know only their reader has been ported, not their editor. If you need a Linux solution, I've heard of both MasterPDF and Qoppa, but they're closed-source and I haven't used them. Open source options are pretty limited, unfortunately, and OpenOffice might actually be the best.
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I keep getting >SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN on a bunch of places in the internet and it's getting me mad. How do I fix this so that I can access these sites normally?
>>78 Does this mean that lynxchan is unsafe? I just want to post there
>>87 No. >>77 Either you're visiting sites with self-signed or expired certificates or your clock is wrong.
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What is wrong with using Epic Privacy Browser as a free VPN? Also is it better than using free proxies from search engines that die within a few days?
>>89 With a VPN, you route all your traffic through them. All sites you go to, chunks of data inside sites, etc. Free VPNs are free because they bundle up all the data and sell it. VPNs are, in the end, about trusting someone else. I used to recommend PrivateInternetAccess but they got bought out by an Ad company. They at least had proven they had no logs in court cases. New recommendation around the block is Mullvad, 5 bucks a month I think.
>>90 Thank you.
I'm broke and I can't afford even a cheap vpn, also tor is not good to post here because I can't upload any images. How much of a bad idea is to post here with my real ip? Besides from talking about censorship and posting archive links I wouldn't be doing much else
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https://archive.vn/vgffM How fucked are americans?
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>>95 $5 is pretty damn cheap for Mullvad already. I'll reach out to Acid about uploading images soon; probably waiting to ensure we don't get hit by a Tor CP raid immediately. >how much of a bad idea is it to post here with my real ip? Depends on if you fear reprisal from your government or someone else and if you trust the admins to not intentionally leak or give it away without a legal fight. >>96 Not entirely. House still has to pass and it still might be challenged. They re-upped existing Patriot Act provisions for the most part, so there's still hope it gets torn down. Should probably post in the news thread for real discussion, though.
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>>96 There are people alive, RIGHT NOW, who use their ISPs DNS settings.
>>3 Need new terminal. Any recommendations?
>>101 ST? it has scrollback support now
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>>90 >Free VPNs are free because they bundle up all the data and sell it. Does the same thing happen (having your data sold) when using proxies found on search engines? I'm considering using Tor, but i'm heard stories of police raids on people who have exit relays. What is an exit relay? Sorry i've never used it very much out of reckless ignorance. https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=8PO6qQHygFo
>>109 If you use Tor like a regular user, your computer will not be an exit node. Tor works by tunneling the user's traffic through multiple nodes. The first node is called an entry node, and the last node is called an exit node. The nodes between entry and exit are called relay nodes. A malicious exit node can read all unencrypted traffic that goes through the tunnel, so don't send any personal emails unencrypted via Tor. As a regular user, you will only get busted if you do something illegal and get caught, or if you live in a 3rd world shithole where using Tor is illegal.
>>110 A slight pedantic correction: The entry and exit are called relays as well.
>>109 10-20 years ago those free proxies were full of ads and probably tried to infect your computer. IE6 was swiss cheese and nothing was HTTPS. Now they probably still try to MITM you, but between better security and adblockers the best they can probably do it try to read any data sent. You're better-off just using Tor. Or if you're trying to tunnel through a firewall at work, just configure your own proxy or ssh tunnel at home at route all traffic through there. You won't be an exit node. Exit nodes only get raided because cops are dumb and just see an IP associated to some activity and go after them. Most attacks on Tor are speculative and not an issue if you're just a regular user. If you do anything illegal via Tor then make sure you don't associate your identity with it in any way. You get busted by, for example, collecting a package that the cops are watching, or by having a payment linked to your bank account. Avoid all of that and you're untrackable.
What is some good, cancer-free material on web development? No pajeets, no faggots.
>>113 >I need my educational material to pander to me Pay for college. >I need to learn stuff STFU and look at pajeet videos, those guys made it from zero which is more than what can be said of the average CS teacher.
I'm looking for good privacy-preserving web browsers for normies. Ideally I don't want to cover anything which is more difficult than plug and play. Thus far, I've got IceCat, Firefox ESR, and Tor Browser with proxies disabled
>>112 Is it safe to download game roms with Tor?
>>124 Depends what kind of safety you're looking for. If the rom comes preloaded with malware, there's no scanning service in Tor that I know of so you might be screwed there. If you're just trying to make sure the gubment can't see your downloads, you should be fine. Tor is mega slow, though, so you'd be better off with a VPN or a single trusted proxy.
>>110 Technical question here: the entry node should be able to see your IP right? So using a VPN - > tor connection should prevent a potential breach in security if this is a concern, correct? Also, wouldn't using a tor - > vpn connection prevent exit nodes from viewing content? Assuming you're not connecting to a website which requires a tor connection, of course.
>>125 Okay, thank you for answering my questions.
On the topic of Tor, I also have a question. When you browse clearnet sites over Tor through HTTPS you have end to end encryption because of SSL so all your traffic should be safe. What kind of security is there when you browse onion sites (like randomrandomrandom.onion)? Do onion sites offer the same level of security? >>125 I'm actually surprised at how fast Tor is. I know we're not talking about multi-MB/s speeds but 10 years ago shit was around 10 to 50 kpbs and now I can browse imageboards at good speeds and can get 500+ kbps downloads. >>126 Yeah, the node you connect to would see your IP and if you put a VPN in the middle then your VPN provider should see your IP (and that you're connecting to a Tor entry node) but not the entry node. >wouldn't using a tor - > vpn connection prevent exit nodes from viewing content? This should only be a concern if you're trying to access a plain HTTP site as HTTPS already encrypts end to end. I'm not sure how you'd connect to a VPN from Tor, but yes, that'd likely work, however the VPN provider and all the hops between it and the target server would still see all traffic in plain. tl;dr: use sites that allow HTTPS.
>>116 Poo in loo.
>>134 Traffic via Tor is encrypted anyways so that hosting a relay doesn't allow you to MITM everyone using it. A .onion is only resolvable within the network itself, so all traffic should be encrypted. HTTPS is just a hack to do something similar for clearnet sites, so it would be redundant with a .onion. And if it wasn't redundant then the TOR foundation would have hacked a fix on like a decade ago when HTTPS caught on.
>>140 I imagined something had to be in place, but I couldn't imagine imagine how it could work without certificates, and all the articles I could find seemed to target end users so there was nothing concise. For (((some))) reason Google also finds less than 10 results for some my searches. Wikipedia says something about the addresses themselves being the public key or related to it, so I imagine that's how the scheme gets setup.
>>142 >the address itself is a public key Exactly. The .onion itself is the public key and there's a private key held on the server to authenticate with. It's secure as long as that private key isn't leaked. If it is, then another site could impersonate yours, just like a leaked certificate could allow a malicious site to impersonate a legitimate one.
I have a script that uses the output of zpool status | grep ONLINE | wc -l. When I run the script from a shell it works just fine, but running it from a cron job always returns 0. Why is it different when running via cron? forgive the cross-posting
What's the tech of the future? The deepweb through tor seems like it's mostly dead/bait at this point. Probably because normies started hearing about it and a bunch of 16 year old edge lords with no tech knowledge started using it to order pot. Is there any up and coming technology that will replace onions?
>>150 Pretty sure cron is going to run it as its own shell with its own environmental variablesand possibly not as the same user. You might want to debug by having cron run each of the intermediary outputs and seeing what is different from what you expect.
>>164 I think a bigger problem with tor is simply that people are not producing interesting content, which can be a problem on clearweb as well. If you want things to change, it's best to be the change you want to see.
When on tor, could my Mom's bossware could see that I am on tor? My moms is working in the other room on a different computer.
>>150 100% sure it's because cron doesn't know 'zpool'. Just write the full path to that binary.
>>177 If it's monitoring executables then it will probably see "Tor Browser" If it's just monitoring network packets then it would be much, much harder to detect. One thing you can consider to circumvent this is a USB boot drive with Tor on it; some privact-centered ones exist. You should then be able to boot into a different OS without monitoring. Then, if you're paranoid the network is monitored or firewalled, you can also use Tor to punch through it. You'll probably need BIOS access to disable Secure Boot and maybe change the boot order, though. If she was smart enough to password your BIOS you may be able to revert it to default settings (and wipe the password in the process) by removing the CMOS battery. But some laptops now (including newer Surface laptops) are aimed at enterprise customers and thus are resilient to attacks like that. But most common desktops and laptops will respond to a battery reset.
Is there any way to improve GIMP? As in, can plugins be added to it like paint.net? If so, is there an essential plugins list for it?
I'm sure I'll catch shit for using Wordpress, but I'd still like some opinions on best practice is for securing it. Appreciate it, /t/.
Is Avast a good virus program for windows?
>>189 WordPress is easier to get started and secure than a site you rolled yourself. There's too many small things to mention, but the first thing you need to do is disable basically everything. Then, enable stuff as you need it. Second thing to do is to change default configuration. Any additional services should run on a non-standard port. That or have an aggressive firewall. "Secure" also depends on different things. Do you care if you leak IPs? Or are you just trying to stop someone from getting root? You need a threat model. What data is on your site and how can you secure it? If you're just worried about someone getting access, then limit the ways to get access and secure them with strong passwords and 2-factor authentication if you can. >>194 Not really, no. It's bloated and I believe has tons of ads now. If you really need security on Windows, Windows Defender is decently light. Kaspersky used to work, but it might be backdoored by Russia so look out. >>185 There are plug-ins, but off the top of my head I can't name any "must haves". A lot of them add a feature of improve the interface to make is usable. Unfortunately, there's no central GIMP plug-in site that I'm aware of. Maybe someone has a directory repo somewhere.
Does anyone know if windows 10 force you to make an account to use it?
>>208 Apparently they removed that in an update. They literally make you sign-in with a Microsoft account on first boot. The absolute state of Wincucks. It might be possible if you make a custom image. Knowing Microsoft, there's a registry tweak or service you can remove that would stop it. But I haven't used Windows in years and I'm unfamiliar with Win10-specific hacks.
Why is Invidio.us running slow on the clearnet? Works faster when I am on tor. I am blocked 8chan.moe and archive.vn for some reason.
>>211 >I am blocked 8chan.moe forgot to menton I am using the onion site to post this, 8chan.moe .cc or .se doesn't work.
>>212 Only one that can diagnose that is yourself. I can post fine over clearnet. Try to see if it's a DNS problem or a connection problem for starters.
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>>209 I ask because i was thinking of getting the GPD Pocket, and i'd use windows 10 offline for some games, but if i have to sign in then no.
>>215 If you want to keep it offline, why do you care about accounts? Also it should let you make a local account anyways.
>>211 >>212 It's possible your IP is associated with a bot or spammer and ended up on some kind of blacklist. That or your DNS isn't resolving. >>215 There might be a way to just make a local account without it, but I'm not sure. I heard they made it mandatory. And they're putting stuff like Python on their store, which requires an account. Why not just install Linux and get your money back for the Windows license?
Is there any practical way to use tor or a VPN on Fedcord? Are there client forks that are less pozzed? The reason I ask is because someone I follow is insistent on putting content on that platform, but I don't want to compromise my infosec just to view it - much less participate in any dialog.
>>223 Don't see why a VPN with a throwaway e-mail wouldn't solve this. There's some alternate clients, though, including a terminal-based on. Still pozzed but at least you don't have to load up their data tracking website.
>>224 I tried to sign up using their website and a burner email via tor, vpn, and then complimentary wifi. I kept getting flagged and kicked to their sms verification nag page. None of the free sms sites worked, all blacklisted. They double flagged the account if I tried to sign in via different connections and got a location verification nag email in addition to the sms demand. I guess I'm wondering if they have the site signup locked down more than standalone clients?
>>225 Definitely. Probably worried about spammers making accounts. Unfortunately, all the privacy tools can also be used to work around account limits. You could try getting your own Twilio number. Or an actual burner phone. Or use a burner Google account to make a Google Voice number; I think they accept those. If the phone number is the major hang-up then one of those ought to work.
>>221 >It's possible your IP is associated with a bot or spammer and ended up on some kind of blacklist. I could see archive.vn, I manually archived sites a lot but why does Invidio.us and 8chan.moe think I am a bot? Jewtube works fine. I never seen a captcha under my end.
>>227 Nermind 8chan.se works fine now but I still have issues with Invidio.us
>>227 >>228 It's possible you're in the same sub-range as a bot and the entire sector got blocked because it kept hopping IPs. But it sounds like it's probably a DNS issue. I know archive sites have an ongoing dispute with Cloudflare and others over some configuration detail. Not sure about Invidious. Maybe try changing DNS providers and see if that helps?
>>189 As long as you don't install any plugins, Wordpress is secure enough. Once you start installing random shit, it's only a matter of time before you deploy a compromised plugin that will let third worlders access your docroot with a backdoor and start uploading even more shit.
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>>219 >If you want to keep it offline, why do you care about accounts? True. >>221 >Why not just install Linux and get your money back for the Windows license? I'll take that into consideration.
>>116 Fuck you.
I'm thinking of starting an online blog but this guy (https://vriad.com/blog/devii/) says the Ideal Tech Stack for a blog is Next.js + React + TypeScript + Markdown. I'm pretty certain that in the modern web, the number of views on my blog is directly proportional to the number of frameworks I use. Dear 8chan.moe, is there a way I can fit in more frameworks or maybe bigger ones?
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>>236 needs moar microsoft
>>236 This is an essential presentation: https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
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So, question. I have a non-gaming laptop that I can use to watch videos, has a functions disk drive, etc. I recently got a DVD of Dink the Dinosaur as the only other version of the show I could find was of super shit quality on a remote website, but I found that the dvd won't allow it to be played on anything but sony brand dvd player systems. needless to say I'm pissed. Is there any manner of program that could allow my laptop to pretend to be a Sony DVD player or otherwise allow me to, say, rip the info off the disc for better quality episodes?
>>243 Install Gentoo
>>243 Does it open with VLC?
What's the best way to follow JewTube channels via RSS now that invidio.us is kill?
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>>245 No. All I get is a folder showing audio or video files. The video file folder looks like pic 2, the audio file "looks" empty.
>>250 Did you try opening VLC and selecting Media->Open Disk and then pointing it at that directory? DVDs are a collection of files. I'd be surprised if VLC couldn't open it when imported properly.
>>248 What happened to invidio.us? It's up for me.
I was an idiot and deleted the partitioning table on one of my drives and then tried to put a new partitioning table on it and create a partition under that, TestDisk won't work to rebuild the partitioning table because of that and I don't know what I can use to try and recover the data on it. Recuva is bad at recovering files and RecoverIt requires you to pay to recover any data, along with that RecoverIt detects some files and the full contents of them while scanning and yet doesn't display them when done scanning so you can't recover files it knows are there but won't display, perhaps because it doesn't actually see them as deleted because they haven't been, they just won't display because they were on an old partition I stupidly deleted. tl;dr I idiot and deleted partition then made another one on top of that and now I can't access any files on the old one. Is there any way to get back the old partition or view the files on the old one even though they haven't technically been deleted?
>>255 You don't need file recovery, you need partition recovery. Try looking around for tools that can do that on whatever fs you're running. There's a good chance you're totally fucked, though. Especially since you made a new one on top of it.
>>252 I always get errors saying the instance is blocked. My RSS feeds haven't updated in Days
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>>251 Well I'll be a mother fucker, it works! Thanks a fuckload. Now the hard part: >friend have frequently streams >they frequently play shows to laugh at them or have nostalgia >they have the shit quality version of the series >want to send this series to them I don't suppose there is any way for me to copy the information from the disks and have it work, is there? If not, I suppose it's no harm buying another copy.
>>258 You can either use VLC to save/convert the stream. I've occasionally had issues with that because VLC isn't really a transcoder, but it can sometimes get the job done. Alternatively, learn how to use ffmpeg to just rip the files directly. I'm sure if you use some combination of "ffmpeg" and "dvd" in a search you can find a guide.
>>256 Tried TestDisk, a partition recovery program, before making the post and it says it can't recover it, possibly that saying it doesn't need to be recovered because there's nothing on the new partition. I'll try other software but it sounds like I am totally messed up though, any recommendation for other software that might work? Also, think it would work if I just deleted the new partition and tried recovering the old one?
>>261 The problem is that a lot of that software works by either un-marking data as "for deletion" or otherwise by trying to piece together what it can. Without a proper partition structure, are your files are useless blobs of data with no name, date, access rules, etc. Without the data, your partition structure is just a bunch of metadata for non-existent files. Neither can used to recover the other, but if one breaks you can sometimes piece it back together again. Short of finding a graybeard who is an expert in your filesystem or sending your drive in to a data recovery service, I think you're screwed. Try not to overwrite your partition next time and always keep backups of important files.
>>255 Which filesystem and which OS? And why don't you keep backups?
>>262 >>264 I kept backups that are a little bit old at this point but of the most important files at least, was just hoping that I wouldn't have to use them. Also, Windows 7 and the partition was a GPT partition table formatted under NTFS
>>265 Yeah, I would venture to say you're screwed. You may have been okay if you had just deleted it. After all, you just need to restructure it. It's hard but not impossible. Overwriting it almost certainly has put you beyond the point of recovery.
>>267 Well, I have a few tricks I can still try to fix it. If they don't work, still have backups of the most important stuff.
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>>259 Hmm, this seem reliable to you? And I know jack shit about ffmpeg. is it already on my system or do I need to download it somewhere?
>>276 Seems fine. I haven't used ffmpeg on Windows but if you can figure out how to get it running then it should work.
Are there any FOSS language translating programs out there?
>>265 If you have backups just restore them, you've already screwed things up well past the point where a fix is easy (if possible at all). Also update to 10 unless you have good reasons not to.
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>>278 All right. Thanks for the help. Now I just need to know where to get ffmpeg for Windows. I found some links but the sites seem dubious at best. FYI, I have scriptblock in all my browsers to prevent me from being assaulted by bullshit.
>>282 Can I recommend you install or dualboot Linux? I realize "Install Gentoo" is a meme at this point but literally any linux distribution will have ffmpeg in their repositories and you can install it in one command.
Neet here, My mom is threatening me to cut my internet because her internet connection and calls keeps dropping . She called someone at work for the tech guy and he said to call internet service provider to have only her hardwired Ethernet connection to run. The tech guy said there is too much internet activity. I won't be able have internet while she works Monday to Friday 9-5. Could they actually do this? I don't know what to do. Should I apply for section 8 or what? I am not willing to put up with this bullshit and I don't have anywhere to go.
>>295 Internet speed/plan? What all do you and her use the internet for?
>>295 Are you downloading things constantly? I find it hard to believe it's an issue if you're just browsing imageboards. >Could they actually do this Whoever controls the router can unplug the other ethernet cords. You could connect via Wi-Fi if you want. It sounds like they called their work, and work IT gave them the most basic troubleshooting advice which is to isolate the connection you want to diagnose. If she continues to have issues then she may just have to accept the internet sucks and it isn't you. On the off-chance it is you, you could find a way to surreptitiously connect. If they're gonna monitor you for activity, set up a device to generate/reroute traffic and then go chill somewhere else and connect remotely. When you come back a few hours later, she'll probably still be having issues, but now it can't be traced back to you. The alternative would be to buy your own internet line and have it installed. Depends on your area, but you can get a decent connection for <$50 a month most places. Even Gigabit is often <$100 now. Maybe you could also offer to pay the difference for an internet upgrade.
>>294 >2000 + 20 >dualbooting Shiggy diggy. Also installing Linux to have "easier" access to ffmpeg is like cutting your legs off to get a weelchair instead of buying a bike.
>>294 >>300 Well, all I need is a reliable place to download ffmpeg for windows 10 . I only have my laptop due to my current living situation.
>>302 Just get it from ffmpeg.org?
>>298 >>299 >Internet speed/plan? I don't pay for it but 33.6 Mbps download/ 4.37 > What all do you and her use the internet for? Shitposting and watching crunchyroll or jewtube but my internet speed is slow as fuck when she works, I don't know what she's sending. >Whoever controls the router can unplug the other ethernet cords. You could connect via Wi-Fi if you want. I am already on Wi-Fi but I am worried they could disable my Wi-Fi ,the work IT said the Wi-FI but she has to call my internet provider. I don't know if the IT guy is bluffing or not. There was a threeway call between the work IT and my internet provider but I think my internet provider didn't want to pull that off. >The alternative would be to buy your own internet line and have it installed. I could have two internet lines in same home?
Anyone have a good porn site. Good here means that it works without javescript, doesn't have trackers, the site is lean and well designed. Eporner is okay but I wonder if there's anything better.
>>302 Literally one google (or even Yahoo) search away: ffmpeg.org Also stop blocking all web scripts blindly, of course you'll break almost every single web page if you do that: you're supposed to build a whitelist of trusted domains.
>>304 >>308 Thanks again. I'm also aware that it breaks certain webpages.
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>>308 >>304 Apparently I'm fucking retarded and can't do jack shit with this. >get ffmpeg >get vob files from dvd >even put a copy of ffmpeg.exe in the same folder as files >try to open command window via shift+right click <it's windows 10 so the command instead makes me open Powershell <powershell is fucking retarded >use start menu and open command prompt <will only open one specific folder and I don't know how to tell it to fuck off with that command and do what I'm fucking telling it to do >say fuck it and put a copy of ffmpeg.exe and the vob files into the directory it's pointing to >copy and paste the directory instructions word for fucking word >get this shit instead I MUST be retarded as I don't know what the fuck I'm doing wrong.
>>312 Jesus fucking christ.... just learn to use a computer. Search for PATH in windows and then figure it out.
>>313 WINDOWS FUCKING 10 IS FUCKING RETARDED Regardless, I may have found a workaround.
>>300 >installing Linux to have "easier" access to ffmpeg is like cutting your legs off to get a wheelchair instead of buying a bike See: >>312 >>313 >>314
>>314 Seriously, if you take anything away from this thread take this away. Learn things. I don't mean search up "how to convert in ffmpeg". I mean learn encodings, learn file formats, learn and practice with FFMPEG. AND THEN start converting shit. It sounds like this is autistic but it ends up being better in the long run. Just understand how things work. Don't copy and paste shit.
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>>315 >>316 Seems an easier way to do this is by just using cloud convert, converting the vob files to mp4, and then I have video files I can use and share in vlc which is all I wanted in the first place.
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>>317 Fuck off. It's taken you 4 days to rip a DVD.
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>>318 Not without saying thank you.
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>>317 We can tell you that something is possible. We can tell you where to look for resources to do it. We can't just teach you how to use a commandline in five seconds. You're basically trying to learn cmd, ffmpeg, and how media formats work all at the same time. Either try using VLC's convert/stream options to save the output or rip the DVD and post it and I'll see if I can find some time to encode it for you.
>>320 This is what happens when you spoonfeed retards. Either ignore or tell them to fuck off and RTFM. They should not be allow to post in the first place.
>>320 >>321 I'm actually successfully ripping and converting the files myself at the moment, although it's through strange means and, for most of you, likely ass backwards. >get vob files off of disk >convert vob files into mp4 >have mp4's that can be shared and played in vcl Honestly, I did learn about vob files and what is important in regards to ripping the actual program off of the dvd, which is something I didn't know about before coming here. I'm aware I basically was trying to force three things at once, but I found out I had a backup plan that I didn't even know was possible until I tried it out. So I'm still thankful even if I was a pain in the ass retard to you all. I don't come to /t/ very often unless I honestly have hit a retard moment. So, thanks. Now I'll quit shitting up the thread and fuck off.
>>315 That's my point, you shouldn't be asking some guy who has trouble with basic CLI tasks on Windows to jump to Linux on the sole basis of Linux having a slightly easier ffmpeg installation. >>321 RTFM is valid in theory but mostly UNIX cope in practice.
Is there a way to stream audio from a server to multiple clients while keeping them all in sync? Everything I've tried so far has all of them slightly off.
>>324 No it's not. It is a mindset where a person solves a problem on their own, without asking other people questions. This is such a basic yet missing skill for posters who litter the forum with n00b questions. Example: >want to rip dvd >got suggested ffmpeg >search: ffmpeg rip dvd >got http://www.tech-g.com/2017/01/15/converting-dvd-to-mp4-h264-on-windows/ as th 4th result >oh no it says >>ffmpeg installed and in your path >search: windows use ffmpeg >got https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/20495/how-do-i-set-up-and-use-ffmpeg-in-windows as first result >follow steps >copy vobs to folder as told in first link >oh no something something file not found >search: open command prompt folder >got https://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/open-command-prompt-folder-windows-explorer/ >use command >done All without even touching the manual. Being spoonfed since birth, shitposters never got the chance to develop such skill. Only by banning, saging and outright BTFOing them will they start to learn or fuck off to other charity sites. Good forums are getting increasing rarer. Even if you manage to get a n00b to pro. The same question will be repeated thousands time more. Because they never learn. Because they place their ignorance as everybody's problem at the cost of a forum's quality.
>>327 You'd probably need the devices themselves to sync. So it depends on what your clients are. Can you provide more details? Syncing audio is a non-trivial task. If it's streaming then a delay might cause one to de-sync and in general most music playing software isn't designed for that.
Can people in the Tor circuit see what i'm doing in the Tor browser?
>>333 No, your requests are encrypted and then bounced around a bunch of nodes. Finally, it reaches an exit node which decrypts your request and makes it to a clearnet site. The exit node then receives a response, encrypts that, and sends it back to you. It can only be sniffed between the exit node and the destination. If your destination is an onion address then it will never leave the network.
Not so much a /t/ question, but more of a meta question since there is no said thread; why are ID's disabled?
>>339 Why would they be enabled?
>>328 >It is a mindset where a person solves a problem on their own This is the "valid in theory" part. In practice, it's an excuse for social outcasts to create garbage tools to satisfy their immediate needs, document them poorly, act like cunts when improvements are suggested, and finally be all smug when "casuals" can't be bothered to deal with all their garbage and go back to whatever they were using before. >>339 >wanting IDs They bring nothing but drama.
>>332 I want to stream music from a server to several clients throughout my house simultaneously. Clients can be anything, I wouldn't mind buying new hardware to get it working.
>>341 >baby duck syndrome >excuse Nice bait. >poor document True. Most docs can use some help. Where is your pull request? >act like cunts Some are cunts, sure. I doubt most reject legit contribution though, except fags and sjws. >smug when casuals You mean being smug when a person not willing to learn? This is free software. No warranty is provided. If I share my new tool with you, and you don't even bother figuring out how to use it with the least amount of effort, don't. If the tool is really powerful, then its learning curve is justified. At least it is powerful enough for you to complain. Go be a bitch at GeekSquard or RedHat. If you are so confident that an improvement could be made and the dev is a cunt, fork it, or even make you own with colorful toy UI and zero learning curve. Don't forget the time you spent on learning the old stuff. You are not born with the knowledge; and you expect completely different things should work in the same way? I get it, you don't even try to appreciate what others have done, because you just want to do the job. There is not even a spark of curiosity and passion. You just bitch why things don't just werk, in a place dedicated to the interest in technology.
>>344 >Where is your pull request? Case in point: social outcasts who don't understand why nobody wants to contribute to their garbage without any effort on their part.
>>342 All the solutions I'm aware of, in terms of buying hardware, are closed-source. I've also never used any of them so buyer beware. I think Chromecast Audio does this but I don't know how well it syncs. If Google and Apple are doing it then Samsung might have a third-party version. No promise it's less pozzed. You could also just look for products like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmDAIeWDqt0 Bluetooth speakers are popular among normies and they like connecting them together like that so it's definitely out there. I don't really feel comfortable recommending a particular product or brand when I don't use any of these.
Just out of curiosity, What happens if you open an onion link with a non-Tor browser? Do you get swated?
Aside from switch proxies, is there another way to get around "Too many requests" error that occurs with YouTube-dl?
>>360 You literally can't resolve the address. DNS servers can't route there. >>361 You need multiple IPs in some way. VPNs are just the easiest option for most home users.
Is DuckDuckGo safe to use? i usually use qwant.com.
>>368 On one hand, it doesn't appear to track you and it's never asked me to make an account. On the other... >Owner got rich selling user data from his previous product >It's not open source, so you can't verify the code yourself. >It's not self-hostable, so you can't just run your own instance. Maybe it's viable with the ads and that's good enough for the founder. Maybe he genuinely doesn't want more money. I use it, but I have a bunch of other anti-tracking measures. I haven't used Qwant, but I have used Searx. The results are worse than DuckDuckGo (which I'd now put on-par with Google around the time it started getting big) but you can self-host, which is a big plus.
>>369 Have you ever used startpage.com? >Searx I'll give it a try, thank you.
>>370 I've heard Startpage is owned by an ad company but that was only from one anon
>>369 I saw a billboard for DDG while driving home, makes me even more skeptical then I was before.
>>368 Works over tor, so it's as safe as it gets as you can always stick to "safe" seaches only on clearnet.
Should I risk using Nim with Godot? Should I rather use C++? https://github.com/pragmagic/godot-nim The project is non-commercial.
>>379 It's your project. You can use whatever bindings you are most comfortable with. The underlying engine is the same. That said, some projects have incomplete bindings, so you should make sure it has a 1:1 functionality match or verify that nothing you need is excluded.
>>380 >make sure it has a 1:1 functionality match Thanks for pointing that out, that's why I ask, so I don't paint myself into a corner.
I finally deleted facebook.
I hate dealing with Nvdia, it doesn't recognize my video card ever since I downloaded updated patch for the driver, I tried reinstalling to the previous version but that doesn't help. Don't know what to do.
>>422 I feel retarded, I put the monitor usb in the wrong port.
>>428 You know, I'm laughing, but good on you for realizing and fixing it yourself.
>Building a rig >PSU (Seasonic Focus GM-750) passes paper clip test >No power when 24-pinned into the mobo (ASRock X570 Pro4), though >Not even when the board was tested outside the case Please help
>>438 Are you sure the problem is the PSU and not the motherboard? Have you tried another Power supply?
>>438 this >>439 Definitely a motherboard problem
>Are you sure the problem is the PSU and not the motherboard? I haven't any surety towards this problem. >Have you tried another Power supply? First build, so I've no substitutes. >Definitely a motherboard problem You're probably right, but the odds of a dysfunctional and brand-new mobo are considerably long. Is there any diagnostic technique I can apply without software? I could ultimately return it, but I should at least attempt to obviate any amateur mistakes.
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>>441 Ideally you would test the motherboard with another PSU that is known to work. Since you only have the one and thus cannot do this, my recommendation would be to just consider it DOA and RMA it. >I should at least obviate any amateur mistakes You verified the PSU powers on and you don't have a spare to troubleshoot with. Motherboards are super complex and basically impossible for an amateur to fix, and since it's brand new you shouldn't have to. If you're not even getting any kind of LED turning on or signal that it's receiving power, and your fan doesn't spin up, then that's a good sign it's dead. Hell, even a board that does light-up and turn on might be dead. I built a new Ryzen build just a few months ago and it would not POST. Very infuriating. Turned out the motherboard was fried. I would just assume it's bad and return it. If the replacement also is bad then maybe there's something you're doing wrong, but it sounds more like you got unlucky. It happens.
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>>442 I see; thanks for your time.
>>3 Is there any good Firefox addon or greasemonkey script to force a dark theme on all websites, including New Tab?
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>>446 Dark Reader works surprisingly well, and is considerably lighter and less broken than competitors. It's still bloated, but it doesn't just invert all colors and call it a day, so it's not bad for what it has to do. It does not work with new tab pages, though. As far as I know, because of the new Firefox permissions, the only way to alter that is via a theme. You could use a Firefox theme that's darker, or you could make a version of the default with a dark new tab page yourself.
So there may be a Solar Flare happening in this year, which electronics of mine will be affected and how can I protect them?
>>459 Likely all of them. Disconnect them from power, take out their batteries if you really want to, that way you should be safe. If you're paranoid, put them in a refrigerator that's turned off or on low cooling, but any actual cooling or freezing will mess over electronic parts. If you're super paranoid, put them underground through like, a hole you dig in the ground or something, if you have access to it, an underground area or vault. But all of that is assuming a solar flare happens anyways.
>>459 I imagine it should be fine and it shouldn't affect us given Earth's magnetic field or whatever it was it had that protected us from Solar disturbances. >>461 >put them in a refrigerator that's turned off or on low cooling Are Fridges good Faraday cages?
>>463 >Are Fridges good Faraday cages? No. You'd be better-off wrapping a small box in tinfoil, or if you have any large metal buckets, sticking a box inside of them and covering them with foil. You want a metal layer which is insulated from that which you desire to protect. >>459 Anything could die but most consumer stuff will be fine. You can grab some battery-powered devices and leave them without batteries. You may want a backup generator if you can afford one. And some gasoline to run it. On the topic of fridges, those tub-style freezers are very efficient and even without power can probably go a few days without thawing. Not a bad investment if you're worried about being without power for some time.
>>459 As with all EM pulses, the bigger the conductor the worse the damage. Your power lines and house cables will burn long before your phone suffers any damage. >>461 >Disconnect them from power, take out their batteries if you really want to, that way you should be safe. Completely wrong, the damaging effect would be (as with all EM pulses) joule heating and overtensions created by the sudden potential gradient: devices being on or off won't change a thing. >>465 >a small box in tinfoil This might work, have some insulation to protect the device as the tinfoil may get hot or even melt in some points.
>>341 >lists a bunch of irrelevant drivel The anon literally posted a step by step process of searching and reading. Of typing in what you want to know about in Jewgle then reading it. The initial retard somehow got here, was able to click reply, and complete a captcha. If he could do that, he could search for his problem of.... making DVD stuff to MP3 stuff. Fuck me, why would you even attempt to defend that?
>>483 >why would you even attempt to defend that? It's nice to see how freetards always drop the mask early.
Is it safe to open pdf files in the Tor browse? it seems to have it's own pdf viewer.
>>500 PDFs are potentially insecure and once upon a time could execute malicious code. To be safe, I'd download the file and use a minimal PDF reader. No risk of your browser getting compromised. And if the PDF is hosted over Tor then there's a chance it's designed to expose your IP. 99.9% of PDFs are probably safe on a modern install, but if you're paranoid then why risk it?
>>501 Okay, thank you.
>My computer's stock fan died in March >changed fan out with Arctic P8 >Later switched the cooler entirely for a Be Quiet Shadow Rock LP (mounting a 1300-rpm Noctua P12 Redux) due to the stock cooler not being that effective with the new fan >Turn the computer on, only for the system to POST with a system fan failure I know that bending the EPS 4+4 cable like it was Beckham isn't optimal, but neither was where Foxconn placed their ATX12V lead on this mainboard. For record, this is cooling a Phenom II X6 1045T and the mainboard is a HP stock Alvorix mainboard. And no, it can't fit over the RAM since the pipes collide with what I believe to be the chipset heatsink.
>>522 Another piece of info, I recently swapped the fan out with a Noctua A12X25 (and the rear of the case out with a Noctua A9) and I know that both can reach max speed on my fan hub connected to a jumped PSU. I don't know if this fan will make the computer pass POST, though.
I have a large amount of data that I would like to backup to BDs. Is there any software that will easily split up the data among multiple discs? Bonus points if I can do incremental backups ie I can backup new data to new BDs without needing to copy what's already backed up?
Have you ever used Riseup ? https://riseup.net/en/vpn
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>>3 Is there a way to download an entire twitter gallery? Bonus points if it's with the :large or :orig size.
>>587 I don't know of any good solutions to this; Twitter's API is limited and introduces breaking changes often. There is this: https://github.com/Jelly-Fish-Dev/Twitter-Image-Scraper Which I could not get to work, probably because the API has changed in the past eight months and the dev hasn't updated it. It also targets a user's uploads, so it might work if you target the user. If you want to fiddle with it, you may be able to get it working again, or get in touch with the dev and see what the issue is. Looks like he hasn't been active since April, though. Generic image scrapers won't work because Twitter deliberately hides links behind javascript specifically to obscure them from scrapers. If you're just trying to decode one gallery from one post at a time it's probably not that hard of a problem to solve. This guy claims to have reverse engineered Twitter's frontend javascript API so he could scrape Twitter with no limitations: https://github.com/bisguzar/twitter-scraper But it appears focused on scraping text and not images. Still, it might be a good starting place. Additionally, there are multiple contributors and the developer has provided their own Twitter profile for communication. Perhaps they'd be willing to develop an image scraping feature, or at least offer you assistance in extending the functionality they already provide. If you need help with Python, I can offer support for that, as can others in the /prog/ general. If I had more time or Twitter didn't deliberately obfuscate their API to prevent this then I would offer to just write you a scraper.
I noticed that my usb 3.0 external hard drive dock had Quick Removal as the default setting. Is it okay to use that on external hard drives/docks or should that only be used for USB flash drives?
>>590 Quick Removal on Windows is a misleading name. What it does is disable the OS write cache. This means it's almost always safe to disconnect a drive, but you will take a penalty to write performance. If you want better write performance on your drive, then you should disable it, but then you will want to manually unmount the drive before unplugging it.
>>591 I don't mind it being active, but didn't know it was enabled for my hdd external dock. I just did some research at the time because I connect my 2tb hdd, put some files o it, then go to safely remove it and it won't remove. Even though I'm doing anything with it. I even signed out of windows then back on and still wouldn't remove. Once I found out that Quick Removal was enabled I just turned off my hdd dock.
>>3 Is there a reliable way or a firewall on linux that can block internet access to certain applications? I am thinking all of them by default and only allowing some to have internet access on windows i use simplewall , i am considering to switch to linux but i haven't been able to find a reliable to do that..
>>594 You could use something like ufw to block all ports by default and only open the ones you want traffic to go through, but I suppose that still leaves the risk of software utilizing common ports (like 80) that you would need to leave open. To my knowledge, the solution on Linux is not a firewall but a permissions manager such as SELinux. You could set a policy to deny network access entirely for all but a whitelist of approved binaries. SELinux has a reputation for being difficult to work with. I think this comes solely from the difficulty of knowing what permissions software will need. Users often spend time debugging an issue caused by a poorly-configured permissions list. Since you only care about network access and you only want to maintain a whitelist, you should have a much easier time of it. Still, it's not as straightforward as something like simplewall. The problem is that Linux does not register every binary the way Windows manages installed software, so it's not as simple as generating a list of executables and then selectively firewalling them. You need the inverse approach.
>>587 youtube-dl will handle videos but I don't know anything that grabs images.
Pixiv has this proprietary animated pic format called .ugoira. For a while I was able to view it with Honeyview. Honeyview updates one day and now it can't view it. Just an X on a white backdrop. Is there another image viewer compatible with the ugoira format until Honeyview gets its shit together?
>>599 I didn't find a viewer that explicitly opens them, but I did find a tool (also called Ugoira) that claims it can download Ugoira files to more common image formats. So you could simply convert them to gif or apng with this. https://github.com/item4/ugoira https://ugoira.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Also found a website that will convert them to webm or gif http://ugoira.dataprocessingclub.org/ You could also roll back to an earlier version of honeyview.
>>600 Rolling back doesn't sound like and option. The website lacks the older installers. Fortunately, Pixiv Downloader has some options in its config.ini that'll tell it to merely convert incoming ugoiras into webms. Size is just about the same (earlier attempts into gifs and apngs were bloated as fuck; from 7MB to 35MB!)) and it plays just as well. So far at least. I know some ugoiras pause for a few seconds so time will tell on how MPC-HC will handle those. Also a little inconvenient to have to switch between that and an image viewer if pics are in the same folder. Simply put, I'll stick with the webm conversion until Honeyview's next update fixes things. I hope. Searched around and I'm surprised literally no one complained.
>>595 Thanks anon! i think i'll just grab a book on SElinux >The problem is that Linux does not register every binary the way Windows manages installed software. Can't they all be found in $PATH ?
>>342 Vember VBAN, pulseaudio/avahi, or JACK (net-jack).
>>607 There's no guarantee that a binary will register itself with $PATH. And sometimes a binary is actually just a driver that will activate other binaries. It's true that some software on Windows will likewise opt-out of registration (you will occasionally see software not appear under Add & Remove Programs, for example) but most software will add an entry to the registry and make its presence known. The $PATH is just an environment variable that programs will extend with a binary, and perhaps an alias or two, just to make it convenient. A firewall working like a Windows one would need to be called every time a binary launches to see if it matches a list. This is, effectively, what SELinux is capable of. Otherwise it's non-trivial for one userspace binary to monitor another or prevent it from executing arbitrary code. Perhaps if you had a program that launched every binary as a child, but that would be needlessly complex when SELinux solves this problem and is well supported. Even if this were doable, the $PATH is not the best way to form a list of binaries. Some entries are drivers that will selectively launch other binaries depending on what is needed. This may be an issue on SELinux as well, where some software fails to get network activity permissions despite being whitelisted, because the binary doing the actual requests is hidden and not whitelisted. At least in the case of SELinux, you would probably be disabling by default, so the worst-case is a binary fails to get network permissions and you have to diagnose which binary is actually making the call and whitelist that. The alternative on Windows would be you fail to blacklist it and it's actually sending data. You may not notice until you spend time logging all activity.
>>618 >The alternative on Windows would be you fail to blacklist it and it's actually sending data. Windows has default-deny rules too as an option, but the firewall interface is pretty shit so it's usually not worth the effort.
I've got an audio file that lasts for 20 minutes. I chopped off the last 10 minutes with ffmpeg using "ffmpeg -i track.mp3 -t 600 -acodec copy track1.mp3" command. It worked well but when I play the track it shows that its duration is still 20 minutes while it is 10 minutes. How should I modify the ffmpeg command to make a player show the correct duration?
>>632 First verify the file actually stops at ten minutes. If so then it probably copied the file data and the index got included. I don't know of a built-in "rebuild index" option, but you could force a transcode and will be forced to build a new one.
JS or PHP? Why?
>>637 PHP isn't nearly as bad as its reputation suggests. Spaghetti PHP forms the same way spaghetti C does: by giving developers enough rope to hang themselves by it. Properly-written PHP is clean and performant. Especially newer versions of the language, which is still being actively developed. JS was developed in a weekend to solve a totally different problem and was not designed for backend or even most modern frontend work. The true answer is neither. You're better off writing your web server in another language entirely. If performance isn't a concern, Flask exists. Some people like Ruby (although it also has issues). You could also just write your site in C++, although that sounds like a special kind of hell. Most modern languages have networking support and some form of async baked-in now. Take advantage.
>>638 I can understand how you can really easily make a UI if you're making a website. I don't understand how you can easily make a UI if you're trying to write a webserver... (go easy on me, I'm a newbie, obviously)
>>639 You asked about PHP, so why are you designing a UI around that? PHP is for backend work.
>>637 Try wt. C++ from front to back.
>>641 Not that anon but damn, that's interesting. Do you know any interesting projects regarding REST APIs implementation in C/C++? I came across ngrest some time back and the projects is super interesting but unfortunately dead.
>>636 Thank you. Now it is how it should be.
How come when I put my computer on hibernate it closes my photos but leaves everything else up?
>>640 Because I'm...I'm...*sigh* ._. I'm wrapping a web browser around everything and using a bunch of cludgy HTML+PHP to be my UI because I have no idea how else to make a UI. The last time I used QT I got this absolutely godawful looking UI.
>>648 Are you using Electron? At risk of giving you a StackOverflow-tier answer, the "solution" here would be to learn how to use QT to make a native UI. A lot of good programmers are poor UI designers, but that's no excuse for using the wrong tool for the job.
>>649 It really is so much easier that I have to question: is it _really_ wrong? There are so many CSS templates, themes, libraries, etc. that are available everywhere I look if I try to have the UI built on something web-based.
>>651 I'd say it's definitively wrong. You're sacrificing performance and interopability for portability and faster writing. But if you're dedicated, then you should consider that the backend can be literally anything and your frontend will basically just be a webpage that operates with it. You should probably just stick a lightweight web server on top of that and write in whatever language you're comfortable in. If you like JS, stuff like Node is designed to run locally. If you like Python, try Flask. If you like Ruby, try Ruby On Rails. You have so many options for writing the backend. All the frontend has to do is access and present the data. You're writing the frontend and the API. That being said, people will groan when they find out it's an electron app (or similar). >>647 What OS?
>>652 >What OS? Wangblows 10
>>653 I'm not too familiar with Win10 since I've never used it, but hibernation is usually tied-in to battery/power settings. Perhaps there's something in there that's messing with it? Another option would be that Windows is killing parts of the OS when it hibernates, and Photos, being part of the system, relies on one of those. In which case it's just bad design by Microsoft.
>>652 >But if you're dedicated, then you should consider that the backend can be literally anything and your frontend will basically just be a webpage that operates with it. I know this sounds stupid simple to you, but I think that opened a door in my head.
>>647 >>653 First of all, stop using the default photo viewer because it's slow as shit. That said, that program is probably crashing when waking up from hybernation, so there's not much you can do.
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Got myself a mouse with 5 buttons for graphical editing, but I can't assign the shortcuts (gimp) I want to use to my buttons. What can I do?
>>675 Use macro software. Assign your mouse keys to some obtuse combination of keys that you would never accidentally hit. Then assign your mouse buttons to do that keypress. Another benefit of this method is that you can making pressing combinations of mouse buttons (or regular keys) press different buttons for you, beyond what GIMP or other software would allow. I usually do this with video games to put more controls on the mouse. Helps with games designed for controllers.
>>3 does anyone know how to make openvpn work (client) on runit? i enabled the service (it was in the artix repos), but i get this error when i try to use any configuration file >Options error: --up script fails with /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf': No such file or directory (errno=2).
What's a good photo viewer as an alternative for Window's built-in photo viewer? My biggest feature would possibly be support of viewing GIF files.
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Why displayport cables does not have ferrite beads?
>>3 Okay, here goes nothing. A year ago I accidentally dropped my 2 TB external drive like an idiot and was able to create a 700 GB incomplete image file from it using ddrescue. Now, I would like to either browse the incomplete image file or at least extract all the recoverable data files from it. ddrescue output a 700 GB .img file, exploring it with 7zip shows a 0.ntfs file which claims to be 2 TB long. I cannot extract it or browse it with any means I know of, BUT, I can view it with an hex editor and by knowing the file signature I could manually extract a file or two. Is there an easier way to do this?
>>712 Oh yeah I should mention, trying to pry 0.ntfs open with 7zip leads to a "Can not set length to output file: There is not enough space on the disk", even though the disk image is only 700 GBs (I'm assuming that is because the copied file system still thinks it has 2 TBs worth of shit in it?)
>>712 Have you tried using testdisk? I've had really good luck with data recovery using it.
>>710 Irfanview. >>711 I'm going to speak fully out of my ass here but I'm gonna say the ferrite might interfere with displayport's higher bandwidth/frequency.
>>714 >testdisk On which of the two items? The 2 TB image?
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>>715 I'll consider your post as complete answer, makes me calm down. Thanks.
>>712 I haven't done what you did, so I am making an educated guess here. Can you mount the .img? If so, you may be able to load it like a normal drive. Assuming you had ddrescue skip unreadable blocks. You will still need to look through and try to identify corrupted files (or script that somehow) but it's certainly better than trying to clone 700 GB via hex. Are you on Linux? Or was the ddrescue via a livecd?
>>719 >Can you mount the .img? I hadn't tried it yet because I was afraid I would cause irreparable damage to the HD it's currently residing on. Is there a safe way to do so? >Assuming you had ddrescue skip unreadable blocks. Yes, I do believe I purposefully instructed the program to just skip broken blocks. Add to that the fact the drive had been defragmented just a couple of days prior, with most of the files residing in the top half of it. I used a Mint distro on a computer that no longer works, I can probably boot another one and install another. Thanks for your input, I'll get back to you if anything changes.
>>722 >I was afraid I would cause irreparable damage to the HD it's current residing on Which HDD is the .img on. and why is this a concern? You should be able to just mount it like it's a normal drive. You can also try running dsck on the .img file. Long story short: you can treat it like a virtual clone of your broken HDD, faults and all. Please let us know how it goes.
Is there anyway to create a jewgle account without a phone number? Any of the ways to bypass it no longer work for me
>>725 Your option would probably be to buy one off somebody who made it years ago and never put one in. Although any account with an active Google Voice number requires a (real) phone number attached. That or buy a burner phone and just use it to activate. Or use a friend. Or your grandmother's landline. But basically every online service now requires a phone number to utilize, and they maintain lists of number blocks owned by various web providers like GVoice and Twilio.
>>726 I dug up an old phone with gapps, factory reset it and created an account with that. Didn't ask for a number.
>>725 Buy a cheap android phone, connect to wifi, create account on it: no need for a SIM.
Does anyone have a working asoundrc that has a proper loopback device that is capable of capturing desktop audio without fucking up the application audio in one way or another? The current asoundrc i'm using is from the ffmpeg wiki, which "works" but i can only have a single application audio stream active at any time and it's a real headache to use. I have given up all home on trying to figure this black voodoo magic on my own and this has been the bane of my existance for over 3 years, someone for the love of god just help me.
>>653 install nomacs imageviewer. It's probably just win10 default hitting the shitter.
>>438 >>441 >>443 Me again, with a new mobo (MSI X570-A PRO) and a new problem. >PSU now works alone and with mobo >rig assembled and activated >get to Wangblows 7 pre-installation screen on a Rufus'd thumb drive >can't interact with known-working keyboard or mouse >weird >plug mouse into new USB port while still on pre-install screen >computer instantly turns off >open it back up, double check and re-plug every wire I can see >not even an error light on the mobo >computer refuses to activate unless I first unplug the PSU for a few minutes >even then, it deactivates after one second
>>735 >Win 7 If you're gonna be a faggot might as well use LTSC, that'd solve your keyboard and mouse problem For the power issues, you can try unplugging everything, then plugging in only what you need to post and see how that goes
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Is using qemu+kvm with virtio drivers for windows a security issue for the host machine ? for example if i use cracked software or windows get infected ?
>>737 >look up "ltsc" >results dominated by Win 10 (NOT WIN 7) references I appreciate that this is free tech support, but at least make an attempt to be helpful. As for the post, not even unplugging everything but the 24-pin yielded any tangible result.
>>741 LTSC is Win 10, just a slightly less shit version. If you're gonna infect yourself with AIDs might as well get security updates and support for newer hardware. Did you try maybe reseating you RAM and CPU? It's a long shot but you never know. It's very possible you fried something on your MB and fucked it up beyond any repair.
>>742 Both components re-seated, no effect Do I really need to buy a THIRD mobo? If I had known they were such finicky cunts, I would've just gotten a pre-built.
>>739 It's definitely not impossible for malware to escape a VM, but I am doubtful you could get something like that from pirating games or Sony Vegas or something. It's more likely that files in a shared folder between the two system become infected, or that a worm can spread through any network it is connected to. The most secure thing would be to have a completely separate system, but that's definitely overkill for most people.
>>745 >It's more likely that files in a shared folder between the two system become infected, or that a worm can spread through any network it is connected to. I should have noted though, that even though it's "more likely", getting a virus in the first place from pirated games doesn't appear to be that common to me in the first place, I mean you'd think more anons would have mentioned viruses over the years, but I didn't want to sound like I'm encouraging you to pirate because who knows, it could happen, and I don't want to be blamed.
>>743 >Do I really need to buy a THIRD mobo? If I had known they were such finicky cunts, I would've just gotten a pre-built. Wait, did you get a new PSU as well? If you're expecting a new PSU, definitely don't plug your old one into your new motherboard. I'm not an expert or anything, but it sounds like your PSU is fucking up your motherboards.
>>747 >>735 >plug mouse into new USB port while still on pre-install screen >computer instantly turns off >computer refuses to activate unless I first unplug the PSU for a few minutes >even then, it deactivates after one second Okay, I was bit hasty before, motherboard could be fine actually (or maybe not), but yeah it sounds more like a PSU issue to me. Dumb question, but you're sure your PSU has enough wattage for your rig? Weird that it turned off after plugging something in, but that could have been coincidental. I know that with a failing voltage regulator, the problem will persist if it's re-energized while hot, but will work fine for a bit if you let it cool down first. Again, not an expert. Good luck with your build, shit happens.
>>743 I've built many PCs and I've never had this much trouble with motherboards, IDK what the fuck you keep doing. You can always try returning it and claim it was DOA.
>>745 >>746 okay thanks I'll be careful
Back earlier in July, I tried my Noctua A12X25 on my CPU cooler (Be Quiet! Shadow Rock LP). The computer failed POST with "CPU fan failure". I saw the fan run as the system POSTed, so it wasn't that. I have a 3000rpm Noctua NF-F12 IndustrialPPC in there now, after recalling that the last fan that ran had a max speed of 3000rpm. Yeah, I really need to build a more recent PC. I'm so far back that I need a new processor and RAM for a new motherboard, however.
Anyone know how to fix this shit? pcm.multi { type route; slave.pcm { type multi; slaves.a.pcm "output"; slaves.b.pcm "loopin"; slaves.a.channels 2; slaves.b.channels 2; bindings.0.slave a; bindings.0.channel 0; bindings.1.slave a; bindings.1.channel 1; bindings.2.slave b; bindings.2.channel 0; bindings.3.slave b; bindings.3.channel 1; } ttable.0.0 1; ttable.1.1 1; ttable.0.2 1; ttable.1.3 1; } pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "multi" } pcm.output { type hw card "Generic" } pcm.loopin { type plug slave.pcm "hw:Loopback,0,0" } pcm.loopout { type plug slave.pcm "hw:Loopback,1,0" }
>>3 How do I delete a glitched email account on W10's mail app? I click account settings but nothing pops up for it when I do. It's like it's not really there.
Snagging some videos with Youtube-dl. Latest version. They play just fine and the audio sounds okay but I'm worried about the warning that shows up after each download. >WARNING: Malformed AAC bitstream detected. Install ffmpeg or avconv to fix this automatically. I did download ffmpeg itself. Is it just a matter of putting the .exe in the same folder as Youtube-dl to prevent this? I know fuck all about command line type programs. All I do is just paste the URL of a video and hit the enter key.
>>766 >Is it just a matter of putting the .exe in the same folder as Youtube-dl to prevent this? If it said that then it's not finding ffmpeg, otherwise it should say something like "fixing malformed AAC" etc etc. The surefire way of getting it to work is to use the --ffmpeg-location option when calling youtube-dl. You could also encapsulate some default always-present options like these in a bat file if you know what you're doing.
>>762 # software mixer for sound card pcm.dmixer { type dmix ipc_key 1024 ipc_perm 0666 # allow other users slave.pcm "snd_card" slave { period_time 0 period_size 1024 buffer_size 4096 channels 2 # must match bindings } bindings { 0 0 1 1 } } # software mixer for loopback device pcm.dmixerloop { type dmix ipc_key 2048 ipc_perm 0666 # allow other users slave.pcm "hw:Loopback,0,0" slave { period_time 0 period_size 1024 buffer_size 4096 channels 2 # must match bindings } bindings { 0 0 1 1 } } # allows multiple programs to capture simultaneously pcm.dsnooper { type dsnoop ipc_key 2048 ipc_perm 0666 slave.pcm "snd_card" slave { period_time 0 period_size 1024
[Expand Post] buffer_size 4096 channels 2 } bindings { 0 0 1 1 } } #this is where the pain all begins pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "dues" } pcm.dues { type asym playback.pcm "multi" capture.pcm "dsnooper" } #this is where your headset is pcm.snd_card { type hw card "Generic" } #audio goes in #pcm.loopin { # type plug # slave.pcm "hw:Loopback,0,0" #} #audio goes out pcm.loopout { type plug slave.pcm "hw:Loopback,1,0" } #this is a splitter, it moves the audio it's given to two outputs (output, and loopin) pcm.multi { type plug; slave.pcm { type multi; slaves.a.pcm "dmixer"; slaves.b.pcm "dmixerloop"; slaves.a.channels 2; slaves.b.channels 2; bindings.0.slave a; bindings.0.channel 0; bindings.1.slave a; bindings.1.channel 1; bindings.2.slave b; bindings.2.channel 0; bindings.3.slave b; bindings.3.channel 1; } ttable.0.0 1; ttable.1.1 1; ttable.0.2 1; ttable.1.3 1; }
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Just a heads up: Since the site has been going offline for random periods of time, and because not everyone wants (or knows how) to use the onion address on Tor, Acid has deployed a Tor2web proxy that allows anyone to access the onion link through their regular browsers without the need of additional software. The proxy is located at https://redchannit.net/, and from there you can access to and post on /t/ or any other board without problem. Proof in case you don't believe me: >>>/site/532
Is it appropriate to make a single /sci/ thread here? I want to talk about some specific science things again, but /sci/ is fucking dead.
>>790 Should be fine, but i don't think you'll get much of a response anyway.
>>790 Go for it. /sci/ is pretty niche but we may be able to get some discussion going.
I need to fill in a form it's a pdf, is there any good pdf editor for linux? libre office seem messy also can you trust the AUR ?
>>802 There's Sumatra and Foxit. LibreOffice Writer indeed does a poor job. AUR is generally trustworthy, especially for popular packages.
>>803 >There's Sumatra and Foxit that's for windows only no? sumatra is only a reader too.. guess i'll use foxit with wine or something, i was hoping for a libre editor but couldn't find anything.
>>809 I think Foxit has a Linux release, but I haven't used it. Sumatra I think you can edit and save fillable fields. I generally just groan and whip out LibreOffice Draw if someone sends me a PDF without fillable fields. They usually expect me to print it out like I'm some caveman.
>>3 I have a computer with Windows 10 pre installed. It is a pirated version like everything in this 3rd world country. One day, I installed Office and now WIndows is asking me for activation. Anyway, I want to buy one of those cheap licence and update my windows. My question: Do I have to install Windows all over again or I just buy and put the licence? I am asking this because I know that pirated versions of Windows have to do a lot of things in order to make them work, and I don't want my computer malfunctioning in the future.
>>825 You could probably just enter the key in the existing install. It would be better to download a original version and reinstall it though, you never know if there isn't some kind of malware hidden in the cracked version.
>>825 Just enter the license and activate it. Microsoft's long-standing policy ids that piracy is inevitable, so they don't try to bork your install too hard over it. They want to encourage people to buy keys. They only hold back their utility software and major products (like Office) from unverified installs. You could also just install LibreOffice, or maybe switch to Linux, which will work out of the box without asking you for money.
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Gentoo fag here with a question on updating, how is anyone supposed to break the cyclic dependency block caused by dev-qt? So many programs use Qt now that I don't think it's feasible to exclude it from the system, and I absolutely cannot resolve the cyclic blocking caused by it to update my system. Even the gentoo wiki (wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Qt/FAQ) recommends removing everything from the dev-qt atom and re-emerging as the newer versions, but even after removing everything from that atom it still tries to emerge the pre-existing versions (5.14.2). I've attempted to use --complete-graph and --backtrack=99 to 999 to resolve the issue and accomplished nothing.
>>829 Can't this be resolved with slotting?
>>830 I don't know, I only just read about slotting and I'm not totally sure I understand how it's used. I have managed to update my system except for everything in the dev-qt atom and two other packages that rely on updated qt packages, which I can live without updating for the time being. I just hope it didn't break anything else in some way. One of the suggestions I saw for this was to check use flags with grep -r "dev-qt" /etc/portage/package.* and it showed a bunch of matches in files like: >._cfg0000_xterm >._mrg0000_xterm >xterm.bak >._cfg0000_xterm.bak where it shows the atom/package-version useflag and then #required by packages but I would be hesitant to touch these files and potentially break the system
>>829 emerge --unmerge packages that depend on qt. Then update qt and reemerge those packages.
>>841 Disable use flags that makes qt depend on those packages that you unmerged first. >Qt(USE:stuff) <> stuff >unmerge stuff >Qt(USE:-stuff) >Qt(USE:+stuff) should pull in stuff
Is the Signal app as privacy respecting as they say it is? You know for a phone app.
>>846 Open source, messages are end to end encrypted. It's based on the US and has centralized servers, so could be compromised. I don't use nigger phone "apps" but if it requires a phone number instead of just an email to create an account that's also an inherent anonymity flaw. "For a phone app" I guess it sounds okay. I wouldn't be using a standard proprietary jewgle or apple phone to do anything that I want to remain private.
>>846 >Privacy I trust that it can't read my messages. It seems to be doing a good job at also not collecting metadata although that's hard to prove. They had a court order a couple of years ago and could only give a teenie tiny amount of data. If that is still the case who knows? I suspect if it weren't then something would've leaked that that has changed. All of Signal's new features focus on minimising/nullifying Signal's ability to collect any data about its users. >Anonymity Signal is awful. As of writing, you require a phone number to register. This was done for accessibility reasons i.e for getting many people onto the service and as a natural way to stop bots. You didn't have to create a username. Your contacts were all connected to your number so Signal didn't need to store anything. The issue is it's starting to get harder and harder to get SIMs/phone numbers that aren't connected to you. Many countries require ID cards to purchase SIMs you could always find a Cryptoparty and trade SIM cards. >Security It's promising that their E2E encryption protocols have essentially become the standard for secure messengers. The client and server code is open source. Signal has been audited. >Principles From having used it for a couple of years and reading about it for some time now, I would say Signal has two main focuses: Privacy + accessibility to normalfags. That second point is good and bad. It's a lot easier to get your group of friends onto it because it's "like WhatsApp" apparently. I don't use WhatsApp so I don't actually know. However, it also means that sometimes work goes into adding stickers and private ways to get Giphy previews in-client instead of more important improvements. The clients aren't great. It can sometimes feel a little slow to sync up. The desktop one is Electron, so it's basically running a full browser for a messaging program. The project is also just another walled garden (you can only communicate with people inside it like WhatsApp and Telegram) and the project is hostile towards user run versions on the grounds that having many clients/servers means that some won't keep up with security/privacy standards/features. >Future Signal is currently in the process of coming up with a way to remove the reliance on phone numbers and a way for new/lost phones to get all the data back and the current situation has caused a bit of turmoil. The current solution is to force users to make a PIN basically a password, although many will just have a 4 digit number because it's called a PIN and the default input interface is a number pad from which a strong key is derived in an Intel "enclave" an isolated location for code to run where not even the programmers have access to it and that's used to encrypt lots of user data like contacts/settings so that when someone loses their phone and gets a new one they can have all their data back instead of starting from scratch again. This has two issues. Firstly, reliance on the enclave's being actually secure - it has been shown to have security issues. Secondly, this is a shift in the project philosophy. They used to store basically no data about the user and will no start storing basically everything although it will be encrypted. The first issue can easily be overcome by just having a strong PIN e.g. 20 digit alphanumeric random string, but then again 50 year old Bill won't do that will he? The second issue is interesting. Having an encrypted user account stored on the server means you won't need phone numbers and can seamlessly use it on new devices but like I said it's stepping into something it said it won't. If you want to get your friends/family off WhatsApp/Messenger because of privacy reasons, this is currently the best way to do that.
Anyone know of a program or script* that can sort duplicate pics and webms/mp4s by identical thumbnails and/or image hashes? I have literal tens of thousands of pics from varying imageboards going back almost a decade in one folder and doing this manually is murderously tedious. *I know nothing about scripting but am willing to learn
Is there something like nitter but for facebook? >>858 You could try a bash script that takes hashes of every file and removes duplicates, however many sites re-encode images when uploading so it wouldn't be perfect. But it's the best you can do without some kind of AI
>>858 I was actually just organizing some files of mine this week and had to do part of what you want. My use case was to compare different folders for duplicates by hash and the easiest way I found was to do this: #calculate hashes of the files inside some folder and its subfolders: md5deep -r <folder 1 path> > hashes1.txt #compare a second folder with the hashes calculated on the previous step md5deep -m hashes1.txt -r <folder 2 path> | tee diff.txt This should spit the files on the second folder that also exist in the first one. You can also ask md5deep to spit out more info (look it up in the manpage) and you can also use the diff.txt to rm the duplicates. It's not the best but it works and md5deep is likely on every distro's repos. I haven't yet needed to search for duplicates inside just one folder so I haven't researched a way to do this. I imagine it'd be possible to do the first step to get hashes of all files inside of it, then pipe it to awk it to obtain only the hashes, then pipe it to sort and uniq to get the duplicates, and maybe grep after that against the original file to get the paths and filenames I fucking love the shell, pic very much related. >>859 I don't much into twitter, what's special about nitter besides not being actual twitter.
>>842 >>841 I'll give it a shot, checking with equery shows these packages rely on the specific version (5.14.0/2-r1/r4) of qtcore: >PyQt5 >PyQtWebEngine and everything else in the dev-qt atom, more is listed as only depending on qtcore:5 >>858 I recommend gthumb for finding duplicate images, it's not perfect though and you'll probably still spend a while checking if the images are actually duplicates and comparing file sizes.
>>862 >what's special about nitter besides not being actual twitter. More lightweight and native support for RSS. Plus like you said, it's not actually twitter
>>863 >gthumb Forgot to mention that I'm on Windows 7. That doesn't seem to be compatible. >>862 Thank you for the effort but I haven't a clue as to how to implement any of that. Then again, I did say I know absolutely zero about scripting. A program may be my best bet.
>>866 >Windows faget >A program may be my best bet I've used JAM Software TreeSize Professional to do hash comparisons back when I was still on Windows.
When i go into YouTube (TV app) i get recommend clips of movies i've watched on my PC? I'm on windows 7
>>877 Watched how? Google is notorious for doing anything they can to target recommendations. If you have done any kind of search or visited a website where they can track you, then they may be aware of what you've watched and will recommend it to anyone with your IP. Alternatively, their machine learning is so good that it can detect your interests from other data.
>>877 No shit retard. Jewgle creates a profile of you based on your IP and plenty of other factors.
>>877 >win 7 digits checks out welcome to the b07n3t, newfag
Is it safe to open torrent and magnet links on Tor?
>>882 Your IP will be exposed to the swarm, but you can solve that with a VPN.
I have an issue with an absolute fuckton of my video files, a few song files corrupting themselves, and couple RAR files somehow. My 1tb and 2tb external drives have had almost all of these files from before 2016 and a handful of 2017 things corrupted. My question being how did this happen and is there anyway to recover these files? I have unplugged the drives without ejecting it in windows like you're supposedly supposed to and I also have has a few instances of power going out, these are the only things i can think of that maybe could do this but I've never heard of this actually happening.
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>>885 Not looking very good, hope you got backups Everyone with backups lost some important shit once before For solutions: Maybe try a chkdsk /f or search for .000 files which may be the recovered chunk of files, then you'd change the extension Good luck
>>888 Breathtaking digits, but don't do that. Stop whatever you are doing and read ddrescue's manual. Then ddrescue a block by block copy of the partition. Figure out the rest.
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I really want try Void Linux, but after the installation and make the first Boot without the USB I get this. What I can do?
>>972 Looks like you didn't have zfs support built into the kernel. I don't think zfs is shipped with any distribution by default, and unless you plan on having your whole install on a zfs raid then I suggest using another filesystem.
>>973 It's not because of their cucked license, so Linux can't mainline it.
I need a good web browser. I am currently using Edge and I'm under the impression it's a terrible choice.
>>986 >I am currently using Edge Jesus christ anon. Just use brave or some shit.
>>986 literally any browser is better then edge
>>987 >>993 I thought Brave had some form of kikery with bitcoin or am I thinking of something else?
>>999 It has some gay crypto currency built in if you enable their weird ad system but if you're brain dead fucking retarded enough to use microsofts edge browser than brave is the only thing you're going to be able to use anyways so just use it. If you were competent enough to use another browser you wouldn't need to be asking which browser to use in the first place.
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>>986 See >>>/t/984 for browsers and extensions. Ditch Edge. If you don't know what to pick, then Firefox is the safe default. It's the only non-Chromium option left. Or Pale Moon if you're nostalgic for 2005. >>1000 Nice.
My working gentoo install broke after failing to resume from suspend, now it no longer boots and I'm hoping someone knows what's gone wrong here. Resume fails sporadically and I mostly don't use it, but this time when I had to force a reboot, instead of the usual song and dance of "dirty bit set, drive did not unmount cleanly, running fsck", booting gets as far as :: Loading from crypto >> Determining root device (trying UUID=...) !! Block device UUID=... is not a valid root device ... !! Could not find the root block device in UUID.. It gives me the option to drop into an interactive shell, so I do and try running fdisk -l, at first it returned nothing, no drives, and I have 3 connected to sata, one nvme. I tried running fsck from a livecd and everything came back clean, maybe because I ran sync before suspend. So I chrooted into it from the livecd and recompiled with what I think is every serial ATA driver compiled into the kernel instead of a module, and the same for nvme, and updated grub.cfg, and now when it fails to find the root device, fdisk shows the nvme drive at least, but none of the sata drives. I cannot think of anything else to try with this, aside from just reinstalling entirely. It was working for months before today. The only other thing I can think of is that I had recompiled the kernel and never updated grub or restarted after, but doing in through chroot should have fixed that.
Despite Xhamster being officially supported, Youtube-dl refuses to download any videos from it. Keeps saying "No video formats found". I'm on the latest version too.
I'm trying to install a package using apt-get, and that operation makes apt-get want to remove some other packages. Is there any way to get apt-get to explain what's the reason it wants to remove those packages? It makes sense for this to happen when you're removing packages since in that case you could be removing packages which are dependencies of others, but in this case I'm wondering what's the cause.
>>1077 It's most likely left over dependencies from another program you uninstalled. If it's something you need you can mark it as manually installed and it won't auto-remove it.
I have two machines with the same OS and both have MODULES=most in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf, but only one of them includes a sizeable amount of kernel modules in the initramfs and the other one includes very few. The one with a lot of modules does not seem to have individually added modules to the initramfs through /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, so I'm lost on how those modules are getting added to the initramfs. Does anyone have any clues? It seems as if there were something overriding it on the machine with few modules but I have found no such functionality. >>1096 I haven't found a way to do what I want, but I inspected the individual package info and I learned that there's a "breaks" tag in debs that can make what I was experiencing happen.
Anyone remember one of those custom Windows 10 builds someone posted about on /tech/ a long while ago. Maybe early 2019 I remember the thread? I don't plan on using Windows but I do have a certain fascination with those custom windows builds. It wasn't windows 9 it was one of those that came with like firefox, chrome and a dark theme installed. For the life of me I can't find it or remember its exact name.
>>1116 NVM I found it, it was Windows 10 AME
I have 8GB of RAM and wish to upgrade. Luckily, there's a spare unused (well, formally used) PC lying around. Possibly unfortunately, the sticks are 8GB each and of a different brand. The brand is likely not to make any difference but is there any word of a PC with irregularly sized RAM (24GB in this case) behaving strangely? I don't even know the timings, if that's important. Also, all of the sticks are DDR3.
>>1121 I think it may be sub optimal because of the difference in the specs of the sticks but it won't catch fire, and I don't think the irregular amount of memory will cause any issues. My notebook had 2+2 GB of memory but one day it burnt one of the sticks, and as a replacement I got a 4GB stick so it's had 6GB for a long time without issue. It has run Win7 and then Linux and never had a problem.
>>1121 With the timings you have to understand that it's like the weakest link in the chain analogy, whatever the slowest timing of a memory module is that's how the rest of them will be. As far as weird memory sizes I thought I read once that this is suboptimal for any system but I don't recall why.
What are some good/lightweight gui toolkits for C? I need to write a thing and so far FLTK looks like the best option, but that requires a C++ compiler.
>>1135 I'd definitely recommend FLTK but I don't know any that are pure C out of the box. Once you start doing GUI having objects is really helpful. You can always write your actual code in C and then link it to FLTK which is C++. Yeah, you need a C++ compiler, but are you not already using GCC? What's your situation where g++ is not an option but gcc is?
Since last week I haven't been able to update Devuan ASCII, I get the error E: The repository 'http://packages.devuan.org/devuan ascii Release' does not have a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. I tried configuring apt to allow it anyways but I still get errors. Is this something on my end I need to fix or is the Devuan devs fault?
>>1143 Devuan is a meme distro with retarded devs that plugged their ears when RMS criticized them, don't even bother trying to get things to work.
>>1143 I had the same on Debian Buster. The issue was with list file that states that the default way to get software is the .iso. After removing the line the problem was solved in my case.
>>1155 Can you elaborate? My sources.list file looks fine.
>>1145 Hey, another Debian bro. >>1157 On a Debian default install the sources.list has a line that makes apt request the Debian installer CD because it acts as an initial repository. In your case it seems that's not the case and the URL you provided is simply down (it redirects to http://packages.roundr.devuan.org/devuan but that site never answers).
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>>1159 First quote meant to quote >>1155
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>> 1160 Hey. >> 1157 After the >> 1159 response I'm not sure but still it's worth to try. > This fix is needed only for those who installed Debian from a DVD. Because after you installed Debian from a DVD, you will get the error “the repository cdrom does not have a release file” every time you try to update your system > To fix this error, open the Software and Updates application and in the Other Software tab, disable CDROM repository
>>1139 Thanks! >>1138 Just personal preference, I'd rather keep away from C++ bullshit. I used FLTK multiple times and it's designed in a sensible way I think, but I just wanted to see if there's anything better.
>>99 What are some good DNS servers?
>>1164 OpenNIC is kinda slow but it's got more domains than regular clearnet. You can also host your own if you want to fix performance. If you use a VPN, some have their own DNS.
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I have recently bought an 8BitDo SN30 Pro+ controller after it had been shilled to hell and back and it was pretty comfortable to play with, but I'm getting some issues with diagonal inputs. More specifically, according to Windows 7 patented controller settings screen, I can't seem to get the cross in any of the four corners, no matter how hard I try or what settings I change using 8BitDo's software. Updated firmware doesn't seem to make a difference. More specifically, I'm having trouble when playing with emulated games that use wide and angled movements, think Crash Team Racing. I can play it no problem but it won't turn all the way left or right in tight corners for some reasons. Is there a way to achieve that sweet corner movement, or is my controller just defective? It's such a joke that a Linq cheap PS3 controller can do what a 40 dollarydoos controller can't.
>>1177 I don't have one so I cannot check myself, but I would hazard a guess that the designers were trying to emulate analog-stick "circular" movement and thus didn't want full force in both directions. I can't think of any other reason why other controllers would work but this one wouldn't. If it's emulating an analog stick with pre-set values for each direction then this seems like a hack to prevent exactly what you want. Frankly, if something is shilled then I'd be extra skeptical. Plus, it's only got 4 face buttons, which makes it useless for playing Genesis, Saturn, and Arcade games.
How do I go about ripping videos from certain sites when Video Downloadhelper won't detect them? I wanna say Youtube-dl but I don't think that works on the especially lesser known sites (the [ad-ridden] kind that exclusively hosts JAVs).
>>1205 Why don't you give it a try? Youtube-dl supports hundreds of sites and costs you nothing to download. Otherwise if you want to do it manually look at the requests the site does and figure it out. Most likely you'll have to download the playlist of video chunks and then download all the chunks and join them together with ffmpeg or some other video encoding software.
>>1205 Youtube-dl works with basically any site. If you're too retarded for a CLI then just use youtube-dl GUI.
>>1205 What the others said. You know youtube-dl exists but you didn't even try it? You could also ask the developer to support it explicitly, if you're not to embarrassed to ask.
Any reason to use sndio over just alsa?
>>99 Yeah, that's me. I haven't really thought about it though.
Why does using a bluetooth controller suck ass on PC? If I use my PS4 then it works just fine, but the same controller in the same room is laggy as shit on PC. Do consoles use some propriety protocol over BT? Or is my USB adapter just shit?
Is it worth making your own imageboard if you have no tech or mod experience whatsoever? Also, do you need lots of money?
I've recently switched my jewtube workflow from invidious instances to youtube-local instead since invidio.us went down and the other instances tend to go offline often. In a lot of ways it's significantly more convenient, actually in just about every way it's more convenient since local subscriptions with thumbnails are easier to interface with than RSS feeds. The only issue, and this was an issue with invidious instances as well, is that the videos are all 720p. I've set the default resolution in the settings.txt for the program to 1080 but it's obvious the videos are still 720p. I noticed on the github https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local it says >Planned features: Muxing of 1080p I'm a bit tech illiterate about things like this, does this mean 1080p videos with youtube-local aren't supported yet?
>>1306 >does this mean 1080p videos with youtube-local aren't supported yet? Yes, they are not supported yet. Also youtube-local is absolutely retarded, tracking googlevideos connections would be trivial.
>>1306 1080p+ support for YouTube is missing from a lot of software that interacts with it. I think the lone exception is youtube-dl. You'll note that they say "Muxing of 1080p", this is because YouTube separates the audio and video streams entirely for 1080p (and above) videos, so you need to "sync" them together into a single file for playback. YouTube's official player handles this. youtube-dl gets streams separately anyways and always combines them, so it's a non-issue. For others, it's a technical barrier that much be overcome, and YouTube makes small changes constantly that can break them.
I am new to Gentoo and whenever I try to emerge unetbootin it tells me I need to add use flags or something but then all I get is a bunch of package names, (argument) and >=dev-libs/libpcre2-10.35 pcre16. I told it to add whatever these mystery use flags were to the make.conf but it didn't and now it doesn't even give me the option to add them. I am using a custom kernel and hardened gentoo if it matters at all.
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Is switching from Windows to Linux worth it? I know that Linux is a lot more pro-privacy, even if one goes with the more mainstream distros like Ubuntu, which is great. On the other hand, I'm worried about having to deal with endless compatibility issues, re-learning how to install software, and so forth. I'm essentially looking for an option which balances user privacy and protection with reasonable compatibility for emulations, DAWs, and Wine (or similar virtualizers for Windows software), and an anon over at /v/ suggested Ubuntu was the most-versatile option, especially for a beginner. But will the benefits be noticeable enough to be worth what will likely be a high learning curve? Also, I hear Linus has a thing against Nvidia due to compatibility issues. If my rig has a GTX1660, am I shit out of luck?
>>1337 Nice digits, but if you can't be bothered to try it out by yourself it's certainly not worth it for you.
>>1337 If you are willing to learn lots of Linux commands and more new stuff, then go with Linux. Maybe try Linux in a Virtual Machine first to see if you would stick with it. I used to use Linux on a Desktop with a GTX 1070 and it wasn't too bad. The latest Ubuntu LTS release should automatically install the nvidia drivers if you choose the (((Install 3rd party software))) option during installation. Many other distros should be fine with nvidia drivers too, but you need to install them yourself. Follow distro-specific guides on how to install nvidia drivers and never directly grab the drivers from nvidia's website.
>>1357 not him but I never I liked Ubuntu on virtualbox, it always runs so slow but I discovered Lubuntu today and it works better so far.
>>1337 (nice) I have a 1660 Ti and compatibility is fine. A lot of distributions make it easy to install nVidia's drivers. Most Steam games work via proton, as long as the game is installed on a non-NTFS drive. You can check games you play often on protondb. Also, Ubuntu and Debian are commonly recommended "beginner" distributions. I'd say you should either try Manjaro first or at least look at one of the alternative flavors of Ubuntu with a better desktop environment. It handles the install for you and makes adding drivers and such easy. And they provide multiple desktops right on their website, so you can take a look. XFCE is pretty lightweight and you can theme it. KDE is pretty heavy but looks better out of the box. Both are plenty usable and better than GNOME, and i3 is an additional learning curve you probably aren't ready for yet. Is there a learning curve for Linux? Absolutely. You need to unlearn a lot of Windows behaviors and expectations. Sometimes this is the failure of the distribution (see below), and other times it's because Windows has made some choices and now people just accept that's how "computers" are. Little things like "oh, you can't do that from here". Why? Because it's not that program's job. Windows users tend to just want it where they expect it and don't care about system design concerns. >>1358 Any distribution that tries to force GNOME or derivatives (including Unity) on you out of the box is going to be slow. They tried so hard to be "feature complete" and newbie friendly, but all they've done is provide a a worse OSX-style experience with tons of bloat. Lubuntu or Xubuntu, out of the box, are a better experience. It's faster and it's going to be more familiar for Windows users trying to run a second install. Even KDE has better performance than GNOME in my experience, and it's also pretty bloated. At least they don't try to pretend it's lightweight, and value adding features instead of removing them. Still have to deal with Aptitude, but at least it's a step in the right direction. Especially for newbies who don't know how to change desktop environments. >>1335 I don't think a custom/hardened kernel should affect installing, it just impacts software at runtime. Hardened has also been significantly weakened since many of those patches went private, and it's generally not considered "worth it" anymore. If you're telling it to add those USE flags then it's probably doing it. Are you certain it's not? Are you getting a specific error when trying to install?
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>>1359 I may or may not move from hardened as the stage 3 was smaller. Do packages tend to be smaller? Also, why did they go private? Anyway, I am getting the same error as before and I did check the USE variable in the make.conf to be sure it was added or not. Whatever this variable is was not added. Pic related is the error. I am probably missing something obvious I just have no idea what this error is trying to tell me.
>>1360 >why did they go private The developers of grsecurity are faggots and decided they could make money selling to corporations instead of publishing the changes for free. They're really only able to do this because Linus doesn't consider it the kernel team's job to really think about security implementations. If they did, they'd have mainlined many of the smaller changes a long time ago. >Do packages tend to get smaller? Hardened pulls in a bunch of additional packages and updates your USE flags to build with SELinux compatibility. I think it might also forcibly set some GCC security flags, but those are easy enough to set yourself and I'd be surprised if they weren't enabled by default on most profiles; protecting against something like stack smashing is relatively uncontroversial and I can't imagine why you'd want to compile without it for daily use. >error I'm admittedly a little rusty on Gentoo since the laptop I was daily-driving it on has been stuck somewhere. I found this forum entry which seems relevant: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-419133-view-next.html I think you just need to verify your make.conf isn't malformed and that you've added the correct USE flags somewhere.
I gave going X-less a try as a meme before moving to Void, but the longer I use it, the less reasons I see to not daily it. >window management <I already used to use i3 and rarely tiled, usually one fullscreen window per workspace, so Alt+F? feels normal to me >anime/other weeb videos <mpv -vo=drm >youtube <youtube-viewer, configured to launch above >viewing images <fbi >reading manga <download with cum(or a web browser from somewhere like itazura) -> unzip -> fbi >music <moc(used cmus back in the day but apparently it's a daemon now instead of a normal player) >irc <irssi >screenshot <fbcat/fbgrab >browsing files <ranger or mc, I actually like both >browsing web Here's where I hit a roadblock. <links: no images, no Japanese(well no shit, TTY's are ASCII) <links -g: images work, kana displays but kanji doesn't, and characters are apparently a .png baked in at compile time <w3m: images work, no Japanese <fbterm links: no images, Japanese works but artifacts out the ass <fbterm w3m: no images, Japanese works <also fbterm breaks fbi images, but on the other hand it would let me have Japanese in the rest of the system like in filenames <netsurf is not in the repos and I got confused by their compiling instructions What do I do to have both Japanese display(and input) and images at the same time? Try to stuff Unifont into links? Try to fix fbi/w3m images in fbterm? Try to get netsurf working? Or just give up and run X without a window manager just for the web browser?
>>1368 i assume by how roundabout your solutions are that you're using framebuffer and not wayland. Sounds like an interesting premise. I remember stumbling upon a gdk(gtk+) framebuffer implementation at one point, i don't know how well it works however.
I remember hearing that it's a good idea to just completely drain the battery on rechargeable devices every now and then. Is there a process that I should do this in, how often should I do this, and which rechargeable devices should I not do this with?
I'm getting this on mega.nz with PaleMeme 27.9.4. Does 28 have this same problem? Any addons out there that can still spoof a browser header to get past this? >I've been a Windows refugee for over five years. Honestly, it depends on the severity of your threat model.
Second half of >>1378 was meant for >>1337
>>1376 Honestly, don't bother with any of the "battery saving" shit you see. Batteries will go bad eventually, delaying it by a month or two isn't really worth all the effort. Just do what's convenient for you then replace the battery when it goes bad.
>>1380 The hell? How is it not good? A month can mean a difference for many things.
>>1381 A normal lithium ion battery will last a couple years. At that point an extra month is moot when you can just swap it out whit a brand new one.
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I've recently started dual-booting Manjaro with Windows 10, and I have to say, I really like the former so far. I've had to do some tweaking and whatnot, but things seem fairly stable, overall. That said, I'm trying to find the best means of playing Blu-Rays, and so far I've tried the following methods: >The method mentioned on the Arch Wiki, involving VLC and libaacs However, this does not appear to work with newer Blu-Rays, as it keeps telling me the aacs files necessary aren't there, iirc >Trying to run a Windows-compatible BR player through Wine This requires Java, which among other problems is apparently undetectable through Wine; as well, it can't detect my Blu-Ray drive this way. >Trying to use MakeMKV In a sense, this has been the most stable option thus far, but again, it can't detect "any useable optical drives". Am I better off just using my Windows boot for Blu-Ray playback? Or am I missing something really obvious?
>>1383 mpv
>>1383 Are you using the Linux version of MakeMKV or using Wine? I don't have any issues with it on Ubuntu
Reposting my question from Lainchan since I want to solve this issue fast. I'm having speed issues with Qt5 applications, Tor Browser Bundle, and Firefox on Gentoo. The UI is unresponsive. I've been trying to find out how to fix the issue, but I'm totally lost now. How can I finally fix this font issue? Tor Browser log is attached. qBitorrent log will be on another post.
>>1386 anonymous@gentoo ~ $ qbittorrent OpenType support missing for "MUTT ClearlyU Wide", script 11 OpenType support missing for "Liberation Sans", script 11 OpenType support missing for "Luxi Sans", script 11 OpenType support missing for "Nimbus Sans L", script 11
>>1386 >>1387 I don't have a concrete solution but I am not convinced that it is a font issue. I'm far more concerned with the following [Parent 18528, Gecko_IOThread] WARNING: pipe error (97): Connection reset by peer: file /var/tmp/build/firefox-8c99f46eb62b/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 358 A pipe error on a system socket is a red flag, and the commonality between Qt, Firefox, and Tor Browser is the Gecko engine. I found this bug report on the issue for Tor Browser, although it was closed. https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/issues/388 Additionally, I found this which was a problem with their SELinux configuration https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1545844 Are you using the hardened profile? Is SELinux configured? If so, it may be preventing Gecko from being able to access a socket it needs, which is causing hangups.
>>1388 No, I'm using the default Gentoo profile. I do not have SELinux.
>>1389 That doesn't mean it's not a permissions issue. Your Gecko IO threads are receiving pipe errors when trying to use a local socket. The most likely causes are that they do not have the rights to grab sockets, probably because of insufficient permissions. Whatever the cause, it makes perfect sense why they'd lock up, it makes sense that they all share Gecko in common. You need to figure out why Gecko can't pipe data through sockets.
Anyone know why my ATR 2100 USB mic has really shitty sound quality on linux that doesn't get picked up very well and kind of trails off and cuts out unless I'm yelling directly in the mic? I tested another shittier headset mic and it works more or less fine.
>>1392 To add onto this it sounds fine in things like audacity recordings but in VOIP software like steam and steam games it doesn't register at all unless I yell directly into the mic.
I am not sure where to post this but I am really worried, I haven't used my paypal account in years but I got a message on my email that paypal has been used I also got a tracking number from ups emailed to me with my PO box, 5days later I got 10 t-shirts sent to my PO box. I am not sure what is going on or what I should do. I am trying send the shit back to the merchant but I can't call paypal's Customer Service because >We currently have limited customer service staffing due to Coronavirus and get hung up as soon as the message ends. I have honestly forgotten I had it, and should have de-activated it a long time ago. My paypal shouldn't have worked at all since I changed bank account because of a different reason.
>>1395 If you didn't get charged, then just enjoy your free shit.
Is it safe to download torrents as long as it's done through a proxy? Deluge has a proxy setting.
>>1397 It's generally anonymous to do so, since all your traffic is routed through an anonymous endpoint. You can still download malware if you're not careful, and that can reveal your actual IP if it wants to. But that's on you to look out for. But your IP shouldn't leak as long as you do it all via VPN.
>>1398 >But your IP shouldn't leak as long as you do it all via VPN. What about non-VPN proxies?
>>1399 You would have to do packet capture to find out for sure, but torrent clients in general have a reputation for leaking information. That's why one of the reasons it's inadvisable to use them with Tor.
>>1400 Okay, thank you.
>>1397 I down/up load about a TB a month, no VPN or proxy. Never ran into any issues
Can someone recommend me a tiling window manager with good mouse support for moving and resizing windows?
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>>1404 i3 perhaps as it still has titlebars so you don't need to press alt just to move a window with the mouse
Why does seemingly every website break the simple "tab" option for moving between the username and password field? What the hell do the coders of the website get off on when they think forcing the user to click on the password field themselves is good? Not only that, it also breaks a lot of password managers that just use a "auto-type" method instead of a method based on the input fields.
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>>3 Hey /t/, computer illiterate here: Recently, my MSI pre-built computer won't turn on properly. Basically, it's been raining and storming a lot in my area lately so I am fearing the worst, but essentially the computer does the following: >Boots >Starts loading for about 3 seconds >Fan starts >Hard shutdown I have tried the following, and none of them worked: >Removed RAM sticks and put them back >Removed just one RAM stick >Removed both >Removed the HD >Plugged every removable cord in and out of the motherboard >Changed socket >Changed charger And none of them worked. It doesn't really look as if anything got burnt, so is there any other check I must attempt before deeming the motherboard completely dead and over? Also, should I buy a new one and if so, what exactly should I look for in a new one, how much am I expecting to pay and is there any comprehensive guide to pc building or repairing for these cases?
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>>1443 By boots do you mean it boots fully into Windows I'm assuming you're using Windows since you're retarded? If so it might be overheating
>>1444 No it just starts sending signals to every component connected to the motherboard, including the fan, then it stops abruptly. >I'm assuming you're using Windows since you're retarded? My mom says I'm special In all seriousness, I was able to get to the BIOS Setup after fucking around by plugging and unplugging shit until it sounded well plugged enough. I usually try and remove dust bimonthly but I have been unable to in the last few months so it might be that too. Is there any test I should perform?
>>1444 Managed to get through Safe Mode, running SFC right now, cpu is unusually hot Also wow I am on an even worse pc so I didn't notice that was a chart. Amazing, thank you kind sir.
>>1446 Clean your CPU cooler and apply new paste. If it's a shit cooler you might wanna replace it.
>>1447 I'll look into it. I really need to learn the basics of this shit.
>>1447 Ah yes, by the way, can you recommend any one product? Even if it's just something that I have to look into the ingredients used, I don't mind.
>>1449 What CPU do you have, and how much clearance do you have for a cooler? Also depending on what you currently have you may not need a new one, new thermal paste might be enough.
>>1451 Intel i3-3220 It's an old pc but I've been able to keep it from dying for quite a while now and I'd be sad to lose it
>>1451 Oh and about space, I think I can probably fit one and the PSU has an extra unused wire. I'd probably have to find a way to make it stick to the walls of the case though. Like I said earlier, I try and dust it off gently with a pair of small hairbrushes and frequently dust off where I can reach in a well ventilated area, but I had to slack off lately and here I am now. I'm waiting for some checks to go through so I can read fan speed and temperature.
I want to buy bitcoin/cryptocurrency but I don't want to fuck all my personal information over to a shit service like Coinbase. I have an idea for how to buy it, but I need some way to get a wallet without going through any of these services, any wisdom anons?
>>1454 You can literally just create a wallet. You download software that generates one, and then you have an address people can send the currency to.
>>1454 >I want to buy bitcoin/cryptocurrency but I don't want to fuck all my personal information over to a shit service like Coinbase. Then prepare yourself to get scammed, and don't put in any amount of money you'd rather not lose. >but I need some way to get a wallet without going through any of these services You can create a wallet yourself, without any trouble. The fact you haven't figured it out means your idea for how to buy bitcoin is probably retarded, and that you're probably going to fuck up somewhere else anyways.
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Does anyone know how to download Ungoogled Chromium for PureOS? I would appreciate it if the instructions are not technically demanding, as I am rather new to Linux.
>>1472 According to this: https://tracker.pureos.net/T797 It's not packaged for either PureOS or upstream Debian. So you'll need to get it from outside repositories. You can try the prebuilt binaries which the maintainers list https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/ Your best bet is probably the Debian installer. An architecture isn't listed, but I am guessing it's x86_64. If you have an Intel or AMD processor in a laptop build within the last decade, then this is fine. If your device is older, or you're trying to run PureOS on something else like a Raspberry Pi or a phone, you should beware that this is probably not the binary you are looking for. If you get a .deb file you can do a search for how to install one. Generally you'll just need to provide it to either aptitude or dpkg and then handle dependencies which are hopefully packaged. May I make the recommendation that you just use a private browser which is already packaged for Debian? Such as Firefox, Icecat, or any other derivatives? Ungoogled Chromium is duct tape on a bandage as far as privacy goes.
>>1472 >new to linux >meme distro >meme browser >filling up the subject field >>1474 >private browser >Firefox >the browser installing adware "extensions" remotely, something not even Chrome does
How can I successfully install Win7 SP1 on a laptop that originally came with Win10? The laptop is from 2015. I attempted to do this before, but after I installed the OS, the wifi and ethernet drivers failed to install possibly due to missing updates. I do not have the error messages at all.
I'm trying to open a webpage but they're doing some sort of blocking at the DNS level that makes it so that I can't resolve the address using any DNS I try, however if I connect to a VPN the same DNS servers I tried previously actually do resolve the address without issue. How is this possible? Is there anything in the DNS protocol that would allow them to filter name resolution by the IP address that requests the resolution? I've never heard of anything like this before. >>1479 I tried installing a fresh Win7 SP1 install recently and the issue was with certificates. Some of the updates must add some root certificates and without them other programs failed to run. Also I faintly remember some issues about outdated SSL libraries. tl;dr: let it update
>>1480 How can I update at all if I can't get any internet access at all? >wifi drivers failed to install <ethernet drivers failed to install
>>1479 >SP1 Why are you so retarded that you want to install a specific version of an unsupported OS? I could understand wanting to install Linux, but this is just stupid. >>1480 >they're doing some sort of blocking at the DNS level They aren't, it's literally impossible unless they own every single DNS server you used. What is more likely is that your government blocked that site, but there could be many other explainations: hard to tell without knowing which DNS you tried and what's the site you wanted to get to.
>>1484 If you want to try solving it via updates, Microsoft used to allow you to download and bundle updates via an offline installer. These days, it's possible that option has been removed. They take a scorched earth policy when it comes to unsupported operating systems and a lot of very helpful tools are just gone now to encourage upgrades. It's embarassing that Win7 never figured out generic ethernet drivers at the very least. Another option might be to look up what chipset your motherboard has for ethernet and then see if you can find the driver from the manufacturer website, or from somewhere else. If that also fails, you can look at older models of the same line and try to find their drivers. It's possible that will get you enough functionality to connect and get started. >>1485 >Why are you so retarded that you want to install a specific version of an unsupported OS? In his defense, SP1 is the last compiled release of Win7. Unlike XP or some of their other releases, it never got a SP2, nor did it get a "here's everything bundles" end-of-life release. The only way to have all updates for Win7 out of the box would be building an image yourself, and I don't even know if Microsoft offers tools for that anymore. Why he wants to install Win7 is his business. I've told all my friends and family who don't need it for work to just move on to Linux. Not a lot listen, but it's the sensible move at this stage. But there are reasons you might not be able to ditch Windows.
>>1484 ha, I missed that bit. Maybe try getting more information about the error and if it actually is an error with certificates try getting the certificate from a Win7 VM and installing it manually. You could also try to see if you can get the required update(s) to install offline, I think Microsoft provided a way to get updates for offline installation and some other websites used to mirror them too. You could also try getting an older driver that may install in a non-updated Win7 install, and then upgrade it after Windows gets upgraded. >>1485 I think I figured out what's going on. The user facing DNS server eventually needs to hit the nameserver of the website that I'm trying to access and that nameserver must have been tweaked to not resolve to an address depending on where the DNS server I use is located. I obviously tried 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 as DNS servers but those addresses always reach local nameservers so that's why the name started resolving on a VPN. Using regional DNS servers always fails, but using DNS servers in other regions actually works. Nifty trick, 8moe should implement it.
>>1485 Windows 10 is malicious bullshit and I can't into Linux. All the distros suck except Gentoo, but I've been running into obscure issues in Gentoo recently. I also started to try out Windows 8.1 again, and I'm now having audio stutter issues. It doesn't happen on Windows 7. Windows 7 is the best desktop OS, but sadly it is dying. Anyways, FUCK WINDOWS 10 FUCK SYSTEMD FUCK WINDOWS 8.1 FUCK RED HAT FUCK MICROSOFT
>>1501 >can't into Linux >can totally determine that win10 is malicious bullshit because he read it on facebook
It seems that even entry level help desk openings demand experience in Active Directory. Odds are they mean actual work experience but how do I go about practicing that at home?
>>1510 If you're committed to learning it then you can do it at home and they don't need to know that you're all that new. I would gather any old/cheap computers you or your friends have and configure a basic network. Or if you have a nicer desktop you can use VMs. Install Windows Server on one and then create a domain and add the others onto it. Create users and administrate from there. Learn to use group policies to push updates and control permissions. You might want to pirate a book on the topic and follow its examples. There are also certification programs. Microsoft's certifications are notoriously easy and even Pajeets have them. You just need to get a book that teaches to the test and learn from it, and then you can say you're certified. Do they have an Active Directory specific certification? No clue, but you can find out, check Amazon for books that purport to teach it, and then look for that on libgen or your favorite private tracker. In general, you should assume certificates are worthless and professional experience matters more. But the goal is just to get your foot in the door somewhere that can tolerate your being green while you learn how to apply the knowledge. A certification can help with that. But it's still good to have a network to play around on, even if it's unlike the spaghetti you'll find in the real world.
>>1510 If you're just doing help desk, odds are all you'll be doing in AD is resetting passwords, and maybe account creation. Either way it's easy as fuck.
Anons i would like to get a bit on an advice. I found a PC next to a skip (pic) and i would need advice in getting a new motherboard for it. The specs are quite decent for what was thrown out, It's got an AMD Athlon II X4 ADX645WFK42GM , 4 gigs of ddr3 ram, and a GTX 560 all neatly packed on to an asrock N68C-UCC mobo. The thing works but mobo wise its got a few issues dragging it down, the first is that it's got an Nforce chip set, front USB is dead with even voltage missing from the rails, front audio is dead. Two from the 4 sata ports are also appear to be dead the connectors are there but that's it. Now im asking for advice what would be a decent mobo i can migrate the stuff to make a usable PC?
>>1555 Are you planning on re-using the same CPU/GPU just with a new motherboard? Doesn't really seem worth it imho From the pic it looks like an OEM prebuilt. Some of them have custom boards, so the holes might not line up if you get some ATX board.
>>1556 I guess once it was an OEM prebuilt but the parts can be found separate on ebay and there are links that amazon stocked them in the past. About reusing the CPU/GPU. Yes i was planing to reuse the CPU+ram since with a decent mobo they would make a sweet retro build- The GPU is king of hit n miss it works but only one output from the 3 so that might get sold or just taken to a recycling center near me.
>>1555 >The specs are quite decent for what was thrown out They aren't especially good, see if you can find a compatible mobo on ebay or similar sites but don't worry too much about getting the perfect model.
>>1558 That's why I was hoping that someone who have used am3 mobos would have a decent idea about what to recommend and what to avoid. The mobo what was inside.. Well it exists. I had a boat load of troubles back in the day with nforce so I want to avoid it. And hey maybe I can "upgrade" my own retro pc with it without breaking the bank Sry about the id hop I'm on phone at work
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Okay, so, I have a link to an elusive video. It's part of an episode of Happy Days where Mork from Ork is at Arnolds and The Fonz has challenged him to a fight. Mork ends up freezing him in place, but the Fonz breaks out of it. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT: It is THE key scene where the Fonz gives a double thumbs up with an "Eyyyyyy". However, CBS are a bunch of fuckwits and want the mandella effect to take place. I have a link to the video on jew tube, which is not deleted, but the video is blocked. if anyone can rip this or even provide the actual scene, it'd be most appreciated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46cG2foNwiU
>>1511 >>1514 I do have VMware, which I used to dabble with via a Windows 7 iso but not the Windows Server iso. Where do I go about getting one of those without attracting God knows how many viruses?
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>>1560 Nevermind, I found it on a 3rd world website. It's mirrored but it's the scene with the intact audio.
Should I download games to my HDD then move them to my SSD, or does that matter?
>>1581 Lolwut
>>1581 Why would that matter?
>>1582 >>1583 I thought it would be less writes to the drive but I guess moving the files would have the same effect.
>>1584 I don't think there's much reason to care about SSD health in that way. I think it takes something like a decade of constantly writing to it to make a dent. By the time SSD health goes into the shitter they'll probably cost next to nothing anyways.
>>1581 If you really care about your SSD, do this: https://archive.is/t20Pa >>1585 Not true, I have an one dead. Don't even know what caused it.
>>1587 If you don't know what caused it the it probably wasn't excessive writing to it.
>>1588 The health gradually falls. It starts from non-often rootfs inaccessible to impossible to read it. If that isn't health related, I don't know what is.
There wouldn't happen to be a FOSS program for cataloging backlogs and watch you've watched for movies, games, shows, anime and the like would there? Obviously this is something that could be done in standard office software like excel but it would be nice if there was something that had cover art and new/related releases built into it. Probably a bit too niche of an idea. I'm sure there's websites that do this but fuck that.
>>1590 Not sure about movies, games, and shows. But there are FOSS anime list applications like Trackma for Unix-like OSes and Taiga for Windows that track your anime progress for you. You'll need an account on AniList or MyAnimeList if you are okay with using Google Recaptcha every time you log in to their website (MyAnimeList has a invisible recaptcha that doesn't ask you to solve everytime). When you do register an account, you can just use their API to update your anime list locally so you wouldn't need to touch their websites for a very long time. AniDB would probably be the best in terms of privacy, but they don't have an API for externally updating anime lists sadly.
>>1590 I guess you could use Jellyfin for this
>>1591 Would have been nice to have a cohesive program that pulls data from everything from IMDB all the way to steam to catalog games, review scores, related media, and have that information all stored locally to avoid analytics. It's a shame so much useful tech is locked away behind data farming websites requiring accounts.
>>1591 I almost forgot to mention that I recently found out AniDB uses Google Recaptcha only for registration.
What's better: Powering my computer speaker by the wall outlet, or using a usb port on the computer?
>>1501 win8 is almost the same, and looks like shit if you must use that pos, it's possible to make win10 tolerable, by disabling most of its bs and using custom visual styles to change the retarded appearance, but it takes patience and it's possible to break shit and have to reinstall from scratch. >All the distros suck except Gentoo some seem good, eg. parabola >>1502 is a faggot
What are some good e-mail services to use?
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Linux newfag here, so I apologize in advance if this is a retarded question. In Mint 20, if I'm trying to download certain emulators (specifically Dolphin, PCSX2, ePSXe, and SNES9X), am I better off building them from source, or using Lutris runners? I can't use PPA, at least with Dolphin, since it always returns a "This PPA does not support focal" error, which is apparently an issue with Mint 20 itself. Thus, those are my remaining choices. There are issues with both, however: >I can't seem to find where the Dolphin runner is saved, which is an issue, as I'm hoping to transfer over my memory card files from my Windows boot >On the other hand, building Dolphin from source requires GTK libraries to be installed, and I have no clue where I should extract the tarball in order to have anything else detect it. Am I missing something incredibly simple, or am I just boned? >>1644 I use ProtonMail, myself.
>>1655 I don't use Mint so I don't know what your issue is, but I think you should seriously consider switching to something like Manjaro as a starter distro. You don't have to deal with the packaging bullshit that come with aptitude and PPAs. If something on Arch isn't packaged, it's probably in the AUR and you can install it from there. Try installing pacaur and using that as your primary package manager; it makes it easy. Compiling from source is ideal, and Gentoo is great for that if you know what you're doing. But I think Manjaro offers the right balance of training wheels and not getting in your way. Debian developers (Mint is downstream from Debian) live in constant fear that someone, somewhere, is installing a package that isn't a tested and approved configuration. If you really want to compile from source on Mint then I can help but I think for someone just starting out you should use something that will automate it. Download the GTK tarball or see if the GTK development headers are packaged and install them via aptitude. For most tarballs, you will need to run ./configure followed by make and sudo make install and this will put stuff where it needs to go. You might also need to run ldconfig for linking libraries to compile against.
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>>1656 > I think you should seriously consider switching to something like Manjaro as a starter distro. I did; it was the first one I ever tried. Had nothing but grief after awhile, so I admit I'm not especially keen on moving back. I agree the AUR makes things a lot easier in many ways, but I've also been hearing stuff like pic related, which fits quite well with my experience. What it did well, it did very well; what it didn't, basically broke the system for all intents and purposes. Part of the reason I decided to try Mint, was its famous stability, coupled with its copious documentation and the Cinnamon DE. I can honestly say that so far I've had far fewer issues with Mint than I did with Manjaro. Don't get me wrong, though, I appreciate the recommendation. >Download the GTK tarball or see if the GTK development headers are packaged and install them via aptitude. Will do; thanks for the info. >For most tarballs, you will need to run... and this will put stuff where it needs to go. This is excellent. I KNEW there had to be a way to get stuff to move to the right place! If I understand this correctly, then, it'd go something like this: cd ~/Downloads tar xf filename.tar.gz ./configure make sudo make install sudo ldconfig But how can one tell if ldconfig is necessary? Just by whether or not it crashes or gives an error upon attempting to install? I must admit, I've never had to use it before. Thanks again for the advice, anon.
>>1656 >Try installing pacaur and using that as your primary package manager; it makes it easy. Sorry for the double reply, but for the sake of completeness, I should admit I didn't use pacaur; I used a mixture of pacman and yay.
>>1657 ldconfig is usually necessary if you need library files for developing software. When compiling, these are usually a byproduct, but when installing from packages they're usually separate. If you would normally need to install the lib*-dev version of something (that's how Debian usually labels it; not sure if Mint inherits from Debian or Ubuntu repositories) then you probably want to run ldconfig to ensure your compiler can find it. >Manjaro is fine until it breaks and then requires advanced knowledge to fix So does Debian/Ubuntu/Mint, but the knowledge required is different. Personally, I'd rather deal with a partial upgrade where I have to resolve dependencies using package management directly. Fixes are easy, you just don't know what you need to do. It's inexperience, but between the Gentoo/Arch wiki and some searching, you will learn the correct way to fix the problem, and those solutions will often work, to some degree, on other distros. On Debian and its derivatives, the problem is usually caused by maintainers packaging the files you need in a way that is unsuitable for you. It's probably a couple years out of date. It's also possible there's a bug for your exact release, and you can't fix it without a dist upgrade. Oh, but that dist upgrade might mean other packages get moved to a version which isn't compatible with what you're trying to do. Okay, so the official repositories for Debian and others are shit, but you can always pull in PPAs. Well, maybe, if someone has one. And if aptitude feels like letting you do it. Some require you to add keys first, which usually entails looking up said key and blindly pasting a command to wget/curl it and input it to your keyring, because newbies have no idea how to search a key database. This is a "safety" measure that encourages newbies to paste strange commands into their terminal. And if the PPA you want doesn't exist or doesn't offer the exact version you want? Now you need to compile from source. And because of dependencies, you probably also need to compile all of those from source. And if you hit a wall here as a newbie? Good luck troubleshooting it when you don't even know your environment. Meanwhile, on Gentoo and Arch, you could have just run a single command and the package manager would gladly download the latest stable release, as well as dependencies, and compile them from source and install them for you. You can skip to the conclusion of hours of troubleshooting and do it the easy way. And the wiki usually documents issues here. Why spend hours reading StackOverflow posts from 5-10 years ago with outdated information to solve what is, ultimately, a problem caused by Debian's shitty packaging and mismanagement, when you could spend that time reading the wiki, learning how the system works, and fixing a real issue? The people who promote Debian and its downstream distros are deathly afraid of leaving the wading pool, but as a result they never learned to swim. >>1658 Pacman is the default. It works perfectly fine if you don't want any AUR packages. I recommend Pacaur because it will do a search of official packages and then use the AUR as a fallback. Generally, installation via AUR entails cloning a git repository and then running a makepkg command on it. Pacaur simply automates the process. I've never uses yay, despite technically having it installed. Try to stick to one package manager. Manjaro's biggest problem out the gate is preinstalling too much shit, including package managers. They should pick a default or make it part of the installer to select your preferred manager.
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Well, fug. This was what happened upon trying to ./configure the tarball. Now I assume I have to find other packages and fit them into the tarball somehow. >>1659 >Fixes are easy, you just don't know what you need to do. Which means they are effectively no longer easy lol. Seriously, though, I constantly felt terrified of doing stuff in Manjaro, like everything was going to shatter into a million pieces if I fucked up even one install. At least with Mint, they have Timeshift, which in theory allows one to quickly pick up the pieces again. >between the Gentoo/Arch wiki and some searching, you will learn the correct way to fix the problem The Arch Wiki is indeed god-tier, I agree. It helped a LOT when I was using Manjaro. >And if the PPA you want doesn't exist or doesn't offer the exact version you want? Oh, it's worse than that: I was digging deeper into Dolphin's website, and apparently they don't even maintain their PPA anymore, explicitly telling users to compile from source now. And apparently, PCSX2's repo doesn't "support focal" either, so you know what that means!! :^) >And if you hit a wall here as a newbie? Good luck troubleshooting it when you don't even know your environment. But again, this is the same exact issue I faced with Manjaro. If this sort of stuff keeps up, I may be forced to switch back, but God, I hope not. >I recommend Pacaur because it will do a search of official packages and then use the AUR as a fallback. That actually sounds pretty great. Wish I'd known about that sooner lol. On a related note, I have separate partitions for /root and /home. How badly will things fuck up ifhypothetically I were to switch back from Mint to Manjaro, attempting to keep my /home folder intact in the process? Would there be a crapton of file conflicts, or is it likely to work?
>>1660 Install Gentoo.
>>1662 Doesn't Gentoo install similarly to Arch, in the sense that you have to know exactly what you're doing beforehand in order not to break everything before it's even past the gate? I appreciate the recommendation, I really do, but I have a feeling I'd fuck it up with my current level of knowledge.
>>1666 Daemon, that is how you learn. You learn by learning to learn. Search, don't ask. Understand, think. What you did shows you don't know what you are doing. That level of knowing is basic. Yet, you lack it. TLDR: Stupid question. RTFM.
>>1669 >Search, don't ask. Understand, think. Yes, I understand that, but for someone who is still learning to troubleshoot properly, they're simply not going to be able to figure everything out by themselves. Meanwhile, I'm trying to find a distro that will work as a stable desktop OS. If I have to risk breaking stuff and consequently having to waste several combined hours undoing mistakes, that's no longer an OS -- it's an experiment. That's fine, but again, I think you'll agree it's way less productive in the long-run, at least until you know how to troubleshoot properly. >That level of knowing is basic. Yet, you lack it. I'm pretty sure that the very fact I mentioned Gentoo seems to work that way means I was aware it would be a problem, yes? Unless you meant my earlier posts >>1657 >>1660, though I made a point in both of those to stress that I was already trying to apply my current knowledge to my situation. I was stumped, and tried asking anons as a last resort. I fail to see the problem here; there's no immorality/stupidity in asking a question, provided one has tried to solve it by oneself first. >TLDR: Stupid question. RTFM. Gee willickers, anon! You sure told me who's boss! How will I ever recover?! :^)
>>1660 >Will switching back keep my /home folder in-tact? I've had mixed results. In theory you can just tell it not to wipe it and to mount it as /home on the new system, too. In practice, I've had installers (can't remember which distro, probably either Manjaro or Ubuntu) ignore that directive and wipe it anyways. Back stuff up if it's really important. If you aren't using a LVM you should probably nuke it regardless. If you don't allocate enough room to / then resizing becomes difficult and risky without an LVM. >your picture Basically ./configure is looking for dependencies so it can configure the make file properly to link them. You'll need to install those packages, either via package manager or compiling. In theory, package managers were meant to solve this issue by providing binaries and installing any dependencies.In practice, working around them is more frustrating at times than not having one at all would be. But this to me is the appeal of a compilation-based distro like Arch and Gentoo. The package manager is generally able to run a compile script itself and has been packaged as such. Debian and Ubuntu just ship binaries of stuff with no regard for compatibility between versions, as long as it doesn't break the system entirely. >this is the exact same issue I faced with Manjaro No, there's a distinction here. With Debian, you have to spend a few hours grinding away your will to live fighting aptitude and their packaging decisions. You eventually discover that, due to ship dates, one library is nearly four years out of date, and another is two, and there aren't any releases that package compatible versions for what you need. So you end up having to compile both and all their dependencies manually. It's common for this to happen, and the package manager will fight you and not let you link stuff properly since it will want to use system versions of everything, even hopelessly out of date libraries. For rolling releases, you're probably on the cutting edge and everything is within some degree of compatibility. AUR provides scripts to compile and install for your OS automatically, and Gentoo packages are all just compile scripts, basically. Since you're always compiling, it's a first class experience. Compare with Debian and Ubuntu where you have to install the compiler and basic libraries via a package manager first... It's about what the maintainers expect you to be doing, and the maintainers of Debian and its downstreams think that under no circumstances should you be compiling. You should use their packages, which have been wisely chosen to be stable. Except their packaging decisions are shit. Their distro is shit. And when users don't know what's best for them, their distro will try to force them to do the "right" thing and just accept what is provided. At least when you end up having to compile I'll just say that compiling and finding dependencies on rolling releases has been far easier, and I found the experience less frustrating than "stable" releases that claim to have everything packaged but actually don't.
>>1681 >In practice, I've had installers (can't remember which distro, probably either Manjaro or Ubuntu) ignore that directive and wipe it anyways. Back stuff up if it's really important. That was my concern. Luckily, I already tend to back stuff up quite frequently, so it's not the end of the world. >If you aren't using a LVM you should probably nuke it regardless. If you don't allocate enough room to / then resizing becomes difficult and risky without an LVM. I'll have to look into that option. I actually had to reinstall Mint once already due to misjudging how much space I'd need in /. I had been led to believe that 20 GB would be sufficient, but I ended up going with 80, just to be safe, and it's still half-full. >Basically ./configure is looking for dependencies so it can configure the make file properly to link them. You'll need to install those packages, either via package manager or compiling. Yeah, I did some digging and found most of the necessary dependencies; however, the gtk+3.0 library is nowhere to be found, even taking into account its new name. For some reason, it still let me build from source anyway, but upon trying, it obviously still yielded an error. Am I cancer incarnate for downloading the flatpak version out of desperation? >But this to me is the appeal of a compilation-based distro like Arch and Gentoo. The package manager is generally able to run a compile script itself and has been packaged as such. Debian and Ubuntu just ship binaries of stuff with no regard for compatibility between versions, as long as it doesn't break the system entirely. That's definitely fair. I'm keeping Manjaro on the table, just in case these sorts of problems keep happening going forward, as it seems to be the only beginner-friendly distro of this type. >For rolling releases, you're probably on the cutting edge and everything is within some degree of compatibility. AUR provides scripts to compile and install for your OS automatically, and Gentoo packages are all just compile scripts, basically. >At least when you end up having to compile I'll just say that compiling and finding dependencies on rolling releases has been far easier, and I found the experience less frustrating than "stable" releases that claim to have everything packaged but actually don't. I admit I'm still a little apprehensive about switching back to a rolling release, but you've made a good argument. I keep wondering what went wrong with Manjaro the first time around, though; I'll admit that it's quite possible I simply didn't know enough about how the AUR, etc. works, but the fact that so many people keep lambasting the way updates are handled, and how packages are updated, etc., makes me wonder if it wasn't entirely my fault. I could also throw caution to the wind and try Pop!_OS, but I'll have to do more digging on that subject first.
Could there be issues if the kernel headers get upgraded to a version newer than the current kernel? It sounds retarded but the package manager said that it was reasonable and I was curious. I've also found a page on the gentoo wiki that said it was okay but it seems to only take into account glibc and in my case the headers are required for something else.
>>1701 It's fine. It just has to match what's expected of other libraries compiling against it. So be sure you upgrade glibc and other system libraries at the same time.
How do I get Imgbrd-Grabber to properly pull from my Zerochan's favorites page without making it download every image one-by-one?
Is Proton VPN any good? Ever since I've started using it every time I changed by IP it just slows down my internet not to mention it prevented me from accessing exhentai and several proxy sites? Is it something wrong on my end or what?
>>1744 Never ever ever ever use a free VPN.
>>1744 There are VPN's with trials you can try. Mullvad is one. If I recall correctly exhentai is that retarded site that only lets you access it if it has some bizarrely specific fingerprint of your identity through cookies or some stupid shit. So I could see how a VPN might trip it up.
Does anyone know how I might configure awesomewm so that the horizontal layout is limited to 2 rows instead of expanding to 3+ after 6 windows are opened?
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So, after the shitshow that was the LibreOffice mascot contest, is it still "superior" to OpenOffice, are they just about the same, or is there a better office suite program?
I remember using a Chrome extension years ago that would save the posts that you were in the process of making so when you navigated off the page, you didn't lose what you typed but didn't submit, and have to start over. Does anyone here know what it could've been?
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>>1757 LibreOffice still better. They did "threaten" a paid enterprise version but the community jumped on their throats and they backed down quick.
>>1758 Might've been a Greasemonkey script rather than an addon.
Got asked if I could snoop and check if someone was "really working" at their computer. FUCK Even my autistic ass would call their phone and mark them as absent if they didn't answer, Jesus H. Christ on a pogostick
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>>1757 If you need an offline productivity suite, your choices really are LibreOffice and... LibreOffice. OpenOffice is abandonware that everyone ditched for a good reason, and the only "alternative" is Microsoft Office. Or caving and switching to Google Docs, NextCloud, etc. A self-hosted NextCloud might work fine, but I don't think it's worth maintaining just for yourself. >>1758 >>1766 I remember this extension or one like it. I was able to find https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autosave-text/omgpghebcjlafeegihofjnhhmllplnie for Chrome but it hasn't been updated in years. No idea if it still works. Maybe you can take it and update it. Or write your own clone.
>>1757 latex
Is bad to leave your laptop on 24/7?
>>1781 *Is it bad
>>1781 >>1782 Idling isn't really harmful to computers, but it's probably not great for laptops. Mainly because the battery will become damaged if it's charging 24/7. And some laptops have heat management issues. If it's running cool and you don't mind the battery getting trashed then it's fine, though.
>>1781 Definitely remove the battery if you're doing this. Otherwise it should be fine.
How do I change Video DownloadHelper's default directory? Keeps going straight to my SSD's Downloads folder by default and I worry about writing too much to it.
So, with Blender now being compromised, what are the alternatives for 3D modeling programs?
>>1840 How is it being compromised? Also >not using openscad
>>1849 Kikebook is now funding the project.
How come the usual methods for bypassing youtube age restrictions don't work anymore?
>>1859 They seem to be cracking down. As usual, moral majority puritans and SJWs cry "think of the children" and YouTube obliges. Is youtube-dl and Invidious not circumventing? Or are you just trying to get them to work in the browser directly?
>>1768 Why was OpenOffice abandoned, anyway? I used to use the hell out of it and then an update broke my system one day. I switched to Libre out of necessity, but never heard the full story.
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>"Windows has encountered a critical problem and will restart automatically in one minute. Please save your work now." >atapi errors in event viewer ("The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort3.") >volsnap errors in event viewer ("The shadow copies of volume C: were aborted because of an IO failure on volume C:."_ >system restores keep deleting, when I turn system restore back on, it eventually just deletes the system restore again >KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR 0x0000007a Every time I boot up my Computer there's been an issue now. After a restart it's fine... until the next day it starts all over. (This is AFTER a year ago my nvidia drivers seemingly crashed so I can't play many games or any game in 3D, and after I could no longer plug in my external harddrives, crashing windows explorer and hanging my computer, so i can't even back shit up now)
>>1869 Whatever you did really fucked the install. >I can't even back shit up now Use a Linux LiveCD. Burn it to a disc or to a USB drive using a different computer. Set that as your primary boot option. You can move files you want to keep to another drive. Your only option is to nuke that install, so be thorough. If you run into any problems, feel free to ask. I've done a dozen of these recoveries for people (successfully, as long as the drive isn't dead) and it's not that bad. Time consuming, but not bad. Be sure to grab everything in AppData and check the Documents folder for game saves. >>1861 There was some drama a decade ago about ownership and direction, I think over Sun (and later Oracle) owning OpenOffice. They managed to piss off everyone, so there was some kind of split and OpenOffice lost most of their developers overnight. I don't know what knocked over the first domino, but that's why they were set up to cascade.
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I'm curious, is there any reason why a brand new, 512gb micro-sd card would have an unallocated volume of 34mb? Will I fuck something up if I merge the two together before reformatting them?
>>1873 Thanks for the reply. I can still use my computer, but randomly on occasion on a chrome tab will hang when trying to load something then give a Error code: STATUS_IN_PAGE_ERROR, which is in line with the BSOD I had recently. >Use a Linux LiveCD I actually had planned to use some sort of linux drive to get access to my external harddrives for while, as during research I heard that if Windows can't access the hard drive often times Linux will. Basically every time I try to plug in my external hard drives it completely freezes of Windows Explorer, crashed my computer once, constantly loads in My Computer and cant be accessed. And then for some reason my other external did the exact same thing so I don't think they are dead, it's just my computer can't access them anymore for some reason, possible due to a power issue with my USB HUB. This all happened ages ago, so when I decide to try I'll keep this in mind. Does Linux LiveCD also work on 64bit?
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What the heck is this? Why does it appear on nearly every directory I downloaded from my external HD? How do I delete them all at once? They don't show up with the search option
That's Windows' thumbnail repository for all the files in the given directory, so things like images show a thumbnail of the image as their icon.
>>1876 >Does Linux LiveCD also work on 64bit? Of course. >Possible power issue If you haven't tested with another OS then I would first assume your drivers are broken. But a hardware failure like this, while rare, is possible. If you're using a hub, it could be as simple as bent pins. I'm staggered you're putting up with it, though. I wouldn't be able to stop debugging until I found the problem and fixed it. >>1874 Either it can't be allocated or the manufacturer stuck some extra info there to fingerprint it. Most consumers don't know what formatting is, so if you want to mark a card for any reason with additional information then this is fine for 99% of the market.
>>1879 Since I believe my hard drive is beginning to fail I'm ordering a new hard drive and will start the mass debug process there. I guess I'll install linux on there temporarily to even see if I can access my external hard drives. Then if it works and I can back up data then I will go full ham into the debugging.
What's a good file manager with a built-in search feature that functions similarly to either Windows XP or 7?
>>1887 Are you looking for something compatible with Win10 that brings back older functionality, or are you on Linux and looking for familiarity?
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Kubuntu newfag here 1) How do I change icons and pointers to the ones I made myself? 2) How can I make advanced changes to the windows style so I can get stuff like pic related? I tried manually messing with some .svg files but nothing happened 3) How do I save my settings combination as a "Global theme" so I won't have to individually change wallpaper/windows-style/colours/icons/pointers/etc. whenever I wanna go back to the same combination?
>>1888 I'm on Linux and I'm looking for familiarity/nostalgia.
Does anyone have the infographic thing on recommended free software for windows. I'm pretty sure i downloaded one of them years ago but i can't find it and I want to edit a video clip a little bit and don't know what to use.
>>1897 I don't have the infographic, but I believe Shotcut and OpenShot are both cross-platform and free. If you want professional grade then you should pirate Adobe Premiere or Sony Vegas. Anything but Windows Movie Maker is probably workable for small projects, though.
>>1897 Depends on what kind of editing you need to do but give Avidemux a try. It has a rather unintuitive interface but it's rather simple once you get the hang of it and all the different things you can do to the video are in one place. It is FLOSS however I think it depends on a library that has a license that is a bit more restrictive and it made the debianfags throw a fit.
Alright. Bought a new internal hard drive, installation went smoothly. Now I can back up data again in case something happens to my main hard drive and if it really is failing. Now the main thing I want to do before more vigorous debugging/testing of my Windows installation (and possible reinstallation) is that I need to gain access to my external hard drives that I alluded to in a previous post: >2 External hard drives >always worked >downloading onto one of the externals >all of a sudden the download was cut short as the drive no longer existed >in an attempt to access the external, windows crashed, had to reboot >windows explorer constantly forever loads when I try to plug it in >my other external (that had no part in this) has the same thing happen for some reason >externals can't be accessed on any other Windows computer/laptop, still continuous loading of windows explorer They are western digital externals. The lights are still on, no noises or anything, they look as they always did. Just randomly after a windows crash they can't be accessed. My USB stick still works though. >>1879 My only goal now is to see if I can gain access to my externals that no longer are being recognized on my PC. Can I use Linux LiveCD for that? And if so which Linux LiveCD do I use? There's Clonezilla Live, DRBL live, Gparted live and Tux2live. Google searching "Linu7x LiveCD" seems to default it to Gparted live but I'm still not sure, I'm not a Linux guy. I have a USB to use for installation.
>>1920 >>1920 Technically any livecd will work. It's just booting an operating system that will live entirely in RAM. You'll want one which comes with recovery tools, though. Something like SystemRescueCD: https://www.system-rescue.org/ Clonezilla is mostly for cloning disks. GParted should be sufficient for your purpose. As long as you can mount the drives (to verify they are working) and move data (if you want to move the data to your new drive) then you're fine. If you cannot access these external drives via a LiveCD boot then there is probably some kind of hardware issue. Since it's unlikely both failed at the exact same time, I would plug them and your new hard drive into a different computer, do the transfer there, and then you can stick the internal in your PC and write-off those USB drives. Or you could swap your motherboard for one that doesn't have a damaged USB bus, but at that point you might as well just build a new PC. You'll probably have to reinstall your operating system at that point, too. If it's a hardware fault, especially in the motherboard, it's terminal. If a reinstall doesn't fix it, or a LiveCD runs into similar issues, that's a solid sign your hardware is destroyed.
I have an old PC I want to sell. How do I safely erase the hard drive (a regular spinning disc HDD, not an SSD)? I want it to be reasonably secure, just so some random asshole cannot recover my personal data. There is nothing illegal on it that would need to withstand a forensic attack or something like that.
>>1930 Oh, and while I'm at it, what if I rub a magnet over the hard drive aftwards just for good measure? Can a magnet actually damage the hard drive or does it just scramble the data?
>>1930 Format the drive and then write random data over all of it at least once. You can look up "zero fill" programs for your operating system. You could also just find create a large junk file and write a bunch of them until the disk is full. Basically, "deleting" a file marks it for overwriting. Deleting the partitions/master boot record will make it very hard to recover data. Subsequently overwriting the data at least once puts it firmly in the "forensic recovery required" camp. DoD has more stringent requirements involving multiple overwrites in patterns to make it harder, but you don't need that. Nobody is going to spend hundreds of dollars trying to recover a 0-filled disk. If you're that paranoid you could just toss the disk and sell the computer a few bucks cheaper without the HDD. Some people might prefer that if they want to install their own SSD anyways. >>1931 The magnet thing is a bit of a meme. Just format and 0-fill.
>>1932 >Format the drive and then write random data over all of it at least once. So basically just `dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda` and I'm good to go? >The magnet thing is a bit of a meme. Just format and 0-fill. Yeah, I look it up. It's more likely that I will damage the mechanism for moving the read/write head than actually affect the data stored.
>>1933 >writing /dev/random to the disk Yeah, that works too. You can format and do it again multiple times if you want. Twice is plenty, unless you're worried about Feds. Once is sufficient for selling.
>>1933 Might want to ad bs=512. Ultimately I don't think it would make much of a difference however.
>>1924 Be a while before I get my hard drive and attempt to reinstall windows, but I did use a USB to get System Rescue CD to check in my external drives. gparted recognizes one of the drives, but it gives some errors about the drive. Don't have the errors on hand but it seems salvagable? It at least reads that it's a thing. The main one though, my WD Passport 2TB can't be read with gparted. The program just continues to load and never finds the device, even though the light is on and the hard drive still clearly working inside like it always had. Unless the issue is with the cord then it's over, I guess that drive can't be recovered through conventional means. Maybe I'll have to get more extreme with data recovery but otherwise going to forget about it for now.
Do anons have any experience with Gainward graphics cards? Specifically the Ghost model for the RTX 2060 and 3060 Ti. They are the only ones readily available in my country and it doesn't look like the GPU shortages will get better any time soon.
>>1949 Forgive the doublepost but I only found this German review, though I'm not a kraut. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9LQOAVgLr8&
What are some good proxies that aren't Tor?
>>1952 Tor isn't a proxy. Pretty much every free proxy is sniffing your data. If you want a proxy you can trust, your best bet is renting a very cheap VPS and configuring it as a proxy. There are guides for this which are easy to find. Just tunnel all your traffic through them. >>1949 >>1951 I have no experience with them, and hadn't even heard of them. They have no foothold in the US, it seems. I found some people praising them and their affordable prices, but be warned that it's a Chinese company. I found one forum post stating their support is entirely in Mandarin and they do most of their operations out of Hong Kong. That person recommended buying from Amazon or another site which offers their own warranty separate from the manufacturer's, and that sounds like the safest bet. It's an nVidia design and they can only change so much. Performance should be within spitting distance of other cards. Only question would be cooling and reliability, but it sounds like your only other choice is waiting out the shortage or going secondhand for an older card.
>>1953 Ended up getting it anyway since apparently shit isn't going to get any more available/cheaper where I live. I did find a review in German though that seems to be really satisfied with it. Those seem to be good temperatures, I think: https ://cinemediatech.wordpress.com/2020/12/06/gainward-rtx-3060-ti-ghost-oc-test-review-raytracing-4k/ >I found some people praising them and their affordable prices, but be warned that it's a Chinese company. I found one forum post stating their support is entirely in Mandarin and they do most of their operations out of Hong Kong. That person recommended buying from Amazon or another site which offers their own warranty separate from the manufacturer's, and that sounds like the safest bet. Yeah, the store I got it from offered its own warranty which is why I was a little more relieved to have picked this card. I was personally going to get an Asus Dual Mini or the EVGA XC3 since I liked their compact sizes. I found the Gigabyte Eagle OC too but not only is it sparsely available, I haven't been told good things about their products. I really hope this fucking kraut is right.
>>1953 >Tor isn't a proxy What the fuck are you talking about? It absolutely is. It's just more complex than most proxies.
>>1953 >They have no foothold in the US, it seems. Yes, from what I've gathered, they mostly distribute their products to Europe, hence why most of the reviews I found where in German or some Serbian language.
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My Samsung 55 inch 4k Tv i bought a few years ago had this weird purple discoloration in the center of the screen I'm not sure what exactly it is i noticed it about 10 months into the 1 year warranty but i thought it was a 3 year warranty and i waited a month too long to report it and either get it replaced or fixed. I think it might be a failing backlight led not sure wanted to get thoughts on it and how to fix. Pics very related. I was just checking to make sure it hasn't gotten worse and i think it might have slightly but i also noticed during the testing that the windows logo is burnt in the left corner and the firefox scroll bar things are burned in on the right and bottom side of the screen. I just turned off the windows task bar on non-main monitors and have this running. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN-KIlsxxOw[Embed] Since i was doing the check i decided to check my 10 year old Sony 32 inch 1080p TV i use as a monitor and my LG 32 inch 1440p 144 hz monitor i got last black fridayish. My Sony is flawless no issues at all. My LG has a very slight windows logo burn in in the bottom left as well had to look extremely closely to even notice it but it exists. Is the video all i can do? Is there another option? How do i prevent this type of thing? I did try to prevent this by using fullscreen quite often but that clearly wasn't enough. I never thought my LG would get burn in but still did my paranoid precautions anyways. I thought new tech was supposed to have fixed this issue years ago but the only one this is a complete non-issue for is my oldest screen. I'm very frustrated and would appreciate any advice on the topic.
>>1958 I also just had a thought is there a program or way to have multiple "full screen" windows like pic related? Like have a full screen video in one corner 2 full screen browsers windows in other others and a full screen program in the last corner.
How do I get foobar2000 to load something I select in File Explorer to play in a new playlist, rather than overwrite the current playlist?
>>1958 Hard to tell with photos. Could be something physically pressing on the display. The worst case is that it's defective entirely. Considering the display is the entire product in this case, I don't think you'll have a cheap fix unless you can determine it's JUST a bad polarizer or something like that. I'd harass their warranty service and insist you took a bit to report it because of the pandemic or some other excuse and that it was occurring well before their deadline. If you're nice to the customer service people and also keep harassing them they might be willing to cut you some kind of deal. >>1960 On Linux you can use a Tiling WIndow Manager. Not sure for Windows. Maybe one exists, but it would probably be hacky.
When i was in high school a friend of mine somehow found these MP3s that supposedly caused drug effects on the listener. I'm wondering if any of you have ever encountered such technology.
>>1970 It was a big trend back in the early 2000's, but it was just all a bunch of placebo bullshit for dumb kids.
>>1968 I forgot to mention an important note it is only on a dark grey/some lighter black screens like the pics that the purple shows. In most usage the display looks perfectly normal. Its wall mounted, i did have the thought that it might be pressure from the mounting but I feel of that were the case if there was a problem is would be much more severe but I haven't tested the theory and because I've had back issues since i initially installed it by myself a few years ago i wouldn't trust myself to take it down and put it back safely anymore.
>>1970 >>1980 It's a meme, just like those "hypnosis" porn tapes. Although it doesn't stop people from insinuating they worked. Psychadelic music can work pretty well for this purpose, if you're into that. Good for lying down and letting your mind wander. >>1981 Well in that case I'd assume it's bad and fight with the manufacturer over the warranty. Or you can decide to live with it. But bad picture quality drives me nuts. I can handle backlight bleed, but discoloration is a step too far. At least it's minor in your case.
Is there any way to snag the allegedly free Windows Server from Microsoft's website without signing up for anything or entering potentially personal information? Really need a way to practice Active Directory, albeit on a VM.
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>>1860 Isn't Invidious dead though? Most of the methods I'm thinking of involved typing something in the beginning of a youtube link that would automatically play the video on another site, copy and pasting a youtube link on another site's search bar, or playing an embed version of a video. Now I get pic related
>>1991 >Isn't Invidious dead though? Yes, but it has at about 8 mirrors, all of which work to varying degrees.
Is there a free VPN for torrents? Yea, I'm the product blah blah, i don't have cash for actually paying the sub fees. I was buying probably stolen Nordvpn accounts on ebay for a couple bucks and then getting my money back after a few months when the accounts would stop working, rinse and repeat for about 2 years but now ebay has started banning this it seems. Most of the VPN accounts you can buy are removed when you click on them. Last week i found out ProtonVPN has a free week on new accounts and their free VPN service shuts off if it detects p2p activity as i just learned i thought i might have been able to work around it and while it may be possible to stop their detection thats far above my skill level unless there is a guide out there but i did a brief search and couldn't find anything. Am i gonna just need to make a new Proton account every week until they stop giving out free trials or is there something better?
>>1993 https://cryptostorm.is/cryptofree Can't vouch for how well it works, but it's severely bandwidth limited.
Is it just me, or is it getting harder and harder to find decent quality hard drives that don't die immediately, or after two years of light-to-moderate use?
>>1999 It's not just you. They have to cram more and more data onto the same sized platters. They spin thousands of times per minute. They're shingling them now for density. The write heads are incredibly fragile. It's amazing hard drives work at all, but they're reaching a physical limit. How much further can they go? The manufacturers have seen the writing on the wall. Hard drives make economic sense at scale in datacenters but not for home users. The average computer user just needs an SSD big enough to hold their Word documents and some photos. A terabyte is plenty, and two is probably more than they will ever need. Gamers might want a bit more, but they're buying SSDs anyways for the speed. It's home users who want to store massive amounts of files that get fucked. We can't afford to spend thousands on a bulk order of HDDs, but can buy one large one. Except now all our eggs are in one basket. Your option is to buy smaller drives which are hopefully less error prone and more resilient or to wait a few years and hope either SSD prices equalize or HDD manufacturing finds ways to reduce failure. Or you can buy two of every drive and run them in RAID. At least then you won't lose the data when one fails.
>>1990 They lock everything behind signups and have done so for nearly twenty years. If you're running it in a VM, you could pirate it. Alternatively, if you live near a school, it's possible students have access to a free Windows Server copy. You can probably buy a license and access to an ISO off one of the kids for a few bucks. They used to call it Dreamspark but I think they've rebranded.
>>2001 >If you're running it in a VM, you could pirate it. I was afraid of that. Piratebay is the only torrent site I know of but how do I go about checking if any of the torrents there aren't malicious? Just in case. I do have a VM and intend to run some version of Windows Server off that. >Alternatively, if you live near a school, it's possible students have access to a free Windows Server copy. Once upon a time I attended a vocational school that had some Windows and Linux ISOs lying around on their computers, complete with VMware and a crack for it. Fortunately I swiped that, Windows 7, and a Linux distro (Redhat, I think) for use on my own PC (the Windows ISO in particular was instrumental to saving money on my PC build). Bad news is, I ignored the Windows Server ISO due to thinking I wouldn't need it. Stupid, I know. Seeing as the image files in question were in school PCs and in constant use in their VMs for teaching purposes, I was/am confident that they were 100% safe. Torrents are a bit of a crapshoot.
>>2000 >Your option is to buy smaller drives which are hopefully less error prone Is 2TB considered "smaller" these days?
>>2003 Anything under 8 is probably "small". But at 2 TB you should ask yourself if a 2 TB SSD (or 2x1TB configuration) is worth it, because they're pretty reasonably priced.
>>2004 Not SSD, HDD. Even if I was employed I rather have just one 500GB SSD to store the OS and vital stuff. More liable at some point to replace my 1TB HDD with a 2TB one. Just need some advice on how to cleanly transfer everything. And then there's brands to consider.
>>2006 Right, I am saying you should consider just using a 2 TB SSD. If your concern is reliability then you'll get that and speed. 2 TB is relatively small now and SSDs in that size are affordable. For transferring over, you should probably just connect both drives and copy them over. Be sure to format the new drive first and configure any drive settings to be how you'd like. For brands, I'd avoid Seagate HDDs. WD has issues but they're still more reliable. Hitachi had a good record but got bought by WD, so it's unclear if they're worse now. For SSDs, the major manufacturers are Intel and Samsung. I'd trust either of those to have a solid warranty, but cost a bit more.
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I decided to try using FFmpeg with OBS to try and make recording videos small enough for 8chan less of a hassle, but it keeps crashing. Pic related shows the settings I'm trying to use.
>>2010 Does it work with different settings? If you return to defaults is it fine? Or does any form of recording cause a crash?
>>2011 Every setting I've used, it still crashes, and I'm unaware of how to reset it to the defaults.
>>2017 Does standard recording mode work? Do you have an FFMPEG binary installed on your system and in your path?
>>2018 Standard works, FFMpeg is installed, but I don't have it on my OBS Studio folder if that's what you mean.
>>2019 I'm at a loss; I've never had an issue but I'm on Linux and don't usually use FFMPEG recording. You can try a plugin like this one https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/ffmpeg-encoders-for-obs-studio.826/ and see if that helps. Failing that, you might just need to record and then re-encode. It might also be possible to stream to a file that just pipes to FFMPEG, although I don't know to script that on Windows.
At what pace do rolling release distros like Arch or Manjaro release updated packages? Like, how many packages could you have to update after 3 days or a week? I know it depends on the packages you have installed in the first place and other variables, but I'd like a general idea for a regular desktop.
>>2035 If I wait a month or two, I can fill up the terminal with a list of packages, especially if there's been a new C library release. But the amount will depend on how many packages you install and their development speed. Some might update daily or even nightly, if you choose nightly updates. In a given week, I'd expect a few packages to update. In a month, a dozen or so. At least with KDE, which has a lot of dependencies for the DE. On a lighter install you can probably get that down to one or two a week. But it's so dependent on your chosen packages and their dev teams. No estimate will ever be accurate. The updates are quick, though. Worst update I hate was months of backlog and took half an hour. Happened totally in the background, though. Just had to restart at the end to make sure nothing was mismatched. Pretty painless. I wouldn't worry unless you have a ton of packages, a slow CPU, and you like to update only once a year.
How could I get Pale Moon to pick a folder on my PC as the default download lcoation, depending on the file type?
>>2037 >In a month, a dozen or so On what distro? I run Debian stable so I only get updates when there's a vulnerability in a package and don't get any actual version upgrades and I get more than that, so it can't be that a rolling release distro gets less. I don't even have that much stuff installed. >The updates are quick, though I know, but for a project I've been using a VM with Debian testing, which is rolling release most of the time, and it gets like 90 upgrades in 3 days despite being so close to the freeze, and I was wondering if that was normal because at some point I'd like to switch to a rolling release distro and having so much of my system upgraded every 3 days sounds unnerving, not because of how long it would take but because of the possibility of something going wrong.
>>2041 >what distro? Arch. >Debian Testing... 90 upgrades in 3 days Debian is a big platform and when packages encounter issues or conflicts in testing they start contributing package updates manually. A lot of them are trivial. Debian also has more installed out of the box than even a KDE Manjaro install. Debian Testing is not a true rolling release and shouldn't be used as such. They also might divide up packages differently from other distros. >>2040 Probably not possible without writing an addon for it. Firefox has had multiple "last file locations" when you do Save As for a long time so Pale Moon might have this behavior, but it will change locations after you save a file somewhere else. I've also seen it remember per site to some degree. You'll probably need to override this behavior.
Is there any good alternative to Microsoft Word on winbloats? One that isn't filled with ads at least.
>>2043 Wordpad for something with the same basic function, LibreOffice Writer for if you actually need all of the extra features Word gives you that Wordpad doesn't.
>>2043 Libre Office I can't believe I even responded to this post. Where the fuck are you retards coming from?
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>>2043 Try LibreOffice newfriend. >>2045 I bet he hasn't even jerked it to Libbie.
>>2040 Sometimes Pale Moon keeps my location depending on filetype, but it's not always consistent. Otherwise, as >>2042 says, you might need an addon for that.
How good of an idea is it to pirate a VPN? I thought i had a ridiculous dumb stupid idiot idea when i decided to search it, expecting nothing, but sure fucking enough you can pirate a fucking VPN.
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What are some ways I can extract PS3 sound data from a dumped disc/installed RPCS3 title? I want to make a Persona 4 Golden mod but I require Marie's sound clips from Arena Ultimax in order to make it in the way I want.
>>2069 That is an unbelievably fucking stupid idea.
>>2088 I've never ripped a PS3 game, but you could try mounting the ISO and viewing files directly. If the data is packed into archives, you'll need a tool to unpack them. If it's some proprietary format, then RPCS3 must have some way of doing that. You might want to try asking the RPCS3 developers for a lead.
I'm trying to archive any interesting websites I find using WinHTTrack, but some of them give external links to places like YouTube. How would I replace them with local versions of the same video in order to preserve the information the website tries to convey?
>>2091 I don't know what built-in capability the HTTrack utility has, but it doesn't seem like it'd be too hard to integrate youtube-dl somehow and to replace the YouTube video player with a link to a local media file.
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My r9 390 fans are starting to have a mind of their own as of late. At completely random intervals their fan1_target jumps to 2500 regardless of the setting in pwm1 and stays there for random amounts of time, sometimes jumping up and down like the card can't decide if it wants to be loud or not. Setting pwm1_enable to "2" resets this behavior and keeps the pwm in the 120s/fan1_target at 1500, but the default fan curve it used to have seems to no longer be present since Mesa 20.3 dropped hence pwm1 remains in the 120s with pwm1_enable at "2" plus fan1_target resumes its random deviations after some time so it doesn't really help. Thankfully the fans never go below the target set by pwm1 so there's no threat of overheating. What do? Is my computer cursed? t. openSUSE Tumbleweed
>>2089 Yea it didn't work out anyways. Took a look at the comments on a lot of them and they were mostly complaining that it doesn't work or if it did work it only worked for a few days at best.
When you open images that have a transparent background, which background color in your photo viewer is easier on the eyes? Or does it not matter?
How long should I wait? I had blue screen watchdog violation error. Did Scf /scannow told me it repaired some files but couldn't repair some. Now its stuck on dskscan 12 % when I restarted it ( I manually typed /f /r on cmd) will cold starting kill my computer? Is possible quit dskscan?
>>2110 I. Successfully booted in safe mode, what I do?
>>2107 I hate black, and white is almost as harsh. My default has settled on a pale blue not unlike the background color of Yotsuba B, which makes it easy to visualize how most people will view it. >>2110 >>2111 You can try running dskscan again. If it still has issues, your only recourse is to create a boot disk/drive from a Linux LiveCD and run a disk check utility from there. Safe mode is the same OS, just with fewer drivers loaded. If your disk is failing on sectors it needs for the scan, you'll have no other choice. A LiveCD runs in RAM from a separate medium. Prognosis not good, though. But if it's just a bad sector then a disk scan and a fsck might be enough to fix any major errors and buy you some time to get a new drive.
>>2096 >r9 390 fans are starting to have a mind of their own as of late. Did that "as of late" coincide with a kernel update perhaps?
>>2112 Ran it again, boots up now but now I have unsupported UI error messages at the login. As for liveCd is it possible to download Linux at the library to usb? Which linux? This my only computer I have and I am stuck on safe mode.
I've reached an age where I've started investing and managing my finances. I have a decent bunch of shit already, and I know I've very late to the party, but I wanted to grab some cryptocurrencies before the prices become unapproachable. At the very least, I want to put a few hundred dollars into BTC, Etherium, and dogecoin and hold it for 5-10 years. Anyways, I don't want to do it through an online brokerage if I can help it, but I don't know much about crypto besides how it works on a proof-of-work thing. I'm looking for software recommendations (Windows) for a crypto wallet that is open source, and not shitty (my understanding that if your private key gets lost or stolen, you've basically lost everything - hence why I don't want to do it through a web platform)
>>2116 >I've started managing my finances <goes to invest 10 grand into crypto when it's about to crash again Ledger is the standard for cold storage wallets. Wait until the bubble bursts later this month before you invest.
>>2117 I don't even know where I got that 10 grand figure from after reading your post again, my bad. Either way don't invest right now. I'd also suggest considering Monero since it's the only cryptocurrency that actually does what everyone think things like BTC do, which is providing actual privacy and anonymity.
>>2117 >>2118 Alright thanks anon. I'm a little short from Christmas and I know it had a huge spike ($33k jesus) so I'll probably scoop some up this quarter at least, after it cools off.
>>2123 Reference January 2018 to see the last time this happened.
>>2117 >>2123 Apparently Ledger had their databases hacked and customer information leaked, so on second thought take that recommendation with a grain of salt.
>>2130 They downplayed it too, I remember having that impression after reading their notice, something like "Your real-life identity was leaked. Don't worry though, your money is safe."
Speaking of cryptocurrency, can someone explain whether or not it's worth it to mine something like Monero at a loss? Does mining a coin with less value turn out a reward if that coin eventually gains in value and has more people mining it in the future? Or is it pointless to mine a coin if the dollar per watt isn't profitable regardless of whether or not it eventually increases in value?
>>2134 At this point you're gambling that Monero will increase in demand and value. It might as governments attempt to regulate bitcoin transactions, while Monero offers better privacy from said regulations. But again, you're still gambling potential earnings over the cost of electricity, equipment, or mining other crypto.
>>2136 I'm seriously considering Monero mining, or at least investing. The additional privacy guarantees are going to make it a strong alternative. Bitcoin trading is already restrictive as a result of regulations. I avoided investing in bitcoin a dozen times. Every single time, the common knowledge was "it's not worth the electricity cost anymore, and it will only get more difficult". But that fraction of a bitcoin I mined once would be worth a few hundred dollars now. If Monero is ever worth a tenth of what Bitcoin is now then it will be worth it to hold onto. >>2134 If you get a bunch early and hold until it hits a peak then you can come out ahead. Bitcoin has shown the market is volatile. Remains to be seen if another winner is picked. But if there's ever a similar phenomenon, Monero and Ethereum are top contenders. Also means there's quite a bit of mining already being done, though.
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I bought a PAL Wii. Being a burger, I would like to know a few things even though it feels like a shot in the dark because I find conflicting information. >is it safe to use a NTSC-U power supply on the PAL Wii or would it be better to use the PAL power supply and find a converter to go with it? If a converter is better, which one would be ideal? >do most TVs nowadays have a way of changing the signals from NTSC to PAL and vice-versa? According to the sticker on the PAL Wii, it says Only to use with power supply (RVL-002). Power supply output : 12V -=- 3.7A The power adapter for the NTSC-U Wii says Output: DC 12V 3.7A
Should I switch my gaming rig to gentoo, qubesOS, or some BSD variant? I'd like to try gpu passthrough to a VM, but have browsing and work on the host, and I'd rather not dual boot. I'm aware and fine with limitations of virtualization. Regardless, if I wanted to try a *BSD OS, is openBSD fine or are there better recommendations?
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>>2141 on the PAL power adapter, if it says 110~240V for the input voltage, you can just use one of these rather than an actual converter, from whatever europoor outlet to the traditional NA outlet.
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>>2143 Yep, it says 110-240V. Now while it says USA, the plug is made for use in bongland. As far as using the pal wii in NA, as long as I use what you posted the console won't blow up into a fire or have its circuits fried?
>>2144 *100-240V
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>>2144 I'm not some expert engineer who specializes in this, but from what I've gotten from yurop its always been fine as long as it said 100-240V or so. Also if that little diagram to the right of the output voltage and amperage matches on both versions, there shouldn't be a reason for incompatibility.
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>>2146 That little diagram appears in the US power supply too.
>>2142 Last I checked OpenBSD was king of BSD. Void Linux is worth mentioning. Light as GNU / Linux can be and you can make it as BSD-like as you want.
>>2141 Just curious, why'd you buy a PAL Wii? Convenient at the time? SCART? Once it's softmodded any Wii should be able to run games from any region just fine. I've played a couple PAL games on my NTSC Wii fine.
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Is there a way to control a thumbnailing daemon like XFCE's tumbler from the command line? I want to generate thumbnails for all files recursively in a directory and all of its subdirectories.
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>>2151 These are the minor reasons I got it. >convenient that it was sold in the US >cheaper than paying shipping from Europe or Austrailia. >didn't see PAL Wiis listed often unlike the NTSC-U and NTSC-J units >being used to the burger and japanese broadcast signals along with minimal difference of electricity usage, I thought it would be a fun challenge to study european stuff since I never bought a european console before Main reason is for a bloke nostalgiafagging over the Super Nintendo and I thought it would be better to just send 'em a softmodded Wii that could work as a idiot-proof budget retro machine capable of playing many classics. I also figure a PAL Wii would've worked better than having 'em import a NTSC-U unit. I don't have any clue what SCART is.
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>Wife uses software that needs flash player for her day work >Flash EOL happened yesterday >try to install older version >windows 10 blocks it from installing >the flash installer calls home and cancels the installation >it also deletes the installer >try installing with no internet connection >installer is online-only >can't find any offline installers >older versions of flash also are blocked in Windows as "unsafe" versions Fucking kill me, any suggestions?
>>2158 Also, I'd like to say fuck all tech journalists and their fucking worthless blogposts about how this is a good thing.
>>2158 >any suggestions? Install gentoo. Renounce 3DPD. Learn to search the internet. Actually use the offline version. https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/32/flashplayer_32_sa.exe
>>2158 >>2160 2160 is right, but see pic related for more details.
Now that Whatapp is updating it's privacy policy, what are some good alternatives that respect privacy? or respect privacy as good as possible on phones. I heard that some missing teen wasn't able to be tracked on kik because it was anonymous, but it was just something i heard. I'm preferably looking for video calls and instant messaging. Thanks in advance.
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>>2165 signal isnt bad, and has voice and video calling. session is a fork of signal that doesnt use your phone number as id or for verification, and uses tor/loki for more anonymity, but is still under development to add many of those features. I've heard mention of telegram as well. https://www.signal.org/ https://getsession.org/ https://telegram.org/ pic related is the session roadmap, from https://loki.network/
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>>2153 I am pleased to say that the Wii and TV did not blow up after I put the euro prongs into the US plug adapter and plugged it in. Trying to change the settings though was a pain in the ass due to the screen flickering in the beginning but I managed to get it working by changing the TV type from 50hz to 60hz. Despite not having any colour displayed I can still softmod it with ease. TV is CRT so I was concerned I would have to use the LCD flat screen but I am relieved to know that progress was made in the past.
>>2171 noice
>>2160 >>2164 Thank you anons, I managed to make it work. The programmers who made the software originally shipped the program with an older version of flash that would install automatically if you tried to open it with flash uninstalled. Now I hope the microsoft doesn't make the optional update, that automatically removes all flash installations without warning, become an obligatory update.
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Still fairly new to Linux, and I was wondering if it's worth it to change from Mint 20 to 20.1. It doesn't seem like there are too many significant changes, but are there likely to be improvements to security, performance, etc. under the hood? Also, is usrmerge cancer, or a good idea?
>>2165 >now WhatsApp was always harvesting this data, they just updated their policies to reflect that. All proprietary software is harvesting your data.
>>2165 I'm having a ball seeing everyone bailing from Whatsapp and the rest of the services gaining more users and popularity. I think pretty much anything is better than Whatsapp and Skype in terms of privacy. Signal is apparently the standard because they open sourced both their client and their back end, and are also run by a non profit, but ultimately you can't audit their servers to know if they're running what they say they're running. Telegram is much more widespread and has open sourced their client although not their backend, and the app they distribute through the playstore has trackers, however there are other FOSS Telegram clients which are clean. Ultimately you could just install both to get the best chances of managing to still reach your contacts
>>2181 Anything that uses fucking phone numbers as a method for identifying users is inherently pozzed regardless of being FOSS.
<How to privately browse internet in 2021? I was thinking old Lenovo thinkpad with mint installed, I just dont know anything about any of this. I was thinking of having cheap privacy proofed pc for browsing and gaming pc on w10 - disconnected.
>>2185 QubesOS is pretty good if you want to bother with its quirks, but has moderately high hardware requirements. (16gb+ ram, ssd, vt-d/vt-x cpu) It does help you compartment shitposting, work, banking, etc pretty well with virtual machines though. Also has whonix for tor. Tails is probably second pick for privacy; if its a livecd distro then every user is mostly identical and cant be fingerprinted. Just don't use it for banking over tor. If you want a plain distro then mint is fine, I haven't used it for a while but upgrading between versions every year or so seems easier now. And remember, privacy protects your data, anonymity protects you. It's up to you to decide how paranoid to be.
>>2177 It's good to bookmark the blog/news feed for your distro to be informed, here's the relevant posts. https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_ulyssa_xfce_whatsnew.php https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_ulyssa_mate_whatsnew.php https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_ulyssa_cinnamon_whatsnew.php >In Linux Mint 20.1 you can turn any website into a desktop application. >Another application which is new in Linux Mint 20.1 is Hypnotix, an IPTV player for M3U playlists. >some favorite files function >If you're using cinnamon it says the window manager got a new version with 5% faster rendering. Probably the most important would be comparing your kernel version with the one in this release, in this case it seems there is no change, so unless some of the new features tickle your fancy it should be fine to not upgrade.
>>2186 >recommending QubesOS to someone having to ask this question in the first place QubesOS won't install on 98% of hardware, including old thinkpads. >>2185 Honestly I think I'm just going to be directing people that ask broad "how do I into privacy" questions to this series. It's basically impossible to answer the question without a full understanding of the individuals threat model, of which they themselves probably don't have an answer to. https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=Y19RFmOxfVM Also keep in mind old thinkpads aren't going to necessarily be any more "private" by nature of being older. Well, in some cases they are since newer lenovo machines come with weird spyware, but in comparison to laptops in general I mean. You aren't going to be flashing your own firmware to nuke the IME because virtually no one does that regardless of whether or not you read about it online. Old thinkpads are good because they're cheap, easy to fix, and easy to find replacement parts for.
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>>2188 >QubesOS won't install on 98% of hardware, including old thinkpads. He didn't mention if he already bought one though, the option is simply there. >Old thinkpads are good because they're cheap, easy to fix, and easy to find replacement parts for. If he cant find one in thrift stores or pawn shops, a thinkcentre M73 i3-4130T is 3x cheaper than a thinkpad on amazon, at $100, and is probably even easier to service.
Is it a good idea to keep using a password manager? I've been reviewing some OpSec methods and it's caused me to doubt doing so, as a password manager generally easier to be compromised than a physical piece of paper containing your passwords (cracking security vs physically tracking you, taking that paper from you without you noticing, and fighting you off or getting away from you if they got it but failed to get it without you noticing).
>>2190 Depends on your threat model and convenience tolerance. Physical paper requires you to manually type in passwords each time. Ever time you need to quickly make a new password for any given service you'll need to use a proper system like diceware to manually generate a password with high entropy. Something like Keepass only requires a single password to remember to decrypt the password manager, then you can generate highly entropic passwords quickly and easily. But you're storing that information on a computer which might be susceptible to being hacked, though I'm not sure how much of a risk that really is as long as you have keepass set to automatically lock itself after a few minutes. All those passwords are encrypted so unless you have a keylogger that's going to scrape your keepass password then someone log into that keepass vault and steal all that shit I don't really see how they could get your information. Physical password management is probably going to be inherently more secure if you don't think you have any physical threats to worry about. But the inconvenience of it doesn't really seem worth it. As long as you're using keepass responsibly, backing everything up, making sure its encrypted with a strong password, the risk of it being compromised, at least to my understanding, seems quite low. But maybe I'm missing some big factor, who knows.
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>>2171 Now I hit a weird roadblock with the PAL Wii. The programs can be accessed via homebrew menu fine but I usually install channel forwarders on the wii menu for convenience. The forwarders usually work fine on a NTSC-U Wii but not the PAL and I don't know why. I didn't change the folder names and I formatted the SD card to FAT32 (which fixed the issue with WiiXplorer not detecting the card.) The forwarders shouldn't be region-locked. I haven't tested the games to make sure they actually work. Chances are they'll work. Should I just forget about the forwarders and have them use the homebrew channel? Navigating it should still be easy.
>>2192 Definitely shouldn't be an issue with the region. Try redoing the install and be sure to double check everything is in its place. But I would test it works elsewhere first just to be sure. If not, then there might be something misconfigured. The worst case is an undocumented difference between regional versions that needs to be worked around, but I can't imagine homebrew software would need to worry about this.
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>>2193 I put the SD card intended for the PAL Wii into a NTSC-J unit, installed the forwarder wads, and they worked great with no issues. When I put that same SD card into the NTSC-U unit and installed the same wads, they also worked great with no issues. All of the homebrew on the Wiis were installed using the str2hax method and they're all RVL-001 models which are backwards compatible with Gamecube games and controllers. I don't think the colors of the Wiis make a difference as they have the same hardware inside. To sum it all up, here's what I don't think are the problems >it can't be the programs themselves or where I downloaded them, they work fine on all units >it shouldn't matter what type of SD card I use. I used both Micro SD and regular SD cards and they had no problems >I turned on REGION FREE EVERYTHING in Priiloader. I don't see how that could stop a forwarder from working I don't really know what could be the issue. I find it hard to believe Nintendo would sneak something in the Euro Wiis to hinder homebrew being installed and not do the same thing to the American and Japanese units. Nonetheless, this is a very strange encounter. I'll run SysCheck HD on all units and see if there's anything that isn't right. Worst case scenairo I have to do a factory reset and re-install homebrew on it. On a side note, I tested Super Mario Bros. 3 in the Europe, America, and Japan regions to see any differences. All of them work fine on the PAL Wii, my only complaint though is that the movement in the Euro version isn't as smooth as the American or Japanese counterparts. I would probably chalk that up to the 60hz screen setting that I changed to have the picture display properly on my TV. If it were to be 50hz or a different setting perhaps the Euro Mario 3 game will have smooth movement. I could see if my flat screen TV has the option to change between NTSC and PAL signals, but I'm not too concerned over game movements at the moment.
>>2198 Is it possible to get debug output from a Wii at all? It might be helpful to see what the Wii's channel discovery system is doing and why it is failing to load these folders.
What are some methods to automate bookmark sorting? In specific, I want to merge multiple folders into one, to make moving the contents of each one much easier by making it all one large folder instead of multiple, smaller ones.
>>2199 Wiibrew has a page on debugging, I think following the instructions on Homebrew Crash might be close enough to a debug output. http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Debugging Usually when a program doesn't work it either boots back to the home menu or displays an error crash with numbers on the TV. When a forwarder doesn't work I usually get tossed back in the system menu. I ran InspectMii and SysCheck on all the Wiis to compare and figure out what could be the problem. InspectMii showed nothing important besides general console info and settings changed in the options menu. With SysCheck I found some differences between the different region wiis >PAL Wii has Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS61, USA and Japan have Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58 >PAL Wii has 41 IOSs installed, 10 of which are stubs. USA Wii has 48 IOSs installed, 15 of them are stubs. Japan Wii has 47 IOSs installed, 15 of them are stubs. >IOS 61 on PAL Wii has no patches, whereas the Japan and USA units have USB 2.0 attribute for IOS 58 This what's on a PAL Wii for the IOSs 222 and 223 >IOS222[38] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.0): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0 >IOS223[37] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.0): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0 These are USA and Japan >IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub >IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub hermes-v5.0 does not show up at all in those two units. I think it may be possible to remove stubs or installed the original IOSs on the PAL unit, but I have a feeling I'll have to reinstall everything.
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I have an autistic question. Why has the new version of Waterfox started making drag and drop bookmark icons retardedly huge and how can I revert this?
>>2208 The answer is use librewolf and disable desktop icons faggot.
>>2209 Does librewolf even work for windwos?
>>2210 Also install linux, forgot to mention that step.
>>2206 Great news everyone! I ran the ModMii program and imported the SysCheck file into it and it gave me things to install in the PAL Wii. Following the steps that were laid out by the custom-made guide I installed a bunch of IOSs and reinstalled the Homebrew Channel because it wasn't running on IOS58. Once that finished I went to the channel forwarders and they finally started to work like the other Wii units! It is evidently not a region issue (I couldn't see Nintendo putting security on only one region but not giving the others the same treatment.) I simply had some things that were not installed and because of that, it explains why I always got a frozen black screen. Now it should be idiot-proof enough.
>>2167 Does Session have video calls?
Is there any reason to use a separate image viewer application instead using image editing software to do so? Aside from the editor somehow being slower to open than the viewer.
>>2214 Not yet no, from what I've read on their site tor only uses tcp packets, and they're in the process of adding udp with the loki network. The latter is what video calls require since they can be sent out of order over a network, it seems.
If you turn back time on your computer's system clock can that negatively affect files?
>>2230 It might confuse some utilities that rely on accurate timestamps to determine the last time a file was updated. But usually systems have tolerances for date irregularities. If you go too far back you might break certificates, though.
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Has any anon ever dealt with removing shit stains from the bugs who made themselves home inside the electronic? What would be the best way to scrub them off?
>>2237 Isopropyl alcohol and cotton swabs? I heard of better swabs that are easier to scrub with and wont unravel as easily, used for cleaning after soldering. from one of the first search results: >IPA may affect some clear plastics and it will dry out many soft rubber parts (like rubber feet), other than that it is pretty benign. Soldering flux remover might also work, but I doubt you'd have any on hand.
>>2239 I used those swabs and they did pick up the droppings but for some parts like the steel frames they didn't seem to do anything. I switched to a toothbrush and that kind of worked for removing stains but it faces the same problem as the swabs where it too isn't removing the stains off the frames.
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Hey /t/ech bros, what's the best browser to use for a smartphone/tablet? I used to use old versions of Firefox but I am not sure I really want to anymore, since the new ones are draining the battery and whatnot.
>>2277 Main upside to Firefox on phones is they allow extensions. New versions have limited extension capabilities, and if they're draining battery too I would stick to older FF versions. Someone used to compile Ungoogled Chromium for phones but I don't know if those still exist.
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Is there a way of getting the classic Macintosh OSs to run in VirtualBox? Not OS X and beyond but older releases like OS 9, 8, 7, etc.
>>2281 Not in VirtualBox. You need something that can emulate PowerPC and translate instructions to x86.
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I need a headset, preferably with a microphone, what should I get? I heard gaymin branded shit is absolute garbage. You lads got any recs?
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>>2297 Until someone more informed than me replies, have pic related. I use a Superlux HD672 because poor, and the rubber ear pad has held up longer than expected. Don't know anything about the sound quality, and I use a shitty clip-on shirt mic on the rare occasion I need one.
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>>2298 There are also these kinds of cables for headsets with replacable cables, but I cant vouch for any.
>>2298 I have the K702 right here. They're the most feeble piece of shit ever manufactured. Before these I had the ATH-M50 and the difference in build quality is huge, even though the nu ATH-M50s don't feel as great as the old ones.
what CSS/JS should I add to give each board unique mascots like 4chanX and Oneechan do
I'm trying to follow the ultimate ffmpeg webm guide, but despite follow the instructions, I keep getting webms with intact audio but no video. This is what I've been trying to convert (can't link one I have locally saved because it's 1.11 GB): https://invidio.us/watch?v=DOQNGrUcK4c
>>2331 Perhaps you could post what commands you are using? There might be an error in which parameters you are passing. Available codecs also matters, although less so these days. One option would be using youtibe-dl to download a compressed version of the video. You can use -F to list available formats, and then select the resolution you want. YouTube usually has both webm and mp4 options available for each resolution.
>>2331 The times that happened to me I had set the bitrate ultra low by accident (e.g. mixing up -b:v with -b:a). Try upping the bitrate as a test. Also be mindful of other options that may affect video that you may have fucked up accidentally, like video resolution resizing. If you're on ganoo+loonix you can inspect the streams on your encoded file with mediainfo to see if there's something wrong. I think ffmpeg also has a program to examine media files but I don't use it.
>>2341 >I think ffmpeg also has a program to examine media files but I don't use it. ffprobe has some info like that. Not sure if it's as comprehensive as mediainfo.
>>2338 >>2341 I forgot to mention that I figured it out; I was just retarded and didn't properly follow the two-pass method correctly.
Is there some magical program that downloads any video form any website that i don't know about?
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>>2351 youtube-dl does
What would be an easy way to convert multiple FLAC files to Opus and copy the metadata from the former onto the latter? I used to convert them using Audacity with this guide ( https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/opus_export_options.html ), but I could never figure how to easily transfer metadata from one format to another using this method, so I would try (and fail) to automate this using mp3tag, but exporting the FlACs' metadata and importing it onto the Opus' metadata always puts everything in the wrong fields. Ideally, I'd like to be able to convert them to 128kbps VBR, as that is supposed to be just about as loseless as Opus can get.
>>2355 ffmpeg has a map_metadata setting. You can try that and see if it maps correctly. You'll also have full control over the output format and bitrate.
My system's been fucking up recently like Windows Explorer going apeshit and I think it's something wrong with the registry. I want to run sfc.exe because I've seen people say it can fix these issues, but I'm not sure if it'll undo all the update halting and anti-telemetry things I've done to it. Will it?
>>2386 I can't say for certain. It's a possibility, if your mods removed any system files. But there are anti-telemetry programs out there that just make registry tweaks and shouldn't raise any red flags. If you're using that utility (I forget the name) then you can just run it again. I think it saves your configuration and reapplies it. Considering the alternative is probably a fresh install, you may need to reapply these tweaks anyway. Better to take the option that may not need it and won't nuke everything.
What's an easy way to move installation locations of programs without individually reinstalling it, transferring files (if there's no auto transfer options), then uninstall it from the old location?
>>2389 Symlinks?
Is there a good image converting program that allows for batch conversion and adjusting color depth? I'm trying to convert images into PNG with 32-bit color depth and so far I can only do them individually which is a pain in the ass.
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FUCK YOU WINDOWS I DON'T want to look in the store for an app to handle a specific protocol you FUCKER. I want to use this shitty program from AGES AGO. And FUCK all the fucking normalFAGS on the internet who think it's about choosing a DEFAULT APP IT'S A PROTOCOL YOU FUCKS! STOP TALKING IF YOU CANT READ THE FUCKING QUESTION WARRRGLBLARGGL
Is there a way to make ristretto less shit for remote filesystems? Or can someone recommend a better image viewer?
>>2431 You could try Gwenview, Okular, etc. Not sure how well they hold up. They're going to be slow unless they preload other images remotely. Doable but most lightweight software will not bother making extraneous requests for performance.
>>2434 >Gwenview, Okular I'd rather not have 400 mb of dependencies just to view a jpeg I ended up finding viewnior, so far it works very well for local and remote directories.
>>2431 >>2440 If dependencies are an issue, you could try Mirage for a GUI viewer or FIM for a CLI viewer. I found these dependencies for Mirage with the deplist function on my package manager: dependency: /usr/bin/python3 dependency: gtk3 dependency: libX11.so.6()(64bit) dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)(64bit) dependency: libpthread.so.0()(64bit) dependency: python(abi) = 3.9 dependency: python3-cairo dependency: python3-gobject dependency: rtld(GNU_HASH) These are the dependencies for FIM if you use a Debian-based distro, according to pkgs.org, though other distros may have similar requirements: libaa1 libc6 libdjvulibre21 libexif12 libgcc-s1 libgif7 libjpeg62-turbo libpng16-16 libreadline8 libsdl1.2debian libstdc++6 libtiff5
Apparently gentoo decided to remove support for python 2.7 because it's deprecated, which has caused a lot of strife since a number of packages continue to require python 2.7 as a dependency. I cannot update my system because of this shit, here's a short list of blocked packages produced from trying to update: (dev-lang/python-2.7.18-r6:2.7/2.7::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 required by (dev-python/certifi-9999:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 python3_7 (-pypy3) -python3_8 -python3_9" >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 required by (dev-python/vcversioner-2.16.0.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="-test" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_7 (-pypy3) -python3_6" >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[xml(+)] required by (dev-python/setuptools-46.4.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="-test" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 python3_7 (-pypy3) -python3_8 -python3_9" >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 required by (dev-qt/qtwebengine-5.15.2:5/5.15::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="alsa pulseaudio system-ffmpeg system-icu widgets -bindist -debug -designer -geolocation -kerberos -test" ABI_X86="(64)" >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 required by (dev-python/backports-1.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_7 (-pypy3) -python3_6 -python3_8" dev-lang/python:2.7 required by @selected >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[xml] required by (www-client/chromium-88.0.4324.96:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="hangouts js-type-check (pic) proprietary-codecs pulseaudio suid system-ffmpeg system-icu tcmalloc (-component-build) -cups -custom-cflags (-headless) -kerberos -official (-selinux) -vaapi -wayland -widevine" ABI_X86="(64)" L10N="am ar bg bn ca cs da de el en-GB es es-419 et fa fi fil fr gu he hi hr hu id it ja kn ko lt lv ml mr ms nb nl pl pt-BR pt-PT ro ru sk sl sr sv sw ta te th tr uk vi zh-CN zh-TW" >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 required by (dev-python/enum34-1.1.6-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="-doc" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 required by (dev-python/configparser-3.5.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 required by (dev-libs/boost-1.72.0-r1:0/1.72.0::gentoo, installed) USE="bzip2 lzma nls python threads tools zlib zstd -context -debug -doc -icu -mpi (-numpy) -static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_7 -python3_6 -python3_8" >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 required by (dev-python/functools32-3.2.3:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 required by (dev-python/ipaddress-1.0.23:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" Reading the news from eselect shows a recommended method of updating: emerge --depclean emerge -vDuU @world emerge --depclean Which of course I cannot run depclean because I haven't updated according to this error: Calculating dependencies... done! * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to * the following required packages not being installed: * * media-libs/glew:0/2.1= pulled in by: * media-libs/opensubdiv-3.3.3 * * dev-qt/qtx11extras:5 pulled in by: * app-emulation/virtualbox-5.2.40 * * dev-qt/qtx11extras:5 pulled in by: * media-video/simplescreenrecorder-0.4.2 * * virtual/perl-Pod-Parser pulled in by: * app-text/po4a-0.57 * * dev-qt/qtx11extras:5 pulled in by: * media-sound/qjackctl-0.6.2 * * >=media-libs/freetype-2.5.0.1:2[png,abi_x86_64(-)] pulled in by: * x11-libs/cairo-1.16.0-r4 * * Have you forgotten to do a complete update prior to depclean? The * most comprehensive command for this purpose is as follows: * * emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world But of course I cannot update because of the aforementioned issue of python2.7 being a required dependency of a bunch of shit. Fucking thanks, gentoo.
>>2475 Just get the last release of 2.7 and compile it yourself.
>>2476 >compile it yourself I don't understand how that can fix anything, considering gentoo wants to purge python2.7, yet portage still wants to pull the last build of python2.7, but can't because of conflicts. Also, half of the packages in that first block have no ebuilds when I try to specify updating python:2.7 with the ones listed. vcversioner, backports, enum34, configparser, functools32, and ipaddress apparently don't exist so I really don't know what the fuck is going on.
>>2477 >I don't understand how that can fix anything, considering gentoo wants to purge python2.7 Because gentoo can only purge the package from their repository. They cannot prevent you from installing it on your system, or packaging it yourself. Why not figure out how to package it and just run your own package? Others might be willing to use it.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=zn290yvOo9U Based nigger is here to tell you about open source bitcoin crypto wallets, since many people ask. Unfortunately you might need a wallet program for every coin, and the high transaction fees make bitcoin less than ideal for small transactions. Related question, do any burgers know a crypto atm without sms, id, or ssn requirements? If not then are there any gift card to crypto sites that you personally can vouch for?
Is there an image viewer for linux that's on par with irfanview? Ristretto kinda sucks.
>>2543 Try nomacs. You can customize some of the shortcuts so that it's similar. It has some annoying features but it's the closest.
I need to update my graphics driver for video gaymen, but it keeps asking me to get windows updates before letting me install. I don't want to get more computer aids or a forced w10 install, are the kb4474419 and kb4490628 "safe"? Alternatively how viable is modern gaming through a VM?
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Hey, anons. As someone who had a taste of the superiority of Linux via dual-booting Mint with Windows, but then had to get rid of said dual-boot some months later due to various extenuating factors including certain Windows functions breaking entirely, such as Disk Manager, I was wondering something: If I were to run Mint, Kubuntu, or whatever through a VM, would it still be more secure than Windows? I've never used machine virtualization before, at least not like this, so I don't know anything about how privacy, security, etc. would be effected. The thing is, I can't switch to Linux full-time, as I need certain, resource-heavy software that has no Linux equivalent. Not only that, but in my experience, most distros' wi-fi support is touch-and-go without drivers that first have to be downloaded, and I have no ability to use ethernet atm. ThinkPenguin adapters don't seem to work, either. (Speaking of which, does the guest OS still require the same wireless drivers, or does it rely on the main OS for its network connections? If it's the former, then how would you even manage to set it up without offline installations and sacrificing the blood of 13 virgins under the light of the full moon?) Since I still would have Windows as my main OS, I'd be using it for the aforementioned software, vidya, and so forth; but I'd like to be able to use Linux for web browsing and other security-intensive things, if possible. Is this viable through a virtualized configuration? And if so, which VM is the best for this sort of thing? I should also note that I'm interested in VMs due to inevitably needing them for my chosen profession, so I might as well learn them now. And how would file backups work? I assume it's still possible to copy files and documents onto external media, but that depends on how sandboxed the guest OS is from the main OS, doesn't it?
>>2558 Sure you can do it, but it wont be any safer than doing it on windows, because ransomware can just encrypt your vm, and any privilege escalation in the windows host would easily be able to view and modify the vm, I'd think. And if its just for running linux software, you might as well use WSL2 distros in the win10 store. An alternative would be getting an old IBM thinkpad, since the drivers for wifi and such are so popular they're usually included. If you really have a lot of spare time you can try learning pci passthrough, so a linux host can provide the gpu directly to a windows vm. If you're using a laptop its unlikely you can get it working, mostly old ones or high end ones provide the right kind of muxing/muxless display handling.
I'm considering switching to linux eventually, but what's holding me back the most is software. I can handle using a VM for some stuff, but not for software I frequently use. Are there any decent alternatives for >Honeyview (Generic image viewer, works with pretty much everything from gifs to pngs and even psds. Also works on compressed folders.) >MPC (video player that lets you go through folders, make playlists, and modify/randomize the playlists) >sumatra ("Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows.") >browser that works, has addons, and isn't a nu-firefox fork >Office suite that isn't dogshit like libre
>>2560 >image viewer dunno >video player possibly mpv or vlc? >ebooks calibre might handle most of those formats, mupdf/gsview is a very light and accurate pdf renderer >browser icecat is the gnu version of nu-firefox, otherwise falkon seemed pretty independent but I cant recall if there are any addons >office suite haven't found anything that matches certain excel features, and compatibility would likely suffer regardless of what alternative you find
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>>2560 I've used nomacs for Windows and Linux. Great all around and >>2548 recommends it too. >generic image viewer However, I use feh for images and mpv for gifs. That might work for your needs too. >browser Firefox and disable telemetry. >reader Mupdf or fbreader. Whatever tickles your pickle works.
>>2559 >Sure you can do it, but it wont be any safer than doing it on windows Damn. Still, if nothing else, I can use it to get acquainted with VMs and bash, so I guess that's still good. > And if its just for running linux software, you might as well use WSL2 distros in the win10 store. Should I feel like a cuck for doing that? I keep hearing that WSL is just Microsoft's way of consuming and destroying Linux, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if that were true. Also, the fact that they didn't call it LSW leaves a bad taste in my mouth. >An alternative would be getting an old IBM thinkpad, since the drivers for wifi and such are so popular they're usually included. That's not a bad idea; they appear to be pretty cheap, assuming I'm looking in reputable places. Still a bit out of my means atm, but it's good to keep in mind for sure. >If you really have a lot of spare time you can try learning pci passthrough, so a linux host can provide the gpu directly to a windows vm. Unfortunately, I'm pretty busy lately, but it might be cool to read up on when I do have some time. Overall, I'm just conflicted about this whole deal. I know I have to use Windows for the most part, and that most if not all distros are beyond my reach atm due to the aforementioned networking issues, but damn I feel guilty. I feel like I'm stabbing the cause of pro-user software in the back, despite the fact that I don't truly have much choice. That said, I really appreciate the feedback, anon; it helps a lot knowing my options going forward. Thanks for taking the time. >>2560 >Video player Dunno if you're interested in Blu-Ray playback, but I found it was pretty easy to get Leawo running through Lutris using the Wine runner. Just start with the Setup file, then do the same process with the proper .exe, placing it in the same folder. Here's more info: https://archive.is/2sipO
>>2563 Yeah it certainly doesn't hurt to keep learning linux in a vm; I missed the part in your original post where you asked, but its a virtual network adaptor. Learning to use it's command line before actually having to use it for troubleshooting helps a lot.
>>2560 >image viewer gthumb works with pretty much everything, my only gripe with it is that by default it tries to play video as well, with poor support for various video formats making it work extra hard during playback while still being very choppy so I just disable video playback >video playback there's vlc, but I just use mpv because it's less hassle out of the box and I don't need the gui functionality, there's also SMPlayer which I think has the functionality you're looking for >ebook/pdf/cbt reader Evince looks like the application for that. >browser I think everyone should try qutebrowser at least once, it's the only one I use any more, only problem is that it doesn't have addons, so if you needed greasemonkey for userscripts you're out of luck. >office suite there is still OpenOffice, I don't know what problem you have with libreoffice
>>2566 >Yeah it certainly doesn't hurt to keep learning linux in a vm; Honestly, I just loved it so much apart from hardware/middleware fenaggling, that I didn't even realize how much I missed it until I got rid of it from my machine completely. Glad to have some means of getting it back, even if only for certain functionality. >I missed the part in your original post where you asked, but its a virtual network adaptor. Fantastic! So I shouldn't have to worry about wireless driver incompatibility, then? >Learning to use it's command line before actually having to use it for troubleshooting helps a lot. Yeah, definitely. I suppose I can also look at this as a way to learn different distros, even ones which I would be hesitant to try otherwise (Artix, Void, Nix, Gentoo ) without more experience. Also, just for clarification: when you say that it won't be any safer than Windows, doesn't that just apply to ransomware/etc. created specifically for VMs, or even to Linux more generally? I ask simply because, iirc, both of those are presently very low-priority targets, unless that's changed. Or does it also apply to any malware that targets the host OS? Bonus question: I know this is pushing it due to the processing overhead inherent in virtualization, but would RetroArch have a decent chance of working in a virtualized config? Not the end of the world if it doesn't, just curious.
>>2574 >wireless driver incompatibility The host os gets a driver to tunnel a connection into the vm, but yeah it usually justwerks (I only ever used virtualbox in windows and the automatic qubesOS VMs). >different distros After gentoo, I recommend trying openBSD just for the fun of it. >clarification I mostly meant the kind of teamviewer viruses where someone is actively snooping, not a passive virus that just installs adware or mines monero. >bonus question It probably works fine for 2d consoles, depending on your cpu and how many virtualization features you can enable.
>>2577 >The host os gets a driver to tunnel a connection into the vm, but yeah it usually justwerks Neat! Hopefully it won't require too much micromanaging, though if it does, that's another learning experience. >After gentoo, I recommend trying openBSD just for the fun of it. I've been curious about the BSD ecosystem for awhile due to the stuff in this thread >>1631, so I may look into it. I've heard some bad stuff about having to basically write your own drivers from scratch, but I still want to say I've given it an honest go. >I mostly meant the kind of teamviewer viruses where someone is actively snooping, not a passive virus that just installs adware or mines monero. Ah, gotcha. But that means that it'd still be safer for normal web-browsing, etc., since only malware made for Linux and/or VMware would be able to compromise it, right? Or am I missing something? >It probably works fine for 2d consoles, depending on your cpu and how many virtualization features you can enable. Sounds good. I admit I was more asking about fifth-gen, but it's nice to know regardless. I suppose I can just use the good ol' standalone emulators until the Windows version of RetroArch becomes more stable. If it does. I know I've mentioned this before, but I really appreciate the advice; this helps a lot.
I'm thinking of making a new Windows 10 PC for Diablo 2 Resurrection, While keeping my old Windows 7 PC for everything else. How badly am i going to get fucked, i know that Windows 10 collects my IP address, but so does a lot of other sites and programs. I already had to do my resume on a windows 10 PC, Is it really that bad if i just use it for games?
>>2586 >Is it really that bad if i just use it for games? Do you have a webcam or mic? Are you going to use literally anything that can connect the computer to you, even if indirectly or in the most roudabout way? Are you going to use anything that can give microsoft information such as a browser or chat software? If so it's still bad, it might be worth it, but be aware of what you're giving them.
>>2587 >Do you have a webcam or mic? No. >Are you going to use literally anything that can connect the computer to you, even if indirectly or in the most roudabout way? >Are you going to use anything that can give microsoft information such as a browser or chat software? I think i'd use the in game chat, and that's it. >If so it's still bad, it might be worth it, but be aware of what you're giving them. I'll look into it before actually getting into it, thank you.
Does anyone here run windows 10 ameliorated?
>>2586 >keeping my old Windows 7 PC This retarded Win 7 meme needs to die. Learn to use some idiot-proof distro like Ubuntu, and if you need Windows for anything use LTSC
>>2607 >>2587 There is a program called Spybot anti-beacon that gets rid of a lot of the telemetry in windows 10
Is there a site to view someone's Twatter media/images without making an account? Nitter was my go-to place but recently their search doesn't work.
>>2648 https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances There are multiple nitter instances. Difference instances might work better.
Is there any software that lets you losslessly edit gifs as animations instead of layers like gimp?
If i watch a youtube video with ungoogled chrome does yt collect my PC's information? If you have some reading on this i'd love to read it.
>>2666 Short answer yes. The only to prevent youtube from collecting information is not using youtube (invidious still uses Google's video servers).
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so im in the market for a CPU upgrade from my old Fx 8xxx series. is there a single modern CPU that isn't cucked or are they all designed to spy on you now? >>2652 the main nitter instance (.net) is permanently rate limited, so forget about using that one, try one of the many alternatives or set up your own.
>>2665 I'm going to go out on a limb and say most image editors can be lossless but I'm not sure on the specifics of if putting it back into gif format would be lossless, since its inherently lossy. With that said, Krita and I believe Clip Studio Paint both have animation tools. You can probably go down the list of image editors in a search engine and append animation in your query and see what comes up.
>>2669 intel has the intel management engine on everything past stuff like core 2 duo. I'm not sure when AMD introduced the Platform Security Processor (PSP), but luckily it isn't on the cpu, and several mobo manufacturers have added the option to disable it, with AMD's blessing. Some ASRock ones have it iirc, but you can surely find a few others by searching. I happened to have a model that does disable it, the X470 Fatal1ty Gaming K4. One thing you should know though, a lot of amd mobos require flashing a bios to add support for new processors, and only a few can do it without an older cpu in socket. I can't recall the exact term, but several new ones do have a usb flashing feature if you cant find a first or second gen ryzen processor.
>>2671 to make it very clear, it's a very unique feature that you should be absolutely sure your mobo will have, because almost every mobo nowadays can flash from a flash drive when an already working cpu is socketted
>>2671 >>2672 yeah im not messing with intel. my mobo is an asus-m5a97 pro, with an Am3 socket. you guys think i can just buy a better CPU than my Fx bulldozer and just put it in there? and if so, which CPU would you guys recommend?
Does any one have a copy of the Windows 7 telemetry removal from /tech/? the original is a blank page
Are there any external bookmark managers that are worth using? I've switched from Pale Moon to Ungoogled Chromium (Moonchild is a faggot who's becoming the kind of retard people try to avoid when choosing non-mainstream browsers, and many versions of privacy-oriented plugins are out-of-date or are no longer updated and their best alternatives don't have PM-compatible versions available). Chromium's bookmark manager is fucking dogshit and doesn't even have tags, I feature I'm sure I'll sorely miss once I finally have this damn thing properly organized and bother to pull this out from it. Also, what would be an easy way to mass-migrate Pale Moon's cookies to Ungoogled-Chromium?
What's a good program to extract PDF files into pages? I have a PS2 service manual PDF I want to post on a wiki, but the file size limit is absurdly small (2MB, the manual is 9MB); I want to see if extracting each page as a PNG, running it through PNGGauntlet, and compiling the results back into a PDF will bring down the size of it enough to be posted onto it.
>>2678 Nevermind; I'm retarded, forgot that GIMP can do this, and didn't look for a plugin (Export Layers) to make the process smoother.
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I am an absolute newbie concerning Linux: today, I spent some time exploring my VM on which I installed Debian. I spent some time messing with my shell and installing a variety of programs that I use on my Windows machine to see how much work everything is to get it running. I customized my shell, I selected a DE on a whim (I will try a tiling DE later) and did some UI customization. However; I have run into a problem: I managed to set my terminal emulator to xfce4. My current shell is fish. I can open a file from the command line and edit it in nvim. However, when I use the graphical file manager and double-click any file (no extension, .txt, .vim) I am prompted with what I presume is xterm or uxterm with an nvim instance (1st image). How do I change this to my normal terminal (2nd image) - moreover, what would I need to search for or what settings does this cover?
>>2680 You identified your problem. Now change the default terminal emulator. Uninstalling the one you don't want should work.
>>2683 Which I already set to xfce4-terminal. I uninstalled xterm, but when I double-click the file now, it does nothing. This has something to do with the standard program for files right? Thanks anyways.
>>2696 You can tweak the defaultslist. It's literally just a mapping of file MIMEs to binaries.
>>2696 I think so. If you haven't figured it out already try looking into .desktop files online, might be related to your issue but I've never had to mess with them manually. I'm also not sure why you're spending time doing that kind of stuff if you're a newbie instead of things that will be more useful to you on the day to day. In any case, happy to see another soon to be debianfag, I've been using Debian for a year and a half as my first distro and I haven't looked back.
I need to buy some Ethereum-based stablecoins, what wallet software do I get? Almost everything I find seems tied to big corps or exchanges or is closed source, and it's fishy as hell.
>>2722 Usually each site recommends what wallet to use, wallets that handle multiple coins are almost never trustworthy. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.walleth/ can do etherium, if it helps.
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I know that the game isn't even out yet but do you think a GTX 1080 can run it in 4k?
>>2732 Maybe on lower settings. It depend if the recommended specifications are for maxed graphics or just medium.
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I am unable to get certain PS2 games to run via WebMan or Multiman on my fat CECHKxx PS3. While some will work great and boot to the PS2 logo, others will shut down the console and leave it with a blinking red light. I'm not sure what could be the cause. >the programs work >took the console apart and cleaned out all the filthy dust inside >increased fan speed to save console from overheating >roms are from AlvRo redump archive, other games downloaded work no problem >the PSDev wiki says the game is playable or has minor issues, nothing about it says it won't work >have plenty of free space I assume downloading big games onto a FAT32 USB thumbdrive that I use to transfer to the console is the culprit because I tried to extract other games that are 4.7GB in the zips but I got an error saying they couldn't be fully extracted.
>>2749 Stop playing games now and you will get double the benefit. Offer limited in time!
>mkdir: cannon create directory : Permission denied What should I do? I'm really tech-let.
>>2756 Where are you trying to make the directory? You might need to chown the folder you're working in so your user can write to it.
>>2756 chmod a+rwx -R /path/to/directory/
>>2758 /usr/local/share/fvwm-crystal
>>2756 sudo mkdir :^)
>>2761 >that worked I'm retarded, thanks anon, just started using linux yesterday.
>>2763 no problem, sudo lets you run a command with root permissions, as an alternative to typing su and using a root account in your terminal.
>>2763 I'm pretty sure that just makes the folder owned by root. You're probably better off doing this >>2759
>>2765 Apparently it worked, the software was installed.
>>2766 Well I don't know enough about Linux myself to lecture you on best practices, I just know that running things as sudo to solve permission issues is generally not the best approach.
>>2767 Will try to do what the other anon said next time. Thanks anon.
>>2763 Read about users and groups, access control and file attributes on the arch wiki. If you are going to be creating directories in unconventional places, you reeeaaally should know what you are doing. You may have gotten away this time, but someday you wont, and then you'll be sad.
>>2773 all i know is that a+rwx -R made my steam games partition accessible on xubuntu.
Anybody know some software like this as alternative? pimeyes dot com I don't care if it's FOSS or Paid Proprietary I just need something that could reverse image search faces very well. Also use this if you want to obscure pictures of yourself. sandlab dot cs dot uchicago dot edu slash fawkes
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Does browsing the web through a VM circumvent Windows telemetry? Also, why is it that Ungoogled Chromium refuses to connect in such an environment? Is there something which stops it from functioning properly in a guest OS, or am I just being retarded and overlooking some obvious settings to tweak?
>>2824 >windows telemetry In theory no, since the host OS can view the tunneled network traffic. In practice, windows is closed source and you'd need an expert to answer what exactly it collects, which can change with any update. If you do some kind of usb or pci passthrough with a wifi or ethernet card/dongle maybe that would remedy it, but windows might still grab screenshots, etc. I'm not a specialist on how VMs work, but the host OS can likely view and access the VM's memory as well, maybe someone else can tell if these are valid answers. >ungoogled chromium Check your vm system clock so https certificates validate? If that's not it and other programs do connect to the internet, I don't have any clues at the moment.
>>2824 Not necessarily. Use a VPN if you want to avoid interception. In theory, MS isn't supposed to be tracking anything in the VM to send off, but you never know. Is the issue only with Ungoogled Chromium? Do other browsers work?
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>>2825 >In theory no, since the host OS can view the tunneled network traffic. I was afraid of that. >If you do some kind of usb or pci passthrough with a wifi or ethernet card/dongle maybe that would remedy it, but windows might still grab screenshots, etc. I keep getting recommended this, so I'll have to look into it when I have some time. Thanks (again?) anon. >Check your vm system clock so https certificates validate? My God, I'm retarded. Not only was the time off, but I had to manually tweak it. (Issue with my VM config, maybe?) Now it runs fine. Much appreciated. >>2826 >Use a VPN if you want to avoid interception. I remember having a horrible time getting them to work reliably back when I was using Linux Mint as a host OS, but maybe I'll have better luck now that I'm using a virtualized card. I admit, this never occurred to me, simply because I assumed for some reason that Windows would be able to snoop past any given VPN, due to it being the OS operating the computer which connected to said VPN in the first place. It's good to know that's not the case, at least. Incidentally, being that I can't fully leave Windows behind atm, but seeing as it's becoming less and less safe to use it, is it theoretically possible to set up a basic, rudimentary Raspberry Pi and hook it up to the same monitor I use for my main desktop, using the former for browsing, etc, and the latter for vidya and other system-specific software? I'm thinking pic related in particular, since it'd be portable enough for the job, but I'm worried about the fact that they generally aren't especially secure out-of-the-box. Then again, I guess they benefit from being in the Debian ecosystem, and I could use it as a work-in-progress security project, if nothing else.
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>>2827 Windows can snoop past a VPN via telemetry even if not at the 'local' PC level. Windows will just make connections to IPs through background services which have telemetry in them. Is it harmless? Is it fingerprinting you? It's still going to them through your VPN. VPNs protect your bits from actors in between the connections, doesn't solve background programs from doing stuff in your PC.
>>2832 (Yes, I know my drawing is simple and wrong but I'm not pulling out Visio or an equivalent for autistic reason)
>>2824 It would make it more difficult for sure because the host wouldn't necessarily know what's in the guest's memory, however it would still be able to read that memory because it's the (host) operating system. Regarding the network traffic, it would not be able to snoop it as long as you use HTTPS given that the encryption is end to end and unless you mess with the certificate store it resists a man in the middle attack. >>2832 cute
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>>2696 Ok open up any terminal and run xfce4-settings-manager Set default programs that way.
>>2827 I'm not sure on the current state of ARM software, but it should be able to do the basic things people nowadays use computers for (arm software is more niche and might have fewer malware but more bugs, and not everything might have an arm port). x86 emulation would be a topic to read up on, as for physical security its difficult since I don't believe it has a bios to select a different boot device than the microsd card. Still better than windows in both regards, bitlocker full disk encryption is compromised last I heard.
I might drop w7 for linux within the next few years, but I still want vidya. How safe would it be to run w10 in a VM with GPU passthrough?
>>2844 You'll still want to disable telemetry. It can communicate if you have any networking available, and modern operating systems and drivers tend to be VM aware. >GPU passthrough You have two major issues with this route. The first is that passthrough isn't hotswappable on Linux. So you can pass a GPU through to a VM, but only if you don't use that GPU for the base OS at all. Most people get around this by having a Linux "hypervisor" OS, and then they launch either a Win10 or Linux VM on top of it, both of which have GPU passthrough enabled. It's extra setup over some other options. The other problem is nvidia drivers which sometimes crap out if they detect they're in a VM. There's workarounds, but it's also a hassle. Proton works great and you should look at what games you play and see if your needs are met with that alone. Failing that, dual booting is usually easier.
>>2844 Pretty safe, as long as your internet network is secure. There are extremely few malware that attempt to break out of a vm, most instead are inert in a vm to avoid detection. As for pci passthrough specifically, you are giving your vm control of that piece of hardware. Most of my vm knowledge comes from reading the qubesOS documentation, but I believe the best practice is to reboot before attaching the pci device back to the host machine. This removes any possible persisting program from the vm.
>>2846 >most are inert I meant most that interact to figure out if theyre in a VM, 90% of viruses will behave the same.
>>2844 I just ended up going W10 on hardware but focusing on network stuff: got a lot of telemetry IPs and domains blackholed. W10 can also be mostly managed by group policy into something that's tolerable to use without web search or cortana or similar stupid shit (thanks to MS finally listening to the whining of mid-sized businesses)
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>>2832 >VPNs protect your bits from actors in between the connections, doesn't solve background programs from doing stuff in your PC. Alright, good to know; thanks for the clarification. >>2842 >x86 emulation would be a topic to read up on Will do; thanks. Honestly, all I'd need it to do is basic web-browsing and USB file storage, since practically everything else would still be done on my main desktop. I don't trust Microsoft worth a damn, but I can't make the switch final for the sake of certain software and a lack of ethernet access. I've heard that the software in question can run decently through Wine, though, so assuming that's true, the networking issue is the main one. >Still better than windows in both regards, bitlocker full disk encryption is compromised last I heard. Excellent! Didn't know about the BitLocker thing; good to know. I'll have to read more into that. >>2845 >Proton works great and you should look at what games you play and see if your needs are met with that alone. Seconding this. Back when I was dual-booting, I had nothing but positive experiences with it. The handy thing is, since Proton's devs are largely pulled from Wine's dev team, the advancements in the former end up carrying over to the latter. Or at least, that's my understanding. >Failing that, dual booting is usually easier. I'm not so sure about that. Maybe I was just retarded and overlooked something really simple, but when I was dual-booting Mint and Windows, I eventually encountered pretty major issues; for instance, the Disk Manager in Windows refused to even open. Ultimately, I had to get rid of Mint, repair the Windows boot loader... and I fucked it up somehow, leading to a GRUB error screen on boot, and not much else. Had to take it in to be fixed lol. Still love Mint, though. >>2846 Not the same anon, but this post helps me out, too. >There are extremely few malware that attempt to break out of a vm, most instead are inert in a vm to avoid detection. <mfw using Windows as the host OS <mfw the biggest security risk to my guest OS is my host OS >>2852 Would you happen to have any good resources on that, anon? I know there are a handful of PowerShell scripts that apparently do the job, but is there anything else to look into? I'm a bit worried about the scripts, since I would imagine Microsoft has long since made them obsolete via updates.
>>2854 There are scripts but I did half of it by googling and having the old Education edition (equivalent to Enterprise back then). Win10 Pro is better now compared to years back where MS would disable the ability to disable certain things (yo dawg) Essentially, just googled "<annoying thing you hate> group policy" until Win10 stopped being annoying. I really should back all of that up just in case...
>>2845 >and modern operating systems and drivers tend to be VM aware. But can it fuck with the linux OS and access files from outside the containment folders? >but only if you don't use that GPU for the base OS at all As in it won't even output an image if you're using the image output from the GPU? >by having a Linux "hypervisor" OS Wouldn't that add extra bloat and make the system slower? >Proton works great I haven't tried it yet, but I doubt it works with eroges and some more obscure games. From looking at the site it seems like it works with a decent number of games, which is way better than the half baked potato it was years ago. >dual booting is usually easier Trust issues and linux fuckery aside, booting into windows is too slow. If it's in a VM I can just do stuff while it boots, but having it by itself defeats the purpose of leaving w7 for me. >>2846 >as long as your internet network is secure Just generally secure or secure as in blocking windows stuff in the router? >but I believe the best practice is to reboot before attaching the pci device back to the host machine That's fine, linux generally boots pretty fast from what I remember. >>2852 I just don't like the system. The way it looks and feels disgust me, it'll never be sanitized enough for me to feel safe, and it's just more bloat on top of the already not ideal w7. Having a small and fast system has always been a desire of mine, but video gays have held me back. I honestly don't see any reason not to go from w7 to linux when it becomes unusable.
>>2856 Proton and wine are just compatibility layers. They don't need to be tweaked for individual games most of the time. You can even run random weird windows programs as long as they don't have some bizarre dependency. A game being obscure doesn't necessarily make it any less likely to run over wine, in fact the more obscure it is the less likely it is to be filled with retarded bloated anti-cheat niggery that makes it impossible to run on Linux. Plus proton will get easy anti-cheat support by the end of the year which will further allow it to cover 99.9% of the steam library.
>>2856 >Just generally secure or secure as in blocking windows stuff in the router? Both, since the VM might be able to access other devices on the home network. >it won't even output an image if you're using the image output from the GPU? The VM will control the video output exclusively, he means. A possible example of how this is unpleasant is if you had to render something, that gpu is hands off until its detached. But you can still render from within the vm, or play vidya in it. >Wouldn't a hypervisor OS add extra bloat and make the system slower? Qubes does kind of does this, and it isn't terrible with an ssd, but in theory a headless one should eek out some extra performance in a windows vm if the host OS doesnt have to render a gui until you want a linux vm. Also, are we getting a new thread soon?
>>2854 >the networking issue is the main one What's the issue again? It's not clear. >>2856 >I haven't tried it yet, but I doubt it works with <whatever> and some more obscure games. From looking at the site it seems like it works with a decent number of games, which is way better than the half baked potato it was years ago. >video gays have held me back. I honestly don't see any reason not to go from w7 to linux when it becomes unusable. I've been exclusively on Linux for a good year and a half and wine has run 100% of the games I've thrown at it. From old stuff like Freespace and DosBox games (yes, even though DosBox is portable), through more modern stuff like Sleeping Dogs and Miami Hotline to modern garbage like the 2016 Doom and Fallout 4, everything has played perfectly or almost. It's so god damn convenient that I use it even for things that actually have a native port, because I've made it so that everything that runs through it is sandboxed and doesn't have network access so it's great for closed source or dubious things. Additionally some of the features are really convenient for old games, like using the virtual desktop to constrain the game to one screen, since some games have issues with multiple monitors. I've even used it to play some amateur games and to play with fags from /v/ on gamenights without any issues.
>>2855 Thanks for the information, anon; I'll check into it when I have some time. >>2863 >What's the issue again? It's not clear. I simply have no effective means of setting up the ethernet connection necessary to download wi-fi drivers in the event that I switch to Linux. If I had known at the time, I would have kept my old range extender and my dual-boot config, then tried to install ndiswrapper or something to see if it worked with my wi-fi adapter of choice. Buying a new range extender and/or router is a bit on the pricey side for me right now, for potentially-mediocre results. Even ThinkPenguin adapters didn't work; I just got an endless Wi-Fi authentication loop that couldn't be solved. That was about the time I noticed the other stuff happening back in Windows, too.
>>2864 >I simply have no effective means of setting up the ethernet connection necessary to download wi-fi drivers in the event that I switch to Linux You can just download the packages you need on your current OS and then install them offline on Linux. The Debian installer for example prompts you to do it when it detects the computer it's installing on has a wifi adapter.
>>2865 >You can just download the packages you need on your current OS and then install them offline on Linux. Tried that on my laptop with Kubuntu. Bizarrely, I was able to download the drivers on the live-boot with a properly-detected wi-fi detection; as soon as I installed the full OS, no dice. Very weird. I thus tried the offline method, only to run into dependency hell, even after downloading every last dependency mentioned in the Ubuntu repositories. I now have a permanently-offline Kubuntu with various broken packages lol. I'm even less enthused about the idea of having to do that with my main rig. Thanks for the idea, though; I do appreciate it. I assume that's more of an advanced user thing, though, especially as, iirc, a lot of the problem was due to my inadvertently downgrading multiple packages.
>>2863 Such games are talked down upon here, but what about games that run like, Kernel-level anticheat software that makes it so they will only run on Windows? Anyway around that?
>>2866 I don't know, Debian has relatively clear instructions from what I remember and I managed to do it on a friend's laptop. Evidently if you managed to do it with the live image there's a way to do it with the installed OS too, but I guess if you don't want to keep trying you'll have to keep enjoying winblows. >>2870 I haven't tried any. I don't think they would work these days if they involve ring 0 stuff. The newer Linux kernel has features to help with that (which were made specifically for wine), but it only gives the tools (syscall redirection) to be able to build actual functionality with. I'm not sure if Wine would be able to implement the kernel features in userspace, I guess depending on their architecture they might as they're simulating Windows so they might be able to manipulate the windows processes in whatever way they want without needing an actual kernel driver, however even if they could I don't know if they would as it would just be an arms race between them and the anti cheat developers who I don't think would like it and would just try to detect them and not allow the game to run. What might however happen is that someone might create a fork and do it themselves outside of wine official as it's a super interesting project.
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Are there any good clip-on headphones? The only two that had seemingly good reviews were $30, discontinued nearly a decade ago, and cost $300 now.
>>2880 Seems like a niche format anon. If you want quality, you can get regular headphones or try in-ear phones, unless you've got a literally hueg head
>>2881 In-ear causes my jaw to hurt sometimes even with the smallest tips, earbuds fall off and have mostly been shit for their small driver, and I'd rather not have a headset while outside due to its bulk. I guess those headphones that are linked behind the head might be the next choice.
>>2882 Hear me out, glasses with speakers.
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>>2882 Even with the half-way tips of sports clips? If you'll just be using them for outside or sports, get cheaper over-ear clipons if you really can't stand even just the tip.
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>>2882 Oh yeah, there's also bone conduction headphoens where you shake your cranium to the beat. Can't say anything about quality, never used the type.
>>2884 I've had that exact set of sony headphones and couldn't figure out how to wear them at all, but maybe there are some that aren't a hard plastic insert which might be okay. >>2885 Looks interesting for crowded places, but I imagine they only work as wireless or powered units. >>2883 Already wearing glasses, unfortunately. But maybe they can clip onto them. Although that sounds even more niche It just seemed strange that clip-on headphones nearly fell off the earth. I had a pair more than a decade ago and they were more comfortable than the others I had, but being a kid I don't remember the quality.
>>2886 Phones packing little in-ear phones with 3 tip sizes doomed on-ear clips anon (probably)
Why will I never be an MIT Computer Scientist?
What's the best slideshow software for windows that supports custom timing? I just want something as lightweight as possible, preferably portable.
>>2905 So you want a video of pictures that change at intervals? The lightest way to do that would probably just be using ffmpeg or using a video editor like shotwell. Slideshow can mean a lot of different things, I'm pretty sure windows image viewer can do slideshows of folders just fine, but I haven't used windows in a long time.
>>2906 Kinda, but fast. I know I could just use ffmpeg to make a video, but that requires making the video beforehand which can take some time depending on the ammount and size of pictures, not to mention the fuckery when it comes to resolution differences. Windows image viewer does it, kind of, but there's only three time settings on w7 and they're all too fast. I want to take a bunch of pictures and have display a picture and then change it after like 2 minutes. Randomizing the order would be ideal but it's not necessary.
>>2907 > I know I could just use ffmpeg to make a video, but that requires making the video beforehand which can take some You can make videos out of just images with ffmpeg. Though this tutorial is in linux. https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=9U29pLrCfms LibreOffice Impress might work if you need a GUI solution.
>>2908 >You can make videos out of just images with ffmpeg. I know, but that still means you have to wait for the video to render. >LibreOffice Impress LO sucks, and wouldn't you have to manually put each pic into one slide that way? I just want something like windows image viewer's slideshow mode but with configurable time.
>>2909 Alright I checked and digikam seems like it should work, but it's not a very lightweight program. Alternatively qView might work but I haven't bothered to check it out, it seems lighter. https://www.digikam.org/ https://interversehq.com/qview/
>>2909 here's irfanview's slideshow setup https://www.irfanview.com/
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>>2910 qView is pretty good, I think I'll use that one. Thanks btw. >>2911 >brags about being fast, compact, and simple >requires an installer I hate modern software practices.
>>2912 Did you miss the option for a zip file? 32-bit has one as well.
I want to make clips from ripped weebshit I've got (in this case, DBZ) using ffmpeg, and I've managed to get it all right except for the subtitles. It seems that no matter what I do, I can't get the subtitles from the original file to properly display in the clip (it just says the chapter that clip was made from). If it helps, I think these subtitles are "image-based" and I'm using a precompiled version of ffmpeg, in case the solution is something that can only be gotten from an option that has to be enabled when compiling ffmpeg.
>>2952 If it's PGS subs from a blu-ray then yeah it's picture based. Use the overlay filter to burn it into the video https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HowToBurnSubtitlesIntoVideo
>>2953 >If it's PGS subs from a blu-ray They're dvdsubs from a DVD release, and I recall using the method linked but I don't think anything happened. I'll give it another shot, anyway.
>>2954 Another option is to OCR it into an SRT and try it that way.
What is the text length limit for a Facebook post? I'd make a facebook account to check myself, actually no I won't.
>>2981 Huh, that IS an interesting question anon. All I can find is from like 2010-2012'ish which would be useless.
>>2982 I found it, it's 63,206 characters
Considering the shitshow currently at mangadex, how do I back up various list on there? telling users to pound sand and install the latest chrome if they want to continue using the site after the newest "update" isn't really smart by the look of it
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>>3009 >chrome only And suddenly I have some sympathy for script-kiddie man
>>3009 Mangadex doesn't have an export function, you'll have to scrape it off your follows page yourself. Unless the latest update added one, which I doubt.
How do I update RSS feeds that are behind some CDN? Specifically for Fitgirl's site, my feed hasn't updated for over a month.
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A lot of universities have shut off normal IMAP email authentication and forced everyone to use Microsoft AD and Oauth2.0 This is very frustrating. Problem I'm having in running davmail is in getting the oauth 2.0 window to open up in a normal gui https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66754677/office365-auth2-0-oauth-davmail-no-browser-popup-for-authentication-no-logs-prod This thread also is relevant https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/61060/how-to-make-email-in-emacs-work-with-an-oauth2-requirement/ Many people could benefit from some anon explaining what we can do to get this running, faggots on stack overflow don't answer the question since davmail seems pretty obscure. I haven't seen any questions get answered about davmail for about five years on there. It's sourceforge Russianware or something but I'm sure some anon knows how to answer it
>>3070 I was able to get thunderbird to work but I'd rather use emacs
>>3070 You can try emailing the IT department and request IMAP be enabled for your account. Though where I work I have it enabled on my account, and I still can't get it to work. O365 is clusterfuck.
>>3080 Naw dawg I'm good, they are peak normies. No need to scare them into thinking I'm a 1337 h4ck3r Seems like it's a problem with the port my davmail is running on
Has anyone else ran into issues with running the latest surf? I upgraded a while ago and haven't had it running since. Used to work just fine. Now it crashes immediately on startup, outputting (WebKitWebProcess:33417): GLib-CRITICAL **: 01:58:02.512: the GVariant format string '(ii)' has a type of '(ii)' but the given value has a type of 'i' It builds successfully with warnings, and looking back I noticed webext-surf.c: In function ‘webkit_web_extension_initialize_with_user_data’: webext-surf.c:98:16: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘g_variant_get’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers] 98 | g_variant_get(gv, "i", &sock); | ^~ In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmessages.h:36, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:62, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gbinding.h:28, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib-object.h:22, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gioenums.h:28, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/giotypes.h:28, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gio.h:26, from webext-surf.c:9: /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gvariant.h:399:96: note: expected ‘GVariant *’ {aka ‘struct _GVariant *’} but argument is of type ‘const GVariant *’ {aka ‘const struct _GVariant *’} 399 | void g_variant_get (GVariant *value, | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~ I noticed the devs recommend building webkit from source, which I've done. Might need to look into what surf is looking to to meet its dependencies. I'll look into both when I get off work, just figured I'd ping the noosphere to see what I get back in the meantime. Google is of no help so far.
>>3118 The most obvious thing to ask would be if you compiled the right version of webkit. I emerged webkit and cloned surf from the git and haven't run into an issue yet.
What's the recommended way of splitting a pdf back into jpgs? Some programs ask for a DPI, but I just want the original images back at 1:1 pixel.
>>3123 I had issues with what can be pulled from webkit's git, so I used their tarball. v2.30.6. I'm using surf from git. Ubuntu's webkit is very likely downstream. I've learned to suspect dependency issues when running into these sort of problems. If you're not running into any issues with the latest build of surf, then I'll put my attention towards webkit. There is no difference in the errors after compiling from the tarball, so my hunch is surf is still trying to use the gimped version.
What is the best plug and play windows-like distro for normies that isn't botnet?
>>3131 >normies Kill yourself retard <ubuntu <MX Linux <Mint <Manjaro The most similar to windows desktop environment is KDE, followed by cinnamon. GNOME is an apple/soydev desktop environment that can work well for idiots too due to big buttons and other stupid shit. None of the distributions are "botnet". But GNOME devs hate white people.
>>3132 Also "plug and play" is completely relative, I've had problems with all these distributions at one point or another. They're still the best retard proof ones available either way, though.
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>>3132 >>3131 >GNOME It's pretty and usable but with a dark side: If you're used to Windows you'll discover small things here and there that will bug you. Eventually you'll be peeved enough to find a solution to these small things and you'll have to install add-ins, extra repositories, random fixes, etc. to get GNOME to do what you want. I agree with anons list though, there's some issues with distros (Ubuntu's snap shenanigans, generalized systemd autism) but those don't matter for a regular less-technical user. Successfully switched my mom to Ubuntu since she literally only needed firefox for facebook and youtube.
Is there a way to play minecraft at previous version? I hate 1.16 because it's too bloated plus when you add double chest and furnaces it loads the whole chunk with it. I'd like to place furnaces and chest at every level so I don't have to go down. I turn some the particles off but it feels slow especially with all the farms and items I have.
>>3143 Doesn't the launcher literally let you pick any version? Unless they removed that feature some time in the last decade...
>>3144 I could only go back to 1.16.0 instead of using 1.16.5, add a JAR plugin or buy dungeons
>>>/v/270940 Assuming that you aren't being targeted by an organization or individual, it should be enough for daily use. Mint is based on Ubuntu's LTS releases, which are "guaranteed" security patches and support for 5 years. Linux Mint 20.1 is the latest version of LM, which is based on the latest Ubuntu LTS (20.04), so it'll get security patches and new features until 2025. Mint also removes telemetry and disables Snap (a way to install software that is somewhat controversial) from its Ubuntu base. Is worth mentioning that Ubuntu and almost all of its derivatives use systemD, and init system developed by (((Red Hat))) that has caused a lot of controversy because it's a giant monolith that is difficult to audit because it keeps gaining features that other tools already do. So this may be a problem for you if you really care about what is inside of the OS. Also Linux Mint got their site and release ISOs hacked once, but that was years ago and shouldn't be a problem anymore.
>>3159 >Assuming that you aren't being targeted by an organization or individual, it should be enough for daily use. How much more difficult would it be for fedniggers to sniff you out? >Ubuntu and almost all of its derivatives use systemD, and init system developed by (((Red Hat))) that has caused a lot of controversy Which linux distros are free from "systemd" and fairly secure?
>>>/v/270954 I've only done research and haven't done any practical tests, so take these suggestions with some salt. That said: Linux Mint seems to be your best bet if you're new and don't mind systemd. MX Linux seems to be a good alternative if you still want a "just works" distro without systemd. You might want to at least consider a "minimalist" distro, meaning that they contain only the bare minimum, and anything extra, you'll have to download/compile/configure yourself; You probably shouldn't use them as your main OS unless you're willing to spend time adjusting everything from the start, and if you're not at least decently familiar with general Linux operations, though. They're all customizable though, so it's not like choosing one or the other locks you out some advantages; the only real difference is what they come with by default. As
>>3160 >How much more difficult would it be for fedniggers to sniff you out? Easy as fuck if you use Chrome/Chromium, vanilla Firefox, any popular communication software (Discord, Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Zoom, etc,), Google/Microsoft/Amazon's services, or install shit from shady places. If you really, REALLY have something big enough to get the feds' attention then you best choice is to have a separate machine running Qubes OS that is physically isolated from any network and a spare device that can run TAILS for online stuff, because general purpose OS are vulnerable. >Which linux distros are free from "systemd" Here: https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/2019/10/12/135/ Of them I only have tried Devuan, CloverOS, MX Linux and Puppy, but as I said, Sytememed shouldn't be a problem if you're a regular user who just wants to do work and play vidya. >and fairly secure Practically all of them if you keep them updated and have enough common sense to avoid downloading software from shady places.
>>>/v/270957 99% this. If you aren't tech savy Linux Mint Cinnamon is the best option for you, with ZorinOS Lite as a second choice for low-end devices and the upcoming version of elementary OS for former macfags. >Mint has force auto updates for some reason It doesn't as far I know. The devs were considering enabling automatic updates by default because most of their users are too dumb/lazy to click on the update button and wait few minutes, but they haven't done anything official yet.
>>270968 >was wondering what the whole controversy about "systemd" is? Is it some kind of telemetry service masquerading as a core system feature? In simple terms Systemd is the thing that tells every other service run and stop, and there are other alternatives that do the same thing. The problem with it is that the main dev decided to turn the program in a colossal blob that does all kind of other stuff just for the sake of it instead of following the traditional philosophy of "do one thing and do it right". Being a fuckhuge program with 1000 different functions also makes it difficult to check for bugs and strange code, and some people are wary of it for that sole reason. tl; dr: Is the Linux equivalent of turning a regular vidya news thread into /b/ but 100x bigger than usual (kinda like these threads, lol).
Is there any drawback to running Win 10 / linux dual boot, and using Windows only for vidya? If I ever get a new computer, newer hardware won't run on Windows 7 and I don't want to be gimped for games.
>>3166 Dual boot is a pain. If you can keyword here. Don't break your computer anon. do GPU passthrough into a virtual machine just do that if you want to play a win 10 exclusive. >>3163 I thought it have auto-updates. Guess I got baited.
>>3166 If you don't have care Windows 10 can shit the entire bootloader with an update (the thing that loads your OS) and make you unable to use any other OS (or even Win10) until you fix it (with Linux) and explicitly make it use a bootloader that doesn't suck ass.
>>3166 >>3168 More importantly, while using windows your linux os is still exposed, for any bad actors that want to target it. Besides the bootloader, you might also want to do hardware encryption, but it might be trivial to get around that if your bootloader is compromised.
Is Qubes worth installing for the additional benefits? Right now I'm using Whonix over Debian.
I've been meaning to switch to Gentoo, but because my Internet connection isn't support by the minimal installation CD, I thought about switching to another distro before switching to Gentoo, as my first priority above all is to get out of the glowbox. I've come to the conclusion that switching to MX Linux would be the best idea, as it seems to be analogous to Linux Mint, except without systemd. Is this a good choice for a non-systemd "just works" distro?
>>3171 Do you at least understand how Qubes works?
>>3172 >my Internet connection isn't support by the minimal installation CD Elaborate. Are you using wired or wireless? Tried what's written here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Networking Especially the "Manual network configuration" part. >minimal installation CD One of the good things about Gentoo is that you don't need the official CD to install it. The basic Gentoo installation files are just packed into a .tar.xz archive called stage3. You just donwload that, upack it into a prepared partition, chroot into that, fix a couple of configs, set your date/time/locale, create your user, set root password, install bootloader and syslogger, update, and build the kernel. All of that is done from a LiveCD environment, which can be any mainstream Linux LiveCD/USB. I used Lubuntu LiveUSB to install Gentoo. The main advantage of using that instead of the official minimal CD is that you get a fully working temporary environment with GUI and shit, so while your Gentoo is installing, you can still watch jewtube/gooktoons, shitpost on Samoan cave painting mailing lists and play some light vidya on the same machine. >get out of the glowbox. HOL UP Is this the first time you're about to install a Linux distro? Then Gentoo might be a bit daunting. A typical normalfag-friendly distro has a usual "Next->Next->Next->Done" installation procedure that assumes a variety of sane, middle-of-the-road defaults which might not be perfectly tailored to you but at least they quickly get you a usable system. And then you set off changing those defaults to better suit your needs. Gentoo assumes very little and expects you to start making choices before you even start the installation, frontloading a lot of that work; and unlike most modern RPGs, your choices do matter. Like, you can go completely without GRUB or any other kind of bootloader if you choose to build the kernel with EFI stub support, so that your motherboard boots the kernel directly without intermediaries.
>>3132 >>3135 To be clear: absence of botnet means 0 unsolicited connections, no update checking, and no systemd or other glownigger trash like networkmanager. And no fucking google trackers or cuckflare on the distro site
>>3177 it also helps to understand compiler flags so you don't have long as dicks compile times, and experience the actual benefit of gentoo instead of using arch (or void linux if you want systemd-less) I was suprised how simple openBSD was to install compared to my failed attempts at arch and gentoo.
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FUCKING LINUX FAGS KEEP MAKING DESKTOP WORSE EVERYTIME I LOOK Hey maybe I'll try again, right? Maybe it's better now right? Even that Proton DB site keeps showing better results for gaymes! Let's just use something that's not GNOME this time, it'll be good! And what is the FIRST FUCKING THING I feel when I go on the internet? The scroll wheel! Well, let's just speed it up a bit! WHERE THE FUCK IS THE SCROLL LINES PER MOUSE WHEEL EVENT YOU FUCKING FAGS Do you WANT me to have middle finger arthritis you user-hostile FUCKS? And when I google this shit? oh it's up to the DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT to implement it! It's been 2 years you FUCKERS! I don't give a fuck about your SILO'D MODULE PARANOIA! I just don't want to have a fucking CLAW HAND using my FUCKING MOUSE JESUS CHRIST TERRY WAS RIGHT
>>3180 wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IMWheel
>>3180 You don't have that problem when you only use the keyboard.
>>3181 Thanks for helping anon the fix works, but I can't help but feel that your good nature is abused by the retards over in GNOME/Wayland and their retard ways.
>>3183 GNOME is notorious for being developed by retarded anti-white cuckolds. But I don't think there's any desktop environment that has a scroll speed variable. That's why desktop environments are kind of a bad way to approach Linux if you want things to work exactly how you need them to.
What would be the differences between having a linux OS for daily use with a w10 VM vs having a hypervisor OS and running a linux VM for daily use and a w10 VM for vidya? Are they both equal in regards to safety and performance or are there drawbacks for going with one over the other?
>>3187 >What would be the differences between having a linux OS for daily use with a w10 VM > vs >having a hypervisor OS and running a linux VM for daily use and a w10 VM for vidya? hypervisor would allow you to share a gpu passthrough between both windows and the linux vm with little overhead. with linux as a host you could get the same working.. but it'd be a lot more tedious as you'd need to shutdown all gui related tasks before initiating passthrough. Unless you have multi-gpu where you could dedicate a gpu to the VM without having to share. >Are they both equal in regards to safety and performance they're about the same safety/performance wise >or are there drawbacks for going with one over the other? mostly comes down to the approach and preference. Personally i haven't tried using a dedicated hypervisorOS and i just run things through a VM when needed. I don't play much vidya that requires windows though so take that as you will if you find yourself constantly on windows but also know enough about linux then hypervisor would probably be better. but if you're like me and can't be assed to set up a dedicated hypervisor linux as a hostOS is perfectly usable just gotta keep in mind the limitations of passthrough. multi-gpu would be the ideal situation which if you have multi-gpu you could go either way without any issue.
Anyone else using Surf notice an issue where reloading pages on here just doesn't work? I didn't notice this at first, but the automatic refresh on threads hasn't worked and then trying to manually reload the page it just hangs at 10% for minutes before it quits and shows an error that the page could not be loaded. I tried running with scripts disabled and it actually didn't make a difference. Trying to reload without cache also doesn't help, and I'm forced to open a new instance or ctrl+click a link to load the same thread in a new window.
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>>3184 >I don't think there's any desktop environment that has a scroll speed variable LXQt. The fact that bigger and more featureful DEs don't have the scroll step setting is mindboggling.
>>3165 >W10 sends out printscreens of your screen yeah I am not connect wangblows to internet ever again
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I'm trying to record vidya through OBS and I'm unable to get any image quality worth a damn unless I REALLY crank up the bitrate up to like 18MB/s, which makes no fucking sense. I'm on Linux and I've tried tried both VAAPI and x264 encoders and it's the same shit. First video is a video recorded with 1MB/s bitrate and although I wasn't expecting it to come out with super crisp frames it's unacceptable that it does this with a bitrate that high. Second video is the same thing but recorded with 5MB/s, it can't possibly look that bad with such a high bitrate under normal circumstances. There has to be something screwing up the quality and I'm not sure what it is. Pics related are the only options OBS would let me change for the encoders. Am I doing something wrong or is there something wrong with OBS? >>3165 >>3228 There are several things about that video that don't quite make a lot of sense. Not that that means they're not doing it, if you look into their terms and conditions they outright tell you they're going to record your keystrokes and your room's audio through your microphone and send it to their servers so there's no reason to think this would be any different.
Set the CRF higher or lower and the cpu usage preset slower perhaps? Try 20 and 25, and 2 slower from veryfast. Also try not doing 60 fps, and I believe mkv is a bad container because if your stream is cut short the whole video is corrupted, use mp4.
>>3230 >>3231 Also might be a good idea to record to an ssd if you have one, and if you're on older hardware you might want to go from veryfast to ultrafast instead and compress it later if possible. The bitrate should be fine at 2.5MB/s.
I'm looking at setting up on site backups, specifically a NAS for surveillance footage and images. Currently I'm looking at a Synology rack station. Does anyone have any experience and anecdotes from doing this they can share? Also, is there a compelling reason not to go for the rackstation vs the disk station (the smaller desk based one)? There is a large price difference.
>>3233 I've only heard rack units in general are dicks because they require active cooling, since only the front and rear are usually available for ventilation, as well as sometimes having proprietary replacement parts for things like heat sinks.
>>3233 Rack stuff tends to be noisy as well. Not bad if you're sticking it in your garage but can get real annoying otherwise.
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>>3231 >Set the CRF lower Tried that, it basically does the same as setting the bitrate ultrahigh manually and results in a super bloated file size. It's interesting that the encoder somehow assumes that the quality is going to be awful and cranks up the bitrate on its own too, but ultimately it doesn't give me any more clues. >cpu usage preset slower Also tried that, didn't make a difference. >Also try not doing 60 fps I usually don't but I wanted 60fps in this video because of the speed. Regardless, it shouldn't take 18MB/s of bitrate to get decent quality. >I believe mkv is a bad container because if your stream is cut short the whole video is corrupted, use mp4. It's in fact the other way around. >>3232 >Also might be a good idea to record to an ssd if you have one I don't think there's any chance the HDD is throttling the recording, but I could try to measure it just to be safe. >The bitrate should be fine at 2.5MB/s. It should, but the reason I'm posting is because it's not.
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>>3230 Ffmpeg: ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 2 -i hw:2,1 -vaapi_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -framerate 60 -f x11grab -video_size 1920x1080 -i :0 -vf 'format=nv12,hwupload' -c:v h264_vaapi -qp 38 $name.mp4 Change the audio device to what you have. Record and post results. OBS: Change Rate Control to CBR. Post results.
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Why is the webm so janky? Even with a flawless loop the start isn't as smooth. Going frame by frame it seems to be the same, my best guess is that the framerate is fucked.
Retard here. Any known workarounds or exploits for questionmark secure browser and other software like it?
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>>3238 That's a neat idea, I'll try it after work. What about bitrates, both for ffmpeg and OBS? >OBS: Change Rate Control to CBR That's only for the x264 encoder, wouldn't a more fair test be to use VAAPI in OBS too? >>3246 My ffmpeg encodes it properly. What command line did you use? Yours somehow got almost 50% more framerate, did you try messing with it?
>>3248 I edited it in AE then encoded it as an AVI.
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>>3249 >(((adobe))) after effects >encoded as an avi >it's actually a webm
>>3250 >(((adobe))) after effects Everything else somehow worse. Kdenlive is borderline useless for even the most basic video editing. Really laggy and all around unstable. Premiere is even worse despite being paid. Gimp has no support for animations, you can only edit gifs layer by layer and that takes too much time. Krita can't even fucking import gifs as animations. >encoded as an avi The piece of shit can't export as gif or webm by default. Lossless avi to webm is good enough, aside from that problem.
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>>3248 -qp Determines bitrate. This new video is at 10.8 Mbps. >That's only for the x264 encoder, Doesn't work for me. Ffmpeg still reported it exists.
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>>3257 >Doesn't work for me. Ffmpeg still reported it exists. No, I meant that OBS only lets you adjust bitrate mode with the x264 encoder, not with the VAAPI encoder, see >>3230 >that -qp description I have to admit that description goes a bit beyond my knowledge of video encoding. Anyway, I did the test with the command line in >>3238 except I removed the alsa part given that the first few things I tried didn't work and ultimately the audio stream shouldn't really matter for this test. I'm not sure how to go about making a good video to compare against in OBS (that is, I'm not sure what options to use). For now I just made the second mp4 with the VAAPI encoder and a target bitrate of 6MB, and the third mp4 with x264 with a bitrate of 6MB and CBR for rate mode. The ffmpeg one is clearly better quality than the second one and maybe slightly better quality than the third.
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>>3246 Wait fuck, I'm stupid. I hadn't thought of this before but converting the gif to a lossless video (e.g. FFV1) and then using that as a base in AE works perfectly because it leaves all the timing fuckery to ffmpeg. I'll have to redo all this shit, but at least I know how to make it work now.
>>3259 Good bump in quality on 1st one for just 1 MB more.
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>>3259 Oh, I thought you were strictly using vaapi. You're right, first one looks nice when Sonic boosts. Do the ffmpeg command with -qp 39 or 40.
>>3126 huh $ ldd /usr/local/bin/surf | grep webkit libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37 => /usr/local/lib/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37 (0x00007f10c6676000) $ ls -l /usr/local/lib/libwebkit* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Mar 23 01:20 /usr/local/lib/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so -> libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Mar 23 01:20 /usr/local/lib/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37 -> libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37.49.10 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2634137336 Mar 23 01:16 /usr/local/lib/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37.49.10 $ ls -l ~/webkitgtk-2.30.6/lib/libwebkit* lrwxrwxrwx 1 anon anon 23 Mar 23 01:16 ~/webkitgtk-2.30.6/lib/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so -> libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37 lrwxrwxrwx 1 anon anon 29 Mar 23 01:16 ~/webkitgtk-2.30.6/lib/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37 -> libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37.49.10 -rwxrwxr-x 1 anon anon 2634137336 Mar 23 01:16 ~/webkitgtk-2.30.6/lib/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37.49.10 I did think it was strange that the compiled library was executable and the installed copy was not, but it throws the same error after changing the permissions. I'm really not sure what could be going wrong at this point, but I'll keep looking into it.
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>>3260 >worked perfectly yesterday >same process breaks today Fuck video editors.
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>>3261 Yes, but it's 1 MB in a 10 seconds video. It's a significant increment. >>3263 Here you go anon. I also did a test with qp32 to see a bigger jump in quality. qp32 is nice, but I feel like a nigger having a 17mb file for a 10 second video, what the hell.
>>3259 I don't remember this level in Sonic Generations
>>3332 It's a level from Sonic Colors modded into Generations. I posted a full video of the level in >>>/fast/23820 3333 GET
>>3333 I wish to play this mod.
>>3334 I got it from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vqNwrRVHG4N9roQje-O0eA4ACAYtCglO Read the instructions. You'll also need SonicGMI.
>>3334 >>3340 Also if you run it in wine, make sure you have ESYNC off, otherwise the sound gets fucked up.
>>3267 $ sudo make uninstall ... rmdir /usr/local/lib/surf rmdir: failed to remove '/usr/local/lib/surf': Directory not empty make: [Makefile:72: uninstall] Error 1 (ignored) odd. What's in there? $ ls /usr/local/lib/surf libsurf-webext.so so, for a clean install I removed that file, make clean and installed surf once more. Now it works just fine. What the fuck
Which codecs should I feed into ffmpeg to get the best compression nowadays?
>>3358 h265 for lossy, h264 for lossless.
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>>3358 I've been archiving stuff with x265. Holy shit it's much slower than x264, but on normal preset I'm getting files down to 1/3 of their original size. Before anyone shits on me these are stream archives, not anything actually important.
Why does Opera's browser keep turning the screen black and crashing recently?
>>3359 >>3368 Thanks, and what about audio?
>>3359 >>3368 Why do you use x265 instead of VP9?
>>3371 call china and ask to speak with their devs
hey i got this chromebook which is locked-down nasa cia fucking government restricted style and i'm wondering if i can somehow enable dev mode on this thing. a simple ctrl+d doesn't work, says the admin disabled it. is there anything that i could do to make it not botnet?
>>3400 Manufacturers wised up to simple circumvention, so these devices are all locked down in the BIOS, too. You'll need to flash the BIOS chip to remove Enrollment settings. There's specialized hardware for this, but you could use any microcontroller if you know what you're doing.
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>>3400 >buying electronics from a sweating nigger on a bike for a 20 You deserve it anon
Good, cheap, t-mobile compatible phone with physical buttons?
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>Windows install so borked I can't even download Windows with the media tool In case anyone needs to know, just change your user-agent to something mac based and the media tool site will give you a direct .iso link. Can't believe it took me more than 2 minutes to find. Now I can finally nuke this stupid thing. Does anyone have any tips on search engines? It's like they are ignoring more and more of my queries and I hate it
>>3436 >Does anyone have any tips on search engines? It's like they are ignoring more and more of my queries and I hate it SEO tactics have convinced Google and their copycats (DuckDuckGo included) to change their algorithms aggressively. It's hard to say if these changes are mitigating an endless stream of ads or if they're just making things worse (mainly because we can't compare how the old algorithms perform on the modern web) but basically all results are shit right now for one reason or another. Either the algorithm is okay but deliberately ignores some stuff, or it just returns total garbage and can't seem to rank pages well.
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>>3438 The problem is that I'm sure it works on normalfags for their normalfag queries. But when I'm looking for a specific hex error code I'm not looking for the hex error code that's very similar and off by 1 character. That's retarded I'm working here, I don't need AI handholding you fucking searchengine turds, I need the shitty site to trawl shitty ad-infested russian forums so I can find a lead to solve this stupid problem.
>>3443 Enclose it in quotation marks? If not try searx, startpage, I don't remember many others.
I have a bunch of lossy animations because retards can't use gifs properly. Is there an automated way to fix them? Posterize, converting to indexed with a limited number of colors, and even converting to indexed based on a hand made palette doesn't work because it tries to keep the artifacts. It uses mixels, so it shouldn't be a process that complex.
>>3446 I don't fully understand what you're attempting to do but if your working with a large set of gifs then making a shell script with imagemagicks would probably be the best approach.
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>>3448 For whatever reason a bunch of pixel art gifs, like the one I posted, have artifacts. I'm looking for an automated process to clean the gifs, like turning left into right.
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>>3449 Something went wrong.
>>3449 just do something like: ffmpeg -i <source.gif> -f image2 image-%05d.png #then convert images to remove blur convert -wavelet-denoise 2% $i out2/$i #get fps of source.gif ffprobe <source.gif> #remerge them into one file (im just gonna do it as mp4 cause fighting the gif compression has been a headache so far) ffmpeg -r 7.67 -f image2 -i image-%05d.png -f mp4 -pix_fmt yuv420p wat.mp4 Could probably be done much better. i'm just too lazy to make a proper script.
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>>3458 Imagemagick supports gifs, you can just use magick input.gif -wavelet-denoise 2% output.gif, but it doesn't work that well. It seems to try and guess the colors instead of just using what's around it. I guess I'll try writing a python script some day, I hope there's a library that supports gifs.
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Would it be possible to use a speedhack with an entire virtual machine? I'm aware that it wouldn't just make everything load faster if the hardware can't take it, but the possibility of making fast through hardcoded slow intrigues me.
>>3459 I'm aware, but when i attempted to do it the output gave worse artifacts then the input. which defeats the purpose. I just kind of suggested a stupid hack around that would fix it. Additionally having ffmpeg split them into frames has the added benifit of each framing being it's own standalone image. some gifs like to do some really anoying frame compression that just overlays frames, using ffmpeg to seperate it gives a whole frame each time and can easily be applied to any gif. Although you will need to find the framerate each time doing this. i just kind of shat that out, the scripting and logic around the tools should be rather easy to create and do. I've done this tons of times when playing around frame interpolation and ai upscalers.
>>3443 >>3445 unironically i've seen yandex giving good search results when it comes to things google shits itself with.
>>3438 The thing that amazes me is that jewgle is increasingly returning scam webpages on a regular basis and it's all stuff that's really easy to spot for the trained eye. Like, I could search "update-initramfs fails" and I would get sites like www.update-initramfs-fails-stackoverflow.xyz, or some page that is a huge wall of text with links everywhere you click, or a literal stackoverflow clone that has exactly the same posts that you previously saw on stackoverflow, and shit like that. All these results are pretty well positioned on the search results and I come across them all the time.
>>3471 I'm shocked that generating webpages to match search terms still works. You'd think they'd have a way to avoid that. Some of these sites are a perfect match for a query that's way too niche and specific. I never understood how they are able to pull that .
>>3471 Why use your billions of dollars in autism tech to defeat scams and pajeets when you can use it to prevent people from seeing the wrong opinions.
>>3372 bumping this question, google won't answer.
>>3486 Audio is a weird one. You should consider what formats are acceptable to the container you intend to put the data in. Is this an MKV or are you putting it in a webm/MP4 for the web? Personally, I still like using FLAC. The file size of audio is nothing, even uncompressed, and I like to keep my stuff as lossless as possible. That said, it's audio. A lot of people use AAC now, and you can think of it as a modern MP3 equivalent. It's lossy but gets better result and lower file sizes than MP3 did. If you want to work with open source formats, you could always look at AVI for video (still very much in development, but the results are excellent) and Ogg for audio. These will usually not be hardware accelerated, and support on Apple hardware may be limited because (((Apple))) pays licenses and wants to gimp free alternatives. I think the important thing is just to use a modern format. MP3 sucks because it's 20+ years old. Research on compression has come a long way since then. Same for VP9/x264/x265/AVI; you're still going to get much better results than you would running the same file through an XviD encoder. FLAC will always have a place as the lossless standard.
>>3375 Not him, but vp9 tends to suck when it comes to constant quality constraints. vp9 is mostly about full on compression no matter the cost while x264/265 tend to be more about keeping quality and having compression. vp9 is better for just getting things down to a small size/bitrate in a quick and dirty fashion.
>>3491 >but vp9 tends to suck when it comes to constant quality constraints I think this only applies to libvpx-vp9 when using 1 pass encoding which you likely weren't going to use anyway. I don't understand the rest of your post because compression is inherently tied to quality. If one codec managed to produce better quality with the same filesize then that codec would be better at compressing and you would be able to get lower size/bitrate with it. In order words, saying that x265 is better at keeping quality while VP9 is better about compressing is mutually exclusive. >vp9 is better for just getting things down to a small size/bitrate in a quick and dirty fashion But VP9 (or at least libvpx-vp9) is several times slower than libx265.
>>3488 >AVI for video >Ogg for audio >VP9/x264/x265/AVI Hitler, you're confusing codecs and containers. AVI and OGG are containers. The codec you likely meant when talking about video is AV1 ( note the 1 instead of I), and yes, it's damn good. No shit, it has been extended from what was supposed to be an evolution and replacement of VP9, the latter still being good even today. Were it not for slow browser adoption and retarded long encoding times (at least for encoding AV1 with libaom-av1. Haven't tried svt-av1 of rav1e) when going for high quality:compression ratio, I'm confident it would've already replaced VP9 like how VP9 pushed out VP8. Also, hardware acceleration for AV1 is starting to take off. Intel Tiger Lake chips have it. But for now it's decoding only. As for OGG, people tend to confuse OGG and Vorbis because most audio files that use OGG as container use Vorbis as codec. However, OGG also supports Opus, FLAC and a few others as codecs. Yes, you can have a FLAC-encoded lossless audio inside an OGG container to make shit confusing. Speaking of Vorbis, it is breddy gud as a general purpose lossy audio codec. AAC is supposed to be better, but >patents, so Vorbis is still widespread. Opus was developed to be a straight up replacement for Vorbis and have better Q:C, but my bumbling in FFMPEG using libvorbis to encode Vorbis (should note that FFMPEG offers two Vorbis encoder implementations; one is called just "vorbis", other is "libvorbis"; the latter is straight up better) and libopus for Opus respectively showed minimal to no perceived difference at the same low bitrate. If AV1 is an upgrade over VP9 then Opus compared to Vorbis seems like a meme. >>3491 VP9 is supposed to be slightly worse than H265/HEVC and a straight upgrade over H264, at least assuming you're using libvpx-vp9 to encode VP9 and libx264/libx265 for H264/H265 respectively. If your VP9 encodes are strictly worse Q:C wise than H264 ones, then either something is wrong with your encoding library for VP9 (Is it even libvpx-vp9? Was it compiled with some ebin patches?) or the settings, or your workloads are very specific and show a bias towards H264/libx264. Or you're using hardware accelerated encoding, where VP9 is indeed still sucky. Too damn many variables.
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>>3496 >But VP9 (or at least libvpx-vp9) is several times slower than libx265. yeah and higher compression at the cost of shit inconsistent quality. >>3496 >>3497 alright so i clearly didn't make myself clear as to why vp9 suffers. and unfortunately for me the github repo that i was going to use as a citation apparently either got shoahed or the fag deleted it. (repo was named Nadeshiko after some animu chick) There was a shitload of tests done (i'll admit prior to wide adaption of row-mt ) and one of the biggest issues with vp9 compared to it's competition was always cbr and constant quality. (encoding things without visual loss) where if i remember correctly vp9 would constantly have inconsistant bitrate:quality where x264(?) wouldn't. which would make it harder to accurately predict and fit the settings to the desired filesize. I remember writting a whole script around segmenting encodes and patching them together inorder to make head or tails of the shit back when 8ch only had 8mb filesize limit.
>>3499 found it: unfortunately theres no active repo anymore, the fag did indeed delete it. https://archive.is/kWFFe
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>>3500 >crf is mostly just a suggestion unless you use qmax That's fucking retarded. a.webm was encoded with -b:v 0 -crf 40, b.webm was encoded with -b:v 0 -qmax 40. I chose a darker video to make the the differences easier to stop, but even then it's way more than I thought it'd be.
>>3497 I did indeed mean AV1. I think my confusion was from the AVIF for images. I haven't used AVI containers in so long I forgot they existed. Wasn't aware Ogg and Vorbis was distinct, but likewise I intended to promote Vorbis. As I said, I primarily stick to FLAC. AV1 and x265 both have lengthy encode times. I think this is a reality of modern compression that will not get better. The only remedy will be hitting maximum theoretical data density and then hardware accelerating that as much as possible. How reliable is AV1 hardware acceleration? I thought the spec was still being nailed down.
>>3504 >both have lengthy encode times Just nigger rig your CPU clock through PLL to multiply the encoding speed.
>>3504 Last AV1 spec update was in January 2019, two years ago: http://aomedia.org/av1/specification/ So it's pretty stable. At least Intel thinks it's stable enough to warrant spending CPU transistor budget on. By the way, it's not just Tiger Lake, but also the recently released Rocket Lake that has the FFUs to decode AV1 in hardware (I completely forgot about RL due to how much of a dud it is.). Alder Lake will likely have it, too. Logically, so should Zen4. >reliable Didn't see any extensive tests, only basic shit like "we enabled it and saw CPU utilization go way down". No in-depth quality comparison with SW decoding as of yet. Probably because TL is for laptops and RL is only a month old at this point. Should be noted that for now Intel's decoders only support 4:2:0. No 4:2:2, no 4:4:4. So there's still much room for improvement.
>>3497 Opus beats all other audio codecs at all bitrates. Just use Opus or FLAC for lossless.
??how doth i make a linked list in python?? my script is fucking eating up stupid amounts of memory and theres no reason for it, i dont know how python makes its list but im 99% sure based on this absolute garbage performance its as a 2d character array where the size is determined by the largest string in the list eg; list [7] [69] = {a, b, cat, niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr, x, y, z} this is unacceptable, 99% of this array is empty it just wastes memory, how do I allocate and write to memory in python like in c so I can make a dynamic linked list without this bullshit mega array that wastes memory
>>3519 Either use classes since linked lists are pretty simple, or search for a library that'll probably be better optimized. I haven't used classes in a while but it should be something like class node: def __init__(self,element, next=null): self.element = element self.next = next first = node(1) first .next = node(2,node(3)) aux = first while(aux != null): print(aux) aux = aux.next
What search engine does /t/ use? I'm currently using DuckDuckGo which is alright for general use but sucks at getting more specific results. I've heard complaints about it in the past (it's a honeypot, it's not private, it datamines you, etc), but the people who say these things never explain how or why is bad, so to be sure I'm now asking about any legitimate privacy or security problem with DDG and about an alternative that you recommend.
>>3522 I'm also stuck on DDG because the alternatives aren't usually much better. Searx is ideal because you can self-host (or pick from alternatives), but their results are about what you'd expect from DDG a few years ago. Currently, DDG is not amazing but can compete with Google for general searches, even if it sucks for specific terms. Most alternatives I've looked at are worse or scrape their results from Google, Bing, DDG, etc. I don't find proxying results acceptable, so here I am. The best evidence for DDG harvesting some form of data is the owner's wealth deriving from a data mining company he sold many years ago. The company has unclear monetization and their code is not open source and the owner seems to be absolutely against changing that.
>>3523 Probably could have clarified better that Searx is also an aggregator and not an indexer. I like it because it's AGPL3 and distributed which helps anonymize it a little more, but would still prefer it could index itself.
>>3522 https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/search.html#ddg Owner used to run a datamining site with a "terms can change at any time and you agree to these changes when you access the site" contract, which he then sold (site and data) to some shady company. DDG collects information about searches and stores them for an undisclosed amount of time, but not the "personal information" they never describe. Funny enough, the DDG privacy myths site says any data collection is bad https://spreadprivacy.com/data-anonymization/ . I plan on changing once I find something better, but for now I just use Ecosia. It's slightly better at best, but at least they don't lie about it.
>>3525 I used to use Ecosia because I fell for the "we use ad money to plant trees" meme, but it being Bing with a green hat constantly left me a bad mouth taste until I couldn't take it anymore.
>>3522 Searx through tor.
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>>3522 once again unironically yandex a good example as to why i use it is simple. take this search term: I miss you hitler search that through google, startpage, duck duck go, what ever. and you'll get the same fucking garbage results over and over again. desired result would be pic related. Put the same search term into yandex, FIRST FUCKING RESULT.
>>3523 >>3527 Any particular SearX instance you recommend?
>>3529 whichever one works at the time you need it
>>3529 this >>3530 But personally i host my own instance. If you use public instances to much they start returning errors on some results because of captcha and search engines blacklisting instances. So using an instance that doesn't have a lot of traffic is recommeneded.
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>>3522 >What search engine does /t/ use? Google.
>>3529 anything with X in the name is a scam
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>>3547 It all adds up.
wtf is wrong with using global variables??????? every soy says; >ughhh globol vars is evil!!!!!!! are they talking about nigger high level languages like python/ruby that are not even real code and so use retard memory allocations for variables in a real language like c any structure or pointer is basically already a global variable by default when set with malloc, so what the fuck is the big fucking problem with using global variables
>>3594 OOP braindamage.
>>3594 Their code becomes unmanageable garbage so they might accidentally use a global variable and get unintended effects when they wanted one in scope.
>>3594 its people that dont know how to use memory addresses that say this, yes, once you allocate memory its accessible by any function, even external programs, thats how you hack games and shit, it makes no difference unless you are a soydev that cant keep track of allocations and puts everything in the heap but doesnt want to admit it so you try to hide the fact by having only 'local'' variables and zero dynamic memory but theres a difference between globally declared variables and globally assigned variables, ideally a program would use ONLY dynamic memory, and does so by only assigned memory to variables when in use and freeing it after use, declaration of the variable is completely irrelevant since this is a compiler thing, you can declare it globally but the important thing is not to assign it to memory until it is needed, that is how you get perfect optimized code, the problem is you have to manually allocate and deallocate the variables yourself and keep track of the size and pointer locations which is too much for soydevs so they just never do it and avoid it like death, notice how they use the word 'evil'', it is truely a soy of all soys to the soydev aside from manually allocating and deallocating you also have to know exactly how much memory you need before allocating, if youre off by a single byte you get a segmentation fault with corrupted memory which crashes the program, again too much for a soy to comprehend , in short to use global variables requires perfect coding skills which the soydev lacks and so disdains the use of any global variables that are beyond his scope or intellect
>>3594 This basically >>3598 The compiler will set and optimize allocation automatically for local variables because it knows the lifespan and size of the variable at runtime, it allocates when the function is called and deallocates when it returns, which is the point theyre making I think, once you use variables outside of functions the compiler doesnt know how to manage the variable or does so in strange ways when you dont give instructions, saying no to global variables is more like a beginners rule since you now have to do what the compiler would normally do for you automatically its also a nightmare for debugging since the compiller will not hold your hand when you do stupid things I assume its even worse in interpreted languages because there you have no clue whats going on in the interpreter
Being the terrible person that I am, I forced my parents to enroll me in a 3-year flash course as a kid and did nothing with it. I still have my Macromedia Flash 2004 CD, recently popped it in and I couldn't even remember how to tween a ball. I'm assuming that animation software has progressed since, do you nigger know what's cool nowadays? Do people use Krita or is it shit like GIMP?
>>3644 If you're just doing animated drawings krita should be fine as a foss and unpaid software, some prefer clip studio pro ex for drawing but the animator version costs more and you likely need a drawing tablet to appreciate it. I know a lot of nips prefer paint tool SAI but I can't be assed to see if it has animating, and its only worth trying if the other two don't fit you. If you want something more interactive like flash was, with buttons to press for secrets, the above for drawing it and then importing into the godot game engine might be simple to learn.
So I have a problem that only you can help with /t/ech: >use wacom tablet >whenever altering brushes or nearly doing anything, makes everything freeze for a moment before anooying ass ctrl/alt/shift pop up >look for fixes online >everything is dated and doesn't cover recent updates >try disabling Windows Ink >no more popup but disables pressure settings >but if windows ink is enables for pressure settings, pop ups and slowdown happen Is there ANY workaround for this currently? Old solutions to previous versions don't work.
>>3655 Does Wacom have a "nuke everything" uninstall app or utility? Stray old settings might be doing it
>>3655 Could it be sticky keys, toggle keys, and filter keys? In win10 its under the nu-settings app -> ease of access -> keyboard and you untick the boxes. It's probably not your problem but it could be related.
>>3655 I'm guessing you're on windows 10. Do you have the wacom drivers installed? If so, is there a wacom program you can run? Does running it with windows ink off solve the issue? I use a huion tablet, so it might be a bit different, but on top of the driver you have to run the PenTabletDriver program to get pressure. I'm assuming wacom might have something similar. If that doesn't work then maybe the drivers are relegating the pressure stuff to windows, try nuking the drivers, disabling windows ink, and then reinstalling the wacom stuff with windows ink disabled.
I'm thinking of running a test to see if I can handle the autism of a hypervisor with 2-4 OSs when I get some free time, but there's some shit I want to be sure of first. 1 - Are there any downsides to using a hypervisor? 2 - Is there any safe hypervisor software? I know there's a few from cunts like microsoft, but getting a spyware that close to the metal defeats the entire point. 3 - Can a windows OS work with a ZFS partition? If not, can it be fixed through a hypervisor? Yeah, I just saw it in the hydrus thread and got interested, no bully. 4 - Is void linux usable yet? If not, what are some good distros that work with wine, don't use systemdicks, and are just fast in general? 5 - How risky is it running a risky system (e.g. windows or linux with nonfree drives) next to a sanitized system within a hypervisor? I know it's not exactly safe because of shared cpu/gpu, while not being as bad as actually installing w10, but I want to know how dangerous it would be. 6 - How's vidya with the FLOSS drivers? 7 - How does WINE work with drivers? Stuff like gamepads and drawing tablets often need additional drivers, does wine let you run these drivers within a safe environment? 8 - Are there any desktop environments that aren't shit? Thanks.
I just received my new work laptop and it's a windows 10 spy device. I've never used win10 and never had a reason to care about it and I wanted to know how can I sabotage the spy features, specially sound recording, as much as possible without raising suspicions with the IT and security teams.
>>3664 If it's work and they're going to complain all I can think of is using stuff you can quickly hide. For the webcam you could probably hide it with pic related. Easy to put on and remove, and it won't leave any marks like tape. For sound recording disconnecting the microphone could be an option, but if you ever have to use it they might find out so I'm guessing that's NG. If you can deal with it during work hours you could just wrap it around something that prevents sound (e.g. thick blankets) while not in use.
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>>3663 >Downsides Less resources (but that happens when you run any program) In Windows, using Hyper-V can trigger anti-cheat on some games. I couldn't play RE2 Remake because of that. >Safe Why would anything be unsafe anon? If you're paranoid just don't use hyper-v, I guess. >ZFS No idea, bound to be something out there. >Void Head mexican/brazilian/whatever autist left a while ago due to autism. Don't know if they got enough steam on them to keep going. >Risky again It's not gonna blow up your computer anon. It'll just not work or be unstable. Back up data you want to keep before. >vidya with floss I tried the whole GPU-in-a-vm thing a while ago before one of the cards died since you needed two. It was allright. 90/95% from native. >WINE drivers I don't think that's a thing but I'm not a wine person. There's vanilla WINE and then there's frontends to WINE that can help setup stuff for specific games. >DEs Anything you like is fine. Except gnome. Gnome is shit.
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>>3664 Is this a proper work laptop like a Thinkpad or Dell Latitude? If yes: >Camera Open up the laptop carefully (don't be an autist, do it carefully). Disconnect camera from the top. It's usually set as a 'usb' device so it won't affect the rest of the laptop >Microphone Buy a dummy mic plug. If it's good enough for ol' Zucc it's good enough for you. >Other spy features No help there anon other than quitting. If you work in a company that would screenshot your laptop every 10 minutes, it wasn't a good place to be anyway.
>>3666 >In Windows, using Hyper-V can trigger anti-cheat on some games As in running a hypervisor within windows or running windows from a hypervisor? >Why would anything be unsafe anon? Mass surveillance for political/marketing reasons is already a thing. A hypervisor would make my life considerably easier, but only if it doesn't spy on me even if the only risk is blackmail and I'd just tell them to go fuck themselves in that situation. >No idea, bound to be something out there. A quick search resulted in a nuanced "no" for the OS itself with a maybe for VMs depending on the host OS, I'm not sure how a hypervisor would handle it. >Head mexican/brazilian/whatever autist left a while ago due to autism. Don't know if they got enough steam on them to keep going. That sucks. It was really comfy despite the audio problems. >90/95% from native. That's pretty good, I figured it'd be way worse.
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>>3668 >Windows Hyper-v comes with windows. You enable the feature, pic related. After it's enabled, your current OS gets lifted and made into a VM inside Hyper-V and you are now able to run other VMs in Hyper-V >spying Unless you're doing state level shenanigans you'll be well hidden. It's called "mossad gonna mossad" aka you can't avoid state level surveillance if the state decides to poke you. >ZFS Not sure what you're planning for your setup but you can always pass drives directly to a VM so that the VM controls the drive/drivies directly.
>>3669 >Hyper-v comes with windows. I don't want windows hypervision I want some trustworthy standalone hypervision software instead. >Unless you're doing state level shenanigans you'll be well hidden I'm not talking about targeted surveillance, I'm talking about mass surveillance. >but you can always pass drives directly to a VM so that the VM controls the drive/drivies directly Here's the thing, windows doesn't have proper ZFS support. It can only work properly if you're running a windows VM from a linux system.
>>3670 >mass surveillance You can always pretend to be a normie with AdNauseam and this thing: https://trackthis.link/
>>3671 But that defeats the point of using a hypervisor in the first place. I want a hypervisor to have a safe linux VM running while still being able to play video games or using any program that breaks with WINE. If I'm going to run a windows hypervisor that's no different from just running windows 10 from a privacy perspective.
>>3672 I think what everyone is trying to tell you: If it runs in windows, windows or any windows application can do malicious acts in whatever VM you're trying to use. Dual booting is prone to the same problems, opening up windows can modify your bootloader for linux, let alone any actual malicious changes to it.
>>3673 But if you run windows in a VM it's theoretically contained, hence why I want a hypervisor that is safe to use, to run windows in an isolated container with no access to the files or stuff from the linux VM.
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>>3672 The easier, but not cheaper, alternative is to just use two computers, one with a proper linux distro you like and one with Windows and nothing in there but games. Any Linux distro will let you install kvm/qemu as hypervisor so you can use VMs there. If you are doing anything sketch enough to worry about hypervisor exfiltration, nothing we mortals can do to help. Ask Stallman or Krebs. >>3674 Yes but Windows apps will still send telemetry out for whatever exists in the VM.
>>3674 Try QubesOS, its probably the closest thing you'd want, and there are guides to set up windows in it, if privacy is a concern.
>>3675 >>3676 It's not like I'm running a super sekrit van-exploding cybergang where I need to use burner laptops. I just want to be safe against general mass surveillance for autism reasons. Running a w10 vm inside void linux is what I consider acceptable for privacy. The only reason why I want a hypervisor instead is because simply running a VM with GPU passthrough would require restarting the distro a lot and prevent me from using graphical applications in both OSs simultaneously. I just want to know which software is safe to run as a hypervisor that is at least as safe as your average linux distro (in addition to the other questions in >>3663 ) >The easier, but not cheaper, alternative is to just use two computers It's more of a matter of comfort, as I already have a couple laptops I could install linux on for general use. Having everything in one machine is just easier. >Yes but Windows apps will still send telemetry out for whatever exists in the VM. I'm aware, which is why I'm going to run it in a VM, to be able to filter the information that it has access to and can spy on.
Actually, let me just rewords the questions. 1 - Are there any downsides to using a hypervisor besides a slight performance impact? 2 - Is there any hypervisor software that is as secure (for privacy and in general) as your average linux distro? e.g. not the Microsoft Hyper-V. 3 - Given that you can run a ZFS partition through a distro into a windows VM(windows doesn't have proper ZFS support by itself), would it be possible to do the same while running a windows VM through the same hypervisor software? (this is just a question, not a criteria for which hypervisor software I find acceptable) 4 - What are some good distros that work with wine, don't use systemdicks, and are just fast in general? 5 - Is running a hypervisor with a W10 VM and a linux VM any more dangerous (in any way) than just running a W10 VM in a linux host OS with GPU passthrough? 6 - How does WINE work with drivers? Stuff like gamepads and drawing tablets often need additional drivers, does wine let you run these drivers within a safe environment? 7 - Are there any desktop environments that aren't shit?
>>3665 First thing I did was cover the webcam. I was planning on using exactly the clip on your pic but it's a new thin laptop and I'm afraid it would damage the LCD screen. The problem with disconnecting the microphone is that it's internal so I would have to open the laptop up and that's not a good idea, but otherwise I'd do it since I'll use a headset for calls so it's not an issue if the internal microphone doesn't work. Unfortunately integrated microphones have super high gain so I don't think I could reasonably block it. Any ideas about telemetry shit? >>3667 >Is this a proper work laptop like a Thinkpad or Dell Latitude? Yes >Camera It's the least of my concerns, I'll just cover it like explained above. >dummy mic plug Never heard about this before but it sounds rather pointless since apps can choose what device they use. In any case I'll be using a headset and I imagine the low gain mike would work to the same extents. >If you work in a company that would screenshot your laptop every 10 minutes I was moreso talking about Windows itself. You know, (((telemetry))) and stuff.
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>>3680 >Covering Camera Works just fine >plug It's exactly that: a plug you use on the headphone/mic plug. You choose that as the default device. Doesn't disable the mic on the camera but hey, 1 out of 2 is 50%. >telemetry Best bet is not to do it. Using one of the de-crapifier scripts has a chance at breaking something that your company might be using i.e. oneDrive, Teams, other setup tasks, etc. You have a job anon, save a paycheck and get a laptop from a pawn shop. No need to shitpost from totally not bugged company property.
>>3680 >but it's a new thin laptop and I'm afraid it would damage the LCD screen Some soft cloth would probably work well if you ever need to use one. >otherwise I'd do it since I'll use a headset for calls In that case it might be a good idea to try and do it. Use gloves and if anything goes wrong play dumb and pretend it was an assembly issue, it's happened before. >Unfortunately integrated microphones have super high gain so I don't think I could reasonably block it Gain doesn't do shit if there's no sound around. You can hear what's around you better, but you can't hear if the vibrations can't penetrate. Wrap a blanket around it, shove it all in a bag to keep it tight, and keep the bag in a closet in another room if you're that paranoid. Remember, muffled moans with faint anime in the background is better than clear moans with discernible anime sounds. >Any ideas about telemetry shit? Don't. It's the work computer, so use it for work. Windows is so fucked with telemetry that removing it can "coincidentally" break shit. Necessary stuff may not work and your boss might find out regardless. If you want to fuck around on the clock either get a personal laptop or a phone.
>>3682 >Windows is so fucked with telemetry that removing it can "coincidentally" break shit. Necessary stuff may not work and your boss might find out regardless. Not either of you, but reading this reminded me an openWRT router could help block traffic to microsoft domains, not that it would help if you have a work vpn.
>>3681 >>3682 >Using one of the de-crapifier scripts has a chance at breaking something that your company might be using Yeah, I didn't want to use one of those scripts because it sounded too severe and would likely show up in every security dashboard in the company, but I thought maybe anons having already gone through the same would have other useful mitigations and tips. >No need to shitpost from totally not bugged company property. I wasn't planning to, I'm just fundamentally opposed to that kind of information leaving a device that's in my home, with some additional worry because of what's basically an open microphone in my living room. Hell, sniffing my previous work computer revealed it was talking to my modem and querying different information from it through services I had no idea it even exposed. I'm not keen at all to have this stuff on my network honestly. I should probably invest some money into some networking equipment to better isolate it but I can't at the moment. >Some soft cloth would probably work well if you ever need to use one. That's a good idea, I don't know why I didn't think about it before.
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>>3659 >>3661 >>3662 Yes, running windows 10. I tried some of these suggestions but still no effect. I even added the registry commands to not use windows ink and disabled everything in the computer configuration and it still does nothing. it's like windowsink is an omnipresent god or something.
>>3681 that is what a retard who believes in the magic box would do you could just disabled the camera and mic in device manager, which puts it down until reboot or on a real OS you lspci to find the pci number and write to /dev/bus/... to block it permanently, or if youre a real autist you make a script that floods SIG_TABORT as soon as a data transfer initializes or if you a genuine autist you write to the memory address of the controller when it starts a data transfer just to be sure, https://pastebin.com/efY9jNx8 people who put tape on their cameras are disgusting, I immediately picture them masturbating to scat or some fucked up shit when I see someone taped up laptop
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>>3688 >people who put tape on their cameras are disgusting, I immediately picture them masturbating to scat or some fucked up shit when I see someone taped up laptop
>>3659 >>3661 >>3662 >>3686 Little development: It seems windows ink is manipulating my wacom settings even though I've allegedly removed windows ink. Does anyone know what leftover settings or files windows ink leaves when you remove it that could be doing such a thing? The lag and constant popups are actually impacting my work and thus, my future income as I spend all my time fighting with the program instead of being able to do the projects I'm paid for.
>>3690 Use windows 7
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>>3691 >Realize in the text file I made earlier I wrote SYSTEN instead of SYSTEM >fix the typo >everything fucking works now This is a reminder to fucking spell check your shit. God fucking damn it, I'm a /v/ fag, I should know the difference between teather and tether.
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>>3692 Give me back my troubleshooting
Looking to find a certain Music making program without selling my kidneys. (the prices in canada ain't cheap) anyone know a good seed for stuff like FL studio?
>>3706 you can make music with two plastic cups you can go for a single cup and a pencil, but I'd stick to the two cup expansion to really make good cup sounds, also two cup supports layering for when you need heavier bass, just stack them ontop of each other and presto youve got bass theres also a good video on expertvillage for this
>>3689 I personally do not care if a person wants to spy on me fapping. But yeah I disable webcam in BIOS, don't want to make it too easy >>3692 computers are not kind to people with bad spelling, probably why programmers are such pedantic cunts to deal with
>>3750 What a slut.
Are there any mumble or VPS providers that don't fraud check and require a bunch of personal info to use the service? I wanted to try making my own mumble server but it's basically impossible to buy one without giving up a shit ton of information.
>>3823 >mumble >or VPS Isn't mumble just VoIP? If that's what you're after Teamspeak works.
>>3825 I'm not sure how that answers my question. I'm asking for providers for hosting servers for mumble, or a VPS in general to just run the software manually.
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>>3823 You could always try Vincent's meme boxes since he takes monero
>>3836 $10 is ridiculously expensive for something as simple as a small mumble server. It seems like the only options that allow you to do it anonymously are cost prohibitive. If only element/jitsi wasn't such unbelievable trash I wouldn't be wasting time researching this.
>>3837 At some stage, you're paying for them to host anonymously and not for the server itself. For any size VPS or dedicated server, you're going to end up paying more for a version that accepts cryptocurrency, and not all of them will take Monero. $10 via Vincent might actually be the cheapest option outside of really sketchy foreign providers, and most of those guys only do dedicated boxes. Add in transfer fees each month and it can add up, fast. The best way to have an anonymous, self-hosted service? Find a provider with a really solid VPS or dedicated box and pay them a massive sum upfront to avoid transfer fees. Then use that server for all the stuff you want. If you just want something small like Mumble, you're probably out of luck. $10 for a mumble server is expensive, but for it to be untraceable back to you it's a steal. Your best alternative might be sneaking a Raspberry Pi onto someone's network somehow. Unfortunately, most IT departments know how to lock their networks down now. It's not the wild west from 15 years ago. But maybe you've got some local businesses who are incompetent. With a dynamic DNS configuration you might be able to get away with this for a long time.
>>3844 I ended up finding a good free mumble renting service. Though the site was in french so I had to navigate it through translations. Sneaking a raspberry pi onto some network was something I had considered though.
>>3844 Wouldnt you also have to full disk encrypt, wire it through a vpn, and also hope the provider wont look at your running processes? Otherwise the money wont lead back to you but the data on the server will.
I noticed my video converter is sending data out. Any way I can see whats being sent out? Is it just my paranoia or do the editors do that all the time for some reason?
>>3852 Wireshark is used for that very purpose, if you have the will to learn how to inspect packets.
>>3852 >>3853 Seconding wireshark. Learning to read and analyze packets isn't that hard to do and is a valuable skill. Obviously the fields will be unlabeled, and you'll need to discard any headers, but strings should stand out unless they've been seriously obfuscating what they send. Knowing the size of the payload should tell you a lot, as will seeing if you can trigger one to be sent by doing certain actions.
>>3852 Wireshark, but if it's using HTTPS then you're fucked and you're going to need a proxy to MITM it. How did you even notice it's transmitting stuff without sniffing it? >do the editors do that all the time for some reason? It could be checking for updates or transmitting (((telemetry))), but really there's no reason an editor needs to do that to perform its function. What editor is it?
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I've heard that the Network Security and Data Forensics specializations of Information Security don't necessarily require prodigious programming knowledge. Is this actually true? I'm alright as far as relatively-simple scripts and whatnot go (only a handful of functions, basic flow control, etc.), but I'm skeptical of my abilities to do trickier stuff, and I'm kind of on a time limit as far as getting into this as a possible career goes.
>>3873 Proper forensics will require knowledge of how the hardware and software works, but the bulk of the work is done by script kiddies working for government agencies. The skillset is more in line with IT or system administration. Being able to read logs, identify signs of intrusion (and signs there has been a cover-up), etc. That said, the best security experts who are on the cutting edge write their own scripts and poke for vulnerabilities. But most network security jobs are focused on following theory and setting your network up to not have massive holes, and forensics is mostly archiving what you can and sifting through to uncover lost evidence. I don't know what getting hired for these things is like, but if you apply yourself then you'll eventually learn the skills on the job and become more of an expert. Getting your foot in the door is the hardest part.
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Hey, anons. A family member has decided that it's time to start disentangling themselves from Amazon's ecosystem as much as they can, and they're looking to migrate all their Kindle purchases to a neutral format. There are plenty of "upload your file and we'll convert it" websites out there, but 1) Are there any reliable ones that aren't likely to pull identifying data and use it for their own purposes? 2) Are there any downloadable tools that can do the job without doing something sketchy to his (or, more likely, my) computer? 3) Is there a /t/-approved format for ebooks and documents? I'd assume PDF or epub, but the whole reason I'm asking here is because I'd rather know than assume. Thanks.
>>3882 >2) Are there any downloadable tools that can do the job without doing something sketchy to his (or, more likely, my) computer? Pandoc. Don't bother with online services. As for migrating from Amazon, I have no idea in what format they provide their e-books and if they're even downloadable, since I never used anything from Amazon. Do your own research on that.
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>>3883 Amazon lets you download ebooks without issue, but they use a proprietary azw format (currently at azw3). Pandoc looks promising, but it doesn't immediately appear to have azw3 support. so it looks like I'd need something else for the initial migration off of Amazon's turf.
What's the best way to install a Linux distro onto a PC without a flash drive (specifically, something like MX Linux that isn't out-of-the-box supported by Unetbootin or doesn't have its own solution for this)? My USB-A end of a card reader is broken, for semi-irrelevant reasons I don't want to get a flash drive, and I don't think I have a spare one around that I can use.
>>3889 a dvd
>>3891 I didn't think of that, but I think that leads to the same issues I have with getting a new flash drive; is there a way I can do it without removable media in general?
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>>3889 Do you have no usb ports at all? You could try PXE boot but that would a pain in the ass. Otherwise it's pic related
>>3889 >>3893 Maybe use an existing computer and a spare hard drive? You could try an hdd rather than dvd or usb drive, and plop it as the boot device on the new pc perhaps.
>>3894 >Do you have no usb ports at all? I have plenty, but buying a flash drive/optical disc has been a mixture of either the store/manufacturer being pozzed (either politically or in terms of privacy), delivery not being an option, manufactures their products in China (as an aside, it's incredible how bad it seems to be to obtain that kind of information), or the site breaking and saying I have no access (presumably a VPN, HTTPS-strict, or other browser-specific issue). All in all, it seemed like a software solution would be the most straightforward (and financially cheap, as a bonus) way of doing it, if I could do it that way. In any case, I'll try and see if I can fix that last issue. >>3895 >Maybe use an existing computer and a spare hard drive? No spare PC I have can be used for that (I have a laptop, but I fucked it up and have to reset the BIOS, and I have no screwdrivers for it on hand, so that would take a bit of time to fix in order to do this workaround), and I have no spare (working) hard drives around me. Could I possibly use two partitions (one to as a boot device, another to actually install the OS onto) on an in-use drive instead?
>>3895 This might work. I know you can install linux to a drive from within linux, but I don't know if there's any way to do this on windows. Maybe using the windows subsystem for linux might work.
>>3897 If he did have the spare disk drive it'd likely be a walk in the park for something like gentoo or possibly arch. >>3896 >software solution You'd want to do as >>3894 said, but this would require a different computer to provide the net boot I think. >two partitions on an in-use drive It might be doable, windows has a partition managing tool and you might be able to format it as FAT32 and mount it as a drive to burn your ISO onto, but I'm not sure if your uefi would pick up the bootloader. Also I've found rufus to be better than unetbootin. Also, you mentioned MX Linux, but I believe a very small minority of justwerks distros have an actual .exe to boot into linux at next restart, maybe ubuntu, linux mint, etc have one.
Oh and you might possibly want to look into if microSD cards and specific usb adapters can be used as boot devices, the cards themselves are tamper evident at the least.
>>3875 This was a great post; thanks, anon. >The skillset is more in line with IT or system administration. Excellent! I was hoping so. >That said, the best security experts who are on the cutting edge write their own scripts and poke for vulnerabilities. Fair; I had heard that scripting was overall more-crucial than in-depth, software-level development skills. Trying to get better at Python scripting atm, since it isn't as restricted in its applications as bash or Powershell. Plan on learning those later on, though. >But most network security jobs are focused on following theory and setting your network up to not have massive holes, and forensics is mostly archiving what you can and sifting through to uncover lost evidence. EXCELLENT. This is fantastic news. I'm good at learning about tech on a conceptual-practical level, but when it comes down to code, I have trouble (though less than I used to). >but if you apply yourself then you'll eventually learn the skills on the job and become more of an expert. Getting your foot in the door is the hardest part. Thanks for the encouragement, anon! This helped quite a lot.
>>3899 That was my original plan, until I saw that the USB-A end of my card reader was broken (and my main PC has no native microUSB or USB-C port to use instead); the easiest solution to that would be to just buy a USB-C to USB-A adapter since I imagine the rest of the card reader works, but that leads to the same issues with the other kinds of removable media.
>>3888 Just tried, and it apparently refuses to open or convert anything covered by DRM, which includes all azw files.
>>3903 I thought Calibre deliberately stripped DRM? That's its biggest selling point, even among normalfags. The software is otherwise pretty shit, and the developers have dug themselves into a hole regarding the database structure, even as Plex and others have demonstrated you can work on top of an existing filesystem. If it can't strip DRM, what's the point?
>>3906 ... If it can't strip DRM, what's the point? Organizing your PDFs/EPUBs/etc into a digital library, I guess; that's what I use it for, though not often in all fairness.
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So I'm looking to be somewhat creative but have tech knowhow like a goddamn retard at times, mainly when it comes to learning how to use a new program. >Goals: >1: Be able to edit clips of different files together into a single clip >2: be able to replace the background sounds/music with my own selected music >3: be able to set up the timing on a per-frame basis Bonus points if whatever could do things like the above could convert to different file types.
>>3908 For video editing everything is shit, but the two best softwares I've ever used are blender and after effects. Blender is great except for moving things around, AE has a better UI but masking isn't as good and the text tool is kinda shit. Do NOT touch Premiere, that is the most atrocious bunch of bits I have ever seen, it shouldn't be called a video editor or even a software. As for converting it's easier to just export the video to a lossless format and use ffmpeg to reencode it.
Ffmpeg is capable the first one, part of the second one (maybe all of it, but I'm unaware of how, exactly), with the third one being much more of a mystery to me: >"edit clips of different files together into a single clip" https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate >"be able to replace the background sounds/music with my own selected music" I imagine typing in ffmpeg -i <source file> -an -c:v copy "<target file path including target file name and extension" will at least give you the video file you want to use without the audio in it; I'm unaware of what else you can do from within ffmpeg, but as >>3910 mentions, using a video-editing program with a GUI could help with the rest of this. Ffmpeg can also convert files into different file types, and for an important tip, make sure to use either these two commands: -c:a copy -c:v copy To just copy every audio or video stream from the source file to the target file; you should get an exact (or at least, near-exact) quality copy of the original's audio/video stream. And if you want to do both, you can simply do: -c copy You can also check the FFMpeg wiki ( https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki ) and the FFMpeg WebM guide for more commands that could help you with what you're looking for, now and in the future; they're not the entire FFMpeg documentation, of course, but from my experience they're great places to start.
>>3915 >part of the second one (maybe all of it, but I'm unaware of how, exactly) Just -an the video, fuck around with the tracks individually to get the timing and volume right, then amerge them all. It would be an extreme pain in the ass, but it's possible.
>>3916 True, that could work as long as you knew what commands to use (maybe even the concatenation method I mentioned could work in some cases). And in case the other anon wants to try it, remember that you can use most (if not all) the same commands in ffplay, meaning you can preview what the resulting file will look like without having to actually make it first, so you won't have a few screwups to clean up when you get the result you wanted. Though, while I'm here, I have an issue of my own; I learned that OBS apparently cucked to the OSI and signed the anti-Stallman letter, so I decided to use another screen recording program; ffmpeg seemed promising until I tried to record audio, in which case it doesn't work on Windows; Stereo Mix shows up and from a command level it seems to work, but no audio seems to actually play when I play the video file back; is there anything that I should check to see that could be causing an issue with Stereo Mix?
>>3918 >OBS apparently cucked to the OSI and signed the anti-Stallman letter That's fucking gay. Why can't shit just be apolitical? Don't answer that. A rhetorical question.
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>>3918 Works on my machine^tm. I just installed the github thing and did ffmpeg -f dshow -i video="screen-capture-recorder":audio="virtual-audio-capturer" a.mkv because I didn't want to fuck with Stereo Mix, whatever that is.
>>3924 >I just installed the github thing That's probably my issue, I'm using a precompiled binary and not the media autobuild suite (which is what I assume you meant). I'll try that out in a bit.
>>3930 But did you try with :audio="virtual-audio-capturer"?
>>3931 It wasn't displayed as a DirectShow device, so no; again, I suspect it's due to how how I got ffmpeg in the first place.
Started up my PC this morning and my hide taskbar setting was disabled and I got this shit. I pirated it back in 2016 and its been alright some issues here and there but I think that's probably because of Windows not the pirating. Sometimes upon wake up or restart of my PC clicking the volume button on the taskbar not working and needing to restart windows explorer in task manager to get it to work was my biggest and only consistent issue. Lately, maybe a year now when I wake up or restart my PC the screen stays black and sometimes the mouse cursor is there but the windows user login doesn't popup and it stays black for 10-15-30 minutes sometimes. Ctrl+Alt+DEL would only rarely work. I would spam windows key and just mashing the space bar, enter key or down arrow key or just random buttons and that would work a bit better but not really. Looked up the verification issue briefly and read that restarting or updating could fix it and I disabled updates like 6 months ago so I decided to do both. Downloaded the updates and restarted my PC and I spent about 3 hours trying to get my PC to show anything other than a black screen and I had no mouse cursor. Restarted about a dozen times, waited for about 40 minutes after first restart that installed the updates to shut off my PC to try my aforementioned methods of getting to login but nothing worked. Looked up some articles and videos on my phone and couldn't really find anything that worked. Windows key+P and Ctrl+Alt+DEL being the ones I saw most and were ones I could do but they did nothing at all. My BIOS screen doesn't really show itself anymore only once in a while after restart will the MSI logo appear but the keyboard inputs to get to whatever haven't appeared in a long time and I don't even remember how to get to them now. I tried to get into recovery mode with the F keys but it didn't work. Then the black screen stopped appearing altogether and my monitor just said no input detected. Trying to get back to at least a black screen I restarted again and the last thing I did while sitting on the black screen was press every single F key do the Windows+P Ctrl+Alt+DEL and spam the enter space and arrow and then I got a white dot on the screen that eventually turned to what I assume was the windows installing screen it never said anything just had a windows logo blue background and a scroll wheel white dots then it went to black screen and a few minutes later my login screen finally appeared. No idea how or why. My questions being how the fuck do I fix this black screen bullshit and the windows verification is still suddenly gone for no reason, no watermark but I need windows verification back for the options so what do I do to get it back?
>>3933 >using w10 Either pirate 7 or run it in a VM, that shit is too unstable for a main OS.
>>3933 Reinstall the entire operating system. Trying to patchwork fix windows is a complete waste of time. At least on linux you can actually get terminal outputs to troubleshoot, it's basically impossible in windows to solve anything but completely surface level issues. Your video card might be failing if you're getting weird artifacts.
Anyone using youtube-local with TOR? Is there any way to get it working without the TOR browser?
>>3936 Tails in a VM I guess.
>>3937 That's a bit overkill.
>>3938 I'm too lazy to figure out how to approach it otherwise. Tails runs entirely as a livecd so you don't even need a virtual disk for it. Just boot it up when you want to download something and do it, should be fast and easy.
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>>3939 >I'm too lazy to figure out how to approach it otherwise. Just leaving TOR running is enough, but I'd rather something with less overhead than that.
Any japanese open trackers that aren't about idols or anime purely? I know of nyaa and toshokan but i was searching for a show and couldn't find it anywhere.
>>3947 Why not PD?
>>3948 I tried perfect dark but couldn't pass IQ check. One time it worked i didn't manage to find it there either, tho i wasn't sure if it was due to my mistakes or unavailability.
How does zfs work with encryption? Do you still get the positives like compression and file integrity check or does it not compress as well?
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>>3910 >ffmpeg I've never been able to get that shit to work. Every time I try, someone goes from "okay, it's installed and you have double clicked it right? Now you need to smash your laptop with a hammer while you shove a dildo in your ear and a cactus up your nose and when both the dildo and cactus touch, your laptop will have finished the conversion" At least, that's how much sense it makes to me due to everyone going from 1-100 in their descriptions. >AfterEffects >Blender Are these simple enough for, say, stitching a few short webms together into a single file? How about replacing the audio with a specific selection of a specific segment of music to match with the visuals? (webm related) I want to create my own OC and not just endlessly repost stuff.
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<he double-clicked on a commandline program Anon, you're supposed to open it in the command prompt; if you added this directory to your system path (see pic related for instructions), then it's as simple as typing in ffmpeg <COMMANDS GO HERE> and hitting Enter, assuming you specified the exact directory for your input file. You can streamline this even further by launching the command prompt in either your input file's directory: ffmpeg -i "input file.mp4" <COMMANDS GO HERE> "C:\<USER>\Videos\output file.mp4" or the output file's directory: ffmpeg -i "C:\<USER>\Videos\Folder\input file.mp4" <COMMANDS GO HERE> "output file.mp4" This way, you would require one less full path to type in; and of course, you can just do ffmpeg -i "input file.mp4" <COMMANDS GO HERE> "output file.mp4" to do the actual process without inputting file paths at all, leaving you to manually move the output whenever you wish after the job itself is done.
typing special vowels are a pain in the ass, How do I use è ö ect without switching away from qwerty. I like the Latin American keyboard because its similar to my keyboard but the special keys are different then I am used to and I can't keep switching between German Spanish and English keyboard layouts. How do people do it? For now I am just keep it on the Latin American layout because the ` and ~ is closer to me and it doesn't change my layout too much.
>>3970 You can use alt codes (ALT+246 = ö) Or you can add language keyboards. You can just switch with left shift+alt like so: ははははははは, easy to switch back to regular qwerty and whatever language.
>>3959 Here's how you ffmpeg. Step 1: download ffmpeg zip Step 2: extract zip to a folder Step 3: go to bin folder within the ffmpeg folder and copy the whole path (e.g. "c:\users\faggot\documents\ffmpeg\bin") Step 4: find out how to edit the path variable on your windows (it's pretty simple, but varies from 7 to 8 to 10) Step 5: edit the path variable and add a semicolon followed by the ffmpeg bin path (e.g. "other programs;c:\users\faggot\documents\ffmpeg\bin") Step 6: go to the folder with the videos then shift click the blank space within the folder, in addition to the usual commands you now have "open command prompt here" or something similar, click that Step 7: type ffmpeg -i [name of the video] out.mp4 Congratulations, you just encoded a video. Repeat steps 6-7 for anything you want to encode from now on, just don't forget to change the settings (see >>3962). If you don't want to use the terminal there's always webm for retards and other similar programs. >Are these simple enough for, say, stitching a few short webms together into a single file? I think AE is pretty simple, though I've been using it for a while so it's hard to get an unbiased view. Blender is slightly more complex at first, but after a couple tutorials it should be relatively simple. Kdenlive is baby tier, but it's a piece of shit that literally freezes when you click anything, so I'd recommend trying the others first. >How about replacing the audio with a specific selection of a specific segment of music to match with the visuals? Yes. Virtually every video editing program allows you to remove audio, add new audio tracks, cut the video track, and make it frame perfect.
>>3971 I figured it out, I'm using US-intentional keyboard, now I can type the special vowels without the alt codes, it might get used to it because the ' key needs a space before it appears when typing.
>>3903 Have you tried ebook-convert?
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>>3972 >Step 5: edit the path variable and add a semicolon followed by the ffmpeg bin path (e.g. "other programs;c:\users\faggot\documents\ffmpeg\bin") It's about when I get here that things suddenly don't line up anymore or the information given conflicts with what I'm doing. For instance, my address is: C:\my shit\DVD name\DVD rip\Disk 1\ Do I just add ffmpeg\bin on the end? Where does the semicolon go? This is when shit ends up making me feel like a retard.
>>3990 >>3972 >all this autism just to run a fucking command line program Just install a linux VM and share a folder with it so you can use a real operating system.
>>3990 Have you downloaded ffmpeg? Have you extracted it to a folder? If so, go to the ffmpeg folder, then the bin folder within that folder, and copy the path. What version of windows are you using?
>>3991 You don't have to do this at all, it just makes using ffmpeg much simpler than using cd "C:\...\bin" every time you open the command prompt. Also, that sounds much more complex than the path method, as better it would be to just use Linux in general.
What are the standard methods for USB/SSD disposal? I know HDD's you shatter the platters and it's done for, but how should flash memory be approach? Just crush, bend or snap the memory chips?
>>3996 Could use sandpaper to reduce it to dust, same for hdds
How do i share a directory with a virtual machine running Windows XP using qemu? "net nic -net user,smb=/path/" works on 7 but not XP. Also any tips on running Japanese games with wine?
>>3996 >shatter the platters are you mentally disabled if you dont degauss the disk the platter fields remain intact and readable by a forensics lab physically breaking a disk does nothing other than ruin some sneeds weekend
>>3995 Alternatively you can navigate to the folder where ffmpeg resides and with nothing selected shift+right click on an empty space and then the menu will give you the option to open a command prompt in that folder already so that you don't have to manually navigate there.
>>3996 >What are the standard methods for USB/SSD disposal? There are none outside of overwriting them, but you get no real guarantees that way. Best to only write encrypted information to them in the first place. Going to non standard though, burning the HDD would eliminate the magnetic field from the platters but I don't know at which temperature it happens for whatever material the HDD platters are made of. SSDs are always much more tricky in every way. I imagine you could remove the memory ICs and dip them in acid or something.
This is driving me up the wall. I'm trying write a script to be interpreted by /bin/sh. I want to write echo -e <whatever>, but the -e is printed as if it were part of the text to print instead of an argument to echo. This doesn't happen when running under bash or when running /bin/echo -e <whatever>. What the hell is causing this? I have no idea how to even search this issue to get meaningful results.
>>4021 I finally managed to get a search result. echo is actually a dash built-in so it wasn't using /bin/echo and the built-in version doesn't recognize -e. shell scripting is so god damn tricky.
This one-liner work for anyone else? youtube-dl $url -o - | ffmpeg -fflags +discardcorrupt -ss $start -to $end -i - -c:v libvpx -crf 10 -b:v 2M -b:a 192k $name.webm I'm getting broken pipe error.
>>4024 Doesn't work. Either youtube-dl is disrupting the pipe by doing two downloads or ffmpeg is disrupting the pipe because it expects all streams to be packaged together.
>>4024 >>4029 >Either youtube-dl is disrupting the pipe by doing two downloads It's probably this. It works if you select a file on youtube-dl (using -f) that is a properly muxed video instead of having the audio and video separate.
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>>4029 >>4036 Right. It was as an odd video. Still works, thanks.
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>>3992 >Windows version 10 >Have I downloaded ffmpeg yes >Have I extracted it to a folder yes >the bin folder within that folder ... there IS no bin folder... Which would tell me I somehow got a shit download that was an incomplete version of ffmpeg, which is why nothing fucking works.
>>4047 What does the ffmpeg folder look like?
I'm looking for an email client and an RSS feed program for W7, and I've boiled down the selection to three programs: >Pegasus Mail: http://www.pmail.com/ >The Bat!: https://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/ >Claws Mail: https://www.claws-mail.org/ I was wondering if anyone has used any of these programs, or has any better recommendations.
>>4052 I would go with Claws Mail because it's immune to e-fail.
>>4052 >RSS feed program for W7 unironically write your own its piss easy because rss feeds are already xml formatted , just cycle through <></> and print
>>4070 Not him, but that's actually a good idea. I hadn't considered just making one before.
I'm on the search for CLI audio players. I've used CMUS for quite a while and although I've enjoyed it, development has been discontinued, the creator refused to add any other library visualization other than Artist/Album and it doesn't support a lot of video-game music formats. I also tried mpd/ncmpcpp but was only able to get it to read my music library once, every other attempt has failed since I'm incompetent. Currently I'm stuck with deadbeef, which I dislike, but supports everything I got. Any recommendations?
>>4129 cvlc has a nice cli interface, takes a while to learn cvlc -I ncurses
>>4130 I managed to make ncmpcpp work, it was a mix of bad configurations and bad user permissions. Thanks for the suggestion though.
>>3 I need a way to verify that a server is indeed hosting a source game such as garry's mod, hl2dm, etc... on its advertised port without steam api/services. I could use rcon, but it's plaintext and requires that the owner of the server at least temporarily provides the value of rcon_password which is a security risk on their part because if someone as access to their source server via rcon command, they can set anything from sv_cheats 1 to issuing commands for installed plugins that can delete data (or any native for that matter). While I could come up with a solution to tell them to change the rcon password after giving it to me, I can't continually check because they would need to continuously give me the rcon password at sometime and this would allow them to change their server to something that's not a game server. I have thought of creating a plugin that would listen to packets and would allow to securely exchange the rcon_password (I don't know if the plugin api or sourcemod server plugin api allows reading and rejecting packets though), but that seems a bit much. Does anybody know how to communicate with a source server without steam and without rcon so as to allow verifying that it is hosting a game/srcds and that it isn't spoofing (of course if all the information I'm going to check against is public, it's going to be easier to spoof, but I want it difficult to spoof).
>>4143 use nmap or zenmap (noob friendly nmap) a version scan will show if its a misconfigured server, if it is then no point continuing since you know its bad, if it isnt you need to figure out the request/response format for steam servers and emulate it to get the server to send you the info you want, I think the free version of burpsuite lets you hook onto a specific port to analyze traffic and you can use the intruder to send request theres also maltego but the free version is gimped to be completely useless
>>4146 A layer 2 managed network switch can also duplicate network data to a pc running wireshark, its hardly free but it does show all traffic including during boot.
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I've been trying to compile firefox for a month but it always dies with 0:43.88 = note: ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: glslopt_initialize 0:43.88 >>> referenced by glslopt.k3z6uzou-cgu.8 0:43.88 >>> glslopt-b29c05b5e0fc7df0.glslopt.k3z6uzou-cgu.8.rcgu.o:(glslopt::Context::new::h767333f449d9da6d) in archive /home/benis/gondola/mozilla-unified/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/release/deps/libglslopt-b29c05b5e0fc7df0.rlib 0:43.88 0:43.88 ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: glslopt_optimize 0:43.88 >>> referenced by glslopt.k3z6uzou-cgu.8 0:43.88 >>> glslopt-b29c05b5e0fc7df0.glslopt.k3z6uzou-cgu.8.rcgu.o:(glslopt::Context::optimize::h929ade40dcca0f0a) in archive /home/benis/gondola/mozilla-unified/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/release/deps/libglslopt-b29c05b5e0fc7df0.rlib 0:43.88 0:43.88 ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: glslopt_cleanup 0:43.88 >>> referenced by glslopt.k3z6uzou-cgu.8 0:43.88 >>> glslopt-b29c05b5e0fc7df0.glslopt.k3z6uzou-cgu.8.rcgu.o:(_$LT$glslopt..Context$u20$as$u20$core..ops..drop..Drop$GT$::drop::h87e3275616796a7d) in archive /home/benis/gondola/mozilla-unified/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/release/deps/libglslopt-b29c05b5e0fc7df0.rlib 0:43.88 0:43.88 ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: glslopt_get_status 0:43.88 >>> referenced by glslopt.k3z6uzou-cgu.8 0:43.88 >>> glslopt-b29c05b5e0fc7df0.glslopt.k3z6uzou-cgu.8.rcgu.o:(glslopt::Shader::get_status::h3aba767e2ba52978) in archive /home/benis/gondola/mozilla-unified/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/release/deps/libglslopt-b29c05b5e0fc7df0.rlib 0:43.89 0:43.89 ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: glslopt_get_output 0:43.89 >>> referenced by glslopt.k3z6uzou-cgu.8 0:43.89 >>> glslopt-b29c05b5e0fc7df0.glslopt.k3z6uzou-cgu.8.rcgu.o:(glslopt::Shader::get_output::h96fecc263833aaf3) in archive /home/benis/gondola/mozilla-unified/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/release/deps/libglslopt-b29c05b5e0fc7df0.rlib 0:43.89 0:43.89 ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: glslopt_get_log 0:43.89 >>> referenced by glslopt.k3z6uzou-cgu.8 0:43.89 >>> glslopt-b29c05b5e0fc7df0.glslopt.k3z6uzou-cgu.8.rcgu.o:(glslopt::Shader::get_log::hc37345d7e9312d1b) in archive /home/benis/gondola/mozilla-unified/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/release/deps/libglslopt-b29c05b5e0fc7df0.rlib 0:43.89 0:43.89 ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: glslopt_shader_delete 0:43.89 >>> referenced by glslopt.k3z6uzou-cgu.8 0:43.89 >>> glslopt-b29c05b5e0fc7df0.glslopt.k3z6uzou-cgu.8.rcgu.o:(_$LT$glslopt..Shader$u20$as$u20$core..ops..drop..Drop$GT$::drop::h8036a7b43d9bda76) in archive /home/benis/gondola/mozilla-unified/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/release/deps/libglslopt-b29c05b5e0fc7df0.rlib 0:43.89 clang-12.0: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) 0:43.89 0:43.89 error: aborting due to previous error 0:44.14 error: could not compile `webrender` What do?
Can somebody give me a quick rundown on the drama about Freenode?
>>4196 missing library during linking im guessing glsl stands for opengl standard library so probably install freeglut3-dev
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>>4196 >post this >run hg pull and hg update an hour later >1 change to 1 file merged >configure and build again >build successful D-does Mark have ties to Pozilla?
Recommend me an easy to use music program that supports iPod.
>>4212 What kind of iPod? >>4197 Some guy managed to take control of their assets, so the admins decided to go make a new network from scratch without his influence.
>>4214 An iPod video.
>>4218 do one thing say what is model number and cereal of you ipod so i may provide assistence
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I'm banned from leftypol on Tor browser, it gives me this message every time i try to post, even if i've create a new identity, which usually solves bans, but this time it doesn't work. How do they know it's me?
>>4243 never mind it's gone.
>>4243 >>4266 2 possibilities >blanket Tor ban >you switched to an exit node that was already banned by someone else I deal with the same thing for VPN bans on different websites. The only surefire way to get around that is a smaller VPN that's less popular, or buy a VPS and host your own VPN.
Where is a comprehensive list of c++ keywords including the standard libraries that's crosslinked and annotated so much that a retard can understand it?
>>4243 >>4268 in my experience the best way to get around bans on vpns/tor if you keep getting them is to just abuse AWS and make fifty gorillian ips for yourself exclusively (this can be in the form of a custom exit node or a private vpn) It works much better then tor or a normal vpn/vps cause most are public/shared where AWS is so large the ip range is fucking massive. And by chance you probably have access to AWS already anyway unless you happen to be ultra schizo modo in which case you probably won't. no bully, but i used to do this all the time on 8chan and they all kept thinking i was some sort of shill whenever they did whois and saw that it was an AWS ip.
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I got a very old iPod to try my hand at modding but it only uses FireWire which I recall is no longer being used in modern laptops and desktops. Can any /t/echie give me a workable solution to get the player to connect on Linux or the cheapest laptop to transfer songs?
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>>4285 For reference iPod model is M8541, has physical wheel and monochrome screen See pic
>>4285 If you want to dick around with modding it, that's a cool idea. But to even access it you're going to need an old Mac that has a FireWire port or a PCIe card with FireWire ports. Adapters to other protocols don't exist, period. If you see one, it ONLY carries power, not data.
>>4289 So any cheap MacBook from the early 2000s should do fine then? I've read that other computers have a FireWire port besides Apple's under the 1394 label but I am not sure if that will work with the old iPod. I have also read from a site documenting various iPod models that it uses FireWire 400 which I am not sure if it will help with finding the right computers to transfer with.
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Lo and behold /t/, the power of RDNA™.
is it possible to compile a c program to run on multiple systems?
>>4307 You're gonna need to be more specific to get an answer with any kind of meaning. But in general no, it's not very realistic, you need to match the architecture, OS environment, and output format. Consider if the case of a program running on wine counts as running on "multiple systems".
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Do anyone of you use Concast xfinity as your ISP? How has your experience been with them, have they sent you letters for torrenting games? Image not related.
I don't know shit about phones, why is my number added to a group chat without my consent and why am I receiving random text messages? The first message is some random image and the rest have laughing emojis. I don't recognize any of these numbers although all the area codes except for one are the same. I didn't give my number to anyone either.
>>4329 That's just how sms works anon. It's literally the same as saying "why did this pajeet dial my number" or "why did this viagra spammer send me an email" The answer is because they can 🤷‍♂️
>>4330 Can I at least make them not add me to random shit or remove myself?
>>4332 Just delete the convo until the retarded boomers stop responding
>>4291 >Going with AyyEmmDee other than their cpu and stocks don't buy. Or Wait for Drivers™
>>4324 blonde is cute but the fake redhead is hatefuck tier.
>>4336 >he's going to be stuck on x11 for the next decade lol
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I know this is a Tyrone-tier question, but I've got a 4th gen IPAD, model A1458 with IOS 10.3.3 with find my activated and someone's icloud account on it. I've obviously tried to get ahold of the person already, no response. I just want to use this thing to read manga and it's been sitting on my shelf for months now. There are far too many scams and overpriced software packages out there for removing these things, but there have to be some open source free options for removing this kind of lock right?
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>>4048 Okay, so, I got into talks with a friend of mine and he lead me to an editing program, so now I can splice music up with images/videos/etc and insert sounds and edit and so on, so that's all good now. However what I DO need is a good file converter so I can convert MP4s to webm, webm to MP4, Gif into mp4, mp4 to gif, and Vob into mp4. Is there ANYTHING easier to work with than ffmpeg? Something that is easy and similar to cloudconvert?
>>4377 The newer the gen the more unlikely it is to be removable Mr. Biggums. The official method for older apple things is to use the reset process along with iTunes to re-load the OS. Again: the newer the gen the more likely the account will survive the wipe. This is why the 'cheap' apple stuff in craigslist is for 'parts' (that is, it's stolen goods just like yours probably).
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I am so far content with the PinePhone but the OS I put in, Manjaro Plasma, seems to chug every now and then. At least I'm able to make and recieve calls with it. The other OS I tried, Ubuntu Touch, wasn't able to make and recieve calls which is a shame because I really liked how smooth it was to operate with it. With Mobian, I was able to make calls but not recieve them.
>>4389 Could you share a bit more about your experience? What do you think about the app ecosystem? Have you been able to do everything you wanted with the phone? Would you say it's good enough for it to be your main phone?
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>>4390 My first time booting it walked me through a setup process that failed and kept me stuck on the terminal. I skimmed through some videos to get an idea on the PinePhone such as what OSs to try out and I looked on the web to see if others had my issue which some did. Installing OSs seem pretty easy as you would just need to have their images written to a micro SD card and then insert the card after the SIM card is already in. Now thankfully I didn't cause any damage to the pins but I wasn't supposed to insert the Nano SIM Card by itself in the bottom slot, I had to use the Nano to Micro SIM adapter included with the package. Putting the Nano card into the adapter though was a bit of a challenge so I used to use tweezers to make sure it didn't fall out. >What do you think about the app ecosystem? It looks pretty decent for it being neither an Android or iOS. I recognize many of those programs offered from using Linux Mint's software repository but I cannot vouch for how well they really work until I try them. I'm cautiously optimistic they'll function well but I'm judging them based on their usage in Mint as opposed to a mobile device. >Have you been able to do everything you wanted with the phone? It seems to have the basics down as far as calling and text goes but it still needs more polish if one goes in expecting it to work like an Android or iOS. Flashlight works and camera kind of works but you can't change the settings (you'll in fact be reminded if you get the beta edition that they aren't functional yet). >Would you say it's good enough for it to be your main phone? Coming from an anon who <isn't interested in those overpriced flagship phones <strongly prefers using flip phones even if they don't have the same features their 'smarter' counterpart does and are weaker in hardware <used a flip phone powered by an early KaiOS build that could not be updated and had the basic features in along with basic customizability with 4G signals <used a smart flip phone powered by Android and had better hardware and customiziability than the KaiOS phone despite only having 2G signals It grabs my attention but I wouldn't really push it on anyone. Here are the current flaws I have with it <not been able to send MMS with the default messaging application Spacebar because for some odd reason there's nothing to let one add attachments to their messages <also had no dice with changing the ringtone and notification which is a bummer <being able to remove the back plate without having to purchase special tools is great but it was a pain to open with long fingernails. For comparison, my previous flip phones were way easier to open even with cut nails <the UI and Icon designs offered at the repository aren't to my liking It's sad that I even have to say this due to mobile technology taking away features but I like that it still has a headphone jack. The adapter it came with out of the box seems pretty decent as I could plug my USB mouse in and navigate in areas I couldn't with touching. I also like the idea of the physical killswitches to turn off the Wi-Fi, cameras, etc. but they are hidden in the back area where the battery is which looks like it can easily be replaced. Overall, I would say it's not too bad for a non-mainstream phone. I don't know how LineageOS fares or other DeGoogled hacks so I can't make a comparison. If the issues get worked around, it very well could be a daily driver phone. Keep in mind everything I wrote mainly applies to Manjaro Plasma which is what the phone was presumably shipped with. I haven't tried Sailfish OS or the other operating systems beyond what I already mentioned. At least having choices of a OS to install and play with on the phone is wonderful.
>>4392 I forgot to mention where I said Coming from an anon who <prefers using a real camera instead of using the phone's cameras
>>4392 A+ for effort
>>4392 Hmm, kinda makes me want to get one since it's relatively cheap
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>>4392 Here is my second report. Once again this mainly applies to Manjaro Plasma. It bears mentioning that the PinePhone doesn't operate like your usual mobile device, one would be wise in referring to the unit as more of a hybrid between a mobile phone and a laptop. If one were to ask me 'Aren't you basically describing every flagship smartphone in existence', my answer would be yes and no. It is indeed a phone with smart features just like those Androids and iPhones people are used to seeing and operating, but do not be fooled by the mobile-looking UI and think it's going to be anything like those two popular mobile OSs. See figure 1 to get an idea of what I mean when I say it is a hybrid and read the next line. If you're used to operating a laptop or computer, you should be familiar with moving and resizing the desktop program windows, whereas a typical mobile OS doesn't offer the same flexibility because they use a more mobile design of having everything crammed in one area that cannot be resized or moved. I must also redact my previous statement that I had no dice with changing the ringtone and notifications sounds because I discovered by sheer accident that they actually can be changed, it's just not in the default pre-installed settings menu. No, I instead had to download KDE System Settings and here is where the problems came into play. When I first started KDE System Settings, everything looked like a mess which is due to the configuration being set to 'sidebar view' as opposed to 'icon view'. Now changing the configuration made it much better to navigate, but I still couldn't figure out where the sounds could be changed. One will be baffled to know it is not in the audio because that only changes the volume and output, but it is instead in notifications. Allow me to instruct those interested in changing the sounds like me. When you get there you will need to go to setting under the application area, then you will have a list of applications where you will then to go to their respectiveevent setting. Once you've arrived, you will finally see a little slot that has a play button to test the sound along with a button that will replace the default sounds with whatever you desire and have it saved at. This is a convoluted way of changing the sounds but I digress. I did a quick test run of certain applications I know from using them on Mint and will give a quick rundown. >FileZilla was able to transfer content from my other devices <I was unable to test Retroarch and it's ability to play games, especially N64. Attempting to download cores result in crashes. I would imagine it wouldn't have too much difficulty in running those games like Super Mario 64, but it is speculation until I can find a way of getting it to work <PPSSPP cannot be downloaded to play PSP games >Angelfish is OK as a internet browser but I used Firefox instead due to being able to install add-ons, at the price of the desktop window not showing everything >Deluge starts up fine. Haven't downloaded a torrent yet but I'm sure there won't be problems getting them working >Freetube was able to play a 720p video okay <VirtualBox can't be installed. DOSBox-X claims to have more features than vanilla DOSBox such as being able to run software for 3.x, 9x, and ME. I managed to get Win3.11 working with vanilla DOSBox before, so it would be a welcome surprise if I'm able to install Win2000, Win98, or Win95 and they don't hog up the phone's performance. I would even be more surprised if 3d games worked but I'm not holding my breath. The USB-C adapter included with the package has two USB ports, one USB-C port, one modem cable port, and a HDMI port. I hooked the device up to a HD TV and was bestowed at how much more room there was in navigating the UI. While I could see more that the phone screen couldn't without having to fight with the touchscreen, there may be some slowdowns because I watched that same video on Freetube and it was skipping a lot of frames even with 144p quality set. Do yourself a favor and get your favorite mouse and keyboard plugged in to the adapter if you want to have an easier time with exploring the PinePhone's nook and crannies. Before even commiting to buying the phone, you should double check that your carrier's network bands work with the unit. https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Carrier_Support It is strange to say with my carrier being T-Mobile, the wiki claims that it is the best choice for band support on the PinePhone in the US, but I wasn't able to get my calls to work because I got errors saying that the modem was busy. If one looked at the chart of carrier support, it is even stranger to see that everything sans MMS seems to work fine. I did not, to my knowledge, grab the Plasma Dev version of Manjaro, but it certainly makes sense why Ubuntu Touch wasn't able to make and recieve calls, they're listed as buggy. I will eventually try Arch Linux Arm and see how that fares with the calls and general feel of using it. Mobian is listed as working which is strange as my experience with it differed, but I'll give it another chance. On a semi-related note, changing the language worked, but some programs don't pick up on that so you may have to go to the program's settings and manually change it if it doesn't automatically pick it up. I stand by what I say in that it isn't too bad for a non-mainstream phone, but you may need to exercise some patience in working with the OSs and handle the learning curve if you're used to working with mainstream phones.
Does anyone know how to change the UI font in Edge to Comic Sans? I want it to look more like what it is: babbies first find-and-replace rebranding of a web browser.
>>4425 No shame in dickslexya anon However, it does appear that Edge is even more retarded than I thought and that the default font settings are not applied to 99.9999% of webpages because their CSS gets a font online. Really shouldn't be surprised at MS retardation but they got me this time.
>>4430 theres probably a setting to disable custom fonts like in firefox with browser.display.use_document_fonts=0 and knowing microcuck it probably still has mozilla stamped somewhere in settings
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Generally when it comes to piracy, i feel that repack sites that host the files on file sharing sites like mega.nz are safe to download with tor or a proxy. Would i be correct in thinking this?
Does it get rid of the exif data if you copy paste your print screen into a new image? print screens don't have exif data right?
>>4441 Yes, unless your snipping program is terrible.
is there any imageboard viewer like clover or kurobadev that supports 8chan? ive been trying for some days with no results, and using the website is a pain in the ass. i just want to browse this place when im shitting
>>4447 Haven't found one myself. There's kuroba on f-droid, but that's 8kun cuck-compatible
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>>4449 I hate how on multiple apps they claim to work with 8chan, and don't even have an option to add the site
Before my family switched internet i downloaded a game on my bittorrent on the old router, and now i get a message from my new ISP to delete the game. Did they scan my computer, or was having bittorent open and the uploading/seeding what gave me away?
>>4451 Public torrents have bots from copyright companies that constantly scan the IP list of people downloading/seeding them. Those bots send emails to the ISP's of the IP lists they scan and bitch to them that one of their customers are pirating copyright content. That is likely what happened.
>>4453 The bittorrent client i'm using is Deluge, and it has a proxy plugin, but i guess that don't make much a difference?
>>4459 I'm not sure how using the built in proxy systems work. I just use VPN's for that kind of thing.
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When i use those torrent ip check sites, they just give me a torrent and then the torrent stays on the torrent client without any action, and the ip site never updates with my information. I'm trying to see what ip my torrent client leaks. I don't suppose you have a more reliable way to check if your torrent client is leaking your IP? Picture not related.
>>4463 Do you mean with the proxy settings? Unless there's a "force proxy" or "anonymous" mode you might still be leaking your own IP (like maybe it starts up, starts connections, and THEN applies proxy settings which would leak your IP for those few moments). That'd be more of a your torrent client problem than anything else. You could also just VPN your entire connection and avoid that problem.
>>4459 >>4463 There was a site called am i leaking or something which would show any torrents associated with your ip address, deluge didn't do anything to prevent that, so I ran my vpn app instead and nothing since.
>>4476 iknowwhatyoudownload.com
>>4289 >adapters to other protocols don't exist Unless they got an Arduino on it.
I lost my phone like an idiot, It raining hard, was tired and I was in a hurry to leave. The next day woke up I looked everywhere around the home and I asked if my co-worker found my phone. so I had to pay for a new phone with using the same number as my old phone, I didn't know what to do, I checked the house and everything. Should I be worried about my old phone? The sells person said I should feel worried.
>>4514 There's nothing to worry about if you had a PIN password on it, do report the IMEI number so even if the thief does manage to factory reset it it won't be more than a glorified DAP, no pawnshop buys IMEI blocked phones so he won't be able to sell it.
>>4514 Pretty much this: >>4516 It'll end up being sold for $10 "for parts" on craigslist
What's a good adhessive item that will keep a battery from falling off? I'm putting an iPod back together with a new battery but the old adhessive won't fit the shape of the new battery.
>>4569 Ideally more of the same type of phone repair adhesive tape so it doesn't cuck heat management and also won't be strong enough tear open the lithium if its the soft type of battery.
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>>4570 I don't think it's too soft but I'm not sure, I haven't handled these kinds of batteries, let alone putting new sticky adhesive to keep it from falling inside the iPod.
>>2676 Only sort of related and it's already old news. But since /t/ hasn't spoken about this yet, Moonchild has completely dropped support for Firefox extensions starting with v29.2 (now only extensions directly targeting Pale Moon are supported): >>4575
>>4576 How the .. well it was never mighty but it was ok.. have fallen. Shame.
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>>4570 Wouldn't B-6000 glue do a better job of keeping the battery in place once the item gets reassembled?
>>4453 How do the VPN companies deal with these bots sending emails to the ISP? Don't they get emails from their ISPs also?
>>4612 Letters aren't lawsuits. I can send you a letter saying how I'm gonna sue you into the stone age but that's not a lawsuit. They just get ignored or get a boilerplate reply: yadda yadda no logs yadda yadda not liable, etc. etc.
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Is there any way by which one could directly download images to a sandboxed folder/Dropbox/whatever, then post them here directly, i.e., without having to risk downloading steganographic images to my system? Alternatively, is there a way to check downloaded images for hidden data? I don't want to give up reaction images and whatnot, since that would, to some extent, defeat the purpose of posting on an imageboard, but I'm worried about the possibility of hidden payloads getting through my antivirus.
>>4656 I mean in theory, aren't you downloading them anyway when you are served the full image? Your web browser would load them into temporary memory. Anyway, you could always wget them via ssh onto a virtual machine, vps, whatever; and then figure out how x11 forwarding would work to view your image gallery/post from that computer's browser (since this site requires a bypass captcha to post, it might be tricky in links/lynx). If you want to be fancy you can probably sort your grabbed images into a local booru that only you could access from a browser, to browse your collection better. But what do I know, maybe someone else can come up with something better.
>>4656 That's some next level paranoia anon. I'd just set up a crypto'd harddrive and make up a password knowing I'd lose everything the next time I reinstalled my OS. Although now I'm wondering if there's steg checkers in github or something.
>>4677 There probably is a way to check how much entropy is in a file, effective encryption would have high amounts.
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What's a good alternative to Visipics? For some reason, lately, the programs has been crashing on me when scanning folders with more than 50k images. And, changing the in-program settings isn't solving the issue.
>>4679 irfanview?
Thanks for the help, anons; I appreciate it. >>4664 >I mean in theory, aren't you downloading them anyway when you are served the full image? Your web browser would load them into temporary memory. That's what I feared. I'm still learning the ins and outs of how this stuff works. >you can probably sort your grabbed images into a local booru that only you could access from a browser, to browse your collection better. That's actually a pretty cool idea. That way, nothing gets saved locally, right? But I assume I'd have to set up a private server or something to actually do that, at least if I want it to be secure. I lack the knowhow on that front atm. >>4677 >That's some next level paranoia anon. It's probably overkill, but I'm always worried about glowniggers possibly distributing malicious and/or blackmail shit through imageboards and whatnot. >Although now I'm wondering if there's steg checkers in github or something. Actually, I found a couple. Not sure if we're supposed to archive github links or not, so my apologies in advance if we are: https://stylesuxx.github.io/steganography/ https://github.com/rajan98/StegoSuit Thoughts? >>4678 >There probably is a way to check how much entropy is in a file, effective encryption would have high amounts. Because said file would have to have gone through multiple layers of compression, or something? But wouldn't that affect the visible quality of the image? Still trying to learn more about stuff like this, sorry if I'm being retarded.
>>4689 At best, a solution to your problem would be using some kind of remote viewing program like teamviewer or steam play to control a vm or other device. Only visual data would be sent to you, and only input data would be sent there. From that point, it would just be a matter of hardening the OS, and doing the best you can at the router level or host machine to prevent any fuckery on your LAN. >I assume I'd have to set up a private server or something to actually do that, at least if I want it to be secure. I lack the knowhow on that front atm. https://landchad.net/ here's a resource for starters, bookmark it as it might get new content. Looking through for a basic idea is worthwhile. >But wouldn't that affect the visible quality of the image? Depends, I've seen one image that had text and a screenshot of how to 3d print a gun, and the lower half was noise which contained the file information when you rename it to a .zip file. In another instance, it was a font file as an image which you'd rename to another format, but it didnt have any visible noise. Steganography can be practically imperceptible, lainchan's /layer/ board has a russian community that communicates in this way using what appears like normal anime images. While writing all this, I remembered that you could probably make a proxy server to take every image, corrupt it very slightly by scrambling maybe 5% of its file data, and serve the new image; however https prevents this.
>>4690 >At best, a solution to your problem would be using some kind of remote viewing program like teamviewer or steam play to control a vm or other device. Only visual data would be sent to you, and only input data would be sent there. So basically, use a kind of middleman to isolate any possible threats? And I assume it would be best to keep any saved images/other files on said guest system? >From that point, it would just be a matter of hardening the OS, and doing the best you can at the router level or host machine to prevent any fuckery on your LAN. To avoid any issues with the host OS being compromised by malicious files in the guest? >bookmark it as it might get new content. Looking through for a basic idea is worthwhile. This looks like a great start. Thanks for the link, anon. >The next paragraph That level of stealth is mind-boggling to me. It's both incredibly cool and incredibly worrying that one can do stuff like that relatively easily. I was trying to think of reasons why it isn't a more-common technique in encoded communications and malware, and what I came up with was: <Steganographic techniques probably wouldn't allow an attacker to run hidden script without first compromising a user's system in other ways, making it very inefficient and hard to co-ordinate But this could theoretically be useful as a means of exploiting an already-existent backdoor, couldn't it? <For efficient secure communications, encryption is still far-more reliable than steganographic obfuscation due to the greater amount of data able to be sent without making it obvious that something weird is going on But if this is so, then it makes me wonder why /layer/ does things this way: is it just practice? A meme? The "cool" factor? Or are their messages just very, very short/lightweight? Then again, I recall reading somewhere that it was possible to embed the complete works of Shakespeare into a pixel's worth, or something, so maybe the method isn't nearly as limited as I think it is? >I remembered that you could probably make a proxy server to take every image, corrupt it very slightly by scrambling maybe 5% of its file data, and serve the new image That's actually pretty ingenious. I assume this works because whatever payload may or may not be embedded in the image would be destroyed beyond recognition by the corruption process? >however https prevents this. What is it about https specifically that does so?
>>4691 >first chunk yes, and yes not just files, a vm gives a virtual network adaptor which might give access to the rest of your network, or your host machine. I doubt it can reroute traffic to the vm, but it could try accessing network drives or some other nonsense. >second chunk I'm sure /layer/ does it for fun, otherwise just using normal encrypted text would be enough. And yes, the type of worry you have about payloaded images is similar to stuxnet. >third chunk https was created precisely to prevent these sort of man in the middle attacks, you actually can have the proxy server handle it for you but the TLS certificate would appear invalid on the client side, and every site you visit would end up saying there is a certificate mismatch and security could become compromised in case of an actual MITM attack. I'm sure you could sign your own certificates, but then you would place far too much trust in your proxy server. I'd like to say I'm not an expert in any of this, and encourage you to look into standards and documentation yourself to learn more about them. As a normal user, you likely aren't part of an attack surface, and if you are, millions of other people are as well.
I'd like to add simply using linux or BSD and preferring FOSS software and hardware would prevent a majority of attacks, as long as you manage users properly and learn about privilege escalation.
>>4679 >Duplicate image finder program Winmerge? I don't think it can display thumbnails, but if all you want is to find identical files, it will do the job.
>>4708 It does, I've been using it to double-check Hydrus files when I disabled the media viewer and unwittingly made the dupe filter screen not work.
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Does anyone know the name of the new Chinese search engine that does it's own indexing?
>>4692 Thanks for the reply, anon; it clears a number of things up for me. Sorry in advance for the wall of text. >not just files, a vm gives a virtual network adaptor which might give access to the rest of your network, or your host machine. So would I be correct in assuming that most forms of VM-related attacks target the host system via an insecure network setup between the host and the guest? In other words, the attacker uses the vulnerabilities in the virtualized adapter to get their payload from the host to the guest? >And yes, the type of worry you have about payloaded images is similar to stuxnet. How so? All I can find on it is that it was distributed via USB, and that after searching infected computers for specific hardware and software, it then went about damaging said hardware/equipment whilst obfuscating said damage from the controller. Are you referring to the backdoor issue? >every site you visit would end up saying there is a certificate mismatch and security could become compromised in case of an actual MITM attack. Because there's no way to tell what's actually a "legitimate" mismatch versus a false positive? And I assume attackers could then take advantage of this confusion somehow, assuming you can still access sites which warn of a mismatch? >I'd like to say I'm not an expert in any of this, and encourage you to look into standards and documentation yourself to learn more about them. Hey, no worries. Security is what I'm trying to get into, so it's good to know my questions so far aren't completely retarded lol. Thanks again for giving me something to go on. >As a normal user, you likely aren't part of an attack surface, and if you are, millions of other people are as well. Good point; now that I think of it, I don't think methods like what we're discussing have really been used for purposes like ransomware attacks or botnets or whatnot, have they? Makes me wonder what kinds of things these sorts of files could be used for, except for the obvious like blackmail and whatnot. Come to think of it, blackmail and ransomware would make a pretty fucked-up combination. >>4693 >I'd like to add simply using linux or BSD and preferring FOSS software and hardware would prevent a majority of attacks, as long as you manage users properly and learn about privilege escalation. Yeah, had to come crawling back to the OS that shall not be named awhile back after fucking up my dual-boot config. It worked excellently for quite awhile, but I started noticing serious issues over time, like not being able to access the Disk Manager lol. If it weren't for a couple of crucial programs that may not run well through WINE, I'd have made the switch in the other direction. Hoping to try again sometime, this time by having each OS on a separate drive in hopes of not destroying the Disk Manager on one or both of them lol.
>>4742 I would recommend against that, since malware in windows could theoretically modify your grub bootloader, update your bios/uefi firmware, or just start overwriting your linux drive. I recommended it to another anon months ago, getting a $100 thinkcentre on amazon or whatever old thinkpad you like on ebay/thrift stores is probably a good way to get into linux. If you have more disposable income you can look into more recent hardware so learning about VMs doesnt use half your system resources, but VMs and pci passthrough and wine are some of the hardest parts of linux. I still use windows on my main pc but only because I have a hodgepodge of differently sized hdds that I'm working on backing up.
>>4742 >>4745 I forgot about the rest of your post while typing that part out >most VM attacks target the host network setup It's just something I assume is possible, especially if you're a novice focusing on making something justwerk by allowing all traffic. If you aren't actively downloading malware, you should be fine. Most VM breakouts I've actually seen try to access memory addresses allocated to the host machine, and even then they mostly target datacenters. >how is stuxnet related Mostly the method of transmission, I remember iphones and android phones would crash from specific images and videos being sent, before it gets patched out. >no way to tell whats a legitimate mismatch? It's possible, but again that proxy machine would probably be more of a liability than its worth. You'd basically have to make it automatically a. see if a certificate is legitimate b. sign it with its own certificate c. fix every device you want to use on that network to accept the certificate mismatch by trusting your proxy server d. send it back to the proxy server, which unpackages it and repackages it with the original certificate so whatever site you tried going to doesn't bitch And all of that makes a vulnerability if that proxy server is ever hit, since you probably wouldn't know about it.
Is there any way to get 4chanx or 8chanx working here? I just want a good thread watcher and for 8chan to automatically bring me to my last viewed message in a thread. I added *://8chan.moe/* as a user match for 4chanx and the deprecated 8chanx, but it didn't do anything.
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I've been trying to figure out the basics of bash scripting by batch converting a Bluray rip of Girls' Last Tour to CIF .3gp files with h263 for my Nokia 3310 3G. I was able to figure out the optimum encoding settings with ffmpeg to get videos working on the phone and I sort of understand the basics of bash scripting, but I just can't figure out the proper substitution for the bit where ffmpeg is instructed to burn the subtitles in with a filter. As a temporary measure for testing, I have a copy of the first episode located in: "/home/[user]/Downloads/[NH] Girls' Last Tour (BD 1080p HEVC 10-bit FLAC) [Dual-Audio]/test-ep01/" My script: for fullfile in *.mkv; do ffmpeg -i "$fullfile" -ss 00:00:00.000 -to 00:03:30.000 -map 0:s:1 -an -vn -c:s copy -map_metadata -1 -f ass -y "${fullfile%.*}.ass" && \ ffmpeg -i "$fullfile" -ss 00:00:00.000 -to 00:03:30.000 -map 0:v -map 0:a:1 -sn -c:a aac -ac 2 -ar 44.1k -b:a 96k -c:v h263 -vf "ass=${fullfile%.*}.ass:force_style'PlayResX=1024,PlayResY=576'",scale=352:198:flags=bicubic,pad=352:288:0:45 -maxrate 512k -b:v 320k -bufsize 384k -g 8 -r 14.985000 -map_metadata -1 -f 3gp -y "${fullfile%.*}.3gp" done I figured out a compromise with: for fullfile in *.mkv; do ffmpeg -i "$fullfile" -ss 00:00:00.000 -to 00:03:30.000 -map 0:s:1 -an -vn -c:s copy -map_metadata -1 -f ass -y "workingsub.ass" && \ ffmpeg -i "$fullfile" -ss 00:00:00.000 -to 00:03:30.000 -map 0:v -map 0:a:1 -sn -c:a aac -ac 2 -ar 44.1k -b:a 96k -c:v h263 -vf "ass=workingsub.ass:force_style'PlayResX=1024,PlayResY=576'",scale=352:198:flags=bicubic,pad=352:288:0:45 -maxrate 512k -b:v 320k -bufsize 384k -g 8 -r 14.985000 -map_metadata -1 -f 3gp -y "${fullfile%.*}.3gp" done -where the first process outputs a file called "workingsub.ass" which is then used for the filter. My problem is that it's not very elegant because it would just overwrite the same .ass file over and over again for all twelve episodes, whereas I want individual .ass files for each episode to be used for the filter. What am I doing wrong, and what's the proper substition for the filter?
>>4761 I just noticed that I forgot the = in force_style='PlayResX=1024,PlayResY=576' and it needs to be "subtitle" instead of "ass", but whatever. I've been dicking around with this for a couple of days.
Just did a fresh install of Win10 and there're times when I alt+tab back into chrome and none of my keys work. I can't ctrl+t/ctrl+w even alt+f4 doesn't work. It fixes itself after alt tabbing again, pressing the start button or left clicking on the window. Anyone knows why this is happening? I tried disabling extensions and it still happens.
>>4764 >Windows >Chrome >No sense of shame Jesus Christ what happened to this site?
>>4765 rip 8chan
>>4765 You're expecting people on futaba imageboards to use anything other than windows 10 and google chrome. I'm so sorry. The public internet is no longer for your.... type.... uu.
>>4745 >I would recommend against that, since malware in windows could theoretically modify your grub bootloader, update your bios/uefi firmware, or just start overwriting your linux drive. Huh. I guess I just assumed that, if a given OS couldn't normally access the other OS' drive, it was effectively sandboxed from it. Doesn't surprise me that people have found a way to do this, though. >getting a $100 thinkcentre on amazon or whatever old thinkpad you like on ebay/thrift stores is probably a good way to get into linux. I've thought about doing that, actually, but I'm not sure if I can do it just yet; I'm studying somewhere soon that requires me to have a laptop, but they specify Windows 10 for whatever retarded reason. Still, nothing saying I can't get a refurbished ThinkPad, then install Pop or Debian or whatnot on it after I complete my studies there. >but VMs and pci passthrough and wine are some of the hardest parts of linux. How so? Is the troubleshooting especially hard to pin down? >>4746 >If you aren't actively downloading malware, you should be fine. Most VM breakouts I've actually seen try to access memory addresses allocated to the host machine, and even then they mostly target datacenters. Fair enough. I guess that makes sense, considering how regularly large enterprise IT departments would use VMs. >Last paragraph Yeah, when you put it that way, it's actually a massive backdoor waiting to happen. I was actually looking into self-signed certificates the other day, so this helps me to understand why they're not the best idea lol. Thanks again, anon.
>>4825 >How so? Is the troubleshooting especially hard to pin down? Not just troubleshooting but even seeing if someone else manages to make something work. Native software should normally work, but software designed for windows does not normally work (on linux). As for VMs, the problems usually multiply when gpus are involved, since even normal programs prefer nvidia over amd, except nvidia doesn't like VM passthrough very much except on their quatros and such. You end up running what is essentially unsupported hardware either way, and have to file very technical bug reports just for developers to acknowledge their implementation can be improved, or shift the blame on using an unsupported hardware/software setup if its proprietary software.
Ok, so I need a vpn, I was looking at this page, is protonvpn any good? https://www.privacytools.io/providers/vpn/ Uses: besides from torrenting nothing illegal, but considering my country's cucked laws saying niggers is illegal so.. I just want an extra layer of security and I don't trust my ISP
>>4832 I think proton's email was cucked, so I wouldn't trust their vpn. Mullvad is the best from what I've heard, and their service is resold to other middlemen like firefox vpn, which of course you shouldn't choose because its redundant, but shows how reliable it is.
>>4751 >I added *://8chan.moe/* as a user match for 4chanx I tried this as well and nothing happened as well. The FireMonkey icon changed to indicate the script was matching and running on 8chan.moe, but the site behaved the same.
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This is a complete shot in the dark so it would be a miracle if a working solution is found given the subject. Got LCARS24 to work on the PC version of DOSBox, but for some reason it keeps crashing on the Wii version of DOSBox. Wouldn't bother me as much if an article I read didn't say such a program can also work on the console. I followed everything to a T, downloaded an alternate file that had everything extracted and it still crashes. >Run Classic DOS Games On Your Wii With DOSbox https://archive.is/aTrrQ <Ryan showed you how to turn an old computer into a Star Trek clock with LCARS24. You can do the same thing with your Wii, if you want. Enjoy. >Turn An Old Computer Into A Star Trek Clock With LCARS 24 https://archive.is/Ulk4n On a more semi-related note, FreeDOS was successfully installed on DOSBox Wii but it gives me the same DOSBox prompt. I don't know if some configs need to be changed to have it work or not.
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I am starting a computer science program at university this fall, and was wondering if I should switch to Gentoo Linux. I am not concerned with speed as much as I am stability. I am also not planning to do any ricing. If I were to use Gentoo, should I use OpenRC or SystemD? It probably doesn't matter anyway. I am also unsure of which desktop environment to use. Slackware supports KDE and XCFE. I used XCFE for a few days and didn't like it very much so I have been using KDE since. It has really grown on me and I enjoy using it very much. Since Gentoo supports Gnome, should I give that a try as well? Other distributions I thought of switching to are GNU Guix and OpenBSD. Let me know what you think. As of right now, I only use this bad boy for emacs/gcc and watching futanari. My sister is already in a computer science program and told me to use Windows 10, but I don't trust her.
>>4857 >stability >the distro where you get shipped releases with no testing besides what upstream devs do and can still run into trouble thanks to your compiler settings Gentoo could be good for practice, but linux from scratch or slackware is better if you want to learn linux more, or use a more stable distro like rocky linux or debian if you want a production machine that wont break so often and has LTS (long term support) releases for even less interruption. I'll admit I haven't read up on slackware so I can't tell if it might be stable but still high effort. I did try openbsd once for a server but couldnt be assed post-install to learn firewalling at that time, it was easier than gentoo or arch to get going. If you go with stable distros I'd recommend KDE as the desktop environment, it provides the most comprehensive set of justwerks on most distros, and is still one of the nicest ones regardless as long as your specs aren't terribly low. If you're making a spicy laptop then try tiling window managers for their simplicity and efficiency, the arch linux wiki should be a good introduction. dwm is what I see shilled most often for gentoo users since they compile it anyway. Use openrc for gentoo and avoid systemd if possible, but if you're using a system meant for stability don't try to slice in something else, and in reality its a mostly an ideological choice not to. Also keep in mind the biggest difference between distros is usually just their package manager and the balance of stability vs speed for releases. Distro hopping doesn't really accomplish much since its all just addon software in various stages of functional. Rolling release distros do have the advantage of not needing a reinstall every so often, but you do likely have to manually fix things instead, which is what versioned release distros would require anyway but at a fixed schedule. If you only have a single computer its better for it to work for what you need it for, at the end of the day its only a tool. Use virtual machines since your specs might have the resources, or grab a thinkpad or $100 thinkcentre if you want to try experimentation. Maybe even just another hdd/ssd to swap in for testing would do as long as you don't accidently zap it from static electricity. https://archive.vn/ZXbat https://archive.vn/jzfxq Some extra reading if you want some extra spicy operating systems. And don't use gnome. tl;dr use rocky linux or debian if you want a more stable system, or gentoo/anything in those links for a spicier one with higher maintenance. Dunno where slackware is since I haven't used it, probably somewhere in the middle. CLIP OS or Qubes OS might be worth looking into if you want a heavily secured distro, the latter has a code of conduct so its ideologically a bad choice. The former is made by the french government for security, and v5 is open source. https://clip-os.org/en/ Look into hardening and best practices for security in general as well if you haven't already.
>>4857 I would definitely not recommend gentoo for that, if you're going to have to install any software on the fly you'll be fucked because you'll be waiting on everything to compile, which somethings can take fucking days if you have say, a quad core cpu, and if you have to end up installing Rust or the Qt framework you'll be there until OOM-killer stops the compile Gentoo is for when you don't plan on changing anything for a while and you have enough time to kill with configuring your kernel and tuning USE flags.
>>4862 >if you end up installing rust you have to iirc, the base install of gentoo has it as a dependancy
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>>4861 >more stable distro like rocky linux or debian if you want a production machine that wont break so often Oh. I didn't know debian was known for stability, I will check it out. I have never used an arch or debian-based distribution, but it can't be that hard to learn, right? Rocky linux does look interesting, although their list of sponsors seems kind of... corporate, I guess. >I did try openbsd once for a server but couldnt be assed post-install to learn firewalling at that time The only reason I was even thinking about OpenBSD was solely because of security, but seeing that CLIP OS and Qubes OS are probably more secure kind of disregards that. I do worry about NSA surveillance, which is one reason why I ever started to use linux in the first place. It seems as though it comes to a point where I am unable to do anything about it anyway, so I guess I have given up on that a bit. At least I don't worry about that type of thing as much as I used to. Good shit, though. >Also keep in mind the biggest difference between distros is usually just their package manager and the balance of stability vs speed for releases. Good to know, I had not thought about it that way before. >If you only have a single computer its better for it to work for what you need it for, at the end of the day its only a tool. That shouldn't be too much of a problem, I have two desktops and two laptops. I usually use my Thinkpad as my main because I like it's size and keyboard, and we had to have a laptop for high school anyway. As of right now, all of my machine have Slackware on them. >Use virtual machines since your specs might have the resources Funny that you mention virtual machines. One of the main reasons I will probably end up using Debian is that my university requires we use Windows 10 (For what programs? I have no idea, they never mentioned any.), so I will have to run that in a virtual machine if it turns out I need it.Having a nice, stable distribution seems like it would be nice for that kind of thing. Although, I could be wrong. Maybe it won't make any difference. >Some extra reading if you want some extra spicy operating systems. Alright thanks I'll check these out too. Thanks for all the help, Debian sounds like something I would really like. I will give it a try. >> 4862 >Gentoo is for when you don't plan on changing anything for a while and you have enough time to kill with configuring your kernel and tuning USE flags. Okay lol I'll pass Gentoo up then. One of my initial worries about Gentoo was that everyone would think I'm a ricer from cuckchan or something. But I probably shouldn't care what anyone else thinks anyway. Thanks for the help and take care.
>>4857 >I used XCFE for a few days and didn't like it very much You can configure it so that it works more to your liking. I also hated it at first, but I was forced to keep using it because for some reason I couldn't configure video acceleration in my VMs and it's the only DE lightweight enough not to work like complete ass in those circumstances, so I was forced to research how to make it into a more usable UX. >>4864 >I didn't know debian was known for stability, I will check it out There's a few resident debianfags so if you need help ask. It's not perfect and it has downsides which can suck sometimes, but overall I haven't had any huge issues with it which makes me happy. >Funny that you mention virtual machines. One of the main reasons I will probably end up using Debian is that my university requires we use Windows 10 Yeah, I wouldn't be so hopeful about that. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I could never enable video acceleration on the VMs so anything heavier than XFCE will run like ass. Bullseye is right around the corner and I'm hoping the new drivers and QEMU/KVM and other packages will sort this out. Having said that to be honest I never really had a good enough reason to tinker with it a lot, specially on windows VMs which I don't use too much, so I guess I could have done more to try to fix it. If you can manage to make it work shout back.
>>4857 You're honestly better off going with Ubuntu or something more retard friendly. Once you're more familiar with it on a lower level then maybe try out gentoo. >My sister is already in a computer science program and told me to use Windows 10, but I don't trust her. You should never trust a women, especially when it comes to tech
So lets say that i make a thread on an imageboard using a proxy, then i make a post using Tor and it gets traced to the proxy, wouldn't it just be that one Tor ip that gets associated with the proxy?
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>>4894 Not sure what you're talking about anon. The imageboard site would only see where you came from. If you came from tor, then it sees the tor exit node ip. If you came from some swedish vpn, it sees the swedish vpn ip. Or do you mean if you can be tracked between? Yes, but you either pissed off ransomware russians or mossad in which case you'd be fucked no matter what.
>>4896 I'll try to make myself clear. My question is if a Tor ip is associated with a proxy (like if i reply as the OP in the thread i made with the proxy, and i reply as the OP with Tor, then my Tor post would be associated with the proxy). Now, wouldn't it only be associated with one Tor ip? If that wasn't clear enough then let me try another example. If i post on twitter using Tor, that twitter account is associated with those Tor ip, but only those ip, right? because every Tor post would be a new ip, right? This is just hypothetical, i wouldn't actually use Tor to post on an account.
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If I use Tor in combination with a vpn, does that give any extra added security? The only thing I really use it for is with a BitTorrent client.
>>4902 >security What security does tor provide? If you mean privacy, then sure, your isp won't see you using tor, and your cloud provider won't know all your traffic.
I'm not familiar with how either would work with each other, however. Getting your vpn at the router-level will probably be the easy way if there's any trouble.
>>4863 as far as I'm aware it is not a requirement unless you have some icon image library used by gnome, there is nothing in a base gentoo installation that would otherwise require it
>>3 is there any addons like 4chanX but for 8chanDOTmoe
>>4907 Aren't most of the features already available?
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I want to Linux but I can't give up my Windows exclusive games, Windows level FPS, and NVidia drivers. What do?
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>>4956 2nd PC and input switching your monitor with a KVM? I did that for a while
>>4957 Not a bad suggestion. moar
I remember once seeing some people shilling some Youtube alternative that is somewhat like NewPipe but for Desktop. I at first assumed it was a dumb novelty since it gives up the fact that youtube is just another tab on the browser rather than it's own applicaiton. Yet now I feel I want something quite like it but not exactly. Is there such an application that lets me aggregate Youtube/Odysee/Rumble videos on a single client that also features a "Subscribed tab"? I feel that the Youtube alternatives would actually start to be used if there was an easy way to view your feed of all of them at once in a single place.
>>4968 >I remember once seeing some people shilling some Youtube alternative that is somewhat like NewPipe but for Desktop. Are you talking about FreeTube? I remember using it awhile back, and it was alright. The issue was that it still relied on Invidious, so whenever that shat the bed, so did FreeTube. Still handy, though. > Is there such an application that lets me aggregate Youtube/Odysee/Rumble videos on a single client that also features a "Subscribed tab" That's actually a pretty great idea. Hopefully somebody takes up the reins. >>4826 Sorry for taking so long to reply, anon; thanks again for the help. >even normal programs prefer nvidia over amd I've heard anons mention this before, but why is that? There has to be some reason for this convention. Is it just corporate favoritism, or is there an actual legitimate reason? >except nvidia doesn't like VM passthrough very much except on their quatros and such. Is it due to their structure being somehow different from other GPUs? It seems like the only way they allow it at all is through their shitty GeForce service, so is this yet more proprietary garbage rearing its ugly head? And if so, why are they so averse to it? Are they just lazy? >You end up running what is essentially unsupported hardware either way, and have to file very technical bug reports just for developers to acknowledge their implementation can be improved, or shift the blame on using an unsupported hardware/software setup if its proprietary software. Part of me would enjoy the learning experience, but the other part would feel like ramming my head through the wall. It seems like a lack of coherent customer support infrastructure for Linux systems is a primary cause for why it has yet to overtake Windows, which is a damn shame, since it's so demonstrably superior in every other respect. I absolutely adore it for the fact that it actually tends to give a shit about user privacy, but I may just have to wait until I can afford a ThinkPad. >>4835 >I think proton's email was cucked Wait, what the fuck? Is this about the Huawei fiasco sometime ago? I didn't think that had ended up compromising user data, though now, in retrospect, I suppose I was naive. That said, what's a better alternative? >Mullvad is the best from what I've heard Mullvad is fucking fantastic. Very pro-anonymity, and their connections are usually extremely stable at least on Windows. Their customer service is excellent, too; they respond pretty much asap to any emails you send their way, and they're more than happy to assist you over several days or weeks if necessary. On a related note, what are anons' examples of the most paranoid, ridiculously-thorough hardening one can possibly think of? I'm talking Albanian pill bottles in computer form. I have a feeling that studying that kind of approach would be quite interesting, and case studies are always handy.
>>4975 >Is it just corporate favoritism, or is there an actual legitimate reason? The former, with things like physx, and engine favoritism just for being more popular and until recently higher spec I'd assume. >Is it due to their structure being somehow different from other GPUs? Nope, people have fixed it several times, only to have it mysteriously patched out in subsequent updates. Its purely a software issue. >Is this about the Huawei fiasco sometime ago? I never looked into why, I just remember it as a footnote of events that happened about a year ago. Maybe someone's data was handed over to police, and I don't mean from a compromised device, I mean protonmail probably handed it over. I didn't, and still don't, care enough to look into it though. >What's a better alternative? Self-hosting? If a cloud service accepts monero you can probably have half a hope they believe in privacy. Hosting it at home is also doable but downtime means missed emails. For about $5/mo you can probably also fit a site and whatever other small services you might want. >What are anons' examples of the most paranoid, ridiculously-thorough hardening one can possibly think of? Probably hardened gentoo or openbsd, with a private team looking through all the commit changes between updates on software you use. Running a browser that only supports basic html, with a two-port arm pc that filters your ethernet through a vpn, maybe a second one for tor. Probably disable all the usb ports on the device as well, and frying the IME segment of the cpu or disabling/removing the amd equivalent on the motherboard. Also installing fonts and designing your hardware/room to prevent TEMPEST attacks, where your display can be picked up by a remote receiver from RF emissions. QubesOS and CLIP OS are also probably worth looking at for their design structure as well. Beyond that, you could try the same techniques once risc-v comes out, and hope someone eventually makes a cpu that isn't 90% proprietary with only the most basic 10% being the open source instruction set.
Any keyboard that is completely quiet? I'm going to have a roommate next month. Right now I have an HP KU-0841 that I bought for $3 at Salvation Army and that thing is really fucking loud.
>>5001 Maybe a used mac keyboard, since they're like laptop keyboards with the mushy silicone and shorter actuation distance. Otherwise probably some non-conventional types like a conductive surface, if they exist. Maybe whatever cherry mx key color is as silent as possible if you use amazon and dont mind returning it if its still noisy.
>>5002 Alright I will check out the mac keyboard, thanks for the help.
I've been trying to dual boot Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 on two separate ssd's. I don't like 10 but there's some pc games that need support of Directx 12 Everything went well until Win10 decided to be a bitch with my wifi adapter can't use Ethernet because my modem is in the basement with the phone line I originally thought it was that my main ssd (the win 8.1 one) was messing with the ssd with windows 10 on it. So, I made sure neither of them were indexing or finding one another and I reinstalled win10 a couple more times. But for some reason the wifi connection keeps dropping. I know it isn't a problem with my modem or my wifi adapter, the ssd with windows 8.1 flashed on it works perfectly fine. I think there's something going on with the IP address or something, the version of windows 10 I'm using is the most up to date one. When I head for the BIOs setting and click the windows10 ssd, it starts out normally but 30 seconds later while browsing the web the internet dies (adapter disconnects) forcing windows to restart the wifi adapter. This keeps repeating over and over again. Searching around I've done the following bellow with no success >Resetting the wifi adapter and unistalling and reinstalling the drivers >Changing Power Management settings of the wifi adapter and disabling Ethernet >Changing the wireless mode from 802.11g/n to 802.11g and then finally 802.11 >turning off/on Windows firewall >Windows 10 TCP/IP Reset (netsh int ip rese), went so far to even troubleshoot the process when it kept giving me "access denied". >All the following comands below <netsh winsock reset <netsh int ip reset <ipconfig /release <ipconfig /renew <ipconfig /flushdns The wifi adapter in question is a Rosewill RNX-N250UBE with realtek RTL8192CU drivers. I also run the following below... >i7-4790k >32gb of ddr3 ram >GTX 1080 >Asus Z97-A Motherboard. I've already spent a good eight hours trying to troubleshoot.
>>5011 Well if its an ip address issue, have you tried clearing your dhcp records or something on your router? Or perhaps assigning a fixed ip address on both systems, one a number higher than the other?
It's also possibly your router being fucky with the wifi dongle's mac address, or perhaps some kind of whitelisting you might have done on the router.
>>5013 I know it isn't the router because of all the devices I have connected to it only the win10 drive is giving me trouble. Do you have a guide to clear the dhcp records or how to assign a fixed ip? >>5014 I wouldn't know about any whitelisting though its probably related to the wifi adapter. >the default gateway is not available", please help Forgot to mention this is the message I get when I run troubleshooter.
>>5015 >>5014 >>5011 Update, turns out it was the realtek drivers being a bitch.I had to manually install different ones.
Looking to ditch Linux Mint. I was debating between Kubuntu vs Void. Kubuntu >more software in Debian/Ubuntu repositories >more stable as it's not bleeding edge >more community support Void >packages are newer and less likely out of date >support is growing >no systemd (I'm aware of some of the pros/cons, but I'm not sure how that affects what I do specifically) Any other recommendations are welcome. I just want something with new-ish packages and relatively stable. I'm sick of Mint lagging on Ubuntu packages which already lags on Debian packages.
>>5023 KDE can be pretty heavy, and Ubuntu packages are often out of date, especially the KDE ones. You can also consider KDE Neon, which will then be further out of date for other packages but up to date with KDE. Void might be a bit too complex to jump into if you're coming from Mint, though. Have you considered something like Manjaro?
>>5023 Do you have a specific grievance against linux mint? At the end of the day its just different preconfigured OS software and various tradeoffs between stability or newer software. I believe Debian ships either an official or community KDE build, and as the other anon said Manjaro is a good start for bleeding edge to figure out how to fix your OS when updates go wrong.
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Throwing gentoo on a raspi to fuck around with. Does it matter what init system I use?
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>>5023 Ubuntus large software selection and gui package manager is great for those that use Desktop Environments. Void has a few packages behind on their latest updates. So, you have to compile things you want sometimes. I don't recommend Void because of that, but it's good at being small and crash-less. >>5029 Runit is rock solid, but here's a more involved comparison for you to assess what you want. wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems
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>>5035 Thank you, friend.
>>3 I would like to edit youtube's cookies in order to view mature content. I know that you can use other tools to do so, but an application I use specifically requires direct linking and cookies for it. What values should I edit?
>>5071 The best way is probably to figure out how to copy your login cookie from your web browser, since google is really anal about api keys to the point where you could get a captcha even from copying your cookie.
I'm curious if there has ever been an issue with cameras fingerprinting the images they produce in the pixels somehow. I know this is something that is done in some video games when you take a screenshot. WoW for example I believe fingerprints screenshots with some form of encrypted information that lets Blizzard know which account took the screenshot. So I'm curious if any cameras have been known to any secret fingerprinting.
>>5095 There is exif data, sure. Each camera also has its own unique color profiles for it's sensor, but they're pretty similar among brands and probably can only help pick out a brand or model at best. Metadata like resolution is probably more useful at it. You might be thinking of steganography, which is a thing, but likely not documented in any cameras. All of these can probably be circumvented by just scaling down the image to a random amount, adjusting colors as normal, and screenshotting the result.
>>5096 >You might be thinking of steganography Maybe, pic related is how it looks in WoW. These are pretty easy to identify watermarks though that only requires a few settings changes to notice. I was just curious about it as a potential attack vector, but I probably would have heard something about it by now if it was.
So, give me a break here. I'm trying to keep your web apps safe and all. But I only have a Google phone to use right now. How is the Lcryptobank going? I'm too busy building clouds and softwares and hacks. I'm on my Amazon military AWS cloud and it's security is great I think. n,n Where or who can let me use a team viewer app like rdp or something to use for webtop production? /: Steganography isn't something I've used yet... But I was obsing hacks with my own custom platforms before...
>>5098 As the god of the internet, I grant you permission to use teamviewer for TopWeb production. Now fuck off.
Sorry, in the end I'm just still kind of ticked off that I didn't know about individual projects bug hunting trackers bring consolidated into hackerone. I mean, I look at discord's bug submission and I pretty much detailed a lot of that out too. I need money lol
>>3 I need to get back many files lost due to HD crashing. What is the most trustful (as in, no memecoin miners or chink spyware) torrent program? Since uTorrent was compromised many years ago, I didn't catch up with the new ones.
>>5123 qbittorrent or deluge, but both leak through proxy settings for me so use a seperate vpn program.
>>5124 >use a seperate vpn program I never did that. How to proceed? What is needed for a VPN to be used with a torrent program?
>>5125 Just run your vpn program, affirm its connected, run torrent program. If your vpn program comes with a kill program feature, add deluge/qbittorrent to it, in case of disconnects. Also see the discussion at >>4487 >>4511
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what data does the nsa have about me
>>5146 Google emails you've made, anything connected to those emails. Twitters and forum accounts you've registered with. Your full name. Most visited websites. Your phone number and address as listed on any registered accounts. Any information your web browser exposes. One of the most important is what OS you use. "The NSA can see my fetish porn collection" is a joke that properly illustrates how little faith people have using Windows. Microsoft ,alongside other organizations, make predictive profiles out of your habits. Windowsfags do it for free with no say. Try dualbooting some time. Windows won't stay to itself either. >inb4 nothing to hide Anyone who believes this should travel outside of their country. To China, with their favorite Winnie the Pooh shirt. Or Afghanistan with their gay lover.
>>5146 Also don't file an FOIA request, youll be put on a list of people who filed an FOIA request of themselves. See >>2188 for gitgud at internetting.
>>5126 Not him, but my VPN doesn't have kill program feature and sometimes the VPN disconnects from it's side of the internet, but strangely my internet still connected to the VPN network, despite the internet not happening on the VPN part. So far i haven't gotten any letters and i'm using mullvadVPN. When this happens and i check my wifi on windows 7, it says "no internet acess" while my wifi says "internet acess".Does this mean i've been compromised? To clarify the VPN never turns off, it's side of the internet just stop.
How do i dispose of hard drives without someone getting the personal information inside? The drive in question isn't recognized by window, but i want to be sure. I read online that you have to change the chemistry of the metal to make sure it's unreadable.
>>5169 Microwave it
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>>5169 >>5169 It's really easy m8
If i visit tiktok through Tor browser will i be safe from their data collection? i saw a new report that someone used tiktok without an account and tiktok made an account for them. The only reason i want to watch that site is for the cringe.
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I really want to learn penetration technology and blockchain hacking technology,I'm very sincere. I came to study just to make money,I hope some powerful hackers can teach me and make money with me。Thank you for this forum
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I'm trying to make a "helper" for an online card game by analysing game data (probability of drawing card, etc. Not outright discovering my opponents hand, see Hearthstone Deck Tracker). I've thought of 3 ways of getting the game data: 1- Memory reading. Easily detected by anti-cheat systems, but it's to the most straightforward way of doing this. 2- Image processing. Hard to do, a lot of extra programming just to get the information I need and might not work for every situation. But it's the safest option detection-wise. 3- Sniffing network packages. This might be the best option, it's hard to detect and will give me every piece of information I need. I`ve decompiled the game code and was unable to find the clients networking private key, but this might not be needed since I think I can just do a man-in-the-middle attack between the game servers and the game client. I know I`ll have to poison my DNS by editing the hosts file and create a proxy where the game information is tunneled through, and then I`ll have to exchange a public key to both the server and the client and all that shit, but I`d rather not waste any time programming this part. Since the game is windows-only, are there any easy windows tools that I can use to do a mitm attack and just extract the information?
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Is there any reason to learn both Emacs Lisp and Common Lisp, or should I choose one over the other?
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>>5201 Not really going to help. They probably ban Tor too, most normalfag sites do. There was this website that would narrate everything you did on it (mouse movement, resolution, if you had it active, etc.) to demonstrate what a website is aware of. You can be tracked through this regardless of account or connection. If you have a VPN with ( I think ) wireguard, you can try setting up a specific connection for a specific app. You could download another browser and only use it for tiktok and nothing else. Or you could just get cringe from youtube 1 day later. >>5211 >windows You could get extra autistic with cheat engine. App might detect it or that it's messing with memory, so it might not be viable.
>>5217 I'll just get my cringe from youtube, thanks for the reply.
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Does anyone know what the /g/ board on 4chan say to justify posting with their bare IP despite it being an invasion of privacy?
>>5219 I imagine /g/ would know.
>>5023 Have you considered just running basic Debian? I have yet to try it outside of a VM, but it's quite nice, no matter which DE you use. Haven't really tried it with a tiling window manager yet, though because I'm too retarded still to figure out how to make them work properly Alternatively, have you considered Pop!_OS if you're thinking in terms of the Ubuntu ecosystem? Out-of-the-box tiling and pretty great hardware support. Again, haven't tried it yet outside of a VM. >>5147 >Try dualbooting some time. Windows won't stay to itself either. Not the same anon you were replying to, but I always wondered about this. Does this mean that the fact Windows couldn't detect my Linux partition does, in fact, smack of my having fucked up the install? I eventually started having issues with accessing my disk manager on Windows, and trying to remove the Linux partition even after repairing the Windows bootloader just bricked my rig lol. >>5217 >If you have a VPN with ( I think ) wireguard, you can try setting up a specific connection for a specific app. Yet another reason to try Mullvad; very easy, user-friendly WireGuard connectivity.
>learn penetration I think you got the wrong gym. The leather club is two doors down.
I can penetrate ur ass.
>xunzhaodaniu Tainamin square massacre.
>>5025 >Have you considered something like Manjaro? I've read that Void is a bit more stable between Manjaro/Arch as far as bleeding edge distros, but I've never found anything to actually verify it. Void looks interesting, but I wanted input. >>5026 >Do you have a specific grievance against linux mint? <I'm sick of Mint lagging on Ubuntu packages which already lags on Debian packages. I also remembered some packages were renamed for no reason, but I forget which ones because I either compiled them myself or found PPAs with the correct package names. For all I know this could have been fixed by now. I do have some stability issues with Cinnamon, but that's not Mint specifically. XFCE and other lightweight DEs perform better from what I've tested, but I can't customize the appearance as much as I want. I was considering KDE because it looks nicer and has more options for customizing, but if there's other "pretty" DEs that are customizable and lightweight, I'll try them out. (Would prefer something with working thumbnails on folders too. Nemo is shit.) >>5035 >Ubuntus large software selection and gui package manager is great for those that use Desktop Environments. Pretty much why I wanted to stay within *buntu as far as "stable" distros go. >>5071 You should probably just use an addon for your browser to export Youtube's cookies. Import them into your application if possible, or copy the necessary values. Will save you some headache. Otherwise these websites sometimes work, although Youtube breaks them a lot. (replace youtube.com with them) https://yewtu.be/ https://www.nsfwyoutube.com/
>>5228 >export youtube's cookies He probably wanted to see age-restricted videos without a login/tracking, which is becoming increasingly expansive as jewtube protects the chilluns.
>>5220 I guess it was wrong to assume /t/ would know, but i asked anyways to see if maybe one of you knew. I don't really want to leave my bare IP there in the process of asking them about how it's dangerous to post with your bare IP, ironically.
>>5230 That's why I linked those websites. It's a game of cat-and-mouse between youtube-dl and bypass websites. Should be obvious it's not about the children at this point when kids probably can't figure out a Youtube bypass, but could probably still sign up with an account using a fake age. That, and even porn sites don't require accounts yet. (outside of authoritarian shitholes) Kids can just enter a fake birthday and they're set.
>>5235 Doesn't goolag require an ID or phone number now? I really doubt kids can actually make burner accounts.
>>5239 Not anymore.
What DNS servers are you guys using nowadays?
In the late 90s and early 2000s i had an old mac like pic related that i used to look up porn with, and eventually i got some viruses and porn pictures would pop-up on the desktop. Eventually someone put pictures of WW2 tanks on the desktop. Does anyone know what happened? was it just a virus?
>>5297 That or someone was fucking with you.
>>5297 >Does anyone know what happened? Steve Jobs was trying to groom you.
>>5296 Some belgian fuck's because he ignores all requests for dns shenanigans.
>>5300 Please share.
>>5302 >>5302 Just checked and looks like I changed it to OpenNIC a while ago. Can't find the guy's site either, maybe it got too spicy for him.
>>5296 What's the feasibility of running your own private DNS server? The IP database can't be more then a few GB, should be able to run off an SBC or something.
>>5306 Not that difficult, and you can run it locally. You need to get your updates from a network, though, so you'll need something upstream from yours. You can also do something like PiHole which has additional rules appended to block ads and trackers.
Would it be possible to run Youtube's auto-generated captions through DeepL on the fly? How could I go on about this?
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How can I post safely on 4chan hiding my real IP? They ban most VPNs, tor exit nodes and proxies. They were known to leak IPs from terrorist users to the CIA proving they keep a record and aren't trustworthy. I was suggested using a server but I don't know how to set it up and how much it would cost.
>>5368 It might be easier to look into how the captions are served to the front end and downloading that. Invidious has the option to use the captions so worst case scenario it might be somewhat documented there. In fact you'll probably need to do that regardless of your approach because last I knew the videos they serve don't include the subtitles.
>connection failed >connection failed >connection failed >connection failed Why is this happening to me? I am banned from certain boards or is this a site issue? I don't have any internet problems under my end and this only happens when I post anything on /v/ and nowhere else. not even images just posting doesn't work.
Why are many onion sites down in the hidden wiki? Is it because of the transition to v3? How can I get the urls for the new versions?
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How did Adrian Chen get Michael Brutch's personal information from his reddit account?
>>5399 9 times out of 10 people get "doxxed" through using the same username on some other account that had identifiable information. The guy probably just analyzed his posts and found one where he slipped up. That or he had some inside contact that exposed information from the back end of the site.
My apps on the smartphone don't appear to be moving to the SD card. Still keep getting notifications that I'm dangerously low on space yet the likes of Azur Lane and Knights Chronicle are listed as being on both in internal storage and on the SD card. Very strange as I'm pretty sure I moved them, not copied them. I rather not delete them wholesale due to the progress I made on them. Any ideas?
Due to my company manager being a shit, we're forced to use Windows 10 on all our laptops, but for some fucking reasons after six months of use any time I want to boot it up it takes up to 10 minutes of loading god knows what. Is there a debloating guide like those for windows 7?
>>5420 Try your luck with Debloater and Decrapifier github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater github.com/n1snt/Windows-Decrapifier If you can, could you elaborate more on being forced to use Win10? Was it something like >okay faggots, have to use Wangblows because <Microsoft gives us bonus money to use their OS <IT department is only trained to deal with Windows or gets paid to fix them <the program you use for your job will only work with Windows <etc.
>>5420 Be prepared to get shit from IT and blamed for any instability or future bloat if they find out. Just ask them to do a factory reset for you and reimport any user files.
>>5420 Just buy a cheap 120 chinese ssd, for me it took around 10 seconds for w10 and 5 seconds for 8.1
Hey there. Does anybody know where can I get the linkedin and the adobe's hacks data? I would appreciate it
Anyone know of software for generating various names? I know there's a bunch of random websites but it would be nice to have a basic command line program or something simply for getting various names generated. Fantasy names, usernames, real names, etc.
What would be the best way of making m4b format audiobooks? I tried making some via abc on Linux but my player wouldn't play them.
Has anyone looked into WindowsFX? It's a Linux distro that tries to look as like Wangdoes as possible. I'm more interested because it has a version that tries for a 7 feel, and the built in WINE windows compatibility. I don't like that it preloads Edge and other cancer though. You also have to pay for a license, which is extra gay but I'd pirate it anyways.
>>5473 I'll give it a look since it claims to do .exe natively (probably wine), but that isn't really a selling point for me since I'd just concede software that doesn't run on wine or steam's proton to windows anyway. Theming is something I'm not autistic enough to do manually and everyone's rices break for me eventually anyway, especially small distros like this between releases, but KDE is pretty similar to windows unless you want a 1:1 copy. Also there's a non-pro download, doesn't have the settings and tools and expires in 30 days or so though.
>>5474 The .exe compatibility layer does seem to be based off of wine. Really, that's the only thing I'm actually interested in. If I can get the packages they use to pull that off and put it into any other distro, I'd rather use Mint or plain Debian for my main rig. Windows 7 is (((aging))) in general, in some legitimate ways and mostly because it's being pushed off. I'm not ever going back to 10 or to the unholy abomination of 11 (I tried the 10 preview. I hated it so I went back to 7), but I still want to be able to port over from my C drive the things that matter when I switch to a linux distro.
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I have stubborn family who i want to talk who live miles away, and the only way to talk to them is through fucking whatsapp. They won't change to another app, because they have everyone on stupid whatsapp, every so often they have video calls through whatapp. Are my video calls recorded and put out the public's eye, i mentioned a city near by in one video call, but don't they already have my location through the photos i post there? I wish i could use sessions, or at least something besides whatapp.
>>5486 just say whatsnigger doesnt work on your phone cuz its too old either they cough up the money or they fuck off, stop being a bitch
>>5449 do you mean a randomizer or just a dictionary that randomly selects a name
>>5487 Is Signal and Telegram better than Whatsapp? I hear Signal lets you make encrypted phone calls?
>>5497 >telegram is not foss, I'm not sure what makes people think its private, they use an experimental end2end encryption which isn't well audited and people have already been v& (see whatsapp). >signal requires a phone number, which is balls for your privacy, but normies can't handle random hashes like Session uses. (Session also uses tor, which is either good or bad depending on your stance on it). >whatsapp ...do I even need to explain it? Facebook owns it, all your messages are only encrypted to and from their servers, anyone can get shoahed for wrongthink and groups shut down. I'll toss in some of my own >matrix is theoretically good, but hosting your own still federates heavily with the main matrix.org instance. Encryption works well, but if you get defederated you can pretty much only talk to people on your instance. >various tox clients were lacking lots of features when I tried them 2 years ago, but probably worth looking into again if you don't want to host anything yourself. Probably has tried and proven encryption. >irc needs a bouncer to catch offline messages for you, and if you don't use a bouncer or vpn your hashed/unhashed ip is exposed. Still probably the lightest way to handle large chatrooms. I believe encryption is clientside and can be bruteforced since the messages are still technically public. >xmpp is something normalfags will never use, but is probably the least cucked chat protocol. You used to be able to message facebook and google talk users, before they made it a true walled garden. Better for smaller chats than irc thanks to universal extensions that servers and clients can integrate for modern quality of life.
>>5498 Thank you for the info.
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Ask me for the first codes, I critically fucked up the errors.
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i cant laugh enough
I checked my igg games (i couldn't find it anywhere else) copy of half life 1 on virus total and it says that 4 virus programs found malware, so i check new games box (supposedly a trusted site for downloading games) and it gives me a Chinese installer, i install it and check it and 43/69 found malware. Are there always going to be false positives when downloading games?
>>5505 no such thing as a false positive antivirus are fucking garbage, they cant even detect basic payloads they just check the code signature against a database and by the time it gets matched its been active for at least a couple months undetected, and even when detected just moving the payload injection or encoding with shikataganai will completely change the code signature making it undetected again also the heuristics tests are bullshit and at best only tell you if a literal retard wrote the program/virus ie. using shell commands in system calls instead of just native ioctl
>>5506 Kaspersky and Bitdefender did grab a lot of zerodays during a test someone did with that day's catch on outdated virus definitions, but 99.9% of that is probably just new metasploit variants or something.
>>5507 zerodays are exploits not viruses, thats just a strategy for detecting viruses by looking for known exploits in the binary but most viruses dont even use any exploits, you can make a reverse tcp shell without needing privilege escalation or security vulnerabilities and once you get a reverse shell you can do an escalation from the reverse shell remotely without having any of the code existing in the payload itself, and if you use ssl to connect any active antivirus program wont even detect the incoming commands because theyll be encrypted
Can someone provide some suggestions: >>>/v/427157
Does anyone know how to delete session cookies on the Tor Browser without changing identity or closing the browser? Likewise, does anyone know how to change any of the default website permissions for Tor browser? The Tor preferences only allow one to change location, camera, microphone, notifications, autoplay and virtual reality permissions instead of everything the Page Info window lists (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-page-info-window#w_permissions ).
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This may not be 100% appropiate as a subject for a thread here, but I have literally nowhere else to ask. I have an oldMacBook Pro from 2011, the OS is MacOS X Lion. After not presenting any problem for years, it suddenly stopped booting up. You turn it on, the booting-up sound is heard, the Apple logo appears on screen, a progress bar shows up under the logo, and after 40 seconds of that, it freezes completely. I don't wanna throw it away because it has photos and things. It was my wife's only computer for years so she saved lots of stuff in it. Any idea of how I could make it boot at least once, so I can get the memories out of it and move them to a better computer? Also, my wife's old social media was all accesed from this computer, and she has forgotten most of her passwords. Thanks for reading this. I know, I know, Apple sucks. Don't mention it. My wife bought this before knowing me, if I had known her back then I would have advised her against it. Also, the video is shaky in the middle because I made the middle portion run faster. In reality it takes like a minute for it to freeze.
>>5526 I mean if its not encrypted you can probably just slap the hdd into a linux machine with support for whatever filesystem it uses, and copy over any files. Just make sure to try and mount it as read-only. If you did backups you could have tried restoring it to the hdd afterward and maybe it would boot again, but I guess if you had backups you wouldn't be worrying about the files in the first place. Can't be bothered for an actual solution, but its something you can consider doing until any macfags check the thread.
Also don't use a usb sata adaptor, use whatever is on your motherboard, and only handle it while the pc is off.
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Which is better for gaming Ubuntu or linux mint?
>>5526 Spitballing as I never worked on a 2011 Macbook Pro 2011. If you're unable to get it working, I would just get the hard drive out and transfer the data on a linux machine.
>>5527 >if its not encrypted you can probably just slap the hdd into a linux machine with support for whatever filesystem it uses I have considered this, but I'm pretty sure they have some level of encription. I'm certainly not an expert on Apple products, but I think they tend to be protected by default. Good to know someone else thought of that solution, makes me see that my idea wasn't totally crazy. For now that'll be Plan B. Thanks.
>>5532 its just basic AES, if you know the password just unlock it with luks in linux you dont need to do anything other than make a bootable linux usb and boot it from the mac, maybe youll need to also change the bios to allow usb booting thats it
>>5529 Mint because less bloat, but consider garuda if you feel more adventurous, it has snapshotting similar to system restore on windows if an update would ever break shit.
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If i use tor to post on a (lets say for an example) image board that doesn't have an onion link, are any of the IPs in the tor circuit leaked?
>>5535 No, just the exit node in theory, but feds control 40% of them, so in practice yes they will leak. Only trust onion sites.
>>5536 So then should i just use a proxy to post on non-onion image board sites instead of tor?
>>5537 Ideally yeah, your ip has less of a chance of being banned as well.
>>5535 tor is controlled by black people so yeah it will be leaked
>>5529 Lubuntu
Is there any risk to a distro maintainer dropping support for the distro and leaving your stranded? I know shit like Manjaro has enough people working on it that it's a non-issue, but for something like ArcoLinux for example would it cause problems? Or does ArcoLinux just use standard Arch repos so it wouldn't make a difference if it stopped having someone work on it all together? Same question for something like Endeavor. I guess I'm asking if these arch based distros use custom repos that might fuck you if they stopped updating them.
>>5553 In theory you can probably transition your distro to the upstream distro, but if that's a concern you probably should go for more maintained or production distros since they vet their software more for stability. Just make a separate /home partition and hope for the best.
If I switch from debian stable to gentoo, would there be any way to still run Mullvad vpn? Mullvad provides a native .deb and .rpm version of their client.
>>5559 It's open source, so either portage might have a package or you can use the openvpn certs in a different client.
>>5560 Oh, alright. That's a lot simpler than I thought it would be.
>>5559 If you go through with it please share how it went and what you think.
I was playing around with the archinstall command for installing arch in a virtual machine and for some reason whenever I install it with encryption enabled it won't boot to grub or anything. Without encryption enabled it boots fine. I've had problems with encryption enabled before in things causing no video out at the password entry screen with nvidia drivers but usually you can just enter the password anyways without seeing the display and it will boot into the system. But I just get a blinking _ in the top right and no way to switch the tty or enter anything.
>>5571 >top right Meant top left.
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I need help. My system crashes when playing 3D games. I used to get a bluescreen with a nvlddmkm.sys error. Now it just crashes. It's been going on for months but I couldn't take the time before to figure it out. 1) It's not a non-driver software issue, because I have reset my pc and made a fresh reinstall with practically no software beyond basics. 2) It's not a temperature issue: It's crashed at 64°c (GPU) and under 70°c (CPU). 3) I have tried plenty of older drivers, to no avail. It could perhaps be that the GPU is dying, the MB is faulty, or even the PSU, but I've reached the limit of what I know how to diagnose. Any advice? Specs: OS: Win 8.1 CPU: i7 6700K GPU: EVGA 980 Ti MB: Asus Maximus VIII Hero PSU: Corsair HX 1000i RAM: Kingston 32 GB RAM
>>5576 do one thing open start menu, it is the four flag windows key, and click restart
>>5577 Have done already. Please don't mock me. I have little money and just a new PSU would be a sacrifice.
>>5576 >OS: Win 8.1 Have you tried seeing what happens when you run 3D games in Linux? https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/54045/the-nvlddmkm-error-what-is-it-an-fyi-for-those-s/ This thread talks about the issue and all the potential trouble shooting options.
>>5582 I'm trying that stuff now. How do I check if the memory timings/voltages are correct?
>>5583 valgrind
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>>5582 >set System32\nvlddmkm.sys to full control for user Ok, done. Problem persists >RAM timing/voltage Attached image goes as far as I know. All UEFI options are to their default auto settings. How can I check if the PSU is giving the right voltage/amperage? >>5584 >valgrind This is too advanced for me.
>>5586 >How can I check if the PSU is giving the right voltage/amperage? No clue. My first step would be to see if the operating system itself is just shit, either by testing the same games on Windows 10 or on Linux. The fact you're using 8.1 as a placebo might be the cause of the issue for all I know. Replacing your PSU should be something you consider as a last resort. Re-installing your operating system or trying other operating systems is usually a good first step for catastrophic breakage.
>>5587 I've already reinstalled. I've been using this same PC for years without trouble.
why does 9front hate python
>>5594 same reason everyone hates scriptkiddes its literally just a massive library bank at this point, you dont use it unless youre crippled and need to use hundreds of libraries ( not even libraries really, most are gigantic scripts with hundreds of imports of their own ) and its fucking SLOW, pytards dont treat it like a scripting language and think they can write programs in it if youre writing a script youre better off using bash/powershell or just a better language like lua and if youre writing a fucking program youre better off using a fucking compiled language
Can't seem to post with firefox. I'll complete the captcha and nothing will happen, reply button won't work. Backup browser works just fine, though.
>>5608 Tried with firefox forks like tor?
>>5610 >firefox forks like tor you are potato brain your brain is potato
>>5612 >being this pedantic Kill yourself.
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Is it a bad idea to enjoy the Youtube algorithm giving me personalized video based on what i watch? So they know l liked to watch beautiful women talking about esoteric topics, What is the worse that can happen?
>>5623 >jewtube - first mistake >feeding the algo - second mistake >accepting the bubble reality - third mistake youre already dead, you just dont know it yet, useless eater safe and effective
>>5624 I don't understand, how am i dead?
>>5598 >lua Second this, why the fuck is lua so underrated, its literally scriptable C ffs, must be because it basically has no libraries, you cant even share libraries really since it would be based on whatever you embedded lua into, its like the opposite of python, super fast, tiny and DIY Also piss easy to learn, which just makes it even more confusing why it isnt more popular
>>5625 *Stretches out* It's quite easy, see *gets a running start* you're supposed to avoid living in a bubble *lands a somersault* while also just accepting the mainstream trash youtube pushes by default *a 720 degree backflip* but through proxy sites that don't archive youtube content anyway.
>>5610 I was able to post using basilisk
>>5629 and that post I was able to do with firefox in a private window, must be some extension oh well, that works well enough
I bought the Xbox Series controller right after it launched. I'm on Windows 10 LTSC, and while it is possible to add in the Windows Store, it still doesn't work 100% correctly in my experience. Am I missing out on anything by not updating my controller's firmware? I don't use the Bluetooth functionality. I do use the headphone jack on the bottom of the controller, though. Thanks in advance! >>https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/09/08/xbox-controller-firmware-update-rolling-out-to-insiders-starting-today/ >>https://github.com/kkkgo/LTSC-Add-MicrosoftStore
Noob here, is there anyway to live stream anonymously,or at least a direct way to stream to your website, or threw your server?
>>5673 Use a vpn and make an account called nigger, or host a website and find out how to embed a live stream directly.
>>5673 this place has a streaming site already https://watch.8ch.moe/ just host it there and embed elsewhere
Been hammering this shit for a week. Specs: >Distro Arch (EndeavourOS) >Graphics Card GTX 1060, so Nvidia. >Desktop Enviroment KDE. Basically just steam issues. Earlier this week when I tried to play Automata, it actually worked and ran very smoothly before I saved/quit. Steam won't run proton games. Console doesn't point toward anything, (running steam in terminal) process gets updated, and then promptly killed. No errors there. However, it's a silent run, launching and then blue, then it quietly goes back to green. I notice every time I launch it finds 5 files to verify (the specific game is Nier Automata, though I tried running Kingdom Come Deliverance too.) (Doesn't happen repeatedly, it only finds said files to verify after I launch the game. Verifying twice in a row indicates nothing.) Other than installing nvidia-dkms and fucking around with fsync (by installing zen-kernel) I'm not sure what the hell happened. Running the game via Lutris doesn't work either. Things I've tried: >Editing the fstab file to mount my 3TB drive with rw,exec access for uid=1000 and gid=1000 (steam's shit, basically. Proven this works because I can read/install games on it. Factorio works, for instance.) >Reinstalling the game. (Also, I'd run the game, switch the wine version, and it'd delete the whole install and redownload it.) >Switching the wine version. The above used to happen, now it switches as normally after below >Reinstalling steam. At first I had installed both runtime/native steam. I uninstalled both and steamcmd and installed steam from the flatpak place. I deleted steam's actual directory before reinstalling. >Moving Automata's install directory around. Didn't work on my regular home drive, didn't work on my external drive. Rip. >Updated to 5.15.0rc4 kernel from 5.14.9. (This was done by compiling linux-tkg and using that.) >Installed nvidia libraries and all other related libraries specified on Proton's wiki. >Delete the compatdata directory, verify, and then play.
I haven't updated my gentoo install in a long time, now I can't because of all the cyclic dependency errors, wrong EAPI version, a bunch of auto masked packages, etc. Would it be quicker to simply reinstall at this point or can I fix this by updating from a liveusb using chroot?
>>5693 just run a fucking profiler instead of guessing the error ffs
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I installed windows 10 Ameliorated edition and it fucked with my installation of Windows 7. Now i lost my pirated genuine status and when i try to activate the program that gave my genuine status before windows deletes it as soon as it arrives on the OS. The Program is called "Windows 7 Loader eXtreme Edition v3.503-NAPALUM". Also now when i start up my computer i get this Windows 10 Recovery light blue Screen where i have to push F9 to select another OS. I really didn't think windows 10 would fuck over my PC so hard, i thought i could just delete it by formatting the HD that had it installed, but i was very wrong. So how do i stop windows deleting the program i need for genuine status? I turned off the firewall and it still does it, do i need to reinstall windows 7 again? How do i get rid of the window 10 recovery page at start up? I tried formatting the partition and i still get it, why does my C: drive have a system reserve, when it has Windows 7 installed on it? Or is the system reserve (F:) the system reserve of Windows 10? Thank you for your time.
>>5696 That's the problem, steam logs don't seem to point towards anything and when logging Proton it doesn't actually generate the log files. Fuck, if the shit generates a "fix this shit" file I wouldn't be a week in and still trying to get this dumb shit working. This might be the goddamn kernel, which means I might just downgrade to 5.14.8 or something.
>>5698 I said use a profiler idiot perf is already part of the kernel
>>5697 I was able to fix my problems with msconfig and deleting windows 10 from the boot menu, and adding an exception to the windows 7 activator program.
>>5703 Profiler gave no useful information, actually in this case it gave less information than Steam's own logs did. >>5698 >>5693 Turns out, it's Microsoft's fault. See, many games require a VC redistributable. Problem is, on my VPN (I don't bareback anything nowadays) is blocked by whatever server Steam downloads them from. >Try to launch game >Stuck on first time setup >Close out of frustration <Now the install is fucked until you delete the compat data folder Solution was simple. Turn off VPN, delete existing compat data folder, wait for the first time setup to actually run, voila, game runs. Now I can go back to linux-tkg 5.15.0rc4
>>5711 Sounds like a rough troubleshoot. I'll have to keep that in the back of my head for the future since I also don't bareback anything.
>>5697 >>5706 Sometimes I feel autistic for using Linux then I see the lengths people end up going on Windows and remember it is in fact not me who is the retard.
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Every time i try to launch the game A Vampyre Story i get this error? i tried repairing all my visual C++ redistributables, following a bunch of internet fixes for the game, and i still get the error.
>>5722 this has nothing to do with vc this is what happens when you use a shitty graphics engine either update your graphics driver or figure out what version of directx panda3d uses and install it
>>5723 I updated my graphics driver and installed the Panda3D SDK (the only one i found online) and it still doesn't start. Apparently lots of people had problems getting this game to start, none of their trouble shooting worked with me.
>>5732 you dont need the panda3d sdk, you need the version of directx its using, d3d is a direct3d handle and it says it didnt load, just try to find out the version you need eg. directx9, directx10, directx11
>>5733 Okay, i installed directx9, 10, and 11, and it still doesn't start. Another directx9 game blades of time starts find it uses the same version of directx. Regardless, thank you for helping me.
>>5734 I mean it starts fine, not find.
>>3 I'm looking to run torrents in chrome at work over vpn extension, I have no idea where to start but I know better than to use utorrent but I don't know if jstorrent is good?
>>5780 Is Deluge not an option?
>>5782 I don't think there is a deluge torrent client chrome extension
>>5783 Seems to be open source, as in you can see the source.
>>5784 anon are you telling me to make it myself?
>>5785 No. I was saying that since you can see the source, it shouldn't be spyware.
>>5787 Anon I must have been unclear. I want a chrome extension torrent client. I have a VPN chrome extension so that only the browser is on VPN, Nord VPN. I want to have the browser, act as the torrent client, while operating on VPN, but leaving the rest of the system off the VPN.
>>5789 We've reached the point in which I must admit I'm a retard and can't help you.
>>5790 it's cool man, I'm just wondering word of mouth if anyone has opinions on the trustworthiness of chrome extension torrent clients
>>5791 Like I said, you can see the source of jstorrent on github.
>>5792 oh fuck I thought you meant deluge, thanks man
>>5792 thanks again man, sadly it did not pan out as https://www.top10vpn.com/tools/do-i-leak/ reports my Torrent IPv4 UDP is leaking
>>5795 Shit happens. Don't thank me, I'm a retard.
>>5796 feedback and sounding board is always welcome. Tried Nord with Brave too, same thing happened, I have now given up on this plan
>>5796 >>5797 oh I tried with brave because it has built in torrent, that's why
>>5789 >>5795 Some VPN programs have split tunnelling, I got off nord last month for mullvad so I can't recall if it had it or not.
Forgot to mention the mullvad program does have it in beta
I have a Das mechanical keyboard that sometimes stops working for some reason (i think it's because of the black outs we get here) and i have to use another regular keyboard as a back up. Do you know any fix for this? If i buy another mechanical keyboard won't it just stop working randomly because of black outs also?
>>5803 Are you on linux? There's a usb bug that causes usb devices like mice and keyboards to suddenly stop working and requries they be unplugged and plugged back in. This doesn't apply to all kernels but depending on the kernel you're using it may be the issue.
>>5804 I'm on windows, unplugging it and plugging it back in doesn't help, i just have to wait and it will eventually work again.
>>5803 >>5805 Do they have a refund policy? Maybe you have a defective unit and can get it swapped out?
>>5803 The problem could be the cable. I suggest trying to reproduce the problem by bending the cable around just to be sure. I also user a Das Keyboard and know the cable is easily replaced.
spacebar metal rod is missing while I was cleaning my keyboard is 5 years old.
>>5814 Is it in your butt?
Over the past few days youtube-dl has been downloading from youtube at a constant 54kbps. No matter the video it's always exactly the same speed. Some people have reported the same issue on youtube-dl's github but so far there's no solution and the last release was 4 months ago, which is strange. Are you fags also affected and do you happen to know any workarounds? >>5780 If you can't find what you want, you could try making a lightweight headless Linux VM and run the VPN and torrent client inside.
>>5838 I use VideoDownloadHelper. It's worked for every video of every site I've ever wanted to download.
Are there any free proxies/vpns that aren't dodgey?
>>5849 TOR is the only free IP masking tool you should be using.
>>5838 >uses python script >complains its slow literally kill yourself retard
>>5853 >thinks a slow language translates to slow download speeds uh lol?
>>5854 >thinks transfer protocol just happens by itself this is your brain on python, no understanding whatsoever of even basic programing literally kill yourself retard
>>5855 And yet I get two orders of magnitude more than him using the same python program. Curious!
>>5867 >program >python
>>5872 You can argue semantics all you want, if it takes an input and spits out an output its a program.
>>5874 >your brain on python programs are compiled idiot, 100% binary the python interpreter is a program python instructions/scripts are not, same way a fucking excel file isnt a fucking program fucking imbecile, 0 understanding of programming at all you should vaccinate yourself asap good riddance
>>5875 I went to a performance of Beethoven's Archduke Trio, and they gave us programs.
>>5850 What about for playing online games?
>>5886 Pay for a reputable VPN. There is no such thing as a free VPN that isn't a honeypot or incompetently managed and therefore insecure.
>>5887 >>5886 Mullvad is godly for gayming over nordvpn, it only adds maybe 5 ping instead of 30-50 in tf2, but in both cases the vpn server was in the same city as me. Split tunneling and port forwarding seals the deal, maybe I'll be able to host a minecraft server for anon when I have more free time.
>>5888 port forwarding when youre literally sending all requests to a vpn is basically begging to be hacked all they would need to do is arp spoof 1(one) ip (the vpn) and everything is now compromised
>>5891 Well that would be if they compromise the router, no? WLAN devices on my network are basically isolated from each other and LAN, and I can probably disable the web ui on the router for wifi devices too. Server will similarly be isolated from the rest of my network, save for one port that routes to it exclusively, no WAN. If someone manages to break in, them managing to use that port is probably the least of my worries. I recognize not everyone would implement it this way, but do you think that would still be a vulnerability in my case?
>>5892 hey idiot youre port forwarding youre allowing remote access to your local network and arp spoofing doesnt need any device access, just connecting to the network and spamming "128.0.0.1 is at x" on the network and all devices will connect to x, thats how nat is designed to work
>>5893 Wouldn't that just mean vpns and everything in general can be arp spoofed? Or are you saying the arp spoofing will happen on the vpn server's network?
To be clear, the port forwarding doesnt happen on your network, only on the vpn's network and is forwarded to your vpn client.
>>5894 yes if you can connect to the local network which can be done in multiple ways and on either side, although the easiest would be to just nmap bomb the user to probe for open ports to abuse since you already know there must be at least one thats open
>>5896 I'm sure, but what would you be able to do with an open minecraft port?
what edition of windows 10 would be best to be using? also is there really no way to stop MsMpEn? it eats up quite a bit of memory and after a couple attempts all i accomplished was somehow causing desktop icons to flicker. ive only recently came back to using windows after years of using linux so im trying to make this as tolerable as possible
>>5897 arp spoof, dns poison, reverse tcp shell, etc., with an rtcp shell you have limitless possibilities and its just a question of privilege escalation to get full system control and do what ever you want >>5899 none, if it has to be winshit then at least win7 doesnt have literal fucking telemetry spyware and if you try to fix win10 ( actually fix it not just changing registry values ) you need to rip out winshit defender since anything going in ring0 without microshit signed code automatically gets disabled and deleted or ends up bluescreening, ironic that the only fix to win10 malware is literally malware
>>5899 What the other anon said, but win10 enterprise and a PhD in microshittery. >>5900 And yet there are many public minecraft servers, curious!
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>>5899 Win10 Enterprise best, Pro started retarded (disabled GPOs, options) but it's gotten bearable. If you're spooked about telemetry then download simplewall and block anything you don't like.
>>5909 >thinks you can block the kernel >thinks a program just connects to the internet by itself use wireshark and be amazed at your nativity its fucking built into the transport layer, you cannot connect to the internet without the kernel logging the stream and calling home using the same socket fucking given to the applications by the fucking kernel
>>5896 Nigger what difference does VPN make at that point or are you just being edgy? What you're saying is port forwarding is insecure per se, not that port forwarding with VPN is somehow more insecure that port forwarding your raw home connection. Only one IP to hack, what difference does it make if that one IP belongs to VPN host or your own router, most ameritrannies are forced to use routed home connections anyway since the ISP doesn't offer multiple public IPs for home connections and that IP kinda has to be public if you are hosting anything behind that, VPN or not.
>>5916 the only difference is one is vulnerable and the other is even more vulnerable, your computer is already asking to be connected, in a normal network you would just join the network and say you are the server and now you can send whatever you want to the victim or gather data, the only problem is to connect to the network you need to physically be next to your victim, thats why the "free wifi" hotspot became the go to for hackers for decades, with a vpn you basically expose yourself to the entire internet, you voluntarily connect to a network on the fucking internet, thats why vpn software constantly gets "false" positives from antiviruses because thats literally how botnet work
>>5900 >win7 doesnt have literal fucking telemetry spyware Even Windows XP had telemetry >>https://msfn.org/board/topic/182557-have-winxpvista-any-kind-of-telemetry/
>>5928 drwatson.exe was just a debugger and more importantly just a fucking program, when something crashed you got a messagebox with the option to send a report or not, it didnt perform active telemetry it got replaced after win7 with actual telemetry that ran inside the kernel itself that kept a constant connection with winshit, they even expanded their servers worldwide because people started blocking the winshit ips from their routers since it was impossible to disable in the kernel
>>5929 >drwatson.exe was just a debugger and more importantly just a fucking program hmm thats cool, now do alexa
>>5950 basically bonzi buddy
>>90 >Free VPNs are free because they bundle up all the data and sell it. paid vpns probably sell your data, too.
>>5952 It's almost always verifiable whether or not an ISP sells your data, and most of the time it's the case. It's possible a VPN sells your data, despite the fact you're paying them specifically not to and it's their entire business model. So if you're vetting your VPN's appropriately it's not that difficult to find one that is exponentially less likely to be selling or abusing your data compared to the standard ISP. People should be weary of VPN's, 99% of them are bullshit. But people also shouldn't write them off completely. Like anything else they're tools and need to be used with your head.
>>5956 most are now owned by Kape a renowned israeli malware company
My Winbloats 10 decided to randomly start an update while another program was failing, resulting in a corrupted update and even after a rollback now it won't connect to the update server anymore. I'm kind of required by my workplace to keep the OS, so is there a way to get it to connect to the Update Server again? I've already tried manual updating and activating all its related services, it did nothing.
>>5967 Hand it over to IT? Use it as is so it doesn't update again? If your workplace owns it then maintaining it is their responsibility, and minimum working order is all you need it to be in. If you own it but need windows then just reinstall it and only keep the bare minimum needed for work on it, dual boot for personal use. Maybe partition more than half the drive space for backups of windows so you can restore it in working order any time microsoft decides you should be a beta tester.
>>5967 >>5969 If you're allowed to reinstall the OS then do that as anon said. That's basically the defacto solution for breaking most operating systems, but especially windows. It's just more annoying on windows because installing is tedious and config files aren't really a thing.
>>5967 sir, have you try turning off and on regar, sanjt
>>90 >>5952 Is there any reason why you wouldn't make your own VPN?
>>6013 Instead of your VPN provider collecting info, it'll be a VPS provider, except you can't audit or inspect the infrastructure above your little virtual box. Several solar+battery powered raspi servers dropped by drone on the roof of several wifi cafes, however...!
>>6014 >>6013 Also virtually every single VPS in existence that doesn't cost a ridiculous amount of money refuses to provide service without clear KYC. Whereas there are multiple VPN providers that offer close to completely anonymous payment methods meaning they wouldn't even have payment data to give to authorities if they came knocking. If an IP you own and paid for is doing something it shouldn't be the VPS will immediately point to you, investigate, and close your service. If an IP from a commercial VPN provider is doing something fucky there are probably hundreds of people using that same IP and the entire business of the provider is to protect the privacy and anonymity of those users. A VPS is viable depending on your threat models of course. But even if you just want to torrent shit that might get you into trouble with your VPS provider, so I struggle to imagine a threat model where it makes sense to make your own VPN.
>>6016 This. Have never understood the meme of "creating your own VPN", where you are the only user, and provider doesn't even pretend to care about privacy, since they are not selling that sort of service if and when you go with the reasonably priced ones. Does it stem from lack of understanding how hosting providers work or just plain stupidity is still unknown to me. Obscure snowflake solution != more secure, exact opposite in this case. The only scenario I would imagine this had some uses would be the one where known commercial VPN addresses are rangebanned for whatever you need the VPN, AND you manage to pay for a bulletproof VPS anonymously and only ever connecting to it via other VPN or Tor so they don't know who you are. But that is expensive as hell and does not come with unmetered bandwidth as standard. Fucking know because spent countless hours finding a half-decent hosting that even allows keeping Tor exit nodes.
>>6014 And you can audit and inspect the infrastructure above your virtual box with a regular VPN? >>6016 >there are multiple VPN providers that offer close to completely anonymous payment methods meaning they wouldn't even have payment data to give to authorities if they came knocking If they're telling the truth
>>6018 >If they're telling the truth If someone takes monero as a payment there's nothing for them to lie to you about. It's literally impossible for them to have financial information about you because you haven't given it to them. I guess if they were harvesting your data they would, but there are VPN providers that allow for you to pay without exposing your identity in the transaction itself. >And you can audit and inspect the infrastructure above your virtual box with a regular VPN? The VPN provider can pay for a third party audit and the results can be made public. VPS providers don't give a fuck because they aren't in the business of protecting your privacy. The point isn't that you can physically audit either. The point is that trusting a VPS to do something they aren't in the business to do is retarded. If lawyers start yelling at them about one of their IP's being involved in torrenting they're just going to cancel your service and tell you to fuck off.
>>6019 If you use a VPN you're sending your traffic through them, and trusting them not to log it.
>>6020 If they say they don't log but they do, wouldn't that be fraud? Can a VPN survive with that kind of liability? Or is it not a problem because only criminals find out about it?
>>6020 Yeah no shit. No one said that wasn't the case. What's your point?
>>6021 >Can a VPN survive with that kind of liability? Yes, it's happened before. >>6022 The point is that it would be preferable to have more of a guarantee than "they have my money".
>>6021 Well if the vpn did rat you out to an authoritarian government, would anyone even find out unless the vpn discloses it and damages their reputation? The one being unpersoned is probably not going to have much of a case even if they did figure out it was the VPN that ratted them out. >>6023 What kind of guarantee, "we will send a paramilitary force to rescue you from law enforcement and military forces?" Even that would be easier to evaluate than if they sold your data to some chinks. And eventually any company will probably decide to flip sides once its profitable and ride out their brand name anyway, so your best bet is to not use this internetwork.
>>6021 The government found a cyber stalker by asking PureVPN for his information, their policy at the time stated that logging such information was not allowed and yet they are still making enough money. They also claimed to have undergone a security audit
I know very little about networking and I'm trying to turn a laptop into a jellyfin server. But I can't for the life of me seem to figure out how to actually connect to it as a server. I install jellyfin fine, the service is running. I put in the IP of the laptop into my browser along with the jellyfin port and it just gives me the generic can't connect screen. I don't know if my router isn't configured properly or what and I need someone to point me towards the correct troubleshooting direction.
>>6025 I guess the criminal wouldn't succeed in a lawsuit for false advertising. Hmm.
>>6027 You missed the point, their reputation clearly wasn’t damaged much from this
I don't understand why you don't like the snowflake plugin I designed and released. I spent time working with huge caches of Google and Amazon bugs and I guess I just abandoned a lot of consumer projects that I thought wouldn't get paid. It was just designed to be able to be activated remotely from an offenders (3rd party, native clang su.bjective;../) poc
>>6033 I don't even know what you're talking about and I already don't like it.
>>6025 >The government found a cyber stalker by asking PureVPN for his information, their policy at the time stated that logging such information was not allowed and yet they are still making enough money. If PureVPN starts ratting on movie/game/music pirates, I bet 99% of their customers leave
>>6021 >Or is it not a problem because only criminals find out about it? Basically this. It should be common knowledge that VPN providers will stand up to MPAA/RIAA/Nintendo lawyers, not to government agencies
Why doesn't the 5 of my keypad work?
>>6050 probably wore out
>>6051 I've scarcely pressed it
>>6053 you spilled something on it, clean it up and throw your computer in the bin
>>6053 Probably just died then, if its old then oh well, if its new you could maybe RMA it if its worth it.
>>6050 sirs, have you try disconnect you keyboard and reconnect regards, micronsoft technicol suport; vishu
I just want to hotlink to 8chan some image search pics on linux, because fuck saving a picture that im only going to be using once. On windows I could just click 'copy the image url', paste the url on the file browser and it would work unless that website actually had hotlinking protection. That trick doesn't work on linux, at least on mint, since there's not file directory I can just paste it into.
>>6075 Just copy the image to the clipboard directly then CTRL+V when you've clicked into the text box. That's what people are doing whenever you see the file name as ClipboardImage.png
>>6076 I know that, that's how I did it on windows. It just won't let me do that on mint for some fucking reason.
>>6083 You're pasting it into the file browser. Just click on the box in the reply window and CTRL+V. You don't need to open up the file browser.
>>6093 Also I'm not talking about right click copy image location, I'm talking about right-click copy image.
>>6083 >>6094 Double also, stop using waterfox nigger. https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/
>>6083 Works on my Debian machine. Copy the image, not the URL. I didn't even know that the clipboardimage thing was from people doing that, I had heard it was from phoneposters. >>6096 Maybe when they kill the Classic version but I'm not touching the new Firefox retarded UI if I don't have to.
>>6125 You can just toggle it off in the config.
>>6026 I ended up getting it working. But now I'm wondering if someone can clue me in on whether or not port forwarding jellyfin (or any program I suppose) is a security risk or not. The information online ranges from port forwarding being basically fine to it being the worst possible thing you could do and to avoid it at all costs. Does choosing a random port increase security? Is it even a concern as long as the server is kept up to date?
>>6136 >Is it even a concern as long as the server is kept up to date? Depends on how much you trust the server software to not have any bugs or exploits. You're also moving back your firewall from your router to your server, so learning how to harden your OS is probably worthwhile. I'm not very experienced in it but its probably still worth heavily investigating.
>>6138 Would MAC address filtering completely negate any risks? Though I don't think I can filter MAC addresses properly with my router since it only has options for what looks like Wireless MAC address filtering. But I was considering getting a new router to install openwrt on eventually.
>>6141 mac address spoofing exists, as some anon mentioned right before your jellyfin post a week ago.
>>6142 How would one know which MAC address to spoof?
>>6143 Monitor traffic, cracked wifi packets, youre better off reading some network security courses/books than asking me if I'm honest.
>>6144 And someone could monitor traffic and wifi from a remote location just by port scanning?
>>6145 has nothing to do with ports, mac filters are for routers, ip filters are for ports if you connect to wifi your mac is your ssid which is broadcast publicly nonstop so your router knows who to communicate with, only someone next to you will be able to see it, theres no point using a mac filter if you have a wifi password
>>6148 I guess I thought you could filter who could access an open port based on their MAC address. And since an attack from someone based nearby seems highly unlikely MAC address spoofing would be mostly irrelevant. Saw someone talking about it in a comment somewhere while researching.
Where, as in what folder, would Palemoon's Local Storage for 'localhost:8000' be?
>>6173 localhost:8000 would just connect to whatever program you have running on your local machine on port 8000. It has nothing to do with your browser.
>>6177 That's not what I heard (although I'm no expert on this). According to the instructions on how to run Your Turn To Die in a browser, uploaded here, 'save data will be stored in your browser's Local Storage for "localhost:8000" (or whatever the port is), rather than as files in the "save" folder.' You can verify that this is indeed what it says by downloading the game from here ( https://vgperson.com/games/YourTurnToDie.zip ), extracting it (the Zipped download and my extract of it are both too large to be uploaded here) and viewing the file called 'Run-In-Browser Instructions.txt'; the game's main page ( https://vgperson.com/games/yourturntodie.htm ) has some messages about downloading the game. I suppose my real question is where the save files are when I save the game when playing on Palemoon on localhost:8000.
>>6178 Forgot to upload the file. Sorry, here it is.
Has anyone here ever used Zorin OS?
>>6178 The other fag is right, however if you look at the instructions it tells you to run an http server, which will make available the directory structure where you run it as a webpage (to your whole network, mind you), with the root at the 'www' folder in this case. That means that if you point your browser to localhost:8000 after running the server you'll be able to navigate the directories and open files in the browser like you would in your local file browser. I guess according to what the document says that the data the game saves should be somewhere in that directory hierarchy.
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I am looking for as much info and details about how the smart health qr codes and how they can be bypassed or circumvented Anyone else look into this topic before?
I used to have the ( )'s in the file names blocked in uBlock but the recent TOR updates bricked my browser and made me have to start from scratch so I lost my uBlock filters. I can't seem to select the brackets anymore with uBlocks element picker and need to block them for my CSS changes to look right. Can anyone help me remove them either through CSS or through uBlock? >(1.23 KB Run-In-Browser Instructions.txt) Talking about those brackets.
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Doesn't it not matter if an proxy IP is associated with a tor relay because aren't they always different for the circuit?
My desktop pc's volume is very low, even when it's at max 100% volume. I tried factory resetting my pc, but the low audio problem was still there. When I plug in my headphones into my laptop, the audio sounds loud and clear. But when I plug in those headphones into my desktop pc, the volume sounds low and muffled. https://internet-access-guide.com/nvidia-high-definition-audio-vs-realtek/ The main difference I found is that my laptop uses (Realtek High Definition Audio) meanwhile my desktop pc uses (Nvidia High Definition Audio). So what do I do to fix my low volume problem? Do I just update the latest Nvidia audio drivers or something? I was wondering if anyone else encounter this same problem.
>>6235 Does your monitor have a headphone jack?
>>6236 Yeah, in the back of the monitor. When I plug it in there, the headphones utilize the (Nvidia High Definition Audio) instead. But the results are still the same, even after installing the latest Nvidia audio drivers. Sounding muffled. Whenever I watch videos on the VLC player or MPV player, the audio sounds so low. The only workaround I found was to go into the VLC player's settings and force it to play videos louder than usual. It sorta works, but it's not really the best solution. I'll admit, my old headphones were working perfectly fine last month, but maybe it's not compatible with the recent drivers or whatever. I think I should get some better headphones like one of these... https://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-headphones,review-1988.html ...to see if this audio problem is because of my headphones, or because of my pc itself.
>>6237 Could be impedence of your new headphones is too high for the monitor/motherboard to drive? most plebian ones are around 30 ohms but some studio/audiophile/monitor headphones go to 300 ohms or more.
>>6237 I remember I had this once, its fucking windowns, disable all the shit you find in sound properties except your actual playback device, then disable all the shit in your playback properties like sound enhancement, communications, bluetooth phone and any other winshit bullshit you see
anyone know how to get the access and refresh token for pixiv? been wanting to stick to using this https://github.com/Bionus/imgbrd-grabber which originally i had working but no longer does using type PKCE
>try to educate myself on an incoming VPN for a home server since everything tells me port forwarding is bad security and a VPN is supposed to be better >literally every search result involving "VPN" is talking about consumer VPN shit for IP obfuscation and not about using them for remote accessing servers
>>6256 vpns havent been used in over 20 years for anything ( normie data farming excluded ) just set up an ssh tunnel
>>6258 And this can be used to access jellyfin remotely? And it's more secure than forwarding ports?
>>6259 it is port forwarding but with the ssh protocol, the security depends on how you handle your public/private keys and what you jail with chroot I dont know what jellyfin is, ssh is like logging in onto the computer via the shell
>>6260 It's a media server like plex.
>>6261 then it already handles http requests, if its connected to your network just type its ip in a browser, if you want to connect through the internet you need to host it on a hosting site and use the domain name theres documentation for this here https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/index.html
>>6258 Get a job nigger.
I'm considering going with separate home and root partitions when I reinstall next time. Problem is that I don't want to waste any space with an unnecessarily large root partition. Is there a command to check the size of my total installed packages on my current install to get a ball pack idea of how much space I might need with what I'm already using?
>>6304 expr $(sudo du /|tail -n 1|grep -o '^[^/]*') - $(du ~/|tail -n 1|grep -o '^[^/]*')
Seems to have been scrubbed from a variety of referred sites. Any leads for the .iso?
>>6317 theres already a reset circuit look for clr_cmos on the motherboard and jumper it to reset the bios
Is it possible to rebind the mouse buttons on a thinkpad keyboard to function keys or standard keyboard keys? I tried fucking around in xev but couldn't find any differences in the output from my dedicated mouse to work off of.
>>6325 basically write a keylogger use the x11 library to hook the keyboard using its device id and pass the input to the focused window using a switch statement to pass a different output
I've been trying to learn to configure a mullvad VPN without using the application. I got wireguard setup using the KDE network GUI pretty easily. The only issue I have now is replicating the features to block all internet access without being connected to the VPN and allowing local network sharing to still function. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>>6373 dont know about gay vpn, its probably identical to a tor config, you just run it as a separate user, reject all connections on the actual user and open a port between the two users to communicate and send requests, this basically substitutes the systems transport layer with one controlled and isolated by the client the setup would look like; iptables -F iptables -t nat -F iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner $TOR_UID -j RETURN iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 5353 for NET in 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.0.0/24 127.0.0.0/9 127.128.0.0/10; do iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -d $NET -j RETURN done iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --syn -j REDIRECT --to-ports $TRANS_PORT iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT for NET in 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.0.0/24 127.0.0.0/8; do iptables -A OUTPUT -d $NET -j ACCEPT done iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner $TOR_UID -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -j REJECT
I'm on PureOS, a Debian based system and I'm struggling to play any D.V.D.s on it. Depending on the application I use they either cannot be interpreted or works for a couple of seconds or a minute before shutting down. I think it's libdvdcss as that is what VLC media player says I'll need ( https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html ) but even after downloading it I don't know where to put it.
>>6376 what are you doing just type 'sudo apt reinstall vlc' in the terminal and it will handle all the dependencies for you
>>6376 ```sudo apt install libdvd-pkg```
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What's the best retard proof program to get into crypto mining on an operating system like Linux Mint or Puppy Linux with a gaymer laptop that's half a decade old? I'm patient and electricity is cheap where I live so that's not a problem plus I go the extra mile and always unplug my fridge every Winter since I don't need it on for that season. Sorry for asking noob shit here....
>>6379 My guess is try ethereum.
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>>6378 I tried that and it doesn't work. After giving my password, the output is: 'Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package libdvd-pkg'. That doesn't look like it worked to me. >>6377 Doing this made some D.V.D.s I tried play on my PureOS laptop but not all of them. Some work and some don't. Still, it's better than none of them playing so I thank you for your helpful idea. I made V.L.C. player log while I tried to play various D.V.D.s on it and uploaded the file. I changed the lines with '(No such file or directory)' to replace my real username with 'USERNAME' if that will prevent anyone making any incorrect conclusions but otherwise the file is unchanged; also those lines are likely irrelevant - they only came when I pressed the safely eject disk button while V.L.C. was still playing the disk.
>>6386 >That doesn't look like it worked to me. If you're using a debian based distro that package should be in the repositories. https://packages.debian.org/stable/libdvd-pkg Since it sounds like purism is about going full autism they probably fucked with the repos so that it isn't pulling everything that isn't absolutely 100% FOSS. You might need to go into a setting somewhere to enable to to pull from a non-free repo. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository#Package_lists Follow this and add the non-free repo and it might work.
Finally have some cash to spare and want to build a gayming PC. I figure if I can run PS3 games with RPSC3, I can probably run anything else I'd really want to play. I have never built a PC before. Is it safe to just follow the recommended specs on https://rpcs3.net/quickstart and build it with Newegg, because Newegg isn't making it very easy for me to find the right graphics card with its search function.
>>6392 You'll probably want more than 8gb of ram, 16 should be fine. If you find any 9xx, 10xx, or 20xx series gpu under $500 its probably worth considering and weighing its performance, otherwise the 6800 and 6900 by amd or 3080 and 3090 by nvidia are the only ones worth buying right now. If you can wait until summer I predict the prices might fall, as the pfizermectin pills spread and the shipping/energy slowdown normalizes.
>>6393 >If you can wait until summer I predict the prices might fall, as the pfizermectin pills spread and the shipping/energy slowdown normalizes. I really fucking hope so. Shit's even more expensive than I thought, considering right now all I have is a craptop from 5 years ago, that used to be able to run PS2 games without overheating. Might need to wait a little longer and save up some more.
>>6395 Blame the 20xx series for being a 7 year flop with only incremental improvements over the 10xx series, and amd missing low, mid, and high end markets during that time. Suddenly a new gpu comes out during a crypto boom, with the 3070 being on par with a 2080ti, and trumpbux to buy it with during a time everyone is at home or takes up video editting/3d modelling. The shitcream on top is lowered production and distribution thanks to wu flu, with scalping also being popular.
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Does anyone know the thermal pad thickness for a gtx 770 windforce? Its the one with 4gb worth of vram.
>>6392 >Is it safe to just follow the recommended specs on They're just recommending what might work okay, not what gives you the best price to performance. For example you wouldn't want to be buying a GTX 900 series or RX 400 series card these days. In another world when the used market had good deals maybe you could get away with it, but in the current market it's only viable to buy new from retail stores if you want prices that are only inflated by 50% instead of 200%. Generally just building a proper PC that's relatively modern should do you fine for RPSC3. >>6395 >Might need to wait a little longer and save up some more. In this market waiting is probably the only smart move to make, and even then only barely.
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>>6388 Given that some D.V.D.s play and libdvdcss is required to play D.V.D.s (according to V.L.C.'s website https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html ) it's safe to say I now have it, otherwise no D.V.D.s would play. >6377 I noticed something after doing what you suggested. All the D.V.D.s that do play contain multiple videos, like a T.V. series or a series of lectures, while all those that don't play (on my PureOS laptop) are from a D.V.D. box for films. From what I have tried, I cannot play any D.V.D.s that are from a D.V.D. box for films on my PureOS laptop; I cannot believe it is a problem with the D.V.D.s since they play fine on T.V. and my Windows 10 laptop. I say 'from a D.V.D. box for films' since it is not only the D.V.D. with the film that doesn't play but also D.V.D.s with special features for the film that don't play. I tried playing two D.V.D.s from the same D.V.D. film box and made VLC player log what happened; the log is attached here with no changes to it whatsoever. Maybe it will be helpful to figure out what's going wrong.
>>6399 are they bluray dvds? blurays have to be decrypted in a stream first you can try sudo apt install libaacs0 libbluray2 which lets you decrypts some of them, otherwise look up a tutorial to decrypt blurays in linux
>>6400 No, they are not.
Hi I'm in a position where I need to use Windows OBLIGATORILY. I want to search things without being spied and using a normal browser(Tor is slow for me and I want to access Tor blocked sites). My idea was to create a virtual machine with a non-glow operating system ,¿would that work to keep my search history more secure, and if there is better ways could you tell me?
>>6426 Virtual machines are good for compartmentalizing activities but if you're looking to avoid the operating itself from spying on you then using virtual machines on that operating system isn't going to do much of anything to hide your activity from the host operating system.
>>6426 As the other anon said, the host OS can just spy on your vm, so it isnt a solution. Consider using a live linux environment on a flash drive or dvd, some have a small persistent storage where you might be able to save a vpn or proxy settings, if you want to secure network traffic. If you simply don't want a record on the device then you wont have to fiddle with persistence.
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What programming language do I learn if I want to get into hacking?
sometimes when i m hungry but dont want to eat i put an effervescent vitamin c tablet in my mouth cuz i like how it goes fssssssss on your tongue maybe try somthing like that
Do certain sites block TOR no matter what? Ever since Verizon blocked anything to do with DDOS-Guard, I infrequently use that browser to access the likes of Mangadex and Nyaa. Can reach them just fine but it can never access kemono.party. Just shows plaintext gibberish no matter how many times I refresh the circuit. Is a VPN mandatory or are the TOR settings wrong?
>>6449 kemono.party seems to load fine for me over TOR.
>>6450 Sorry for the delay. I heard from elsewhere that they block specific exit nodes, and I'm guessing I can't change the one I use. Not that I know much about TOR beyond using it to bypass the Nyaa block so if I can change it to access kemono.party again, can anyone enlighten me?
>>6462 You click the lock button in the top left to change your exit node, click "New circuit for this site".
I got a WD Black but it's really loud when reading multiple random files. It sounds like this video at the 30 seconds mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpNxovn7yjs . In my case it only lasts half a second but that's probably because I'm only reading small batches. I'm not sure if that's a problem and I got conflicting answers when searching around. Should I try and get it replaced?
>>6477 if it sounds like scratching then the head got misaligned and it will eventually create so many bad sectors that it becomes useless the more you use it open it and jiggle the head around or lift it of the disk if you see it got stuck, back up your files first in case you break it
>>6449 >Is a VPN mandatory CenturyLink uses McAfee Web Protection to block a whole bunch of websites I visit. PIA fixes that. Plus I never get DMCA emails if the VPN is running
>>6433 Actionscript.
Is IrfranView spyware? Window's default image viewer is really bad.
>>6492 I use it and like it and it doesn't seem to try to access the internet so seems pretty good to me.
>>6494 But does that actually mean anything or are you just an autistic Stallman toe-shaving?
>>6495 It means that you can't know what the software is doing. If you don't know what it's doing you have to presume it's spyware of some sorts. Unless you're telling me IrfranView has third party audits of their code you can reference. Stallman is autistic about freedom. That is not the same thing as wanting to be able to publicly audit code. I don't care about software being libre, I care about knowing whether or not it's sending telemetry about my personal images and habits.
>>6496 It's not accessing the internet to do anything so I don't see how it could be spying when it isn't sending anything anywhere.
>>6496 >It means that you can't know what the software is doing. not 100% true the software itself is a "black box" but you can still analyze its inputs and outputs game roms are usually proprietary but emu devs still know whats going on with them for the most part also there are people that know how to read all the outbound network signals windows puts out, thats how they catch all the spy server names for those hostfile lists
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Regarding letters from your ISP for downloading copyrightten torrents, what is the worst that can happen to you? Is it as weak as throttling your internet?
>>6562 cancel your subscription and blacklist you for breaking the t&c
Is it possible to send a payment to Mullvad through cash envelope without a giving away my address ?
>>6562 Not the 90's anymore anon. Buckle up and get that 5 dollar vpn so your ISP can't eyeball your filthy fetishes (and the vpn company can instead)
>>6564 yeah, just dont write a return address
Why there are no post timestamps on mobile?
>>6562 >Regarding letters from your ISP for downloading copyrightten torrents, what is the worst that can happen to you? The ISP cooperates with the copyright lawyers, tells them your identity, the layers decide to make an example of you, you lose in court, and go to prison for 20 years. on the bright side, if i was interviewing someone for a job and they explained they're a felon due to pirating a movie, I wouldn't hold that against them
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>>6585 Pic rel. This is fucking dumb how do I fix this?
By not using mobile
>>6604 Wait for the mobile revamp to release.
I have a bit of a specific question here. I'd like to connect to a website with a list of proxies (mainly using foxyproxy but I'm open to suggestions) in the following fashion: the first proxy tries to connect, if it's successful then after X minutes another proxy tries to connect, if it's unsuccessful then it jumps to then next proxy and so on until all proxies have been tested out. Is there a way to do this? I don't mind having to learn some special scripting language, so long as I can do it.
>>6606 Where do I track this?
I've always used basic optical mice. The first thing to go is always the middle click. Does anyone have mice recommendations with a long lasting middle click?
>>6614 I've had the middle mouse button break on (((Razer))) mice. Been on a logitech G600 for years and the middle click is still good. But I've had to take it apart and clean it a few times to fix clicks and buttons getting finicky.
>>6612 for proxy in $proxylist; do r=$(curl -i --proxy "$proxy:$port" "site" ) if [ $(echo $r | head -n 1 | grep -c '200') -eq 1 ]; then echo 'ok' sleep $x else echo 'fail' fi done
>>6614 I fixed mine twice, first time scroll wheel didnt work, turns out the sensor was just dirty, second time the button didnt work, if I pressed really hard it worked so I knew was something wrong with the contact pads, cleaned the contacts and it worked find, no idea how those things get dirty since those little click buttons are completely closed, maybe the contacts oxidized with age
>>6624 Oh, that easy? I should really stop slacking off and relying on others, thank you so very much.
Why does my phone keep saying that I have low memory and storage space? There's barely fuck all on it to begin with but I still tried deleting as much as possible anyway, cleaned the cache too and it still won't shut up. It's an Android 6.0 if that helps.
>>6666 The partition for the android OS is likely different than the one for media and removable storage. Likely no solution unless you can try alternative android operating systems.
>>6666 >>6667 >android 6.0 Is your phone a moto g1 or something? Phones with 8/16 gb of rom will always bug you about running out of storage, put a sd card on it and format it as shared internal storage, that or throw it away and get a $100 redmi note or something.
How do I add black bars to the top and bottom of videos in mpv while it's in windowed mode? They only appear in full screen and I've struggling to find the config option, if one even exists specifically for adding black bars in windowed mode.
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what's up nerds, i'm in computer science and all the peeps here use some linux os. Which one should install on my virtualbox?
>>6675 Depends on what you're trying to accomplish.
>>6675 its all linux, the only difference is the fucking wallpaper and what garbage you want preinstalled
>>6675 Garuda because you'll fuck up and not know how to restore anything and use its built in snapshotting. Or you'll just delete it and start over forever on another distro, never realizing that only the package manager and repositories and preinstalled software are the difference.
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My Whatsapp account was hacked today. But I don't provide my verification code to anyone. Do you know the technique used by the hacker?
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I don't know how much you guys use windows 10 but do you know if because of the built in surveillance that you get even more emails from you ISP for downloading stuff or is it the same on Windows 7 (my current OS, where they only send you emails for certain popular torrents)?
>>6700 You don't get those emails because of Microsoft's spy telemetry, you get them because copyright jews have bots that scrape public trackers and report every IP they find on them. You would get those same emails even on Linux if you're torrenting copyrighted material without using a VPN, they have nothing to do with your operating system.
>>6701 Okay thank you. I am using a VPN whenever i torrent by the way.
>>6698 Take your meds... NOW!
>>6702 >(((VPN)))
How to separate the sound from the backing track and my guitar ie keep the back track on my right speaker and what I am playing on the left speaker or via versa? there are times where don't know sound which is coming from which.
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>>6711 I forgot to mention I plugged the guitar directly to my computer because I want to record. Maybe should plug it through the guitar amp then my computer? I have seen others do it this way but I don't have extra 6.3mm cord
>>6712 you only record through the amp if your using effects and want the gain or any effects from the amp, without the amp its just recording the guitar completely clean literally any recording software can split input channels, you just have to set it to stereo and set one channel all the way to the left and the other all the way to the right vb audio voicemeeter is nice, the free version has everything you need, just set one hardware input to microphone ( input jack ) and set the virtual input as whatever your computer says is "default playback", and then just set your speakers as hardware out
Don't use WhatsApp at all. The Lizardman is always watching at everything. But i have no clue what it could of been. Hope you get your account back!
>>6709 >(((VPN))) what difference does that make, when anon is already consooming antiwhite propaganda made by jewish producers
Does anyone here know how to install and run OpenIB or Infinity to make an imageboard? I tried following the instructions on git but I couldn't run it in a Ubuntu, CentOS, or Debian LAMP server, or blank in the other case
My mobile phone provider has decided to blacklist a bunch of website I browse on their DNS. I can easily access them on local wifi, so I know they're not down or anything like that. 1) Is there a way to change the preferred DNS on a 4G connection on mobileshit? 2) If the answer is negative, is there an in-browser addon, website or external application that can be used as a workaround to reach specific sites? 3) I've read several times that, although it's iffy, you can connect to specific websites using their IP addresses. The problem is that a lot of them throw me errors, I'm assuming it's because they require a specific port to connect to as well. Is there any way to send customized requests that bypass the DNS entirely (on mobileshit)?
>>6835 One google search shows how to change your DNS on android. So have you actually tried that yet or?
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hey, anons, how can i can build an entire VPN software descentralized and with functions like Tor browser but just for tunneling the IP?
>>6835 3g/4g doesnt use the ieee protocol, there is no dns, all packets MUST go to your mobile provider its impossible to change dns unless your using normal wifi ( ie. ieee 802.xx )
>>6836 Yeah, I've already done that, even successfully once before. The problem is that the mobile provider is forcing a blacklist regardless of what I use, probably because of what >>6838 said. I've been able to find a workaround for a single website, but otherwise I'm at a loss.
>>6841 Use a VPN then.
>>6835 >2) If the answer is negative, is there an in-browser addon website or external application that can be used as a workaround to reach specific sites? I think so, I remember some talk about them when torrent DNS' were being blocked left and right, but since I never had to use them I don't remember them. Worst case scenario see if you can get tor browser on Android. There are also web proxies you can use/purchase. Hide my Ass used to have a free one, but it's in general a shoddy alternative. Go for a VPN if it's that important for you to access those sites on the phone. Alternatively, if you're rooted (which you should) you can just hardcode the IPs on the hosts file to avoid the DNS block, but this will probably fail at some point in the future and be hard to debug. >3) I've read several times that, although it's iffy, you can connect to specific websites using their IP addresses. The problem is that a lot of them throw me errors, I'm assuming it's because they require a specific port to connect to as well. Is there any way to send customized requests that bypass the DNS entirely (on mobileshit)? That won't work because the TLS certificates are tied to the domain name and not the IP. Additionally if there's more than one site sharing the same host, the domain name is necessary to resolve which site you want to go. Adding the IP to the host file solves all the issues. >>6841 >The problem is that the mobile provider is forcing a blacklist regardless of what I use, Are you sure the block is at the DNS level and not at the network level? Can you reach the host through the bare IP? e.g. telnet <ip goes here nigger> 443
>change memory size in VM >LUKS encryption proceeds to always fail >change it back >LUKS encryption lets me through Someone explain this shit to me.
Do operating systems affect performance? For example, would a game run better on one OS vs another even if it was using the same hardware?
>>6887 There is a lot more going on when you bring other operating systems in the mix. Are we talking about native Linux versus native windows or wine linux versus native windows? Native Linux games are notorious for being buggy as shit because the developers don't know how to support the platform properly and the games were originally written for windows anyways. So windows games through wine ironically tend to perform better than native linux games with less bugs. But those wine games generally do run worse than on windows becaues the API calls need to be translated into vulkan. But hypothetically if we were to take a game with native vulkan support it might run faster on Linux since it doesn't have all that windows overhead. But generally speaking it doesn't really work out that way. Usually games on Linux either match windows performance or lag 10% behind. Or if you're talking Windows version performance I think it's a negligible difference between each one.
>>6885 its a vm idiot, everything is virtual, memory is created as a virtual stack on top of everything else, the offsets are determined at runtime because they completely depend on the system already running and already managing the pagefile, the luks header never changes and only contains the offsets for every chunk of the master key from the starting address, and since this is a virtual volume it doesnt have congruent addressing meaning [0x0000354] is actually at [0x03ff8934 + 354] with enough paging and not enough ram an offset will eventually point to garbage
>>6892 But I've changed VM memory sizes for encrypted partitions around for years and this has only recently become an issue. Not once have I experienced this before the last few months.
>>6893 so what segfaults dont exist until they do
>>6893 For what it's worth I just made a test on a VM and it worked fine. Try dropping to a console and opening the volume manually with cryptsetup and verbose options. If you get to the password prompt just hit enter until it drops you, it's like 50 tries so it takes a while. >>6892 You talk like a fag and your shit's all retarded.
>>6902 It seems to be distro specific to MX Linux. I've tested it with other distros and have not gotten the same results.
When I try to run Tor, I get told that a file I have isn't there. In more detail, when I try to run 'tor' through the command line by inputting 'Downloads/tor-browser-linux64-8.5.4_en-US/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/./tor' the output gives 'Downloads/tor-browser-linux64-8.5.4_en-US/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/./tor: error while loading shared libraries: libevent-2.1.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory' which is total nonsense as said file is literally in the same location, as I confirmed by checking my file manager and through the command line. Inputting 'ls Downloads/tor-browser-linux64-8.5.4_en-US/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/' outputs 'libcrypto.so.1.1 libssl.so.1.1 PluggableTransports libevent-2.1.so.7 libstdc++ tor', clearly showing that libevent-2.1.so.7 is there! Also, the 'tor' file runs when I connect Tor browser to the Tor network, which I found out by checking my system's processes while the Tor browser was connected to the network. Why on Earth won't it run when I try it through the command line and why am I getting an incorrect error message?
Looking at buying a VPN for torrenting, bypassing region blocks, and potentially some privacy for browsing certain websites. I was considering crypto/cash to pay, but from a privacy standpoint does that even matter if the VPN connects to my IP address (where I'm the only resident) and can still track to me individually? Assuming I'm not wanted dead by the FBI, does it matter if payments show up on my credit card, or is that still an issue?
>>6910 Are you trying to start the tor service or the tor browser? If you're just running the browser, I copied this from one of the shortcuts. Edit it to your correct script location. ~/tor-browser/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach
>>6924 The Tor service.
>>6923 >I was considering crypto/cash to pay, but from a privacy standpoint does that even matter if the VPN connects to my IP address (where I'm the only resident) and can still track to me individually? Assuming I'm not wanted dead by the FBI, does it matter if payments show up on my credit card, or is that still an issue? The payment info attack surface is mostly insurance and a sign of good faith from the VPN provider. Mullvad is the recommended VPN around here. If their claims of no logs are true then it shouldn't really matter that much if they have your payment information, or how long they keep it. But the fact that they do let you pay in cash shows that they aren't particularly interested in having your personal information to begin with. So if you aren't concerned about the feds calling up the VPN to subpoena your payment information then I would say it's not something to care that much about. There are hypothetical scenarios in which your credit card company knowing you use a VPN might hypothetically get you on a watch list, but there are about a million other things you've probably already done if you're on a site like this that got you on that watch list long before now anyways. The glow nigger watch lists are fucking massive. Not having a goybook account puts you on one too.
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This is probably a dumb question but how do people find out someone's location when they recklessly post without tor or proxy/vpn? Because usually that information isn't on the site, is there a program that doxes someone based on a post they they make? Specifically on twitter and image boards?
>>6932 >This is probably a dumb question but how do people find out someone's location when they recklessly post without tor or proxy/vpn? Depends on an infinite number of factors. >is there a program that doxes someone based on a post they they make? No. Someone's location can only be exposed if they expose it themselves. Or if the admin of a site exposes their IP, and even then an IP only gives a rough area of where they live to random people. To the feds it can track them down to where they live though. The only other aspect I can think of specifically on lynxchan based boards is that ASN's are exposed to board owners. And an ASN can tell you what state someone is in, roughly. But there is no magic leet hacker program that people can use to discover where people live, at least not for twitter and imageboards. When people get doxed it's because they've done some stupid shit like leaving EXIF data in pictures they post or using a repeated username/email that they used on another side a decade ago that has their dox in it.
>This is probably a dumb question but how do people find out someone's location when they recklessly post without tor or proxy/vpn? Like >>6933 said, there's numerous factors involved. Sometimes one thing is enough, and other times the person was retarded and gave multiple clues. >leaving EXIF data with your location in uploaded pictures (this used to be the most common, 4chan and most normalfag sites now strip EXIF by default because of retards doxing themselves) >site owner posting your IP publicly (very rare, but it's not usually enough to dox you without other info) >posting pictures of local stuff (even without EXIF) that when searched pull up a specific location >discussing local stuff >leaving clues to other online accounts that may have personal info (ie, newfags on imageboards filling out the email they used for their facebook account) >someone finds out the poster is X who was already doxed in the past >is there a program that doxes someone based on a post they they make? There's no program that does this automatically. Even if your posts are analyzed by a bot, it would have to be read by a person to check for a match depending on the information or posting style. I've definitely found someone across imageboards before, but that person was extremely autistic and I recognized his posting style and images he likes to upload. Unless your posting is extremely autistic, you discuss specific things obsessively, or you post like someone who shouldn't be here, no one can tell which posts are yours.
How do I into .bit domains? How can I find .bit domain addresses? The namecoin documentation is contradictory. Observe: The main site from the FAQ ( https://www.namecoin.org/dot-bit/browsing-instructions/ ) tells me to simultaneously: 1 - Use nmcontrol. 2 - Download the entire namecoin wallet. And then when I browse to nmcontrol, I find the github page ( https://github.com/namecoin/nmcontrol ), which says it's deprecated, use ncdns! And both the install instructions for nmcontrol and ncdns are...what the fuck? They mention nothing about the wallet or the qt client (are those needed?). Which one do I have to build? For ncdns, which version of Go do I need? And...do I really have to install Go to run this? What are the python dependencies for nmcontrol? Will using nmcontrol still work? Is there an easier way I can check out/browse .bit domains? Is this really the best documentation out there?
>>6933 >>6934 Then am i being paranoid always posting with Tor/proxy/vpn, or is it just good practice to hide your IP? I thought you could get doxed just by posting without tor/proxy/vpn. A long time ago i used to post on 4chan without anything and someone threatened to dox me by naming the state i live in, how did they do it, did they get my IP from some 4chan archive site? How does twitter dox/cancel people/celebrities so often is it because they have pictures on their Instagram with EXIF information?
>>6938 >Then am i being paranoid always posting with Tor/proxy/vpn, or is it just good practice to hide your IP? It is generally always good practice to hide your IP, but it also depends on your individual threat model. >I thought you could get doxed just by posting without tor/proxy/vpn. A long time ago i used to post on 4chan without anything and someone threatened to dox me by naming the state i live in, how did they do it, did they get my IP from some 4chan archive site? Maybe it was a mod who had access to your IP on the back end. Maybe he just guessed. Maybe you exposed some information unknowingly. >How does twitter dox/cancel people/celebrities so often is it because they have pictures on their Instagram with EXIF information? Home purchases are public information. It's trivial to get someones address if you know their full name. The people you're describing are exposing enough information to make it very easy to discover more information. It's similar to if you wanted to crack someones passwords. If you can get enough basic information about them you can in all likelihood crack their password within minutes. Without that information to begin with though bruteforcing that password wouldn't be feasible. It's why it's dangerous to engage in facebook surveys where advertising companies try and get you to answer stupid questions about which Harry Potter house you belong to. Those surveys are designed to scrape the same information hackers can use to fuck with you. I could be wrong about this but I seem to recall twitter having an issue where they made it really simple to figure out if someones email had a twitter account. That kind of information can be quite useful. The problem was that instead of showing the message "If this account exists an email has been sent to recover your password", it instead confirmed or denied if that email was associated with an account at all. It's not all that relevant to what you're talking about but it's an example of a website being exploited to get information about a target, and an example of very shitty security design on twitters part.
I have a LUKS encrypted data only HDD and when I'm copying a large file to that disc the IO scheduler starves processes. This means that if I'm listening to music, the music would stop playing for several seconds while the music player waits for the IO scheduler to allow it to access the disk. The default scheduler is mq-deadline, and I switched to bfq since it should fix the issue but the issue persists. I imagine this might be because I'm setting the scheduler for the raw device (e.g. /dev/sda) instead of the dm-crypt virtual device (e.g. /dev/mapper/whatever which might link to /dev/dm-1), but /sys/block/dm-1/queue/scheduler doesn't give me any option to set schedulers on the dm-crypt device and ignores anything I try to set if I write anyway. I also tried setting the IO priority of my music player to realtime and max priority using ionice but the behavior is still not perfect. Any ideas?
Anyone ever use Onion Wallet? Is it just a bitcoin scam?
>>6939 >I could be wrong about this but I seem to recall twitter having an issue where they made it really simple to figure out if someones email had a twitter account. Well most websites used to let you search for accounts by an email address, including Facebook. Old forum accounts even let you display certain info publicly (email, Skype, etc) so you could reach out to them elsewhere. Or if you're doxing them, just confirm more accounts that belong to them and build more of a profile. A lot of websites are moving away from that obviously due to increase user privacy and reduce doxing.
>>6938 >someone threatened to dox me by naming the state i live in You might have talked like someone from your state or he guessed a state at random. Chances are anon was fucking you unless you actually posted something that could narrow your location further than just your state. People have threatened to dox/hack me all the time in imageboards or online games. Nothing ever happens because they're full of shit 99% of the time. I live in Ohio, but I'm not retarded enough to give away what city I'm in. I'm confident you can't dox me from just that If anything getting doxed would encourage me to finally leave this state. >did they get my IP from some 4chan archive site? 4chan archive sites can't save the IP as that info is lost when the original thread is deleted. Unless there were security issues with 4chan at the time, that info shouldn't have been public.
>>6935 I've been continuing with this "how the fuck can I get namecoin to work at all" project. - Supposedly, it's built into the Tor browser, but only in nightly bundles that I can't build. - There's a QT GUI mentioned in the documentation, but there's no download link for it in the betas page. I've not been able to find it anywhere. - I've been able to build the ncdns (v.0.2.2) file, but it just keeps spitting "port 53 blocked, need permissions plox" and when I try to sudo it up, it says "Daemon must not run as root." So, which is it, computer?! - The closest I've gotten is trying to use the ncprop279 executable and StemNS (v0.11). I edited the StemNS settings to run off of port 9151, which Tor uses, and I edited the settings_services to include the .bit and .bit.onion domains. And then because I've been using the portable version of the Tor browser, I found in the TorBrowser/Data/Tor directory is where the torrc-defaults config file is to edit in the line "__LeaveStreamsUnattached 1", and I learned it HAS to be the torrc-defaults file you do this on, NOT the torrc file. I don't know why, though. Anyways, when I do that, start up the Tor browser, then run "python3.9 stemns.py" I initially kept getting "bottle not installed errors." I tried "pip3 install bottle" and my computer telling me, assuring me that the bottle module was indeed installed, but to no avail. Instead, I found the bottle debian package, installed that, and got stemns.py to run off of python3.9 like above. Finally, everything ran with no error message and what I got was: [notice] Successfully connected to the Tor control port [debug] Now monitoring stream connections. [debug] Bootstrap initial progress 100% Bootstrap complete, running callback... [debug] Now monitoring boostrap. [sic] [debug] Now monitoring shutdown. ...and it hung. Tor still does not load federalistpapers.bit.onion . Hell, Tor doesn't load any page at all when I do this. I have to kill the process and go back in and remove that line from the torrc file to get it to work again. How the fuck do I get this to work? At this point I'm beginning to question whether this is all a giant, elaborate troll. There are so many different executables and ways to try to get it to run and abandoned subprojects.
I'm trying to achieve something using WINE and virtual desktops. Yet for some reason running games under virtual desktops makes them go off to the bottom right of the screen by about 30% of the window real estate. When I put the games into windows mode I physically can not drag them further left to get them to cover the virtual desktop properly. They can be moved further right. I've changed the resolution of the game windows, the resolution of the virtual desktop, changed from borderless windowed to windowed to fullscreen, nothing seems to fix it.
>>6946 Also I can physically drag the virtual desktop to make it bigger to see the rest of the bottom right of the game window.
>>6946 >>6947 https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=31795 I found this forum post which seems to describe the same issue more accurately. It's clearly a problem with a multiple monitor configuration but I can't figure out how to fix it, beyond disabling my other monitors or stretching the window so it spans all my monitors then just placing the windowed version of the game centered.
>>6948 Never mind it seems like it's solved in wine-staging 7.0. Using that over proton-ge fixed the issue.
>>6945 Still trying. I went ahead and am trying to go the entire wallet going. I found a QT GUI there, but nothing about being able to lookup .bit or .bit.onion domains. After reading more of the install guides, this time I tried to install ncdns and nmcontrol. Both need to be built from source. All the documentation I saw kept telling me "Use ncdns," so I tried building that and none of the makefiles work. I found out it only work on Golang 1.15 (or maybe 1.16? I found some conflicting sources on that). However, I can not in Debian get Golang 1.15 installed. I can get 1.17 without crazy broken packages all over the place, but not 1.15. So no go there. So, I tried nmcontrol but...from the documentation I can not parse what the dependencies are. I've tried various versions of Python. And now it's doubly hopeless because in doing so my Python build environment is now COMPLETELY destroyed. It doesn't even know what 'import' means anymore ffs. I'll try removing every Python package I can tomorrow and reinstalling, but I have little hope because there's at least SOME documentation of some example commands to run in ncdns, but there's nothing I can find for nmcontrol that doesn't contradict with another piece of documentation. The last thing on my spreadsheet (because there were so many different versions, packages, and files to try scattered around the documentation that I made a goddam spreadsheet), is the ConsensusJ package. I actually have hope for that one because the documentation explicitly tells me NOT to use it--and at this stage that probably means it's the best one of the bunch that I should have started with. Beyond that, I don't know what to do. I'm going to also leave my computer running tomorrow to try completely syncing the entire goddam blockchain and see if there's one command that maybe might at least let me do something like an "nslookup by hand," but from what I can see of the documentation that won't work either. What absolutely frustrates me is that from what I can see of all the downloads, it looks like all the Windows downloads are completely pre-built with none of this bullshit. He leaves an e-mail saying he'll only respond to gpg-encrypted mail, but his best documentation are scattered hints on his fucking Twitter. Yeah, sure, the privacy-obsessed censorship-resistance needing fanatics are...the Tweeting Windows users. Way to know your demographics. I know I'm a whiny little bitch, but I am even moreso becoming convinced that this is one elaborate, beautiful trolling operation.
>>6948 When this happens to me I just windows+shift+arrow it to the right monitor. On Cinnamon at least this combination moves windows between monitors. I'm sure you can configure a similar combination for other DEs.
Which is the best Office alternative for old Winbloats versions? Possibly one that isn't riddled with ads.
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Is there a way to make this device: https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/usb-adapter/tl-wn823n/ work on a VirtualBox Linux VM without needing to connect to the internet at all? If I can get it working this way and combine this with a persistent spoofed MAC address I effectively have infinite burner laptops.
>>6955 Only a nigger would have been able to come up with something so retarded.
>>6957 How is it retarded? The USB Wi-Fi Adapter is the only active interface and interacts exclusively with the VM. If I'm worried that I'm beginning to get device profiled I can simply create a new ghost device and hop to that. How is the idea of chameleon virtual hardware retarded? Are you implying that it won't work? If so, please explain.
>>6959 Because it makes no difference what interface you use to access your network. What advantage do you think this has? The layer 2 information (e.g. MAC addresses) is not propagated outside your network (i.e. it doesn't go to the internet, neither your ISP nor websites receive it or know anything about it). Hell any VM hypervisor allows you to change the NIC MAC address at will so if you just use a bridged adapter in your VM what difference is there? But to answer your question if it's an USB device you can just do USB passthrough with like 3 clicks and then the VM has direct hardware access to the device as if it were directly connected to it so be my guest.
>>6965 That's the thing. This isn't "my network" so I do need to be able to mask the MAC address as well as the device ID. Also maybe I wasn't being clear the way I phrased it, but I'm struggling to get the VM to recognize the device at all. The "Installation Guide" says I need to download the drivers and compile them myself, but when I follow the instructions nothing seems to happen and the VM still can't detect it no matter what.
>>6972 Are you passing through the USB?
>>6973 im passing gas at you right now cringe retard
>>6972 I think you're really overthinking this, but whatever. >I'm struggling to get the VM to recognize the device at all Did you try examining dmesg to see how Linux is recognizing the device? Also see if lsusb recognizes it correctly.
Is 7GIF spyware?
>>6978 If it's proprietary it's spyware.
networking brainlet here, should I use different port numbers for multiple ip cameras? like if I have 192.168.1.110:554 should 192.168.1.111 use a different one? Can you clog a port with too much traffic? another question; will anyone notice if I intermittently use non-FCC approved wifi settings for a camera running in access point mode? I shoved a no-IR pi camera into a dry box with a power bank so I can push streams directly to a tablet. Use case is watching my generator during extended outages without needing a UPS for my regular network/cams should someone unplug it during attempted theft.
>>6986 1. No, once a packet leaves the interface, it's just another ethernet packet with a destination. The port number only matters to the end devices (obviously, you can filter packets using the destination and/or originating ports, but that's a different story). 2. Probably not, but I have no idea if it will freak out other wireless devices in range, depending on the exact setting(s) you're talking about.
>>6973 >>6975 My apologizes, but it was a while since I last attempted this and now I don't remember exactly how I got the driver compiled during my previous attempts. >make: *** No rule to make target 'clean'. Stop. This was attempted on a Linux Mint 20.1 VM.
>>6986 What the other fag said. Additionally, current year +8 switches are self learning and use microsegmentation so each packet will reach only the intended destination and the each device will not even know about the traffic for the rest. >will anyone notice if I intermittently use non-FCC approved wifi settings I really doubt it, no one even knows how shit works and if something stops working all they'll conclude is "device bad", not that a normalfag or even a power user would have any way to diagnose radio interference. >>7000 You're supposed to run make in a folder where there's a file named "Makefile" present.
>>7000 you normally dont need a driver for a usb type lsusb to see if it even exists in the vm, it not you need to change your vm settings to allow access to usb ports from inside the vm
>>7001 Ok thanks. That got the command to work. But I don't think it 'compiled' correctly. This is what came out when I followed the instructions: >message is too long Output is in the attached text file. I tried looking up what version of gcc was installed with which gcc just to be sure, but the output was: /usr/bin/gcc and that doesn't help. >>7002 It's a usb wi-fi adapter, I'm not sure if that makes a difference. I did what you said with the attached screenshot, so the vm can see the device at least. The only other thing I can think of is maybe I'm not interfacing with the device correctly in order to get it properly configured and running? Again, my goal is to have this wi-fi adapter spoofing its MAC address at all times and do all internet connections through it.
>>7010 you dont need an adapter to spoof mac or a vm, the vm is pointless too since the mac address is written in the hardware of the adapter not the computer, just install macchanger sudo apt install macchanger then do sudo ifconfig wlan0 down sudo macchanger -A wlan0 sudo ifconfig wlan0 up wlan0 will probably be different on your machine, could be wlo1 or something else, type sudo ifconfig alone to see what the actual name and number is and replace wlan0 with it, also you have to spoof the address before you connect to a network and it will reset whenever the device goes down, the permanent mac of the adapter will never change though
>>3 Any good debloating guide for Windows 10?
>>7016 some groups and policies can be easily disabled, but its better to follow a guide
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>>7011 <just use macchanger lol Read my other posts you illiterate nigger. If macchanger would work for my situation then I would have just used macchanger and not even bothered posting in this topic. I'm not in a living situation where I have control over my own router. >sudo apt install The whole point of this is to be able to have all of the privacy settings correctly configured before ever having to interface with any network even once. Relying on sudo apt install for any step in this process completely negates the entire point of what I'm trying to accomplish. >the vm is pointless The VM adds an additional layer of defense against tracking by masking information about my host system. I can have the host and VM use different OSes. I can also use these burner "ghost computers" to compartmentalize activities if I'm in a situation where I need to interact with (((javascript))) heavy sites in order to get something done. Furthermore: - Since I'm trying to mask my machine's identity from a network I don't control, I need to be able to mask the device name as well, and macchanger can't do that. - The VM itself does not seem to be able to get connected to this network, as the (((sign in page))) throws a shitfit. I suspect that some (((javascript))) is being used to detect some mismatched MAC addresses and/or device names. There isn't any way to make a VM access the network card directly, so I need to rely on a USB wi-fi adapter to make those connections instead. Even though that just puts the burden on the adapter rather than the computer, this is still easier to compartmentalize then the whole machine. And I'm not going to go through the hassle of doing a fresh install of a distro every single fucking time I want to swap my machine's identity when the retarded developers don't have network connections turned off by default during the installation process. Either help me get this device working like I asked you to, give me an alternative solution that does meet my needs, or go piss on an electric fence you autistic faggot.
>>7034 learn the difference between hardware and software learn what vm escape/ace is learn how chroot works learn where /etc/hosts is learn what is actually in a packet learn what a port scan is if you dont even know basic security then no, there is no solution for you
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>>7036 <you're wrong but I'm not going to explain to you why <anyone who doesn't submit to our autistic coding cult doesn't deserve strong security/privacy You are the cancer that killed computer freedom. You will never escape Bill Gate's death grip. You will never have your precious 'year of the Linux desktop'. >LURN LURN LURN LURN LURN LURN I can play this game too faggot: Learn why proprietary software keeps kicking your ass. Learn what FOSS does wrong and Windows does right. Learn how to gain leverage and influence over the tech world. Learn what the end user's needs are. Learn what makes an interface design intuitive. Learn what makes an invention or tool successful enough to be widely adopted. Learn what the win conditions are for beating big tech, and how to approach them realistically. If you don't even know the basics of how to be competitive then no, there is no future for free software. >Your next line is: "Install gentoo" "Install gentoo" is the freetard version of "trust the plan".
>>7039 no one cares loser in the end, youre the one getting smoked by dns leaks while not even realizing youre using ipv6 and thinking your 1337 proteccted by using 7 vpns on a vm, its fucking laughable how little you know and how you sperg out when pointing out your stupidity
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>>7041 >no one cares loser So the assessment in pic 4 is spot on and you're not going to do what it takes to overcome the enemy? Good to know. Also no amount of FOSS autism is going to save you from when the bullets start flying, either from civil war or globohomo going door to door.
cry harder
>I have no counterargument and I must pilpul
I'm getting into linux and am liking it a lot so far but i'm not sure where to even start with learning how to use the command line. do any anons have tips on where you started off? i'm using lubuntu (2gb of ram doesnt leave me with many other options), the guides ive found only covers basics like creating directories and the man command, ive also figured out a few things from when i had to get it to recognize some propriatary drivers and they werent appearing in the list in LXQt settings, but i feel like i'm nowhere near using linux to its full potential.
>>7053 As long as you're curious you'll get the hang of it as time goes by and you actually need it and begin researching and using it. You'll eventually want to automate one thing and you'll search online for how to do it and learn one trick, and then after learning several tricks you'll be able to combine them to make your own without that much help. It can be pretty frustrating at first though, it's a very quirky language which can have sometimes rather difficult to predict results. You'll want to get familiar with the usual programs and their useful options (e.g. cat, grep -C --color, ls -d ./*/, ls -ltr, ls -lSr, tail, head, less, etc.), then learn the basic operations such as conditionals and tests ( -eq, -gt, -f, -d, -e, etc), loops, subshell execution, mathematical operations, variable substitution and word splitting, and then more advanced but extremely useful stuff like awk (for parsing and getting structured textual data, such as stuff from ls, ps, and CSV files), regexes, and sed (for search and replace with regexes).
>>7010 Did you install the kernel headers like the tutorial awkwardly and briefly mentions? If not, try apt-get -s install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
>>7057 Sorry, remove the -s from the command to actually get them to install if needed.
>>7053 If you're limited on RAM consider installing i3wm and using that instead of a desktop environment. Only if you're interested in tinkering though.
>>6951 Continuing. I dl'ed the entire namecoin chain, and...I still can not get it to query. nmcontrol, ncdns do not work. There is a call hidden in documentation to get namecoin to supposedly say who owns an address but...that sadly also does not work. Moreover, there are a lot of dependency issues even if it weren't just my system's particular dependencies. But, I have finally found what I want: https://bitname.ru/index.php?lang=en http://proxy.bitname.ru/ A single pair of really fucking sketchy Russian sites where I can search through and find .bit addresses. These are the only sites I could find that weren't dead links. Every namecoin dev says not to do this, but at every step of this journey I've found I've made the most progress (e.g., actually getting some programs to run) by explicitly ignoring the devs.
>>7057 Apologies for the late reply. I did figure out what the issue was on my own though. Turns out all I need to do to the device to be recognized was simply disconnect the VM's ethernet connection to the host machine's wireless card and the USB adapter will work just fine. Now it's just a matter of hardening the remaining vectors of VM escapes and other leaks. If you have any recommended guides worth sharing for people who take this same approach that are relatively easy to follow it would save me a lot of time and trouble and I would really appreciate that.
>>3 I recently got a 500gb external drive for file transfers and haven't use it yet. Is there a way to ensure my files remain private?
>>7100 Private from people who might get physical access to the drive? You can encrypt it with something like Veracrypt.
>>7101 Also if you do encrypt it don't forget your password. All that data is gone forever if you do
>>7102 >>7101 Nice! This will work
would a iso/cd based update installed via system bios that replaces a damaged hosts file with a non damaged hosts file work
>>7099 Haven't really looked into it specifically but a general purpose piece of advice is to disable all the conveniences and shortcuts that the hypervisor provides (clipboard sharing, file drag and drop, etc.) since these are controlled backdoors between the host and guest and they're usually a part of the puzzle when trying to escape a VM. >>7107 Are you a bot?
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Is it okay to use a CRT monitor without its stand or would it cause problems like overheating on the bottom? If it needs to have a stand but they don't make parts for it anymore, what would you suggest to have the heavy beast rest on? Just want to be safe than sorry since I haven't used one in a long time. The stand has a two bits of plastic missing, but it seemed okay to rest on with the few remaining pieces, however I'm wary of taking chances.
>>7164 theres almost no heat from a crt, its essentially just a microwave, the stand is just so you can angle the screen the 'classic' setup was putting the pc horizontally on a table and just putting the crt flat on top of it
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>>7165 Thankfully the monitor works good once I plugged everything in. At least I don't have to worry about the stand anymore. Now here's a weirder question related to it. It doesn't display any picture when I connect the VGA cable to the desktop PC which runs Linux Mint. Prior to the CRT, it was previously connected to a LCD with HDMI which displayed fine. I connected the cable to one of my laptops which also runs Mint, however the orange light that was near the monitor's power button turned green & it got autodected to show whatever was on my laptop. It seems no matter if I move the mouse or press some keys, I can't get the same result on the desktop. I don't believe Mint on the desktop is too outdated & I have tried different power plugs which give the same problem. Any pointers are greatly appreciated.
>>7169 I forgot to mention that I cannot access the settings on the monitor because of the orange light so I can't fiddle around with different values unless it's on a working connection.
>>7169 If nothing else works you might want to try an HDMI to VGA adapter.
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>>7172 I tried a much older desktop tower to see if it gave me the same problem as my other one for not utilizing the VGA adapter, but strangely enough it worked fine displaying the picture on the CRT. When I go to the display settings, it proudly shows what kind of monitor its connected to & the name. Then I put back the Mint desktop on with only it's VGA cable connected on the newer LCD monitor I've had, it still doesn't work. What is really strange, is when I disconnected the VGA & used HDMI, the picture came up & got out of power saving mode. I don't think it's a monitor issue I'm having, thinking about it. It might be something in the Linux Mint desktop that doesn't allow VGA to work. The port is there, it's not damaged as far as I know. I have one more LCD monitor I can try it on, that one is older & only has VGA. Would it be work to swap parts out of the older motherboards into the new one? I'm not sure what to think.
>>7203 vga is serial, its supposed to 'just work' even without an os, the video card is probably broken or has bad firmware, just swap it
>>7203 Quick update Tried out the older LCD Monitor that only has VGA on the Mint desktop & it still doesn't display. >>7222 (lucky!) Would there be problems if I swapped the bad part in Mint with a working one from my older desktops? I'm guessing that due to their age I won't get far from taking something out of an old motherboard & putting it in the more modern one.
>>7203 Maybe try connecting both monitors and see if xrandr detects whatever is connected to the VGA output, but ultimately everything points to >>7222 being right. Perhaps boot with the HDMI monitor, connect the VGA monitor when the system is up, and see if dmesg shows anything of interest. I'm not sure what part you think you can swap to fix this and I can't think of how to debug this further other than maybe seeing if there's no dirt in the holes of the VGA port on the GPU or doing some hardcore searching for issues like yours on the same hardware or distro. Maybe try a live CD of a different distro just to try something else but as the other anon said the monitor should be brought up when the BIOS boots, much before the OS is booted. If I were you I'd start looking into workarounds like using an HDMI or DisplayPort adapter if you have free ports in your GPU.
Which game engine(s) are good? Is there one better than all the others? All I know is that unity sucks.
>>7265 it depends
>>7265 whats your criteria unity is really good if you want something simple, fast to make and with a massive bank of premade assets unreal is basically on the other side of the spectrum from unity of course the real way to do it is to make your own, a 2d engine is real easy, 3d is impossible (for a real nontrivial engine) unless you use an sdk like opengl, or sdl (stay away from fucking sdl its cancecr)
>>7016 >Any good debloating guide for Windows 10? pirate or buy ntlite, run through it a few times and learn by trial and error install your test iso files to either a spare pc or a virtual machine
>>7265 >Which game engine(s) are good? >>7271 >whats your criteria whats the game engine least likely to make end users complain about the engine choice
Is the whole jpeg xl vs avif thing something I should give a shit about?
Why is doing a reverse proxy with a domain considered more secure that simply exposing the ports and directly connecting to your IP? Is it because a domain is more obfuscated than an IP is and less likely to be port scanned by attackers? Could a domain have more or less entropy for strictly private use?
anyone here had success with GPU-P on hyper-v my gayming laptop came with win10 pro i wanna test it out before nuking OS drive
alright guys i am having problems deciding on which edition to choose should i pick w10 Education or Pro Workstation it looks like they have same features but edu has a bit more goodies but also more bloat (edu is also based on workstation and its the biggest folder in the install.wim file after i checked the xml inside) also where do you anons get your win10 enterprise ISOs tb-rg adguard does not include it
>>7316 windows 10 ltsc is the best version of windows imo. the one from m0nkrus is pretty good. if you want genuine untouched iso's look on the r/piracy subreddit
wtf is the point of unions outside 'muh pseudo registers' literally every possible use case has some better, simpler and cleaner alternative like typecasting, pointer arithmetic etc.
>>7250 I opened the desktop case. The VGA port that didn't work also had the same thing happening when I plugged in the HDMI cable from the modern monitor. No matter what display cable was plugged in, nothing displayed. Meanwhile, the working HDMI connection is from the other port that is on the motherboard. There's no VGA port there other than something that looks like it with the two screws I would need to twist down, but it has 24 holes & another 4 on the side. I guess my desktop is too modern for CRTs. Either that or something I don't know about the graphics card.
>>7321 https://isofiles.bd581e55.workers.dev/Windows%2010/21H2/November%202021%20(Initial)/ is this official and untouched? had to do a little bit of digging on the /fwt/ pasta should i pick the consumer or business ISO? (havent tried it yet on my VMs will download later) googling for for the iso images yields dangerous modified downloads imma steer clear from that
>>7129 no, some os update are something screwed up the host file and made it empty so now the computer won't boot up
>>7352 NVM i checked the hashes after multiple download attempts (anyone getting this google drive error for some reason when you open the directories?) guys this is legit untouched the business ISO is recommended since win10 home sucks
After never having used QEMU/KVM before in my entire life I am legitimately baffled by how fucking retarded this software and its front-ends are compared to VirtualBox. The way you had to go about having multiple displays was the last straw for me writing this shit off as flat out fucking retarded. I'd rather deal with VirtualBox and its shit performance than sitting around modifying XML files for basic features. KVM fucking sucks.
>>7416 same here bro vbox is super flexiible and accepts lots of disk formats the only reason i use vmware is due to the powerful graphics for running my pirated dx11 games other vm software just accepts single formats which are hard to convert KVM does not even have a shared folders feature unlike vbox but on the other hand there is an option to hide the vm and do gpu-passthough/SR-IOV hyper-v settings on the other hand looks like toddler version of vmware >modifying the XMLs sometimes i do that for vmware too to unlock hidden features
I'm having issues with the unofficial icecat windows version (https://github.com /muslayev/icecat-win64) not playing .mp4. I think it might not be recognizing the capability of my OS to play these files since it keeps throwing up a banner advising I download the media feature pack, it also doesn't look like the this version of icecat includes the open H264 extension that typical firefox uses to play streaming mp4. I can just go back to iridium but I'd prefer to not be forced onto another chromium offshoot. Is anyone else encountering this problem?
>>7418 Just use librewolf.
>>7419 I attempted your suggestion, Librewolf had the same issue. I could attempt to replicate it with an official firefox installl, but mozilla are mega fags and I'd rather not have their gay on my computer.
>>7416 >The way you had to go about having multiple displays Do you mean having a VM display on more than one monitor? I've been curious about how to do that since I've never seen it done, but then again I don't really have any need for it. >>7417 >KVM does not even have a shared folders feature I think it does.
>>7421 >Do you mean having a VM display on more than one monitor? I've been curious about how to do that since I've never seen it done, but then again I don't really have any need for it. Yes. You need to use remote-viewer to do it and not virt-manager. It's not that it's difficult but it's just so fucking convoluted and stupid. The functionality for all these basic features exists but unless you're cracking open fucking man pages you wouldn't have any clue how to do any of it. And half of it requires random other dependencies to even get working in the first place.
>>7420 Are you using Windows 7? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1047078 Librewolf is just firefox with the gay disabled so it should be identical to mainline firefox otherwise.
>>7423 I'm on Win10 LTSC-N.
>>7423 Specifically the 2019 release.
cant stop laughing at this took me hours to figure out how jewgle kept blocking my ip all of a sudden, completely forgot that I was using nigger as an id instead of randomizing it for literally over a year, some soydev must have finally seen a bunch of niggers in their server logs and decided to block it lmfao
>>7433 use furry software get cum string quality code
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so umm, how to properly crack windows 10 these days? I don't have time to try shit out. I used daz loader many years ago, but not sure if that shit still works. can someone please link me up with something?
>>7397 can't you just download the official isos?
>>7474 nevermind I just used github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
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Does anyone happen to have a Wine install of Sketchup that went successfully? I've tried a few things and the options via Lutris and it's just going plop on me every time.
I just thought of another option, maybe Darling would work to install the Mac version of Sketchup. Don't see much in search results about attempts at that but I could.
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>>7508 Fug, that's a no go, I guess.
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>>7433 banger post lmao
Sometimes the Reply button doesn't do anything for me on this site. Then a couple days later it starts working again without me changing anything. What might cause that? I'm using LibreWolf. Disabling my VPN and uBlock Origin doesn't make a difference. Neither does clearing cache/cookies.
>>7543 Sysop keeps fucking with the site JS to gaslight you. Check the meta thread.
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Can someone tell me what the fuck is going on with server CPUs lately? The old split between Intel E3/E5 Xeon made perfect sense to me. You could have multiple of these in one mobo for NUMA. Now, there are Threadripper, EPYC, Xeon 'scalable', and Xeon W to think about. Xeon diversifying product line to such an extent just seems to be obfuscating information so I can no longer compare apples to apples. Can someone please explain to me the lay of the land for server CPUs so I can make reasonable decisions about this shit again? I have lost the narrative somewhere. Thank you.
What is a good site to upload any file extension and that doesn't require JS (like anonfiles) or email? I know of blackcloud but it seems to only work well with very small files (if I don't want to provide an email): bcloudwenjxgcxjh6uheyt72a5isimzgg4kv5u74jb2s22y3hzpwh6id.onion Second question: have any of you tried any of the below? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_distributions_without_systemd If so, would you recommend it as a general use (main) OS, or in any ocasion at all?
>>7553 MX Linux is decent.
>>7553 never tried a modern non-systemd distro, but it sounds like a pain in the ass these days
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Are there any disposable email sites that still work for setting up a protonmail account without needing SMS/captcha? I used to use the pokemail domian through guerrillamail, but it seems like they've caught on and geurrillamail no longer works.
>>7553 I have been using Artix ever since Gentoo had an admin shakeup in 2019. I like openrc. >>7555 it's only a pain in the ass if you want to run plex or gnome3/freedesktop everything else is pretty easy breezy
>>7547 Threadripper is for desktops, EPYC is for server boards. Intel is shit and should be avoided if possible.
Does anyone know any program to hack bank accounts like Pablo Borges from Brazil?
How are flatpaks managed? Do you have to be an official developer to upload them to flathub or is it like the AUR where anyone can do it? Because I see software on flathub like RPCS3 that isn't mentioned on the RPCS3 website anywhere.
>>7554 >>7558 Thx for the replies. I was actually already thinking about those two. https://www.slant.co/versus/22464/22501/~artix-linux_vs_mx-linux Guess I`ll try Artix and Alpine on a vm. The community for Void is probably too small, so I don`t plan on trying it any time soon.
>>7553 Try https://nofun.catbox.moe/ I guess. >>7575 >Alpine I had to use that for work a few years ago and I wanted to blow my brains out. I really don't think Desktop use is what they had in mind with that distro. Maybe it has changed at this point but it was just really behind everything else back then.
>>7554 I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, Systemd/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Systemd plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning Systemd system made useful by the Systemd init system, daemons and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the Systemd system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Systemd which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the Systemd system, developed by Red Hat. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the Systemd operating system: the whole system is basically Systemd with Linux added, or Systemd/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of Systemd/Linux!
>>7581 This shit-post would make a lot more sense if MX Linux actually used systemD.
>>7578 >Alpine Isn't that mostly used for container images? I never heard anyone running it as a standalone OS
>>7584 It is mostly designed as a lightweight container, yes, but, I run it on machines that won't run FreeBSD (wireless on FreeBSD is a bit . . . limited). And then I run a Gentoo chroot in that to compile anything that I can't get to work under Alpine. If you come from a Windows/Apple world it's going to feel primitive, but if you only flip hamburgers for a living a well-designed framing hammer can seem a bit crude as well.
>>7578 >catbox Don't know why I forgot about that one. >I had to use that for work a few years ago and I wanted to blow my brains out. Too bad. One of the things that got me interested was its supposed security. Whonix needs a host an I want that host to be secure. I probably won't be acquiring the good hardware for Qubes any time soon (an option despide systemd). I read about hardened Gentoo but there are comments like >>7558 . Guess I'll pick Artix and try to make it more secure even if I'm a noob. The distro forum looks interesting, someone there mentioned Lynis as a tool to help make any Linux distro more secure. >>7581 wut
>>7600 ok. I get your point. you seem to really like FreeBSD
>>7601 I am sorry but I am going to make a long ass post, and I will summarize points before going into them: >hardened gentoo good, actual hardening routine better >Qubes good but slow and clunky, cgroups can be better but take some know-how to set up >most exploits come through the browser: make this your focus for security hardening practice so you do not waste time and effort Hardened gentoo provides more sane defaults but most of the security is in the way GLIBC and compiled binaries behave (via use flags at build). It is no magic bullet but helps in places. I would seriously consider looking at the CIS Benchmarks for workstation security for whatever distro you are using and applying at least the level 1 security (PAM rules, fail2ban, limit ssh, etc.): https://www.cisecurity.org/cis-benchmarks/ You can find automatic utilities and scripts on Github and other places which automatically apply CIS-CAT and other rulesets. These are helpful when you are a lazy fuck like me. Qubes is pretty neat, but as you mentioned is slow and clunky. Also be aware the most ways you will get pwned is via browser, rather than anything with Linux or the coreutils themselves, so it's best to use best practices of keeping PII off of the browser itself (using something like Seahorse instead, as much as freedesktop.org apps suck) and running the browser in its own memory cgroup. You should be running all user programs in their own cgroup namespace anyway: cgroups apply the same containerization which drive things like Docker and allow for isolation between things. This can increase the difficulty of gaining root access through an exploited user application. The following code provides a cgroup for user apps, and should be compiled and called from startx or whatever thing is calling X/Wayland to start: #define _GNU_SOURCE #define MEM_MAX 2147483648 // some amount like 2GB less than your system ram in bytes #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> int main(int argc, char** argv) { if (argc > 1) { size_t l = strlen(argv[1]); if (l > 5) { return 0; } for (char idx=0; idx<l; idx++) { if (argv[1][idx] < '0' || argv[1][idx] > '9') { return 1; } } setresuid(0, 0, 0); system("mkdir -p /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/user"); system("echo MEM_MAX > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/user/memory.limit_in_bytes"); char tmp[] = "echo > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/user/tasks"; strncpy(&tmp[5], argv[1], l); system(tmp); } return 0; } Firefox also has container tabs which supposedly use Rust memory containerization for the same use case as Qubes, so using with Librewolf/Icecat might be worth it for you. I haven't tested this at all and the inclusion of Rust (which is XBOXHUEG for limited utility because muh memory safety) actually chafes me quite a bit, but there it is being actually useful.
>>7614 >when you dont know how to use basic linux commands like chroot retard overload
is there even a way to hide threads on boards with tor browser? tails version has ublock iirc but no idea how to get that on arch.
>>7638 i mean of course there is element picker and deleting node but thats all just temporary sadly
>>7638 tor is not a browser just connect to tor and use a normal browser idiot
>>7614 typical linux user (and Im not talking about the pic) shell scripting in a c program complete with UB and seg faults all in less than 10 lines holly shit
>>7641 i already do use a normal browser idiot, and i post using a vpn instead of with tor. switching the preference around is not what im wanting or needing.
didnt look like you knew how to answer it anyways, ill figure something out on my own
>>7614 >I am sorry but I am going to make a long ass post Don't need to ask sry. I welcome any serious reply, short or long. >>7623 Very useful command.
In the Nvidia control panel, how do you delete the program settings of uninstalled programs. I assume there must be some locally stored list of the program settings for it to show them even when I have selected to only show items on the pc.
I bought a cheap but working macbook a1342 for my sister for her birthday. Core 2 duo 8g ddr3 ssd. She is a cs major so I was going to put gentoo on it, as I don't think she would like openbsd. I have other thinkpads/latitudes from the same era. Do you think she would like those better I don't know what college girls like
>>7688 > I don't know what college girls like Iphones and mac shit. Does your sister know linux shit already? I wouldn't drop gentoo on her if she doesn't know what's she's doing. Just go with Ubuntu or something, GNOME is pretty retard friendly.
>>7689 I don't know my sister very well but I know that she knows how to use ssh, so maybe. I'm sure that if she spent the time to play around with system she would be fine
>>7690 If she knew enough to use gentoo she would know enough to install whatever operating system she preferred you autistic retard.
Is there a browser on linux that has a free vpn, i just want to use it for posting. Epic Privacy Browser doesn't have a linux installer and i don't think it would work with wine. It's really nice to have a free vpn for posting.
>>7699 TOR
>>7700 The problem is that there is one clearnet image forum i use that doesn't have an onion address, i've been told by people here to not trust non-onion addresses.
>>7702 Clearnet addresses are fine over TOR as long as they are using https encryption. The TBB isn't even primarily designed around accessing onion sites. It's better to use an onion address but if you're just doing mundane shitposting clearnet sites are fine over TOR.
>>3 I'm trying to figure out how to emulate systemctl on MXLinux since NordVPN decided to become turbofaggots and require systemd going forward Any ideas or tips to point me in the right direction? Side note I'm also looking to avoid dual booting and running a VM
>>7711 MXLinux has the option to just boot into a systemD environment in grub.
>>7713 yes, I want to say that' defeats the purpose of using MX but if I meant it I would probably be using antix so I'll give that a shot
>>7714 Seems a lot simpler to just configure the VPN in openvpn and the network manager than trying to emulate systemctl.
>>7715 Actually the simplest solution would be to stop using NordVPN and just use Mullvad like a sane person.
>>7715 >>7716 these are good suggestions but I worry I'm going to buy Mullvad and it will end up needing systemd
>>7717 There's a free trial for mullvad.
>>7718 Actually I don't know if they still offer that. Regardless I'm 99% certain that MX Linux has a package for mullvad that doesn't require systemd.
Does anyone knows how to access EDL mode at Motorola G100/Edge S (XT2125-4)? Am I at the right forum? Tks
>>7719 >>7718 >>7717 >>7716 >>7715 isn't it cheaper to rent a vps and host your own vpn server?
>>7729 if you can find a VPS provider which won't finger you if subpoena'd for the info of who owns a particular server, sure
>>7730 isn't it pretty much the same for these vpn companies?
>>7729 Hosting your own VPN defeats half the point of even using a VPN. The entire point of the transaction is that the VPN company promises not to retain personal information about you and doesn't inspect any of the traffic. A VPN like mullvad can be purchased entirely anonymously so they are physically incapable of identifying you based on financial data. The only truly anonymous VPS services that offer anything near those same promises cost an arm and a leg. Generate VPS services don't give a single fuck about your anonymity and will KYC you out the ass just to let you buy their service. And the second literally anyone complains to them about your IP torrenting or doing anything even remotely sketchy they will rat you out in an instant. It's utterly pointless to self-host a VPN.
>>7732 >A VPN like mullvad can be purchased entirely anonymously so they are physically incapable of identifying you based on financial data oh, ok. was not aware. I assumed they all asked for credit card info up front
>>7733 Most do. Which is why most VPN's are bullshit. But there is a few, Mullvad being the typically recommended, that require very little information. Technically none since you don't need an email or even a username and password. You can pay with cash through the mail or with BTC and you just get an account number that you use. For the same price you simply can't find an equivalent VPS service that is designed around the absolute minimal amount of information being tied to your account.
How important is it to have an anti-virus program for windows 7 in the current year? If so what anti-virus would you recommend, is there one that doesn't hold my files hostage like Avast does? Also does linux need an anti-virus if i'm going to be going through many maleware infested cracked games from shady websites?
>>7737 There isn't such a thing as a traditional anti-virus for Linux. There isn't really a way to be safe running cracked games either, outside of isolating them to a virtual machine.
>>7738 >>7737 On Linux you can use tools to confine the executables so that they can't do arbitrary shit. Using a VM is not the only option.
>>7737 If you want to be secure, you should mod your install to get the newest W7 patches. Microsoft tries to limit them to paying businesses, but you can lie to their servers and get them anyways. Not sure they're still publishing any, but it will at least buy you some security. Most businesses I know use either Kaspersky, which has a good reputation but might be backdoored by the FSB, or Sophos, which I'm not sure is very effective but should provide extended support for an older OS because of who most of their customers are. That said, I'm not sure you need it. Windows was full of holes even when it was patches, and a lot of the internals were reworked for Win8, so you might avoid backported exploits most of the time. If you're using an updated browser, have adblock, and don't go to strange websites or download weird files, then it'd be hard to infect you unless someone else on your network is infected. Personally, I'd switch to Linux in your scenario. Most games work with Proton. Most software works okay with Wine or has a decent alternative. Outside of video editing and CAD work you can probably get away with it, and be safer doing so. If you're downloading malware infected warez then you should definitely avoid Win7, or any form of Windows, and look at Linux. Pretty sure Wine has options to limit exposure, and failing that, you can always look at BSD jails and similar features across multiple distributions to provide a chroot or dedicated runtime environment for that program. Will require some know-how but you can sandbox basically everything you do so breaches can't spread.
is there a smart way to dump a struct full of pointers ( and other struct pointers ) to a file instead of dereferencing each pointer and writing each item individually in a massive list of writes
>>7744 Yeah, i'm switching to linux on the new PC that i'm buidling, for newer windows 10 only games, but i'll always have my windows 7 pc for older stuff. I probably have a lot of malware on my windows 7 pc but it runs fine, it's probably passive.
I'm thinking of buying a GPD pocket 3 but i don't know if i can play games from installing linux on it, because i don't want to deal with windows 10. I found a "respinned" version of linux mint and ubuntu but i don't know what respinned means or if it will work like desktop linux in running wine. https://github.com/stockmind/gpd-pocket-ubuntu-respin
>>7751 You could boot it as a liveCD and see what works. But it sounds like it's literally just ubuntu with some scripts installed to make the tablet functionality work properly. So I don't see why it shouldn't run games over wine just fine.
I have a 2007 laptop with 4GB of RAM installed with LibreBoot. What is a good linux distro that makes use of it?
I have a small solar system to run a 12v car fridge. The compressor cycle is smooth with the mains adapter and also from the battery - most of the time. The compressor sounds become erratic only when the battery is at full charge and still receiving power from the panel. The supposed battery voltage on the fridge display starts bouncing around from 12.9 to 13.4 to even 15v. I suspect the charge controller is trying to top off the battery, overtaking the draw from the fridge, then briefly turning off then back on again. Right now I have the load (fridge) running off a female cig socket connected to the battery terminals. The charge controller is just a basic 30a Renogy PWM Wanderer with no ports to connect a load. Is there anyway to smooth things out so my fridge compressor isn't erratic under full batt/full sun conditions? Do the charge controllers with load ports handle things differently than going direct off the battery? Would a Buck/Boost converter smooth it out?
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>>7766 wait, you made a solar powered fridge? can you post a picture? how much did it cost you to set up?
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| recently bough this case and didn't think too much about it, when it arrived i noticed that it doesn't has as many vents as my other PC. Is this enough for air flow?
>>7766 I didn't make it so much as piece it together. >Renogy 100 watt monocrystaline solar kit with the 30amp Wanderer PWM charger -$130 >2x Weize Lifepo4 20ah batteries -$180 >Alpicool C20 $200 >Tilt mount and other misc stuff - $60 So about $600 to keep the beetus (T1) from killing me for several months until my insulin runs out. I've tested it with just one 20ah battery and it sort of works even if you get a couple days with constantly dense cloud cover - just disconnect the fridge for 4-5hrs during the peak solar input so all available juice tops off the battery- but 40ah seems to be the sweet spot for set and forget. I also keep it in my basement so ambient temp is more stable/lower. If I were to do it over again I'd spring for the 100AH Lifepo4 battery so I'd have more cushion and the ability to run some other stuff without worrying too much about power management.
>>7772 I should clarify that the fridge is pretty much a cooler with a 12v compressor attached to it, so it can maintain temp for several hours without power. This is why I can disconnect it on marginal days during peak solar without consequence. Of course, during winter you can game it further by chilling/freezing water bottles outside and adding them to it as needed.
>>7767 assembly is already mnemonic machine code, theres nothing to understand unless you mean the actual fucking circuitry inside the cpu
>>7767 I would go with x86 assembler since in many ways it resembles C and there aren't any hardware restrictions like I believe there are with the 6502 (the first section of memory comes to mind). Ultimately every assembler flavor is different to accommodate for each microarchitecture's features and instruction set, so if you want to fool around then great but if you plan to use the knowledge of one flavor to work in another it's not going to work outside of the concepts (stack management, what an ABI is for, etc.).
>>7766 If your hypothesis is correct then that doesn't sound good for the battery either. >Is there anyway to smooth things out This is DC, right? You might want to try with some capacitors. They'll smooth the voltage out, however the problem is if there are spikes in the input due to the charger turning on they'll try to remember the tip of the voltage spike and feed the fridge higher voltage. An RC circuit may be more appropriate in a such a scenario to prevent the capacitors from charging instantly when the spike comes thus smoothing things out some more. Either way having some capacitors sounds like a good idea. >Would a Buck/Boost converter smooth it out? You should already be using a Buck/Boost converter because the battery voltage isn't ever going to be constant. A freshly charged battery will always have a voltage above the rated voltage of the battery and as the battery gets drained it'll drop the voltage below the rated voltage too. It's not usually a good idea to feed a motor with voltages other than the designed voltage.
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Sorry if this is a retard question, but did i install the right driver? i have a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 and it says i have the latest driver but it still doesn't recognize my card in neofetch.
>>7779 Actually since this is a battery powered device it's a good idea to be careful about adding resistors as they'll waste power. I'd try just with the capacitors and then see if adding more stuff is necessary.
>>7780 I don't know how nvidia stuff works since I have an AMD card but that kernel looks to be really ancient for such a card. Try with a newer one, or see if you can find any mentions of kernel versions for your card. In AMD case you'll also need the right firmware, but I don't know if that's the case for nvidia too.
>>7780 If you boot up a game and it runs above 20fps you installed the right driver.
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>>7783 i installed glxgears and tested it.
>>7766 >>7779 I think I solved the problem by putting on a small constant load (in addition to the fridge) so it's not bouncing around between full charge and not quite full charge every few seconds during the compressor cycle. It was probably too much to ask of the shitty PWM charge controller to have it manage both a dynamic input and output within such narrow states of charged/not quite charged -- or it could have just been weird interaction between the controller, fridge battery regulator, and the internal BMS in the battery under those specific conditions.
>>7797 just saw the question is the battery part of the fridge? if it is then a capacitor is probably broken and needs to be replaced
When i start my Linux mint PC i get a message saying "check your video drivers..." and i have nvidia-driver-510 installed and it works when i apply changes and reboot but then on the next reboot, i get the message again saying "check your video drivers." and the Driver manager says i have nvidia-driver-510 selected despite. Why can't it just stay with the correct drivers?
When i try to play Resident evil 8 village on winehq it says "This game requires windows 10 and DirectX 12", it has a gold on protondb?
>>7800 hello sir are you running it on windows 10 and DirectX 12 regard sanjit technical suport
>>7800 What does "playing on winehq" mean?
>>7802 like using wine to play a game.
>>7803 What are you using to launch the game? Stock wine, lutris, or steams proton?
>>7804 I'm using lutris, i also tried it with just wine and got the same error.
>>7806 i will try that thank you.
>>7806 Okay, i tried it and i still get the "This game requires windows 10 and DirectX 12" error. Thanks for trying.
>>7808 i found a fix on the unreal forum, if you install windows and then direct x the game will work like normal
>>7809 i tried a game that didn't require windows 10 and it didn't run either, but it didn't give me the error. At least there is windows 10 ameliorated.
>>7808 One of the protonDB comments mentions >PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr11 gamemoderun %command% this command to add to the launch options. <VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr11 This specifically looks like it might fix your issue. But I'm not sure how you could apply that in Lutris. Maybe adding VKD3D_CONFIG under the Key option in system variables and adding dxr11 under the Value option might work. Otherwise you could maybe try adding the launcher in steam and just adding the full proper command in the launch options there.
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>>7811 I'm not sure if this is related to your solution but there is a VKD3D option in Lutris.
>>7812 You could try toggling it or fucking around. Not sure if it would achieve the same result though.
This is probably a stupid question, but I'm using Windows 10 Ameliorated Edition, should i get an anti-virus program? On windows 7 most of the time they just captured program files from pirated games.
I have a Python script set up to scrape Twitter artist galleries, but I need help improving it. As it is, I read in a CSV file containing the artists' handles and the directory I want to save each artist to. Then I run a gallery-dl job for each artist, by simply appending the handle to Twitter's URL. But Twitter lets users change their handle, which means that my list does not have a fixed reference. Sometimes artists change their handle, and in at least one case someone else adopted the old one after the artist changed, meaning I was scraping an entirely different user without it being clear what happened. I know there's obviously some form of internal ID, but I don't know how to go from the handle to getting the relevant ID, nor do I know how to go from the IDs (once I re-do my list with them) to suitable URLs for gallery-dl. I assume there's something within Twitter's API but I have no idea how such things work or how to add that to my script, and Twitter's own API documentation didn't help. Any advice?
>>7840 I'm pretty sure I've seen that if someone changes their handle and you try to load a tweet from the old handle, it redirects you to the tweet from the new handle. You can use this pretty easily to get the new handle assuming the artist doesn't DELETE FUCKING EVERYTHING which is unfortunately something that's also usual, but at least if this works there are now somewhat less chances of failure.
>>7846 That helps if I notice, but the issue is that I might not. If that artist is in my backlog of scraped galleries to sort, then it could be a while before I notice it's not downloading anything, or downloading someone else's images. But I figured out how to do what I wanted with Tweepy. It's more simple than the Twitter docs made it seem.
>>7738 yes rkhunter and clamav are both useful in addition to anti-virus: >auditd to track/log changes to the system >lynis and CIS benchmarks help to harden distros beyond default settings reminding oneself that convenience and security are polar opposites, and to understand what you are trying to protect from breach or destruction, can help you from going too far and wasting effort. >>7760 desktop distros: Lite, Puppy, antiX, Q4OS diy tier: Arch, Artix, Gentoo, Funtoo >>7799 Try installing the dkms driver instead, perhaps? Worse case ontario, you install the nvidia driver manually. If you're still having issues, you might want to also look at the output of `nvidia-detect` (available from apt) >>7847 >>7840 post a link to your repo when you're happy enough with it: this sounds like a good script to keep around.
>>7766 Alright last update about my solar setup. Long story short, the Renogy PWM controller sucked. A small Victron MPPT controller fixed all the issues and now my battery and fridge are happy. I no longer have to disconnect the fridge to capture peak charge even after 2 days of heavy cloud cover even on just a single 20ah lifepo4. Starting from scratch, I'd skip the all in one kit with the PWM controller and just piece it together myself. I could also skip the extra 20ah lifepo4 to offset the Victron costs if I was being extra stingy, but the extra capacity is nice. Maybe rig a tilt mount instead of buying one and opt for a higher cap lifepo4 to cut down on cabling costs (I wanted to be able to peel off a battery for other uses further away from my system as needed). I'm on the lower half of the green band in burgerland so take that into account if you're doing something similar. Last word, the Victron needs an app to set the parameters. I side-loaded it on a lineage OS tablet that's airgapped. Not interested in broadcasting my solar's location data to the internet.
got an old HP desktop, 6GB of mixed RAM and a Core 2 Duo E8400 3GHz for free. Thinking about installing a bsd router os or something. Or maybe install a bare metal hypervisor and the router os in a VM. does the power requirement of this system make it a stupid idea? The thing will be on 16 hrs a day probably.
>>7897 there's nothing in the latest official BIOS about undervolting or any power saving shit
>>7874 >your repo There's no repo, and it's pretty crude. Also the API calls need a Twitter bearer token.
>>7897 you would probably be better off with an old nuc or something, but if it's quiet you can use it for stuff I use an old eeepc to bridge the neighbors wifi to my local network. this kind of junk is great for that
>>7897 I still have my old E8400 PC thrown on a shelf and I have no idea what to do with it. Same with my old i5 2500K.
I'm setting up a PC for dual-booting. Linux for personal, and Spyware 10 for work and programs that don't play nicely in Wine. A friend of mine gave me 2 brand new 1 TB SSDs. 1 SATA and 1 NVMe. I'm debating which one to use for each OS. Linux will be the main OS, but will Windows benefit more from the NVMe performance? I also have a spare 256GB NVMe (lightly used) if it's better for one of them to have NVMe for either C:\ or / and then SATA for /home or the Windows user profile. (I was leaning towards Windows on the 1TB NVMe but I want a second opinion.) >>7897 If you care about power-saving you're better off getting a small NUC or SBC with your preference of router OS. (There's even x86 SBCs if you want pfSense. I'm not sure the status of their ARM build.) Otherwise old PCs can be good test machines. I've been testing VLANs on my network for various devices for shits and giggles. Might try to bridge my neighbor's WEP wifi at some point. (assuming they don't upgrade their router by then) I used to use mine to run some very specific software that only ran under XP on bare metal. It had issues running on 7 or later, in VMs, or in Wine due to specific requirements, but I don't use it anymore.
Is it just me or some website has a good goys script that phone home to google to check if you're a "bot" (read: normal person who just blocks all google script) or not and just serves you an infinite loading screen if you failed the test?
>>7927 I'm pretty sure some pages don't load if they suspect you of being a bot, or block certain jewgle scripts. You can test this in a temporary browser profile or incognito mode. I've found a bunch of websites do that and I try to avoid them.
>>7926 You won't actually dual boot. No one ever commits to dual booting.
>>7929 Fine, then I'll try a VM setup for Windows. Same question about disk setup/mounting.
>>7930 If you aren't gaming in the VM then there isn't much reason to pass through an entire drive. I have no clue if you would notice a significant difference in performance between nvme and sata. It would depend entirely on the workload. Games as they are today have negligible difference between SSD storage types.
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A kind anon from /v/ made custom spoilers for /t/.
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>>7941 2x spoilers Which one does /t/ like?
>>7942 Fag question: what's up with the green pepper?
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>>7944 >use an ordinary phone call Not 100% foss.
>>7944 With that bit of context, I'd go with one of the green peppers, but I can't really tell the two apart.
>>7946 One has more of an orange tint to it, the other does not. Alternatively, these two images can be combined together to form a little flickering pepper.
>>7947 I see it with that. Yeah: no opinion between the two.
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>>7949 And here's what I used as a base and inspiration.
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>>7950 Anon: I do like the version without the pepper better, but the pepper is an in-joke. Honestly, if it were me, I would have tried to get you to incorporate picture related.
Is there a program for windows that shows me all the ip addresses i connect to?
>>7953 i think wireshark can do that
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The answer is probably "yes", but I need to be 200% sure before purchasing the thing. Is this the screen I need to buy for this particular phone? Also, what tools do I need to buy in order to replace it? Could you give me a link to the tools I'll be needing? Thanks. >Why don't you just take it somewhere for repairs? It's my aunt's phone, she trust very few people and she thinks I'm a genius that can fix everything. She has pictures and video here and doesn't want to lose them, and also the app of her bank and her passwords and things, and she thinks if she takes it to a guy for fixing he may steal her bank accounts, hack her social media, etc.
>>7963 >It's my aunt's phone, she trust very few people and she thinks I'm a genius that can fix everything. She has pictures and video here and doesn't want to lose them, and also the app of her bank and her passwords and things, and she thinks if she takes it to a guy for fixing he may steal her bank accounts, hack her social media, etc. This is good opsec. You should be glad your aunt isn't a retard. Computer and phone repair pajeets are not to be trusted. >Also, what tools do I need to buy in order to replace it? Could you give me a link to the tools I'll be needing? Thanks. https://invidious.mutahar.rocks/watch?v=UfUDcNJSV5A Looks like you need a heat gun or hairdryer and some prying tools. You should look into backing up her data to external storage before taking the device apart.
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>>7964 >You should look into backing up her data to external storage before taking the device apart I wanted to, but the phone is locked and the screen is not turning on, so there's no way to draw the pattern, so I haven't been able to plug it into the PC and explore the files. That's why we need to replace the screen, and then we can back up her files and things. >Computer and phone repair pajeets are not to be trusted Aunt Lorena? Also, that's the screen, right? The product from the picture, it's the screen I need to buy? Oh, and thanks for the video. It's gonna be useful.
>>7966 >Also, that's the screen, right? The product from the picture, it's the screen I need to buy? No clue. Probably.
>>7963 >>7966 Also I realized you should probably delete that picture showing the IMEI number for the phone. It's generally not something you want to expose publicly.
>>7968 Ah, it's probably fine. Sure, I should have paid attention, but honestly, what could someone do with that number?
>>7970 Apparently people can do some shit but yes it's incredibly unlikely someone around here would be inclined to bother since it's rather involved. Still I'd be safe rather than sorry.
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Well, let's hope I haven't doomed my aunt to attacks from mighty hackers. I don't think she's at risk, though. Anyway, is A the screen I should buy fot B? The phone's model is SM-J320M/DS So, I'm pretty sure this is the replacement screen I need to buy. I just want to be 200% sure. Is it the correct screen?
>>7973 >I don't think she's at risk, though. Likely not but she probably wouldn't be at risk if you posted her address either. It's still not something you should voluntarily expose on the internet.
What bottlenecks ffmpeg? I'm converting a video from 1280×960, 60fps HEVC to 640:480, 30fps VP9. None of my cores are reporting above 30% usage, and my CPU temperature is proportionally low, but the encode is chugging along at less than half real-time. My settings, leaving out input and output, are: >-c:v libvpx-vp9 -row-mt 1 -tile-rows 2 -tile-columns 6 -b:v 700k -c:a libopus -b:a 64k -speed 1 -vf "scale=-1:480,fps=30" -frame-parallel 1 -threads 12 -f webm
>>7997 Sorry, that should be AVC, not HEVC.
>>7997 libvpx-vp9 is bottlenecking because it's terrible at multithreading unlike every other video codec implementation. row-mt is a workaround to try to have some multithreading going on but it still sucks and it depends on the amount of rows to encode in your output resolution so when you're doing something like a video with 480p resolution like you're doing it's going to suck hard, even though it's not going to be a lot better with a higher resolution either.
>>8001 I tried redoing it with the same scaling and framerate but to libx264 instead of libvpx-vp9 and it went from speed=x0.43 to speed=16.something Fuck webms I guess.
>>8004 Oh yes, but that's not a very fair comparison given that libx264 is much older, has much better hardware and software support, and is also much worse at encoding. A better comparison would be against libx265 and although it'll encode a lot slower than libx264 you'll find it also takes much better advantage of your cores compared to libvpx-vp9. If you really need webms without vp9 you can also make them with libvpx (which encodes in VP8), They'll chew bitrate like crazy but they should encode a few times faster.
Linux Mint desktop is unresponsive. It's technically still online but USB ports don't work and all open network ports are unresponsive despite ethernet working and nmap OS scans showing it online. Wake on LAN isn't doing shit. Leaving the PC online overnight hoping it'd unfreeze didn't do shit either. I have stuff open in a RAM disk I'd prefer not to lose, so is there a way to reboot without clearing RAM so I can dump and read it? Everything I'm seeing online is giving me the opposite information about ensuring the RAM is zeroed out. (The RAM disk was temporary and I was hoping to save them to disk before turning off the PC. I can accept losing the files, but I'd still prefer not retrieving them again. And yes, it's my fault for not having copies on a disk first because of shit like this.) On another note, what's a better distro to try out? Is base Ubuntu better or am I better off switching to Debian?
>>7973 1) Yes that looks correct. 2) You didn't expose anything in your screenshot unless that's somehow an extremely specific listing to a particular region. To me it could be from a number of different countries.
>>7953 Wireshark, otherwise any other packet sniffing program will work.
>>8026 I imagine you tried this already, but switch to a different TTY?
>>8030 Yeah, that was my first attempt. Nothing works. Even tried using my PS2 keyboard hoping for a hail mary after I noticed my USB devices weren't responding. Looking around more I think Knoppix and memfetch might be my solution for a memory dump. (assuming my BIOS doesn't zero the memory on restart, but from what I'm reading most BIOS don't do that by default for performance reasons)
Is there any good applications for receiving SMS messages on PC? Thinking about using that as a workaround for sites that demand I verify myself with a phone number.
Recently updated to slackware 15.0 I'm having weirdness with Hydrus Network because of it bash-5.1$ ./client v479, 2022/04/06 09:05:49: hydrus client started ./client: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_module_open_full I have no clue why this is happening. Hydrus has worked for me for a long time, and now this weirness. Is this a fault of my system, or is hydrus using outdated libraries?
>>8048 You might want to try the Hydrus general, since the developer monitors that thread.
What's the best way to check for cryptominers and loggers on a Wangblows machine? >inb4 install more ram
>>8065 malwarebytes probably?
>>8048 If I'm understanding correctly it seems it's your system's. Something is linking with libgio but when loading libgio it's failing to resolve g_module_open_full(). nm may help you get some clues.
I have a 10 year old Nvidia GPU that failed and had to be replaced. Should I just toss it or is there anything smarter to do? I actually don't think I've ever thrown hardware out.
>>8032 this sounds like a kernel issue. If you can get back into the system (via USB distro -> chroot or something) try installing a new kernel (lts or zen line perhaps) >>8065 I mean there's the obvious shit: >check `wincfg` >check running processes with task manager >check administration tools panel for random tasks >check `regedit` for malicious registry entries (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and RunOnce) >check network output using win >check for obviously changed files (sorting by modified date) in system folders like C:\windows >use a lameass virus scan program honestly it's mystery meat what actually goes on in Windows but these tend to help weed out obvious bullshit >>8069 If you got a lot of free time you can de-solder the board and test stuff like capacitors for salvage, but unless you're already into EE it's not worth it. Try turning it in at some techno-trash bin, if possible, to prevent heavy-metal groundwater leaching at least.
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How do I lock my 11700F to its all-core Turbo of 4.4 GHz in Xubuntu 21.10? I was able to do this in Windows with these same UEFI settings, simply by changing the performance profile from Balanced to High Performance. None of the instructions I found on Google for Linux are working. Switching to the "Performance" CPU scaling driver in Linux just locks it to 2.5 GHz, not 4.4 GHz.
>>8080 PS, disabling SpeedStep in the BIOS doesn't lock my CPU to 4.4 GHz either, despite what the setting's description says.
I'm looking for a cheap way to get a phone number so you can create a telegram account. I tried TextNow but like other services the VoIP numbers are oated by other users and so you can't create the account.
>>8089 Depending on your country you may be able to get a burner sim card and some minutes at a 7-eleven. Some countries make it illegal to be able to get a phone number anonymously though.
>>8092 Italy
What is the best way to go about giving yourself read and write permissions on Linux with an ext4 drive? Everything I read seems all over the place with different approaches. Some saying giving it 777 permissions is a massive security risk others say it's fine. Do I just chown the drive?
>>8114 >giving it 777 permissions is a massive security risk what specifically do you think would happen? i dont think file-system permissions are any big stumbling block for le hackerz
>>8114 to give you a more useful reply, i've run "sudo chown -R 777" on all my external drives for over a decade now and still havent noticed any ransomware, hacked bank account or anything like that. I've also turned off page/swap on Windows and Linux for 15+ years and havent had an issue, despite what muh best practices dictate
>>8117 >>8118 I don't know the security implications of it. It's just what I read online when looking for the appropriate way to get permissions for a drive. I just ended up doing "sudo chown name:users path/to/drive". What is the difference between that and -R 777?
>>8119 I'm not an expert on this subject by any means, but I can tell you that -R 777 basically makes drives work like they do in Windows, meaning every user has full permissions to make any changes. You will need to protect your data via other means. In my case, I keep sensitive files encrypted in 7z files, and keep the SSDs themselves locked inside an ammo can when not in use. I think if a hacker manages to pwn my computer while the drives are plugged in, relying on filesystem permissions would just be a false sense of security. As if they couldnt just run the -R 777 command on their own at that point.
>>8119 >>8120 to put it another way, its like worryin about your windows xp account's password, when any semi-competent "hacker" can just boot a linux live os on your computer and bypass your password and see everything on your hard drive anyway
sorry to triple post, but another thought: what you want to do is encrypt your drive if theres anything sensitive on it. use luks, veracrypt or similar. then you need a password to access or modify anything. all a hacker can do without the password is erase your drive. but file-system permissions dont really protect anything
>>8120 >>8121 >>8122 Yes I understand threat models. All my drives are encrypted. Guess I was just wondering if there was some other issue with file permissions. Generally I'm told you don't want to be doing certain things as root and there are right and wrong ways to go about certain things securely.
>>8123 >there are right and wrong ways to go about certain things securely make sure you get your fourth booster and wear double masks
>>8124 Fortunately I'm not an autistic retard so I don't go out of my way to fuck my opsec because of some misguided ego.
>>8122 >but file-system permissions dont really protect anything You're a fucking nigger, get some more experience before posting such stupid shit. Accounts and permissions limit the attack surface in a postexploitation scenario, where a malicious actor will look to exfiltrate stuff or encrypt your shit or escalate privileges. So for instance if you have a service exposed to the internet you're going to want to run it in a separate account with very little access because chances are people are going to try to compromise it, just like it happened to this place a few days ago. Fortunately in theory they segmented permissions correctly and despite the server being compromised the hacker couldn't access the database, or so they say. How do you think your phone achieves app compartmentalization so that your chinese spyware shovelwares can't access your banking information? Each app in your (Android) phone runs as a separate user account and each have a permission-restricted directory in /data/data where they can store their data, and other apps (i.e. other user accounts) can't touch it. Go try to hack into a vulnhub VM and you'll learn pretty quickly why filesystem permissions exist and how they work to hinder your attack.
>>8128 So is the way I went about getting permissions for an external drive fine or? >>8119
>>8128 >your chinese spyware shovelwares can't access your banking information imagine believing this
>>8128 >>8134 To expound on that, Android malware can't access your banking info because (hopefully) your bank encrypts your username, password, account number, etc. If your bank stores your password in plain text then file permissions aren't going to do jack shit to protect you. On the other hand, if your bank login details are saved in an encrypted KeePass database, nobody is getting in that shit, even if the .kdbx file is saved to an exfat partition with no concept of filesystem permissions.
>>8125 >I don't go out of my way to fuck my opsec because of some misguided ego. No but you will fuck your opsec if muh experts tell you to follow their shitty best practices. Are you a doctor? No, so listen to expert Fauci when he wants to squirt his juice inside you
<<8138 Strawman
>>8129 Depends what your threat model is. >>8137 >If your bank stores your password in plain text then file permissions aren't going to do jack shit to protect you Show proof nigger. You've clearly never opened a shell into your phone and tried navigating it. By all means go ahead and try to grab your banking information and show us how it's done. In fact go and try to grab any of your apps' shared preferences. The only way to do it is either with access (i.e. root account), with a system level exploit, or for apps marked as debug enabled in their manifest.
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Mates, How would you keep power consumption of a Ryzen platform at a minimum and dynamically scale up performance when needed? For reasons, I have a Ryzen 2700x with 16Gb ram and all the good stuff. Serves mostly as a NAS and to run very light services. It is not my main computer, but a home server. Some times, very rarely, I would run heavier loads that will actually make use of it. Almost all the time it consumes around 60 Watts, which is not much, but I would like to further reduce this, bringing down performance when is not needed. Is it possible to do so software-side? Currently running Debian headless
>>8149 You can try undervolting it, or lowering the base clock but leaving the turbo high. But realistically there is not much you can do to improve this. You can buy a CPU that's even more efficient, or you can accept that there's a minimum TDP. 60 watts is not much at all.
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Why does my desktop in explorer show less items than my actual desktop? When i try to move the items that don't appear in there to there it get a messages that says "the source and the destination file names are the same". It's very strange.
>>8080 bump. I made a throwaway leddit account to ask them but they didnt know shit
Is there any tag-based search program like Hydrus that can handle a variety of document files (txt, odt, pdf, epub, etc.)? I have a lot of documents that fit in more than one place within a hierarchical file system, and I think it'd be helpful to have other ways to sort them.
>>8163 >>8080 fuck it, i went back to windows and that fixed my issue. thanks anyway
Trying to copy a DVD to an ISO file losslessly. The only machine with an optical drive I have access to is running Windows and refuses to boot any Linux distro I throw at it. How can I rip a DVD on Windows? Looking online only brings up shady shit and guides on re-encoding videos on DVDs.
>>8179 Alcohol 120% >>8149 >How would you keep power consumption of a Ryzen platform at a minimum and dynamically scale up performance when needed https://github.com/FlyGoat/RyzenAdj
>>8179 >losslessly so you want to preserve the DRM?
>>8179 if you insist then alcool 120% will work, but please consider using makemkv instead. you will preserve full video and audio quality, all subtitles, and optionally all the bonus features, just the menu system and DRM will be stripped. remux is better than disc image in my opinion.
>>8155 Some kind of "hide unused items" feature was introduced in Win7 (or Vista?), and the desktop contents actually come from multiple folders, at least from your account and the "Public" user's desktop folder. These two features combine to make the desktop different from what you see in a file manager. How it does file management with these features, I have no idea.
>>8171 File managers like dolphin can assign tags to files. So you should probably look at file managers and see which ones suit you. Or if you're on windows tough luck.
>>8180 Only works on mobile CPUs
>>8171 Maybe something like this? https://www.tagspaces.org/
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Am I the only one who likes Compact View? Why doesn't Gnome Nautilus have it?
When attempting to download something from Tor browser, there would be a warning saying that some downloads could still connect to the internet and only open them on Tails or when disconnected from the internet and there would be a checkbox to never show this again, which I accidentally clicked, meaning this warning doesn't show for me anymore. Does anyone know how to undo this and make the warning appear again?
>>8230 I would browse to about:config and search for a setting with "download".
so i have a question about pale moon is there a way that i can use unsupported websites on it? maybe change compatibility? idk i just tried some things and i can't figure it out redpill me on this thanks
>>8241 If the source of the issue is due to outdated API support in the browser then no, your browser won't be able to do what the website requires period. If the source of the issue is a soft lock by the website due to the user agent you can probably spoof it from about:config. Look up how to do it.
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Is yahoo an acceptable search engine? I was using searx but sometimes it doesn't want to work.
>>8245 No. Use brave search if you want an alternative.
>>8245 Use your own Searx instance. I'm running my own on docker bloat because I'm lazy: docker run -d --name searx --restart always -v <local dir>/searx:/etc/searx -p <maybe port 80?>:8080 -e BASE_URL=http://<your own server ip or 'localhost' you fucking coward> / searx/searx
>>8250 If you're the only one using a search engine proxy how does that prevent google from profiling your searches?
>>8251 It is actually better to let other people use it as well. At the same time, if you use a public searx instance you have to consider you might be profiled by whom is running said instance. >>8245 was willing to use yahoo, therefore he is not worried about getting profiled I guess. Another option might be to use startpage (google-proxy) if >>8245 wants privacy
>>8253 >It is actually better to let other people use it as well. So like I said then, it's fundamentally kind of pointless to run your own searx instance for just yourself. >At the same time, if you use a public searx instance you have to consider you might be profiled by whom is running said instance. Yes but the likelihood of this occurring is slim. The same can be said about this site, or any service. Most people can tell what's going on with a site based on which scripts and such need to run. I just feel like a lot of people say self-host lmao without actually understanding the implications of what it means to self-host a service. Like when people say to self-host your own VPN because other VPN's can harvest your data. It completely and utterly misses the entire point of using a VPN in the first place. Self-hosting a VPN is essentially no different than just using your own bare IP.
X will not start. I don't know if it's novideo or what. I'm on Artix S6. All I can think of that I did that may have caused this was a system update and installing mullvad-vpn-bin and mullvad-vpn-s6, followed by a reboot. I removed nvidia-dkms as a test to see if x would work afterwards, but no success. The error is "failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory" Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>8261 Have you tried ln -s /etc/runit/sv/service_name /run/runit/service then sv restart service_name where service_name should be substitued for something like dbus-runit? Can you find anything with a similar name when running ls /etc/runit/sv | grep -i dbus? (try starting x after you're done of course)
>>8261 >[EE] due to not running d-bus make sure you have the dbus service installed and running: [code]$ pacman -S dbus-s6[/config] check the s6 wiki for setting it up: https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/S6
I've decided to pull together all of my external drives and turn them into a NAS. I have: 4x 8TB drives 4x 14TB drives The current plan is to combine three of the 14TB drives into a pool and use the fourth as parity. I also plan to mirror two of the 8TB drives and use it for backups and such, stuff I really don't want to lose. That leaves two 8TB drives left over. I'm thinking of leaving one in the external case in case I need a high-capacity USB drive, but that leaves one just sitting there. What do? Should I leave it external as well and periodically copy the 8TB mirror to it as a cold backup? Set up a triple mirror with three 8TB drives? Or should I drop the mirror thing and just use all my drives to make one huge pool with multiple parity drives?
>>8270 This actually sounds similar to my setup, beside drive sources. I am a fan of cold backups in a fireproof case, and backing up seasonally. Mirroring 2x is good enough for most cases if you keep a cold spare imo.
>>8253 >It is actually better to let other people use it as well Why? Someone looks up domestic terrorist instructions from your Searx instance, I imagine feds can figure out who is running your instance pretty easily. They can follow the moneytrail (rented server, ISP subscription, whatever) back to you. Maybe you get away with it if you're running your service off the McDonalds WiFi and are slick enough to stay off their cameras
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Windows 10 doesn't let you run TRIM on exFAT formatted SSDs. Is this because they were lazy and didn't bother to program in the feature, or does exFAT just intrinsically not need to be TRIM-ed? My understanding is TRIM zeroes out deleted files so that space on the SSD can be written to more quickly later on. Perhaps exFAT zeroes out that space as soon as the file is deleted? I'm not interested in hearing why I should use NTFS instead, or how TRIM isn't needed on modern SSDs because they have Garbage Collection now.
>>8286 Win10 is an unfinished, broken system that MS just keeps removing stuff from. Not surprising they're missing features that would have been considered basic. Someone at Microsoft probably said it's going to take however many hours to implement and then someone said "exFAT is probably just thumb drives anyways, everyone is running their OS on NTFS so who cares?" and that was that.
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>>8287 Got it, so exFAT would benefit from TRIM support. I did a bit more research, it looks like maybe O&O Defrag can TRIM exFAT. Also, Wikipedia says Linux can do it.
What is a "packet sniffer", and how does it work for testing internet connections?
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>>8290 >Using Jewgle
Can someone explain how an ISP "enables" internet to a home? Like what does a technician actually do when he shows up that makes it so you can now connect a router to the wall and access the internet?
>>8294 >what does a technician actually do when he shows up that makes it so you can now connect a router to the wall and access the internet? 1) tests for continuity between your wall's coax jack and the utility pole outside 2) fixes any open circuit with fresh coax runs 3) calls isp corporate office to have some office worker unblacklist your home address in the database
>>8293 >Every search engine is Jewgle
>>8295 >3) calls isp corporate office to have some office worker unblacklist your home address in the database I see. So every home with wiring has internet access, they're just blacklisted. Would it be the same for an apartment complex?
>>8299 >every home with wiring has internet access Assuming nobody tore down the coax cables, yes. You can't take that for granted, I personally tore down some old cable I wasn't using at my old house. If the new owners want cable internet again they'll need someone to run new coax. >Would it be the same for an apartment complex? Yes, with an even higher chance of some previous tenant tearing out or damaging the coax installation. The first thing the ISP tech does is hook up a little diagnostic tool to your coax outlet to make sure theres continuity. They also have to make sure your coax goes to their service. For example when I moved to my current apartment, the coax was actually wired to a satelite dish on the roof. The tech had to run a new cable for me.
How do I post
The real question would be why posting through Tor Browser is such a PITA, I can't understand this NoScript UI
I opened my ebay account with my mullvad VPN, should i make a new account or just keep using it, i'm just using it to pirate movies and games? I bought the VPN time with mailed money and no return address.
>>8392 Depends on your threat model. The ebay account is associated with a mullvad IP from ebay's perspective. But ebay doesn't know your mullvad account. Mullvad shouldn't on paper know anything about you but mullvad is the trust factor in the equation, so they technically can be harvesting information that you're routing through them. Though unlikely based on reputation and business model. So are you worried about mullvad knowing who you are or are you worried about ebay knowing who you are? If you're just doing basic shit and nothing glow nigger tier it really shouldn't matter. Even going as far as mailing in money is pretty overkill for pirating media. If mullvad was harvesting data they would already have your IP address on file so knowing you use ebay wouldn't make much of a difference.
how to hack lynxchan?
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wtf is this gay shit?
>>8438 They added support for DNS over HTTPS but only some servers support that, so they're routing you to their "partners" that implement it.
>>8439 >their "partners" Their "partners", or their (((partners)))? George Soros? Will my friendly neighborhood antifa cell be reading my shitposts?
I want Telegram bot/messaging/alert functionality on lightweight Android and Linux devices but only across my local network. How do?
Does anyone know how to get around the activation lock on iphones?
>>8497 Do you mean so you can put a different sim card in? Depends on your country, some countries it's legal to permanently lock the IMEI number to a single carrier. Others it was made illegal so now the carrier has to unlock it for free when you call them to bitch about it. Others you need to pay someone to unlock it.
I want to set up email for a homeserver to send alerts and periodic status emails. I plan on using cock.li for the email server and GPG for encryption. My question is how to use GPG on a server automatically, considering I won't be there to unlock the key every time I use it. All of the guides I see online are for setting it up on systems the user interacts with every time it is used.
I just bought my cheap mechanical keyboard from Amazon and i watched a video talking about smart card readers and the author mentioned that someone could hide a keylogger in keyboards, is there an good way to tell if my keyboards has a keylogger without taking it apart? Not that i would know what the hell i'd be looking for anway.
>>8529 Not really, but I very much doubt a company selling keyboards is going to invest even more money in some crazy keylogger shit during a chip shortage. I guess you could avoid it with more certainty if you bought from a reputable brand but I don't think I've ever heard of a single instance of any company selling keyboards en masse at a loss to harvest data with hardware keyloggers. Just because something is technically possible doesn't mean it's feasible or has ever actually occurred in the wild at scale. At least not to my knowledge.
>>8529 Suppose your keyboard is actually logging your keystrokes. What is it going to do with that information? It doesn't have any way of sending it anywhere unless you install a program on your computer that directly talks to the keyboard for that information to send it over the internet. It could in theory just keep it stored in the keyboard since memory is cheap and plentiful and you wouldn't generate a sizeable amount of information from just keystrokes but what purpose would that serve a big globohomo company in China or California? On the other hand I can see laws being passed in a few years that mandate that keyboard manufacturers need to include a mechanism like this for law enforcement reasons since they have no problem breaking into your home and seizing your physical hardware and the idea is retarded enough that it could be feasibly sold to politicians.
I'm trying to get spice-vdagent working properly in a QEMU VM. It doesn't seem to be executing itself so I just set it to execute in i3, but that requires me to log in and out for it to properly set the resolution. Is there a command to get it to run earlier in the boot process? Maybe some systemd thing?
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I remember that there existed a phone app/apk to watch Youtube without getting any ads (which was then taken down). Do you guys remember its name, or if there exists any alternative applications?
>>8569 I'm not sure if the one taken down you're talking about is Youtube Vanced, but there's an alternative called "NewPipe x SponsorBlock x Return YouTube Dislike" by polymorphicshade on Github
>>8569 As >>8571 said you just use newpipe. I believe it's on the fdroid repos.
Contrary to what >>8572 said, don't use the one from the F-Droid repository. It is the official one (the one I was talking about is a fork of it), which does NOT have SponsorBlock. On his Github page, polymorphicshade has a few links from the official team explaining why they didn't include that functionality in their app. Here's the link to it: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe
>>8573 I don't think the average person expects their jewtube video player to actually skip through the content of the video based on community voted sponsor lengths. Also by using sponsorblock you are adding another server to the chain that can see which videos you are consuming. On top of that installing a non-official customized APK to your phone is clearly not an optimal security practice. If someone wants those features then so be it, but to assume that it's the default superior method is just silly. I don't look at things strictly through the lens of functionality but also general opsec, and so should everyone else. Less points of failure and less trust factors are generally better when trying to achieve privacy and anonymity.
>>8574 Took a look at it again, and I realized that I misread the request. I thought they wanted to skip those sponsors that appear during a video, instead of ads that appear at the beginning, which is why I suggested the forked version. Also, good points on the security practices. I'll keep those in mind, thanks!
>>8571 >>8572 >>8573 Sorry for not replying earlier, thank you very much. >>8574 I don't really mind the sponsor bits, when they're annoying I can just skip a minute ahead instantly and when they're funny or informative I tend to stick around.
>>8572 >>8573 >>8574 >>8577 I'm not sure if they've improved but a few moths ago F-droid had a major technical roadblock that prevented them from updating Newpipe so the version they had published was broken and they couldn't update it. Newpipe has its own F-droid repo that you can use if this is still the case.
>>8585 If you suspect your machine is compromised you should at the very least do a complete fresh install of your operating system. If you want to be ultra paranoid about it you could get a new SSD too, but that is a bit overkill as rootkits that persist through installs are quite rare. Though I do mention it because you are talking about state actors attacking you which is one of the few cases where it might actually be used as an attack vector. Regardless do a complete fresh install of your operating system, then go log into each of your accounts and change the passwords. Trying to remove malware from a machine instead of just doing a fresh drive format and OS reinstall is a fools errand. You will never be certain that the malware has been removed. Backup essential files and reinstall your OS. I recommend learning more about security and stuff like Linux if you think you're going to be targeted by state actors in the future.
>>8589 It's always a good idea to encrypt your data and use a password manager. I believe Veracrypt has the ability to do full drive encryption which is generally best practice. Password managers are also great but do require a bit of extra work to make sure you are doing very good backup practice because if you lose your keepass file someday you're basically just fucked. There are online solutions for password managers that make it less of an issue to worry about backups. Bitwarden is generally the recommended site as it's using open source software and has a free tier for personal use.. But using a third-party online service obviously comes with its own risks. Still better than nothing I suppose if you want the convenience. But if you can good backup house keeping offline keepassxc is the best. Encrypting your drive only protects your data while the device is turned off, at least for full disk encryption. You can still get hacked and they can get your data that way. So you want your devices full powered off if you're driving around and might get stopped by the police, or are going to be away from your devices for an extended period of them. It might be possible that in your shithole country there are a lot of compromised routers the police are exploiting. You could look up if your router has an open source firmware you could flash onto it or maybe look into buying an open source compatible router. Though that's likely difficult if you're in a third world country. I'm not much of an expert myself on networking though.
>>8591 I know little about anti-viruses as they are mostly pointless. MalwareBytes is what I vaguely recall being the least cancerous of them all so you can try a scan with that if you're simply curious. Regardless of whether or not it catches anything doing a regular OS wipe is good practice. And I wouldn't install malwarebytes if you do a clean install as you're adding another point of failure with software that is scanning your memory and files. I believe malwarebytes had a data leak awhile back. Like I said it's generally best to just avoid anti-virus software unless absolutely necessary. Open source routers are a higher layer of autism. I wouldn't worry about them too much. I'm just listing things that come to mind. There's basically an infinite number of things one can do to optimize their security. https://invidious.snopyta.org/playlist?list=PL3KeV6Ui_4CayDGHw64OFXEPHgXLkrtJO This channel has an entire playlist that goes over most of everything in segmented videos. But you should always tailor your implementations to what you can realistically grasp and achieve without turning your life upside down.
>>8592 Though I've heard it said you should enable the default anti-virus Windows 10 ships with, so when I said anti-viruses are mostly pointless I'm talking about the third party ones. Windows anti-virus comes with its own set of issues but it's probably best to have it enabled than not all things considered.
>>8594 Linux doesn't have any anti-virus for it basically at all. Linux isn't even necessarily any inherently more secure than Windows in a way that means you don't need it, it's just sort of expected that you don't do stupid shit on Linux. Plus it's just sort of more difficult to do stupid shit on Linux because most of your software is going to come from the repositories built into the distribution. But you could pretty easily get your system compromised running the wrong script you get from github. The best anti-virus is using your brain. Android is basically Linux but has actually well thought out security built into it by default. Open source android is actually one of the most secure platforms out there. Most things are very sandboxed by default. But it's also one of the biggest focuses on the planet for hackers because of how ubiquitous it is. Everyone on the planet has an Android computer on them most of the day, valuable target. Trouble is getting an open source android phone is a bit annoying. Typically you need to buy a google pixel phone then flash it onto that. But those can be kind of expensive. I guess you can flash lineage OS onto most phones, but it's quite hit or miss. >I've seen people around here who don't use the Windows 10 antivirus, but I don't really know why, so I guess it's better than nothing. Most anons have abhorrent security practices because they think just because something hasn't happened to their Windows 7 boxes yet that running out of date systems while refusing to apply any security patches is totally sane and fine. It's not, they're retarded. Wear your seat belt.
>>8598 I'm not really in the know for the debloat tools for Windows. https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=dO30OnTsJhk This guy generally has a lot of Windows 10 scripts and shit for stuff like that. Though I don't know if they're any better than the alternatives. >apparently linux is not for me yet since I still need to know many things You can probably get away with using Linux depending on what you're doing with it and trying to achieve. I'd recommend downloading VirtualBox and trying to tinker with something like Linux Mint or Manjaro inside of a virtual machine. Basic computing is pretty easy in Linux, and gaming is doable but maybe require a bit of tinkering occasionally. Linux isn't something risky to use that requires knowledge to avoid getting compromised. I just don't like the impression a lot of Linux advocates give people that it's some magic bullet that's super immune to viruses.
>>8601 People joke about the wrench attack in opsec circles because at the end of the day if someone really wants information out of you they'll just torture you to death for it. So if state actors are targeting you maybe look into getting out of town rather than learning Linux.
>>8603 It's not really harsh. It's mostly referenced in cryptocurrency circles. The point is that it doesn't matter how secure you are with your millions of dollars in bitcoin. If someone knows you have it they will try to kill you for it. The moral is to stay out of the crosshairs in the first place and also to know how to defend yourself and escape those situations. The logic is that people in security can get their heads so wrapped up in the security of their technology that they neglect security in the real world. There's more than leaving the country. You could have a bug out bag prepared in case you just need to be on the move for an extended period of time at a moments notice. I don't expect anyone to have the resources to leave their country especially when they're likely on a high priority state watch list.
>>8605 No I don't think "many" people have died over bitcoin. But I'm sure some have.
I used https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ to make sure the brave browser doesn't track me on my phone, but i still get Youtube recommendations based on what i watch, is it other technology that is giving YT that information for recommendations besides tracking cookies?
>>8622 If you don't want jewtube recommendations stop using jewtube. Use invidious instances or freetube. There's no way to know what kind of crazy shit they're doing with the javascript you're executing on their site.
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When i check https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ on the Tor browser, it says that protection from fiongerprinting is only partial, why is that?
>>8625 TOR is more about having a universal fingerprint than simply not having a fingerprint. Also it doesn't ship with uBlock because the developers are fucking retarded.
Can hackers use my browserfingerprint to find me? How easily done is that?
>>8628 Not unless that "hacker" is running the site you're on and somehow has access to mountains of advertiser data. Fingerprinting is mostly something used by advertisers to generate profiles on you across various devices and IP addresses. It isn't something commonly used by black hat hackers as far as I'm aware.
Two Questions: 1) I use Tor to watch YouTube videos on Invidious mirrors to keep my browsing anonymous. Just to clarify, I don't watch anything suspicious or odd. I literally just watch my normal stuff, through an Invidious mirror through Tor for privacy reasons. Is that okay or am I stressing the Tor network? I hear it's good for normal people to use Tor because, by using Tor normally, they create a smokescreen for everyone, including those who really are engaging in criminal activity. 2) What's the advantage of using a VPN? From my understanding, your browsing data will be kept from your ISP, but then it just goes to your VPN instead. In that case, what's the point? If the government has reason to target you, they'll just seek out your VPN for your browsing data instead. Is there any advantage in giving your browsing data to a VPN company rather than your ISP? Finally, minor question: Why is this thread, both sticky'd, and bumplocked?
>>8637 >1 no one cares about single circuit bandwidth , its building thousands of circuits just to get <1mb of data that creates stress and why torrenting puts you on an unofficial greylist >2 natural progression of isp monolopies, when everyone in your country already has an internet subscription the only way to grow is to trick stupid foreigners into getting a subscription, but surely no one is this fucking stupid? yes, just create covid level propaganda and ads claiming its for privacy even though even an imbecile can see how that claim is literally the most idiotic thing to ever have been said on the internet, like holy shit, vpns are literally the covid vax of the internet >both sticky'd, and bumplocked probably stops the other sticky from switching places with this one
>>8638 >why torrenting puts you on an unofficial greylist You can be put on a "greylist"? How does that work? And what are the effects of it? Overall, very helpful post, thank you.
>>8639 guard nodes get demoted to relays if they cant keep a decent up time, when you torrent it literally looks like a ddos to that node because of how torrent seeds works and the guys running nodes already have way to much experience dealing with ddosing so youre just going to have your ip blocked by your entry nodes, you can just get a new list of entry nodes from the directory authorities but those are servers that do heuristics on all nodes to determine reputation and publish the node census to everyone, and since everyone on tor is a node its possible that your ip and rsa key gets flagged the same way bad nodes get flagged so you basically become unwanted throughout the network without even knowing it
>>8637 VPNs are good for two things. The first is what you mentioned, hiding your traffic from your ISP. This is useful if you trust your ISP less than your VPN provider (public wifi, etc). The other is bypassing region/network restrictions. Say there's a video only watchable in XYZ country, or your network blocks certain domains. A VPN could bypass these. Outside of those two uses they're mostly snake oil, assuming we're talking about commercial "privacy" VPNs.
Should I change my PSU? So last time I installed ubunto my computer wouldn't boot properly unless I used a GPU that only drained power from the motherboard. I disabled booting to that OS and returned to using my regular GPU, but now certain programs close abruptly. The best example I can give is CS:GO crashing 3 times before it just shuts down my computer Alongside that, my PSU fan seems to be making a really loud noise, and frankly I don't know if I can deal with it. I disabled two fans and it stopped being loud in the beginning, but eventually it went back to doing a lot of noise I have >Motherboard: ASUS B660M D4 Prime >GPU: RX 570 4gb >CPU: i3 12100F >RAM: 4x16gb Mushkin Silverline 3200Mhz >3 casket fans and a ID-Cooling CPU Cooler I feel like I should change the PSU for an 800W one, but I wouldn't be sure
>>8660 Knowing your current PSU wattage would be helpful.
>>8661 650W
>>8663 Well it should be powerful enough but once your PSU fan starts grinding there isn't much you can do. I've experienced it first hand and it is absolutely unbearable. You should not under any circumstance attempt to disassemble or repair a PSU as you can die from the built up charge in them. But an 800W PSU is something people usually only get for driving shit like a 3090. If you're only going to be using low to mid tier GPU's there isn't much reason to go beyond 600-750W. More importantly you want to look at reviews for how the fan sounds and check the warranty. Longer warranty usually indicates better quality.
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I need to make a group chat that contains mostly normalfags. What can I use that won't send everything to the botnet but is still accessible for your average Joe? I'm considering Matrix but I haven't used it before so I don't know how technical it gets. I know you need to download a client (will have to explain this) and register on a server (though I think it picks matrix.org by default, unsure if this is perplexing to a normalfag). Signal might work but I imagine they would find assigning names to phone numbers manually to be a turn-off. I don't even care if it isn't E2EE if it just werks, but that's a plus if it doesn't require any extra effort from the normalfags.
>>8667 I may wanna change my GPU in the future for an 8GB one, would 650W still be enough?
>>8670 https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=X_wtoCBahhM&t=769 This video goes over it quite in depth. I linked the time where he gave more specific wattage recommendations for various GPU's alongside the watts they pull under load. >>8669 >I know you need to download a client It can just be used in the browser if they don't want a client. Element is good if you don't want to worry about phone numbers. I've heard signal is more niggercattle friendly but I've never attempted to use it since it requires a phone number. I use element to chat with some family sometimes and it's mostly pretty intuitive. The various home servers aren't really relevant to someone just signing up on the element site. The most awkward part is adding people to chats or whatever. I think you need to type out the full address of their homeserver along with their username. But I could be wrong, I haven't used it that much.
>>8670 >>8672 Also the reason he recommends PSU's with 100-200 watts higher than what they pull is because you generally want a decent amount of headroom.
This isn't homework. This is a personal investigation. Does anyone know how to use Desmos? I want to plot two 4D Graphs. f(x, y, z) = xz/2*sqrt(1-(x^2+z^2-y^2)/(2yz)) g(x, y, z) = x+y+z I might as well explain myself. On a whim, I've taken a fancy to polygons that have a perimeter equal to their area (e.g. when a square has a perimeter of 16 (and thus, implicitly, a side-length of 4), the area is also 16). I'm bored with regular polygons however and I want to try and explore irregular polygons that have this trait. I figured I should start with the simplest irregular polygon: the scalene triangle. The definition of f(x, y, z) comes from me producing an equation for the area of a scalene triangle when all the sides are known and none of the angles are known. I used the cosine rule, and then used the pythagorean trigonometric identity, and then simplified. The definition of g(x, y, z) is a simple perimeter calculation. Since I'm looking for when the area is equal to the perimeter, I'm looking for where these two functions intersect on a graph. The issue is that, when one equates these two functions to each other, you find yourself with only one equation but three variables. From my understanding of linear algebra, this means that I should be able to generate a plane of possible solutions, which is what I want. I would really like to see a 4D Plot of these two functions, but I'm unskilled with Desmos. Can I get some help please?
I had a thought just now: If my equation for the area of a scalene triangle is correct, then, in the scenario where a=b=c, the equation should simplify down into the equation for an equilateral triangle of length a. When I tested my equation, it failed. Checking over my work, I see my errors. I have not used the cosine rule since my mid-teenage years and so I misapplied it. I also slipped up in my algebra. This is the correct definition for the f function. f(x, y, z) = xz/2*sqrt(1-((x^2+z^2-y^2)/(2xz))^2) When x=y=z, this does indeed simplify down correctly. Just for clarity, here's the g function again: g(x, y, z) = x+y+z So yeah, please help me plot this on Desmos so I can see what it looks like.
Just a side-note, but I wanted to clarify: It kept bothering me that I never tested my f function for the scenario where x=z (i.e. the isoceles triangle) to see if the equation simplifies down correctly and reproduces the area equation for an isoceles triangle. I checked. It does simplify down correctly. It is correct. I have to admit, I'm very chuffed about this achievement. Anyway, yes. Please help. f(x, y, z) = xz/2*sqrt(1-((x^2+z^2-y^2)/(2xz))^2) g(x, y, z) = x+y+z
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This is beginning to feel like spam so hopefully, this is my last post. I feel like my f function looks completely unapproachable so I've decided to display it in a picture. Please help me with Desmos. Thanks. P.S. Could you also show me a couple of lattice points that satisfy both functions? That'd be cool.
>>8694 this only works for squares because area is a SQUARED measurement this comparison is completely meaningless on anything thats not a square, there are infinite configurations for a triangle with an area of x and all will have a slightly different area and vice versa equating the area of triangle with its perimeter just gives you infinity
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>>8698 Thanks for trying to help but I don't think you understand the problem. >this only works for squares because But that's wrong. It doesn't only work for squares. Consider the equilateral triangle. The formula for its area is as follows: A = sqrt(3)/4 * l^2 l is the length, btw. But yeah, if we're looking for the situation where the perimeter is equal to the area, all we have to do is rewrite the area-equation in terms of perimeter, equate the new equation to the perimeter, and then solve. For regular polygons, this is trivially easy. So, for an equilateral triangle, l = p/3 (i.e. a length of one side is a third of the total perimeter) The new equation then, in terms of perimeter, is as follows: A = sqrt(3)/36 * p^2 Then, equating this equation to the perimeter... p = sqrt(3)/36 * p^2 ...and solving yields... p = 12*sqrt(3) I attached a picture to make it easier to follow, but yeah, if you calculate the area of an equilateral triangle, with the assumption that its perimeter is 12sqrt(3), you will find the area is equal to the perimeter. There's nothing "meaningless" about it. And of course, equilateral triangles aren't the only regular polygon this can be done for. It works squares, pentagons, hexagons and I imagine it never stops working. Technically, mathematically speaking, there's no difference between a circle and a polygon with an infinite number of sides. I have already calculated that, when a circle has a circumference of 4pi, it has an equivalent area. That was the first thing shape I tried. >there are infinite configurations for a triangle with an area of x and all will have a slightly different area They either have the same area, or they don't. This is Maths we're talking about here, not the reality of how accurately such triangles can be constructed.
>>8699 its clear that youre the one that doesnt understand basic geometry, i meant to write theres infinite configurations for a triangle with an area of x and all will have a slightly different shape as is obvious from the pic i posted thats why using f(x, y, z) = xz/2*sqrt(1-(x^2+z^2-y^2)/(2yz)) g(x, y, z) = x+y+z is MEANINGLESS because this is the area and perimeter of ALL triangles hence you get infinite xyz values from equating them because you can make an infinite number of triangles of area x and perimeter x when dimensions are arbitrary and now youre trying to define the dimension by using a completely different formula than you posted which is only true for equilateral triangles to try and wipe the egg of your face
forgot to mention this no other regular polygon can have area=perimeter other than a fucking square, if it is then its not regular
>>8700 >i meant to write theres infinite configurations for a triangle with an area of x and all will have a slightly different shape as is obvious from the pic i posted Right. I forgot to mention: why was that pic even relevant? The triangles had the same area, but different perimeters, meanwhile, I'm exclusively interested in triangles for which the perimeter and area are identical. It just made me think the problem wasn't understood. >this is the area and perimeter of ALL triangles hence you get infinite xyz values from equating them because you can make an infinite number of triangles of area x and perimeter x when dimensions are arbitrary Right, I acknowledged this in the first post. <The issue is that, when one equates these two functions to each other, you find yourself with only one equation but three variables. From my understanding of linear algebra, this means that I should be able to generate a plane of possible solutions, which is what I want. I want to see this plane in a 4D Plot. I want to know what defines the plane, what equation defines the points on the plane. Planes have definitions too, even if they have infinite values. Also, it's: f(x, y, z) = xz/2*sqrt(1-((x^2+z^2-y^2)/(2xz))^2) g(x, y, z) = x+y+z That f function is the one that outputs areas for any triangle. This is the correction I made later. >>8701 >no other regular polygon can have area=perimeter other than a fucking square, if it is then its not regular That is simply false. I already demonstrated to you that it's possible with equilateral triangles. I even have a regular pentagon proof! It's possible for all regular polygons.
What is a browser for android that doesn't track you and has adblock? I've been using Free Adblock Browser and the Brave Browser so far, are these okay for privacy? None of the usual privacy sites ever focus on android browsers.
>>8704 https://techlore.tech/resources This site has browser recommendations.
>>8705 That site lists Brave as one of it's recommended browsers, doesn't that have spyware like the desktop version? https://archive.ph/cWrxJ
>>8706 It has telemetry that can be disabled and auto updates. That isn't really spyware. The site also lists bromite which doesn't have auto updates and mull which I guess is some hardened firefox. Use your brain and decide for yourself how autistic you want to be about """spyware""" that isn't really spyware in your browser.
I'm trying to think of ways to securely connect to a server that I have control of without having to rely on DNS or HTTPS. The use case is to access some web UIs of services running on it. When the server is on the local network, you would connect via http://192.168.1.x:yyyy for example. Here's what I've researched so far: >HTTP/SOCKs proxy No encryption between the client and server, so this is out. >Connect directly to external IP This requires opening ports, which is annoying and makes my network less secure. Out. >Reverse proxy Relies on both DNS and HTTPS, so out. >VPN I think this would work, but haven't really tried it. It seems awfully hard to get right from what I've seen online. I don't want to put all of my traffic through the server anyways, so this is out. >SSH LocalForward + HTTP/SOCKs proxy SSH handles encryption between the client and server, and LocalForward makes it appear that the proxy is available on localhost. Connecting to the proxy allows access to the server/its local network (ideal in my case). Also a plus: since everything is accessible through localhost, you don't get warnings about the lack of HTTPS. Simple and just werks, but only on machines that can SSH into the server. Not ideal. >Shadowsocks Handles both encryption and the proxying, but not directly supported by anything. From what I can tell, you can run a sort of Shadowsocks<->regular proxy locally, which allows programs that support SOCKs and/or HTTP proxies (again, not sure on details) to connect to a Shadowsocks server. Clients for doing this seem to be on most platforms. Haven't actually tried this though. Anything I'm missing? Suggestions welcome.
i have this hard drive that isn't recognized on my pc, so i smashed it with a pointed metal rod a few times (making a few serious holes in it), the middle part fell out. There isn't anything illegal in it but it should be inoperable right?
>>8730 You can open it up and shatter the plates. Which would take an extremely inordinate amount of effort to recover data from. Though just smacking it with a hammer from the outside might shatter the plates too. Put it in a bag before smashing shit up, you'll get tiny metal shards everywhere otherwise.
Let's figure out a way to transport people, objects, or information into the past (especially into the past before the technology was invented)! There must be a way to do it - and if there isn't, we should be the ones to discover that fact! This kind of technology would allow us to fix all the problems in the world if we pout it on the open market! If it works, then we can immediately rule out causality-based paradoxes and conclude the existence of an infinite number of timelines (one for every possible series of universes between the big bang singularity and the singularity of the big crunch). So lets do our best to make this dream into a reality! BTW, Time Travel of this sort would also necessitate the creation of other technologies (like Faster Than Light travel, Teleporation/Portal technology, etc). So there's no reason not to but our genius level brains togeter and start formulating the potential ways that we could go back in time, and if we determine that it cannot be done, at the very least we can outdo the international scientific community by showing definitively that it cannot be done and what the reasons why are. Fail or Win, we will be victorious! So let's do it!
Can anyone recommend me Android f-droid software for music that simply scans folders on launch to generate its playlists? I want to just sync a folder to update a playlist and have that automatically generate in the music software on the phone. But it seems like most of the software you either need to recreate that playlist from the folder every time you update it manually or you have to just completely remake playlists from scratch and update them manually.
OS: Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Enterprise GPU: GTX 1650 I can install driver 473.04 and older without any issues, but the latest 473.62 always gives me Code 28 and fails to install. Any ideas? Search engines didn't bring up anything helpful.
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>>8761 I made sure my download wasn't corrupted. I have .NET 4.8 and vcredist 2022 installed
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>>8761 >>8762 Still fails if I try to install the normie way instead of through Device Manager
>>8763 The normalnigger way is installing geforce experience.
>>8764 Ok maybe I should've said installing from the .exe is the "boomer way." The true normalnegro gets their driver updates from Windows Automatic Update
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I would like to install the Intel Core 2 Duo processor on one of my laptops but the price for it is expensive. If I have a different laptop that has the same processor, will removing it from that board & installing it to the other laptop work fine or is it not doable?
Invidious is the YouTube Front-End. Teddit is the Reddit Front-End. What's the Pinterest Front-End? I cannot find it. On that note, is there a list of all the Front-Ends?
>>8771 The privacy redirect addon comes with a list of frontends inside it for various things. I don't think there is a pinterest frontend though. There's a tiktok one that isn't in privacy redirect that I know about. https://proxitok.herokuapp.com/
Is there a webpage or a program that renders matrix characters for windows like the terminal program Unimatrix?
is there a way i can look at Instagram without making an account, i tried making a throwaway account but it kept thinking i'm a bot and asking for my phone number.
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Is this a neck wrinkle or his mouth on the mullvad mascot?
>>8782 why have you shown me this what have you done
If you have to use shitcord, what's the least invasive way of using it? Here's what I've thought of: >use fake info while signing up >run it in a VM that has zero access to your bare connection (likely through a VPN as I doubt they would allow Tor) >never use video/voice chat, don't even have it set up in a way it can access those inputs >change your typing style and put on a fake personality >randomize the hashes of any files you upload to them >to avoid timezone detection do whatever you need at random times, not staying logged in, occasionally using when you would normally sleep Anything else or is this a futile endeavor?
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Is this a new requirement or am I doing something wrong? You didn't have to log in to download Nvidia Control Panel before. I'm on LTSC 2021 btw
>>8807 Nevermind, I just went back to the standard, non-DCH driver from December 2021.
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Why does kohlchan.net make you upload something when you want to post there, what are you uploading and why do you make you do it?
Don't things like yubikeys kind of defeat the point of two factor authentication by being attached directly to your machine? At that point is there really much value to the hardware instead of just having a secondary piece of software generating codes? Or is the hardware so good that leaving it plugged into the machine is fine?
>>8811 You're supposed to keep the key on you, not plugged in. On a keychain, in a wallet, etc. This way, if you lose your laptop, the thief won't be able to decrypt anything. Leaving it plugged in or putting both in the same bag at the same time is just bad OPSEC. >>8809 The fact they call it KohlCash leads me to believe they actually mine a currency. Whether the user gets anything in a wallet or if KC just collects it themselves I am not sure. They developed their own mining system ahead of LynxChan so it uses a different algorithm.
>>8819 >You're supposed to keep the key on you, not plugged in. On a keychain, in a wallet, etc. This way, if you lose your laptop, the thief won't be able to decrypt anything. That is one use for them. But the other is 2 factor auth on something like a desktop machine where it generates the TOTP code for you and pastes it to your clipboard when you press the button on the hardware. Which is more convenient but also doesn't really feel like a true second authentication since it's connected to the same machine you're on rather than air gapped.
>>8819 >putting both in the same bag at the same time is just bad OPSEC Do you also keep your ammo in a safe far away from your firearm?
>>8808 Nvidia stopped making non-DCH drivers for GeForce cards, but it looks like they still make them once in a while for Quadros. May 2022 for Quadro vs December 2021 for GeForce.
When you get a new gpu, should you remove that thin plastic film covering the one side, or does that help with dust?
>>8831 You should probably peel it off if it's just the plastic from the packaging.
>>8831 Negroes like to keep the film/stickers/tags on everything to flex how "fresh" it is. My old plattoon mate taught me that when I offered to clean the faded peeling stickers off his HP laptop
>>8832 >>8833 Alright then. Removing it it is.
>>8835 Sometimes not removing peels can overheat things. Like the plastic peels on the back of modern TV's are required to be removed so it can exhaust heat properly.
I'm trying to setup a backup/second domain on a small imageboard but I can't get it configured. The only guide I could find for adding multiple domains to Nginx has them being set up together, not AFTER the first is already set up. First domain is currently working fine and has throughout my attempts to get the second up. I have the second domain pointed at the VPS of the first one and added the files to /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ and /sites-available/ as well as given it a valid certbot file to use https. At first I was able to reach the default nginx screen on the second domain, but then I updated the /sites-enabled/ file to look almost identical to the first one (because it didn't setup automatically like the first domain did, maybe part of the problem?), and now I get these two errors (one when I try and connect with www. and one without). I haven't tried running /jschan/configs/nginx/nginx.sh a second time, and don't know if that would delete or reset anything I have already working on the first domain? There are no syntax errors or no other errors I can tell from the terminal when checking nginx; everything loads fine, but the site never appears on the second domain (flushed cache, different browsers, etc). I Googled the two webpage errors but nothing turns up. Anyone have any ideas?
>>8842 use apache idiot
>>8842 I figured it out. I had the "launch" path in the first listen (first domain block) so it was being ignored in the second domain block and as a result it had nothing to launch after figuring out the domain...or something? TLDR I am retard, not nginx. I didn't even need the second server block; I just threw them both on the same line and even though the file is named after the primary domain both of them work fine. Good to know for when the retards who gave me these domains take them back^^ >>8843 Is it better? I wanted to use LynxChan instead of jschan but Stephen assumes people are smart in his installation guide, so it didn't work for me--
>>8807 >>8808 >>8826 Update: I found some good instructions to sideload Windows Apps, bypassing the Microsoft Store completely. Just took a combination of https://store.rg-adguard.net/ and a PowerShell command ("Add-AppxPackage [filename here]). Then read the error messages to see what dependency apps you have to install first. The guide I found said I needed to install Microsoft "App Installer" first but I skipped that step and it worked out fine. Now I have the latest Nvidia DCH Studio driver installed, with working Novideo Cuntroll Painal.
I just bought a helium hard drive. When the helium eventually leaks, the drive’s performance will degrade and then it will stop working. But what degrades about it exactly, and does it degrade like an regular air drive would degrade?
>>8882 >But what degrades about it exactly, and does it degrade like an regular air drive would degrade? Helium drive internals are designed around tighter tolerances than are possible with ambient air. Without the helium inside, the platters/heads/etc would have more resistance and vibration than they were specced for. It's like if you have an engine that can rev to 10k on nitrous, but then you try to rev it the same way without the nitrous
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>>8883 So it would just slow down, and wear and tear more? So my next question is did i waste my money accidentally getting a helium drive or is it not as bad as it seems?
>>8884 yeah you should have just got an ssd or tape drive if its for storage, spinning disks are stupid and obsolete
>>8885 Retard
>>8888 Why is he a retard?
>>8892 For calling the best price per gb drives "stupid and obsolete".
>>8884 >So it would just slow down, and wear and tear more? If by "slow down" you mean "seize" then yes
>>8884 >did i waste my money accidentally getting a helium drive or is it not as bad as it seems? by the time your helium leaks out, hard drives will probably be fully obsolete. In 10 years you could replace a 20TB helium drive with a cheaper 40TB SSD
>>8895 Can you prove that helium drives they could last 10 years?
>>8902 yes, helium hard drives launched in 2013, im sure at least one of those will still be working next year
>>8903 how are you sure
When it comes to usb speakers, would it be better to power them by plugging them into a usb port on the computer or by plugging them into a usb adapter and wall outlet?
>>8910 Most motherboards don't bother with USB ports capable of beyond 5V 1A, plus you'll get electrical noise from the CPU/GPU/etc. A good quality USB wall charger is almost always better. Only exception might be if it's a $0.50 AliExpress special
>>8904 >how are you sure You're just gonna have to wait and see
>>8912 theres obviously going to be hundreds of decoupling capacitors in a speaker so it makes no difference
Simply deleting it from the hard drive and then using ccleaner and cleaning out the thumbnail cache will completely remove illegal pictures from being retrieved (even after deletion) from a hard drive, right?
>>8922 Depends on the kind of drive. If it's an SSD it's substantially more awkward to "permanently" delete things from it. Which is why it's just generally recommended to have an SSD encrypted to avoid the hassle. With an HDD you typically want to wipe it by overwriting the entire drive once. I don't know how CCleaner works but I doubt it achieves that. In both scenarios it's easier to just have an encrypted drive and not give a fuck what may or may not be on it because it's impossible to get into either way as long as it's shut down and encrypted.
>>8923 I have a program called recoverit that brings back some deleted files. If i delete everything on the drive with the illegal files and then overwrite it, would it be a good way to test if they're really gone by checking this recoverit program? if not then what would be a good way to check if they're really gone?
>>8924 I can't really give input on that because I've never used any data recovery software before. But if you have a standard HDD and overwrite it completely as I understand it the data should be permanently gone. There are some programs that write to the drives multiples times but as I understand it redundant wipes shouldn't technically perform any better than a single completely overwrite of all the data. But it's a different story for SSD's. You need some manufacturer wipe tool or sometimes I think the bios has some SSD wipe functionality, but then you're relying on trusting the manufacturer actually put a true wipe feature in. But using any data recovery program is a better sanity check than doing nothing I guess. If it helps give you some peace of mind go for it. I'd just lean towards maybe looking for open source data recovery software if it exists so you don't need to worry about what it might be doing if it does recover some data that is illegal.
>>8925 Okay, thank you, it was a HDD by the way.
>>8925 >But it's a different story for SSD's. You need some manufacturer wipe tool or sometimes I think the bios has some SSD wipe functionality It's called Secure Erase, you csn fo it from a Linux LiveOS if your BIOS doesn't have the tool built in
>>8930 >you csn fo it *you can do it
How do I disable Chromium's Incognito warning message on new tabs? Google is only showing results for disabling Incognito itself, which is not what I want. I know this is possible because I did it before. I just want it to load about:blank, right now people think I'm looking at porn every time I open a new tab
>>8932 This didn't work btw
>>8932 >>8933 Nevermind, the --custom-ntp command worked when I tried putting it in the Chromium shortcut instead of the flags page
>>8934 spoke too soon, only the initial tab when loading Chromium is about:blank, but new tabs after that are the "you've gone incognito" message. Fuck it I dont care anymore
My computer doesn't give signal after a power outage, is it dead?
>>8940 Have you checked the connections with a tester?
>>8940 Do you get fan spin? Do the motherboard LEDs light up?
>>8941 Don't have a tester sadly >>8942 Everything seems to be working, but i have no signal on the monitor. I think this may be a retread of an issue I had for the first half of the year, where connecting a GPU that uses no PCIE cables from the PSU worked. I may have to change where that wire is connected, since it's semi-modular I may be able to fix that, but I can't be sure
>>8943 Well everything is a lie, LEDs pop up and the fans spin, but I can't get to POST
>>8944 sir, have you try defragmenting hard disc?
>>8943 >Everything seems to be working, but i have no signal on the monitor. Do you have an integrated GPU on your processor? If you plug your monitor into the outputs on your motherboard do you get picture? Re-assembling it from scratch might fix it, as you said re-doing your PSU cabling or re-seating ram can fix no-post.
if i copy and paste my installed video games from one drive to another will the game still work?
>>8947 Probably. If they are steam games you would need to direct steam to the new library location. If they are just pirated games running the .exe from the new location should work fine.
>>8946 Nope, don't have any of that really. Thankfully, I managed to get it to work properly again after dissasembling the GPU and RAM, and placing one RAM in a certain dual-channel slot. But even then, I still need to get an UPS ASAP
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>>8925 Okay i overwrote the hdd and then used recoverit to look through it and these files were found, one is called metadata, any idea what these might be?
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>>8959 pretty sure you can dissolve the metadata file with lemon juice and salt just put a little salt on the harddrive casing and squeeze a lemon on it and it should get rid of it
>>8959 https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/66236/could-system-volume-information-and-rmmetadata-pose-information-leakage-on-a I found this forum talking about the files. I don't know if it matters or if they could leak any hints at data. What did you use to wipe the drive? It might be the case that the method you used didn't wipe out hidden partitions. In that case it might be more effective to boot into a live linux USB and use kde partition manager or gnome disks to properly wipe the drive and all the partitions. I know kde partition manager has some shred functionality in it.
>>8967 I used Windows diskpart.exe before and now i used dban from the suggestion in your link, but both give me the same result of $RmMetadata with the $TxfLog.blf. After wiping them i format them into a usable partition then i search through with recoverit (although i can search through them without formatting them into a partition), maybe formatting them creates the RmMetadata hidden folder? I'll try to scan the other hard drive (that was only partially wiped and not formatted) for the RmMetadata folder. Okay, so there are still folders in the Partially wiped hard drive but no RmMetadata folder, so that might not be data leak and just something that is created when i format the drive, perhaps?
>>9009 >maybe formatting them creates the RmMetadata hidden folder? I would assume that's most likely the case. But that's just my intuition speaking, I couldn't say for certain. As far as I'm aware dban is a highly recommended method of wiping drives so if you used that I'd be relatively confident that you're good.

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For some reason, Window 7 seems to have lost the drivers that allow it to read an NVMe SSD. What happened was that, yesterday, I installed four games on my computer: GT Legends, Links LS 1999, Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault, and Star Wars: Battle for Naboo. After browsing the net for a bit, afterwards, and typing up a few documents, I shut the computer off and go to bed. This morning, I woke up, turned on my computer, and it crashed while booting Windows, stating that the OS is damaged. Tonight, I've tried to go through the startup repair tool, and it states that my computer doesn't acknowledge that the SSD drive is connected to it. Now, I made a bootable thumb drive for the purposes of repairing the OS from another source (That also comes with RAID, NVMe, and USB 3.0 drivers), and it also says that the Windows installation doesn't exist, but it does list that the SSD does exist and that it has files on it. If it helps at all, the motherboard is a MSI B450-A Pro Max. What should I do?
>>9014 >For some reason, Window 7 seems to have lost the drivers that allow it to read an NVMe SSD. Those don't come stock on Windows until 8.1 >What should I do? three options off the top of my head 1) slipstream NVMe drivers in Win7 iso w/ NTLite 2) switch to Win 8.1 or newer 3) Linux
>>9014 >What should I do? (continued from >>9015) You might be able to recover your documents using a Linux LiveOS. If that doesn't work then they're probably gone forever
>>9016 >You might be able to recover your documents using a Linux LiveOS. Okay, which one?
>>9017 If you're just grabbing some files any old linux distro will work fine. Ubuntu, mint, manjaro, mx linux, doesn't really matter if you aren't permanently installing it and are just using the live USB environment.
>>9017 >>9018 I was going to say, found one: https://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-live-cd.htm Also, looks like all my files still exist, so I'm in the process of copying them to an external hard drive just in case.
>>9019 There are some live cd's specifically for data recovery, but if it's just windows not identifying the drive any old linux distro should have the proper drivers to detect it out of the box for basic file transferring. Those data recovery live CD's are usually a bit more specialized and not always open source.
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Hey /t/ recently bought a tp-link Ac1300 (Archer T3U Plus) USB wifi adapter to replace my old Rosewill adapter. For some reason the Ac1300 slows down dramatically after reaching its top intended speed. I can connect to my router (netgear n300 router wnr2000v2) and it can reach 40-50mb then crash to 1-2mb out of nowhere. Sometimes it can hold the intended 40-50mb but most of the times its stuck barely pushing 2mb. My old ass router is still holding on and any other wifi device; from my phone, laptop or television can reach great speeds with no hassle. I can't figure out why its so slow. >use ethernet or stop using old shit The USB wifi adapter and one or two other things was going to be the last upgrades of my old desktop before preparing for a new build (including a new router). OS: Windows 8.1 Version 6.3 (Build 9600) RAM: 32gb ddr3 GPU: GTX 1080 CPU: i7-4790k MB: Asus Z97-A Primary Storage: Samsung SSD 240gb Secondary Storage: WD Black 2tb HDD
>>9024 Did you get your drivers from the manufacturer website, or are you relying on the Microsoft provided driver?
>>9025 >>9027 Manufacturer >pic related
>>9024 This will sound weird but have you tried plugging it into a USB 2.0 port?
>>9030 I'll give it a try.
>>9031 >>9030 Actually I need to try it a little later, forgot I needed to clone/backup my HDD first. I'll update my situation later.
>>9032 Anyway, two reasons to try it: 1) USB 3.0 is known to produce electrical interference that messes with 2.4GHz signals such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2) Tiny USB 3.0 devices such as thumb drives and Wi-Fi adapters are notorious for overheating Easy to read source: https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/wireless-witch-the-truth-about-usb-30-and-wi-fi-interference Authoritative source: https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/327216.pdf
>>9033 If that's the case, any recommendation for a pcie card? Something that can hit near 1300Mbps levels.
>>9034 I don't know about specific products, but something with a heatsink and an external antenna should be good
>>9012 So i wiped the drive one final time with dban and didn't partition it this time and checked it and it didn't have the RmMetadata. I feel safe giving the drive away now, thanks for the help.
Is there a way to disable the fucking Antimalware protection in Windows Defender? Every single option I've tried is either hard locked by Microsoft or flat out refuses to work or even gets reassigned at the next update.
Does anyone know of a website or method for downloading just the audio from Bitchute and Odysee.
Should I enable "Above 4G Decoding" in my UEFI settings? I have a 64-bit OS, 64GB DDR4, three NVMe drives, but only 4GB VRAM. I don't think my GPU supports ReBAR
>>9052 Thanks!
>>9053 >>9059 You can also type youtube-dl -F [video link] then look at what values it throws at you, then type youtube-dl -f [number of the video file]+[number of the audio file] [video link] If you want a specific kind of file
>>9069 Pretty sure that only works on youtube.
I remember hearing how Pale Moon started making all of the old plugins completely unusable with the browser, and I wanted to ask what was the last unpozzed release of the browser.
>>9077 Using out of date browsers is the single most retarded thing you could possibly do. Even more retarded than using an out of date operating system.
>>9078 okay, retard
>>9078 The browser on my Sony PSP is seriously outdated, but for some reason I'm not worried about it getting malware
>>9093 Most people aren't using arcane underlying operating systems to browse the internet. The kind of retard looking for out of date pale moon binaries is probably also running Windows 7. So it would matter a lot if a website decides it wants to escape the sandbox.
I know how to change my mac address using ifconfig and macchanger. I'd like a way to change my mac address permanently. Is there a way to do that, like with vim or something?
>>9095 Um sweaty, reddit told me security through obscurity is bad. Connecting your Sony PSP to the internet in 2022 means you'll get instant ransomware, your bank account will be hacked, and worst of all, your games will slow down due to hidden cryptominers running in the background
>>9105 its part of the firmware idiot you cant change it, you can only change it when its loaded into memory which is always temporary >>9095 haha u retard
>>9105 No prob. Just write a script that changes it before a connection is established at system start.
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>>9112 lol
>>9072 youtube-dl doens't only work on youtube. Works on bitchute to download the video. you have to extract the audio with ffmpeg afterwards
>>8922 >>8923 >ccleaner ccleaner is a botnet that collects data. Switch to bleachbit. >>9017 Pretty much any distro will allow you to rescue files. I recommend either Xubuntu or https://www.system-rescue.org/ >>9014 >>9046 install GNU/Linux, like Xubuntu. It respects your rights and freedoms. Use Rufus for creating a bootable USB that can be used to install the GNU/Linux operating system. >>9078 this.
remember to always #saftelyremoveusb otherwise the usb will get hacked
So, I run Linux Mint 20.3, Cinnamon. I was about to send someone a file over IM, and I get a look at my recents list, and it is full of files I have no looked at in a long time, all accessed at Around 6:30PM, and more accessed around 2PM before that. Someone asked about this a few years ago, but nothing conclusive, https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=278795 Anyone got any ideas?
If i use a vpn to upload a video on to youtube will my IP be safe from poeple trying to get my IP?
>>9177 I would assume not. Google is literally the worlds leading force behind profiling and tracking users. Just masking your IP as your only measure is basically useless. They can correlate mountains of other bits of information to get a read on your identity. Plus that's assuming you can even get a fresh google account that doesn't immediately demand identification, and then when you go to upload any content it will probably demand even more. Point is, if you have to ask if you would be safe using youtube while using a VPN the answer is no. Not because it's not possible, but the fact you asked means that you don't have the opsec developed to pull it off.
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Not sure if this is good to post on this thread or if I should start a new thread, but here goes anyway... What is the best method to update an airgapped Parrot OS system? I can't seem to figure it out.
>>9177 >If i use a vpn to upload a video on to youtube I would assume they block uploads from known VPNs. If 4chan can do it, surely Youtube can
>>9177 Also, last I checked, you need to dox your phone number to even create a Google account
I need help on cracking this IBM Thinkpad T60 I got. When I turn the laptop on, I get an error message that says 'the system has been tampered with' and puts me to a password screen which I have no idea what it is. From what I have looked up, it seems to be a SVP (Supervisor Password) Another thing I found online lead me to a video where somebody put what looked like tweezers in a certain position and they were able to disable the password. I found another guide that said to short certain parts of the MB within a couple seconds of the Thinkpad logo, and then they were also able to disable SVP. What can I do to get rid of the SVP & make the machine usable?
>>9220 Give it back, Jamal.
>>9220 You need to short shit in the motherboard as far as I'm aware.
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>>9226 Just got back from my attempt at clearing the SVP. I believe it has finally been cleared off as I can now freely boot into my OS and edit the BIOS at the same time because I no longer get that persisting error. It was a pain in the ass to do since it called for both preciseness and timing, but the tiny sewing needles did their job & I was shocked that shorting part of the MB worked! All that's left now is to Libreboot the machine!
>>9231 Update: I think I got Libreboot installed but I am not 100% sure. It loads to the grub menu ok and goes to the linux OS. I followed the instructions for flashing the T60, first and second flash respectively. When I try to repeat the process for the second flash, I got this message in the terminal >Warning: Chip content is identical to the requested image. Is there a way of starting over from scratch to make absolutely certain it is installed or is this really complete? My machine is not bricked.
i bought a new hard drive and i just coped over the files from my old hard drive and they came out incomplete, now i have redownload them again. I heard of cloning, would that be a more reliable way to copy files than just copy paste?
>>9240 >i just cop[i]ed over the files from my old hard drive and they came out incomplete, now i have redownload them again. If you "copied" the files and didn't cut/paste them, what's stopping you from just trying again? Btw the copy probably failed because you didn't safely remove the drive (if USB) or shut down the PC (if internal). Windows and probably Linux will continue copying in the background despite the progress meter saying it completed.
>>9220 Nigger there are like 5 unique anons on this board, it's a pretty low % chance that any of us know how to fix your specific model of chinkpad. Hate to say it but go to 4chan if you actually want an answer this year.
>>9242 I did actually copy them twice to fill in the files that didn't copy paste correctly and yet i still have missing files. How do i know when background copying is done?
>>9246 you sound like my dad he copies shortcuts and then complains the files didnt get copied properly
I heard the claim that hidden services don't leave the Tor network by Doctor Mike Pound ( http://grwp24hodrefzvjjuccrkw3mjq4tzhaaq32amf33dzpmuxe7ilepcmad.onion/watch?v=lVcbq_a5N9I https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=lVcbq_a5N9I ) and by speakers on a talk uploaded on The Tor Project's channel ( http://grwp24hodrefzvjjuccrkw3mjq4tzhaaq32amf33dzpmuxe7ilepcmad.onion/watch?v=VmsFxBEN3fc https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=VmsFxBEN3fc ) and I do not understand how it is possible, since as far as I understand it, the Tor node immediately before the hidden service must decrypt the data before sending it to the hidden service, making it have the same weakness as a typical exit node. As far as I am aware, a hidden service hides its location with a regular Tor circuit from a rendezvous point and regular Tor circuits leave the Tor network, so surely the network for the hidden service must leave the Tor network as well.
>>9246 >How do i know when background copying is done? Are you on Windows, Linux, Mac, Android or something else? Is your old drive connected internally or via USB?
>>9248 The way I understand it is that a Tor hidden service serves to directly protect the host, and by proxy to protect the user because the host is difficult to attack. If you connect through Tor to the clearnet, the clearnet site can see someone is accessing it from Tor, and the ISP serving the site can monitor the traffic and see that it's coming from this one specific exit node to this server who's location is know. But, when you connect to a hidden service, yes at the exit node the onion is peeled so the exit node could see the info you're sending, and it sees the hidden service address where it needs to go, but since it sends it through several relays the hidden service host also stays anonymous, hence it allows hosting of dnm sites. Of course there is more to this, but this is how I understand it.
>>9248 https://www.nuegia.net/_-dNZrq2iK87k.mp4 So after watching this video presentation, titled something like "Privacy is dead", I thought it was going to be some doomer crap about how we should just accept that we're being monitored and continue to use fb, ig, and other such datamining/surveillance/profiling services. But it wasn't like that. The guy's point is that NSA et al. actually don't collect massive amounts of data by themselves, they target individuals. Mass surveillance is carried out by the FAGMAN. Now he doesn't say "yeah NSA are the good guys trust me bro", he says "these days, the private companies' data is effectively in the US government's hands". We, the people, submit data on our own for the companies to sell to advertisers and government agencies. If you don't use FAGMAN services - which is incredibly difficult if you need to work with other people - you are doing your best to avoid surveillance; beyond that, the government needs to actually spy on you. People these days be like "install linux, mate, don't use that spyware macintosh or windows", but that's just the first step. De facto OSes these days are the browsers, since most of the work regular people do is through the browser: messaging, watching movies, listening to music, etc. etc. etc. What FAGMAN services do you use? I myself, use fb and it's services wa and ig, strictly for business i.e. messaging, I don't upload anything. Google? I use an android phone, but I don't use their backup services or their emails or any of the services they offer beyond the required g account for the android phone. Apple, MS, Amazon, Netflix, I have no use from these services. At work I sporadically use a Windows computer, but again I leave only work related data on it. What have you done to avoid giving info to these companies, and by proxy to the US govt? Do you have any advice on how to avoid surveillance?
>>9274 >Do you have any advice on how to avoid surveillance? Remain single, your girlfriend's smartphone and smartwatch will spy on you. I heard Facebook even creates internal profiles for non-members by scanning group photos on their members' accounts
>>9277 Fuaark. Yeah, the guy mentions that as well. Tbh, now that I think about it, my gf also doesn't use many of FAGMAN's services. She also has an android phone, and of the google's services she mostly uses youtube. She doesn't use facebook, whatsapp, or instagram at all, not even for messaging. She also has linux installed. And we've been torrenting audiovisual media since we we're kids, tbh I don't see the point in paying even a cent a month to be served tv shows and films. Maybe I break up with her, just in case, lmao. I'm happy that she's as freaked out half as I am about surveillance, because I get dizzy and nauseous when I see the info my friends and colleagues share on the net. It's crazy how brainwashed the general population is. Remember the early internet forums? We'd laugh at someone for sharing personal info on the net. How times have changed.
>>9278 >Remember the early internet forums? We'd laugh at someone for sharing personal info on the net. I had an account that was literally my first and last name on the official Morrowind forum. Someone from my high school recognized me and we became buddies after that. Sounds like you have a decent gf btw
Would a floppy disc be any good for small file archival storage? Are they are more durable long term than DVD's and HDD's?
>>9268 On windows 7 from an internal hard drive.
>>9288 Do a proper system reboot from the start menu. Windows should delay the restart until your file transfer has completed. Alternatively, download TeraCopy
>>9286 >Would a floppy disc be any good no
>>9299 Thank you.
>>9271 >But, when you connect to a hidden service, yes at the exit node the onion is peeled so the exit node could see the info you're sending, and it sees the hidden service address where it needs to go So hidden services do leave the Tor network, so me not understanding how the claim they don't leave it is possible is simply because it isn't true. >but since it sends it through several relays the hidden service host also stays anonymous, hence it allows hosting of dnm sites. Firstly, I do not see how this is relevant to my question (of how onion services don't leave the Tor network) and secondly, in the same sentence you wrote that the exit node could see the the info you're sending and it sees the onion address so I don't see how you can seriously claim the onion site stays anonymous, though I do understand how the hidden service stays anonymous to its clients and thirdly, what is a dnm site?
>>9305 the fuck are you saying there is no fucking exit node with a hidden service thats the whole point idiot youre just connecting to another relay in the network not a fucking public site, the site only has to make a public lookup list of relays its chosen in the network as intro points to START a connection, the relay manifest changes every hour so the intro points continually change with it you both exchange at that intro relay through your own circuits to pick a random relay to actually connect through which is completely unknown to everyone else the only way to know the ip of the site is to literally control the rendezvous relay, know its being used as a rendezvous and control every other relay the site is using to connect through and figure it out within a 1 hour time period
>>9304 You're welcome, I hope I helped
Is there are poll site that dosen't skew the results with proxies, vpn or tor?
Does invidious pages prevent youtube views?
>>9341 Probably
>>9341 obviously its the same ip accessing the videos everytime
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Anyone knows where can I find a working btc flash tool ? willing to pay a lot for it . tg @apenoregrets
Okay guys, I need some dirty advice. I need to disable a computer at work for at least a day, but the longer it's disabled the better. I need to do it without anyone finding out. I have regular access to this computer. It has win10 installed, and I don't have the administrator password. I don't know if the bios is locked behind a password, sorry for missing this info. I was thinking of whether to go the software or hardware route. If software, idk, maybe try to boot a live linux and delete some win10 system files (delet system34 lmao). Or maybe try to reset the admin password by the windows recovery disk method. If hardware, i also dk. I am able to open up the computer and I'd probably be able to hide that action from others (I've already stolen several pc components from pcs sent to service, they think the components just got "lost"). But I don't know what hardware would be viable to "break". I was thinking just subtly disconnecting the hard drive, so that if they inspect it visually it looks connected. It might sound like a retarded idea to you, but the IT department here is neither experienced nor hardworking. Right now imo the safest method, even taking into account the possibility of getting caught, is to subtly disconnect the hard drive. If they spot me I could probably easily get off by saying "eh, I think there's something wrong with the hard drive, had to check". What are your thoughts and suggestions? Thanks in advance.
>>9396 sir, have u try turning off computer
>>9403 That actually made me lmao really hard. They can just turn the pc back on. I need the pc to be dysfunctional if someone tries to use it, but relatively easy to repair for any sysadmin. My preferred outcome, and the most likely one, when I manage to disable the pc, would be: 1) someone tries to use the pc 2) slowly realises something is wrong 3) is to lazy to call it support immediately as the pc in question is not a number one priority 4) an actually concerned person comes along, hopefully after at least two or three days, and finally fixes the pc I just need to buy time. The pc in question is not too important, but it still should be functional daily. If it's not, I gain some time to go deeper and get rid of that part of the workplace for good. But, at least it seems to me, that the unavoidable first step is to at least temporarily lightly disable this pc.
is there any android app like clover to browse this website?
Why does CAPTCHA make us click on pictures of bicycles and car and traffic lights, is it using us to mark down google maps?
>>9439 It's using you to train self-driving car AI so it can identify objects.
I would like to stream an flv or hls stream to a URI endpoint (server API) on my localhost in RTMP: the form of which is like rtmp://$IP_ADDRESS:1935/live/$PASS This works in ffmpeg for many files with text-only subtitles (like .ass within .mkv) in the following way, we can stream an entire directory by sorting it, then giving it to ffmpeg and telling to use the embedded subtitles: find . -maxdepth 2 -type f \( -iname "*.mkv" \) -print0 | sort -z | xargs -0I% ffmpeg -re -y -i '%' -c:v libx264 -c:a mp3 -vf subtitles="'%'" -f flv "rtmp://$IP_ADDRESS:1935/live/$PASS" This FAILS for non-text subtitles (animu garbage etc.) I would like to use mpv to sidestep this limitation, by getting mpv to publish to a named pipe. Question: How do I use netcat or something similar to take the input of named pipe and push it to rtmp://$IP_ADDRESS:1935/live/$PASS? Is there a better way to publish to this endpoint from CLI/TUI? My localhost is headless, so no GUI solutions like using OBS possible.
>>9453 i dont know but sometimes when i order takeaway they throw a raw shrimp in the bag, i dont even know what theyre trying to say its happened like 7 times now, im sick of it im going to go "undercover" and pretend to be a chinese salesman to find out what the heck they doing, "oh herro do u have shrimp for me prease i big buisness man in china make big investment" that will get them to show me were they stash the shrimp then when they close im gonna go in through the roof and take that fucking shrimp
>>9030 >>9032 Sorry for the month long delay, my HDD kicked the bucket and I had to go through WD's warranty service. But its looking like the problem was the USB port.
A literal pajeet tier question: For reasons unknown, my Asus Laptop with Windows 10 installed yes that's the problem I know but listen randomly spikes up Disk Usage to 100%. This is regardless of whether I've got ten or no program active, whether I'm surfing the internet, playing some vidya or even browsing files. I have already lobotomized most of it using that Privacy is Sexy website as well as manually uninstalling most garbage that's still on it, still no good results. What's even more interesting is that Task Manager claims that the Disk is being used at 100%, but if you look at the heaviest processes they're only using it at like 0.1 MB/s. Is there anything I can do to fix this?
>>9439 >>9440 I've noticed they've been adding AI-generated shit to my captchas recently. I'll get a schoolbus with six headlights or something weird like that
What's the max length I can make a jumper/Dupont wire? I'm sure there's plenty of variables, but to give a bit more set-up, it's for connecting a vibration sensor to a Raspberry Pi. I'd like the Pi to be wall mounted and the sensor to be on the ceiling, preferably out a few feet. The sensor is a SW-420, and I've been told to use the 3.3V pin for it, though I've seen a few manuals say to use 5V. My electrical background is lacking, so I really don't know the right way to calculate where the signal is going to totally diminish.
>>9473 thats not a schoolbus its the party bus
>>9476 there is a way to calculate it but i dont remember, i know its usually in the board datasheet you just multiply the length with it but i honestly cant remember the name, its definitely in the manual though
So, something is wrong with my external hard drive. This morning, when I turn on my computer and connect the drive, I'm immediately met with the message stating that the drive needs to be formatted and I cannot perform any fixes (In Windows) without first formatting the drive. So, I pull out a Linux file recovery disk to see if the files are still accessible, and that pops up the error that I need to perform NTFSfix in order to access the drive. So, I do so and see that all of the files are still there and still accessible. So, then I boot back into Windows (7), hookup the drive, and the files are all still accessible. However, now I have an error popping up stating that the drive needs to perform some "Error-checking" because Windows detects that there's a problem with the drive. And, when I set Windows to check it and fix any issues, the tool force closes. So, I decided to hook it up to my W8 laptop to see if I get different results, and it just reports back that there's an error with the drive. How can I fix these errors? I'm already thinking of copying over files to my alternate external hard drives and formatting it, but I'm unsure if that will solve the problem. The drive that's having issues is a Buffalo HD-LXU3.
How do I troubleshoot broken packages? Qalculate was saying it couldn't upgrade, so I removed it and tried reinstalling. But I get the following: $ sudo apt install qalculate The following packages have unmet dependencies: libqalculate20 : Conflicts: libqalculate5v5 but 0.9.7-9.2 is to be installed libqalculate20-data : Breaks: libqalculate5-data but 0.9.7-9.2 is to be installed Breaks: libqalculate5-data:i386 E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. I notice in the Versions section of Synaptic, it labels qalculate as "oldoldstable", which seems abnormal. Same with libqalculate5v5 and libqalculate5-data. I'm on Debian 11 (Bullseye).
>>9514 Okay, so oldoldstable was because Debian 9's respositories were still in my lists for some reason. Without it, and looking only in the bullseye repositories, the qalculate package does not exist, though some of its dependencies do. In bullseye-backports, there is a qalculate-gtk, though if I simply try to install it that still fails, since those dependencies in the non-backports repository try to install that older version. But if I force them to use the backports version, it installs correctly. I have no idea what happened, but my calculator works again, so the problem is either solved or ignorable.
recommend me a good search engine that isn't searx.org or braves.earch. Searx gives me zero results sometimes and brave asks me to confirm that i'm human too in an endless loop.
I don't suppose there is a job in tech where i just download stuff because i have a lot of experience in that?
>>9567 >recommend me a good search engine that isn't searx.org or braves.earch. DDG gives good results despite censoring "Russian misinformation" and being run by kikes. Yandex and Baidu are also pretty good. Russian and Chinese glowies probably aren't going to work with Western fedbois to get you v& (for now).
>>9577 >I don't suppose there is a job in tech where i just download stuff because i have a lot of experience in that? Move to a third world country and sell bootleg movies/games on optical disc
>>8915 >theres obviously going to be hundreds of decoupling capacitors in a speaker so it makes no difference why do people waste money stereo amps when all they need is a 5W USB power source and "hundreds of decoupling capacitors" in their speakers?
I have a hard drive that used to have illegal pictures on it, i have deleted them, do i have to overwrite the drive with dban to be safe or could i let it be?
You must have pictures of yourself online unless you tell your normalfag family members not upload pictures of yourself on Instagram.
>>9646 Deleting files doesn't wipe them off the drive, it just tells your operating system not to care about them anymore and that it can write over that section of the drive when it wants to. Dban and other shred functions in software writes over every sections of the drive with data which should ensure that all previous data is physically irrecoverable from the drive. So you should use dban, yes.
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>Please report any bugs on our Discord server :^) What's the least botnet way to use Discord? Would running it within a virtual machine that has no personal info on it routing everything through a VPN connection be good enough if you watch what you type? I doubt it would connect through Tor.
>>9653 VM + VPN is the least shit way I suppose. Sometimes it locks you out of your account if it doesn't like your IP. And yes, I doubt TOR would work. I would suggest not changing your VPN IP at all once you connect with it as it will likely lock you out of your account and demand a phone number.
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How do I remove this Edge shortcut from my Start menu?
>>9657 Start menu Run Cmd color 0a cls del c:/
>>9656 Fucking hell, I didn't realize they would demand phone numbers for something like that. Not at all surprised though.
>>9666 There are probably other tools. A live linux distro and its partition manager will probably have some shred functionality. Though I don't know if they are as thorough and dban is.
>>9669 none of that trash even works drives are designed to not fucking break because some idiot hammers the same block over and over again, writes are always spread out with pointers so that reading from 0x1 will always be at 0x1 but writing to 0x1 can be fucking anywhere its literally impossible to get rid of data other than by pure chance, """"overwriting"""" will just write your shit to an empty block and make a pointer to the new address at the offset in the original stream, the original data minus 48 bits is still there and you just duplicated chunks of it in a completely predictable part of the drive that you cannot access anymore other than with forensic tools
>>9683 Considering this goes against every conventional bit of information I've read over the last 20 years I'm just going to assume you're being misrepresenting the truth of the matter.
Never once been sent any notices for piracy, but 99% of what I torrent is Japanese stuff that most companies wouldn't waste their time going after a foreigner for. Want to start pirating western stuff again. What the current state of frequency and lawsuit risk for torrenting copyright material in the west? Is Japanese media's ever increasing popularity in the west making pirating Japanese media riskier for westerners? I used to hear a lot about it, but not so much anymore. Should I be using a VPN? Is Mullvad still good?
>>9698 >Should I be using a VPN? Probably. >Is Mullvad still good? Yes. They even accept monero now which has pretty much cemented them as the single most private and anonymous VPN by far. Alternatively you could just use a private tracker. https://opentrackers.org/ TorrentLeech is decent and is currently open for signups. https://opentrackers.org/torrentleech/
Would it be a terrible idea to buy an old phone if i plan to fully refurbish it? I hate how every phone made after 2017 has a camera notch/hole taking up 10% of the screen, no 3.5mm port and a curved screen, so i'm thinking about buying a Pixel XL for 80 to 100 dollars, replace the battery (if needed), root it and install lineageOS on it. I don't need anything fancy, as long as it can take calls/messages, play music and browse the internet i'm happy, i don't really need a micro SD card slot either, as i'll be buying the 128GB version and there's absolutely no way i'd be storing important files on a smartphone.
>>9703 I've been told by privacy guys that end of life phones that aren't receiving manufacturer security patches are very insecure. But I also refuse to spend $500 on a new phone every 5 years to get those security patches. Outside of whatever weird vulnerabilities old phones have it should function fine with a new battery I'd assume. I think GrapheneOS/CalyxOS are the better ROMs these days though if you're using a Pixel. CalyxOS being more user friendly but slightly less privacy autism mode.
I'm stuck with absolutely shit internet because of an ISP that has a right-of-way monopoly. What device(s) can i get, preferably that are somewhat 'outdoor proof' and be a repeater so that the free wifi a couple streets over might reach an antenna at my house?
Is there a way to use a different DNS on a smartphone other than the one the mobile company provides?
>>9729 Android should have a setting on most releases. Apple might have options for Enterprise users. >>9727 Most repeaters need to be between you and the wi-fi. "A couple streets" can be long or short depending on where you are. Do you know how many meters it is to the target access point? It might be better to see if any of your neighbors have an access point with WPA2; you can crack this and use a larger antenna to get a good signal. This is much more feasible than trying to get Starbucks internet from a kilometer away. >>9703 Old phones work great. Most apps are backwards compatible going back a few major software releases, and as long as you can install your own ROMs that won't be an issue, either. Even low-end phones work just fine. I think the only issue with using older/cheaper phones is that normalfags will complain your pictures suck because you're not taking 4k HDR images and applying filters.
What are some good text-to-speech websites/programs, specifically stuff with non-English languages?
>>9734 If you want character's voices, for non-english the nest ive seen is fakeyou.com.
What's the best device(s) for extending a public free Wi-Fi so I can reach it from across the street?
What's the best device(s) for extending a public free Wi-Fi so I can reach it from across the street? >>9731 I tried. Whatever wifi password they have is bulletproof to my giant ass dictionary list and bruteforcing even a ten digit one will take months with my crappy 900 series gtx.
>>9731 >>1510 Honestly? Spend a couple hours on an online AD course and lie about in on your resume. As 1561 says the most you'll likely be doing is resetting some goober's password.
>>9703 >so i'm thinking about buying a Pixel XL for 80 to 100 dollars, replace the battery (if needed), root it and install lineageOS on it. >Pixel >lineageOS You meant GrapheneOS, right anon?
>>9686 >every conventional bit of information I've read over the last 20 years Different anon here, that conventional wisdom you're referring to was only applicable to mechanical hard drives. Any SSD built after roughly 2010 has "wear levelling"
>>9683 >>9686 >>9751 Those data shredding apps only work if you overwrite the entire drive, otherwise like >>9683 said, the filesystem will mark the original file as "deleted" and send the new write data to some random unused block
>>9751 Obviously. When someone is talking about wiping data with shit like DBAN I assume they're talking about HDD's. If they were talking about an SSD they should say SSD. >>9752 >Those data shredding apps only work if you overwrite the entire drive Which is what DBAN does, and basically any proper shredding application. If it didn't overwrite the data with 0's then it wouldn't be a shredding application. It would be functionally the same as clicking the delete button which is already a native function of any file manager. DBAN writes 0's to the entire drive, sometimes multiple times. What that anon is proposing is that writing 0's to the entire drive doesn't actually erase all the data because of some bizarre low level hardware concept that I've never heard mentioned once before. Unless he's talking about SSD's, in which case we're back to the fact if you're talking about an SSD you should make that crystal fucking clear in the context of data wiping.
recommend me a good program for windows for cloning a hard drive?
If you have a swollen battery in your laptop but it can't be removed and the laptop still works normally (for now), if the battery gets to a point where it could catch on fire, blow up, etc would there be any signs beforehand? Such as the computer shutting down if it gets too hot, or slowing down in general, or other things not working right. Or can it happen even if everything seems normal?
>>9753 >If it didn't overwrite the data with 0's then it wouldn't be a shredding application. You're not emphasizing the important part: you need to overwrite the ENTIRE drive. Overwriting a 1GB file with 1GB of zeroes isn't going to work, because those zeroes will be sent to the wrong part of the drive. The purpose of overwriting the *ENTIRE DRIVE* is to get around the wear leveling.
>>9758 >recommend me a good program for windows for cloning a hard drive? Rufus for Windows will let you make a bootable USB that will let you run Gnome Disk Utility
>>9669 >A live linux distro and its partition manager will probably have some shred functionality. Though I don't know if they are as thorough and dban is. DBAN explicitly tells you it doesnt work on SSDs right on their own website. What you want for SSDs is the "Secure Erase" or "Sanitize" command. These are specific functions built into the device, not third party software.
>>9778 What the fuck does that have to do with my post? No where did I mention shredding SSD's.
>>9776 >You're not emphasizing the important part: you need to overwrite the ENTIRE drive >What that anon is proposing is that writing 0's to the entire drive You guys are fucking baiting me. I'm not opening this thread again.
>>9780 >What that anon is proposing is that writing 0's to the entire drive no, this anon clearly says overwrite "the data" with zeroes, not overwrite "the drive" with zeroes: >>9753 >If it didn't overwrite the data with 0's then it wouldn't be a shredding application. This is a very important difference and not just petty semantics. There are quite a few tools that will attempt to "shred" individual files for you. CCleaner for example. This does not work on SSDs, and probably doesnt work on hard drives formatted as NTFS, because they are programmed to send those write commands to random locations on the disk as part of SSD wear leveling and NTFS fragmentation avoidance
>>9779 >What the fuck does that have to do with my post? No where did I mention shredding SSD's. Apologies, it's hard to keep track of who's talking to who on this thread
My computer has been randomly freezing recently. I tried clearing CMOS and it still happens. It freezes regardless of the CPU temperature, frequency and load. It often freezes after an hour and i have to hold the power button to turn it off. I stress tested it for over 3 hours and it did not freeze, but it freezes even if it's just idling, it also freezes if it's doing something, the CPU temperature does not seem to matter, it is just random. What could be causing the problem?
>>9787 Have you reinstalled your OS?
>>9788 No, i have not. I use Arch, by the way.
So I got a 500gb Seagate SSD. Been using it for 2 years and have 16TBW. Crystal shows it's in Good Status, but 24% Health. HDDSentinel shows the same thing. Show I replace the SSD?
>>9822 >16TBW >24% Health That's garbage, is it a QLC model? DRAM-less? My 256GB Samsung is at 88% health with 60TBW
>>9830 Looking online shows that it has DRAM and may be QLC.
>AI-powered graphics >BEYOND FAST <that worked out nicely for the beyond meat guy
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Japanese fonts are rendering too large on my machine compared to other languages. 16pt versus 14pt in this example. Sometimes the UI ends up misaligned, like here, and other times the characters are slightly cut off at the top or bottom. I can't even figure out where to start looking, and I couldn't find anyone online reporting similar issues. I did add a fontconfig file (taken from the Arch wiki I think) to make Japanese kanji forms the default over Chinese ones, but it has no mention of size in the file so I don't think that's the source of the issue. Any suggestions? System is Debian 11 with XFCE.
>>9859 font config is at /etc/fonts/conf.d/README https://linux.die.net/man/5/fonts-conf
>>9866 But if I manually set sizes in the font config, how will that affect things like UI scaling? Actually, now that I look, there's a mismatch between my set font size in XCFE's GUI settings menus (set to 11pt) and what actually displays for English (14pt). Changing the number in that menu does change font size, for both English and Japanese (with Japanese always being a little larger), but the number itself is inaccurate.
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How do I get around this shit? It's been happening for at least a week and vpn doesn't help either.
>>9888 It's cuckchan dude. The site is notorious for blocking massive ranges of IP's to force people to buy a cuckchan pass to use the site. Just stop being a fucking retard and using that cancerous site. I'd be willing to bet they block virtually every commercial IP in existence since they're so fucking autistic about shit. So not even a custom hosted VPN would probably deal with that. But you're welcome to try.
If I have 32gb of RAM, do I need a 32gb Pagefile?
>>9890 You don't need a pagefile at all if you don't plan on filling up your ram.
>>9891 some very old windows programs would crash if page file was disabled, even if you had plenty of ram. For example, battlefield 1942 and some old versions of adobe photoshop.
>>9889 >they block virtually every commercial IP in existence probably >since they're so fucking autistic about shit. no, its because theyre a fed honeypot and want you to ID yourself
>>9888 Your only recourse will be buying a residential VPN.
The microphone of my headphones is never recognized by my computer, I have a dell with MaxxAudioPro, I tried everything but the fucker decides to not work, I Tried my headphones on other things and they work perfectly, any advise?
Can charging my phone with a usb-c laptop charger (the one that charges the gpd pocket 3) negatively effect my phone or retroid pocket 2+ battery?
>>9939 The maximum amperage should be negotiated as part of the USB standard. There should be no risk. >>9923 If it works on other PCs then your best bet is to try isolating the issue. If you load a live operating system (you shouldn't need to reinstall for this) does it fix the problem? Does trying a different OS (Windows/Linux) fix the issue? A LiveCD is good enough to check. If that doesn't fix it, you're looking at a hardware issue. You would need to see if an external ADC or audio card fixes the problem. That would indicate the port is bad. Can you clarify if your headphones are USB or 3.5mm?
>>9960 Even with dumb chargers that don't have the microchip for negotiation, the load device will not pull more current than it needs. The only concern for end users is matching the correct voltage. Any non-defective 5V charger is safe to use for any modern, normal smartphone. This principle is true for all electronics, be they 12VDC devices that plug into a car, 120VAC devices that plug into a NA wall outlet, etc.
can someone recommend me a good ddr5 gaming/workstation laptop with FOUR ram slots? should i chose AMD 6000 or Intel 12th gen instead? any issues to worry about? i really want dat beefy rdna2 igpu over performance is it ok to use a decent laptop as a server? i made a custom cooling bottom stand so far its been chugging fine for 80 days? should i worry about future errors or hardware problems? i run GPU intensive shit on my VMs all night i saw lots of people using intel NUC for cpu only tasks will this suffice?
Can i get sued for uploading some obscure video maker's documentaries to bitchute? Would the most i'd get is a take down notice or a DMCA on bitchute? the author has a big following on youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/LenonHonorFilms I'm uploading his conspiracy videos on bitchute i heard that it was okay if you just put "all rights belong to X" in the description? Matt Walsh's "What is a woman" is on Bitchute and no one cares. You can even get Lenon Honor's video downloaded on wayback machine for free from his old site where his videos were free, yes hes currently charging for his conspiracy videos on his website. is it a bad idea to upload them?
>>10113 >Can i get sued The answer is always yes
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Is it a bad sign for my GPU to make noises when under specific loads, or is it normal? As I've been messing around with Stable Diffusion, I've noticed SD's samplers cause it to a sort of chugging noise, while it makes a chirping while using the ESRGAN upscaler.
>>10138 >Is it a bad sign for my GPU to make noises when under specific loads yes >is it normal? Yes. Many (most?) graphics cards make electrical-interference noises when unthrottled. You probably don't hear it in gaming unless you have v-sync off and are getting extremely high fps
>>10138 >>10157 oh I didnt explain why its bad... imagine you're driving your car down hill at twice your cars normal top speed, and it starts shaking and vibrating. Its doing that because it was never manufactured to handle this speed. In this case its most likely the tires that would give way first. Your graphics card has the same problem. It wasnt designed for the type of load youre throwing at it. The chinesium resistors/capacitors/etc (I dont know what part specifically) cant keep up. I'm assuming you have a gaymen card. Perhaps a true server/workstation graphics card has better components supporting the GPU
>>10157 >>10158 Any way to mitigate it other than just "don't run those programs"? Would undervolting help?
>>10166 If your program has a throttling option (something like "only use x% of GPU") then try that. For games this is easier because they often have framerate limiters or vsync options. While coil whine is technically bad for your graphics card, its generally negligible enough that most people ignore it.
>>10166 >Would undervolting help? idk, try it and let us know
Can you reverse image search pictures back to whatsapp chats?
It's a long shot, I know, but I thought I'd try. I'm rebuilding a PC and reinstalling Windows. Specifically 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate. The product key I saved from the prior installation no longer works. When I try to activate with it, it says it's not valid. Wasted a few hours going to web pages claiming to have lists of valid keys. None of them works. There are pages that claim to have downloadable cracks and keygens, but lolno, I'm not clicking on that shit. And they don't sell Windows 7 any more. Any ideas, techbros?
>>10175 >uses Windows rootkit >worries about keygens Huh? >Run a keygen in a sandbox. >Use generated key. >Profit? Advanced method: >install GNU/Linux unironically >install Virtualbox >install Windows as virtual machine (VM) The following becomes possible: -run as a fresh install every time you boot the VM -experiment as desired -cut it off from the internet so it never bitches about activation after the first time -use it offline (monitor your port activity to confirm no leaks) so updates are never needed I genuinely didn't know people still installed Windows on PCs. I thought that rootkit installs itself now.
>>10175 >>10174 >Can you reverse image search pictures back to whatsapp chats? No fed I can't. I also have no idea that all data in android phones, private google accounts, and more is available at the end of an long ass public URL that compeNSAtes use of any security.
>>10189 >Huh? Anon is ok with Microsoft, FBI and Mossad spying on him, but doesn't want Russian/Chinese hackers in his PC.
>>10189 >install GNU/Linux unironically $ sudo apt install Arch --strip-program=irony
>>10209 >sudo killall STOP opera oh wow It doesn't run the battery out even through I didn't put it to sleep >sudo killall CONT opera alright something else is very wrong, but at least there's enough battery for me to try to figure this out
>>10169 So I installed corectrl and set an undervolt. I used the Unigine Superposition benchmark as a check as I reduced it, but I stopped at -100mV and didn't go low enough to cause a crash in that. At -100mV my score was 3.5% higher stock. Then I tested some Stable Diffusion generations, and was getting many images failing to generate and turning up black. Reducing the undervolt to -80mV led to them generating fine. At that undervolt, my generation speed increased by 4%. It still makes the noise. I have no idea whether the undervolt is helping by reducing power, or if it's hurting because it's leading to even faster generation.
>>10226 >At -100mV my score was 3.5% higher THAN stock.
>>10226 A -90mV offset also did not produce the failed images, so I switched to that for a while, but it was also unstable and the power would sometimes get stuck at 90W instead of 255W.
>>10138 It's probably coil whine and it's perfectly normal.
>>10226 Thanks for following up, most people wouldnt bother. Maybe try underclocking instead of/in addition to undervolting? If it doesnt make a difference you can always put things back to stock.
>>10246 lots of things are normal and also bad
I have this crappy old LG-M150 smartphone running Android 7.0 that I've been using as a glorified MP3 player, ever since I dropped my old cellular plan and got a new phone from a different carrier. It's been working fine as is for the past few years, haven't even updated anything besides YouTube, but recently the little wireless signal icon has been doing the loading sign, like it's constantly searching for a cellular signal, and it's sapping the battery to the point where it won't charge while turned on anymore. Occasionally it'll give me a bunch of notifications telling me "Call services blocked", but it won't elaborate any further, and tapping them does nothing. Is there a good way to shut off the phone aspect of the phone and get it to stop wasting battery, while still letting my apps use my Wi-Fi?
>>10249 Wi-Fi still works even in airplane mode. T. worked for VZW tech support
>>10249 You should be able to disable phone service, no? Do you even have a SIM installed?
>>10252 Phones are legally required to connect to cell towers even without a SIM installed, to provide 911 service
>>10255 Does that apply to airplane mode? I know about the 9/11 thing, but if they're still pinging away on airplanes (and obviously ramping up the transmission power of the pings in order to try to find a cell tower) then that'd be pretty funny compared to all the fewmongering about how they might crash an airplane by interfering with its communications and computer systems.
>>10247 Really, the only way to really know how much harm it's actually doing is for it to die, but I only have one card so I can't compare death rates anyway. So I've left the undervolt in place, and changed the power profile from "3D Fullscreen" to "Compute" in corectrl, so I guess I'll just hope for the best that that power setting will be gentle enough to not prematurely kill the most expensive PC component I've ever bought.
I just bought a battery for my phone on ebay, and when i connected the battery and plugged in the phone it doesn't turn on, a little white light at the top just flashes. i left it plugged in overnight and in the morning it's at the same flashing light state and still won't turn on. Did i get scammed by battery seller or is there some secret phone thing i'm not doing, the phone is a moto g fast btw.
>>10267 >Thank you!
When I enable ReBAR for my Radeon GPU on my Intel motherboard, AMD tries to replace the stock "PCI Express Root Complex" driver its own "Pci Bus" driver. I don't like the ideo of having an AMD driver installed for an Intel component, so I have ReBAR disabled at the moment. Should I just get over it and turn ReBAR back on?
Has anyone ever bypassed Lockdown Browser for school shit? My professor is making us use it for our midterm despite being in person. It's Windows/Mac only so no Linux version. I have until next Thursday to find a workaround because it hates Linux and VMs. (I could probably borrow a school laptop, but I'm up for a challenge to get it running within a VM.)
Is using a USB flash drive as a boot partition a meme? In the past it was needed because /boot had to be decrypted on disk and there was a potential for an evil maid attack, but now GRUB can decrypt the entire disk including /boot so I don't think it would be necessary.
I have to get my own internet soon, so I've been thinking about data usage lately. Any advice on minimizing data usage? How much data would browsing this imageboard use, say per page for example? I imagine it would be more than normal,even if I didn't load any full-sized images, due to all the thumbnails. I've also read that using TOR increases data usage, which makes sense. On an unrelated note or perhaps it is related I don't know do you have any suggestions on which DNS to use?
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i installed windows 10 Ameliorated edition on two computers, on a latptop and a desktop, one problem with a Ameliorted edition is that everything has to go through UAC, but it's find because you just put the user name and password. Well my problem is with my laptop where the UAC prompt to open a certain file has the area where you would say "Yes" is gone, and i don't know how to fix it. I tried to follow this guide https://www.isumsoft.com/windows-10/yes-button-missing-or-grayed-out-in-user-account-control.html but when i get to the final command prompt part where i enter "net localgroup administrators Your_User_Name /add" it just gives me an system error 5 and says access denied. I can't do a system restore because it requires the UAC, do i need to reinstall windows 10 Ameliorated edition ?
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>>10316 the solution to this problem is give the current account admin privilege's, yet it looks like "user" already has them.
>>10316 >i installed windows 10 Ameliorated edition on two computers >I tried to follow this guide https://www.isumsoft.com/windows-10/yes-button-missing-or-grayed-out-in-user-account-control.html You fucked up, follow this guide instead rentry.org/ltsc
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Could someone download the GPD pocket 3 (1195G7) drivers in the Dirvers and Bios section of this site https://gpd.hk/gpdpocket3firmware and then upload it to https://anonfiles.com/ because everytime i try to download it i get this error from them because there are too many people trying to download it, maybe it will work for you.
>>10337 Nevermind i was able to download it normally.
I created a system image of my C Drive for backup purposes. Mine uses 112gb and the windows backup utility said I'd need at least that amount of space for the backup. After it was done the size of the backup only comes to 89gb. Is that normal?
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I hate, hate, HATE integrated web search in Windows 10. All the registry tricks I've tried so far have failed to remove it, disable it, or in any way mitigate or reduce the flood of Bing spam links cluttering the results list and masquerading as things I'm searching for on my PC. Can't turn it off in Control Panel. Can't uninstall it. Can't block the search in Windows Firewall. None of the new registry keys I painstakingly typed in did a thing. This is a fresh install of Win 10 Home 64 bit version 22H2 build 19045.2130, with "Feature Experience Pack" 120.2212.4180.0 While we're at it, I want to get rid of "Group By" forever, permanently if possible. And if we're asking for magical shit that can never happen I want to get rid of "ribbons" and go back to "File," "Edit," "View," and "Tools." And I want a pony. Wat do?
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I've been using a JBOD for a long time now, but I'm considering switching to ZFS. I'm getting tired of juggling btrfs+mergerfs+LUKS+snapper+snapraid+etc and it seems that ZFS does all of that but just better. The only downside is that not being able to just pull out a drive and use the data on it feels wrong after decades of not using a real RAID. Any advice? I have a mix of 8TB and 14TB drives, would I have to sacrifice any space if I just threw them all together in a RAIDz (other than parity)? I'm finding it hard to find up-to-date info on that. I would like to avoid only being able to use 8TB of each drive just because I had a drive or two out of my whole array that was that capacity.
>>10362 I did some more looking and found that each drive in a RAIDz can only use the same amount as the smallest drive, so an array with say 4x14TB drives and 1x8TB drive would be like an array of 5x8TB drives.. I think I'm going to go with a pool of 2-drive mirrors, it sounds much safer and less of a pain to recover from drive failures.
>>10366 Mirrors are generally the way to go. And yeah, don't mix drive sizes in RAIDz zpools unless you really have to. The only bad time I had with zfs and mirrors was the day one of my NVME drives decided to shit the bed and come back as a fully functional NVME drive with a size of zero bytes. ZFS dutifully replicated that to the other half of the mirror (I mean ZFS just renamed and resized all the files on the good drive so that they would match the nonexistant files on the bad drive, which is not how I imagined mirrors to work, but oh well).
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I have an old 40 Gigabytes Fujitsu HD, model number MHS2040AT that I scavanged from a destroyed computer and I'd really like to check out its content. What type of connector do I need to read it? It's like picrel.
>>10356 I disabled windows search entirely and it did the trick, all it does is block indexing Otherwise use privacy.sexy
>>10374 That's an IDE drive, meaning it's probably 20+ years old. It used the old ribbon style cable. If your motherboard doesn't have an IDE header, and it probably doesn't, you're gonna need an IDE-to-USB converter. They have them on eBay. Connect one end to the back of the drive and you'll (theoretically) be able to use it as an external USB drive. I can't tell by looking at it whether it's got the four-pin molex connector for power that almost all old IDE drives had. If it does, that's a separate connection. IDE drives normally can't draw power via USB, though I think maybe some laptop drives could. The converter kit may or may not come with a separate connector and power brick for that. Are you comfortable with opening up your PC and hooking it up to power off the power supply? All this is very doable. It will just take some tools you may not have on hand right now.
>>10379 Thank you very much, brother. Yeah it's from an extremely outdated (and partly burnt) pc that was going straight in the junkyard, but it's for a relative of mine. I'll look into it, thanks.
>>10362 >>10373 Same anon, different ZFS question. I have some duplicate data, and want to use some form of deduplication. However, the vast majority of these duplicate data are on the file level and not the block level, so I don't think ZFS's dedup would be a good idea since it uses so much RAM. With btrfs I've been using tools like rmlint to occasionally manually check for duplicate files and reflinking identical files together. Surprisingly, it seems that ZFS doesn't support reflinks, at least not yet. Most of the duplicate data will never be modified so I could just use hardlinks, but still. Is there a better way? Maybe I could make a dataset with dedup=on that only contains the data that needs deduplication, but again outside of identical files there isn't any overlap and it's several terabytes so it seems wasteful.
Noob question: I want to encrypt my harddrive. I have Windows 8, and I was reading this: https://techjury.net/blog/how-to-encrypt-your-hard-drive/ My pc doesn't have BitLocker. Is there any open source program that a technological moron can use?
about 4chan.org on google is it now a fbi cybersecurity blog because free speech is banned on this forum it's almost a zombie made forum still same content boring asf some rumors about replica fbi made forum to control random user's mentality they ban me for no reason just a thread with how stupid greta thunaberg speech was + as pic her face on the back of a car
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>>10402 >implying it's the Downtown Gang and not the Boys from Fort Meade who watch the chans
>>10386 Theres basically no reason to keep a 40GB IDE HDD once you salvage the data off it. A 64GB CF or SD card with IDE adapter will work better at this point.
>>10398 >My pc doesn't have BitLocker. Is there any open source program that a technological moron can use? VeraCrypt
I ran a bash script through my GUI and want to retroactively see its output in a terminal window without ending the process. How would I achieve this?
>>10436 xterm -hold -e "your command"
Is it really possible to transfer an entire 8kun board to this site, like the advertising spammer anon said? I found nothing regarding this in the documentation.
How paranoid should I be about flying from the US to another country and back? Should I wipe my (encrypted) laptop/phone/whatever before I go and restore upon arrival or is that overkill? t. done nothing wrong
>>10469 its not about what you did, its about who you are. just wear a kippa and youll be fine
>>10469 i've flown to south america with an handheld emulator player with no problems and they've never gone through my phone or emulator player.
>>10489 did you wear your kippa?
>>10489 they probably saw Greenberg or Goldstein on your passport and waved you through
>>10275 Anyway here's what it looks like with the AMD driver installed
If i use mullvad on windows 10 i should be able to torrent something without getting a copyright notice email right?
>>10506 yes, but make sure your ip isnt leaking https://ipleak.net/
Is there a good command line downloader for public Google Drive links? Kind of like megadl.
>>10540 >Is there a good command line downloader axel
Mullvad VPN no longer supports windows 7, the last windows 7 supported version is 2021.6 and the latest version is 2022.5. this sounds like an obvious question but is it really bad to use the VPN to torrent stuff on windows 7? I know it's bad to do it but how bad really?
>>10544 If your only concern is some movie studio bitching to your ISP then it's probably fine to use an older version. It's bad to use windows 7 because it's a vulnerable out of date piece of software, not because it's somehow more likely to leak your IP while torrenting movies.
>>10544 >Mullvad VPN no longer supports windows 7 The Mullvad Proprietary Client for Retards no longer supports Windows 7. If you go to mullvad.net and log in, you can easily download some WireGuard and/or OpenVPN config files
>>10553 >The Mullvad Proprietary Client for Retards Their client is literally GPL-3 licensed. The fuck are you talking about?
>>10556 words can have more than one definition
>>10556 >The fuck are you talking about? In this case I am talking about Mullvad Client™ only working with Mullvad Network™.
>>10556 >literally GPL-3 licensed you are absolutely welcome to fork Mullvad's client and make it open standards compliant. Not really a reson to though because OpenVPN generic client already exists
>>10544 >Mullvad VPN no longer supports windows 7 >>10556 >Their client is literally GPL-3 licensed. The fuck are you talking about? So you can just submit a pull request re-enabling 7 compatibility, since their github isnt gatekept by a soulless corporation, and since their app isn't actually proprietary in practice. >>10563 >>10564 you can fork the code but you cannot call it Mullvad Client™
>>10562 You literally can't privately own GPL licensed code. Use words correctly. >So you can just submit a pull request re-enabling 7 compatibility, since their github isnt gatekept by a soulless corporation, and since their app isn't actually proprietary in practice. What the fuck do you think it means for code to be proprietary? Someone not wanting to push your code onto their repo has nothing to do with whether or not it's functionally FOSS or proprietary "in practice". Use words correctly you stupid faggots. >you can fork the code but you cannot call it Mullvad Client™ Yes because Mullvad is a trademark. Trademarks have nothing to do with whether or not code is proprietary. You're mixing up completely unrelated words and concepts as if they are a single thing.
>>10545 > It's bad to use windows 7 because it's a vulnerable out of date piece of software As opposed to the current flavors of Windows, which constantly phone home to Redmond, sending back everything from random things you type into Notepad to screenshots in .bmp format, and none of it is even encrypted. This has been widely known for six or seven years now. "You gotta get today's current flavor of Windowze 'cos Windows 7 and Vista are insecure and unsafe!" has got to be the most bizarre forced meme on the Internet today.
>>10570 >As opposed to the current flavors of Windows No, as opposed to using secure up to date operating systems. >"You gotta get today's current flavor of Windowze 'cos Windows 7 and Vista are insecure and unsafe!" has got to be the most bizarre forced meme on the Internet today. You're the only one bringing up using the "current flavor" of windows. You're shadow boxing right now dude.
>>10566 >You literally can't privately own GPL licensed code. id Tech 3 is GPL'd but Quake 3 is still a proprietary game, because Quake 3 as an IP is more than just its code. The same concept applies to Mullvad's desktop client. They didn't release their logo to Public Domain or Creative Commons as far as I know. Colloquially the word proprietary means "only compatible with one company's products," for example a power supply that only fits inside Dell Optiplexes. Even if Dell doesn't have exclusive legal rights to that form factor, end-users will still call it "proprietary" because only Dell is using it.
>>10586 Another example of GPL'd yet proprietary software is Canonical Snaps
I'm trying to optimize a md5 hash cracker I made for a specific project. I've been reading that I can do GPU cracking much more quickly in hashcat, but I see no options to crack for part of a hash, or options to just generate a list of hashes given a wordlist. Am I missing something in the options, or should I be using another program? My goal is to just use whatever method generates hashes the quickest. Even using CPU+GPU together would be great if possible. For context, I originally generated a hash list in bash using parallel and md5sum using a specified word list, then used a separate script to search the hash list for the first 5 characters of the hashes for a match. (All I have are the first 5 characters of the hashes. Given my current list, I got up to 6 collisions for a hash with about 1/3 being unique. This is tolerable for what I'm doing.) The search script works fine, but the hash generation takes hours even with parallel using all my cores. I already write them to a RAM disk and transfer the full list to my main disk after completion. The bottleneck is just how quickly I can compute them.
I have a few questions about Monero. 1. If I buy Monero like this: > Buy BTC in CEX with KYC --> Swap BTC to XMR in a page with NO KYC --> My XMR wallet Can the glowies still trace back everything I've done in this process to when I first bought the BTC in the Centralized Exchange with KYC? 2. How public nodes can register my IP? a) Do I need to receive/send XMR for the remote node to log my IP? b) Can they log my IP by just syncing my wallet? 2.1 And if for whatever reason they log my IP, can they tell which wallet belongs to whom by just an IP address?
>>10683 I figure the point of monero is that no transaction can be traced. So your bitcoin transaction will be traceable but the acquisition of monero probably wouldn't be. It would probably require general data scraping and having to piece profiled information together to figure it out, and even then any transaction you make in the future using monero would be just as hard to track and probably significantly removed from the timeline. I suppose the exchange you buy monero on much record the transaction and the meta data. But unless I'm mistaken as long as you don't use the same public key that you used to acquire that monero in the future it shouldn't really matter.
Are there any good alternatives to CCleaner or Wise Cleaner? Everyone recommends BleachBit but that doesn't clean the registry. I know cleaning the registry doesn't make your PC faster, I just don't want to keep evidence that I installed Honey Select in 2015, I don't want 170 unused filetype associations from when I had VLC installed, etc
>>10692 Just use CCleaner. It's free and works.
>>10692 Could you not remove those manually somehow? Everything I'm reading about registry "cleaners" says they are all essentially malware, including CCleaner.
>>10704 >Just use CCleaner. It's free and works. I'm gonna keep using it, I've been reading how bad it is for years but I've never had an issue. I think using the portable version helps. >>10710 >Could you not remove those manually somehow? Absolutely not, there are too many items to remove and Windows Registry is an unorganized mess. Programs install their keys to seemingly arbitrary locations in the registry. There is no way in hell I could find everything manually.
>>10713 The unused file extensions aren't a privacy, security, or speed issue so I don't see that as a reason to install shitty proprietary software. I was more focusing on removing remnants of programs you've installed.
>>10714 >I'm gonna keep using it, I've been reading how bad it is for years but I've never had an issue. I think using the portable version helps. https://youtube.076.ne.jp/watch?v=tSm1GcuygM0
>>10715 >install shitty proprietary software pic related #1 >The unused file extensions aren't a privacy issue I can imagine scenarios where it's better not to have .onion associated with Tor Browser Bundle. But more relevant to my use case, pic related #2
>>10716 Using the portable version seems to avoid all the background processes from being installed. Correct me if I'm wrong. I don't have any CCleaner entries in my Task Scheduler
>>10717 >>10718 Well then portable CCleaner appears to be the least shitty solution to your windows nigger problem since I don't think there's any FOSS program that does any registry cleaning.
>>10719 >I don't think there's any FOSS program that does any registry cleaning https://github.com/little-apps/LittleRegistryCleaner its ineffective though, barely finds anything
What's a viable alternative to Windows Media Player regarding a music application? I was using Clementine for a while, but it seems like the program doesn't want to rip music from CDs.
>>10721 Before switching to Linux I used foobar2000, so you could give that a try. Otherwise I liked banshee for its smart playlists, that works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
>>10721 its been years since i cared about this topic, but back in the day, you were supposed to use foobar2000 + wasapi for "bit perfect" audio output, and EAC for the most accurate CD rips
>>10726 >EAC Exact Audio Copy, not Easy Anti Cheat
>>10627 I think hashcat could still work. Is there an option to save the computed input/hash to disk for logging even if it failed? Otherwise you could just try forking it since it did the bulk of the work already. Plan B is you could look into rainbow tables. I think that's basically what you're using in this case, although if you're only doing partial hash cracking you may run into similar issues. If neither option works, you may need to look into OpenCL programming and do it yourself. I'm not sure what that entails, so keep in mind there may be extra work if you want it to run on different GPUs or CPUs, or especially at the same time.
If i pirate windows 11 will Microsoft know that i pirated it and take action against me? Also will windows 11 do what windows 10 does where it blocks you from playing Microsoft games that are pirated?
>>10829 >If i pirate windows 11 will Microsoft know that i pirated it Yes >and take action against me? Not beyond disabling wallpaper customization or whatever the fuck they do when you don't have a valid license. >Also will windows 11 do what windows 10 does where it blocks you from playing Microsoft games that are pirated? I doubt this has ever actually happened in the way you're describing.
>>10830 >If i pirate windows 11 will Microsoft know that i pirated it <Yes
>>10833 Ah yes, trustworthy mega-corp Oracle has your back.
>>10834 >missing the point
>>10834 or if you still feel like being obtuse, pic related
>>10834 kek, get load of this retard
>>10838 >>10839 I know what your point was you fucking retard. Just like you knew that faggot clearly wasn't talking about running (((Windows 11))) in fucking VitrualBox you absolute remedial faggot.
>>10843 >knows my point was to run windows air-gapped >reees about oracle anyway
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What an absolutely worthless thing this thread is. CCleaner and Monero shilling? I hate you fa/t/fucks so much right now. How did you sink this low? Just gonna dodge shitposting and tell you that Bleachbit is better than CCleaner, because it does not steal your data, does not come with adware and is actually free. And all those weird idiots talking about "pirating" W11. You literally cannot do that. You are allowed to download and use the new windows operating system as long as you want, WITHOUT the license, it's just going to miss a few features. You can download it from MS website for free and install it on any device you want to fuck up. So go nuts, you absolute retards. You can hack it to be the "paid" full version, but that is still illegal, so don't do it. Have fun with your "free" ad-driven spyware operating system. And fuck you /t/ for dropping the quality this low, I still love you guys.
>>10866 >knows that faggot isn't running windows 11 air gapped >talks about an air gapped system anyway >>10870 >Just gonna dodge shitposting and tell you that Bleachbit is better than CCleaner, because it does not steal your data, does not come with adware and is actually free. You also dodged the entire context of that conversation and why that retard didn't have the function he needed inside of bleachbit you stupid nigger. >You can hack it to be the "paid" full version, but that is still illegal, so don't do it. <Just gonna dodge shitposting You either commit to pretending to be retarded or you don't. These half-measures are lazy.
>>10872 >knows anon is a fatass >talks about the benefits of diet and exercise anyway i dont see the problem? yeah when you see someone being stupid, you tell them how to fix their shit. why are you even here?
>>10870 >Bleachbit is better than CCleaner, BleachBit only deletes cache, cookies, thumbnails and other temp files. You can do all that shit manually in like 30 seconds. BleachBit is just GUI bloat that nobody needs. CCleaner actually finds shit a human couldn't reasonably be expected. Specifically I'm talking about Windows Registry errors. There is absolutely zero reason to ever use BleachBit on Linux. If you can't manually clean your .cache and .config directories just kys
>>10882 Keep doubling down retard.
>>10883 >manually clean your .cache and .config directories forgot to add .local
Is there seriously no way to deal with timezones in Libreoffice? That's basic shit that I imagine any sizable business would have to deal with regularly. I want to put a time in UTC and convert that to whatever timezone is convenient but apparently it's not possible without obtuse workarounds.
>>10905 yes it is BASIC shit idiot, learn how to use macros Function getUTCDateTime() As Date Dim aLocale As New com.sun.star.lang.Locale Dim oLocaleCalendar2 As Object oLocaleCalendar2=CreateUnoService("com.sun.star.i18n.LocaleCalendar2") With oLocaleCalendar2 .loadDefaultCalendarTZ(aLocale, "UTC") getUTCDateTime=DateSerial(1970,1,1) + .getLocalDateTime End With End Function Sub Main Msgbox getUTCDateTime End Sub
How do I manually add links to the Gnome 43 Applications list? I tried creating .desktop files inside ~/.local/share/applications and /usr/share/applications/ but they don't seem to work. I know I formatted them correctly because I used one of the stock .desktop files as my template. Google keeps showing me instructions for Gnome 3 or Ubuntu 18.04 or other ancient stuff, even if I search "Gnome 43" with quotes. I'm on Fedora 37 Workstation if that matters.
>>10934 Are they populating the list and won't launch or are they not populating in the list at all?
>>10936 They aren't populating at all, even after a system restart. I should have shortcuts to Unreal Tournament ( https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches ) and Quake 3 Arena ( https://github.com/ec-/Quake3e ). These programs don't have actual installers, they're just executables inside a folder, which is why I want to make the links manually
>>10934 if its in ~/.local/share/applications then its there you liar, its named after the .desktop filename not the "name=" in the file
leftypol.org uses lainchan 5.1.3, and the mods have said that they can see that i have prior bans on me, even though i'm using a VPN, either two things are happening (i think) either they save the previous bans and somehow know i'm ban evading by changing my VPN or they're bans that other people have gotten on the same IP from the VPN. I don't suppose you know which it is?
>>10967 Could be any number of things when you're using a site ran by leftists which likely have no qualms about invading their users privacy. They could be tracking you based on cookies you didn't delete. They could be profiling your browser and identifying you that way. Or as you said, it could just be bans other people have. I would only access potentially malicious sites like that on TOR or librewolf with its default settings which are to delete/forget all cookies and such. But even that might not protect you completely from having your browser profiled. The simple answer is fucking kill yourself for going on leftypol you retarded faggot.
>>10967 i also use a vpn and got harrassed by mods on an e-celeb's matrix server, they accused me of ban evasion and having alt accounts. it was literally the first time i ever went there. you have to accept that most normies and even some network-admin types arent aware of how public vpns work as far as ip addresses
I'm trying to back up a 500GB disk image sitting in its own partition on a hard drive of my linux system but keep getting an I/O error on file read after about 5GB is copied. This happens with borgbackup, as well as cp. I can do 10GB+ back up jobs of smaller files (on another partition of the drive) without issue. I don't remember any issues when I backed up the disk image half a year ago either. Should I assume the hard drive is dying? Could the error be specific to the partition or should I assume the file size is the problem? What's the best way to get a copy of the image file, and how do I approach troubleshooting the I/O error?
>>10976 dd if=[image file including path] of=[ourput file including path] and dont come back crying when you wipe your entire system because you put the wrong path
>>10976 smartctl -a /dev/sda (or /dev/sdb or whatever) will give you a nice little list of things to look at to help determine of your drive really is failing. I've had good luck with using rsync to copy things. cp -v might help you see if it's always failing on the same file. And back everything up, if you still can.
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>>3 I have started using scanners specialized in making copies of books and wanted to share them online, especially for niche or rare shit. My questions are: 1) Is there a way to remove all personal information off of a generated pdf? I have tried scraping EXIF data off of the scanned images, but my usual methods did not work (incidentally, if you have good ways of scraping all sorts of personal info from a file, please educate me on that); 2) What are some honest pdf redistributors I can upload these files to while maintaining plausible deniability? 3) What should I do to keep the filesize to a minimum other than moving from color scans to grayscale and lowering the resolution? Any good OCR programs that I could use with the scanner itself? note that picrel is not my model, just one that looks similar of different brands
>>10953 1) I wasn't lying. 2) Turns out I had to save the .desktop files to "~/.gnome/apps". Too bad I already stopped using Gnome.
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>Be me >Constant BSOD on my PC for no apparent reason, even in safe mode >Files that work become corrupt and vice versa >Idk if the OS or the hardware have some kind of problem, or both >BSOD related to "memory management", "Bad Pool Header" or some shit like that... >Decide to perform a test using Memtest64 to check if my RAM has problems >I leave it running for almost an hour >Here are the results So... just in case, there's other way to check if my RAM is broken? Or is there a possibility that some corrupted windows file is screwing up my life? I tried to use the codes through the CMD to verify if the system is the cause of the problem, but I do not get good results either.
Not one but TWO W10 Machines for Christmas! While they're better hardware wise than the clunkers I had previously, they are not getting more of my data than necessary. How easy is it to replace an OS with something else for someone who has no prior experience modifying OS ideally installing an OS as close to Windows 7 as possible, and if not, which of these links, if any, do you recommend for unfucking W10 overall? https://ameliorated.info/index.html https://archive.org/details/windows-10-ameliorated-1903 https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater https://github.com/Girgias/windows10-apps-telemetry-removal-utility https://medium.com/geekculture/how-to-stop-windows-10-from-spying-on-you-b071134a11f6 https://privacy.sexy/ https://rentry.co/ltsc https://yewtube.com/@GHOSTSPECTRE (Windows 10 Superlite?)
>>11150 just set the boot conifg to use a low address above the address of the bad cluster loser
>>11124 >1) Is there a way to remove all personal information off of a generated pdf? I have tried scraping EXIF data off of the scanned images, but my usual methods did not work (incidentally, if you have good ways of scraping all sorts of personal info from a file, please educate me on that); When I had to look into it I didn't really find a whole lot of metadata in my pdf files but I remember fooling around and making some tweaks once. I think it mostly depends on the program/library used to compile the PDF. For most files you might want to try exiftool: https://exiftool.org/ If you scroll down there's a huge table outlining what file formats they support. PDF seems to be kind of supported but they say they don't seem to delete old metadata sadly, so be extra careful: https://exiftool.org/TagNames/PDF.html I simply do exiftool -all= -overwrite_original file.pdf
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So guys I got the email of this one user, and he knows it, so we were just wondering if there's a way to get the password, something a spam bot or something that finds the correct password of the account and having the email makes it easier ig, so idk how we will find out
>>11167 No. Facebook will almost certainly lock the account after 5+ login attempts. Brute forcing passwords is only something you can do if the hashes for those passwords leak in a database, and you can associate that hash with its specific email address. Facebook has had many leaks but I doubt they've ever leaked password hashes before.
You know how some companies will pay money for filling out surveys? Are there any bots that can fill them out automatically? Specifically, ones that are designed to avoid bot detection algorithms. Apparently, these surveys have algorithms which do things like detect if the user is completing surveys faster than humanly possible and if they're giving inconsistent answers. So these are some of the things it would need to counter. Maybe you know of a bot which only works on some surveys? If so then which ones?
how do you avoid getting errors, percentage numbers getting stuck or the deletion process not being completed when removing all data/doing a factory reset on a windows 10 computer? what should be done before resetting to prevent this?
>>11198 You can copy files off of a windows system from a Linux live USB if that's what you mean. If you're talking about just deleting files you can just format the drive in the windows installer. That would be essentially the same thing as manually deleting the files. Neither securely erases anything, though. If you need the data to be 100% irrecoverable that's more involved.
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>>11198 >>11202 Darik's Boot and Nuke is shipped as part of the Ultimate Boot CD, and it does a decent job of secure erasure.
>>11216 For an HDD, not an SSD. Which is why I said it's more involved to securely erase data, he would have to provide context.
>>11179 >You know how some companies will pay money for filling out surveys? That's a scam. When you apply, they want you to fill out forms with all of your personal details "so they can decide if you're eligible." They're collecting your personal data and selling it to marketers. You will never hear from them again, unless they're offering to pay you in discount coupons for frozen peas or frequent flier miles or some such thing. No one has ever been paid one cent of negotiable transferable legal tender for participating in a survey. Ever. It is a scam. 25 years ago, in the dialup days, there were one or two marketing companies that promised paid people to click on banner ads. People immediately set up scripts to do it automatically. The marketing companies promptly went out of business in the Big Dotcom Dieoff of 2000 and nobody ever got a cent. That was a scam too.
After moving my PC around my house, my PC would not boot. The hard drive was making a clicking noise. At first i thought it could be a problem with the hard drive, so i used percussive maintenance. The next time i turned on the computer, there was no video output and no beep. I thought it could be the CPU, so i cleared CMOS and still nothing, i removed one RAM module and it worked, but the clicking was still there and the hard drive would sometimes work and also shut down randomly. So i thought it could be the motherboard. After messing around with the motherboard a bit, i thought about trying another power supply i had laying around. The clicking went away, and the computer works now. I'm not sure if it's really the power supply, it could be that something in the motherboard moved when i changed the power supply, or something else is happening. The power supply i think is giving me problems is a Cooler Master MWE 550 White, the motherboard is an ASUS B450M-A II and the CPU is a Ryzen 2200G. And no, i did not know Asus was part of the WEF when i bought the motherboard. I have not had time to test the other power supply again, or even insert the RAM module i removed. If anyone knows what could be happening, i will appreciate your help.
>>11263 >No one has ever been paid one cent of negotiable transferable legal tender for participating in a survey. My mom was paid $5 to do a survey inside a shopping mall. I had to sit there with her for two hours while she filled it out.
>>11270 >i did not know Asus was part of the WEF Me neither, thanks for relieving my buyers remorse for getting an AssRock
>>11284 >$2.5/hour Why did you let your mother work less than slave wage?
Is it possible to send a fake credit card number to get Adult access to the Goolag?
>>11290 It's easier to use a VPN to make it believe you are in a country where that is not required. I think they only ask for it in europe. Try setting the VPN to the US, Mexico or any other American country.
>>11291 This doesn't answer my question I already bypass it using Ublock rules, youtube vanced, vpns etc. I am asking if there is a way to do so through what Google already provides you. Do they use any kind of government mandated service to match IDs or is it more of a liquor store kind of deal? That's what I'm interested in. Thanks for the reply anyhow.
I'm looking into setting up remote access from my phone to my computer through a program like TeamView. How bad of a security risk is this? I just want to access my files on the fly.
>>11297 I think there are open source alternative to TeamViewer. But remote network access is a very complicated thing with a lot of security pitfalls.
>>11160 Didn't read the reply and reached the same conclusion, thanks anyhow brother.
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After much trouble with permissions, I got Jellyfin to work, but another issue popped up and I fear it may be due to the hardware Ubuntu is running on. I fire up the web browser UI (the app version for Windows refuses to install/run as I refuse to leave Windows 7) and give an episode a test run. Instant buffering. Those who used anime streaming sites know the drill. Some lousy connection or another forces you to leave it paused for minutes at a time so the video can load and sometimes it doesn't work. Same shit here, which is bizarre as it's on my connection. I try again on the Jellyfin app on Android...and it's near perfect. Only flaws are that subtitles don't show up and changing the audio causes it to seemingly freeze and return to the splash screen for almost a minute before resuming. The smartphone is from 2016. The office PC I repurposed is from 2011 or thereabouts. I trust there's a workaround for the buffering issue, assuming this is a hardware bottleneck. I should also note that it's on a wireless connection but I can probably move it close enough for ethernet if need be. Fortunately I don't need to be terminal wizard to use Putty and Filezilla for my purposes so I can make do with those unless the IP address changes again.
>>11307 Chromium or firefox browser? Jellyfin clients in browser work fine for me on Linux. Your client hardware shouldn't really matter. I'm using a shitty laptop that just burnt out its own wifi chip and it's still rendering shit fine from my server, even 4K shit.
>>11308 To be precise, that pic is the specs of the repurposed office PC that's acting as a Jellyfin media server on Ubuntu. My main PC--the one that feeds whatever videos I want into Jellyfin's media folder via Filezilla as well as access Jellyfin itself via a web browser--is considerably more powerful by comparison (but still old by today's standards). I'm not primarily using the Ubuntu box as I only have one set of input peripherals and as I said, the PC I installed it on is very old. Might be too soon to say if it is indeed the hardware alone. I only tried one 1080p video so far and again, the smartphone shows no difficulty with playback so far. As stated before, I mainly use Windows 7. Not stated before, I use Firefox as my default web browser.
>>11309 The variable is the client PC. So you would test the client in a new browser, Brave would work. Then if the problem persists you would test connecting to Jellyfin through a browser in a Linux LiveUSB to see if the issue is with Windows 7 itself. If it runs fine on your phone I'd say it's pretty clear the problem isn't with the horsepower of the server. Is the client PC connecting over ethernet or wifi? That's the only other variable I could think of.
>>11310 Linux LiveUSB? Wouldn't it be faster if I tried the Firefox browser on the server itself? Hell, I did just that and the buffering was just as bad there. Both client PC (which I assume you mean my primary Windows 7 PC) and Ubuntu box are using wi-fi. If that's the bottleneck I may need to get a little more used to using Putty and Filezilla. Not to mention see about tinkering with the DHCP settings of the ISP provided router. Assuming it even has such a feature. I hear it's possible to lock in a static IP address in Ubuntu itself but I haven't a clue on how to do so. Best if its soon as who knows when it'll just up and change on me again. Will try Brave shortly and then report back.
>>11311 >Hell, I did just that and the buffering was just as bad there. If it's just as bad on the Ubuntu server machine as well then the problem is either with the wifi or firefox. Try plugging in an ethernet cable, and try brave. If the problem persists then I guess I would assume the server is underpowered, but that still wouldn't explain why it performs fine on an android phone. >I hear it's possible to lock in a static IP address in Ubuntu itself but I haven't a clue on how to do so. Static IP wouldn't do anything for connection speed. But yes I would assign one in your router for convenience in the future.
>To get future Brave updates, you'll need Windows 10 or later Good thing I'm only doing this as a test, even if the buffering issues don't persist on it. Which it did. And guess what, I think I might've discovered another potential bottleneck: the fucking resolution of the animes themselves. I opted to run the first episode of each anime I have on Jellyfin for a full minute. So, pretty much just the OP. Of the five anime I have on there so far, three are 720p and two are 1080p. No surprise on which ones kept stuttering and which ones ran with zero interruption (well, one of the 720p ones was freezing a bit but nowhere near as badly as the 1080p ones). Naturally, this is a problem as the anime I have that are 1080p don't have any well seeded 720p torrents these days, which leaves some form of downsizing as an option. Which I don't know how to do. Then again, I'm curious to see if this persists should I connect an ethernet cable. I may need to hope the only long one I have on hand is indeed long enough, just in case the IP address changes. And even then, I have to hope Ubuntu is smart enough to disable its wi-fi once said cable is plugged in. I know Windows is bad about that, having to manually turn off the wi-fi card to prioritize ethernet. >>11312 >Static IP wouldn't do anything for connection speed. But yes I would assign one in your router for convenience in the future. I know. Early this afternoon Putty suddenly lost connection and I couldn't access Jellyfin. I forgot IP addresses change for some reason or another. I'm not exactly in control of the router so it may take some time to tinker with it to see if it has any DHCP features to reserve an IP address. Feel like making a static one would be faster but it's not like I know how to do either. As a last resort, I can shove a GPU in the server. I recall some empty expansion slots when I opened it up to install the HDD. Though they're all very small and God knows if there are any GPUs on the market that are compatible. CPU replacement is out of the question, obviously.
>>11313 If it stutters less on 720p files then I guess the android stutterless experience was a fluke. It seems like it's probably just underpowered. But go through the entire testing with ethernet and shit just to be sure.
>>11314 In hindsight, that should've been the very first thing to suspect. During the office PC's final years (as an office PC), it stuttered on 1080p videos on Youtube of all things. I barely remembered it because I seldom used it at all and Youtube tends to auto-adjust the resolution. God willing the ethernet cable is long enough. I know carrying the server to the router is an option but the last thing I want is for Putty to get cut off and have no way of knowing what the IP address changed to.
The server is now wired, but only briefly. Can't have anyone tripping. Good news is that one of the 1080p anime passed the one minute test. Bad news is that the other 1080p anime did not. Granted, that one is 2GB per episode whereas the former is around the 1GB mark per episode, so other factors may be at play. Still, nice to know that a wired connection for the server does help things but the living space doesn't make stretching an ethernet cable across the hall very feasible. Worse still, it did change the IP address up a single digit. May even change again once I unplug and turn the wi-fi back on. So I have two options. A. Find a way to stretch around the ethernet cable without obstructing foot traffic B. Find a tutorial on downsizing 1080p videos down to at least 720p without compromising quality, metadata, subtitles, audio tracks, etc. Anyone that has any neat tutorials for Plan B, don't hesitate to share. Plan A is unlikely and if I even think about finding a discrete (and compatible) GPU I may as well consider the office PC a waste of time and build a server from scratch.
I am trying to download https://hispafiles.ru/t/res/104140.html (including images) with wget and so far I have this: wget --mirror --exclude-domains github.com,www.hispachan.org,www.googletagmanager.com,www.google.com,imgops.com,iqdb.org,saucenao.com,t.me,cuty.io -r -l 2 -np --page-requisites --convert-links https://hispafiles.ru/t/res/104140.html The problem is that the thumbnails are downloaded but not the images. How do I make wget take them into account but at the same time not download other pages from the site?
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>>3 How can I repair damaged files after recovering them from a deleted disk? I had a problem with a disk so I end up deleting it, I couldn't do a backup of the files so they got lost. I did a format of the disk and used a few programs to recover the files, It went pretty well and got back almost everything, the problem is, some files apparently got damaged or something, they have the same file names and file size they previously had but when I open them It says "It looks like we don't support this file format" any idea?
>>11318 The thumbnails are hosted on a different domain so you're definitely missing -H. In order to narrow down what you want it to download and skip, you can play around with regexes through --accept-regex. Don't forget to set your regex flavor through --regex-type (I use --regex-type=pcre). You're probably going to want to allow the thumbnail domain, the full image domain, and possibly the specific path of the thread you want to archive but not the rest of the domain. puto el que lee
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How can i use uBlock to block images from certain 8chan boards to stop them from appearing on the latest images section of the front page? Right now I’m trying something like this: 8chan.moe##[href="/boardname/res/9999999.html#7777777"] This works but only blocks only the image from specific posts, trying to block images using a more wider range url like the threads url or the boards url or name, doesn’t work
>>11358 You can't do anything about the front page because LynxChan stores all images under the same media path instead of per-board.
>>11358 >>11359 You can block based on the href like he posted there. But I don't know the uBlock syntax to tell it to block any posts from a given board rather than specific ones.
Was going to try to make a Matrix thread to ask about this but thread creation with this captcha is completely fucking broken. Is there any recommendation on matrix home servers that won't disappear suddenly and make your account die? I tried the kde home server but they've disabled registration. It seems like the only options are go with the default matrix home server or choose random home servers make by nobodies that could disappear at any moment. 8moe matrix home server when?
>>11320 Did you use ddrescue? >some files apparently got damaged or something, they have the same file names and file size they previously had but when I open them It says "It looks like we don't support this file format" any idea? Depending on the file, some important fields are missing or have been overwritten during format. If they're pictures you can usually just dump their raw data in a hex editor and view it from there, anything else that isn't text though is gone for good.
This will be slightly different than usual tech questions as I have one regarding a VCR I picked up. About several months ago, when I first hooked the thing up, it seems to be outputting crystal clear quality (At least, as good as a coax cable could handle). However, today, when I fired it up to watch something, this video (Or similar occurances) is the result that I'm getting with every tape I've tried. When a video is not playing, first pic is what's shown on screen. And, this is after fiddling with it after an hour because, when I first turned it on, it wasn't sending a single out to my TV, neither over coaz nor compsite video, then I finally got it to work, but now it's not again while typing up this post. Needless to say, any advice on how to fix the problems I'm having with my VCR? It's a RCA VR556 (Second and third pics that I pulled from ebay are what it looks like for reference).
>>11443 Oh, I forgot to mention, whenever I "turn on" the VCR with the power button, the LCD display on the from begins faintly flashing.
>>11443 >>11444 VCR's and analog tape shit is very complicated and fickle to work with as far as I understand it. You're probably best off going to reddit if you want advice about it. They have boards for niche shit like that that are pretty active.
(Un)realistically speaking, would there be a way for a person to directly access a neural network model / weights on a server on those websites that allow you to send your own prompts without having direct access to the database where they're hosted? I know that the prompt is sent through POST as plain text and all the computational shit is done server-side, but other than by abusing site vulnerabilities would there be a way to access what the server actually does? If vulnerabilities are the only way to go, what are some good resources to learn about how to safeguard yourself from basic attacks?
>>11443 I'm pretty sure everything that's being output is getting trashed. The VCR's menu's are getting distorted along with the tape signal. Just as a test, try and hook up an analog signal to the coax in on the VCR and try to display it.The really shit part is it's going to be a bitch tracing down what's actually wrong because it's working fine for brief periods, so a cursory look at the boards won't have anything that jumps out at you if you decide to take it apart. Either way, you're going to need service manuals to find the circuit diagrams.
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I'm scheming to become like one of those Indian phone scammers, but i don't know what software i should use in order to bring this plan to fruition, i figured if anybody would know where to find this kind of thing it would be the people at /t/. ¿What software should i use to spoof a fake phone number so i can make it seem like i'm near the person i'm scamming? ¿What VoIP service should i be using? ¿Where should I be looking for the phone numbers of possible victims?
>>11455 The only reason it's profitable for pajeet phone scammers is because of how far the american dollar goes in India. If you actually had the numbers for how much they make averaged out over the hours they put in with failed attempts I doubt it would be any higher than a standard job. So unless you live in poo land where $15/hour has you in the upper class it will be a complete waste of time. It's also extremely illegal, and the poos don't have to worry about the feds kicking their teeth in.
>>11345 >you're definitely missing -H Indeed it was what I needed to be able to download the complete images. In the end, the command looks like this: wget --mirror --exclude-domains github.com,www.hispachan.org,www.googletagmanager.com,www.google.com,imgops.com,iqdb.org,saucenao.com,t.me,cuty.io,kutt.hispafiles.ru -r -l 2 -np --page-requisites --convert-links -H https://hispafiles.ru/t/res/104140.html In addition to -H I also added kutt.hispafiles.ru to the list of excluded domains (for some reason it tries to download some shit from there, but it returns error 522). >In order to narrow down what you want it to download and skip, you can play around with regexes through --accept-regex. Don't forget to set your regex flavor through --regex-type (I use --regex-type=pcre). I will keep this in mind for other sites I want to download with wget in the future, although for the moment the command I posted above seems to work fine. Sorry for not replying sooner, but I've been busy with other things and haven't had time to keep experimenting with this. >>11358 >How can i use uBlock to block images from certain 8chan boards to stop them from appearing on the latest images section of the front page? I'll guess, is it because of the >>>/hispachan/ anons that forget to put the spoiler on the porn/lewd images? Anyway, I've been doing some tests and this should work: ###divLatestImages > a[href*="/board/res/"] What it does is block the links from board that are inside divLatestImages (it could also be done without the #divLatestImages, but that would give false positives outside the main page). >>11374 >Was going to try to make a Matrix thread If you're still interested you can ask in >>7376, although the original poster said to have opened his own server (although I don't know if it still active).
For the last couple months my email inbox has been getting hit by spam and painfully obvious scams really hard. My spam filter can detect them all and sort them into spam folder just fine, but I still have to check it regularly for false positives, so I have to wade through all that shit anyway. Is there a way to get rid of that shit for good? I cannot blacklist individual senders because the address is something random like "24243252@herp.derp.com". At best I can blacklist the entire domain, but if the domain has been compromised rather than being a pure spammer domain, I could block legit messages by accident. Is there a point in using whois to find out the registrar and report the domain for abuse?
>>11518 All I know of are preventative measures rather than reactive ones. ie. Using things like SimpleLogin to generate forwarding alias addresses that you can disable if they get leaked to spammers.
Just installed ubuntu It can connect to my mobile hotspot, but can't connect to the home wifi Drivers are already all installed and updated
I'm on windows 7 and once a day a cmd window will pop up and disappears, how would i got about finding out what it does?
>>11549 >I'm on an out of date OS with dozens of known vulnerabilities and this cmd window keeps opening <doesn't instantly reinstall his OS Windows niggers are hilarious. It takes like 20 minutes to do a fresh install and not have to worry about your system and network getting ass raped.
>>11550 >It takes like 20 minutes to do a fresh install Restoring a Windows system disk image from NVMe to NVMe takes like 30 seconds on my machine
>>11488 Wget is pretty neat, but sadly it downloads things through a single connection and takes ages to download more sizeable loads. I think someone made a version that was supposed to fix that but it wouldn't parse my regexes properly so it was no use.
>>11519 What are some preventative measures? I would like to have an unlimited number of permanent "proxy" email addresses which are forwarded to my main address. I would generate a new proxy for each service I use. Whenever a proxy gets compromised I can then generate a new one, replace the old one and deactivate it. I know about burner emails, but those are temporary and get re-used, so I cannot use them to sign up to a service I want to use long-term. The question is how and where to get such proxy addresses? Should I just sign up to the free tier of a number of freemail services or is there something better?
>>11561 Simple login has 10 free addresses and anon addy has 20. Those two together should be more than enough.
Why does my machine get ~10MB/s download with qBittorrent, but only ~10KB/s download with Transmission, on the same exact torrents? I imagine it's something to do with ports being closed, but why does only Transmission have the issue? qBittorrent manages to work fine without any custom port forwarding. I would really prefer not to open extra ports through my VPN. I'm using Fedora Workstation.
>>11584 >>11584 I heard that this has something to do with transmission being banned on trackers for more easy ways to cheat on ratio or whatever. I had this across different OSes and machines (but didn't tried across different networks, though) Switched back to qbt ever since.
Usually it goes the other way, but how do i use vpn (wireguard) for my entire system but *not* for docker (podman) container with qbittorrent client in it? Preferably without using --net=host if possible. In my place it's fine if you download and seed anything for any time but i need a vpn to bypass censorship of everything else. gnu/linux
>>11593 Thanks for the info. Maybe you're right. I'm getting slow speeds with Deluge, too. Most torrents I've tried are from YIFY/YTS and RARBG.
Chuck that bsod ram in the garbage and install brand new. RAM is cheap.
When I download Celluloid (https://celluloid-player.github.io/index.html) and then choose to open a folder, not all folders are available to be opened. How can I make Celluloid have access to all my folders?
When using Librewolf... you can set up an override so that firefox sync works. Librewolf devs say this is technically ok to use because of end to end encryption... however to use sync you need a firefox account, the privacy policy summarized on this is we watch and track everything you do... so the question is does librewolf block this telemetry to mozilla if you use sync?
Can you change the thumbnail of a webm?
Is there a booru that has a lot of random anime 2d porn but doesn't hide images behind an account system?
>>11731 >Can you change the thumbnail of a webm? I was under the impression that thumbnailing is a function of your file mnager, and thumbnails are not integrated into the video file itself.
I have been using Windows Ameliorated edition for years now and have never had obvious problems with it. But i watched a video on some guy who didn't trust random ISOs for install OSs, if this had hidden spyware on it, how would i know? Surely one of the various comments would say so right? Here is the ISO: https://archive.org/details/windows10-ame-21h1-2021-08-09
>>11754 >But i watched a video on some guy who didn't trust random ISOs for install OSs, if this had hidden spyware on it, how would i know? You wouldn't unless you were actively running diagnostic tools to find out. It's functionally no different than running a smaller scale Linux distribution. They are just as capable as putting malicious code into the software. Getting the ISO from archive.org instead of the verified source is probably a bit sketchier than getting it from telegram or wherever the fuck they host it, but I vaguely recall that guys video and his logic wasn't based on that. It was based on the fact he claimed not to trust the developers behind it for no real justifiable reason. If you don't trust devs to compile software for you then you compile it yourself. But we trust devs to compile software for us every single day. Unless you have a real reason not to trust the devs there are probably 1000 other pieces of software you've decided to trust from less reputable people before, like Microsoft themselves who have a proven track record of being malicious. I probably wouldn't do cryptocurrency transactions on that ISO from archive.org, but it's probably fine.
Can anyone recommend some heatmap/network surveying software? Been burnt before on shitty mapping software so I would like advice.
Short question: if I have a broken IMG file of a hard disk, what are my options for extracting all the files stored inside? Longer question: A few years ago one of my 2 TB hard disks failed due to having a book fall onto it, which damaged the insides. I followed up a guide to create a backup of the drive using a linux tool called ddrescue. However I was forced to back up only an incomplete IMG file, about 700GBs to be exact. The reason for that is that I didn't have any other larger capacity drives to store the IMG file, and I knew that most of the data had already been defragmented to the first sectors of the drive anyhow. So anyways, I tried mounting it or opening it with 7zip, but it keeps throwing me this error: Cannot open the file as [NTFS] archive. I've tried browsing the IMG file through an hex editor (HxD) and I can see that it did retain the data. I'm wondering though if there's a way to either walk through the broken IMG like I would with another filesystem, or if there's a way to extract the individual files stored in the IMG.
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How do i get winamp to correctly display certain fonts that it doesn't want to display. I fiddled around with the skin font options and it just made them into other kinds of boxes.
What's a good image viewer for Linux which can view images in archives without extracting them? I've only found qsiv so far.
I've been tinkering around with cryptsetup, trying to learn how to do things properly. I want to create a usb stick with four partitions (done), each encrypted (first partition done), with a different distro on each partition. Before I use the dd command, is this a stupid idea, or no? dd if=/home/[user]/Downloads/linuxmint-21.1-cinnamon-64bit.iso of=/dev/mapper/mint bs=4096 status=progress
Bit stupid question How do I update hydrus without breaking anything
so i got root on phone that has latest android and its all fine except RECENT APPS SCREEN WILL NOT FUCKING WORK NO MATTER WHAT THE FUCK I DO. i think i might have fucked with one ui home which had the screen or something (i deleted it) and yeah im pretty retarded for doing that but if you have any ideas please say (literally will not come up; screen is nonexistent)
If post a picture of myself on whatsapp and then edit the photo so it doesn't show myself can people still reverse image search the photo and trace it back to the whatsapp chat?
>>11906 I assume whatsapp is some proprietary spyware chat application. So the images on it wouldn't be publicly indexed on search engines. But you're using a proprietary spyware application so without a better explanation of your threat model I have no meaningful answer for you.
>>11907 If i was out on the run i wouldn't be using whatsapp.
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Why doesn't this program start? I have to manually open the txt file to open with notepad to open it, even when i open the cmd or exe files with administrator it dose nothing. Is it just a virus?
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When i go to look at my pictures i get this? and it has to load my entire hard drive? i've had this on windows 7 but it usually loads quickly but on windows 10 it's taking forever.
I use a 55 inch 4k tv for my PC monitor and when i fullscreen a youtube video the sharpness messes up and i get hight sharpness. Eventually it goes back to normal but why does it do that?
On my windows 7 machine i go to use soulseek and non of the downloads work, they're all aborted or don't start. I forward the listening port and the obfuscated port and it still doesn't work. The port testing site says it's still closed even though i forwarded it. I install Soulseek on my windows 10 machine and it works without problem on another port that is not forwarded, i copy the new random port to my windows 7 machine (because that is where all my music is) and it still doesn't work on my windows 7 machine. Why? Yes, i already allowed soulseek on my firewall.
>>11976 Try linux VM's with nicotine instead of troubleshooting a broken out of date OS.
how would you recommend someone learn about computer networking, privacy and security from a very practical, personal standpoint? say, over the course of a month. so not becoming a professor or anything. I've tried reading a computer networking textbook but half or more of it isn't stuff I feel like knowing, which makes it harder to commit the stuff I genuinely want to stick in my head to memory.
I was upgrading packages with Yay and was asked for my password after the upgrade was complete. This seems kinda sus.
Is it better to use two hard drives from the same batch with very few power on hours, or replace one with a different batch but much higher power on hours? I've heard that drives from the same batch tend to fail at similar times, not sure if that's true or an urban legend. I have 2 from the same batch and under 1,000 POH each, then I have another from a different batch but over 20,000 POH. Wondering which combination of two drives would be best.
>>12035 One is none, two is one, three is two.
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where can i find legit proxy providers that accepts crypto btc/xmr ?
>>12036 Does not at all answer the question.
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>>12047 Well, it's not an urbal legend, but it's not as reliable as you might think. If I were the one making such a nutty decision, I would put the long-hours drive in with one of the low-hours drives and keep the other low hours drives aside for a hotswap. Then you've effectively staggered the two low-hour drives by a bit. Unless the first low-hour drive fails first, then you should probably just buy another drive and use the remaining low-hour drive to backup the data, and unplug. There is another -- hidden -- option, and that is to drink heavily and pray a lot.
Mullvad
Why does Windows 7 need to install a new device driver for using a USB 3.1 flash drive on a USB 2.0 host device? Can anyone tell me what kind of bullshit is happening here? >Wangblows I'm pretty sure Linux doesn't need that, that's why I'm asking.
>>12130 Because Linux has virtually all of its drivers built into the kernel itself, Windows doesn't. Same reason you don't need to install any GPU drivers for AMD cards, the drivers are already there. Hope that machine isn't connected to the internet, Windows 7 has had hundreds of new vulnerabilities since it stopped getting updates.
Any guides for how to torrent on loonix with openvpn and how to prevent and check for identity leaks?
>>12246 Or wireguard, I might prefer that.
>>12246 Turn on VPN and use a torrent IP checking website which gives you a magnet link then lists the IP's you use to download/seed from it.
What are HDD High Fly Writes? It seems every time I transfer a couple GBs, it goes down. is it a crucial S.M.A.R.T. stat?
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Youtube just changed its stupid desktop UI and now my subscription list is fucked beyond repair. I tried updating the CSS using a Firefox plugin in order to get more thumbnails on screen than what's enabled by default, but I would also like to get back the entire UI from before May 2023, or at the very least the ability to separate batches of uploads by date. Is there any way for me to do that?
>>12294 Thank you for the alternatives, but they don't answer my question.
there was a geocities or neocities page that talked about spyware in browsers, does anyone have it?
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What AI wrote this?
My computer was really slow in regular mode but is fast in safe mode. I’ve already scanned it once with malwarebytes and found nothing, now I’m scanning it with Sophos. Any other factors I should consider in this situation?
>>12333 Just reinstall your OS. It's virtually never worth trying to troubleshoot malware or something bloating a system down. If you can't figure it out in an hour then you're just wasting time since doing a fresh install takes less time than that.
its maybe a stupid question but i cant solve it myself, there are a few apps on my pc that wont open (for example: camera app, calculator, photos and a few more). i already did a few scans and everything seems fine, can somebody help?.
>>12386 hello sir have u try reboot machine? many thanks rajj
hello sir and thanks for answering. what do you mean by "reboot machine"? do you mean a simple pc restart (sorry for the question im not a really good at all this).
>>12389 > do you mean a simple pc restart Yes.
>>12391 What operating system?
windows 10
do you have any clue what it could be?
>>12394 No. I would just reinstall the OS but you sound retarded enough for that to cause more problems than it solves.
ok thank you anyways.
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Sometimes bitchute video don't load and i HAVE to download them. When i look up sites to download bitchute videos it just gives me a download to blank video, all sites do this. Please don't recommend yt-dlp it doesn't work. I need a way to download bitchute video because the site is dog shit.
>>12401 yt-dlp works fine, you're just using a dogshit OS. Use -P to give it a path to download and it should work.
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>>12402 It worked now, i just had to run it on Admin.
ALL KNOWING T/ . . . help please my tv box is dead its in a boot loop looking for this domain anyone have any info on emtvmate.club seems dead any info would be great current redirect, ip address and or alternative domain related to emtvmate.club riseagainst.club aviary.amazon.com
found some info made a dns lookup thx
Suggestions for self-hosted, public booru software? Currently considering Shimmie2. Needs: >no Java$cript needed to use (eliminates szurubooru) >no AWS/cloud crap (eliminates danbooru, moebooru) >will run on modest VPS (eliminates Philomena, e621ng) >unlikely to be abandoned in the next few years (eliminates most tiny projects) Even without getting into preferences, It looks like my only option is Shimmie2. [Y/N]? Has anyone here hosted it, or had opinions when using it?
Can someone get my IP if i post on 4chan without an proxy/vpn, or could they get it from a 4chan archive site?
>>12440 The server admins or mods/janitors that may have IP's exposed to them in their control panels could. Depends on what you mean by "someone".
Is there some reason all videos on sites like gelbooru and rule34 have all videos start with video player volume set so low that's it's barely audible even at max master volume? I'm getting sick of opening videos only to immediately pause them so I can fix the damn volume. I've tried multiple browsers and sites and it seems like it's just an issue with boorus.
>>12443 Like your average 4chan visitor who is not a mod or admin, or someone who uses 4chan archive sites. If the mods/admin expose my IP would that be illegal?
>>12458 >Like your average 4chan visitor who is not a mod or admin, or someone who uses 4chan archive sites I can't imagine how they would have access to that information, so no. >If the mods/admin expose my IP would that be illegal? Nope, perfectly legal.
>>12453 They might be setting a cookie/localstorage that their JS uses to set the default volume level. That's how this site lets you alter default volume in settings if you want to lower it. The booru software is probably assuming you don't want it too loud. You can probably overwrite that cookie somewhere.
>>12461 This is all I see under cookies. Localstorage seems to be empty.
>>12463 Not sure then. I would guess browser setting but you said it only happens on Boorus. Can you link a file on a booru that it happens to you with and I can see if it happens to me, too?
>>12464 If you really need a link, here. https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=8706813&tags=sound+ But it's literally any and all files with sound.
What is the current Youtube Revanced apk? I have found like four different ones and I'm terrified of the dolphin porn it may ensue.
And just know you need to grab the youtube version apk it recommends from something like apkpure.
I have a GPD Pocket 3, and it lets me lower or raise the voltage in the BIOS, what is the lowest i could lower it and still have it boot? I got it from 12000 to 10000 and it's still running fine. If i lower it too much it obviously won't boot right?
I have a question for non-pedo, anti-racist nerds if anyone can help.. I like visualising network configurations in my head then tweaking my system to get everything to work in tandom. My question is, out of these two configurations which would you say would be more secure if either at all and if my settings counteract other settings making some stuff redundent. My current configuration is; ISP Router > TPlink Omada VPN Router (running stock configuration, but still different IP and DNS Settings from ISP router) > GLInet VPN Router (Running Mullvad Wireguard) > Windows 11 (Running Simplewall > Tinywall > Windows Firewall (All in/out connections blocked bar browsers, NorskVPN (Configured to use Simple-DNSCrypt and usually running OnionOverVPN) and Simple-DNSCrypt (Running multi routed anonymized DNS servers) All ports, services and windows telemetry blocked (Basically only rules are allow in/out Tinywall and everything else in/out blocked, all other rules deleted)) > VirtualBox (Linux Mint) Running MullvadVPN again, using Obfuscated bridges and DNSCrypt-Proxy runing multi-routed anonymized DNSCrypt servers again, UFW blocking all in/out bar VPN, DNS and HTTPS > And Finally > Tor Browser. Is this practical at all or overkill? Everything works fine and I have no problems with this config, but are there any weak spots that any of you could find, redundent settings or anything else I could do differently? How secure is my tunnel and having my true ISP IP routed through like literally 20 servers, each one giving a new ip, does it really work this way in theory giving me untracable traffic? Having data encrypted through Mullvad then Norsk then Tor then Mullvad again then Tor again. Is this really as secure as it appears? I'm thinking of changing a couple of settings for my everyday use to the following and was wondering if anyone could tell my if it would be better or worse; ISP Router > TPlink Omada VPN Router (Stock) > GLInet VPN Router (Configured to use TOR network) > Win11 (Mullvad VPN using Bridges) > Virtual Box (Linux Mint) (Running Mullvad again using bridges) > TOR Browser Keeping all firewall and DNS settings the same as current config for host and guest. Would using TOR terminal instead of Mullvad on the guest then TOR Browser (Or Extremely configured Firefox) be a better option? With my hardware and software, what would be optimal? Sorry for a all the questions guys, but I'm just curious as to what someone else would do or change using similar settings. Cheers :) The right information at the right time is more powerful than any weapon. Don't kill them. Data Dump and make them kill themselves.
Hello, anyone still here? Are there any front-ends for LBRY other than Odysee? https://librarian.codeberg.page/ has been nuked.
>>12567 Isn't there a lbry client you can download that browses the blockchain directly?
>>12568 You're talking to a tech retard, I need it really dumbed down.
>>12569 Odysee is a web client, but lbry has an exe to browse it directly. Allegedly illegal in some countries because of access to stuff odysee censors.
>>12570 Yeah that's one of the reasons I don't want to use Odysee, the search function is completely jewed. Also sometimes it didn't work when the other instances did, still get that problem.
How do I download a picture from Reddit without having to inspect the page first? I don't even use the stupid website, but search engines keep pointing there for anything I wanna repost.
>>12573 Right click save? I don't understand the question, reddit doesn't prevent you from saving pictures.
>>12574 They do in certain cases, I haven't figured out what's the deal because I don't need to do that often but they do something funky sometimes. Basically trying to open an image takes you to a regular webpage page with the image embedded in it but the trick is that if you try to interact with the image it will lead you back to the same page you were on. If you try to save the imagine I think you end up with a bunch of .html inside a file with.jpg extension.
How do i install neofetch/screenfetch on windows 7?
I'm currently using Windows 10 Ameliorated edition https://archive.org/details/windows10-ame-21h1-2021-08-09 You have to enter a password everytime you install something because UAC is stuck and you cannot disable it. In the comments of the download page there is someone whos says that you can preform a CMD edit so you don't have to put the password at every action, what CMD edit do i need to do?
Speaking of Windows, I aim to get an AM4 or AM5 motherboard and CPU as part of a bundle. How well do those play with Windows 7? Want to save time on OS installation, as well as avoid Windows 8 and above as long as humanely possible. Supposedly there's some LTSC version of 10 that axes the shit parts but I'm unsure.
>>12691 I think win10 hits end of life in 2025, and ryzen is unsupported on win7 unless you want to find some russian iso to install.
>>12693 >ryzen is unsupported on win7 Unsupported as in outright won't boot at all or unsupported as in zero security updates? As someone who never updated Windows 7 since installing it a decade ago, I can do without the latter.
>>12694 The former I think, they just never made drivers for it there.
>>12695 Shit. May as well look into Win10 LTSC or whatever it's called. You have any experience with it? And what's the procedure for writing an ISO to a USB drive? I assume Rufus is outdated.
>>12696 Rufus is regularly updated and should work fine, for win11 it even has tickmarks to disable the TPM requirement. I don't use heavily pre-modded versions of windows for stability reasons but tiny10 and tiny11 are others I heard of on archive.org.
>>12698 I already have the ISOs for the IoT and non-IoT versions of Windows 10. Just a matter of plugging in the system drive once I assemble everything. Just to see if it boots at all. Though so far it sounds like it won't so I'll need to get a couple of USB sticks and start writing the ISOs to them ASAP. Would've liked to continue as is with new hardware, but I'm assuming I can use the Windows 7 drive as a temporary storage drive on the new rig, if only so I can easily move all of my files over. Right? Granted, installing some other apps will be a pain but at least the actual storage drives (my HDDs) won't be an issue. Maybe.
>>12699 Yeah your storage drives are fine, the win7 one should show up too.
>>12700 Very nice, so I can basically access it as if it was a storage drive. Won't be exactly identical but God willing my setup will be close enough. I'll be skipping two OS revisions after all. No reason why my 900 series graphics card shouldn't play nice with the motherboard either, as I lack the funds to replace that even if I want to.
>>12701 Yeah I use a 960 with a ryzen 5900, should be fine especially on windows.
>>12702 The Ryzen I'm getting is a 7700X, and only because of a lucrative MB+CPU+RAM bundle ($400 or so; the CPU by itself is around $300). Kept putting off upgrading but I think 10 years is enough. Would've liked to go for another five but the PC is instrumental to my job and I can't afford any extensive downtime. To think the legacy bracket for AM3+ motherboards just shipped out today. Least I have a shiny new cooler at the ready. I may ask more question but thank you so much for your help! Nice to know /t/ isn't as dead as I feared.
>>12703 No problem, I'm guessing you're the guy who I mentioned a noctua cooler to. The thread watcher is the only reason I come by.
>>12704 Yes, and I got that Noctua cooler with the expectation on getting that legacy bracket. Then I found out about those lucrative bundle deals at Microcenter and suddenly felt impulsive. That, and I needed to put a stop to the random shutdowns ASAP. It's very rare to spend literally hundreds of dollars in one go, so I'm expecting this new rig to last another decade at least. By the way, I have Windows 7 passworded. Will leaving that on interfere with exploring it via Windows 10 when it comes time to move stuff around?
>>12705 >By the way, I have Windows 7 passworded. Will leaving that on interfere with exploring it via Windows 10 when it comes time to move stuff around? No, those passwords do nothing besides function as a login for when you are booting directly into the drive. Unless it has bitlocker encryption on it you could boot up a liveCD of linux right now and access all the files without needing the password.
>>12705 Like he said, just bitlocker, and you can probably get a keyfile for restoration/decryption if it is on.
>>12706 >>12707 That sounds laughably insecure, but it works for me. Bitlocker is off on all drives, fortunately. And I did use a Knoppix CD way back in the aughts to recover stuff from a dying laptop, though it's lost forever. Granted, we have USB drives nowadays but I'm not giving up my CD/DVD drive short of the new motherboard not having the ports for it. Which it should. Hell, I just got the core parts now but will hold off for a day or two. Strangely, I have only 15 days to return the motherboard as opposed to the usual 30 in case something goes wrong. God willing nothing goes wrong. Most I checked is that I'll likely need to flash the BIOS before literally anything else. https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/PRO-B650-P-WIFI/Overview
>>12709 >That sounds laughably insecure, but it works for me That's how any computer works that isn't encrypted and turned off, except for android I believe. But the feds can usually crack those if they aren't encrypted too with their magical glow nigger devices. It's the same for Linux. You either encrypt your shit or anyone can read it as long as they have physical access.
>>12710 Here's hoping loli doens't become illegal in my residence then. Now then, what's a no brainer way to backup Firefox bookmarks, tabs, cookies, add-ons, and so forth? Just to make the move a little less of a hassle. Actually, I may have tabs covered via the MySessions add-on.
>>12711 Sync is probably most reliable, copying your profile folder would be the next way but it fucked up for me once.
>>12713 >account required Assuming "once" means you did it lots of times and it worked until you got unlucky, I'll take my chances with the profile folder.
>>12714 It worked from windows to windows, windows to linux, linux to linux, but not linux to windows during an os failure, so probably.
Can someone install this https://archive.org/details/win11-enterprise-ltsc-22h2 on a VM and tell me how much of the spyware has been removed? Does it still update? Is it activated?
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Hey sisters. Im' looking for some old books (pdfs) about DOS. DOS Internals and Dissecting DOS.
I'm using Brave browser, and I can't access any of the archives: archive.is, archive.ph, etc. But when I access the same sites via Tor in Brave, I'm able to access them after doing the Captcha. Has my IP address been blocked or something?
>>12737 What does can't access mean? What page do you get?
>>12741 Verbatim I get: This site can’t be reached archive.is unexpectedly closed the connection. Try: -Checking the connection -Checking the proxy and the firewall ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED That's it, it just keeps trying to reload but failing and giving that message. But like I said I have no problem using the archive over Brave-Tor.
>>12742 Probably some DNS issue.
I keep getting an 'MRL File' error when I try to open an episode of a show's finale in VLC. All the other episodes worked fine so far. This one is giving me trouble though. I've tried turning firewall off & restarting already. VLC's up to date so I can try reinstalling.
>>12715 Can verify that it does work. Hell, Firefox itself even vouches for it. By the way, despite seeing the drive MSI outright refused to boot to Windows 7. Even with the IoT LTSC edition Windows 10 will take some getting used to. For starters, it thinks my internal HDDs are temporary storage. As in, they show up among my thumb drives in the list of things to safely remove. Why?
>>12747 >MSI outright refused to boot to Windows 7. You can try opening your uefi/bios and enabling CSM somewhere, it enables some legacy boot mode at the cost of longer startup time. >they show up among my thumb drives in the list of things to safely remove Possibly because sata hot-swapping is enabled in uefi, but obviously check the setting first. It's a quirk of windows sometimes.
>>12749 >Possibly because sata hot-swapping is enabled in uefi, but obviously check the setting first. It's a quirk of windows sometimes. Come to think of it, it did say that two of the ports were disabled for something, yet the HDDs are read just fine. At least I think I plugged them there according to the online manual. Gotta remember to disable that. Don't want any accidents. >>12749 >You can try opening your uefi/bios and enabling CSM somewhere, it enables some legacy boot mode at the cost of longer startup time. Is that what CSM is? A little late as I'm already on Windows 10. Yet another thing I wish I knew but at least the M.2 drive is getting use as the new system drive. The old system drive is still connected and accessible however, so I guess I can switch on CSM and change the boot order while hoping nothing breaks. I do not like the UI for the MSI BIOS. The old ASUS one would show me vital information (fan speed, CPU temps, etc) right away. Speaking of CPU temps, is there anything out there that lets me check that out in real time? Speccy appears to be incompatible with AM5. Just shows a bunch of CPU instances and no temperature. Want to know how hot or cool it is with the new fan.
>>12750 >CPU temps, is there anything out there that lets me check that out in real time? CPU-Z maybe, haven't use it much recently but I think it even shows voltages. Also windows acts a little funny if there are multiple bootloaders, but since only one is uefi its probably fine.
>>12752 Ah it was HWMonitor not cpu-z.
>>12752 >>12754 It shows the temperatures, but I didn't expect that. Plural I mean. Speccy only showed one for the old CPU. HWMonitor shows this many for my new 7700X. >Temperature 0 54 degC (128 degF) (Package) >Temperature 1 54 degC (128 degF) (CCD #0) >Temperature 2 44 degC (111 degF) (Cores (Max)) >Temperature 3 43 degC (110 degF) (Core #0) >Temperature 4 44 degC (111 degF) (Core #1) >Temperature 5 43 degC (109 degF) (Core #2) >Temperature 6 44 degC (111 degF) (Core #3) >Temperature 7 43 degC (109 degF) (Core #4) >Temperature 8 44 degC (110 degF) (Core #5) >Temperature 9 44 degC (111 degF) (Core #6) >Temperature 10 44 degC (111 degF) (Core #7) Obviously I wish to know if these are normal for idle and casual use. The fan (NH-L12 from Noctua; the Ghost one) is very quiet unlike my stock fan. It could be that AM5 runs a ways hotter than AM3+ but on the off chance I upgrade the GPU I rather not have the temps be in the red, which was over 60 Celsius.
>>12761 Pretty normal, it measures from different sources, like what the mobo reports vs a specific firmware fed to your os. You can adjust your fan curve if you do want better cooling performance, if you need silent as well as cool then you'd probably have to get a case that fits a 360mm radiator.
>>12742 >>12743 Before I fiddle with DNS (I'm nervous to tamper with such things), I have one more question. I can connect fine to the archives on my phone through the same router, but with my laptop it won't connect, is that definitely a DNS problem?
>>12788 You can change your DNS in the browser settings, you don't need to do it in your router. It's under Settings -> Privacy and security -> Use secure DNS Brave ships with 3 DNS providers you can switch between, otherwise you can try putting in a custom one like Mullvad's. mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls/
How do i know if a an image is still in my hdd cache on both windows 7 and windows 10?
>>12796 Search for partition and deleted file recovery software, I can't remember the one I used. It'll scan your drive and see what bytes are still written but marked as writable.
I'm trying to build a low wattage server. Does SATA controllers/HBA generally lock you out of higher C-states?
>>12800 Depends on a part by part basis, but I'd give it a solid maybe. An LSI SAS card is the most reliable option for server use, and seeing as they're former enterprise hardware, probably have better luck than chinkware. I have a 9211 capable of splitting into 8 full speed sata ports but no drives yet, also watch out for chink clones saying its an equivalent chipset, you'll want to buy used originals rather than new clones, and if it ships through amazon rather than the seller you get high chances of returning it if it's broken.
>>12797 I don't suppose there any way to wipe the drive without deleting everything on the drive?
>>12804 Oh you mean wiping unused space, do a search for yourself but cipher /w:F in an admin terminal is what I found.
>>12805 F as the drive name
>>12805 Thank you.
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The browser (epic privacy browser) i use has problems with that security connections page that keeps coming up when i try to download games. How do i make it work, it just an endless loop. Why does it work with firefox?
>>12792 Changing the DNS didn't help. I've tried changing all the other settings in Brave and nothing works either. It's strange because I use Brave on my phone too and that works fine.
>>12820 I get it too sometimes, it's probably a blocked cookie or javascript somewhere that causes it.
What do I have to consider if I want to scan an ip address anonymously (via tor with nmap or metasploit)?
If i play a video game online or go on the internet on a windows 98 PC in the current year, will i get hacked?
>>12907 Probably
>>12907 If it happens you shouldn't be surprised. Hard to know if modern Windows exploits are backwards compatible to 98. All major bugs that got fixed in later releases will potentially be vulnerable. on the other hand, it will be difficult to even load most sites on a compatible browser. And video games would require remote execution exploits. Not impossible but you're probably safer playing games on Win98 than browsing on Win7 these days if you're just using it for vidya then it doesn't really matter if you get viruses anyways. Don't do your taxes or buy off Amazon on your Win98 box.
What is the best way of automating generational backups? I use Borg for making backups and I would like to implement a grandfather-father-son scheme. Borg can take care of pruning old backups and I can wrap everything in a script. But how should I execute that script? Maybe a cron job? https://www.borgbackup.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_rotation_scheme#Grandfather-father-son
>>12949 Probably cron yeah, I used it for running rsync.
My PC was unexpectedly shutdown and I can't sync my node. When I open my wallet I get the message "Node not started". I don't want to delete all the database and download it again, that would take too much time. How can I fix this problem?
>>12907 >>12911 You can't even run win10 executable on win7, I doubt win98 even recognizing those as a file to run properly. So unless they realized you have win98 and starting using something specifically targeting it, it probably just fail on general. On to the question: Did Cloudflare recently offering a "free" service or something, I saw a bunch of pirate site start "checking for a real human bean" every time?
I need help creating a program using Python and Charles that checks for me a list of CPFs, whether I'm registered with a bank and whether I'm entitled to government assistance. A lot of money, a lot.
I know you guys don't like free VPNs but i got one just for downloading games from sites that tack down you IP, i made an account with a gmail account ( i know) and it's proton VPN. Would it be better if i make a throw away protonmail account or something and use the VPN that way? I'm only going to use it for downloading roms, ISOs and PC games. Am i screwed either way because i'm using a account on free VPN or do they not care about downloading games?
>>13122 >Would it be better if i make a throw away protonmail account or something and use the VPN that way? Yes. >Am i screwed either way because i'm using a account on free VPN or do they not care about downloading games? No. No one is going to care that you're pirating games on a VPN, free or otherwise. The problem with free VPN's is that they can often just be malicious and harvesting your data, as while you're using them all your internet traffic is being funneled through them. Proton is a reputable company so you're very likely fine using their free VPN for just pirating some games. Generally speaking you just shouldn't use gmail on principle. But if your threat model is just that you don't want someone pestering you because you pirated games and movies then it makes no difference what you used to sign up for proton VPN.
>>13123 Will protonVPN allow me to download torrents without getting copyright notices? Because https://ipleak.net/ shows me that it's hiding my ip on the torrent address.
>>13126 It should as far as I'm aware, yes.
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Is there any way at all to download any version of a youtube video if the channel owner has deleted their channel? I can still access the archived pages on Wayback Machine, some of the video links are also in google's cache, but using yt-dlp or other tools I am still unable to get the video feed. Any way to directly get those videos?
>>13172 If you can watch the video in any of those, probably screen recording is the easy way.
You can use video download helper extension i guess
so is it possible to route all traffic through i2p via an openwrt-flashed router and still reach the clearnet? basically using i2p as a vpn. tor has people running exit nodes, can't find anything about i2p
What's a better video converter than Xmedia Recode? The program seems to be crashing whenever I upload videos above a certain resolution, and/or whenever try to convert videos so that they're playable on my PSP.
>>13206 Lokinet apparently has exit nodes but they aren't really publicly discoverable and I couldn't get the default instance working.
>>13214 Learn to use ffmpeg you literal fucking retard
>>12820 epic privacy browser? are you serious? lmao
>>12737 you can always tell a faggot by if they use brave or not. brave is a totally faggoted out browser and anyone who uses it probably compulsively jerks off all day
>>13214 Handbrake. >>13206 I2P doesn't do exit nodes, but openwrt is basically linux so you should be able to rig something up if they have a package.
I'm curious how/why "walkthrough" went from a "writting guide by someone who likely knew everything about a game" to "video(s) playthrough by some faggot who (often than not) very bad at the game and doesn't really know anything more than the people who stuck in their own game and seeking these "walkthrough" out for help"?
>>13246 The only good way modern games have advanced is in that they are much more intuitive to progress through. Instead of the difficulty being hunting for a slightly different saturated texture on a wall while spamming the use key, the content itself is the challenge. The only time you ever need to look up something for a game today is when a developer has fundamentally failed or you're encountering a bug. And usually you can find some leddit thread about those issues instead of needing an entire guide for it. I don't know why you're posting this on /t/.
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>Configuring TImeshift to create a backup every month >Updates system >It starts creating daily snapshots out of fucking nowhere Fucking loonix, I swear to god. It filled my whole drive in just five days. Any idea how to prompt my system to dump the snapshots into my NAS? I have another laptop with libreelec installed and it has the samba server configured so I can access files throught the network, I want TImeshift to dumb the snapshots over there.
>>13336 Snapshots aren't technically backups, it requires a local folder structure to save continual changes. Timeshift is indeed ass though.
>>13337 Any suggestion how to backup my system? Do I just zip my home folder and dump it into my nas then?
>>13339 rsync is popular but i havent tried it
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Do you know if you can post Pictures in session's chat?
>>13347 Can confirm, file limit feels like 5mb
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I don't suppose there is a magical program i don't know about that gets rid of the "Activate Windows" Watermark that i sometimes get on Windows Ameliorated edition?
>>13350 Same as regular windows. https://gith ub.com/massgr avel/M icrosoft-Activ ation-Scripts
>>13351 Nigger what the fuck are you doing? Where do you think you are?
Hypothetically, are there services that auto-retweet text taken from another website? It would be nice to create a twitter or social media bot that does the advertising for us.
>>13367 Only if you rig it up yourself, the api changes probably aren't amicable to it.
>>13368 >Only if you rig it up yourself, the api changes probably aren't amicable to it. I see, I assume you mean Twitter's API? My initial thoughts were to just grab the text from the Catalog's OP, use a randomized image and randomize the tags themselves.
I'm on windows 10 AME and if i only or play see something illegal on an image board then will there be some police action or archive of me seeing such thing?
>>13372 Probably not, but it's proprietary software so there is no way of knowing for certain. Generally speaking unless you're actively seeking out illegal content it's very unlikely you would suffer criminal action for witnessing it. But using AME probably doesn't mitigate whatever backdoors the feds have in the operating system. So if you visited a malicious website, you would probably be exposed to whatever 0day exploits are out there.
recommend me a chat program that has webcam, calling, screen share and regular text chat, that doesn't mine my data. Is Signal the only one?
>>13392 Element has all of those.
>>13392 >>13393 Probably Revolt, the discuck clone, too.
Does discord mine your data even if you don't have the app installed on your pc and don't have it open on your browser?
>>13413 Also if i just don't visit the discord site and delete the discord app from my PC will it still mine my data if i still have an account?
>>13413 Browsers are pretty sandboxed, so no if it's only in your browser it's probably not going to be able to access process lists and shit on your machine. So it will only harvest what you put into it. But it will probably do its best to profile your browser and correlate that information to identify your advertising profile. >Also if i just don't visit the discord site and delete the discord app from my PC will it still mine my data if i still have an account? If it isn't installed on your machine it will not continue to harvest data, but the data it does have will still exist on their servers in association with your account. But no, I doubt the software literally functions as malware that continuously operates on your machine after you've removed it. It does probably leave behind a file in case you reinstall it to remember your account, but it's very unlikely it's running a process to data mine you.
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/instagram says that Instagram collects the phone owner's full name but can be denied through permissions but it will bother you with a notification. I use it on my phone without any permissions, does it still have my full name from my phone since i give it my phone number?
What happened to the data of OpenFeint after it was discontinued?
I just installed a m2 on a motherboard with a basic m2 freezer included, but I forgot to remove the plastic that is glued to the freezer gel, should I remove it?, I really do not want to have to do the installation again.
I just installed a m2 on a motherboard with a basic m2 freezer included, but I forgot to remove the plastic that is glued to the freezer gel, should I remove it, I really do not want to have to do the installation again.
>>13451 Is it a gen 4 SSD running at gen 4 speeds? If so then you should probably make sure it's making proper contact. If it's running at gen 3 speeds then I'd guess it's fine as is.
>>13452 Yes, it is a M.2 PCIe 3.0 with 2gb read speed.
>>13452 I guess I'll leave it as is, the motherboard manual itself does not say to remove the plastic when placing the m2, so it will be fine. Thanks anon
I'd like to download a small clip from a site that puts its videos under DRM protection, but otherwise the stream is freely viewable on the browser. How can I download the video? I have attempted using some yt-dlp options, converting the stream to vlc and using a bunch of other bootleg programs and extensions, none of which worked. The files returned from a m3u8 sniffer are links to unwatchable .mp4 files and to a base .mpd file.
>>13464 I think yt-dlp doesnt support mpd decryption for legal reasons (DRM) or something like that? In some cases the key file is stored separately in some obfuscated way and they might also modify the protocol, then you need a custom script. Im not sure but maybe youre lucky and you can use ffmpeg to download the mpd file, you will have to go into f12 developer settings network tab and search for your mpd file. See here https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/24435/how-to-download-and-encode-a-video-from-a-mpd-manifest If you want further help you can drop the link if you want.
Is there like a program like google translate but it runs offline?
Is there an extension for Firefox that asks for confirmation when closing a tab that has edited forms? My muscle memory makes me hit ctrl-h when I want to delete the current word I am typing, only to close the entire tab. I have lost so many messages so many times. I cannot be the only person who has this problem, there must be some solution.
>>13476 Why is CTRL+H doing anything besides bringing up your history?
>>13477 He means CTRL+W you dumbass
>>13478 I'm sure he does, but the point I was getting at is that he should just get an extension to change keybinds, since if it was CTRL+H he clearly would have already dabbled in something like that. You're very uppity, do some heavy squats to increase your T levels.
>>13477 >>13478 >>13479 Yes, I meant CTRL-W, and no I don't want to change the binding. CTRL-W is easy to reach, I just want it to ask me first.
>>13484 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/textarea-cache/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/form-history-control/ This is the best I could find. I couldn't find anything that makes it warn you every time you close a tab, only when you're closing multiple tabs.
>>13472 Is there one that translates images?
My Kdenlive installation sound stopped working, I don't get any sound when I play the preview from the video editor, any idea how to fix it?
>>13464 If you just want the file use OBS to screen record it.
I need to find out the birth year of my cousin, i only know her mom's first name. I don't suppose there is some registry that has all my family and our birth years accessible?
>>13503 If you have someone's name there are mountains of data mining sites that have peoples information loaded onto them. I don't know them off the top of my head, but if you look into people that are trying to get their scrapped information deleted, you'll probably be able to reverse engineer the sites in question and just use them for the data. You may need to pay to access the information, though.
I would like to know if it's better to be good at one programming language and master it, or learn multiple ? At my school, I've "learned" Golang, JS, and now Rust. But i'm quite lost, and i'm afraid to loose time. I wanted to learn C first, but idk if it's a good option or not?
>>13580 Nobody cares. Are you 15yo old or sth?
>>13580 Pick one that suits whatever you're trying to do. If you feel like you only have a surface level understanding, do some coding challenges. If you're afraid to waste time then just take some paid classes.
If i make an account on a tor site (no email, just a user name and password) and the account information has nothing to do with me, can it be traced back to me? Why do tor sites want you to resister? Do they make money selling whatever information tor provides?
>>13603 >If i make an account on a tor site (no email, just a user name and password) and the account information has nothing to do with me, can it be traced back to me? No. >Why do tor sites want you to resister? Do they make money selling whatever information tor provides? Depends on the context of the site. If it's a forum it's probably just using stock forum software that everyone uses and registration is the simplest way to utilize the software's features for messaging and post histories, tracking who is who in a thread, etc. A site requiring registration doesn't really mean it's inherently malicious. Actual red flags are onion sites that require JavaScript to be enabled to use them.
I want to deploy a streaming client to stream 24/7 to 8tv on my NAS; and by NAS I mean a ten years old laptop in which I installed a 1TB HDD and a linux distro. It has libreelec which is a media server but it also comes with docker on it. I couldn't find any OBS or Streamlabs image on dockerhub.
If i have firefox running instagram and tor will it mine the data of the sites i visit on tor?
>>13699 If you have two independent browsers will one data mine the sites you browse on the other? No. The only thing that could be done is instagram profiles your browser and gets a unique fingerprint, and if you fuck up on TOR and do something like disable the letterboxing a site might match the fingerprint based on your real resolution. But TOR by default is very difficult to fingerprint.
Is i2p worth it as a more stable and faster version of tor? I watched a video about how it was suppose to be the future of the darknet.
If i download an image or video from an onion site on Tor and the file WOULD phones home when i open it, would i have to ALWAYS open it without any internet?
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>>3 Something happened and now the google search result has this ad, I am not sure if it is an ad. It only happens in chrome. And only in google searchs. I have the free version of avast and the scan didn't give me any results. Can somebody give me any help?
Tell me there is a decent text to speech program with anime girl voices.
If I use a temporary email, temporary phone number and a VPN can I be anonymous while using this text to speech voice program site, and do sexual thing with the voices and get away with it, even though they say not to do sexual things with the voices in their texts of service and privacy policy? They aren't going to sue or something for making a woman say she wants to suck my dick while not have the "rights" to the voice? https://play.ht/?utm_source=ai-search.io&via=ref
>>13797 Depends on how you acquired the temporary phone number, but I'd imagine it's very unlikely they would pursue anything beyond just deleting your account. Also phone numbers are generally going to be associated with your devices IMEI, which is not really anonymous unless you bought the phone secondhand. Of course unless you're doing something illegal that information is likely irrelevant, but just know anything involving phones usually erases any chance of proper "bullet proof" anonymity.
>>13798 It probably won't make a difference but I got the temporary number from https://temp-number.com/ and they didn't even ask for some confirmation code.
Two questions. Is the Mobile Tor browser safe to post on image boards to hide my IP? Is there some phone data that is left in the post? Does Tiktok read what I post on my browsers on mobile and desktop (if I log into it on my desktop)?
>>13729 It doesn't have the clearnet exit nodes of tor, but it is peer to peer and harder to trace.
>>13811 >Is there some phone data that is left in the post? No >Does Tiktok read what I post on my browsers on mobile and desktop (if I log into it on my desktop)? If you have the app installed then it's probably complete malware. If you're using it in the browser it's less likely to pwn you, but even then it's a chinese developed mass surveillance platform, so I would assume they are doing everything they can to try and break out of the browser sandbox. Don't use chinese malware websites.
>>13811 >Is there some phone data that is left in the post? To elaborate a little, your protected from the imageboard, but not necessarily protected from your own device. If your devices ships with spyware from the manufacturer they can still potentially link your activities back to you.
Do you know any text chat website with accounts and friend list that don't mine your data? I think emeraldchat.com might be okay, their https://www.emeraldchat.com/privacy-policy#collection-of-personal-information privacy policy only says they collect: Account details (such as user name, unique user ID, password, etc) Contact information (such as email address, phone number, etc) Payment information (such as credit card details, bank details, etc) Any other materials you willingly submit to us (such as articles, images, feedback, etc) Does this indirectly include the messages/text being chatted?
>>13825 >Does this indirectly include the messages/text being chatted? Yes. Any messaging service without end to end encryption should be assumed to be saving all of your chats. Sites like the one you linked are 100% saving every chat interaction. Session is the only messaging services at the moment that is likely to be properly anonymous and secure. But it's not a website.
How do i find someone's current email using their full name without paying? I have this old friend i want to talk to but her facebook only has unhelpful information about her.
Can someone find my full name or IP throught sending me email or just knowing my proton mail email address?
>>13849 There's tracker pixels, but proton probably blocks them. https://proton.me/support/email-tracker-protection
Does ccleaner read and collect the wiped free space off a hdd ?
>>13580 A beginner should pick 1 programming language (Python, Lua and probably even Golang are good choices) and learn it well. But a good programmer or professional programmer should know more than just 1 language. >I wanted to learn C first, but idk if it's a good option or not? I would focus on Go for now (or Rust if you really liked it). You can learn C later (read C: A Modern Approach 2nd edition) and use Clang (gcc is also okay). >>13773 Check the browser extensions. Is there something that shouldn't be there? Try to switch to encrypted DNS like Quad 9 (you can do so in the browser settings). >>13825 Why not use IRC or Matrix? >>13899 ccleaner collects analytics/telemetry data. Use FOSS alternative called "Bleachbit" instead (on windoze, you can enable additional cleaners in the settings menu). If you want to nuke a HDD, you should use dban (aka Darik's Boot and Nuke) instead BUT physically disconnect all other HDDs from your computer so you can't make a catastrophic mistake.
>>13825 Unless it's end to end encrypted, your messages likely sit on their server in basically plaintext and only get encrypted from that midpoint to your pc. Self-host a matrix server or wait for a discuck self-host clone like revolt to get e2e encryption. Session is pretty good too, or signal if your friends are casuals.
I need a SOCKS5 Proxy, any recommendations or advice of where can I get one?
>>13794 This. Someone knows??? I want to listen to a cute anime girl reading me books.
Assuming you're not so paranoid you're trying to throw off nationstate-level threats (not breaking any laws), is there really much to be worried about if you use HTTPS and a trusted (non-ISP) DNS?
>>13940 What exactly is your threat model? With HTTPS your traffic will be encrypted and it's very unlikely someone would get their hands on a correct cert to impersonate a site so the DNS part isn't very relevant outside of leaking where you're browsing, which your ISP would still likely know given that the destination IP cannot be encrypted and I think the domain name you're trying to connect to isn't encrypted either outside some newer standards that I'm not sure anyone's using. You can still get phished, get sent malware on links/email attachments, download malware thinking it's legitimate software, run into a site that exploits your browser, etc. All of these things happen very often.
What is the best way of downloading an entire playlist off YouTube? I want to download some music albums, so I only need the audio, but I don't want to download each song individually.
>>14049 yt-dlp
>>14080 Thanks, I thought that it was unable to download playlists, but it works fine apparently. Maybe youtube-dl had problems with playlists, I don't know.
>>14084 yt-dlp fixes a lot of the shit youtube-dl doesnt work for
Hey, is there any way to hide/change my IP without shilling out money for overpriced VPNs that spy on you?
If I remove/reset everything on my iphone, report it lost and get a replacement via Applecare+, can I then "find" the iphone and give it to someone else to use? Does Apple lock down that old device serial number or anything? How can I social engineer their system to keep old phone and get warranty replacement?
Do you know of a better link shortener than t.ly or tyny.to with the best privacy, no track and anonymity? and short
>>14230 Lost phones get their IMEIs flagged as lost/stolen..so they won't be usable. You can still sell it for parts
Is Ungoogled-chromium legal? How do they make variant without pirating or doing something illegal to chrome?
any way to hack into a facebook acc?
It's 2024 buddy, who tf uses fb
What the hell wrong with UI/UX/UWhatever these days? 90% of them has nothing to do with what "users" want, it's all about forcing shite nobody wants down users' throat.
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/tech/ An 8chan reference sheet is being compiled. Composed tans, characters, and symbols from other boards. Does /tech/ have any to share? Here is a preview from /v/ (a work in progress)
>>14311 chrome? It is legal because it takes the code from chromium, open source version
I'm trying to run the gog version of The BInding of Isaac on Linux Mint. I have installed the lastest version of wine. When I run the .exe it shows a lot of crap on the terminal, but I think this is the most important part 0024:err:wgl:init_opengl OpenGL support is disabled. How do I enable the OpenGL support?
>>14311 Chromium is the open source version of chrome, so anyone can fork it, Ungoogled-chromium is the version that removes all the google services and trackers. It's fine, but if you are looking for a more private web browser I suggest you to pick up Brave (chrome based) or Librewolf (firefox based)
How do I run GNU Icecat? I downloaded and extracted it (from http://sr7wtu3yb6cv5zz4gshbjnc5cfofv5ulj6jkxgzej4zhupcsriahp6id.onion/download.html ) but I don't know how to actually open the browser.
>>14563 That is to say, I open the GNU Icecat folder and I see a bunch of files. It's not really clear how to open the browser from this.
Not really sure if this is the right place to ask this but here goes. I have a DIGITNOW! HD Video Recorder as a stand alone capture device i use to capture some stuff on my vcr and laserdisc players, and after exhaustive testing to narrow down why i keep getting a bar of light along the right side of my captured videos(sometimes its barely noticable and sometimes its extremely blatant) it has become obvious its coming from the capture device itself. Why would it do this and is there anything i can do about it other than just trying another capture device? This device is entirely stand alone in operation(i.e. i dont need a computer or use software on the captured videos) and it saves them in .mp4 automatically which is convenient to me instead of saving it in something like .avi which i would have to convert to something else to watch it.
>>96 This is disturbing that the goverment is using an excuse to open up browser history's. I'm definitely keeping my VPN on 24/7 now.
Thinking of getting a 2 terabytes Samsung T7 shield SSD for $180, is that a good price and good brand for SSD cards?
>>14788 it's probably good for external ssds, internal ssds are $100ish for 2tb, a small 1130 one is doublish in price
YGoeZu9PtGQR I need help finding what this string of text is for, i think it's part of a url for some music but i'm not sure, maybe someone here cane help me?
Does using Tor on windows 10 not work as privately as good as using it on Windows 7?
How secure is telegram? I hear stories of people posting CP there, is it really that secure? i doubt it.
Can poeple find my IP address through Signal?
>>14914 I think there used to be cases where phone and video calls would leak IPs. I don't know if they fixed that to route through their servers or not. >>14903 There's CP on every platform of a certain size.
Can the mods on 4chan see our ip?
Does snapchat really delete a text or picture messages from their servers, like they say they do?
I would like to add support for 8chan to Kuroba-ex, since I like it, but I really know almost nothing about programming. It shouldn't be too complicated, Kuroba-ex already has support for Lynxchan since it uses it for Endchan, Kohlchan and YesHoney, and adding it isn't complicated either because it just means adding 8chan inside Lynxchan sites and in the site registry, and compiling it, you could even save this and just change the endchan address to 8chan. moe inside the Kuroba-ex configuration, the problem is the disclaimer, I don't know how to make the disclaimer advance, and as I don't know about programming I couldn't come up with a solution either, and adding disclaimer6 with 1 as cookie didn't work. I leave the Kuroba-ex repo and thanks. https://github.com/K1rakishou/Kuroba-Experimental
>>3 where do I complain about the site not having thumbnails for THEORA video in OGG containers?
>>14903 >proprietary software Not secure. >>14902 Irrelevant, they are both proprietary. Windows 7 has multiple known vulnerabilities and should not be connected to the internet. >>14937 Yes.
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I want to learn about ban evasion. Using free VPN or changing browsers no longer work on lolcow.farm. What to do?
>>15025 Nevermind, figured it out.
Is there a regex to catch all string with pattern "<regular name><string of number>" ie. mary57863? I'm pretty sure 99.99% of "user" with those name are astroturf bots that fetch their "reply" from something like chatGPT.
>>15073 short answer: yes long answer: download an extension like this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/regexsearch/ Make sure it's set to ignore upper and lower case, maybe with i or a button. search first for mary57863 then try mary[0-9]{4,8} for 4-8 numbers mary[0-9]{4,8}
I want to digitize my animated & non-animated DVD collection but I don't know what program works the best in getting the best audio & video qualities or the file format I should save them as. Been using the Fast preset on Handbrake because I didn't see improvements made by using the HQ & Super HQ presets, & they take more time to rip than the Fast preset. While the videos come out fine, I have a nagging feeling there is a better method to make the rips more...lossless & high quality, I guess? I just know that Handbrake automatically crops out the black bars for better or worse. Machine runs Linux Mint.
>>15088 I would start with a 1:1 DVD Image file rip. My gut says Alchohol but I think DVD Decrypter was the good shit for ripping DVD image files. There's probably a better option for the software but making an image copy first is definitely what you want to do. After you have the RAW IMAGE FILES backed up yo ucan start opening them up and stitching the video files or converting them, I would say jsut use straight FFMPEG, pretty sure that's what Handbrake uses under the hood anyway, and combine the files and use a decent encode like maybe HEVC/h.265 in MKV containers for the video as well as whatever is appropriate for the audio and soft subs. Whatever you pick, as long as you make raw backups of your Disc Images you will never have a regret later as you can go back and recode them to whatever formats currently best down the line.
>>15088 MakeMKV rips raw bluray/dvds without doing any encoding or processing (no loss of quality, called muxing). From there you can experiment with various encoding settings to see what gives you the best results. It is free for Windows (use the beta key on their forums that the devs provide). People have also packaged it for various linux distros
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Is there a way to use Google Earth on arch, without it sending my adventures and notes to their servers?
>>15170 Make a virtual machine, block internet access, then find out for yourself.
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Does anyone know of a downloadable maps application that I install to Android and is completely offline? I need it for work as I make letter deliveries to people's houses.
>>15231 OsmAnd uses OpenStreetMap and lets you download maps.
>>15272 Just tried that. The application is extremely buggy. And like the other two navigation apps recommended on the InstallGentoo Wiki: https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/List_of_recommended_Android_software#Navigation It requires me to give the app permission to access my location data despite the fact that the entire "point" is to have an offline map that I can use without an internet connection and just provide me step-by-step directions like MapQuest used to.
>>15288 >installgentoo wiki Hasn't been relevant in like 10 years.
>>15231 >>15288 So I found two possible apps that do exactly what I want. They are Karta GPS and Magic Earth. Anyone know any reason I shouldn't use either of these?
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It's USB to something, does anyone know the name of this plug, here is a pic of what it looks like.
>nearly 2600 Posts For the love of GNU, please archive this thread and make a new one, It's taking ages to load this page.
>>15305 USB 3.0 micro-B
Hi. Is there any place for technical discussions of Stable Diffusion? I have a collection of art from a particular artist and I'd like to make a checkpoint file for that artstyle. No, not a LORA, LORA is for a single character, or a single pose, and using multiple LORAs simultaneously doesn't work so well. LORA files can conflict with one another, which is less likely with checkpoint files. I see lots of checkpoints posted online in places like Civitai and Huggingface but I can't find any information on how I'd turn the saved images into a usable checkpoint file. Yes, I see that there is an SD thread right here in /t/. I also see that it's been up for two years with fewer than twenty total posts. So is there a place I can go to ask questions about how this shit actually works and how to do this, and do it without making an account anywhere? Some place that isn't halfchan? Thanks.
bake a new thread already
>>15307 use /t/last/3
Is it possible to edit a file's created and modified metadata dates? If so, how.
I need to scrape something off a site but the easiest way I've found to do it is to do the fetching through a regular web browser to avoid having to bother with the web app state. The request/responses are simple but I'm having trouble finding a way to automate them in Firefox. Is there any tool I could use for this? I've looked into greasemonkey but it doesn't look to be quite what I need. I basically just need curl in the browser. Dumping cookies from the browser and using them in curl doesn't work for this.
>>15465 Whenever I need to scrape something I use a Python script. I load and parse the site's HTML (as a browser would) and extract whatever I need to. I mostly just scrape texts and pictures, though.

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/t/ is invited to the 3rd 8moe Duels Soulcalibur 6 tournie. You are welcome to add another character (if you want) or re-roll your character's fighting style fighting style. The event is being hosted at >>>/icup/5943 It will be sometime this upcoming weekend. Last time you have Libbie & Terry Davis -- we can keep those. Fighting styles / classes: -- Raphael Talim Nightmare Mitsurugi Sophitia Ivy Astaroth Zasalamel Cervantes Tira Hilde Groh Geralt Xianghua Siegfried --Slightly underpowered-- Hwang Seong Mi-na Azwel Taki
>>15530 Yes, but in this case that won't work because of the security in this site. It seems to be keeping track of connections and getting your script's connection to a state where the site will allow it to request the resources seems like a headache, it's not a simple POST to receive cookies or something easy like that. That's why I wanted to just use a browser to get the connection there and then script on top of the browser to do the fetching reusing the browser state.
>>15578 >browser state I seem to remember it being possible to specify additional information to your request with a (Python) script, by explicitly changing the request headers, and making it "pretend" you're sending your request through a browser, as in (copied from stackoverflow of course) import requests url = 'http://www.goatse.cx' headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36'} response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
Hey anons, I have a question about my ssd health. Mainly the programs that show health. Two programs show my ssd at 10%, but two others show it at 4%. Which ones should I believe?
>>15584 Read how many TB writes have occured, check the manufacturer's site for what the expected number is, and make an empty partition of 10% the drive capacity. Otherwise any credible ssd has its own repair checks happening to the nanites independently of anything you can do, as long as it has occasional power it'll be fine.
>>15585 That's the weird thing. I've had it for four and a half years. It's my main c drive that I cloned to from an old hdd. It's a 500gb seagate barracuda. So far I've written 23.6tb to it and it has a total TBW of 249tb. Other than the low health it's fine. Did I get a dud or is the info just displaying wrong, or do ssd's as main boot drives wear out this quick? My game ssd that I've been using for 5 years is still at 98%. This is the first time using ssd's as well so it's confusing to me since I was very late to start using them.
>>15589 I don't really know either then, you can check to make sure defragmentation is off since that is detrimental, but even that is just normal writes. It's either a bug with the drive health firmware which deems nanites bad the same way disc drives have bad sectors, or something caused the nanites to fail fast, probably from the factory.
is it just me or is the default looooonix CPU frequency driver dogshit, at least for AMD? I have a AMD Zen 2 system, acpi_cpufreq is the default; yet it provides only 3 P-states that are all very near topping out the frequency. if I didn't manually pull it down with my own scripts it'd be running near full throttle at the lowest P2 state which defaults to 2.2GHz, 900mV @ ~30A all the fucking time, even when idle. (relatively) obscure kernel parameters are required to load the AMD-designed driver at all.
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<Is this really the best way to ensure that a brand new rechargeable battery has the best life span?
>>15637 Probably, but the amount of effort required to take perfect care of a battery probably saves you a few dollars, and is not worth bothering with if you value your time.
Is there a yt-dlp equivalent for downloading images from booru's?
>>15716 gallery-dl
>>15717 Thanks
Is there a way to change the function of my Esc key from "Please stop all downloads and scripts🥺" to "Stop all downloads and scripts."?
>>15784 What the fuck are you talking about?
>>15787 Open a dodgy website and it takes a certain amount of time to load and then it does a bunch of other shit you may not want it to do. Naturally the first choice is to press Esc but then the browser goes "Um, it says here I was supposed to do all this other stuff so that's what I'm gonna do." and loads a shitload of ads, videos, viruses and whatever other awful shit that at the very least fills up me RAM.
What is a good program for windows 10 for viewing pdfs?
>>15834 Okular if you're willing to use chocolatey, sumatra PDF otherwise.
>>14198 Use Tor Browser. >>14971 I'm fairly certain that they don't. They used to store the messages/pictures as a file on recipients phone even after they said they "deleted" it (meaning they just hide the messages and pictures from their app). >>15784 You want something like NoScript or use uBlock Origin to block JabbaShit.
>>15637 Not at all. I assume that shitty marketing material is about battery life, i.e. how long your battery can run on a single charge. With lithium batteries, small discharge-recharge cycles around the mid-state-of-charge point are best. If you keep your battery cool, it will degrade less over time. Lastly, the faster you charge, the greater the capacity loss, so avoid any kind of fast-charge gimmicks. Here's some reading material: https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lithium-based-batteries https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808b-what-causes-li-ion-to-die
Where are the fun AI tools that don't require a phone number, facebook account, social security number, fingerprints, face and DNA to use? Not even Bing lets me make accounts any more.
>>16139 Here you go cuh hailuoai.com readtheirlips.com ai-draw.tokyo exa.ai llamacoder.together.ai and the kike himself went out of his way to allow loginless goyim to rim him chatgpt.com
Oh boy, a month since the last comment. I'll still ask because I likely won't be able to find anyone with the knowledge to answer anywhere else. I need to know all of the places where nVidia graphics drivers are stored when installed in Windows. I have to manually remove all of these files by removing a boot drive and mounting it externally. No, I cannot use DDU. The screen is black. No, I cannot use safe mode. The screen is black. No, I cannot boot from a Windows install USB. The screen is black. I just need to know where the files are so I can manually delete them. Any chance of this? Thanks.
>>16325 I assume it's not in your Program Files folder as they would have their own NVIDIA folders in them but not the drivers. >C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository <where Windows stores driver packages for all installed hardware, including nVidia graphics drivers. >C:\Windows\System32\drivers <where the actual driver files (.sys files) are located. >C:\Windows\SysWOW64 <where 32-bit drivers are stored on a 64-bit system. >C:\Windows\System32 <where other driver-related files and registry entries may be stored.
>>16325 >No, I cannot boot from a Windows install USB. The screen is black. Sounds like a hardware issue.
The installgentoo wiki is down for some reason, who maintains it? https://wiki.installgentoo.com/
>>16513 whois
Thoughts on ClassicShell/OpenShell? Anything better?
>>16531 For me it's mandatory on Windows 8, 8.1 and 11. Windows 95 through 7 don't need it. It's optional on Windows 10. I believe Open-Shell's competitors are more bloated but haven't looked too hard.


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