fl42v

joined 2 years ago
[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Richard, maybe

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

You mean searching github with "lang:nix"?

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I mean, VHEMT is a great ideology and ever, but the dude seems to have missed the "voluntary" part.

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Welp, I'm into neither stockings nor potato bags. Just plain straight preferably black jeans with deep pockets

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago
[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I propose renaming him to Ben Chapitau. Much more suitable for a clown.

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As always, the answer is "depends". It shouldn't hurt unless you're dual-booting windows (they used it last year as a weapon in their "mess up grub" game), but, Imo, it's worth the trouble if:

  • your data is also encrypted -- otherwise one just removes the HDD/SSD and reads what they need;
  • you provision your own keys -- to not depend on Microsoft signing shims for you;
  • you delete the already provisioned keys -- Microsoft signed a few vulnerable things, like one kaspersky's (iirc) live CD with grub not locked down, so one can boot up literally anything anyway;
  • you lock down grub or whatever bootloader you're using -- otherwise you become that vulnerable live cd;
  • you password lock the uefi -- otherwise one can simply disable the secureboot;
  • your vendor's implementation isn't terribly buggy -- iirc, some MSI laptops would just ignore all the discrepancies.

So, a lot of ifs, and a necessity to store the uefi password somewhere safe, as those may be a pita to reset.

As for standalone stuff -- idk, it might protect you from malware injecting itself into the bootloader or something, but given there's likely no chain of trust (I.e. the bootloader doesn't check what it bootloads), it can move in on some later step.

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

This, but backtrack 5 (the one just before kali). On a laptop that'd take several eternities to brutforce an md5 🤣

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Reminded me one of the vids of f4mi, although that ladiy's approach is far more beautiful. Basically, she took advantage of ai scrapers relying on subtitles and YouTube allowing for pretty advanced styling of those very subtitles to insert garbage that only bots will see.

To those interested in the details, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEDFUjqA1s8 (selecting a working invidious instance is left as an exercise for the reader)

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Quite simple, actually. If you want to do a thing that violates a law, you modify the law to allow the thing.

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Or start adding "-site:reddit.com". On the other hand, in some cases it kinda makes sense with SEO being basically "generate a wall of text on what should be one paragraph with 3.5 sentences".

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

Innovative as always, I see.

 
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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by fl42v@lemmy.ml to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
 

Well, technically anywhere from 5 to 40, but I still have a nice chance to grow old before libreboot starts building. Also, still slower than dial-up.

 

While the whole exchange must've sucked for them, I've found their reaction extremely amusing at times, especially the carpet banning for life of everyone within a country/state to the offending party. But hey, that'll definitely show AMD how to hire those coreboot developers

 

Just thought I'd share. Probably nothing new or fancy, but may help some of you find a way to repurpose devices that aren't worth repairing into home servers or something: e.g. op5 I've used has better CPU compared to raspberry pi 4, can run linux (postmarketos, albeit with some caveats), and costs less if bought with broken display (or nothing if you have one lying around)

 
 

Tinkering is all fun and games, until it's 4 am, your vision is blurry, and thinking straight becomes a non-option, or perhaps you just get overly confident, type something and press enter before considering the consequences of the command you're about to execute... And then all you have is a kernel panic and one thought bouncing in your head: "damn, what did I expect to happen?".

Off the top of my head I remember 2 of those. Both happened a while ago, so I don't remember all the details, unfortunately.

For the warmup, removing PAM. I was trying to convert my artix install to a regular arch without reinstalling everything. Should be kinda simple: change repos, install systemd, uninstall dinit and it's units, profit. Yet after doing just that I was left with some PAM errors... So, I Rdd-ed libpam instead of just using --overwrite. Needless to say, I had to search for live usb yet again.

And the one at least I find quite funny. After about a year of using arch I was considering myself a confident enough user, and it so happened that I wanted to install smth that was packaged for debian. A reasonable person would, perhaps, write a pkgbuild that would unpack the .deb and install it's contents properly along with all the necessary dependencies. But not me, I installed dpkg. The package refused to either work or install complaining that the version of glibc was incorrect... So, I installed glibc from Debian's repos. After a few seconds my poor PC probably spent staring in disbelief at the sheer stupidity of the meatbag behind the keyboard, I was met with a reboot, a kernel panic, and a need to find another PC to flash an archiso to a flash drive ('cause ofc I didn't have one at the time).

Anyways, what are your stories?

 

Off the top of my head, I can't think of a word in English that ends with "is" while being singular, only plurals and uncountables come to mind, so I can't really follow the examples of other words. What makes it even weirder, I'm not sure how to pronounce Illinoises... Would it be as written, or as if an Illinois was pronounced by someone who has never encountered it before? Illinoi are also meh, since now plural looks as a singular and the other way round.

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