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Just a hardware nerd.___

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I have a freezer full of ice cream again.

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A list of apps that I’ve found as nice alternatives:

  • Flare (Signal messenger)
  • Dissent (A very light discord app. It is very nice.)
  • Tuba (Mastodon)
  • Fluffychat (Matrix)
  • Freetube (Youtube. Still a bit quirky but it works well enough. The stupid phosh notch gets in the way.)
  • Lemonade (Currently testing this for Lemmy. It doesn’t work on Phosh + Wayland. For some reason I can’t click any community and I can’t login. I do like the app and hopefully it will improve over time since it has potential.)
  • Podcasts (GNOME podcast app. Works well enough. Just annoyingly overbloated.)
  • Syndic (RSS feed client. It is still in development and has some issues like unable to import opml, but it works well for what it is.)
  • GNOME Secrets (Stupid password manager. Had to export the bitwarden vault into json and import into keepassxc before transfering that vault to the pinephone. Would be nice if bitwarden dev team could come out with a proper working flatpak instead of this bollocks.)

Still testing apps and might update this list overtime.

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Themes that I settled on:

Dracula slim theme here: www.gnome-look.org/p/1687249/

And papirus icon theme in the repos.

To change the gtk theme I had to install gnome-shell-extensions and reboot. Probably a simple source of /etc/profile would’ve been fine.

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A bit late again, but I’ve been busy and dealing with life… I finally got my PinePhone up and running, mostly. I’m quite proud. I ended up going with Arch + Phosh image and not disappointed. Found a bunch of apps that work well on it as well. I’m definitely happy for once since it is basically usable now as a regular smartphone and as a mobile device for uh more nerdy things.

I am also debating which smartphone to buy to have as a backup phone, and there are three I looked at. All three have official Lineage OS support and one has Calyx OS support. I might end up buying 2 out of the 3.

Also been brainstorming and experimenting with a few ideas in labs and on my devices. Have a lot written down as a rough draft of what I want, and just need to go through my list to figure out what to prioritize to code and test in labs first. I am glad I wasted way too long figuring out this stuff because things are starting to turn out a lot better quality. I also have a nice list of hardware I want to buy… looking forward to being able to explore RF more and play with a lot of interesting hardware toys.

I have a lot of plans right now and just taking everything a bit each day.

Defiently still have way too much doubt in myself and questioning if this is really my thing, but life is confusing and sometimes sucks.

Also, here are a couple of pics of the pinephone:

https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/c8f27e81-fd73-4dff-be69-611da857c200.jpeghttps://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/263af256-64f3-4def-b673-3e71ac98a05d.jpeg

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I just accept I’m an asshole, and I’m an emo furry.

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I’m late, but been wrestling with the PinePhone. I’ve ultimately decided on Mobian with Phosh + TLP + UFW and probably other stuff. I have decided to take a bit of a short break from most of my projects, but will probably be back to them in a week or so. Just exhausted right now, but something’s are starting to look up for once.

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Make it more usable without having to do too many mental backflips. I’m going to try to see if I could make a better DE with XFCE + Openbox + dmenu + the sxmo gesture daemon. Have a rough draft in my head.

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I was told there were furries on Fridays.

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Brainstorming ways to deal with the overheating on PinePhone and have a few ideas to try. Been coding a lot in various different languages that are mostly newer to get a feel for them to see if they’re interesting enough. At some point, I want to try to get into developing some stuff with the Pogo pins on the PinePhone. Need to get to emulating firmware on QEMU to start playing with IoT and whatnot…

I have a lot going on. xD

alex_02,
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Simple and very interesting. I wonder if something like the USB Killer could be integrated, which would essentially fry the electronics and can probably help with making recovering data a lot more difficult?

alex_02,
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Most Russians turn to crime because they need to survive. Your comment is ignorant and stupid.

alex_02,
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Most are not, and I have both friends and family from Russia. We will see more cyber crime from Russia as well because inflation is stupid high there right now and well… people don’t want to starve.

alex_02,
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You mean It’s a bad idea to put government secrets in the cloud of a large company whose only working department is their PR department?

https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/28eccc50-a021-4ed6-bb38-77a4d9f7ff82.jpeg

alex_02,
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Are you a child or just dense?

Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet

I plugged into ethernet (as wifi w/captive portal does not work for me). I think clearnet worked but I have no interest in that. Egress Tor traffic was blocked and so was VPN. I’m not interested in editing all my scripts and configs to use clearnet, so the library’s internet is useless to me (unless I bother to try a tor...

alex_02,
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Idk what I read because it is so stupid.

A bit of an update on my RPi builds

I’ve been working on and off on several of my tools and toys, specifically my raspberry pis that I bought long ago. I’m at a bit of a gripe now for buying the boards from Raspberry Pi Foundation, mostly because I do not like the direction the company is going, but I still have three of the boards lying around before...

alex_02,
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It is an enjoyable project and is easy to get up and running. Haven’t tried installing it with an epaper display, but it is definitely interesting.

alex_02,
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Well, currently I’m open to anything, but I go back to school in the fall and should get workstudy so was thinking of checking the IT Helpdesk first at the school, but think I have enough personal experience that I could in theory do something like Junior Sysadmin or Junior Pentester. The main issue is that I live in a dead end state right now, and any job would have to be remote for the most part, which most companies won’t do. Another problem is that I don’t exactly have a great reputation because of assholes that I’ve had the displeasure of dealing with since I was a teenager. There is also the dumb case of my record with an online article that basically defames me and doxxes me. Also, a lot of misinfo. That article shows up when you google my name and also the stupid case, so idiots in HR get weird about it which ruined several job opportunities, and also I was harassed for months online which cost me my last job along with that dumb article… So think I’m going to just look for something outside the tech industry because so far the way I’ve been treated has been foul.

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I’m a huge fan of Golang, but I’ve started looking at writing in Java because a lot of APIs have Java SDK. Before, I have coded a lot more in C/C++. I also love shell scripting and have written a lot of scripts in bash and sh. I’m planning on coding more stuff in various different languages and for Windows I’ve started dabbling in C# because it is specifically built for Windows, so I tolerate it.

alex_02,
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I wanted to do red teaming when I was 18/19, but it is so niche that I don’t think I can get my foot in the door. I’m a hardware nerd and the past several months I have also started looking at overlooked protocols. I do plan on getting into more embedded and designing my own boards. Thing is, hardware is very overlooked which I feel like nobody is taking it serious enough. I still have an interest in the tech industry, but kind of just letting life do its thing and wherever I end up, I end up there.

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You mean taking hardware apart or reverse engineering the software/firmware? Been planning on getting into reverse engineering firmware, but I take hardware apart a lot to figure out how they work because most of the time I can build something better and cheaper.

alex_02,
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I have. I hate Rust. I think it is overhyped. I have heard good things about Zig, and it looks more promising. Crystal and Dart also look promising, but unfortunately the hype is fucking Rust, which I think is a garbage language.

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Yeah. Life keeps getting in the way, but I’ve been having plans to at least start emulating firmware with QEMU and poke around a bunch of publicly available firmware. The biggest problem I do see with the learning curve is the machine language, but I don’t see it being too much of trouble once I grasp the basics enough to get a better idea what is going on. Finally got around to getting qemu up and running, so will try to get started with firmware once I get other more important things taken care of first.

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The syntax reminds me of what python, javascript, c# would look like combined if they somehow mated and had a child in their threeway relationship. The community also has very stupid people that think it is great making everything twenty times harder because of some hypothetical insecurity introduced by the user or something dumb like that when Rust is supposed to be a memory safe language and the hand holding has allowed some very dumb but arrogant asshats get it to their head.

It just seems over all like a cobbled up, overhyped mess that is driven a lot by pseudo-intellects and ego. A lot of the articles I’ve read have the author throwing around a bunch of fancy words that don’t really make sense and just make them look dumb, also a lot of times it seems unneededsly complicated with how someone does x and explain it overcomplicated. This is especially with when I tried to look at the state of encryption and cryptography in rust. The issue is that crypto is easy to get wrong even by very, very smart people, so what I saw just from glancing and trying to figure out tf I’m looking at with the libraries and also the focus on more of “X is faster than other much better audited crypto library or whatever” and made me unable to trust the libraries to use in my programs since I did not want to introduce possibly vulnerabilities that could be catastrophic.

Also, ironically not long after idiots touted C/C++ being dead or something after the federal gov here decided to make the announcement of moving to memory safe languages, there was some silly cve that allowed rce via some weird batch script. I think it is just better for me to be cautious right now with the language since right now I’m very, very skeptical and from experience if I have doubts about something in tech, I’m probably right.

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