linearchaos

linearchaos, 1 month ago

Go Ronny Boy! Bleed em dry!

linearchaos, 1 month ago

Well, the were exiting through the windshield quickly back in the day…

linearchaos, 1 month ago

All magnets and “chefs” over here

linearchaos, 1 month ago

ok, I snorted… well played.

linearchaos, 1 month ago

Secret? Their playbook literally has four bullet points and this is #2.

linearchaos, 1 month ago

I think the concept is if you own enough exit nodes and you have monitors at the backbone level you can correlate traffic with time-based attacks.

The current number of people using tor in a given time isn’t so insurmountable that you can’t throw a couple of data centers worth of VMs at The problem and they’ve had backbone monitoring for decades.

The thing is, the feds aren’t going to come knocking at your door because you are downloading movies. The MPAA figured out a long time ago that it’s a losing battle going after individual people downloading/uploading. If you were trying to use tor to hide behind doing things to harm other people, running terrorist networks and the like, there’s a reasonably good chance they could track you down if you were just using tour but they’d have to really want to do it, and that’s not going to happen for Steve’s half terabyte of CSI.

linearchaos, 1 month ago

As soon as anyone starts arguing in bad faith I just block them. I don’t really care what they have to say about me for my argument.

linearchaos, 1 month ago

I would love better blocking. But I understand the costs of doing that in a truly federated environment. I’ll just settle for not caring what they actually say about me. The whole point of the trolling is to get a rise out of someone.

linearchaos, 1 month ago

Google nearly went through trouble to make sure that takeout is a pain in the ass to import anywhere else.

As a matter of fact anytime I use any company’s product and try to export it from there and import it somewhere else it goes horribly wrong.

I don’t want my text documents in HTML.

linearchaos, 1 month ago

All fine and good except those 57 companies encompass 80% of all fossil fuel business right?

I’m not saying it doesn’t need to be fixed, but I am saying that it’s misleading.

linearchaos, 1 month ago

That’s a nice dream. I hope it can come true, but those 57 companies also own 90% of the US Congress and probably a large swath of the governments in 2nd and third-world countries. The people that need to make them stop are almost literally on their payroll.

linearchaos, 2 months ago

If he doesn’t get in this is a foregone conclusion. Untaxable donations, tax shelter for purchases. Every Trump property will become a church campus, every collection attempt religious oppression.

linearchaos, 2 months ago

It comes with a working config.

Adding applications and rebuilding is generally trivial.

The problem becomes if you want to use flakes or home manager, which you probably should. The config for those is complicated and poorly documented.

I don’t know the programming language. I’ve been running it for about a month now. If you’re not doing anything complicated or doing any crazy conditionals or running one config for 27 boxes it’s no different than editing a yaml.

It took me about 2 days to get Nvidia working properly with offloading that was my hardest task so far.

linearchaos, 2 months ago

Load up a live CD of your distro in your VM. Install a browser. Load up all your plugins, bookmarks, sites, when you have it completely how you want it, tarball your Firefox config folder to a USB drive.

The next time you want to use it, start the live CD again and untar the tarball back in your config directory. Anytime you want to update it, just remake the tarball.

It’s ephemeral, no logs are stored, you have almost no chance of accidentally loading the wrong thing.

linearchaos, 2 months ago

I’m pretty sure everybody knows it’s not just a couple of developers by themselves churning out windows. Even the project managers are just following orders. Marketing sets the tone upper management picks the path.

linearchaos, 2 months ago

Yeah, this is a really good call. I’m a fan of what we can do with AI, when you start looking at those upskilled videos with a magnifying glass… It’s just making s*** up that looks good.

linearchaos, 2 months ago

The automated walk out service wasn’t a con. It was a shortsighted, honestly s***** idea, that was never able to be brought past the human oversight stage.

Con requires intent. I’m absolutely certain they fully intended to make it a completely humanless system. They failed and drug their feet trying and now they’ve shut it down.

If it’s a con, what’s their long game? What are they gain from having humans watch the store remotely? Is it tech just so neat that they’ll have a lot more shoppers than a regular store? Do they save so much in on-site staff that it’s cheaper to run than a conventional store? There’s no advantage here that would make it a worthwhile con. It’s a failed moonshot that they ended up manning with people to see if they could make it work that’s all.

linearchaos, 2 months ago

Oh grandma what big teeth you have.

It’s coming from inside the house…

linearchaos, 2 months ago

It’s a give and take honestly.

System-d has better logging. Until you have something that needs to really really log. You can argue that if you have something that’s that dependent on logging it shouldn’t be logging through the console but it’s worked fine for decades. Auto pruning of logs isn’t necessarily ideal. Getting console logs and assist logs as a pain in the ass.

Same goes for service dependencies we had this sorted it was answered via run levels and naming. It wasn’t necessarily the most elegant solution but it was simple and there was very little to go wrong.

The tools to manage the services and logs are needlessly complicated. Service start, service stop, service status, service log, service enable, service disable. And I shouldn’t have to reload the Daemon every time I make a change.

This isn’t to say that it’s all bad. It’s flexible, and for most workflows, it’s very automated and very light touch. The other pruning on the log file says probably saved a lot of downtime, a whole lot of downtime.

It’s really well suited to desktop.

Service creation is somewhat easier.

Dependencies are more flexible than run levels.

To be honest I wouldn’t go out of my way to run in a non-system distro but I would feel a little sigh of relief if something I was screwing with was still init.d

linearchaos, 2 months ago

Freezing/unfreezing credit needs to be free and easy.

linearchaos, 2 months ago

Talking about freezing credit checks, not card usage.

linearchaos, 2 months ago

With your social security number first and last name and some public record information you can apply for credit cards, loans, you name it. For the process to kick off a credit check is performed. The company that is offering to give you the money Will check one or all of the major credit bureaus to get your credit worthiness.

You can write a letter to the three credit bureaus and ask them to lock your credit status so if anyone checks them they will get nothing back. This is a free service as long as you’ve got plenty of time to wait. You can sign up for any one of a dozen different “credit monitoring” services for the rate of about $30 a month they’ll let you turn your credit check on or off at will.

I think the credit bureau should be forced to provide you a portal to authenticate and turn your credit status on and off at will.

linearchaos, 2 months ago

Yeah, we’re heavily leaning toward making borrowing easy to the point that any security breach puts us at risk. It’s trivial with just a little private data to take out a loan or buy a car in someone else’s name. It really sucks.

linearchaos, 2 months ago

Nah, the antenna is tuned to pick up vhf/uhf, but the wire / traces and even the legs of the amplifier are sufficient to pick up cmb

linearchaos, 2 months ago

Put a large air cleaner in on high. Beat the couch cushions outside, shake down blankets outside, carpet wash the furniture and carpets. Scrub hvac vents and air handler ducts. Wet wipe your walls and base boards. Clean you dryer vents. Dust is everywhere. Light mop daily with a spray mop.

Change your HVAC filters every month until it gets better. If you don’t have HVAC, get more air cleaners and stay on top filter replacements.

It’ll take ages, but it’ll get better.