krnl386

krnl386, 9 months ago

Ever hear of Secure Time Seeding? It’s real, and fits this meme perfectly.

krnl386, 9 months ago

Congrats! I bet you learned a lot along the way…

krnl386, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

WHOIS privacy? Porkbun does that for free for all TLDs that support it.

I don’t think I fully understand how what they offer isn’t “ownership by proxy”. I suppose they promise not to release your info if police ask for it? On the other hand, they technically own the domains you register through them, so if they get repossessed (e.g. through legal bankruptcy proceedings), whoever their new owner is, will presumably also own your domains…

I’m probably not seeing something here, but this all sounds sketchy to me.

krnl386, 9 months ago

I was actually confused about your response to grahamsz@kbin.social… it seems like they have at least a basic understanding of how registrars vs. DNS hosts work.

krnl386, 9 months ago

I was thinking the same thing. Either this person didn’t replace their tires in a couple of decades or does insane acceleration/turns/burnouts/stunts.

krnl386, 9 months ago

How is this not the most upvoted comment? I just do not understand!

On a more serious note, yes, this is extremely dangerous and the rear tire should be replaced before anyone rides this bike.

krnl386, 9 months ago

Just add bike lanes on both sides. :P /s

krnl386, 9 months ago

They’re really expensive, apparently. But hey, I think moving them around to the most lucrative locations to maximize earnings for the city (assuming they actually get to collect the money), could be a nice way to help subsidize road maintenance or TTC costs.

krnl386, 9 months ago

Love this new feature!!! And yeah, I would love to see the icon selection grow.

krnl386, 9 months ago

It loads and UI seems to work, but it still doesn’t actually block ads or click them.

krnl386, 9 months ago

Yikes, that’s terrible!

krnl386, 9 months ago

I presume these are filesystem UUIDs. I also presume from your other post, that you used a live USB to fix nvidia drivers? Note that nvidia driver installers/packages trigger a initrd rebuild, and if you do that in a live environment, it’s possible that you will get the UUID of your live USB filesystem and not your actual boot drive… at least that’s my guess.

If you booted into a live USB you need to make sure that you chroot into your install on your disk whenever doing any operations on the boot loader. That involves mounting your actual disk (eg, /dev/nvme0p1) somewhere on the live USB (eg, /mnt/example), then bind-mounting the proc, sys, dev, tempfs filesystems under /mnt/example/proc, /mnt/example/sys, etc. You may also need to mount /efi under /mnt/example/efi or boot/efi (wherever you have it in your system). Next, chroot to /mnt/example. You should now have a fully functional install you normally boot into, with the only difference being that the kernel booted off the USB drive. Now you can try reinstalling drivers, rebuilding initrd, reconfiguring the bootloader, etc. Since you’re chrooted, the system should see the proper UUIDs, in theory…

If you want a more comprehensive tutorial on how to do this, look for bootloader fixing tutorials.

krnl386, 9 months ago

I think the key would be figuring out where this extra UUID is coming from. Maybe next time you try this, make a note of all the UUIDs on your system (including the bootable USB) and see which one ends up in the bootloader config.

Knowing what’s happening can help guide your Googling to find out why it’s happening and how to fix it.

krnl386, 9 months ago

I’m guessing this is a school and not a university? At a university students have more clout/rights, at least on paper.

In any case, getting your own machine is the way to go. You can run whatever you want on it. You could still (cautiously) use the school network, as long as you use a VPN; basically treat the school network as a “hostile” environment. That’s assuming VPN use is not against the school rules. :)

krnl386, 9 months ago

Is there an IT policy at your school? I suggest perusing it for 2 reasons:

1. Understanding the consequences of tampering/tinkering with the spyware.
2. Understanding how much authority the IT department really has, and whether or not what they’re doing with the spyware constitutes overreach.

#2 in particular is for your own knowledge/benefit. Since you’re not an employee, but a student, you may have some inherent rights under this policy, which the IT department may be violating.

krnl386, 9 months ago

Librewolf is probably a safer choice.

krnl386, 9 months ago

The Brave ad blocker is based on uBlock Origin, AFAIK, so no, you don’t need it.

krnl386, 9 months ago

Lots of Firefox fanboys on here I see…

krnl386, 9 months ago

Here’s another video demonstrating the effect of an MRI magnet on non-ferromagnetic metals (aluminum in this case).

krnl386, 9 months ago

“I wanted to see shit blow up!” 😂 I hear ya.

krnl386, 9 months ago

Ok, just updated to 1.11.0 (latest app store release at the time of writing) and it behaves exactly the same. The icon changed after updating, however, subsequent attempts to change it are ineffective as before, even if the app is swiped up from the task selector to “kill” it. It seems like swiping up doesn’t really kill the app, however, installing/reinstalling/updating from the app store does.

To test this, I’ll try offloading the app (delete app but not app data) and reinstalling to see if my hypothesis about updating/reinstalling is correct.

krnl386, 9 months ago

Interesting; it’s consistently not working for me. I managed to change the app icon once, but subsequent attempts keep failing. The icon changes within the app’s settings screen, however, it does not change from the previous selection when I go into the app switcher or the launcher. Killing/restarting the app from the app switcher doesn’t help either.

EDIT: the symptoms above are happening on app store version 1.10.1. I’m about to update to 1.11.0 to see if it helps.

krnl386, 9 months ago

Thanks for sharing. Very nice writeup.

krnl386, 9 months ago

WTF did I just listen to??

krnl386, 9 months ago

Did you ask in !privacy?