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 No.12952[Reply]

Recently, there has been a lot of controversy and confusion over the de-listing of /tech/. As one of the new /tech/ mods, I would like to make a statement and clear some of this up.

/tech/ was de-listed because of the general soykaf brewing, lack of intelligent conversation, and general glitterboyism.

Now that /tech/ is back on the header, we need to make some changes around here. All you have got to do is follow the rules. The ones that you need to take special care to are those that follow.

1. You should always elaborate on your opinions rather than just spilling the soy

2. Always argue in good faith and avoid using personal attacks.

3. Don't respond with aggression to perceived flames or trolls (or at all.)

Any posts that break these rules will be removed, and repeat offenders will be drezzed.


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 No.13253

Moved to >>>/q/7601.


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 No.8397[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Let's help eachother make our Linux lives more comfy. Whether it be useful scripts, extensions\add ons, programs, or commands.

I'll start with some Gnome extensions.

Force Quit adds an "X" on your top bar that you can click and then click on an application to force quit it. A quick xkill button https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/770/force-quit/

Imgur Screenshot Uploader lets you take a screenshot of your whole screen, A window, or an area you select and then auto upload it to imgur and provide you a link so you can quickly share screenshots
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/683/imgur-screenshot-uploader/

Show Desktop from Overview lets you click on an empty space when you open the overview "by pressing the window\super key" to hide all open windows and show you the desktop.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/496/show-desktop-from-overview/

Shellshape is one of my favorites. It automatically tiles all your open windows and resizes your windows once you open and close one.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/294/shellshape/

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 No.14592

>>14590
developing firefox addons is really easy and really well documented, you should try it!

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 No.14596

>>14591
if you know your C, you could fork it I think, dwb uses only a globlal css file I think, you could adapt it though I assume

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 No.14610

Getting comfier can be as simple as switching from vim to neovim to get that sweet, sweet terminal emulation.

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 No.14614

>>14588
Look into privoxy

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 No.14615

>>14588
Sorry, dissregard that privoxy idea. Stylish would be best, doesn't look like dwb has that sort of thing.


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 No.14561[Reply]

Lets have a thread about space, specifically current space technologies.
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 No.14607

>>14585
this race had goals beyond just going to space. the fact that today most consider the U.S to be the winner of the space race is all the proof you need that the U.S won because ultimately the goal was to establish dominance as the greater world power. And it is clear that in that sense it worked.

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 No.14608

>>14585
also its weird that you are treating this as if it was an actual race with a finish line already drawn. nobody moved the goal post. the US kept matching the russians and the russiands would the break new boundaries the US would have to keep up with. Ultimately in the end however the US got the farthest. Like this is objective, the purpose the entire time was to outdo the other not to be the first to do something. Do you think the russian leaders gave a soykaf that they were the first to launch a sattelite, or first to launch a man into space? No they wanted to be the only ones that could and outdo the competition. How is it possible that the russians won the space race when they themselves kept racing even after they got into space first. A bit hard to say they won when they themselves at the time knew the winner was going to be who had the most extreme accomplishment essentially.

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 No.14609

>>14608
I find it weird that the russians have been and still are beating the yanks at every turn, yet when the yanks get one thing they claim victory

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 No.14611

>>14609
That's sheer nationalism, it's not too hard to understand.

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 No.14613

>>14585
>>a teacher
Which is like 19 less people than the Russians killed a year in their space program.

I'm no American nationlist, and I do agree that the Ruskies did as good if not better in the space race than the U.S., but I think as of now, with the U.S. doing what it has been doing with Pluto and Mars, and with Russian basically just operating an orbital space station it's silly to think the U.S. is no longer relevant. We have the first device to leave into the deep space, we sent the first rover to mars, and we took the first up close pictures of pluto all in the past 5 years.

so the idea that
>>the russians have been and still are beating the yanks at every turn
Is only true if you only consider putting people into space. If you consider data collection, and breadth of research and travel the U.S. is soundly winning. Not to mention the fact that the U.S. has two major private corporations invested in Space travel and the Ruskies do not.


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 No.14062[Reply]

I just found out about this from a sysadmin diary blog. Have any lainons seen this project before? what do you think?

https://github.com/breach/breach_core
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 No.14065

>>14062
Never seen it before, but it looks really cool. It has some pretty high ambitions though, which concerns me with most hobbyist projects like this.

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 No.14095

>>14065
yeah but its still good to see people working on alternatives

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 No.14096

Welp there goes the "Build a Browser" I was working on. This is actually pretty nicely done. Guess I'll scrap that project.

I'm glad someone took the initiative. All the top browsers are going to crap. Hopefully this picks up traction, I think I'll contribute to this instead of doing my own thing.

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 No.14603

Nothing like bumping an old thread, but seems to be cool. Only problem it looks like it was abandoned. It was last updated a year ago and the website seems to be gone as well.

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 No.14612

>>14062
They can't even afford to auto-renew their domain. Such is the fate of open source projects.


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 No.12765[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

like the last thread, what's your desktop look like?

unfinished rice but i like where it's goin, wallpaper was altered a bit because the original image wasn't looping properly, and then it was just too dark and saturated

still trying to learn how to use PuTTY and edit weechat
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 No.14552

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 No.14553

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december is here, figured it was time for a new desk

>screenshot taken a few days ago

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 No.14556

Anyone know why every picture between >>12765 and >>12941 404's (basically 2 weeks worth of posts). Did kaylx delete a bunch of shit?

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 No.14560

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Emacs master race.

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 No.14606

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>>12765
I just installed Fedora to try out what Torvalds is using, and because Ubuntu broke on me, and the Linux Mint site is having major issues.

I am having far fewer issues so far with my 5 head setup compared to the issues I had with Ubuntu.

I am working on rice, and I have my gaps set to a hotkey so that I can turn them off when I want to use all of my pixels.


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 No.14027[Reply]

Hey, have any of you used that Hak5 field kit or any other equipment?
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 No.14598

>>14029
>without them pausing when my phone tries to sleep
Go to settings and change them, you idiot

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 No.14599

>>14027
i have a ducky USB. it's hard to get the initial timing/delay just right for the target machine. So far I haven't found a windows OS that accepts the USB device as a native keyboard, so it takes 10-60 seconds for it to "find" the drivers

the replay button is inaccessible if you have it in the included stealth housing.

the payloads provided from the hak5 site are pretty cool, although i can't get them to work yet either

also while the ducky is typing, its REALLY OBVIOUS to anyone with with half a brain that something sketchy is going on: powershell windows and notepad windows popping up/down quickly

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 No.14600

>>14599
forgot to mention another project of mine from hak5

i bought a fon 2100 router from some random international shop and im planning to flash the jasager firmware when i have time

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 No.14604

is the lan turtle worth it or can i make my own, also, would the wifi pinapple be hard to make?

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 No.14605

what is the usecase for the 'wifi pineapple' supposed to be?


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 No.14602[Reply]

Spying/Surveillance/Hacking/Programming or how about we just say /tech/ phone apps? I know of a few but they are the common ones like zanti and bitshark or whatever. I know some of you dont use standard smartphones, so I guess fun mobile portable equipment works as well

picture not related except for the fact that it was like the only saved picture on my phone.

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 No.14524[Reply]

This is a thread to discuss OpenBSD and ask questions.

I'm actually having a very peculiar issue. I've been meaning to upgrade to 5.8 already, so I decided I would run a filesystem check on my 1TB backup disk before backing up my computer. I always unmount it, but then I just physically disconnect it. I believe it's also ext3 (It's been a while since I've used it). Anyways, I've been told it has errors on disk that should be corrected.

I run fsck on the i partition and get this:
# fsck /dev/sd2i
** /dev/rsd2i
BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH THOSE IN FIRST ALTERNATE
fsck: /dev/rsd2i: Floating point exception
I'm at a bit of a loss for what to do now. It seemed to mount fine, so I unmounted it, but I don't know what to do next.

I have another, much smaller flash disk with a similar issue, but I know that it's never been interrupted on write, so I think my system is just telling me I should check it because it's also ext3. I'm not that worried about this one.

Sorry for such a long post, but I would appreciate any help I can get.
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 No.14601

Make sure sysutils/e2fsprogs is installed, then try fsck.ext3. The default fsck might assume UFS.


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 No.14467[Reply]

So, the Raspberry guys stripped their old board, applied some software tweaks to run at 1GHz and put a 5$ price tag on their device.

Meanwhile, the 9$ CHIP is on its way with a tablet CPU clocked at 1GHz with wifi and bluetooth on board, and (planned) mainline linux kernel and opensource everything.

What are your opinions on these devices?
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 No.14581

>>14579
something MIPS probably

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 No.14586

>>14575
Honestly, I'm less offended about the broadcom stuff, then the fact that you need to purchase licenses to get the SoC to do the hardware decoding that it was already designed to do.

It's pure crippleware, and this soykaf needs to stop!


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 No.14589

keep it off the internet like a smart person anyways and you'll be fine with the nonfree garbage on it. as an exceedingly portable and disposably cheap device for programming, I think it's exciting. they just need to make more

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 No.14597

>>14586
Every major chip manufacturer does stuff like that, they just don't usually make it available to final users. Quadro is geforce with different firmware, etc. It is like kicking dead whales down the beach but that's just the way it is.
Meanwhile in CHIPland you get a hacked up binary-only version of ffmpeg made in blatant violation of the GPL with modifications to work with their hardware. Broadcom pulls some nasty soykaf but you can't possibly suggest it's anywhere near the absolute abomination that is allwinner's open source contributions. They have made a business out of stealing hardware designs and software from both open source projects and their competitors and nobody can do soykaf about it because lol, china. Their "open source" drivers are mostly just thin wrappers around binary blobs made from stolen code.


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 No.13659[Reply]

Hello lainons! Let's discuss HDDs.

What HDDs are you using?
Which HDDs are currently the best ones? (I personally never had luck with WDs while Seagates always worked well for me, but I heard that Seagate's build quality gone downhill.)
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 No.13686

>>13669
I think there should be single-platter drives bigger than 1TB by now.

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 No.13687

Samsung Evo 500 GB, Toshiba 128GB, and Plextor 128GB SSDs here.

Also some external Seagate 4tb usb 3.0 storage drives. These are honestly shitty, totally slow, but cheap for the space.

In fact, I don't know of any good usb 3.0 external drive enclosures. It seems they all have flaws. Has anyone had any good experiences with external enclosures?

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 No.13695

currently in use for a year now: Samsung EVO 250 GB, 2x WD Red 1 TB. Satisfied with them.
I've got two 7 or 8 year old drives, one Hitachi, the other I don't remember. They never failed me.
I'd recommend WD Reds. Stay away from greens or research them beforehand. NO experience with blues.

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 No.13700

Do you guys have an opinion about 15kRPM drives? I bought one years ago and this machine still runs on it. Loud as fuarrrk but faster than HD and cheaper than SSD. Is the price/speed ratio worth it for RAID or something if you don't mind the noise?

>>13669
interesting, i didnt know that

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 No.14595

I use Toshiba HDDs. They're as cheap as Seagates (when on sale) and have around the same failure rates as Western Digital. >>13660

Screw Samsung SSDs. Firmware bugs galore. They're also a shitty company in general. Sandisk and Crucial are pretty good when it comes to SSDs.


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