tech - God bless the AMD

Shitty camera don't got any other ones, this is mine, 2 desktop computers & laptop

>>13293
Whats is the model of headphone? Have a good soundproofing? Whats is the level sound quality?

>>13293
I have the same posters you have.
Your walls are still looking pretty bare. Get moar posters

>>9983
>synergy

im having trouble with synergy on windows

[2015-11-30T14:40:18] NOTE: crypto disabled because of ns plugin not available

Fcuking plain text on my LAN brrr

>1. Microsoft and Apple products are useless or malware
Windows is malware. Microsoft makes some good software, like OneNote. Apple products are a mixed bag but the only one I'd perhaps consider outright malware is iTunes.

>2. Know your OS and keep it fast and safe
Ok.

>3. A copyright doesn't exist
It does exist and should exist, but should be (significantly more) limited in duration and liberal fair use exceptions should exist.

>4. The Internet should be a free and anonymous place. Boycott sites which aren't
It can't be free and anonymous.

>5. Understand what you are doing. Don't just copy your soykaf together
Obviously that's ideal, but nobody is a master in every domain and so people must rely on others who are more knowledgeable in particular areas.

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>>14267
You sound reasonable enough, and I agree with most of your positions but

>It can't be free and anonymous.

I don't see why not?

>>14270
He's probably referring to the limitation of TCP/IP, you must be identified by something to use it.

It's not like radio, which anyone in broadcasting range can collect with no one being able to tell.

>>14271
Ah. So every packet has to have been sent from somewhere and somewhere in that packet there is inherently some sense of where it has to send information back to, so there's also some element that makes who or whatever made the request identifiable.

>>14270
If the Internet is free you can choose to be anonymous or not.

>>14271
>>14273
I think you are over thinking it

My phone does that

>>14445
I check IRC way more often than my phone, which I regularly leave at home anyway. I'd prefer to have it the other way around actually -- IRC notifications about missed calls.

Anyway, I'm interested in more kinds of events, not delivery systems.

>>14444
Email
Weather
Emergency weather
Local news alerts

I've actually been working on this myself. I really need notifications for when scanners finish, when torrents finish, when my computer shuts down or restarts, and a few other things.

I've been thinking about working on a project for that for a while.

My system was going to be based off a simple email system - you can email a phone number that's on AT&T's network if you email [phonenumber]@txt.att.net

I was going to use that to send email notifications to my phone in the form of SMS messages.

The same goes for other carriers, it works on dozens of them. Only thing that changes is the URL.

Funnily enough, that same email method is also used by a large number of SMS bombers and SMS spamming websites, so you have to be careful because you might get flagged as spam.

>>14391
Try a lifetime folding chair. Its business grade at least.

>>14377
Some idiot mod here permab& me once for having a clothed Candydoll model as a background on a screen. Luckily kalyx unb& me.

I've been looking for a nice upholstered computer chair for a long time. There is nothing. Everything looks stupid. I am desperate

are there any chairs like the dxracer ones that dont have double the production price and look respectable?

>>14425
This got me through 7 years of undergrad and grad school. Was really pretty comfy imo. The only big upgrade when I got an office chair was the wheels.

>>14370
Some review say kernal level encryption - does that mean anything good? or is busted, busted!

No defence from a keylogger then?

>special keyboard with a microcontroller in it that could encrypt in a way the OS wouldn't even be aware of.
How would the OS know what key has been pressed if its sending out crypt?

>>14372
DMA might help.

>>14373
USB works like that? Hu.. yeh I guess maybe, its kinda scsi init?

Dunno its all a bit maximum wizard

Found this:
When you type on your keyboard, it looks like the keystrokes are directly sent to the application you're working on. In reality, they have to go through quite a long path to get there.

The keystrokes first arrive at a hardware controller on the computer's motherboard, which forwards them to the Windows kernel's keyboard input stack. They are then processed by the windowing system's input manager, which sends them to a queue belonging to the application window that currently has input focus.

The application then retrieves the keystrokes from the queue and interprets them according to its own context, and finally the user sees the result of the keys that are pressed. This is a simplified view of what happens, without considering such complex issues as inputting non-English languages.

Many places along this path, there are ways to intercept the keystroke data. Any of these points can be used to perform keylogging, which is why it's such a thorny problem.

What KeyScrambler does is to try to get to the keystrokes as early as possible in the Windows kernel using our encryption module. That way, as they get passed along the different layers of the OS, it won't matter if they get logged, because the keystrokes are completely indecipherable.

When these encrypted keystrokes finally arrive at the intended application, the decryption component of KeyScrambler goes to work and turns them back into the keys the user originally typed.

If you are familiar with how SSL/TLS work to encrypt network traffic, this is basically the same principal applied to your keystrokes.

>Anyone with knowledge, how safe does this sound? - why can't key loggers grab from the same low level place?

>>14372
>Some review say kernal level encryption - does that mean anything good?
Well assuming it's done correctly that could protect you from userland keylogger, but if the keylogger is implemented in a kernel module/driver then there's no reason to think this would protect you.
>How would the OS know what key has been pressed if its sending out crypt?
It wouldn't, and that's the point. Obviously you'd need a second keyboard or a switch to toggle encryption on and off in order to use the computer normally. You could even put a one of those little character displays on the keyboard that would show the last few lines of text unencrypted so you could proofread it. I should start a kickstarter instead of posting these ideas for somebody else to use.

>>13989
All that you need:
> a good workflow
> colors and font you are comfortable with
> a bar (I prefer lemonbar)
> a menu (dmenu is p gud)
> very small or no gaps at all

you might also wanna check out nixers.net or blog.z3bra.org for guides

>>14010
>>14039
Yeah, I didn't mean a tiling manager or setting up a workflow that's good/efficient for you.

I use i3 and I've spent a decent amount of time setting up hotkeys, layouts, etc. and a lot fuarrrking around with emacs, making everything how I want it. I use coordinated color schemes for my terminal/editor.

I see images posted like the ones in OP though and it's like... why?

The translucent one just makes everything harder to see and I imagine that guy spends his whole time running apt-get and screenfetch and maybe checking his email.

Same with the others. A huge ass clock on the desktop, all that fuarrrking spacing between windows, the stupid icons on the bar.

The other one with music/twitter/rss/email. It triggers me.

>>14047
Window spacing in a TWM like i3 totally defeats the point in my opinion.
Efficiency and maximising screen real estate is why I use i3 personally so adding spacing to that seems stupid to me.
But, whatever floats your boat I guess.

Does anyone know how to convert an arbitrary string of unicode into a string of escape seqences like \u3e43?
I made a bash script that returns the name of the playing song but i3blocks displays non-ascii or non-utf8 characters as dots, but understands unicode escape sequences.

>>14418
>>14420
Christ almighty none of this sounds good, but i know raising these concerns with the kids won't help

is there a way to at least minimize the threat?

>>14418
TeamSpeak works fine but it is closed source software that does not respect your freedoms. It also lacks video.

There is Mumble, but it is nowhere as feature complete as TeamSpeak.

I really want a proper P2P, channel based, voice chat program but nothing decent has been made. People mention Tox but the last time I tried out the multiple different user interfaces none of them worked in any decent capacity.

I have heard that RetroShare now has a VOIP plugin but I have yet look into it. There seems to be no screen shots of it anywhere.

>>14422
If they don't care about the fact that using Discord promotes the NSA's tyranny, then the only thing you can do is provide them with a program that has better features than Discord. However, as far I am aware, there is nothing of the sort.

>>14418
Teamspeak is proprietary AFAIK.
Mumble is quality software.
I do not understand why people want their web browsers to work as their VOIP...
If discord uses websockets it may also leak you IP even if you use a proxy.

>>14424
What do you miss in mumble?
Video is also out of the scope of the application OP wants if I understood the post correctly.

>>14428
>>14424
I've heard lots about retroshare and tox but if they can't do the same or even better than something like discord then you are right. Both mumble and teamspeak always seemed shitty to me but then again they're software for players.

I've always wondered why no one just stole the base of something like discord and built on it with security and transparency in mind. Deals with companies and good advertising would be essential too because there's a large market that's not being utilized.

>>14430
Retroshare is a fuarrrking huge application if you only want VOIP and chat functionality. It has like a million features. Tox is fine IMO. I hope it gains more traction.

>>14400
That is the agreement between IBM and the user. What matters is the bank's TOS, which is going to include smallprint that absolves them of liability if you ignore their security guidelines.

>>14401
If the bank tells you to use IBM's software, but IBM tells you that its software cannot prevent you from getting viruses, it is still your fault for getting viruses, as IBM told you that you weren't fully protected.

If I tell you to buy chromebooks because chromebooks can "automatically hack the NSA" (whatever it may mean), but Google tells you that you can't "automatically hack the NSA" by using a chromebook, who should yyou listen to?

>>14402

It doesn't matter what IBM say. The banks pay IBM to develop the software. If IBM fails to deliver, it's the bank's fault for choosing IBM.

We're at cross purposes with the word fault. The legal definition in the bank's TOS is what matters to the bank, since following the their guidelines reduces your liability to zero.

Whether your personal skills and choices are statistically safer would be irrelevant in a court of law.

>>14404
>>14378
Also this:https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qubes-users/cmPRMOkxkdA

How can big production studios who made Avatar use Linux and yet some guy in his backyard can not use it to make a video?

>>14290
Hello, Logan.

:)

No it does not.

>>14315
Millions of dollars...

>>14315
Linux is the render farms, they do the interface side on different boxes, from what I gather.

ffmpeg

seriously just do it on the fuarrrking command line it works great i recently converted some AVI screencaps to a nice mp4 format, added an intro and title image etc