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 No.13277[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Let's get one of these threads going.


Distro:
Environment:
Terminal Emulator:
Shell:
Web browser:
File browser:
Programming Language:
Text Editor:
IRC Client:
Torrent:
Paint Tool:
Email:
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 No.14256

>>13277
Distro: Debian testing
Environment: XFCE
Terminal Emulator: XFCE Terminal
Shell: bash (is it really worth switching to zsh?)
Web browser: Iceweasel aurora
File browser: Thunar
Programming Language: n/a
Text Editor: nano
IRC Client: HexChat/none because i don't use it much
Torrent: Transmission
Paint Tool: Krita
Email: n/a
Music: Deadbeef
Video: MPV
Backup: External

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 No.14277

openBSD
evilWM
xterm
ksh
Firefox with vimperator, sometimes xombrero
None

C, Go
Vim, sometimes I use Acme
Irssi
Deluge on desktop, rTorrent on seedbox
Gimp
mutt
mpc
mpv
Daily prayer

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 No.14333

>>13277
Distro: Antergos
Environment: XFCE4
Terminal: XFCE Term
Shell: fish
Web Browser: Palemoon, Links, Chromium
Filebrowser: Thunar
Programming Language: Python
Text editor: Nano, Emacs (evil mode), Atom
IRC Client: IRSSI
Torrent: don't torrent very often, but when I do, Transmission.
Paint tool: Krita, gimp for harder stuff
Email: Inbox in browser
Music: CMUS
Video: mpv
Backup: Google Drive

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 No.14344

> Distro: Arch
> Environment: stumpwm or ratpoison
> Terminal Emulator: rxvt-unicode
> Shell: zsh
> Web browser: firefox or conkeror
> File browser: ranger
> Programming Language: Common Lisp and python
> Text Editor: vim
> IRC Client: irssi
> Torrent: transmission
> Paint Tool: krita and gimp
> Email: mutt
> Music: mpd/ncmpcpp
> Video: mpv
> Backup: rsync to external drive

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 No.14527

Distro: Windows
Environment: Explorer
Terminal Emulator: Command Promp
Shell: DOS
Web browser: Internet Explorer
File browser: Explorer
Programming Language: HTML
Text Editor: Notepad
IRC Client: Facebook Messenger
Torrent: uTorrent
Paint Tool: Microsoft Paint
Email: Gmail in Internet Explorer
Music: iTunes
Video: Windows Media Player
Backup: N/A


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 No.14213[Reply]

Alright, Lainfriends. Here's the deal.

One of my friends lives at home, and in the past, his dad has attempted to install keyloggers and other whatnot on said friend's PC while he's sleeping, demand access to his browser history, and other stuff. I have no idea why he does this, but according to said friend, he's gotten into major blowouts with his parents over discussing the possibility of him being gay on the internet before, among other things.

Anyway, he messaged me today, saying that he saw his dad using a packet sniffer earlier, and asked if there was something he could do. I told him that as far as I know, any encryption isn't any good since it's his local network that's being sniffed anyway.

Is there anything he can do?
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 No.14263

People are overcomplicating things... just use a VPN e.g. cryptostorm, and encrypt the harddrive

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 No.14286

>>14260
It has been explained by >>14222, >>14230 and >>14240.

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 No.14288

父さん is clearly hiding something himself. You should get your friend to sneak a keylogger on to the father's computer.

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 No.14318

Get an account with Mullvad. They accept cash and you don't need to provide any personal information.

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 No.14326

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>being gay online
Wanna smash?


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 No.14247[Reply]

Dear /tech/,

I've been meaning to change the way I manage my passwords for a long time and I think it's about time.

Going with KeepassX + KeepassDroid + sync via owncloud, but not sure.

Any other recommendation?
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 No.14258

>>14257
yeah and things like 2FA trip me out cuz i dont want to have my phone with me at all times. are there any good (open source) hardware 2fa keychains?

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 No.14259

>>14258
or could 2fa be run through an application run on a sd card connected to offline devices?

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 No.14265

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>>14247

Your brain, if you can't remember passwords make sure your browser/software doesn't. Entering them multiple times a day will help you remember them.

Your brain will thank you.

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 No.14287

>>14255
>Should I be too worried about encrypting the db file itself?
You should worry about : making sure that every service running on your machine is only accepting localhost connections except for apache/nginx and SSH and making those run on non-standard ports.
Having disabled root login on SSH (make sure sudo is installed before doing that).
Having installed fail2ban.
Having a strong owncloud password.
Making sure your server's partitions are correctly encrypted.
Encrypting the DB itself to prevent anyone from stealing it from you.
And probably other things I do not know about as I am not a security expert.

This soykaf is was way too stressful to me. Using Syncthing is way easier in my opinion.

Also, the point I was trying to make with >>14254 is that you should just try to find an "algorithm" that'll help you remember strong passwords easily.

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 No.14319

I write my own password manager using image pixel data. Its probably not more secure then anything else but I enjoyed writing it.


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 No.13997[Reply]

What's your favorite historical hardware/software of yesteryear, Lains?
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 No.14269

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>>13997
The Lisp machines, from a time when the entire system could be understood with help from the system itself.

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 No.14279

>>14266
For others' reference, here is where you can buy the FireBee: http://www.medusacomputer.com/firebee.html

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 No.14280

>>14266
>>14279
My bad - not $600... $200 - i'm gonna have to get one!

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 No.14281

>>14280
my drugs not kicked in yet - it is 600

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 No.14306

>>14281
200 euro prepayment/deposit, 400 euros on delivery.


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 No.13353[Reply]

>>https://www.pi-top.com/

What do you guys think of Pi-top? I have been wanting to use RISC computers exclusively for years, mobility as well as openness is very important to my interests.
I Just bought parts to build a rep-rap delta 3D printer, perhaps I could make my own pi-top like housing and build a RISC laptop.

What would be the best features and components to cram into this?
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 No.13448

>>13380
Planning to, really into embedded electronics and micro-controllers.
Learning C, Java and Python at the moment for Uni, mainly Java, Python is in my own time.

>>13384
Slackware is great isn't it.

>>13389
Apparently not that straight forward, I have removed whitelists and unlocked other HP BIOS' however this one seems to be obfuscated.

>>13391
That's about right!

>>13394
Chromebook isn't upgradeable;
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 No.13450

>>13391
If you want the cheapest possible with the best specs, look into used laptops. They're trying to charge you $300 for this while you can get 4 T61 thinkpads for that price.

This computer seems to be a laptop for kids, to learn about electronics and soykaf.

If you hate x86 THAT much, get an ARM chromebook or an android phone or tablet


And you don't need a $300 piece of plastic to use a $30 device. The only things you'll need to use it is a screen and a keyboard, which you would have to try to surpass the $300 price point.

Don't buy this. There are hundreds of laptops under $300 that are more powerful, regardless of soykaffy architecture

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 No.13458

>>13450
Wasn't going to buy the pi-top, you are right it is overpriced for what it is, I just wanted to get an opinion on what you guys think using a device like it would be like.

I'm really tempted to build my own from scratch, RISC boards with expansion options that suit my needs aren't that great though.

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 No.13579

>>13448
Making programming easier ? How ? The mul instruction has hard-coded input registers. Seriously, why ? Who thought this was ok ?

Never did some MIPS however, how does it look like compared to ARM ?

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 No.14292

>>13353
This looks pretty awesome to hack at, if only the driver board had LVDS or VGA instead of HDMI only, then you could add whatever the fuarrrk you wanted inside of it, I'd love to have this just to swap out various dev boards.

Laptopify Minix3 or OpenBSD on a Beaglebone Black.


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 No.14248[Reply]

Disclaimer: Am scrub at Linux

I am moving into a new house and I am getting a new room. To fit, I wanted to create a RasPi that would control my entire room, kind of like a /cyb/ smart house only it runs on Linux.

In my ideal, and probably unrealistic, expectations, I wanted to have the RasPi plugged into an old 19” LCD, controlled by a wired xbox 360 controller with right and left trigger bound to mouse buttons and the analogue stick working to move the cursor around. There is very little need for any typing, if any once it is booted up.

From there I want to create a simple GUI to turn on and off several USB ports that will power small speakers, LED lights and some other simple stuff for my room, nothing that needs anything beyond “turn on” and “turn off”.

After this I want it to have the final ability of being able to play the game “Defcon”, for which I know there is Linux support. To what extent, I am not familiar. I will use this like a screensaver where I let the bots play their game in the back ground to give my room a Cold War command centre vibe for the hell of it.

This is as much a learning experience as it is designed to actually succeed. So my question is the following: Is it possible? If so, what methods are the most efficient to accomplish the goal? If not, what needs to be changed to make it achievable?

I currently have limited knowledge in coding, but I am fully prepared to learn any language to whatever extent I required to achieve this. Regardless of anything, that’s why it is a learning experience.

So what Distro should I use? What language for the GUI? Are there ways to use 360 controllers as mice? What am I missing? What would make this better? What would you add or remove?
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 No.14252

>turn on and off several USB ports that will power small speakers, LED lights and some other simple stuff for my room
You need to make sure the raspberry pi lets you turn off usb ports. High quality devices have specialized current limited drivers for usb power that often allow for software control, but cheap soykaf (like the raspberry pi) sometimes just connects it straight to the 5v rail. If the USB ports don't let you control them you can use the GPIO with some FETs.
>I want it to have the final ability of being able to play the game “Defcon”, for which I know there is Linux support
Just because it supports linux doesn't mean it'll run on a raspberry pi, just like how crysis won't run on windows phones. Most (proprietary at least) linux games are either x86 only or android games; unless you find specific mention of ARM/raspberry pi/pandora support it probably won't work.
>Are there ways to use 360 controllers as mice?
Yes, there is software available. Controllers generally suck for precise/absolute movement though. If you're making your own GUI you might as well give it real joystick support. For that you can use pygame or some other SDL binding.

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 No.14261

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It sounds a lot like my setup. I use a playstation-like USB gamepad in my laptop and configure it using antimicro (map gamepad keys to PC keys) and xbindkeys (map PC keys to commands) to do anything.
I don't use USB-powered peripherals but I made a switchboard for controlling which devices get power from the wall socket. More or less drew it.

If you try antimicro you'll see it's awful for a bunch of reasons, there might be a better alternative somewhere.

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 No.14268

>>14250
The lack of Defcon is unfortunate but not a game breaker, I will probably just set up some massive graphics project to get a similar thing going on repeat as a screensaver or something. I just have a weird thing for cold war computing and war fighting tech.

I was thinking of using Python as the OS I was going to use unless otherwise advised was Arch, for which I always run into python files lying around. learning and being able to understand what they are when I open them could be advantageious beyond making the GUI.

The GUI was just going to be a few very large buttons that will remove the need for precision that you get with a mouse. So half a dozen large buttons, each one controlling LED lights, speakers or the cold-war background to turn them on and off.

>>14252

Real joystick support? What do you mean by that? I actually have a CH Combatstick so I could use that instead of the 360 controller if you thought it was better?

>>14261
Do you use the analogue stick for mouse controls? I was thinking of setting up macros on the other buttons on my 360 controller for the purpose of quickly adjusting LED lighting and such in my room, so we'll see how well that does or does not go.

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 No.14285

>>14268
>Do you use the analogue stick for mouse controls?
In mouse mode, yes, one analog controls the cursor and the other one scrolls. I have a mouse mode, a music mode, etc.
>setting up macros on the other buttons
I mapped some buttons to commands so I don't have to click stuff around, you can do almost anything that way. I don't have experience with RPis tho.

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 No.14289

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>>14268
Python is useful to know yes.
>Real joystick support? What do you mean by that?
In Linux land joystick often refers to any of those game input devices like joysticks, gamepads, plastic guitars, etc because they are all handled by the joystick kernel subsystem. I mean that you should use the input directly instead of emulating a mouse. Pygame/SDL provides an interface for accessing joystick/gamepad input. For example you could use a wheel interface which works better with an analog stick instead of a button interface which works better with a mouse.


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 No.14108[Reply]

Is the new Skylake XPS13 the best laptop on the market right now?

Will the Skylake Macbook Pro find a way to beat it, or will Apple continue to be a meme machine?

Thoughts?
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 No.14183

Macbook Pro user here, if you have the money go rMBP.

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 No.14185

>>14171
you can put the w520 quad core processor in it.

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 No.14195

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I'm so disgusted with Windows 10. I upgraded to it on my old laptop, and have had nothing but problems. My daily driver is running Ubuntu. I wish my laptop could do the same, but it can't due to work reasons. fuarrrk Microsoft!


On a related note, The Skylake XPS13 looks pretty awesome. I want to get the Developer edition.

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 No.14207

>>14195
Wangblows 10 is at least better than Wangblows 8 IMO.
Windows 7 > Windows 10 > Windows 8

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 No.14231

>>14164
Actually, an SSD in a laptop makes sense. SSDs consume less electricity than HDDs, fare better when moved around (or in case of a fall) and having faster reads/writes is nice when you want to put your laptop in hibernation (though I'll agree that depending on how much you make your laptop hibernate it could reduce your SSD's lifespan).


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 No.14074[Reply]

Do you lainons have some good documentaries about the early days of computers to recommend me? Something like the BBS documentary. (pic related)
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 No.14094

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0


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 No.14173

>>14075
>>14101
Thanks I didn't know about those list, I'll take a look.

>>14094
I have seen this one but it's great. Thanks lainon.

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 No.14174

>early days of computers
>BBS
What is this..

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 No.14184

>>14174
Guess I meant it more like "old documentaries about computing"


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 No.13992[Reply]

>tfw i know nothing about hardware.

I'm into tech, but i have really only every had a regular laptop. No extra hard drives/external, no rasppis, no sd cards, no desktop, no tablets, etc.

I like running Linux, i like learning, programming, learning about software, etc. But again, I'm clueless when it comes to hardware.

I realize this is dumb extremely subjective and vague question, but as a noob, what should i buy?

I've got about $400 to spare for this, so what would you guys recommend for babbys first /tech/ playkit?
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 No.14116

>>14112
If you find some function that fits the mapping, it still counts.

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 No.14172

>>13992
Buy computers from thrift stores.

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 No.14175

>>14116
if it's the same for all possible inputs it's safe to say that the two functions are the same.

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 No.14177

>>14175
But the function could be different for inputs not shown in the image.

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 No.14182

>>14177
prove it's the same then :)


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 No.14165[Reply]

What do you guys know about Red Teams? Specifically the guys at redteams.net

Apparently, they are former military special forces (or so they say) who now do pen testing and cyber security consulting for Fortune 500 companies. Basically white hat hackers. Their blog is always boasting about "Plan, Execute, and Vanish" and the "Red Team Mindset." They post some stories about their latest client work but they are vague and very secretive.

They seem to have ties with goruck.com as they are always promoting their products. They occasionally have raffles where you donate via PayPal for a chance to win a tactical watch (as well as other tactical gear). They claim they donate funds to charity orgs that help military veterans.

I donated some money a while back for one of their raffles. But a day later, their blog post about it just disappeared and they never announced a winner. Their PayPal name was under a "Uri Fridman." Googling his name led me to his site (http://ufridman.org) and it just leads to redteams.net.

I get the feeling these guys aren't what they claim to be and are just full of soykaf. Any thoughts?
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 No.14167

>white hats
>full of soykaf
No surprises here.


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