printf("%s", name);

I wish I knew… I just searched for “ritual” :/

If you’re working in the Linux console alone, you could also ssh into your Pi and, for instance, have your local machine on virtual console tty1 and the Pi on tty2, switching between them with ALT+F*x*. Still only one monitor. 😜

T480 and upgrade ram, storage and wireless nic.

F*ck that’s on me. I took a break from gaming to focus on other projects + the occasional GBA SP.

I don’t know all this fancy stuff. Like, yesterday, I wanted to listen to the songs from the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya so I grabbed them from nyaa, moved them from the “Downloads” directory to the “Music” directory and then played it with VLC.🤷‍♀️

I hate to disappoint, but I have already moved on to more time sensitive projetcs. xD

Sorry for the late response! Oh NO 🤣 I did successully install Gentoo once and I see the benefits. I really do. BUT. My brain works in such a way, that I need to understand every single USE flag, otherwise I “can’t” install packages 😭 I simply can’t allow myself to do a… “as is” installation with Gentoo… And I don’t have to motivation right now to learn EVERYTHING I’d have to learn xD Sorry, short answer: yes, later xD

Right! One of the rear ports, which nobody ever looks at. Although, if I’m going to script, I’m not going to become one of those copy-paste script kiddies. I’m going to LEARN it until I know it by heart and then PROGRAM the shit out of it.🤣

In this economy? Better to buy a house.

Now we’re talking. I have a few… candidates. Except, unless they leave their card in the computer, I can’t access their login. Hm… and IT records all activity. HMMM…

Thanks for the clarification on what the results on VirusTotal mean or how to interpret them!

Thanks! By the way, have you done any time yet for RUI (rooting under the influence)?

I can’t really tell if that’s sarcasm, but if it is, then this is a piracy community, so “Crack” doesn’t mean much here. If it isn’t sarcasm, then: yep. :)

In theory I agree, but other than buying the original executable from a reputable vendor, I have no way of verifying the integrity and authenticity of the EXE.

Holy crap, I had no idea! Cool! The one positive is a malicious.high.ml.score by Trapmine and I can’t makes heads or tails of it. Domains e592.d.akamaiedge.net www.msn.com www.msn.com.edgekey.net IP 23.50.32.0/20 (owned by Akamai Technologies, Inc.) Execution Parents Crack 29.2.ZIP None of these sub categories under Relations give any positives.

How do you vet executables? I have found some software on 1337 that a friend was asking for. It’s for Windows and I’m on Linux. Is test running the software inside a VM the only way to securely vet it (to see what connections it tries to make and what processes it starts)? On VirusTotal, I get one positive and 66 negatives. Preferably, I’d like to hand over the software without worrying about giving them malicious code…

I’d try to stay away from isolated projects on GitHub that only have a single maintainer, to avoid the risk of installing malware. You could check the https://aur.archlinux.org/ to see if any of those have been uploaded here and if there are any comments on the package. If there are none but you still would like to install, check out this guide to learn how to vet the “installer”.

Thanks! “Solving” it with bash does seem to be the easiest way forward. I’ll fiddle around with it some! :D

I’ll have to check tr out. Thanks!

How do you remove any trailing characters from a variable in bash? I am digitizing my dad’s video and audio tapes, for which I - after painstakingly scouring the documentation of ffmpeg, as one should - finally have found the encoding options that I’m happy with. :D But instead of retyping the PhD dissertation that are the ffmpeg commands that I use a bazillion times, I have simply started to do command substitution with for instance $(cat command_ffmpeg_COPYCODEC) or $(cat command_ffmpeg_H264) and the likes. This, however, still requires me to vim the correct filenames into these concatenated commands every time I work on a new project, so I thought, “Why not just set a variable, like I use to do with visudo as in EDITOR=/bin/vim visudo So, wanting to do a little ffmpeg magic to delay the audio stream of a file, I tried FILENAME='birthday_0' $(cat command_ffmpeg_SYNCAUD) but bash said, “no, who do you think you are?” After doing a wc on FILENAME, I noticed that there is an invisible trailing something after the filename - possibly some whitespace char - since it thinks that I mean to use an option “-synced.mkv”. How would you go about writing the now bash script (it simply wouldn’t expand the variable through command substitution…) so that the trailing whatever is deleted, if that is indeed the case? I have tried slapping " “, ' ‘, ( ), { } in all conceivable configurations, but I’m simply to inexperienced. xD Please advise! 🛠️

Thanks!

I see! Thanks! Still wonder why the module was/is absent in Artix. 🤔

[artix/open-rc/iptables] Why did I have to manually load the ip_tables module? I was setting IP iptables like I have done a billion times before, but when trying to /etc/init.d/iptables save, it said that the kernel doesn’t have support for it. Wut? So I load it with modprobe, only to lose it after a reboot, so I shoved it into modules in mkinitcpio.conf, which seems to have helped. What’s going on? Are we forcibly moving on to nftables?

Oh, well… xD Maybe next time then. I guess the only difference in my case is that xdg still looks through all possible executables until encounteres Firefox? While your solution doesn’t have to run through them all, but immediately jumps to the browser of your choice?

KHInsider-DL - what have I stumbled upon 😍 Just randomly surfing the wide world of web 🤷‍♀️

If your Debian’s process manager is systemd, then sudo journalctl -f -e -u tor@default

Lol. Been there, done that. 😅 ’twas a long time ago now, but was it not simply naming a file ssh or sshd and putting it in the root directory? But then you’d have to have created a non superuser user and set a password too? Ah… My memory fails me. Better luck doing:

Thanks! I don’t see myself ever installing Firefox, but I’ll definitely read up of the differences between local/bin and “normal” bin. :)

What video file sizes do you guys download and why? I don’t know about sizes, but I stick to 1080p remuxes, because I have brain damage that makes my anus itch just by knowing if and when the video has been re-encoded to save space. Also the blacks. :) And what is the correlation between video size and quality? The only correlation might be the size to objective quality, which isn’t what you as a consumer is after anyway, unless you’re a data hoarder or the likes. You’re after the subjective quality: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_quality Who are y’alls downloading 20+GB movies? Are you storing all that or are you downmixing? Are you stealing your harddrives out of the recycle bin? Nope, I’m just lucky to have an extremely narrow field of interest (no, it’s not *Human Centipede). I’m financially hard locked to the 15TB that I spent four years aggregating before LLM data centers fcked us.

Que? 🤣

I 120% missed the “browser” part.🤣

Ultimately, judge your own risk tolerance by how much you trust the source, how much you want the software, what kind of systems protection you have in place (antivirus, antimalware, permissions control, backups), and how much you can afford to have your system compromised. Thanks for this! I finally decided to hand the matter over to my friend, because vetting the binaries are just… a whole project on(in?) its own. I sent them exactly what you wrote, in addition to some concrete guidance on how to setup VMs, create backups, bootable media, whathaveyou.

Cool! I never thought of that! How would you do it? Go to the Arch packages website, download the source tarballs and use make ?

God this genuinely made me laugh. Thanks!

Awesome! :D I’ll try this immediately after finishing showering. 💆‍♀️🤣 Thanks!

Oh, well that I was doing with Librewolf all the time before it was made available in the official repo. :) Thanks!

Thank! VirusTotal does seem to have a lot more features than I initially thought/knew. :)

Normally I would get turned on by that, but I’m trying to be a nice person.

Thanks! I’ll bookmark this since I should learn xdg someday, but not today. 🤣 For now, this ln fakery worked. 😅

While waiting for your replies, my PAM lockout/timeout reset and I was able to try. It worked. 🤣

Oh shiet… well, I pray my 5800X3D survives a little longer. I’d hate to upgrade in this economy D: … I’ve had it since it came out, I think. I did have some random reboots, but that was with one of its newer (?) relatives, an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics. And I believe it was because it had ran out of RAM and SWAP or the like… ALSO LOOK: https://www.wanture.com/tech/amd-ryzen-7-5800x3d-am4-relaunch-q2/ I just happened to come across this now. How many years later and the re-release it?! xD Hilarious…

Thanks for the tip! I think I’ll leave it to my friend to deal with any reprecussions. I have informed them about the risks and how they can potentially alleviate them (VM, antivirus, firewall, backups, bootable media, isolated hardware, whathaveyou).

Absolutely NOT a stupid question! 😊 They are not very tech savvy 🥺

Because I’m a dog person. Also, I don’t know scripting. :)

Yeah, to be fair, I mostly pirate video. Music, I listen to from Tidal through USB Audio Player (Android). I only ever grab audio that’s not available on Tidal.

open the files without them having any chance of interent conention and cant see other files Use a VM and don’t give it internet connectivity. I use Tuta because Proton has grown too big for my taste. What do you mean it doesn’t work with Tor? Tor is supposed to be your network layer foundation of your connection and shouldn’t have to do with what applications you run on top of it. And just to clarify: Simple Login is not an e-mail provider. It’s an e-mail alias provider.

If you’re only talking about the download process, and you are downloading at home, then a trustworthy VPN is the (only?) way to go. I’d look into Mullvad or IVPN. If you are also talking about other processes surrounding downloading, such as registration, creating accounts, communicating with people over the Internet, use fake names ( https://www.scifiideas.com/cyberpunk-name-generator/ ), e-mail aliases ( https://simplelogin.io/ ) and respectable DNS providers ( https://quad9.net/ ).