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Anonymous 02/04/2020 (Tue) 02:37:44 No.1478 [Reply]

Does anyone know how to wholly replace a syslinux boot with grub2? I'm trying to load some squashfs read only live usbs but I need grub so I can pass some grub commands before the kernel loads. syslinux is A SHIT and there are no useful modules like in grub. The live images have the kernel separate from the system rootfs, and I have no problem targeting the kernel in grub, and the initrd seems useless from what I could see from the init script in it, like I could just pass flags to the kernel directly instead of fucking around with a bunch of useless if statement busybox bullshit. I managed to get it to work for one system, with no initrd and everything, but I can't reproduce it in a second system. Why is everything a fucking script and all the real commands undocumented. Anyway, I've been working at it for ages and tomorrow I'll just try the hail mary of passing grub-install to a drive with the live image written and see if it overwrites the syslinux bullshit, but I was hoping anons here might have a better idea. Also, what are the odds of getting a working system from source off github? I've never done a custom build, but I need to because I want to include some legacy drivers as well as grub. Everything seems to be automagically made with bootroot and docker but it doesn't really tell me how to build a custom version. for clarity, I have no problem getting to grub and booting the efi files, but the kernel can't find the squashfs root even though I pass the flags, so something's fucking up in my /boot/grub/grub.cfg, and yes I'm writing it by hand because I'm autistic like that.

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Anonymous 02/04/2020 (Tue) 06:00:47 No.1481

this is now the Does anyone know? thread Does anyone know how I would go about pairing a hidden bluetooth device to my computer? for some dumb reason certain bootleg console controllers hide themselves from everything other than the console, not even official controllers seem to do this

Anonymous 02/07/2020 (Fri) 18:10:43 No.1520

>>1480 I'm trying to boot a kernel which uses a squashfs filesystem. I succeeded by just passing the right kernel arguments by hand in grub but there were various issues like certain kernels didn't work unless they were specifically passed partition labels as opposed to /dev/sdXX or UUIDs. Effectively I'm trying to do something which is further than my competency, but if it was properly documented there wouldn't be an issue. I've been around long enough to know that almost any system has a dozen or half dozen undocumented bugs that the community is aware of, but the assholes never bother to mention it unless directly asked, and sometimes not even then.

Anonymous 02/07/2020 (Fri) 20:02:50 No.1521

>>1520 both grub efi and grub legacy setup are very different to each other. Make sure you don't mix up between these two setup.

Anonymous 02/11/2020 (Tue) 01:25:20 No.1589

>>1521 I'm using EFI exclusively, and it looks like the syslinux install uses some weird cut-down version of grub anyway, but it just didn't have the modules. I've got it sorted out now, but it was a pain figuring out which kernel parameters to pass. Things really aren't fully documented, lots of switches and kernel options that are never mentioned at GNU or anywhere else.

Anonymous 02/11/2020 (Tue) 19:04:49 No.1599

>>1481 I'm not sure if anyone has a bluetooth sniffer but it's probably as simple as directly targeting the MAC address. >hcitool - This utility can be used for command-line scanning and obtaining the ever-important MAC address when connecting with other tools. >gatttool - Included with the Bluez library, this is a great tool for honing in on specific values of a General Attribute, or GATT characteristic as defined in the Bluetooth specification. >ubertooth-btle - Included with the Ubertooth software; out of all of the Bluetooth tools, this one will be used quite a lot. While hopping and chasing through the Bluetooth spectrum, you’ll occasionally get a complete chunk of Bluetooth traffic while sniffing with this utility. Don’t let the BTLE part of this fool you - all pairing takes place in Bluetooth 4.x in the low energy realm, so if nothing else, this is a great way to get a sniffer trace of the pairing process. Just be prepared for multiple tries and some patience, and when completed, you will have a nice pcap-formatted output file to analyze.

Xfce Degeneration 01/04/2020 (Sat) 13:47:34 No.1245 [Reply]

It looks like Xfce is joining the header bar retardation movement. Soon it will become another one of these touch oriented GUIs, chanting "elagant usability" while making everything less intuitive just like Gnome. Version 4.14 already possess deep PulseAudio tendrils. Version 4.12 may had been the last sane release of the old fast mouse. https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.16/roadmap/general_ui/csd

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Anonymous 01/29/2020 (Wed) 02:26:35 No.1430

>>1265 >>1262 >>1260 >>1250 >>1246 Qt is a commercialized plataform, and as one, their focus is profit. Open source projects rarely have such abundance of resources to expend on a tolkit, thus making the future of said projects very uncertain. GTK devs may be retards, but at least the software is accessible. Check out the new deal from Qt: https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020

Anonymous 01/31/2020 (Fri) 04:20:16 No.1451

"Widgets" are for niggerlicious numales, the same kind that add "premium" sparkplugs to their cars then slap a million stickers on it. There are more redditors than us, so the market will go where they do. LXQT is disgusting bloat compared to LXDE. What a disappointment.

Anonymous 01/31/2020 (Fri) 10:53:32 No.1455

>>1451 QT5 now uses less ram than GTK3, hence you're wrong and gay

Anonymous 01/31/2020 (Fri) 11:33:40 No.1456

>>1455 GTK 3 is one of the reasons I stopped giving a shit about linux.

Anonymous 01/31/2020 (Fri) 13:32:55 No.1459

A new tolkit focused solely on window managers would be great.

The Joys of 2FA Anonymous 11/03/2019 (Sun) 16:01:37 No.594 [Reply]

>try to login to shithub to fork something
Hi there WE didn't recognize your device. Please give us your phone number.

>Please verify your device
>device
aaaaaaaaaahhhhhh

Looks like shithub fully joined the list of ass cancer "services" on the internet. Well played microsoft it took just 1 year.

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Anonymous 12/18/2019 (Wed) 08:41:01 No.1122

>>1119
As I said, this has to be a shitpost, don't tell me that CoCHub is now pulling this BS to datamine my ass.

Anonymous 01/04/2020 (Sat) 02:40:28 No.1243

>>594 >Using microshaft services While I'm not shocked that they now require you to dox yourself, I am surprised at how quickly they managed to ruin github with their shit. Move all your work to gitlab like you should've ages ago OP. The biggest issue with all this is that Github has become a kind of faceberg for programmers so it is unlikely that most people will drop the platform. Oh, and most devs don't even care about these types of issues in the first place, I often forget we are a minority of a minority.

Anonymous 01/04/2020 (Sat) 14:51:20 No.1249

>>1243 >require you to dox yourself Wrong You can make an account without any identity, like it's always been. For using the rest of the features you only need to confirm an email address, like it's always been. And for logging in to an account from another computer you only need to confirm an email, like it's always been. If you were dumb enough to add a phone number that's on you. You and OP are either trolling faggots or niggerlicious faggots. Of course MS is datamining the fuck out of shithub, but they don't care if you've given them your real name and credit card details. They want to know with whom you collaborate, what languages/libraries you use, how popular your repos are etc etc to find out if you're a good hire for and emlpoyer in you're neigborhood!©. It's nice for them to have some link between your shithub and linkedin like your real name so they can put you in contact over there, but they can just as easily add personalized ads on gitbutt.

Anonymous 01/08/2020 (Wed) 23:21:14 No.1286

>>1249 I was speaking from ignorance as Im a gitlab user, thanks for clearing that up.

Anonymous 01/31/2020 (Fri) 04:27:33 No.1452

>>1249 Shitskins have no business spying on white men.

Happy international libre source day Anonymous 01/14/2020 (Tue) 06:54:50 No.1316 [Reply]

Today we celebrate software you can read, adapt, and distribute. Some good distros: >>480 Resources: https://www.fsf.org/resources/

Anonymous 01/30/2020 (Thu) 19:39:05 No.1446

Give me more free stuff

Cops locate person through Sirius satellite radio Anonymous 01/25/2020 (Sat) 18:10:35 No.1395 [Reply]

>VALLEY CENTER, Calif. (KGTV) — Using a satellite radio "ping" signal, local deputies were able to track down an attempted murder suspect at a North County casino early Saturday. >Just before 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Valley Center Sheriff's deputies were alerted to the suspect, identified as 54-year-old Steven Salas, who was wanted for attempted murder, criminal threats, and felony domestic violence. >Using information about Salas' vehicle provided by Imperial County deputies, local authorities were able to track down Salas by sending a "ping" to his Sirius satellite radio. His vehicle was then located at Harrah's Rincon Casino in Valley Center. >When deputies say they tried to make contact with Salas, he fled the casino and led deputies on a pursuit. >A spike strip was successfully deployed and Salas ended up driving back toward the casino before pulling into a nearby gas station, where he was arrested, deputies say. >No one was injured during the pursuit. >Salas has been booked into San Diego County jail on several felony charges. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/north-county-news/deputies-ping-satellite-radio-to-track-down-attempted-murder-suspect

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Anonymous 01/28/2020 (Tue) 14:05:14 No.1415

I used to be that you could get free satellite radio if you played the long game. You just put your radio in some sort of faraday cage, then call and cancel your service. To save bandwidth, they would only send the kill signal for your radio for a year or so. If you kept your radio hidden long enough that they finally stopped broadcasting the kill signal, you could get out your radio and have service for free after that.

Anonymous 01/28/2020 (Tue) 14:33:28 No.1416

Isn't that more or less the trick for free stelitte TV ?

Anonymous 01/29/2020 (Wed) 18:13:48 No.1433

>>1395 >Steven Salas >Salas Coincidence?

Anonymous 01/29/2020 (Wed) 21:48:20 No.1437

>>1416 No, free Sattv requires having the proper keys to decrypt the content. I haven't kept up with it in many years but last I checked they'd gotten pretty good at dealing with pirates. Might be different for services other than Dish/Directv. >>1400 Depends on the GPS service. Most call home through other methods like the cell phone network or WiFi. >>1404 If your car has built in Sat Radio or something like OnStar it can be pinged remotely at any time. Services like OnStar can listen to everything being said in the car at any time. They can do the same thing with all modern cars that have built in microphones for hands free cell phone usage. Basically, anything made after the early 2000s is botnet by design. In fact, since the ECU is so tightly integrated in modern cars they can even be disabled remotely. This is often used when cars are stolen that have OnStar like services and they want to located and recover them.

Anonymous 01/30/2020 (Thu) 19:14:56 No.1445

>>1437 >connect onstar service to ecu inba way that can control and kill it. Very smelly, at least they cant kill your breaks right?

Setting up Protomail anonymously Anonymous 09/11/2019 (Wed) 07:08:48 No.84 [Reply]

I'm trying to set up an email account to use with my board here, but my old 8chan.co email apparently won't receive emails now. I want to go ahead and set up a Protonmail account, but in the setup process they ask you to fight 'spam' by confirming your identity with either email, SMS, or a donation. I tried several of the burner emails from guerrilla mail, but proton say these are all 'temporarily disabled, please try another'.

I certainly have no plans to give them a real email or phone number, and don't have a good way to give them a donation to help 'fight spam'. Any suggestions /tech/?

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Anonymous 12/07/2019 (Sat) 16:09:19 No.1000

>>109
Services that pretend to keep your data safe from court orders sound suspiciously like honey pots.
Use a secure paid provider and aliases or self-host for business purposes to limit tracking and abandon email altogether for secure personal communication.
You can use certain free ones too, but they're often very limited regarding IMAP/POP3 and aliases, and there's a bigger chance they're scams or go bust.
Also you risk getting caught up in other people's issues like when cock.li's servers got raided by German police.
>>964
Only manually, just search for things attached to it that have any worth to you and change the address on those services.

Anonymous 01/22/2020 (Wed) 14:30:50 No.1375

>>964 just download your old emails using POP3, you can do it easily with Evolution or Thunderbird, and redirect all email from your old gmail address to your new email address.

Anonymous 01/27/2020 (Mon) 17:43:23 No.1405

>>1375 Ive heard of Thunderbird from people making vista builds. Does linking Thunderbird to gmail leak any information to google?

Anonymous 01/27/2020 (Mon) 19:33:54 No.1410

>>1405 >Does linking Thunderbird to gmail leak any information to google? I'm not sure what informations you are talking about, but if you consider that Gmail is literally Google's mail service, any kind of action on your Gmail account will be recorded by Google. In particular, if you redirect like >>1375 suggests, the mail will still pass through Google's servers before being sent to the new address.

Anonymous 01/27/2020 (Mon) 19:35:04 No.1411

>>1410 Sorry, scrap the last line, I misread what the anon was trying to say. Anyway, you are probably better off simply abandoning the account altogether.

Ubuntu LTS Survey Anonymous 12/17/2019 (Tue) 18:20:42 No.1105 [Reply]

Canonical is doing a survey for their next LTS release. Tell them what you think! Be sure to include all your FLOSS autism.

https://forms.gle/b7hmjRY9dtn64z7r8

Anonymous 01/22/2020 (Wed) 14:01:46 No.1371

No, because Canonical have already decided that they are a Cloud-focused distro for deployment on Azure and AWS. Fuck off with proprietary snap crap.

ARM Anonymous 01/06/2020 (Mon) 14:27:53 No.1273 [Reply]

Why is it so hard to find decent ARM boards? All I want is a low power ZFS server, but I can't find a motherboard to suit my needs. Does anyone actually have a good ARM motherboard?

Anonymous 01/09/2020 (Thu) 18:38:59 No.1291

For the most part, there's no real development into the desktop ARM space because A. consumer desktops are dying outside of hobbyists B. ARM research since it's advent has been focused on low-power machines, usually mobile machines. Perhaps when the concept of non-hobbyist desktop PC boards die, there can be a space. Your best bet right now for ARM computer with most things setup is with Pine64. They provide fairly good sbcs, compared to the fruit shit, and although they mostly focus on mobile devices, you could try your hand at running your ZFS server on it. AFAIK FreeBSD doesn't run on them right now.

Anonymous 01/13/2020 (Mon) 15:37:09 No.1313

i was thinking about picking up the MACCHIATObin Double Shot. It has 10 gig network and 3 sata ports. Other then lacking sata ports it seems like it'll do the job. is it a dumb idea to add a USB HDD in a zpool with SATA drives?

Anonymous 01/22/2020 (Wed) 14:00:09 No.1370

ARM boards are shit because of nonstandard boot firmware (openfirmware/u-boot/EFI/BIOS tier bootstrap firmware). A good ARM system is the beaglebone black, since it can be booted without the video decoder firmware, and it is widely supported due to industrial use. The raspi is also popular but frankly you already know both are flawed. For a ZFS server, find a device that is explicitly compatible with a standard FreeBSD or FreeNAS image. It may be better to buy a new or used atom board, since they follow the EFI standard, and some have ECC support, which adds another layer of protection to your filesystem.

Work more and get less paid 12/29/2019 (Sun) 18:32:45 No.1206 [Reply]

Christopher Lemmer Webber Social Justice warrior, banished FSF board member, W3C member, and creator of the ActivityPub protocol thinks that Programmers should plan for lower pay. https://octodon.social/@cwebber/103392024080584687

Anonymous 01/15/2020 (Wed) 10:15:27 No.1327

>>1206 Did you click the link of his citation?

How to into "webdev"? Anonymous 08/25/2019 (Sun) 13:17:53 No.36 [Reply]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has gained the interest of making or running their own imageboard because of the 8ch incident. But how do you actually do it?

Anyone can install node.js and start fucking around, or do what a minecraft port forwarding tutorial tells you to, but if you want to be serious about this stuff you need to actually understand what you're doing and why you're doing it. What if your server stops working properly and the problem isn't "it crashed"? You'd have no idea what to do because you just installed some shit without understanding them and their roles. How do you learn how this stuff works? Are there any good books on it or something? What keywords should you put into a search engine in order to find the right stuff?

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Anonymous 12/18/2019 (Wed) 03:40:48 No.1117

Learn IPFS, will you? At least contribute to something that is worth your time.

Anonymous 12/18/2019 (Wed) 10:02:57 No.1124

>>1117
>learn this obscure esoteric uncontrollable file torrenting system, that'll help you make websites
No.

Anonymous 12/18/2019 (Wed) 10:26:10 No.1125

>>1124
GTFO Pajeet

Anonymous 12/31/2019 (Tue) 02:10:37 No.1213

>>1125 He's right though, are there any browsers that ship with IPFS?

Anonymous 01/03/2020 (Fri) 05:17:43 No.1232

I actually started fucking about with this recently too, >>577 has the right idea. >rent a cheap VPS or set up your own server at home >install whatever distro you want and nginx/apache >muck about with it 'till you git gud Be careful with cheap VPS servers though, lots of shitty chink companies will just take your payments for the year and leave a few months later, which is exactly what happened to the owner of /sp/chan and also me. I'm messing with an FCGI project in C, I'll post in the project thread once I'm done. >>1125 Anon, stop being a cock slurping faggot for a second. It doesn't make any sense to learn an unstable and possibly worthless alternative to something if you aren't well versed in what it's supposed to be an alternative to in the first place. Out of curiosity, have you followed your own advice? I don't mean that in a snarky way--what is working with IPFS like?