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Wednesday, February 25, 2026

[18:34:11] cardboardbox How would I know my computer is infected with a rootkit?

[18:37:43] cardboardbox hey

[18:44:13] cardboardbox I use my usb wifi nic. it has a light but I'm not sure how to intrepet the light that blinks

[18:51:31] cardboardbox absentia are you talking about glowies? I dont think they'd be interested in me. I'm more talking street level thugs that do hacking. By what i see every now and then they get their hands on a zero day that pwns me.

[18:52:06] cardboardbox even if my software is up to date they get in.

[18:54:03] cardboardbox they dont seem that smart by some of the things i hear them say

[18:54:07] cardboardbox so who's doing the haxoring.

[18:54:54] cardboardbox shahid, I hear you, lately I've been trying to start from zero because I might be wrong about things

[18:55:16] cardboardbox first principles, does that mean like the begginers mind?

[18:57:10] cardboardbox I dont think i want to hack other peoples computers.

[18:57:24] cardboardbox though i could try learnijg to hack my own stuff.

[18:57:44] cardboardbox I thought of learning how to hack.

[18:57:46] cardboardbox to learn it.

[18:58:00] cardboardbox I'm thinking of going to a university nad getting a computer networking textbook

[18:58:23] cardboardbox but how else would you learn cybersecurity, brothchild?

[18:59:00] cardboardbox might be something to do, as a lot of my problems are due to not having much to do.

[19:00:43] cardboardbox people in general dont really have any direction

[19:00:50] cardboardbox they spend too much time with media on the internet.

[19:01:21] cardboardbox the fuck

[19:01:43] cardboardbox I've never heard it.

[19:01:57] cardboardbox i usually describe that as having the attention span of a fruit fly colony

[19:02:47] cardboardbox "she got her head in the clouds"

[19:12:34] cardboardbox one time a guy on the street said "I work for Eastlink, I'm on every computer

[19:12:36] cardboardbox "

[19:12:58] cardboardbox eastlink is one of the ISPs here.

[19:13:28] cardboardbox though I dont really think it's a guy at the ISP, he mightve been trying to get me to think it's the ISP.

[19:15:11] cardboardbox they make doing certain things really hard

[19:15:31] cardboardbox like when i try to buy security related things like a new router they make it so my transaction doesnt go through.

[19:15:44] cardboardbox then they empty my shopping cart

[19:17:13] cardboardbox anything else no problem.

[19:17:30] cardboardbox when it's related to wiping my computer or securing my network i have nothing but problems.

[19:17:49] cardboardbox it's really weird.

[19:18:36] cardboardbox it took me awhile to realize i'm old now

[19:30:42] cardboardbox that's pretty cool

[19:30:49] cardboardbox i was taking a dump and eating something

[19:30:59] cardboardbox after my dump I remembered i didnt eat much today

[19:31:34] cardboardbox i wanted to learn lfs

[19:31:41] cardboardbox maybe i should start with gentoo

[19:31:48] cardboardbox i think lfs is way above my head at this point

[19:32:02] cardboardbox someone on /soc/ suggested it to me when i said i had nothing better to do

[19:32:13] cardboardbox it taught you skills.

[19:32:26] cardboardbox skills are good to have

[19:32:44] cardboardbox people think I'm skilled at computers, but i dont really know much

[19:33:08] cardboardbox most of my knowledge/skills are useless.

[19:33:55] cardboardbox i find a lot of people dont do much past how they are trained for their jobs and just become a couch potato when they come home from work because they want to relax

[19:34:05] cardboardbox you never showed me it.

[19:37:55] cardboardbox https://files.catbox.moe/pj619w.png

[19:46:57] cardboardbox it indexes the classic web

[19:47:12] cardboardbox and non soydev sites

[19:58:40] cardboardbox I've realized I interlized the style of linux documentation, I try to hard to be correct. so I never refer to an adult female as a girl, i call her a woman.

[19:58:59] cardboardbox like when i described one of my stalkers

[19:59:07] cardboardbox "morbidely obese black woman"

[20:03:21] cardboardbox anyone that fat is going to have health problems later on.

[20:11:54] cardboardbox what do you mean?

[20:12:14] cardboardbox they're strange

[20:12:47] cardboardbox they have a key to my apartment and come in here while i'm not in that apartment. they used to sneak in while i was in the apartment but they havnt been able to do that since i put security bars on the door

[20:13:25] cardboardbox i tried changing the locks but apparently the landlord keeps giving them a key or they're picking the lock

[20:13:32] cardboardbox or climbing up the balcony

[20:14:36] cardboardbox they keep making veiled threats like "you're going to die" but so far they havnt done anything to me, even when they snuck in while i was in the apartment.

[20:15:31] cardboardbox sometimes they try talking to me through the door, but i cant make it out most times and i usually ignore them.

[20:16:48] cardboardbox generally if someone isnt going to talk directly to me, whatever they say can be discarded.

[20:17:35] cardboardbox lately they keep their door ajar so sometimes they have conversations with each other by their door thinking i'll actually hear them.

[20:17:57] cardboardbox i hear a couple words then tune it out.

[20:20:19] cardboardbox yeah i should stop talking about that here.

[20:20:28] cardboardbox artix loonix is pretty cool.

[20:20:42] cardboardbox i installed it today

[20:20:51] cardboardbox seems like openrc is less bloatey than systemd

[20:21:02] cardboardbox im running it on my old hp laptop that's really slow

[20:22:39] cardboardbox i used one of their openrc xfce iso

[20:23:11] cardboardbox i find it's bloatey, every time i tried openrc it booted faster than anything with systemd

[20:23:45] cardboardbox i dont think i need most of the features systemd has.

[20:27:34] cardboardbox what keyword should i grep so i can find what you said before, absentia?

[20:28:04] cardboardbox oh wait, if it's not something during this session i wouldnt have it. nm

[20:29:16] cardboardbox i dont know what's going on here.

[20:29:34] cardboardbox reminds me of those garbage thoughts i have sometimes "What context is this" i ask myself.

[20:29:41] cardboardbox even though that's a garbage thought

[20:30:02] cardboardbox because "What context is this?" makes no sense

[20:30:25] cardboardbox Im using weechat.

[20:30:41] cardboardbox hexchat isnt maintained anymore so i switched.

[20:31:04] cardboardbox it was the only viable option i could think of

[20:31:13] cardboardbox in some ways it's better.

[20:32:03] cardboardbox absentia: like what terry davis say. windows is a car, linux is a semi, and temple os is a moter bike.

[20:32:28] cardboardbox i was reminded of that, that's all

[20:32:44] cardboardbox maybe i should prefaced it with i was reminded of that thing terry davis said

[20:33:07] cardboardbox not sure if it's really true what he said

[20:33:57] cardboardbox windows is awful nowadays

[20:34:13] cardboardbox i tried installing it a couple weeks ago, windows 10 is unusable nowadays

[20:34:21] cardboardbox i got so used to linux now it's just strange.

[20:35:37] cardboardbox Im glad I'm a neet so if i really want to i can ignore windows

[20:44:46] cardboardbox that's pretty cool

[20:44:48] cardboardbox apparently it

[20:45:00] cardboardbox s a textmode image viewer by the looks of it

[20:50:53] cardboardbox i wanted to learn how to program but never had the patience or a good resource to try.

[20:53:03] cardboardbox is it normal for Xorg to have a command line like this?

[20:53:05] cardboardbox /usr/lib/Xorg :0 -seat seat0 -auth /run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch

[20:53:49] cardboardbox i thought it was weird tcp was there

[20:54:05] cardboardbox i find when ever something weird goes on with my computer i see xorg bounce up in htop with that

[20:56:49] cardboardbox Xorg is really old technology

[20:56:57] cardboardbox though i dont think the other one is much better

[20:57:13] cardboardbox yeah

[20:57:19] cardboardbox it was at the tip of my tongue.

[20:57:51] cardboardbox i thought of learning programming and making my own os just for typing my journal

[20:58:21] cardboardbox it wouldnt have much going on so would be pretty secure

[20:58:31] cardboardbox though Id imagine that would be too much

[20:58:45] cardboardbox sort of like temple os but less schizo and a lot simpler.

[20:59:12] cardboardbox i think theres a way to get the linux kernel to just use bash as your bootloader

[20:59:21] cardboardbox what do you mean?

[21:00:13] cardboardbox or i could read the linux kernel source several times. i think one way to learn coding is to read source code

[21:00:53] cardboardbox you mean doing stuff to grub or something like that?

[21:00:57] cardboardbox and bash

[21:02:04] cardboardbox if you can find the source code for those

[21:33:19] cardboardbox I wonder where you can find the feature set for something like ms-dos 1.0

[21:33:27] cardboardbox like what it specifically does

[21:33:41] cardboardbox I guess i could try searching

[21:33:45] cardboardbox might be some historical thing

[21:34:37] cardboardbox https://winworldpc.com/product/ms-dos/1x

[21:59:17] cardboardbox I think the graphics hardware on this computer is failing

[21:59:29] cardboardbox is it possible to use a basic driver when that happens?

[21:59:55] cardboardbox the kernel logs from the last session is full of stuff like this

[21:59:56] cardboardbox Feb 25 17:40:52 [kernel] [11989.529953] radeon 0000:00:01.0: bo 0000000011a22e3a va 0x0000106eb0 conflict with (bo 000000000ef6aef5 0x0000106eb0 0x0

[22:05:50] cardboardbox the video still works

[22:06:05] cardboardbox it's just the screen kept going black and the computer froze

[22:06:16] cardboardbox and there was video artifacts at one point

[22:06:45] cardboardbox after a reboot it went back to normal.

[22:06:55] cardboardbox it's an old computer

[22:06:59] cardboardbox it was new in 2015

[22:07:16] cardboardbox at one point it had hot chocolate spilled on it. it also survived a fall.

[22:07:28] cardboardbox old in terms of computers

[22:07:34] cardboardbox over ten years

[22:08:17] cardboardbox i didnt want to use my current computer using my phone hotspot because far as i know it doesnt have a rootkit infection and i want to keep it that way

[22:08:31] cardboardbox I carry my good computer with me.

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