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Wednesday, July 27, 2022
[03:20:49] linuxuser/rizon no, Piba
[03:21:01] linuxuser/rizon it's still Wednesday
[03:23:30] linuxuser/rizon IRC is really dead nowadays, huh?
[03:24:57] linuxuser/rizon I miss the 90's
[03:29:58] + linuxuser/rizon o
[03:30:10] + linuxuser/rizon well I haven't used it years
[03:30:17] + linuxuser/rizon for* years
[03:30:22] + linuxuser/rizon oh no
[03:30:37] + linuxuser/rizon well yeah, first time coming back to IRC in a while
[03:30:41] + linuxuser/rizon yeah
[03:30:57] + linuxuser/rizon I think I first used IRC some time around 1997 or 1998
[03:31:31] + linuxuser/rizon we ran Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6 at the time
[03:31:46] + linuxuser/rizon might be able to narrow it down based on when SP6 was released for NT 4.0
[03:32:34] + linuxuser/rizon I was so disappointed when I pirated a copy of Windows 98 and found I couldn't install it on my IBM 486 because my machine didn't have a math co-processor
[03:33:12] + linuxuser/rizon I'm old, but probably not as old as you'd think
[03:33:32] + linuxuser/rizon I'm in Sydney, Australia
[03:35:15] + linuxuser/rizon maybe try banning the nick
[03:35:44] + linuxuser/rizon you could also try banning the ident
[03:35:48] + linuxuser/rizon if I remember my IRC
[03:36:52] + linuxuser/rizon that's the ident, yeah
[03:36:58] + linuxuser/rizon it's changeable
[03:37:07] + linuxuser/rizon but by the time the troll figures that out
[03:37:50] + linuxuser/rizon only because X-Chat is no longer maintained :(
[03:40:12] + linuxuser/rizon lolwut
[03:41:00] + linuxuser/rizon it's always the Windows clients that get all the useful scripts
[03:41:37] + linuxuser/rizon all those options for NowPlaying integration
[03:42:30] + linuxuser/rizon eh, who pays for Windows?
[03:43:27] + linuxuser/rizon only place I've ever seen Windows actually be paid for is in corporate enterprise environments
[03:44:19] + linuxuser/rizon everyone else is either using an ancient Win7 key (works for activating Win11) or just an activator based on KMS
[03:44:59] + linuxuser/rizon although corporate environments use KMS too
[03:45:16] + linuxuser/rizon TaoTag: Yes, volume licensing.
[03:45:51] + linuxuser/rizon which I always found hilarious when they were buying machines that already had keys embedded in the UEFI firmware
[03:47:05] + linuxuser/rizon lol, took him long enough to figure out to change nick and ident
[03:48:14] + linuxuser/rizon Foxxy Cleopatra
[03:48:44] + linuxuser/rizon ^snEk probably wants you to plunder his booty
[03:49:06] + linuxuser/rizon something about the poop deck
[03:49:44] + linuxuser/rizon noice
[03:50:05] + linuxuser/rizon got any for HexChat that can pick up Now Playing info from Audacious?
[03:50:42] + linuxuser/rizon I'm far too lazy for coding
[03:51:29] + linuxuser/rizon I manually patched the ACPI tables on my ancient Thinkpad in x86_64 assembly once to make macOS recognize the battery and some other bits and bobs
[03:51:42] + linuxuser/rizon it just reminded me why I never want to be a programmer
[03:53:07] + linuxuser/rizon if you want a free VPN, you could use the 12 months of free EC2 instance time on AWS to run OpenVPN from there
[03:54:01] + linuxuser/rizon it's nice to see some loser with nothing better to do in life than try to troll an IRC channel
[03:54:20] + linuxuser/rizon reminds me of the 90's. Very nostalgic.
[03:54:38] + linuxuser/rizon I didn't say he was succeeding, just that he was trying ;)
[03:56:09] + linuxuser/rizon ComputerTech: I switched away from Ubuntu back in 2011 I think, when they made Unity the default DE
[03:56:41] + linuxuser/rizon These days I run Mint mostly
[03:56:54] + linuxuser/rizon yes, I prefer debian for servers
[03:57:41] + linuxuser/rizon I run my mail exchanger, reverse-proxy front-end webserver, Icecast2 server, Plex server, samba fileserver, etc. on debian
[03:58:23] + linuxuser/rizon I think the last version of Ubuntu I really liked was 10.10
[03:59:58] + linuxuser/rizon I'm equally comfortable getting stuff done on Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, Windows, macOS, BSD, Android, etc. Just personal preference.
[04:01:00] + linuxuser/rizon and IOS on Cisco devices, whatever it is those HP Aruba switches run, JunOS on Juniper routers/switches, etc.
[04:01:58] + linuxuser/rizon Red Hat / Fedora too, although I'm not a fan of the package management
[04:02:24] + linuxuser/rizon oh and Mitel Standard Linux for Mitel gear
[04:03:06] + linuxuser/rizon and ESXi
[04:03:29] + linuxuser/rizon probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting, but I'd remember if I had to work on any of it
[04:05:46] + linuxuser/rizon funnily enough, I've never used a Raspberry Pi
[04:06:22] + linuxuser/rizon I just root my old phone and use that for playing around with an ARM device
[04:06:40] + linuxuser/rizon oh and the ARM instances on AWS
[04:06:49] + linuxuser/rizon very cost-effective
[04:07:32] + linuxuser/rizon AWS?
[04:07:37] + linuxuser/rizon or Azure?
[04:07:42] + linuxuser/rizon please say AWS lol
[04:07:53] + linuxuser/rizon god I hate Azure
[04:08:03] + linuxuser/rizon actually I hate just about everything Microsoft
[04:08:10] + linuxuser/rizon Oracle cloud?
[04:08:19] + linuxuser/rizon hmm
[04:08:34] + linuxuser/rizon I'm no fan of Jeff Bezos
[04:08:49] + linuxuser/rizon but for me, the AWS stuff does work pretty well
[04:10:16] + linuxuser/rizon probably a majority
[04:10:43] + linuxuser/rizon According to Forrester Vice President and Senior Analyst Andrew Bartels, Amazon Web Services' market share will fall from 68% in 2018 to 56% in 2022.
[04:11:43] + linuxuser/rizon Google went from "Don't be evil" to "Don't? Be evil!". like some Lionel Hutz advert
[04:12:13] + linuxuser/rizon Peorth, we *always* need moar servers
[04:12:57] + linuxuser/rizon I use a Dell PowerEdge as my "PC"
[04:13:21] + linuxuser/rizon and I use an actual PC as my fileserver
[04:13:25] + linuxuser/rizon lol
[04:13:51] + linuxuser/rizon I have 40 TB locally in my fileserver
[04:14:56] + linuxuser/rizon I looked into getting an actual NAS
[04:15:24] + linuxuser/rizon but it was cheaper to just buy some WD Gold 10TB drives and throw them in an old 2nd gen i5 box I already had
[04:17:01] + linuxuser/rizon screenshot I grabbed quickly from a Windows VM...
[04:17:47] + linuxuser/rizon I didn't bother with open media vault or FreeNAS
[04:18:04] + linuxuser/rizon just samba because I'm lazy
[04:18:14] + linuxuser/rizon (yes, I know Windows Server supports NFS)
[04:19:06] + linuxuser/rizon well, samba and Plex for giving other people access
[04:21:30] + linuxuser/rizon I just figured grabbing the screenshot from Windows was easier to read than https://i.imgur.com/HRGeqo4.png
[04:23:54] + linuxuser/rizon both, and macOS and Android too
[04:24:09] + linuxuser/rizon but I'm usually running linux on the bare metal and Windows in VM's
[04:24:47] + linuxuser/rizon macOS runs like crap in VM's, I don't have a spare graphics card to do passthrough for it
[04:25:06] + linuxuser/rizon so if I'm going to use macOS I usually boot into it on my ancient ThinkPad
[04:25:18] + linuxuser/rizon although I do also have a 2020 macbook air I rarely ever use
[04:28:34] + linuxuser/rizon for work, I find myself constantly switching between windows, linux, BSD/JunOS, mac, Android, etc.
[04:29:10] + linuxuser/rizon all just depends on what it is that needs doing
[04:29:53] + linuxuser/rizon yes, yes, we all know the rms copypasta
[04:30:06] + linuxuser/rizon I use Mint as my daily driver for desktop use
[04:30:16] + linuxuser/rizon but
[04:30:30] + linuxuser/rizon I run it on a Dell PowerEdge server
[04:30:44] + linuxuser/rizon which is my "desktop" machine
[04:31:19] + linuxuser/rizon macOS is based on a bunch of stuff
[04:31:32] + linuxuser/rizon mach kernel from Carnegie Melon
[04:31:49] + linuxuser/rizon BSD and GNU utilities
[04:32:06] + linuxuser/rizon Aqua DE which is actually from Apple
[04:33:29] + linuxuser/rizon my "desktop" machine: https://i.imgur.com/GAUfF6K.png
[04:34:23] + linuxuser/rizon Gentoo: GNU is no good, need to heed the words of prophet Terry A. Davis and install TempleOS
[04:35:13] + linuxuser/rizon or better yet, install IBM OS/2 Warp and confuse the hell out of everyone
[04:35:32] + linuxuser/rizon TempleOS isn't
[04:35:46] + linuxuser/rizon but it does lack a TCP/IP stack and ethernet drivers
[04:36:06] + linuxuser/rizon I'm not sure there is any license for it
[04:36:14] + linuxuser/rizon but all the code is available
[04:36:37] + linuxuser/rizon ever used MenuetOS?
[04:36:55] + linuxuser/rizon written entirely in x86_64 assembly
[04:37:50] + linuxuser/rizon I've heard of Qubes, never installed it or used it
[04:38:15] + linuxuser/rizon I generally just spin up a VM in VirtualBox whenever I need to run something sandboxed
[04:39:01] + linuxuser/rizon at least for my personal stuff. Corporate types always want to use ESXi or Hyper-V
[04:40:54] + linuxuser/rizon neither would I on anyone else's hardware, but on my own hardware, it's fine for my threat model.
[04:43:13] + linuxuser/rizon the infamous Ken Thompson compiler hack revealed in 1983 proves that even having the source code available isn't necessarily enough to protect you
[04:44:04] + linuxuser/rizon Sure, but even then, if the source came from someone else, it's vulnerable to the Ken Thompson hack
[04:45:11] + linuxuser/rizon to truly be secure at the software level, you have no alternative but to go full Terry A. Davis and entirely write your own language, bootloader, compiler, kernel and drivers from scratch.
[04:45:23] + linuxuser/rizon and that doesn't even begin to address hardware-level backdoors
[04:46:01] + linuxuser/rizon but you can't trust the FGPA
[04:46:13] + linuxuser/rizon you'll have to create your own hardware from scratch
[04:46:19] + linuxuser/rizon from discrete components
[04:46:29] + linuxuser/rizon which you'll have to manufacture yourself, for obvious security reasons
[04:47:29] + linuxuser/rizon even if the source is available, the Ken Thompson hack proves that there should still be no trust in it
[04:47:46] + linuxuser/rizon Trust no one, not even yourself not trusting you not trusting yourself.
[12:15:56] + linuxuser/rizon !bananarama
[12:16:14] + linuxuser/rizon I have a mouse
[12:16:43] + linuxuser/rizon Why is the cat screaming.png
[12:20:28] + linuxuser/rizon all I can think of when I hear this song
[12:20:34] + linuxuser/rizon is the Barry Gibb Talk Show
[12:22:25] + linuxuser/rizon now add agoraphobia, and they're scared to LEAVE the elevator too
[12:29:33] + linuxuser/rizon I need a script like that
[12:29:45] + linuxuser/rizon but for hexchat on linux
[12:31:02] + linuxuser/rizon you know exactly what I mean, Gentoo
[12:31:42] + linuxuser/rizon seriously tho
[12:31:58] + linuxuser/rizon am I the only one legitimately impressed with this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5FCvmG_4-8
[12:38:36] + linuxuser/rizon Internet Hate Machine
[12:39:26] + linuxuser/rizon Client: HexChat 2.14.3 • OS: LinuxMint "una" 20.3 • CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (2.39GHz) • Memory: Physical: 1.9 GiB Total (1.3 GiB Free) Swap: 728.3 MiB Total (728.3 MiB Free) • Storage: 20.0 GB / 32.6 GB (12.6 GB Free) • VGA: VMware SVGA II Adapter • Uptime: 10h 11m 34s
[12:39:54] + linuxuser/rizon o yeah, this is inside a VM. totally forgot.
[12:43:00] + linuxuser/rizon dat synth bass
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