For @Becky 's birthday, our 5yo wanted to make a custom PvZ mod where everything is rainbows.
So our first attempt all the work we did got eaten because the game didn't like the files. So we redid it, and then had to test.
And my son is being a proper game dev, having all his work ruined and needing to fix it
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I have a friend who is being harassed and threatened semi-anonymously via Facebook. She knows *who* it is, but Facebook and Police are characteristically being uselss.
I am kinda useless at this side of deanonymization, but does anyone have advice or resources for deanonymizing enough to get cops to move?
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I realized I bought that disk a year after I bought the router. It died when I came home from my honeymoon (same night) and my roommate was a streamer, so I replaced it with that disk. I had an SD card, coaxed it to life on that, bought a 120GB disk from Canada Computers, then an 8GB off Aliexpress. Put the 120GB in the set top box later.
So that card is almost 10-years-to-the-day old
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@🩷 eva 🩷 I use XMPP every single day! Several XMPP clients handle /me quite well. It's also a network where things are happening again, but there's a lot of people who remember it as dying, but it's in a cool place!
I... wish I had found an IRC client I like. I just, never can get beyond my mental blocks and really just need to make one with dmenu and netcat or something.
rad! I've been looking for a new xmpp server host/community, considering spinning up a new one with ejabberd but oooh the time, always short on time.
irc clients, totally not easy to settle on for gui ones. hexchat is still kicking, and kde has a decent one, but there's always the option to return to irssi.
@🩷 eva 🩷 See that's the issue! I hate irssi! I can't get my head around it!
People keep recommending me WeeChat but I keep forgetting. One day.
My friends run an XMPP project, https://soprani.ca/, which has some MUCs if you want to look around!
Any #FreeBSD folk know why the rust compiler might give me
ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/bin/../lib/librustc_driver-d829a4d8a572ebe4.so: Undefined symbol "_ZNSt3__122__libcpp_verbose_abortEPKcz"
I am worried the problem is my kernel is 13.2 but the rust package claims to be from 13.3? Is this a "just upgrade and stop worrying" situation
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@Rivetgeek yeah, so much of the time. someone told me that facebook tells employees to leave theirs in their laptops, which is, at least, funny.
SMS 2FA is mostly because because SMS numbers suck
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Listen, if your branching and commit message strategy takes more than 15 minutes to explain. And I need to work with every team and this is just yours.
I'm not gonna follow it.
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Someone needs to write a sysadmin version of the Last Sea Shanty
A sysadmins not a sysadmin anymore
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@Andy H3 He also does a Last Sea Shanty that I like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw0FZs_J2IE
also some wildly good River Shanties around https://on.soundcloud.com/dWAaRJRCEY7523Jw6
I mostly love the Sea Shanty as a repository of blue collar solidarity songs that are great for groups and to scream, so I don't understand the love for the Wellerman, though enjoy it fine
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https://www.404media.co/this-is-doom-running-on-a-diffusion-model/
This is the *stupidest* use of LLMs - right?
The primary problems with video games are:
1) too well written
2) don't suffer from enough bloat
3) run too quickly
Luckily Google has fixed it in a way even worse than Stadia!
This Is Doom Running on a Diffusion Model
GameNGen is an interesting proof-of-concept for a diffusion model-based “game engine.”Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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"I wanted to make sure I mastered all the letters before I started figuring out writing"
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Got to pull a coworker into a call and just explain logs to them
That's what they call a good day?
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I really need to stop assuming that most developers have a mental model of DNS delegation in their head.
I need to accept that I'm the weirdo here.
Does anyone else listen to this sometimes? https://archive.org/details/cyber-final-episode
It's such an important artifact
"The End of Vice" - Cyber Podcast Final Episode : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Final Episode of the Cyber Podcast from Vice (now deleted from https://shows.acast.com/cyber/episodes/the-end-of-vice)Episode Notes: VICE may be over, but...Internet Archive
I am currently regularly dealing with Zscaler support and Drata support.
Drata support is awful because you need to get answers from an LLM before you can talk to it. But the LLM is worthless because it just puts out a segment from the knowledge base and you only contact support when things are broken.
Zscaler support is worthless because they're undertrained and given a flow chart to follow. The flow chart means they just parrot the knowledge base repeatedly.
Drata's support is better because there's only one human trapped in this hell.
My 3 year old kid has a 1 string guitar to learn to make sound, To protect his fingers I handed him a guitar pick. He yelled "Can I open it!" and started trying to find a seam to shove the pick in to spudge the guitar.
I am... raising children.
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Zscaler seeing a user has an IP in 100.0.0.0/8 tells me that wont work because that's a Zscaler internal IP.
Of course, the user's ISP is misusing CGNAT and also claiming IANA reserved IPs are theirs.
Abolish legacy IP
@The Psychotic Network Ferret the problem was that neither group using 100.6.0.0/16 *owned* it. Both of them were using it for extra IPv4 space.
And I've been a ISP grunt, I know we want IPv4 to die, but there's some ISPs that have bonkers IPv4 stacks and massive CGNATs without a whisper of IPv6
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A recent chat lead to the idea of the Standard Reference Olympian
Someone who is *not* good at the sport. Just to remind everyone how intense everyone there is.
"Oh this person got 20th place! Unremarkable"
make people compare them to the SRO
Hey #Bhyve/#FreeBSD people!
I'm trying to manage USB passthrough into a guest, I can't find anything in the manpages. Is there something I'm missing?
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Proper USB passthrough isn’t ridiculously difficult to implement by any stretch, but I guess nobody’s got around to it yet.
@Phil Dennis-Jordan 😷 "Not missing something" is a good answer! Thanks!
I gotta figure out if I have a host I can give my homeassistant server. But thanks!
You can pass entire USB controller (PCI passthru) into Bhyve VM but not a USB port or USB device.
Here instructions how to do it:
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/08/18/freebsd-bhyve-virtualization/#comment-26156
FreeBSD Bhyve Virtualization
The Bhyve FreeBSD hypervisor (called/spelled ‘beehive’ usually) was created almost 10 years ago. Right now it offers speed and features that other similar solutions provide – such…𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗
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Alone for lunch (yes it's 4pm) for the first time since the kids were born.
writing a complex regex to manage emails, since, ya know, I know how to have fun.
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've seen so many hearing aids on kids this week, often low profile, some very large, all taking wild abuse, like a child spraying his repeatedly with a water jet in a splash park
and - I feel so good about this - this is the core of accessibility - you didn't see a lot of deaf kids before because they were isolated! and now they're not!
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Phillips Hue keeps threatening me they're going to shut down everything. I put their app on a side device that wont download things and I don't update it, and I put their bridge on a no-internet-access VLAN - but I'd like to just not deal with their shit.
Is there a bulb that doesn't deal with their shit?
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@Mischa 🐡😎 Wait - you can connect them directly through zigbee?!
Hmmmmm
Bhyve USB passthrough reseach commences.
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Security is Threat Modelling
Security Advice or guidance without a threat model is not correct. Full stop.
The company I work for is really great, but the CEO is toxic as hell
Just completely and impossibly.
We had an outage and he joined the technical call, and started throwing out ideas and forced the response team to *stop* discussing the issue and *instead* explain why he was wrong.
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Last night I had a dream that I was (kinda accidentally) elected UK Prime Minister, and I was confused as hell because I was a tourist and didn't know any of the ritual.
And I think that it's telling about the UK that my brain can find no holes in the theory that this is plausible
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Security vendor demanding I install servers in my network running out of date FreeBSD which can't be updated and RCEs in SSH
I really wish there was a compliance framework these types needed to follow
@The Psychotic Network Ferret I think it's so they don't need to tell me it's FreeBSD.
They also tell me to use the IP address on eth1
and the server *is FreeBSD*.
It's 11.4 so it's not dire - but it looks like they haven't updated it ever. I tried a poke at pkg and they don't have their own repo so the repo is just gone. And yes, the SSH is 8.4 from 2022.
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Canadian Crone
•Christoph Schmees
•"Facebook" -- find the error.
The only valid advice is:
LEAVE F.C.BOOK for good.
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•chiasm
•that sounds like a horrible situation. I'm a little confused how she could be being harassed on FB if she's made her account Friends Only and then unfriended anyone who is nasty, though. You don't have to be wide open to the public, there (unless you are trying to run a business).
Locking her account down only addresses stopping that avenue for the harasser, though. It doesn't address getting the cops to handle threats. But is her harasser using multiple FB accounts?
bjb :devuannew: :emacs:
•I don't know them.
But one scenario might be that their family, or friends of family, or others they can't avoid is harassing them. And they need to stay connected to other family members that won't leave facebook.
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•@silverwizard Facebook requires users to use their legal name, so you can report any account with pseudonym and they have a chance to be locked until the user submits a government ID and their display name will be changed to what’s written on it.
It won’t directly address the harassment but it might help with the identification part of the police process.
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The hell about this is someone goes, "I have a credible threat from this person" and the police response is "Well, did you already do the investigation?"
And now I'm out here trying to be calm, rational, and legal because I don't want to ruin things.
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@Rivetgeek (He/Him) Restraining orders suuuuuuck in Ontario - but it's possible. You kinda need to prove immediate harm - but that's hard and the system is saying that it can't prove who it is >.<
A rare time when US restraining orders are the good things.
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•if you can host a file on a site where you can look at the access logs and then post a link to that file, you might be able to bait them into downloading the file which could give you their IP address in the access logs. A whois search for the IP address.could get you their ISP and geolocation information on the IP could get you the general area.
That's a lot of "ifs" and "coulds", though.
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•How To Bait and Catch The Anonymous Person Harassing You On The Internet
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•from there, if the police still won't do something, it turns to filing court orders to get information from the IP holders about who had the IP at the time of access and harassment.
Good luck.
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