I moved my work laptop from Devuan to Debian because Zscaler doesn't know you can launch an program without systemd, but somehow Thunderbird on Debian is eye searingly, upsettingly, bad.
All the other Thunderbirds I've seen are great, but Debian is doing something that I can't turn off.
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?
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?
@chiasm the harasser is using one account under a fake name. But it's someone she knows and credibly can harm her. They're just keeping the threats under a fake name.
that's a toughie, for those of us not used to hacking the system like that. Can she screen shot the threats, with date and time and user name, then block that user and see if the same threats show up under another name? That should at least be a start for FB, to show there's a pattern. Proving who it is, though, that I'm not sure about. Can she explain why she thinks she knows who it is? That and the screen shots might be enough to have a conversation with a lawyer.
@chiasm yeah, that's the steps she took on her own, but they all want *proof* not just "this is the person who threatened me in real life. and now a random facebook account with no other activity has escalated.
@chiasm I suppose we can only give various suggestions, with the knowledge that it might or might not be helpful in this specific case. But the person might appreciate the effort to help, and it might give others in similar situations some ideas.
@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.
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.
I'm not sure if this is effective, but she might gather what evidence she has and file for a restraining order. Then she goes to the police with that if the harasser continues.
@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.
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.
here is a Forbes article (that also points to more sources) on how to do it. Beware that it isn't a quick fix, but it can work if they are persistent (and it require some legal action, which isn't always affordable). forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2…
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.
@silverwizard Oh, absolutely. There's no better excuse in the world. Reading about it, it reminds me of a similar-sounding story I read when I was young, but I can't remember the name now. I'll have to dig around. Something that might help me find it was that it existed as of somewhere between 1980 and 1984. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark…
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.
@🩷 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.
@silverwizard @🩷 eva 🩷 I've migrated mostly to XMPP (for the half dozen or so people I know who use it) but I was pretty happy with irssi for IRC. It can even pull double duty and do XMPP, though admittedly a little buggily.
To be clear, this is just the package I installed from pkg...
rust-1.79.0_1
Name : rust
Version : 1.79.0_1
Installed on : Tue Sep 3 09:18:57 2024 EDT
Origin : lang/rust
Architecture : FreeBSD:13:amd64
Prefix : /usr/local
Categories : lang
Licenses : MIT or APACHE20
Maintainer : rust@FreeBSD.org
WWW : https://www.rust-lang.org/
Comment : Language with a focus on memory safety and concurrency
Options :
DOCS : on
GDB : off
LTO : off
PORT_LLVM : off
SOURCES : on
WASM : on
Shared Libs required:
libcurl.so.4
Annotations :
FreeBSD_version: 1303001
build_timestamp: 2024-09-01T01:17:44+0000
built_by : poudriere-git-3.4.2
cpe : cpe:2.3:a:rust-lang:rust:1.79.0:::::freebsd13:x64:1
port_checkout_unclean: no
port_git_hash : be013aced
ports_top_checkout_unclean: no
ports_top_git_hash: a43753089
repo_type : binary
repository : FreeBSD
Flat size : 1.06GiB
Description :
Rust is an open-source systems programming language that runs blazingly
fast, prevents almost all crashes, and eliminates data races.
Some of its features:
- Algebraic data types, type inference
- Pattern matching and closures
- Concurrency without data races
- Guaranteed memory safety
- Optional garbage collection
- Zero-cost abstractions
- Minimal runtime
- Efficient C bindings
I'm neither a FreeBSD folk nor a Rust folk but that looks like a library version mismatch to me - is your libc++ the one that came with your 13.2 system? The symbol it's missing might be new in 13.3. (Not sure whether there's a feasible way to get a 13.3 libc++ without upgrading the whole system, your path of least resistance might be finding a 13.2 rust package.)
@Dave Yeah - in theory this package should be fine for all FreeBSDs - but I have a worry something happened with the package DB accidentally giving me an incompatible rustc binary - which ... shouldn't happen - I think?!
The funny thing is mine still isn't plugged into my laptop itself. I just never unplug the Yubikey from where it is. So it's not totally pointless if someone stole my laptop (they'd have a bad time either way considering the hard drive is encrypted).
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
I agree keep it running on bacteria not the software equivalent of an elementary school kid that pees his pants daily and licks the windows because he likes the taste/
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.
@Craig Brozefsky 🇵🇸 yeah, there's lots of cultural contexts, but I constantly assume that things that make The Internet Work are default skills tech people have.
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...
This is wildly important. It's bitter and it's complicated. But it's probably the real Cyberpunk. It's good. Listen to people think about journalism during a tragedy.
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.
@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
Me vs @Becky parenting @Becky - buys the kids mars bars Sean - tells the kids Mars Bars are made by war criminals and then starts teaching them to make nougat
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.
@silverwizard White Australian classic dancer, registered for the 2024-created breakdance discipline, practiced her choreography 47 minutes (of her own admission), made a fool of herself during the competition, became an instant Internet sensation for all the wrong reasons.
Not currently supported, as far as I’m aware. The closest you can get is to pass through a whole USB host adapter PCI device to the guest, then all devices connected to its ports will end up in the (same) VM. Proper USB passthrough isn’t ridiculously difficult to implement by any stretch, but I guess nobody’s got around to it yet.
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…
This battle was lost a long time ago. There is no going back to sane defaults. Data collection is now the primary goal of paid and free products. You don’t own anything, and you will be happy. Of course, you can still use privacy-enabled products at home, but those options are limited, and not all your apps will be available. bsky.app/profile/ahhmandah.bsk…
'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!
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?
the Humble Bundle copy of Gratuitous Space Battles I bought years ago is causing OpenAL issues every time it makes a sound and seems to have no mute option.
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
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.
Talking to coworkers "Remember, your laptop is 4-10x as powerful as one of the servers, your laptop has to run Slack and none of the servers take that kind of abuse"
Becky
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