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Questions about an install
  • If you are using a typical distro like fedora, debian or ubuntu, and you are wiping everything, you don't really need to know anything. The installer will handle everything for you. Just delete all partitions while installing and start fresh and it should all just work.

    If your install media refuses to boot for whatever reason, then you may have to disable secure boot in the system EFI/BIOS menu.

  • Is it safe to use MIG Switch for pirating?
  • If you don't want to risk getting a ban at all, the only safe thing is to not connect to the internet at all. Maybe there is some level of safety, but it could take only one mistake.

    If we assume that we fully understand how nintendo catches this, we would still only ubderstand at that point in time. They could still change or push updates which could cause you a problem.

  • I'm pretty sure my Amazon renewed HDD is DOA. Anyway I can make sure before I return it?
  • I would return it, but if you are curious you can try some of the following to get experiencing identifying bad disks.

    You could try a different computer or controller to be sure.

    If you can get some writes/reads to work, you can use badblocks or dm-crypt: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Badblocks#Alternatives

    Badblocks will write known data to disk then read it to verify its good. If the disk is malicious, this can be faked. badblocks is also a little slow.

    Using dm-crypt in the wiki will write zeros through dm-crypt which will result in random noise being written to disk, then compare with zeros to verify reads are good. This can not be faked easily since the zero stream is encrypted as it is written to disk.

  • How to remove DRM from my books?
  • The last I looked into it, the best way to do it was to get an older kindle so you could download the older DRM copies of books from amazon. But I think some newer books are using only the newer DRM which I don't think has been cracked.

    It has probably been at least a year since I checked. If you do end up finding an updated method, I would be interested.

  • recommended hard drives for cold storage
  • Don't buy into tape. It is costly and is inferior to hard drives by most metrics for smaller scale operations. You can easily get 8TB hard drives for less than $20/TB. While tape is cheaper than that, the drive to actually use it is expensive, plus you get all the disadvantages of the tape itself.

    Fun fact: you can probably buy a whole server, external sas card and disk shelf for less than the cost of a somewhat modern tape drive.

    If you are wanting to store less than 100TB of data, it would probably be cheaper to use drives, then in 3-5 years buy another set of disks and still be ahead compared to tape.

  • Bryan Cranston Tells Bob Iger ‘Our Jobs Will Not Be Taken Away’ by AI in Rousing Speech: You Will Not ‘Take Away Our Dignity’
  • The union negotiations could include in the contract that AI generated actors are not allowed when SAG is involved.

    That doesn't completely stop AI, since they could try to use non union actors or no actors at all.

    The issue with AI is that it is software, and software can scale very quickly. So large amounts of jobs could very quickly get automated without allowing workers and the economy to slowly adjust over time. Switchboard operator was just a single job in a single industry.

    It will also lead to more consolidation of wealth since existing bussinesses stand to make great savings getting rid of people, and the AI itself is privately owned. Funny enough, this could also blow up in their face since that creates inventive for people to vote.

  • Tip for sharing Torrents/Magnets/Infohashes
  • Note that v1 and v2 torrents use slightly different url fragments, so this won't work quite as easily as you think. It would be possible tell the difference because they use different hashes with different lengths, but most people probably won't know.

  • UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) with Wireguard connecting to Mullvad VPN sanity check on UFW setup.
  • There are definitely differences, but usually they don't matter from a simple address and routing perspective.

    For example, there is no ARP in IPv6. Instead another protocol is used called Neighbor Discovery Protocol, which actually is done through ICMPv6. Therefore, if you blindly block all ICMPv6, your network may break.

    Once you have a grasp on v6, it is much better than v4 because even the smallest common v6 network size of /64 is many times larger than all the addresses in v4. Every device can have it's own global ip, so you no longer need nat at all. Everything can easily connect, assuming there is no firewall blocking it.

  • Risks of using selfhosted wireguard vpn (hetzner) for p2p
  • It can and will work, but it will not be optimal. You will be able to connect to other peers, but other peers will not be able to connect to you. This usually isn't a big deal, but it's not great in situations where there are not many peers, and you need every connection you can get.

  • Keeping and running frequently used commands

    I am currently looking for a way to easily store and run commands, usually syncing files between two deeply nested directories whenever I want.

    So far I found these projects:

    Other solutions:

    • Bash history using ^+r
    • Bash aliases
    • Bash functions

    What do you guys use?

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