That’s great, it beats having to buy new hardware!

I like the part where it says people are using “The Dark Web” both within the United States and “at the international border”.

Because that would put essentially all computer crimes in ICE jurisdiction.

That would make sense, if it’s educational then it’s probably used to teach about the Caesar/shift cipher

No, I don’t.

We’re about to be seeing a lot of people with the wrong political opinions being targeted using this data.

Trump is already calling the protesters terrorists. Using this data to eliminate his political opponents would be pretty on brand for Trump.

Every felon he makes now is one less person voting against him in the next election.

All data.

Your Facebook information, Gmail emails, Insta DMs, etc. It’s all for sale and federal law enforcement are buying it. Things that they would normally need a warrant to get, they can simply pull up from a data broker.

Everything that’s collected is sold. If it is for sale, law enforcement is buying it. Everything is collected.

Snowden showed that this is being done by all major social media sites and email providers in the US.

They either willingly sell their data or are compelled to give access with a National Security Letter.

When you give up data or type a message, assume a federal law enforcement officer is reading it.

If you want it to still be steam OS and compatible with games then you couldn’t use kernel.org kernels that’s the point.

If a person stands to make a lot of money figuring out how to use a regular, non-anticheat kernel then they will do it. It would be a lot less difficult to do when the kernel code is open source.

For anti-cheats, it isn’t the case, as with Windows, where you can semi-trust that the kernel isn’t lying. If an anti-cheat runs and wants to see what DMA devices are connected it uses the kernel to do that and it trusts that the kernel isn’t lying. You could trivially modify the Linux kernel’s source code to not list a specific card when asked by a kernel module.

He’s just being pedantic.

Technically ‘ls’ has kernel access because it depends on system calls in order to produce its output.

System calls are the mechanisms through which programs request services from the Linux kernel, allowing them to perform tasks like file management, process control, and device management. Any program that’s running on your machine has the access required to make syscalls and so you could say they have access to the kernel. They won’t have kernel-level privileges, so they can’t act as the kernel, but they do have access. Obviously the original user was referring to kernel anti-cheat modules which act as the kernel with all of the same privileges.

Oh yeah, that’s way better. Thanks!

I’m using zsh and trying the emacs mode, that alt operates on words is the secret sauce I was looking for.

root@desktop:/# chown -R user:user / home/user
root@desktop:/# 

e: sidenote. if you’re using markdown for codeblocks you can add the language name after the first three backticks to change the syntax highlighting in the codeblock. TIL

Is there an emacs key to ‘delete this entire word’?

like if I’m using ls to look for a file, then I want to cat a file, I press up to get the previous command, ctrl+a to go to the beginning of the line and then spam d to delete letters. It’s be much better if there was a ‘delete until whitespace’ button.

Imagine I said that I would come into your house and install a new TV and entertainment system, re-build your bathroom, fix your maintenance issues, clean your floors, wash your dishes, etc. That’d save you a lot of time.

Now, I’ll even do it for free! But, you have to let me install a door that only I have a key to so you can’t stop me from entering your house and also to install cameras and microphones covering every square foot of your house and you consent to being recorded.

That’s the deal people are making with their digital lives.

Yeah, it was inconvenient to have to learn how to setup the software so I could have ‘cloud storage’ using my home server. It’s annoying that I have to deal with IP Cameras and ZoneMinder. But, because I do the work myself, I don’t have to let Google/Meta/FBI/Amazon have access to listening devices in my home (Oh, sorry Alexa, I didn’t know you were listening), footage from my security system or the contents of my personal files.

Unless you can convince them to get out of the ‘surveillance for free stuff’ market then they’re fucked, not everyone.

You can choose to use free and open source software and sped time learning and putting together a system that benefits you. Or you can just sign up for Google, let them do all of the work in exchange for spying on you with every device that you buy and put in your house.

Duel boot

That’s probably the best way to describe it.

reboot: machine restart

This makes me think it’s a motherboard issue.

The system is done with its shutdown process and issued the reboot command, but the motherboard didn’t restart.

There could be some electronics components which get wedged over time. My sound card will occasionally not boot unless it has been completely powered off for 30 seconds or so.

fatal: not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).

(u r not rite)

If you’re not familiar with reading mailing lists or don’t follow what is happening, Brodie Robertson on YT did a good video on this: https://youtu.be/GhfhzTDQdUU

TL;DR: Some tooling script caused the problem, but it initially seemed like a malicious pull request from kernel developer. It wasn’t and the issue was resolved. The tooling script will be updated with better error messages so this kind of problem should be obvious when it occurs.

I have Arch running on a RaspberryPi 4, using XFCE as the desktop environment. You can configure your system to run on incredibly minimal hardware.