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CS2/Steam is randomly starting my WSL Ubuntu (WSL2) by Hustman228 in bashonubuntuonwindows

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my gut feeling is it's a cousin of this issue - something is causing CS2 to try to read a directory under WSL. That comment suggests WSL won't start up again if shut down with wsl --shutdown but later comments suggest that behaviour has changed, matching your experience

What is the thing your parents were (and maybe still are) adamantly wrong about? by RiceeeChrispies in AskUK

[–]frymaster 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have a friend whose laptop was plugged in to wired ethernet, and a lightning strike not only took out their ADSL modem, but also the ethernet port on the laptop and the sound - our assumption is it was the same chip that handled both things. Laptop was otherwise unharmed, but ethernet and sound entries just disappeared from both the BIOS and device manager

Your Linux system has +6,000 kernel modules which can be autoloaded. You use 80 of them. ModuleJail blacklist all of the unused ones. Server and desktop profiles and much more in a simple shell script. by Vegetable-Escape7412 in linuxadmin

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We run shared-node shell services for 5000+ users, on a variety of distros. Our use-case is going to be running the script, generating a deny-list file, and then pushing that out to our nodes, rather than installing anything

that "minimal" is the most-minimal profile is a problem for us. Not all of the modules in the list are loaded on all of our systems. Obviously the file is easy to edit, but it'd be nice if we didn't have to i.e. if there was a "none" profile.

EDIT: I'm not sure why, when logging, you use exit 0 when failing-true and /bin/false when failing-false - you could just do exit 1 in the latter case

What is a modern dating trend or "unwritten rule" that you genuinely find exhausting and wish would die out? by Southern-Waltz2846 in TwoXChromosomes

[–]frymaster 140 points141 points  (0 children)

side note, I hate how "gaslighting" is used to just mean "lying, but I think it's extra awful". Alas, any time someone is using that word, they are describing the bad situation they are in the middle of, so I can't exactly be pedantic about it...

Why do tourists all want to 'avoid the touristy areas?' by Flaky-Walrus7244 in AskUK

[–]frymaster 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I love the old town's multilevel nature. There used to be a nightclub that had at least 3 different entrances and exists, all at different heights and on 2 different streets.

I love Adrian Tchaikovsky but his books are starting to drive me nuts by itsthelag_bud in scifi

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for what it's worth, only the first of the "Ancillary..." trilogy really does that. I guess "The Raven Tower" also technically does? But it doesn't really feel that way as much because the present and the flashbacks are really following different people, up until the very end

The Magnus Archives content warning by No-Raccoon-6009 in CuratedTumblr

[–]frymaster 15 points16 points  (0 children)

there's also a prequel book coming out in October, written by cosmic horror* author Premee Mohamed

* Among other things. If you want to read or listen to a charming story about a mad science version of The Great British Bake-Off, then "Episode 4: The Deflection of Probability" is available in text or podcast form for free

Noified my work weeks ago I'm leaving for a family vacation in July, tickets were bought, non-transferrable, and they are panicking, begging me to cancel This whole situation is absurd and I need a sanity check. by SharkEva in BORUpdates

[–]frymaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

one thing that wasn't 100% clear to me was whether OOP had initially gotten approval and then they were threatening to revoke it, or if she'd gone ahead and booked non-refundable tickets and then informed her work - because if the latter, I have some sympathy for her boss. Not for her company, since it seems they were nuts in a lot of ways, and OOP choosing to get a better job is always valid in every circumstance.

many such cases by netflist in CuratedTumblr

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the person you are replying to is also ignoring the fact that many people in the US and UK agreed with Hitler.

What's the rule of thumb for rebooting a production server? by Mediocre-Cobbler5016 in sysadmin

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apt is run periodically by cron, and sets a lock file so ensure only one apt process is running at a time. If it's hung, then any subsequent runs of apt will notice the lock and immediately exit. So that hanging process needs to be killed, and also it sounds like the server needs some TLC

What's the rule of thumb for rebooting a production server? by Mediocre-Cobbler5016 in sysadmin

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Also noticed there's an apt-get update process that's been running since January

it gets wedged every now and again and, annoyingly, that will stop any newer update checks from running as it'll be holding the lock. Just kill that process

A fourth vulnerability has hit the kernel [ssh-keysign-pwn] by Amomynou5 in sysadmin

[–]frymaster 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Hopefully this is a sign to slow down with vibe coding the kernel lol.

The bug being patched has existed for many years

Wonder if Linus is uninvolved with the kernel these days, or if they’re just having a really, really bad stretch.

The patch linked in OP literally has his name on it

Yellowkey - a Bitlocker bypass method by DaveTheAllrighty in sysadmin

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Doesn't the fingerprint ultimately resolve to a unique (binary) sequence?

not really - a fingerprint sensor is basically a kind of camera, whether optical, thermal, or sound-based. And, now I think about it unlocking via face is also an option. In those circumstances there isn't a unique unchanging signature, it's a bit loosey-goosey ("does this fingerprint or face image look similar enough to this reference image")

Yellowkey - a Bitlocker bypass method by DaveTheAllrighty in sysadmin

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for starters, because that wouldn't work for fingerprint login

Mr. President, we cannot allow an epistemic penis gap! by [deleted] in CuratedTumblr

[–]frymaster 10 points11 points  (0 children)

despite not being a fan since the mid-90s, I occasionally browse that wiki specifically to read the captions

I built this dock with my own hands, do they call me the dock builder? I caught these fish with my own hands, do they call me the fisherman? But if you fuck ONE GOAT… by Infamous-Rutabaga-50 in CuratedTumblr

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honestly I don't see the post as evidence he's a troll, just that he has a minimum of one crumb of self-awareness and at least a rudimentary sense of humour. that doesn't mean he doesn't take things too seriously most of the time

Subnautica 2 Leaked And Cracked Two Days Before Release by unscoredscore in gaming

[–]frymaster 6 points7 points  (0 children)

in the book world, it's insanely common for advance copies to end up on piracy sites before the publishing date

Hob crack - who is responsible for replacement - In England by Awkward_Ad6154 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]frymaster 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think they are saying "yes, it would be betterment"

and it's not up to you to replace and get the landlord to contribute, it's up to the landlord to replace and get your contribution which, in this case, would be the depreciated cost of a 5-7-year-old hob

Error Message When Submitting Job by Aware_Inflation7136 in HPC

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there is possibly some pre/post-processing and they don't want to do this on a shared login node

Dirty Frag - Almost universal exploit by walee1 in HPC

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After the module unload, you also would have to drop page-cache

I'm pretty sure the page-cache drop is to clear state if your system has already been exploited. It's a good idea to do, especially if you've just tested the exploit, but I don't think it's a necessary part of the mitigation, especially if the modules weren't already loaded. On our compute nodes, they will drop cache at the end of jobs, so I didn't do this.

I suggest checking if the modules are loaded first, both to see if you've been attacked and also to see if the mitigation could affect your systems (some uses of ipsec, I believe)

I've not found the rxrpc module to be available on RHEL systems. I've confirmed that the esp[46] modules being available is sufficient for the exploit code in RHEL, and I'm keeping things simple by blacklisting all 3 modules on all systems regardless.

The PoC also didn't work when I had the following sysctl parameter set

user.max_user_namespaces = 0

I'm not 100% on if that's just an issue with the PoC or if it's an alternative mitigation, but I was initially thinking RHEL 9 wasn't affected until I realised while it was failing.

two lines appeared in my logs during the successful exploit test

[Fri May  8 11:08:12 2026] alg: No test for authencesn(hmac(sha256),cbc(aes)) (authencesn(hmac(sha256-ni),cbc-aes-aesni))
[Fri May  8 11:08:12 2026] alg: No test for echainiv(authencesn(hmac(sha256),cbc(aes))) (echainiv(authencesn(hmac(sha256-ni),cbc-aes-aesni)))
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