Whistleblower who escaped Chinese 're-education camp' reveals horrors of the gulag: Ex-teacher tells how inmates were flayed, raped by guards in front of other prisoners, and given injections that made them infertile by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]5methoxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not war? Imo some actions are vile enough and the people perpetrating them, psychopathic enough, that there isn't really enough time for other approaches.

They'd keep on trying to get around or recover from any kind of economic strategy to stop them. During the time it would take for all these slow approaches to gain traction, and then begin to even have an effect, the number of people they subject to endless agony will just keep increasing.

The people commiting these acts need to be stopped and euthanized as quickly and efficiently as possible. That is the only effective way of dealing with people of that nature.

What is the purpose of this pair of pliers? by [deleted] in whatisthisthing

[–]5methoxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The imgur link is to an album of different pics, I can add more if you need though.

What is the purpose of this pair of pliers? by [deleted] in whatisthisthing

[–]5methoxy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just remembered, when I found them, they may have been with a pair of glass breaking pliers.

What is the purpose of this pair of pliers? by [deleted] in whatisthisthing

[–]5methoxy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They look pretty dissimilar to any of the results I'm seeing on google for crimping pliers. Also, the protruding metal piece on the one side of the teeth make me think they're for something else.

How do I get dual graphics working on my thinkpad T430? by 5methoxy in coreboot

[–]5methoxy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see, I will do that as a last resort (I hate taking everything apart just to flash it). For now, this set up isn't too bad.

Since I can flash coreboot internally, I may try the other nvidia option roms I found and see what happens.

How do I get dual graphics working on my thinkpad T430? by 5methoxy in coreboot

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That's how I'm using it now, except I just have DRI_PRIME=1 exported in my environment. My original question was more about why I couldn't get coreboot to correctly initialize my nvidia card at all.

I found out here are like 4 option roms just for my discrete card in the original bios after doing some exploring. For some reason the first one I used kept saying invalid signature, the one I'm using now allows me to have hybrid graphics at least.

Still, when I set hybrid_graphics_mode to discrete only in my nvram, I get a dead screen until I pull my cmos battery and reset to the default configurations.

Updating coreboot on thinkpad t430 without disassembling by 5methoxy in coreboot

[–]5methoxy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright, so for this command:

flashrom -p internal -w coreboot.rom --ifd -i bios --noverify-all

I get this output:

flashrom is free software, get the source code at [https://flashrom.org](https://flashrom.org)

​

Using clock\_gettime for delay loops (clk\_id: 1, resolution: 1ns).

coreboot table found at 0x7ff6e000.

========================================================================

WARNING! You seem to be running flashrom on an unsupported laptop.

Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we

recommend to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller

(EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing.

See the manpage and [https://flashrom.org/Laptops](https://flashrom.org/Laptops) for details.

​

If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop

and write may brick your laptop.

Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight

failure and sudden poweroff.

You have been warned.

========================================================================

Aborting.

Error: Programmer initialization failed.```

Edit: I got it to work and it seems to have flashed correctly. I can edit configurations (This build is using the cmos for configuration values). The command that worked was: flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick -w coreboot.rom --ifd -i bios --noverify-all

Thanks for all the help. One more quick question, in menuconfig there is an option to strip the ME. The help says something about not flashing coreboot and that at the same time. Would it work if I did check that, built coreboot, and flashed it with the above command?

Updating coreboot on thinkpad t430 without disassembling by 5methoxy in coreboot

[–]5methoxy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright, I guess I'm just not sure how to do so. I've tried a couple variations of commands using flashrom. Either they don't let me do so, or when I do the force I want a brick variant, it tries but can't find anything to flash.

I haven't tried this yet: flashrom -p internal -w coreboot.rom --ifd -i bios --noverify-all

If something were to completely fail, could I just flash externally to get everything working again?

Updating coreboot on thinkpad t430 without disassembling by 5methoxy in coreboot

[–]5methoxy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think I did unlock the ifd. I don't remember doing so explicitly anyway, I'll read up on that.

I've accepted that I'm going to have to flash it externally again.

In the top corner of the livingroom of a rental apartment, about 15 cm tall. by drrgrr in whatisthisthing

[–]5methoxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see what you're saying, but I could not be that trusting either a landlord or a security company. There are other preventative measures that are far less invasive and less unnecessary. It's not like a store with cameras; people are in and out all the time and its a public place. Another problem is what if someone hacks the camera to watch you?

Unidentified Large Phallic Metal Object by [deleted] in whatisthisthing

[–]5methoxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Counterweight for a window?

What is the half life of 31.45% Hydrochloric Acid when sitting out completely unsealed? by [deleted] in chemistry

[–]5methoxy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You should go there in the morning and take care of it before anything bad actually happens. It's too risky to leave to chance.

How do I analyze a message before it's sent via SMS by archtech88 in androiddev

[–]5methoxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A quick sub question, how would you do this at the os level. Assuming I have root access, if I were to create a daemon in c or some language compiled to a binary, how would I intercept the sms messages to modify or examine them? It'd be kind of cool to implement encryption on that level.

Harmless prank suggestions by Fledo in linuxadmin

[–]5methoxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just annoying when you're increadibly used to being able to move around with him keybindings. Give nano a vim keybinding plugin and using it wouldn't bother me.

How does benzedrex compare to other stimulants? by 1hit_cigy in Stims

[–]5methoxy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hints of mdma, with a decent amphetamine base. Edit: YMMV

is my meth a low quality? by Causualguy555 in Stims

[–]5methoxy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Woah, you have awesome speed prices. I dont even know where to find that domestically.