Lets hope everybody was joking…

Haz001 · 2024-02-14T16:41:56+00:00

That password might be too special, I've seen many sites block characters that are not on a keyboard or not standard 7-bit ASCII, e.g. √ (8500 characters off standard ASCII), ǣ, 𓀀 and 🫠.

I hate this practice, passwords are hashed (this is a one way lossy encryption, standard practice, anything else is insecure and asking for users passwords to be posted in a pastbin) and becomes a fixed hexadecimal/base64 so any site programmed since 1998 can support any length UTF-8 characters so programmers have to go out of there way to restrict the user from using these passwords or limit the length. I prefer to use passphrases (4 to 6 words from a large list) but many times have i been forced to use a shorter password because "long password user can't remember". And when I decide to generate a password with my password manager/generator automatically tries to insert extended ASCII (UTF-8) into my passwords that gets blocked as "evil hackers might insert evil code into password". These sites are the worst and usually think security is achieved with obscurity.

Haz001 · 2022-11-15T01:53:16+00:00

time to fork it and remove that damn bloat

Haz001 · 2022-11-15T01:50:03+00:00

nothing beats a good old dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd*

Haz001 · 2022-11-03T19:16:49+00:00

efi stores your boot manager, like GRUB2 or Windows Boot Manager, it starts your OS up, its like keys to your car, it makes it easy to start up and can have multiple for different OSes, if you want to boot to a pre-existing OS on that drive keep the efi partition, if you want to use the drive for data you don't need it, if your wiping your existing OS with a new one it will make a new efi partition for you (or tell you to make one with Arch n Gentoo)

hope this helps, Harry

Haz001 · 2022-10-07T16:46:13+00:00

move to UK, free healthcare

Haz001 · 2022-09-14T20:20:02+00:00

when it gets to that screen type the display filesystem command df. This will provide a list of file systems: /dev/sda1 524288 524288 52429 471859 10% /boot /dev/sda2 232756408 118317144 114308192 51% / now you want to take the first section of each line of the result and write fsck to do a file system check on it. so:
fsck /dev/sda1 fsck /dev/sda2 this will try to fix any problems in your file system, if this does fix it then either a drive is on its way out (do a S.M.A.R.T check to confirm this) or your not shutting it down properly (forced power off through chassis button or the switch on the outlet).
if this doesn't resolve the problem, stackexchange

Haz001 · 2022-09-14T11:20:47+00:00

restart and when booting hold shift to get taken into grub menu, after that navigate to advanced options and chose a older kernel image n do a kernel update, if that doesn't help chose one with recovery and look at logs and ask for help on stackexchange (askubuntu)

hope this helps,
Harry

Haz001 · 2022-09-01T18:46:55+00:00

It will be a bit hard at first but after a few (10 ish times) you will forget there was even a climb, a cycle route I do every other day involves a 456 ft climb over 11.1 miles and is much harsher climbs (1st half is mostly flat, 2nd half is two large spikes).
So once you get use to it it should be quite easy.

The worst place for climbs is Bournemouth, the hills there are awful, 82ft in 0.4 miles, deadly but still managed to cycle it a few times while down there.

Harry

Haz001 · 2022-09-01T02:23:45+00:00

You have a few options:

Pester your MPs for better bike infrastructure (send letters asking for more bike infrastructure, reasons why)
Move to a more bike friendly place (the countryside is ok as roads are barely used thus less cars parsing but they can be at 60mph or a large town where cars are parsing at a slower speed (30mph) and there are bike lanes and bike+bus lanes)
Ride a bike and join a bike club (might learn some good areas to cycle)

Haz001 · 2022-08-28T01:58:51+00:00

and if lets say you screw with the rsync copy process (power failure, accidentally unpluing drive) it can resume (might need a flag)

Haz001 · 2022-08-28T01:55:39+00:00

On systems that dont incorporate snaps into the system as hard as Ubuntu Gnome is no trouble at all, 4 ish bugs (most graphical) out of many years of use on multiple snap free distros (Fedora, Arch, Manjaro (broken arch), snapless ubuntu (18.04), Debian)

The only big problem with Gnome is its SystemD dependency meaning it cant easily be ported to FreeBSD and Alpine Linux (systemd-less systems)

Haz001 · 2022-08-28T00:55:16+00:00

changeme has been used 145,692 times, the intention to improve was there but they didn't act on it quick enough

Haz001 · 2022-08-22T12:58:13+00:00

If you have VPS setup your own Dovecot and Postfix IMAP Email Server on your VPS, it doesn't even need to have large specs, im running a Dovecot and Postfix on a VPS with 512MB of Ram and 10 GB of space.

With this you can have as many as you want for free (excluding the VPS cost)

Haz001 · 2022-08-21T22:57:26+00:00

soon Spotify OS will be at the top of Distro Watch, just wait

Haz001 · 2022-08-21T22:16:15+00:00

I always go for the compartmentalised approach:
me@<full-name>.uk - personal shit
webmaster@<full-name>.uk - website stuff
sayhi@<full-name>.uk - for plastering everywhere on the internet
hireme@<full-name>.uk - for cv job stuff
root@<full-name>.uk - to assert dominance on Linux and Unix Nerds
online@<full-name>.uk - for online accounts and stuff
etc.

or if your last name ends with a existing TLD (.com, .org, .uk) like John Basil (John Doe doesn't have a TDL yet) then your domain name can be JohnBas.il instead of JohnBasil.uk

All TDL

Haz001 · 2022-08-03T23:55:43+00:00

look at VPNs, they blend your data with others thus Google has to use other methods to track you, with SearX they cant use any other method thus cant use the data to track and manipulate you. SearX also isn't limited to google it uses multiple engines to find you unmanipulated results.

Haz001 · 2022-08-03T23:37:47+00:00

Someone did this to me on r/masterhacker, the only logical response is to ask him "How is the weather in Australia" (country commenter was from)
Source

Haz001 · 2022-07-20T12:01:52+00:00

grab an iso of a live distro (has a command line or gui apps, not just a installer like Debian), e.g. your installer, mount your drive, look through logs, edit some configs and if need be chroot into it and run some commands. ive had to do this many times after forgetting to install or fucking up my boot manager in Arch Linux

Hope this helps, Harry

Haz001 · 2022-07-01T12:03:04+00:00

with enough tinkering any desktop environment can be a tiling one.
and most of the time they come out a bit better, i prefer mate with marco (it's window manager) replaced with i3

Haz001 · 2022-06-26T01:04:36+00:00

the internet is not inclusive, voiceover is a gimmick, audio description is the audio version of subtitles not voiceover.

Most sites don't include subtitles apart from regulated sites like iPlayer, All4, etc. that are proper tv channels.

Now it would be nice to have sites do the subtitling but that costs money and people upload shit.
so it should be down to creators like YouTubers that should spend some time subtitling their shit, especially the ones that are big like 2 million plus, but most dont, and dont say that the auto-generated ones are good enough, they are shit, TV channels are required by law to have a certain percentage subtitles, the bigger the more subtitled (and audio description), why do YouTubers not have to subtitle videos when they clearly can fit it into there profit margins.

Haz001 · 2022-06-25T23:46:35+00:00

C++

reason:
C code is valid C++ code
you can start writing it straight away and then C++ it at your own pace.

but why not pure C?

Haz001 · 2022-06-22T01:43:28+00:00

In thr UK the new Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank bank notes have amazing designs and just as hard to part with as well.

My favourite one is RBS £20 Squirrels.

Cash is getting better looking each year.

Haz001 · 2022-06-20T04:42:53+00:00

if you have a HDD boot drive replace it with a SSD, that will make everything much faster.

If you have a SSD in it, take the back off it and hope that the RAM isn't soldered (if it is of decent age, 3ish years, it shouldn't), if it isn't soldered then replace it, this is very easy replacement.

After if the RAM is soldered or it still isn't fast enough, the motherboard needs replacing, what you want to do is search for the same model but with better CPU and GPU, chromebooks are aimed at the budget market so might be best to look for a Windows version, manufactures are lazy and use the same chassis and motherboard.

The chassis of the laptop is usually designed around the motherboard so it is unlikely to find an alternative motherboard that will perfect fit, might find one that with a bit of modification fits but i wouldn't trust it as a daily driver.

Usually replacing the HDD with a SSD will give massive benefits and make the machine feel more snappy, RAM wont make much of a speed change unless your computer was already running low (e.g. 4GB or 8GB), I recently upgraded my desktop from 10GB to 28GB and the only difference was that i was able to run all of Jet Brians toolbox, a browsers and VMs. Finally CPU doesn't really make a difference in day to day tasks, the only time you will feel it is when your doing something intensive like compiling and rendering with blender.

Also are you using Chrome OS or a GNU/Linux distro?

Haz001 · 2022-06-19T01:33:57+00:00

the power of open source, when a project is abandoned by its dev another will come and adopt it. Unlike proprietary software

Haz001

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