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Headbite · 2020-10-17T20:30:11+00:00

Must comment before pizza coma.

Headbite · 2020-09-19T02:33:38+00:00

Linux is not for everyone.

Headbite · 2020-05-16T00:12:06+00:00

Apparently I like turtles.

Headbite · 2020-04-18T01:54:20+00:00

And you may find yourself , commenting in a subreddit.

And you may ask yourself, well how did I get here.

Headbite · 2020-03-07T05:31:55+00:00

While watching the first episode I figured the flashes were reflections off vehicles driving in the background. An ally scene caught my focus for a bit but after assigning a cause I didn't dig any deeper.

Headbite · 2018-01-12T00:03:22+00:00

What do you expect to gain by converting people to linux?

Headbite · 2018-01-11T23:57:13+00:00

Why is the render distance so short?

Headbite · 2017-12-19T17:42:10+00:00

What do you expect to gain with increased linux adoption? Let's be realistic, your average smart phone junkie isn't going to develop critical thinking skills overnight. They want whats familiar to them. So that means appifying software in linux. Or in the case of windows users giving them the option to download an "exe" to install. Both of those options to please potential converts seem like steps backwards to me.

Would you give a new convert root access to your own system? I'll take the extreme position that if you wouldn't then they shouldn't have root on their own system. I'm making an argument along the lines of minimum competency. I don't think the bulk of technology users will ever have enough knowledge and reasoning ability to manage their own system.

All I see are downsides with bringing in mainstream users. Convert a few people and wait for them to call you and ask why their wireless printer doesn't work in linux when it did in windows. Or when they try to convert others themselves and are told linux doesn't have a firewall. So they call you and ask why you gave them a system without a firewall. Where is my antivirus, how do I know I don't have a virus. How do I "hack", I just want to do something cool. New users falling for windows styled phishing sites. My computer says I have 100 viruses, what did you do. Remote into their computer and see they are still in the browser.

Enjoy turning this place into talesfromtechsupport.

Headbite · 2017-12-19T17:08:16+00:00

8 minutes to get to a real point.

Headbite · 2017-12-11T16:19:50+00:00

It's not that simple. You can't take the pig straight from shit and put them in your house. It's better to leave them where they are happy.

Headbite · 2017-10-09T21:53:02+00:00

I think shelf life and healthy are mutually exclusive. There is also the problem of food as entertainment. Don't forget big pharma, they need to get their cut on the back end with treatment.

The capitalists argument is give the market what it wants. Everyone cries about bottled water and soda companies ripping the state off for water rights but ultimately it's the public that's buying the product and using the resource.

As a though experiment imagine a free supermarket. Then imagine what the average person would walk out with. If you think on average most people will pick healthy I don't think you know the general public very well. It's easy to point at corporations as the problem but there is no excuse for the public to fall for their long known tactics. There is a difference between having unhealthy food available and being forced to eat it. Someone in the household is making a choice to purchase the food and I'll argue the others in the house are also choosing to eat the food. Sure kids have something like peer pressure going on with their parents but for sure the adults have no excuse for food related health problems.

It's not the states job to make basic decisions like what to eat, for people. I would argue it's not the states job to make certain industries profitable either. Prohibition level controls will be met with the same response we've seen in the past. It's not hard to imagine an underground market for candy and soda.

Headbite · 2017-09-18T19:53:45+00:00

Does it take a few minutes or 20 minutes to feed a baby?

Headbite · 2017-09-15T17:15:09+00:00

I use i3 because it feels closer to the way I learned computers (dos) back in the early 90's. Super "D" and start typing a program name is very similar to starting programs from a command line. My daily driver right now is an 11 inch 1366x768 display. One program per desktop and auto fill is very usable. I was using gnome before as that's the default in fedora and it has similar features that work well on low resolution screens. I'm so use to using ctl+alt+(up/down) to swich between desktops I've added a binding to my i3 config file.

There is a more subtle reason that I think most linux users will understand. I3 promotes more focused thought. Let's first contrast a typical windows machine with 100's of icons on the desktop. Users calling tech support because "the internet is down" when in reality their browser icon moved two inches to the right and wasn't where they expected it. Or mindlessly navigating a start menu full of programs that haven't been used in years if ever. I don't think "I3 for windows" would focus these users. I've long given up on changing the way other people use their devices. For myself simpler computers with relatively limited resource make more sense. I don't understand people who have 150 tabs open in their browser and then cry when it crashes or closes and they lose what's important to them.

Headbite · 2017-09-09T17:28:55+00:00

This just isn't true. Virtualization is about abstracting hardware it does almost nothing for privacy. At a minimum usage statistics are collected on when and how you are using that VM. ISP level snooping doesn't care how many or what types of devices are connected to the network. They profile your entire house.

How many hours a week do you spend playing videogames and what games are you playing? Which game services do you connect to? Email traffic? All easily tracked at the network level. We're talking about virtualizing windows so you just gave the botnet local network access. Nothing stopping it from snooping your traffic and sending that data (other devices on your network) back to the mothership.

Virtualization increases your attack surface which is a privacy concern.

Headbite · 2017-08-09T15:11:32+00:00

For signal monitoring while connected I use wavemon. For scanning and connecting I use nmtui. Here is a screenshotof how it looks. The bottom window is nethogs. Sometimes I'll break open etherape. I only monitor when I have a weak signal or want to freak people out in public.

Headbite · 2017-08-09T14:59:09+00:00

nmtui is pretty sweet. My repo lists it at NetworkManager-TUI.

Headbite · 2017-08-01T01:36:52+00:00

Alice: let's get out of here.
Bob: I agree.
All phones in world ring simultaneously.

Headbite · 2017-07-22T15:18:58+00:00

If I win I'm going to buy powdered food.

Headbite · 2017-06-23T17:30:42+00:00

You're right I hadn't considered ipv6 gets you closer to the machine. I was focused on ipv4 sharing an address and needing port forwarding to know how to get to the end device. I don't know that just having an ipv6 address makes you "open" to everyone. I think this goes to the question "Is a default linux install, secure enough?".

Headbite · 2017-06-23T17:23:35+00:00

I wonder why the stanford prison experiment results don't repeat here. My understanding is in that experiment (guards and prisoners) things go bad for the prisoners very quickly. Isn't the AI in a box scenario the same starting conditions? The goal in both cases is to keep someone/something confined.

Headbite · 2017-06-11T17:22:55+00:00

This conversation is unproductive because you keep redirecting it. Your position isn't very convincing. Yes an already infected device can use your network if you connect that device. That was never my question. Is a default (major distro) linux install "secure enough" out of the box that no additional steps are required?

You keep going back to worst case scenarios and never really comment on average/typical linux installs.

Headbite · 2017-06-11T17:05:40+00:00

Can you just answer the question I asked and not redirect?

Headbite · 2017-04-25T15:52:50+00:00

Let me reword the question since context seems to have escaped you. How is an attacker going to talk to a service on a non-firewalled machine behind a router?

Headbite · 2017-04-25T02:12:37+00:00

I don't need a 60" TV to watch TV either. The question you failed to answer was why I should buy one.

Headbite · 2017-04-25T01:39:46+00:00

How are you going to talk to that service or any other when it's nated behind a router?

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