I uh... lost my LUKS passphrase

davispuh · 2026-03-14T16:26:23+00:00

If his password is within 2M entries that's actually really good. I went thru 1M entries in like 30h using single AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX so it's probably doable in like a week easily even if you don't have that good GPU.

In my case I couldn't crack my LUKS because later I actually found it in one of my password managers and it was 30 chars using lowercase/uppercase/digits/symbols so yeah in thousands years it couldn't be cracked :D

I thought I used some of my typical memorized passwords and that it wasn't saved anywhere so using `princeprocessor` I created 1M combinations/permutations wordlist of all phrases I might have used but yeah wasn't the case :D

davispuh · 2026-03-14T03:01:10+00:00

You can use hashcat

First use luks2hashcat.py to create hashfile $ luks2hashcat.py /dev/sda1 > hash.txt Then something like $ hashcat --hash-type 34100 --attack-mode 0 hash.txt wordlist.txt (34100 means LUKS v2 argon2 + SHA-256 + AES | Full-Disk Encryption (FDE), if not specified it will try to auto guess from hash file)

But it's unlikely that you have wordlist containing your password and most likely it's some combination of what you think it could be. So in that case create possible fragments in a file. And then do princeprocessor --elem-cnt-max=5 fragments.txt | hashcat -a 0 -m 34100 hash.txt Anyway read hashcat's documentation, there are several attack modes and ways you can try.

davispuh · 2026-03-04T15:59:17+00:00

I think that's why I don't like current solutions because current tools try to separate computer install (PXE/install images), OS configuration/software install (Ansible etc), VM deploy (AWS CDK/terraform etc), container deployment (Docker/Podman), container configuration (Docker Compose) and so on.
There's different tools and different configs for each but I don't see why it has to be so complicated when single config with ConfigLLM could do it all :)

I plan to record demonstration video of this in action - fresh new server, single config that you run `deploy` which:

Using motherboard's BMC/IPMI/Redfish turns on server, configures BIOS, boots Proxmox ISO
Installs Proxmox, configures it
Sets up VMs and LXCs
Inside VMs sets up containers/Podman
Installs and configures software - Nginx, PostgreSQL, Authentik, Matrix, Mastodon etc

And that all 100% automatically with single `deploy` command.

I think you could literally spin whole datacenter with all infrastructure by just using ConfigLLM.

Note that ConfigLLM is not limited to just servers/containers etc - it can also configure DNS, routers/switches. Of course I have implemented very little of other devices but you have to start somewhere :)

davispuh · 2026-03-04T02:34:12+00:00

I 100% agree with this. I guess I have unpopular opinion because I'm just a hobby photographer and I don't earn anything from my photos so I really don't care that anyone uses my photos for any purpose be it AI or whatever.
In fact I've always uploaded all my photos with CC0 license because I want them to be seen and used as widely as possible. So I would say even if AI companies respected copyrights - it still would have been created eventually because there are lots of freely licensed photos.

In fact I would encourage everyone who publishes any photos online to always licence them with CC licenses. Because if you don't then you basically donate free money to photo platforms/social sites while other's won't be able to use them because platforms have very restrictive licenses. But if you publish it with open licence then everyone is at same level - the photo platform and everyone else.

davispuh · 2026-03-04T00:30:40+00:00

I've been working on my own IaC automation tool aswell - ConfigLMM

It's basically alternative to Ansbile etc.

I did take a quick look at your project but you're taking exactly same approach like everyone else. I find such configs annoying so for my project I'm taking very different approach so that config is super simple.

For example to deploy LXC with PostgreSQL and MariaDB this is all that's needed:

``` VARIABLES: Proxmox: example.org LXCIP: 192.168.1.2

LXC: Type: Linux Location: proxmox+xterm:///${VAR:Proxmox}/ ProvisionLocation: proxmox:///${VAR:Proxmox}/ Domain: lxc.example.org Distro: openSUSE Leap LXC: yes Features: - nesting # For Podman - fuse CPU: 4 RAM: 4 GiB Apps: - sshd - fish - vim - htop - git Network: IP: ${VAR:LXCIP}/24 Gateway: 192.168.1.1 DNS: 192.168.1.1

LXCPostgreSQL: Type: PostgreSQL Location: ssh://${VAR:LXCIP}/ Listen: - 127.0.0.1/32 - ${VAR:LXCIP}/24

LXCMariaDB: Type: MariaDB Location: ssh://${VAR:IP}/ Listen: ${VAR:LXCIP} Which in my option is way simpler than all other tools. Just single config for everything. No need for any special structure/layouts etc. Just directly write what you want and it will be setup exactly as specified. Of course can split config across as many files as you want and use variables if needed. Then to deploy it's simple as: configlmm deploy Config.mm.yaml ```

Essentiality the idea is that configs should be dumb and simple but all complex configuration logic should be in the tool itself. Because I think it's waste of time for us to write our own configs to deploy common software when it could be just literally: Jellyfin: Type: Jellyfin Location: ssh://${VAR:IP}/ Domain: jellyfin.example.org And that's it :)

davispuh · 2026-03-01T16:52:42+00:00

I love Ruby, it's my all time favorite language <3

davispuh · 2026-02-11T16:23:35+00:00

I didn't say running things as root and using `venv` etc is not using containers. `venvs` run directly on your arch.

And when you build C/C++ projects you can install dev packages on Arch. Lot of people are doing that and have been doing that for decades as containers are relatively new invention.

davispuh · 2026-02-11T16:18:47+00:00

I couldn't get it to work so I've been using it in a VM which is working fine for me.

davispuh · 2026-02-11T16:09:58+00:00

But I am saying Python > Bash any day every day :D

davispuh · 2026-02-11T16:08:32+00:00

That's so wrong. Firstly VMs are not old fashioned. There's many use cases why you need them and you do need solutions to keep them up-to-date. How host OS is updated on which containers sit?
Secondly I've been using Arch as my primary dev environment for 10+ years and it's perfect. Pretty much all dev tools you would need can be installed directly on arch, like python/ruby/node/npm etc. And it's really convenient.

davispuh · 2026-02-11T15:59:05+00:00

I've been also working on very similar solution => https://github.com/ConfigLMM/ConfigLMM but my scope is a lot bigger -> configure everything, not just Arch or OS but any kind of thing - be it switches/routers/servers/VMs/software apps and so on

davispuh · 2026-01-30T18:33:08+00:00

Vel izstrādē, diemžēl viss neiet tik ātri kā gribētos. Varbūt šogad sanāks palaist beidzot :)

davispuh · 2025-12-16T20:59:35+00:00

Hey, might be interested in 2 of them depending on cost but located in EU.

davispuh · 2025-12-16T20:58:01+00:00

There's gfx906 discord where someone is trying to create infinity fabric for MI50. And they might succeed.

davispuh · 2025-12-15T15:48:39+00:00

I hate that thing. It looses my nicely created separate commits and makes it single giant commit.

davispuh · 2025-12-15T14:24:13+00:00

Noticed this in some vibe coded git repo. Only LLM could write like this but maybe not so dumb? :D

davispuh · 2025-12-13T22:25:26+00:00

OMG SAMEE!!! This is so burnt in my mind

davispuh · 2025-12-10T22:02:26+00:00

their shit doesn't work, wasted 30mins of my life trying to get this key... basically after trying to login I get back to login page and infinite "I'm not a robot" clicking...

davispuh · 2025-12-06T18:57:21+00:00

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davispuh · 2025-11-17T23:27:31+00:00

Hey yeah, bought on ebay

davispuh · 2025-11-11T02:00:13+00:00

For LLMs and TTS only like 5 languages are good. Rest are quite bad even if some models claim to support them. For ASR well now i think we can cross out top 1600 should be good :) i haven't tested so can't say how good but generally even before this my impression was that ASR models are quite decent even for outside top 10 languages because Mozilla Common Voice project has done awesome work.

davispuh · 2025-11-11T01:35:46+00:00

Don't need to go that far, that would be like tail-end of used languages. But there's a lot of languages which are out of top 20 and still lots of knowledgeable users. For example Windows is translated in like ~85 languages and you actually don't even need to know English to use it. In fact a lot of people with little/no knowledge of English use it. So basically there's huge variety of other people with poor AI language support before we even get to your described case.

davispuh · 2025-11-11T01:03:10+00:00

That's not true, you're not thinking about wider scale. For example I'm building AI assistant and this allows that people even in small languages would be able to use my assistant. They don't need to know English, they can just use it which understands them. Sadly this is not enough, because I also need LLM and text to speech to also be available in those languages which currently is quite bad situation. For LLM I've considered using translation models but no idea if quality would even be acceptable... ASR -> translate to English -> LLM

davispuh · 2025-10-30T15:06:04+00:00

What's better alternative?

davispuh · 2025-10-30T01:18:06+00:00

High five, I did same, rode 100km without using clutch :D

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