/tech/ - technology

>>2724
You do know GRSec stable is "leaked" from time to time. Once a year it appears.
No? See, another dumb guy "playing" at this "infosec" "linux" thing. So yea: in current year people do have Grsec.

GRSec is a requirement for a secure linux system. Period.

Guys, linux is not secure, never has been. With or without patches from anyone. Stop thinking in magical black boxes.

>>2737

Source?

>>2739
read some CVE's. New bugs comming out all the time in all sorts of software.

>>2739
You really want me to link you to kernel.org don't you?

>>2628
Shut the fuck up Mikee, you fucking pedo.

>Shut the fuck up Mikee, you fucking pedo.

No.

Which?

>>2717

Well, I would say no, but it's depend if you use free driver or not. Since they don't give it in the installer the option to go with non free driver which mean you have to download Wifi driver, graphics card drivers etc on another usb to install during the installation. It's really is a pain in the ass. Even Arch is so much more simple then Debian on so much stuff.

>>2718

I hear you, and i agree. I just see Debian as the Firefox ESR of linux Distro. I love it for that.

>>2717

If i can recommend you a Distro that i used for my work and personal computer. Anarchy linux. It's a text base installer for Arch.

>>2728
Debian GNU/Linux are better.

Sup, /tech/. Rate my desktop.

>>1991
>spread malware
just liveboot linux on your laptop before plugging it in

lookup piratebox

I used to live in a densely populated area. A real big soykafty. Over the span of 5 years, I found a total of 3 random USB drives while out walking around and just taking care of my day to day business. The first was really scuffed up and the housing was cracked. It contained heavy metal and punk rock mp3s. Boring top of the pops stuff, nothing obscure or interesting. The second was blank and in good condition. I still use it to this day. The third, found near a library, was full of a student's class work and had a directory with some personal pictures. Just mundane stuff, nothing spicy. I was able to figure out the name and email of the owner by browsing through the files and decided to contact them. They were extremely relieved to hear that it had been found. I met up with that anon the next day and they explained that just about everything on there was backed up except for a paper they were currently working on. This was back in the day, just as cloud based services like google docs were rolling out. The poor anon was freaking out thinking they were going to have to rewrite a paper they had nearly completed. I really felt for them, having experienced a hard drive failure myself and knowing what a demoralizing grind it can be to have to rewrite a long half remembered document that you've already completed.

One summer, when I was still in the big soykafty, I decided to leave a few thumb drives with some OC in random places, just for the sake of doing it. I added some funny exif/steg info and was curious if I'd ever hear anything back. I noticed one of the pictures on another image board some time later but that might just have been a repost of something I had already posted myself. Some time had past. I always figured the drives I left around were either damaged or, if they were reused, wiped without investigation due to security concerns.

Like the others mentioned in this thread, be careful how you examine found drives. I refurbish old gear and have an expendable air gapped rig that I live boot for just this purpose.

>>1991
>piratebox
ffs just buy a vps with bitcoin and host a public ftp server

>>2686
I think you may have missed the point of this thread.

>>2670

Been on Linux since 1998.

Not bashing this. The advice is solid, but i honestly feel best middle-ground is to use Slackware first. Starting on a Desktop-centric distro will create psy resistance to going primitive. Mint/Xubuntu are seriously soild, but nature shows the baby has to be thrown out of the nest.

Those pretty, convenient packages don't come out of thin air. Good idea to learn how to compile, then flat pack them using the distros tools.

+ Slack isn't rolling. I don't see why anyone should use a roller unless they're developers. Even then, if you're new to *nix, i'd recommend CentOS over any Arch or Ubuntu base. New users will get the soykafs when things break. If they haven't broken for you…trust me, they will. Give it time.

Condemning distro hopping is seriously the best advice I've seen. Stick with your tool. When you hit a problem, fix it, rather than finding the easiest route. Remember, it's a fucking Kernel, not the tools. Don't be lazy. Sort it. :)

>>2671
Love you too! <3
>>2672
>But nature shows that baby has to be thrown out of the nest.
You're certainly right about that, I also learned the most by doing exactly that in my life, except for when I switched to Linux. I'm running Debian/Xubuntu due to updates and or stability since I'm that kind of man. Also yeah, I still don't know how to compile, what a tarball is (isn't it just like a zip file?) and all of the other stuff. However I do know how to use fstab and install ncmpcpp hehe.

Sorry, what's a roller? Isn't it like a rolling release or? Also yeah, things have broken for me plenty of times and I've spent hours trying to fix stuff on my machine through various guides but it kinda feels great.

Haha yeah, I don't really get people who distrohop, sure I've had the thoughts but why even bother? Not like you'll gain more experience by hopping, maybe you will get some HIGH STREET CRED by running Parabola on an old salvaged R52 thinkpad, but I don't really care about that. Thank you for responding :)

As opposed to the answers here, I think distro hopping is the best solution
>Why?
Well I started using Ubuntu as my first GNU/Linux distribution, then I've hopped to it's flavors then to every other distribution imaginable to man
For me it worked quite well, I could've just kept using Ubuntu and tried different WMs and DEs in it but I just decided to try other distributions altogether.
When I did this I actually learned a lot, the DEs and WMs that were present in such distributions were already configured for your use, if it were for me to use Ubuntu, manually debloat it and then install my own proffered WM and configure that I would've already given up and I would still be on Windows, If I would've not given up I would be on a point of constant stagnation because if I wouldn't know the benefits of other distributions and I would be just like a Windows user, defending my distribution just because I have a sentimental value attached to it.
What I'm saying is that if you distro hop you can learn about new package managers and see the possibilities of customizing a desktop and what so on
This might not work for you but it did work for me.

Basic questions to ask yourself if you are planning to switch:
Is my hardware supported? (searching [model name of your device] + linux can be quite revealing)
Does using a LiveCD not end in complete disaster?
Will Linux meet my computing needs? (ie. vidya, messaging apps, etc.)
Are there places I can easily search/ask questions if things go wrong?

If you just want to dip your toes, distro hop, rice things up, and play with a terminal then try things out in a Virtual Machine.

I honestly have no idea what to recommend someone entirely new to GNU/Linux operating systems nowadays.

>>2675
I think this might be a good point, if you want to "learn" linux anyway.

Hopping also forces you to realize what's standard and whats not, whats common and whats rare, and what are patterns of different distro families.

My personal story (n00b to professional sysadmin in 3 years (I didnt mean for it to work out this way)) started on arch, broke many things and fixed somewhat fewer, was willing to live with a less than working system more often than not. I distro hopped a ton for maybe months 6-18 before settling on close to my current arrangement, and spent the balance sorting out the finer points of packaging software, handling servers and networks, and many other bits of the arcana.

shrugs

>>2665
I3 isn't hard to configure, all I did was copy paste a config file from github then look at some videos about it's configuration and then I could just add/remove my own stuff
Also, I don't see what's wrong with rolling release
More stuff broke when I was using Debian and Slackware than Arch and Void
I've been using it for a long time and nothing bad happened so far

>>2666

Alright you know what, I've got a bit of time to kill I'm gonna install it and see what i think.

>>2666
>>2667

Got a trouble of problem during the install someone fixed it for me the lxqt was VERY minimal and i loved it the package manager is not really different then arch. Got a couple of trouble with nvidia. If someone didn't help me during the install process it would have take me ages but it good and the differences with a systemd system is inexistant to be fair.

config was ryzen 2700x gtx 1060 with 16gb ram

>>2668

Good to know you enjoy it
Any updates?

I had a massive amount of trouble getting the FDE to work on my latest void install, I tried 20+ times in multiple different ways and still could not get it to work following any of the instructionsets that were available on their site. If anyone knows how to do this properly with an updated set of instructions I would appreciate it, because they did something after they regained the signing keys that fucked it all up somehow.

>>2663

Tracking device are in nature pretty invasive. I look but it would be pretty fucking crazy to see tracking device that doesn't collect anything. Doesn't mean it does not exist, but unless you do something along the line of DIY I don't really believe you will find something.

>>2452
Ha! that reminds me, some anons back on 4chan figured if they typed n1ggr for the captchas it would show up, i wasnt sure if what they where trying would work, but one day I came across a obscure dititalized book and sure enough completely out of place there was a random n1ggr right in the middle of the page.

>>2456
Oh, also as for solving captchas I dont know any easy out. You do have botting, some people pass them on for others to solve automatically.
(As a paid service of course)

Data poisoning is always fun though; get the first captcha right its usually one they already know the answer with complete certainty, than porposefuly get the next ones only half right ussualy always takes it.

>>2457
>Data poisoning is always fun though

Doubt that works unless it's a concentrated effort by the hacker called 4chan. There are too many people solving them correctly. But of course by itself it's fun to put in the occassional misclick.

>>2451
There are a number of websites that use it that I really enjoy - bandcamp and humble bundle, for example - that I'm not going to as much anymore because I block iframes and cross-origin scripts through umatrix. Captcha makes things so hard as to not be worth it. It's effectively malware - I don't want any of Google's code running on my computer!

>>2018
The self-driving cars thing is mostly a myth though. I mean it obviously exists and the captcha solving will be used for that too, but among thousands of other types of AI training. So to immediately relate one to the other doesn't really apply.
If you want to be moral about it, you wouldn't be able to solve that type of captcha at all, since everything you feed it helps the AI get better at recog and consequently surveillance. But then again, you do that and they win because it will happen anyways and refusing to do captchas will just cripple you out of doing a bunch of stuff you want to do.
There used to be the maxim, "there is no ethical consumption under Capitalism", but now it's more like, "there is no ethical anything in whatever is this system we live in".
Of course, I'm not saying to stop trying to be ethical and do your best, just that, well, things are fucked as fuck, and always from way more angles than we can notice or even possibly think of.

This would be interesting to find out. So far people I do know in real life and in my contacts have not been recommended to me. It may go by device location more than anything. Block Twitter from reading your location may not show people near by that you may know.

I only follow hardware manufactures but somehow Donald Trump still came up in my recommended to follow list. I'm not even from the US.

protected accounts do not pop up in the who to follow list

>>2576
>I used a burner mail address and didn't add my phone number,
Actually, I'd bet that the account has since been security-locked for "suspicious activity" due to the lack of a phone number. That's a favourite tactic at Twitter to pull in additional personal info.

>>2593
I think this only happens if you try to log in using a shared IP address. But yes, if it were a real security feature it wouldn't rely on SMS.

>>2593
I have a few Twitter accounts to spread some things in the platform. Always create them like this, they get blocked instantly and then I send an email to support saying I didn't do anything suspicious, their system seems to be broken, etc., complaining that keeping people out for not having a mobile is unfair - basically sounding extremely unaware and just asking it back- and they always reinstate within the day.