Moonrise2473

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[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

a nation state can probably find a way

There's no "probably", they can surely find the way, because the decryption key is saved on Microsoft servers, they just need a subpoena for getting it

 

TL;DR: bitlocker does not like grub

Full story:

Months ago I installed fedora on my desktop, dual booting Windows 11.

In all this time I never had the need to boot into windows. I remembered that it worked fine after install, good, and then I forgot about that.

Today I needed a specific windows only software, so at grub I chose the microsoft bootloader and... BITLOCKER.

Huh? Bitlocker? Me? What? Searched frantically for that decryption password in my keepass, did not find. What?? How???

After a few minutes staring at that screen I thought, ok let's just wipe that shit and reclaim the space. I went back to linux, opened the partition manager, then remembered that i had something important in single copy over there. Noooooo

Went back to the boot screen to try again, still failed password.

Then I notice the error:

e_fve_pcr_mismatch

that mismatch lets me think that maybe I had something wrong in my booting.

I try to put windows first in the bios and it works! WHAT THE...?!??

So, if i put linux first, then launch windows from grub, bitlocker takes the windows partition under ransom, i can only access if windows is first. And of course in windows 11 x64 is no longer possible add linux partitions in their boot manager (previously it was possible)

Incompetence or maliciousness?

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 53 points 2 months ago (5 children)

i think it was already dead and replaced by the esp32s - the original arduinos are too expensive for what actually offered: get the performance of a 8-bit cpu with 2k RAM but at raspberry pi prices

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 36 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Considering that if you use a custom ROM, you're a pro user, the 1% of the users, this means only one of this two cases:

  1. The Google Pixel line is a complete failure and failed to reach mainstream status, nobody knows the brand and buys the phones in a store, they're moving 1000x less units than Apple

  2. There's some error in your numbers

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We can ignore that useless site. Nobody with a working brain is going to think "you know what? Let's go to wikipedia but defaced by a broken LLM"

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I’m sure some mad lad could hack together bash, git, and cron into an unholy mess that would do it

Sparkleshare basically did that and of course it sucked for syncing big binary files with frequent tiny changes

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

KeePass2Android has support for many cloud stuff. Host your DB on there, then KeePass2Android will sync with that when you change/open it

KeePass 2 on desktop can compare two databases and sync them. It has also some plugins to sync with cloud

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I use noscript extensively and an approach like yours will break 99.9% of the websites. Everyone nowadays uses CDNs and all you'll see is a broken HTML page with no images.

Probably if there's a way to break the browser like that, you'll be only be able to browse sites hosted on neocities

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

probably i would have ran it outside as the crack just silently "crashed" (while successfully dropped the malware as admin in the right spot, ready to be ran as admin at the next boot via the task scheduler) and i would have thought "maybe it doesn't run in a sandbox/vm".

But yes, in a hindsight, if i ran in sandboxie then i might have noticed that it had dropped suspiciously named files in common:startup with that nice file transfer GUI (unless if the malware detected sandboxie and did not run the malicious routines)

 

I downloaded a cracked install from tpb (haxnode). It was a loader exe that loaded the original exe and supposedly removed the drm in RAM. It required admin permissions, I didn't trust it, but i ran in a vm and nothing happened.

Then i told myself "i have microsoft defender and windows firewall control, they will warn me" and I ran it in my main laptop, and still nothing happened. Like, literally nothing happened. The original program would not start. It would simply exit. Nothing. The other 6 almost identical torrents from the same uploader but with a different program version had a similar result. I gave up.

Then i reboot, and firstly i notice a couple DOS prompts flashing on the screen, and windows firewall control asking me if "aspnet_compiler.exe" is allowed to access the internet or not.

Suspicious, i go to check that "aspnet_compiler.exe" and it's located in the .net system folder, i scan it with microsoft defender and it doesn't report as a virus. I do not pay attention to the fact that it doesn't have a valid Microsoft signature, and i tell myself "probably just a windows update" and i whitelist it on the firewall.

After a few hours I realize "wait a minute: it's impossible that an official windows exe isn't signed by microsoft!" I go back to scan it, not infected... or it looks like, defender says "ignored because in whitelist". What? The "loader" put c:* in the whitelist!

The "crack loader" wasn't a virus per se. It dropped an obfuscated batch in startup, which had a base64 encoded attachment of the actual malware, that was copied in the .net framework directory with unassuming names...

And this for a $60 perpetual license program that i should buy anyway because it's for work

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is public transport strikes should be.

In my country we get at least 1 public transport strikes per month (this month we're already at 2) and it's a win-win-win situation for the main company. Don't need to pay the salary to the workers, don't need to pay for energy/gas and no refunds for all the idiots who purchased a bus/tram/train pass. And anyway the people now expects to get a strike just before the weekend, so they just don't bother, take private transit that day.

The transport companies don't care at all if the workers are on strike. It doesn't hurt their wallet at all! Strike because you want a salary increase? Go ahead, we save money if you do! Instead if strike means free public transport for everyone, the companies would immediately find ways to get an agreement

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Couldn't die = invincible and invulnerable from anything or "couldn't die" from a monkey's paw wish?

Because the latter might be "couldn't die because in a few minutes you get a serious accident where you stay in a coma for 4 years and then die"

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

But like the em dash, because in the millions of pirated ebooks there are no thorns at all, a few illegally scraped posts with thorns will do nothing except slowing my comprehension as I read it as "p"

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

My main concern would be the bacteria thriving on that.

Stale bread: just less tasty, and mold can seen/tasted easily

Similar for veges, probably thrown because "not as fresh looking"

But expired meat? That means the poor animal has been butchered weeks/months ago and it's in decomposition

 

Somehow the EFI partition doesn't mount and it's impossible to troubleshoot via phone, she asked me to put back the old system 😞

 

Got an anycubic resin printer and I'm using their high speed resin (because it was bundled for free), and i tried to send a file using the high speed setting.

After the print it was seemed to be ok, then after i left in a bath of ethanol (IPA can't be found in stores in my country) i got all those holes.

What's the problem?

A slicer problem? The ethanol bath? The high speed resin that's not good?

 

Posso accedere ad archive.is e ad archive.today solo tramite VPN. Sia la linea di casa, sia la linea del telefono e pure scegliendo un server VPN italiano, non permette di accedere al sito

 

I'm pissed that I bought simple gallery pro because it respected my privacy, then because the dev sold his soul for a ton of money, it now rapes my privacy

 

By surprise and without any announcement (maybe I missed it?) Ryochan7 archived their ds4windows project with a final EOL release

Vigembus (the driver) is also discontinued due to a trademark issue by an unrelated company that has nothing to do with gaming

What will be the path forward to easily use non-xbox pads on windows?

 

I use a dual shock 4 via Bluetooth on my PC (Windows) and I'm tired about the workarounds required to have it working all the time. Sometimes it needs steam open, sometimes instead having steam open will confuse the game, and so on. And by default the light is off when connected so I never know if it's o, off, low battery. I have a limited amount of time to play and I don't want to waste 1/4 of it troubleshooting the controller.

I saw an e-waste recycler selling brand new stadia controllers for $15. Some of them in a nice mint green tint that I never seen before. Once flashed with the new Bluetooth mode firmware are they good to play on PC (Windows)? Or I should just use Xbox controllers if I want something that "just works"?

 

Name and shame? hxxps://www.diy-laptoprepair .com/forum/Supermicro-X11SCA-F-repair-guide-schematics.html (link edited in this way they won't get the SEO)

It seems legit at a glance, but then, the link is super generic (technozblog .com/motherboard.html) and all the comments don't make sense as they are disconnected from each other and linking to completely unrelated stuff

 

Still, not what we want

 

If you search for "Microsoft edge open source" there will come out a lot of blog posts from five years ago praising a Microsoft Press release that announces that edge is open source .

But then, there's no actual repository, the GitHub is empty, there's only the MIT license and that's it

So, they publish the source somewhere or it's just marketing?

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