refalo

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago

We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users

No, but the implication is that they may be able to do a lot of it, and we can never know.

What came just a few pages later in the presentation you referenced is "Goal: expand number of nodes we have access to".

That has been their goal for practically decades at this point.

Is it really some conspiracy-nut level stretch to think they might be operating thousands of nodes today and have much deeper penetration than we think?

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago

CMR is simpler and more reliable/battle-tested IMO

[–] refalo@programming.dev 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

No it can't. This story keeps getting posted all over the internet.

Not only is it wrong, and not only do the researchers refuse to show their work (citing possible "misuse"), but it entirely depends on what kind of OPSEC failures the user happens to make.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does it have accounts?

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Do you need more than the 32TB CMR disks they have up on Amazon right now?

[–] refalo@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

I wish it were feasible to go back to 5.25" sized disks again.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Have you checked dmesg (or historical system boot logs) and also ran memtest86+ to make sure your RAM isn't faulty? Even if it's brand new it can still happen. If you have another system nearby (or even just a phone) you could try to SSH (make sure to enable/start the daemon before it freezes) into the machine and see if it's still responsive.

I had a similar issue where I'd get a full system freeze every few weeks (not even the mouse worked), and that one turned out to be a faulty cpu, it was the infamous Raptor Lake "Vmin shift instability" bug, which I got replaced under warranty and that fixed the issue.

But since your mouse still works, we know your CPU is still functioning.

Have you tried to switch to the console with Ctrl+Alt+F1 (or F2 etc.) when the freeze happens? It could just be a software bug with your graphical environment (either Xorg/wayland or your particular window manager/desktop environment like KDE/Gnome/etc.) since the kernel itself doesn't appear to be locked up if the mouse still works.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

If I allocated 16 gig of ram to the kvm, shouldn’t my memory usage be over 16 gig or ram with other Linux programs running?

Normally yes, in my experience.

I open a new tab on a browser and it hangs my system

Hangs the host or the VM guest?

If it's the host, does it ever happen when the VM isn't running?

If it's the guest, are you sure the VM itself isn't just paused? One thing I have noticed is that the VM will pause when either I run out of disk space, or (if using -snapshot) run out of RAM (because it's using RAM as an always-expanding disk image).

[–] refalo@programming.dev 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

No it can't... all this paper talks about is correlating OPSEC failures which any human can do and not related to the name you use.

They don't even publish their exact methodology, like prompts or other tools "for safety." So their findings are literally just "trust me bro."

[–] refalo@programming.dev 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I swear people will never be happy no matter what.

No AI features? Get with the times man.

AI features? High treason.

Opt-out? Not good enough.

Opt-in? Nobody will use it.

Can't please everyone I guess.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder if you need to explicitly prompt it to check if a function really exists before suggesting it? Think about how a human brain works... we are constantly evaluating whether or not things are really true based on info in our heads... but we are not telling the models to do the same thing and instead they just yolo some shit that is confidently-wrong (not unlike many humans, admittedly).

 

I would prefer to find an operating system I can support that is developed by people who are generally kind, however I find the behavior of many of the top Linux/*BSD devs to be... abhorrent.

Are there any real alternatives that are led by nicer people?

 

The free community version of Rustdesk Server (a competitor to the Teamviewer remote access software) is AGPL licensed.

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server

The paid, proprietary Pro version builds on top of the community edition by adding extra features such as user authentication and a web backend for administration.

There exists a repo for the pro server: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server-pro

But it only contains install scripts and no actual source code of the application.

The github releases page of this repo however, contains the compiled code of the proprietary pro version and is available for anyone to download for free.

Analyzing the disassembly of the pro and open source binaries shows that the pro version is definitely based on the open source version.

The company previously associated with Rustdesk, Purslane Limited of the UK, is no longer in operation since 2023.

The project has no CLA and so the dozens of previous contributors still hold the copyright to their code and have not given permission for it to be used in a proprietary version.

There have been multiple requests for the source code of this pro version, but either there was no response or the issue was closed without comment.

EDIT: The repo owner has completely deleted the issue, here is a screenshot: https://0x0.st/KaqD.png

To me this just proves they know what they're doing is wrong.

 

Interpreting C++, executing the source and executable like a script.

  • Writing powerful script using C++ just as easy as Python;
  • Writing hot-loading C++ script code in running process;
  • Based on Unicorn Engine qemu virtual cpu and Clang/LLVM C++ compiler;
  • Integrated internally with Standard C++23 and Boost libraries;
  • To reuse the existing C/C++ library as an icpp module extension is extremely simple.

There is also a Qt helper module: https://github.com/vpand/icpp-qt

 

Tried to use several different API endpoints as described in the link, but they all return 403 with a cloudflare "Just a moment..." html reply. Even tried copying an existing jwt token from a working logged-in browser but the same thing still happens.

Any idea what I could be doing wrong?

curl -v --request POST \
     --url https://programming.dev/api/v3/user/login \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '{"username_or_email": "redacted", "password": "redacted"}'
...
< HTTP/2 403
...
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en-US"><head><title>Just a moment...</title>
...
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by refalo@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev
 

I am noticing that some comments, which are coming from users on other verified (via /instances) federated instances, do not show up on a post. For example: https://programming.dev/post/13648105

Does not show this comment on it: https://lemmy.ml/comment/10803786

Any ideas why? I checked the modlog and the comment wasn't removed, and their post history to me does not look like someone that is likely to be banned from the instance, so I'm not sure what else it could be.

 

My lemmy account is on the programming.dev instance but I use newsboat for RSS reading of some lemmy.ml communities, along with browsing the local homepage of lemmy.ml and some other instances in a regular browser. Is there a way to do either of these things from the programming.dev instance so that I can easily comment on posts without having to manually locate the same post by browsing to /c/foo@lemmy.ml on my own instance?

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