Root Access

@William You have it backwards. Questions are not closed because someone calls it an XY problem. They're closed because they're not asking a question, they're proposing a solution to a problem no one knows about (because it's not asked).

Incidentally, we describe such a situation as an "XY problem" but the name of it doesn't matter.

I could call it a "Wizmo problem" and it'd still be the same situation.

Anyway, this sounds like a Robocopy/rsync job. But currently the problem description is too fragmented to make any concrete proposal.

rahuldottech

1:18 AM

@BenN A couple years ago you and I had a room where we discussed some VBS/HTA stuff, but I can't seem to be able to find it anymore (I think it was deleted). Can you please try and dig it up?

Ah, nevermind, found it

Link was on your chat.se profile page :)

Hey, remember bugchecked? :P

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech if it was deleted, finding it is a royal pain in the keister

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek Wasn't deleted

ok bye going to skool

Journeyman Geek

go go

rahuldottech

wish me luck

Journeyman Geek

NEVER TOO KOOL FOR SKOOL!

rahuldottech

1:24 AM

lmao

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech don't accidentally kill anyone, even with falling monitors.

Journeyman Geek

1:44 AM

so, my dad's apparently ~~an idiot~~ got issues with scary popup ads

I've taken care of the website that's causing it but, any suggestions on good, trusty systemwide adblockers for android?

I seem to remember there was an adblock thing that ran as a "vpn"

Journeyman Geek

2:09 AM

oh god so far i have been through 3 different voice prompts with accents ranging from 80s robot to indian....

and got a gdpr notice in the phone

Bob

2:24 AM

@JourneymanGeek Firefox

w/ uBlock

Otherwise, there's a Samsung-specific one IIRC

Journeyman Geek

2:37 AM

Ya. Samsung's browser has a set of em

Ff is going to confuse my dad and it would be nice to block ads in apps too

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I don't mean the browser.

There's a proper app via the Samsung app store

It relies on Knox IIRC

AdHell!

Journeyman Geek

Ahhh

Nordlys Jeger

Opera on android has a pretty good popup/ad blocker

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Matrix

Nordlys Jeger

PIhole

Journeyman Geek

2:50 AM

@NordlysJeger might be planned with my next home network update

Journeyman Geek

3:01 AM

@NordlysJeger switching browsers is gonna be a pain

allquixotic

4:18 AM

Trash To Treasure - The Abandoned Walmart

►

allquixotic

4:40 AM

wow if this isn't a spinny video

How a Landfill Works

►

Bob

5:20 AM

techreport.com/news/28724/…

The comments though...

djsmiley2k

7:28 AM

If you've written bash scripts to copy files, surely you know you should be using rsync...?

Journeyman Geek

7:41 AM

We Made a Banhammer (feat. NerdCubed)

►

Bob

why does that look familiar

I swear someone linked that earlier today (yesterday?)

10 hours ago, by Burgi

We Made a Banhammer (feat. NerdCubed)

►

I was looking through riot and discord :P

Journeyman Geek

!!!!

BANHAMAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! oh wait, you need hands for that. Twarted.

Burgi

8:11 AM

so....

the ISPs engineers showed up today but they might not be able to complete the job because the wind is gusting up to 25mph

Dog

9:19 AM

@Burgi omg this is effing hilarious and awesome.

An ~~IRL~~ ~~not IRL~~ VR banhammer

@JourneymanGeek there's the fake VPN method but I use one that uses the root method (Adaway)

Journeyman Geek

@Dog don't really want to root my dad's phone

Burgi

9:53 AM

NerdCubed's stream is pretty funny too

b_jonas

superuser.com/q/1355080/267786 "Skype for Windows automatic upgrade keeps recreating desktop shortcut icon" => problem still recurred for me in today's upgrade

Burgi

apparently the ISP can't tell us where microwave relay endpoint is due to "GDPR"

2

Bob

10:08 AM

o_O

Journeyman Geek

._.

THAT WORD!

Burgi

10:32 AM

using my mark one eyeball and the plans they sent us i've figured it out

@dog would you like a photo of the relay antenna for your collection?

Journeyman Geek

10:46 AM

@b_jonas not sure what we can do there

rahuldottech

11:09 AM

Hello

Exam went poorly but I'm much better now

@b_jonas get rid of Skype

Boris_yo

@rahuldottech And what to use?

djsmiley2k

12:10 PM

@Burgi I'm in Chester and it's about 40mph atm

@Boris_yo it won't be a problem anymore ;D

Driving over from Wales was interesting.... All the bridges were 20mph, and most closed to anything but cars.

Dog

1:13 PM

@Burgi Relay? For what?

Burgi

@Dog internet

our backup line failed

Dog

@Burgi Sure, why not. As long as its anything to do with modern wireless tech I'm usually interested

bertieb

2:11 PM

@Burgi hey, microwave endpoints have a right to privacy too

That Brazilian Guy

@Bob are all reasonable enough, at least the dozen or so I read.

bertieb

Turns out all the roads near me are being dug up because CityFibre are getting involved in FTTH

That Brazilian Guy

I guess you don't follow politics news and specially their comments section.

bertieb

The consumer/home side of it is going to be offered by Vodafone though, of all companies

That Brazilian Guy

Far-right Brazilians are absolutely sure the Nazis were left wing, so the German embassy in Recife (Northeastern Brazil) released a video explaining the extreme right ideology behind the whole thing. The result? People responding saying "I don't think Germans understand Nazism."

Tweeted by pedroliveira_ on September 10, 2018 at 5:37 PM

Journeyman Geek

2:17 PM

....

Didn't a bunch end up there?

bertieb

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheBoysFromBrazil (tvtropes warning)

Burgi

i thought they went to argentina

bertieb

And the related: ArgetinaIsNaziland

Journeyman Geek

But BOYS FROM BRAZIL

bertieb

> Apparently she worked for a German family that turned up in Guatemala... [darkly] just after the war.

> "In America, you call it the 'alt-right'. In Germany, we call it 'why grandpapa lives in Argentina now'."

That Brazilian Guy

2:28 PM

Brazilian "Integralist" movement:

Reminds me of... something. I can't quite put my finger on it.

yode

Of course I know the meaning of -contains in 'a','b','c' -contains 'B'

What's meaning the -f in PowerShell?

Bob

@ThatBrazilianGuy Look at the ones by "Nevermind". The rest are sane (a rarity!)

@yode docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/…

yode

2:47 PM

@Bob Thanks very very much...

Nick

is there a PS room on SE?

Powershell, not PlayStation.

That Brazilian Guy

@Bob Oh, sure.

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek Do et, is simples!¬

Nick

3:06 PM

internetlivestats.com <-- is this for realz, yo?

That Brazilian Guy

@Nick These are ---> ix.br

Nick

@ThatBrazilianGuy That's pretty neat. What does it take to build a site like this.

@rahuldottech ^ can u help me?

That Brazilian Guy

@Nick A server, some FOSS tools and insider devices on a lot of ASN, ISPs and etc.

Good luck with that last part.

Nick

@ThatBrazilianGuy Ok. I'll get started right away.

~thnx~

That Brazilian Guy

0.o

rahuldottech

3:41 PM

@Nick With what?

Bob

@ThatBrazilianGuy You don't need insider devices. It's all estimated.

Nick

@rahuldottech a live stats thingy

That Brazilian Guy

@Bob I mean for ix.br, that doesn't look estimated at all.

(That's what Nick was replying to)

Bob

@ThatBrazilianGuy Ah.

rahuldottech

@Nick 1. Look up how many websites are created per day 2. Update your counter at the same rate. 3. Done

That Brazilian Guy

3:43 PM

By the way, is Nick a known troll or just really clueless?

rahuldottech

@ThatBrazilianGuy The latter, which worries me

@Nick Hey, no offence, but are you sure that programming is what you want to be doing?

Nick

.-.

rahuldottech

I mean, for years all you've done is come and asked script kiddie/complete noob questions. And while there's nothing wrong with that, I mean, I do that all the time, your level of knowledge and understanding doesn't seem to have increased at all

2

yode

How to get those number after character b in "adf23","b12","a22","b69" with PowerShell?

rahuldottech

I'm just saying. Maybe this isn't for you.

yode

3:47 PM

I just can get all number..

rahuldottech

Sep 14 at 20:17, by DavidPostill

@yode Please don't spam your questions here ...

yode

I'm little shy to ask a so ease question in the main site..

rahuldottech

@yode No, the main site is literally where you should be asking questions

Probably on StackOverflow

@yode You might also want to get started with Learning Powershell properly

GODDAMNIT GITHUB STOP MESSING WITH MY LINE ENDINGS

That Brazilian Guy

@rahuldottech Are you sure it's github? As in, github has a git hook that changes line endings? Isn't it your editor?

rahuldottech

@ThatBrazilianGuy Yeah, it's github

That Brazilian Guy

3:59 PM

I find it unlikely unless proof is provided.

rahuldottech

git archive when you download as .zip changes all nerlines to linux ones

stackoverflow.com/questions/17347611/…

@ThatBrazilianGuy

That Brazilian Guy

Wow

And: I stand corrected.

rahuldottech

4:23 PM

Hmm

Should I buy didyouknowthatdomainscanhavemaxsixtythreecharacterslikethisone.site?

Hello, @Zoe

Zoe

Hiya @rahul

rahuldottech

@Zoe What brings you here today?

Zoe

Boredom and a screenshot :*

rahuldottech

@Zoe Wait, you're @PrincessLuna

Zoe

Only on meta, but yeah

rahuldottech

4:26 PM

WHY DO YOU HAVE DIFFERENT USERNAMES

Zoe

/shrug

rahuldottech

@Zoe Also, you can add "markdown" to your list of languages in your profile bio

Zoe

Wouldn't really call markdown a language

rahuldottech

@Zoe Development Language?

idk

It's a skill, anyway, I guess (?)

Zoe

Never used it in dev, outside with Jekyll. And even then, the markdown is just content

rahuldottech

4:29 PM

> Markdown is a lightweight markup language

@Zoe A markup language, apparently

Zoe

Too lazy to update it though xd

rahuldottech

Oh, also, I sortaaaa stole your list-of-skills format from your bio for rahul.red

I hope that's okay?

Zoe

Of course, lol. It's just a bio

rahuldottech

Cool

@Zoe So, how're you doing nowadays?

Zoe

pretty busy, got lots of stuff to do >.< Today's the first day in a while I haven't had to work on something

rahuldottech

4:34 PM

@Zoe fun stuff to do or tedious stuff to do?

Zoe

The "I'd love this if there wasn't a deadline"-kinda stuff

Mostly anyways

One exception atm

rahuldottech

@Zoe I relate, can be frustrating.

Zoe

yeah

rahuldottech

Anyway, have fun, I guess

I'mma go back to this stupid batch script which github messed up

See ya

Zoe

Cya o/

Dog

4:37 PM

@rahuldottech Years? How many years have you even been on this site? :-o

rahuldottech

@Dog Since I was fourteen

Well, I've been on the site since I was twelve

Dog

@rahuldottech :-o

:-o :-o :-o

rahuldottech

I've been a part of this chatroom since I was 14

Dog

It's been that long? Man am I getting old

rahuldottech

haha

Yep. IIRC, my first message here was on New Year's eve, 2015

Wait as in

The night before 1st Jan, 2016

Is that new year's eve 2015 or new year's eve 2016

Dog

4:42 PM

If you've been here that long I wonder how long I've been here, I somehow had the feeling you came along after I did...

rahuldottech

@Dog Yeah, you were already here when I first joined

I remember there was this whole fight involving you and a xkcd github comic shortly after I joined

Dog

October 2015, as far as chat is concerned, a bit longer on the main site. So not that much longer than you. Dang, time flies.

rahuldottech

@Dog It really does

Dog

@rahuldottech Easy for you to say, you've had more girlfriends in a year than I've had my whole life

rahuldottech

@Dog I actually haven't had any in the past year (well, 11 months)

Studies and stuff

But yeah

Time really does fly though. I don't like growing up.

Dog

4:49 PM

Not that having a girlfriend is a particularly exceptional life goal, but that being said, the routine of having a partner, settling down, buying a house, and having kids is so ingrained into society that there's literally thousands of pop songs about it.

rahuldottech

@Dog lol, I know it's not. It's just... nice. Or at least, used to be till I met my toxic ex. I don't think I'll be settling down anytime soon either, ha.

But hey, taking life advice from pop songs can't be the best way to live your life

I mean, the only goal songwriters have is to rhyme stuff, and sometimes to make people feel, or whatever. That's rare. blargh

Dog

@rahuldottech Maybe not, but by their nature and definition they tend to be topical when it comes to modern culture and lifestyles

rahuldottech

@Dog Eh. Mainstream songs tell the ideal-adventurous-fun-crazy life story which the masses wish they had, but no one does, because they're unrealistic fantasies

And I mean, there's nothing wrong with that, I guess, as long as you realize that they're just... fantasies, or whatever

As far as I'm concerned, as long as I'm having fun, not harming anyone, and helping a few people when and as I can, life's great

Bob

@Dog ...I somehow thought rahul was here shortly before you

man, my memory sucks

rahuldottech

That said, I am like seventeen so I have no idea about what life really is about

@Bob Meh, around the same time, and like three years ago. Can't be expected to remember the minutiae

Dog

5:05 PM

Indeed, +/- 2 months over 3 years, only a 5% difference

rahuldottech

Okay so I'm addicted to this song and video:

half•alive - still feel. [VIDEO]

►

Dog

5:31 PM

Don't know it.

rahuldottech

I didn't either till YouTube recommended it to me

The algorithm worked for once!

The lead singer also used to have a band called The Moderates, apparently. Decent stuff.

That Brazilian Guy

6:20 PM

@Dog I've been here since 2013

djsmiley2k

6:55 PM

supsup

rahuldottech

Can some powershell dude tell me why this doesn't work?

powershell (Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Web) -and ($x = [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlDecode(%*)) -and (Write-Host "$x")

cc @BenN @bwDraco

Ben N

How specificially is it not working?

rahuldottech

At line:1 char:84
+ ... e System.Web) -and ($x = [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlDecode(%*)) -an ...
+                                                                  ~
Missing ')' in method call.

That's the first error

djsmiley2k

I'd suggest UrlDecode(%*) breaks it.

Ben N

Yep, that's a syntax error

djsmiley2k

6:58 PM

but total guess tehre so ;D

rahuldottech

Even if I substitute the %* with a string like "test", it's still giving me the error

Ben N

Make sure to quote the string

rahuldottech

C:\Users\Rahul>powershell (Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Web) -and ($x = [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlDecode("hi")) -and (Write-Host "$x")
At line:1 char:84
+ ... e System.Web) -and ($x = [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlDecode(hi)) -an ...
+                                                                  ~
Missing ')' in method call.
At line:1 char:84
+ ... System.Web) -and ($x = [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlDecode(hi)) -and  ...
+                                                                ~~

@BenN I did :/

Ben N

Ah, PowerShell isn't seeing it quoted, probably because of cmd's processing

djsmiley2k

I'm proud I guessed just from the error message ;D

rahuldottech

7:00 PM

@BenN oooh lemme escape

djsmiley2k

without any knowledge of ps ;'D

@rahuldottech run powershell.exe D:

Ben N

Using single quotes might be easier

rahuldottech

Aaaand the output is...

False

Ben N

Yep, because you're using Boolean operators

Consider using ; to separate statements

rahuldottech

@BenN wait what

Ben N

7:03 PM

-and does Boolean logic

rahuldottech

@BenN Uh, dunno how to since this is a powershell command being run from within a batch file

wait

djsmiley2k

!!s/-and/;/g

ChatBot John Cavil

@djsmiley2k ; does Boolean logic (source)

djsmiley2k

pfft

Ben N

powershell -c Add-Type -AN System.Web; [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlDecode('YOUR STRING HERE')

rahuldottech

7:05 PM

@BenN NEAT!

Thanks

Ben N

Yep :)

Tips: values not captured into variables will go out the console by default, so Write-Host can often be omitted

rahuldottech

Okay, why doesn't -and mess with stuff in this command:

powershell ([Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = "[Net.SecurityProtocolType]::tls12, [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::tls11, [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::tls, [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::ssl3") -and (wget %1 -UseBasicParsing -OutFile %2)

djsmiley2k

there's no output you're expecting?

Ben N

Bingo

rahuldottech

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Ben N

7:06 PM

The only output is to a file

I'M A PS PRO:D

:D

Oh wait

If you were doing -and write osmething to console you'd get 'true' :D

rahuldottech

nvm

Ben N

7:07 PM

@rahuldottech You can also shorten that command a lot

rahuldottech

@BenN I know, I just don't know how :P

Ben N

powershell -c [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = 'Tls12,Tls11,Tls,Ssl3'; iwr %1 -UseB -OutF %2

rahuldottech

That command also prints False btw, even though I'm not explicitly printing anything

Ben N

Right, because a Boolean value comes out

rahuldottech

@BenN wha

this is magic

you are magician

3

@BenN ok plz one more thingy

powershell -c Add-Type -AN System.Web; [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlDecode(\"%req%\") > comx.txt

Error :/

Ben N

7:16 PM

What error?

rahuldottech

Prints this to the file:

Missing ')' in method call.
    + CategoryInfo          : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MissingEndParenthesisInMethodCall

Ben N

Ah, there's probably an issue with the interaction between cmd processing and PowerShell interpretation - try using ' instead of \"

That Brazilian Guy

Ok so Googles "Bulk Senders guidelines" states I should always send from the same IP. But what if I have multiple SMTP servers for parallel bulk sending?

@Burgi you ever dealt with that?

Burgi

we use a 3rd party send platform

rahuldottech

@BenN nup

Burgi

7:19 PM

mailchimp.com

Ben N

@rahuldottech Hm, what's in the %req% batch variable?

That Brazilian Guy

Hm. Yeah. We can't used 3rd-party for legal reasons.

rahuldottech

@BenN A small string such as hi1234

Ben N

Works for me after set req=hi1234

rahuldottech

@BenN lemme check

Burgi

7:21 PM

as long as your SPF record includes all the IP addresses for the mail servers you should be ok

That Brazilian Guy

@Burgi That's what I thought, but...

rahuldottech

@BenN Works from cmd, but not from a batch file

Try this in a batch file:

echo %req%
if not "%req%" == "favicon.ico" (
	powershell -c Add-Type -AN System.Web; [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlDecode('%req%') > comx.txt
)

@ThatBrazilianGuy Sorry for interrupting your flow

Burgi

how many are you sending? can they be staggered over X number of hours?

Ben N

Huh, reproduced - that's weird

That Brazilian Guy

@Burgi Tens of thousands. We already have a server that has a long, long queue that takes about a day to send everything. We're instantiating Mautic and want to use two servers

We're trying to use a reverse SMTP proxy to process the mail queue

rahuldottech

7:27 PM

@BenN Strangely, putting this in test.cmd and then running test 123 prints 123 to file:

powershell -c Add-Type -AN System.Web; [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlDecode('%1') > comx.txt

Burgi

let it churn over the weekend

That Brazilian Guy

rahuldottech

@ThatBrazilianGuy (°◇°)

Ben N

@rahuldottech The batch processor does bizarre things as usual - apparently you need to quote the PowerShell command here:

powershell -c "Add-Type -AN System.Web; [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlDecode('%req%')" > comx.txt

I need to go to class now, hopefully the above works!

rahuldottech

And once again... @BenN saves the day!

Thank you so much

@BenN Now that I think of it... the quoting sorta makes sense

Dog

8:50 PM

!!caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

ChatBot John Cavil

That Brazilian Guy

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tereško

9:38 PM

halp

how do I remove security from ssh?

:D

what I am looking at is a remote webserver server (development environment), which contains a git repository

then I have that directory mounted locally over sshfs, so that I could edit the code

but the entire thing is extremely slow, therefore I have been looking ways to improve the performance

I could set up the development environment on a local system, but I really really would prefer to avoid it

so ... any ideas?

That Brazilian Guy

My dev env is a local docker container.

Michael Frank

Doesn't git do that already? You clone the code, modify and the push?

tereško

@MichaelFrank not really

That Brazilian Guy

Removing security from ssh is, generally, a really bad idea.

tereško

I know

That Brazilian Guy

9:46 PM

If it is remote, you should have security. If you need it locally, it shoulnd't be remote...

tereško

what I actually need as a faster encryption

That Brazilian Guy

> ~~a faster encryption~~ a better process

tereško

I think I will just set up a local dev environment :(

and, no, "use docker" is the last option

I will try every other option before I dip into the docker fuckery

That Brazilian Guy

It just changed my life in regards to using a local dev.

The learning curve is steep, specially in the beginning, but I only regret not using it before.

bwDraco

@ThatBrazilianGuy ^^^ This is why I'm learning Docker.

That Brazilian Guy

9:57 PM

@bwDraco How many local envs have you set up so far? What are you doing on there?

bwDraco

Just learning out of a book and haven't gotten very far, but Docker is fun to play with.

That Brazilian Guy

I suggest you do as @bertieb suggested and start small, install WordPress or other basic and popular LAMP software and start toying with it

First, just use it to start a service

Then use a local folder as a volume and write code on that folder that reflects on the container

tereško

@ThatBrazilianGuy yeah, you lost me at "install wordpress"

That Brazilian Guy

"Food plates can be used to contain a food that I'm allergic to. Therefore, I'm never using plates!"

"But plates are amazing, your food won't fall, you can eat rice, hot food won't burn"

"Eeeeeew, you lost me at aspargus"

bertieb

10:30 PM

I agree with @ThatBrazilianGuy; do what bertieb says

bwDraco

...and rebooted after updating the Samsung NVMe driver.

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