Root Access

Journeyman Geek

00:03

> BREAKING NEWS: APPLE HAS RELEASED A NEW RECTANGLE. IT IS BETTER THAN THE PREVIOUS RECTANGLE, WHICH WAS A LESSER RECTANGLE. SOME PEOPLE ARE UNHAPPY WITH THE NEW RECTANGLE BECAUSE OF [[CHANGES]]. THE NEW RECTANGLE HAS ANIMATED POO.

sauce hackaday.com/2017/09/17/hackaday-links-september-17-2017

That Brazilian Pony

@JourneymanGeek The new rectangle has animated poo?

Journeyman Geek

>_>

That Brazilian Pony

Well, Apple has invented the animated GIF last year, so...

Journeyman Geek

WHY ELSE WOULD SOMEONE PAY A GRAND FOR A SLAB?

That Brazilian Pony

This year Apple invented poo? But I thought they invented crap every year!

Journeyman Geek

00:08

Its animated crap

That Brazilian Pony

Next year you'll be able to smell it!

Bob

00:39

hm

Journeyman Geek

twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/879431974657695744 kunstforscher is a funny word

as is gyratory circus. Which sounds almost dirty.

bwDraco

01:01

amazon.com/OnePlus-Battery-ZeroLemon-7500mAh-Extended/dp/…

Worth it? I'm not sure I like the thickness, though; 0.89" is a tad excessive.

(would prefer to sacrifice a bit of capacity for a thinner case)

Journeyman Geek

eh, tbh, I'd rather toss in a reasonably sized power bank 'in case' over a extended battery

my OP3 does do all day (except in job -1, for some odd reason)

bwDraco

The point is that I don't have to have a cable dangling around.

I use my phone pretty hard so I tend to run the battery down rather quickly.

Journeyman Geek

ah, then maybe

bwDraco

7500 mAh, 28.5 Wh? That would mean one of those high-voltage (3.8V) LiPo batteries inside...

(This is actually very common with modern smartphone batteries)

Bob

01:17

@JourneymanGeek I last a day, easy, on the S7 :P

bwDraco

A full charge will usually last a day, but I don't like deep-cycling the battery (100% to >20%) every single day.

Besides, since I found a way to keep the battery at a constant charge level when plugged in (see chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/118?m=40058500#40058500), I'm just looking to keep the battery in the best possible condition.

The case has a USB output (which frankly I don't need) and Dash Charge pass-through.

Again, the biggest issue is the thickness, at 0.89". which makes the $60 hard to justify.

bwDraco

01:34

ZeroLemon Oneplus 3/3T 7500 mAh Battery Case Review

►

Looks like a solid product, but again, thickness can be a problem.

I am just on the fence :\

Journeyman Geek

01:46

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodyear_Inflatoplane (entirely random, but came across this by accident...)

Bob

huh, that's fun

bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…

bwDraco

Wow. 70x amplification?

Well, CHARGEN had an amplification factor of 358.8x, NTP even more.

Bob

Yea. And if for whatever reason you have a DC sitting on a network edge (not recommended) then you've got publicly exposed CLDAP by default.

Ben N

A DC exposed to the internet is almost certainly going to be super bad

Bob

...ask me how I know :P

Ben N

01:50

Your DC got DDOS'd?

Bob

Can't remember why exactly that firewall entry was disabled, but that's fixed now.

Journeyman Geek

worse? ;p

Bob

@BenN wrong end of the gun

Journeyman Geek

ah

Ben N

Ah

Bob

01:51

I really should set up another VM for routing

the whole network was a test network on limited hardware, so another VM was ... difficult. but never bothered after upgrading slightly :P

anyway, it was actually perfectly safe with the firewall entry. still don't remember why it was disabled... hm.

might be a good time to play with Server Core, actually

wait.

waitwaitwait.

Linux containers? On Windows?

Ben N

Yup, Hyper-V is pretty good at Linux as of late

Wait a second, are Hyper-V Containers the same thing as Windows Server Containers?

Bob

@BenN No, not Linux on Hyper-V. But first-party support for Linux containers on a (minimal) Linux kernel on Hyper-V...

Ben N

Ah. Admittedly I don't know a lot about Hyper-V other than how to use it for normal VM stuff

Bob

@BenN You know the difference between a full VM and a container?

Ben N

I'm aware that there's a difference, but that's about it

Please feel free to correct me at any time if I'm talking nonsense :p

Bob

02:02

@BenN Briefly, a full VM emulates PC hardware while a container shares the kernel.

Containers are a form of isolation that're much cheaper than VMs while offering almost as much isolation.

In Linux, that's normally implemented via kernel namespaces.

So, Windows Containers are very new and sound very cool.

Michael Frank

Oh goody... If this Windows 10 build fails to enrol the computer with AzureAD it falls to back only allowing us to create a local user. Yay. :|

Bob

Linux containers are fairly well established, though still a bit new.

Linux containers on Windows sounds ludicrous but amazing.

@bwDraco Less software flexibility?

Ben N

Would, say, special kernel-mode drivers not fly in a container?

Bob

Ah. Yea, that's true.

More accurately, as a container user you can't modify the kernel.

bwDraco

That's kinda what I mean. It might impact Linux distribution compatibility, for example.

allquixotic

02:05

@Bob it could be implemented on top of the interfaces used for the WSL

Bob

As the container host/admin, you still can.

@allquixotic No, it's actually on a Linux kernel! :O

allquixotic

well then it's hypervised

might as well use LXD

Ben N

> Yesterday we showed for the first time, a Linux container running natively on Windows Server using the Hyper-V isolation technology currently available only to Windows Server Containers

(source)

I'm not sure what that means exactly, but it sounds pretty neat

Bob

> This feature uses Hyper-V isolation to run a Linux kernel with just enough OS to support containers.

@allquixotic The point of first-party support is you can manage all your containers from the same UI

And presumably (hopefully?) you can more easily adjust resources...

@allquixotic I would like to see the namespacing features in WSL though.

Journeyman Geek

02:28

50

Q: What is the least "world changing" reason why the government would pay for you to keep a llama during your 43rd year of life?

I want to make a short story about an Earth just like ours except it's commonly accepted that at the age of 43, the government allows people to have a llama in their house and the government pays for the llama and the food during that year and that year only. Most people just have a Llama day whe...

this is ... oddly specific

Bob

02:41

lol

Journeyman Geek

03:24

@Bob WRT that MSE question - its probably impossible to replicate unless you're on the same ISP ;p

and that was supposed to be quick and snarky. Then rabbithole, damn my terrier genes ;)

Bob

03:40

@JourneymanGeek the lack of image, yea. but the lack of alt text is rather more confusing :\

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I'd assume that might depend on the nature of the block

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I'm... not seeing it. If they blocked the image, then alt text should show because that's already part of the (HTTPS) page. The other alternative is they're returning a blank image, but... the imgur links are HTTPS too.

Journeyman Geek

Well. NEITHER IS HE... ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek groan

Journeyman Geek

But but... the problem isn't with se or imgur...

and we don't know what his ISP is doing.

Bob

03:47

@JourneymanGeek but... the ISP can't be doing anything to cause this behaviour -_-

unless it's stripping HTTPS I suppose...

Journeyman Geek

or MITM?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek what is certificate? :P

@JourneymanGeek oooh, actually. opera turbo?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I suggested tunnelbear ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek nono, I mean... maybe they're using opera turbo (or similar) and that's stuffing it up?

Journeyman Geek

ohhh

I assumed its the stock browser

Bob

03:52

@JourneymanGeek same, but it's worth the question :P

What browser are you using? Is it by any chance a browser like Opera or Chrome with their image compression proxy (data saver, Opera Turbo, etc.) enabled? — Bob 19 secs ago

Journeyman Geek

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Now I'm thinking it has to be part of the browser.

Journeyman Geek

THis seemed oddly appropriate for the jelly...

Bob

Because any network-level blocking should show the alt...

Journeyman Geek

@Bob Other than his ISP apparently randomly pulling off this crap before.

Bob

03:54

@JourneymanGeek What, his ISP has blocked alt text before?

Or maybe some weird browser that doesn't render alts like they should...

Journeyman Geek

@Bob blocked imgur ;p

that's probably the core of his problem still

Bob

04:40

Bob

04:55

@BenN Server Core seems to be built around batch and vbscript :(

rahuldottech

@Bob whatt

Journeyman Geek

05:28

sounds about right

DavidPostill

06:16

Hurrah! HNQ answer ;)

Bob

Congrats :P

which one is it?

DavidPostill

13

A: Why does searching "0.693" bring me to "0.0.2.181"?

Why did I get redirected to this IP? The browser address bar sees a . and thinks it is an IP address. This gets passed to Windows to do a DNS lookup: > nslookup 0.693 Server: UnKnown Address: 192.168.42.129 Name: 0.693 Address: 0.0.2.181 Note: 693 = 256 * 2 + 181 So 0.693 gets tran...

It's always the dumb/useless questions that make HNQ ...

Anyways. Gotta go. Attendance at $work is required :(

Bob

07:12

...dammit

remote desktop gateway isn't supported on Server Core

really?!

Burgi

07:43

@Bob i think you can still use RDC when it is enabled but only if its in terminal mode

it has been a long time since i tried that though

Bob

@Burgi remote desktop connection works fine; I'm talking about the gateway

this thing => technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731150(v=ws.11).aspx

Burgi

ah

Bob

so, next idea was to use web application proxy on Core and point it at remote desktop gateway on a different server => technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/…

supported option, yay

...except web application proxy requires adfs even if you don't use the pre-auth features

microsoft. why.

rahuldottech

08:58

Good absurdist humor doesn't really need a reason, except that the reason itself could also be absurd. In the world today, people buy 100,000 dollar work trucks that could earn them thousands of dollars a day, and instead polish them, paint them and modify them at extreme expense and run them loudly up and down my street in what appears to be some kind of mating ritual. — Sean Boddy yesterday

LMAO

Guillaume

09:40

Hi !
There is someone able to help me to deal with my OpenVPN routing ?
Thanks ! :)

Burgi

10:51

what does RFI stand for in the context of business and contracts?

Bob

@Burgi request for information?

Burgi

ah yes, that would make sense

contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/…

Journeyman Geek

12:45

@Bob grab your popcorn discourse.tt-rss.org/t/modernizing-the-codebase-codestructure/…

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I can guess which one that is :P

Hm. Does anyone here use CCleaner?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob not at the moment

Former boss used to hit most of the machines at job -1 with that and malwarebytes...

christian x

13:03

@Bob yes What will you like to know about CCleaner ?

Journeyman Geek

theverge.com/2017/9/18/16325202/ccleaner-hack-malware-security

Probably in reference to his.

christian x

Is there any disclosure as to when did the injection of the Malware happen ?

That Brazilian Pony

> download servers used by Avast (the company that owns CCleaner) were compromised to distribute malware

Avast, the security company, was hacked. Oh how ironic.

Journeyman Geek

for some reason I thought it was pirinform

That Brazilian Pony

@JourneymanGeek It was. And... Still is?

> Avast Piriform believes it was able to prevent the breach harming customers

Journeyman Geek

13:08

ah ok

I actually do use some of their other stuff

christian x

Kasperky has become toxic

terrifying to know that they might be compromised

Journeyman Geek

eh, its probably also a lot of politics and deflection too

christian x

I agree

Journeyman Geek

I just run Defender. If my AV provider is compromised, that's the least of my worries ;)

christian x

they really do have the best security tools out there

I mean is there any security or Antivirus company that has not been compromised out there? In today's world, it almost impossible

That Brazilian Pony

13:11

iPhone 7... iPhone 8.... iPhone X... iPhone X One X... iPhone 360...

rahuldottech

@Bob Isn't it supposed to be crappy anyway?

@christianx There is no proof

It's just speculation, AFAIK

OH RUSSIAN COMPANY MUST BE BAD BAD BAD

Burgi

its the leverage that the russian government can apply to companies that concerns most people

rahuldottech

@Burgi The US can do that too

Any government can, they all have provisions for it

That Brazilian Pony

It's suddenly so cold here and I love it!

The last few days have been 32 ~35 and now it's back to 23

Please winter don't leave!!!

Burgi

@rahuldottech there are known checks and balances with that though

i refer you to the FBI v Apple case a couple of years ago

Michael Frank

13:33

I used Kaspersky for a while when I was younger.

I remember downloading it from ALIAS and getting it keygen'd ha

rahuldottech

13:46

The moment an old lady questions her own sanity

►

rahuldottech

14:01

What the hell?

Burgi

seems ok...

rahuldottech

@Burgi Those password requirements are messed up

No <, >, <space>, &, ,?

Burgi

seems like a normal password requirement

and they might not be sanatizing the inputs...

rahuldottech

@Burgi That implies that they have some sort of stupid half-assed input sanitation

XKCD

And I can't believe some places still use fax machines. The electrical signals waste so much time going AROUND the Earth when neutrino beams can go straight through!

rahuldottech

14:05

@Burgi Also, limiting to 15 characters is stupid. Like, really stupid.

Burgi

Welcome to India

rahuldottech

@Burgi HA!

It's a US website

The official SAT examination website

Bob

@Burgi if by "normal" you mean "utterly clueless", then maybe

Burgi

made in india probably

Bob

though, funnily enough, ASP.NET WebForms will reject form submissions with "dangerous" characters like <

rahuldottech

14:07

@Burgi Run by US govt. collegeboard.org

Bob

pain in the arse... I went and globally disabled that stupid option cause it broke our password reset page

rahuldottech

@Burgi C'mon, don't arbitrarily blame everything on Indian techies -_-

Burgi

outsourced to India as are all major government contracts

rahuldottech

@Burgi baseless accusation -_-

Burgi

also they have to limit it 15 characters so the NSA can easily cycle through the possible combinations

rahuldottech

14:09

@Burgi

> By checking the box, you understand that the College Board website is located in the U.S. and you consent to the transfer of your personal data to the U.S., where your personal data will be subject to U.S. law and the level of data protection may be different from your country of origin.

Burgi

TATA Communications are doing most of the UK government IT these days

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech American Websites, British Websites, All ~~copied from SO~~ written in india!

;p

rahuldottech

@Burgi I dislike that company

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi most of them probably have a local office staffed by just enough locals to keep the government happy, and a ton of folks on contract...

rahuldottech

I think I might get this printed on a hoodie or shirt or jacket

With my website's URL and some ~~funny~~ text on the back

Bob

14:21

@rahuldottech copyright?

bwDraco

Cisco Talos: 32-bit versions of CCleaner 5.33 compromised

3

That Brazilian Pony

@rahuldottech Printing a piece of clothing on a piece of clothing. So meta!

bwDraco

piriform.com/news/blog/2017/9/18/…

While the 64-bit installer installs both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries, if you never ran the 32-bit binary, you may not have been affected.

Check for the following registry key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Piriform\Agomo:TCID

Burgi

apparently O365 in europe is offline

bwDraco

(the key is not present on either of my W10 systems)

Note that CCleaner runs the 64-bit binary by default. You'd have to manually execute the 32-bit binary to be impacted on a 64-bit installation.

All systems are current, and nothing malicious has been found on standard AV scans so far.

bwDraco

14:49

bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…

@ThatBrazilianPony, if you can, please pin chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/40071249#40071249.

bwDraco

...welp, ordered that ZeroLemon phone case.

14 hours ago, by bwDraco

OnePlus 3/3T Battery Case, ZeroLemon OnePlus 3/3T 7500mAh Extended Battery with Soft TPU Full Edge Protection Case – Black

ZeroLemon

High CapacityProvides additional 150% power to your OnePlus 3/3T. Keep your phone all day alive. Full Edge ProtectionPiano black soft TPU case wraps the phone and offers full edge protection.Related Products:ZeroLemon 30000mAh Type C Battery Pack: http://a.co/1Wb6vr1ZeroLemon USB 3.1 Type C Cable: http://a.co/9Fm8fzePackage Contents:1 x OnePlus 3/3T Battery Case2 x U-shaped Connectors

(determined that it would be of use at work)

TBH, my wallet is even thicker than this.

It would also enable me to travel lighter.

Prime Same-Day, will arrive later today.

That Brazilian Pony

15:11

Turkey scraps theory of evolution from school curriculum

> The upcoming changes have caused an uproar, with critics calling them a reshaping of education along the conservative, Islam-oriented government's line.

> Some biologists say the move will leave Turkish students unable to understand even basic science

Burgi

all science is magic anyway

That Brazilian Pony

All magic is witchcraft! BURN ALL THE SCIENTISTS!

MetaEd

15:44

@ThatBrazilianPony All fire is witchcraft! BURN ALL THE IMMOLATORS!

djsmiley2k

Dropped my phone, yolo!

@MetaEd all oxygen is fire creating! Burn all the oxygen!

<< currently 220~ miles from home

@bwDraco I want something like this for my phone just because

Moto G5 (non plus iirc)

I think I missed you guys

Journeyman Geek

You need to work on your aim

djsmiley2k

So remember how I interviewed for Cisco and then they restructured the team I'd join if successful and I chose to forget about it and the awesomeness it'd of been? Well.... They are looking for people again :/

Burgi

@djsmiley2k why are you 220 miles from home?

Ramhound

superuser.com/questions/1021154/… this user really hates uncles apparently.

Burgi

15:53

@Ramhound its up to 11 minutes

Journeyman Geek

@Ramhound IRONICALLY... i.sstatic.net/a6gRV.png

That lasted exactly 10 minutes

Burgi

it said 11 on my screen...

you should submit it to GFSE

christian x

@rahuldottech Baseless acusations. The US government procurement Bureau will never accept any US gov contract to be outsourced to India. where did you get that Info?

Who's buying the new Apple Iphone? I know I am NOT

bwDraco

16:12

in Ask a Super User Moderator, 10 secs ago, by bwDraco

A summary of the lessons learned:
1) Listen before you talk. Don't interject unless you really need to.
2) Don't take things too seriously. Many situations can be defused through dialogue, without the need to escalate them to a moderator.
3) Avoid drawing attention to things unnecessarily. This can be disruptive and can make things worse.
4) It's important to maintain the natural flow of chat. By gracefully resolving situations, we can avoid drama and disruption.

(for searchability)

@ThatBrazilianPony lol

@JourneymanGeek 10 minutes 38 seconds, according to the time popovers.

Burgi

i was right!

Bob

fliff

Burgi

is a "fliff" a floof done in a haughty way?

djsmiley2k

16:56

@Burgi holiday

So basically there's no news here. What's occurring. (Yes I'm aware I'm on the internet but people's views r important to me)

Last I knew therw was a fire 🔥 in the underground and T. May raised the threat level to crit.

Oh and N Korea did another launch. ( Was it bigger, further?)

bwDraco

@djsmiley2k Longest launch yet - could reach Guam

djsmiley2k

@bwDraco couldn't they already??

Hmmm 183 miles now, apparently I've managed to bend space or something!

Circus Cat

17:15

@Burgi Flirty floof!

djsmiley2k

🐒 any way the weather is holding out

@bwDraco they will ignoring the warnings?

bwDraco

17:35

It's hard to tell. Diplomacy has not worked thus far.

Blog bot

17:50

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djsmiley2k

18:41

Hum dear dum

bwDraco

19:00

kotaku.com/why-video-games-cost-so-much-to-make-1818508211

bwDraco

19:18

theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/18/16325022/…

lol

djsmiley2k

19:48

Srs. I wish they couldn't say it's AI -_-

@bwDraco except they don't....

Same way movies need not cost millions, but there is a collation between what you've spent on making something and what you'll spend advertising it to ensure you profit...

Burgi

20:06

@djsmiley2k where are you holidaying?

220 miles puts you either in south wales or cornwall

Feeds

20:23

0

Q: Allow answers to be favourited in addition to questions

To me this is such a common sense expansion to the feature of marking favourite questions that I can only conclude it has at some point been suggested and shut down. That said, a search couldn't bring anything up on the topic, so here I am. Often - most of the time, actually - when I favourite a...

feature-request

djsmiley2k

@Burgi Close, Anglesey.

Hmmm I need another good 'offline' game for my phone

Avery

I've created a monster

(that's a userscript mod to get emojis working on stack chat, specifically aimed for linux users as getting emojis working on linux chrome/chromium is a huge pain)

DavidPostill

20:47

@Hashim You do know that there is a feed posting new meta.su questions to this room? Scroll up at bit to see the feed in action ...

That Brazilian Pony

21:09

Oh God that question:

112

Q: Did Yuri Gagarin end up in critical condition after coming back to Earth due to the missing magnetic field?

My friend's mother is about to undergo some treatment in magnetic field therapy for osteoarthritis and he is trying to verify if this is useful as claimed, or if this has any harmful effects. The website of their institution claims that: In Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight to space, he returned...

space-flight

Purely anecdotal: I've once spend three hours in the absence of the earth's magnetic field while sitting in an actively shielded chamber of an MEG. I felt quite fine. :) — Emil Sep 13 at 15:26

caub

21:27

on windows10, If I backup only the ~500M recovery partition, I could put back windows on that laptop later on? (I'd like to format it on linux for work)

Hashim

Oh, didn't notice that @DavidPostill

Does it post all questions?

Avery

@caub you can probably put windows back even without recovery partition

but when in doubt, full disk backup

Mark Yisri

22:18

@caub Wrong!!

that recovery partition doesn't have enough info to recover Windows

@Avery a full disk backup, or create a recovery drive.

Michael Frank

Why is Display Port so difficult to use. :|

I have to build a whole bunch of desktops... but they only have DP. If I remove the cable to start the next build then I can never get the video back on the previous machine.

Ramhound

superuser.com/questions/1117871/… just a user moaning in an non-answer.

That shouldn't be the case.

DP is suppose to be hot swappable.

Michael Frank

Well these ones sure as hell aren't...

Ramhound

What are the specs on the cables? Typically HDMI/DP cables are all created equally provided they are the same revision

i.e. there is no difference in quality between the $40 3" cable and the $2.99 3" cable provided it's the same revision.

Hashim

0

Q: When are we going to get the ability to favourite answers?

Overzealous mods - please don't mark this as a dupe until you've read the entire question. Once you have, see here for why it isn't a duplicate. This question was originally posted on superuser.stackexchange before someone pointed out there was no way to implement such a feature without doing i...

discussion feature-request answers favorites

Michael Frank

22:32

@Ramhound It's probably HPs shitty implementation...

Ramhound

"Overzealous mods" - Why the negativity?

Michael Frank

They only work if the cable is connected when the PC is powered on.

Ramhound

Closing a question as a duplicate is not being overzealous if it actually is a duplicate, nor are most questions closed as a duplicate by actual moderators, but the entire community which requires 5 individual people to do so.

Hashim

Fair point

It was just a bit of humour, but amended

Ramhound

negativity is humorous?

Hashim

22:36

Deadpan

Deadpan or dry humor/wit describes the deliberate display of a lack of or no emotion, commonly as a form of comedic delivery to contrast with the ridiculousness of the subject matter. The delivery is meant to be blunt, ironic, laconic, or apparently unintentional. == Etymology == The term deadpan first emerged as an adjective or adverb in the 1920s, as a compound word combining "dead" and "pan" (a slang term for the face). The oldest usage recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary comes from The New York Times (1928), which defines the term as "playing a role with expressionless face". An example...

Also, I take it you've never watched a Louis CK skit

Or the other one

What's his name

George Carlin

Two of the most infamous, loved comics of recent years, and their jokes are far from puppies and rainbows

Ramhound

Yes; I have watched Louis CK

Why do I even bother...

Hashim

I'm not really sure

I more than answered your question, so I'm not sure what you want from me.

I could equally ask why I bothered responding to your "negativity is humorous" comment, given how banal it was

Avery

@Hashim I-is that an emoji

Hashim

In the Wiki article?

Yeah, it's this one

:|

Actually I've forgotten how to represent that with just characters, it's been a while

Avery

oh ok

so my script isn't broken

Hashim

22:43

But it has a phone emoji equivalent yes

Avery

I thought that it was breaking the wiki images and adding random emojis

Hashim

Lmao

Avery

then again that's a blob

the emoji script uses twemoji

I should make an emojione 2 variant.

Hashim

It is indeed a blob

I don't like any of these new emojis tbh

I miss the old PHPbb forum ones

Avery

I'm an emoji expert. Nobody knows emoji better than me. My emoji knowledge is absolutely tremendous.

Hashim

22:45

Take it easy Mein Fuhrer

Journeyman Geek

22:56

@bwDraco .... Is joke... See ramhound's comment

Hashim

@Avery, I'm really interested in your VPN, but I'm concerned about the trust aspect of entrusting my VPN to a single person. How can I (or anyone else) trust that you've disabled logs? Also, what do you get out of running your own VPN for others?

Lmao I just had Clippy come up after I typed "How can I..."

Bob

morn

Avery

> How can I (or anyone else) trust that you've disabled logs?

Burgi

oooh i saw something for you

Avery

With every VPN, you need to take the provider's word when they say that they're actually doing (or not doing) something

Burgi

23:08

@Bob store.steampowered.com/app/555150/The_First_Tree

Avery

I don't hold logs.

> Also, what do you get out of running your own VPN for others?

Burgi

you should!

Avery

no

Burgi

plausible deniability only goes so far...

anyway

its bedtime

nn

Avery

I'm a privacy and free speech advocate, and living in a country that often goes through the path of censorship, I do my best to prevent it, be for myself or for others. I've even helped develop software to detect censorship and helped document it before (with turkeyblocks.org). As long as I'm helping defeat blocks (in or outside Turkey), then honestly, it's a small scale victory for me.

Michael Frank

23:13

@Burgi Is that the Fox game?

Avery

These blocks can be blocks put in place by companies (youtube, netflix blocks) or by govt. IDC.

Just don't break the laws and don't totally destroy my bandwidth and I will continue not caring.

Michael Frank

Been a while since I asked a question on the main site! :D

Journeyman Geek

23:49

@MichaelFrank it is a fox game

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