Root Access

ADHD Cat

00:00

@Bob Crossflashing operator or country specific firmware is fairly simple on Sony as well. Somewhat easier than Samsung since there's actually a desktop app to select/download/extract any official Sony firmware, basically everything sammobile/samfirmware.com does, but in a much faster and cleaner desktop app.

And gets them off Sony's official download servers instead of relying on user uploads toa third party site

Bob

@ADHDCat so I have one new Taiwanese SM-G965F/DS that's going to stay on BRI cause I can't figure out how to change the CSC without root

@ADHDCat iirc someone made a similar tool for Samsung

ADHD Cat

@Bob I thought samfirmware.com was it

Bob

@ADHDCat oh, there was a SamFirm that's now unmaintained

ADHD Cat

In case I've not previously moaned, Samsung firmware sucks. And has done for a long time. And I don't just mean the firmware itself, I mean the design choices, segregation methods, "security" blocks, update policies, distribution methods, and just about everything else other than the near unbrickable recovery.

Bob

@ADHDCat you can't cross-flash on Samsung anymore

ADHD Cat

00:05

@Bob ... Wat? Since when?

Bob

well, not if the phone's original firmware and the flashed one are both OXM multi-CSC

cause the flashed one will just auto-detect the original CSC and load its settings

ADHD Cat

@Bob isn't that the definition of... not crossflashing?

Bob

@ADHDCat S7. S8 and S9 both expanded the CSCs under OXM. There was a way to change it with an engineering ROM in S8, but not S9.

ADHD Cat

@Bob I recall the confusion about the auto wipe if you used the csc instead of home_csc in flashing, does it not work if you just use the wipe mode?

Bob

@ADHDCat well, most CSCs now fall under the OXM umbrella

@ADHDCat idk, haven't tried that specifically, but all I can find suggests it's just not possible

e.g. I can flash to SER (Russia) cause that's one of the few not under OXM

ADHD Cat

00:08

@Bob Huh. Mine choices are still XEU or BTU

Bob

but as soon as I flash XSA it reverts to BRI

ADHD Cat

Also, I have no idea how multiCSC actually worked. I thought it just had all the settings installed and picked the appropriate ones at boot time based on SIM

Then again you can now swap sim without rebooting (roundabout the time sony did the opposite, possibly in implementing their own equivalent of "multi-csc)

Bob

@ADHDCat XEU on S9 is an OXM CSC

ADHD Cat

@Bob is that using the full csc that wipes your phone when you flash it?

Bob

so is BTU

@ADHDCat yes

sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s9-plus/SM-G965F/XEU/download/…

sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s9-plus/SM-G965F/BTU/download/…

both are G965FOXM1BRE3

which is also identical to the current XSA and BRI

ADHD Cat

00:11

@Bob hmm. On my S7 XEU comes with XEU CSC and BTU comes with OXA csc.

Bob

@ADHDCat yep, that's also how it worked in S8

you'd have a default CSC, SIM CSC and running CSC

ADHD Cat

(The difference between BTU and XEU is apparently both are generic unbranded UK models but one code applies to units bought directly from Samsung and the other applies to ones bought through retailers)

Bob

which are all displayed in settings

ADHD Cat

Mines always been rooted and I've got buttons somewhere to wipe, change, reinstall or verify CSC.

Bob

e.g. TEL / XSA / BRI would mean a Telstra SIM on running AU unbranded CSC on a Taiwan phone

ADHD Cat

00:13

Of note, my firmware's pretty old but the XEU CSC is still on the latest 8.0 build for my S7

Bob

it'd prompt you to switch to the SIM CSC on first boot

but that doesn't seem to work anymore

ADHD Cat

@Bob interesting. I don't recall ever seeing that

Bob

idk if S9 generally or just the BRI ones are more locked down

@ADHDCat that was in S8

I think S7's OXM was fairly limited

ADHD Cat

You get prompted to select operator for APN settings on SIM change but I can't remember ever seeing a CSC selection prompt outside of recovery or haxx0ring methods

@Bob ah

Bob

mine is currently BRI / BRI-BRI / BRI

ADHD Cat

00:15

I wish samsung would just stop being retards and follow everyone else's lead in making shit work universally.

Bob

I wanted VAU / XSA-XSA / BRI

idk why the S9 repeates the middle bit, unlike the S8

ADHD Cat

Or just follow Apples bloody lead. I can't believe something like that has long been superior on iPhone in fact.

Bob

@ADHDCat there's also one of those *# codes in S8 engineering ROM

that brings up a list to pick from

didn't work on S9 engineering, I tried

ADHD Cat

@Bob I've had to root to get most of my needed *# codes since the S4 and onwards, I'd expect they'd still be available on rooted S8/S9s.

Bob

probably because S9 engineering won't flash with the modified HOME_CSC, so I had to flash without

ADHD Cat

00:18

@Bob are the engineering roms a separate line of firmwares that are constantly updated or a specific pre-releaae firmware?

Bob

@ADHDCat Yea holding off on root

until I'm sure I don't want phone payments

@ADHDCat the former

ADHD Cat

@Bob now that has me interested

Bob

but the PDA versions are usually slightly different

ADHD Cat

On the S3 and prior all the engineering functions were freely available on stock ROMs. From the S4 onwards they started hiding more and more of them each generation but they were all still accessible via rooting.

I'd be both surprised and annoyed if they removed them completely from stock ROMs now, but then again I did manage to crossflash the APKs from one firmware to another once.

I think because I was running AOSP or something but still wanted the Samsung proprietary service mode apps and functionality

It sorta worked, and sorta didn't. Some parts worked, others complained about missing hooks and libraries that I probably could have fixed, but got bored and switched back to stock before bothering because the camera didn't work.

Bob

@ADHDCat firmware.gem-flash.com/…

bwDraco

00:24

22

Q: What advantages do students have who learn how to touch type?

Would a student's overall CS education benefit by having such a skill, and if so why not make it a required prerequisite? An editor notes that there are three (at least) different ideas here that may be confused. Does the user hunt and peck searching for each key for each use? Does the u...

best-practice

lol

Bob

@ADHDCat they might still be there. I didn't want to root to find out

ADHD Cat

@Bob Any ELI5 links about what the engineering firmware actually is/does?

bwDraco

Here's the funny part about my experience with touch typing: I actually refused to learn touch typing in high school, but picked it up naturally in college out of necessity. I didn't spend any focused time learning it, and yet here I am typing 60-70 wpm.

Bob

@ADHDCat ...no? I had to guess :P

Wish I could grab some photos but I don't really want to flash again and risk having to set all this crap up again

@ADHDCat So basically you get a whole bunch of hardware test functions, plus a keypad to enter those fancy secret codes

it did recognise the CSC change code but didn't show anything in response to it

ADHD Cat

> Who can get Vodafone 4G Calling?
To benefit from 4G calling, you’ll need to be in a supported area and using one of the following devices:
[snip]
Apple devices can be used from any retailer, however all other devices must have been purchased directly from us.

Bob

00:29

apparently you can also use it to disable Google factory reset protection

ADHD Cat

Urgh, whoever wrote the LTE standards in such a way that allowed VoLTE to become such a giant clusterfuck needs to be shot or go die in a fire, like @GDPR

@Bob Eh, don't bother.

Until something really compelling comes along I'll stick with my S7 or switch to Sony.

Bob

I'm not convinced by Sony just yet

they're alright but not great :\

less restrictive though, I guess

@ADHDCat Oh, engineering ROM also lets you disable the bootloader lock without the 7 day wait normal firmware requires, I think

ADHD Cat

@Bob Apart from their waterproofing being vastly inferior to Samsung's, just about everything is more polished and better thought out. And less restricted.

Bob

at least I saw the option there

ADHD Cat

Also, Qualcomm chipset, meaning advanced third-party diagnostic/engineering/modem debugging works.

Bob

00:31

point

ADHD Cat

@Bob There's a fucking 7 day wait to disable the bootloader lock now?

Samsung's firmware division needs to go GDIAF

And I thought that was bad

Journeyman Geek

@ADHDCat ... dude, that imagery is so... disturbing

ADHD Cat

@JourneymanGeek It's been around for like, six years. And been reposted many times :-P

Michael Frank

This phone I've been playing with has KNOX on it. :|

Journeyman Geek

@ADHDCat its still disturbing ;p

this isn't a delete it or else. its a 0_0 DUUUUUDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

ADHD Cat

00:34

@MichaelFrank All high-end Samsung phones have Knox on it these days.

Michael Frank

Poor Android robot lost his contact lens. :(

ADHD Cat

@JourneymanGeek That's kinda the point

(You wouldn't understand it if you weren't there when it happened?)

I actually have no idea where I got the image from now, I suspect it was on an XDA thread about the Knox 0x1 flag somewhere, but can't find any trace of it on Google text or image search.

Michael Frank

@ADHDCat I have a nice little yellow "Set warranty bit: kernel" message when I boot now.

ADHD Cat

I didn't actually notice the buttrape aspect of it until just now, I thought it was just a joke about Knox flags.

Journeyman Geek

... that sounds a little too innocent for you. And ya, that's why its disturbing

bwDraco

00:38

What exactly are you trying to do?

ADHD Cat

@MichaelFrank Happens. There's a set warranty bit bootloader if you change the bootloader, set warranty bit recovery if you change the recovery, and set warranty bit kernel if you change the kernel. Obviously, LineageOS has a different kernel.

bwDraco

Wait, VoLTE is not working? Wat.

ADHD Cat

@JourneymanGeek The image is dated 5 years ago on my Facebook, my mind was somewhat less fucked up then.

bwDraco

> To benefit from 4G calling, you’ll need to be in a supported area and using one of the following devices: [...]

Wat?

ADHD Cat

And like many things you see it once, go "lol" and don't really look deeply into it every other time you see it after, unless someone points something out

Journeyman Geek

00:39

That's common

though amusingly...

my spare phone (the Jelly), on a prepaid card, does VOLTE.

bwDraco

VoLTE worked from day one with LineageOS on my OnePlus 3T, on the T-Mobile network.

Journeyman Geek

My main one, which is a lot better... does not

ADHD Cat

All my phones do VoLTE, it just happens that networks only allow it on certain phones in certain places with certain conditions attached based on where you bought it and what settings, SIM card, and contract type you have. Unless you have an iPhone, where it just works.

Even my S4 had VoLTE capability but not one UK network actually supported it on anything prior to the S7. I think the S3-LTE edition technically had the capability too but in a sorta beta mode at release.

bwDraco

When it works as designed (it does sometimes fail and drop to HSPA), the call quality is nothing short of stunning.

Michael Frank

@ADHDCat Okay, reflashing to install GApps this time... Do I put it in under Add more Zips? Or does it get installed somewhere else?

ADHD Cat

00:42

@MichaelFrank Personally I'd say that should work, but according to the Lineage wiki you should do it separately after.

bwDraco

I have had remarkably few problems with my phone, despite running LOS since day one.

ADHD Cat

> After installing LineageOS, choose “install zip” or “Apply update” in recovery, and navigate to the zipfile loaded earlier.

Michael Frank

Thanks for reading for me!

ADHD Cat

If it were me doing it I'd probably have done Add more Zips before bothering to read the guide tbh. It's the sorta thing that sounds like it should work ^_^

Michael Frank

Well that was my reasoning...

ADHD Cat

00:45

Again, never tried it on my Samsung. On my HTC I had to do a lot of extra kludgery because it didn't have enough internal storage for the OS, so half of it had to be installed onto an SD card and symlinked prior to boot.

It's slow AF, partly because the phone's an ancient, single-core, first gen Android, and on top of that it's a crappy old and slow SD card

But hey, Android 6.0 when HTC only ever updated it to 2.2... (It came with 1.6)

Michael Frank

ADHD Cat

@MichaelFrank Lol. It was more I had to run an app that required Android 4.0+

I think it was something epically basic like Messenger or Google Maps (this was in like, 2015/2016 when Android <4.0 support had long been dropped)

Aka I had no choice! Google/HTC/planned obsolescence/being an early adopter of immature products made me do it!

Michael Frank

This phone is quick now!

Goodbye TouchWiz!

ADHD Cat

I still really like my S5. It was never exceedingly slow, even with ~~TouchShitz~~ TouchWiz. Except when doing a factory restore, which took 20+ minutes

Bob

TouchWiz got a lot better with S7

that said I still use Nova :P

ADHD Cat

01:01

@Bob Oh I've used a third party launcher since the S3, but TouchWiz still prevails in things like the notification menus, settings, etc.

Same with third party keyboards too

That said the S7 has some nice skinning/theming options for the bits of TouchWiz you can't get rid of, and my phone looks bloody cool with them.

Bob

@ADHDCat ya, true, but I don't really mind those

O_O blog.emojipedia.org/ninja-cat-the-windows-only-emoji

Journeyman Geek

🐱‍💻🐱‍🏍🐱‍👤🐱‍🚀

they look odd in android ;p

ADHD Cat

Oh wow, I've only just and only accidentally discovered how to disable this feature that's been bugging me since Android 7

Bob

I suddenly feel very old. — Geo... 15 hours ago

ADHD Cat

@Bob Hah. Is the fact that I think the question is dumb because it's so obvious from my own knowledge and experience mean I'm old too?

Hah! I got rid of the pesky, space wasting s finder bar in the notifications/quick settings menu. Thanks root!

Bob

01:20

@ADHDCat Heh, I'm pretty young for this room apparently (...David skews the average a bit :D) but that Q made me feel old -_-

ADHD Cat

@Bob You're slightly younger than me right?

Bob

@ADHDCat What S finder bar in notifications?

ADHD Cat

Apparently we discovered this revelation a few months ago

Bob

@ADHDCat pretty sure yea

bwDraco

@JourneymanGeek These are special-cased under Windows 10.

ADHD Cat

01:22

@Bob Hold on, I have to re-enable it and reboot to screenshot it and show you... it pissed me off so much when I was trying to screenshot the quick settings the first time I seem to have forgotten to screenshot before going off to find a way to remove it

Man this thing reboots at least 4x faster without encryption on...

That stupid white "search" bar at the top which doesn't even work as a search bar

That Brazilian Guy

@ADHDCat "Empty dish"?

ADHD Cat

You can't actually select or type into it, tapping it just takes you into the S Finder app, which is slow and pointless

@ThatBrazilianGuy Oh that's the cat collector app!

That Brazilian Guy

Does it... do your dishes? Eat your leftover food?

ADHD Cat

@ThatBrazilianGuy lifehacker.com/…

Michael Frank

Heh.. Neko Atsume!

That Brazilian Guy

01:25

Oh! Sure. Cat collector. How didn't I think of it? Silly me.

ADHD Cat

@ThatBrazilianGuy Probably because I didn't have any fish or treats in the dish :-P

Journeyman Geek

boingboing.net/2018/06/19/the-value-of-cryptokitties-has.html

ADHD Cat

That Brazilian Guy

@ADHDCat I have some treats in my tummy

(mostly chocolate)

ADHD Cat

So much better.

@JourneymanGeek time to invest and make some quick bucks during the inevitable "Slashdot effect" up shoot...

That Brazilian Guy

01:27

We only have three spaces where we alt-tab to talk to the same folks (four if we count the dead Telegram chat).

We need more!

ADHD Cat

I lost £300 last time I did that because lazyness and greed.

That Brazilian Guy

I have somewhere either 0.50 or 0.10 bitcon

Which is...

Michael Frank

I now have a cat collector on my phone. :)

That Brazilian Guy

six hundred to THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS

HOLY FUCK

→ 1 message moved to trash

ADHD Cat

@ThatBrazilianGuy How was that Ho Lee Fuk worse than HOLY FUCK?

Michael Frank

01:32

Racist, rather than explicit?

That Brazilian Guy

It didn't push the line on a joke that was both borderline racist and making fun of a deadly disaster.

ADHD Cat

It's a well known official news cockup.

Possibly to the extent of an internet meme

Hey racist or not I wasn't the one who performed the original prank, confirmed the names via the NTSB, or read them out on national news

The image itself and names are also on a lot of work-safe, main line news sites like BBC or Daily Mail or Business Insider, sometimes next to an image of the burnt out plane...

That Brazilian Guy

Still, I consider it bad taste. I'm silly and I'd probably laugh, but one of those "I'm going to hell" laughs.

ADHD Cat

Anyway, point being your holy fuck reminded me of that image, mostly because I've spent the last 3 days watching the recorded in full, real time, 20+ hours of NTSB hearings over the incident.

That Brazilian Guy

@ADHDCat Doing it in the aftermath of the event, when families are mourning, is very, very bad taste.

ADHD Cat

01:39

@ThatBrazilianGuy The news sites did that in the immediate aftermath, I'm just mentioning it in passing to an unrelated community five years on...

Also currently 5 hours 44 minutes into the 11 hour long Youtube video of the second panel hearing on the incident...

That Brazilian Guy

Doing it now is not so bad, but that is just my opinion.

Given the current state of chatroom affairs, better not give them ammo.

ADHD Cat

I seem to have resorted to watching NTSB investigation panel meetings now that I've run out of Air Crash Investigation episodes to watch

That Brazilian Guy

@ADHDCat I thought you were a mobile antenna nerd, not an airplane nerd.

> 11 hour long Youtube video

Oookay... 0.o

ADHD Cat

The fact they schedule 3 days of full 8+ hour meetings of 30+ senior professionals from dozens of countries and companies, simply to discuss the preliminary fact finding findings puts into perspective just why it usually takes months to years for the final accident reports to come out.

NTSB Investigative Hearing: Crash of Asiana Flight 214 San Francisco,CA 7/6/2013

►

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy We used to use gitter instead of matrix ;p

ADHD Cat

01:43

@ThatBrazilianGuy Yeah, the discussion for Flight 1549 had two 8 hour long youtube videos and a 2.5 hour long one for day 3.

(In some of them it's the full recorded live stream, without cutting out the recesses or lunch breaks, so leaving like 30-60 minutes of blank "We will return later" messages on the screen)

That Brazilian Guy

@ADHDCat Sorry but I'd rather listen to an ~~11 hour~~ 30 minute Justin Bieber song.

Justin Bieber 800% Slower

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ADHD Cat

@ThatBrazilianGuy Meh, I think between Me, Bob and Allquixotic we've watched every single air crash investigation episode probably five times.

That Brazilian Guy

You guys are crazy.

ADHD Cat

@ThatBrazilianGuy Honestly, listening to the chief of engineering at Boeing discuss the engine design philosophy is quite interesting.

Michael Frank

"We like to make them big, and loud."

ADHD Cat

01:46

The most surprising thing is just how professional, knowledgeable, and composed these people are.

That Brazilian Guy

Dinner is ready and we have dried tomato and champignon

@MichaelFrank That's what she... said?

Journeyman Geek

those little white shrooms?

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek They're magic shrooms!

Michael Frank

Yummmy

That Brazilian Guy

As in they taste amazing on other food, and taste like rubber when alone.

How? Magic!

Bob

01:48

@ADHDCat oh, that's not on the S9

ADHD Cat

@Bob It was added/changed in the 7.0 update on the S7

Bob

@ADHDCat and removed sometime leading up to S9 :)

I wonder if it's in S7 Oreo

ADHD Cat

02:05

Q: "Now in this case it was probably longitudinal acceleration that caused the straps to break, is that a good or bad assumption?"
A: "Down the axis yes, that is what I would I assume, that our fore-aft ability was compromised"
Q: "The tie downs could take loads in any directions or were they directional?"
A: "They have the ability to react load in all three directions, however per the manufacturers and the STC holders guidance, at any one attachment point you cannot take credit for all 3 directions at that given attachment point. So if I go to one point for my aft restraint I cannot use th…

Like, the guy just answers advanced technical questions straight from his head without flinching, going "err emm" or looking anything up, totally unflustered and calmly.

So much expertise and competence, the exact opposite of the crap we seem to hear about in I.T. every other day.

@Bob Probably. In S7 on 6.0, there was a toggle for it in the quick settings settings menu. On the 7.0 firmware they moved it to the top and only on the full menu, but made it unremoveable (unless you root and hack it away). It's one of the things heavily pushed by Samsung/Touchwiz so I doubt they'll have taken it out voluntarily.

It's also part of the quick connect/nearby device scanning feature, though I have no clue why.

ADHD Cat

03:28

@GDPR That would make bootable Windows Soft-RAID (i.e. dynamic disk mirroring) entirely moot then, since you would have to physically press buttons on the keyboard to boot from the second drive should the first drive fail.

Bob

03:45

@ADHDCat it has rescue cd boot

which is enough to change boot order via efibootmgr

ADHD Cat

@Bob Well that would have effectively allowed the same test then

@Bob Actually, no. Unless the rescue CD boot is a Windows 10 PE recovery rescue boot, efibootmgr will not help.

Unless the Windows bootloader mechanism has changed under Windows 10, which tbh it probably has, you need to edit the Windows BCD boot order, not the EFI boot order.

Actually I should probably test this out before making further ominous statements. I'm extensively familiar with dynamic disks booting and the underlying mechanics up to and including Windows 8.1 using BIOS boot only, as the last time I had a machine with multiple drives I was in EFI denial mode much as I'm still in IPv6 denial mode.
I really need to check if the Windows 10 bootloader has changed anything in this respect, although given that a Windows 7/8 installer disk will allow editing and repair of a W10 BCD and bootloader, I suspect the on-disk format has not changed.

If I'm in the mood tomorrow and in a sufficiently un-drugged state I'll probably test it and also write a descriptive and informative answer explaining how it all works. But since it's nearly 5am now, I'm not doing it today

Also, are you and @GDPR aware that many recent Intel chipsets have support for "hardware" based, bootable RAID-1 of NVMe drives?

I dunno anything about the machine other than it sounds like a rented server, but using Intel chipset-based FakeRAID would alleviate the problem of having to physically press keyboard buttons to boot the system if the primary drive fails

Actually @Bob, if you have access to the box, since @GDPR appears to be not awake, can you post the output of bcdedit (elevated command prompt required) once the drives have been mirrored? That should be enough for me to tell if the problem/limitation still exists in Windows 10.

bwDraco

04:50

"lowest possible rate on this card of 14.74%": This is going up to 14.99%, as the WSJ Prime Rate, the rate most credit card rates are bound to, just went up 25 basis points. The BofA website has yet to be updated to reflect this. The minimum rate on this card is best understood as "Prime + 9.99%". — bwDraco 2 mins ago

GDPR

05:15

@ADHDCat I'm up now :P

@ADHDCat I already did that

1

Q: Convert existing system to dynamic disk safely

I have a Windows 10 Pro v1803 box with two NVMe SSDs (INTEL SSDPE2MX450G7). The OS is installed on the first disk and boots (only) in UEFI mode. I want to convert to Dynamic Disks and mirror the first drive to the second. Will Windows automatically adjust the EFI boot data in NVRAM to ensure th...

windows-10 dynamic-disk

... oh

that one is only in Discord

amazon.com/Samsung-Inch-Internal-MZ-76E4T0B-AM/dp/B07864XY8B

HEY GUYS! the price of SSDs has come down somewhat! \o/

4 TB for $1022 US sounds like a good deal relative to what they used to be (I recall not long ago it was $1300 for 2 TB)

Bob

@ADHDCat Yea they have an emulation mode IIRC that exposes NVMe drives as AHCI (or Intel RAID? idk)

GDPR

M.2 drives are still sky high but SATA ones are down a bit

Bob

@ADHDCat Yea but without OOB there's no way to configure Intel RAID, AFAIK

@ADHDCat Worst case @GDPR can use Linux rescue to pull the BCD files and edit them locally

GDPR

05:31

well the box works

Bob

@GDPR ... =>

> With international roaming enabled you can use your mobile service overseas at Pay-As-You-Go rates: $0.75 per SMS and $3.00 per MB of data (charged per KB or part thereof).

$3/MB

O_O

GDPR

@Bob oh, that's totally reasonable. That's just $15 for a typical "big" .gif in RA

Bob

@GDPR I've seen 80 MB gifs :P

GDPR

to download Conan Exiles would only be ... $150,000

or you could buy everyone you know a copy of the game at full price

and buy a Prius with the leftover money

Bob

lol

Burgi

08:17

morning

djsmiley2k

09:03

o/

Bob

10:02

Program in C

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Burgi

we are being hit by fake wannacry demand emails

djsmiley2k

@Burgi lul

Burgi

10:19

@GDPR tbh you might have enough left over for a good car

That Brazilian Guy

10:36

@Burgi Fake as in "Your files are encrypted, I swear, trust me"?

Burgi

basically, yes

> Hello! WannaCry returned! All your devices were cracked with our program deployed on them. We have enhanced operation of our program, so you will not be able to regain the data after the attack.
All the information will be encrypted and then erased. Antivirus software will not be able to detect our program, while firewalls will be emasculate against our one-of-a-kind code.
Should your files be encrypted, you will lose them forever.
Our program also expands through the local network, erasing data on all network-connected computers and remote servers, all cloud-stored data, and blocking web…

rahuldottech

Bull-shirt

Burgi

click skip then...

rahuldottech

@Burgi I did. It failed me.

Bravo, Google!

Burgi

lol

Boris_yo

10:43

Will they eventually implant RFIDs in our hands?

Burgi

there are people in sweden that have already got them implanted

Boris_yo

@Burgi Test subjects?

Burgi

i guess so?

@Boris_yo independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/… (no paywall)

Boris_yo

Arrgh... Like Facebook. Make changes without even asking us. And we follow like sheeple!

@Burgi How you were able to bypass paywall?

Burgi

i'm not but i changed my link to a newspaper that doesn't implement one

djsmiley2k

10:47

\o/

because fook expensive paywalls

Boris_yo

@djsmiley2k uBlock Origin does not solve it?

Burgi

no

paywalls are serverside

djsmiley2k

@Boris_yo I don't care enough to check.

site paywalls me? I go else where.

Boris_yo

@djsmiley2k Maybe you can find same copy of article on another news site?

Burgi

just be glad i didn't link the daily mail site

that site is like 10MB with all the ads

djsmiley2k

10:51

If they weren't so extornate, ai may think about it, lol

Burgi

in some cases it is cheaper to go buy a newspaper from the shop

djsmiley2k

some cases?

but essentially i don't read newspaper websites because they print utter trollop

Burgi

aren't newspapers like 20p or something?

ffs

remember the dev -2?

his inability to put stuff into the repo is now biting me hard

we've lost almost a years worth of email templates

3 hours per template x 11 months = 33 working hours or about 4 working days to rebuild/recover them

djsmiley2k

11:16

@Burgi you need new management,

that's where the problem unfortunately lies

Boris_yo

11:29

@Burgi Unless you are outside of UK...

But then why would you buy.

Burgi

@Boris_yo i don't buy newspapers so i have no idea

Boris_yo

@Burgi There is only negativity for the most part. No positive vibes.

Because negativity sells.

djsmiley2k

@Burgi that's a lot of time :O

plz, kill me now

Boris_yo

@ThatBrazilianGuy Happy Birthday to you.

;)

That Brazilian Guy

@Boris_yo Thanks!

Burgi

11:41

@djsmiley2k yup and that is a best case scenario

Boris_yo

@ThatBrazilianGuy So Russia won Mondial 2018?

djsmiley2k

11:58

@Burgi ewww

ADHD Cat

@GDPR Yeah looks like the same limitation. The two mirrors of the RAID volume are seen by the boot manager as two separate partitions, and require two separate boot entries. If the primary disk fails, you have to actually select the second boot entry in the boot menu to boot from the mirror.

@Bob Well, the resulting RAID array is exposed as an Intel SCSI drive of some sort IIRC. Not sure if it has to operate the underlying NVMe drives as AHCI or not.

Bob

@ADHDCat Probably not, then

ADHD Cat

@GDPR Apparently the trend is set to continue with multiple manufacturers bringing their V-NAND lines into mass production or improved generations: hexus.net/business/news/components/…

@Bob You can configure it in the Windows application

Bob

@ADHDCat When it's not enabled (in firmware)? When it's not enabled and you're booting off those drives?

ADHD Cat

@Bob There's a point. Not a particularly easy thing to do when RAID is not a backup but rather there to improve uptime. Nonetheless if you spot the drive failure while the OS is running and have the ability to act before the system next restarts for whatever reason, you could also do it from within the running OS before shutdown.

Bob

12:06

Though I suppose with EFI you could probably configure it with some hacky efi vars

ADHD Cat

@Bob Oh if the actual functionality isn't enabled in BIOS/EFI then err, yeah might be an issue.

Bob

@ADHDCat tbh I don't know if it's enabled but IIRC it's default off, soo

ADHD Cat

@Bob Pretty sure that's correct. Some motherboard manufacturers have software that allow you to adjust certain BIOS settings from Windows, but changing the boot drive's operation between IDE/[AHCI/NVME]/RAID is well known for breaking the boot process on Windows.

Ultimately though, a) RAID is not a backup and b) Without the ability to manually select boot menu options at startup time, you can't boot off the mirror, so I'm almost thinking just running a frequent rsync backup or image would be easier... particularly if you can restore said image to a replacement drive using a Linux rescue environment, rather than having to use said environment to try extract a BCD file off an NTFS drive to another machine, edit it offline, and copy it back...

Though I'm not sure if it's stored on the EFI boot partition, in which case it'll be FAT32 and a lot easier

Hmm, I'm seeing a BCD in [EFI Boot Partition]:\EFI\Microsoft\Recovery, not sure if that's the actual primary BCD though

It's not on my C: drive either though, so not sure where they've put it

Nope, the EFI:\EFI\Microsoft\Recovery\BCD isn't the actual system BCD. There's a text file in EFI:\EFI\Temp\bcdinfo.txt that reflects the real system BCD, but wtf?

Perhaps the BCD is now integrated into the bootx64.efi binary? o_0

ADHD Cat

12:32

Hmm, my old Windows 10 install has it in C:\Boot\EFI\BCD (or C:\EFI\Boot\BCD, I can't remember, despite having just checked it 2 minutes ago). But my current running OS doesn't. There's one in C:\Windows\Panther\Rollback\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bcd though :-o

Oh it IS in EFI:\EFI\Boot\Microsoft\BCD, I'm just blind -_-

Burgi

12:53

Only 9 minutes left to snag the Monkey Island bundle

djsmiley2k

awww not free.

:<

Burgi

still very cheap though

Bob

13:09

@ADHDCat Should be on the ESP

ADHD Cat

@Bob Yeah it was, I was just looking at it at a funny angle and didn't see it >_>

That Brazilian Guy

14:23

@Burgi Oh, I missed it :(

Burgi

:(

That Brazilian Guy

I played the first two, they're amazing, exquisite humor.

I have bought a bundle ages ago on steam, don't remember if it contains all games

Burgi

the 3rd one was.... ok, terrible ending. never played the 4th

That Brazilian Guy

My gaming backlog is... Let's not talk about it

Burgi

extensive?

like mine

That Brazilian Guy

14:24

This last month I've been rediscovering old MSX games

By old I mean circa 1985

Burgi

i was surprised to learn that the sega mega drive was still being sold in brazil until 2002

That Brazilian Guy

Say @Burgi you work making sites, don't you get frustrated at clients sometimes?

Burgi

@ThatBrazilianGuy all the time

That Brazilian Guy

@Burgi 2002? I saw it on stores last year.

Burgi

the mega drive? :O

Journeyman Geek

14:26

I thought there was a licenced local varient?

@ThatBrazilianGuy I keep playing the same games ;p

I'm playing the Wolfenstein the new order again...

when I have half a dozen games from the last summer sale to play

That Brazilian Guy

@Burgi Client asked me to make a stupid change. Like shooting-themselves-in-the-foot stupid. But they're paying me, so... (They're paying me a flat monthly maintenance tax, I'm neither their designer not developer, soooo...)

@Burgi Yeah, the mega drive.

Burgi

150k units sold in 2016

That Brazilian Guy

In my opinion, it was sold for a LONG time as an alternative to later-gen consoles who are damn expensive in Brazil

When Rock Band for Xbox came out, a blog made the calculations and it was CHEAPER to fly to the US, rent an hotel room, buy the console, buy the game, flight back, than buying it here

Burgi

lol wow

That Brazilian Guy

I'm this scenario it makes sense to buy an old as fuck console, I guess.

Burgi

14:31

"what is the purpose for your visit, sir"
"To buy a game"

That Brazilian Guy

LOL

Journeyman Geek

also genisi are cool

That Brazilian Guy

I have a friend who works remote from Brazil for an US company. He wlhad to visit US for some conference and had to get a visa. His friend told him: "you're visiting Disneyland. Period."

Visa people can't wrap their heads around remote working

Apparently

A different friend was more factual and had his Visa denied

> The Sega Mega Drive (and its predecessor Sega Master System) reportedly sell about 150,000 units per year in Brazil to this day. That number is comparable to the amount of PlayStation 4 consoles sold in the country every year.

Yeah except I bet it costs 5 or 10 times less...

Burgi

another article suggests it is also because brazil still uses older analogue TVs and they don't have the HDMI ports modern consoles use

Journeyman Geek

Converting those is pretty trivial

That Brazilian Guy

14:52

@Burgi Ha. Haven't seen one of those in nearly a decade.

djsmiley2k

15:50

> packet loss has dropped from above 40% to below 5% and is currently 0 %.

srsly vodat sort ur crap out D:

Blog bot

16:09

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Burgi

16:22

frack off @BlogBot

Run5k

A sanity check from the community, please? This new SU member is certainly knowledgeable, but is the first sentence of this answer a bit antagonistic?

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A: Verify a Microsoft Partner id

Don't listen to @Máté Juhász, having a MPN id is required to sell Windows keys as you're asking. And no, Microsoft doesn't provide a website to check MPN (Microsoft Partner Network) ids, but you can verify them by: Phone calling https://support.microsoft.com/es-co/help/4051701/global-customer-...

LWChris

@Run5k I'd remove the "Don't listen to ..." and "And no, " bits. Sounds more neutral and informative.

So the answer should be "Having a MPN id is required to sell Windows keys as you're asking. Microsoft doesn't ..."

Run5k

@LWChris that is essentially what I was thinking, also.

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