The DMZ

11:51 AM

@nobody Either configure your browser to always use https, or install the extension "HTTPS Everywhere" by EFF (and turn it on).

MechMK1

1:37 PM

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A: Should 2-factor authentication using SMS be deprecated?

I like 2FA, and I believe it is the future of authentication technology. For me, SMS technology is way more secure than everything else that is internet-based. Don't know if this answers the question, but combination of both techs appears really secure to me.

What the fuck is this?

@nobody If I saw an anonymous note on my desktop saying "Keep up the good work" I would feel rather uneasy instead of motivated

@nobody Soon, Chrome will use HTTPS as the default.

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Q: Why is SHA3 more secure than SHA2?

Why are SHA3 algorithms considered more secure than their SHA2 counterparts? Surely in part, it is due to their resistance to length extension attacks. But specifically, when considering collision resistance they have the same O(n) attack times. Is it because they are more resistant to preimage a...

I love this question, as it demonstrates "Asserting a fact through a question". Asking "Why is X more secure than Y?" presupposes "X is more secure than Y", without ever directly making that claim.

You can see this a lot in the political sphere, with questions like "How can we counter income inequality between men and women?"

@ThomasWard Hey, good to see you here again. How've you been?

Thomas Ward

@MechMK1 hisses evilly until he finishes his caffeine elixir

in dire need of caffeine this morning

MechMK1

@ThomasWard Oh, you're still going the old-fashioned route?

I replaced two of my ribs with caffeine dispensers

Thomas Ward

but otherwise the normal, chaotic evil self i am

yeah i know what that's like

but they won't let me get caffeine powder or caffeine pills anymore so

MechMK1

I've played entirely too much Rimworld

Thomas Ward

coffee, coffee drinks, and Vanilla Coca-Cola in that order to make sure my sugar and caffeine get high enough

MechMK1

1:48 PM

Red Bull for me

What can I say, I'm a patriot

Thomas Ward

yeah i can't handle red bull or energy drinks

it totally screws my stomach

MechMK1

Same for me, but that doesn't matter

Thomas Ward

heh

it does for me :P

MechMK1

That's the advantage of not caring

I've never felt so zen before

Journeyman Geek

@MechMK1 redbull is thai :D

MechMK1

1:57 PM

Red Bull

Red Bull is an energy drink sold by Red Bull GmbH, an Austrian company created in 1987. It is the best-selling energy drink in the world, with 7.9 billion cans sold in a year (as of 2020).Austrian entrepreneur Dietrich Mateschitz was inspired by an existing energy drink, Krating Daeng, which was introduced in 1981 in Thailand by Chaleo Yoovidhya. He modified the ingredients to suit the tastes of Westerners, and in partnership with Chaleo, founded Red Bull GmbH in 1984 in Fuschl am See, Austria. In Thai, daeng means red, and a krating (known in English as a gaur or Indian bison) is a large species...

Austrian company selling a variation of a recipe of a thai drink

Fun Fact: Red Bull are one of the few companies which outsourced their core business

Wait am I the only non-mod here?

schroeder

you're surrounded

it's like you're looking at the night sky with all these diamonds around you

Journeyman Geek

SO IT HAS COME TO THIS...

MechMK1

@JourneymanGeek Also I can't thank you enough for recommending Jellyfin, it's so good

Journeyman Geek

@MechMK1 glad it was of use :D

MechMK1

I only have one issue with it

Just one

I can't upload media directly via the web interface

Journeyman Geek

2:02 PM

Ah...

MechMK1

I have to use SFTP and then SSH on the server

Journeyman Geek

My problem was stranger - it wouldn't let me use a secondary drive for storage

MechMK1

That is indeed strange

Journeyman Geek

I'm playing with proxmox at the moment and a future (money/time) permitting plan is to consolidate a buncha things into VMs, including that

MechMK1

Sounds like a plan

Also, I decided against using RAID1 for backup

Journeyman Geek

2:04 PM

Ah, most of my linux boxen are ZFS

so in theory I can just export my whole filesystem and do other neat things

MechMK1

I'm really not sure what to use

So my setup is as follows:

I have a 1 TB SSD with the OS and a bunch of "fast" files (caches, etc.) and two 8 TB HDDs for media storage

One is the "Primary", one is the "Backup"

Thomas Ward

@MechMK1 knocks on your door FBI OPEN UP! blasts open the door with explosive entry and raids your home

MechMK1

And currently, once a week, I remount my primary as read-only, then make a squashfs copy of the whole file system and then remount the primary as RW again

@ThomasWard Release the Claymore Roomba

Journeyman Geek

Yeaaah, ZFS man

MechMK1

Got a ZFS for Dummies guide handy?

Journeyman Geek

2:09 PM

does raid, does snapshots, does snapshot exports, and is an absolute pleasure doing it

ooh

MechMK1

Like, I never used it

My primary drive is just an EXT4

Journeyman Geek

arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/…

Is a great primer

Ubuntu's got the best support for it

openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Ubuntu/… is the setup I used on my ZFS boxen. Its a bit annoying you need to start it from the desktop install for now

MechMK1

Honestly, that sounds way too large-scale for my home server :D

Journeyman Geek

ah, but when I want to add a disk?

One command

Backups? One command...

MechMK1

Yeah, but I feel like I'd mess this up

Just a hunch

Journeyman Geek

2:15 PM

Well I mess up a lot... and I did it

MechMK1

How many physical discs?

Journeyman Geek

I just spent the afternoon working up debian didn't like the GPU I didn't really need...

only 1, then I quickly added another as a second mount

MechMK1

Just cli? Or some GUI tool?

Journeyman Geek

future build is probably going to be 2-4 disks

CLI, but very 'elegant' CLI

MechMK1

I might look into this in the future

But for now it feels way too advanced

Journeyman Geek

2:17 PM

If ubuntu server has it, I'd be a happy camper :)

MechMK1

No idea what the latest ubuntu server supports

Guess I'll find out

I'm just really pissed that I bought two HDDs like half a year ago and only tested one

Just noticed that the second one is dead

Journeyman Geek

I don't think its supported without all those steps yet, its the installer needing work

ow

MechMK1

Yeah, big oof

200€ down the drain

Journeyman Geek

o0

Normal prices or crypto inflated prices?

MechMK1

Let me see

200€ for one 8TB disk

Thomas Ward

2:21 PM

that's about right nowadays

Journeyman Geek

sounds normalish

MechMK1

Actually 170€ back then

So some inflation occurred

Thomas Ward

@MechMK1 pfft, Claymore Roomba. That's weak. UNLEASH THE BRIEFCASE NUKE ROOMBA! runs and hides in the bunker

MechMK1

:D

ThoriumBR

It feels strange that the "FBI, open up!" meme shows you have absolutely no time to open up the door before they blast it to bits...

Thomas Ward

2:23 PM

well its a meme not real life xD

ThoriumBR

gotcha!

Thomas Ward

@MechMK1 looks like you're not alone anymore :p

MechMK1

Reminds me of something

ThoriumBR

I am an ex-caffeine addict... I haven't drank coffee for like 20 years now

MechMK1

ATF: Are We the Baddies? Agents discuss whether or not they are the bad guys on their way to a raid.

►

ThoriumBR

2:24 PM

I used to live on a South American coffee farm, so we had real coffee, not that thing that you buy on the market

and I used to drink A LOT of coffee... like 1 liter in 4 hours after lunch

Thomas Ward

that's quite a lot

sips his single cup of coffee

ThoriumBR

I decided to quit overnight, never drank anything anymore... the next 2 weeks were hell

Journeyman Geek

I cut back to one mug a day ._.

ThoriumBR

my concentration was atrocious, I could not do even basic math by head, it was terrible

but I got used to not have caffeine anymore, and it was fine one month later

I use to say that caffeine is like overclocking your neurons, and overclock is not a good long term soluton

MechMK1

Completely unrelated, but one of the most underrated cli tools is rename

basically mv + regex

rename 's/^(\d+)\ -/$1/g' *

ThoriumBR

2:32 PM

rename is nice! I read a good blog post about it a couple years ago... sadly I never learned properly how to use it... and I usually end up bash scripting...

MechMK1

Renames 01 - Track.flac to 01 Track.flac

@ThoriumBR If you know how sed works, you know how rename works

You can always use the -n flag to see what rename would do

ThoriumBR

@MechMK1 imagine how depressing to put on Linkedin: "member of the Dog Killing Team"...

MechMK1

@ThoriumBR "Professional Government Dog Killer 2005 - 2013"

ThoriumBR

@MechMK1 so I guess I read the "Advanced Rename" blog post...

MechMK1

Anyways, time for me to go

Have a good one, lads

ThoriumBR

2:38 PM

you too

Thomas Ward

@ThoriumBR yeah it is in a large quantity. but for some people the single cup of coffee a day helps with focus - especially if you'ive had an ADHD diagnosis in the past.

Rory Alsop

3:52 PM

@ThoriumBR I used to work in Germany, and the office had a real coffee grinder and machine within arms reach of my desk. So I ended up drinking about that much. So much that when I got back to the UK I was having heart palpitations and quit for quite a few years. Now I'm back to one or two coffees a day

Unless I'm on tour, then I live on Red Bull or Monster - which hurts afterwards

ThoriumBR

one of my friends got a serious call from his doctor... one of his routine medical exams turned back and his liver was kinda dissolving... he either had ongoing liver cancer or too much red bull...

so he had a battery of new exams, and his doctor forbid him to drinking redbull for life... he drank to much that the taurine and caffeine and other components were poisoning him

but he basically only drank redbull, no coffee, no juice, no water, nothing...

fun fact: coffee on the market, even coffee beans, aren't pure... the roasting company (whatever it's called) mixes coffee from different plantations to get an even mix, kinda like mass-market wine. so it cannot be as strong as farm coffee.

well, that depends on the farm, some ones can produce terrible weak coffee too

our farm had some areas of land with great coffee, and some with average and bellow average ones too

Thomas Ward

4:29 PM

i had German packaged coffee once, someone was kind enough to international ship me some and that was cool but it took an eon to get through Customs. Was tasty!

but yeah the 'mixed beans' stuff is never pure coffee

but even then it's still balanced

(which is what I need xD0

CaffeineAddiction

5:23 PM

@ThoriumBR im not sure I could survive that long

@MechMK1 every time I even consider reaching for sed I realize what I am doing should prob be done in a real language

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