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Byte Commander

7:23 AM

@Zacharee1 You forgot the --no-preserve-root. :D

Nathan Osman

Careful.

Don't pull a terdon.

:)

Byte Commander

:D

A nicer way to do this would be to ask somebody to run $(base64 -d <<<ZWNobyBJZiB0aGlzIHdhcyAicm0gLXJmIC0tbm8tcHJlc2VydmUtcm9vdCAvIiwgeW91IHdvdWxkI‌GJlIGZ1Y2tlZCB1cC4K) instead.

(You can actually safely run the line above, it just performs an echo command)

~~Only if you replace the data string with cm0gLXJmIC0tbm8tcHJlc2VydmUtcm9vdCAvCg== you're in real danger.~~ (DON'T DO THAT!)

Nathan Osman

Hey, that's my trick.

(Is that the hidden backspace character trick?)

Byte Commander

$ base64 <<<'rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
cm0gLXJmIC0tbm8tcHJlc2VydmUtcm9vdCAvCg==

Nathan Osman

Oh, that's a different trick.

Here's mine:

in Sandbox, Dec 2 '15 at 23:26, by Nathan Osman

sudo rm -rf /tmp/*

Copy that into a terminal but don't press enter.

You will quickly see that I have fooled you.

Byte Commander

7:37 AM

I better copy it into nano, just to make sure...

kos

I can tell from trying to select it that there are more characters than how it looks. Hmmm.

Byte Commander

Nice. Are those just backspace characters?

kos

(here's a guy who was "pranked" with that for real by the way: askubuntu.com/q/673577/380067)

Nathan Osman

@ByteCommander It's more convincing if you copy it into a terminal.

:P

@kos Hey - even Santa got some bad command-line advice.

kos

@NathanOsman Lol. Reminds me of Paranoid Panda's digressions on pandas / bamboo-related stuff on his questions.

Anyway still trying to figure out which characters you used. My guess is three delete characters which remove tmp/

Nathan Osman

7:46 AM

Close - four characters. The slash needed to be removed too.

kos

Ah right. That's very clever.

Nathan Osman

Most text editors display the characters, so the trick really only works where control characters are processed, such as in a shell.

I wonder if SE would filter the character though...

kos

Maybe that would be a good reason to use the Formatting Sandbox

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kos

In the editor and in the preview they appear exactly as in the chat.

Nathan Osman

7:56 AM

Nope.

It isn't filtered in chat, but it gets removed from posts.

kos

Luckily!

A.B.

Morning folks =)

Nathan Osman

o/

Just finishing off some stuff before bed.

A.B.

=)

Byte Commander

@A.B. Morning!

A.B.

8:09 AM

@ByteCommander \o =)

kos

8:26 AM

Morning @A.B.!

A.B.

8:42 AM

@kos Hey @kos =)

blade19899

Yaay, malware developer are giving us some love:

> "A new Trojan targeting Linux system has been discovered to engage in versatile malicious activity, according to researchers from security firm Dr.Web. " - Multipurpose 'Xunpes' Trojan Targeting Linux Systems | SecurityWeek.Com

Here is the VirusTotal Report of the malware and dropper:

Antivirus scan for a3f17304da3e2519920acbd275b276c3ed7444df654be95781fcae9bf6a5f8cb at 2016-01-26 05:28:48 UTC - VirusTotal

Antivirus scan for d6abf39d5d1ff064bcb09d1c5761bc29216d0139cd6e9815c41e35b65115bec6 at 2016-01-26 05:28:42 UTC - VirusTotal

Zacharee1

11:01 AM

@ByteCommander :p

edward torvalds

11:36 AM

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A: ssh port forward to access my home machine from anywhere

This can be done by your router. On some router this feature is called Virtual Server See in below part of image there are two examples of port forwarding. One is of Web and another one is of SSH. In first case any request on your WAN IP i.e. the IP of your router with port 80 will be forwarded ...

Zacharee1

11:52 AM

I think that was my first time where someone who asked a question about Mint actually tried to argue that is wasn't off topic

Rinzwind

12:17 PM

nuke needed askubuntu.com/questions/725761/…

Rinzwind

1:25 PM

nuke #2 needed askubuntu.com/questions/725814/…

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1:40 PM

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Q: How do I get reputation on http://askubuntu.com/

How do I get reputation on http://askubuntu.com/ I would like help please

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Byte Commander

2:12 PM

Yay, a +200 day again!

Only 136 more for the Legendary badge... :P

Mateo

2:36 PM

@NathanOsman nexus 4's are getting cheep on ebay

user139252

3:43 PM

\o

user136984

@JacobVlijm: If nobody has come up with an answer by the time you see this message, this might be one for you. :)

user139252

3:59 PM

I might need to replace a couple of my Pis with these...

user139252

Those are significantly more expensive, though.

blade19899

> "Not available for your platform - GNOME 3 theme for Firefox — Previously known as "Adwaita"" - GNOME 3 :: Add-ons for Firefox

I want my Windows to look an feel like gnome dammit :'(

user139252

4:24 PM

@blade19899 You can do that in a few easy steps:

user139252

1. Insert Ubuntu GNOME installation media
2. Install Ubuntu GNOME over Windows
3. Relax, and don't worry about Windows ever again.

blade19899

@TheBrownOne LOL. It's my work PC. And plus, next monday I'll be starting my job managing Linux Webservers. So no biggy.

user136984

@blade19899: Do you have a Tox account by the way? :)

user136984

@TheBrownOne: Who are you? (I think I know who it is as you were on my ignore list... :P)

user139252

4:44 PM

Oh yeah, sorry guys.

user139252

This is Heather Brown :P

user139252

I got bored, decided to change profile

user139252

I was really tired and said "I want something creative, like that orange guy!(@JacobVlijm)"

user139252

So, now I'm The Brown One, and he can be the orange one.

user139252

@ParanoidPanda Explained^

Mateo

5:03 PM

hi @TheBrownOne intresting new name ;p

Jacob Vlijm

@TheBrownOne Wow, looks great on you!

user139252

Thank you! I shouldn't change things at 2AM anymore.

jokerdino

Something creative? Lol

user136984

5:46 PM

@TheBrownOne: Ok, that's going to confuse me for a while! :D

Nathan Osman

e95420.com

In the page source code:

<!-- Illuminati confirmed? -->

Rinzwind

Is there a variable pointing to ~/Desktop so it works across all languages? (cd ~/$DESKTOP ?)

Nathan Osman

It was just registered today.

user139252

Hmmm....

user139252

6:02 PM

That's the color AskUbuntu uses, isn't it?

Nathan Osman

@Rinzwind $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs

That file should have the path.

Rinzwind

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME is empty :P

na I wanted an actual variable >:-D

kos

% source $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs
% echo $XDG_DESKTOP_DIR
/home/user/Scrivania

@Rinzwind ^^?

Rinzwind

yeah well I need to tell that a n00b so simple = best

Nathan Osman

@Rinzwind oops, I meant to just put $HOME.

Rinzwind

6:06 PM

that uses thinks "cd Desktop" CREATES a directory :P

Nathan Osman

mkdir -p ~/Desktop

There. That creates the directory :P

And it's idempotent too.

Rinzwind

so done1

@kos thanks :=)

and @kos saw this: askubuntu.com/questions/725438/sh-to-run-terminal-command/… ?

so some upvotes done too :=)

kos

@Rinzwind Np! Thank Nathan Osman who found it. :P

Rinzwind

@kos he's a mod :=)

kos

@Rinzwind Ah yes I saw that. I don't mind. :D

user139252

6:15 PM

@NathanOsman I'm more confused as to how that page has anything on it. The source has no div, a, or p elements for that style sheet to affect. It looks like just a style sheet.

Rinzwind

@TheBrownOne see the meta :=)

Nathan Osman

@TheBrownOne scroll down.

user139252

Ah, silly me :P

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