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Henry WH Hack v2.0

18:01

Post number 80 is the lucky post: i2p.stackexchange.com/questions/80/… I think I hope. :D

I wish.

I'm nervous.

edwinksl

doesn't seem like a particularly good question

Henry WH Hack v2.0

I know it's a scope test.

edwinksl

the title is misleading; you are asking for way more than what the title says

Henry WH Hack v2.0

I voted to close LOL!

edwinksl

you can just vote to close since the site is in beta :P

did someone just try to apt-get install an exe T_T

Zanna

18:12

and then was completely baffled by it not being found

edwinksl

lol

Zanna

I was going to say we've all been there but... no actually...

fixed my ugly Arch console font & made pretty colourful PS1 #priorities

dino

Powershell coming to Linux?

Adam The Chespin

It's already out for Linux and macOS.

It's on the powershell GitHub repo

dino

I am slow on news.

Rinzwind

18:19

@ParanoidPanda yuck

Adam The Chespin

You're a dinosaur when it comes to news. rimshot

dino

/me drops down dead.

Adam The Chespin

Use * for italics

dino

I had a userscript that converts /me to italics but I just disabled Greasemonkey a while ago.

Adam The Chespin

Fail

dino

18:20

As is customary.

Adam The Chespin

:P

Rinzwind

bbl Final handball \o/

Adam The Chespin

Boop

grooveplex

NAA askubuntu.com/a/813912/530811

Zanna

18:48

uh... am I wrong? askubuntu.com/questions/813921/…

edwinksl

it is opinion-based and too broad

Zanna

zakly

edwinksl

i wonder which reason the 5th CV is going to pick

Zanna

19:04

haha

edwinksl

there is no excuse for a long-time user like OP to actually think that was a good question for AU

Nathan Osman

PowerShell is coming to Linux??!?

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/…

edwinksl

@NathanOsman you are 3rd person to point that out :P

Zanna

Appreciate the backup :)

Nathan Osman

I wasn't here this morning :)

It's hard to see what has already been posted on mobile.

edwinksl

19:12

we should star one of these powershell things :P

Zanna

I can't do it, I really hate that company that makes it...

CodeX

M I C R O S O F T

NSA tools leak is a big news today

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

20:06

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Q: How to view console output from a background java process

I have a custom java server that I wrote that I am running using upstart (/etc/init/myservice.config) where i launch java -jar myservice.jar The java process uses System.out.println to write log messages of all kinds. I want to be able to connect to it from a remote ssh session and view the out...

edwinksl

20:44

@Zanna congrats on gold :D

Zanna

lol thanks! I didn't even notice!

it hasn't come up green yet

TheXed

Did you guys know that Windows has a secret button in the top left hand of any window?

Zanna

you'll be getting another one in a few days right? Fanatic?

edwinksl

@TheXed is it the one that says "Minimize", "Move", etc?

@Zanna a week or so i think

TheXed

@edwinksl yes and if you click twice it will close the window...

Zanna

20:46

then we'll have the same 4 badges

edwinksl

@TheXed i used to invoke it by using Alt + Space

Zanna

it's a year since I used windows at all :) :) :)

edwinksl

@Zanna lol the easiest 4 :P

TheXed

I have been doing this for 10+ years and I have never known that...

Zanna

yep!

TheXed

21:04

So powershell is OS and coming to Linux...

edwinksl

21:17

My email is [email protected] Please answer me by email fr I don't know if I will be able to find this again here...Thanks and sorry about my total lack of expertise... — user229742 5 mins ago

xD

Zanna

oh lord eyeroll

I can't upvote your comment, because I ran out of votes

but consider it upvoted

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Was my Ubuntu computer hacked? by Gabriel Nnabugwu on askubuntu.com

edwinksl

@Zanna why does your FTP URI contain 1337? is that intentional?

Zanna

yes, it's correct

edwinksl

so 1337 :D

Zanna

21:27

can you get to it?

edwinksl

yeah i was overwhelmed by the wall of text

Zanna

I would put in the ftp commands (just for fun) but I can't seem to connect to the server

horrible answer... and it looks like they abandoned it

edwinksl

@SmokeDetector rofl m$ spam?

Zanna

it took me 10 days to get this laptop to boot when I first got it

edwinksl

so basically avoid asus x205ta, got it

Zanna

21:32

hehe a lot of stuff got fixed since then

and now... download iso, run script, write to usb, reboot, boot from usb, install... done inside of an hour

edwinksl

i like how the debian wiki has an entry for it wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/X205TA

Zanna

I've visited that page like 50 times

the thread for the device on Ubuntu forums has 113 pages...

(1120 something posts)

edwinksl

omfg

Zanna

and still no sound

edwinksl

i only just clicked on it

wow

Zanna

21:35

infamous!

edwinksl

the very first post described a laptop that is totally dysfunctional lol

Zanna

and a handful of hackers have made it pretty damn fine

mostly harryharryharry who wrote the 1337 script

edwinksl

"Could someone tell me what is now working and what's not? Thread has over 100 pages, so it's pretty hard to read them all"

yup

Zanna

it needs to be wikified, like the Debian wiki

it's unmanageable

when it was 80 pages, I went more or less through the whole thing... it took days and I'd forgotten the beginning by the time I got to the end

edwinksl

amazon.com/review/R2JJZZSPCO9OHH/…

unfortunate name...

the comments for x205ta are basically about linux support

Zanna

21:47

hahaha

the worst is that realtek will not even release a specification for the soundcard so that someone can write a driver

we all emailed them, and nothing

this guy devoted a repo to it... haven't heard from him lately though github.com/KemyLand/rt5648

edwinksl

reminds me there is a repo for realtek rtlwifi drivers too github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new

Zanna

marginally more active... last commit 1st June

Serg

@dino or @ThomasWard I'm having a bit of an issue with a pushy user, who is convinced that I misunderstood CVE - 2016 - 5696. To the point where he basically edited out my answer placing his own "Disclamer" at the top, and strikethrough'ing my original post . askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/606048

Zanna

22:02

argh!

edwinksl

i should go figure how to read those cve tables

Zanna

there's no hope for me, I'll get bored within seconds unless there's something I can actually do

Serg

@Zanna no exciting questions to answer right now ?

Zanna

heemayl is scoffing them... and steeldriver is around too :)

edwinksl

askubuntu.com/questions/775545/… is probably caused by sudo gedit but i am not sure where gedit stores its config file for me to suggest a chown fix. free repz for gedit users :P

Zanna

22:05

lemme see...

this looks quite interesting... askubuntu.com/questions/813951/…

edwinksl

@Zanna looks like there is an answer now with a casual 3 pipes

Zanna

oh... that was quick...

@edwinksl I can't reproduce that gedit issue by sudoing it... it has a directory in ~/.config as you might expect shrug

I'll have to find you another one now @Serg !

ps MATE doesn't come with gedit, I installed it specifically for answering AU questions haha

edwinksl

oh what does MATE have then

Zanna

pluma

but I use vim and atom

Serg

@Zanna hehe, I already have a few questions to answer, but i'll always take more. I actually just registered and posted a question on the security.stackexchange.com site

Zanna

22:21

I asked a question on U&L the other day, and it got 4 upvotes ^_^

edwinksl

@Serg upboated

Serg

Thanks :)

Zanna

I'm not on security...

Serg

hopefully that'll sort out my dispute with that user. If i really misinterpreted the freakin CVE report, then I'll have to delete my answer

edwinksl

the easiest +100 rep of your life

Zanna

22:22

haha ikr

I got +100 yesterday on Vi SE

Serg

mmm , maybe I should join that one as well

Zanna

100 points!!

boom haha

Serg

Speaking of vim , Stallman (who is emacs fanboy ) was calling vim the text editor of the beast ( because vi looks like roman number 6 , and the number of the beast is 666 )

Zanna

I wanna learn emacs too...

that's funny

I like editor war jokes

Zacharee1

um askubuntu.com/questions/813985/…

Zanna

22:28

I would upvote your comment but I have no comment votes left

Zacharee1

wat

Zanna

on that question

Zacharee1

there's a limit?

Zanna

apparently

edwinksl

yes

30

Zacharee1

22:29

huh

Zanna

it tells me to come back in 2 hours

Zacharee1

lol

well 2 hours is when the clock resets I think

yup

10:30 right now in UTC

edwinksl

ie 0000 zanna's time

Zanna

yeah I know

nope we are in BST so it's 0100 my time

and speaking of which is is past my bed time

g'night all :)

edwinksl

good old daylight savings

Serg

22:33

i propose a new holiday : "Shtgiving" , the day when people do give a sht

edwinksl

@Zanna night!

@Serg i like that

Thomas Ward

@Serg I responded in comments. I also warned them to not make destructive edits, in reference to the type of edit they made.

now you can pay me in coffee :P

Serg

@ThomasWard sure, just give me address where to mail coffee boxes

:D

Thomas Ward

I was kidding :P

Serg

i know, i was playing along

Thomas Ward

22:41

:P

Henry WH Hack v2.0

ThomasWard He is lying no wait he is not lying in Serg we trust! :D

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Bluez bluetoothd requires root for all processes interacting with it

I've upgraded my bluez installation to version 5.41 on my Ubuntu xenail box (16.04). I'm trying to do some testing with a piece of bluetooth low energy hardware so I'm staring bluetoothd with the following command from the command line to enable the experimental GATT interface. sudo bluetoothd ...

ubuntu root bluetooth d-bus bluez

edwinksl

23:11

@Serg so i have read a bunch of stuff on the CVE and i think happyskeptic is correct :/

the easiest way is just to look at linux like in happyskeptic's answer

Serg

@edwinksl OK . . .Think you could write an answer on the question I posted on security.stackexchange.com ?

edwinksl

the linux-lts-x are HWE kernels, so you will see DNEs except for the particular LTS that the HWE kernel is relevant to

Zacharee1

@Seth LG G5 TMO $400 m.ebay.com/itm/…

Thomas Ward

@Serg pokes

@Serg hate to edit your thing,s but I added a 'note' to your answer

feel free to revise, but it seems that user just wanted you to make a 'disclaimer' about how you cna't just 'avoid' the issue by switching kernel packages

and I noted as such

Serg

@ThomasWard OK . . .so looks like he is correct ?

Thomas Ward

23:26

you both are

and at the same time

neither of you are

your answer doesn't cover the edge cases that the user is poking about

and at the same time, the hypotheticals the user is referencing are uncommon and are not assumptions that an average person would jump to

so while his analysis is valid, it's a conclusion that many would not jump to.

so my revision is the best of both worlds, touching upon the 'global' coverage of the problem they pose, but also the official side of things about "You must track specifically the kernels your system is isntalled, as just installing a different one won't save you" basically

which doesn't damage your content, and addresses the uncommon case the user suggests

poke me if they do anything more destructive

or any other mod.

for now i'm tired

needs a nap

Serg

Thanks. I think I should read up on CVE tracking a bit more.

Zacharee1

@ThomasWard you pulled a me

giant wall of text that could be summarized in one message

just like this

Serg

Jeezus Krist . . .that user is persistent . . .

Zacharee1

dupe askubuntu.com/questions/813995/…

@Serg just like a Live Environment

can i haz link

or context

no?

Serg

@Zacharee1 one second plz . . .

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A: Are my systems vulnerable from CVE-2016-5696?

First of all, the package that it refers to linux-lts-trusty refers to the kernels images. They are named differently in the repositories. If you do apt-cache search linux-.* | grep 'trusty' you will find packages like linux-image-virtual-lts-trusty or linux-image-virtual-lts-wily. In addition , ...

Zacharee1

23:38

kk

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 i think the dupe target is ok except that the question in the dupe target says WM but OP is asking about DE. i know one of the answers does talk about DE though, so that's why i think overall the dupe target is ok

@Pandya no, the values will be different, but on the duplicate it shows how to grab the value for both (And other examples for WM and DE). — Luis Alvarado ♦ Aug 10 '14 at 15:40

i would propose changing the question of the dupe target to also include DE

Zacharee1

hmm

edwinksl

plenty of answers for the dupe target talk about DE anyway, but WM =/= DE

Zacharee1

yeah

Serg

good god, i wish i could have just stayed in China . . .

Thomas Ward

23:45

some other mod can deal with this

i need to go take time off from here, due to anxiety caused by other problems

Serg

@ThomasWard go, don't worry about AU, it won't burn down

edwinksl

zach will hold down the fort, no worries

Zacharee1

yess heheheh

heheheh

HA HAHA

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

edwinksl

oh lord what have we done

Thomas Ward

unleashed the bad evil.

Serg

23:54

@Zacharee1 boops Zach on the head

Thomas Ward

:P

Zacharee1

@ThomasWard I think that's redundant

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@Serg what was the proposed destructive edit?

Serg

@Zacharee1 basically that user put his answer on top of mine, and put strike-through everything i wrote

Zacharee1

lol

and then played the victim when a mod came after him?

edwinksl

huh, that strikethrough edit has been banished? i don't see it anywhere

Serg

23:58

Not really. He is just doing it in "good faith" so to speak, and trying to correct my answer. Which makes me doubt that my answer is really proper or not . . .

@edwinksl i rejected it

Zacharee1

@edwinksl it was a proposed edit

no repz

edwinksl

ohhh

Zacharee1

@Serg from his attitude in the comments, I say your answer is fine

edwinksl

mi = dumdum

Serg

So yeah, i asked a question about this on security SE so we will see. If he is correct, i don't mind deleting the post

Zacharee1

23:59

@edwinksl @Serg's a dumdum, you're a dumdum too.. Everyone's turning into lollipops!

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