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Thomas Ward

13:01

@Zacharee1 yeah sounds like it.

Zacharee1

13:34

@ThomasWard but I did try whitelisting the domains

and nothing still

so idk

Thomas Ward

@Zacharee1 disable/remove AdAway

Zacharee1

ugh

Thomas Ward

it's entirely possible that it's 'whitelist' is not what you think it is, and that it's going to separate DNS or such and causing filtering/resolution problems

Zacharee1

my phone takes forever to reboot

Thomas Ward

there's a lot of applications that 'seem' to be beneficial but actually break things

Rinzwind

13:36

@AndroidDev wth would you want a gui for apache?

Thomas Ward

because people hate working with Apache configs by hand

it's the same argument for 'webmin' which in and of itself is a security hazard

TheXed

what is todays theme of discussion?

Zacharee1

@ThomasWard well it worked before I updated to the 9/19 build of CM

Thomas Ward

@TheXed the existential infinitude of life and its perils

Zacharee1

well, it is AdAway :(

Thomas Ward

13:39

@Zacharee1 AdAway + CM = death probably, with that build

I would report it as "Doesn't work with CM"

though it's more likely that you had to mess with some stuff to make it work

Zacharee1

@ThomasWard do you have any Android adblock suggestions?

I just had to use the disable button in AdAway

Thomas Ward

@Zacharee1 primary phone/device is Apple, sorry. The other problem is that those apps don't integrate with other browsers like Chrome usually

so i don't have any (I have massive snort filtering in place for ad blocking on a special wifi my android devices connect to, and only on that wifi segment)

Zacharee1

because AdAway works really well, maybe too well

hmm

ABP seems to have something

"only works via WiFi"

Anwar

good morning (or evening or afternoon)

Zacharee1

hey, the whitelist works now

Anwar

13:48

I wish we had something like AdAway for Linux

Zacharee1

Android is technically Linux, so technically we do :p

Anwar

for desktop linux

Zacharee1

that exists too actually

since AdAway is just an app that downloads and merges hosts files, it's pretty easy to replicate

and it's been replicated launchpad.net/adandcrapblock

Anwar

wait..

I was talking about the one which can block network access for individual application. does it work in desktop too?

free NAA flag askubuntu.com/a/444406/61218

Zacharee1

AdAway modifies your hosts file

Anwar

13:57

I might have mixed two application name. I'll confirm its name

o/ Rinz

Can you have /boot unmounted while you're using Ubuntu?

it seems you can.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

14:25

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Q: Are Ubuntu CDs still available?

As we celebrate the 12th birthday of Ubuntu, I look back on the announcement of 4.10 Warty Warthog, and see that back then, in 2004 (woah), the only way to get Ubuntu was by CD, and that you could request one here, but now unfortunately, that specific adress is no longer available, and UbuntuLinu...

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Thomas Ward

@AskUbuntuMeta Already answered. Probably not on topic for Meta though

TheXed

@ThomasWard and what have you decided?

Thomas Ward

@TheXed about?

TheXed

the existential infinitude of life and its perils

Thomas Ward

@TheXed Because it's infinite there is no decision. You cannot come to a decision about something that is infinite :P

TheXed

14:35

@ThomasWard but you did make a decision...although incorrect...

Thomas Ward

@TheXed Unless I'm on the fence and have made several decisions, or no decisions

Or I've determined that all decisions are invalid and have therefore declared myself a hypocrite

TheXed

First of all life isn't infinate....it would only take one astriod/comet, other large space object to wipe us all out...

Or a nuclear weapon.

Thomas Ward

@TheXed I didn't say life was infinite. I said the perils are infinite.

TheXed

"existential infinitude of life and its perils"

Thomas Ward

of life and its perils

the two combined as one thought.

though i realize retroactively that i could have shortened that to be more concise

oh hey Android Studio finally updated >.>

TheXed

14:46

I have never been able to get andriod studio to be useful...

Thomas Ward

15:05

need it for an android programming course I am taking heh

TheXed

Cool...

TheXed

16:37

Who broke the internet this morning?

terdon

16:49

@TheXed Sorry, that was me. I searched Google for "Google".

Thomas Ward

17:19

@TheXed the Darkness covering the other side of the earth right now broke it. And also ^ that

Rinzwind

17:36

@terdon recursion is fun :+

terdon

The IT Crowd - Break the internet

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Rinzwind

next year we get 5 new emoticons from Unicon.

1 is a breastfeedingemoticon :X

jokerdino

what's unicon?

Terrance

The IT Crowd is AWESOME!

Zanna

@jokerdino I just see a missing 'r'

jokerdino

17:46

The whole thing is missing!

Rinzwind

@jokerdino sorry meant Unicode

Zanna

looks at keyboard I don't see how that happened.

Rinzwind

typing while doing other things :+)

I use 1 hand to type >:)

Nathan Osman

You've heard of Comic Con... well, this is UniCon.

:D

I guess... it's a conference where industry leaders gather to discuss Unicode?

Rinzwind

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Q: I made mistake - sudo chown /var/www/html/htaccess.txt www-data:www-data

I made mistake when use Chown command. I write sudo chown /var/www/html/htaccess.txt www-data:www-data insted of sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html/htaccess.txt The answer was - enter image description here So - All my stuff from /var/www/html disappeared, and my site Forbidde...

server permissions apache2 chown

that 1st command cant have done anything?!

Nathan Osman

17:55

I'm pretty sure /var/www/html/htaccess.txt isn't a valid user. — Nathan Osman 13 secs ago

@Rinzwind exactly.

Byte Commander

hi guys

Rinzwind

@NathanOsman look at the image!

it actually says that :X

Nathan Osman

Oh, I didn't see the image.

Rinzwind

see the command above it

Nathan Osman

O_o

Yeah, there's your problem.

Zanna

17:57

the directory has no x permission then

Nathan Osman

Indeed. He is correct - there is a problem. But he is wrong on its cause.

Rinzwind

on it

grrr @nathan >:)

Byte Commander

minty askubuntu.com/q/840170/367990

@Rinzwind By the way, congratulations to your 2k-th Ask Ubuntu day. :)

Rinzwind

:)

@NathanOsman +1 >:)

edwinksl

wow, very ddos, many websites unreachable :/

Rinzwind

18:01

thanks @ByteCommander

Byte Commander

@edwinksl such ddos, much wow.

Nathan Osman

@Rinzwind :)

@edwinksl What? Where?

Oh, the Dyn thing?

edwinksl

yeah

Terrance

What do these morons have to gain by doing all these ddos attacks?

edwinksl

inb4 blame russians

Nathan Osman

18:04

@Terrance Notoriety.

@edwinksl lol.

Rinzwind

@Terrance they dont want you on the internet >:)

Terrance

Yeah, someone will stake claim to it, then feel all powerful. Maybe they got their feel bads hurt somewhere along the way.

OK, Outook for Mac is horrible! :(

jokerdino

@Rinzwind Don't look at Takkat.

Zanna

don't think of an elephant...

2

jokerdino

:(

Nathan Osman

18:10

Hmmm...

This is weird.

DNS has stopped working for me

Zanna

@jokerdino why sad?

Byte Commander

Nordic Union - Hypocrisy (Feat. Erik Martensson & Ronnie Atkins) [Official Music Video]

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Nice song.

Rinzwind

he is a mod.I am a user :-)
I am on AU more voluntarily then him >:)

Nathan Osman

Oh hmm...

Rinzwind

@NathanOsman @edwinksl someone is ddossing netflix

Nathan Osman

18:19

This DNS thing is affecting my "npm install".

ಠ_ಠ

Rinzwind

or better: they are targeting Dyn

and they host twitter spotify and netflix.

Nathan Osman

Yeah, Twitter wasn't working earlier.

GitHub either.

edwinksl

github surprisingly works for me

Nathan Osman

It's sporadic.

It works and then it doesn't work.

Rinzwind

damn thats a lot of rain ->

telegraaf.nl/opmerkelijk/26861060/…

dude needed his coffee ^

Nathan Osman

18:24

Gah.

registry.npmjs.org is inaccessible.

Look, I don't care about who gets affected. Just stop accepting traffic from the subnets dumping the packets.

jokerdino

@Zanna I thought of an elephant.

@Rinzwind it's ridiculous he beats your already impressive record.

Nathan Osman

"We are continuing to mitigate a DDoS against our Managed DNS network. For more information visit our status page."

Nice! Their status page's DNS is provided by... well, you guessed it... Dyn!

Facepalm.

Terrance

Good place to check the sites that are down currentlydown.com

Zanna

@jokerdino I know, it works every time... but elephants are a happy thought

Nathan Osman

@Terrance Yes, but this is a case of DNS being down.

Which, for the most part, I guess is the same thing :P

Terrance

18:33

I knew that Dyn was affected this morning.

currentlydown.com/websites

Nathan Osman

It has broken my "npm install". So annoying.

Terrance

Not a lot of down sites listed though.

Byte Commander

Dat username, lol askubuntu.com/users/49642/wurstsalat

Nathan Osman

PayPal, Pinterest, Imgur, Soundcloud - all are down.

Nice.

On the plus side (depending on your perspective), the Pirate Bay is down :D

Byte Commander

v(^_^)v

Terrance

18:35

I was actually able to get on Imgur

Nathan Osman

It's all sporadic.

With DDoS, some requests still get through.

But the majority don't.

Terrance

Paypal.com I can't even touch right now.

Nathan Osman

And once your computer completes a DNS lookup, the results is usually cached.

Terrance

Yep, imgur is hosed for me. No updates

Awww, webmd is down. No more personal diagnostics today. :(

Byte Commander

I could connect to imgur and paypal both in less than 5 sec...

Nathan Osman

18:38

@ByteCommander It seems to affect North America more than other regions.

Byte Commander

Aha.

Nathan Osman

Hey!

Neat trick.

I bet I can use my server in France to resolve some of the domains by hand.

I can just add temporary entries in /etc/hosts for now.

Byte Commander

You've got a server in France? Nice.

I only have a sucking VPN...

Nathan Osman

What the heck?

# dig registry.npmjs.org

; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> registry.npmjs.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 45018
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;registry.npmjs.org.		IN	A

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 10.1.94.8#53(10.1.94.8)
;; WHEN: Fri Oct 21 18:41:19 UTC 2016
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 47

No A records?

Rinzwind

looks like someone seriously f****d up :D

Byte Commander

18:43

Zanna

lol

Nathan Osman

Oh my! It gets worse!

Routing through Google's DNS yields:

;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 34186
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

It isn't even a valid domain name!

Those evil hackers :P

O_O

twitter.com/ow/status/789515155877027840

Yikes!

Byte Commander

o.O

Nathan Osman

status.github.com

You don't need to "investigate". It's out of your control.

Ha!

I found registry.npmjs.org's IP address finally.

151.101.52.162

Byte Commander

Let's DDoS that ^

;-)

(no, we don't do that, of course!)

Zanna

18:53

would it be totally annoying for me to flag some comments just for being completely pointless?

jokerdino

no

But do it when I am around so I can rake up my tally.

evil grin

Nathan Osman

I'm back in business.

For now anyway.

Zanna

@jokerdino done!

hmmm I should have flagged them as "too chatty" but I put "obsolete" instead shrug. Sooo many comment flag reasons

Nathan Osman

Woot - "npm install" finished.

Manual DNS resolution FTW.

Kaz Wolfe

19:15

inb4 PoodleCorp claims responsibility for this attack

edwinksl

weren't those kids on trial

Kaz Wolfe

They are.

And I bet the parts of them not in trial are gonna claim this as them.

Nathan Osman

All of my websites are up :)

Disqus is down though...

Kaz Wolfe

Yay for having some servers on dyn ;-;

but yay multiple DNS servers

well newrelic is still up so...

newrelic is up so the internet is fine :D

Ask Ubuntu Meta

19:44

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Q: demand a new theme (and gummy bears)

Stop using this bright theme, please... But I demand that AskUbuntu offers different theming for the sake of everyone. TY So basically we have different preferences and theme is one that can be provided as Light, Dark and Reading enhancement. I repeat Light, Dark and Reading enhancement

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Serg

I see you guys already know about Dyn DNS, huh ?

Nathan Osman

@Serg We sure do.

Workarounds are in place for me anyway.

Fabby

@MuditKapil 0/

@terdon: Sorry, man!

(I should have known better as an ex-30K user! :D )

Zacharee1

@AskUbuntuMeta croikey m8

@Serg watwatwat

TheXed

@Serg stop attacking the internet!

Nathan Osman

19:55

Lol.

Zacharee1

it's userDepth again....

Serg

@TheXed sorry, i needed to practice ddosing

TheXed

@Serg I knew it was the Russians the entire time! you just proved it!

Zacharee1

@Serg I bet you even installed Kali, you 1337 Pr0 h4xx0r

edwinksl

@AskUbuntuMeta wut?

Serg

19:57

but . . . . I'm Ukrainian

TheXed

or Ukrainians, wherever you are from...

Zacharee1

@Serg didn't you say you don't care about the distinction?

TheXed

But if you ask the Russians they think the Ukrainians are Russian anyway...

Zacharee1

I honestly think UD might be drunk:

@Zacharee1 maybe we should meet in the web. — userDepth 42 secs ago

Serg

@Zacharee1 yup. But for the sake of fun, I'm rolling along with TheXed's words

Zacharee1

19:58

sigh

TheXed

@Serg or maybe you think all the Russians really are Ukranian...

Zacharee1

what a twist!

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