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#51 Re: Installation » Fresh Daedalus: No connection to PulseAudio » 2024-08-18 20:46:50
Glad the link helped, torquebar. For future reference, that link and many more were from searching the message you posted, 'Establishing connection to PulseAudio. Please wait...' (without quotes). And searching 'linux Xonar-STX-III' may resolve the sound card problem. Eg: this was the first of many hits from the Xonar search: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/solved- … ntu/135742
Unless it's cutting-edge-new hardware or software, it's kinda rare to find a Linux problem others haven't found, and resolved.
Good luck.
#52 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] AMD Installation, » 2024-08-17 15:55:17
Had that happen when I first tried booting to a USB. Rebooted to the bios and found it last in the boot order. As @Camtaf posted, I saved it to first and it boots to a USB.
#54 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » merged /usr » 2024-08-03 18:07:55
I'm on Ceres and had to install usrmerge a month or so ago. No problems. Thanks to @GlennW and @Altoid, finding any symlinks usrmerge missed can be corrected by hand.
# symlinks -csrv / | grep dangling#55 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Android -> Linux screen mirroring software » 2024-07-26 16:10:18
Maybe one of several deb versions of libavformat58 at pkgs.org works?
#56 Re: Off-topic » Why cloud dependency and push updates is a bad thing » 2024-07-19 20:26:00
"Cloud" computing isn't the panacea people are making it out to be.
cloud = someone else's drive
Brings to mind the Kim Dotcom raid when so many legitimate users around the world lost their life's work. Don't know how many bought into that hype and currently use big tech's drives.
Wonder how many cloud users, and those update devs, see the relevancy of Franklin's quote on safety.
#57 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » What working environment would you recommend? » 2024-06-30 20:22:56
Which desktop you choose is up to you.
I agree and think it's the best answer. It's a personal thing. Suggestion: burn an iso (Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon) to a USB stick and boot to ram. Booting to ram gives an installed responsiveness. Try each of them for a few days to get a feel for the desktop's apps, options and creature comforts. Sooner or later you'll know which desktop to install.
#58 Re: Freedom Hacks » the right procedure ? » 2024-06-12 21:28:42
unsure whether I want that type of files on my system.
Like all browsers, Firefox is not 100% secure. Vulnerabilities are found and exploited. Clamav is also for Windows so it finds PUAs. PAUs require an NTFS/NTFS+ filesystem as well as the Win OS to run. They cannot run on Linux filesystems or work with a Linux OS. They're useless and take up HD space.
Suggestion: In Firefox > Settings > Privacy and Security > History, is 'Clear history when Firefox closes' checked? In History > Settings, are all of them checked? If the PUAs still get through, find where they're stored and write a script you can click on on the desktop to delete them.
Another way is an icon on the desktop to start Firefox, with a <script> to delete the PUAs executed when Firefox processes end.
#!/bin/bash
firefox && <script>#59 Re: Freedom Hacks » the right procedure ? » 2024-06-12 16:58:00
A quick search for PUA.Win.Trojan.Xored-1 in quotes finds this, posted years ago: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1006237 … ns#1006252
UA.Win.Exploit.CVE_2012_1461-1
* PUA means "potential unwanted application". PUA are not virusses, those are claims by clamav that there is an application they consider "unwanted" because that file or extension have been proven to be abused in Windows
* Win as 2nd part means it is a Windows related notice.
* clamav has an option to not scan for PUA's.
(snipped for length)
Clamav identifies them as Win exploits and trojans. As @chris2be8 noted, it means they need a Win filesystem to run, and are incompatible with any Linux filesystem.
@aluma's suggestion is one way to deal with it. Another is a small script to delete stored data inside the directories in ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/xxxxxx.default-esr/ or wherever they're stored.
#60 Re: Off-topic » AI Safety » 2024-06-10 20:09:29
Ask Google or any search engine "laptops with NPU".
Good point. Much bigger market than components and no laptop/desktop maker would miss jumping on the hype wagon.
Might wanna leave Google search aside for a while. Their DeepMind AI cost them ~$100B in share value from screwed up search results back in Feb, and only recently acknowledged there was a problem.
Doesn't take an expert to understand Sabine Hossenfelder's point in the 'AI’s Dirty Little Secret' video @yeti linked.
I watched a documentary some months ago by Millie Weaver. The video's general focus as she states early on: "The personal computer, originally designed to raise the intellect of humanity has been transformed into smart devices designed to raise the intellect of artificial intelligence."
Big Data Is Watching - Full Length Documentary
December 15th, 2023
1:42:24
https://rumble.com/v2eya4q-big-data-is- … -2023.html
Assuming accuracy and if curious, it looks like congress didn't begin dealing with AI until last year. Soon after OpenAI's Sam Altman testified in congress about the dangers in May 2023, the house passed a resolution (H.R.3831) to require: "Disclaimer: this output has been generated by artificial intelligence." A month later, the senate passed their own version (S.2691) of a similar required disclosure.
Artificial Intelligence Legislation Tracker (scroll down for legislation)
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ … on-tracker
According to wikipedia, the AI boom began in 2012 and "the race began in earnest in 2016 or 2017 following the founding of OpenAI." Searching 'ai dangers' for the year 2012 finds the same kind of danger articles as today, although fewer specifics.
Over a decade of AI warnings. Seems our lawmakers have to have it shoved in their face to get their minds off funding their next election, pay attention and do something reasonably intelligent about a problem. But that's wishful thinking.
Any species stupid enough to allow this to happen will reap the bounty of its collective stupidity
Inescapably true.
#61 Re: Installation » xserver-xorg-video-* unused packages » 2024-06-10 17:24:38
removing the unused packages and keep only the nouveau package?
The text for xserver-xorg-video-all: "It does not provide any drivers itself, an may be removed if you wish to only have certain drivers installed."
Purging the video-all pkg may screw up a dependency or three but can probably be resolved. I don't have a formal DE or any xorg meta-pkgs. Xserver-xorg-core, its dependencies, xserver-xorg-input-evdev/kbd/mouse and a video driver run this screen.
#62 Re: Off-topic » AI Safety » 2024-06-03 04:46:07
Seems a good overview of AI, the growing worldwide concern and Miles' appeal for help.
An example of GPT4's advancement over GPT3 caught my attention. A real world test, 14:00 to ~17:00, demonstrated the AI's ethical elasticity to gain what it wanted by lying. Miles: "This is clearly a somewhat concerning capability." Somewhat?
Another is at 37:34: "A small scale AI disaster like, say, a failed takeover attempt, is possible... but it seems to require an AI system smart enough to think of and implement a genuinely threatening takeover plan, but not smart enough to actually succeed and also not smart enough to realize that the plan won't work, and that it's better to bide your time."
And when "a small scale AI disaster" is tested to prove the AI incapable of a genuine takeover, will there also be a test to prove the failure isn't the AI lying to hide its real capability?
The cat's been out of the bag for years and despite gov't officials' silly lip service over safety, big tech will continue developing and AI will continue to grow in use and influence. Naturally, hardware companies can't promote "AI ready" CPUs and mobos fast enough.
Six weeks ago Gentoo and NetBSD banned AI generated code and as of last week, Debian is still on the fence.
Interesting speculation:
7 Ways AI Is Going to Change Everything
May 25, 2024
16:25
https://odysee.com/@TheCryptoLark:e/7-w … erything:8
#63 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Which work environment to choose for a processor two cores and four th » 2024-05-31 18:22:08
Welcome. Got a 2014 i3 with 2 cores/4 threads, 4GB RAM and can easily run any Devuan environment. Try 'em out and pick the one that feels right for you.
#64 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Intermittent Network Disconnections » 2024-03-03 20:11:16
my son is still connected via the wifi
A friend visited for a week. My connection wired, his wifi. The lost wired connection was from bandwidth. Possible explanation?
#65 Re: Freedom Hacks » Securing my/our computer systems » 2024-03-02 07:24:39
Looks like Novacustom sells only laptops. While I prefer a desktop, they've got great reviews and are worth considering. Still reading about nitrokeys. System76 has great reviews, too, with desktops and a mini with good spec options.
Saw Arkenfox's about-config settings: arkenfox.github.io/gui and recalled Ghack's and other's recommended settings. Have edited them by hand but many/most edits don't survive upgades. Using node.js would help. 
The local computer shop only works with Windows, no coreboot help there. Found some mobos sold with libreboot and the Amibios site has an option for open source firmware. Hafta check first but either might be a way to go. The mobo/cpu are 8 yrs old and although they work great, your timing is appropriate.
Thanks, zapper.
#66 Re: Freedom Hacks » Securing my/our computer systems » 2024-02-26 22:03:41
I run lynis and netstat once in a while and the results are not extensive as there's no wifi, print or other server running. I've used ss to see what's listening but haven't worked with nmap. Also run cli bleachbit with a script deleting dot dir files in mozilla, cache and local/share. And like many, run conky to spot odd usage.
#67 Re: Freedom Hacks » Securing my/our computer systems » 2024-02-25 18:41:45
@GlennW
You're welcome, Glenn. WinXP days, with Netscape, Winamp, Zonealarm and stopping by grc to read and learn. Ever use BlackViper's site to configure services?
I keep finding some ports open, like telnet and LP...
Haven't seen it here but I'll keep an eye out. Did you find that from grc's All Ports test, another site's test or local?
I reseated the nvme ssd I haven't had any crashes.
That's good news. Hard to tell initially... sometimes it's easy and sometimes it's anything but.
You might try LibRedirect when at FB. It's a FF addon that redirects the connection to youtube and most social sites through privacy friendly frontends.
I used to use LibRedirect to watch/download youtube videos with youtube and googlevideo disabled in NoScript. Since youtube began splitting audio from video I had to download them separately. Used ffmpeg to join the m4a and mp4 but it became tedious. Started using sites like youtube4kdownloader_com and 9convert_com/en404 to download a video with audio.
Thanks for starting this thread, Glenn.
#68 Re: Freedom Hacks » Securing my/our computer systems » 2024-02-25 18:40:54
@zapper
The iucode leak was discovered and a free fix is available, but I didn't wanna mess with replacing bios code. Same reason I haven't done the coreboot. Got a good repair shop in a local retailer and I'll ask the next time I'm there.
Intel's me expanded into more modules, same for the expanding aes* security modules. Seems more of their stuff is added to each new kernel version... the difference between Beowolf and Ceres kernels in CPU use and ram is noticable.
Agree with you about security. Wifi isn't a problem 'cause I use a wired connection, and only turn on the router's wifi when family or friends are here.
Used eMatrix for a while with PaleMoon and liked it. Got Icecat installed but haven't used it much. Hadn't heard of arkenfox but looked into Ghack's user.js. Do you know if it's as effective as claimed?
Hyperbola seems a fine OS. Tried installing in VBox and after much effort, realized I was using instructions of a different version than I was trying to install. One of those duh moments. I'll give it another go soon.
Thanks zapper.
#69 Re: Freedom Hacks » Securing my/our computer systems » 2024-02-24 21:59:23
securing my system from being hacked
Great thread. Got me curious so I looked up 'hacked bios' and in the list of alternate searches was 'hacked bios download.' A number of sites have tools (for good or ill) to hack/edit most any bios.
Among many similar, null-byte.wonderhowto_com had these articles:
How To Scan for Vulnerabilities on Any Website Using Nikto
How To Crack SSH Private Key Passwords with John the Ripper
How To Crack Shadow Hashes After Getting Root on a Linux System
How To Gain SSH Access to Servers by Brute-Forcing Credentials
Hack Like a Pro How to Find Directories in Websites Using DirBuster
iOS 17 Tips, Tricks, How-Tos, News
How To Find Anyone's Private Phone Number Using Facebook
Found a 2015 'BIOS Hacking' article at Schneier:
We’ve learned a lot about the NSA’s abilities to hack a computer’s BIOS so that the hack survives reinstalling the OS. Now we have a research presentation about it.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/ … cking.html
I've tested ports at grc_com going back to WinXP days. Good site for learning although it's mainly for Windows. A recent test on Common Ports with NoScript set to 'Trusted' for grc:
GRC Port Authority Report created on UTC: 2024-02-14 at 00:20:52
Results from scan of ports: 0, 21-23, 25, 79, 80, 110, 113,
119, 135, 139, 143, 389, 443, 445,
1002, 1024-1030, 1720, 50000 Ports Open
0 Ports Closed
26 Ports Stealth
---------------------
26 Ports TestedALL PORTS tested were found to be: STEALTH.
TruStealth: PASSED - ALL tested ports were STEALTH,
- NO unsolicited packets were received,
- NO Ping reply (ICMP Echo) was received.
Did a test at youtube. Ran macchanger and restarted the router for a new IP, and found youtube's 'suggestions' were the same videos I'd watched the day before, despite watching a completely unrelated video. Next day, after macchanger and router, I booted TinyCore from a USB. Although watching a video unrelated to those I'd previously watched, youtube's 'suggestions' were what I'd watched both previous days.
Seems youtube's had my MAC address, stats and profile for as long as I've had this hardware. Google's everywhere and can likely identify public facing hardware no matter what security is used. I assume the other major and social networks can do the same.
While talking with neighbors when Facebook first became a hot site, I mentioned to one I wasn't interested in joining Facebook. When she said she'd never emailed me about joining I rechecked her email. Facebook was stealing members' contact lists and sending invites to contacts in the member's name. Dunno if they still do it but I've stayed away from social networks since then. When I vounteered I suggested members change their Facebook's registered email to another email with no contacts, and not use FB's in-house mail.
Got two versions of Devuan, each on a SSD, and keep personal stuff and backups on two parked HDDs. FF is for general and Waterfox for email, with NoScript, PrivactBadger, a few 'about' page tweaks and no stored passwds. I try to keep apps/services/firmware which listen to a minimum, or block when possible. Eg: iucode-tool firmware is not installed as a tiny OS inside Intel CPUs uses it to 'phone home.' Also keep ~50 default modules blacklisted.
Guess it's a balance between security and what's comfortable to maintain. It's feeling like I'm doing something yet knowing nothing I do can prevent a seriously targeted attack.
Appreciate all the tips and ideas.
#70 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Upcoming browser changes » 2023-12-14 22:58:51
Watched a recent video about Wayland and, assuming the assessment is reasonably accurate (Switched to Linux), the problems appear endless for Wayland-only distros both now and down the road. Lotsa bandwagon hype but not a lot of substance.
As I understand it, each DE will have to choose one of 40+ compositors to support, and app devs and maintainers will have to adapt to that choice. If an independent app like Firefox adapts to Sway and the DE only supports Wayfire, Firefox may or may not work.
Wayland Woes
December 11, 2023
24:11
https://odysee.com/@switchedtolinux:0/wayland-woes:9
Example at the Xfce forums on 2023-12-04:
Whisker menu removed the ability to resize in realtime with edge grabs
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=17137
OP
I recently updated my Whisker menu to version 2.8.0 and have discovered that one of the features that I am fond of and very used to using has now been decided to be removed?
2nd post
This is because it's not supported on Wayland and the developer doesn't want to maintain two different code paths for Wayland and X11, see https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/x … issues/112
44 Best Wayland compositors as of 2023
https://www.slant.co/topics/11023/~wayland-compositors
#71 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Firefox no sound. » 2023-11-14 21:29:41
I copied the FF profile from openSuse to Devuan
That may be the problem. I did the same from one OS to another. Resolved it when I set the copied .mozilla directory to old and started fresh.
#72 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » NUC Ethernet not found » 2023-08-15 17:47:30
Maybe this?
Intel® Ethernet Controller I225-V
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en … loads.html
#73 Re: Off-topic » AI on mainstream media » 2023-06-05 19:58:50
You're very welcome. And thank you for the link... she's a gem of information!
Freespoke is very good. Been using it for a month or so and it finds stuff others don't. Also, LibRedirect is a useful extension: https://libredirect.github.io/
In the video below, Max Igan tells pretty much the same story as Catherine Austin Fitts. Fitts' strength is financial whereas Igan's is highlighting specific events with common sense.
Holodomor 2.0 The Rebirth of Bolshevism
July 6, 2022
1:16:30
https://odysee.com/@thecrowhouse:2/Holo … lshevism:c
Thankfully, Dr. Reiner Fuellmich has actually been doing something about what's going on:
Gates, Fauci, and Daszak charged with Genocide in Court Filing
Dec 20, 2021
https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion … 063ed.html
He got shot down by 'legalities' in several countries and is now beginning another suit in New Zealand:
Dr. Reiner Fuellmich: Breaking! Crimes Against Humanity Trials Begin! (Video)
June 3, 2023
37:24
https://zeeemedia.com/interview/dr-rein … w-zealand/
No surprise Fitts's damning reports, Fuellmich's suits, Igan's highlights and many others have been ignored by MSM. Maybe AI has had those 'fact check' algorithms in searches for years?
#74 Re: Off-topic » AI on mainstream media » 2023-05-30 19:27:03
I saw a short clip from a recent Elon Musk interview. In it, he mentioned that AI is already being taught to lie.
Standardpoodle wrote:What really happens is one thing. How it is marketed is another.
I agree. And it's not only how it is marketed but also when it's marketed.
Google started road testing AI over a decade ago, so I'm guessing development began a decade or more earlier.
Project Chauffeur ran for almost two years undetected, road testing with seven vehicles before the New York Times revealed their existence on October 9, 2010.
As for Musk...
All you have to do is think. Using Elon Musk as an example, the man appeared to come from literally nowhere and yet suddenly “owns” the world’s largest auto manufacturer. Musk at the same time began an aggressive program of launching tens of thousands of communications satellites, and then SpaceX, “Elon Musk’s private spaceflight company”, the maker of the Starship, planning International Space Station missions, no less. Then we have Musk buying Twitter for $44 billion.
In the last 100 years, anyone attempting to create a new auto company and brand has met with disaster, but Musk apparently experienced not a hiccup with the Tesla that is suddenly a world favorite. This would have required perhaps ten years of planning and design, the planning of factories and production, the creation of supply lines, the testing and certification, and so much more, but with Tesla this apparently all occurred overnight in a vacuum. Are we to believe Elon Musk designed the Tesla? There is no evidence Musk has the ability to design even a dipstick, much less an entire car, so how did all this occur and what was the source of the background billions required to bring this project to fruition? Musk played no part in the creation of the Tesla. He just somehow showed up at the end, “owning” the company.
Similarly, the aggressive program of communication satellites that “Elon Musk” has launched; this as well would require many years of planning and design, to say nothing of arranging the launch facilities and obtaining the necessary thousands of paying customers. This again would require years and billions of dollars in financing but, like Bezos’ space flight program, this one suddenly appeared in full bloom, operating, launched, and ready to go. Who did the planning for this? It certainly wasn’t Musk, so who was behind it? And the money for all this came from where? “Musk’s” Tesla has never made a profit, so where would he obtain the billions for a pie-in-the-sky system of tens of thousands of communications satellites? Nothing like this can happen without a decade or more of intensive planning and an enormous investment, and obviously none of that came from Musk.
These would be enough challenge for any man, but then we had “Elon Musk” buying Twitter for $44 billion. How would that happen? We are told that Musk suddenly has wealth of – vaguely – $200 billion, with no detail, but presumably from stock holdings in “his” Tesla. But are we to assume that Musk has an extra $44 billion in loose cash sitting in the bank to purchase Twitter? That’s not possible, and Musk isn’t selling half his interest in Tesla shares to finance it, so what is the source of the money? The media confuse this by providing only a few sound bytes but no detail, and thus we have thoughts loosely in our minds that Musk is very wealthy and could somehow afford to purchase Twitter, but all we need to do is think to realise that is impossible.
The Richest Man in the World
November 21, 2022
21,000 Words
https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/the-riche … the-world/
Five minutes of details:
The Real Elon Musk
2023-05-18
4:51
https://153news.net/watch_video.php?v=MR1GD3WASDK8
Musk is a popular talking head, yet a distraction, as is ChatGPT and much of what's in the daily headlines. The major search engines are already using AI, and a search for 'ai test shows bias' can find lots of articles going back years. Perhaps the AI 'bias' (lying) is to facilitate the perspective below?
Planet Lockdown
Catherine Austin Fitts Interview
Dec 29, 2020
NOTE: video was banned on facebook and youtube in Feb 2021 after 20+M views
48:28
https://odysee.com/@VideosBannedFromYou … Lockdown:f
#75 Re: Off-topic » A warning from the godfather of AI » 2023-05-04 16:20:17
Followed golinux's thread, this one too.
A month ago a ChatGPT ad/spam showed up in my email and two weeks ago I got a snailmail full-color, oversized postcard. Both described how cool ChatGPT is and how it would enhance my life. Reminded me of 'The Cloud' promotions years ago, and entrusting personal stuff on someone else's hard drive... and paying a monthly fee for the priviledge.
The difficulty in searching ChatGPT was deciding which of the zillions of links to follow. While big tech's already using it and it's widely promoted, the experts are issuing dire warnings?
OpenAI's new ChatGPT bot: 10 dangerous things it's capable of
December 6, 2022
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/t … apable-of/
Links following above article:
OpenAI releases tool to detect AI-written text
Microsoft unveils AI-powered Microsoft 365 Copilot assistant
DuckDuckGo launches AI-powered search query answering tool
Brave Search launches AI-powered summarizer in search results
Microsoft adds AI-powered Bing Chat to Windows 11 taskbar
Google's AI Robot TERRIFIES Officials Before It Was Quickly Shut Down
February 21, 2023
8:35
https://inv.vern.cc/watch?v=ERXG_yndO3E
NOTE: Observant comments. Scroll for more AI videos on same page
ChatGPT creator warns of AI dangers
19 Mar, 2023
https://www.rt.com/news/573243-gpt-creator-ai-danger/
From the article:
Altman told ABC that his company is in “regular contact” with government officials, but did not elaborate on whether these officials played any role in shaping ChatGPT’s political preferences. He told the American network that OpenAI has a team of policymakers who decide “what we think is safe and good” to share with users.
Interesting times ...
Indeed. It's often time consuming to confirm whether the news we're reading or watching is real. Like the greenscreen and real time video editing already in use, and digital people (eg: Google's AI Robot) the public seems to trust more than real people, AI adds another subtle layer of BS to wade through... assuming we even see it for what it is.
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