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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • Some people want to watch the world burn.

    In order to improve your accuracy might I suggest:

    alias i='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
    alias s='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
    alias sl='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
    alias ll='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
    ...
    
    

    Etcetera. It will make sure you are punished for typos





  • My company uses a VPN where the client is so slow inside the VM it is functionally useless. 99%of the time I can still get away with it because my connection amounts to a couple of telnet sessions, but when I actually need data or a spreadsheet or something transferred local, I need to fire up windows directly to snag it.

    Sonicwall has a VPN client that will run fine on Linux (or so they say), but the company won’t switch over to it. And sonicwall considers the windows only version eol and won’t add a Linux version


  • I got tired of windows updates breaking my dual boot. After some research I found that it’s possible to have two uefi partitions: one for windows and one for Linux. It’s not standard but there is nothing expressly written into the efi spec that prohibits it. And it just works. My bios doesn’t care, and works with them both just fine.

    I only use Windows for that 1% of business stuff I can’t accomplish in a vm under windows. Invariably after I boot into widows once ever 3 months it installs so.e update and would kill my ability to boot into Linux. Since setting up 2 partitions I haven’t had this problem.






  • I have a mikrotik at home and generally believe it to be a very solid product. A take aways from this hack:

    1. mikrotik doesn’t bill themselves as “consumer grade”. It’s a huge learning curve to get started with them. There are graphical tools but it’s not much different then Cisco or juniper. You can put in bad or faulty configurations and the router will happily do the bad or faulty things you told it to.

    2. It only effects routers that are severely misconfigured routers. You need specific services turned on, and have dns grossly misconfigured. Depending on your use case at home it is doubtful a hone user would do this. Also

    3. the man thing I don’t like about my device is that the software isn’t open source. The hardware is quite well known tho and there are ports of *wrt and opensense that run on it , plus you probably could just run a Linux distro on it if you wanted. The bootloader isn’t locked down. It’s an arm64 computer with a lot of network ports.

    That being said I really like the router itself. Performance is great, price is amazing. It does anything and everything I ask it to.