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| 00:41:34 | <fireonlive> | freenginx first release https://freenginx.org/en/CHANGES |
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| 01:34:33 | <TheTechRobo> | I was looking more into VPS replacements and while OVH's prices are good their reviews are horrendous. Can anybody confirm whether they're good or bad? |
| 01:34:51 | <TheTechRobo> | IONOS seems like an even better deal tho |
| 01:35:04 | <TheTechRobo> | though also bad reviews :/ |
| 01:35:10 | <nukke> | definitely avoid OVH |
| 01:35:24 | <nukke> | if you're in EU, Hetzner is probably the best one. |
| 01:35:37 | <TheTechRobo> | Canada |
| 01:38:37 | <TheTechRobo> | Linode's pricing appears identical to Vultr for my current VPS |
| 01:39:18 | <nicolas17> | I've only used DigitalOcean (and played a bit with AWS and GCP) |
| 01:39:27 | <nukke> | it depends on what you need. |
| 01:39:57 | <nukke> | I've had good experiences with DO and ramnode. ramnode specifically was great but I think they have a new owner as of... 2-3years ago? |
| 01:40:04 | <nukke> | same with linode, now akamai |
| 01:40:28 | <nicolas17> | KDE has most of its servers on Hetzner dedicated, but no experience with their VPS service |
| 01:41:07 | <TheTechRobo> | DO appears to have either the same or worse pricing |
| 01:41:35 | <TheTechRobo> | I'm content with Vultr, but I'd prefer to pay a little less |
| 01:42:05 | <TheTechRobo> | But with the amount of stuff I run 4GB of RAM is basically a necessity, so I can't downgrade |
| 01:42:38 | <nukke> | it's gonna be hard to find something cheaper |
| 01:42:44 | <@JAA> | OVH is fine as long as everything's working correctly. If you need support... good luck. |
| 01:42:51 | <nukke> | linode has tons of "$100 credit" coupons if that helps |
| 01:43:09 | <nukke> | I was affected by one of OVH's fires and lost a bunch of stuff (^: |
| 01:43:15 | <@JAA> | At least that's been my experience. |
| 01:44:03 | <@JAA> | Yeah, multihoming and backups are key, but that's true for any provider really. |
| 01:44:13 | <nicolas17> | I'm on a 1GB-RAM, 1 core DigitalOcean box |
| 01:44:26 | <@JAA> | It's not like there haven't been any fires in other DCs. :-) |
| 01:44:29 | <nicolas17> | it used to be the cheapest option they had |
| 01:44:36 | <@JAA> | E.g. Global Switch in Paris |
| 01:45:10 | <@JAA> | Or Maxnod |
| 01:45:37 | <nicolas17> | when they raised prices from $5 to $6, they added a $4 option with 512MB RAM and 10GB disk, and that's cutting it way too short already :P |
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| 01:49:48 | <TheTechRobo> | I'd try hetzner if they had servers in Canada |
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| 01:55:05 | <TheTechRobo> | aw, and their ARM offerings aren't even available in the States |
| 01:55:24 | <fireonlive> | you're kinda screwed for canada lol |
| 01:55:35 | <fireonlive> | i do have a couple OVH boxes and so far so ok |
| 01:55:41 | <fireonlive> | (both serving archiveteam) |
| 01:59:08 | <TheTechRobo> | Racknerd has some crazy low prices, heard it recommended a few times on reddit but of course that's with a grain of salt |
| 01:59:15 | <TheTechRobo> | DCs in the US, so not the worst |
| 01:59:31 | <TheTechRobo> | https://lounge.thetechrobo.ca/uploads/bb89a7a1b6986d07/image.png |
| 01:59:40 | <nicolas17> | rackner daemon |
| 02:02:37 | <TheTechRobo> | ah, apparently the catch is that the speed drops dramatically over time |
| 02:02:42 | <TheTechRobo> | I guess too many people on the same servers |
| 02:04:48 | <nstrom|m> | my server on racknerd is very reliable, but they count incoming & outgoing bandwidth against quota and shut down the vps completely when you hit BW quota |
| 02:05:09 | <TheTechRobo> | Interesting |
| 02:05:15 | <TheTechRobo> | 10TB bw cap isn't too bad though |
| 02:05:20 | <nstrom|m> | vs, say, crunchbits that will just throttle your speeds when you hit quota which is nicer |
| 02:07:07 | <TheTechRobo> | so I guess the choices are racknerd (really cheap but not sure what the catch is, no Canada), OVH (cheaper than my current option but no support), Hetzner (cheaper than my current option, also no Canada), and staying where I am |
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| 02:09:21 | <fireonlive> | hmm no responses to https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/warning-14-000-bigquery-charge-in-2-hours/2715 yet lol |
| 02:10:18 | <nicolas17> | "This issue has been automatically closed because it has not had any further activity in the last 30 days" |
| 02:10:39 | <nicolas17> | I should make a "bump bot" that posts a useless comment every month on issues I care about, to prevent the project's "stale bot" from closing it for inactivity |
| 02:11:48 | <@JAA> | Yes please! |
| 02:12:08 | <nicolas17> | https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/27443 |
| 02:12:22 | <@JAA> | It's the laziest form of issue management in existence. |
| 02:13:07 | <fireonlive> | please do |
| 02:13:09 | <nicolas17> | I remember someone sent a feature request to gitlab to implement "lock issue", and made a bot that auto-reopened it if it was ever closed |
| 02:13:11 | <fireonlive> | i fucking hate stalebot |
| 02:13:30 | <fireonlive> | every time i see it i want to electro shock over the internet |
| 02:13:46 | <nicolas17> | so the only way for gitlab to actually keep the issue closed was to implement the feature |
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| 02:13:53 | <nicolas17> | close it and lock it so it can't be reopened |
| 02:13:57 | <nicolas17> | genius |
| 02:14:19 | <nicolas17> | if they closed it as wontfix, the bot would reopen it automatically |
| 02:14:48 | <fireonlive> | xD |
| 02:16:34 | <fireonlive> | <fireonlive> hmm no responses to https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/warning-14-000-bigquery-charge-in-2-hours/2715 yet lol < someone just responded lol |
| 02:16:43 | <fireonlive> | >Hi @Tim, we’ve already chatted over DM but I just wanted to reiterate a few things here for anyone else who finds this thread. |
| 02:16:56 | <fireonlive> | are you here, rviscomi? 🤔 |
| 02:18:00 | <@JAA> | lol, nice |
| 02:18:35 | <@JAA> | On GitHub, that problem is 'solved' by users being unable to reopen their own issues if they were wrongly closed. |
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| 02:31:27 | <fireonlive> | lovely |
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| 02:32:21 | <nukke> | when in doubt, wildcard |
| 02:33:21 | <fireonlive> | SELECT * FROM * WHERE *( |
| 02:33:30 | <fireonlive> | (->; |
| 02:34:43 | <fireonlive> | is it possible to mine crypto with sql queries yet |
| 02:36:03 | <@JAA> | SELECT reward FROM bitcoin WHERE hash(block) LIKE "000000000000%" |
| 02:36:04 | <@JAA> | ez |
| 02:36:33 | <fireonlive> | ah! :P |
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| 02:39:35 | <TheTechRobo> | nstrom|m: Does racknerd have decent speeds compared to other providers? i.e. will I notice a significant performance penalty moving to it? |
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| 03:05:45 | <pabs> | nicolas17: I just sent the Walmart OSPO (open source office) a mail about the lawsuit :) |
| 03:06:24 | <nicolas17> | a friend said "what if walmart takes a single look at the lawsuit and decide it's dumb af and just comply with gpl" |
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| 03:07:03 | <fireonlive> | pabs++ |
| 03:07:03 | <eggdrop> | [karma] 'pabs' now has 4 karma! |
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| 03:08:18 | <pabs> | I would not be surprised if they can't comply, probably the Chinese vendors that made their TVs never gave them the source |
| 03:08:53 | <pabs> | I also asked them if they would be upstreaming the changes Vizio made to Linux etc |
| 03:09:45 | <nicolas17> | pabs: you'll like this btw https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/69343.html |
| 03:10:59 | <fireonlive> | love me some mjg59 |
| 03:11:03 | <nicolas17> | and the followup https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/111964717019117621 |
| 03:11:10 | <nicolas17> | fastly++ |
| 03:11:11 | <eggdrop> | [karma] 'fastly' now has 1 karma! |
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| 03:16:44 | <fireonlive> | fastly++ |
| 03:16:44 | <eggdrop> | [karma] 'fastly' now has 2 karma! |
| 03:16:47 | <fireonlive> | nice |
| 03:17:05 | <fireonlive> | !kfind akamai |
| 03:17:06 | <eggdrop> | [karma] 1 matches for 'akamai': Akamai: '-4' |
| 03:17:08 | <fireonlive> | lol |
| 03:17:55 | <nicolas17> | third attempt trying to download a 4GB file from samsung... I wonder if it's failing because the tor circuit doesn't survive for 6 continuous hours or however long it takes |
| 03:18:06 | <thuban> | good debugging story. but... streaming video to your remote mountain cabin? this is what sneakernet was made for! |
| 03:18:45 | <nicolas17> | ++ |
| 03:18:52 | <thuban> | nicolas17: would it help if i grabbed it? |
| 03:18:54 | <nicolas17> | or download overnight? |
| 03:19:14 | <nstrom|m> | <TheTechRobo> "nstrom: Does racknerd have..." <- 1gbit port on racknerd vs 10gbit for vultr/hetz. that said mine has performed well but ymmv as always |
| 03:19:44 | <nicolas17> | thuban: now that samsung added captchas and broke my automation, I plan to crowdsource the grabbing anyway |
| 03:21:27 | <fireonlive> | https://jollyrogertelephone.com/ < neat |
| 03:23:51 | <thuban> | nicolas17: istr you talking about watching for updates; if you manage to crowdsource downloading the present files, will you be able to keep up with future ones by yourself? or is the crowdsourcing likely to turn into an ongoing project |
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| 03:46:52 | <TheTechRobo> | nstrom|m: Cool, thanks! |
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| 03:49:55 | <TheTechRobo> | currently reaching out to LunaNode support to ask them a question; their service also looks nice and has been around for awhile with mostly favourable reviews it seems |
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| 03:59:33 | <fireonlive> | that’s not very "skibidi toilet” of you |
| 04:00:01 | <nicolas17> | soon arkiver is gonna notice his IRC client is dead, restart it, and get 5 messages from eggdrop in each of 10 channels |
| 04:09:11 | <fireonlive> | :D |
| 04:14:03 | <fireonlive> | for those who are blissfully unaware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzD9OxAHtzU&list=PLd_AM-W1ozFI2s6huFyS0qGv-VnH8iDE6 |
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| 04:30:12 | <TheTechRobo> | fireonlive: Where tf did that come from |
| 04:30:19 | <TheTechRobo> | :P |
| 04:30:31 | <fireonlive> | ikr |
| 04:30:42 | <fireonlive> | it blew up quite fiercely |
| 04:35:25 | <TheTechRobo> | I meant why was it referenced :P |
| 04:45:08 | <fireonlive> | oh |
| 04:45:12 | <fireonlive> | i have no idea |
| 04:53:39 | <steering> | why does this remind me of half life 2 |
| 04:54:10 | <steering> | ah, garry's mod, makes sense |
| 04:55:18 | <nukke> | I believe they're using SFM (source film maker) |
| 05:21:24 | <fireonlive> | enjoy my $45 piece of shit bank |
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| 05:48:12 | <@OrIdow6> | https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/walmart-buys-tv-portal-nowhere-2024-02-20/ apparently the Walmart purchase of Visio isn't too well regarded by these guys either, but it's sort of crazy how explicit it is that this is about spying people |
| 05:51:02 | <nukke> | enhancing customer experience* |
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| 06:27:10 | <fireonlive> | https://transfer.sh/inline/FNwe2loQ8m/image.png < TIL youtube do that |
| 06:28:45 | <@JAA> | transfer.sh ಠ_ಠ |
| 06:28:58 | <fireonlive> | 😅 |
| 06:29:11 | <@JAA> | I guess the suicidal theme fits with using that. lol |
| 06:29:19 | <fireonlive> | :D |
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| 07:56:34 | <@JAA> | RIP arkiver |
| 07:56:57 | <@JAA> | I sent him an email earlier in case his IRC setup broke again. Yup, it did. |
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| 07:59:35 | <eggdrop> | [tell] arkiver: [2024-02-19T20:52:34Z] <fireonlive> welcome back :D |
| 08:00:52 | <@JAA> | Welcome back indeed :-) |
| 08:14:48 | <f_> | hehe |
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| 12:16:06 | <f_> | Oops. Bouncer disconnected lol |
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| 16:46:41 | <@JAA> | So the US Department of State offers rewards up to $10M for tips leading to the arrest of the people behind LockBit. 'Just' a partial infrastructure takedown, as suspected. |
| 16:47:29 | <@JAA> | > a reward of up to $10,000,000 for information leading to the identification or location of any individual(s) who hold a key leadership position in the Transnational Organized Crime group behind the LockBit ransomware variant |
| 16:47:50 | <@JAA> | lol, they forgot to replace ALPHV with LockBit in the following sentence: |
| 16:47:55 | <@JAA> | > In addition, a reward offer of up to $5,000,000 is offered for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction in any country of any individual conspiring to participate in or attempting to participate in ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware activities. |
| 16:47:59 | <@JAA> | https://www.state.gov/reward-for-information-lockbit-ransomware-as-a-service/ |
| 17:30:40 | <fireonlive> | https://dl.fireon.live/irc/daac93ffca6f4e7f/image.png |
| 17:30:42 | <fireonlive> | oh no |
| 17:30:51 | <fireonlive> | do i need to install it now?! |
| 17:31:00 | <fireonlive> | 😞 |
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| 18:27:14 | <kiska> | fireonlive: Yes :p |
| 18:38:44 | <fireonlive> | true… i should support mother monster.. |
| 18:38:58 | <fireonlive> | kinda hoping someone will record it or something xP |
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| 18:50:26 | <@JAA> | Docker pls, y u no read Containerfile? |
| 18:55:06 | <fireonlive> | they’re salty |
| 18:56:11 | <fireonlive> | “how dare you even *think* about using or supporting something other than docker” |
| 19:00:31 | <@JAA> | Docker Compose reads compose.yml though, and I think it even takes precedence over docker-compose.yml. |
| 19:00:52 | <@JAA> | But yeah, pretty much: https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/3251 |
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| 19:28:51 | <fireonlive> | >PodMan / buildah may have given it a another name to keep the docker name out of it, but the spec we support is the Dockerfile spec, and the default name matching that. |
| 19:28:52 | <fireonlive> | lol |
| 19:30:25 | <@JAA> | > default name |
| 19:30:38 | <@JAA> | So you're saying you could fall back to Containerfile if there is no Dockerfile then? |
| 19:30:41 | <@JAA> | :-) |
| 19:30:46 | <fireonlive> | :3 |
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| 19:45:48 | <fireonlive> | wake up babes, new sudo replacement just dropped: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/devel/uid0.html |
| 19:46:14 | <steering> | yay, polkit is much more secure than sudo, thanks poettering daddy |
| 19:46:49 | <steering> | (/s) |
| 19:47:06 | <fireonlive> | pottering knows best don't you know :3 |
| 19:47:36 | <fireonlive> | also i like the name uid0 but uh "--user=, -u, --group=, -g Switches to the specified user/group instead of root." |
| 19:47:39 | <fireonlive> | 🤔 |
| 19:47:43 | <fireonlive> | not the best name there |
| 19:51:05 | <qwertyasdfuiopghjkl> | rhymes with sudo if you read the 0 as an o |
| 19:56:42 | <fireonlive> | hmm true |
| 19:57:33 | <fireonlive> | https://max.levch.in/post/724289457144070144/shamir-secret-sharing-its-3am-paul-the-head-of < fun read lol |
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| 20:32:01 | <nukke> | Who had "Yakuza nukes" in their 2024 bingo card? https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-nuclear-materials-trafficking-charges-against-japanese-yakuza |
| 20:34:39 | <rohvani> | neat |
| 20:34:50 | <steering> | >traffic nuclear materials from Burma to other countries |
| 20:35:01 | <steering> | does burma have a uranium mine or smth? wut? |
| 20:35:46 | <steering> | (also why does it call it burma tbh) |
| 20:37:12 | <fireonlive> | Yakuza! |
| 20:42:44 | <Barto> | uid0ctl, here we come! |
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| 21:22:59 | <fireonlive> | +rss- iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol: https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39453660 |
| 21:24:32 | <myself> | fireonlive: Sci-fi fans can do anything. That was a beautiful story. |
| 21:24:51 | <fireonlive> | myself: :D |
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| 21:36:57 | <thuban> | yes, great article |
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| 23:29:27 | <fireonlive> | https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1760445030387376320 |
| 23:29:28 | <eggdrop> | nitter: https://farside.link/nitter/vxunderground/status/1760445030387376320 |
| 23:32:29 | <fireonlive> | >They state they will place a $20,000,000 bounty of their own head if anyone can dox them. |
| 23:33:32 | <steering> | hmm, do they actually have $20m (or even $10m) to pay for that? |
| 23:33:44 | <@JAA> | lol |
| 23:34:19 | <steering> | like once you have enough money that you can throw $20m at someone (with no assurance other than maybe a pinky-promise that they won't go tell the cops afterwards), why not just ... stop criming |
| 23:34:41 | <fireonlive> | report doxx to lockbit: collect 20m; report to fbi: collect 10m |
| 23:34:44 | <fireonlive> | ??? profit |
| 23:34:57 | <nicolas17> | steering: "why do billionaires still work" |
| 23:35:13 | <steering> | nicolas17: you don't get arrested for working, you do get arrested for criming |
| 23:35:22 | <nicolas17> | people get greedy |
| 23:35:22 | <fireonlive> | i do wonder at what point enough would be enough |
| 23:35:27 | <steering> | this is true |
| 23:35:31 | <fireonlive> | then again who knows what kinda life styles they're living |
| 23:35:49 | <fireonlive> | maybe lockbit admins are snorting kgs of coke off hooker's penises every night |
| 23:35:53 | <steering> | probably |
| 23:36:00 | <fireonlive> | need to keep the cashflow goin' |
| 23:36:04 | <@JAA> | I wouldn't be surprised if they had a lot of money. Ransomware-as-a-service is pretty profitable I imagine. |
| 23:36:43 | <steering> | yeah I wouldn't be very surprised either |
| 23:37:02 | <fireonlive> | would be interesting to get a full breakdown |
| 23:37:10 | <@JAA> | CISA says that US ransom payments to LockBit alone were $91M from 2020-01 to 2023-05. |
| 23:37:12 | <steering> | ... but I also wouldn't be surprised if they had squandered all of it (not to mention affiliate payments, money laundering, etc) |
| 23:37:33 | | linuxgemini (linuxgemini) joins |
| 23:38:44 | <@JAA> | https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa23-165a |
| 23:39:39 | <steering> | oh speaking of money I don't think I put this here, y'all might get a kick out of these numbers https://cohost.org/staff/post/1690393-h1-2023-financial-up |
| 23:40:31 | <steering> | <$0.75/user/month revenue, $3/user/month payroll, $1/user/month hosting |
| 23:41:00 | <@JAA> | That doesn't sound profitable. |
| 23:41:09 | <steering> | no, no it does not |
| 23:41:28 | <@JAA> | > at our current burn rate and bank balance, we will not make July 15 payroll. |
| 23:41:42 | <@JAA> | > don’t panic, we’re not on the verge of collapse |
| 23:41:45 | <@JAA> | <this_is_fine.png> |
| 23:41:52 | <steering> | their newer updates are a bit more opaque (they don't tell you that they pay themselves and their 2 friends $95k/year each for example) |
| 23:42:47 | <steering> | and also I just |
| 23:42:54 | <steering> | > our fastly contract is set at $4,850 per month (plus a 7% sales tax) for bandwidth/CDN and firewall services. we move approximately 10TB of data per month |
| 23:43:45 | <@JAA> | Yeah, but it's only 10% of their monthly expenses. lol |
| 23:44:21 | <steering> | i legitimately have no idea how they manage to spend so much for their scale |
| 23:44:30 | <@JAA> | Oh, this is from last June, right. |
| 23:49:23 | <@JAA> | 78% of their expenses are payroll. |
| 23:51:14 | <fireonlive> | 😁 |