NutinButNet
@NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com
- Comment on ISPs tell Supreme Court they don’t want to disconnect users accused of piracy 1 hour ago:
There would be no more internet access for anyone anymore if that were allowed.
Soooo many insecure networks out there ripe for the picking if you know what you’re doing and have the tools available. And the tools are often free, not costing any money.
And what exactly is piracy? If I purchase an album on iTunes but choose to download it on ThePirateBay, is that really piracy? Because I have done that when the music THAT I FUCKING PAID FOR is no longer available for me to download off of iTunes and Apple won’t give me a refund for said music purchase. People do it for games that include shitty DRM and don’t allow them to easily install on another device like Linux too.
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 1 hour ago:
It seems easier to find things for users. Probably part of dumbing things down.
My mom went through this last week with Libre Office. She said she couldn’t find anything because the ribbons from Word weren’t there. I found the option and enabled it and she said that was much better.
Whereas, I use Word 365 on a daily basis but I still know where things are from the classic menus.
But users want big pictures and less words, less menus.
So UI designers have done that.
You see that in the change between Windows 7 and Windows 8 in heavy ways. More buttons and less menus.
I fucking hate the dumbing down, especially on servers.
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- Comment on What interesting things can I do with my home WiFi network? 2 days ago:
As far as the administration side goes, I think whitelisting is a pretty awesome feature on most routers. This gives you an extra layer of security on top of your password for your WiFi. Someone may get your code from someone else or you may have let a neighbor use it for a moment, but then what? Change the password and then have to update all your other devices?
Nah, just whitelist and you can remove devices as you wish any time you want.
It’s not foolproof as MAC spoofing is a thing, but it’s a cool layer to have.
I think creating your own DNS server at home with a Raspberry Pi through PiHole is also another cool thing to do. Gives you the ability to block ads as well as many other things like known malware websites and even restricting adult sites easily if you have kids or just wanting to do it for yourself.
Combine that with a VPN server on that same Raspberry Pi so you can remote into your network from anywhere and also have the adblocking from the PiHole server at home. I did this for a while but disabled it because I wanted to ensure my home network was a little more secure before opening that up again. But it was a cool thing to have and use.
- Comment on Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison 2 days ago:
Start in his bathroom and have it livestreamed. For safety, of course.
- Comment on American tourists visiting the EU, what do you think of it? 1 week ago:
Went to Iceland a few years ago and the biggest thing I noticed was how clean everything was. In the US, at least where I am, trash is literally part of the street. Little black “gum” streaks, random paper flying about…
I don’t remember ever seeing any litter of any kind anywhere we went on the island.
I do remember seeing a random piece of raw meat on a meadow but that was it and I’m not sure I’d call that litter.
- Comment on The creator of Lutris has joined up with Playtron for PlaytronOS 1 week ago:
It’s backed by the likes of Samsung, Square Enix, Circle & Mysten Labs and is taking aim at both SteamOS from Valve and Windows from Microsoft to give a simple interface to get gaming on handheld PCs and more.
This is going to be interesting. I think Valve will welcome the competition while Microsoft is not going to like this if they notice an impact.
It’ll be interesting to see what new features they can bring to the table that Valve can implement or improve SteamOS on.
But loving to see more Linux options and less reliance on Windows!
- Comment on Asus’ new mini PC has a Copilot AI button on the front for some reason 2 weeks ago:
That’s very thoughtful of them to provide a button that can be repurposed for anything else you’d like it to do!
- Comment on Victory! California Bill To Impose Mandatory Internet ID Checks Is Dead—It Should Stay That Way 2 weeks ago:
Good, let’s keep it dead globally. This is never going to end well for anyone from any political side if this kind of thing gets implemented.
- Comment on Starlink in Brazil's crosshairs as spat over Elon Musk's X escalates 2 weeks ago:
Good luck blocking the ability to communicate with a satellite lol. The government is going to have to block cell phones eventually.
- Comment on How is it possible for the IT experts to recover data that was erased from a hard drive when the storage of said hard drive appears empty? 2 weeks ago:
Think the best analogy I can give you is this:
If you write a check and give it to someone, the money has not yet been taken out of your account until they turn that check into cash or deposit it into their bank account.
Until that time, it is something you are keeping a record of to say “I wrote a check for $700 so I am down $700 in my checking account.” Even though the total balance today says $1700, you know that it really is supposed to be $1000 that is available to be used for other expenses.
If you wanted to recover that $700, all you need to do is shred the check before it gets to the bank or check cashing place or contact your bank to tell them to not process this check. Thereby, you have essentially “recovered” the $700 you intended to give to someone else.
This is similar to how your hard drive works. When you tell your computer to delete a file, your computer’s operating system basically tells you that it’s been deleted and no longer lets you access it by normal methods, but that data still exists in a form awaiting an actual deletion. Once you create a new file, your operating system remembers that it had deleted 100MB earlier in the day, so it can now use 25MB of that 100MB it reserved to overwrite some of that file that was deleted, in a sense. However, this whole time, your operating system told you that you had an extra 100MB immediately after you deleted that file, even though it was really being reserved to eventually be replaced.
Your operating system speaks in binary language of 1’s and 0’s and this file existed as a bunch of 1’s and 0’s. When something else got overwritten, it took some of these 1’s and 0’s from the old file to be turned into space for the new file that is to be created.
So as long as it’s recent, no new data has been written to the drive, and the computer hasn’t been restarted, the file is still effectively there in the binary language, just not in plain text to you. However, as time goes on, new data is written, or the computer is restarted, then it becomes much more difficult to restore the file. This is mainly because data is always being written to the drive due to the computer doing other things in the background in addition to the things you do on the computer.
But there isn’t any way to exploit this as this is all due to how much data is available. You have a 1TB drive in your computer and your computer will only ever report 1TB of available storage. It will never report to you that you have more storage unless you’ve done some trickery and even then, it’s just playing with the numbers that you see. Fake USB drives do this where someone sells you what they tell you is 2TB but is actually 16GB and the file has been written to trick the operating system into thinking it has 2TB. If you try to copy more than the actual 16GB of available space, you get an error.
- Comment on Bellum - Official Reveal Teaser 2 weeks ago:
Great, another PvP game.
- Comment on Samsung TVs will get 7 years of updates, starting with 2023 models 3 weeks ago:
If you don’t have this ability because the TV isn’t close to a router or if the manufacturers get so scummy that they no longer include Ethernet ports, you could accomplish this by setting up a “burner” hotspot on your phone and doing tethering. Change the name and password to something you’d never use and then let the TV connect to that and then change it to something else. TV may remember it but it won’t find that exact combo again unless you want it to :)
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong shows very clearly Valve are selling a lot of Steam Decks 3 weeks ago:
A second USB port wouldn’t hurt either.