* randomly scrolling devrant *
Wait this guys house looks like Ikea.
Shit that is Ikea.
Damn I did not expect that.

@jesse-bryant your wife is awesome letting you sit and code while she looks around.

P.S if she takes too long you can walk to the next display for a change of scenery while you code.

@hacker101 teach him to count binary on his fingers. He would just need to count to four and youbwould get a call 😏

Windows > Arch && Windows < Arch

Just think about it 😏

@bahua That may be the case. Well today I came across min 3 rants that turned into flamewars. Eventually I had enough of the stupidity. If they had valid arguments that would be one thing. The fact that they can't fathom that maybe the other os has the same / similar functionality, that things may be different now than in the past 10 years is mind blowing.

@claudiofilipe21 well it depends on your disto and a lot of other factors. I admit that I don't know much about the internals of windows anymore but I have used a lot of linux distros including archlinux. With linux it can happen that a bug appears on few devices and the solution is not known. Then you need to reach out to forums / irc etc. (your free linux support). Anyway I find this windows vs linux vs osx fanboy stuff sad. I suggest we drop the topic.

@Stuxnet awesome what are you planning to do with all that equipment?

@Stuxnet Used windows all my life until I was 19 or so. Then I switched to osx, which has some really nice apps eg. Alfred app, dash. Then I changed to linux at the beginning of my studies. I still use windows for gaming and when family members need the odd printer driver installed 😛

@MrCSharp thanks for the correction. I hope you didn't misread my last line saying the same goes for linux.
Btw you can take your saltiness somewhere else

@Stuxnet yes and I hate it. Use the os / smartphone / console / ... that you are most comfortable with is my philosophy.

@MrCSharp manually installing drivers on windows does exist even today. For example I had to install printer drivers (last week) because windows couldn't find it. However the same goes for linux.

P.S be carefull with using generalisations.

@8BitOverdose when you use privacy practices your internet usage leaves a fingerprint. For example disabling JavaScript / cookies can be detected by websites. https://panopticlick.eff.org/ shows you how your browser can be fingerprinted. Using a VPN adds privacy the fact that you are using a VPN removes anonymity. What I am trying to say is that even though a single comment or data point you leave on the internet doesn't lead to you, your internet traffic could... if someone makes the effort. To remain completely anonymous your internet traffic should blend in with the average internet user. Unfortunately the average internet user doesn't use privacy best practices.

@codechimp yes it is the fault of hardware manufactures that some hardware components don't work out of the box on linux, windows and mac osx. It depends on the target audience, money and the biggest culprit: having closed source firmware.

@8BitOverdose just like @linuxxx I agree with you on some but not all of what you stated. Privacy and anonymity are two different topics. The more one acts on privacy the less anonymous one is on the internet. As you stated 100% privacy isn't realistic. It is up to every individual to decide what and how much information he / she / ... wants to hand out and where it should land. I don't aim for 100% privacy but I do think critically about my data. In my opinion that should be enough.

@linuxxx https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck maybe this could help?

@C0D4 I think that he is pissed off with typing whios instead of whois.*

*Maybe your question is rhetorical in that case just ignore this comment.

Ah aliases my good old friend. What would I do without you? Since you came into my life sl is a thing of the past :D

Any further and you'll cause a Stack Overflow. I have done so a few times and my legs took a few days to recover.

@linuxxx thanks for the tip. I have a project where such a framework would be needed. (I also suck at frontend. It takes me too damn long.)

@A-C-E take a look at this talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/...

Here is the github repo: https://github.com/emmericp/ixy

@A-C-E to add to @Condor 's comment it is the same for every OS. That is one reason why I don't like proprietary drivers. If a company doesn't produce the driver for your OS you are basically left stranded until someone with enough motivation creates the driver.

Edit: think @A-C-E understands leaving comment here for informational purposes

@linuxxx that is awesome. Looking forward to future updates.

@PrivateGER LUKS writes a header to disk meaning that you could clone the disk and access the data with the right key. If I remember correctly truecrypt had the possibility of plausible deniability through creating a partition with an unidentifiable header. With LUKS you can also remove the header on creation an store it somewhere else. The trick is that you can clone all data as they are stored bits but without the right partition header you shouldn't be able to decrypt the data.

@MateTea42 I would also like to add that there is no such thing as perfect security but one can make it damn hard for an unprivileged person to access data with the right security practices.

@Condor It helps protect customer data. One wouldn't need to be physically present to enter a LUKS key if the TPM implemention in Linux was up to date. There is another method with dropbear and busybox but that is also a hassle. @linuxxx Regarding remembering passwords... I use a local password manager (encrypted with gpg key) to store generated passwords so forgetting LUKS key is unlikely (I have done so before and never again).

I hate it when that happens :/ Glad you found the solution to your problem.

Did you check the firewall rules?

@mansoorkn true but it just reduces the probability of them failing together. The chances are still not 0 that enough HDDs fail in a short period of time to kill a raid setup.

That is the problem when you have business people and developers (in this case engineers) in the same room discussing solutions for a bug / exploit. In most cases the cheapest option wins even if it doesn't solve the problem in its entirety.

That is so catastrophic ...

If you look at it with your head a bit tilted it looks like a winking smily ;o

@agaskins There are different kinds of backup schemes including snapshots which I classify as a soft backup. It can help users return to a previous state in case anything goes wrong with the data on the active partition. This is however not a complete backup solution since as you stated the hdd will have faults after a random period of time. This is why you make backups in multiple places. In my opinion it can bring something to have backups on the same drive as long as it isn't the only backup. Even if you have something like a NAS server for backups, I have heard of 3 HDD failing with in 2 days. Point is the more backups you have on seperate systems ( / mediums) the better.