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Posted by sureanem

-rw-r--r--  1 tomman tomman 2418 oct 26  2001 seleccionaidioma.php
-rw-r--r--  1 tomman tomman 3157 oct 26  2001 seleccionaidioma.php.racista

So, uh, how do these two files differ?

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Posted by CaptainJistuce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLsdlNrLPxQ
Guy gets an old Macintosh 512 that doesn't work. Goes to open it for repair, notices it is strangely heavy. Opens it up and a bigass full-height 5.25" hard drive is staring him in the face from behind the case of this "unexpandable" "floppy-only" system.

Turns out the company that made this hard disk controller(called a Hyperdrive board, and I love the name) decided to give Steve Jobs the finger in the most blatant way possible(other than actually etching an illustration of the bird onto the board).
"You say your computer is unexpandable and unmodifiable? There's no expansion bus and it shall be thrown away when it ceases to meet our needs? Well, all the address and data lines end at the CPU, so we're just gonna clip a ribbon cable on top of it and MAKE an expansion bus for our hard disk controller. We think Wozniak would approve. Also, we're taping a fan into this air vent. It isn't even fanless anymore. "

2.2.12. Merged /usr on fresh installs

On fresh installs, the content of /bin, /sbin and /lib will be installed into their /usr counterpart by default. /bin, /sbin and /lib will be soft-links pointing at their directory counterpart under /usr/. In graphical form:

/bin → /usr/bin
/sbin → /usr/sbin
/lib → /usr/lib


When upgrading to buster, systems are left as they are, although the usrmerge package exists to do the conversion if desired.

This change shouldn't impact normal users that only run packages provided by Debian, but it may be something that people that use or build third party software want to be aware of. The freedesktop.org project hosts a Wiki with most of the rationale.

Posted by Kawa

Posted by CaptainJistuce
When is the last time an installer actually told you what it was doing in any detail?

I can't be specific enough to name names but roughly half-ish of all applications that used NSIS installers were more than willing to go into detail.

Posted by BearOso
Videos can be a pain. You could try "winetricks amstream quartz devenum" then add an entry to disable winegstreamer in the libraries section of winecfg. If it's a WMV codec, it's probably not going to work no matter what.

#!/bin/sh
# /etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/include-edid-data

PREREQ="udev"
prereqs()
{
   echo "$PREREQ"
}

case $1 in
prereqs)
   prereqs
   exit 0
   ;;
esac

. /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions
# Begin real processing below this line

EDID_PATH="/lib/firmware/edid"

for edid in ${EDID_PATH}/* ; do
   copy_file firmware "$edid" "$edid"
done

exit 0

xrandr --newmode "1600x1200_60.00"  161.00  1600 1712 1880 2160  1200 1203 1207 1245 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode VGA-1 1600x1200_60.00

dpkg-divert --rename --remove /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/pulse.conf
dpkg-divert --rename --remove /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/99-pulseaudio-default.conf.example
dpkg-divert --rename --remove /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/50-pulseaudio.conf
apt-get purge pulseaudio

# If needed, also delete /etc/alsa/conf.d/99-pulseaudio-default.conf.example, if it still exists

Posted by sureanem

you can actually "repair" your IMEI yourself using nothing but the phone itself

Do you need to reboot it for this? Seems like you could vastly improve privacy by randomizing IMEI per SIM card/session combination. Curious that none of the 'privacy phones' did this.

Posted by sureanem
But why'd it be illegal to change it though? I can only find information on cloning, which seems more like outright fraud than illegal modification. Surely, using an IMEI nobody else is using should be A-OK?

Posted by sureanem

Posted by tomman
Also, none of the "privacy phones" implement this because that's, well, illegal.

How come none of them let you swap out the baseband then? Those are generally quite cheap (<$1), so if you'd build it so that the baseband and SIM pop out at once and ship it with a pack of ten you could probably solve that whole issue.
Then again, you could solve the whole triangulation problem by making your own baseband, and nobody does this either.
I reckon the answer is simple, as always: the people running it are just out to get a quick buck and don't actually care too much about privacy, and the only people who actually care would just buy burner phones.

Posted by sureanem

Oh, and having a phone which allows its IMEI/ESN/MEID/whatever to be changed at will means that if yours ever get stolen, you have a fat chance in hell to recover it, because no telco can't track it anymore. It's like selling cars with forged serial numbers, which is a couple orders of magnitude worse than stealing $200 plastic slabs.

Has that ever helped, though? Short of iCloud lock, which is now broken, I'm skeptical. I mean, you can just swap out the logic board.
It would have helped with ordinary phones, but now?

Posted by sureanem
Fuck cell carriers, worst industry in existence. Should all be nationalized. [...snip...]
But that's for Politics! Something about cheese!.