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Living Room / Re: Share your tips and comforts for dealing with the stress and fear of a pandemic
« Last post by wraith808 on March 20, 2020, 11:41 PM »
Something that I think might be comforting- words from the epidemiologist who helped defeat smallpox.

https://www.wired.co...lpox-epidemiologist/

He gives hope that we can defeat it, steps that should be taken, and what defeat of the novel coronavirus will look like.
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Living Room / Re: Share your tips and comforts for dealing with the stress and fear of a pandemic
« Last post by wraith808 on March 19, 2020, 07:07 AM »
I all honesty, at this point I'm in a "What will happen, will happen" state of mind.

I've been working from home for a while now, so nothing changed there.  I've been sick for a couple of weeks with the Flu (strain A/B) and a bad Sinus Infection, so haven't really been out much.

I know I'm in the "at risk" category, but at this point, it's not really causing any undue concern on my part.  I was following while it was in its ramp up stages, so by the time it reached pandemic status, I already knew it was going to happen.  The reaction to it had been so 'meh' during those stages that it prepared me for us not to be prepared.  So no real reason to become nervous or uncertain on my part, but I feel for the ones that are.  Information and action as opposed to reaction are the keys to fighting it off in my opinion.
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General Software Discussion / Re: sluggish Win 7 and 10 upgraded to hot Win 10 - transfer automatic or by hand?
« Last post by wraith808 on March 15, 2020, 11:15 PM »
The one main caveat I will say with this approach is you have to preserve your old hard drive in some form (either leave the old physical hard drive alone and install the os on a new one, or a new computer, or fully image the old hard drive).  That gives you plenty of time (months) to make sure you have moved all your documents over and not forgotten something.
-mouser (March 15, 2020, 10:50 PM)

It's for this reason I go with a blue/green approach.  I have two computers- the current, and the last.  When it's time for a new computer, I build in the last one, which will then become my current.  This also helps me if my current computer goes on the fritz.
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by wraith808 on March 13, 2020, 09:00 PM »
rabbit_joke.jpg
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Living Room / Re: Looking for audio merger Y-cable
« Last post by wraith808 on March 13, 2020, 05:24 PM »
Are you saying that the one I linked wouldn't work, but the one mouser linked will work?
-Deozaan (March 13, 2020, 02:10 PM)

Yup.  At least, In my experience.
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Living Room / Re: Looking for audio merger Y-cable
« Last post by wraith808 on March 13, 2020, 01:41 PM »
Yeah, that first one wouldn't.  You're trying to combine Stereo into mono, so just reversing the cables won't work. That second one is what I've used in the past.
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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by wraith808 on March 11, 2020, 07:10 PM »
Wash your Lyrics

https://washyourlyrics.com/

Generate hand washing infographics based on your favourite song lyrics
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General Software Discussion / 'Unfixable' boot ROM security flaw in millions of Intel chips found
« Last post by wraith808 on March 06, 2020, 01:06 PM »
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'Unfixable' boot ROM security flaw in millions of Intel chips could spell 'utter chaos' for DRM, file encryption, etc
from The Register

The short version here:
A new vulnerability has been discovered in Intel's Converged Security and Manageability Engine (CSME), the embedded system that oversees management of Intel system chipsets (not processors, this time). The vulnerability is a DMA race that potentially allows hostile code to overwrite memory in the embedded management engine before the management engine enables memory protection on its own memory space. Key to the vulnerability is the fact that this memory protection is disabled by default until and unless the management engine enables it — i.e, it is unsafe by default, and fails unsafe.

During that timing gap, other hardware – physically attached or present on the motherboard – that is able to fire off a DMA transfer into the CSME's private RAM may do so, overwriting variables and pointers and hijacking its execution. At that point, the CSME can be commandeered for malicious purposes, all out of view of the software running above it.

The vulnerability is exploitable whenever the chipset is starting up. The chipset is vulnerable from the time the CSME boot ROM first initializes the memory page direvctory, up until the IOMMU (Input/Output Memory Management Unit) is turned on. Critically, this occurs not only at system boot time, but every time the CSME or the IOMMU resets.

What this means is that every time the CSME comes out of sleep mode, or any time the CSME is reset, it is briefly vulnerable to attack.

The CSME provides, among other things, something called Enhanced Privacy ID, or EPID. This is used for things like providing anti-piracy DRM protections, and Internet-of-Things attestation. The engine also provides TPM functions, which allow applications and operating system software to securely store and manage digital keys for things like file-system encryption. At the heart of this cryptography is a Chipset Key that is encrypted by another key baked into the silicon, and you can't do too much damage, it seems, until you can decrypt the Chipset Key.

If someone manages to extract that hardware key, though, they can unlock the Chipset Key, and, with code execution within the CSME, they can undo Intel's root of trust on large swathes of products at once, we're told.

"To fully compromise EPID, hackers would need to extract the hardware key used to encrypt the Chipset Key, which resides in Secure Key Storage (SKS)," explained Positive's Mark Ermolov.

"However, this key is not platform-specific. A single key is used for an entire generation of Intel chipsets. And since the ROM vulnerability allows seizing control of code execution before the hardware key generation mechanism in the SKS is locked, and the ROM vulnerability cannot be fixed, we believe that extracting this key is only a matter of time.

"When this happens, utter chaos will reign. Hardware IDs will be forged, digital content will be extracted, and data from encrypted hard disks will be decrypted."
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Amazon Pay has decided to block donationcoder payments
« Last post by wraith808 on March 06, 2020, 10:19 AM »
So close enough to a Bot that it might as well be one.  ;D :huh: :-\ :down:
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General Software Discussion / Re: VirusTotal marking each and every AutoHotKey exe as Virus !!
« Last post by wraith808 on March 06, 2020, 10:09 AM »
Is there no content because your browser removed it?  I've seen that happen before.  On the site, it's showing as 4.8MB so there definitely should be something inside it.  I downloaded it, and there's something there.  I'm scanning it now.

UPDATE: Nothing found in it, and mine definitely had the files for the portable AHK in it.

UPDATE2: So apparently the owners of the Autohotkey site have to report it for google to fix it according to https://developers.g...acked/request_review.  I was thinking about reporting it at https://safebrowsing...eport_badware/?hl=en and putting in the comments that it's not malicious, but not sure if that would get in the way of the process.
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Amazon Pay has decided to block donationcoder payments
« Last post by wraith808 on March 05, 2020, 09:32 PM »
I didn't think it was a twitter client from looking at it, but rather an automated way to post to different social media.
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Amazon Pay has decided to block donationcoder payments
« Last post by wraith808 on March 05, 2020, 03:06 PM »

https://help.twitter...-tweet#source-labels

The tweet is posted by Sprinklr (https://www.sprinklr.com/), i.e. a Bot.
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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten
« Last post by wraith808 on February 27, 2020, 10:32 PM »
A new option to take a look at: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Windows Launcher by Only One Key
« Last post by wraith808 on February 25, 2020, 05:02 PM »
It's funny- malwarebytes blocks that Qsel site, but virustotal shows it as clean from malwarebytes
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Clipboard Help+Spell Extended Clipboard Format Data Discussion Thread
« Last post by wraith808 on February 25, 2020, 05:00 PM »
I wonder what would happen if that errant piece that the hash is different on was just excluded?
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Clipboard Help+Spell Extended Clipboard Format Data Discussion Thread
« Last post by wraith808 on February 24, 2020, 11:30 PM »
What hasn't been looked it is do both clips restore correctly when pasted somewhere that is supposed to be able to interpret the data?
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Living Room / Re: Thread on 3d Printing Cody Model
« Last post by wraith808 on February 20, 2020, 11:29 AM »
Very nice!

cody1.jpg

cody2.jpg
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by wraith808 on February 20, 2020, 10:46 AM »
Yes, you can customize the pinned tiles, but the actual menu, you can only remove sub-sections.  If I actually ever used the start menu, it would be a bit lackluster.  But I think that they're trying to get people to use search more, as when I do use the start menu, I just start typing the name of the item that I want, and it works.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Windows Launcher by Only One Key
« Last post by wraith808 on February 16, 2020, 01:59 PM »
I think in the implementation that he's showing you remember the key for the item.  Still seems like a lot to me.
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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by wraith808 on February 15, 2020, 04:03 PM »
UK police deny responsibility for poster urging parents to report kids for using Kali Linux
-Arizona Hot (February 15, 2020, 09:21 AM)

Even worse is that Discord is on there. Discord is very popular amongst the gaming community for chat, voice chat, and similar gaming related activities.
-Deozaan (February 15, 2020, 03:38 PM)

And writing groups, TTRPG/Board Game Groups, Mechanical Keyboard groups, etc, etc.  To say that a platform for chat, etc, is a symptom that your child may be into hacking is incredibly irresponsible.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by wraith808 on February 15, 2020, 01:52 PM »
Just the shell that comes with Windows.  It's capable enough.  For my programs, I use True Launch Bar and Fences.
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Living Room / Re: Thread on 3d Printing Cody Model
« Last post by wraith808 on February 14, 2020, 11:36 PM »
Mine did today!  I'll try to get a picture up tomorrow!
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Living Room / Re: Do good mice still exist? Looking for recommendations.
« Last post by wraith808 on February 14, 2020, 11:35 PM »
Ouch. :P


My Logitech G900 Chaos is holding up pretty well, though to be honest, I haven't had an problems with any of their mice.
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Living Room / Re: Do good mice still exist? Looking for recommendations.
« Last post by wraith808 on February 13, 2020, 10:37 PM »
And I liked it well enough until a couple years later I started having issues which indicate that the microswitch is failing in the mouse button(s).

1. Sometimes a click doesn't register at all.
2. Sometimes a single click registers as a double click.
3. Sometimes a click & drag registers as a single click & release.
-Deozaan (February 13, 2020, 05:57 PM)

I think that's the problem statement.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Annoying Brave browser 'brave rewards' pop-ups
« Last post by wraith808 on February 13, 2020, 10:35 PM »
The BAT is one of the reason that a lot of people are drawn to the browser and one of the features, so I guess it depends on their focus.
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