| --- Log opened Mon Dec 28 00:00:42 2020 |
| 00:14 | | * McMartin looks at his yearly stats on his blog. |
| 00:14 | <&McMartin> | First year I've hit 5-digit pageviews \o/ |
| 00:14 | <&McMartin> | ... however, my most popular article that I wrote this year is, like, 38th |
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| 01:38 | < catalyst> | \o/ |
| 02:18 | <&McMartin> | Release Candidate 2 is out for Windows and Mac. https://sourceforge.net/projects/sc2/files/UQM/0.8/ |
| 02:19 | <&McMartin> | Three "real" bugs fixed: an intermittent crash on Mac whenever you did anything that required typing in text (like, er, saving your game); Win32 uninstaller didn't uninstall everything depending on what you installed; flashing input rectangle no longer in the wrong place when renaming your captain or flagship in orbit |
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| 08:32 | < Yossarian> | hullo |
| 08:48 | < Yossarian> | I have a strange question that is not code related. Assume one uses `dd` on a 64GB partition and the output is a file, foo.img. |
| 08:48 | < Yossarian> | Would it be possible to mount that foo.img file? |
| 08:48 | <~Vorntastic> | File formats are code ish |
| 08:50 | < Yossarian> | Mount it using `mount` but be able to access the contents? |
| 08:54 | <~Vorntastic> | There's probably a FUSE module that handles that |
| 08:56 | < Yossarian> | or I could try it, just that my desktop is in a room where someone is sleeping. I was just wondering. |
| 08:59 | < Yossarian> | Even though I'm not writing code again (yet), I'm seeing my workflow and computer usage transform in a very positive way. |
| 09:02 | < Yossarian> | Since my troubles and being kicked out of my family and no access to my desktop -- having Linux as my primary on my laptop for such a long time. I'm hoping to take *some* of the things I've learned and have them be able to be applied to friends and family. Like for instance, password storage. I'm thinking I should redo my whole password scheme and perhaps create a file that is |
| 09:03 | < Yossarian> | encrypted with a randomly created password that has the details of all my logins and passwords. |
| 09:05 | < Mahal> | you mean, a password manager~ |
| 09:05 | < Yossarian> | With more variations on typical passwords and perhaps a PGP key uniquely for encrpyting the login & password file; having a password with the private key and also having the private key printed out onto dead tree format or also as a QR code |
| 09:06 | < Yossarian> | I'm not sure, I haven't used a password manager except for the one used in your typical web browser. |
| 09:06 | < Yossarian> | And not just passwords, management of encryption keys |
| 09:07 | < Yossarian> | My semi-estranged father, writes down everything in a little black notebook. His computer skills are terrible but most of his passwords are usually the same anyway. |
| 09:07 | < Yossarian> | He's had his bank account ripped off by a girlfriend of his and I've been wondering since the incident if she was smart enough to take pictures of the little book and find ways to exploit him in that manner. |
| 09:22 | < Yossarian> | Mahal: can you recommend a password manager or two? |
| 09:24 | < Mahal> | 1password, bitwarden, keepass, etc. |
| 09:24 | < Mahal> | there's plenty |
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| 10:39 | <&[R]> | <Yossarian> I have a strange question that is not code related. Assume one uses `dd` on a 64GB partition and the output is a file, foo.img. <-- mount -o loop file.img /mnt/point |
| 10:40 | <&[R]> | +1 for Bitwarden, it's FOSS |
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| 10:45 | < Yossarian> | [R]: -o loop? what if foo.img is of known partition? |
| 10:46 | < Yossarian> | Say for instance, foo.img is 64GB NTFS partition... or ext3 |
| 10:46 | <&[R]> | If it's a regular file it needs to be -o loop |
| 10:46 | <&[R]> | You might need to `modprobe loop` first |
| 10:47 | < Yossarian> | I'll give it a shot today, I backed up a USB drive this way with `dd` but I never took the trouble to `dd` it back to its original medium |
| 10:48 | <&[R]> | Also if you did a full drive (w/ partition table) you can use losetup, in which case you'll get /dev/loopN as the full file /dev/loopNp1 as the first partition, /dev/loopNp2 as the second, etc... |
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| 18:20 | <&ToxicFrog> | Yeah, `-o loop` has nothing to do with what filesystem is on it, it's a shorthand for "use losetup to make this regular file look like a block device, then mount that block device" |
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| 21:38 | < Yossarian> | I see. |
| 21:40 | < Yossarian> | After my question, I got into some work with codec2 and I did a small (took long because rusty with Audacity) "analysis" |
| 21:41 | < Yossarian> | got into looking at some code and working on it and then I got headache, took a nap, got up just now. |
| 21:44 | < Yossarian> | ToxicFrog, [R]: gave excellent answers thus far on my question regarding the subject. I've yet to give it a spin as I'm rubbing my eyes awake but I shall try it in a variety of contexts. Don't you love GNU/Linux? |
| 21:48 | <&ToxicFrog> | Unironically yes. |
| 21:50 | <&[R]> | It has its flaws, but it's better than having to run Windows |
| 21:50 | < Yossarian> | I have a very old friend, from circa 2003. He's in IT now and I kinda helped him get on the technology track. He knows enough of other operating systems to do his job but his primary OS is still Windows. |
| 21:50 | < Yossarian> | He's the first person I met online and then IRL. |
| 21:53 | < Yossarian> | I meant it unironically, too. There are tons of things about the ecosystem, particularly in recent years in how it is developing to be frustrated about but the coolest thing is there are so many options and the ability to do so many things you wouldn't otherwise be able to do... standing on the shoulders of giants, whose hands have written the code for the tools we use and need. |
| 22:06 | | * abudhabi reboggles at cycle sort. |
| 22:06 | <@abudhabi> | I remember not understanding how it works last time I discovered it. |
| 22:06 | <&ToxicFrog> | (I mean, I am deeply biased because I've been using some form of Linux or UNIX since before I could read) |
| 22:12 | | * Vornicus checks what cycle sort is |
| 22:13 | <~Vornicus> | oh, that one |
| 22:13 | <@abudhabi> | Got explanation from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E1Vnq5EsYg |
| 22:13 | <@abudhabi> | What would I do without South Asian howto youtubers? |
| 22:16 | | * abudhabi is watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MsTNqK3o_w for entertainment value. |
| 23:12 | <&[R]> | "So for example, Joe's PHP application will be able to read Jane's PHP application's passwords." <-- obviously written by someone who has no idea WTF security is |
| 23:12 | <&[R]> | The names to use are Alice and Bob. |
| 23:12 | <&[R]> | Geez. |
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| 23:19 | < Yossarian> | I laughed |
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| 23:42 | <&McMartin> | Cultural in-group signalling: not a thing that nerds were immune to, nor did it go away when we graduated from high school |
| 23:53 | < Yossarian> | Sorry? To what line do you refer? |
| 23:53 | <&McMartin> | The line you laughed at. |
| 23:54 | <&McMartin> | The mechanism is "using the names 'Alice and Bob' are how you say, without saying it, that you've cracked open a security book written in the last fifty years" |
| 23:57 | < Yossarian> | Oh, yes. Of course. I thought so but your comment was worded oddly to me. The guy(s) who came up with PGP came up with the names "Alice' and 'Bob', I think? Or does it go back further? |
| 23:58 | <&McMartin> | "The Alice and Bob characters were invented by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman in their 1978 paper "A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-key Cryptosystems" |
| 23:58 | <&McMartin> | So: 42 years, not 50~ |
| 23:58 | <&McMartin> | The two previous articles that introduced RSA just called them A and B. |
| 23:59 | < Yossarian> | oh, yeah duh, RSA |
| 23:59 | < Yossarian> | initial of their surnames, derp derp |
| 23:59 | <&McMartin> | Apparently the Alice and Bob Expanded Universe (Eve, Mallet, etc.) were Bruce Schneier's doing. |
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