https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1d14rb7/cloudflare_took_down_our_website_after_trying_to/ is the most recent Cloudflare drama. They’ve been known to fuck customers before but I can’t really find specific examples. Obviously their protection can also be overzealous and block legitimate traffic too, which pisses off users as well.

Beyond that there’s many more philosophical reasons to hate Cloudflare - they’re a highly centralised point of failure and like in the story linked above could at any time “alter the deal”, so to speak. As an advocate for the free and open internet I wouldn’t consider them a force for good any more than Google, Facebook or Amazon.

They’re also hated for blocking privacy tools like Tor and blocking scraping, which does suck, but if cloudfail doesn’t work anymore you can still always search SHODAN for website title/headers to see if the LB is accessible directly via the internet. DNS management at medium sized corpos is usually a clusterfuck so it’s definitely a non-zero chance.

This has nothing to do with literally anything I said

Most people don’t add a shitton of butter, salt, herbs and spices to their food at home, while restaurants do - hence most home food often comes out healthier, but nowhere near as tasty as (good) restaurant food.

Ah didn’t realize you were actually using slackware, my bad, I thought you were just referencing the slackware approach of a full install

Also I would not assume that deleting them and renaming them has the same effect. Unless you’ve seen the source code and can confirm how it works, the pattern matching for files could be something that looks for anything in that folder, or anything containing .desktop (if you renamed them like .desktop -> .desktop.hidden)

Based on a quick Google search it’s a bug in KDE, and even uninstalling the application does not always remove it from the menu.

That can be problematic because if OP installed via graphical install, it will uninstall the entire desktop, as likely the way the meta packages are structured - apt will think KDE Plasma was just installed as a dependency of KDE games or something and remove it alongside.

OP if you just want to hide it, perhaps deleting the .desktop files will do the trick?

Old post but I’m just lmaoing @ calling fellow anarchists “intellectual right” and accusing them of having “alts” just because most people agree.

I know it’s to establish this impericaly but hopefully this isn’t a surprise. Taste comes from butter, salt, spices and fat. You for the most part can’t make say - chicken - taste good without all that.

The only reason “cooking at home” is considered healthier is because people don’t cook tasty food for themselves because they don’t know that if you just keep the above in mind you can make way tastier food than anything at any restaurant every day.

Ehh, in anarchism there’s a concept of nominated authority Vs compelled authority (not sure of the exact phrasing of either but you get the point). If a group of people voluntarily elect authority there isn’t really a problem with it.

“Down with all authority, except on a both figurative and literal anarchist plane/boat where the passengers all make the conscious informed and democratic* decision under no duress and a freedom of association that it’s in their best interests as a community to delegate decision making power for their community to the captain of said boat/plane as he has the knowledge and experience to navigate it.” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue does it? Nor does it fit on a poster.

But the same is true in communities. Humans are in their initial state very atomized and individual we are not like ant colonies or bee colonies where by default the welfare of others is even a known subject to us, but as we seek to accomplish tasks, we voluntarily commit to some degree of communal benefit and to ensure this community lasts long enough to yield said benefit we learn to keep the peace and abide by some social norms within this community.

It sounds like conservative hell, but the nuanced position between that and hyper-individualistic self-expression is that as long as said communities aren’t coercive and association is voluntary, it’s kind of okay.

However one flaw in this take is something like the Amish. Is it ethical for say, Amish or some other community that willingly foregoes the benefits of modern technology to have children, who may find that growing up not surrounded by tech has reduced their development in some ways?

Pure /r/natureisfuckingmetal material amirite

Thanks! I just needed to get validated it turns out. Now all is fine.

Thanks! That just about answers it! And yeah I love unix_surrealism as well. Can’t seem to access com on the sdf though, “% buss era.” seems to be the way unfortunately.

I’m having the same issue. Also not validated yet but I only just did the paypal dono. EDIT: IRC which is meant to redirect to commode for unvalidated users like me shows “% bus error.” Maybe the host is low on memory?

This resource was 100% exactly what I was looking for. Now gonna setup an env and play with the examples! Thanks so much!

Yeah I fully agree with the former in particular. The GRC side of things is just not that interesting and not that valuable. I do vulnerability management as a job which is somewhat depressing after a cybersec MSc, but honestly a job is a job and I don’t really believe it produces that much value to anyone, but neither does the entire company I work for, the entire system we live under incentivizes waste, and who am I to argue as long as I get paid?

When it comes to low level stuff, this is purely curiousity and self-fulfillment of understanding for me.

I just want to learn in more practical terms how exploits like this function in the wild haha, but eventually I do hope to become a C chad and even an assembly chad and understand how computers actually work and perhaps shake the impostor syndrome of being a skid neesus monkey when it comes to pentesting and do something worth doing :)

What?

Yeah? Dude got some corrupt skins for the Winamp program back in the day that didn’t work and poked into the files to see what was in there.

Makes me wanna check out WACUP, but last time I tried a skin with it that I at least remember working back in the day, it didn’t work.

Idk maybe it’s because I’m not American so we didn’t have the latest tech at all times, but I’m in my mid-20s and my first OS was Windows 2000 (no I don’t mean ME). I remember my dad teaching me how to rip CDs with Alcohol 120% when I was 5 or so lol.

We cooking

Good idea I’d say.

Trust me you’re already a recluse relative to most by being on here. If you observe what passes for a “normal” “person” these days, they will endlessly scroll algorithmic ai-generated incomprehensible horrors on Tiktok, then purchase something through an ad from temu, they do not think. They are gone.

But once you stop worrying that you may be saying no to experiences too much purely on principle, then you’re free to go even further and eradicate surveillance capitalism influence from your life altogether. One day you can ascend to even go smartphone-free.