The Doctor

This is a bad joke waiting to happen.

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I never heard of SS7 and have actually no idea how the whole phone system communication works but that’s kinda scary…

SS7 and 1ESS are terribly insecure and were even before CALEA compliance was required. Folks compromising telephony routing systems was a thing back in the early 1990’s.

Story time. I worked as a telecom engineer for a while. One of ourasks was, whenever the telco would get a warrant a small team of us at the office were tasked with turning up the surveillance features of our infra (dupe all CDR logs off to another system for chain of custody, log all of the SIP traffic from the specified subscribers to a separate set of logs on the same box for the same reason, basically trap-and-trace and pen register functionality updated for the early 00’s (we had the capability of tapping and recording RTP traffic in realtime by abusing three way calling but were not asked to do it while I worked there)). About half the time we’d go into our back-end, and find taps already in place. A few times we took it to management, who kicked it up the food chain and were told flat out “Shut up, write up how you would have done it yourself, and just copy the data coming from what you found.” So, we did. Never did find out who did it and why.

OPM is already completely compromised, so it seems likely that they’re going through JPAS to find folks who came out during their background investigations. Expect another round of purges.

It will not hurt your chances.

I use Mate on my laptop; before that I used Cinnamon.

To be honest, DEs are basically terminal window managers for me. If I didn’t need a graphical web browser for everything I do (because that’s basically what software is these days - shit you log into from a web browser) I’d probably be using GNU Screen or possibly Twin to manage multiple shells instead.

If the drag-and-drop functionality of modern DEs wasn’t so helpful I’d probably still be using twm because I like stuff that does what I need, and otherwise stays out of my way.

For starts, read the wiki. Specifically, read the installation guide at least twice to get a feel for how it works and what the Arch vibe is like. This is also your chance to figure out just what you want to do. Do you want to use GRUB or UEFI? Which sounds like a better fit? What filesystem? What do you want to run? mdadm or not? A little bit of planning and reading is better than reinstalling half a dozen times (ask me how I know…)

Must-have applications? Screen or tmux. SSH. Whatever shell you’re comfortable with (bash is how I roll, but you might be a fan of fish).

The firmware blobs for that chipset might be in a package you don’t have installed. You’re running Arch, so install the package upd72020x-fw from the AUR.

And you can run it over SSH on servers.

Everybody uses computers for different things.

At last, a fellow sysadmin! Nice work.

I was wondering that, too. I’ve got a pair of GTX 1660 Supers in Leandra running a simulation, and they’ve been crunching away for nine days now.

Because they’re processing data all the time? They’re doing work?

My work laptop has been up for 26 days, 17:24. My primary server at home has been online for 42 days, 21:27. Personal laptop - 45 days, 20:51. The primary server of my exocortex has been online and crunching away for 278 days, 19:48.

It probably means that more people are hacking on it and getting their PRs accepted than are working on SquashFS. What constitutes software that is still alive these days is pretty badly skewed toward “if you don’t release four x.y.z releases every day your software is dead” these days.

This is the Internet, there’s no shortage of targets.

It says pretty explicitly that it only runs on the user’s machine.

Nuance is deader than Elvis.

Why don’t you ask them? They’re very responsive to their community of users.

I just took a spin through their news blog and changelog and didn’t see anything about it in the latest release, so it’s probably not out yet.

There’s a difference between LLM slop (“write me an article about foo”) and using an LLM for something that’s actually useful (“listen to the audio from this file and transcribe everything that sounds like human speech”).