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— Destiny | Steven Bonnell II (@TheOmniLiberal) December 28, 2024

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/gui-instructions-installing-wireguard-on-silverblue/74713

liamdev: I need graphical user interace (GUI) instructions for installing Wireguard on Silverblue - Fedora 34. I'm visiting family at the moment and evidently they have Avast - which I do not want to use and I don't want the VPN that they have set up with the router to interfere with mine.

I've read the 1981 internet protocol that was published by DoD. I'm so immeasurably frustrated that something like an encrypted tunnel from end point to end point is such a complicated issue.

The articles on Fedora Magazine are not sufficient for a beginner and only show command line instructions and the only video on YouTube that's worth watching is chaotic with a guy typing a millions commands plus he's using Ubuntu anyways. GUI instrucitons please.

computersavvy: If they are already using a vpn why add another layer. Since you are just visiting you can temporarily disable your own vpn, use the one they already have configured at router level and go with it.

liamdev: With all due respect, I was looking for GUI instructions on how to set up the Wireguard VPN on Fedora Silverblue, not advice on what I should be doing with a presumption that I had one set up before.

liamdev: I haven't come across anyone that has sucessfully set up a VPN on a YouTube tutorial or anything else via GUI. VPN's should be simple, point and click free solutions to protect your identity and information from being transmitted widely over the internet. There's literally no point in moving forward with any future releases of any distribution if a GUI VPN hasn't been developed.

Regarding a server - i don't have a personal VPN server - that's what WireGuard is supposed to be ? WireGuard is supposed to be both the VPN Server and the VPN Client for someone that has neither right now.

computersavvy: I think you are misinterpreting what a vpn is & does.

It securely connects you via a tunnel from one point to another, the remote being a vpn server and may be free, paid, or company owned.

liamdev: Thanks for the info. My use case is this - I want to be able to install a VPN so that anything I search for on the internet is encrypted. I want an encrypted tunnel between my computer and the internet browser.

The reality is, there are (from what I see) 1.5 million man pages that have 10,000 functions. In other words, there's 150 ways to do the same thing. The system is so broken that I'm shocked the DoD has even let it carry on the way that it has.

From what I understand, Gnome Box VM's don't even hide your physical IP address or MAC address or anything really? So if someone wanted to use the hacking cowtools that are in Linux - well there wouldn't be much stopping them from getting literally all of my passwords and information…

So if someone wanted to use the hacking cowtools that are in Linux - well there wouldn't be much stopping them from getting literally all of my passwords and information…

augenauf: interesting, I would be curious to learn how to do that, just for research purposes. could you share any insights?

liamdev: Gothca - thanks, Sure thing, I'll map them out. Here's how you:

Get Kali Linux -

Fingerprint Web Apps & Servers for Better Recon [Tutorial]

Clear the Logs & History on Linux Systems to Delete All Traces You Were There [Tutorial]

Haunt a Computer Using SSH [Tutorial]

How Hackers Can Find Hidden Wi-Fi Networks & Their Names

Generate Crackable Handshakes with the ESP8266 [Tutorial]

Watch Hackers Craft Malicious Office Macros (ft. Kilian from SecurityFWD)

I mean just follow that channel in general. Then look at:

How to HACK a password // password cracking with Kali Linux and HashCat - how to HACK a password // password cracking with Kali Linux and HashCat

You get the point.

So, regarding the VPN and just general freedom to have privacy haha… I'll check out the blog post again. I don't understand how it's so easy to find out how to track and airplane from a video tutorial but something as basic as a VPN seems to have so many different components to the workload that could break at any moment.

liamdev: With all due respect, it's none of your business why I don't just turn it off at the Router level. I genuinely mean that as well - I don't mean to disrespect you, but posting in a public forum why I don't do that shouldn't even be a consideration as a response.

I'm gathering that no one has developed a GUI to use this Wireguard VPN. I clicked through the link that you sent, and the link that was in there and the link in that one too. Thanks for the effort but it didn't provide an actual GUI answer.

I'm gathering that no one has developed a GUI to use this Wireguard VPN.

augenauf: It's integrated in Network Manager in Gnome, consider searching the internet.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NetworkManager#VPN_support

liamdev: okay so there's no way to easily install the WireGuard VPN via a GUI. The strategy here is to loop people in w/ Lenovo, offer them "free" everything that's not really free, offer tons of documentation to the point where people either give up or - the optimal outcome - they hire a company like Red Hat - that's using non-profits as a tax write off - or someone else that's anonymous but the risk in the anonymous folks is that they could be hackers ha.

If there was a "CEO" of Fedora, who would that be? Who is in charge of operations? Who is in charge with the Lenovo relationship? Who is in charge with the financial side is probably the most important in this question. I don't want to reach out to an anonymous profile and this VPN is arguably one of the most critical elements of the research I'm doing. If this is seriously the end result - the messages on these threads and recommendations - then there is a massive problem that needs to be addressed.

augenauf: So, you tried to set up the wireguard between your Fedora Workstation and your EC2 instance?

Where are you stuck? What are the error messages? Any logs?

liamdev: No, I'm hopeful you can help me find some way to connect directly with the Fedora leadership team. What is the best route? I believe whoever would be equivalent to the CFO would be the most appropriate.

augenauf: So, I am going to close the topic if you are not interested in technical support solving your problem. You're wasting your time and our time by discussing useless stuff. Had you ever posted a link to the guide you are trying to follow, the commands you had executed, the conf files you used, and error messages or log files that were generated, we could have long solved your problem. Instead …

As for the contact to Fedora Council and its Chair, I am sure you find that in Fedora Docs or by means of a search engine.

Do you actually call Jeff Bezos if your EC2 instance doesn't install an update?

I can only second @ilikelinux comment; get a professional IT consultant. He or she will setup wordpress and a store within a couple of days, including a wireguard connection for you to mess up the installation.

https://www.mcgorray.com/obituaries/LIAM-J-BIRT?obId=27828780

!schizomaxxxers press to pay respects to our fallen king

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"JD... where are we going?"

"I just... there's something I have to do..."

"What's left to do? You already sent them all back."

"...all of them... but one..." pic.twitter.com/euc1RUU44c

— Frasier Payne (@MeinGottNiles) December 29, 2024

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/elon-reeve-musk.134949/page-120#post-20178652

!cuteandvalid !cuteandinvalid !metashit !nonchuds !dramatards

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1hqexxn/never_forgive_them_why_everything_digital_feels/

Inspiration

BREAKING 🚨 New video captures the moment a Boeing 737-800 carrying 181 passengers crashes at Muan International Airport in South Korea. pic.twitter.com/hpv9g8tv7l

— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) December 29, 2024

GET THE H-1Bs AWAY FROM BOEING PLANES BEFORE WE'RE ALL DEAD

— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) December 29, 2024

Any one check how many h1b's Boeing has?

Another crash.

— ButtQuacks (@ButtQuackers) December 29, 2024

That’s a Boeing whose software was developed by H-1B Indians btw, that visa literally kills people. https://t.co/6FK0wUv6jT

— Aldo Skuds 🇦🇱 (@AlbademiksV2) December 29, 2024

Currybros is so over for you

!g*mers !fightclub

!macacos o Sifudeu tá de graça

This is extremely unfair :C

He's one of my best friends

I feel so sad

I have a higher chance because I spent my time learning manipulation tactics instead of football https://t.co/d6hdstmhGW

— Luco (@Luco94383810) December 30, 2024

Disposing of very large quantities of blood is an onerous chore. You can't give the stuff away—well, perhaps you can, but few are willing to endure the stares that proving this point entails.

Yet the slaughtering and butchering trade has long faced precisely this dilemma. London butchers in Newport Market during the 19th century were banned from tipping blood into the street sewers, due to the rats it attracted, though enough of them flouted this law that sewers under meat markets became commonly known as "blood sewers." Among London sewer workers, toiling in these "blood lines" vied in unpleasantness with the caustic rivers that ran under soapmakers and the boiling drains beneath sugar refineries. Indeed, one of the better ways for meat merchants to dispose of cattle blood was by selling it to these sugar mills, which used it in their refining process.1

Recycling was already the order of the day: bones were ground up for phosphorus matches, tobacco ash was turned into tooth-cleanser, old wool sweaters shredded into wallpaper flocking, and it was discovered that desiccated fish eyes made delightful buds for artificial flowers. Unlucky stray dogs wound up as phony cod-liver oil, and tallow makers in Paris were not above fishing dead dogs and cats out of the Seine when production quotas demanded it. But blood and animal waste remained a perennial problem. New Yorkers found one promising use for it in the 1870s: they tried mixing blood with other discarded offal to manure their fields.2

But perhaps the most creative approach to blood disposal is one we might all still readily grasp, as this headline from the January 1892 issue of Manufacturer and Builder magazine attests:

Door Knobs, etc., from Blood and Sawdust.

Doctor W.H. Dibble, of New Jersey, had patented an exciting material for interior decorators: hemacite, he called it. Hemacite, the magazine explained, was "nothing less than the blood of slaughtered cattle and sawdust, combined with chemical compounds, under hydraulic pressure of forty thousand pounds to the square inch."

Advertisement hawking hemacite skate wheels in the 11 October 1885 edition of the

Advertisement hawking hemacite skate wheels in the 11 October 1885 edition of the New York Times.

Sawdust back then had already found use in papermaking and as a filling for dolls, and desperate Swedes had also figured out how to distill brandy from it. But these base ingredients of blood and sawdust remained plentiful, and were wonderfully effective when combined together as an animal polymer, the blood's albumen binding with the wood particulate. "Hemacite," noted the magazine, "is susceptible of a high polish, is impervious to heat, moisture, atmospherical changes, and, in fact, is practically indestructible." Starting out as brownish powder resembling snuff, hemacite could be molded into any shape and dyed to any color, and it became a popular and reasonably priced substitute for both wood and metal among architect and decorators.

In fact, by the time of the Manufacturer and Builder article, the Trenton headquarters of the Dibble Manufacturing Company had been for some years producing hemacite house trimmings and drawer pulls, and it now had a catalogue of hundreds of designs of their most popular product, hemacite doorknobs. The doorknobs carried a guarantee for the lifetime of the door, because rather than having a separate knob and shaft to wear out, they were molded as one unbreakable piece. It was a successful enough product that Dibble eliminated his own name from the enterprise entirely: Trenton became the proud home of the Hemacite Manufacturing Company.

Dibble branched out into products like hemacite cash register buttons and, quick to pick up on the latest fads, roller skates.3 "To skate manufacturers and dealers," boasted an ad in the 11 October 1885 issue of the New York Times, "the superiority of our Hemacite Roller over boxwood is now well known." The campaign seems to have worked: the 21 February 1903 Times carries an ad by the Siegel Cooper department store, hawking athletic supplies, and nestled among promotions for medicine balls and $12 Swedish Dogskin Coats ("For sporting use or driving") is an entry for 75-cent roller skates with hemacite wheels, a more expensive option than skates with plain "black wheels." Curiously, Siegel Cooper's ad appears over a plug for Plasmon Cocoa mix—"A blood-invigorating and muscle-making beverage of the highest order." Plasmon's active invigorating ingredient? Albumen, which was also the organic binding agent behind hemacite roller skate wheels.

W.H. Dibble was certainly an inventive fellow, having previously patented a dentist's contraption to simultaneously pry patients' mouths open while draining away their saliva, but his hemacite products were not quite the amazing innovation that he led others to believe.4 Like a true American, what he had really done was nick a foreign idea and improve upon it. Long before Dibble's 1877 application, the Parisian writer Francois Lepage secured an 1855 patent for what he called bois durci: a pressurized mixture of sawdust and cattle blood or, less economically, egg whites. Lepage founded the Bois Durci Company and exhibited its wares at the Great International Exhibition of 1862, back when Dibble was still tinkering with ways to suck the spit out of dental patients. Bois durci went on to turn up in a variety of 19th century inkstands, plaques, picture frames, and furniture; Edison even used it for the housing on early telephones.5 Even bois durci was not the first use of blood in buildings. Cattle blood had long been used in "blood cements," as, for that matter, had albumen from eggs, milk, and cheese. One Chinese recipe called for 100 parts slaked lime, 75 parts bullocks' blood, and 2 parts alum. Floors in South Africa gained a black marble-like polish with the use of blood, and an early London tennis court acquired its hard and glossy surface in the same way; it has even been used as an additive in roofing material.6 It seems there is no part of a house that cannot be manufactured, in part, from blood. Hemacite certainly captured the attention of Victorian architects. By the turn of the century, though, Dibble's firm had already suffered a factory fire, moved shop to a new building, and changed its name to Trenton Brass and Machine Company. The old Hemacite Company was as much a victim of changing times as fire: new plastics like Bakelite were in the offing, pushing aside the quaint notion of sawdust mixed with blood. The rechristened company soldiered on for many more decades, surviving the Depression and a postwar strike, and until recently still supplied fittings to plumbing contractors. But even Trenton Brass is gone now, and with it the last faint trace of Dr. W.H. Dibble and his Hemacite Company.7 But old hemacite house fixtures, strong and durable as they are, live on. So the next time you find yourself running short on bouillon, you may take this token of advice: consider boiling your doorknobs.

!chemistry !chuds

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Westerado: Doubled Barreled is this week's game. Originally a flash game, it fortunately escaped to Steam, which is fortunate, because it has an impressive degree of fidelity, considering the pixelslop aesthetic. In it, you are tasked with avenging your family blah blah blah, except the killer can be any one of the many NPCs who you otherwise interact with, with clues drip fed across it's (admittedly) brief length. Discuss below in the comments, and vote in the linked comment. It also appears that I forgot to post a vote for Call of Duty last week, you can find the vote for that in the pinned comment.

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January 5: Sid Meier's Civilization V

January 12: The Sims (2000)

January 19: Black Myth: Wukong

January 26: Satisfactory

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Simonson allegedly invited the 16-year-old student to live with her and sexually assaulted him dozens of times

According to the affidavit, Simonson allegedly invited the student to live with her family when his uncle decided to move out of state for work. She contacted the student's mother in Honduras, who allegedly allowed him to move in with his teacher.

Opinion @BWC do we have big latinx peepee ping group yet? Or big student peepee?

The victim told police that he had s*x with Simonson over 40 times and was worried that if he refused, she would reveal his immigration status. Simonson also allegedly sent the victim a nude photo, exposing a tattoo of his name.

In an interview with police, she confirmed she had a tattoo of the victim's name but denied sexual activity with him. Simonson also told police that she has a tattoo of one of her three children's names.

Whata great start for life for those kids

She is among dozens of Texas teachers charged with s*x crimes against students.

>s*x crimes

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Update to https://rdrama.net/post/328943/chess-tournament-asks-player-to-change

the TLDR via kiwi forums

• Magnus explains the FIDE staff refused to discuss and find common ground yesterday, which pissed him off. Called them robots who can't think for themselves and can't deviate slightly from the rules, kek.

• Magnus is still not sure if he even broke any rules (makes sense considering the info I posted earlier, that the new rules were in force for this event specifically)

• Perhaps the sponsors made a stink about Magnus not playing, hence they pressed FIDE to get Magnus back into the event? (Edit to add: This is my personal speculation)

• Magnus will be playing in jeans as a matter of principle (and a frick you to FIDE)

• On account of why he did not want to change: he thought FIDE was harsh, he did not agree with how they acted so he decided to dig his heels in (called it)

• Magnus thinks "we all want the same thing". He agrees people should show up well dressed and presentable. He thinks everyone generally agrees on that. He thinks his outfit yesterday was within those parameters. (He wore a light blue button-up shirt, grey blazer, jeans, navy socks, and black leather shoes)

• Magnus agrees this was about more than jeans. Mentions the freestyle drama, but hints at something else, too. I am not sufficiently up to date with chessdrama to read between the lines here, though.

• Magnus was prepared to walk away from FIDE before over other disagreements. (So it makes sense that he was so quick to say frick you and leave over something small like jeans drama)

• Magnus roasts the arbiter multiple times throughout the interview, kek.

• Subtly dunks on Niemann when talking about Freestyle event he wants to host. "We want to give not only the best players, but also others, like Niemann a chance to qualify."

Interview done in the culprit jeans. Of course.

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