WaLLy3K

Mastodon: @wally3k@infosec.exchange

Lurks on topics like security, privacy, repair & gaming. Sometimes comments, too.

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  • WaLLy3Kto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    11 months ago

    The inferior one was the winner after all.
    …That’s right. Until the very end, Liquid thought he was the inferior one.
    Yes, sir. I agree completely. It takes a well-balanced individual, such as yourself, to rule the world.
    No, sir. No one knows that you were the third one… Solidus.
    […]
    Thank you. Good-bye…

    spoiler

    Mr President




  • WaLLy3KtoLinux@lemmy.mlIs anyone using awk?
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    11 months ago

    awk is pretty damn solid. When I was completely rewriting the gravity.sh script from Pi-hole about six years back, it was easily the fastest for parsing and uniquely sorting content from files with a couple million lines. It made things much more usable on Raspberry Pi Zero hardware, since changing to another language like Python was out of the question.






  • Once you found out it was a ST3000DM001, you should have backed up immediately. 978 bad sectors has almost certainly exceeded the reserve sectors and would be eating into your files, which would absolutely account for the long time necessary to load folders.

    With something like this though, you’d have trouble backing everything up via Windows — try something like ddrescue on a Linux live CD to account for the read errors. Failing that, you could see if a nearby repair shop has either RapidSpar data recovery hardware, or a PC-3000 which would make recovery of the majority of your content trival, and more affordable than full blown data recovery labs.







  • WaLLy3KtoMemes@lemmy.mlThe EU has finally won this one!
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    1 year ago

    Oh no, I’m talking outright wrecked — you can see damaged pins upon observation.

    (To be clear to the downvoters, I see this in my job where I repair consumer tech. I’ve clarified in my original post since some people seem to think I’m arguing exclusively in favour of lightning, or maybe think I’ve seen this on my own devices?)

    I clean out densely compacted pocket lint frequently out of customer devices. One needle nose tweezer end for extracting the bulk, then isopropyl on a thin lint free cloth pushed in with a small piece of plastic to determine what’s left inside that isn’t easily visible. Typically makes the port look as good as new.


  • WaLLy3KtoMemes@lemmy.mlThe EU has finally won this one!
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    1 year ago

    The amount of USB type ports I’ve seen where the ‘tongue’ has been absolutely mangled is mind boggling — an issue that Lightning completely bypassed.

    For example, I’m repairing some kids PS5 and both back USB ports have had their pins twisted and the plastic snapped off. The HDMI port pins are lifting from the mainboard and the front of the unit is scratched to high hell. I see some of the worst treated tech at my job, and those plastic bits get damaged a lot. While Apple needed to move to USB-C six years ago with the iPhone X, I will respect Lightning for this one thing.



  • As someone who runs a popular blocklist collection, I’ve come to find that most of the MASSIVE lists are people who collate a whole bunch of lists together and then promote their “one size fits all” solution alongside their donation link. There are very few original high quality ad-blocking lists maintained (where originality is defined as a sizeable amount of unique entries not shared by other lists) and almost all don’t appear to openly discuss the magic sauce behind their lists, outside of the obvious case of user submissions.


  • WaLLy3KtoTechnology@lemmy.worldWindows 11 and local accounts
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    1 year ago

    The article does it right: test@test.com and other similar things (e.g: a@a.com) will throw an error the first time you put in a password and it’ll proceed to create an offline account.

    The people that go through the steps like commands and disabling internet are making too much work for themselves.