Michael Connor Buchan @TheFake_VIP@linuxrocks.online

Thoughts on #MozillaVPN service?

Getting a bit dissatisfied with #PrivateInternetAccess and looking to try a new service once my sub is up in June.

(I already know #protonvpn is a good service, no need to recommend them)

Open source Voting System

Politics aside if you were to create an open-source voting system how would you design it to be efficient, secure, and tamper-proof?

I was thinking of something like using blockchain This would create a provable mathematical audit trail for each transaction then. Combined that with using your SSN and a unique ID from the voter registration. You would have proof of every valid vote basically 2fa. Then data will be exported to a write-only USB drive once an hour.

My financial aid for college keeps sending me more than I need to pay for books and all that, so I think I'll start using some of it to donate to all the open source projects I use

I've been trying to delete my Twitch account for an hour. Ugh

Solus has been my Linux distro of choice since November 2016.
Recently there was no way to financially give to the project. Now there is by supporting the lead developer Joshua Strobl as he works on open source, desktop-focused software.
https://www.patreon.com/joshuastrobl
#Solus #Linux

A follow up for my snow leopard problem on the Mac Pro, it turns out it kernel panics.
From what I've been able to gather along with @TheFake_VIP, its a GPU problem.
Snow leopard doesn't contain drivers for my Nvidia Geforce GTX680, so it panics because it doesn't detect any GPU's, or at least that's what I thing is the issue.
If there's a way to make the snow leopard installer work with the GTX680, either by patching or by any other means, please let me know.
#macos #SnowLeopard #MacOsX #OsX

Oh come on now. Every! Single! Cloud provider doesn't accept prepaid credit cart's and its driving me mad! AWS, no. GCP, no. Azure, no. Oracle cloud, fucking no. Come on, just let me sighn up. Why can't I get a normal credit cart, I hear you asking? Well because I'm still a kid so its technically a no go. I have a revolution junior cart, that's *only* prepaid. I'm frustrated now cause the biggest reason why I wanted a credit cart is to sign up to these cloud providers.

So, I've made the script for MacOSX snow leopard RootFS extraction.
Its a very buggy script that has no error checking and no fancy menus, so if someone has enough knowledge to help, I'd be insanely happy. For now though, I hope you enjoy what I've made so far.
https://github.com/stas-prze/slrootutil
#MacOS #MacOSX #OSX #Mac #shell #script #snowleopard

Does anyone have a easy to setup solution to my problem?
I've wanted to setup a Spotify portable music player using my RPI 3B+ as I don't use it for anything else at the moment.
The problem is that in the configuration I have it in right now there would be a bunch of cables connected and it would in no way be a portable Spotify player.
So, is there a little MP3 player like case for an RPI that I could just throw xbnc on, plug in my head phones and don't work about wasting my phone's battery?

I remember that back in Mojave/catalina days I used to say that MacOS is even more opened than windows, and that people who thing its as closed as IOS are mistaken.
I guess I'm going to have to back out of that.
Strightening gate keeper, blocking custom software update servers, inability to downgrade within MacOS it self, what else?
Apple, you're ruining an operating system I've had so many happy memories with, including learning command line.
#Apple #Mac #MacOS #Bigsur #cli

Who called it a cheese grater and not a cheese smaller?

VMWare Cluster oh why did you have to crash on a Friday!

Entire cluster down! Friday afternoon. Sure its better for the users who want to get off early but damn sure not for me.

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New evidence in a class action lawsuit against YouTube shows that the organization who sued YouTube for "not preventing piracy" are the ones who uploaded the illegal material to the service in the first place.

You can't make this stuff up.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201230134034/https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-class-action-same-ip-address-used-to-upload-pirate-movies-file-dmca-notices-201221/

My 3-year-old would like to know what winter looks like around the world. Could you reply with a photo of what it looks like near you at the moment?

Here's what it looks like near us, in North-East England.