'No Stupid Questions' (NSQ) Internet & Technology Edition

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I also found it funny that they didn't come with an instruction manual, but I was able to sync them up with my stuff just fine going off of how other Bluetooth speakers and headphones have worked in the past. Are Bluetooth headphones now so commoditized and commonplace that we don't need manuals for them anymore?

Did you hold the button until the light turned on and then kept holding it until it started to blink(maybe changed color)? That seems pretty standard.

 

[Least Concern]

Did you hold the button until the light turned on and then kept holding it until it started to blink(maybe changed color)? That seems pretty standard.

More or less. Kinda hard to see the little LED while wearing the headphones, but it plays equivalent tones in the phones too.

I notice that they connect to my laptop much faster than my buds do, which is nice. There might be like fifteen seconds between turning the buds on and actually being able to hear anything…

 

[Fougaro]

Here are two Facebook boomer tier question from me:

1. Can the name of your machine be visible to a website in a similar vein to your IP-address? (especially if you don't use a VPN if it's in any way relevant)

2. If you're using Google Chrome with your Google account, can said account be in any way, shape or form be visible (or traced back to) to a site like a VPN?

 

[Least Concern]

Here are two Facebook boomer tier question from me:

1. Can the name of your machine be visible to a website in a similar vein to your IP-address? (especially if you don't use a VPN if it's in any way relevant)

2. If you're using Google Chrome with your Google account, can said account be in any way, shape or form be visible (or traced back to) to a site like a VPN?

1. Notwithstanding bugs, no, but if they can get your IP address (because you're not using a VPN) and you have a static IP address, it's effectively the same thing.

2. The site itself can't determine what Google account you're using, but it's safe to assume whenever you're using stock Chrome, and especially when you're logged into it, that Google is tracking your every move. Even if they actually aren't, even if they've suppressed their urges to do so somehow despite literally controlling your browser, it's safe to assume they are. Being concerned about security and using Google Chrome is a contradiction. Use Brave or Firefox instead, or Safari if you're on a Mac, or if you absolutely must have something that works just like Chrome, use ungoogled chromium.

 

[glow]

2. If you're using Google Chrome with your Google account, can said account be in any way, shape or form be visible (or traced back to) to a site like a VPN?

Another thing you should learn about is WebRTC, which can establish lower-level socket connections using your real IP address. You might be surprised about what you see when you check your brower, especially if you're using a proxy as opposed to a vpn for your thought crime browsing.

There are firefox extensions for example that disable this for you, but I think you can also just adjust some settings if you don't want a new extension.

 

[Fougaro]

Thanks for the informative answers!

Another thing you should learn about is WebRTC, which can establish lower-level socket connections using your real IP address. You might be surprised about what you see when you check your brower, especially if you're using a proxy as opposed to a vpn for your thought crime browsing.

I see. So let's say for example you - God forbid - live in the UK and and call someone a no-no word or do haramposting on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or whatever other social media through a shitposting account with fake mail, no clues to your dox and you take otherwise care of your opsec, but they only have your IP address and/or you use Google Chrome. You could still end up getting stoned to death or thrown of a rooftop for blaspheming against the Sunnah if you don't use a VPN and/or another browser. Am I correct?

Use Brave or Firefox instead, or Safari if you're on a Mac, or if you absolutely must have something that works just like Chrome, use ungoogled chromium.

I switched to Brave a long time ago and I'm glad I did.

 

[Least Concern]

I see. So let's say for example you - God forbid - live in the UK and and call someone a no-no word or do haramposting on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or whatever other social media through a shitposting account with fake mail, no clues to your dox and you take otherwise care of your opsec, but they only have your IP address and/or you use Google Chrome. You could still end up getting stoned to death or thrown of a rooftop for blaspheming against the Sunnah if you don't use a VPN and/or another browser. Am I correct?

Kinda lost on what you're asking here but if it's "can someone find you IRL if they have your IP address?" then there are a couple ways. One, they could go to your ISP and ask "Who was using this IP address at this time?" The ISP will hopefully reject that request from a normie but will probably bend over backwards to do so for a glow-in-the-dark. This is how governments can find people who have been using piracy or cheese pizza torrents or honeypot sites without VPNs.

Another way is phishing. They get you to enter your credentials on a site that looks like Gmail or Facebook or what have you. Or maybe there's just correlation. For example, for known people on the Farms like Bryan Dunn or Ethan Van Sciver, Null can easily see what IP addresses they're using. If he were operating another site and one of these people accesses that other site with the same IP address, Null can assume that's the same person even if they don't create an account or create and use some other identity.

 

[glow]

haramposting on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

It's worth noting that these sites in particular log absolutely everything. This information, in the hands of the right individual can also be used to correlate your identity.

Let's say you live in a dystopia such as the UK and you have expressed a haram thought on Twitter:

1. This offends someone, so therefore you committed a crime
2. So, they serve Twitter with a subpoena or probably ask really nicely and get your IP
3. They go to your ISP and now you are doxed
4. Optionally: they come to your workplace to "check your thinking"

OK, so you use a VPN:

1. This offends someone, etc etc
2. Twitter gives your info they have.
3. They identify your IP pretty swiftly as being an IP used by a VPN
4. They also give your gmail address, so they go to Google
5. Google reports all the IP addresses you ever used
6. At one point, you used your real ISP
7. You are now doxed

So remember it's important to make sure that ALL traffic goes via your VPN if you want to avoid ending up in this situation.

However, let's say, I, a certain glowing individual, work for a large corporation which runs services that you and many people likely use:

1. I am offended by your herecy against doctrine
2. I trick you into visiting a site I control
3. I scan access logs to find your IP address
4. I pull up whatever info I find on you and delete all logs of my activity to cover my tracks
5. You are now doxed
6. Optionally: using parallel construction, I come up with another way to explain how I doxed you if anyone asked

This is likely how a few high profile doxings where the individual (despite being up to date with current opsec) was doxed anyway.

So, you'll see that even using a VPN doesn't always help. This is why I use a separate computer and a separate VPN account on that separate computer when I commit thought crimes.

You'd probably think that large corporations have checks and balances against this sort of thing happening. Some do, most don't, and if you have the right level of access you can often cover your tracks.

 

[Fougaro]

It's worth noting that these sites in particular log absolutely everything. This information, in the hands of the right individual can also be used to correlate your identity.

Let's say you live in a dystopia such as the UK and you have expressed a haram thought on Twitter:

1. This offends someone, so therefore you committed a crime
2. So, they serve Twitter with a subpoena or probably ask really nicely and get your IP
3. They go to your ISP and now you are doxed
4. Optionally: they come to your workplace to "check your thinking"

OK, so you use a VPN:

1. This offends someone, etc etc
2. Twitter gives your info they have.
3. They identify your IP pretty swiftly as being an IP used by a VPN
4. They also give your gmail address, so they go to Google
5. Google reports all the IP addresses you ever used
6. At one point, you used your real ISP
7. You are now doxed

So remember it's important to make sure that ALL traffic goes via your VPN if you want to avoid ending up in this situation.

However, let's say, I, a certain glowing individual, work for a large corporation which runs services that you and many people likely use:

1. I am offended by your herecy against doctrine
2. I trick you into visiting a site I control
3. I scan access logs to find your IP address
4. I pull up whatever info I find on you and delete all logs of my activity to cover my tracks
5. You are now doxed
6. Optionally: using parallel construction, I come up with another way to explain how I doxed you if anyone asked

This is likely how a few high profile doxings where the individual (despite being up to date with current opsec) was doxed anyway.

So, you'll see that even using a VPN doesn't always help. This is why I use a separate computer and a separate VPN account on that separate computer when I commit thought crimes.

You'd probably think that large corporations have checks and balances against this sort of thing happening. Some do, most don't, and if you have the right level of access you can often cover your tracks.

Correct me if I'm wrong: Using a VPN and staying the fuck away from Google is a good way to be safe for everyday Internet activities as long as you don't get on the authorities' bad side. But if the government really wants you in prison or dead (Null IIRC even said it in a stream), you will be in prison or dead, end of story.

In our example, I assume, you'd have to harampost or otherwise dab on the Brits outside the UK, unless they start extraditing people for shitposting (as comical as that would be as British prisons would be filled to the brim with Australians). Or hope the Shariah police, for whatever reason, reacts after your ISP has deleted your IP logs (which in some European countries they do after 10-12 weeks).

 

[Max Doof]

I don't ever plan on playing games past 1080p but would like to try my hands at editing, streaming, and overall use sai/csp/blender with no problems what so ever so would waiting for the 3070 be a huge waste of cash and find something older and cheaper or wait it out?

 

[Rafal Gan Ganowicz]

Hi Frens. Need some help pls. Just got STRIX for school (was what they recommended). Didn't come with mouse or cam. Bought it at BestBuy. Need to know what mouse and cam are best, need to buy tomorrow. It will be used for school only, no gaming because I'm an old luddite.
Also, how do I change the keyboard to english from french?
Thanks Guise

 

[Turd Cow]

Have a question, can I boot linux on one ssd and Windows on another ssd, using two seperate ssd's in one computer basically.

 

[Least Concern]

Hi Frens. Need some help pls. Just got STRIX for school (was what they recommended). Didn't come with mouse or cam. Bought it at BestBuy. Need to know what mouse and cam are best, need to buy tomorrow. It will be used for school only, no gaming because I'm an old luddite.
Also, how do I change the keyboard to english from french?
Thanks Guise

Your school recommended you buy an overpriced gaming system? You say it doesn't have a cam so I'm guessing that means it's not a laptop… If you really will only use this thing for school work, you overpaid massively, I'm afraid.

Any camera or mouse will do, really. Cameras have gotten cheap enough that even commodity ones are good enough. As for mice, just go back to Best Buy and palm the display units until you find a comfy one.

Have a question, can I boot linux on one ssd and Windows on another ssd, using two seperate ssd's in one computer basically.

Yes. In fact, you can do it with a single SSD with separate partitions, too, though having separate disks for each does keep things tidy.

 

[Rafal Gan Ganowicz]

Your school recommended you buy an overpriced gaming system? You say it doesn't have a cam so I'm guessing that means it's not a laptop… If you really will only use this thing for school work, you overpaid massively, I'm afraid.

Any camera or mouse will do, really. Cameras have gotten cheap enough that even commodity ones are good enough. As for mice, just go back to Best Buy and palm the display units until you find a comfy one.


Yes. In fact, you can do it with a single SSD with separate partitions, too, though having separate disks for each does keep things tidy.

It IS a laptop. No cam, though. I payed fuckall, Veterans affairs is reimbursing it all. Yeah, it's hugely expensive for a laptop with no cam, even. No clue why they did that. LOL I was on acid when I was setting it up. Plugged it in and it lit up like a disco ball at a Who concert. Fucking crazy. Thanks for the advice

Also, WTF is an SSD? I'm seriously retarded with tech

 

[glow]

Correct me if I'm wrong: Using a VPN and staying the fuck away from Google is a good way to be safe for everyday Internet activities as long as you don't get on the authorities' bad side.

In general yes. There are of course other internet companies to be concerned about such as Facebook who are perhaps worse. At one point it was a perk that staff could just browse other peoples' profiles, although surely they don't do that anymore.

But if the government really wants you in prison or dead (Null IIRC even said it in a stream), you will be in prison or dead, end of story.

If you're a DPR kind of character who threatens the status quo and would need to be made an example of then yes you have a very different type of threat profile. I wouldn't want to advise you if you were because I'd surely miss something. In DPR's case it was a StackOverflow profile for example.

Being a mere thought offender or haramposter is unlikely to attract the attention of the luminous ones, but if you sufficiently piss off a private individual you do need to have made some basic precautions and considered how they might dox you.

I would not concern yourself with impure tweets leading to extradition - It's unlikely anyone would try to extradite you unless you were into some margherita-level shit.

 

[Boris Blank's glass eye]

Also, WTF is an SSD? I'm seriously retarded with tech

Solid State Drive. A huge chunk of flash memory acting as a hard drive.

 

[glow]

Also, WTF is an SSD? I'm seriously retarded with tech

Solid State Drive. A huge chunk of flash memory acting as a hard drive.

The key advantage is that it is extremely fast due to having no moving components. If you're used to spinning plate hard drives, it's a considerable performance boost.

 

[Least Concern]

It IS a laptop. No cam, though. I payed fuckall, Veterans affairs is reimbursing it all. Yeah, it's hugely expensive for a laptop with no cam, even. No clue why they did that. LOL I was on acid when I was setting it up. Plugged it in and it lit up like a disco ball at a Who concert. Fucking crazy. Thanks for the advice

How odd. Wonder if someone at the VA has a deal with ASUS to direct people to their brand. Well, now that you've got it, you might as well become a gamer, I guess…

I realize I forgot to address your question about changing the keyboard to French. See this page: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4496404/windows-10-manage-the-input-and-display-language - Start with the "Add a keyboard" section, then read the "Change your keyboard layout" section right above it.

 

[Rafal Gan Ganowicz]

How odd. Wonder if someone at the VA has a deal with ASUS to direct people to their brand. Well, now that you've got it, you might as well become a gamer, I guess…

I realize I forgot to address your question about changing the keyboard to French. See this page: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4496404/windows-10-manage-the-input-and-display-language - Start with the "Add a keyboard" section, then read the "Change your keyboard layout" section right above it.

Thanks, Frendo.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Have a question, can I boot linux on one ssd and Windows on another ssd, using two seperate ssd's in one computer basically.

It is technically possible, but God help you if you try it with UEFI.