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

[GreenTips]

Depends on how your network admins have their network set up. The wifi at my work place has unique log ins does not let me connect to Private Internet Access VPNs, but corporate VPNs are permitted. I have not tested the VPN running at my house. I assume you are trying to bypass work seeing your internet traffic. My recommendation is to not view anything on a work device or work network you wouldn't want to explain to them down the line. You could buy a mobile hotspot and bypass their network.

 

[Moths]

does every single program need to store their configs and save data in either my documents or hidden in fucking appdata somewhere, my drive c is depressingly small and windows updates arent improving the situation

 

[General Emílio Médici]

You can run Wireguard or OpenVPN as a server on a PC, you'd need to expose the port to the Internet via your router(DANGER WILL ROBINSON)
For instance on Windows: https://www.henrychang.ca/how-to-setup-wireguard-vpn-server-on-windows/ (Untested, don't do anything a retard on the Internet suggests without validation)

Interesting, this could work for what I want I will look into it.

Depends on how your network admins have their network set up. The wifi at my work place has unique log ins does not let me connect to Private Internet Access VPNs, but corporate VPNs are permitted. I have not tested the VPN running at my house. I assume you are trying to bypass work seeing your internet traffic. My recommendation is to not view anything on a work device or work network you wouldn't want to explain to them down the line. You could buy a mobile hotspot and bypass their network.

The network I am looking into does block most VPNs apparently but I haven't really tried. I am mostly curious about weather or not I could do it given the way things are setup as a sort of testing. It's interesting, they block Tor no matter the port or if I am using a Brave Tor window or the proper tor, but if I use a VM to run tor I can then access it as long as I am not using a default, out of the box bridge.

does every single program need to store their configs and save data in either my documents or hidden in fucking appdata somewhere, my drive c is depressingly small and windows updates arent improving the situation

Most programs do, but some programs are made to be "portable" meaning they keep their config files on the same folder as their executables which avoids that. Not many though.

 

[Canned Ham]

I'm looking for a new router, one with those fancy "new" features like WPA3 and VPN support. My house isn't that big. I've heard good things about Open-WRT and pfSense, so it's fine if I need to buy something that's only good enough to install better tech on it. Under $100 would be ideal because I'm cheap.

 

[GreenTips]

I'm looking for a new router, one with those fancy "new" features like WPA3 and VPN support. My house isn't that big. I've heard good things about Open-WRT and pfSense, so it's fine if I need to buy something that's only good enough to install better tech on it. Under $100 would be ideal because I'm cheap.

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Routers

I followed /g/'s advice and wound up with an Asus RT-N66U with FreshTomato. Take a look at some of the routers and get an idea which is right for your sized home. I'm in a 1000 square foot apartment and this router is perfect for me. Flashing a router is really easy. FreshTomato supports VPN but not WPA3. It looks like Open-WRT does support WPA3. Just make sure you download the correct hardware version of any firmware you flash to your device by checking the hardware tables.

 

[Almighty Space Duck]

Does anyone have recommendations for a GUI for ffmpeg that is macOS compatible? I want to be able to point it to a folder and tell it to bulk convert the contents/subfolders with the output either mirroring the folder structure used or to generate new folders/subfolders based on the Artist/Album names that are held in the tracks being converted. That Artist/Album info should also be included in the converted files.

 

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That sounds a bit too much then, my main idea is to try and have something to hide traffic just from network admins. Would that work for that? Make it seem like I am just connecting to a random IP instead of the actual sites I am browsing?

What are you actually trying to do?

Are you just trying to browse KF from your phone/personal laptop on the guest/general WIFI network at your place of business? If so, if you're on Android or a laptop, just install Tor Browser and use that.

If you're intending to use a work PC to browse KF while you pretend to work, then whether you use a VPN or Tor, that's just as 'suss' looking to the IT team if they're using Crowdstrike or most virus scanners as browsing to sneed.today from Internet Explorer 11 would be.

 

[Never Scored]

That sounds a bit too much then, my main idea is to try and have something to hide traffic just from network admins. Would that work for that? Make it seem like I am just connecting to a random IP instead of the actual sites I am browsing?

The easiest thing to do is to set up a simple SSH tunnel. You can set up an old PC with Linux on your home Network. If you are using a Windows computer at on the network, you can download a program called putty that makes it stupidly easy to tunnel traffic on specific ports to the SSH server on your home Network. This way you could just tunnel the ports related to HTTP/HTTPS and network level resources such as printers and shared storage will still work.

Google "set up SSH with keypair," "Open port for SSH on router," and "SSH tunnel Putty."

DO NOT OPEN A PORT FOR THE SSH SERVER UNLESS YOU SET UP A KEYPAIR AND DISABLE PASSWORD LOGIN

 

[General Emílio Médici]

I am mostly trying to disguise my browsing on the work computer out of a challenge and self imposed goal than any actual need to, I am curious how one would do it and feel like it is as good a way to try it as any other. IT doesn't care outside of fagbook and instagram but I am still curious.

I think the SSH port forwarding is the way to do it, it should allow for it to work well as a bootleg try at a VPN. And it might be useful in the future, who knows.

 

[Poll]

How I create an anonymous twitter account? I need a phone number that gets SMS. Is there a website I could use to get a number that works?

 

[DavidS877]

How I create an anonymous twitter account? I need a phone number that gets SMS. Is there a website I could use to get a number that works?

There's a fair number of rental places, I haven't tried any of them, google: sms incoming rent
Maybe something like: https://smsreceivefree.com/ if you just need it once

 

[Poll]

There's a fair number of rental places, I haven't tried any of them, google: sms incoming rent
Maybe something like: https://smsreceivefree.com/ if you just need it once

Thanks. I will give it a try.

 

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I am mostly trying to disguise my browsing on the work computer out of a challenge and self imposed goal than any actual need to, I am curious how one would do it and feel like it is as good a way to try it as any other. IT doesn't care outside of fagbook and instagram but I am still curious.

I think the SSH port forwarding is the way to do it, it should allow for it to work well as a bootleg try at a VPN. And it might be useful in the future, who knows.

Opening SSH connections to what will seem like a random IP is what ransomware and remote control trojans do. Could you not just, at least use a personal device so you have some deniability and are only 'misusing' the network rather than the work PC?

 

[FrigginWeeb]

Been looking for a way to dump a list of twitter accounts that retweeted a certain tweet. anyone know a way?

Spoiler: Boring shit if you wanna know why

So, there's a bunch of porn bots on twitter, they use a procedurally generated naming scheme of [NAME][three emojis]. However they all seem to retweet and pin a post from one central main account. I was going to dump the retweet list from this one post to get a list of all the pornbots, and create a CSV list people can put into another extension to block the porn bots all at once.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Opening SSH connections to what will seem like a random IP is what ransomware and remote control trojans do. Could you not just, at least use a personal device so you have some deniability and are only 'misusing' the network rather than the work PC?

I had not considered that. It could spook the IT people. I could try the other thing but maybe I won't bother.

 

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I had not considered that. It could spook the IT people. I could try the other thing but maybe I won't bother.

Yes, as long as you are on their network, IT will be able to tell you are hiding something, which may well get flagged as malicious activity. You don't need that sort of scrutiny in your life, keep your personal activities off corporate hardware.

You might have to get creative to achieve your goal. If your monitors have multiple inputs and your phone supports HDMI Alt Mode, you could plug your phone into your monitor with a USB C to HDMI connector.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Planning on doing a case transfer for my old man's PC and replacing the DVD burner with a bluray burner. Other than the pain of plugging shit back in again, it shouldn't shit itself, right?

 

[Dieter Laser]

Planning on doing a case transfer for my old man's PC and replacing the DVD burner with a bluray burner. Other than the pain of plugging shit back in again, it shouldn't shit itself, right?

You should be perfectly fine. The only concern I’d have is the flexibility of some of the connectors. Since it came with a DVD burner it’s safe to assume it’s at least a decade old, so just keep that in mind when you’re disconnecting everything. I’ve seen people get overzealous when disconnecting vintage hardware and it doesn’t end well.

Just take your time and it’ll be fine. It’s really not too complex. You’re talking 8 screws for the motherboard, 4 for the PSU, 4 per drive and bolting up the cooler. Power will just be the 24 pin, 8 pin and gpu power… hook up the front panel and we’re already almost done.

 

[WelperHelper99]

You should be perfectly fine. The only concern I’d have is the flexibility of some of the connectors. Since it came with a DVD burner it’s safe to assume it’s at least a decade old, so just keep that in mind when you’re disconnecting everything. I’ve seen people get overzealous when disconnecting vintage hardware and it doesn’t end well.

Just take your time and it’ll be fine. It’s really not too complex. You’re talking 8 screws for the motherboard, 4 for the PSU, 4 per drive and bolting up the cooler. Power will just be the 24 pin, 8 pin and gpu power… hook up the front panel and we’re already almost done.

The DVD burner is old, I scavanged that, but as for the PC itself I built when I was younger. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't gonna give me software issues and it seems it won't, so thank you

 

[SandyCat]

Why don't they put sata ports near where the USB ports are on a motherboard / computer case for external hard drives? It would offer much faster transfer speeds than a shitty usb cable

I get it wouldn't provide power but you'd think they'd come up with some new gay standard that allows sata speed and power