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[skunt]

I'm just probing a site right now for a thread. I tried using some old tricks I used in python, but the noscript check is throwing a monkey wrench into things.

Try this:
Open developer console, storage, local storage -> reload page.
Check what cookies are stored and you can just export them to a cookie that you can load with curl. Usually with bot checks they only check the session once and the cookie allows you to use it for a period of time, few hours, maybe a week. Then adding both together:

 curl -b ~/cookie -A "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0" "https://domain.com"

if they validate sessions a lot (like kiwiflare does) then this is a waste of time but some sites are lazy. If you go further into the weeds you can script the whole thing, including fetching and creating, then loading the cookie making it fully automated BUT if there's a puzzle/captcha/test then yeah, the above won't work.
https://www.selenium.dev would be worth a look.

If you wanna DM me the site, I'd be happy to take a look. I have some time free, I understand if you can't or don't want to tho! I realised this went a little off topic too, apart from selenium I'm not sure what else might fit what you need. It's likely scriptable with bash though.

 

[Anti Snigger]

Try this:
Open developer console, storage, local storage -> reload page.
Check what cookies are stored and you can just export them to a cookie that you can load with curl. Usually with bot checks they only check the session once and the cookie allows you to use it for a period of time, few hours, maybe a week. Then adding both together:

 curl -b ~/cookie -A "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0" "https://domain.com"

if they validate sessions a lot (like kiwiflare does) then this is a waste of time but some sites are lazy. If you go further into the weeds you can script the whole thing, including fetching and creating, then loading the cookie making it fully automated BUT if there's a puzzle/captcha/test then yeah, the above won't work.
https://www.selenium.dev would be worth a look.

If you wanna DM me the site, I'd be happy to take a look. I have some time free, I understand if you can't or don't want to tho! I realised this went a little off topic too, apart from selenium I'm not sure what else might fit what you need. It's likely scriptable with bash though.

I'll hit you up when I'm closer to working on it. I'm still in the exploratory phase and I have IRL stuff, it just occurred to me to ask thanks

 

[._.]

Does anyone have a good antivirus/malware suggestion? Id been kind of coasting on the Windows defender type thing that comes bundled, and just not running weird exes or whatever, I had downloaded Malwarebytes but it stopped running and it apparently gives false positives for shit like Kiwifarms cookies or something anyway. But my computers kinda had issues recently and I figure I should run a scan.

 

[Yandex Captcha Solver]

Does anyone have a good antivirus/malware suggestion? Id been kind of coasting on the Windows defender type thing that comes bundled, and just not running weird exes or whatever, I had downloaded Malwarebytes but it stopped running and it apparently gives false positives for shit like Kiwifarms cookies or something anyway. But my computers kinda had issues recently and I figure I should run a scan.

Windows Defender is actually one of the best antivirus software anymore. Unless something drastic has happened in the last 3ish years. ESET was always solid as well, not cheap though.
Check out Gartner, it is an enterprised based security testing company, so I'd look at reviews there as people in the industry leave reviews there for various antiviruses. https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/endpoint-protection-platforms

 

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Does anyone have a good antivirus/malware suggestion? Id been kind of coasting on the Windows defender type thing that comes bundled, and just not running weird exes or whatever, I had downloaded Malwarebytes but it stopped running and it apparently gives false positives for shit like Kiwifarms cookies or something anyway. But my computers kinda had issues recently and I figure I should run a scan.

Just stick with Windows Defender. If you want a 'second opinion' Kaspersky and ESET both have 'one-off' scan tools available, you should try both (serial, not parallel):

https://www.kaspersky.com/downloads/free-virus-removal-tool

https://www.eset.com/uk/home/online-scanner/

 

[Battlefield42]

is there something than can scan for changes in windows registry? i want to save the registry entries for some of my vidya gaems. and yes i know you can do it manually but regedit is fucking ass

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

is there something than can scan for changes in windows registry? i want to save the registry entries for some of my vidya gaems. and yes i know you can do it manually but regedit is fucking ass

procmon if you want to monitor changes being made in real time (this'll eat up a lot of memory so don't leave it running)
There is a feature in Windows to automatically back up the system registry (i.e. HKLM) but it was disabled in 1803, you can re-enable it pretty easily and load these hives into regedit if you have to restore something

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/installing-updates-features-roles/system-registry-no-backed-up-regback-folder

You'll have to learn to love regedit though. There's really no way to see changes other than diffing .reg files (WinMerge is a good tool for this)

 

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is there something than can scan for changes in windows registry? i want to save the registry entries for some of my vidya gaems. and yes i know you can do it manually but regedit is fucking ass

1. Why? It may be there's a better way to do, what you're aiming to do.
2. I believe there's a Nirsoft utility that lets you do a before/after.
3. As Flaming Dumpster says, procmon would allow you to do this, though you'd want to do a lot of filtering so it's only logging registry changes, and only run it while the program's installing and first running and then use whatever you scraped from that to figure out what keys are being used and then manually export those. Alternatively you could use sysmon with a config that monitored changes to some large subset of HKLM keys, maybe something like the below, and then backup the Sysmon event log regularly. I haven't tried this. I'm sure it would be hellishly noisy.

<Sysmon schemaversion="4.22">
   <EventFiltering>
 <RuleGroup name="" groupRelation="or">
      <RegistryEvent onmatch="include">
        <TargetObject condition="begin with">HKLM\SOFTWARE\</TargetObject> 
    </RegistryEvent>
</RuleGroup>
</EventFiltering>
</Sysmon>

 

[Battlefield42]

Will look into these today. Thanks for the help guys

 

[Quote Cursor]

If anyone wants a shadowplay alternative on Linux, there's GPU Screen Recorder that works really well, which has a gtk gui frontend.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Any recommendations for a NAS OS that's retard proof? Been toying around with TrueNAS but the permissions situation is genuinely retarded: Apps can't grasp that there's any directories apart from their specific ones and it's a constant fight between whether I or my apps have permission to write to a directory.

I'm sure I'd probably crack it if forced but already I'm getting tired of it.

 

[Mister Uno]

Any recommendations for a NAS OS that's retard proof? Been toying around with TrueNAS but the permissions situation is genuinely retarded: Apps can't grasp that there's any directories apart from their specific ones and it's a constant fight between whether I or my apps have permission to write to a directory.

I'm sure I'd probably crack it if forced but already I'm getting tired of it.

From my experience OpenMediaVault is pretty solid. It's not great but I would say it's nearly retard proof.

 

[KittyGremlin]

I am a bit retarded when it comes to dealing with BIOS shit and I eyeballed through the first 10 pages but has anyone found a good OS alternative to Windows that's essentially the same thing but un-pozzed? Simply stripped down to bare essentials without the globohomo shit?

 

[Betonhaus]

I am a bit retarded when it comes to dealing with BIOS shit and I eyeballed through the first 10 pages but has anyone found a good OS alternative to Windows that's essentially the same thing but un-pozzed? Simply stripped down to bare essentials without the globohomo shit?

Linux Mint? the more you delve into obscure software the more likely you'll find stuff that's poorly supported

 

[KittyGremlin]

Linux Mint? the more you delve into obscure software the more likely you'll find stuff that's poorly supported

Is a barebones OS such a rare thing as to be considered obscure? Also, Linux can run Windows apps? (pardon my complete dimwittedness)

 

[Betonhaus]

Riiight. I'm backing out of this conversation.

 

[Gatdam Animal Person]

Is a barebones OS such a rare thing as to be considered obscure? Also, Linux can run Windows apps? (pardon my complete dimwittedness)

Not sure what you meant by "barebone OS", if you mean a base OS, I there's Debian/Ubuntu, Arch, Gentoo, RHEL, etc. In this case, Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu. The more obscure distros are usually minor variants of base OSes, I don't really recommend any one of them.

As for Windows apps, you can run th en using Wine/Proton, they're are both compatibility layers for software/games.

Pro tip: expect to do a few readings on the Internets, Ubuntu has great community support and https://wiki.archlinux.org has tons of useful articles.

 

[KittyGremlin]

Not sure what you meant by "barebone OS", if you mean a base OS, I there's Debian/Ubuntu, Arch, Gentoo, RHEL, etc. In this case, Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu. The more obscure distros are usually minor variants of base OSes, I don't really recommend any one of them.

As for Windows apps, you can run th en using Wine/Proton, they're are both compatibility layers for software/games.

Pro tip: expect to do a few readings on the Internets, Ubuntu has great community support and https://wiki.archlinux.org has tons of useful articles.

Ok something tells me none of this is a simple matter but thanks for the info. Maybe one day I'll try something.

 

[Creative Username]

Ok something tells me none of this is a simple matter but thanks for the info. Maybe one day I'll try something.

Getting into Linux isn't that easy. There will be a bit of a nasty learning curve and a few 3-hour sessions of nothing working until you figure the trick out. At least you'll be able to completely escape the Microsoft globohomo hell for good... Sounds too good to be true, right? It is. You will simply be subjected to the slightly unstable bullshit troonery of Linux instead. It isn't quite as bad and it won't ever outright force bullshit that you don't want on you, but it will always be lurking in the background. It mostly comes in the form of questionable decisions for default configuration that will fuck your shit up after an update until you turn it off.

If you want computers to not suck at all, you have two options:

1. Write your own technology stack completely from scratch a la King Terry (hard)
2. Douse your PC in gasoline, set it on fire, wait for it to stop burning, throw it off the side of a mountain, and live the rest of your days as a reclusive Luddite (not as hard but people will think you're a bit weird, even more so than option 1)

If you feel like learning a more complicated-to-use-in-certain-ways OS that's much simpler under the hood and you like the idea of being able to understand most of what's going on in your computer, Linux is the natural choice. If you don't, the usage habits required for knowing and fixing what's going on under the hood will produce gargantuan amounts of friction.

If you want to try things, VMs are a good way to get started. You can get familiar with the basics in a VM.

 

[Betonhaus]

Getting into Linux isn't that easy. There will be a bit of a nasty learning curve and a few 3-hour sessions of nothing working until you figure the trick out. At least you'll be able to completely escape the Microsoft globohomo hell for good...

I'm getting the impression that he wants something closer to Tiny10 or Atlas OS but that's a can of worms I'm not going to touch, recommend, or support.