Juozas's Dump

Finally got an old linux version running on my pc, with fully working nvidia driver, though only bootable by using old boot loader installed on usb drive. As described in my earlier post, only default (2.6.x) kernels would work with the driver version, where the backported (3.0.x) would fail. Also had to run nvidia-xconfig as root to complete the setup, before it was unaccelerated display with little resolutions available. The screenshot shows a minimal xfce4 desktop running with the default theme.

rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

Trying to install an old Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS version and make it usable along currently running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS would fail as it would lead to dependency hell and other problems when trying to install video drivers. Just by installing base system, default kernel (2.6.x) and networking components the system would not boot unless booted from external usb with old bootloader installed on it. Also if target partition was formatted from modern system the bootloader would not install to any drive nor create its config files. It would still not work as the screen would not show anyhing unless the backported kernel (3.0.x) were installed from the repositories. It would require proprietary nvidia driver on graphical interface as open source driver would not work with my monitor as I found eariler. And after installing a newer kernel version that would work with current bootloader (from a deb file other than what is available on repositories) the nvidia driver installation would still fail as no kernel headers would be found at the time. Trying to install kernel header deb files would not work unless dpkg was updated to a version newer than available on the repositories. After upgrading dpkg and installing kernel headers the kernel modules would fail to build as it would not work with current c compiler, trying upgrade it would require manually downloading and installing required debs, and it might lead to dependency hell not mentioning some debs that would not be available to download ending with a system w/o working graphics. As I was trying to find such packages I ended by running the rm -rf --no-preserve-root /  just out of frustration since I was unable to find them online :\ Also later I found that even backported 3.0.x nvidia kernel modules still wouldn't build as such kernel might be incompatible and/or driver would be broken. Conclusion: don't try to install a newer kernel from packages not coming in repositories and then try to install graphics drivers as it might lead to many problems in the future. Also don't use backported kernel as it would not be compatible with provided nvidia driver. Use virtual machine instead if needed.

YouTube was very unstable today

I noticed a horrible browser lag when using youtube. Digging deeper I found that it was caused by the site itself and not an addon. It would cause an insane cpu and memory usage rise upon page reload, the only solution would be to kill the browser. I also suspected an adblock bug but disabling it on yt didn't help much, where other addons were also disabled.

Reinstalled server os

Today i've reinstalled the os of the server that runs my minetest server and related pages. It will take some time to setup everything and to restore what's needed. It has been running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS up until now and the new os is Debian 11.

Edit: Got the web server working. Sadly no running minetest server yet.

Edit2: Minetest server is finally back up and running, old worlds restored.

Bought a new 1080p monitor. After some tinkering with system configuration got the display working as default refresh rate provided by the driver would not work, had to change it.

It appears that chat is back :D

It was missing for a long time :)

is it me or is kyselo down :\ I see alot of broken images :\

Some useful number facts

0x00007FFFFFFFFFFF (2^47-1,140737488355327) is largest possible address size in 64-bit architecture, it's integer representation could be obtained by running a command in unix terminal as shown below

$ echo $((2**47)-1)

Any address larger then the number above will raise an exception.

A screenshot of a hexdump of first 768 bytes of random data made on linux

Automatic linking annoyance

The editor is too trigger happy to automatically mark anything that looks like links to appear as links. E.g. typing somefile.sh becomes linked w/o asking. It's very annoying when trying to type or paste code snippets that has fragments looking like that and removing them is quite troublesome :\

Edit: Links can be removed after they've been inserted by editor, but this leaves extra unused garbage html, and that can be removed by editing hidden textarea using browser developer tools and not directly interacting with text field thus avoiding accidental reinsert of link where it is not wanted.

Here again

I'm gonna leave this here

Chat gone

Just noticed that chat link were removed from menu, not sure it was an accident or intentional. Also the chat page is showing an error 500 with Verboten (Forbidden) shown in text.

My primary monitor just started to malfunction

It would show a white picture with vertical bars on near middle right of the screen. Had to to use an old vga monitor not fully compatible with my current software which caused me alot of annoyance. Had to uninstall old nvidia driver as it would not detect this monitor correctly, installed open source alternative, and added a script that sets correct login resolution and rate as automattic detection would not set correct one resulting in monitor showing an error. Not mentioning display settings showing modes not properly supported it.

A few of my popular manga sites just went down

I just noticed today that Mangalife and Mangasee both went down today. They've been running on the same network, one of them is a development version of the other and none is accessible atm. If none gets back soon this can mean a site seizure or somthing at least equally serious as alot of people are complaining about this site on many other social networks I usually frequent.

Edit: It's back. This was a temporary site hickup :\

Loforo is not reachable on my VPN

Just stopped working. All the traffic is directed to blocked.hetzner.com when checking through the traceroute. Didn't do anything too bad just suddently got blocked or some other error I don't know.]

Edit: Loforo's back. Probably was temporary or some1 seen my message on some site. This is annoying. Can't traceroute the site properly though.

Switched to ESR release from regular Firefox

Since WebRender shipped with recent versions of Mozilla Firefox is too buggy and cause video screen tearing when watching Youtube videos in full screen and also it seems next versions are removing the ability to disable it too so I'm getting rid of it and going to use an ESR release instead and if the future versions of it remove remove this feature I'm going to get rid of firefox in my system entirely and use alternative browser that would still work with my configuration w/o problems

Reddit down

When I visit Reddit all I get is an error. The main page would not load. Looks like it's time to use other platforms as long as Reddit stays down :\

The users who attempted to login to my linux server so far...

The strange biome name in minecraft, found by Phoenix SC on YouTube

It is minecraft:asdawerthawajrhtkajwhegrkjawsg

My old router died

Had to replace it with a new model provided by my internet service provider as my old one suddently stopped working properly in the middle of the day. Coudn't reset it defaults, couldn't access it's management page, wouldn't even boot properly. Also computer would be exposed to external ip, connection would drop if another client was connected, totally unusable.

YouTube-DL github was taken down due to DMCA complaint from RIAA, apparently it infringed many copyrights by letting users illegally download videos by also circumventing any protections that were in place. Some people were too much unhappy they resorted to that.

Soup is no more

The Soup as it was before today is no longer available as of this morning, the domain was sold to a news site creator and all old content is gone.

If you backed up all your content you're good otherwise nothing can be helped rn as all the content is now gone.