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I was setting up iptables like I have done a billion times before, but when trying to /etc/init.d/iptables save, it said that the kernel doesn’t have support for it. Wut? So I load ip_tables with modprobe, only to lose it after a reboot, so I shoved it into modules in mkinitcpio.conf, which seems to have helped.

What’s going on? Are we forcibly moving on to nftables?

I have found some software on 1337 that a friend was asking for. It’s for Windows and I’m on Linux. Is test running the software inside a VM the only way to securely vet it (to see what connections it tries to make and what processes it starts)? On VirusTotal, I get one positive and 66 negatives. Preferably, I’d like to hand over the software without worrying about giving them malicious code…

Edit: Thank you all for your quick responses! No downtime at all with this project! :D More specifically, I followed the advice to put command line parameters in the script. By slapping a $1 anywhere I want the filename to be expanded/accepted in the script, I was able to do

./command_ffmpeg_SYNCAUD  birthday_0  

I am digitizing my dad’s video and audio tapes, for which I - after painstakingly scouring the documentation of ffmpeg, as one should - finally have found the encoding options that I’m happy with. :D

But instead of retyping the PhD dissertation that are the ffmpeg commands that I use a bazillion times, I have simply started to do command substitution with for instance

$(cat command_ffmpeg_COPYCODEC)  

or

$(cat command_ffmpeg_H264)  

and the likes. This, however, still requires me to vim the correct filenames into these concatenated commands every time I work on a new project, so I thought, "Why not just set a variable, like I use to do with visudo as in

EDITOR=/bin/vim visudo  

So, wanting to do a little ffmpeg magic to delay the audio stream of a file, I tried

FILENAME='birthday_0' $(cat command_ffmpeg_SYNCAUD)  

but bash said, “no, who do you think you are?” After doing a wc on FILENAME, I noticed that there is an invisible trailing something after the filename - possibly some whitespace char - since it thinks that I mean to use an option “-synced.mkv”.

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How would you go about writing the now bash script (it simply wouldn’t expand the variable through command substitution…) so that the trailing whatever is deleted, if that is indeed the case? I have tried slapping " ", ’ ', ( ), { } in all conceivable configurations, but I’m simply to inexperienced. xD

Please advise! 🛠️

  • Exempted from scope because they are unlikely to pose harms to minors are not-for-profit online encyclopaedias, not-for-profit educational and scientific repositories, services and systems that are designed for purely educational purposes and operated within educational establishments or organisations, open-source software-developing and-sharing platforms, unless the platform itself constitutes an AI system in scope of this Regulation and Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, services and systems specifically developed and operated for the sole purpose EN EN6 of scientific research and development, and services and systems designed, developed and operated by public authorities and for exclusive use of said public authorities or on their behalf.

    If this passes, I wonder if any Linux distros will be affected and how, considering the above excerpt.

  • I’d be all over that if I had anything to contribute with, but at the moment, I’m still learning the very basics of C and I’m in the middle of some other projects… 😅 Don’t let my preoccupation kill your enthusiasm though!!! 🙏💞

    Anecdote time
    I recently inherited a Commodore 64 from my dad. It’s from the 80’s. While all I could do with it was

    • type text and see it displayed
    • load some games from cassette tapes

    It was extremely refreshing to see that literally nothing was going on in the system other that what I saw on the screen.

In their comments to a recent post that I made, asking people to share their torrenting ratios, some folks were talking about how they have setup media servers for their parents. This sounded really cool and I would like to do the same thing for my family.

I simply mount my torrenting drives with sshfs and consume media with mpv, because I don’t need anything else. But for my technologically less inclined family members, I guess setting up something with a GUI would be kind and nice.

I am torrenting on a VPN router, behind which there is a switch that only switches a specific port - which I rotate regularly for safety - to a public facing router, so that I can ssh into my home network.

Questions:

  • I have no experience with or knowledge of these to me fancy sounding GUI projects. For instance, do my family members create accounts that I then approve? Do I need to install and setup something on their endpoints (for instance, to configure which port to use, etc.) or is it simple enough for the layperson to do this themselves?
  • Will the fancy stuff accept and be accessible with port forwarding from my public facing router to my VPN router and then into my torrenting rig just like my ssh server does or am I going to have to set this up directly connected to the public facing router?

Please give me your most straightforward recommendations! 🥰