Questargon

@mariushmHmmm. Okay, gonna try 7zip without compression, but I do not think that this will improve matters by a lot, since all those mini-file-operations are back the moment you unzip your archive. Anyway ... I*ll be back after I fooled around with this for a bit. In any case: Thanks for the suggestion!

Hi. When you're working with node.js projects, you're left with a lot of little files (like under the folder node_modules). When you have to move the project to another drive, you see the transfer speed almost grind to a halt. I know, that this is largely because of filesystem overhead. Has anybody any experience with different filesystems and this issue? Are there filesystems out there that can handle this better than - say - NTFS and ext4?

Hi. l see, that you're using Samsung SSDs. If you're also using Windows 11 and the Device Drivers provided by Samsung ... remove them and let the built in drivers of Win11 handle the SSDs. I vaguely remember a strange permission Problem in the Event Logs like yours just before my PC froze. I agree, that this might be a shot in the dark. Edit: I had this problem on Win 11, but maybe it applies to Win 10 as well.

Buildzoid has some insight about the new ATX 3.0 600W connectors for graphic cards. Maybe you can test / verify this with a thermal cam? Source:

Cold weld a CPU and the bottom of a cooler together. Booom - no thermal paste needed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_welding

Hi, I found this really interesting. I wonder how many similarities between what he thinks of his life as YouTuber he shares with Linus an his team. Is the pressure the same, although LTT is a company now an not a one-person-show like Davie?

Hi, I found a hilarious video of YouTuber "RobBubble", who accepted all product placements that have been offered to him during the last year. It is in german only (sadly), but for everybody who understands it, take a look. This really shows the flood of hilarious requests that even an influencer with less than a quarter million subscribers has to cope with and the requests those companies have. I will not even try to imagine the sh** the LMG group, Unbox Therapy or MKBHD have to cope with.

Take another look at my instructions. Maybe there is a method that works for you.

HA! I got it working natively under Windows 10. It all starts with: 1) Download the python script from https://github.com/yunuscadirci/CallStranger/archive/master.zip 2) Unpack it into a directory of your choice. WINDOWS 10 natively: Use these steps: 3) Install Python 3.8 from the Microsoft Store. 4) Open a PowerShell or cmd (I used an Administrator PowerShell for this, but I am not sure whether you really need it). 5) Install PIP using the Script provided here:https://www.liquidweb.com/kb/install-pip-windows/ 6) Execute the following commands on the shell: cd [to the directory called "CallStranger-master"] pip install --upgrade pip pip install -r requirements.txt python3 setup.py install --local python3 CallStranger.py see COMMON NOTES... below when the script does not detect anything on the first run. WINDOWS 10 using Cygwin: (Alternatively) It IS possible to run that script on a Windows machine, but ... well ... it uses a Linux subsystem ^_^; You can use Cygwin for that, see https://www.cygwin.com/. 3) Download the Cygwin setup program: https://www.cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe 4) Follow instructions and when selecting packages to install, select the following additional packages: * cygwin-gcc-core * python36-devel * python36-pip * python36-cffi * python36-openssl * mingw64-x86_64-openssl * libffi-devel (I hope I didn't miss anything here.) Setup your Python stuff: 5) Open the freshly installed Cygwin Shell (Called Cygwin64 Terminal in the Start Menu). 6) enter the following: cd [into the directory "CallStranger-master" you unpacked from the zip above. That might start with /cygdrive/c/ under cygwin!] pip3 install --upgrade pip pip3 install -r requirements.txt python3 setup.py install python3 CallStranger.py see COMMON NOTES... below when the script does not detect anything on the first run. Windows 10 using WSL / WSL 2: The WSL for Windows will NOT work because it is usually configured as a virtual machine with a NAT so the Linux there will run on another encapsuled network. If you know how to run WSL in the same network of the windows machine, you're good to go. Windows 10 using VMWare Player (or similar): Another possibility would be to run a Linux in a VM that a free tool like VMWare Player provides. The only thing to remember here is to connect this VM directly to your network via "bridge" and avoid using NAT. When Linux is installed, temporarily stop your firewall with sudo systemctl stop firewalld or it might block all UPnP access from within your Linux VM. COMMON NOTES FOR ALL OF THE ABOVE: The first run of the CallStranger.py will likely NOT provide you with any results. Try to connect with your windows machine to at least one UPnP enabled device and then run CallStranger.py again. (The UPnP device that did the trick for me was my minidlna service on my Linux server. I connected my VLC Player to it and played some music while CallStranger.py was running). Hth, questargon

Do you want to prevent that your devices are used in a DDoS-attack-scheme or do you want to prevent being attacked by a DDoS? The first would need some kind of firewall that looks into the request payload to identify nefarious reflecting subscription requests. For the second there are some solutions that might be able to mitigate a DDoS attack, but I do not know whether they are any good. (-_-)

Hi everybody. A new UPnP vulnerability has been discovered recently that might be a hackers dream. It is listed as CVE-2020-12695 and got nicknamed "CallStranger". This security issue is serious, because the vulnerability is using an intentional UPnP protocol feature (Service subscription with callback) that is also implemented in many IoT devices which will NOT be patched. Additional information and links can be found in the article about the CVE above. Some more here: https://www.callstranger.com https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2020-12695-callstranger-vulnerability-in-universal-plug-and-play-upnp-puts-billions-of https://www.zdnet.com/article/callstranger-vulnerability-lets-attacks-bypass-security-systems-and-scan-lans/ If you want to know whether your local network has any vulnerable devices, download the python 3 script from this repository: https://github.com/yunuscadirci/CallStranger and let it scan your local network. It looks for all UPnP devices and checks them for "CallStranger". If such devices have been found, make sure that they can not be reached from the internet (i.e. check port-forwarding on your internet router) or turn their UPnP feature off! If the router itself is vulnerable, disable its UPnP functionality as well! You might even have to contact your ISP when you do not have full control over your router to check whether they can mitigate this somehow. The recommended patch for this is to only allow callback requests to the same network matching the URL of the subscription request. Routers and software running on common computers might get these patches soon™, but most of the cheap IoT devices will never. This means free DDoS carpet bombing for the internet villains. Or they can try to scan your local network using this reflection attack and get information that should not leave that network. Stay safe, questargon

Ha! Got my passkey delivered to my GoogleMail-Account just now. Google seems to not reject those mails as spam anymore. Onward....

@Bombastinator Nope, AMD GPUs work as well via OpenCL.

Newbie home-folder here. I'll be adding some of my sleeping computers to this cause. Time for those processors to do some work for a good cause. My energy supplier will be happy... XD

My tool of choice is "andOTP" for Android now.