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  • Dran@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•what are some ways to torify debian 13.6 or yt-dlp 2026.07.04 if yt believes I'm a bot?
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    2 months ago

    It would be more accurate to say they try and block the vpn providers and Tor exit nodes. In practice, they do have ~95% of Tor exit nodes blacklisted but major vpn providers it’s closer to 40%. Vpn providers go through a lot of effort to hide their exit traffic and it’s pretty simple to use a provider that has a reasonably robust cli to just rotate nodes until you find one that works

    Connect

    Test known-good video using yt-dlp

    If fail, use vpn cli to connect to a new node

    Reeat until success

    If your provider let’s you connect to specific nodes you can even store the last-known-good and use it on first connect until it gets blacklisted, extending uptime considerably

  • Dran@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•What new Linux distribution should I try?
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    2 months ago

    Yes I have, admittedly it’s been about a decade but at the time I switched because getting hardware acceleration in chrome and Firefox was difficult on debian, trivial on Ubuntu. I like the stable, but newer packages that Ubuntu offers, plus the first-party support you get from a lot of projects. I wish debian was the standard dpkg assumption for first-party support but it unfortunately is not.

  • Dran@lemmy.worldtoPC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Chinese memory maker CXMT enters mainstream consumer memory with Corsair Vengeance DDR5 kit — Chinese-made DRAM emerges as an antidote for crushing shortagesEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Since nobody seemed to actually answer your question: the answer is that ram is actually really simple electrically. Modern DDR5 is very difficult and expensive to manufacture at scale, but is very simple to design.

    If someone were to try and poison a memory package, it would be massively obvious by virtue of the package being larger, being very electrically noisy, or by sucking an order of magnitude more power to function.

    DRAM sockets are not generic pci busses, and cannot be used on a typical motherboard to load arbitrary hardware the way USB or PCIE can.

    Also, the way ram works, you really couldn’t do much more than read contents and relay via an on-dir radio, which would have to be super short range. Even something as “simple” as Bluetooth or wifi would be too big, too slow and take too much power to still function as a memory die.

    You should be way more scared of cloud services, appliances, or iot devices than a stick of DDR5.

    Tl/DR: it’d be prohibitively expensive and itd have nowhere to go, if it could even work at all without Corsair noticing.

  • Dran@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•best professional server Distro option?
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    4 months ago

    People shit on it but there’s a lot of good open-source tooling that supports it.

    There are nist l1 profiles

    Tutorials and guides for everything

    etc

    Part of being a good sysadmin is knowing when not to reinvent the wheel. Ubuntu has a lot of options for vetted, hardened, “other people’s wheels.”

    Also, for posterity, the competent ones are running the headless, server version of Ubuntu. (As opposed to the bloated mess that is Ubuntu Desktop). The server version catches a lot of flack it doesn’t deserve.