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yote_zip, 1 year ago

Emphasis on #4 here - the anti-adblock will trigger if it detects any subpar adblocker, including e.g. Brave Browser’s “Shields” thing (even if you also use uBlock Origin). Helped a friend figure this out lately and found out they were running 3 adblockers and Brave Browser. Some people are truly special.

yote_zip, 1 year ago

Try ncdu as well. No instructions needed, just run ncdu /path/to/your/directory.

yote_zip, 1 year ago

This whole story is full of hilarious bits, and there’s far too many good quotes for me to post them all, but from another angle it’s just sad that these people are so far gone from reality that they can be taken advantage of like this. You really think Walmart is going to give you a 10000% guaranteed ROI after a year of holding some funny money? That doesn’t set off any alarm bells? Why would Trump give you 100x your money before he’s even re-elected in 2024? What could he have done to bring about such economic inflation prosperity in a single year?

yote_zip, 1 year ago

If you’re familiar with What.CD and its shutdown, the power users and their local copy of that music archive moved over to redacted.ch (stats) and orpheus.network (stats). They’re private torrent trackers so they’re invite-only, but TMK they both still offer interviewing as an entry option: RED, OPS. The interviews mostly consist of technical audio information and private tracker rules. The main downside is that these trackers expect you to seed an equal amount back, so you don’t get a free pass to download everything without limits. Of the two, Orpheus is a lot easier to maintain “ratio” on since it gives you incremental credit just for having a large seedbase (even if no one is downloading from you). Ideally you should be on both if you’re serious about music collecting, but these days they are largely just mirrors of each other.

If you don’t want to get dirty in the private tracker world, I’d recommend Soulseek and RuTracker.

yote_zip, 1 year ago

Any sort of malicious activity that’s not bitcoin mining can be disguised easily within the background noise of normal CPU usage. If you’re getting pwned, assume you’re getting pwned for longer than the duration of the install program - any strenuous pwning could be spread out across hours or days if they really wanted. If you’re ultra-worried about whether repackers are trustworthy, you can always source clean game files and crack the game yourself.

yote_zip, 1 year ago

I’m not an aficionado on those specific sandwiches but you should try setting your microwave to half power and cooking for twice the time. I get much better results on most things when I cook like that - food will be more evenly heated and won’t be so brutally overcooked.

yote_zip, 1 year ago

Fair enough. I would at least try to get the damaged file off of the disk so you can potentially fix it later, or just have it available to play in its broken state. For the future you should probably be running monthly BTRFS scrubs to detect bitrot sooner, and potentially you should have some backups or data redundancy so you can repair the bitrot when it’s detected.

yote_zip, 1 year ago

It goes without saying but the number of errors you should get on a scrub is ideally 0. Bitrot happens from time to time which is why you should keep some data redundancy/backups so you can repair it when it’s detected, but that number seems higher than normal. Your disk may be going bad if you’re getting that many read errors; I’m not sure. I believe you’re already backing up data off this drive but yeah I would get everything important off the drive ASAP, then run a SMART short test and a SMART long test to see if that reports that anything is wrong. The disk may be fine but better to be safe than sorry.

Back to the video file, I’m assuming it was not one of the ones that BTRFS fixed automatically? The only real options for data recovery are to rescue the file minus the bad blocks with e.g. ddrescue (which I don’t personally have familiarity with) or something similar, or to encode through the errors with ffmpeg if it will let you.

yote_zip, 1 year ago

Okay cool. I would be wary of that drive just in case, and I would definitely schedule weekly SMART short tests and monthly BTRFS scrubs on it if you go with BTRFS in the future. EXT4/XFS/etc do not have a concept of data checksums, which means they can’t scrub and check for bitrot - this might be problematic if you find that your disk starts causing bitrot because you won’t know where it’s happening.

I follow Backblaze’s rules on detecting impending drive failure:

• SMART 5: Reallocated_Sector_Count.
• SMART 187: Reported_Uncorrectable_Errors.
• SMART 188: Command_Timeout.
• SMART 197: Current_Pending_Sector_Count.
• SMART 198: Offline_Uncorrectable.

If any of these SMART metrics are higher than 0 I’d expect failure soon and take precautions.

yote_zip, 1 year ago

Try this answer. I guarantee there is a way to read the file front to back while skipping errors, but I run so much data redundancy that I don’t have any experience with it.

yote_zip, 1 year ago

Seems like there’s some bitrot in the middle of the file, and whatever you’re using to play back the original file just skips it and doesn’t care enough to halt playback. You might try looking for ways to restore as much of the file as possible with something like this, assuming the mkv is a unique copy that you can’t get anywhere else.

Edit: I’m also curious if this file lives on an XFS/BTRFS/ZFS filesystem. The reflink property of these filesystems may be the reason that you can copy within the same folder without it throwing an error.

yote_zip, 1 year ago

To add on here, you can use the Are We Anti-Cheat Yet? site to track which games are not working due to anti-cheat. In my experience it’s extremely rare for “Linux” (aka Wine/DXVK/VKD3D/et al) to not support arbitrary games. If a game is not working on Linux it’s almost certainly because of an anti-cheat or some bloated/obscure DRM telling Linux “no you cannot run this”.

yote_zip, 1 year ago

Yes, you should. There’s a low probability that anything bad will happen but you might as well reduce that to zero. Private trackers (should) only email you for account creation confirmation and whenever you want a password reset.

yote_zip, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

The keygen generates a key based on your system’s perceived HWID - this is sort of how Denuvo operates as well. Keys generated on one system won’t work on another. I don’t know why there’s an Android version though.

80_PA running under WINE looks like this.

Edit: From a glance at their website it seems like this newer 80_PA is based (only?) around offline activation codes (Request Codes), where you can take a code generated from a Securom program, plug it into the keygen, and put the Unlock Code back into the program. This would work on Android/wherever as it doesn’t directly rely on the HWID being visible. The older 80_PA version worked based off of system HWIDs, and generated keys without needing request codes. The older 80_PA does include some request code decryption tools but as far as I can tell doesn’t directly translate a request code into an unlock code?

yote_zip, 1 year ago

Yeah. It’s a good piracy resource anyway, so you might want one regardless. Just fill out junk information if you need to.

yote_zip, 1 year ago

That version does not work for me either, but the copy available on cs.rin’s dedicated Fable 3 thread, posted on page 12 by arthurclg17 (thread ID 59454) does work properly. Alternatively, you can try generically defeating Securom with a DLL-based method, though it’s a little more involved. I have a guide for that here.

yote_zip, 1 year ago

Are you buying the hardware for this setup, or do you already have it laying around? If you don’t have the hardware yet I’d recommend not using external USB drives in any way possible, as speed and reliability will be hindered.

If you already have the hardware and want to use it I’m not super confident on recommending anything given my inexperience with this sort of setup, but I would probably try to use ZFS to minimize any potential read/write issues with dodgy USB connections. ZFS checksums files several times in transit, and will automatically repair and maintain them even if the drive gives you the wrong data. ZFS will probably be cranky when used with USB drives but it should still be possible. If you’re already planning on a RAID6 you could use a RAIDZ2 for a roughly equivalent ZFS option, or a double mirror layout for increased speed and IOPS. A RAIDZ2 is probably more resistant against disk failures since you can lose any 2 disks without pool failure, whereas with a double mirror the wrong 2 disks failing can cause a pool failure. The traditional gripe about RAIDZ’s longer rebuild times being vulnerable periods of failure are not relevant when your disks are only 2TB. Note you’ll likely want to limit ZFS’s ARC size if you’re pressed for memory on the Orange Pi, as it will try to use a lot of your memory to improve I/O efficiency by default. It should automatically release this memory if anything else needs it but it’s not always perfect.

Another option you may consider is SnapRAID+MergerFS, which can be built in a pseudo-RAID5 or RAID6 fashion with 1 or 2 parity drives, but parity calculation is not real time and you have to explicitly schedule parity syncs (aka if a data disk fails, anything changed before your last sync will be vulnerable). You can use any filesystems you want underneath this setup, so XFS/Ext4/BTRFS are all viable options. This sort of setup doesn’t have ZFS’s licensing baggage and might be easier to set up on an Orange Pi, depending on what distro you’re running. One small benefit of this setup is that you can pull the disks at any time and files will be intact (there is no striping). If a catastrophic pool failure happens, your remaining disks will still have readable data for the files that they are responsible for.

In terms of performance: ZFS double mirror > ZFS RAIDZ2 > SnapRAID+MergerFS (only runs at the speed of the disk that has the file).

In terms of stability: ZFS RAIDZ2 >= ZFS double mirror > SnapRAID+MergerFS (lacks obsessive checksumming and parity is not realtime).

yote_zip, 1 year ago

If you want NSFW on /c/all it shouldn’t take too long to block each community instead - I’ve done that to most of lemmynsfw and haven’t seen anything in a while. Scrolling /c/all in peace is really only an option because Lemmy is so new - if you browse /c/all in a year from now you’re gonna get a lot of stuff you don’t want.