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arraybolt3Anyone here a moderator of Ubuntu discourse? Need someone to clean up this mess: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/trying-out-ubuntu-23-04-on-x86-64-v3-rebuild-for-yourself/40963/1501:29
arraybolt3Can't report it right this second, using wrong computer01:29
lotuspsychjegood morning03:00
sarnoldI can't tell if there's a mess still there that needs handling or not03:40
arraybolt3sarnold: The script linked to looks alarming and dangerous, and the person makes absolutely no sense and is totally off-topic.04:17
arraybolt3It looks like some sort of something for BlackArch, which isn't even close to Ubuntu.04:18
sarnoldthis is a gross script even if it's legit04:19
arraybolt3lol ikr?04:19
sarnoldfind | grep blah | xargs rm etc04:19
sarnoldthere's a find -delete JUST RIGHT THERE04:19
arraybolt3but I think rm -rf on files in /usr/lib/firmware is a Bad Idea.04:19
arraybolt3I think it's supposed to be some sort of ISO prep script or... something? idk, I'm half-tempted to run it in a VM just to see how badly it blows up the whole machine.04:19
arraybolt3lol, it seems to try to convert all images from somewhere into greyscale04:22
sarnoldgood for saving bytes for your floppy or something, right?04:23
arraybolt3this is either malware OR a very specialized system prep script that probably only works for one particular setup and only if you don't look at it cross-eyed.04:23
arraybolt3sarnold: want me to try running it in a VM?04:26
sarnoldarraybolt3: only if you're *really* curious -- it's probably some silly prep for a very low resource live image of blackarch or something like that04:27
arraybolt3I'm mainly curious to see if it causes a system to become unbootable. If it does, that would be sufficient reason to remove it from the forum IMO.04:27
arraybolt3I have a fancy ephemeral VM creator script that makes this kind of thing easy.04:27
arraybolt3ah, the script is set to exit on error.04:35
arraybolt3So running it with sudo does nothing on an Ubuntu system because the first file it tries to remove doesn't exist.04:35
arraybolt3Of course I let my curiosity lead me to disable that setting and run it with sudo anyway :P04:35
arraybolt3yeah so it nuked almost everything out of /usr/include.04:37
sarnoldwhich is kind of fine for a live image if you never want to build anything04:38
arraybolt3exactly04:38
arraybolt3so... probably not intentionally malicious, but definitely not good for users to run randomly.04:38
arraybolt3There's no immediately visible damage other than that, and I've lost interest now that it's not turned all my wallpapers gray, rendered the system unbootable, or changed my font to something weird, so... yeah. Unsafe, yes, but not necessarily the end of the world.04:40
* arraybolt3 discards VM04:40
arraybolt3(not the end of the world = this doesn't seem to be designed to do damage, it just *does* in the wrong context))04:41
arraybolt3At least the writer did put a safety measure in there with the `set` line near the top. It doesn't totally disarm it, but it did stifle my initial attempt at running it.04:42
sarnoldit might just be standard cargo-culting :)04:45
guivercthanks for exploration of script arraybolt3 & sarnold 05:28
pagioshello all, so mainly i would like to have a system that remoyely controls my sound system and plays some music (loaded on local storage) using some application, preferable open source do you recommend any ? example: i go home, i open my app, play music on it , it directly plays on my home speakers08:09
lotuspsychjepagios: think clementine supports android remote control08:47
lotuspsychjespotify can be an idea too08:47
lotuspsychje!info clementine08:47
ubottuclementine (1.4.0~rc1+git867-g9ef681b0e+dfsg-1ubuntu1, mantic): modern music player and library organizer. In component universe, is optional. Built by clementine. Size 4,891 kB / 17,177 kB08:47
pagiosmpd seems to win08:47

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