| arraybolt3 | Anyone 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/40963/15 | 01:29 |
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| arraybolt3 | Can't report it right this second, using wrong computer | 01:29 |
| lotuspsychje | good morning | 03:00 |
| sarnold | I can't tell if there's a mess still there that needs handling or not | 03:40 |
| arraybolt3 | sarnold: The script linked to looks alarming and dangerous, and the person makes absolutely no sense and is totally off-topic. | 04:17 |
| arraybolt3 | It looks like some sort of something for BlackArch, which isn't even close to Ubuntu. | 04:18 |
| sarnold | this is a gross script even if it's legit | 04:19 |
| arraybolt3 | lol ikr? | 04:19 |
| sarnold | find | grep blah | xargs rm etc | 04:19 |
| sarnold | there's a find -delete JUST RIGHT THERE | 04:19 |
| arraybolt3 | but I think rm -rf on files in /usr/lib/firmware is a Bad Idea. | 04:19 |
| arraybolt3 | I 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 |
| arraybolt3 | lol, it seems to try to convert all images from somewhere into greyscale | 04:22 |
| sarnold | good for saving bytes for your floppy or something, right? | 04:23 |
| arraybolt3 | this 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 |
| arraybolt3 | sarnold: want me to try running it in a VM? | 04:26 |
| sarnold | arraybolt3: only if you're *really* curious -- it's probably some silly prep for a very low resource live image of blackarch or something like that | 04:27 |
| arraybolt3 | I'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 |
| arraybolt3 | I have a fancy ephemeral VM creator script that makes this kind of thing easy. | 04:27 |
| arraybolt3 | ah, the script is set to exit on error. | 04:35 |
| arraybolt3 | So running it with sudo does nothing on an Ubuntu system because the first file it tries to remove doesn't exist. | 04:35 |
| arraybolt3 | Of course I let my curiosity lead me to disable that setting and run it with sudo anyway :P | 04:35 |
| arraybolt3 | yeah so it nuked almost everything out of /usr/include. | 04:37 |
| sarnold | which is kind of fine for a live image if you never want to build anything | 04:38 |
| arraybolt3 | exactly | 04:38 |
| arraybolt3 | so... probably not intentionally malicious, but definitely not good for users to run randomly. | 04:38 |
| arraybolt3 | There'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 VM | 04:40 | |
| 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 |
| arraybolt3 | At 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 |
| sarnold | it might just be standard cargo-culting :) | 04:45 |
| guiverc | thanks for exploration of script arraybolt3 & sarnold | 05:28 |
| pagios | hello 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 speakers | 08:09 |
| lotuspsychje | pagios: think clementine supports android remote control | 08:47 |
| lotuspsychje | spotify can be an idea too | 08:47 |
| lotuspsychje | !info clementine | 08:47 |
| ubottu | clementine (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 kB | 08:47 |
| pagios | mpd seems to win | 08:47 |
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