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Sextortion Email 2023-07 Edition

I receveid at least a few of these emails now telling me that I've been caught on camera pleasuring myself. I find it funny because none of my devices have a webcam. I'm posting this email here so you are aware of what to avoid. Please don't fall for this Sextortion: From: John Blue <JohnBlue@7822.com> Subject: I RECORDED YOU! Hi, today there are sadly some bad news for you. Your device was infected with my private malware, your browser wasn't updated / patched, in such case it's enough to just visit some website where my iframe is placed to get automatically infected, if you want to find out more, Google: Drive-by exploit. My malware gave me full access to all your accounts, full control over your device and it also was possible to spy on you over your cam. If you think this is some bad joke, no, for example I know your phone number: [REDACTED] I collected all your private data and I RECORDED YOU (through your cam) SATISFYING YOURSELF! After t...

Setup and Install Monero(d) -- p2pool -- xmrig

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Video Guide Text Guide Intro MineXMR is shutting down! What are we going to do?! OMG! Greetings and welcome to Kizano's FinTech where I teach you from zero to master in IT and DevOps. Nothing in this video is financial advice since I'm not a financial advisor. I'm an IT guy who's going to teach you some technical details about Monero as a service in Linux, the p2pool software to run the mining pool side chain and xmrig, some mining software that's required in order to start mining. Also, I trust you know the laws of your local juristiction. This is for education and information purposes only. If you're running short on time, feel free to use the timestamps below so you can get what you need and be on your day. If you found this helpful, it would be very grateful if you slapped that like button on your way out to ensure this video shows up at the top of search results for others seeking answers to the same questions I'm about to answer in this video. F...

Pulseaudio: Multi-User Setup

Hello and welcome to my blog. If you are finding this page, then you might be in a similar situation I found myself when I wanted to share audio with different apps if they were being used by different user accounts on your local *nix machine when using Pulse audio. Credits to Eli Billauer and Dhole for the configuration directives I needed to make this possible. The Problem I have multiple user accounts on my system that run various apps, like my web browser, chat apps, email and more. I don't like everything running as myself and try to create a user account with just enough privileges to do what it needs to do. Pulseaudio (herein "Pulse") runs as myself when my desktop environment starts. Apps that run normally need to connect to Pulse in some fashion in order to listen to the microphone or play audio on the speakers. When the apps all run as the logged in user, this works great. When the apps run as someone else, this doesn't work or is inconsistent...

Build xmrig on Linux

Hi all, So, I am getting into the crypto-mining space a bit and I wanted to share a few things I've learned. This whole experience has been teaching me a lot as of late! In this post, we'll be talking about xmrig what it is and how to compile it on Linux. I'm going to skip the wallet and other details as I wanted this post to be as context-specific and straight to the point as possible. Let's dive right in. What is xmrig??? My take on this is xmrig is a swiss army knife of a mininig tool that can be used for many algorithms and various coins. I mostly found and used this to mine Monero (XMR), so we'll take that as an example. xmrig supports both CPU and GPU minining, but not all algorithms are CPU- or GPU- friendly. Some are specific to either, so be mindful of what you are doing when you are setting this up. Let's dive into the build and running instructions and examples. Building xmrig I happen to be using d...

Why VPN Bandwidth Cheating Isn't True

One thing people need to understand about the faux truth about using a VPN to "cheat" your ISP into giving you a faster internet connection is the connection is limited to what the ISP gives to the VPN provider. It's a virtual tunnel, so you personally don't get to enjoy the benefits of the VPN's increased speeds. When you do a speed test while connected to a VPN connection, your speed test results are going from the VPN endpoint, and the speed test target. The speed from your computer to the VPN endpoint is still the same. So all these folks talking about how you can "cheat" your ISP by giving you a faster connection via VPN is all falsehood and a misunderstanding of how the infrastructure works under the hood.

Kizano Cheesecake Recipe

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I have searched and searched the Interwebs and have had a hard time finding the original recipe that just needed the right execution to pull it off. I'm blogging about this recipe because it's the closest I could find to the perfect cheesecake recipe based on a summation of many recipes out there. I'll advance notice you: Ingredients are one thing. The important piece to a perfect cheesecake is the execution! You must be exact with your measurements, order of operations and temperatures!!! I CANNOT stress this enough! Temperature is critical! Take all ingredients out of the frig at least one hour before starting. This is the base recipe. Once you get this down, you can add whatever you like for toppings or flavors. Ingredients Crust - 1 - 8oz package of graham crackers - 1/2 C brown sugar - 8oz unsalted butter - 1/2 C chopped nuts (pecans preferred) [1] Cheesecake - 2 - 8oz pouches of Philadelphia Cream Cheese [2] - 3 Tbsp sour cream - 3 Tbsp all-purpos...

Linux: Change Name/Alias of a Bluetooth Device

So, after searching around, I didn't immediately find the answer. I hope this post proves useful to someone else searching for the same thing. I first came across this post on StackExchange . Then, I found this post on SuperUser . The gist of it: If you modify /var/lib/bluetooth/[CONTROLLER]/[DEVICE]/info , then it will modify the alias for the time being after restarting ( sudo service bluetooth restart ) and repairing to the device, it will yield the new name, but I noticed that it renames the device to its original alias after a few seconds/minute. Where: [CONTROLLER] is the mac address of your bluetooth controller (if you're only using the built-in controller and not an additional USB device, then you'll only have one directory here). Where [DEVICE] is the mac address of the remote device to connect and get metadata around the device. I discovered you could use `bt-device` to update the alias and it seems to be a bit more persistent than modifying the meta...