Friday, July 28, 2017

Offensive domain name on Arch Linux

Some host used an offensive domain name or domain mirror address for one of the Arch Linux packages in the repository. I don't know which repository contained such offensive in one of the packages but this is an act of suspicious distribution to the server for victims to download/install without realizing something.
Perhaps, that person/host had done, fucked it up! It's a serious trouble he had landed into without realizing it! For an offensive reference taking place in the IT-land, it takes us back to the days of Mirai-Botnet where such bad acts had been done with some cartoonish references. Cartoonish reference, indeed, the name of the botnet and the nickname of the culprit referenced various J-cartoons but here, the offensive domain name has the reference to under-aged kids according to the Urban dictionary.
Obviously, who knows the true motive of the host behind the offensive domain name like people think that he wants to sell fictional under-aged characters online or something. But if you want to put in some J-cartoon stuff as part of the IT product, THEN DO THE GOOD THINGS LIKE COLLATERAL DAMAGE STUDIOS DID WITH PROMOTING INTERNET EXPLORER A FEW YEARS AGO! Like, I don't know how could someone use the J-cartoon reference thingy to do a bunch of bad things in the IT-land. Such bad actions like the ones stated above could essentially land the baddies like that host in deep trouble, a trouble THAT'S WORSE THAN A HOT SPRING SOMEONE WILL PANIC IN!
To the host whose nickname is 'Alucard', that doesn't even count as a nickname due to the complete lack of originality. And to even DARE TO DEFEND this offensive domain of choice like the offended users are whining or something, the punishment awaits regardless of this kind of mistake and damage done! Perhaps, that host is heavily obsessed or something that he comes up with this sort of domain name. Plus, I don't know if that person is actually working for some ISP in Portugal or not and especially that he mentions things like freedom of speech in a wrong way. Maybe his freedom method is a wrong one.
It's not the first time someone in the community was offended. The previous time was regarding the license code and certain of them can be offensive although they are randomly generated by the system and offending codes were likely to be removed by the organization. What about the offending names, has someone reported them?
To make things as professional as possible is a good thing and especially for everything written down on the Arch Linux official website including the names of the packages, domains, repositories and even codenames. But it's not like Arch Linux and its derivatives will be on the tracking list all because of offensive stuffs like the offensive domain name as if the host by the nickname of 'Alucard', will be tracked down after weeks, months or even years. To tamper with the domain names that lead to the official sources by changing redirection path or to make some offensive domain names that lead to the same source is already bad enough but I have a fear in my mind like what if someone tampers with the system component files inside the ISO and then redistributes that modification to the official download source? That kind of fear IT-persons have is a lesson for themselves, NOT to install, distribute, deploy or even bundle such radicalized packages/features/components to various computer devices regardless of whether they are for home use, personal use, school use or even work use. Since some package was considered radicalized due to the offending domain name, you may as well find a more professional domain that leads to the clean package to install.
And of course, I have the new terms, W**b-Domainer and W**b-Package-Includer:
  • W**b-Package-Includer: The person who includes the package in the OS ISO image that has the offensive references to the cartoons.
  • W**b-Domainer: The person who makes a domain and/or directs users to it containing the offensive references to the cartoons, turning users into victims.
For me, I don't use Arch Linux but this is one important lesson people should learn.

Linux Format Magazine obtained

Perhaps, I forgot to blog about the magazine I got from the book store two months ago but it seemed that things were not going well in the renovation days like those ignorant morons at home had manipulated my uncle and aunt to disrespect the hell out of me and made seeds of troubles with their bad influence as if the troubles would be born in the public places for instance. Those kinds of things were obviously inexcusable reasons for temporary relocation due to the on-going renovation as part of the home improvement program and it has been still on-going elsewhere. I don't know what are they up to against me next but I don't want my reputation to turn out so bad because of their stupidity.
The magazine looked like a rare find for me and it contained tons of interesting Linux articles including the Ubuntu 17.04 release with AMD support inside the Linux kernel 4.10 as well as the Gnome 3.24. There are also pages that teach us additional terminal stuffs like Advanced Terminal Profiles, Pro-level firewall, own Ubuntu Router and even programming with Django.
Starting with the first page is the Pondesk where it has the mini-PCs along with the enterprise-use routers and servers. Other things being mentioned included Raspberry Pi, Google Wifi, Parrot Security OS, FreeNAS Corral and 4MLinux.
Other OSes being mentioned in the magazine have RancherOS, KAOS, Tiny Core Linux, OpenELEC, TalkingARCH and NutyX. RancherOS may seem to be for work use from my assumption due to the fact that it offers Docker features for you to set up with. OpenELEC seems to be using the Kodi platform, TalkingArch is like the accessibility version of Arch Linux and it can be stupidly insulting and offensive for anyone telling me to enable some accessibility features or even use this OS for myself over one's false assumptions and rumors stating whatever problems I have. Like the more those morons stated above spread the stupid false rumors about me to the others, the more ignorant they are in my opinion. Also, it looked like I got even more isolated from them due to their unsolved offenses that eventually caused more recent ones but I still care for people's freedom as well as the fact that I nowadays respect my friends on social media by particular topic I can share about.
The 60 pages of tutorials and features were quite advanced enough that it put my current Linux knowledge to shame as if I don't know other Linux terminal commands and stuffs and the other programming language is something I don't know of and I still find programming a pain.
Lastly, the magazine contained the free copy of the DVD-ROM disc containing the bootable Ubuntu 17.04 along with Linux Lite ISOs. I have no idea on how you can boot from an ISO image inside the DVD-ROM disc. It's like booting from a virtual floppy disk image inside the hard disk or something. Unfortunately, I got like two copies instead of one as if it was the staff's mistake or something. The magazine should contain one and that's pretty much it but instead, it contained the DVDs on the front and at the last page. That looked like one extra DVD and its sleeve wasted as part of that mistake. But since there wasn't anything suspicious inside the magazine or the DVD sleeves, I let good things off the hook in the end but I don't know if I can tell someone about duplicate DVD copies in the magazine as everything was fine in purchasing that magazine except the duplicate copy thing which I didn't find it fine out of my worry as a customer. The DVDs might be free copies of course but I still felt that it was a mistake to have two copies in a magazine. I still wonder if the mistake laid with the staff or maybe the magazine service the shop imported the magazines from. I'm sure that I bought the magazine fine before I found out about duplicate copy thingy.
And that's about it! It was a long time without any blog post of this month and some of the shops were changed recently or something. However, as of this writing, it seems that those ignorants as stated at the beginning had asked for another renovation, this time, targeting the kitchen and the room doors. I didn't know what were they planning in this case but it turned out that relocation was unnecessary. Not to mention that my laptop's power adapter was messed up because of their bad influence and stupidity and especially that my Android tablet's charging cable was getting close to being as loose as the power adapter. The last thing I fear is that the craziness level had been getting higher or some sort.