Solved Xorg/KDE Doesn't Load After Clean Install

grahamperrin · Dec 12, 2021

eternal_noob said:
… read up on how to update that OS. …

IMHO the better OSes make it so easy that it's not necessary to learn how to update or upgrade. No need to read in advance.

In this area:

GhostBSD excels
FreeBSD CURRENT, STABLE and RELEASE will become more broadly appealing as things progress around PkgBase.

PkgBase

… how to safely update the system (regardless of how far out of date) reliably. … Let's assume that PkgBase is the way forward. and so on. https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-pkgbase In addition to the list, there's sometimes discussion of PkgBase in IRC for FreeBSD...

forums.freebsd.org

Technology Roadmap

https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/technology-roadmap/ Enjoy.

forums.freebsd.org

Scribner · Dec 12, 2021

Thank you.

Back to the safety of % cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | nc termbin.com 9999, could people provide more information on the safety of nc and/or termbin.com. It's just that I'm kind of holding off on using the computer until I'm certain about the safety of that command. This anxiety is no doubt due in part to Log4Shell making the news. (I actually had a dream last night that I bought a server to run FreeBSD and Apache. Maybe someday!)

eternal_noob · Dec 12, 2021

What are you worried about, exactly?
Intel and AMD CPUs are backdoor'd anyway.

Scribner · Dec 12, 2021

eternal_noob said:
What are you worried about, exactly?

I'm mostly worried about the possibility of it giving the webmaster(s) of termbin.com unauthorized access to my computer. But I guess I'm interested in any other way a command like that could be exploited. I just generally worry about cyber security, but don't know much about actual cracking methods.

eternal_noob · Dec 12, 2021

You could use a packet sniffer and read the network packages being sent if you want to be sure.
For example net/wireshark

Scribner · Dec 12, 2021

eternal_noob said:
You could use a packet sniffer and read the network packages being sent if you want to be sure.
For example net/wireshark

I've never used one of those before. I was just hoping someone could comment more on the safety of nc and/or termbin.com.

grahamperrin · Mar 7, 2022

Scribner said:
… more on the safety of nc and/or termbin.com.

security - Is NetCat command dangerous? - Super User (two answers).

For reference, but not with regard to safety: nc(1)

<https://termbin.com/> is powered by Fiche; <https://github.com/solusipse/fiche/#readme>. Closed issues include:

55 was closed by the person who opened it, with this final sentence:

The rewrite, continuous analysis, and revitalized development is great to see. Cheers.