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   EconomicHitman (economic_hitman@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jul-2026 06:48:47 JST EconomicHitman

   • pistolero
   @p does this work?
   https://poa.st/objects/80c6f359-1e0c-4d23-a9d5-e9adb424f107
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     EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jul-2026 07:04:34 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     • pistolero

     @p @Economic_Hitman if i'm not mistaken the whole "re-generate machine-id every boot" thing started when tails introduced a unit to rm the machine-id file every shutdown, and since tails did that and recommend doing that, then many started following suit, some even make up reasons why static machine-id is a bad thing that were never stated by tails, in tails the forefront practical reason is that a tails pendrive may be used on different hardware every boot so a static machine-id makes no sense there, the second forefront reason has to do with the "amnesiac" part of tails ensuring it never remembers which hardware was last booted into.

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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jul-2026 07:04:37 JST pistolero

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     @Economic_Hitman The "system-id" thing is dbus. I just replace it with zeroes. You don't have to reboot, you just kill dbus. (I recommend not even having dbus.) I am unclear on what the guy is trying to accomplish by resetting it, but it's just a UUID that dbus uses to try to figure out which machine is which when you are tunneling X, shit like that. I'm skeptical that the web browser exfiltrates it somehow.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jul-2026 07:07:20 JST pistolero

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @EdBoatConnoisseur @Economic_Hitman It's literally dbus trying to figure out if two ends of a socket are on the same machine. (dbus is retarded. It's associated with an X display and X is used as a conduit for dbus. This is the reason if you ssh somewhere and try to start Firefox on the remote machine, it will sometimes pop up a new window of the local instance of Firefox. dbus is fucking retarded.)
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     EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jul-2026 07:20:33 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     • pistolero

     @p @Economic_Hitman everyone knows dbus is retarded, after all it was designed by gnome

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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jul-2026 07:32:03 JST pistolero

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @EdBoatConnoisseur @Economic_Hitman It was designed by Lennart.