Your domain evilazrael.net registration is pending. Failure to complete this order by may result in the cancellation of this notification (making it difficult for your customers to locate you, using search websites on the web).

I wish simply ignoring these "orders" will result in cancelling these "notifications".
 
One of the best argument of these domain privacy services: less spam.

So, AMD is celebrating its 50th anniversary with some promo gifts when buying certain AMD products. You can get 2 free games and a free t-shirt. Here are the processes: 
T-Shirt

1. Buy a AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 50th Anniversary Edition
2. In the Ryzen 7 2700X CPU package you find a small card with a code. 
3. You can redeem this directly on the amdrewards.com page

The Gamebundle

1. AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 50th Anniversary Edition
2. Request a Voucher from the shop
3. Go to amdrewards.com and create an account
4. Receive the confirmation mail and activate your account
5. Redeem the voucher
6. Download, install and run the "AMD Product Verification Tool" (no idea if they have a Linux version)
7. You get three "credits" and put the 3 games @ 1 credit each in your basket, confirm order
8. Get an Ubisoft's Usuck activate link for "The divison 2"
9. Get two codes for Epic's "Exclusives suck" Shop

After upgrading from an old FX-8350 to a new ThreadRipper VirtualBox was not able to start any VM in Linux. The error  shown in VM was something like "NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)"

And in the VM logs were these entries: 

!!Assertion Failed!!
Expression: pVM->pVMR0 == CreateVMReq.pVMR0
Location  : /home/vbox/tinderbox/6.0-lnx64-rel/src/VBox/VMM/VMMR3/VM.cpp(591) int vmR3CreateU(UVM*, uint32_t, int (*)(UVM*, VM*, void*), void*)
Stack     :
00007f8970304133 VBoxRT.so + 0x1f1133

1. Some way to generate revenue

•  Start your own business like selling fake gucci handbags, cheap potency-enhancing drugs (or just some dextrose bonbons), logos for your victims' websites or whatever you can imagine. You just need some web space. Recommended are hosting companies in Ukraine, Russia or other 2nd or 3rd world shithole countries who do have anti spam laws or do not enforce them. If you need first class hosting, go for western lage hosting companies like Amazon Web Services, 1&1, OVH, Hetzner, Softlayer an so on. You can create a Virtual Machine almost instantaneous, quite anonymously and very cheap. What about abuse reports? If the companies react at all, you have plenty of time  before they do so. And if you want some extra time, use the free services of Cloudflare. Cloudflare is for incoming traffic almost the same as anonymous VPN is for outgoing traffic.
  And no need to buy commodities. Your "customers" do not expect to receive anything
• The easier way is something called "Referral marketing" where you promote goods and services from 3rd parties. Your customer (not the spam recipient) will give you a special link which you can send to your "subscribers" (US legal term for "UCE recipient") and when your happy subscriber click on the link and buy or order from your partner you will get a commission. Becoming a partner is easy, mostly automated without any need of authentication and as a bonus, these partners do not care much for spam as in the end you will drive new customers to them. It also helps to have some intermediaries, as the grade of responsibilty diminishes with each level of indirection. If necessary you can also create intermediaries yourself, just in case you get into trouble you can proclaim that your intermediary already terminated the partnership with bad evil spammer. Just invent a new name and start again. From my personal experience, Indiegogo and Kickstarter are good intermediaries, not taking responsibility for anything.
  More dubious partners like illegal gambling sites operating from Panama or Belize or binary options trading sites are even more problem-free.
• Feeling creative? Pretend to be a nigerian prince and offer a huge reward for a small up-front fee. 

2. Recipients for your advertisements

• Harvest the internet for public email addresses. You need a crawler and harvester which will search for email addresses on web sites. There are ready to use solutions which can be bought for a few bucks. Or ask your neighbors' kid. He will develop one for 20€. 
• Buy a list. Usually you will get emailed an offer of 1 million verified company contact information for 100$ every 2 days or so. Of course all the recipients on these lists consented to receive junk mails, like you, or did you expect to be exempted from this list? 
• Download a list generously made public domain by some benevolent hacker. Sometimes ideals publish personal data they liberated from evil corporations. These lists are usually named after the evil corporations, so fire up google, search for the corporate name, add the terms "hack" "leak", "download" or "torrent" to the search and download the list you want. A catalog of known public lists is avalaible from HaveIBeenPwned.com. Choosing the best list for your business is important. If you want to "promote" a indiegogo or Kickstarter project, the "Kickstarter 2014" list may be wisest choice as people who backed crowdfunding projects before are more likely to invest in future projects.

3. Send out millions of newsletters

• Rent your own world wide mail cluster. Your neighbors' kid can help you by installing mail relay agents on computers around the world to make use the unused bandwidth of their internet uplinks. This works without manual interaction of the owners. These large mail grids can also be rented for a small fee. The darknet has many offers. One downside is that dial-up connections may be either firewalled by the internet provider or listed as untrusted mail sender on public blacklists. 
• Rent a small cheap VPS. VPS are virtual server can be rented for a s little as 3€/month from the same hosting companies mentioned in the first step. The registration is automated without any authentication, the setup is automatized and after paying the first monthly it takes only a few minutes until you can start sending out your mails. Of course you need some Linux or Windows administration skills.
• For your first time I recommend to use professional services. Sendgrid and Mailchimp offer mail services, even for free and seemingly without any serious authentication or verification. Send out a lot of mails and benefit from their "good reputation". Not sure how they handle spam complaints internally, but my observation is "> /dev/null". It took me a lot of mails to get one of my email addresses blacklisted a mailchimp. Unfortunately shortly after that one legit sender tried to mail via mailchimp. Bad luck. AFAIR sendgrid was blacklisted for spam reporting on SpamCop. 

The Internet is for porn spam

•  support@ or abuse@ kickstarter/indiegogo is like a black hole. No answer, no reaction. Even kickstarter seems to not care that the address was leaked from their own site. 
• These intermediaries deny any responsibily for the actions of their partners or "boosters" as one called his partners. Some take some "actions" with the only result that the next mail comes from a company with a sligthly changed name. Maybe the people behind this operations are the same.
• Cloudflare never reacts on any mail sent through spamcop. Even malware gets protected by them
•  Mailchimp and Sendgrid are annoyances at best. On the one hand, what can they do if creating a new account is almost effortless? And on the other hand how serious are their actions when after forwarding the spam mail in full to their abuse addresses you get the request to upload the headers via a web form. Or you get a ticket link for your report, but you can read the ticket as you do not have an account there?? 

HaveIBeenPwnd just informed me that 3 of my e-mail address are were found in another stupid data breach.Some "e-mail verification" service called "verifications.io" thought it was a good idea to run their database with public internet access and without any password.

I checked the mail addresses found in this breach and 2 of them are random generated addresses I have never used and the third one probably the most generic one I use. All three addresses are being spammed for years..

The first one is being spammed even since before I started my own spam blocker in 2008. There seem to be two other addresses similar one, with the targeted address being a truncated version of the other two. The breached one received 58,451 mail since 2008. One of the others was used once as a spoofed sender address for a spam mail, the other one was used thrice in 2008. 

The second breached email address was first targeted in march 2013 and I counted 817 mails since then. 

For the third address I cannot give any reliable numbers, as this address was in regular use, was found in multiple breaches and received a lot of legitimate email since the beginning of the internet. 

The generated addresses are set to block and autoreport, meaning emails to these address will be rejected (without backscatter) and automatically reported to abuse and spam databases as no legitimate mails should be received on these addresses.

Ich hab nicht wirklich Zeit mich auszukotzen, aber ich muss es einfach mal. Mich kotzt die Firma Abbott und der Freestyle Libre 2 einfach an. Ja, es ist super bequem zu scanner statt mit mit Teststreifen zu messen und auch die kontinuierliche Messung ist sehr hilfreich, vor allem den Verlauf während des Schlafes zu messen. Trotzdem ist es gerade zum kotzen:

• Abbotts Upgrade-Politik. Friß oder Stirb. Es gibt keine Wahlmöglichkeit zwischen Generation 1 und Generation 2. Zahlt die Kasse den Upgrade, kriegt man Generation 2 aufs Auge gedrückt, einschliesslich der Zuzahlung für ein neues Gerät, die 6€ bringen mich nicht um, aber es stört mich trotzdem. Zahlt man selber oder die Kasse zahlt den Upgrade wohl nicht, dann kriegt man Generation 1.
• Generation 2 lässt sich aktuell nicht mit dem Handy auslesen. Auch nicht mit der offiziellen App, für die man sich übrigens registrieren muss. Update: Mittlerweile geht das, und auch sehr gut :-) Dem Paket lag ja auch ein Zettel bei "App geht nicht, kommt noch...". Das Handy habe ich überall dabei, das Lesegerät nicht, das war super bequem. Bin gerne Versuchskaninchen.
• Der Akku ist dauernd leer. Vielleicht ein Defekt, vielleicht auch durch die neue Überwachungsfunktion bedingt. Am Wochenende hat der Akku 3 Tage gehalten und wollte wieder aufgeladen werden. 
• Angeblich soll der neue Sensor genauer sein. Davon merke ich nix. Heute hat er mich für tot erklärt, nachdem ich schon beinahe einen Herzinfarkt wegen einer angeblichen Unterzuckerung hatte. Jetzt scheint er wieder halbwegs genau zu sein. Klebt auch bombenfest, da ist also nix mit verrutscht oder so.
• Brauch ich zwar nicht, aber wenn man mit Teststreifen misst, dann kriegt einen Insulin-Rechner um die benötigte Insulin-Menge zu berechnen. Scannt man, dann kriegt man den nicht. Logik??? Immerhin kann man mittlerweile die Gramm pro Broteinheit einstellen
• Die Webseite ist fürchterlich. Hat da jemand mal eine einfache Übersicht über Lieferungen, Zuzahlungen, Gültigkeit Rezept usw gefunden? 
• Bezahlmethoden: Hat sich erledigt, gibt mittlerweile mehr

​Eine Menge Dinge die mich stören, aber andererseits ist das System einfach zu bequem. Ich wünschte nur nur, es gäbe eine ernstzunehmende Konkurrenz. Belebt ja angeblich das Geschäft. 

I am mad. Since a few days I randomly get advertisments on my Android phone, I thought I just accidently clicked on banners in the browser or so. Now I found a new "app" call "Hiboard" or "Super Tools" when I swipe to the left of the left most screen. It shows some data like battery info, CPU/RAM info and network traffic and offers antivirus and malware scans or most likely to download antivirus and malware snake oil they get a nice commission for. And it shows advertisments. There a slider button for disabling this app, but I did not tested this. This app is not listed in the app list, so I started disabling/deinstalling apps on my phone to see who installed this crap. And it turns out, it's a new function of Apex Launcher. Something I never needed or wanted, something that shows me ads.. So I just deinstalled Apex Launcher. 
Google does not find much when you search for "Hiboard", and most android hits are related to Huawei phones, but I own a Cat S41. 
 
In the end, if you are annoyed of this "Hiboard" "super tools", just deinstall Apex Launcher, the use value of this crap went down with the recent updates of Apex Launcher.

Problem

Lösung

Meine Meinung

Fundstücke während des Debuggens:

• LatencyMon (super hilfreich und gut zum testen ob es ein ISR/DPC problem ist): http://www.resplendence.com/latencymon
• DPC Latency Checker: https://www.heise.de/download/product/dpc-latency-checker-52865 (Webseite https://www.thesycon.de/eng/latency_check.shtml vom Autor ist gerade down)
• Anweisungen wie man ISR/DPC Laufzeiten in Windows Funktionen ermitteln kann: https://www.sysnative.com/forums/windows-7-windows-vista-tutorials/5721-...
• Download Link für Win10 Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/get-started/adk-install
• Xperf instructions, die xperf Anweisungen sind zwar noch gültig, aber der Windows Performance Analyzer ist viel mächtiger geworden: https://www.osr.com/nt-insider/2010-issue1/collecting-detailed-performan...
• Energiesparplan-Referenz: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/customize/power-settin...

Issue

Solution

Comment

Tools & web pages used for debugging: 

Instructions to boot Linux on the AMD Mobile Ryzen based Dell Latitude 14 5495:

1. Connect a bootable Linux USB Device (e.g. Optical Drive, Stick, HDD, etc..)
2. Boot
3. Rejoice, Linux will run fine

Okay, it was not so easy. I had trouble with getting the UEFI  to boot from my USB device (the IODD). The UEFI just ignored the device and booted into Win10 from the internal SATA SSD, even when the SSD and the Win bootloader were both disabled in the boot manager. In the end I added manually the EFI bootloader from the Live-CD to the bootmanager by choosing "Add boot option" (or so) and then navigating to the *.efi boot loader on the device. Then I was able to boot via the boot manager. Afterwards I removed the boot entry. Might be an issue with the IODD.

Update 2018-10-07

Okay, there are more issues:

Boot Medium not found after Linux

This is rather weird, when (re-boot) after using the installed Ubuntu 18.04, the UEFI/BIOS cannot find the boot medium and I have to enter the UEFI setup. Without changing anything, on the next boot, everything is okay again, and the notebook will boot the default UEFI boot entry (which is WIndows). I have no clue what is causing this. 

PCIe Power Management Log Entry

Seems that the PCIe Power Management does not only cause issues with audio output, NVMes do not like it, too: 

Touchpad scrolling does not always work

Haven't found a real solution for this yet. Sometimes scrolling with two fingers on the touchpad does not work. After a reboot it may (or may not) work again.  

Update 2018-12-06

The list grows longer and I renamed this article as booting is no problem, but there are still other issues. 

Okay, I tried to do a backup of my windows partition from my installed Ubuntu and a few seconds after pushing over 100MB/s through netcat, the transfer stalled. More precisely, the network connection was dead. Device was up, but nothing went through. In the kernel log I found the entries below. This was reproducible, it also happed in clonezilla, which I tried before and thought the failing connection was a clonezilla issue. Solution or workaround is iommu=soft which was also recommended as alternative workaround for the Lenovo E485 issue. Why can't things just work??? 

Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778572] ------------[ cut here ]------------
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778604] NETDEV WATCHDOG: enp2s0 (tg3): transmit queue 0 timed out
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778631] WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 0 at /build/linux-Y38gIP/linux-4.15.0/net/sched/sch_generic.c:323 dev_watchdog+0x221/0x230
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778632] Modules linked in: ccm rfcomm arc4 cmac bnep nls_iso8859_1 snd_hda_codec_realtek dell_laptop joydev snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_generic snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hda_core snd_hwdep snd_pcm ath10k_pci snd_seq_midi
 ath10k_core snd_seq_midi_event edac_mce_amd snd_rawmidi btusb ath dell_wmi kvm_amd mac80211 kvm dell_smbios snd_seq irqbypass input_leds hid_multitouch btrtl dcdbas btbcm wmi_bmof sparse_keymap serio_raw btintel dell_wmi_descriptor bluetooth snd_seq_device k10temp snd_t
imer ecdh_generic snd cfg80211 soundcore rtsx_pci_ms memstick shpchp ucsi_acpi typec_ucsi typec dell_rbtn dell_smo8800 mac_hid sch_fq_codel parport_pc ppdev lp parport ip_tables x_tables autofs4 xfs libcrc32c algif_skcipher af_alg dm_crypt amdkfd rtsx_pci_sdmmc amd_iommu
_v2 crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778705]  ghash_clmulni_intel pcbc amdgpu aesni_intel chash aes_x86_64 i2c_algo_bit crypto_simd ttm glue_helper cryptd drm_kms_helper ahci syscopyarea sysfillrect libahci psmouse sysimgblt fb_sys_fops tg3 drm nvme ptp i2c_piix4 nvme_core rtsx_pci pps_core wmi video i2c_hid hid
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778735] CPU: 5 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/5 Tainted: G        W        4.15.0-42-generic #45-Ubuntu
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778737] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Latitude 5495/09H2MJ, BIOS 1.2.3 06/20/2018
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778740] RIP: 0010:dev_watchdog+0x221/0x230
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778742] RSP: 0018:ffff88719f743e58 EFLAGS: 00010286
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778745] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778746] RDX: 0000000000040400 RSI: 00000000000000f6 RDI: 0000000000000300
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778748] RBP: ffff88719f743e88 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000458
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778749] R10: ffff88719f743ee0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000005
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778751] R13: ffff88719d0cc000 R14: ffff88719d0cc478 R15: ffff88719d0c1580
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778753] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88719f740000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778755] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778756] CR2: 00005556bcadd018 CR3: 000000041952c000 CR4: 00000000003406e0
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778758] Call Trace:
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778761]  <IRQ>
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778767]  ? dev_deactivate_queue.constprop.33+0x60/0x60
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778773]  call_timer_fn+0x30/0x130
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778775]  run_timer_softirq+0x3fb/0x450
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778779]  ? ktime_get+0x43/0xa0
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778783]  ? lapic_next_event+0x20/0x30
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778787]  __do_softirq+0xe4/0x2bb
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778792]  irq_exit+0xb8/0xc0
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778794]  smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x79/0x130
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778797]  apic_timer_interrupt+0x84/0x90
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778798]  </IRQ>
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778804] RIP: 0010:cpuidle_enter_state+0xa7/0x2f0
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778805] RSP: 0018:ffff95c50196be68 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff11
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778808] RAX: ffff88719f762880 RBX: 00000025e65b82c5 RCX: 000000000000001f
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778809] RDX: 00000025e65b82c5 RSI: fffffff86bc6ac80 RDI: 0000000000000000
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778810] RBP: ffff95c50196bea8 R08: 00000000000b5a00 R09: 00000000000f13ac
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778812] R10: ffff95c50196be38 R11: 00000000000b3abe R12: ffff88719cdf5800
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778813] R13: 0000000000000002 R14: ffffffffb17806f8 R15: 0000000000000000
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778817]  ? cpuidle_enter_state+0x97/0x2f0
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778820]  cpuidle_enter+0x17/0x20
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778824]  call_cpuidle+0x23/0x40
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778827]  do_idle+0x18c/0x1f0
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778829]  cpu_startup_entry+0x73/0x80
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778832]  start_secondary+0x1ab/0x200
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778836]  secondary_startup_64+0xa5/0xb0
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778838] Code: 38 00 49 63 4e e8 eb 92 4c 89 ef c6 05 b9 d7 d8 00 01 e8 83 35 fd ff 89 d9 48 89 c2 4c 89 ee 48 c7 c7 f8 98 39 b1 e8 df 95 80 ff <0f> 0b eb c0 90 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778880] ---[ end trace 6b2996ceccee82db ]---
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  162.778887] tg3 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: transmit timed out, resetting
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  165.372272] tg3 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: 0x00000000: 0x168714e4, 0x20100406, 0x02000010, 0x00000000
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  165.372285] tg3 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: 0x00000010: 0xe022000c, 0x00000000, 0xe021000c, 0x00000000
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  165.372291] tg3 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: 0x00000020: 0xe020000c, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x08141028
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  165.372297] tg3 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: 0x00000030: 0x00000000, 0x00000048, 0x00000000, 0x000001ff
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  165.372302] tg3 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: 0x00000040: 0x00000000, 0xea000000, 0xc8035001, 0x16002008
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  165.372308] tg3 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: 0x00000050: 0x00005803, 0x00000000, 0x0086a005, 0x00000000
Dec  3 23:27:00 notebook kernel: [  165.372313] tg3 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: 0x00000060: 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0xf1000298, 0x01f802d1
[... 1000s of lines...]

Also in the news: VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE BSODs in Windows while browsing the internet with a chromium based browser.. Given enough time all devices become terrible..