Lots of stuff going on in my personal life the last few months. An immediate family member went from completely independent, at the end of February, to bedridden in a two week span and given a death sentence diagnoses. Part of their wishes was minimal people knowing/visiting during the process, but they passed this Monday and the obituary was published today (Some people I know IRL know *this* is me so I couldn't post any of this before). They were a huge part of my life, a central part of my entire family, all my friends knew them, and I had seen them nearly daily since I stopped traveling for work three years ago. So this is a huge event for me. A few people in the PS community knew about it because I didn't have time to try and make some made up excuse for my absence the times I was able pop online the last few months, I appreciate they kept it to themselves (If they did... I haven't been around to see if they did).
Add to this there's been a local "natural" disaster on their property, that I'm now partially responsible for getting things fixed, that's primary cause isn't completely known. Needless to say I have had no free time and responsibilities are still piling up in a back log and I've used up all of my PTO. Unfortunately PS scene stuff is always the first thing on the chopping block as it's the only non-work/business related thing I do anymore. It's become serious enough I actually need to step away. So for the foreseeable future I'm going to be unavailable, I'll be nearly impossible to contact as Al Azif.
I plan on returning, I have too much unpublished stuff to just forget it all, I'm just not sure when I'll be able to publish/support it. If this is still pinned to my Twitter(X) profile, I'm still gone.
Notes:
- My code that's public will remain public, nothing is being deleted/privated.
- The DNS will stay up but likely won't see updates until I'm back, luckily the new 11.00 exploit doesn't use WebKit as an entrypoint, so the DNS is just for filtering stuff vs exploits themselves for 11.00.
- I'm going to try to make some time within the next few days to make sure everything will continue to run in my absence, that I'll be automatically alerted if something breaks, and reply to private messages that have built up over the last little while.
- I'll contact anyone who've sponsored the DNS while I've been unable to get online to make sure they're all worked out. There's enough of my own money in the linked bank account, that with the current sponsorship supplementing it, it *should* be able to stay online nearly indefinitely.
- This is essentially last call for joining the DNS sponsorship to get IPs whitelisted before I disappear for a while.
- I had a big list of stuff I was hoping to publish at the end of May, I had freed up a bunch of time to try and accomplish this these last few months. The time I freed up obviously went to other things so basically nothing is ready.
- The main thing I was working on was something akin to coldboot exploit activation. It removes the "need" for the DNS/exploit host, persists over reboots, blocks updates, ete. You just have to run the install payload once... but it requires the entrypoint for the exploit stack to be within WebKit... so the new 11.00 one can't use it, so I'll shelve it for now. Works great on 5.05 though...
My condolences and prayers to you in this time ❤️ Take care and take care of yourself. And your family