thesamesam

FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)

This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.

Background

On March 29th, 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz-utils, a suite of software that

levelsio

# 2023-11-27 MIT LICENSE

Here's the open source version of my ChatGPT game MonkeyIslandAmsterdam.com.

It's an unofficial image+text-based adventure game edition of Monkey Island in Amsterdam, my home town.

Please use it however you want. It'd be nice to see more ChatGPT-based games appear from this. If you get inspired by it, please link back to my X https://x.com/levelsio or this Gist so more people can do the same!

Send me your ChatGPT text adventure game on X, I'd love to try it!

amw

#!/usr/bin/env python


# Script for comparing Pillow vs PyVIPS used for this issue:
# https://github.com/libvips/pyvips/issues/148


import sys
import timeit
import pyvips

cpursley

PostgreSQL is Enough

• Simplify: move code into database functions
• Just Use Postgres for Everything
• PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database
• Postgres is eating the database world
• Hacker News discussion

Background and Cron Jobs

tatsuyasusukida

🎤 How to record audio using the MediaStream Recording API in JavaScript

tatsuyasusukida

🎵 How to record audio using the Web Audio API in JavaScript

About this article

This article describes how to record audio using the Web Audio API in JavaScript. The related resources are shown below.

• Demo
• Demo video

jvacek

Auto-remove unused python imports in VSCode on save

I could not find a proper full configuration for this online, and I know I'll need this again in the future.

There are two ways to achieve this with some plugins; one via hitting the shell and doing an in-place replace, the other is by doing it with extensions configurable in vscode. Both should give you the same results.

Install VSCode extensions needed:

If running via bash:

• Run on Save

matiaskorhonen

# Record screen from simulator:
xcrun simctl io booted recordVideo appVideo.mov

# Full size screen recording
ffmpeg -i screen-recording.mp4 -i iPhone12ProOverlay.png \
  -filter_complex "scale=-1:2532,pad=width=3656:height=2057:x=(ow-iw)/2:y=(oh-ih)/2,overlay=x=0:y=0" \
  output.mp4

# Screen recording resized to 1920px height
ffmpeg -i screen-recording.mp4 -i iPhone12ProOverlay-3656.png \

kaichao

1. switch nginx image to openresty/openresty

2. add the following to server/location (/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf)

   set $req_header "";
   set $resp_header "";
   header_filter_by_lua_block{ 
      local h = ngx.req.get_headers();
      for k, v in pairs(h) do
         ngx.var.req_header = ngx.var.req_header .. k.."="..v.." ";

ljmocic

# Read more about setting it up
# https://medium.com/@ljmocic/deploying-react-application-to-aws-s3-using-github-actions-85addacaeace

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - '*'

jobs:
  build: