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

VaughnVernon

Hexagonal / Ports and Adapters Is Just This Simple

Navigation

OUTSIDE

1. PersonResource
2. PostgresPersonRepository

INSIDE

samuelsmal

steps

1. connect kobo to your device
2. open a file browser and navigate to the mounted kobo folder
3. navigate to the hidden folder .kobo/Kobo
4. open the file Kobo eReader.conf
5. navigate to the section [FeatureSettings], if it doesn't exist, create it.
6. add the line ExportHighlights=true and save
7. disconnect the device
8. now you can long press on a book and export the note file into a .txt file which will be saved alongside your books. to get it connect your ereader.

mikroskeem

gccemacs on OS X

Read this first: http://akrl.sdf.org/gccemacs.html

Prerequisites

1) GCC with libgccjit enabled

For that you need to compile gcc (duh). I edited Homebrew's gcc formula:

alphapapa

# Please see the script's new home: https://github.com/alphapapa/magit.sh

justinmeiners

READ HERE

pvik

An animated cheatsheet for smartparens using the example configuration specified here by the smartparens author. Inspired by this tutorial for paredit.

Traversal

C-M-f	sp-forward-sexp
C-M-b	sp-backward-sexp

mayankk2308

# Useful for improving Time Machine backup prep. times, Mac App Store install speeds, etc.
sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0

# To restore defaults
sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=1

djoreilly

DB

ovs-vsctl list open_vswitch
ovs-vsctl list interface
ovs-vsctl list interface vxlan-ac000344
ovs-vsctl --columns=options list interface vxlan-ac000344
ovs-vsctl --columns=ofport,name list Interface
ovs-vsctl --columns=ofport,name --format=table list Interface
ovs-vsctl -f csv --no-heading --columns=_uuid list controller
ovs-vsctl -f csv --no-heading -d bare --columns=other_config list port

djoreilly

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys

try:
    cpu_nums = [int(n) for n in list(sys.argv[1].split(','))]
except:
    print "Print bitmask in bin and  hex given a list of zero-indexed numbers"
    print "Usage: %s cpu-list" % sys.argv[0]
    print "e.g. %s 1,13" % sys.argv[0]