soatok

Update (2024-05-17)

Oh hey, this rant of mine is making the rounds.

After I wrote this, one of the Matrix leads commented on it, which prompted me to look at their code. I have since found, uh, 4 3 different cryptographic issues in Matrix's Olm and Megolm code.

Expect a blog post on Dhole Moments at some point in August.

One of them is extremely bad, and will put a lot of burden on Matrix users to mitigate effectively. False alarm: I was mistaken about this one. I'll include it in the write-up, though.

alirobe

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### UPDATE: For Win 11, I recommend using this tool in place of this script: 
### https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
### https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
### https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQZ5oQg8XA
### iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win | iex
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grifferz

#!/bin/bash

# Paste at shell prompt (or download and execute) and get:
#
#     sdc   9936 hours ( 1.13 years) 3.49TiB SAMSUNG MZ7KH3T8
# nvme0n1   9936 hours ( 1.13 years) 3.49TiB SAMSUNG MZQLB3T8HALS-00007
#     sde   9932 hours ( 1.13 years) 4.55TiB ST5000LM000-2AN1
#     sdd   9931 hours ( 1.13 years) 4.55TiB ST5000LM000-2AN1
#     sdb   9617 hours ( 1.09 years) 0.01TiB SuperMicro SSD
#     sda   9616 hours ( 1.09 years) 0.01TiB SuperMicro SSD

grugq

Simple Security Guidelines

Using an iDevice? (Best option)

• Use an iPod or an iPad without a SIM card
• Use an iPhone
• Do not jailbreak
• Always upgrade to new iOS versions
• Use Brave browser

Need Secure chat?

jcs

Update (2019-05-06): The Broadcom wireless card in the MacBook Pro works and can be crammed into the Air.

Update (2015-12-04): This document used to be very lengthy as there were many manual steps required to get OpenBSD and Mac OS X working together through Boot Camp Assistant (BCA), which created a hybrid MBR and enabled a legacy BIOS emulation mode which older versions of Windows (and OpenBSD) required. Newer Macbooks stopped supporting older versions of Windows through BCA and now only support Windows 10 since it uses GPT and UEFI. However, now that newer versions of OpenBSD support GPT and UEFI, Boot Camp Assistant is no longer needed at all to boot OpenBSD.

macOS FileVault encryption and OpenBSD encrypted softraid on a Macbook Air/Pro

OpenBSD works pretty well on at least the Mid-2011 Macbook Air (A1370, SandyBridge) and Mid-2013 Macbook Air (Haswell). The new KMS code in 5.4 brings up the MBA's eDP display in 1366x768 with backlight

haasn

Firefox bullshit removal

Updated: Just use qutebrowser (and disable javascript). The web is done for.

april

#!/usr/bin/env zsh

# patched versions for CVE-2023-4863: 22.3.24, 24.8.3, 25.8.1, 26.2.1
mdfind "kind:app" 2>/dev/null | sort -u | while read app;
do
  filename="$app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Electron Framework"
  if [[ -f $filename ]]; then
    echo "App Name:          $(basename ${app})"

    electronVersion=$(strings "$filename" | grep "Chrome/" | grep -i Electron | grep -v '%s' | sort -u | cut -f 3 -d '/')

rain-1

#lang racket

;; printing s-exps as DCS and TDCS, plus examples of what DCS and TDCS look like

(define (dcs l)
  (cond ((pair? l)
         (begin
           (display ".")
           (dcs (car l))
           (dcs (cdr l))))

mariusae

;; emacsd-tile.el -- tiling windows for emacs

(defun swap-with (dir)
  (interactive)
  (let ((other-window (windmove-find-other-window dir)))
    (when other-window
      (let* ((this-window  (selected-window))
             (this-buffer  (window-buffer this-window))
             (other-buffer (window-buffer other-window))
             (this-start   (window-start this-window))

thefloweringash

#!/bin/bash

# pull apart a bzImage compressed with xz (or gzip),
# and put it back together in a format that pv-grub understands
# useful when your kernel is compressed but your pv-grub doesn't
# recognise it, for example rescue64 from system rescue cd.

# the result is *not* a bootable kernel outside of pv-grub

# worksforme on OS X, YMMV