0xabad1dea

Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

0xabad1dea, July 2021

this is a rough draft and may be updated with more examples

GitHub was kind enough to grant me swift access to the Copilot test phase despite me @'ing them several hundred times about ICE. I would like to examine it not in terms of productivity, but security. How risky is it to allow an AI to write some or all of your code?

Ultimately, a human being must take responsibility for every line of code that is committed. AI should not be used for "responsibility washing." However, Copilot is a tool, and workers need their tools to be reliable. A carpenter doesn't have to

RichardBronosky

Installing cloud-init on a fresh Raspbian Lite image

This is a work in Progress!

Purpose

This mainly demonstrates my goal of preparing a Raspberry Pi to be provisioned prior to its first boot. To do this I have chosen to use the same cloud-init that is the standard for provisioning servers at Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, etc.

I found this to be quite challenging because there is little information available for using cloud-init without a cloud. So, this project also servers as a demonstration for anyone on any version of Linux who may want to install from source, and/or use without a cloud. If you fall into that later group, you probably just want to read the code. It's bash so everything I do, you could also do at the command line. (Even the for loop.)

iosecure

iOS, The Future Of macOS, Freedom, Security And Privacy In An Increasingly Hostile Global Environment

This post by a security researcher who prefers to remain anonymous will elucidate concerns about certain problematic decisions Apple has made and caution about future decisions made in the name of “security” while potentially hiding questionable motives. The content of this article represents only the opinion of the researcher. The researcher apologises if any content is seen to be inaccurate, and is open to comments or questions through PGP-encrypted mail.

TL;DR

cryzed

Disclaimer: Please follow this guide being aware of the fact that I'm not an expert regarding the things outlined below, however I made my best attempt. A few people in IRC confirmed it worked for them and the results looked acceptable.

Attention: After following all the steps run gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache as root, this prevents various gdk-related bugs that have been reported in the last few hours. Symptoms are varied, and for Cinnamon the DE fails to start entirely while for XFCE the icon theme seemingly can't be changed anymore etc.

Check the gist's comments for any further tips and instructions, especially if you are running into problems!

Screenshots

Results after following the guide as of 11.01.2017 13:08:

geggo98

#! /bin/sh
# ZFS health version for Ubuntu
# You must install the package "dateuils" from the univers
# 
# Based on Calomel.org
#     https://calomel.org/zfs_health_check_script.html
#     FreeBSD ZFS Health Check script
#     zfs_health.sh @ Version 0.16

# Check health of ZFS volumes and drives. On any faults send email.

petervanderdoes

#! /usr/local/bin/bash
#
# Calomel.org 
#     https://calomel.org/zfs_health_check_script.html
#     FreeBSD 9.1 ZFS Health Check script 
#     zfs_health.sh @ Version 0.15

# Check health of ZFS volumes and drives. On any faults send email. In FreeBSD
# 10 there is supposed to be a ZFSd daemon to monitor the health of the ZFS
# pools. For now, in FreeBSD 9, we will make our own checks and run this script

brandonb927

#!/bin/sh

###
# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
###

# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
# on the web, most from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx