kconner

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

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Earnestly

A Selected List of Additions and Changes Coming With POSIX Issue 8

Last major change: 10th March 2023

New Commands

• timeout
• realpath / readlink

Additions

romkatv

# Returns a random 32-bit number.
# If /dev/urandom is cryptographically secure, so is srand32.
#
# If zsh is compiled with 64-bit number support, the result
# is non-negative. Otherwise it may be negative and the value
# is governed by the rules of unsigned-to-signed conversion in C.
#
# Examples:
#
#   % print -r -- $(( srand32() ))

cutiful

Detecting the real IP of a Cloudflare'd Mastodon instance

NB: This will not work for instances that proxy outgoing requests!

Reading the docs

I wanted to find a way to detect the real IP address of a Mastodon/Pleroma/Misskey/etc instance hosted behind Cloudflare. How to do that? Well, it's federated, which means I can probably get it to send a request to a server of mine! And how to do that? I tried reading the ActivityPub spec. The following caught my attention:

Servers should not trust client submitted content, and federated servers also should not trust content received from a server other than the content's origin without some form of verification.

larryv

#!/bin/sh

# x86docssync - Syncs documents from kib.kiev.ua/x86docs
#
# Written in 2020, 2022 by Lawrence Velázquez <vq@larryv.me>.
#
# To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all
# copyright and related and neighboring rights to this software to the
# public domain worldwide.  This software is distributed without any
# warranty.

dhh

module Entry::TrackerBlocking
  extend ActiveSupport::Concern

  included do
    has_many :blocked_trackers
  end

  email_service_blockers = {
    "ActiveCampaign" =>  /lt\.php(.*)?l\=open/,
    "AWeber" => "openrate.aweber.com",

rjhansen

SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack

This work is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Terminological Note

"OpenPGP" refers to the OpenPGP protocol, in much the same way that HTML refers to the protocol that specifies how to write a web page. "GnuPG", "SequoiaPGP", "OpenPGP.js", and others are implementations of the OpenPGP protocol in the same way that Mozilla Firefox, Google Chromium, and Microsoft Edge refer to software packages that process HTML data.

Who am I?

lizthegrey

default['sshd']['sshd_config']['AuthenticationMethods'] = 'publickey,keyboard-interactive:pam'
default['sshd']['sshd_config']['ChallengeResponseAuthentication'] = 'yes'
default['sshd']['sshd_config']['PasswordAuthentication'] = 'no'

Earnestly

:xdg-support: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory
:xdg-spec: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
:fhs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
:madness: http://pub.gajendra.net/2012/09/dotfiles
:litter: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/971m0z/im_tired_of_folders_littering_my_home_directory/
:systemd: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/
:systemd-fhs: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierarchy.html
:systemd-fhs-bin: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierarchy.html#~/.local/bin/

:toc: macro

larryv

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256

I am transitioning to a new OpenPGP key, which is available from
Facebook [1], Gist [2], Keybase [3], and the public keyservers. I will
revoke the old key sometime after 4 July 2018.

Old key fingerprint:    5BA2 C229 0B24 0858 2952  4942 AB30 D664 1F9A F0E3
New key fingerprint:    3FD9 0322 47DE 2D20 1E75  28C4 9AC9 40DF FD01 7443