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PdfLatex is a tool that converts Latex sources into PDF. This is specifically very important for researchers, as they use it to publish their findings. It could be installed very easily using Linux terminal, though this seems an annoying task on Windows. Installation commands are given below.

• Install the TexLive base

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base

• Also install the recommended and extra fonts to avoid running into the error [1], when trying to use pdflatex on latex files with more fonts.

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Vim has a Terminal Mode!

Since v8.1 (May 2018), Vim has shipped with a built-in terminal. See https://vimhelp.org/terminal.txt.html or type :help terminal for more info.

Why use this? Mainly because it saves you jumping to a separate terminal window. You can also use Vim commands to manipulate a shell session and easily transfer clipboard content between the terminal and files you're working on.

Key Bindings

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$ sudo docker pull ubuntu
$ sudo docker  run -t -i ubuntu:14.04 /bin/bash
root@856b6aa801af:/# apt-get update
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates InRelease
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security InRelease
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release.gpg [933 B]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates Release.gpg [933 B]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security Release.gpg [933 B]

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alias msfrpcd_startdaemon='function _setMsfrpcd(){ if [ "$#" != 2 ]; then echo "[x] Wrong arguments, usage: $0 <ip> <password>"; return; fi; cmd="msfrpcd -a $1 -P $2"; tmp123=`ps aux | grep -e "[0-9] msfrpcd" -e "[0-9] /usr/bin/msfrpcd"`; if [ -z "$tmp123" ]; then nohup bash -c "$cmd" > /tmp/msfrpcd.out & disown; fi; }; _setMsfrpcd'

msfrpcd_startdaemon 127.0.0.1 password

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ping my host:

Don’t Ping                        -PN     do port scan without checking if host is up by sending icmp
Perform a Ping Only Scan          -sP     do ping without port scan
TCP SYN Ping                      -PS     (a) you can also specify ports "-PS[port1,port1,..]", default port 80
TCP ACK Ping                      -PA     // (a)
UDP Ping                          -PU     // (a)
SCTP INIT Ping                    -PY     // (a)
ICMP Echo Ping                    -PE     (b) do ping without port scan

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Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts and experience preferred (super rare at this point).

My own notes from a few months back.

Background

• Survey of LLMS
• Self-attention and transformer networks

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" CSCOPE settings for vim           
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" This file contains some boilerplate settings for vim's cscope interface,
" plus some keyboard mappings that I've found useful.
"
" USAGE: 
" -- vim 6:     Stick this file in your ~/.vim/plugin directory (or in a
"               'plugin' directory in some other directory that is in your

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# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
__pycache__/
*.py[cod]
*$py.class

# C extensions
*.so

# Distribution / packaging
.Python

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# Distributed under the MIT License (MIT)
# Copyright (c) 2023, Altin (tin-z)

import sys

sys.path.append(".")
import r2pipe

def list_imported_functions(r2):
    imported_functions = []

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• Modern Vulnerability Research Techniques on Embedded Systems
• Fuzzing with AFL for cross architecture
• Exploiting Embedded Systems devttys0 blog series
• Useful IDA/Ghidra plugins for IoT router reverse tasks, IDA version, Ghidra porting