Connected my Wallet to @Alby , Any kind Zappers? :D And they provided me with one additional invite. DM me if you need it. FIFO.

Playing a ZX80 era text adventure called "Lighthouse of Doom"! Try it online here:

Lighthouse of Doom!

Unveiling the xz Utils Backdoor which deliberately opens our SSH connections for RCEs

Searching for some cute bugs to work on. Looking at the gossip, dogecoin, bitcoin, ruff, fish-shell.

Programming a game in Rust: River RIde Rust. A retro terminal game without using a game engine. Part one: creating the world, player & the moving river + collisions.

Cold day. Buy sats.

Lots of GNU/Linux & security websites are talking about CVE 2023-50547 which lets remote code execution on practically all of GNU/Linux distros, and whoever is using `shim`. In this video, first we will review the importance of the shim, then understand about the attack will step into the source code for a better understanding of how it happens and how RedHat mitigated it on the source level...

There is a fun command in vim called ":smile". Here I'm reading the source code to understand it and adding a new command to vim just for fun. We will learn more about professional C programming, compiling software and ...

Testing gossip 0.10.0

How to Use BCrypt to Store Passwords Securely: A Guide to Hashing Best Practices Plain text passwords are a big no-no. Hashed passwords are better, but not safe enough. Salted passwords are even better, but where do you store the salt? And what if faster computers can crack your hashing algorithm? In this video, I will show you the ultimate solution to all these problems: bcrypt. It is an industry-proven method to store hashed passwords+salt+algo in one place.

Reading the tests of the vim project. It cool how they have many tests written in vim files.

My Snort account is malfunctioning. Hello good old lovely cute self-sovereign #Gossip :D

Back to the fedi; after two weeks of cycling in #Philippines.

Poof... at last managed to close a ticket which was open for 6 months. It's a story about a functionality with lots of sub-tickets. And great day to close this. I'm starting a 2 weeks holiday from tomorrow; cycling in Philippines.

And... I got it :) View quoted note →

Waiting for the Philippines visa; 3 weeks already. and have my plane tickets for the next Thursday. Tried to call and say what... today is a national holiday in Philippines. p.s. travelling for a 14 days cycling trip.

Interesting read (and design) about the difference between men & women pockets on jeans: Someone clever once said Women were not allowed Pockets

The Pudding

Women's Pockets are Inferior.

If you wear women's clothes, you already know this. But now we've got the data to show it.

Had to log my work-hours from Jul till now day by day in a web based tool. Did what any sane person will do; Sniffed the request & made a quick tool using curl, python & zsh shell.

Termux is a free and open source Terminal Emulator for Android. After installing it, you will get a terminal box where you can install required tools and use them just like you do on a Unix machine. This tools lets you educate yourself about GNU/Linux and programming (C, Python, Rust, ...) in a *real* environment even if you do not have access to a PC. And even if you have a PC, this tool will give you access to a Linux terminal (and all the man pages, curl commands and ssh sessions) wherever you have your phone / tablet.