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egberts··on InitWare (a systemd fork) runs on OpenBSD for the first time
Systemd is like a million-line behemoth of an octopus.

Still doesn’t do DHCP options adequately, much less logic-driven ones.

And cannot be blocked from using network socket, much less selectively.

It’s a huge malicious vector awaiting to happen, oh wait, that happened.

egberts··on Fourth police officer who responded to Jan 6 attack dies by suicide
^THIS^
egberts··on The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
Yeah, he needs to float his paragraph boxes so it can change text size when going from portrait to landscape (like rotating mobile device for better viewing).
egberts··on Empty NPM package '-' has over 700k downloads
A simple logic of NOT “-“ would have blocked any reintroduction/upgrade of unintended “-“ package, coupled with a inertiazed package replacing the accidentally-introduced “-“ package.

Yeah, those who depend on the original but accidental “-“ package for its functionally should suffer any consequential breakage that may have resulted from it.

*insert*fake*tear*here*

egberts··on Ask HN: Do you have a process or a framework to learn specific skills quickly?
printf, For/while loop, array handling, linked list, hash table, tree.

Now do a technological domain transfer to any new skill set.

Basic building block, work your way up, ???, profit!

egberts··on Specifying Installation Requirements for Python Projects
The dot-d notation is there for applications/packages to affect a subsystem without messing with that subsystems’ own configuration settings.

Debian makes good use of it but i found that it introduces a smaller problem of ordering (which of the app’s setting to apply firstly for that subsystem’s dot-d collections of apps’ settings.

But such conflict of inter-app configuration settings is seemingly rare and often best done directly into such subsystem’s own main config settings.

egberts··on Monks Wood Wilderness: 60 years ago, scientists let a farm field rewild
My dad had 120 acre farmland in middle of Lake Michigan (Beaver Island).

Did a few years of chain cutting young tree and juniper saplings down and let it be grazed by neighborhood livestock.

Then we stopped clearing the saplings.

Fifty years later, it’s all been heavily reforested, many with huge 40-45yo maple, birch, and douglas fir.

Still have the old light aircraft photo of entire land. Looks nothing like Google Earth now.

But it is a great hunting and forage (mushroom) land now.

egberts··on Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020)
That’s why the end-user should maintain separate firewalled subnet (DMZ) networks for their unique grouping of IoT, cable settops, PC/Mac, mobile devices and in-house servers.

Only problem i’ve had with this setup is during the configuration of IoT where mobile device must be on same subnet as IoT devices, that is all.

egberts··on Probably Are Gonna Need It: Application Security Edition
It is bad enough that I have had to apply “application-layer” security to systemd in order to ensure that it “behaves”.
egberts··on ISS loses attitude control after Nauka module docking
Attitude?! Why I never …

It’s all about the orientation, #headduck

egberts··on Google launches new vulnerability reward platform
Oh cool, look! Lower rewards!
egberts··on The first atomic bomb created ‘forbidden’ quasicrystal
What would be most interesting about these quasicrystal characteristics are: 1. tensile strength 2. cleaving strength 3. torsional strength

We have got starships to make that need to handle these upcoming warp engines.

Just looking ahead here.

egberts··on The first atomic bomb created ‘forbidden’ quasicrystal
boiling water is 100•F. freezing water is 0.

what’s not to like about this human-perspective?

egberts··on Element raises $30M to boost Matrix
I wonder. it were to be a non-compliant of Matrix Foundation guideline if the federate feature can be turned off at the server-side, just to contain the metadata leakage. Just askin’.
egberts··on Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
We have a phrase for that: “Streisand Effect”.
egberts··on Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
Truly shows how oppressive Mainland China government has become.
egberts··on Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
Not to mention that NBC not showing the proper flag for Taiwan as they reached third place overall gold medals.

I’ve got better things to do than to watch state-sponsored selective narratives.

egberts··on Leaking Secrets Through Modern Branch Predictor in the Speculative World
I still have nightmarish problem tracking Intel microcode in Linux Distro due to:

1. Overlapping but separate versioning numbering of firmware blobs, Intel package version, and distro-specific package version.

2. Tracking binary blobs and detailing their exact changes and what each change does.

If truth be told, this is sheet kabuki theater.

egberts··on Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people
It’s a polite way of waiting for the car and hopefully first in line.

Although it can get problematic for those who do this technique if he gets murdered.

egberts··on Zip – How not to design a file format
As an IDS/IPS architect, Zip (and many other compression) format is the narly data stream that necessitate HUGE buffering, just to get to the compressing coding table at the end of the file.

I only wish that compression table was at the forefront of its file format.

egberts··on Amazon Echo Dot does not wipe personal content after factory reset
Burn it.
egberts··on Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people
Useful for tracking citations of your favorite white papers.

Or in one extreme case of mine, to monitor for that obituary of a certain folk who refuse to sell their rusted classic car on their property. (Because, I covet it).

egberts··on Pegasus spyware seller: Blame our customers not us for hacking
… As intended …
egberts··on Pegasus spyware seller: Blame our customers not us for hacking
Misuse of your product as not intended is the fault of the user.

Pure and simple.

egberts··on Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for communication
Then keep them detached with the Matrix ID <-> Custom ID <-> Phone, in DB relationship parlance.
egberts··on Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for communication
Now why would anyone want to peg phone number or account number to Matrix ID?

You best make a separate ID for mapping your users to Matrix. And don’t show it to the user nor use it for anything else, also stay unfederated.

egberts··on Nasty Linux systemd security bug reveale
That’s why I am using OpenRC and S6 for my initd on all my Linux boxes.

Not impacted.

egberts··on MVT – forensic tool to look for infections on smartphones
URLs are given.

Didn’t Amazon just shutdown the servers belonging to such a group?

pihole probably would be too late to stop them anyway.

egberts··on Cryptographers unearth vulnerabilities in Telegram's encryption protocol
swapping words is a form of character transposition but on a larger scale.
egberts··on Cryptographers unearth vulnerabilities in Telegram's encryption protocol
Wow, zero protection against character transposition.

That’s like an intentional weakening of “secured-ness”.

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