2014 August 23

The Spectre of Veszprem
* Image Credit & Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi (TWAN)
https://www.asztrotajkep.hu/

Explanation:
The city of Veszprem, Hungary was only briefly haunted by this mysterious spectre. On the morning of August 11, its monstrous form hovered in the mist above municipal buildings near the town center. A clue to its true identity is offered by the photographer, though, who reports he took the picture from the top of a twenty story building with the rising Sun directly at his back. That special geometry suggests this is an example of an atmospheric phenomenon called the Glory or sometimes "the Spectre of the Brocken". Also seen from mountain tops and airplanes when looking opposite the Sun, the dramatic apparition is the observer's shadow on clouds or fog, the small droplets of water scattering light back towards the Sun through complex internal reflections. Careful night sky watchers can also encounter this spectre's analog in astronomy, a brightening of zodiacal light opposite the Sun known as the gegenschein.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140823.html

#space_related #space #mist #astrophotography #Photography #science #physics #nature #Space_Culture_Club

If anyone has any adb based root exploits for Android 8.1, that would be nice. Link below as an example of something i'm looking for.

https://github.com/j0nk0/GetRoot-Android-DirtyCow

no .exe files in the releases section though /s

@cR0w @malwareminigun @crow This shirt, but with cR0w

Snatched from LinkedIn...it was a message I needed to hear today.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexpyatkovsky_getting-a-job-these-daysespecially-if-you-activity-7340526541010780160-q60s?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAANn8noBhoatCaVRJgqSQDhHEuCUOhVPms4

Hey Andy, you should build that AI workforce _before_ you alienate the rest of your real worksforce. https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-on-generative-ai

Todays Advice from Archive Andy

Check your DVD-Rs**

Don’t leave em laying about in random places

This is the only copy of a Wedding Video. Or, it was the only copy. Its got severe Disc Rot. Might be hard to see but it’s gone dark & is now unplayable

*also +R, -RW, +RW
Get the data off quick

New report for the month of May: https://rust-gcc.github.io/2025/06/04/2025-05-monthly-report.html

We are making good progress on core and plan on begin testing the Rust code in the kernel at the end of the summer!

At Akamai, we're launching a blog post series on various topics relating to post-quantum cryptography. The first post is by @rsalz, discussing some related IETF initiatives, including the two #TLS drafts he co-authored:

https://www.akamai.com/blog/trends/building-quantum-safe-internet-ietf-plan-tls

#pqc

Looks like today's theme is

Exploring fault injection on ESP32 V3!

Inspired by Delvaux work, we tested voltage #glitching as an attack vector. With advanced triggers & GDB, we achieved a ~1.5% success rate. #Hardware #FaultInjection is becoming more practical!

https://security.humanativaspa.it/fault-injection-follow-the-white-rabbit/

@inecas @Axolotl1 @davidgerard In Gulliver's Travels, the Laputans had a machine called The Engine that put words together randomly, with scribes writing down any meaningful phrases that happened to be formed.

"Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences; whereas, by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.”

The Wikipedia page for The Engine currently says "See also Large Language Model".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engine

Oh WhatsApp, you changed. Meta got the best out of you.

"No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.”

"Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought.“

~ WhatsApp Blog, June 18th 2012
https://blog.whatsapp.com/why-we-don-t-sell-ads

A quick-and-dirty late night blog post on discovering an nday variant in Zyxel NWA50AX Pro devices

https://frycos.github.io/vulns4free/2025/06/17/zyxel-nday-variant.html