FYI, there is a bug in systemd. So, running: "systemd-tmpfiles --purge" will delete your /home/ in systemd version 256. #linux
Source: https://mathstodon.xyz/@bremner/112615591101488528 and https://x.com/DevuanOrg/status/1802997574695080067
This is a keynote that I quite enjoy and highly recommend. https://mastodon.social/@joxean/112631528543638454
Newly disclosed (and dismissed) #curl vulnerability reports
"HTTP headers eat all memory:"
https://hackerone.com/reports/2552192
"Incorrect conversion in hostname"
https://hackerone.com/reports/2552179
"Unicode-to-ASCII conversion in cmdlines on Windows lead to argument injection"
https://hackerone.com/reports/2550951
Transparency baby.
The new Intel Skymont architecture details, as presented brilliantly by Chips & CheeseĀ¹ (strongly recommended) have a very "inspiring" paragraph:
"Skymont duplicates microcode for the most common complex instructions across all three clusters, letting them handle those instructions without blocking each other. Intel gave gather instructions as an example, which can load from multiple non-contiguous memory locations."
Intel is calling this nanocode, I am calling this a new playground...
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Ā¹ https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/06/15/intel-details-skymont/
You open up a Commodore 64, and the box says "welcome to the world of friendly computing."
You turn on a modern PC, and it immediately threatens your data unless you agree to save your data to *their* cloud service.
That right there is why we talk about vintage computers. Folks need to be reminded of what's possible.
If youāre a Snowflake customer (or a customer of a customer š¢), Mandiant published a threat hunting guide: https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/snowflake-threat-hunting-guide.pdf
Today's fun find: a conference talk entitled āNon-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi != 3.14159ā¦ā
/cc @Viss
Cookās āHow complex systems failā is the most personally impactful paper I have ever read, and yet Iām convinced that it would never have been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
https://www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/HowComplexSystemsFail.pdf
Iām trying to approach the speed of light by integrating The Debugger Pedal with #vim and I hit this problem of vim reacting to Esc pathetically slowly: https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/16148/slow-vim-escape-from-insert-mode
š¢ Next week is #TROOPERS24 week! We will celebrate 15 years of making the world a safer place and are looking forward to all of you. See you in #Heidelberg. š„³
A few years ago, a kid mourning his dad handed me over 300 DVDs his dad had made of local bands in his London Suburb in the 2010s before passing on. He didn't know what do with them. I did. All of them are up at Internet Archive, hundreds of hours of cover bands playing in a bar, and now, thanks to a volunteer, Ducky, we have them all with dates and descriptions, where known. Enjoy.
Our Program Analysis for Vulnerability Research class is filling up, if you were planning on attending Recon in a few weeks and were hoping to grab one of the last seats, you move quickly!
https://recon.cx/2024/trainingprogramanalysisforvulnerabilityresearch.html