_033: today I (re)learnt
this one is just a curated hive of some of my highlights from what I read, listened to and watched today...
...because I just spent the last hour and a half learning about PowerShell for windows Sysinternals (finally got thru the basics and onto the good stuff) aaaaaand, my brain is tired.
enjoy the mishmash of links below (future me), I'd highly recommend giving them a visit if the summaries look interesting ~
~ juni
links & quotes for 14/03/25:
- How personal should a personal site be?
- A neat bluetooth passkey interception/relay attack
- ESXi VM escape CVEs - patch now! - on a side note, gotta love how esxi support portal was also malfunctioning during this process... which made patching it at work That Much More Fun 🫠.
- patch your AX-21 TP-Link routers! please!!
- how the TP-link attack works - lack of input sanitization in the WebUI... again.... AX-21 router users patch up!
- TIL what Vibe Coding was and goddamn, I hate the concept and everything about it. - being the use of general statements to prompt AI to build a project as quickly as possible with minimal effort or code understanding, usually to turn around for a profit...
- IPV5 - born from a versioning number in the IP header reserved for a long-forgotten & decommissioned protocol
- why are switch statements faster than if/else statements? - because switch statements transform potential cases/options into a limited character range, then into a bit range that the cpu understands. Letters outside this range are terminated immediately, and letters inside the range result in the CPU jump code being executed, with the line it's on being calculated from the letter's hexadecimal value. Whereas if statements are a top-to-bottom list of eval and jump conditions.
Is your default setting to defend your limitations or expand your possibilities?
Open up your RSS feed reader, twenty tabs of technical documentation pages needed for work, endless other news feeds, five e-books you wanted to quickly dig through to find that one thing you were looking for, … There’s just too much stuff to read, and most of it isn’t even worth our attention. It would be simply impossible to deep read all that and be done in a day, hence our reliance on scanning. But the more we do that, the more we subconsciously revert to scanning when picking up a book.
I often wonder whether devote Christians during that time were happier than the atheists—or even Christians—in this age are in our secular society. They didn’t have to think about the purpose of life as it was simply given to them. Back then there wasn’t even a need to think about what kind of job you would want to do: you did what your parents did, and they did what their parents did. And if you tried to step out of the line, like Spinoza did, you’d get excommunicated and your writing would end up on the Index Prohibitorum.
That strictly regulated index does emit a clear message: do not think for yourself. We will do that for you. Do not concern yourself with too many questions. Live according to our ten commandments and God will be merciful, bestow upon you his grace, and open the gates to the eternal afterlife. The fact that the Church managed to keep up this charade for more than four hundred years is mind-blowing.
When Nietzsche declared God dead, in that same famous aphorism, he also (correctly) guessed the message arrived too soon. Were people ready to decide for themselves how they should lead their lives?
...The sceptic inside Montaigne would have said: I don’t know. But we can try.
from the pressure to sustain a hobby, and engage with them in the so-called "right ways", to worries that our activities and hobbies are not valuable enough, productive enough, or don't contribute clearly to self improvement somehow. even the time that should be a break from the productivity obsession can still be soured by it.
time spent on things you enjoy, with no concern for material gain or outcome, goes against what capitalism stands for, and against the messaging that work - and how well we can work, if at all - dictates a large part of our value as human beings. when we engage with hobbies, we are hopefully reminded instead of our own intrinsic value, and of everyone else's.
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