Some Housekeeping
Though I don’t publish too often on this website, it’s still looked after.
Pierre Lavaux
The personal website of Pierre Lavaux. A collection of tech tips, notes and thoughts.
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A new chapter with OSS Ventures
I’m pleased to announce I’ve joined OSS Ventures to scale up their VC arm and operations. Founded in 2018, OSS is a hyper-focused venture builder and investor tackling the future of operations and manufacturing.
Do not forget SPF and DMARC policies on parked domains
I’ve previously written on DMARC policies to prevent email spoofing.
Is Incogni worth it?
Last August, I signed up for Incogni, a service that automates data removal requests from data brokers and marketers on your behalf. It’s owned by Surfshark, a subsidiary of Nord Security, the owner of NordVPN.
Migrating this site from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages
Two years ago, this site moved from GitHub Pages to Netlify.
Ubiquiti - Upgrading UDM SE to UniFi OS v3 requires reinstalling NextDNS
Ubiquiti released the v3 (RC) of UniFi OS a few days ago. You can see the full changelog here.
An important security patch for the qpress file archiver
TL;DR: If you rely on the qpress file archiver, you should update it ASAP.
Reverse-engineering the Xiaomi RoboRock S5 firmware (Part 1)
I’ve owned a RoboRock S5 for two years but only recently came across Dennis Giese’s research around the security of Xiaomi IoT products. His master thesis, where he details how he dumped and analyzed multiple firmwares, to gain root access ultimately, is a great read. His Def Con 26 talk is worth a watch too.
Preventing email spoofing with a DMARC Policy
DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance) is an email authentication protocol. It is designed to give email domain owners the ability to protect their domain from unauthorized use, commonly known as email spoofing. The purpose and primary outcome of implementing DMARC is to protect a domain from being used in business email compromise attacks, phishing email, email…
How to fix the Netlify GLIBC build error with Node.js v18
Node.js v18.0 was released just a few days ago. Generally speaking, I make sure to closely keep up with updates, especially with javascript projects, which sometimes have insane dependencies trees.