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Elite There’s a TCP server running on port 9009 that contains a hidden flag, but it’s protected by a strict firewall. The firewall can be temporarily disabled for 30 seconds by sending a “firewall disable” command to its UDP control port 2723, but this control port will only accept commands from 129.229.10.50…… However, be careful - the firewall’s EDR will automatically re-enable protection after…
This Post is a CTF
This post is the start of a small CTF I'll post more details when there's a solve and update when the infra is down :) I messed up. Password for the ZIP is COLD{0k_n00nk3r} There are two more flags
I love reading the news
reading the news- especially on a small form factor phone is an awesome and enjoyable experience
Cider, OpenJDK, Clojure, LDD, and Guix
I spent a good chunk of my day trying to figure out why I couldn't get cider to work with my Clojure project in emacs. This blog is both a workaround for fellow travelers and my 'pastebin' details for the help I'm going to request to get this fixed Background At some point in the last couple of months OpenJdk stopped working with Cider. Whenever I tried to run cider-jack-in I got the following…
An AI Conversation about Medical Ethics
Below is an amusing conversation I had with Claude. Please do not use this for actual technique- neither Claude or I are phlebotomists. How would you draw blood cultures? Blood cultures are drawn with strict sterile technique: Gather supplies (culture bottles, chlorhexidine, sterile gloves) Clean site with chlorhexidine for 30 seconds, let dry Don't repalpate site after cleaning Draw blood via…
Hello Guix and Getting Thunderbolt Working
I recently made the switch to Guix on my Framework 13 laptop. Getting the install was…. not entirely trivial but was able to get it working thanks to the post by Andy Wingo over at wingolog.com There was one issue which brought me back to my early linux days of trying to figure out what bcm43xx was and why I had to modprobe it. That issue was that apparently thunderbolt requires a daemon to speak…
Be Yourself
People have been saying 'Be Yourself' for hundreds of years . But on the Internet it's important to remember you should only 'Be Yourself' on end-to-end encrypted messengers like Signal , iMessage, and Telegram. Everywhere else you're a future politician.
Summarized: I Respect Our Shared Humanity
ChatGPT. Was that coherent ? You are a scholar of technical writing and the english language. Please give me a summary of what the writer was trying to say: Summary The writer discusses the evolution of their communication style, initially emphasizing correctness and spelling but now prioritizing speed and humor, even at the expense of errors. They reflect on how technology, specifically AI, has…
I Respect Our Shared Humanity
Intro I used to be a person who cared greatly about ensuring that my prose were correct, and that I spelled everything correctly. I'm actually going to avoid that here and I'm not even going to bother with a spell checker. For most casual communication I now like to focus on being fast and funny at the expense of the red squiggly lines or appeasing the specter of my english teacher.
Installing Native Instruments Komplete in Wine
Installing Komplete in Wine to use with the AWESOME tool yabridge has a big pain point The .iso applications will not install because they do not mount correctly https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge#known-issues-and-fixes The fix here is fine but there's one gotcha: The documentation says that you should take two steps to install the packages with wine: udisksctl loop-setup -f…
Pipewire and Jack on Fedora 39
I recently switched from a MacBook Pro to an AMD Framework 13 Laptop. That means that I need to actually figure out how to make Linux audio work. There were no issues using Pipewire for ALSA sound but I was unable to get Jack clients connected with errors like: Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot connect to server request channel jack server is not running or…
Roland FR-4X USB Drives
If you're a subscriber to this blog, thank you. This is almost certainly not interesting for you. If you're the owner of a Roland FR-4x digital accordion and trying to find which USB sticks can be used with your accordion I tried out every stick in my house with no luck. I learned: They need to be FAT32 (not ExFat) They need to be USB2.0 16GB seems to be the ideal size? there's some reports of…
Soft Language
I came across this article on Hackernews by Richard Nordquist on Soft Language. This is one of those articles I read and it wasn't apparent that this would resonate with me as hard as it did. I've heard of concepts like the 'euphemism treadmill' before but this is the first time I'm thinking of language being soft. Is it better to use 'hard' language? Is it more honest? Or do we just need to be…
Car Cost Calculator
Made a tool to calculate the cost-per-mile (cpm) for cars. Might be helpful to compare vehicles to purchase.
We're In Hell
In an attempt to blog more I am sharing my good read of of the day hahaha we live in hell
Org Mode Insert Table Reference
Emacs Org-Mode tables are very powerful. The formula editor can execute elisp commands which makes for a really powerful spreadsheet editor (especially when combined with org-sbe ). One big limitation I've faced is multi-line content. To solve this I've created a simple function to wrap around results of some elisp block to always return the most useful data. (org-table-create-and-insert-reference…
Northsec CTF
I was lucky enough to get to compete in the Northsec CTF this weekend with the cold_root team. We ended up placing 4th out of 88 teams. There was a ton of awesome (and maddening) challenges and plenty of Malört consumed. The challenges showed up on a fantasy themed forum: Scammed Again The first thing I did was go to the web page to find that it was a chat dialogue with an enchanter named…. Tim? I…
CrowdStrike Adversary Quest CTF
Overview I recently took part in the Adversary Quest CTF. I utimately got stopped at 5/12 challenges. Thanks to CrowdStrike for an awesome CTF and I look forward to completing it next year. Below are writeups for some of the challenges I was able to complete. I'm excluding The Proclamation from a writeup as this was my solution- this was a very cool challenge so I'm going to refer you to…
Json To Org-Mode Table
As part of the Emacs minor mode I'm working on I've created a useful function to turn json into Org tables while maintaining the linkage of nested structures. The is cleverly named json-to-org-table . Why? Json is a great format for programming and parsing structures but a less good language for human consumption. I created this tool so I could interact with APIs and have a human readable format…
Using Org-Mode to Manage Configs
I've just started to use Org-Mode as a way to manage my configs. Previously I've kept my configs in a git repo and just had a post-install script to put all the configs in the right place. For now, I'm testing using Org-Mode for this purpose and I think I like the results. I have a config.org file that is arranged something like this: #+TITLE : Configs - Tangle a single block with =C-u C-c C-v t=…
Elfeed Rules!
I recently got the question- 'What is the use case for elfeed?'. When I get a chance to talk about my favorite software I will NEVER pass up that opportunity. Elfeed is a RSS feed reader for Emacs that I use daily and it solves a lot of problems for me. To understand how this works let's start by looking at a snippet of my feeds config. Elfeed feeds is just a list of lists where each feed is…
No More Lock-in
decoupling the address from the service I’ve been using gmail since it was an invite only beta. My email address has accumulated so much garbage over the years and finding important emails has become almost as difficult as determining important calls. I recently switched to Protonmail due to privacy concerns with Google’s monopoly on data. I had hoped I could use this transition to slowly shift…
A Less Than Ideal Way To Do 2-factor
probably just shouldn't use cell networks for 2-factor I have concerns with how Duo does phone two-factor authentication and think we can all learn from the way Google does it. The issue: If a user has their password compromised it’s easy to convince them to authenticate a 2-factor request without doing anything that would set off a red flag. This is due to the specific way Duo does phone call…