modrobert @modrobert@qoto.org

Just received the #rabbitr1 today and with the last update it feels so useless and buggy. Can’t even use it to tell time because the timezone and the rabbithole thing feels so unsafe and scary to login any service there. At least the device looks cool

On some tracks I layer floppy drive sounds behind the drums. Here's a short video showing how it's done :)

🎵: https://fanlink.tv/199

tiny-gpu: Minimal #GPU design in Verilog #FPGA

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/self-taught-hardware-engineer-discovers-that-gpus-really-are-ridiculously-complex-and-hard-to-design-after-all/

So there's a "novel" #VPN attack with a fancy name "#TunnelVision". I argue that this is not novel at all. It is quite well known that these routes bypass routes set up by a VPN. Case example: Here is the TunnelVision attack described in September 2023: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/188857/a-rogue-dhcp-server-within-your-network-can-and-will-hijack-your-vpn-traffic #infosec #cybersecurity

Great, another crapball OS we have to deal with

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

A recent #Amiga demo "Backslide to Arcanum" by Cosmic Orbs included a mind-blowing fullscreen 50Hz rotozoom effect on Amiga 500. Having created a rotozoomer on A500 back in the day I knew exactly how incredibly hard it is to make such routine run fast. The effect has now been dissected and there's also author's writeup.
• Dissect of the effect by Alexander Grupe: https://heckmeck.de/blog/skew-this/
• Jobbo's writeup: https://www.cosmicorbs.com/blog/backslide
• Backslide to Arcanum at Pouet: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=96604
#demoscene #amiga #retrocomputing

WebLlama is a llama3 finetuned model for browsing the web using human language. Outperforms GPT4 https://github.com/McGill-NLP/webllama

In other words. If someone wasn't aware of that yet. #radare2 turns 18 this year. So it means that it can legally drink alcohol, go to prison, vote in the upcoming elections, drive heavy machines and enter a casino. Not necessarily in this order.

Amazing flickr gallery of tape covers! Yay!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jubru/albums/72157604683673651/with/2437554160

Set to prevent downloads! Boo

I Am No Longer Attending Vintage Computer Festivals

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5587

want a serious macOS security flaw that has been public for a decade+? sshd_config gets rewritten every time you install an update which enables password authentication. really hoping this gets fixed one day
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252554155

The backdoor author was working with #xz project for 2 years, and actively fixed "valgrind problems" caused by his backdoor. He also tried to push the backdoor to Fedora 40 and 41.

To quote the post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39866275 :
"He has been part of the xz project for 2 years, adding all sorts of binary test files, and to be honest with this level of sophistication I would be suspicious of even older versions of xz until proven otherwise."
#infosec #cybersecurity #backdoor #liblzma

There is a lot of prehistoric cryptography still out there. You just don’t realize it, but you depend on it every day.

#bird #crow #smart #spikes

These crows removing the bird-prevention spikes from this new condo. They are not having it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bn9FONAkUA

In 2022, Tom Lehrer released all his songs, lyrics and works to the public domain, an amazing move. While checking on the site, I found out he silently released more material in September of 2023 - a DAT tape of his work with an orchestra and some solo piano takes that are not elsewhere. If you're a Lehrer fan, quite a surprise.

https://archive.org/details/Tom_Lehrer_DAT_Recordings