Cookie Engineer's Web Log

A list of known-to-work LLM jailbreaking techniques

How to use AI, IDE, and testrunner settings to implant a node.js or bun based self-spreading Worm

How to steal every password and credential of MacOS users

How to use Clickfix to implant an AppleScript based Bot on MacOS

Learn how to change udev rules and systemd link files to make network interface names predictable again.

How to manage and use unsupported Bluetooth Headphones on Linux with bluetoothctl

The Making of the Cookie Engineer Avatar

The Making of the Galactic Cookie Empire.

How to use XDM on ArchLinux with a minimal xconsole login screen and a feh background

Best Practices for Firefox to make it respect your Privacy.

Tutorial about the concurrency model behind Go's runtime, goroutines, and how to use mutexes without read/write errors.

How to infiltrate CI/CD runners because they don't sanitize arbitrary string inputs.

Learn Linux Assembly to do arithmetic operations.

Repair Guide for the best mouse ever produced, the Logitech MX-518

Learn Linux assembly to do function calls.

Learn Linux assembly to declare data and reserve memory.

Learn Linux assembly to execute syscalls.

Share and reuse pacman updates offline via USB drives or mesh networks to save network bandwidth.

Tutorial with recommendations for an Arch Linux installation that uses full disk encryption with LUKS.

Tutorial with recommendations for an Arch Linux installation that uses full disk encryption with LUKS.

There's no need for LPM Trie data structures for network lookups, because you can use LPM hash sets.

GameBoy Advance Mod to make it better, including Retrosix Case mod, backlit LCD display mod, USB-C mod, and EZFlash Omega for more convenient gameplay.

How to live with a banana phone (that uses KaiOS)

Tutorial on how to build your own little Home Server with a cheap Intel NUC from eBay.

Best practices for Android and recommended Apps that respect your Privacy.

Tutorial on how to implement a SOCKS version 4/5 client and server from scratch, explaining related RFCs and potential quirks along the way.

Tutorial on how to migrate to the i3 window manager with explanations for typical keybindings, configuration problems and status bar integrations.

Configuration Guide for the legacy xf86-input-synaptics drivers on GNU/Linux systems.

Personal notes on how to reset a DJI drone when it gets stuck or cannot be connected to.

Crash course in OSI layer theory, related bugs and exploits and what it means for the requirements of an Operating System and its software stack in order to improve anonymity in the face of god's eye like ISP overwatch scenarios.

A reflection about Identity, Privacy and common misconceptions about fingerprinting and what it means to be undetected inside a swarm of watched and infiltrated devices.

Tutorial on how to implement a WebSocket version 13 client and server from scratch, explaining related RFCs and potential quirks along the way.

The evolution of the Web, its problems and a masterplan on how to improve it by building my own Web Browser.