zakaria's web log

Internet reading for 08/2026 Interesting stuff I read in August… Better late than never. plato’s cave is more terrifying than you think Does the 1Password Travel Mode feature violate federal law?

The Capture I finished watching The Capture, season 2 recently.

Internet reading for 07/2026 A shortlist of things on the internet I enjoyed reading in July.

Using Firefox as a PDF editor I had to sign some documents recently.

I don't like it when computers talk to me The recent, ongoing, AI-chatbot boom has made me realise how annoying I think it is when software tries to "talk to me", like it's a fellow human being.

Goodbye wiki.zakaria.org (for now) I setup wiki.zakaria.org some time ago.

There's nothing to do You ever feel like there's nothing to do?

Soft uptime PS> Get-Uptime Days : 0 Hours : 20 Minutes : 27 Seconds : 48 Milliseconds : 0 Ticks : 736680000000 TotalDays : 0.852638888888889 TotalHours : 20.4633333333333 TotalM…

Thoughts on "Thoughts on Thinking" I came across this post on the orange site about someone feeling "stuck" because they've relied on AI way too much.

Paste as plaintext I use Windows for work.

YubiKey resident SSH keys on Windows+WSL This is a guide that documents how to use YubiKey resident SSH keys on Windows, with passthrough to WSL2 via npiperelay and socat.

Installing headscale on OpenBSD This guide is severely out of date: I've received a couple emails about getting relayd to cooperate with headscale.

stagit setup on OpenBSD stagit is a static page generator for git repos.

Temporary web browsing Here's a few ways of scripting an ephemeral browser environment.

Breaking promises with LD_PRELOAD In this post I show how to simply noop calls to OpenBSD's pledge(1) using LD_PRELOAD.

Windows Sandbox If you['re forced to] use Windows this might be useful for compartmentalisation.

Update Feb 2021: git server + hidden service Here's a little site update.

usbkill the OpenBSD way usbkill is a kill-switch that shuts down your computer on any USB change.

My xenodm setup OpenBSD uses the xenodm(1) display manager, which is a fork of xdm.

OpenBSD notes Random notes on running OpenBSD (some notes may only be useful for a laptop install).

How I (almost) fixed my fonts This site goes through CSS changes daily.

Malthusian Belt I'm reading Aldous Huxtley's Brave New World and as with most books I read I've come accross many words and phrases that I don't understand.

Quick setup script with tmux In my network security class we ssh into a handful of VMs pretty often.

M4 Troubles...

The /bin/sh Blog.