dragon posting

i’m getting a bit allergic to the way Chat Box Generated Prose always overuses headings so i might just not put any headings at all in this post. we’ll see. make a terrible comic day might have been last week, but make a terrible blog post day is every da…

these days i spend a lot of time opening up github projects and seeing the dreaded A user you’ve blocked has previously contributed to this repository sigh. another one bites the dust1 there’s currently no easy way to tell whether it’s just some drive-by…

in case you missed it, last week saw one of the funniest things ever to happen to linux kernel development, in which Kent Overstreet, developer of now-disowned Linux filesystem bcachefs, had his LLM girlfriend stolen by a trans lesbian on IRC no, really,…

i have a nixpkgs overlay with some custom packages, patched versions of packages, and even some complete rewrites of upstream packaging to suit my needs. it also contains some NixOS modules to support the packages and some common utilities. one persistent…

last week i had the opportunity to travel to NYC and play CSAW CTF finals. for those teams who qualify in the top 10, CSAW provides funding to travel to finals, and it was fun to ride Amtrak and get spend some time with my teammates in New York. but the C…

NixOS provides native systemd-nspawn containers which share /nix/store with the host, reducing their disk footprint.

editor’s note: as you may have noticed already, this is a guest post that my friend triss wrote up and asked to be able to have published in my blog. i’m very grateful for the content to fill the void of me never posting anything, even after saying i will,

over the past weekend i once again joined shellphish to play CSAW quals and in the tradition i’m providing a writeup of some of the challenges. i got flown out to the phoenix area to play with the team irl, though actual CTF time was very short lived as we

update 2024-09-30: this post got featured on hackaday dot com. hi hackaday!

new laptop i recently finally got my framework 16 laptop in hand, and i’m pretty excited to finally migrate from the dell machine i’ve been using since literally 2016 both because, with a pretty long service life (in the scheme of design-for-landfill cons…

earlier this month i got to play defcon quals with shellphish. it was overall a good time, but we unfortunately (likely) didn’t qualify for finals, which ends a 20 year long streak of shellphish qualifying. this is very sad, but on the upside i get another

recently i’ve embarked upon an adventure to migrate this blog from its old home on writefreely to my own server, using a purpose-built static site generator, and i’m officially calling the migration complete this is not the first time i’ve tried to make a…

i, for one, am not afraid to seek answers to life’s toughest questions like “how well can a team of 2 people do in a 24 hour ctf when they start almost 12 hours late” a screenshot of all the challenges, we solved 8/14 not counting “welcome” this is like,…

happy 2024 – the internet is getting fucked over look at this an amazon product listing that was obviously generated by ChatGPT because the name contains an “as an AI language model” type error message, also the product image is just a random cat in a fis…

satisfactory comes with a dedicated server. i don’t really have any experience doing nixos packaging. so it’s time to do one that’s really hard, just for fun nix derivations there’s two fundamental types of derivations in nix, ones that actually build som…

what IS UP chat we’re back at it again with another writeup post last weekend i played MapleCTF 2023 with my team BLÅHAJ (raised from the dead, i don’t remember when the last time i played as/with BLÅHAJ was but it’s been like. a hot second) there were a…

i played CSAW quals this past weekend there were some good parts and some bad parts. overall i think CSAW has needed a lot more QC in the 2 years that i’ve been playing it anyway, given that there are official writeups (looking at them, the quality varies…

i like north. it’s incredibly simple and it does the job of managing database migrations in a straightforward way recently, because making unhinged technical decisions is my hobby, i decided to make a database migration tool in pure zero-dependency (techn…

suppose you have a VPN link, and additionally some private DNS server accessible through the VPN that resolves hosts on the VPN. you want to have DNS queries for VPN hosts, which are subdomains of a common domain, to go to the special VPN DNS server, but…

we’re going to write a basic packet capture program for linux from scratch, in python, using the direct kernel interface instead of a library like libpcap. also, it’s going to attach to asyncio allowing for async packet capture that can be integrated into…

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