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One does not simply
telnet into Mordor.
One ssh-es in,
using an exploit in a compression library,
shipped to them by their trusted distro in a supply chain attack.
A classic bug for a leap day: At work, colleagues discovered and fixed a bug in a lesser used tool that only occurs on February 29th. It did trip up the tests, so no one got to merge until it got identified and resolved.
The source file in question hadn't been touched in over 4 years. Last leap year, the 29th was on a Saturday, so likely no one noticed.
What was annoying is that the logic had been clearly written with the intent of handling leap years. A leap year check condition was present, validated only on a February > 28th, but had to get inverted.
You may wonder why we wouldn't have used the languages' standard library date functions to validate the date - unfortunately the language in question doesn't have such a sophisticated standard library (language omitted to protect the innocent).
Best #37C3 quote so far:
[...] to observe the international compressor holiday [...]
Context: Newag's train "DRM"
I like CSS-animations, clocks and dials for making metrics easier to digest (we are quicker at detecting angular changes than reading and parsing digits). So I'm in awe with this creative use of a watch-dial to visualize a 32-bit hexadecimal number:
The letters below were discovered in September 1993 in a reverse time-capsule apparently sent from 2023.
The first of those emails dates from this morning. Note the author of the RFC and the publication date. 
GitHub - Nessex/yaml2json-rs: Command line utility (+libraries) to convert YAML to JSON.
Command line utility (+libraries) to convert YAML to JSON. - GitHub - Nessex/yaml2json-rs: Command line utility (+libraries) to convert YAML to JSON.GitHub
#TIL:
prompt injection, which is a form of cyberattack that exploits [an AI's] natural language processing abilities.
Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
Last week, Microsoft announced the new AI-powered Bing: a search interface that incorporates a language model powered chatbot that can run searches for you and summarize the results, plus do …simonwillison.net
Liebe Freunde des gepflegten Alteisens! Kommendes Wochenende ist Vintage Computing Festival Berlin 2020 vcfb.de/2020/), und ihr könnt das alle besuchen, ohne auch nur einen einzigen Fuß vor die Tür zu tun. Ich bin dieses Jahr leider nur passiv dabei. Schade finde ich insbesondere, dass dieses Jahr die Fotografiererei auf der Strecke bleiben wird: flickr.com/search/?user_id=529… #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vcfberlin #vcfb
RT @Esquiring - Sufficiently advanced data recovery is indistinguishable from dark cybernetic ritual:
Duff's device (ca. 1984)
register n = (count + 7) / 8; /* count > 0 assumed */switch (count % 8)
{
case 0: do { *to = *from++;
case 7: *to = *from++;
case 6: *to = *from++;
case 5: *to = *from++;
case 4: *to = *from++;
case 3: *to = *from++;
case 2: *to = *from++;
case 1: *to = *from++;
} while (--n > 0);
}
Weil es mal echt an der Zeit ist:
Danke an Euch alle, die Ihr das Netz mit Euren Instanzen verschiedenster freier Software auch und gerade in dieser Zeit so nützlich macht.
Danke für alle Helfer und Maintainer des freien Internets. Danke #Fediverse
#floss #bleibtwachsam #decentralisation
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Seien wir froh, müssen wir uns nur mit den modernen Datums- & Zeit-Problemen herumschlagen. Hier hat jemand eine ähnliche Liste mit Ausnahmen in alt-römischen Kalender-Problemen zusammengetragen:
#UltimaThule is the first primordial contact-binary ever explored up-close by a spacecraft, meaning it was once two separate objects that are now bound together. It is a pristine specimen, preserved as it was formed. Other similarly shaped objects have been modified over time due to their closer proximity to the Sun. Learn more about this distant object explored by our New Horizons spacecraft: pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/N…
#UltimaThule is the first primordial contact-binary ever explored up-close by a spacecraft, meaning it was once two separate objects that are now bound together. It is a pristine specimen, preserved as it was formed. Other similarly shaped objects have been modified over time due to their closer proximity to the Sun. Learn more about this distant object explored by our New Horizons spacecraft:
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Nach mehreren Monaten erreicht mich wieder einmal einer dieser aufklappbaren Plastik-Ständer aus China.
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Nach langer Reise erreichte mich ein Mondstein aus China. Der polierte Stein hat eine recht niedrige Qualität. Nur wenn man ihn gegen das Licht hält, kann man im Innern einige perlmuttartig schimmernde Einschlüsse erkennen, die einen Mondstein auszeichnen. Dafür ist der Brocken recht gross.
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Aus Hong Kong erreicht mich ein Elefanten-Anhänger mit abgebrochenem Rüssel. Die Briefmarke ziert ein Schachwürger ("long-tailed shrike", Lanius schach schach).
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Aus China erreichen mich Mini-Discokugeln! Ist etwas zu viel Bling für meinen Geschmack.
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Heute gibt es "Drogen"!
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