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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Always cargo shorts or pants (depending on weather):

    • Phone in upper left pocket (galaxy s22)
    • wallet and keys in lower right pocket
    • ear buds in lower left pocket (soundcore space a40)
    • I find it surprisingly uncomfortable to keep anything in my upper right pocket

    Galaxy Watch 4

    my backpack (if occasion requires):

    • Laptop (Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6)
    • A jacket or sweatshirt
    • A tech bag (USB-C cable, wireless cavle for my watch, magic anker wall charger)

    …and that’s about it








  • Text version:

    Downloaded a virus for Linux lately and unpacked it. Tried to run it as root, didn’t work. Googled for 2 hours, found out that instead of /usr/local/bin the virus unpacked to /usr/bin for which the user malware doesn’t have any write permissions, therefore the virus couldn’t create a process file. Found patched .configure and .make files on some Chinese forum, recompiled and rerun it. The virus said it needs the library cmalw-lib-2.0.Turns out cmalw-lib-2.0 is shipped with CentOS but not with Ubuntu. Googled for hours again and found an instruction to build a.deb package from source. The virus finally started, wrote some logs, made a core dump and crashed. After 1 hour of going through the logs I discovered the virus assumed it was running on ext4 and called into its disk encryption API. Under btrfs this API is deprecated. The kernel noticed and made this partition read-only

    Opened the sources, grep’ed the Bitcoin wallet and sent $5 out of pity.