Brendan Gregg shares performance troubleshooting tools that you might want preinstalled.

Satisfying anti-spam call tactic by sirocyl, DTMF bomb IKEA. And then proceeding to corrupt Google IVR.

a little piece of automated privacy.

Quine clock in JavaScript.

nip.io a wildcard DNS for any IP Address.

Story on rm -rf and sysadmin magic from 1986.

Google’s fight against cache poisoning on their Public DNS Servers.

Image extraction Bookmarklet from Gynvael.

Graph of Wikipedia.

History on South African Coffee Farming.

Study on Human Randomness.

Zhemao spent 10 years building fake Russian history.

Exploring the telephone network.

Look at SAN Counts on Certificates.

IPv6 Analysis.

US National Park Reviews Illustrated.

Short look at a tornado-producing supercell.

Nuke Map.

Moscow state university’s student managed Network

Talk on getting your alerts under Control.

Ansible and its Cows.

a Bid on the Apple-1 Prototype

CWE on inconvenient security.

Light Bulbs from Dubai.

a Bit of an attack on over engineering, but does not take automation and end product in account.

$ ping -c4 one.one.one.one
PING one.one.one.one (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from one.one.one.one (1.1.1.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=5.49 ms
64 bytes from one.one.one.one (1.1.1.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=5.73 ms
64 bytes from one.one.one.one (1.1.1.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=5.90 ms
64 bytes from one.one.one.one (1.1.1.1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=5.59 ms

--- one.one.one.one ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 5.488/5.676/5.903/0.155 ms

Bouncing manhole.

Nethack will capitulate when the move counter reaches a billion.

And in the category of I want one a sfp module with embedded linux.

band and album names software like navidrome needs to cater for.

An interesting video about the Loudness of Sound.

Which lead me down a rabbit hole of watching a few other Benn Jordan videos like “what do you sound like to animals”.

Vinyl vs Digital.

a Well-Known URL for Changing Passwords Standard that Chrome adopted.

Kaze Emanuar’s video on fixing Mario 64’s Source Code.

Accidentally shaking you all night long.

Some older Honda and Acura cars was hit with Y2K22.

a collection of software folklore.

Johnny Castaway the best screensaver which I enjoyed watching.

And building a Milk Crate.

The SHA256 algorithm visually explained step by step.

a Clock using quotes from the literature.

a demo tape made by Sony from 1990.

And something to think about next time you want to ping 8.8.8.8

The Malware Museum showcasing some defanged malware from the 80’s and 90’s.

Guide created by the UK Goverment on protecting domains that should not send mail.

Benjojo’s asymmetric route latency measurement with additional timestamps on ICMP.

Great example of AWK programming with conditional replacements.

Illustrated introduction to Apache Kafka.

Blood Pressure increasing game.

a little bit of Unix History diving into FreeBSD Branch, with a 30 page case study expanding on the post(Which I only scrolled through).

Article looking at MikroTik devices which has been commandeered into botnets.

Poor software design resulting in death or serious injury.

The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme.

an algorithmically-generated scatter-plot of the musical genre-space.

OpenSSH 8.9 building in SSH agent restriction.

Prince of Persia in JavaScript.

Open API’s and Datasets like this NASA Space Station Data exposed as a Public API

How Cartoon names over Europe adapted to each Country’s language

Cable Company showing IEC and NEMA standard connectors

Exposed CT Scanner spinning up to speed

a Closer look at Ziplock Seals

Javascript chess game with a size of 1024 bytes modeled after the Queen’s gambit

Ending off with a 8bit 6502 Assembler and Linker for Apple II Build in a Spreadsheet that works with your favorite spreadsheet software.

Reddit Post with a github collection of links on how different organizations use AWS. Two additional users pointed to gov.uk and terraform-aws-secure-baseline as additional examples.

Youtube Video giving a tldr on a in-depth post on the Covid Vaccine and its “Source Code”.

OpenAI living with a 7500 node Kubernetes Cluster.

Linux distribution’s uphill battle with programs and programming languages like Go and Rust that rely on statically linking dependency and dependency bundling and pinning

Journey on discovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel with debugging why rsync stopped transferring data.

Daft Punk - Epilogue.

The Effects of the Covid Pandemic on our Helium shortage.

Cinnamon Screensaver lock bypass.

Let’s Encrypt MySQL Database Upgrade.

Salamander Development TimeLapse from a single cell.

a 10-Gigapixel Scan of the girl with a pearl earring painting.

Youtube Video showing the tropical cyclone Eloise and La Niña kicking into high gear.

Volkswagen Currywurst.

As time passes, one collects more friends and uses more communication mediums. And to share those links gets troublesome.

So I have decided to use my blog as a link aggregator and share only one link possibly once per Week/Month or by count. I have not decided.

Title Structure will be LS-$(date +%F).

This my Announcement of incoming Storms.

Welcome to my resurrected blog.

Content will range wildly from technical posts to amusing links. The purpose of this blog, is a centralized point of knowledge which I feel I can adequately explain.

I hope you enjoy your stay

Kevin