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Linux kernel hacker and maintainer etc.

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Brocolli/Feta/Emmental/Cherrytomato pie :-p
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It is superb device and sound hardware engineering. Recording 8 stereo tracks directly to SD card is not easy task to do with zero glitches. You can just put recording on and for get about it. In the SD card will contain separate files for each stereo tracks. Obviously can be also 16 mono tracks (or some combination of stereo and mono tracks).
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Has anyone in #Mastodon took away knobs (not the plastic hats) from #1010music #Bluebox?

I took away the back cover and plastic hats but I have no idea how to take away the knobs so that I could take away also the front cover.

The goal here is to switch a replacement display panel.

https://1010music.com/product/bluebox
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Jarkko Sakkinen

I like a lot #BabyAudio's BA-1 and also the effect rack version. Superb sound.
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@rjzak Short phrased: un-invent (is that even a word) the wheel in all possible places is in my opinion should be a goal.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Lot's of stuff that I really need to take over the weekend:

1. mbsync bug in fedora
2. address a question in rust-vmm/vm-memory Github issue.
3. address a question m4b/goblin Github issue.

Mostly because my shit kept piling up given the first issue ;-) Should not work over weekends but I really want this table to be cleaned up by Monday.

@rjzak: So I'm actively researching feasibility of vm-memory.

Post-Profian I think it would be best for Enarx if as much as possible is done by external crates not maintained by the project. It makes it less stressing to maintaiin and also lowers the barrier to contribute (given the familiar idioms from other Rust projects).

This is why I'm doing this...
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Time to prepare some pie!
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Obviously grateful, if I get a job during these depression times, I should be...

Just since I anyway need to get a job I look bunch of things, not for the biggest price, but for the most interesting challenge (even if that would mean the lowest pay), and long-term commitment is also super important.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

LOL, I have work interview every single working day next week, and some after that. This will be exhausting.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

I guess it is time to look back into #TPM2 #asymmetric #keys series. I did latest version of the series in Apr/May.

My wild guess is that it won't work and I have no idea WHY. At least for me this happens on patch series that i don't work on for some months. Then after debugging and cursing for a day or two find a missing CONFIG_ flag or similar ;-)

#Linux #kernel #hacking
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I've seldomly tried #Rizin over the years but only after I switched to #Fedora early this year, I've really got into using it.

The stack is pretty well packaged, including #Cutter, in Fedora, which lowered the barrier. I hate to self-compile, everything must be low-hanging fruit unless I'm actually doing paid work :-)

I've also played with #Ghidra but the problem is that it does not fit to my workflow as well where everything else is a command-line tool.
But since I learned that I can use Ghidra's decompiler Rizin I get best possible reverse engineering for *my personal needs*. Also, one big thing in Rizin is out-of-the box RISC-V support.

I've also got into developing some tools with libcapstone disassembler Rust bindings, and a crate called Goblin. My ultimate goal here would be to automate the way i do analysis for kernel oops without using anything from scripts/, addr2line, gdb or objdump. Rizin is a great prototyping tool because it is also based on libcapstone.

For great tutorials on Rizin, I can warmly recommend this YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@ConsoleCowboys

Tutorials are for #Radare2 but they apply equally to Rizin.
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@Foxboron And it is a service not a client application?

One application for that could be confidential computing hub. In Erax we piggybacked CPU attestations from both Intel and AMD CPU's to x.509 certificates.

Obviously if a confidential enclave (TEE payload) gets new pages from the host (that it most schemes ack's, dynamic allocation in CoC is a protocol between guest and host), its old attestation invalidates. Thus these x.509 certificates are sent to a node, which goes to Intel/AMD CA and verifies the quotes against them.

Just reflecting with a familiar application for attestation :-)

So in this case would those certificates put into transperncy log or identity portal?
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@Foxboron Can you describe the gist of sigstore? I know nothing about this project. Post left me curious about sigstore and the application
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 1 year ago
@TartanLlama @ljs @nostarch [or even contribute a chapter, preferably chapter on MS-DOS COM/EXE and DOS extenders ;-) And how to compile COM and DOS MZ executables with modern tools]
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@TartanLlama @ljs @nostarch Volunteer to comment and review manuscript if anyone goes forward with such book o/
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 1 year ago
@TartanLlama @ljs @nostarch

I'm not that interested on a debugger book because I've written at least couple of debuggers and profilers for internal use in some companies and also read the classic "Gray Hat Python" BUT as a future recommendation I'd buy immediately a spiritual successor of "Linkers and Loaders".

There's been some binary analysis books after but they are not enjoyable read like Linkers and Loaders is bit historical tidbits etc. They are more like tutorials. You should check this book out some day if you've never read. I guarantee you will enjoy it (by Stephen Levy from 1999).

I just wish someone would write a great book about binary formats because I enjoy that stuff almost a hobby ;-) Like now that eBPF even has ELF profile, would be great to go through from IBM mainframe times to that and some discussion how they have been modernized for more modern languages. It's a total treasure zone of great lore.
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A wrote a book on how debuggers work!

It guides you through writing a complete native debugger from scratch.

Available Spring 2025 from @nostarch (probably not with this cover)

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Edited 1 year ago
One add to #C 's memory safety is that you can almost decompile it in your head so that it is trivial to map even raw binary to meaningful language statements. I like that Ghidra and Rizin have decompilers but I almost never use them because I do not NEED them for anything. Especially since the return of frame pointers assembly simple and awesome again.

Also reviewing C code is factors easier than any other programming language I'm aware or because you don't have to guess how statements translate.

In most more modern systems you really have to do research sometimes because of unnecessarily complex language constructs and vast amount of generated code, meaning that there are filters obfuscating how the final machine language code is generated.

Finally, like with any software, more complex shit you produce, more likely you are gong to hit to bugs. This applies also to GCC and LLVM.
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