experienced this today on a machine running debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1078608

fixed up by:
sudo rm -rv /var/lib/apt/lists/*

#debian

Linux Foundation should take Himmeblau under its Umbrella.

As of today, the project is based on reverse engineering Apple and Windows clients, as the Intune API for Linux that Edge uses in tandem with intune-portal service does not have machine authentication.

"Microsoft Intune App" is based on chain of Microsoft binaries scavenging requested data from a system (Edge and intune-portal).

This blocks essentially the management tools for organization Linux machines by large.

Himmelblau on the other hand is a piece of middleware that manages the computer through the power cycle system-wide for the whole system, and thus can provide both boot-time initialization (himmelblaud) and reoccuring updates needed to maintain the trust (himmelblaud-tasks), such as Kerberos ticket and that kind of stuff.

a checkpatch error that provides an insecure URL as guidance lol:

WARNING: unnecessary cast may hide bugs, see http://c-faq.com/malloc/mallocnocast.html

Tried to fix it but also https is broken. It's also quite common mistake, meaning that it pushes insecure in volumes to developers.

#linux #kernel

finnish electro classic from 25-26'ish years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZpZWm5GRXo

i.e. when the electroclash boom was ongoing with lots of stuff coming from i-f, parallax corporation, miss kittin and the hacker, dmx krew and others. stuff like that was playing a lot at venues. good times :-)

for what it is worth this is how you “lsusb” in macOS:

$ ioreg -p IOUSB
+-o Root  <class IORegistryEntry, id 0x100000100, retain 36>
  +-o AppleT8112USBXHCI@01000000  <class AppleT8112USBXHCI, id 0x100000371, reg$
  | +-o Magic Keyboard@01100000  <class IOUSBHostDevice, id 0x100000d5a, regist$
  +-o AppleT8112USBXHCI@03000000  <class AppleT8112USBXHCI, id 0x1000003bb, reg$
  +-o AppleT8112USBXHCI@00000000  <class AppleT8112USBXHCI, id 0x1000003ca, reg$
  | +-o 4-Port USB 2.0 Hub@00100000  <class IOUSBHostDevice, id 0x100000a0e, re$
  | | +-o USB2.0 Hub             @00140000  <class IOUSBHostDevice, id 0x100000$
  | | +-o Rocksmith USB Guitar Adapter@00110000  <class IOUSBHostDevice, id 0x1$
  | +-o 4-Port USB 3.0 Hub@00200000  <class IOUSBHostDevice, id 0x100000a10, re$
  |   +-o RTL9210B-CG@00220000  <class IOUSBHostDevice, id 0x100000a43, registe$
  |   +-o USB3.0 Hub             @00240000  <class IOUSBHostDevice, id 0x100000$
  |     +-o USB3.0 Card Reader@00243000  <class IOUSBHostDevice, id 0x100000a71$
  +-o AppleT8112USBXHCI@02000000  <class AppleT8112USBXHCI, id 0x10000036e, reg$
  | +-o Scarlett 4i4 USB@02100000  <class IOUSBHostDevice, id 0x100000a56, regi$
  +-o AppleEmbeddedUSBXHCIASMedia3142@08000000  <class AppleEmbeddedUSBXHCIASMe$
    +-o USB Receiver@08300000  <class IOUSBHostDevice, id 0x100000a2f, register$
    +-o YubiKey FIDO+CCID@08400000  <class IOUSBHostDevice, id 0x100000a37, reg$

ioreg is a wrapper utility for doing queries from https://developer.apple.com/documentation/iokit

just learned this and now i’ll probably remember it too after writing this ;-)

submitted fish version of the mc-wrapper:

https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/pull/4726

i'm actually using zsh (and no immediate plans to switch), but i just wanted to see how fish feels like so did a little bit of scripting ...

#fish #shell #mc

Really have been satisfied on moving to Fastmail for personal, kernel.org account etc. It scales the best from iPhone to mutt with no glitches.

#fastmail

cleanup.h is almost like Symbian cleanup stack (ugh)

#linux #kernel #symbian

https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/

Just learned how to update OVMF_VARS.fd offline before running QEMU:

 virt-fw-vars \
    --input "$OUTPUT/OVMF_VARS.fd" \
    --output "$OUTPUT/OVMF_VARS.fd" \
    --append-boot-filepath /EFI/debian/grubx64.efi

E.g., in Debian the package containing virt-fw-vars is python3-virt-firmware but it is also available from PIP: https://pypi.org/project/virt-firmware/

#qemu #ovmf

IMHO still the best "top". atop has especially come handy over the years in kernel debugging given the vast amounts of detailed proc data it shows: https://atoptool.nl/

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-development-aosp-3538503/

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/how-this-billion-dollar-london-startup-backed-by-microsoft-made-700-engineers-sitting-in-india-pose-as-ai/articleshow/121572659.cms

Going to observe and learn Azure and Intune attestation at work next week :-) Got a tenant to play with. Also nice chance to use Wireshark, which I don't use that often.

https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3/releases/tag/1.1.3

Renewed +3 years of Sublime Text and Merge.

I use 80% of time vim but if I really need GUI editor (e.g., for presenting in a meeting) I use Sublime Text (with a Vim emulation plugin). It has one single advantage over VSCode, Zed and many other modern GUI editor: OpenGL rasterizer AND a hand-crafted software rasterizer optimized for actually decent performance with zero glitches. It’s a life-saver, when the GPU driver does not work ;-)

#sublimetext #vim

For what it is worth, this is how a file creation can be backtracked:

$ git -P log --diff-filter=A --follow 1.24.0 -- src/plugins/intel/mm-plugin-intel.c
commit 40c791e293c9c58106a256ec0b251f28ebcd068a
Author: som <somashekhar.puttagangaiah@intel.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 6 23:19:57 2022 +0100

    intel: new plugin for PCI devices with vendor id 0x8086
    
    For now, just detecting the device and creating generic MBIM or AT
    based modems.

Given --follow, it also takes renames into account.

Reminder to myself ;-)

#git

https://xkcd.com/538/

Grabbed a webcam for meetings.

Seriously Microsoft!?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Recall

#microsoft #windows #malware #spyware