There is an alternative for Rocksmith, which also plays its '.RS files: https://tonelib.net/jam-overview.html

This not only fixes the issue macOS but there is also a native Linux version. Further, it happened to be 60% discount :-)

Cool, my PR for rust-hex was merged:

https://github.com/KokaKiwi/rust-hex/pull/83

It adds decode_in_slice() function, which decodes the hex string within the input buffer overwriting the contents. It is with ugly but still useful for e.g., fast and constrained protocol implementations.

Just came as surprise because the PR was made almost two years ago...

#rust #rustlang

I enjoyed responding this:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/aGffUrDSjNH6w6rB@kernel.org/

Enjoyment did come like e.g, for "winning the argument". Instead it s fun to do this type of comparisons for the cause and effect of choices to the resulting binary :-) I did honestly did not know the correct answer beforehand.

Reviewing random day-by day patches can be boring. If I have some extra bandwidth this how I usually spice it up just a bit.

#linux #kernel #arm

The fact that the issue is so trivial makes me doubtful of myself in this one:

https://github.com/himmelblau-idm/himmelblau/pull/592

#systemd #himmelblau

Himmelblau is the "new Samba" really, but how fast the situation needs to be addressed is on the other hand more like in the metrics of "EFI secure boot", which was an edge case 10+ years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHnG8KZpYg4

Intune is a technology where open source community needs to be clear on that "no, microsoft, edge + a shitty daemon running on a subset of linux distributions is not acceptable".

#microsoft #intune #himmelblau #samba

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