8️⃣ Here's the 8th post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v257 release of systemd.

A longer time ago systemd introduced JSON based user records as an extension of classic UNIX `struct passwd`. These records can be provided via Varlink IPC or via drop-in files. The much richer set of account settings is documented here:

https://systemd.io/USER_RECORD/

@gigabecquerel it's beautiful

RE: https://chaos.social/@gigabecquerel/113406997203322492

Had fun in at #OSSSummit in Tokyo yesterday demonstrating a TPM interposer attack obtaining the systemd cryptenroll boot keys

https://sched.co/1jKCe

And also explaining how the new Linux Kernel TPM patches can help defeat this

For those who asked, my python3 interposer designed to steal the keys is here:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/tpm2-interposer.git/

@n6utc that is the minimum number of antennas a vehicle should have

RE: https://mastodon.radio/@n6utc/113403164147476662

Just learned about gnome-kiosk (via the particleos repo): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-kiosk

Adding uchar.h to picolibc today. Instead of providing useful conversions between UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32, all C23 provides is conversions between those and the awful "multibyte" representations. I can understand why they'd *also* want to connect UTF encodings to the legacy C APIs, but the most important thing we need is a way to validate UTF-8 input which has some pretty tricky corner cases involving missing bytes, overlong encodings, and surrogates. https://github.com/picolibc/picolibc/pull/861

Imagine the world today if Google did not kill blogging. Would it be different?

10 GHz beacon testing around Seattle on the weekend. Frank AG6QV (https://ag6qv.com/Blog/uhrc) was able to receive via reflection from Puget Sound ferries. Now thinking about a proper mobile-mounted setup for quick 2-way contacts.

https://youtube.com/shorts/n0ZXhANwGXc?feature=share

#hamradio #amateurradio #microwave

6m (50 MHz) FT8 over the past 15 minutes on pskreporter.info, strong TEP (transequatorial propagation)


#vhf #ft8 #hamradio #amateurradio #6m

@timjclevenger Looks like a laundromat machine.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@timjclevenger/113329259396802611

Calibrating the PID controller of a DIY reflow hot plate. Mistakes were made.

The lack of threading here is diabolical.

Hi folks, I've just posted an edited version of one of the presentations I gave remotely at Microwave Update 2024 Vancouver. It's about some of the techniques I've been experimenting with for manufacturing antennas and feeds now I have a tame 5000-pound killer robot in my workshop, otherwise known as a SYIL X5 CNC mill.
https://youtu.be/ZDQyhEpxXmA
#radio #cnc #machining #microwave #mmWave

📢 Videos from Linux Security Summit Europe 2024 (LSS-EU) are up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1r94G8yJMs&list=PLbzoR-pLrL6pXwGwbAmhi3DgsaPKJTLde

I visited ESA’s antenna laboratory so now you get new wallpapers (for free even!)

PROGRAMMING TIP
avoid repeating the same 4 lines of code twice by writing 270 lines of beautiful, abstract, generic code

At Microwave Update in BC (https://www.microwaveupdate.org), one of the vendors had a 170 GHz spectrum analyzer. How is it possible in a device this size? #hamradio #microwave #amateuradio

Toured the TRIUMF particle accelerator in Vancouver BC, got to stand on top of a cyclotron. The magnetic field was strong enough to prevent paperclips from laying flat. It’s also where they store old focusing magnets (which become radioactive).

OMG I want to tell you about the coolest thing I've learned about in a hot minute! (Maybe everyone already knows about this, but it's new to me & I LIKE LEARNING STUFF LET'S GO ON A JOURNEY OF EXPLOSIVE DISCOVERY TOGETHER)

SO. Under certain precise conditions, natural deposits of uranium can develop spontaneous nuclear fission chain reactions identical to the kind we make on purpose in modern nuclear reactors

*This has already happened at least once.* About 1.7 billion years ago in Oklo, Gabon

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