Trammell Hudson @th@v.st
pandemic
hack42 in Arnhem has some 'leet cyber mondkapjes! https://shop.hack42.nl/meuk/cybermondkapje
Since I couldn't find any examples of how to receive Linux kernel uevent messages, I wrote a small demo to show how to read from the NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT raw sockets and parse the messages into a text form: https://github.com/osresearch/safeboot/blob/master/src/uevent.c
A-Frame is wonderful fun - a few lines of code and suddenly there is a full 3D world to explore in VR.
Sonic hedgehog is an archetypal example of a morphogen as defined by Lewis Wolpert's French flag model—a molecule that diffuses to form a concentration gradient. It controls the proliferation of adult stem cells & has been implicated in the development of some cancers. #wikifinds
Movie pitch for Michael Bay: _The Transfermium Wars: Revenge of the Unununium_
(image by https://twitter.com/blockwonkel/status/1260697956187090944)
While you're on lockdown, why not also lockdown your Linux laptop with safeboot? It adds UEFI SecureBoot + Yubikey hardware platform keys + Signed kernel/initrd + TPM sealed disk encryption + SIP-like root filesystem protection to Ubuntu 20.04. https://safeboot.dev/
Pandemic
When you're the only one in the squad taking the social distancing seriously.
Booting the Linux kernel with `ro` or running `mount -o ro` might still generate writes to the root filesystem device, which will corrupt any dmverity hashes. That's problematic.
It seems that the TCG looked at the absymaly low adoption rates for TPM 1.2 and thought "maybe more people will use TPM v2.0 if we make the tools even worse?"
Dear past me: please keep better notes next time so that I can remember what you were doing with this code.
That looks better! My swarm can now join jitsi and zoom meetings by using `pyfakewebcam` and the `v4l2loopback` kernel module (with `exclusive_caps=1` parameter)
re: pandemic, nerdery
Unfortunately there is Arecibo message embedded in the virus... It is eight colors since there are the normal four (a,g,c,t) plus four unknowns (k,r,s,y). https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/view/MT344963&display=text
pandemic, nerdery
`xkcd` mentioned that the 29882 base pairs of the #COVID19 genome was available as a text file and it looked sort of similar to an XPM image to me, so here it is as an eight color 223x134 bitmap.
