Hey fedi friends!

[xabean@infosec.exchange]

@vaurora Actual side project:

I've got a Nook GlowLight (released 2013, 2G storage, M/N BNRV500) that still works but B&N killed cloud support for it. It drains its own battery flailing at talking to a dead cloud.

I figured out how to inject my own CACert into my Barnes and Noble nook's cacerts.bks file; and used BIND Response Policy Zones to redirect bncs.barnesandnoble[.]com to a server on my local network.

I'm bored, so I figure: why not try to make my own cloud? ADHD kicked in hard, I pulled all the apps off the device, threw it all into jadx-gui, and used a python protobuf-inspector to pick apart cloud messages from the wire. Comparing protocol captures to actual code has been such a learning experience!

Worst case outcome: I throw some fake cloud up on something like github.

Best case outcome: I breathe new life into old tech, maybe get it working with archive.org.

[rmd1023@infosec.exchange]

@vaurora Attacking technical debt at work. (YAY) Also, it’s a WFH day so I’m trying to figure out what to do for breakfast besides go make myself a cup of tea.

[pmdj@mstdn.social]

@vaurora Possibly putting a little too much effort into trying to get a GPU compute kernel to behave itself and stop spilling registers to memory. Profiling shows I'm leaving lots of performance on the table though. Can't have that!

[vaurora@mstdn.social]

@wynke I finished reviewing my comments!!

[anton@social.bloom.casa]

@vaurora learning more than I wanted to about plumbing

[wynke@mendeddrum.org]

@vaurora Well done! I am now going to do some cleaning in the kitchen and the bathroom.

[jmtd@pleroma.debian.social]

@vaurora eating lunch at a resort hotel with my youngest daughter. About half way through a week vacation. Unclear if it was a good idea taking my eldest, who is in autistic burnout. Some good moments, some bad.

[xgebi@hachyderm.io]

@vaurora French exam, similar to FCE in English

[wynke@mendeddrum.org]

@vaurora It is possible that I got distracted and baked a cake. (Surely I can clean the bathroom while the cake bakes...)

[danielcberman@infosec.exchange]

@vaurora Less than 60 days till my wife and I move to from the to be closer to her family including more than a dozen nieces and nephews.

[vjgoh@mstdn.ca]

@vaurora I’ve got pneumonia! So mostly that’s what’s going on. Yesterday was rough.

But also I’ve been thinking about Dijkstra’s essay on the futility of natural language programming and how I still think that’s true even when you have LLMs. Some of the programming is more natural language-ish, just as C is easier to read than assembly, and smalltalk is easier to read than C, but fundamentally, you will always need a symbolic language to do hard things with any hope of determinism.

[wynke@mendeddrum.org]

@vaurora And, I successfully did just that, then did the dishes and made the bed and put in a load of laundry. And then took 3/4 of the finished cake to the hackerspace.

[irishmasms@defcon.social]

@vaurora just finished my never search alone job search council meeting, now to organize the network wiring project parts to ease the better half's need for no clutter

[irishmasms@defcon.social]

@vaurora @danielcberman congratulations on getting out of here

[0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange]

@vaurora getting very, very deep into the weeds of the oldest extant Chinese manuscripts https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116097927830680664