If I understand correctly, the signatures generated by PuTTY aren’t perfectly random, so if someone got a hold of a bunch of keys from a server, they could figure out the pattern. It takes about 60 keys. This affects not just PuTTY, but also FileZilla, WinSCP, TortoiseGit, and TortoiseSVN.

In other words if you have NIST P-521 keys, or any others using 521-bit ECDSA, you should revoke them and generate new key pairs. After you update your software.

I installed some security cameras around my house and set up Shinobi using an old PC. Unfortunately the PC is too old to use the built-in detectors in Shinobi. So, I took my first dive into playing around with some image detectors.

I wrote some python to download the daily recording from old PC to a newer one with a 3080 GPU. Then checks the videos for people. It will then trim the videos to only include times were there are people in frame. It cut my the storage requirements by over 95%.

For some reason their API would not return anything for assembly. I was curious to see where it would rank too,

Apparently it due to an issue with Kotlin - https://github.com/code-golf/code-golf/issues/151#issuecomment-1126266250

Biggest things I’m seeing is CVE-2023-21709 for Exchange requires a PowerShell script to be run after patching. Also, CVE-2023-29328/29330 for Teams affect all devices (Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android).

The book I wrote. When I first talked with the publisher he asked, “what skills would you look for in someone who wants to do your job?” And that’s the premise I stuck with writing it.

I feel down a rabbit hole, a few years ago wonder the same thing about C#. Here is what I found.

• C# was developed in 2000 as a successor to C++. Doubling the ++ to a #.
• C++ was developed in the early 80s as a successor to C. Adding plus (+) to a name was a common way of indicating it was an enhancement. Also ++ is the incrementing operator for C.
• C was developed in the early 70s as a successor to the B programming language. C comes after B.
• B was developed in 1969 and was derived from the BCPL language. Basically, B was a stripped down version of BCPL.
• BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) was developed in 1967 and was a designed as an simpler version of CPL.
• CPL (Combined Programming Language) was developed in the early 60s at Cambridge. The original name was “Cambridge Programming Language” but was changed to Combined when it was published jointly with the University of London.

Interesting. As someone who mainly deals in PowerShell, this is very similar to the Where-Object clause and could save me some headaches when I need to work in Python.

From personal experience, it seems like things outside of your normal listening don’t affect too much. At least in my case, my daughter making me play the Encanto soundtrack 250,000 times hasn’t affected my weekly or daily playlists.

That’s pretty similar with what happened with me and the train. Kept getting random drops from a plant. I went out to investigate and everything tested perfect and the network was staying up. That was until a freight train rolled by. Turns out AT&T had run the line by shoving a piece of PVC through the gravel between two cross-ties, then running the cable through it.

I’ve actually had an excavator take out my network. I’ve also had networks taken out by forklift, train, and a semi-truck towing three other semi-trucks.

Basically every Windows sysadmin is indebted to Mark Russinovich and SysInternals. Fortunetly, PowerToys has come a long way because I’m pretty sure sysinternals haven’t been updated since Windows XP.

I’ve been using WordPress on Bluehost for a few years. I’m looking to move to something like Jekyll. Pretty much everything I get from WordPress can be done with a like JavaScript and Jekyll. There are plenty of examples out there of building it off of GitHub actions.

I also do NOT recommend Bluehost. I was having issues with my site going down for no reason a while back. I contacted their support to see what was going on and they told me it wasn’t on their end. And guess what, it was on their end. Ended up catching the guy in a lie. Just been trying to find the time to move everything off of them.

Been there. I’ve written some slick code in a weekend that has run great for years. I’ve also spent 2 hours trying to get a button lined up properly.

I kind of do both. I have a powerful desktop with 4 monitors. I can’t stand working on a single laptop screen unless I’m traveling. And I also want to keep work separate. So, I have my laptop sitting next to my PC and I just RDP into it. This way all 4 screens are work only stuff when I’m working. Then at the end of the day I can just disconnect the session and have my personal stuff. I also have ADHD, so I try not never leave the work session during work times. I’ve been working from exclusively for about 6 years now and it has been the best system I’ve tried.

I come from the windows world with a strong background in PowerShell, and this article perfectly described my experiences with Python.

I spent 2 weekends trying to get JupyterHub up and running with the dotnet interactive kernels. And it all came down to ensuring that the right packages got installed at the right levels. Between the system, conda, and pyenv. And this is not the first time I’ve run into such problems.

I know it said anaconda is the worst offender, but honestly I wish there was a similar solution for PowerShell. I love the self-contained environments. It makes experimenting so much quicker and easier. But there is a learning curve.

And he right. I got so frustrated trying to figure out pip vs conda vs conda-forge vs pip3 vs pipx. For someone who only casually delves in python, it can be real off-putting.

However, nothing to me is more frustrating than running into package XYZ updated and now package ABC won’t load. XYZ now requires python 3.10, but ABC can only run on 3.9 and below, etc. I have rage quit more than a few projects over stuff like that.

So, as someone who only dabbles in python, my number one suggestion is to use requirements files and put version number requirements in them. And if your project has some out of the ordinary combination and you use conda, provide a brief rundown of how to install and enable it. Those few lines in your readme could make all the difference for python noobs/hacks like me.

I’ve used ChatGPT and Copilot to help with PowerShell in the past. For the most part I’ve found it, okay. But I can definitely see how that could happen. I’ve had a few instances where is tried giving me cmdlets that don’t exist. This means it is just taking pieces of code from someone else’s project and not understanding how it all fits together. So, if I search that cmdlet there is no telling the number of results I could get from good, bad, or irrelevant sources. It would be better if it told you where that code came from. Then I could look at the original source and see if they created custom functions that these AI are considering to be built-in cmdlets.

Might have to do with u/rmayayo not announcing or really saying anything