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Ever since I heard about nuclear weapons, I’ve wanted to experience one myself. Random redditor

You know what else seeks infinite growth in a finite system? Cancer.

A long long time ago (in 2012) I ran Linux on an 8-bit AVR. It was kind of a cool record at the time. I do not think anyone has beaten it - nobody’s managed to run Linux on a lower-end device than that 8-bit AVR. The main problem was that is was too slow to be practical. The effective speed was 10KHz, the boot time was 6 hours. Cool, but I doubt that any one of those people who built one of those devices based on my design ever waited for the device to boot more than once. It was time to improve it! My business card runs Linux, yours can too

Silly proof-of-concept for a PDF chatroom, showcasing the incredibly silly power of PDF (and Word). PDFChat

A writer, when he knows what it is about and how it is done, grows accustomed to war. … It is a shock to discover how truly used to it you become… But no one becomes accustomed to murder. And murder on a large scale we saw every day. … The totalitarian fascist states believe in the totalitarian war. That put simply means that whenever they are beaten by armed forces they take their revenge on unarmed civilians. In this war, since the middle of November, they have been beaten at the Parque del Oeste, they have been beaten at the Pardo, they have been beaten at Carabanchel, they have been beaten on the Jarama. they have been beaten at Brihuega and at Córdoba, and they are being fought to a standstill at Bilbao. Every time they are beaten in the field they salvage that strange thing they call their honor, by murdering civilians. Ernest Hemingway

VMware on Tuesday announced patches for several critical and high-severity vulnerabilities affecting VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager, vRealize Automation, and other products.

A total of ten security flaws are detailed in the company’s advisory, affecting VMware Workspace ONE Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager, Identity Manager Connector, and vRealize Automation. One of the issues is rated “critical severity.”

Tracked as CVE-2022-31656 (CVSS scores: 9.8), the issues impact VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager, and vRealize Automation. “A malicious actor with network access to the UI may be able to obtain administrative access without the need to authenticate,” the company noted in its advisory. CVE-2022-31656 - critical auth bypass flaw in multiple VMware products

On social media, the only thing worse than being insulted is being outright ignored.

The man who says he can and the man who says he can’t are both correct. Confucius

Have you ever felt the eyes of a older man burning into the back of your skull when you get on the bus, and when you press the ‘stop’ button after he fails for the fifth time to successfully press it or picked up something that rolled out of his shopping bag, he thanks you, starts chatting, and even though the doors are open is in no rush to exit the bus? As if this simple altruistic gesture has created a blood bond.

War. War never changes.

The end of the world occurred pretty much as we had predicted. Too many humans, not enough space or resources to go around. The details are trivial and pointless, the reasons, as always, purely human ones.

The earth was nearly wiped clean of life. A great cleansing, an atomic spark struck by human hands, quickly raged out of control. Spears of nuclear fire rained from the skies. Continents were swallowed in flames and fell beneath the boiling oceans. Humanity was almost extinguished, their spirits becoming part of the background radiation that blanketed the earth. Fallout 2

I try to be a poet but I’m no poet.
I try to be real but I’m not real.

The only choice that remains is whether to succumb to madness or to start a record collection.

The goal of this project is to provide an OpenSource knowledge database of all the techniques to achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) on various applications. All of these techniques also comes with a test environment (usually a Docker image) for you to train these techniques. Awesome RCE techniques

China’s Lijian-1 (ZK-1) solid propellant rocket made its maiden flight from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China, successfully sending six satellites into their preset orbits. According to its developer, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the 2.65-meter-diameter and 30-meter-long new rocket is the largest of its kind in China.

The rocket is a four-stage launch vehicle and weighs 135 tons at launch with a thrust of 200 tons. A fairing of 2.65 meters in diameter was atop the rocket during the Wednesday launch. The ZK-1 is capable of sending payloads of 1,500 kilograms into 500-kilometer Sun-synchronous orbits (SSO), the CAS disclosed. source

Small thing I always seem to forget: the Internet is way bigger than the American Internet.

Integrated vscan, nuclei, ksubdomain, subfinder, etc., fully automated and intelligent red team tools. Code-level optimization, parameter optimization, and individual modules, such as vscan filefuzz, have been rewritten for these integrated projects.

Cross-platform: based on golang implementation, lightweight, highly customizable, open source, supports Linux, windows, mac os, etc. scan4all

This social media era of absence of thoughts might simply be a response to the previous years of overthinking and we will hopefully bounce back to a stance in between.

Bryan Sparks, President of DRDOS, clarified the license of CP/M:

Let this paragraph represent a right to use, distribute, modify, enhance, and otherwise make available in a nonexclusive manner CP/M and its derivatives. This right comes from the company, DRDOS, Inc.’s purchase of Digital Research, the company and all assets, dating back to the mid-1990’s. DRDOS, Inc. and I, Bryan Sparks, President of DRDOS, Inc. as its representative, is the owner of CP/M and the successor in interest of Digital Research assets. CP/M is really open-source now