Notes

If you’re using an older version of iTunes (10.6.3 in my case) you have probably noticed that the Radio part is gone, due to the fact that Apple’s Kerbango Tuning Service (KTS) was turned off. The address iTunes tries to contact is pri.kts-af.net, and that’s not working as expected anymore. Some kind soul has provided an alternate KTS server at pri.kts-af.org, but you’ll still need to patch the iTunes binary to work with the new hostname.

Here’s an one-liner that replaces two occurrences of pri.kts-af.net with pri.kts-af.org inside the binary (and preserving a backup copy of the binary in case something goes wrong, named iTunes_orig:

$ mv /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes_orig && hexdump -ve '1/1 "%.2X"' "/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes_orig" | sed "s/7072692E6B74732D61662E6E6574/7072692E6B74732D61662E6F7267/g" | xxd -r -p > "/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes" && chmod +x "/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes"

7072692E6B74732D61662E6E6574 is pri.kts-af.net in hex and 7072692E6B74732D61662E6F7267 is hex for pri.kts-af.org. It should work with older iTunes versions but I haven’t tested those.

I’ve really grown to like the look of the blue and white Power Mac G3 tower lately, and really felt the need to have one as a daily driver. In the looks department anyways. This spawned the idea of ATX-modding the case of said computer. As luck would have it, I asked around on another forum, and one of the users there happened to have a nice condition one destined for the scrapyard. So it was picked up from death row for free, including an internal ZIP250-drive, new-old-stock keyboard and mouse.

I didn’t feel like documenting the whole modding process, because it really wasn’t that interesting anyways. I started by stripping the old internals out of it, and placed the new motherboard down, aligning its expansion slots with the rear case slots and started drilling holes, cutting things out to make room, etc. This process is just a whole bunch of trial and error until you’re done pretty much. One little quirk on the back, however, is that the onboard audio ports do not fit the I/O plate opening in the case. this required them to have the sticky-outy-plastic-bits snipped off to make the motherboard fit. This renders said ports absolutely unusable. But since I’m not using onboard audio anyways, this wasn’t a big deal. The carcas of a Power Mac G3 gets a new lease on life

Mozilla is working hard at going below 2% web browser share, and now they’re disabling all addons on older version of Firefox because addon-signing CA certificate is expiring. An anon from /g/ created a walkthrough on how to re-enable disabled addons and disable the addon signing check in the branded version of Firefox (not ESR).

The modern day motto is “bloat and die”: you’re going to fill up your house with shit you don’t really need and you’ll be begging someone else to clean it up for you 20 years later.

Are we technically Gods? We create universes when we write, so who’s to say we are not divine beings in our own way, and that we reside in a similar universe?

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Fukurou project page is up, btw. Source code will follow soon.

There’s a new Kubernetes security vulnerability that’s just been disclosed and I thought it was worth taking a look at it, as there’s a couple of interesting aspects to it. CVE-2025-1767 exists in the gitRepo volume type and can allow users who can create pods with gitRepo volumes to get access to any other git repository on the node where the pod is deployed. This is the second recent CVE related to gitRepo volumes, I covered the last one here. CVE-2025-1767 - Another gitrepo issue

Prehistoric man, scared into caves at the sound of thunder. No point of reference in place to tell themselves that it was just a “hubbub of phenomenon”. It was the voice of God, reminding them of the presence of higher powers, reigning the domain of Sky, omnipresent.

You had a cave, or you didn’t. Someone approaches seeking shelter from the wrath of god: not enough here. Go away, poke, stab, thrust.

The first private property. The first conflict. And thenceforth, the same exact property conflict. Slaves and owners, only ever a game of “who got there first”.

Do you not own any land? What was the criteria, to begin with, for someone to own land? Did they “buy” it? No, just found themselves there, and killed anyone who approached. That is ownership. The whole world now is owned. There is none left for you or for me. No corner to sob in without someone on patrol telling you to move along. You must play their demented games of conflict, hiding from the thunder of god in terror. Every successive movement of civilisation is an outgrowth of this primordial condition. Nothing has substantially changed. The whole world is based on separation and conflict and terror, even though we now no longer need flee in terror when thunder resounds in our homes. We know better, but the historical tradition of property and conflict continues, we are not aware of the basis of civilisation. It is that. Terror, conflict, lack of resource … The wilderness is no longer wild. We have tamed it. But now, we have yet to tame the habits and traditions which have created two world wars. They are still the modus operandi. Education, economy, industry, politics, religion, agriculture, all now serve that same aboriginal beast that wanted the cave to himself and his kin, safe from the thundering rage of the god in the sky.

We are only changing the uniform of our base condition. A paradigm shift is underway, but has yet to occur.

Soon you’ll be the only person who considers you to be young.

Do you think it’s unethical in the end to do something you consider unethical for a limited amount of time so that you can do something ethical for much longer later?

For example, what if you have some parasite finance job on Wall Street that earns you a mountain of money which you later deploy to a lot of good?

Today’s spotlight is on stuxnode.com, the website of Headcrash or Zero_cool or as we call him on IRC, the Avril-Lavigne-wallpaper-guy. Very friendly guy, has more Macs than I have kidney stones, sucks at advertising, lives in the past ‘hardware-wise’ like yours trully, but as Molly Nilsson used to say, “so what’s wrong with living in the past, it just happens to be the place I saw you last”. Lots of interesting content, like the blog, Internet radio with all the 90s Eurodance hits you ever wanted to listen, projects page with lots of hardware tinkering that will make your tits hurt, and obviously a small links repository that my website is missing from (’s’all good, bro).

One angry slaparoo for no RSS/Atom feeds (wtf bro, is this already 2100 and my time-machine worked?), and a friendly hugaroo for serving the website over http and not just https like the cool kids use to do nowadays.

I LOVE the design, and I can tell you it’s definitely Avril Lavigne-approved. Rock on, Sk8er Boi!

People always talk about the past because they stopped having meaningful experiences after some point. That’s why the past remains so vivid and important to them, they talk about who they used to be and what they used to do because they aren’t much and not doing much at all now.