Notes

I think this trend of maintaining and growing blogs using AI deserves pushback. It’s ruining the blogosphere, for several reasons. Firstly, there is the element of deception involved. People creating blog posts or comments with AI are trying to pass off this content as if it were genuinely human-created. Although most people recognise that the writing is created by AI, the attempt to pass it off as non-AI is still bothersome. When AI-generated blog posts and comments become the norm, the blogosphere becomes less of what it’s intended to be: a place for human thought, discussion, and community. AI Content is Ruining the Blogosphere

Netbooks enjoyed a meteoric rise and fall in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Basically, they were minimally viable laptops that were maximally affordable. For anyone who wanted a cheapo laptop, they were great! Sure, they were slow, and cramped, and slow. But they were cheap!

Actually, that’s not fair. Netbooks were slower than their contemporaries, but anything clocked over 1 GHz isn’t “slow”. That still should be enough for most reasonable workloads, if not for bloat. But I digress. Farewell to a netbook

Reminder that there are only two kinds of people in the world: vile white demons and poor innocent black saints. At least according to Hollywood.

Have you ever wondered what the “/public” command-line option in MSTSC actually does? It enables “public mode” in the RDP client, a feature somewhat similar to “incognito mode” in web browsers. This is a feature meant to be used on a “public” or “shared” computer, where users might want to prevent credentials, session details, and cached images from being stored locally.

For forensic analysts, the traces left behind by a malicious attacker using MSTSC on a compromised system can be a gold mine of information. Here are a list of all the features affected by the RDP public mode: Using RDP without leaving traces: the MSTSC public mode

I wonder why people on dating sites openly state they have mental illnesses? Is it to trigger that protective instinct?

Modern audiences sure love the sterile look, it’s ironic how we are going back to monotone colors. Denis Villeneuve might be a hack but he knows how to work the philistine minds. I’ll tell you what, without Nolan there is no Dunc. Nolan single-handedly trained the normie hivemind into liking movies that look like hospital rooms. Lifeless.

Spent few hours migrating Classic Startup.app, Classic.prefPane and ApplicationServices.framework from Mac OS X 10.5.9A241 (a version of Leopard that still had Classic Environment) into a Mac OS X 10.5.8 install. Moved the ApplicationServices.framework into /System/Library/Frameworks/ as ApplicationServiceZ.framework, so that it won’t interfere with Leopard’s framework and patched all occurences of ApplicationServices.framework to ApplicationServiceZ.framework inside the respective framework. Turns out CoreGraphics.framework client from the old version of Leopard is too old (209.1) for the CoreGraphics server in 10.5.8 Leopard (409.8), so i copied /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework (current version) into /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServiceZ.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ as to replace the old version. Classic Startup.app ain’t bitching about missing symbols or coredumping anymore, and the Preference Page is working, but Classic Environment is not starting up.

I have a feeling the chances of ApplicationServices.framework from Leopard working are way bigger than the framework from Tiger, but we’ll see.

Currently stuck on a RegisterProcess failed (error = -600) error, but I ain’t giving up. Yet.

New notes section, website of the day! Today’s spotlight is uniyx.net, with a beautiful and clean layout, a large links collection and lots of interesting thoughts. Big plus for your own domain, fren! One friendly slaparoo for the use of Cloudflare (some might call it Cancerflare) and why no RSS/Atom feed? Come on friend, it’s 1999, we want you in our feed reader!

But what a beautiful color scheme.

Since #MARCHintosh is all about Macintosh retro-computing, we’d really like to see content focusing on the 68K/PowerPC era of classic Macintosh hardware. Got a great idea about showcasing all the changes in MacOS leading up to the release of OS 9? I’d love to listen to that podcast! Have an idea about Apple’s official clone program and how to upgrade these machines to use modern storage solutions? Film it! Been meaning to create a blog post about Macintosh retrogaming in Classic mode under OS X, or do a reaction video of your kids playing Marathon on your restored Mac IIfx for the first time? That sounds exactly like the sort of content we’re looking for! Welcome to #MARCHintosh!

Say what you will of Apple, but the fact that their Remote Desktop Admin application can connect from a OS X 10.5.8 PowerPC laptop to another MacBook running Catalina (x86) or Sonoma (arm64), is an amazing feat.

I wish companies would preserve compatibility with older software, despite of the “muah security” freakazoids: good, older hardware is never obsoleted by crap, newer hardware. Browsing shit websites, cultivating parasocial relations with Youtubers and VTubers, farming pretty color skins in games, listening to propaganda podcasts, is not a good experience, regardless if you’re doing it on your $10 yard-sale PowerBook or a $5k all-pimped-out MacBook Pro.

Apple’s stance on compatibility is one of the reasons that’s pushing me away from the Linux ecosystem into Apple’s. And I still hate current Apple hardware and human brains cannot comprehend how much I loathe every macOS after Mojave.

But truth be told, Apple was a great hardware-maker back in the day.

A reader of my website happened to run into another Cellebrite leak and of course he sent it to me (thanks a lot!), this time it’s the full Windows installers for Cellebrite UFED version 7.73.0.68, Cellebrite Inseyets PA version 10.5.0.1022 and Cellebrite Physical Analyzer version 7.71.0.42.

The installers and subsequent applications are not cracked, it’s up to you if you want to go that way. The download speed is abysmal, use the mirrors when/if they work. You cannot compare the hashes with the official releases for obvious reasons, feel free to take everything with a grain of salt and use a virtual machine or another computer to play with the binaries.

The applications are not cracked!

Cellebrite UFED
Version: 7.73.0.68
Size: 5.97GB
Official website: here
Download link: via pwn3rzs
Mirror link: via pcloud
VirusTotal link: here

Cellebrite Inseyets PA
Version: 10.5.0.1022
Size: 10.57GB
Official website: here
Download link: via pwn3rzs
Mirror link: via easyupload
VirusTotal link: here
Notes: the password for the mirror link files is https://t.me/iGh0sT_i0S_Chat

Cellebrite Physical Analyzer
Version: 7.71.0.42
Size: 6.1GB
Official website: here
Download link: via pwn3rzs

Have fun!