Month: April 2021
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Found GC5VXQ3 Motorway Mayhem - M5 - Gloucester Services (South)
This checkin to GC5VXQ3 Motorway Mayhem - M5 - Gloucester Services (South) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A quick and easy find (though I was glad of the hint when I approached the obstacle at the GZ) while travelling from Oxford to Cornwall to dump my partner's brother in …
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The Last Supper
Dan receives an invitation to 'the last supper' before Robin begins his rowing expedition.
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Posted a note for GC90RH3 Tiny Log Book
Dan checks on a geocache that was marked as not-found yesterday, but sees that it's right where it ought to be.
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Using every car parking space in a supermarket car park
Dan shares Gareth Wild's achievement of using every bay in his local supermarket's car park.
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Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app's perspective
Moxie Marlinspike "acquires" a Cellebrite UFED and hacks it, with all the delight and sarcasm you'd expect. Dan partially-translates.
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Tips for Text-based Interviews
Dan shares a post by a coworker on making text-chat-based recruitment interviews work.
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Big List of Naughty Strings
# Reserved Strings
#
# Strings which may be used elsewhere in code
undefined
undef
null
NULL
...
then
constructor
\
\\
# Numeric Strings
#
# Strings which can be interpreted as numeric
0
1
1.00
$1.00
1/2
1E2
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Max Woolf
Max has produced a list of "naughty strings": things you might try injecting into your systems along with any fuzz testing you're doing to check for common errors in escaping, processing, casting, … -
OpenAI-powered Linux shell uses AI to Do What You Mean
River implements an OpenAI-powered Linux terminal. Just tell it what you want, let it work out what commands are needed!
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Found GC6T0EG Junior Passage
Dan finds a geocache while waiting for Robin to turn up in his boat.
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The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme
Dan shares Blackle Mori's iceberg-diagram/list of computer science weirdness.
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Spy's Guidebook Reborn
When his 7-year-old asks Dan to print some crib from Usborne's Spy's Guidebook, he goes one step further and reimplements the cipher in Javascript.
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Wix and Their Dirty Tricks
Dan shares a post by Matt about Wix's awful new advertising campaign, and adds his own summary.
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Twinebook - Printable Interactive Fiction
Twinebook lets you use Twine to make printable adventure gamebooks. Is there mileage in expanding on the prototype, Dan wonders?