Paranoia, Some, Not Too Much, Mostly for Good

It's an amateur mistake to cultivate a mindset where you extrapolate the potential ulterior motives of your neighbors and every person y...

yt-dlp Archiving, Improved

One annoying thing about YouTube is that, by default, some videos are now served in .webm format or use VP9 encoding. However, I prefer stor...

Subshells in Powershell

Previously, I wrote a post about how it's possible to create a "subshell" in Windows analogous to the subshell feature availab...

Ambiph.one

Today I learned about ambiph.one . This website is a minimalist ambient sound mixer for working, studying, or relaxing. Moreoever, all the s...

ELF Infector

Recently I wrote a blog post about infecting Executable and Linkable Format files on Linux. Specifically, a method that works on the latest...

Dynamic Linking

An insightful passage on dynamic linking, GOT, and PLT from https://www.ucw.cz/~hubicka/papers/abi/node22.html : Much as the global offset...

PIE

Address space layout randomization, aka ASLR -- and position independent executables (PIE), are used to improve the security of modern opera...

Theory and Practice

Implementing something that works but that you don't entirely understand is like finding a new chord that you don't know the name of...

G.K Chesterton on Volition

An interesting passage from G.K. Chesterton's "Orthodoxy" : "All the will-worshippers, from Nietzsche to Mr. Davidson, ...

Searching for Elf Magic

Elfland Just as Windows has its various executable formats , so too does Linux. In this land, there are Elfs, also known as Executable Linu...