OFRAK (Open Firmware Reverse Analysis Konsole) is a binary analysis and modification platform that combines the ability to unpack, analyze, modify, and repack binaries.
Passwords have lousy security properties, and if you try to use them securely (long, complicated, and different for every site), they often have horrible usability as well. Over the decades, the in…
Tampermonkey is a free browser extension and the most popular userscript manager. It's available for Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Opera Next, and Firefox. Even though some of the supported browsers have native userscript support, Tampermonkey will give you much more convenience in managing your userscripts. It provides features like easy script installation, automatic update checks, a simple overview what scripts are running at a tab, a built-in editor and there is a good chance that incompatible scripts run fine with Tampermonkey. So give it a try!
The addition of the ublk driver during the 6.0 merge window would have been
easy to miss; it was buried deeply within an io_uring pull request and is
entirely devoid of any sort of documentation that might indicate why it
merits a closer look. Ublk is intended to facilitate the implementation of
high-performance block drivers in user space; to that end, it uses io_uring
for its communication with the kernel. This driver is considered
experimental for now; if it is successful, it might just be a harbinger of
more significant changes to come to the kernel in the future.
When Wasm and Docker Work (and Do Not Work) Together
While there has been a lot of discussion recently about whether or not WebAssembly (Wasm) will eventually replace Docker containers, it appears the two are also complementary.
The data ecosystem for non-domestic energy consumption data in the UK
Since joining Energy Sparks I’ve started investing time in trying to understanding the UK energy system and, in particular, the parts of its data infrastructure and broader ecosystem that we …
The Problem Working in Cloud Native consulting, I’m often asked about who should do various bits of ‘the platform work’. I’m asked this in various forms, and at various leve…
Allow or Block visitors from certain countries using NGINX
NGINX, at its core, is a collection of modules. It contains several in built modules as well as hundreds of third party modules, contributed by developers from all over the world. With the addition of dynamic module support, modules have given us greater flexibility in adding functionalities to NGINX. In