Lucas Ramage

Hurricane Electric IPv6 Tunnel Broker

Fri, 20 Jul 2018 12:01:48 +0000

Why I prefer UNIX

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 04:01:29 +0000

“…modularity means more than modules. Our ability to decompose a problem into parts depends directly on our ability to glue solutions together. To support modular programming, a language must provide good glue…Smaller and more general modules can be reused more widely, easing subsequent programming” (Hughes, 22).

“Write programs that do one thing and do it well” (Raymond).

“C is not a “very high level” language, nor a “big” one, and is not specialized to any particular area of application. But its absence of restrictions and its generality make it more convenient and effective for many tasks than supposedly more powerful languages. C was originally designed for and implemented on the UNIX operating system on the DEC PDP-11, by Dennis Ritchie” (Kernighan and Ritchie, ix).

“UNIX is not popular because it is the best operating system one could imagine, but because it is an extremely flexible system which is easy to extend and modify. It is an ideal platform for developing new ideas” (Burgess, 5).

Migrating to Gitlab

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 09:49:35 +0000

I deleted Github.

Microsoft has been a developer-focused company from the very first product we created to the platforms and tools we offer today. Building technology so that others can build technology is core to our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

However, Bill Gates accused hobbyists and free software developers of stealing said product.

And Microsoft is all-in on open source. We have been on a journey with open source, and today we are active in the open source ecosystem, we contribute to open source projects, and some of our most vibrant developer tools and frameworks are open source. When it comes to our commitment to open source, judge us by the actions we have taken in the recent past, our actions today, and in the future.

Three words: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

We both believe GitHub needs to remain an open platform for all developers. No matter your language, stack, platform, cloud, or license, GitHub will continue to be your home—the best place for software creation, collaboration, and discovery.

I hope so, but I honestly don’t trust it.

I’ve been wanting to for awhile and this Microsoft thing finally tipped me over the edge.

Yes, I know that gitlab.com (running gitlab enterprise edition) is not Free Software, however,the community edition is and I’ve been using it for awhile now anyway so I just had to migrate the rest of my repos over.

References:

OpenBSD in Qemu

Fri, 25 May 2018 10:23:30 +0000

Qemu Script

#!/bin/bash
# sudo ./qemu-openbsd.sh

if [[ "$(whoami)" != "root" ]]; then
  echo "Please run with sudo"
  exit 1
fi

ip tuntap add dev tap1 mode tap group kvm
ip link set dev tap1 up promisc on
ip addr add 0.0.0.0 dev tap1
ip link set tap1 master br0

qemu-system-x86_64 \
        -drive format=raw,file=disk.img \
        -enable-kvm \
        -m 1G \
        -net nic,vlan=0 -net tap,ifname=tap1,script=no,downscript=no

ip link del tap1

User Setup

pkg_add bash git

useradd -s /usr/local/bin/bash -mG wheel lramage && \
passwd lramage

su - lramage && \
git clone https://github.com/lramage94/dotfiles

References:

VPNFilter Router Malware

Fri, 25 May 2018 02:46:37 +0000

Affected Vendors: ASUS, D-Link, Huawei, Ubiquiti, UPVEL, ZTE, Linksys, MikroTik, Netgear, and TP-Link.

VPNFilter LEDE Forum Threads:

Hardware that I own.

Model	Operating System
Netgear R6400	LEDE 17.01.4*
Netgear WNR1000	Vanilla
TP-Link Archer C7	LEDE 17.01.4

*custom build with binary blobs

LEDE 17.01.4 - Fourth Service Release - October 2017

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPNFilter
https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/05/VPNFilter.html
https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/06/vpnfilter-update.html
https://community.netgear.com/t5/General-WiFi-Routers/Security-Advisory-for-VPNFilter-Malware-on-Some-Routers/m-p/1576170
https://www.tp-link.com/us/faq-2212.html
https://www.symantec.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/vpnfilter-iot-malware

Old Fashioned Gentoo

Tue, 22 May 2018 10:45:31 +0000

Old Fashioned Gentoo

Linux containers in 500 lines of code

Tue, 22 May 2018 10:12:15 +0000

Lizzie Dixon - Linux containers in 500 lines of code

Ethical Advertising

Mon, 21 May 2018 08:59:03 +0000

It can be done, internet.

Phoronix Test Suite on Android

Fri, 18 May 2018 02:30:40 +0000

I am investigating two methods,

a) Termux

b) adb (via usb for now, but also over the network)

I will need to work on option the second one, but my changed for Termux have already been merged upstream.

github/phoronix-test-suite/commit/8651564

Termux Dependencies

pkg install git php

Installation

git clone https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite

cd phoronix-test-suite && ./install-sh /data/data/com.termux/files/usr

Phoromatic over WiFi

ip a | grep "inet " # to get your phone's ip address

phoronix-test-suite start-phoromatic-server

# watch it when it starts up to see which random port is assigned to the web server
# or set a default port in the user configuration file.

Current Issues

Warning: session_start(): open(/tmp/sess_33188dd94e8186ca17799c1182142aa5, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/share/phoronix-test-suite/pts-core/phoromatic/phoromatic_functions.php on line 119

Warning: session_start(): Failed to read session data: files (path: /tmp) in /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/share/phoronix-test-suite/pts-core/phoromatic/phoromatic_functions.php on line 119

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/share/phoronix-test-suite/pts-core/phoromatic/phoromatic_functions.php:119) in /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/share/phoronix-test-suite/pts-core/objects/pts_webui.php on line 114

Eventually I will create a page on the Termux Wiki, but currently, I do not have permission to do so.

Phoronix-test-suite can also be run on postmarketOS by enabling the edge repository.

aports/testing/phoronix-test-suite*

*this package just so happens to be maintained by yours truly.

References:

postmarketOS Wiki - Amazon Fire Phone

Tue, 15 May 2018 01:21:11 +0000

postmarketOS Wiki - Amazon Fire Phone