Last year I got a Raspberry Pi 4 and it’s two main purposes so far have been to run Pi Hole and serve as a build server for SFML. I didn’t really notice at the time, that I installed quite an old version of Raspbian and as SFML is finally making the push towards C++17, […]
Author: eXpl0it3r
Discussions around log4j and FOSS
Unless you’ve been disconnected from any digital or analog media in the past few days, you must have heard of the zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability detected in log4j, one of the most popular open source logging library for Java. Not running much or developing any Java application, the most interesting part about this […]
Almost Always Auto
For the past four years I’ve been developing mostly in C# at work and gotten used to some of the more generally accepted code styles in the .NET world or at least within my project. One of those styles is the usage of var basically everywhere, which has really grown on me and it’s also […]
Basic Fragment Shader with SFML
Today I had the idea to try and generate some “art” using semi-random vertices, shapes and colors, but to achieve that I knew, I had to finally learn a bit more about shaders, to get nice glow or similar effects. As I started reading through The Book of Shaders I created in parallel an example […]
Understanding RPATH (with CMake)
It may very well be that this is common knowledge among Linux enthusiasts, but for me, as a Windows user, it took quite a while to fully understand the concept of RPATH (Run-time Search Path). For those in the same boat, I want to share some of my newfound knowledge and of course also link […]
Another Year on Twitter
Last year I wrote about my eight year anniversary on Twitter and how I’ve been using it. Since then another year passed and while my usage hasn’t really changed, there are a few small things I want to talk about. The Dissident I don’t remember how I came across the documentary in the first place, […]
TIL: Archive, Network, Cloud & Disk
7zip Only What You Want The other day I had to package a directory with photos and video clips inside, but I only really wanted the image and not the large video files. With GUI and explorer shell integration that’s kind of hard to achieve, but with the command line it’s rather easy to include/exclude […]
TIL: WSL GUI & Aptitude / Apt-Get / Apt
Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI With Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL or WSL2) you can run Linux applications natively on Windows. The “natively” is to be understood literally for WSL2, meaning you’re really running a Linux Kernel and not just a translation/emulation as with the original WSL. But since I personally haven’t played around much […]
TIL: Recovery & Testing
TestDisk Data Recovery On Discord someone recently had one of their disk formatted by accident (remember kids, always backup before playing around with partitions for your dual-boot setup) and went around looking for a recovery software. In the past I’ve used R-Studio, not to be confused with RStudio, the IDE for the statistical programming language […]
TIL: SQL Conversion & Clang
Implicit Conversion and SQL Server Today, I spent most of my worktime analyzing a bug, where for a larger than normal number of input rows an SQL query would take longer than 30 seconds (default timeout duration) and the request would fail. After understanding the data flow and validating that the data itself shouldn’t cause […]