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nuke it from orbit… http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openconnect-devel/2017-December/004614.html

vpn:# sudo systemctl disable ocserv.socket Removed /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/ocserv.socket. vpn:# sudo systemctl stop ocserv.socket vpn:~# sudo service ocserv restart

Aug 17 08:43:01 vpn ocserv[17938]: GnuTLS error (at worker-vpn.c:607): Error in the pull function. erk? seemed to be when the client didn’t like the hash

An easy way to get the server’s SHA1 fingerprint is to use testssl.sh with the -S flag, it’ll show you the fingerprint:

openssl s_client -connect vpn.example.com:443 -showcerts 2>/dev/null </dev/null | awk '/-----BEGIN/,/-----END/ { print $0 }' | openssl x509 -noout -fingerprint -sha1 | sed 's/Fingerprint=//' | sed 's/://g'

The pieces don’t win the game, the players do.

I know I’m so far behind the game on this one, but I found an instructable that mentioned jailbreaking one’s kindle… and one thing led to another.

This is me SSHing into my Kindle 3, the model first released in 2010. So much for reading stuff on it tonight instead of messing around on my computer. Thankfully, jailbreaking it doesn’t stop me from doing that either :)

Some notes…

My mum and dad were cleaning out some stuff and in the boxes of my junk I found this… a weird shared valentine’s day card from a school camp I went to.

(Click to zoom in)

All I can remember of that camp was the following:

• rope courses which were altogether too easy
• an overzealous fake basketball dunk on some guttering that mysteriously fell off a few minutes later… :)
• a very strange end-of-camp talent show
• tents, but no shenanigans (well, on my part… it seems I missed out on poker)

A lot of these people have been lost to the mists of time, but it was entertaining to read.

Get this in your ear holes.

In 2015, DJ Pete Tong and the Heritage Orchestra (under director Jules Buckley) collaborated on a performance of a bunch of Ibiza club hits from the likes of Moby, Fatboy Slim, Orbital, Brainbug, and Daft Punk.

After some inspiration from the guys on the Accidental Tech Podcast the other day, I had to make some meatballs and sauce for myself!

I cruised a few different sites looking for a good recipe and most of them were something along the lines of “beef, with enough egg to bind them, and flavours, so I went with what looked good on the shelf.

It definitely worked out well, the smoky paprika was a freaking tasty addition to the meatballs, and the combination of ingredients suffused the house with a delightfully rich aroma, perfect for a “chilly” winter night in Brisbane.

Kurt Vonnegut’s letter to the people of 2088 is, as you’d expect, incredibly well written.

It has been suggested that you might welcome words of wisdom from the past, and that several of us in the twentieth century should send you some. Do you know this advice from Polonius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet: ‘This above all: to thine own self be true’? Or what about these instructions from St. John the Divine: ‘Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment has come’? The best advice from my own era for you or for just about anybody anytime, I guess, is a prayer first used by alcoholics who hoped to never take a drink again: ‘God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.’

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This open letter from Robin Williams’ wife to the neurology community about the story behind her husband’s death is truly shocking. Not because it’s full of the usual hollywood sordid trash, but because of the love she obviously feels and harrowing experience they went through together.

I am writing to share a story with you, specifically for you. My hope is that it will help you understand your patients along with their spouses and caregivers a little more. And as for the research you do, perhaps this will add a few more faces behind the why you do what you do. I am sure there are already so many.

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It was only the most recent event in a fake-news crisis that’s seized India, which in recent months has seen dozens of mob lynchings sparked by rumors that have spread virally on social media. According to Business-Standard, over the past 18 months, there have been 33 people killed and at least 99 injured in 69 reported lynchings.

This article on Sophos’ Naked Security Blog shows we still have a long way to go as a society. When large groups of people blindly accept information without any validation, and KILL others, wow.

As someone who’s had significant hearing damage from a variety of things throughout my life, the upcoming feature “Live Listen” brings hope for affordable, accessible aids in the future.

Last month, it was reported that Apple would add Live Listen, a feature that allows people to hear conversations in noisy settings, to AirPods later this year. The feature has been around since 2014. It uses the iPhone as a mic and connects to Apple-certified hearing aids to amplify hearing. When the next version of Apple’s key mobile software, iOS 12, is released, AirPod users will have access to the feature, though it’s recommended that those who require hearing aids still use them and not simply rely on AirPods for clarity and amplification.

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