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FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)

This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.

Background

On March 29th, 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz-utils, a suite of software that

How to Build Linux Kernel with Android

This guide shows how to build Linux on a Android Device and was made for people that doesn't have s Computer.

Minimum Requiriments:

4GB of free space (2GB if delete the temp files)
Android 5.0

Preparing the Environment

You need to install Termux

Polybar for i3

Installation in Ubuntu 18.04

sudo apt-get install \
  cmake cmake-data libcairo2-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev \
  libxcb-icccm4-dev libxcb-image0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev \
  libxcb-util0-dev libxcb-xkb-dev pkg-config python-xcbgen \
  xcb-proto libxcb-xrm-dev i3-wm libasound2-dev libmpdclient-dev \

Creating the patch

git format-patch -1 <sha>
OR
git format-patch -1 HEAD

Applying the patch

git apply --stat file.patch # show stats.
git apply --check file.patch # check for error before applying

VFIO Setup Guide

I play games regularly, and the sad reality is that it forces me to use Windows on my desktop. There's a Linux installation on there, but rebooting into it is such a massive interruption that I usually just move over to my laptop for programming. Working on a laptop leads to all sorts of ergonomic issues, and it felt like a massive waste to not develop on the desktop hardware I invested so much in. So after extensively researching what the VFIO community has been doing, I've deleted my Windows installation and moved all my gaming into a virtual machine on a Linux host.

Normally VMs are too slow for gaming, but thanks to a feature called VFIO you can run games at near-native performance by passing graphics cards and USB controllers directly to a virtual machine. The only requirement is that your board supports IOMMU, which most modern systems have. In this guide I'll wal

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	// A BASIC Node server
	// Routing Requests

	const http = require("http");
	const url = require("url");

	const server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
	//console.log(req.url);
	let parsedURL = url.parse(req.url, true);
	let path = parsedURL.pathname;

	#!/bin/bash
	sudo apt install -y libxcb1-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libpango1.0-dev libxcb-util0-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libyajl-dev libstartup-notification0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libev-dev libxcb-cursor-dev libxcb-xinerama0-dev libxcb-xkb-dev libxkbcommon-dev libxkbcommon-x11-dev autoconf libxcb-xrm0 libxcb-xrm-dev automake

	cd /tmp

	# clone the repository
	git clone https://www.github.com/Airblader/i3 i3-gaps
	cd i3-gaps

	# compile & install

	What else can you do?

	How to clone repository to a specific commit? (full clone)

	# Create empty repository to store your content
	git clone <url>
	git reset <sha-1> --hard
	More info:

	How to clone single branch?

	const http = require('http')
	// The `url` module splits up a web address into readable parts
	const url = require('url')

	http.createServer((req, res) => {
	res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'})

	// url.parse() will return a URL object with each part of the address as properties

	let urlObject = url.parse(req.url, true)