KrampusHack 2022 is opened !

GullRaDriel

KrampusHack 2022 is opened and starting on December 13 to December 31 !

goal. You are secret santa – create a surprising gift for a selected participant.
On Tuesday 13 December 2022, you will be assigned one of the other participants and you have to make your game as a gift for them (Once the competition starts, you can read here for whom you have to make a gift).

Everyone should post a wishlist of features that they would like to see in the game. Note this is a wishlist and not a requirement list – you should tune the game to your giftee, taking the wishlist as well as the person itself into account, and create something that is a nice and thoughtful surprise to them. To make your wish list easily findable, simply post it on your own log.

Rules: https://tins.amarillion.org/krampu22/rules

Join in and have fun with us ! https://tins.amarillion.org/join/

#tins #gamejam #hack #krampus #krampushack

Warnings from the compiler / linker

GullRaDriel

I was searching about a very specific warning that the gcc compiler started to sprout some few weeks ago:

That I extracted and translated from the original that was in French:

“/usr/bin/ld: warning: xxxxxxx.o: requires executable stack (because the .note.GNU-stack section is executable)”

And I stumbled upon that little gem page was one of the few to have a correct explanation:

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/linkers-warnings-about-executable-stacks-and-segments

And also a few more here:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened/GNU_stack_quickstart

#gcc #compiler #linker #warning

Trick grep / egrep to always display filename

GullRaDriel

If you use grep / egrep on a single file, it will display the matched patterns, but not the filename nor the line number.

This can be boring in case you encapsulate a grep / egrep call inside i.e a find:

find ./mydir -type f -name '*.msg' -exec grep 'mysearch' {} \;

In that case it will only print the match and you will not know in which file.

The trick is to add a dummy filename as a second file to search. Doing so will trick grep / egrep into thinking you are searching in multiples files, thus displaying the filename on each match.
/dev/null is the perfect target for the second dummy file as it will never match anything.

Example:

find ./mydir -type f -name ‘*.msg’ -exec grep ‘mysearch’ {} /dev/null \;

Bonus / reminder:

In grep / egrep use the -n option to also display the match line number

Example:

find ./mydir -type f -name ‘*.msg’ -exec grep -n ‘mysearch’ {} /dev/null \;

#sysadmin #tips #tricks #grep #egrep

Git remove commit from a pushed pull request

GullRaDriel

If ever you have to remove a commit from a pushed pull request, here is a simple way to do it. Bonus: it’s not adding a commit for the removal.

First be sure to be on the good branch

git checkout target-pull-request-branch

Then have a watch at the PRs commit tab and note the commits hash you want to remove (one or more)

Replace X by that number in the following command, which will make and interactive rebase for the X last commits

git rebase -i HEAD~X

You are now going to have an interactive text view, in which all the aimed commits are preceded by the word ‘pick’

Using the view like a text editor, replace the ‘pick’ word by ‘drop’ on the lines containing the targeted commit’s hashes .

Exemple

Replaced pick with drop for commits 4aa3149 and 2031a79b:


Save and exit

In my case vim was the default text editor, so here you go escape colon w q

Push force the rebased repository

git push --force

This will remove the targeted commits and the only trace will be in the PR comments. The commit page will look like the rebased one, without the discarded commits nor a mention to them.

KAFKA

GullRaDriel

KAFKA is in all mouths these days. So I share here, also as a reminder for me, a couple of #KAFKA ressources that looked helpful to me.

TLDR:

Do not use KAFKA for:

-“Little” Data flows (overkill)

-Streaming ETL (handling transformation is a hassle)

-Store and process large files (images, videos, proprietary files, etc.)

https://www.kai-waehner.de/blog/2020/08/07/apache-kafka-handling-large-messages-and-files-for-image-video-audio-processing/

https://www.upsolver.com/blog/apache-kafka-use-cases-when-to-use-not

https://kafka.apache.org/intro

https://docs.confluent.io/kafka-clients/librdkafka/current/overview.html

https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/clients/librdkafka/html/md_INTRODUCTION.html

Why gettimeofday() is bad at timing things

GullRaDriel

I was reading a changelog from a library I love (unrelated but here is the link: https://liballeg.org/ ) and I stumble upon that change:


“Use clock_gettime with CLOCK_MONOTONIC instead of gettimeofday (check-switch-26)”

Then I did a bit of research on the topic, and found a good explanation here:

https://blog.habets.se/2010/09/gettimeofday-should-never-be-used-to-measure-time.html

TLDR: if you use gettimeofday to time things then your program may be affected by time shift, because gettimeofday is not monotonic. if you do not care about the date and only about elapsed time, use clock_gettime.

HackRF Portapack Mayhem Firmware, Search/Freqman evolution branch

GullRaDriel

On top of the existing ‘search and stay X seconds after a match’ the SearchApp have been updated with a ‘search and stay’ mode: stay while matching, leave after X seconds of inactivity, reset counters on activity during the wait. mode,
To use it just specify a negative value in the ‘wait’ field using the rotary encoder.

As some have some problems getting the bin back from discord, here you are:

portapack-h1_h2-mayhem.binDownload

The documentation is on the wiki, here:

https://github.com/GullCode/portapack-mayhem/wiki/Search

Github page:

https://github.com/GullCode/portapack-mayhem