This is a war movie set in the early days of 2022 invasion of Ukraine. An aid worker was kidnapped and a ex SEAL with a local CIA asset searches to bring her out. Not much character development, some tense…
Home Plumbing
The toilet sinks stoppers have been irritating me for years. It uses a cross bar to lift and lower the sink stopper. The previous helper broke the mechanism in the kitchen toilet. Due to a hole, the water sometimes empties…
PHP2Shell have critical vulnerabilities
This must be black October for cybersecurity and webmasters. PHP2Shell have 2 critical vulnerabilities. PHP is a widely used scripting language in many websites and web applications, eg WordPress a popular website software. Some European websites went dark while administrators…
Intermediate CA keys hacked.
The intermediate certificates belong to India-based certificate authority eMudhra Limited. The private keys were revealed to the Internet, which means almost anyone can conduct a Man-in-the-middle attack. The private keys sizes were embarrassingly short. The CA cert is an approving…
Archiving the old blog
I have decided to archive the old Movable Type blog and its associated Photo Gallery. I started by my blogging journey on Movable Type way back in 2008. It was clunky, with that constant rebuild, but it was better than…
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
This is a dark comedy movie about the alternate universe and time travel.
In conversation 70
We were at the Singapore Night Festival at the National Museum.
Network interface hanging on Debian 13
Every few days, the Debian 13 network interface of my homelab would mysteriously hang. When the network dies, I don’t have remote access, will require a local action.
Getting Intel UHD 630 GPU Monitoring Working in Beszel on Proxmox/Debian Docker
Beszel monitoring does not chart GPU performance even though Jellyfin was successfully using Intel GPU
AI translation of Homer’s Odyssey
Robert Graham (@robertgraham) on Twitter has made a AI translation of Homer’s Odyssey. He wanted a version as authentic as possible but with some aids for the readers. Not everyone is familiar with Greek mythology.