Month: June 2018
Of electric bikes and cargo: 3D printers and thermos
So we talked about the bike. 120km under my belt on it now, story checks out. Go go gadget bike makes pedalling easier. But one of the sad things, cargo. I mean, I don’t take much with me. A laptop. And a thermos of iced-tea (because the local iced-tea places are too fancy and have…
For $35 how could I go wrong? drone takes flight!
OK, for this price normally you get something that lasts about 10 minutes and then heads off into the trees. But I got a DROCON X708W in some sort of flash-deal on Amazon. It came with 7 batteries and a pair of *sketchy* chargers. One of which is shown (6 x 750 mAh batteries plugged…
More on the ‘now I know its not secure dilemma’
OK, from the previous post you see that I was experimenting with a Static Application Security Testing (SAST) solution. And, I was shocked and appalled by the problems that came from the upstream. See the table below, the dots on the left, each represents a problem. Red means ‘All your bases are belong to us’…
To know and do nothing, or to not know: which is worse
Just starting to integrate a Static Application Security Testing (SAST) system. I’m using Clair. And I thought I would start with something quite simple, something I wrote none of. Take 1 Ubuntu:18.04, add a dash of django, and… O No. Look at the list. (And before you make some comment about ubuntu or django, its…
Dual identity git
So we’ve all had the problem of getting me@home.com in the commit history of your work repo, or vice-versa. This causes problems with your GPG commits since your me@home email is not verified. You can ‘solve’ it by putting hooks in to check for, and reject, and then religiously remember to set ‘git config user.email’…
