Linkdump 01/2022 (Dirks Logbuch)
Willkommen zum ersten Linkdump in 2022, auch in dieser Woche habe ich wieder reichlich Artikel und die für mich interessantesten oder die, von denen ich denke, dass sie Euch interessieren herausgesuc...

Full ACK on . Don’t turn it off!

That’s often the only and last defence your system has. Or your keys.

Linksammlung 01/2022 (onli blogging)
Die erste Linksammlung dieses Jahres! Ich war am Zögern ob ich die Serie wiederaufnehmen soll, das werde ich beim ersten Link weiter ausführen: Auf HN fragte ein Kommentator, warum Seiten aufgehör...

Ich mag Link Sammlungen. Insbesondere da man auf den ersten paar Seiten der Suchmaschinen nur noch SEOnierten Mist findet. Lick, Share and Sell Your Firstborn.

Sollte das auch endlich wieder anfangen. Komme aber nicht mal wirklich mit automatischer Blogroll ausm Knick 😢

https://david.shanske.com/2021/10/10/5220/ by David ShanskeDavid Shanske (david.shanske.com)
Trying to flash some boards with new firmware. Holes too small. Internet suggested sewing needles. Didn’t have any. Borrowed some from parents. They came from Shopwells…which ceased to be in 1986. Clearly we don’t sew much. Needles worked though. 1 board down, 10 to go.

Needless to say, that’s the most nerdy thing I read today (no idea why this was pushed to my reader today).

It also reminded me of the Discworld Needlers who would identify and collect such needles 😀

crystal (chicky.blog)

Welp. Don’t think our building could deal with such a cold at all. We’re in trouble with -20°C already. Bad isolation especially on the heating pipes. Please don’t freeze in place!

Auerswald VoIP: Hersteller-Backdoor in Firmware entdeckt by honeybeehoneybee (tarnkappe.info)
Während eines Penetrationstests wurden in der Firmware des COMpact 5500R PBX mit der Firmware 7.8A und 8.0B zwei Backdoorpasswörter gefunden. Das Problem wurde unter der CVE CVE-2021-40859 registriert und anschließend vom Hersteller Auerswald mit einer neuen Firmware 8.2B behoben. Auerswald VoIP ...

Enttäuschend. Stand doch bei mir mal eine Auerswald in der näheren Auswahl. Der happige Preis war mir dann aber doch zu teuer. Offenbar wäre das auch nicht besser gewesen. Dann eben die üblichen Verdächtigen, da weiß ich wenigstens vorher dass mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit eine Backdoor drin ist.

IndiePass testing… by Mark Sutherland (marksuth.dev)
If all went well, bulk find and replace can be done without breaking everything. I’ll post an update to the play store shortly.

That didn’t go too well. Read nothing about maintainer change before and was befuddled when the app would just stop working on my tablet. Anyway, when I tried to configure my account on my freshly factory reset mobilephone I get redirected to indigenous·marksuth·dev after signing in with IndieAuth – for whatever reasons I do not know and was really taken by surprise – but that won’t load on mobile anyway, because it ships the CERT for the new name “indiepass” instead of redirecting 🙁

Bringing Vulkan Raytracing to older AMD hardware (Vega and below) by Joshua AshtonJoshua Ashton (Frog Blog)
As soon as Bas Nieuwenhuizen [https://www.basnieuwenhuizen.nl/] mentioned that he was working on support for Vulkan Raytracing in RADV, my curiosity as to whether this feature could be brought to older generations of AMD hardware was peaked. Yesteryesterday and yesterday I decided to implement some of the missing pieces for exposing Vulkan Raytracing on older generations of AMD hardware, such as Vega, Polaris and the original Navi. The work is currently available here if you wish to try it at

Wow. Most of this went right over my head but I get excited just from reading about this sort of stuff

I mean I did play with ray tracing to some extend with Wings3D and the POV-Ray and YafaRay ray tracing programs back than and I still use it for some speed modelling. In fact the last time I touched this was this very year and I was so happy that at least YafaRay did Just Work™ on my Fedora Linux PC.

Shows how the APC unit was modelled starting out as just a bunch of blocks getting shaped up over time until the final render as game asset for the MAXR game.
APC unit made for the MAXR game in Wings3D

I re-used a scene that I created over a decade ago and while the result had slightly different lightning it isn’t really noticeable after converting and compression of the rendered files.

So yeah people, please do keep this stuff alive, k thanks 😀

Book Review: Professional Practice in Engineering and Computing: Preparing for Future Careers by Riadh Habash by @edent@edent (shkspr.mobi)
Book cover showing the ascent of man. Unreadable. Full of grammatical errors and run on sentences. Just incredibly difficult to read. There may be some useful information in here, but I'll be damned if I can find it. Seriously needs to be edited down by someone with a strong grasp of the English lan...

Haha, damn it @edent, I almost snorted my coffee all over the place at “I hacked my blog’s theme just so I could rate it with zero stars” 🤣🤣

Shadowrun Returns by Thomas HochsteinThomas Hochstein (Netz - Rettung - Recht)
Ein CRPG im Shadowrun-Universum. Nichts besonderes, aber ein netter Zeitvertreib.

Zur Story möchte ich noch anmerken dass die im Vergleich zu den anderen Teilen eher mager ist. Man merkt bei den Nachfolgern doch eine deutliche Steigerung bei der Qualität der Erzählung 🙂

Mir haben die jedenfalls viel Spaß gemacht und ich werde bei Gelegenheit bestimmt noch einmal zu der Reihe zurück kehren.