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grawity

@grawity@treehouse.systems

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hobbyist sysadmin and tech support person, still occasionally seen on IRC

interests: windows 98, macos 9/8, plan9, systemd, athena, x.25, all kinds of 80s-00s "retro" computing & networking

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Location	https://nullroute.lt
Location	Lithuania

@a1ba sudo processed the --chroot option before actually reading sudoers, so you can make it load a custom binary https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/30/3

oss-security - CVE-2025-32463: sudo local privilege escalation via chroot option

grawity 15h ago

scy 16h ago

"This tram is configured using a filesystem containing DOS-style configuration files."

"Ah, the famous initramfs."

grawity 1d ago

reminds me of Google Gears, back when Gmail and Google Docs (or was it still Writely at the time?) had a whole browser plugin to allow the webapps to work completely offline

grawity 1d ago

mcc 1d ago

Internet Things that Frustrate Me, as inspired by being on a train:

- When a website has loaded a page, and it is showing the page, and there are words or pictures right on the screen right that second, and

then Internet connection is lost,

and the website REMOVES THE CONTENT THAT WAS THERE and replaces it with "Could not reach server" (guilty parties today: Discord, Bluesky)

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grawity 1d ago

also I wonder if Dovecot "Community Edition" will get 3.0 or if that's ~Pro~ only

grawity 1d ago

finished migrating Dovecot IMAP to v2.4 and it's still only 2am 👍

grawity 1d ago

apparently my server had a qemu-ppc MacOS virtual machine left running in Xvnc for the last three months

grawity 1d ago

had a dream about receiving a "Tree has fallen on the mains wires" email alert from my home server UPS and wondering how it managed to distinguish that

grawity 1d ago

Reminds me of how Enlightenment used to do the opposite of Xwayland and act as a Wayland compositor while running as a WM under Xorg. Why aren't there more X11 WMs which do this?

grawity 2d ago

Ret 4d ago

how it feels to come back to a programming project after a few months