I’ve had a tab with this site open in my browser for weeks so I don’t forget to go to it, but still haven’t had time to sit down & go through it, to see what I might want to try. So I might as well drop it here as a reminder & in case anyone else wants to check it out. Dergnz: Fun things to try with your Flipper Zero (and wifi devboard)

I came across this while configure some local services using nginx, & wanted to make note of it: Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator.

I’m trying to play around more with my Flipper Zero, especially since I came across info on custom firmware to unlock some extra features with the device. The install was extremely simple, just using the qFlipper application to flash the CFW: GitHub: RogueMaster / flipperzero-firmware-wPlugins. There were a few extra steps to take after flashing, but as long as you read the instructions provided, it should work fine. I still have to play around with it a bit & see what else I can do with it, but I will definitely be reading \ loading most of what’s available through RogueMaster’s awesome-flipperzero-withModules GitHub repo. ...

So I got a new gaming computer last year, & as usual when I’m running Windows, I don’t login with a user account that has administrator rights. Instead, I login with a regular user account, & if I need to do something as admin, I’m either prompted (i.e.: Installing MSI’s) or I can “Run as administrator” through the context menu. Well it looks like that plan has a hole when trying to use the native win10\win11 Xbox app, & to install at least some games, the two I’m finding now are Halo Infinite & Halo: The Master Chief collection. ...

Two things I’m currently working on: - Ubuntu Touch on my old Nexus 6P, just to see how it’s coming along. I did need to reference this comment in order to get mine booting properly. - LuneOS on my old HP TouchPad… Which is giving me some problems. It started off rough because I was trying to find some files that were released between 2011-2014, & then trying to get them running… Then once I finally got that done, I still wasn’t able to get LuneOS to boot. Here are some of the files I collected while working on this: ...

Just making note of some webOS tools \ resources that could be useful as I start playing with my HP TouchPad (Tenderloin) again. Specifically, I want to install LuneOS on my device. ➜ webOS ls -lah total 744704 drwxr-xr-x 5 smc staff 160B Aug 9 22:53 . drwx------+ 8 smc staff 256B Aug 9 22:53 .. -rw-r--r--@ 1 smc staff 352M Aug 5 11:11 Palm_webOS_SDK.3.0.5.676.dmg -rw-r--r--@ 1 smc staff 12M Aug 5 12:09 WebOSQuickInstall-4.6.0.jar -rw-r--r--@ 1 smc staff 78K Aug 5 11:27 org.webosinternals.tailor_0.3.1_all.ipk.zip ➜ webOS sha256 * SHA256(Palm_webOS_SDK.3.0.5.676.dmg)= c2cd8346fd8e92e7090766652160879b0416ee1d4922d4942159c8c33442464f SHA256(WebOSQuickInstall-4.6.0.jar)= 3dec2ca6b724a763a69019c6e0ed1803f4a12e8809bbe79eb80595b7819d5d00 SHA256(org.webosinternals.tailor_0.3.1_all.ipk.zip)= 9cdbef200daf21ea33fff883ac42809c80a204d7d562aa5ec6126b3fbaa728fd ➜ webOS org.webosinternals.tailor_0.3.1_all.ipk.zip: Needed this version because it has options included for LuneOS. Palm_webOS_SDK.3.0.5.676.dmg WebOSQuickInstall-4.6.0.jar: I didn’t actually need this, but downloaded it because I was nostalgic. ...

Source: Malwarebytes Labs: Relax. Internet password books are OK So this was posted on April Fools’ Day, but I do believe it’s a serious post & I agree with the content. The author brings up the point early: Whether using a physical password book is a good thing depends on your threat model & risk. If you are not good with computers & can’t figure out how to use a password manager (see some of my other posts about passwords: Don’t Change that Pa$$w0rd, FINALLY: A Good Password Management Article, & ANOTHER GOOD article about passwords) & you don’t have to worry about someone you live with abusing access to the book, then this is a great way to store passwords without remembering them or re-using the same one over & over. Having the details saved in a book that’s kept in a drawer at your desk is a good way for some people to store different passwords. And it would obviously stay safer if the book stays at home, versus keeping it with you at all times & potentially losing it while out & about. That of course leads to other questions like “What do I do if I am away from home & need a password?”, but that will have to be answered by the user: Is it worth carrying the book with you at all times or is it really something that can wait until you get home & can access the book.

Source: The Hacker News: Google Reveals What Personal Data Chrome and Its Apps Collect On You And this is why I avoid using Chrome where possible:

In the last 24 hours… Screenshot from Pi-Hole dashboard For anyone else looking to run a network-wide adblocker, I recommend Pi-Hole. I have also recently started testing out AdGuard Home & will see in the long run if I decide to switch, or just leave it as a backup. I run Pi-Hole as my primary DNS & DHCP server with an excessive number of blocklists (totaling ~4.5m blocked sites) & have no issues with it. I only started looking into AdGuard Home after a resource issue on my original Pi-Hole (it seems when I added Resilio Sync to my Pi, the system would lock up). So, I decided to replace RasPi 3 B+ with a RasPi 4, 8GB, & turn the original 3+ into the secondary AdGuard DNS server. ...

I find it pretty ironic that Google Fi is the reason I’m leaving Android as well. Whether it’s because of an actual Fi issue or juts a tower issue in my area, that caused me to finally switch off of Fi (something I’ve been meaning to do anyway), & I decided to switch to an iPhone to get more use out of my phone, but also so I could actually still communicate with some people on iMessage. ...