Welcome to the 9th Annual Hacker Public Radio New Years Eve Show

Vaccines

Discussion about the movies: Jumanji, Wizard of Oz.

Discussion about facebook, whatsapp, and social networks.

Filk

Performance of "Alice the first woman on the moon" written by Blind Lemon Chiffon.

podcasting

Dungeons and Dragons talk

History

staying awake for many hours

geography

geology

languages

food

minecraft

schools

language

A type of malware nicknamed Joker has been infecting Android devices. In this episode we dig a little deeper into what this is and how it works.

Links:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7750448/what-are-dex-files-in-android#7750547

https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/joker-playing-hide-and-seek-google-play

https://blog.sucuri.net/2020/08/string-concatenation-obfuscation-techniques.html

https://www.anquanke.com/post/id/211978

https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/joker-playing-hide-and-seek-google-play

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-manage-app-permissions-in-android-11

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/joker-the-malware-that-signs-you-up-for-pricey-services-floods-android-markets/

https://www.zwilnik.com/android-malware-alert

In part three of the 27.64 episodes long mini-series on artificial intelligences, machine and deep learning

and other hipster topics around machines trying to imitate humans (marketing made us do these :-), our

two heroes discuss domain-specific frameworks on top of (more generic) infrastructure like TensorFlow or PyTorch.

As usual, all will be revealed and no details be spared (apart from a very few) including how to

tell animals apart from humans (a tricky feat as any journalist can tell you who's ever faced a

stampeding horde of angry politicians!).

Links:

Keras: https://keras.io

Image recognition in Keras: https://keras.io/examples/vision/image_classification_from_scratch

Facial recognition using convolutional neural networks (CNN): https://www.sitepoint.com/keras-face-detection-recognition

PETA: https://www.peta.org

User recognition based on mouse movements and deep learning: http://www.acta.sapientia.ro/acta-info/C12-1/info12-1-3.pdf

Comparison of deep learning software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_deep-learning_software

Apache's mxnet: https://mxnet.apache.org/versions/1.8.0

Classification with deep belief networks: https://www.ki.tu-berlin.de/fileadmin/fg135/publikationen/Hebbo_2013_CDB.pdf

scikit-learn: https://scikit-learn.org/stable

Life on Mars: http://www.bbc.co.uk/lifeonmars/index_non_flash.shtml

Limitless: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219289/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

In this Hacker Public Radio we talk to Mike about his emulator, BlastEm.

This is the official BlastEm url: https://www.retrodev.com/blastem/

My terminal journey, part 02. Becoming terminal friendly.

series: Apt Spelunking.

tags: terminal, apt-get, apt-cache, apt-mark, dpkg

Discovering the packages; vertical lists.

apt package manager

First Command: sudo apt list --upgradeable

Command Breakdown:

sudo is root privileges (to become admin for a single command).

apt is the Command Name.

list to display a list of packages satisfying certain criteria.

--upgradeable the criteria

Command Standard Output: (abridged)

Listing...

alsa-ucm-conf/focal-updates,focal-updates 1.2.2-1ubuntu0.7 all [upgradable from: 1.2.2-1ubuntu0.6]

alsa-utils/focal-updates 1.2.2-1ubuntu2.1 amd64 [upgradable from: 1.2.2-1ubuntu2]

bluetooth/focal-updates,focal-updates 5.53-0ubuntu3.1 all [upgradable from: 5.53-0ubuntu3]

gir1.2-webkit2-4.0/focal-updates,focal-security 2.32.0-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 [upgradable from: 2.30.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1]

google-chrome-stable/stable 90.0.4430.212-1 amd64 [upgradable from: 90.0.4430.93-1]

iio-sensor-proxy/focal-updates 2.8-1ubuntu1 amd64 [upgradable from: 2.8-1]

qemu-system-x86/focal-updates 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.16 amd64 [upgradable from: 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.15]

qemu-utils/focal-updates 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.16 amd64 [upgradable from: 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.15]

samba-common-bin/focal-updates,focal-security 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.8 amd64 [upgradable from: 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.6]

Discovering the packages; horizontal list.

apt-get package manager

Second Command: sudo apt-get -u upgrade --assume-no

Command Breakdown:

sudo is root privileges (to become admin for a single command).

apt-get is the Command Name.

-u or --show-upgraded list of packages that are to be upgraded; must be used with upgrade.

upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed.

--assume-no Automatically answers "No" when the command asks, “Do you want to continue? [Y/n]”. (Do you want to upgrade at this moment? No. You get it).

Note: Linux Mint 20 manpage for apt-get does not include the -u option or description.

-u, --show-upgraded

Show upgraded packages. Print out a list of all packages that are to be upgraded.

Command Standard Output:

Reading package lists...

Building dependency tree...

Reading state information...

Calculating upgrade...

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

libllvm10 libllvm10:i386 libnvidia-common-450 libnvidia-compute-455:i386

libnvidia-decode-455:i386 libnvidia-encode-455:i386 libnvidia-fbc1-455:i386

libnvidia-gl-455:i386 libnvidia-ifr1-455:i386 nvidia-kernel-common-455

nvidia-kernel-source-455 nvidia-utils-455 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-455

Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.

The following packages have been kept back:

libnvidia-common-450 libnvidia-common-460 linux-generic

linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic

The following packages will be upgraded:

alsa-ucm-conf alsa

Welcome to the 9th Annual Hacker Public Radio New Years Eve Show

Vacinations

covid lock downs

covid covid covid (no suprise)

virtual confrences

Virtual life

programing languages

the size of texas - Even the Skunks are Large!

Religion

Linux

Don't buy Tiki anything...

N/A

Added by Ken

operat0r and Son walk around the house talking about the devices that he has.

Android meeting alarms

Firefox

Privacy Badger

UBlock Origin

DNS66

Google Voice

CCTV Camera, to Zone Minder

DarkNet

Kodi

sonarr

radarr

Ombi

Plex

AccuWeather

Blue Team Labs

Admin mode on bluethoot TV

iroso ncf wireless bluetooth headset

Keedox V4.0 Bluetooth Music Receiver Transmitter

Hunter Irrigation

Nissan Infiniti Q40

Nintendo Wii U

Nintendo Switch

Gorilla Glue

Chargemaster 3000

Get splitbox AC

Steel Series HeadSet

MSP430 Nixie Clock kit from RobG on Tindie

Brili Routines - Visual Timer for Kids

Sonic Bomb Alarm Clock

Chromecast

Pulse oximetry

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)

Roomba

Zircom Wireless Water Detectors

My terminal journey, part 01. Becoming terminal friendly.

series: Apt Spelunking.

tags: terminal, apt-get, apt-cache, .bashrc

Book TLCL

The Linux Command Line: http://www.linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

My .bashrc alias

# ls aliases

alias la='ls -Alh --group-directories-first'

alias lr='ls -lh --group-directories-first --recursive'

alias lar='ls -Alh --group-directories-first --recursive'

# safety first ;)

alias rmi='rm --interactive --verbose'

alias mvi='mv --interactive --verbose'

alias cpi='cp --interactive --verbose'

# cd reverse dir

alias ..='cd ..'

alias .2='cd ../..'

alias .3='cd ../../..'

alias .4='cd ../../../..'

alias .5='cd ../../../../..'

# cd dir

alias cd.d='cd ~/Documents/.dump'

# shutdown | reboot

alias ssn='sudo shutdown -P now'

alias sr='sudo reboot'

# Misc

alias nrpt='echo -e "nn---nnNew Reportnn---nn"'

My dump script

#!/bin/bash

dump=dump$(date +%m-%d-%Y).txt

pdat=$(date +%a_%b_%d_%Y_%T)

touch $dump;

echo -e "$pdat" > $dump; echo -e "nnThis file is used to store terminal output for later use; now get out!nn" >> $dump;

echo -e "nnDump file $dump is ready for use (created on $(date +%m-%d-%Y_%T)).nn"

My Upgrade script

#!/bin/bash

dp=dump$(date +%m-%d-%Y).txt

date | tee -a ./$dp; echo -e "n" | tee -a ./$dp;

sudo apt-get update | tee -a ./$dp; echo -e "n" | tee -a ./$dp;

echo -e "System Update Completed." | tee -a ./$dp; echo -e "n" | tee -a ./$dp;

sudo apt-get upgrade --yes | tee -a ./$dp; echo -e "n" | tee -a ./$dp;

echo -e "System Upgrade Completed." | tee -a ./$dp; echo -e "n" | tee -a ./$dp;

Commands

the upgrade example sudo apt-get update | tee -a ~/Documents/.dump/dump05-05-2021.txt; nrpt >> ./dump05-05-2021.txt;

the nmap example (plus the other command I couldn't remember while recording) apt-cache search nmap >> ./dump05-05-2021.txt; nrpt >> ./dump05-05-2021.txt; apt-cache showpkg nmap

the depends example apt-cache depends nmap >> ./dump05-05-2021.txt;

the download example sudo apt-get download dict dictd dict-wn dict-gcide artha

vim sudo apt-get vim; vimtutor

Terminal examples ~= home folder, CTRL + R= command search , CTRL + L= clear terminal, xdg-open= open files with default app.

Searching with grep example ls -lhAr ~ | grep -i bash >> ./dump05-05-2021.txt

the dump05-05-2021.txt file

Wed_May_05_2021_12:22:43

This file is used to store terminal output for later use; now get out!

Hit:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease

Ign:2 http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/linuxmint/packages ulyana InRelease

Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [109 kB]

Hit:4 http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/linuxmint/packages ulyana Release

Hit:5 http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/linux/ubuntu focal InRelease

Hit:6 http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/linux/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease

Hit:7 http://

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Text editors

x11 and wayland

Linux check for X11/Wayland

loginctl show-session $(awk '/tty/ {print $1}' <(loginctl)) -p Type | awk -F= '{print $2}'

Firefox new tab override - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-override/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

Distributed Search https://yacy.net/index.html

Join Mastodon - https://joinmastodon.org/

edit correspondent page by posting a new show...

https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-with/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/videospeed/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org

X2go Graphical interface over ssh https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php

Filk Music discussion: Filk music is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction, fantasy and horror fandom and a type of fan labor. The genre has been active since the early 1950s, and played primarily since the mid-1970s.

Dresden Files and books

happy new year from the Fallon family