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Genomics - A programmer's guide.

Andy Thomason is a Senior Programmer at Genomics PLC. He has been witing graphics systems, games and compilers since the '70s and specialises in code performance.

https://www.genomicsplc.com

Today (April 16th 2019 at noon) the first major clues to discover key #1 was set to be released in a few cities. A QR code with the words 'orbital' were found at these locations and looked like this: (https://imgur.com/a/6rNmz7T). If you read the QR code with your phone you will be directed to this url: https://satoshistreasure.xyz/k1

At this URL you are prompted to input a passphrase to decrypt the first shard. An obvious first guess was to try the word 'orbital' from the QR code. Not suprisingly this worked! This reveals a congratulations page and presents the first key shard:

ST-0001-a36e904f9431ff6b18079881a20af2b3403b86b4a6bace5f3a6a47e945b95cce937c415bedaad6c86bb86b59f0b1d137442537a8.

Now, we were supposed to wait until April 17th to get clues from the other cities for keys #2 and #3 but that wouldn't stop me from digging around with all the new information we had. All that time "playing" notpron (http://notpron.org/notpron/) years ago was going to help me here.

The first thing I noticed was

IP Tables (iptables) Cheat Sheet

IPTables is the Firewall service that is available in a lot of different Linux Distributions. While modifiying it might seem daunting at first, this Cheat Sheet should be able to show you just how easy it is to use and how quickly you can be on your way mucking around with your firewall.

Resources

The following list is a great set of documentation for iptables. I used them to compile this documentation.

How-To Geek: The Beginner’s Guide to iptables, the Linux Firewall: https://www.howtogeek.com/177621/the-beginners-guide-to-iptables-the-linux-firewall/
IPTables Essentials: Common Firewall Rules and COmmands https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/iptables-essentials-common-firewall-rules-and-commands

iOS, The Future Of macOS, Freedom, Security And Privacy In An Increasingly Hostile Global Environment

This post by a security researcher who prefers to remain anonymous will elucidate concerns about certain problematic decisions Apple has made and caution about future decisions made in the name of “security” while potentially hiding questionable motives. The content of this article represents only the opinion of the researcher. The researcher apologises if any content is seen to be inaccurate, and is open to comments or questions through PGP-encrypted mail.

TL;DR

Create bootable USB

dd bs=4M if=/path/to/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdx status=progress oflag=sync

Boot from USB and set prepare system

loadkeys <your-keymap>

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

	#!/bin/bash
	# Enable wayland in firefox
	export MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

	export XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland

	export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
	export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
	export XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx"
	export EDITOR="vim"

	# Define where to store the generated certs and metadata.
	DIR="$(pwd)/tls"

	# Optional: Ensure the target directory exists and is empty.
	rm -rf "${DIR}"
	mkdir -p "${DIR}"

	# Create the openssl configuration file. This is used for both generating
	# the certificate as well as for specifying the extensions. It aims in favor
	# of automation, so the DN is encoding and not prompted.

	const Promise = require("bluebird");

	/**
	* @param {!Array.<function.Promise.<Any>>} promiseArray.
	* @returns {!Promise.<Array.<Any>>} The results of the promises passed to the function.
	*/
	module.exports = function sequentialPromise(promiseArray) {
	const result = promiseArray.reduce(
	(reduced, promise, index) => {
	reduced.results.push(undefined);

	getEventsPromise= function (myFilter, count, timeOut) {
	timeOut = timeOut ? timeOut : 30000;
	var promise = new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
	count = (typeof count !== "undefined") ? count : 1;
	var results = [];
	var toClear = setTimeout(function () {
	reject("Timed out");
	}, timeOut);
	myFilter.watch(function (error, result) {
	if (error) {