arch1t3cht

What Every Typesetter Should Know about Renderer Internals

ASS subtitle rendering is seen by many people as some arcane black magic. That's because it is. Luckily, you do not need to understand most of the black magic to learn many meaningful lessons about both the behavior and performance of renderers.

Let's get it over with right away and post the diagram:

arianvp

Native Secure Enclave backed ssh keys on MacOS

It turns out that MacOS Tahoe can generate and use secure-enclave backed SSH keys! This replaces projects like https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive

There is a shared library /usr/lib/ssh-keychain.dylib that traditionally has been used to add smartcard support to ssh by implementing PKCS11Provider interface. However since recently it also implements SecurityKeyProivder which supports loading keys directly from the secure enclave! SecurityKeyProvider is what is normally used to talk to FIDO2 devices (e.g. libfido2 can be used to talk to your Yubikey). However you can now use it to talk to your Secure Enclave instead!

arch1t3cht

What you NEED to Know Before Touching a Video File

Hanging out in subtitling and video re-editing communities, I see my fair share of novice video editors and video encoders, and see plenty of them make the classic beginner mistakes when it comes to working with videos. A man can only read "Use Handbrake to convert your mkv to an mp4 :)" so many times before losing it, so I am writing this article to channel the resulting psychic damage into something productive.

If you are new to working with videos (or, let's face it, even if you aren't), please read through this guide to avoid making mistakes that can cost you lots of time, computing power, storage space, or video quality.

steven-michaud

Running Third Party Kernel Extensions on Virtualization Framework macOS Guest VMs

As of macOS 12 (Monterey), Apple's Virtualization framework has nice support for macOS guest virtual machines, but with severe limitations: For example you can't install a macOS guest on Intel Macs, install guests with newer versions of macOS than the host, copy and paste between the host and the guest, or install third party kernel extensions in the guest. As usual for Apple, the functionality they do support is nicely implemented, but they've left out so much that the result is only marginally useful -- at least compared to

thelastlin

Tested on macOS Sonoma Developer beta 2 (23A5276g)

Build libsk-libfido2.so

Prerequisite

1. Download openssh-portable source code, install libcrypto, libfido2;
2. Configure openssh-portable build system by ./configure # [options].

Apply patch

antifuchs

# To set this up, first get tailscale working in an isolated linux shell:
#  1. sudo systemctl stop tailscaled.service
#  2. tailscaled -port 9993 -state tailscale-luks-setup.state -tun userspace-networking -socket ./tailscaled.sock
#  3. tailscale -socket ./tailscaled.sock up -hostname HOSTNAME-luks
#  4. tailscale -socket ./tailscaled.sock down
#  5. ctrl-c out of tailscaled
#  6 sudo systemctl start tailscaled.service
#
# Then add the .state file to your machine secrets and pass its path as tailscaleStatePath.

zingaburga

ARM’s Scalable Vector Extensions: A Critical Look at SVE2 For Integer Workloads

Scalable Vector Extensions (SVE) is ARM’s latest SIMD extension to their instruction set, which was announced back in 2016. A follow-up SVE2 extension was announced in 2019, designed to incorporate all functionality from ARM’s current primary SIMD extension, NEON (aka ASIMD).

Despite being announced 5 years ago, there is currently no generally available CPU which supports any form of SVE (which excludes the [Fugaku supercomputer](https://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/innovation/

joevt

#! /bin/zsh
# ThunderboltUtil.sh v1.7
# by joevt Dec 5, 2024

#=========================================================================================
#           
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#           Thunderbolt DROM Notes:
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saagarjha

#!/bin/sh

set -eu

create_iconset() {
	mkdir -p Ghidra.iconset
	cat << EOF > Ghidra.iconset/Contents.json
{
	"images":
	[

azenla

var SecTrustEvaluate_handle =
    Module.findExportByName('Security', 'SecTrustEvaluate');
var SecTrustEvaluateWithError_handle =
    Module.findExportByName('Security', 'SecTrustEvaluateWithError');
var SSL_CTX_set_custom_verify_handle =
    Module.findExportByName('libboringssl.dylib', 'SSL_CTX_set_custom_verify');
var SSL_get_psk_identity_handle =
    Module.findExportByName('libboringssl.dylib', 'SSL_get_psk_identity');
var boringssl_context_set_verify_mode_handle = Module.findExportByName(
    'libboringssl.dylib', 'boringssl_context_set_verify_mode');