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`DELETE FROM users WHERE location = 'IRAN';`

Hi! I am an Iranian Software Engineer, and in this torn paper note, I want to talk about some funny moments I had online related to the fact that I was spawned in this specific region of the world: Iran.

Microsoft deleted my app, ignored my mails

Back when I was a student, I got access to the Microsoft Imagine, and as a result, I got access to the Microsoft Store as a developer. This inspired me write one of my open-source projects called EyesGuard and publish it on Microsoft Store. However, one day, somebody told me that they can no longer find EyesGuard on the store.

Please contribute to this by pointing out missing items of interest in the comments, dates are in UTC.

September 2024 -

28 September - The database for the Internet Archive is saved by the hijacker.

30 September - Troy Hunt, the founder of 'Have I been Pwned?' gets sent the database. [1]

Oct 6, 2024 -

Note

Hi, everyone. I've been putting in a lot of work on this over the last few ~~weeks~~ months (sob) and i'm currently underemployed! If you'd like to hire me to do CMS-based work (i focus on Craft and ExpressionEngine but i do some WordPress work as well), please reach out! Alternatively, if you'd like to chip in toward bills & groceries, that's a big help right now!

Updates (Most Recent First)

13 February 2025
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23 January 2025

FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)

This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.

Update: I've disabled comments as of 2025-01-26 to avoid everyone having notifications for something a year on if someone wants to suggest a correction. Folks are free to email to suggest corrections still, of course.

Background

Intersection Observer Scroll Margin Explainer

Intersection Observer scrollMargin allows developers to observe targets inside nested scroll containers that are currently clipped away by the scroll containers. This is achieved by expanding the container's clipping rect by the scrollMargin when calculating the intersection.

Intersection Observer Scroll Margin Specification

Problem

TPM provides zero practical security

TPM (Trusted Platform Module) is as useful for preventing real attackers as the TSA is at preventing real terrorists. The architecture is fundamentally flawed and most existing implementations are completely broken. I thought this argument was settled decades ago[1] when "trusted computing" was introduced mostly as a way to provide DRM and ownership capabilities to organizations. It has largely failed to impact the consumer market when it was introduced back in the early 2000s. However, recently there seems to be a movement by certain parties to reintroduce this failed product back to the market. Microsoft argues that in order to use Windows 11, you need TPM 2.0 compatible hardware because[2]:

The Trusted Platform Module(TPM) requirement ena

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	Copyright (c) 2025 Ji Luo

	Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
	to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
	the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
	and/or sell copies of the Software,

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	import struct
	import threading
	import time

	GPUDPORT = 59123
	APIVERSION = 1

	class GPUDServer:
	def __init__(self, port=GPUDPORT):

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	<html lang="en">

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	<meta charset="UTF-8">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
	<title>My Angular from Scratch</title>
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	font-family: Arial, sans-serif;