Michael Zucchi
B.E. (Comp. Sys. Eng.)
also known as Zed
to his mates & enemies!
< notzed at gmail >
< fosstodon.org/@notzed >
Just a short post about the latest FFmpeg release. I tried building jjmpeg 3.0.1 against FFmpeg 4.0 and it compiles cleanly with no warnings.
So I think it should be good enough to go ... but I realised I don't actually have anything handy already written to test it against right now so that's only a guess.
Once I do i'll bump the version and do another release. This is more or less what I had planned to do today but instead got tags working on this site instead.
Worked a little more on the site.
The big one is that i've added tags back to the pages. Once you start viewing a tag based index is sticks to it navigation until it's cleared or another is chosen. It works in pretty much the way you'd expect it to.
I've also linked in a stylesheet and started filling it out - but this is very rudimentary for now and not much more than enough to make things operate properly.
Just for a little background, the blog itself is currently driven by a small stand-alone C program which is executed as a cgi script. The parameter processing is quite strict and just fails with a 4xx series error if anything (external) isn't right. At the moment it doesn't use any sort of database as such - the post text is simply a file on disk which is interleaved within code-generated text. A script generates several indexes in the form of C code from the filenames and a metadata properties file which is then compiled into the binary.
For now, to create a new post I have a small program which creates a simple post template and launches emacs directly on the server. If the file gets edited when emacs exits it then gets moved into the post directory and a metadata file is created. I then have to run make install on the binary to update the indices for the new file and any tags. This can eventually be replaced with a web-based editor with image uploads and so on if I ever get around to it.
It's just meant to be a 'quick and dirty' to get it up and running, but I somewhat like it's simplicity. I can't see it being of any particular interest or use to anyone but I will eventually publish it as Free Software at some later date.
Got sick off all the snot in the logs so i've just moved ssh to another port and DROP all incoming ssh packets.
Well i'm doing a LOG + DROP for now just out of curiosity, but at least the failed login attempts have stopped cold.
I also put up a banner on a-hackers-craic redirecting here. This site still supports access via the year/month/title.html url's that match the ones on blogger (in addition to the hex-id ones); I was going to try to write some javascript to link or direct each post to the new one but it just seems like too much work today.
Had a few problems with system updates lately. One was an upgrade to my remaining slackware system that broke a few things. First it wanted to run LILO after updating the kernel and I said no (I don't use it); not sure if that would have run the grub setup but what happened it wasn't run. Fortunately one of the kernels in grub still existed and booted so it wasn't too hard to fix.
It also broke NetworkManager - or rather, it stopped working again. It's been a flakey piece of shit forever but I thought it was finally 'stable' enough to use (despite a few quirks on that machine like it not automatically reconnecting after waking up).
Well not so!
It simply wouldn't connect anymore. No idea why. I went back to using rc.inet1.conf and it now works flawlessly - even reconnects after waking up. I'd already done this (or equivalent) on all my other machines, and it seems to be with good reason.
I knew the internet was pretty slimey these days but actually setting up a server on the naked internet over the last weekend was a bit of an eye opener.
I noticed a massive spike in traffic on the 15th - given that the only service running at the time was the 'experiment' page 1GB seemed a bit off. It was just someone brute-forcing sshd. Since this server went live on the 26th of march it has processed over 300 000 failed login attempts, I imagine (but haven't verified) most of those were on the 15th. They certainly weren't me.
It's probably just a drop in the ocean compared to all the `real' traffic but it seems such a waste. Yay for bots.
So i've put a few mitigations in place over the last few days:
I don't really want to have to maintain the last but i'll see how it goes.
Anyway it's sort of interesting to see the logins being used
- root is obvious
but hottie, mother
and david don't seem too obvious.
Just for fun, here's the complete list of the usernames and frequency counts as of a few minutes ago.
1 irc 1 sync 1 syslog 2
2 ! 2 12345678 2 1234qwer 2 123qwe
2 12qwaszx 2 1qazxsw2 2 654321 2 777777
2 aaron 2 abcd1234 2 admin@12 2 admintek
2 admUS 2 adriana 2 aion 2 alexis
2 amanda 2 amit 2 amy 2 andrea
2 angela 2 anthony 2 antiviru 2 ARGENTIN
2 arsenal 2 ashok 2 asshole 2 bananapi
2 bank 2 baseball 2 board 2 bobby
2 bonita 2 botmaste 2 byte 2 bytes
2 cameron 2 carditek 2 carmen 2 carolina
2 centos 2 chat 2 chelsea 2 chicken
2 chris 2 cinema 2 claudia 2 corazon
2 counters 2 crystal 2 cs 2 csgoserv
2 csserver 2 customs 2 cuteako 2 cvs
2 cyber 2 data 2 db1 2 db2inst1
2 december 2 deploy 2 destiny 2 docker
2 download 2 dragon 2 dvd 2 edu
2 educatio 2 elastics 2 family 2 fedora
2 flower 2 forum 2 freedom 2 ftpuser1
2 gabriel 2 games 2 gaming 2 gb
2 ghost 2 gmodserv 2 gnu 2 gnuworld
2 greenday 2 harley 2 hdsf 2 hiitplc
2 home 2 hottie 2 html 2 http
2 hunter 2 idc!@ 2 internet 2 ircd
2 isabel 2 jessica 2 jessie 2 jiamima
2 karen 2 kartel 2 keith 2 kernel
2 kitten 2 kmc 2 laura 2 lauren
2 libuuid 2 liferay 2 linaro 2 linux
2 linuxmin 2 liverpoo 2 logon 2 lovers
2 lpa 2 lucas 2 maganda 2 maggie
2 mail 2 mailman 2 maintain 2 manuel
2 marketin 2 matthew 2 mdb 2 miguel
2 muiehack 2 music 2 musicbot 2 mylove
2 myspace 2 nathan 2 Neuchate 2 Norwood
2 ns 2 ns2 2 nuucp 2 october
2 odroid 2 openssh- 2 openvpn 2 oper
2 oracle2 2 orlando 2 otrs 2 pass
2 passw0rd 2 passwd 2 pc 2 pepper
2 php 2 pictures 2 poohbear 2 portal
2 pretty 2 princess 2 proba 2 proftpd
2 project 2 p@ssw0rd 2 purple 2 q1w2e3r4
2 qazwsx 2 qwe123 2 qwerty 2 radio
2 rangers 2 rdp 2 redis 2 redmine
2 richard 2 root123 2 rootme 2 rsync
2 sakura 2 saw 2 scanner 2 security
2 servercs 2 serverpi 2 services 2 shell
2 sinus123 2 skan 2 skaner 2 snoopy
2 soccer 2 soft 2 software 2 steven
2 sweetie 2 sweety 2 tequiero 2 test123
2 test5 2 test6 2 testftp 2 tim
2 tomcat7 2 transfer 2 tsserver 2 ucpss
2 Untersee 2 upload 2 upport 2 uptime
2 user02 2 veronica 2 victor 2 video
2 virus 2 visitor 2 vnc 2 volumio
2 webconfi 2 webporta 2 webtest 2 Welcome1
2 wmware 2 x 2 xbmc 2 xuelp123
2 zhaowei 2 zxin10 4 50cent 4 666666
4 admin123 4 alan 4 alarm 4 alejandr
4 alpine 4 andy 4 antonio 4 babygirl
4 bamboo 4 bin 4 blankend 4 build
4 carlos 4 control 4 csgo 4 daemon
4 daniela 4 dante 4 database 4 debian-s
4 dev 4 edi 4 fabricio 4 fabrizio
4 forever 4 gian 4 giorgio 4 giovanni
4 hannah 4 hello 4 iloveyou 4 jira
4 justin 4 leonardo 4 marco 4 mine
4 minecraf 4 naruto 4 nas 4 nginx
4 odoo 4 odoo2 4 oracle4 4 packer
4 patricia 4 patrizio 4 paul 4 plex
4 qwer1234 4 rebecca 4 roberto 4 rocco
4 sergio 4 shadow 4 shorty 4 shoutcas
4 staff 4 sysop 4 t7adm 4 test4
4 tsbot 4 vincenzi 4 vitaly 4 web
4 welcome 6 2Wire 6 admin2 6 amber
6 bot 6 camera 6 develope 6 dummy
6 Guest 6 hduser 6 jason 6 max
6 mobile 6 mythtv 6 netman 6 proxy
6 !root 6 Root 6 samba 6 server
6 sinus 6 temp 6 teste 6 training
6 ts3bot 6 ts3sleep 6 ts3user 6 vagrant
6 vps 6 zimeip 7 sys 8 albert
8 alessio 8 alex 8 anna 8 aurora
8 bianca 8 elena 8 enrica 8 ethos
8 hadoop 8 informix 8 lorenco 8 lorenzo
8 lucaluca 8 luigi 8 luka 8 marcel
8 marcello 8 maria 8 marta 8 massimo
8 mattia 8 olivia 8 oracle1 8 pia
8 piero 8 pippo 8 romeo 8 sinusbot
8 suporte 8 t7inst 8 test7 8 testing
8 tommaso 8 ts 8 user3 8 valerio
10 0101 10 admins 10 cpanel 10 danny
10 dbuser 10 gnats 10 john 10 lavander
10 michael 10 miner 10 office 10 oracle3
10 postmast 10 prueba 10 test1 10 test8
10 tplink 10 user2 10 vmuser 12 101
12 123321 12 1502 12 266344 12 3comcso
12 aaa 12 acc 12 adam 12 adfexc
12 Admin 12 ADMN 12 agent 12 alessand
12 am 12 api 12 avahi 12 bill
12 bob 12 Cisco 12 draytek 12 echo
12 engineer 12 enrique 12 fax 12 gopher
12 helpdesk 12 houx 12 installe 12 kodi
12 luca 12 mario 12 mark 12 matteo
12 mike 12 mtch 12 naadmin 12 NAU
12 nt 12 pizza 12 Polycom 12 pos
12 print200 12 PRODDTA 12 PSEAdmin 12 radware
12 rapport 12 rcust 12 router 12 shop
12 steve 12 svin 12 svn 12 Sweex
12 SYSADM 12 SYSDBA 12 target 12 telco
12 telecom 12 ts3serve 12 ubadmin 12 user01
12 USERID 12 username 12 vcr 12 vmadmin
12 VNC 12 volition 12 vt100 12 VTech
12 webadmin 14 1111 14 a 14 demo
14 ftptest 14 info 14 library 14 media
14 midgear 14 superman 14 system 14 www-data
16 angelo 16 cvsuser 16 cyrus 16 donatell
16 dvs 16 firebird 16 oracle5 16 scan
16 supervis 16 vyatta 18 Administ 18 backup
18 ftpadmin 18 git 18 jenkins 18 mtcl
18 raspberr 18 steam 18 teamspea 18 tech
18 ts3 18 User 18 www 20 debian
20 martin 20 sales 20 sshd 20 test9
22 12345 22 oliver 22 setup 22 telecoma
22 test2 24 123456 24 client 24 daniel
24 Operator 24 student 24 sysadm 26 0
26 backuppc 26 vision 28 avis 28 cisco
28 david 28 Manageme 28 mother 28 mysql
28 sysadmin 28 uucp 30 plcmspip 30 public
32 apache 32 master 34 applmgr 34 osmc
34 phion 36 butter 36 squid 38 111111
38 cacti 38 cron 38 nobody 38 user1
38 wp-user 38 zimbra 40 scaner 42 anonymou
42 castis 42 ftp_user 46 123 46 22
46 PlcmSpIp 46 usuario 46 webmaste 50 monitor
54 qhsuppor 54 testuser 60 manager 60 sybase
62 jboss 64 ftp_test 65 service 72 tomcat
76 zabbix 78 administ 78 super 90 default
96 adm 96 nagios 102 1234 112 operator
128 oracle 130 postgres 142 ftp 228 ftpuser
242 support 292 pi 4140 ubuntu 4192 guest
4268 ubnt 4302 test 4434 user 6081 admin
267194 root
Given this i'm not entirely sure it's a great idea to be running cvstrac - it appears to be unmaintained and so on, but it's only intended to be a short-term solution anyway.
Weather's too nice to be inside, i've done enough hours for the week, and a brother is in town so I think it's beer time!
Update 22/4/18: Thinking about the strange usernames, they are probably bot related accounts? Doesn't really matter.
First post on the new blog!
Experimenting with a very rudimentary partly manual, somewhat temporary posting mechanism until I can sort something better out.
Apart from setting this up i've done a little hardening on the software and the system. I tuned ssh a little bit. I added robots.txt to code.zedzone.au to stop indexers creating potentially infinite references. And I changed the blog indexing method and some of the url's for the same reason.
Mostly root login attempts via ssh, some looking for various (mostly php) server stuff (which isn't installed), and google bot getting a bit cross eyed at some of my url alias/rewriting/cgi mistakes.
Due to some of the surveillance/tracking stuff in the news of late I went down a bit of a rabbit hole of looking at various 'secure' email and so on to do something about my gmail account and blogger.
I didn't really find anything I liked so instead i got myself a domain and a virtual private server to play with. I had originally intended to set something up on my home network via a static address but I never got around to it. Unfortunately getting a vps in switzerland is cheaper than even doing that - and that's with the virtual hardware and unlimited network bandwidth the latter of which is big buckeroonies in australia.
Well I still haven't done anything with it apart from setup apache with a nothing homepage pointing back to my isp hosted stuff, but it's at www.zedzone.au.
I'm still pretty lazy on the whole idea so it might take a while but i'll move my code and blog and eventually add an email to it. I don't particularly like working at that end these days (despite multiple shots at CMS subsystems) - too much security and complexity to worry about - but i'll see how it goes.
Although logging in here to post this did give me pause for thought on getting a bit less lazy about it. Despite never having offering it before blogger just gave me a page to buy and link a custom domain for a-hackers-craic.
Thanks google for once again mining my email to sell me something I already bought!
Next it'll be combat boots, kilts, and beer ... Adelaide Review article which includes bits about me (not sure why i didn't introduce myself as Zed that time, would've been better!).
Update: 15/4/2018. I finally got off my laze arse and spent a wet afternoon playing with the site - i've copied my internode (ISP) pages to the server, fixed some paths, and installed cvstrac for browsing the source (of some of the projects) via the new virtual host code.zedzone.au.
Still to do is the blog.
Well i've been following the whole "spectre" and "meltdown" saga over the last week or so. Apart from the pretty offensive development of branding (ugh) for a set of mostly unrelated bugs, loads of pro-intel FUD, misdirection and so on, it's been a bit of a fun ride of stupidity.
I haven't seen any patches for my laptop or work computers so far - one because i don't run any av software on microsoft? Ugh, what a fucking mess. I barely use that machine any more anyway, even less so while running that junk.
What's most appalling is that the problem has been sat on for 6 months under "responsible disclosure" while intel continued selling gimped hardware based on bogus benchmarks. And yet the linux and *bsd developers are either only just starting on or working on cleaning up fixes very recently - even intel is still fucking around with microcode updates.
The tech press, apart from The Register (who really broke this story) has been pretty shithouse too. "big nothingburger" for a massive massive security hole that isn't actually fixed by any of these OS kernel patches, merely mitigated. It's a big big serious problem, with big big serious costs, and the handling the disclosure has been an utter disaster - seemingly designed to spread fud about the impacts and costs. Still, if you relied on a single supplier - and particularly a nefarious piece of shit company like Intel - for any serious hardware investment, sucked in I guess? We all have to pay for your stupidity in the end regardless.
Blah.
I was insomniac[sic] late night and bored so I took the latest stack overflow survey. Apart from some pretty strange questions it's pretty clear why nobody reads my blog - no mention of almost any of the technologies I use day to day. Well at least they had the brains to identify C and C++ as two separate languages I suppose.
Some of the "order these in importance to you" questions I just skipped - I didn't care about the topic at all. A minor problem was a bit of confusion with "framework" "language", etc - where would OpenCL fit if they even included it? No CUDA either for that matter. Plenty of questions about advertising. No I don't use an ad-blocker but I turn off javascript which makes the site oh so much faster and kills most adverts as a bonus.
Sleep has been pretty miserable lately - probably a side-effect of overdoing it a bit, but I think i've gained enough weight again for the sleep apnoea to kick in. One example of overdoing it was the last weekend. Hit the beach Saturday afternoon, dropped in at a mates place - drank a carton of (bloody expensive) piss, went to a party (total strangers apart from him), was up all night whilst everyone else was falling asleep, back to his place to pick my bike up - for a couple more, another dip, and finally dropped by the pub on the way home for a fast (very slow!) one. Barmaid thought i was managing well all things considered but maybe that's because I always look exhausted and feel like shit? Nothing like a 36 hour day to get you tired; and then I was awake after only 4 hours of bloody sleep. For a couple of silly reasons I also got sunburnt to a crisp, oops.
Finally kicking into summer mode!
Well that was 2017 I guess. Better than 2016 for me at least.
Pretty much recovered from NYE and NYEE drinking but I might take it easy for a couple of days. Waiting for the weather to heat up enough to get back to the beach, did some gardening. The replacement BIOS arrived today so I resurrected my PC too - still seems a bit funny so i'll probably get another one soonish but it works again for now.
I found a laser printer dumped on the side of the road so took it apart for something to do. Surprising amount of screws, custom springs, cogs, and lots and lots of tough plastic. Probably nothing I can do with it but the imaging unit is kinda cool - rotating mirror, a couple of lenses and mirrors. I suppose the more surprising thing is how much technology is placed in what is essentially a throwaway, one-use device. The "consumable" isn't the toner in these things, it's the whole machine; and what's worse is the realisation that the economies of scale mean it couldn't be done any other way. The world is so fucked.
When I wrote the following on the new jjmpeg home page:
Version 3+ is a complete rewrite from earlier versions which have effectively dissapeared from the internet after google code closed down.
I didn't realise just how true it was. Without google code and regular blog updates my projects have basically vanished from the internets - and more so from google search than others. I'm not particularly surprised there is no real interest in the projects themselves but effectively vanishing is a bit weird. Unless you're using some proprietary publishing platform you essentially don't exist.
Well i've got a few weeks off at least anyway; i'll take a break from the computer, watch some cricket, and basically just bum around a bit.