I had a look through some of the pictures I have from my Iceland trip in August, but it was really painful. My network drive seems to be struggling delivering large files over sshfs, it probably doesn't help that they are 25MB raws.
I used darktable to crop the image, everythin else I had on my machine chocked on the CR2 raw files.
Reading: Abaddon's Gate, Reamde
As I have said already, I am trying to get control of my photo collection. I want to have an image on almost every blog post, but before I can do that I need to sort out the mess that is my collection. Currently I have raws and jpegs in a directory structure, an iPhoto library and some almost structure files.
I want to have the directory layout:
year/month/day/[raw|jpeg]
For today it would be:
2016/11/11/raw
2016/11/11/jpeg
Before I can do that I need to extract images from iPhoto and collate everything together. Unfortunately iPhoto on my laptop does not want to start up at all and I suspect the App Store will want me to upgrade my OS too. I am a hacker so this isn't a problem.
Some searching turned up exportiphoto a python program that will extract images from your iPhoto library. Download, run:
python exportiphoto.py [options] "iPhoto-Library-dir" "destination-dir"
Running this script there was some crunching, some promising output and then it
was done super fast, awesome! I
sshfs
ed out to the storage box and started
looking around for my photos. Instead I found a bunch of empty directories, I
must have done something wrong.
Instead of poking at the script I thought I would have a look at the iPhoto app
bundle. Apps on a back are made up of a bundle, the bundle is just a directory
which the finder treats in a special way. Looking into the bundle I found a
Masters
directory. The
Masters
directory was 40GB of photos in a raw
format, most of the pictures that will be in the library.
The
Masters
directory has the photos stored in the correct directory
structure, so I copied that out to use as the basis for my tidy.
Reading: Abaddon's Gate, Reamde
MacOS has lots of cool security features, by default the OS will only run
signed code. Great security has trade offs, tonight I was hit my MacOS
restricting permissions.
gdb
needs to be signed before it will be allowed to
debug other program. It manifests like this:
$ gdb -q neat-streamer
Reading symbols from neat-streamer...done.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /Users/jones/code/neat-streamer/neat-streamer
Unable to find Mach task port for process-id 13334: (os/kern) protection failure (0x2).
(please check gdb is codesigned - see taskgated(8))
Learning
lldb
seems like far too much work, this needs fixed. Searching
brings up
stackoverflow
questions, with a pointer to
this guide
that
explains the entire process. In general you need to create a code signing key,
sign the gdb binary and then restart the enforcement service
taskgated
.
The restart commands were a little harder to track down.
Restart
taskgated
:
sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.taskgated.plistv
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.taskgated.plistv
There are also
start and stop
commands, but this didn't work for me. The
troubleshooting on the guide was of no help. I even went as far as trying a
reboot, but no luck. Maybe I will try figuring out
lldb
.
If anyone has any idea hows to get this working, I would love some help.
Politically the last few years have been really hard for me, 2014 , 2015 , and 2016 saw votes go completely against my expectations. This week was also surprise. It is easy to think I hold fringe views, that I am all alone surrounded by fascists, but the numbers show that only about have the electorate disagree in each of these cases.
The problem in almost all of these votes is not the right, but the inability of the left to draw people out. The fascists have it easy, they can hold a deplorable ideal, get rid of the immigrants and their supporters can galvanise around the idea. The left only seems to offer the status quo.
There are two courses of action at a time like this.
Today, I really just want to climb a hill and start living in a cave. But that is the easy way out, instead I am going to start helping make the world a better place.
Reading: Abaddon's Gate, Reamde
Couldn't say it better if I tried. @warrenellis @DarickR pic.twitter.com/yswrRp9u4p
— Mireille Abrihet (@MireilleAbrihet) November 9, 2016
The ticket sales for Congress this year have been a ultra fast, it is has been entertaining to watch friends fight against server crashes and load while trying to get tickets. This year I was lucky enough to avoid that ordeal, but it has made me think about writing bots to buy tickets. I think I would be trying to do so if I was going through the public sale.
I have previously watched a defcon talk about buying cars using a set of bots, I do wonder if there is a set of literature on doing this and dealing with mitigations.
There is also this talk , it might be good.
Reading: Abaddon's Gate, Reamde