---------------------------------------- Makerspace august 13th, 2021 ---------------------------------------- It's been a while. I've been spending the past year either working from home or being at home in my spare time, except some shorter travels within Norway. Nothing but covid really happened, and I didn't find anything particular to write about. Until I spend last weekend at a small festival at our local makerspace group. The makerspace is situated in the basement of one of the university buildings. There are 3D printers of various kinds, a laser cutter, a CNC and so on. This year they bought a lot of sewing equipment, including an embroidery machine. Lots of cool stuff, if you have some spare time and some creative ideas about what you want to create. Every year there is a small festival going on there, and as last year, I was one of the participants. There were talks about geeky stuff, like rocket building, smart homes with home assistant, but also Docker, NixOS, etc. One of my favorites was CTF, or Capture the flag, which is a digital hunt for "flags" which requires solving various tasks, usually withing web exploitation, cryptography, reverse engineering, etc. This CTF was a little different though, as it also contained questions about the talks. One of the CTF tasks was to decompile and reverse engineer a C program to find out what input it accepts. Attached to the task, there was a Linux binary, and I had only brought my FreeBSD machine (and the wifi was too bad for installing the linux libraries and binaries). So in the end, I solved the task by just reading the assembly code. I haven't touched assembly since my 20s, so that was fun! (DIR) Back ______________________________________________________________________________ Gophered by Gophernicus/3.0.1 on FreeBSD/amd64 12.3