Technical notes, my online memory

Say you want to contact a bunch of file owners to do some cleanup or housekeeping. This will get you a list of files sorted by owner. fin...

Sometimes you need to use *args and **kwargs to pass your positional and keyword args to another class. But what if your class takes an add...

Sometimes you (or your code) screws up and you end up with a filename that is hard to address on the filename because it has special charact...

Making ssh tunnels, even through multiple machines, is easy. These two commands will effectively link localhost:9999 with box3:80, via box2...

A paper Loving the Cyber Bomb? The Dangers of Threat Inflation in Cybersecurity Policy by Brito and Watkins of the Mercatus Institute at Vi...

I wanted to create a cron'd backup to a luks volume on a remote machine. My preference was to not have the volume mounted automatically...

There has been some discussion of whether the dropbox authentication system is a vulnerability , or just as insecure as everything else. At...