2026-10-21T17:30:38Z https://nostr.now Bjarni |grep -i tech https://nostr.now/npub1dte9yp8hhd348m0u9g35esnawry7dlf8qnc98yv4wvgqdjtfp9gqpcr4u8 https://cdn.masto.host/floss/accounts/avatars/109/236/413/817/870/715/original/c9e481c4c96b8c05.jpg https://cdn.masto.host/floss/accounts/avatars/109/236/413/817/870/715/original/c9e481c4c96b8c05.jpg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqstl8y9dry7qjufdnktgnv50t7q97fmtve0j8dzdezh3n9d2c96qzyp40y5sy77akx5ldls4zxnxz04cvnehayuz0q5u3j4e3qpkfdyy4q4j4f6w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfg5v84w89ga8jhmzkr4ywgcxtmrk6vxsz53eet8k6p3qv9yqwnrctkwk70'>nevent1q…wk70</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>... Having double and triple checked my code, read multiple blog posts and the source of three different tools on Github, I was getting the feeling I was overlooking something obvious.<br/><br/>On a lark I decided to try Chromium&#39;s default hard coded password &#39;peanuts&#39; instead of the one I found in KWallet.<br/><br/>Oh dear. That worked. 😬 2025-05-09T14:47:10Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfg5v84w89ga8jhmzkr4ywgcxtmrk6vxsz53eet8k6p3qv9yqwnrczyp40y5sy77akx5ldls4zxnxz04cvnehayuz0q5u3j4e3qpkfdyy4qjh2f5x So, I decided to try and decrypt my Chromium stored passwords.<br/><br/>Found the &#39;Login Data&#39; sqlite3 DB. Found a Chromium secret in the KDE wallet. Found some online code samples...<br/><br/>Except of course they didn&#39;t work.<br/><br/>OK, the first code sample I emulated assumed Chromium on Windows, which uses AES in GCM mode. Turns out on Linux they use CBC? Fixed that, tried again. Nope.<br/><br/>Ah, apparently they stretch the password with PBKDF2. Fine, fine. Done.<br/><br/>Still no dice... 2025-05-09T14:45:54Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsruxke4lx4t78vf40fue64lx9her4cpfxuvfycmmwz2yvmdn83qrszyp40y5sy77akx5ldls4zxnxz04cvnehayuz0q5u3j4e3qpkfdyy4qfuf2wr Ooh, Thunderbird are going to offer some cloud services, built in an open sourcey way! This could be very good.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2025/04/01/finally-mozilla-thunderbird-takes-on-gmail-with-new-email-service/">https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2025/04/01/finally-mozilla-thunderbird-takes-on-gmail-with-new-email-service/</a><br/><br/>We just need an EU-hosted/managed instance or three...<br/><br/>I wonder who I should pitch to, to convince them that <a href="https://passcrow.org/">https://passcrow.org/</a> is a thing they should be interested in, use and participate in? 2025-04-30T11:31:48Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsthfkd66nfmnftyqelcgp4cgugc6gvm3m3y8007ne0zr3zjadza6czyp40y5sy77akx5ldls4zxnxz04cvnehayuz0q5u3j4e3qpkfdyy4qm5xkwf Yesterday, for reasons best left unstated, I invented a technique for combining #bash and #Python into a single file.<br/><br/>The motivation was to have something a bit more powerful than the #! to decide which installed Python to use. <br/><br/>The magic is in line two:<br/><br/>#!/bin/bash<br/>&#34;&#34;&#34;&#34;true&#34;<br/># bash sees this, python ignores it<br/>if [ -e /path/to/file ]; then<br/> exec python3 &#34;$0&#34; &#34;$@&#34;<br/>else<br/> echo &#34;OMG, something is missing&#34;<br/> exit 1<br/>fi<br/>&#34;&#34;&#34;<br/># begin python fun!<br/>from thing import python_stuff<br/>python_stuff() 2025-04-25T11:07:03Z