Devrant @ 35C3 - anybody?

Just applied to a job with Microsoft with no professional dev history at all... I consider it a Turing test..

Somebody working in Czech Republic, Prague can estimate how the job situation for a German autodidact backend developer would be? Looking for an opportunity in a new environment.

requests lib - HTTP for humans (python)

It really is a breeze to work with! Clean and intuitive design, loving it!

[Prestashop question / rant]

Yes, it's not StackOverflow here, neither is it prestashop support forum - but I trust u people most :)

Proper solution for working with big(?) import of products from XML (2,5MB, ~8600 items) to MySQL(InnoDB) within prestashop backoffice module (OR standalone cronjob)

"solutions" I read about so far:
- Up php's max execution time/max memory limit to infinity and hope it's enough
- Run import as a cronjob
- Use MySQL XML parsing procedure and just supply raw xml file to it
- Convert to CSV and use prestashop import functionality (most unreliable so far)
- Instead of using ObjectModel, assemble raw sql queries for chunks of items
- Buy a pre-made module to just handle import (meh)

Maybe an expert on the topic could recommend something?

Get well soon facebook

Reversed network protocol didn't work, the sent messages weren't acknowledged or denied... basically no response from the server at all.

Turned out, after weeks of cluelessness, that I forgot to append PKCS#7 padding...

Xbox One owners here? Got something for you :)

https://openxbox.org

Avoided IoT(IoS - InternetOfShit) for a long time now, due to the security concerns with retail products.
Now I looked into 433 Transceiver + Arduino solutions.. to build something myself, just for the lolz.

Theory:
Smallest Arduino I found has 32 KByte of programmable memory, a tiny tiny crypto library could take around 4 KBytes...

Set a symetric crypto key for each homebrewn device / sensor / etc, send the info and commands (with time of day as salt for example) encrypted between Server <-> IoT gadget, ciphertext would have checksum appended, magic and ciphertext length prepended.

Result:
Be safe from possible drive-by attacks, still have a somewhat reliable communication?!
Ofc passionate hackers would be still able to crack it, no doubt.

Question: Am I thinking too simple? Am I describing just the standard here?

!rant; question = true;

Switched to non-google for every device I own, however:
When I accidently go to Google and try to search, it tells me that I am blocked for suspicious activity and need to solve a captcha - If I do, the current search works.. Shortly after tho, it gives me the same thing again.

Any idea how to get more detailed info about the issue, e.g. Ensure none of my systems is quietly participating in a botnet?

PS: why should I care? Just don't use Google! That's right, yes, it still bugs me tho

Writing regular expressions from the top of my head

Reverse Engineering vs github hacking

Threading

Gstreamer - cool when it works, utterly depressing and mysterious when it doesn't

Useful error messages

Source: https://twitter.com/pfrazee/status/...

Solving crashes via *big data*

Should I connect my vacuum roboter to Travis CI/Appveyor and let it start cleaning on each successful deploy for a minute?

Just collecting ideas for the time it arrives and I root it :D

Reversed a TSOP programmer software that only ran with Win2K (due buggy HID handling) and rewrote to run multi platform :)

C -> Rust -> Happy life

RANT

Soooo close to quitting my job in the social field.. and then re-start in the IT field...
Switching shifts and such high illness rate are making me exhausted...

Free ebook: For people who are into hardware analysis, hardware/software design failures.

Hacking the Xbox
by Andrew "bunnie" Huang

It's ofc not state of the art, most techniques apply today still.

Download: http://bunniefoo.com/nostarch/...

maybe some here have a use for such book

headaches..

Likely a very simple algorithm to get these packets processed in the right order, got plenty of metadata that should help, but since yesterday I am wrapping my head around it and cannot figure out a sane way...

if reverse_engineering > coding_from_scratch:
more_fun()
else:
also_fun_but_not_so_l33t()

resp = input('anybody feels the same?')

# hopefully pep8 compliant

Source: twitter @valarauca1

Sleep at day, work at night

When your homebrew project is already split into 4 seperate libraries and is being developed for over a year, by 2 people.. you know you're insane !

Wish Adobe would take a similar approach like Microsoft and release their Applications for Linux.. so I could use Photoshop and Lightroom there and ditch OS X completely...

concurrent I/O in python, fun fun fun!

Really, every project starts the same - exactly the same:

git init

Are you a masochist? Noo??? - Please choose another job!