Here's a short little write up on getting Age of Mythology (great break down by staff here )running under Virtualbox. I'm running mac OS 10.15.4 but this should work under all platforms using VirtualBox.
Afteri some trial and error, I found that VirtualBox 6.1 wasn't working with 3D acceleration under XP (apparently it's been removed) so I had to downgrade to 5.2.
Quick update to SnackLinux, rolled out Linux 4.15.2 with Busybox 1.28.0. Also switched over to x86_64 only (for now at least) since it simplifies a lot of things. I removed the need to staticly link everything and get rid of that niche, since a few other smaller distros cover that (Alpine Linux for example). Again, this simplifies building packages and running into less issues. Check it out on Github for build instructions, or the getting started page on getting SnackLinux running.
I recently switched phones from a LG G4 to a Sony Xperia X Performance (isn't that a mouthful!), so I had a spare Android phone lying around. What better use for than to sniff some traffic!
Ads on your mobile device can use a fair chunk of your monthly data, so I set out to create a way to disable them while browsing. If you happen to have a rooted Android phone, AdAway is the easiest solution that I have found. Another solution is creating your own DNS server, to have all traffic to unwanted domains be unresolved. While that's great, one can only set the DNS servers manually for wifi, not for mobile data (3G/LTE). The fix this issue, what I did was create an OpenVPN server with Bind9 zones to block unwanted domains.
To bootstrap installing VPN, I used this script to quickly set up an OpenVPN server. Its all very straight forward and will prompt for a few options.
If all went well, it will generate a client profile for you to use (.ovpn). Next, I installed bind9 and followed this tutorial. Once that is all set up, you'll have an ad blocking DNS server! Only thing left to do is force clients to use the DNS.
Edit: This has been fixed in the latest firmare update 4.5.10.25
The routers that you receive from your ISP are almost always garbage: not many options to configure and pitiful wifi range. The router/modem that Shaw customers receive is the Hitron CGNM-2250 thankfully isn't completely terrible, 802.11ac plus gigabit ports. I was poking about and researching the model and came upon an exploit for a similar model version for remote code execution. The CGNM-2250 is vulnerable as well, for reference my software version is 4.5.8.20 with hardware version 1A. The input for the ping utility through the web interface isn't sanitized so you can enter arbitrary input. I discovered that it has a few basic utilities, including Dropbear.
The Makefile for SnackLinux has been updated, I made it a bit easier to build SnackLinux from scratch. I'd like to update GCC to at least 5.x something, and add a few more packages to SnackLinux. Eventually, adding a PKGBUILD-like system to fbpkg would be preferable. Right now, it's just a bunch of instructions on the snacklinux.com.
SnackLinux now has a whopping 31 packages, which include a (somewhat) working gcc toolchain and other fun GNU utilities (vitetris included!). I was able to add Docker support as well, which is just tarballed userland. Getting a working gcc toolchain was a bit of a pain in the butt. Pain in the butt because musl doesn't play nice with every piece of software out there, since most (that I have encountered anyway) think we're using glibc. And since SnackLinux is focused on every packaging being staticly compiled, not every package plays nice with that either. For example, there is a Python 2.7.9 package in the repository that is missing quite a few modules, see below:
Tags have been added to Pasteros.io, so now pastes can be "grouped" together, making it a bit easier to manage. For example, see https://pasteros.io/tag/snacklinux. A delete URL is still on my todo list, but that shouldn't be too difficult to implement.
