If you want to perform SOUNDEX similarity searches with Doctrine in Symfony, you first need to define it as a so called "DQL User Defined Functions". Resources online are a bit dated so I decided to publish this quick blag post. That _sounds_ nice, show me more!

When creating invitations to Discord servers – or "guilds" how they seem to called internally – you can configure some limits. For example, you can limit the number of times a link can be used to join a server or you can configure an expiry date. The default setting for the time limit is 7 days btw, which is why most links are expired when you come back to them after some time. I was in the situation that I wanted to invite a limited number of people to a Discord server and each should only receive a link that can only be used once. So in some sense, I wanted to create personalized invite links, which doesn't seem to be a use case that's supported out of the box. So let's use Python!

This blog post will cover my audio setup on Windows. It's core component is called VoiceMeeter which is a virtual audio mixer for Windows developed by Vincent Burel under the company label "VB-Audio". This blog post will focus on the fact that it makes virtual microphones and virtual speakers available which in turn can be used by all program running on your computer. Do you want to know more?

(English-only readers can safely ignore this post) I'll be talking at FrOSCon this year again and try to take a stab at a topic that does not _only_ involve technical topics but will also tell the story of a bank heist. This heist wasn't supported by getaway cars and pistols but was solely carried out through cyber-means. The talk is in German though. * Source Code of LaTex Presentation: https://github.com/larsborn/FrOSCon2021-Ghidra-Bangladesh-Talk * Handout PDF: FrOSConTalk2021-Ghidra-Bangladesh * FrOSCon schedule entry: https://programm.froscon.de/2021/events/2670.html * Recording on media.ccc: https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2021-2670-der_cyber-bankraub_von_bangladesch

I idly googled for the title and couldn't find code that I can insipidly paste into a console window. So I prepared it here for fellow travelers (and my future self):

wget 'https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/releases/download/Ghidra_10.0.1_build/ghidra_10.0.1_PUBLIC_20210708.zip'
unzip ghidra_10.0.1_PUBLIC_20210708.zip
sudo apt install default-jdk
./ghidra/ghidraRun

Assume you have an already running Zabbix instance that is able to send notifications – via e-Mail or Signal for example. The goal of this post is, to use such an instance to get notified whenever there is a new release for a software you may have installed on some of your machines. Do you want to know more?

Create a new directory in wp-content/themes — let's call it danktheme in this example. Create two files in that directory: style.css and functions.php with the following contents:

/*
 Theme Name:   Your Themename
 description:  Your Description
 Author:       Your Name
 Template:     twentytwentyone
 Version:      1.0.0
*/

and

<?php
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles', 11);
function my_theme_enqueue_styles()
{
    wp_enqueue_style('danktheme', get_stylesheet_uri());
}

That's it: now you can select "Your Themename" in the admin interface. If you don't want to use twentytwentyone as the parent theme — because it's not the most recent one when you read this, for example — replace it in the style.css. Yes, in the stylesheet, I'm not making this up, rules are rules.

I was always fascinated with the idea of turning ideas into data within a computer and then turning this data into a physical object. With this, I'm probably not alone given that 3D printing is all the rage in nerd world. After some googeling around and buying a printer on Amazon Prime day, I devised the following plan to learn 3D printing as a skill: 1. print sample shape shipped with the printer 2. print model from the internet 3. modify existing model 4. create a model from scratch The intention behind this plan was to spread out different problems and technologies involves as much as possible. So it's never a daunting task. Show the steps!