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Mr. Robot Season 2 Easter Egg Sites

1. Ransomware webpage

Page Name: AdobeTracking.pageName = 'Mr. Robot : S2 Easter Egg Sites : Ransomware : Home';
URL: http://i239.bxjyb2jvda.net/
JS: http://i239.bxjyb2jvda.net/web_analytics.js
Credit: https://0x41.no/mr-robot-s02e01-easter-egg/

On load, this page displays a countdown timer starting at 24:00:00. When time is over, the following "hidden" message is revealed:

Apple has introduced a new .plist file format in 10.4. You'll notice that you can no longer just edit a .plist file in TextEdit or other text editors. The reason for this is that the files are now binary rather than raw XML.

Luckily for us, there is a command line utility called plutil that can convert back and forth between the two formats. You can convert the .plist file you want to edit to XML format, edit it in TextEdit, then convert back to binary for use. To convert a binary .plist file to XML format for editing, type this in the Terminal:

plutil -convert xml1 some_file.plist

To convert an XML .plist file to binary for use:

plutil -convert binary1 some_other_file.plist

Rails Rspec APIs Testing Notes

Folders Structure

  spec
  |--- apis #do not put into controllers folder. 
        |--- your_api_test_spec.rb  
  |--- controllers
  |--- models
  |--- factories
 |--- views

Originally published in June 2008

When hiring Ruby on Rails programmers, knowing the right questions to ask during an interview was a real challenge for me at first. In 30 minutes or less, it's difficult to get a solid read on a candidate's skill set without looking at code they've previously written. And in the corporate/enterprise world, I often don't have access to their previous work.

To ensure we hired competent ruby developers at my last job, I created a list of 15 ruby questions -- a ruby measuring stick if you will -- to select the cream of the crop that walked through our doors.

What to expect

Candidates will typically give you a range of responses based on their experience and personality. So it's up to you to decide the correctness of their answer.

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

tmux cheatsheet

As configured in my dotfiles.

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

	RSpec.configure do \|config\|
	config.before(:suite) do
	DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:truncation)
	end

	config.before(:each) do
	DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
	end

	config.before(:each, js: true) do

	# -- mode: ruby --
	# vi: set ft=ruby :

	Vagrant::Config.run do \|config\|
	config.vm.box = "base"
	config.vm.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", 1024]

	config.vm.define :haproxy do \|haproxy\|
	haproxy.vm.forward_port 80, 8000
	haproxy.vm.network :hostonly, "192.168.1.10"