A pop-up retro computer museum appeared in my neighbourhood, we dropped by for some Boulder Dash, Tetris and other fun games on our way to the library.

www.kalliontietokonemuseo.fi

www.ilove8bit.fi

Comparing my commute in June vs my commute in December (around 8:30 in the morning)

(Higher quality version)

Christmas-themed robot delivered our groceries today

14:35

Happy Nobel day!

Peak sunshine today! Sunset in three hours!

My ride from the office yesterday.

A bicycle with snow on it

Good thing we have up to date documentation at the office!

Tired post-vaccine coffee

Oh no… someone just sent me a e-mail that started with “Here’s an improved version of your text with a more clear structure and a more professional language”.

So apparently my employer is again shuffling things around and some people are being let go (I don’t know whether I’m affected yet). Anyone have any job tips for for a senior macOS developer with security focus? Would need to be able to work in Helsinki. F-Secure Press Release

Nice commute this morning.

Excellent parking there, DHL

Happy Tiger Day from Suomenlinna/Sveaborg!

🦊 in central Helsinki

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0d1r8M_OuzbeLz_9rpWg7SanA

Helsinki ❤️

Upgrade my private phone to iOS 18 and private laptop to Sequoia beta, y/n?

I really just want the new Sequoia screensavers and remote-control my iPhone from my Mac. 🤷

When (English-configured) Siri starts listening in on the (Swedish) bedtime story.

It was getting hard to find spare parts for our decade-old Roomba so we needed to get a new robot vacuum cleaner. However, some family members have grown so attached to the old one so now we have a big and a baby robovac.

Evening walk @ 20:30

It started with an attempt to fix a flaky unit test, which expanded into deleting some unused code which expanded into deleting almost 4000 lines of code. A nice PR to finish off with before vacation starts!

“Lines updated: +1 -3888”

A fox showed up in our backyard while we were grilling

Eating one of these is like eating a whole bag of Djungelvrål, it’s completely insane and I can’t stop

A hand holding a jar of black, powder-coated candies with a white label featuring the large text "SVENSKJÄVLAR!" in Swedish. The background shows an outdoor scene with green trees and several buildings, indicating the jar is being held near a window.

(I don’t know how Sparkle operates; if it only does the extraction after signature validation I guess an attack would be pretty hard to pull off even if you have a zero day in the archive decompressor.)

Step 1: find zero day vulnerability in obscure archive format
Step 2: add said archive format to the most popular 3rd party macOS software update framework
Step 3: ???

Add support for extracting Apple Archives (.aar files) by zorgiepoo · Pull Request #2586 · sparkle-project/Sparkle