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Benjamin Pollack

As I've been actually coding more and more, and using #helix more and more, I got annoyed with the only port of the excellent "Shades of Purple" #vscode theme (github.com/ahmadawais/shades-o), so I ended up writing a new port from scratch that's *much* closer to the original: git.sr.ht/~bmp/dotfiles/tree/m

If there's any interest, I can extract it out into its own repo, but I don't know if it's worth it.

🦄 Shades of Purple offers a hand-picked selection of bold and vibrant shades of purple that will transform your code into a visually stunning masterpiece. With its carefully crafted color palette, ...
GitHubGitHub - ahmadawais/shades-of-purple-vscode: 🦄 Shades of Purple offers a hand-picked selection of bold and vibrant shades of purple that will transform your code into a visually stunning masterpiece. With its carefully crafted color palette, this theme brings a sense of style, elegance, and whimsy to your favorite code editor, making your coding sessions a delightful journey of creativity.🦄 Shades of Purple offers a hand-picked selection of bold and vibrant shades of purple that will transform your code into a visually stunning masterpiece. With its carefully crafted color palette, ...
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ESET Research

#ESETresearch has uncovered the #MirrorFace Operation AkaiRyū, which extends the group’s usual focus beyond Japan into Europe. The initial lure centered around Expo 2025 in Japan, compromising a Central European diplomatic institute.
welivesecurity.com/en/eset-res

Surprisingly, #MirrorFace used #ANEL – a backdoor historically linked only to #APT10 – highlighting a shift in the group’s tactics and reinforcing suspicions that MirrorFace could be part of the APT10 umbrella.
Operation AkaiRyū began with targeted spearphishing emails referencing the victim’s past correspondence and Expo 2025 , persuading recipients to download malicious attachments.
Once the files were opened, a layered compromise chain ensued . Collaborating with the victim allowed us to perform in-depth analysis, shedding light on MirrorFace’s post-compromise behavior – from credential harvesting to dropping additional tools for lateral movement.

#MirrorFace used an intricate execution chain to stealthily run a highly tweaked #AsyncRAT within #WindowsSandbox, hampering detection efforts. This is the first time we’ve seen MirrorFace employ AsyncRAT.
In another twist, #MirrorFace utilized #VSCode remote tunnels, a tactic enabling covert access and command execution on compromised machines. This approach has also been seen with other China-aligned cyberespionage groups.
The group primarily leveraged #ANEL as a first-stage backdoor, #HiddenFace – MirrorFace’s flagship backdoor – was dropped later in the attack to bolster persistence . Notably absent this time was #LODEINFO, which #MirrorFace typically employs.

We presented our findings about Operation AkaiRyū conducted by #MirrorFace at @jpcert_ac on January 22, 2025: jsac.jpcert.or.jp.
IoCs available in our GitHub repo: github.com/eset/malware-ioc/tr

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phildini

So, following a blog post[1] from @webology and some guides about #VSCode plugins online, I set up #ollama with a number of models and connected that to the Continue plugin.

My goal: see if local-laptop #llm code assistants are viable.

My results: staggeringly underwhelming, mostly in terms of speed. I tried gemma3, qwen2.5, and deepseek-r1; none of them performed fast enough to be a true help for coding.

[1] micro.webology.dev/2024/07/24/

micro.webology.dev · 🦙 Ollama Llama 3.1 Red PajamaFor a few weeks, I told friends I was excited to see if the new Llama 3.1 release was as good as it was being hyped. Yesterday, Llama 3.1 was released, and I was impressed that the Ollama project published a release to Homebrew and had the models ready to use. ➜ brew install ollama ➜ ollama serve # (optionally) I run Ollama as a background service ➜ brew services start ollama # This takes a while (defaults to the llama3.
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Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸

This is what you need in Nixos for Niri to work AND for all electron-based apps (obsidian, vscode) to work out of the box.

I strongly recommend you once that's done that you edit your ~/.config/niri/config.kdl file with some basic stuff (like what's your D-menu manager or whateve ris your terminal instead of alacritty) otherwise you'd be stuck with nothing but the possibility of logging out.

#Niri#Nixos#VSCode
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