About
Very few of us are what we seem. Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist
Feel free to browse around and you’ll have a pretty good idea of what this is about. I write about security, privacy, vulnerabilities and exploits, retro computing, music, various programming languages, personal projects and general stuff that crosses my mind. Make sure you use encrypted email when sending me any sensitive info.
I am not a pirate, but a corsair.
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Here are some dogs running.
Why sizeof(cat)?
Because +++ATH0 was taken.
PGP key
0xEC61D381F2735495 and you can download the public key.
The key’s fingerprint is 4ED4 000C 9038 2C23 D417 8CB9 EC61 D381 F273 5495.
The key should expire on June 2, 2027.
Communication
Please send me encrypted mails if possible (see my public key above). Every bit of encrypted traffic increases the encrypted background noise and thus makes it harder to distinguish between important and unimportant traffic.
If possible, one of:
$ gpg --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --recv-key 4ED4000C90382C23D4178CB9EC61D381F2735495
$ curl -sf https://sizeof.cat/sizeofcat.asc | gpg --import
And send me an email.
I especially love the emails asking if I am really a cat (no, i’m not a cat but if it’s important for you to talk to a cat I’m pretty sure we can work something out, my Monero address is here) or if I can download this PDF file from this totally legit website (sure, why not, what could go wrong) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
/* Let's do this in JavaScript because everybody knows JS. */
const domain = "riseup.net";
let email = "sizeofcat" + '@' + domain;
/* Yes, that's my email address. */
Maybe you like the console more.
$ printf "%s@%s.%s\n" sizeofcat riseup net
Not a JavaScript programmer and/or can’t figure it out? Click here.
Where?
- sizeof.cat
- sizeofaex6zgovemvemn2g3jfmgujievmxxxbcgnbrnmgcjcjpiiprqd.onion on the Tor network.
Nothing else except those, I don’t have a Facebook, a Discord, an ExpertSEXchange, a MySpace, a Gitlab, a GetHobo, a Masto-something, a Twitter, a Twatter, a Swatter, a Fatter, a Squatter, a Platter or whatever is the latest fad nowadays. If somebody claims to be me, chances are it’s not actually me, but my evil twin.
You can get all geeky about it and do a DNS query for TXT records of sizeof.cat to get some contact details (yes, I know, Cloudflare is shit and I agree with you):
Linux/macOS:
$ curl -s -H 'accept: application/dns-json' \
'https://cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query?name=sizeof.cat&type=TXT' \
| jq -r '.Answer[].data'
Windows:
(Resolve-DnsName sizeof.cat -Type TXT | Select-Object -ExcludeProperty Strings).Text | Format-Table
Response should be similar to this:
"v=me; gpg=4ED4000C90382C23D4178CB9EC61D381F2735495"
"v=me; tor=http://sizeofaex6zgovemvemn2g3jfmgujievmxxxbcgnbrnmgcjcjpiiprqd.onion"
"v=me; about=https://sizeof.cat"
"oa1:xmr recipient_address=83Z6NrUiydMUU7LRy7T78Wb8ZVMhVKsT3A65XwZQwB7chQFziDJiup7Uk2ukqcZ8fp69KtXvZkteGNZ9YdRbqVFHRwoJNjZ; recipient_name=sizeof.cat;"
...
Donations
Feeling rich today? Let’s fix that, you can send Monero to sizeof.cat in an OpenAlias compatible wallet.
Monero is an open-source cryptocurrency that focuses on privacy, decentralisation and scalability. Unlike many cryptocurrencies that are derivatives of Bitcoin, Monero is based on the CryptoNote protocol and possesses significant algorithmic differences relating to blockchain obfuscation.
Website
I started this website in 2015 (as you can see from the archive) and managed to piss off quite a few companies corporations along the way (looking at you Twitch/Amazon, Samsung and Apple), which has to be a bonus, I mean who doesn’t want more friends? The website is powered by Hugo (and a bunch of Python scripts behind) with a custom theme based on the Even theme by olOwOlo, custom theme which I am also releasing for free. Free is always good.
The access logs are disabled, so there is absolutely no trace of any of the visitors of this website but if you want a number, I’d say over 70k unique monthly visitors and over 250k monthly requests.
If you want to make me an irresistible offer to promote (read: shill) your product, make sure you use the email subject IRRESISTIBLE OFFER, all in caps, so my email client can pick it up and mark it as spam.
Testiclemonials
Sometimes I feel like I don’t even know who sizeof(cat) is. But then I remember sizeof(char) is always 1 and my brain relaxes. TwitterUser967_Totally_not_b0t
sizeof(cat) is my idol. Nagoor Babu, Weapon of Durgasoft
I have no fucking idea who sizeof(cat) is, fuck off. Abdul Lateef Jandali
sizeof(cat) once broke into the Octagon servers using nothing but a bottle opener, sauerkraut and the famous left-handed Latvian Rotator Torture. Doug Snowmen
sizeof (cat) is not a meaningful question in itself because cat is not a data type or a variable. In programming, the sizeof operator is used to determine the size in bytes of a data type or a variable. For example, sizeof (int) would return the size in bytes of an integer variable. If you are asking about the size of a domestic cat, the answer would depend on the specific breed and individual cat. Generally, cats can weigh anywhere from a few pounds to over 20 pounds, with an average weight of around 9-10 pounds. Chat Geppetto
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I noticed people around have those bio texts that say how wonderful, beautiful, stupendous and precious they are, so why not. Here is my bio text.
sizeof is a unary operator in the programming languages C and C++. It generates the storage
size of an expression or a data type, measured in the number of char-sized units.
Consequently, the construct sizeof (char) is guaranteed to be 1. The actual number of bits
of type char is specified by the preprocessor macro CHAR_BIT, defined in the standard include
file limits.h. On most modern computing platforms this is eight bits. The result of sizeof
has an unsigned integer type that is usually denoted by size_t.
And a cat is sometimes just a cat.
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