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Snicker-snack

September 13, 2026

So chatgpt… “A snickers candy bar with “hackers” instead” yielded: Great 1st try… On the right side, ingredients are… Curiosity Creativity Commitment Dissent On the left: 250b Tokens Per bar...

BMC, hack, idrac, ipmi, qemu, security, system, virtual

BMCs under Qemu repo

August 24, 2026

For awhile I’d had a little petting zoo of qemu’d BMCs, so I decided to write it all up and put it out for others: https://github.com/zenfish/zbmc Warning label: I shrank...

audit, code, crypto, hack, idrac, ipmi, python, security

new tool release: zipmi

August 17, 2026

zipmi – https://github.com/zenfish/zipmi – is a pure-Python IPMI/BMC stack — an `ipmitool`-style CLI plus a library where every byte is an inspectable and mangleable object. Built for people/AI (are AIs...

BMC, claude, dell, hack, idrac, ipmi

unpacking iDRAC9/iDRAC10 (dracula 🦇)

June 28, 2026

Awhile back I unpacked some older idrac firmware for fun… had to jump through some hoops to do so, so when I had to unpack idrac9/idrac10 firwmare, decided to improve...

code, DARPA, dtrace, forensics, mac, security

Software tracing on the mac

March 11, 2026

There are two types of people in the world… those who love strace (and ltrace!) and the other 99.999% of people who have never heard of strace. This is for...

BMC, hack, ipmi

unpacking Dell’s iDRAC schtuff

September 9, 2025

I hadn’t look at Dell’s iDRAC stuff in forever… and it appeared they’d changed some of the formatting of the iDRAC updates/etc. since then. I didn’t see anything out there,...