cf. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier_de_test_Eicar

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

FROM: https://sebsauvage.net/links/?0rGdAQ

Pour vous amuser à en créer en Python, avec fpdf2:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# REQUIRE: pip install fpdf2 pdf417 qrcode
import fpdf, pdf417, qrcode
EICAR = 'X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*'
pdf = fpdf.FPDF()
pdf.add_page()
pdf.set_font("Helvetica", size=30)
pdf.text(90, 20, "EICAR")
pdf.text(10, 60, "PDF-417:")
pdf.image(pdf417.render_image(pdf417.encode(EICAR)), x=10, y=60)
pdf.text(10, 140, "QRCode:")
pdf.image(qrcode.make(EICAR).get_image(), x=35, y=145)
pdf.output("eicar.pdf")

Ce blog voit l'apparition d'une nouvelle page permanente : Images libres de droits.

Cette page recense des site web, des illustrateurs, des icônes et des polices de caractères libres de droits.

Depuis octobre 2018, j'ai rassemblé une liste d'artistes dont j'apprécie le travail et qui placent leurs œuvres sous licence Creative …

À oui.sncf, je travaille au sein d'une équipe en charge de l'usine logicielle, qui administre depuis des années une instance Gitlab self-hosted.

Cet article contient quelques-unes de nos recommandations à l'intention des utilisateurs de notre Gitlab, ayant pour but à la fois améliorer les performances de leurs pipelines …

Détail des informations stockées dans le QR Code du pass vaccinal européen

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
import zlib
import pprint
# Modules tiers (Pillow, Pyzbar, base45, cbor2)
import PIL.Image
import pyzbar.pyzbar
import base45
import cbor2

img = PIL.Image.open("qrcode.png")
data = pyzbar.pyzbar.decode(img)
cert = data[0].data.decode()
b45data = cert.replace("HC1:", "")
zlibdata = base45.b45decode(b45data)
cbordata = zlib.decompress(zlibdata)
decoded = cbor2.loads(cbordata)
print("Header\n----------------");
pprint.pprint(cbor2.loads(decoded.value[0]))
print("\nPayload\n----------------");
pprint.pprint(cbor2.loads(decoded.value[2]))
print("\nSignature ?\n----------------");
print(decoded.value[3])

I have been amazed recently at the diversity of contributors on the fpdf2 project, coming from all around the world!

Then I thought it would be nice to visualize this diversity by building a world map of all contributors locations. There it is:

Click on the image to access an …

fpdf2 is a minimalist PDF creation library for Python that I am maintaining.

With the release yesterday of its v2.4.0, I'm going to present some of its notable new features since the latest minor version.

https://github.com/pyfpdf/fpdf2/ Doc: https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/

JPEG images …

Undying Dusk is a video game in a PDF format, with a gameplay based on exploration and logic puzzles, in the tradition of dungeon crawlers.

A curse set by the Empress keeps the world in an eternal dusk. You are have recently found shelter in an eerie monastery.

Featuring:

• ~ 200 …

What happens if malicious code is uploaded to npm under these names? Is it possible that some of PayPal’s internal projects will start defaulting to the new public packages instead of the private ones?

Today, I am happy to announce version 2.3.0 of fpdf2, code name: Unbreakable!

https://github.com/pyfpdf/fpdf2/ Doc: https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/

Why Unbreakable?

• As a tribute to M. Night Shyamalan movie
• Because using fpdf2, your Python code can never break!
  ...
  Just kidding, I would be …

fpdf2, the library I mentioned in my previous post, cannot parse existing PDF files.

However, other Python libraries can be combined with fpdf2 in order to add new content to existing PDF files.

This page provides several examples of doing so using pdfrw, a great zero-dependency pure Python library dedicated …

Effectively find upstream & downstream dependencies of a Pypi package

More about it: https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/09/21/watchman/

Alt: https://github.com/DavHau/pypi-deps-db
libraries.io also provides this information, possibly less accurate

Today, I am happy to announce a new version 2.2.0 of fpdf2 !

https://github.com/alexanderankin/pyfpdf/ Doc: https://alexanderankin.github.io/pyfpdf/

During the last few months, I contributed a few improvements to fpdf2, David Ankin fork of PyFPDF, the user-friendly Python library to generate PDFs:

from …

Download ready-to-use dictionaries for dictd (GoldenDict etc.)

Very useful for me to work on translations offline, in the train!

And I found the Wiktionary far more complete than FreeDict.

An alternative : parsing Wiktionary data dumps with tatuylonen/wiktextract, a Python tool.

Linkback protocols are an old breed. They were born in a time where MySpace, Wikipedia & WordPress had just been born, and Friendster was more popular than this new website called Facebook.

The latest linkback protocol, Webmention, is relatively recent though, as it became a W3C …

Covering :

• Persistent Connections
• Parallelism
• Asynchronicity
• Performances:

  Time needed for `serialized' called: 12.12s
  Time needed for `Session' called: 11.22s
  Time needed for `FuturesSession w/ 2 workers' called: 5.65s
  Time needed for `FuturesSession w/ max workers' called: 1.25s
  Time needed for `aiohttp' called: 1.19s

• Streaming

if you’re using Python, Alpine Linux will quite often:

• Make your builds much slower.
• Make your images bigger.
• Waste your time.
• On occassion, introduce obscure runtime bugs.

We faced an issue with DNS on alpine images too at work...
cf. https://wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-differences-from-glibc.html#Name-Resolver/DNS

So with that, I want to humbly challenge all of the programmers and members of the open source community to expand your thinking around inclusion and diversity. I proudly stand before you today as the representative of a demographic that most people don’t think about—formerly incarcerated people. But we exist, and we are eager to prove our value, and, above all else, we are looking to be accepted.

The video is on Youtube and is really a must-see.
Moving and fascinating:

The library was one of the most secure places at the prison.

Issue #5 is out !

Paged Out! is a new experimental (one article == one page) free magazine about programming (especially programming tricks!), hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene, and other similar topics.

Issue #2 includes a crazy prime Python quine ! (page 35) O.O

At work, we needed to retrieve the full list of jobs a given Jenkins instance was hosting.

Our first solution was to use the jenkinsapi Python package:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as XmlElementTree
from jenkinsapi.jenkins import Jenkins

def get_all_jenkins_jobs(server_url):
    jenkins = Jenkins(server_url, lazy=True, timeout=30,
                      username=os …