Ave's tech notes

This is a list of quirks I spotted on eMRTDs that I'm posting to try and help out anyone else who is trying to parse them. It's a list I will continue updating, probably.

As I've spotted these while implementing hf emrtd set of commands on Proxmark3, they're all fixed there.

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Future edit:

I was informed that rlottie exists (which is used by Telegram and Discord): https://github.com/Samsung/rlottie

It comes with a built-in GIF converter called lottie2gif, but that does not support transparency.

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So, I've spent some of my free time in the last 2 days working on LasagnaTel, Lasagna Ltd's internal phone network, and did some small improvements. One of the changes I wanted to also do was fixing DTMF tones (to only have them inband).

Over the last couple months, I've been thinking on and off wondering if my specific cisco phone supports custom ringtones ever since I saw linuxgemini set their ringtone to Nokia Arabic Ringtone, but never really bothered with it, but...

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I've been looking for a cold storage solution to use with LavaTech backups for some while now, and was planning to use online.net C14 (now C14 Classic). Well, they just re-released it under Scaleway, and I've decided to take on the task of getting cold storage working.

I use rclone for a lot of purposes, and for the task at hand, it's what I'll be using to move data from Backblaze B2 hot storage to C14 cold storage.

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