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541.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
Satire does usually have a degree of truth/realism.
542.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
Huh. I really don't see the point of this, vs something like GrapheneOS. Edit: I'm well aware of the differences between typical Linux and Android (especially the security architecture!), and I'm willing to make some sacrific
543.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
Tangentially reminds me of https://deadlockempire.github.io/ where you play the role of the scheduler, but your job is to make vulnerable programs misbehave.
544.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
Yes, this breaks the whole scheme. Anyone promoting it as a solution is delusional. There's a triangle of "robust", "private", and "practical" and you can only pick two. This one omits robust. The various
545.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
It's a clever choice of words because "illicit" does not necessarily mean illegal, so they're technically not wrong, even though that's the connotation they clearly want to convey.
546.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy
547.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
Not a priority I guess.
548.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
In the case of hl2 the source code for the engine has leaked, so you can recompile it for your target platform of choice, no "conversion" needed. I got it running natively on aarch64 linux a while back, with no issues.
549.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
I don't believe in copyright, personally.
550.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
They aren't the solution to bad policy but they are an unfortunately necessary part of regular internet use now.
551.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
I've set up a socks5 "proxy multiplexer" that routes requests to different upstream proxies based on the request hostname. For example reddit routes via a VPS in Dublin, and imgur routes via Tor. I believe socks5 is the ideal
552.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
Yes!
553.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
Maybe we should cut out the middle-man and make it easy for people to donate token credits to open-source projects, and let the maintainers decide how to use them.
554.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
The highest capacity blurays available are 128GB and there's a good chance the game is larger than that, so it'd need to be a multi-disc installer. I used to think physical media was great, but optical discs do have a finite shelf
555.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
I reported a fun security bug to Google recently (not high in CVSS terms but will probably make the HN front page when it goes public), and the report was auto-closed in minutes as "not reproducible". If they tried to use an LLM t
556.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
Not unless they also have a SEP exploit.
557.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
Many are dumped publicly at https://securerom.fun/ Some were dumped via known exploits, but I don't know how A12/A13 were dumped in the first place. I'd guess someone got code exec via fault injection and dum
558.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
Very tasteful web design, too. I was curious how the layout was done, and the answer is the venerable <table>
559.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
The exploit happens before any patchable software is running, it's not called ROM for nothing.
560.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
Cool things are allowed to be practical and well-engineered, too. Either way, it seems weird to list a disadvantage as a headline feature.
561.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
> No WebGL Why is this an advantage? I have a GPU and I'd rather it was used. As-is, one of my CPU cores is pegged at 100% just rendering the landing page.
562.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
Refreshing.
563.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
For some reason it's very hard to find window units for sale in the UK, single-duct portables are the only thing available for cheap (although it's a fairly easy mod to convert one to dual-duct).
564.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
It might bypass the fs, but it does not bypass the kernel. Cool, though!
565.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
Bugs are near-inevitable, and mitigations are the last line of defence. Scripting engines are excellent for bypassing mitigations (iiuc in the case of the FORCEDENTRY exploit, it was used for adjusting ASLR'd offsets). As a random exam
566.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
WASM implementations are fairly mature now, but if there was e.g. an image file format with embedded WASM that needed to execute before you could view it, it would become the new low-hanging-fruit target for 0-click RCEs - whether it's
567.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
Asking adults for beer doesn't scale, code sharing can. If you want to crack down on code sharing, you'd have to start surveilling who is signing up to what.
568.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
> silently drifts > genuinely > I'd mostly like to hear where it falls over. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
569.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
reddit.com, discord.app, google.com with safe-search off (This one works sometimes, they are A/B testing force-enabling safe-search for unauth'd sessions)
570.
by Retr0id 4mo ago
Privacy-wise I think they're completely acceptable, but in terms of circumvention I don't think the politicians will be satisfied. It's barely a step up from the "I'm over 18" buttons on websites.

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