VogonPoetry

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by VogonPoetry 11mo ago
VM in this usage means Virtual Memory - i.e. with page tables enabled. Two "processes" can use the same memory addresses and they will point to different physical memory. In Real Address mode every program has to use different mem
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by VogonPoetry 1y ago
I view it more as a ransom / hostage payment or a response to bullying. There was a threat of tariffs; I'm going to hold your business hostage. The ransom was paid and the tariffs weren't imposed. I think a bribe is better de
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by VogonPoetry 1y ago
Many of these are all excellent points. I did exclude the case. The car recycling v.s. electronics recycling question is interesting. I once had a very interesting conversation with an electronics recycler on a plane trip - phones could not
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by VogonPoetry 1y ago
Everything humans do is carbon negative. Breathing, eating, driving, pooping (Westerners: toilet paper, All: waste management) and building. Getting every human to be carbon neutral would be an amazing thing! From searched / online num
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by VogonPoetry 1y ago
This is on the verge of pedantry - CHERI determinism isn't strictly true, garbage collecting abandoned descriptors is currently done asynchronously. Malicious code could attempt to reuse an abandoned descriptor before it is "disap
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by VogonPoetry 1y ago
The term side loading pre-dates smartphones. The term was used to describe how you got media onto an electronic player. Literally by plugging into a port on the side and loading the media from a computer.
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by VogonPoetry 1y ago
There are three things in the report that make me believe that it would be possible to get the secrets from eSim profile B from a compromised eSIM profile A if they are both installed. Under "Notes" it says... The hack proves no s
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
Yes, totally agree. Also a paragraph on the relationship between energy, heat, cooling and that computers effectively turn all energy into heat might have been useful. The April 1st date on the article is telling. Shout out to "Technol
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
The Atmel AT90USB162 chip multiplexed the USB D+/- pins with an SDATA and SCK PS/2 port. It is possible to build a "serial" to PS/2 or USB bridge device with very few components. The part seems to still be available
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
Not really, but that really wasn't what I was trying to say. I was trying to counter what I thought was a faulty equivalence argument; AppleScript allows unrestricted use of iMessage today, so giving watches an API won't make it w
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
The default 4GiB setup is done to very quickly catch poorly written / ported 32-bit code that promotes a 32-bit integer to a pointer. In 64bit mode, such a promotion will create a pointer with the top bits set to zero. Any de-reference
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
It isn't easy to do with just AppleScript on a Mac. I run a sports team and I wanted to send out a message to people for special situations. Some of the challenges are that you cannot script sending a new message if there isn't al
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
Your criticism is valid. Adding context is very subjective. Getting objective metrics to some of these questions is an open issue for the software world. I don't think it matters if the vulnerabilities are JIT related - a process that
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
For those complaining about not allowing 3rd Party JIT engines for 3rd Party Browsers. Please consider the vulnerability track records for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Safari: I'm taking the best year for all of these (2024) -
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
Try: touch "${vol}/.metadata_never_index" touch "${vol}/.fseventsd/no_log" First one stops Spotlight. After creating the stop file, the .Spotlight-V100 directory can be removed.
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
The vCard RFC 6350 includes the property "nickname". Apple's "Contacts" uses this standard. You can use "nickname" for searching and in my testing the "First Last" fields are used when sending e
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
I seem to remember an early assembler style where if you wanted to define a string, a "$" was used as the terminator. Print routines would output chars until the "$". Also an early linker format that had symbols that alw
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
What if this is not about closing off an API. Maintaining a stable API is difficult - especially if mistakes were made in earlier designs (no versioning, bad abstraction, wrong protocol...) and there is a plan to fix things in the future. O
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
Three suggestions - pick anything you don't know the answer to, try to find the answer (can also be personal, like how you behave in certain ways) - pick something physical you do not have, instead of buying it, make it yourself - pi
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
This is / was implemented as a custom protocol to transfer files. It doesn't work out of the box with all programs on any system after the iPod is plugged in - it needs a program (consider it a driver) to be installed on the host
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
I think that making the iPod mount like a filesystem would have had significant impact on other aspects of the device. There is no filesystem level abstraction over USB (or Firewire). So plugging in presents as a hard drive / block dev
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
If the App is delivered outside of the Mac App Store, then you could just verify the signature, then resign / replace it with a local one (using the "codesign" tool). Dealing with OTA updates after you've done this might
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
That feature was available and only possible with specific Intel chips. It went away because Intel stopped supporting it. Sad the feature didn't come back to life in the AppleSilicon iMac.
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
I think the issue is that a lightning cable and socket aren't physically designed to take the stresses of being plugged in and being used like a mouse at the same time. I've not measured it, but I could believe there is probably
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
That PDF doesn't look like the source for an operating system, but rather a 2 pass compiler. There are references to data types (including Complex) on p.6 and various hand written comments, such as "procedure" on p.2 and &quo
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
The 20 seconds first start is because it is only an x86_64 binary -- no native Arm build.
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
I think you conflating bugs. Apple doesn't use Xpdf as the basis of the PDF Framework. The NSO bug exploited a bug in the JBIG2 file format. The same implementation of this code was included in both Xpdf and the Apple PDF code. That is
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by VogonPoetry 2y ago
Consider N devices behind a NAT. They all make requests to a service. If the service can learn the individual but current values of mach_absolute_time, then after a minimum of two requests you can likely compute N and distinguish between ea
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by VogonPoetry 3y ago
This is an analogy. a^2 - b^2 = a a - b b. This can be factored to (a+b)(a-b). In the first expression there are two multiplies, in the factored version there is only one. However, from a numerical analysis / accuracy standpoint, eval
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by VogonPoetry 3y ago
It seems like you want to delete all of the photos on your iPhone. I have not tested this because I don't want to delete all my photos and I don't have a 2nd set of systems to try this out with, but I think this can be done by cre

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