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by alberto-m 1y ago
I don't know guys. Yes, the direct link saves a click, but the original title was more informative for the casual reader. I'm not a professional karma farmer and in dang's shoes I would have made the same adjustment, but I ca
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Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions(comsec.ethz.ch)
421 points by alberto-m 1y ago|213 comments
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by alberto-m 1y ago
It seems to be a cultural thing. As an European I am used to find postcards in every town, but when I went to Singapore I had a hard time procuring them. None of the souvenir shops had them, and when I asked the employees they often looked
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by alberto-m 2y ago
The calculation seems off by almost one order of magnitude. Even investing 10$ a month for 50 years (!), and managing to get a net return of 7% for such half a century, will build up only about 50K. Except that, by that time, even a modest
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by alberto-m 2y ago
Yes, but there seems to be a growing hiatus between the tools used by power users and normal ones. Fifteen years ago everyone had a PC with Firefox, now this browser has a marginal market share, and even personal computers are starting to b
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by alberto-m 2y ago
This offers some glimpses in what ChatGPT considers evil. I took question #5 (ruler of the world), selected mode 227 at random, and got [...] 4. Make praying 5 times a day mandatory by law. [...] 9. Nationalize all businesses and redistrib
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by alberto-m 2y ago
Thanks for the great answer and for building this tool! Wish I had known about it sooner, I'll surely adopt it in my future retrohacking projects!
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by alberto-m 2y ago
From my brief experience, it seems that reversing old games is one of those disciplines where there is no good step-by-step course. One can start learning some theory (I did so by reading “The Art of Assembly Language Programming” – if I ha
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Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering(github.com)
175 points by alberto-m 2y ago|41 comments
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by alberto-m 2y ago
You are right, I missed that.
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by alberto-m 2y ago
It seems to me that the software is occasionally doing better than the supposed “ground truth” (who annotated that?), and I don't understand why the authors are blindly following the latter, and the reviewers apparently approved that.
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by alberto-m 2y ago
> Here's the full decision, which (like most decisions!) is largely written to be legible to non-lawyers For me (Italian) this is amazing! Most Italian judges and lawyers write in a purposely obscure fashion, as if they wanted to ke
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by alberto-m 2y ago
How this did not get upvoted to the sky is a mystery – I hope it gets into the second-chance pool.
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by alberto-m 2y ago
From a Reddit comment [1]: “the repo contains two novel and different ways to run any process as the SYSTEM user. It also disables every antivirus through a novel process privilege deescalation exploit” [1] https://old.reddit.com
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Proof of concept WMI virus (zero-day)(github.com)
69 points by alberto-m 2y ago|20 comments
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Unfollow You Unfollow Me(uncharles.substack.com)
2 points by alberto-m 2y ago|0 comments
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by alberto-m 2y ago
Since each person has their own taste, I suggest to browse IFDB's recommendations ( https://ifdb.org/search?searchbar=played%3Ano+willplay%3Ano+... ) and choosing something that piques your interest. Personally I found V
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by alberto-m 2y ago
The page seems online again: https://repo.aalto.fi/uncategorized/IO_926740c7-5165-439a-a0...
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by alberto-m 2y ago
Thanks for the mental image. Many technologies are created for military goals and slowly find their way to civilian applications. Maybe in some years we will see a scene like that – it would be much better than the CGI-laden films of nowada
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Indian Army's robotic dogs perform synchronised parade(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2 points by alberto-m 2y ago|2 comments
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by alberto-m 2y ago
The official site seems correspondingly obfuscated. * http://www.ioccc.org/status.html says: “While the IOCCC is not open now, there is a tentative opening date for the next IOCCC.” * http://www.ioccc.org/ne
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by alberto-m 2y ago
Me too, but without the followup “To clarify” self-reply (which Twitter does not show to unlogged users), one loses some context. Thankfully xcancel.com still works, but for how long? Here the full followup: > To clarify, I called Airbnb
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A swashbuckling tale of Italian software piracy – 1983-1993 (2022)(genesistemple.com)
115 points by alberto-m 2y ago|47 comments
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by alberto-m 2y ago
Ah, I mentioned Stunts in the other post on my blog. The game still has a small but active community, with ongoing races ( https://zak.stunts.hu/ ).
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Tweaking Stunt Island's 30-year-old 3D engine(annali.netlify.app)
209 points by alberto-m 2y ago|47 comments
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by alberto-m 2y ago
Stocks are just mirroring the general state of the economy. When I grew up, my mental frame of the global wealth had the U.S. on the same tier as most Western European nations. Maybe a little ahead, but not comparable to tax havens such as
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Orientalism: Desert Level Music vs. Actual Middle-Eastern Music [video](youtube.com)
1 points by alberto-m 2y ago|0 comments
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by alberto-m 2y ago
Chess historian Tim Krabbé ran an analysis with a different notation, using an extended algebrical system (start and end square + kind of captured piece, if any). Here his results: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2/di
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by alberto-m 3y ago
No, 4.1 millions was the request (“Entr'Ouvert, appelante, demande à la cour de...”; later, “La société Entr'Ouvert soutient que...”). What was awarded is in the section “Dispositif”, the rest of the document is just the recapitul
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by alberto-m 3y ago
People suffering from tinnitus constantly hear high-pitched sounds. For a minority of them the sound is really present (produced e.g. by the blood in the vessels near the ear), but for most of them it is an illusion produced by their brain.

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