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by archi42 7y ago
Everyone makes mistakes. You can as well, you just need to want. Some suggestions (read aloud in an enthusiastic, you-can-do voice): Deploy to production! On Friday evening! Something that doesn't even build on your machine! Hardcode a
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by archi42 7y ago
No offense, but starting to code professionally with only 15 years sounds... a bit strange? I mean, I started coding with 10 (~20 years ago), and the easily available tooling was much worse back then than it was 5 years ago, but if I was yo
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by archi42 7y ago
I can second this. You don't read the full names of suspects (!) in a newspaper in Germany. I believe this is actually due to the law here (e.g. if they're innocent, their name is not ruined). That is somewhat relaxed, as long as
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by archi42 7y ago
Doesn't execve() end in the same syscall as system()? Not as comfortable for exploitation, but maybe still feasible? (Embedded systems I take a look at usually don't have an OS with either of the two, so I honestly don't know
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by archi42 7y ago
I think the author can answer this better, but I'd guess it's mixture of hobby, curiosity and luck (or rather good intuition where $stuff breaks). [edit] Can be anything from a Saturday if it is the first thing you poke into (and
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by archi42 7y ago
I suppose in case you ship some prebuilt executable to do stuff? E.g. ffmpeg. Just a guess, though.
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by archi42 7y ago
This is actually a good point. I suspect using asan on this lib as it used by WA would have had a negligble performance impact on the overall UX. (That is, assuming asan would have really captured this specific instance).
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by archi42 7y ago
I'm only aware of ifixit.
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by archi42 7y ago
> In the end I think this will only drive the more independent creators to adopt smaller and more open platforms and the big platforms that are left will be an echo chamber more than ever. In an ideal world: Yes. In our world? Hm,... My
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by archi42 7y ago
I think the whole point of the Stallman discussion as of lately is that people only decide to read what they want to read, ignoring context. > I don't think that rape should be treated like stealing a kiss, so I reject the term &quo
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by archi42 7y ago
It seems to me MS customer support is incapable of doing anything meaningful with your account, except making it easier to be hacked via social engineering. My MS account had my desktop's Win 10 Pro N (the one with less crap) license a
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by archi42 7y ago
Remindes me of the lamentations of a friend working at a webdev company. Step 1: Their customer wants a "Don't send me e-mail" option for users of the system. Step 2: Customer goes into rage mode since an important users does
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by archi42 7y ago
That's a nice idea. Also, while I love C++, I'm really frustrated that there are no native named arguments :( However, after your comment, I decided to spend a few minutes on the topic, and came up with these links: https:/&
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by archi42 7y ago
Usually "x hours ago". But isn't there a reply below each comment anyway?
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by archi42 7y ago
I think that really depends on where you live. Here it is basically the other way around, you order, you drink, order some more, and before leaving you pay the bill, with the bartender keeping a tab of what you ordered (these days with a mo
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by archi42 7y ago
As someone who sees a lot of different assemblers I really enjoyed this read. But the most important lesson learned for the next CTF: Just probe the PRNG and see if it is predictable :P
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by archi42 7y ago
I was considering to mirror my cold storage backup (12 bay NAS with a few hours uptime per week) to tape for long term archival of private data (e.g. photos) or stuff on the internet I think is worth having a backup of (e.g. the http:&#x2F
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by archi42 7y ago
Floating point numbers are trying hard to rectify this ;-)
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by archi42 7y ago
Yeah, I think we had that twice: 1. "I can't work if all the NFS mounts empty" 2. "You're aware that closing the GUI empties /home/$(whoami)? Related: Did you see our sysadmin?". Backups are awesome.
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by archi42 7y ago
Sound like someone messed up a removal routine, equivalent to "rm $base_dir/$temp_dir -rf".
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by archi42 7y ago
Maybe the link was updated? It now points to arxiv, from where you can download the paper (or does arxiv implement some geoblocking?).
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by archi42 7y ago
The article references a Geekbench score that's now taken offline. Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=de&ei=ewaGXa... Results (also in the article): Geekbench v5.0.1 Tryout for Windows x8
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by archi42 7y ago
Not a lawyer, but since it seems to be based on some EU harmonized market regulation, I suppose it could.
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by archi42 7y ago
You know you probably have to pay taxes on that?
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by archi42 7y ago
More like "don't sell in the EU". Not sure if that's a market to easily ignore...?
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by archi42 7y ago
Good point. I was skeptical of DLCs when they first game about, but if they're decent quality/effort expansions, then that's fine with me. But games with the kind of exploitation you mention I stay away from, and as someone w
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by archi42 7y ago
For some titles there is no option to get a "resale allowed version". E.g. I bought a retail version of Borderlands 2 several years ago on DVD (long time post release, was like 20 Euro in a local games store). Well, turned out tha
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by archi42 7y ago
"cd -" is equal to "cd $OLDPWD", so that still works with my function ;) Though yours looks much nicer ^^"
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by archi42 7y ago
Inspired by a colleague, I wrote this (for bash): https://gist.github.com/archi/2a2331401842c0548fa8de0f69796f... > up 4 go up 4 folders (=> "cd .." 4 times). > up goes up one folder, and you can rep
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by archi42 7y ago
Hm, maybe it's been too long since I had some AlgoDat lectures, but I recall we learned that memory hierarchy was rather important, and that having data in cache can make a huge difference. Of course for the undergrad course, learning

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