b1temy

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by b1temy 8mo ago
I understand why a non-standard compiler-specific implementation of int128 was not used (Besides being compiler specific, the point of the article is to walk through an implementation of it), but why use > using u64 = unsigned long long;
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by b1temy 8mo ago
> You might think cracking dongles is fun and copy protection is evil, but without protection, our livelihood is affected. I understand you might feel this way, but it seems to me customers are mostly business clients, who would are more
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by b1temy 8mo ago
I used to really like this software, and I still do. But there were a couple of dealbreakers for me. 1) As others mentioned, Wayland support. But it seems that it's gotten a lot better since I last used it. I resisted using Wayland for
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by b1temy 8mo ago
Well, we'll have to agree to disagree here. You absolutely can design a non-intrusive anticheat that doesn't hook into the kernel layer, and many games do exactly that. They do checks server-side, without hooking into your system.
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by b1temy 8mo ago
A few years ago, I would have said that any game that uses such a level of anticheat that makes wine/proton unable to play it (ie: kernel level anticheat) is basically malware and you _shouldn't_ play it anyway, out of both princi
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by b1temy 8mo ago
Similar story here. Started a new job about a year and a half ago and got a powerful laptop with a really top of the line CPU and GPU, 64 GB of RAM (Now upgraded to 96GB, needed for my work, even with these specs compile times are longer th
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by b1temy 8mo ago
Slint may be of interest to you, which is similar but is allegedly better in some ways. It was also made by former Qt team devs. http://slint.dev/
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by b1temy 8mo ago
Even if it does have false positives, I expect it would make a nicer starting point for finding and verifying bugs/vulnerabilities, compared to wading through the entire codebase until you find something. Even if it is a false positive
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by b1temy 9mo ago
The link in the HN submission contains the same text and excerpt from your link. Additionally they note: - "While exploitability to remote code execution depends on platform and toolchain mitigations, the stack-based write primitive re
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by b1temy 9mo ago
>... have the OS generate a hash each time the file changes... I'm not sure I would want this either tbh. If I have a 10GB file on my filesystem, and I want to fseek to a specific position in the file and just change a single byte,
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by b1temy 9mo ago
> A timestamp wouldn't be reliable I agree, but I'm still iffy on reading all files (already an expensive operation) in the repository, then hashing every one of them, every time you do an ls or a commit. I took a quick look an
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by b1temy 9mo ago
Nice work, it's always interesting to see how one would design their own VCS from scratch, and see if they fall into problems existing implementations fell into in the past and if the same solution was naturally reached. The `tvc ls` c
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by b1temy 9mo ago
I'm surprised the author didn't list KDE's Elisa: https://apps.kde.org/elisa/ Especially since they referenced KDE when they voiced their wish for Strawberry to be more modernized to match the appearanc
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by b1temy 9mo ago
> An exception is regedit.exe This might have changed at some point. I was curious about the latter part of your question on how it made changes without the Windows API (I assumed it used an older DOS API), but my `regedit.exe` _does_ ha