ghotli

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by ghotli 2y ago
This is well written and insightful. Worth reading through to the end, at least in my opinion.
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by ghotli 2y ago
In one of the pictures on the site was it sitting on a dock with a keyboard. I use obsidian and would use this as an obsidian typewriter. If I order is it just the tablet itself or more? I presume it runs Linux so any keyboard that would wo
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by ghotli 3y ago
I think the person you're replying to perhaps meant that if you have total control of the hardware and the binary you can pull the value prior to being sent to the encrypt function.
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by ghotli 3y ago
I make statics usually so this sort of just never comes up. If I wanted another malloc it would just be linked in at compile time like the rest.
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by ghotli 3y ago
Agreed, if the binary is statically linked. If you run `file` on the output from that and it shows 'dynamically linked' then you're playing games with porting over libraries, changing the library loading path, or just going f
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by ghotli 3y ago
https://musl.libc.org/releases.html I maintain a large codebase, widely deployed, cross compiled to many cpu architecures that's built atop musl. You're right that historically in the context of people blindly usi
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by ghotli 3y ago
I routinely get embedded linux devices at $dayjob that need my time and attention and they basically never have the tooling I need to get my job done. I'm a pro at looking at how Alpine builds a tool and then just making my own statica
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by ghotli 3y ago
Agreed and I want to highlight this comment. Skip everything else and go straight to the Lorraine Motel / National Civil Rights Museum. It's basically the opposite of a waste of time. For those that don't know this is where M
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by ghotli 3y ago
> Something has to be seriously wrong with the way it was compiled for gdb to have trouble. Cargo culting culture in embedded devices of just using some old toolchain copy pasted from some vendor seems to be pervasive. I cut fresh compil
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by ghotli 3y ago
I somewhat painstakingly figured this out the hard way pulling core dumps off of embedded linux devices that gdb had a hard time working with. At the time I was like whew why is omitting frame pointers the default at all in so many places w
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by ghotli 3y ago
For the uninitiated: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html It's my favorite short story.
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by ghotli 3y ago
Ah, actually reviewing that more closely I found a link to it in the acknowledgements. https://github.com/cg123/mergekit
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by ghotli 3y ago
Do you happen to have a link to where that interwoven layers bit is described? As far as I can tell it's not clear on the model cards.
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by ghotli 3y ago
Interesting. I'm not so sure I really 'got' that part of finetunes / LoRA adapters before reading this comment. Makes me want to make one to take it for a spin, see what comes out the other side.
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by ghotli 3y ago
Hey hope this helps. I'm a normal person who wanted to understand all of this and I sincerely put in the work to be able to read these papers as if I had formal training. I try not to act like I know anything, but I certainly know what
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by ghotli 3y ago
If you're willing to share more on this subject, color me interested.
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by ghotli 3y ago
I probably should have mentioned I've built unikernels with some of the tooling you've described here. It just seems very academic and edge case compared to a single static user space Linux binary that while technically isn't
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by ghotli 3y ago
This is the most realistic comment on this thread (so far).
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by ghotli 3y ago
Interesting and not surprised. I don't actually remember any but it's half my life ago at this point
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by ghotli 3y ago
I liked the Niven/Pournell books and I still think back to them often enough. The Mote in God's Eye and Lucifer's Hammer I think I read back to back. It's been a long time but I really enjoyed them when I was younger.
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by ghotli 3y ago
I just use Firefox Focus when I want to keep it simple. Works fine on both android and ios.
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by ghotli 3y ago
Same, I'm closing in on twenty years since I did it on a Pentium 2 (which took a very long time to compile). But in a matter of weeks I had my own linux router that I built from scratch. I was too much of a novice to completely underst
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by ghotli 3y ago
If you're willing to expand on this, color me interested.
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by ghotli 3y ago
I hear you and I have the same job as when I identified with what you're saying about not starting the day on your terms. However now I just start every day on my own terms and I am measurably getting more done overall. They just have
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by ghotli 3y ago
Wow I've looked up stuff on the vampire survivors wiki on fandom a lot in the last year and this comment surprised me. Going to that website in regular ol' chrome without an adblocker was an experience indeed. I had no idea. You m
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by ghotli 3y ago
I don't mean this as anything but a constructive comment and I won't reply further. Feedback, for your perusal. Some of your comments on this thread tipped your hand (to me at least) that you must be a new account here. I was righ
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by ghotli 3y ago
Won on that node, agreed. I suppose I meant the 'investigate programs' part of the title and if that aids in garnering info for attacking something it interacts with. But of course it's all splitting hairs. A sufficiently ded
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by ghotli 3y ago
Maybe I'm just not imaginative enough but what sort of use-case is this sort of thing for?
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by ghotli 3y ago
Sure. We agree. Cat and mouse. Can you help me understand what value you're adding to the discussion though? Low hanging fruit arguments based on semantics might be best suited elsewhere
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by ghotli 3y ago
Worth mentioning that statically linked binaries prevent this attack vector. I won't weigh in on dynamic vs static in general but if you're shipping something you don't want fiddled with then maybe dynamic linking isn't

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