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by magnat 3y ago
HLE, which is a subset of TSX, is (was?) supported by glibc [1]. Not sure if it is enabled by default. If it is, pretty much every multithreaded linux process would be affected. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/libc&#x2
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by magnat 3y ago
> might have already ran into cpu bugs Not only that. There were microcode updates which disabled CPU features (most notably TSX). During process startup such features might have been detected as available and decided to use optimized su
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by magnat 3y ago
According to the Polish copyright law, by default one can reverse engineer and modify licensed software without author's permission to ensure interoperability with other software and for fixing bugs. Such right can be explicitly denied
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by magnat 3y ago
For Windows 7 you have to manually force-install an update (from Microsoft) which unlocks further ESU updates. One can view this either as modifying software for ensuring interoperability (which is allowed in most of EU) or as bypassing DRM
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by magnat 3y ago
Despite all the EOS dates and warnings, you can still get "free" monthly security updates for Windows 7 directly from Windows Update [1]. Windows 10 IoT LTSC support ends in 2032 [2]. If the trend continues, as long as you are OK
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by magnat 3y ago
You can go one step further and instead of separate ICMP ECHO trace, use existing HTTP TCP connection between client's browser and your web server. That way you can traverse client-side NAT and/or stateful firewall.
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by magnat 3y ago
Don't forget you have to do it for chips at both ends.
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by magnat 3y ago
https://www.antenna-theory.com/ is a good starter for apprentice-level RF voodoo. 30 dBm = 30 decibels wrt to 1 milliwatt. 10 decibels = 1 bel = 10-fold increase of the base quantity, so 30 decibels = 10 x 10 x 10 = 1000x i
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by magnat 3y ago
> Translation is a process which both erases information and introduces new information "Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful."
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by magnat 3y ago
> crashing Win 95 remotely by sending an Out-Of-Bounds packet to my IP WinNuke. Any packet on TCP port 139 with URG (Out-of-band data) flag set crashed NetBIOS/SMB service.
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by magnat 3y ago
First program I have paid for, and after 20 years I still use it every day.
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by magnat 3y ago
Both Gopher and BBSes still work today but that doesn't mean they are useful or even used at all.
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by magnat 3y ago
April Fools joke that may be, but that looks more or less like a XML-serialized CodeDOM - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/reflectio...
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by magnat 3y ago
Modifying binaries (on disk or in RAM) would be detected by anti cheat mechanisms. Most likely they change how to interpret a certain sequence of API calls or replace shaders with their optimized versions.
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by magnat 3y ago
> super electronic network cathode > fully nano-crystallized LFP cathode material > second-generation fast ion ring technology > superconducting electrolyte formula Can someone confirm those are proper names of some recent break
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by magnat 3y ago
Can Intel refuse to sell such license to nVidia or ask for much higher fees than other companies? If nVidia bought one of those companies, would that allow them to produce x86 chips at will?
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by magnat 3y ago
I use custom fork of AOSP Messaging (on local LineageOS/microG build) with some minor UI tweaks and bugfixes. I have tried all other messaging apps on F-Droid, but every single one of them was broken in some way (mostly regarding MMS s
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by magnat 3y ago
QKSMS has not been updated for two years and has broken MMS support.
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by magnat 3y ago
They already did in 2015, when they (unsuccessfully) sued a.pl (polish online grocery store) for their domain name.
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by magnat 3y ago
What kind of useful data would accelerometer provide? 99.999% of the time wheel rotation rate matches exactly car movement speed and direction, so as long as you have odometer (resolver/encoder), you have accelerometer data for free. F
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by magnat 3y ago
Since SpaceX has no (official / publicly disclosed) ground stations in Ukraine, are they using only laser links between satellites for backhaul to stations in western EU, or does Starlink support terminal-to-terminal connections, outsi
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by magnat 3y ago
Unlike PCI, ISA has no concept of mandatory configuration space, apart from optional Legacy Plug and Play. Worst case scenario is that ISA card responds on some arbitrary I/O port known only to manufacturer and hardcoded in driver. Sin
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by magnat 3y ago
Usually these machines come with obscure hardware interface cards (ISA card if you are lucky) and software which talks directly to those cards. Even though you can find a modern PC with ISA slot, passing through ISA devices to a VM/emu
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by magnat 3y ago
> Aside from security patches, I see nothing that prevents 7 from being used today Security patches for Windows 7 are still released each month, you "just" have to download [1] them manually and convince Windows Update service
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by magnat 3y ago
What if each genuine unit would have entire PCB covered in glitter nail polish at factory? Based on a serial number of your device, you could check if a pattern on your device matches the one taken by manufacturer right after assembling the
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by magnat 3y ago
> the use of that particular version is a strangely shoddy mistake. It should have been very easy to use a version string that exists Perhaps attackers wanted to discourage user from trying to upgrade firmware/bootloader before firs
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by magnat 4y ago
You can actually bit-bang low speed USB on Arduino [0]. There is even a bootloader [1] for ATtiny visible to host as HID USB device. It is obviously not compatible with Arduino, but those tiny boards look too cute to ignore [2]. Also, you c
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by magnat 4y ago
I have been using maildir storage for a few years now, on 4 instances of Thunderbird, each with 10-50GB worth of messages per folder, on both NTFS and ext4. So far not a single case of lost message or usability issues. All operations are in
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by magnat 4y ago
> For example, if I archive an email, it takes 10 to 15 seconds for this to be reflected in the interface Have you tried changing local storage format from default mbox (one big linear file per folder) to maildir (each message in its own
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by magnat 4y ago
As a sole maintainer of a TB add-on, I can't wait for it to completely stop working until rewritten yet again when old TB API gets removed and new version goes live.

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