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oshiar53-0
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oshiar53-0
5y ago
This is basically "near field" communication /s
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oshiar53-0
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I wonder how I can finally make it work on a Linux desktop
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oshiar53-0
5y ago
Jan 9th. The trial doesn't last that long.
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oshiar53-0
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Wouldn't "movzx ecx, al" save one byte of rex.W prefix? Just wondering.
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oshiar53-0
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https://hackaday.com/2021/03/26/undocumented-x86-instruction...
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oshiar53-0
5y ago
>The meme is wrong Nah, it's rather that the meme is correctly absurd, as intended.
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oshiar53-0
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Edit: I confused QEMU usermode with something else. QEMU seems to only do syscall/ioctl translation at the moment. My sincere apologies (I can't delete the comment). Maybe library call stubbing (not x64 exclusive) could be my ne
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oshiar53-0
5y ago
QEMU softmmu is a full system emulator. There's another mode of QEMU build (qemu-user) that emulates userspace applications (just like Rosetta and WoW) and even lets you link to native libraries.
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oshiar53-0
5y ago
Next we should make GRUB chainload itself
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oshiar53-0
5y ago
Stuffs like these are fingerprint goldmines.
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oshiar53-0
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Hence "to avoid busy-waiting." Some applications with softer low-latency requirements tend to spin for a certain amount of time before going to sleep and await data arrival. Also, if it is hit with a constant stream of data to pro
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oshiar53-0
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Hey, that's microkernel's dream come true
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oshiar53-0
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Except you still need some kind of signaling mechanism to avoid busy-waiting
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oshiar53-0
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I meant particulary debug symbols Fedora/CentOS has -debuginfo for every binary package, while Debian seems to vary for each package
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oshiar53-0
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Perhaps we don't agree on certain terminology. I would opine that a debugger in the usual sense is a software that interacts with both the end user (frontend) and the debugee program (debugging/tracing engine), allowing the user t
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oshiar53-0
5y ago
Note that what you're referring to as "readiness-based I/O" is not asynchronous I/O in the strictiest sense--it's actually non-blocking, synchronous I/O. I find this article helpful in clearing up confus
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oshiar53-0
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Relevant: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110512-00/?p=10...
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oshiar53-0
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Pros and cons Pros: no PatchGuard sh*t, complete source available Cons: your out-of-box experience may vary depending on your distro
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oshiar53-0
5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k238XpMMn38 but it's the rapidly dwindling sanity of unity programmers
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oshiar53-0
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> How does one interrupt select() function? Apparently, we used QueueUserAPC() to execute asynchronous procedure while select() was blocked… and threw an exception out of it! <rant> Let's just ignore not using overlapped I
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oshiar53-0
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To clarify: WinDbg is not built-in in the literal sense (you have to download it separately), but it does come with a plenty of extension commands which lets you peek over Windows internals with ease (e.g. PEB, kernel process/threads
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oshiar53-0
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Yet another reason is all the references in LHS expressions are resolved before the inner expression is executed. Thus a['k'] = a = {} won't still work.
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oshiar53-0
5y ago
Yet another reason to ditch Make /s
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oshiar53-0
5y ago
What libpcap offers is portability --you can run pretty much the same packet capturing tool on Windows, Linux, macOS, *BSD, and etc. If you have one specific platform, just use raw sockets/eBPF/io_uring/whatever you'd l
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oshiar53-0
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Itanium vibes
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> window cutting The term you're looking for is letterboxing. https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-to-add-tor-browser-ant...
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oshiar53-0
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Scammer prank calls, but for bots
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oshiar53-0
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I think he means an architecture where a thin layer of framework lays atop of a full-featured library.
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oshiar53-0
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FYI signed git commits and tags weren't a thing back then.
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or, maybe newLISP and vice-versa
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