porfirium

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by porfirium 9y ago
>This is way more tedious that dissembling and reassembling a binary. That's not the case.
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by porfirium 9y ago
HN, where writing assembly shows an unbelievable amount of skill.
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by porfirium 9y ago
So Microsoft lost the source code? Or maybe the engineer couldn't be bothered to set up the old toolchain used to build this executable?
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by porfirium 9y ago
I'm a Christian and I feel this is a cheap shot. I believe this to be malicious, especially coming from Google. Could even be some kind of inside joke.
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by porfirium 9y ago
So if they don't rectify it, it's because there's intent.
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by porfirium 9y ago
Being poor makes you rape. It's logic.
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by porfirium 9y ago
I would like to see a fair referendum about net neutrality. And by fair I mean to also see the good parts of not having net neutrality, like zero rating. Tell people they can get zero rating on their favourite services, and the result of
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by porfirium 9y ago
Safari got away with it.
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by porfirium 9y ago
This would be really neat. Thing is, as far as I remember, notepad.exe uses a standard Windows control to display text, so that change would have to be system-wide as well, which could break backwards compatibility.
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by porfirium 9y ago
They are so big on net neutrality and whatever, they can't do that.
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by porfirium 9y ago
Do you think end consumers care at all about certifications?
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by porfirium 9y ago
So what? We have hate speech laws in Europe. Try saying "the holocaust never happened" or "homosexuals are vile creatures" and you will see what can happen to you. There's no free speech in Europe anyway.
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by porfirium 9y ago
We should abolish prisons then? It's a ridiculous argument. Abuses can happen with full backing of the courts, but I expect them to not happen. In all the years that this system has been in place in Spain I have never seen it used for
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by porfirium 9y ago
>To give a recent example, independence-related websites were blocked in Catalunya just weeks ago. That required judicial authorisation. Good way of beginning a post, with a lie.
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by porfirium 9y ago
When I say Europe I mean "Western Europe minus the islands to the north"
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by porfirium 9y ago
>Compared to Facebook or LinkedIn, for example, it has much less focus on the network aspect, connecting individual users, and a much larger focus on what is being posted. They are completely redesigning and rewriting the website from sc
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by porfirium 9y ago
Nefarious purposes, mostly. I can crawl without rate limits (well, there are rate limits, but it's much harder to hit them), and I also can spam a lot without getting my account flagged (but it eventually gets flagged, of course). By
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by porfirium 9y ago
You can't do this just watching network traffic because the apps use HTTPS + certificate pinning. And you can do it if you want. I do it. I'm sure many more people do it.
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by porfirium 9y ago
They never "locked it down", they just rate limited some vital endpoints and never bothered to add endpoints for new, important features. My own recommendation: disassemble any official app (for example, the Android one with apkto
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by porfirium 9y ago
Wayland out of the box?
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by porfirium 9y ago
It's already the default in Europe from what I've seen.
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by porfirium 9y ago
Isn't it "code"?
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by porfirium 9y ago
Are kernel drivers subject to the GPL just because they use the Linux ABI?
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by porfirium 9y ago
All these incidents will end up causing segregation and unwillingness to hire/work with women.
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by porfirium 9y ago
The latest version of iOS for the iPhone 5 is certainly 10. 11 dropped support for 32-bit phones, and the iPhone 5, along with the 5c, were the last 32-bit iPhones.
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by porfirium 9y ago
>using a stolen (?) piece of factory software You mean ODIN! That's probably leaked. Many good memories of that tool.
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Twitter's Authentication Policy Is a Verified Mess(wired.com)
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by porfirium 9y ago
>I know a strong advantage of WMF is that the file format translates 1:1 into GDI calls S... strong advantage?
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by porfirium 9y ago
I'm interested in this, I'd like you to write a bit about your impressions if you want.
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by porfirium 9y ago
And it's not like in 2017 anybody stores their contacts in their SIM

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