Retr0spectrum

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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
More commonly, voltage glitching does rely on removing capacitors etc., and extremely precise timing (nanosecond resolution, or below). However, the fun part about this particular attack is that it does not require quite the same level of p
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
Gaming performance usually comes down to graphics drivers.
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
I'd much prefer a slightly dry but genuine personality, than a hyperactive and fake "youtuber personality". The content speaks for itself. He generally takes safety pretty seriously, too.
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
This requires the assumption that storage will continue to exponentially (or at the very least, linearly) decrease in cost. It also requires a certain amount of good luck. I would hope the IA has a reasonable amount of data resilience, but
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
A list of similar sites: https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
I used to have access to papers via my university, but I never used that access. The UX of scihub is infinitely better. Anything else just added unnecessary friction to my research process.
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
This post is still getting linked from other places, so I think it's helpful to point out that it's almost certainly fake. (Hence its [flagged] status) The images shown do appear to be adversarially generated inputs against some
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
This is a lame attempt at trolling.
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
Going horribly wrong is somewhat typical for large software projects.
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
Codebases with high levels of abstraction and metaprogramming are often easier to understand in IDA/Ghidra, if your goal is to understand how a specific part of the program works.
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
"2 minutes setup" is mentioned in various places on the page, as well as on the chrome store page. Why 2 minutes? I assume this is used as a stand-in for "very short time", because there's no way it actually takes
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
I think that's a big improvement, thanks!
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
I tried one of the example queries, "UDP". Out of the 45 search results, the most relevant one (the UDP RFC itself) was all the way at the bottom, listed as "RFC0768" and tagged as "legacy". (I'm not sure
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
While it's certainly aesthetically pleasing, personally I find the link text too low-contrast. I think it should be slightly brighter. I normally prefer and use dark-mode UIs, but this one is actually slightly harder for me to read.
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
Some people find them motivating, and a useful guideline for tracking their progress. Personally I find them paralyzing - so I'll just progress at my own speed - nobody is forcing us to use the timings proposed in the repo.
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
> we have the clout to send Medium a message. I'm not sure we do. Medium is comparatively a much bigger and more mainstream platform than HN.
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
Just because it appeals to nature, doesn't make it good. While I agree it was likely lighthearted, that does not exempt it from criticism.
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
I don't take issue with anything listed in your comment. The comment I was originally replying to described: a) Bypassing their own code review processes. b) Creating a contributors list, just so they can put Carmack at the top of it (
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
So if people wish to be treated like normal human beings, they must hide behind pseudonyms? That may be the current reality of the situation, but it doesn't mean we have to keep it that way. I'm not saying he doesn't deserve
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
John Carmack is awesome, but I find this level of deification (of any individual) kinda creepy - it just feels unhealthy. Would you like to be treated that way, in Carmack's position? I realize that your comment was likely made in jest
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
Who are you quoting?
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
At time of writing, pornhub.com has 69 referrals - I suppose someone was just having a laugh.
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
ARM has been around for decades now (and ARMv8 for one decade). Anyway, if nobody jumps to new architectures, how will anything get ported?
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
You've shortened 6,463,545 links so far. Assuming you're using a charset of [A-Za-z0-9], that gives you 14,776,336 total possible 4-character URLs. Almost half way there! What's your plan once you reach the 4-character limit?
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
It's an impossible problem to solve completely. The most trusted of reviewers can still be bought out, for a price. I think the best way to improve things is via increased transparency - If I can read a reviewer's past reviews, I
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
The problem is not Ads themselves, it's the fact that they inject perverse incentives into the entire tech ecosystem. To maximize your advertising revenue, you need to track your users as effectively as possible. This: a) Reduces user
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
So we train an ML model to convert images to text. How do we encode that text information?
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by Retr0spectrum 5y ago
you simply have a tool which extracts the text, transforms it however you please, and then puts it back as an image. This is extremely non-simple. It is a strictly harder problem than just... encoding image+text in a sane container format
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by Retr0spectrum 6y ago
Seems a bit redundant, if the page is being served over HTTPS, which ultimately relies on DNS records. The advantage of PGP is that it can be verified entirely out-of-band, and distributed widely.
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by Retr0spectrum 6y ago
It's a public key, you can perform the "brute force" (factorisation) entirely offline, to derive the private key. Hypothetically. For now, RSA-1024 is too expensive to crack, for mere mortals.

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