b1temy

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by b1temy 5mo ago
I completely agree with climbing gyms! I'm lucky enough that I live in a city that has a newbie-friendly group that climbs every week and goes for dinner and board games afterwards. I consider myself an introvert, but after going for a
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by b1temy 5mo ago
It's obvious in hindsight but to me its really interesting you can collect data points on the community just by chatting with them. Maybe you could guess, by appearance or behaviour or something, whether most people at the gym are uni
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by b1temy 5mo ago
> ...stored in the global StorageDatabaseNameHashtable. > This mapping: > - Is keyed only by the database name string > ... > - Is shared across all origins Why is this global keyed only by the database name string in the fir
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by b1temy 5mo ago
Someone from my high school added me on LinkedIn and works at Palantir. What I find interesting, is that a few months after joining, he scrubbed all posts, descriptions, and mentions of the word "Palantir" in his profile, and repl
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by b1temy 5mo ago
Back when I was in university, one of the units touching Assembly[0] required students to use subtraction to zero out the register instead of using the move instruction (which also worked), as it used fewer cycles. I looked it up afterwards
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by b1temy 5mo ago
Also wondering how it compares to https://pikimov.com , another browser-based video editor I've seen making the rounds.
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by b1temy 5mo ago
> What are the security implications this raises It increases attack surface area on the browser. Even if you do need to "accept" a connection for a device, this isn't foolproof. I imagine adding WebUSB is a non-insignific
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by b1temy 5mo ago
I do not understand the appeal of the workflow of working on separate things in parallel, then splitting it off into branches/commits. imo, isn't it better to fully focus on one thing at a time, even if it is "simple"? I
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by b1temy 7mo ago
The video in question:- https://youtu.be/_mL1uaOgGvc Although the channel is indeed called SWEet, I should have given the YouTube channel handle, SWEetOverflows.
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by b1temy 7mo ago
Very cool! I wonder if someone more creative than me would be able to push this to do things it was not designed to do. I recently found a video where someone exploited some properties of certain transcript file formats to be able to make a
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by b1temy 7mo ago
> Never follow a shortened link without expanding it using a utility like Link Unshortener from the App Store, I am unfamiliar with the Apple ecosystem, but is there anything special about this specific app that makes it trustworthy (e.g
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by b1temy 7mo ago
> Except every big server has to run an anticheat. Some servers required clients with client side anticheats even. I am fine with anticheat on the server-side to help volunteers/moderators find issues, since it does not force the us
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by b1temy 7mo ago
> Because game studios these days are all about global matchmaking Why not have moderation then? When participating in an online forum, you are essentially "matchmaking" to a topic or corner of the internet with similar interes
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by b1temy 7mo ago
> they should provide built-in anti-cheat support in the OS. As much as I dislike anti-cheat in general (why incorporate it instead of just having proper moderation and/or private servers? Do you need a sketchy third-party kernel le
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by b1temy 7mo ago
> The phrasing of your first two sentences in your first post makes it sound like you're dismissing the security issue. Genuine question, How does it sound like I'm dismissing it? My first sentence begins with the the phrase &g
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by b1temy 7mo ago
You misunderstand. I already said I do not like that it is just using HTTP, and yes, it is problematic. What I am saying is that the issue the author reported and the issue that AMD considers man-in-the-middle attacks as out-of-scope, are t
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by b1temy 7mo ago
While I don't like that the executable's update URL is using just plain HTTP, AMD does explicitly state that in their program that attacks requiring man-in-the-middle or physical access is out-of-scope. Whether you agree with whet
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by b1temy 7mo ago
> The bots will quite possibly have no extensions at all I imagine most users will also not have extensions at all, so this would not be a reliable metric to track bots. Maybe it might be hard to imagine for someone whose first thing to
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by b1temy 7mo ago
> the idea being that the platform is "someone else's computer" I have a vague memory of once having a userscript or browser extension that replaced every instance of the word "cloud" with "other peoples&#x2
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by b1temy 7mo ago
> the characters ’n’ and ‘o’ differ by only one bit; an unpredictable error that sets that bit could change GenuineIntel to GenuineIotel. On a QWERTY keyboard, the O key is also next to the I key. It's also possible someone accident
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by b1temy 7mo ago
Is "clown GCP Host" a technical term I am unaware of, or is the author just voicing their discontent? Seems to me that the problem is the NAS's web interface using sentry for logging/monitoring, and part of what was logg
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by b1temy 7mo ago
What are your thoughts on the usefulness of tribal knowledge when older (age-wise) employees change jobs? [0] Then, the tribal knowledge they had at their previous place of employment won't be as useful somewhere else. Though I suppose
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by b1temy 7mo ago
> most tech debt isn’t actually created in the code, it’s created in product meetings. Deadlines. Scope cuts. > When asked what would help most, two themes dominated > Reducing ambiguity upstream so engineers aren’t blocked... I do
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by b1temy 7mo ago
> the faded colors, limited palette along with the dithering really grew on me I wonder if the similarity of a faded photo (like a faded polaroid) might have helped with this, especially if already has memories and some similar photos. I
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by b1temy 7mo ago
> ten years from now, people will look back at 2024-2025 as the moment Apple had a clear shot at owning the agent layer and chose not to take it I don't pretend to know the future (nor do I believe anyone else who claims to be able
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by b1temy 8mo ago
I'd suggest going through one of the relevant reverse engineering courses (all free) in either pwn[.]college or/and OpenSecurityTraining2 .
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by b1temy 8mo ago
I'd be curious to see if there were any discoveries of any cut features left on the cutting room floor still present in the code [0] (aside from the demo teaser code mentioned still being present). I always find software archaelogy fas
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by b1temy 8mo ago
This article reminds me of some of the stories in the "The Hardware Hacker" book by Andrew Huang [0], which went a bit about the author's experience in Shenzhen manufacturing some hardware. There are a bit over similarities w
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by b1temy 8mo ago
Yes, I meant to say "spare no expense" (though it isn't a drop in replacement, the sentence would need to be restructured slightly).
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by b1temy 8mo ago
You are right. Not sure how I missed/forgot that. In fact, I think the entire reason I was reminded of the algorithm was because I saw the words "3 multiplications" in the article in the first place. Perhaps I need more coffe

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