itsokimbatman

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by itsokimbatman 3y ago
Saw;
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by itsokimbatman 3y ago
You can audit binary code with tools like Ghidra and IDA Pro. It takes a different mindset to find these type of bugs than it takes to develop software. I won't quite say they're orthogonal skill sets, but pretty close. If the peo
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by itsokimbatman 3y ago
I mean that's part of the conversation that needs to be had. I would argue libraries are an unadulterated good, but it is generally considered at best unethical and at worst illegal to re-use content that isn't your own, at least
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by itsokimbatman 3y ago
I will say that Oracle does contribute to gcc, gdb, and other parts of the GNU tool chain. I interviewed a few years ago with the team that does it. I don’t know how large the contributions are, but they seem super passionate about what the
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by itsokimbatman 3y ago
> Apple solves small, annoying problems, and does so without friction. Things just work. This. I’ve tried Android a couple of times over the years, and every time there’s just little quirks and problems that drive me back to iOS. Same wi
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by itsokimbatman 3y ago
I don’t think they are calling “rationalism” itself bad, but there is a fairly large contingent of people who call themselves “rationalists” who don’t show the slightest hint of self introspection or rational thought. They see everyone else
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by itsokimbatman 3y ago
This makes a lot of assumptions. Space is ridiculously big, and rather hostile to life, even artificial life. You first have to survive long enough to become advanced enough to make electronics. You then have to not kill yourselves with nuc
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by itsokimbatman 3y ago
How is “insect flour” misleading? The word “insect” is right there in the name! And who cares if it’s normalized or not? If it’s useful and makes healthy, delicious food, I don’t care what it’s made out of. Like… you do realize the parts of
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by itsokimbatman 3y ago
Not that I'm aware of, but as someone who works in security, I've exploited a bunch of bugs against real world, hard targets both for my own educational purposes and also as part of my job with client engagements. I'm not goi
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by itsokimbatman 3y ago
I haven't been using it for much besides simple problems that I don't feel like trawling through SO or banging my head against for 30 minutes. Things like shell one liners for text processing/searching files/etc. On larg
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by itsokimbatman 3y ago
This is literally going to be a minor annoyance at most for the handful of attackers that go after OpenBSD.
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by itsokimbatman 3y ago
Honestly the only thing that really needs to be said: https://nso.group/@qwertyoruiop/110086216898968720
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by itsokimbatman 4y ago
Lisa Simpson has a rock she would like to sell you: https://youtu.be/xSVqLHghLpw I mean, yeah, I get it. I worry about general purpose computing going away too. I remember Stallman and Doctorow talking about this in the ear
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by itsokimbatman 4y ago
It's possible, certainly. I started my path to this career back in 1998, and dropped out of college because I was not prepared... it kinda worked out well because the tech bubble popped and I would've had a bad time around the tim
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by itsokimbatman 4y ago
Well economists have accurately predicted nine of the last five recessions after all!
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by itsokimbatman 5y ago
Think about who would want to spy on you, what they'd want to know, and how much they'd be willing to spend to know it. If the most they could get out of you was a few thousand bucks from your bank account and maybe your email pas
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by itsokimbatman 5y ago
I don’t know about all of them, but a quick Google search shows that both Mongolia and Puru have intelligence agencies, which means very likely they have some sort of collection capability for HUMINT and/or SIGINT. The ones that don’t
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by itsokimbatman 5y ago
Nah that’s what tools like IDAPro and Ghidra are for. You don’t need source although it does help. That said, the particular component this targets is open source. It’s the JBIG2 decoder that is part of XPDF.
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by itsokimbatman 5y ago
It’s been a minute since I’ve been to the parks because of Covid, but I am almost positive you can buy those shirts in the park gift shops. So the person you’re replying to may have just seen them for purchase.
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by itsokimbatman 5y ago
Honestly, same. I was afraid I'd regret purchasing my M1 Air last year, but my needs for a personal laptop have gotten simpler as time goes on. I want a small, thin, and light laptop that's easy to travel with. I've got a big
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by itsokimbatman 5y ago
This. This 100%. I don’t think my nerd cred is in any danger. I regularly write kernel code, bare metal code, assembly, etc. I know how to computer. But the older I get, the more I find I’m just happier in the Apple ecosystem. I don’t want
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by itsokimbatman 5y ago
Don’t you know that caring about other human beings means you’re just a stupid sheeple who does what they’re told? The media and the elites just want to control your mind man… just take you a big ol bong rip of covid infected air and set yo
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by itsokimbatman 5y ago
Until you get infected with a novel virus and your immune system freaks the fuck out trying respond to it and you wind up dying from a cytokine storm.
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by itsokimbatman 5y ago
That’s interesting! Although maybe not surprising. I’d like to know more… do you have a source?
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by itsokimbatman 5y ago
I’ve had FB bugging me off and on and I can’t get rid of them. If I were desperate and they were my only suitor I guess I would do what I had to, but I honestly have no desire to work for them.
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by itsokimbatman 5y ago
Right?! My company was mostly remote pre-pandemic, and we've gotten more remote friendly during the last year. We share memes, conversation, movie reviews, etc. all over Slack/Zoom/Signal/etc. I'll just get random w
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by itsokimbatman 5y ago
I don’t think “impressive iteration” begins to describe it. I am very rarely impressed by new tech these days, and the M1 is the first piece of new hardware I’ve seen in years that seems downright magical. My previous laptop was a 2016 MBP
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by itsokimbatman 5y ago
"How to Learn complex Things Quickly by realizing they are not that complex at all." This is such a good observation. When I was first getting into my field, I looked around at the smart senior people around me and thought there w
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by itsokimbatman 6y ago
The ones that are completely gone have no way to make a claim. But if one tribe wants to make a claim to reparations from another they’re free to do so. It’s between them to sort that out and none of my business. On the other hand I am a ci
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by itsokimbatman 6y ago
By “we” he means the United States Government. Unlike the father in your example, the USG is still around and still responsible for its actions. As such, I see no moral issue with requiring it to make restitution. If we don’t want to raise

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