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Hi! 👋 I'm Alisa Sireneva ( she/her ), a software developer and blogger from Moscow.

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The NX bit is not just about security

While I’m taking a short break from low-level programming, here’s a story by a friend of mine, Sonya, about debugging a seemingly impossible bug in ARM code. This bug hunting saga started several months ago. While developing a bare-metal hypervisor on ARM64 for postmarketOS, I hit a strange bug: if I enabled the…