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What even is a JSON number?
An exploration of numbers in JSON and various JSON implementations
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Bypassing Denuvo in Hogwarts Legacy
When I announced my Black Ops 3 integrity bypass, someone commented that my research was not impressive and I should try analyzing Denuvo instead. That kinda stuck with me, so I did what everyone would do and spent the last 5 months of my free time reverse engineering and bypassing the Denuvo DRM in Hogwarts Legacy. I…
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OpenAI: Start using ChatGPT instantly
We’re making it easier for people to experience the benefits of AI without needing to sign up
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The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining
The strangest hardware problem I've ever had to debug.
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Why Vim uses hjkl keys as arrow keys
I was reading about vim the other day and found out why it used `hjkl` keys as arrow keys. When Bill Joy created the vi text editor he used the ADM-3A terminal, which had the arrows on hjkl keys. Naturally he reused the same keys and the rest is history. Here is how the `hjkl` keys looked. ADM-3A keyboard's hjkl…
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Error Handling in Baby Toys
Electrical baby toys are interesting to disassemble and look at how it’s made. Not up to the …
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The Tale of Daniel
It’s April Cools! It’s like April Fools, except instead of cringe comedy you make genuine content that’s different what you usually do. For example, last year I talked about the strangest markets on the internet. This year I went down a different rabbit hole. Daniel has been a top 5 baby name twice since 2000. There…
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10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends
The "Ask HN: Who is hiring" monthly post on Hacker News, available on the first day of each month, provides a platform for users to share tech job listings for free. Analyzing 10 years of these posts with a Python script reveals significant shifts in hiring trends. This insight into the evolving tech job market can…
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10 > 64, in QR Codes
QR codes reverse the usual order: decimal works better than base64 for encoding binary data, despite it requiring many more digits.
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An Awk Implementation in C99
A somewhat compact implementation of the awk programming language
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Your database skills are not 'good to have' (2023)
And a hateful ode to Object-Relational Mappers
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Not so fast, Mr. Fourier
A real explanation of discrete Fourier transform (DFT, FFT), discrete cosine transform (DCT), and their inverses.
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First-in-human implantation of bionic device to halt Crohn's disease (2023)
World first: Clinicians have implanted an electrical nerve stimulation device into a Crohn’s disease patient to stop post-surgery inflammation recurring.
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Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS (2022)
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The Hearts of the Super Nintendo
When I start studying a vintage system, the first thing I like to do is understand how its components work together at the hardware level [1] .
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Inside the failed attempt to backdoor SSH globally that got caught by chance
Why the threat actor rushed deployment.
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Ross Anderson
Ross Anderson unexpectedly passed away Thursday night in, I believe, his home in Cambridge. I can’t remember when I first met Ross. Of course it was before 2008, when we created the Security and Human Behavior workshop. It was well before 2001, when we created the Workshop on Economics and Information Security. (Okay…
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XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams
Some timezone observations on the recently discovered backdoor hidden in an xz tarball.
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A deep dive into email deliverability in 2024
BANDARBOLA855 hadir sebagai penyedia akses bandar slot online resmi dengan RTP slot terpercaya. Dengan modal 5K anda sudah bisa mengakses ratusan game gacor dan menikmati berbagai bonus serta peluang jackpot besar setiap hari. Daftar untuk meraih kesempatan Maxwin tertinggi, semua berhak menang disini dan jaminan…
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The xz backdoor thing reminds me of a story
This xz backdoor thing reminds me of a story I heard from friends that worked at a tech company that made cell phones. They had a great coder that worked on the project, he had put in work as a contractor for a few months, and due to the quality of his work he was hired in full time. After two months he simply stopped…
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Can GPT optimize my taxes? An experiment in letting the LLM be the UX
TL;DR Yes, albeit with patience.
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The end of Pepper&Carrot and my next project
Hey, I feel like I'm at a big crossroads and this is an important blog post, but you probably already guessed that from the title.
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How to graduate your PhD when you have no hope
a.k.a. Richard Hamming vs. Richard Feynman
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Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects
Originally a thread on Twitter about the xz/liblzma vulnerability, when I finished typing it, I realized I had a real world slice of Open Source interaction that deserved more attention.