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danderson, 15 days ago to random

Hi. Quick break from the posting for a serious PSA.

Please have a bottle of aspirin in your home. Make sure the tablets can be chewed as well as just swallowed. Make sure you remove any fiddly foil seal and such. Don't use this aspirin for regular pain relief, just keep it around and know where it is.

Hopefully, you'll never need it and will just feel silly for having it. But if a bad time comes for you someday, being able to chew aspirin when emergency services tells you may save your life.

760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a4, 1 month ago to random

i made mastodon for the nintendo 3ds :3c

a video of a new nintendo 3ds. i open the miiverse app and the mastodon explore timeline appears. i then demonstrate the following things: - switching timelines with zl/zr - viewing a user profile - viewing images - viewing alt text

cryptax, 3 months ago to android

Just analyzed a spyware sample that bypasses Android 13 Restricted Settings so as to drop another malware with full access to Accessibility API.

• use of malformed ZIP to break apktool and other tools.

https://cryptax.medium.com/android-spynote-bypasses-restricted-settings-breaks-many-re-tools-8791b3e6bf38

#SpyNote #SpyMax #Android #malware #accessibility #ZIP

CrystalLanguage, 3 months ago to random

We're partnering with @84codes to improve Crystal's concurrency model for multi-threading. This is going to be a lengthy process, but it's already bearing some early fruits.
#CrystalLang #Multithreading

nixCraft, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to firefox

Firefox is fighting to make browsing fairer!

Introducing our new issue tracker to document challenges where platforms put Firefox at a disadvantage.

We're committed to a level playing field for all. We call on Apple, Google, and Microsoft to engage with us in this new forum to speedily resolve these concerns. https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2024/01/19/platform-tilt/ #firefox #opensource Please boost to spread the message. Thank you 🙏

nedbat, 4 months ago to random

Tired of this: "learn C so you can understand how a computer really works."

So much of modern computers is not visible from C (pipelining, virtual memory, branch prediction, cache misses, etc).

I guess what they mean is, "you learn about pointers and consecutive memory locations"? How is that helpful for programming in other languages without pointers?

C teaches you an abstraction of computers based on the PDP-11. It's interesting, but it's not essential.

0xor0ne, 4 months ago to Multicopter

DJI RM500 Smart Controller reverse engineer and exploitation

https://icanhack.nl/blog/dji-rm500-privilege-escalation/

#cybsersecurity #dji

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Techaltar, 4 months ago to random

Meet Apple's new 27% tax

Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tfc-meet-apples-new-27-tax
YouTube: https://youtu.be/sHmEj5KQc4s

Rush, 4 months ago to foss

Doom 1 and 2 are now licensed under the #GPL :)

https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/

https://nitter.woodland.cafe/doom_txt/status/1747398603209883882

#FOSS #OpenSource #Games #Gaming

romainguy, 4 months ago to random

kotlin-explorer 0.7 has a cleaned up UI based on JetBrain's Jewel library, and the new jump indicator in the dex bytecode disassembly.

https://github.com/romainguy/kotlin-explorer/releases/tag/v0.7

foone, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

The 37C3 talk on TEA1 encryption (used by police and military units in europe) is hilarious.
The hackers announced they found a vulnerability in the encryption, and one of the ways the organization that standardized TEA1 downplayed the breach was by saying that it wasn't viable, because it required "high powered GPUs".

So they ported their algorithm to a Toshiba Satellite running Windows 95, and re-cracked the encryption there.

https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11761-all_cops_are_broadcasting

(or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KhbJ4pqcOY )

foone, 4 months ago to random

here's the annual update of the intro scene of the SNES game "The Firemen"

rioog, 5 months ago to random

I made my first app - a RAW camera!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/composure-camera/id6471194287

It's completely free - my goal was to release an app by the end of the year, so there's no business model. And despite a few App Store Review rejections - crashing on iPad and issues with the permissions prompt, I was able to make it just before my deadline.

jon, 5 months ago to random

Breaking DRM in Polish Trains

The @mrtick @q3k @redford #37c3 video is here: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains

It’s an amazing story, and they see the funny side in their presentation!

ShinyQuagsire, 5 months ago to random

Threads is based??

lukhash, 5 months ago to random

All music at https://lukhash.bandcamp.com is now free to download. Go and copy whatever you need 🎄👾🎁 Enjoy the tunes!

dansup, 5 months ago to threads

I can't believe this is real, this is a Threads account as viewed from a @pixelfed account

#threads #pixelfed #activitypub

retr0id, 5 months ago to random

Stop signing JSON.

JSON was never meant to be signed.

"I want to preserve map key order within a data model that explicitly disregards it" - canonicalization rules dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

They have played us for absolute fools.

olafurw, 5 months ago to random

What in the Daft Punk is going on with the Rust XML parsers?

retr0id, 6 months ago to random

b0rk, 6 months ago to random

let's explore a git commit

retr0id, 6 months ago to random

Here's my over-condensed thoughts on Mastodon "vs" Bluesky. "vs" in scare-quotes because I don't think of them as direct competitors to each other.

Most people already here on the fediverse will probably continue to prefer it, relative to Bluesky. Fedi is more decentralised in practice, and demonstrably less reliant on external funding in order to function. It has a unique culture (and set of subcultures) which, if you're here, you probably like.

However, for the people still using Twitter, they'll probably prefer Bluesky over the fediverse. It's easier to treat as a drop-in replacement for twitter without learning new concepts, and has more mainstream appeal in general. Work is being done to make the fediverse more noob-approachable, and that's great, but the userbase still skews strongly towards "technically adept" in practice.

If Twitter, Threads, etc. are heroin, then Bluesky is methadone. If I had to pick between "fewer twitter users" and "more fedi users", I think the former is a more important goal. I prefer the fediverse to Bluesky overall, but I still see Bluesky's existence (and growth) as a net positive.

(and to specify, by "fediverse" I really mean mastodon-compatible ActivityPub federation, or something along those lines...)

filippo, 6 months ago to random

Unlike our dear RSA and elliptic curves, post-quantum cryptography primitives like Kyber (now ML-KEM) use linear algebra and polynomials.

How much math do you really need to know to implement them, though? Turns out, not much!

I wrote up all the linear algebra and polynomial algebra you need to implement Kyber.

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/kyber-math/?source=Mastodon

MishaalRahman, 7 months ago to random

IMO sub-4:30 is possible with better execution. Still world record, though.

Yes, I actually did record this, lol: https://youtu.be/1kO3o7t_jcU

mjg59, 7 months ago to random

PLEASE check your kids' Halloween candy. Just found an Okta admin access token in a Snickers bar.