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Retr0id
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About Retr0id
https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314
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Comment #49252635
Super cool. I like how you can hop from plane to plane. However, once I hop to a satellite, it seems like I'm stuck there. It'd be nice if there were more options from that point.
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Comment #49242358
Slightly silly idea to solve this: Hash all non-patched areas of the file to produce a key. Use the key to encrypt your XOR value. Thus the key can only be derived by someone who h…
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Comment #49242053
However, if your change involves zeroing something out, you're back to storing the original data again.
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Comment #49241947
I've tried this, and it is largely what I do, but it's easy to end up with a large tangled pile of markdown files, and the implementation either diverges from what's in markdown or…
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Comment #49240671
I manually approve everything (aside from the "allow commands like this" option). Not because I'm worried it's about to do something harmful but because I want to stop it from wast…
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Comment #49240470
You can't get from Mac-style shortcuts to PC-style shortcuts just by reassigning individual keys. If you swapped them then Ctrl+C would no longer emit a terminal break, for example…
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Comment #49238589
It's common enough to just copy single-file headers into a project. Now the docs come with it.
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Comment #49237379
Most of the RAM being "used" is available to be reallocated to something more important, should the need arise.
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Comment #49237022
I see it the other way. Applying the skills to a job is much more lucrative, so most do that instead.
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Comment #49237000
Because phreaking in the traditional sense hasn't worked for decades?
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Comment #49236252
> you'll have to unlearn your muscle memory of the Ctrl key There is another option, which is to use Karabiner to revert to PC-like shortcuts. Learning the mac way is probably bett…
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Comment #49236225
Yup. It's the most frustrating thing in the world, because in my experience it works (claude's claudglish-infused code that is, I can't vouch for TFA). So I brave through it to ach…
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Comment #49229484
> trying to gain a veneer of legitimacy > SEO For me, these terms are synonymous.
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Comment #49222485
The hardest-to-mitigate bot traffic tends to come from residential proxies, and most residential connections are still v4-only. However, it is also easy to get large numbers of v6 …
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Comment #49222314
If pooping is the only time you spend away from your phone, you're not spending enough time away from your phone.
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Comment #49220831
Ah, I didn't realize that dropdown was scrollable! (I should find the browser setting to force scroll bars back on again...)
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Comment #49220715
> Now Copernicus Browser has also added a straightforward “wildfires” visualization layer for Sentinel-2 imagery that went live on August 4. I feel like an idiot, I can't figure ou…
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Comment #49219894
The third point, on its own, doesn't bother me so much. What does bother me is the "clean it up for publication/PR/etc." phase. It was never especially fun in the first place, but …
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Comment #49219803
> Does it mean Merkle’s authentication tree is still used today? > It is. In fact, the Merkle tree is a fundamental part of blockchain. True, and merkle trees are just about everyw…
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Comment #49219543
The "what's going to happen" in the example screenshot seems self-contradictory. The first paragraph says it'll exclude certain files and directories, while the second says it's a …
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Comment #49219042
I wonder if you can do some damage with scatter/gather ops within a VM, such that each fetch is a TLB miss inside the VM, and every table walk fetch is a TLB miss outside of the VM…
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Comment #49215266
Related, and linked in the readme: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/smiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii (using the slow instructions to break SMI)
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Comment #49214330
Those are definitionally not microbloggers. It's ok for a platform explicitly for microblogging to not cater to their macroblogging desires.
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Comment #49212910
It works well for microbloggers.