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WerWolv

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    Comment #48233771

    Great read, thanks! What was used to make these Signal diagrams? They look really great

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    Comment #47706441

    WebUSB works in pretty much the same way. You'll have the same set of functions that libusb exposes there too. Sadly it's not supported at all on anything but Chrome right now

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    Comment #47700652

    Descriptors also were kind of a mystery for me until I realized that they're just a binary structure with a fixed format that the host reads and interprets. The device descriptor i…

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    Comment #47699779

    ADB uses libusb or WinUSB directly from userspace too yeah. On Windows you still need a .inf driver though because the WinUSB driver isn't getting loaded by default for Android dev…

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    Comment #47696076

    dfu-util actually also just uses libusb under the hood! Any class or device that doesn't have a driver baked into the OS can be implemented like this. And if you'd need the DFU fun…

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    Comment #47696037

    Arguably all these other subsystems shouldn't be in the Kernel either but that's a different topic :) There are quite a few benefits to doing these things in userspace over the Ker…

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    Comment #47695670

    On Linux you could create a tun/tap device from your application and translate data sent over that to requests sent to the ethernet adapter. Of course, when you're doing these thin…

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    Comment #40832650

    Hey, I'd just like to tune in here real quick. I've been using this username since I was like 10, long before I really understood what Nazis are. By the time I learned about this, …

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    Comment #32289120

    By default it uses a pixel-perfect font (the one that's included in ImGui) so anti-aliasing will not do anything but make text look blurry. If you don't like the default font, it's…

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    Comment #32289065

    Thanks a lot for the love! If you have any feature requests, face any problems or have any questions, please open an issue on my GitHub page and I'll make sure to look into it as s…