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Sweet, variadic maps sound really useful, I am always having to take a moment when mixing functions that take keyword arguments vs. option maps. Also, some of those functions added…

> The good thing about modern languages is that you don't depend on the location of code in the page for it to work. If you start worrying too much about exact formatting, you thro…

Absolutely. There is no magic point in your career where you know everything. Plus, it fosters a culture of asking. And often you’re not the only one in the room who doesn’t know. …

It is still possible to inspect previous framebuffers after rebooting.

This is exactly the reason why the webgl standard strictly forbids allocating buffers without clearing them first. Otherwise anything the user looked at since the last power cycle …

Previous discussion on the same subject, about a post written by me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9245980 Basically, this issue is not restricted to NVidia GPUs or specific…

woa. that looks awesome ;) what am i looking at - whats the rule? and are you also coloring the spaces the ant has already been on, but that reverted to their original state?

Nice! I like how the world grows with the movement of the ant, as opposed to my rather boring static one

Thanks! I have also discovered a pattern that is fully space-filling: BPBBP - will slowly fill the entire screen with a growing green hexagon, with a single yellow dot at the origi…

In these tests we were able to recover screenshot-like views of entire websites after viewing them in the newest version of chromium, then running the poc on the local system.

Howeverm we did not test on any other browser technologies like flash or java. I cannot guarantee that there is no possibility to access any VRAM from within a browser.

i have added your blogpost to the document as prior art.

Oracle also discourages the use of 3D acceleration for untrusted hosts. See here: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#guestadd-3d

Yes, this is the same way I found this - In the course of another project I had the same "Huh, this is weird" moment. Then I started experimenting with different setups (Linux, Win…

see _wmd's comment below[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9246244

Yes, that is the exact same issue. While searching for any prior art, i did not find your blog post, but the problem seemed far too obvious for me to be the only one to have ever s…

The webgl standard has rather strong memory safety considerations: WebGL resources such as textures and vertex buffer objects (VBOs) must always contain initialized data, even if t…