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halb

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About halb

meet.hn/city/49.5891571,10.9812072/Erlangen

Socials:

- github.com/robalb

- https://halb.it

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    Ten years ago, I made a very stupid website: a public chat that anyone can join, where you can communicate only in morse code, by tapping a single button. Since then, I've been sur…

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    Comment #48086140

    international day of plant health is on may 12, not today!

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    Comment #47491092

    The author itself is probably ai-generated. The contact section in the blog is just placeholder values. I think the age of informative articles is gone

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    Comment #47226964

    there was a php-only million-rows challenge that was posted here recently. This uaf offers the opportunity for the funniest solution.

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    Comment #46830715

    i feel that most of my problems in this space would be solved with better "fuzzy" search integration in obsidian. Some sort of local rag on my daily notes would be very effective. …

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    Comment #46716561

    There is an existing project that tracks and gather syscalls in the linux kernel, for all ABIs: https://github.com/mebeim/systrack . The author maintains a table here, which is inc…

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    Comment #46384879

    what do you think you will get out of this? no one hires for super specific technical roles like "high-frequency gradin system experts" without actually checking your knowledge and…

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    Comment #46384796

    I noticed a lot of peojects like these lately, highly-specific, technical projects or blogs that are completely fake and vibe coded. I wonder what people think they will get out of…

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    Comment #45679889

    Very cool! I built something similar a long time ago: https://morse.halb.it and it blows my mind that it's actually being used by people

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    Comment #45656792

    It's an interpreter, but it does support JIT to x64 and arm. There are some details here: https://github.com/jart/blink/?tab=readme-ov-file#technical-... On the x64-playground webs…

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    Comment #45653720

    This is mostly an educational tool, and it's intentionally designed to present data in a similar way to GDB. The idea is that students will use this tool to learn basic assembly co…

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    Comment #45653656

    I was gonna say, this sounds exactly like LLVM IR, except for the ease of use

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    Comment #45650646

    Nice to see my playground trending! All of this is essentially made possible by the blink engine by @jart: https://github.com/jart/blink/ Which is an x86-64-linux emulator written …

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    Comment #44414448

    This is a good point. I guess that if you have the luxury of controlling the front-end side of the web application you can implement a system that polls the server routinely. Over …

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    Comment #44413806

    What kind of websites do you have in mind when I talk about fraud patterns? not everything is a static website, and I absolutely agree with you on that point: If your static websit…

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    Comment #44413505

    I guess the blame is on me here for providing only a very brief context on the topic, which makes it sound like this is just anti-scraping solutions. This kind of fingerprinting so…

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    Comment #44313570

    This is a problem because unlike cookies, that are tied to specific domains and isolated by security boundaries, fingerprints can be computed across any domain. It's easy to imagin…

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    Comment #42943263

    Finally, a better alternative to the do-not-stab header https://www.5snb.club/posts/2023/do-not-stab/

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    Speaking of web-based debuggers, I recenty created a similar project but focused on x86-64 assembly debugging: https://github.com/robalb/x86-64-playground