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You can audit binary code with tools like Ghidra and IDA Pro. It takes a different mindset to find these type of bugs than it takes to develop software. I won't quite say they're o…

I mean that's part of the conversation that needs to be had. I would argue libraries are an unadulterated good, but it is generally considered at best unethical and at worst illega…

I will say that Oracle does contribute to gcc, gdb, and other parts of the GNU tool chain. I interviewed a few years ago with the team that does it. I don’t know how large the cont…

> Apple solves small, annoying problems, and does so without friction. Things just work. This. I’ve tried Android a couple of times over the years, and every time there’s just litt…

I don’t think they are calling “rationalism” itself bad, but there is a fairly large contingent of people who call themselves “rationalists” who don’t show the slightest hint of se…

This makes a lot of assumptions. Space is ridiculously big, and rather hostile to life, even artificial life. You first have to survive long enough to become advanced enough to mak…

How is “insect flour” misleading? The word “insect” is right there in the name! And who cares if it’s normalized or not? If it’s useful and makes healthy, delicious food, I don’t c…

Not that I'm aware of, but as someone who works in security, I've exploited a bunch of bugs against real world, hard targets both for my own educational purposes and also as part o…

I haven't been using it for much besides simple problems that I don't feel like trawling through SO or banging my head against for 30 minutes. Things like shell one liners for text…

This is literally going to be a minor annoyance at most for the handful of attackers that go after OpenBSD.

Honestly the only thing that really needs to be said: https://nso.group/@qwertyoruiop/110086216898968720

Lisa Simpson has a rock she would like to sell you: https://youtu.be/xSVqLHghLpw I mean, yeah, I get it. I worry about general purpose computing going away too. I remember Stallman…

It's possible, certainly. I started my path to this career back in 1998, and dropped out of college because I was not prepared... it kinda worked out well because the tech bubble p…

Well economists have accurately predicted nine of the last five recessions after all!

Think about who would want to spy on you, what they'd want to know, and how much they'd be willing to spend to know it. If the most they could get out of you was a few thousand buc…

I don’t know about all of them, but a quick Google search shows that both Mongolia and Puru have intelligence agencies, which means very likely they have some sort of collection ca…

Nah that’s what tools like IDAPro and Ghidra are for. You don’t need source although it does help. That said, the particular component this targets is open source. It’s the JBIG2 d…

It’s been a minute since I’ve been to the parks because of Covid, but I am almost positive you can buy those shirts in the park gift shops. So the person you’re replying to may hav…

Honestly, same. I was afraid I'd regret purchasing my M1 Air last year, but my needs for a personal laptop have gotten simpler as time goes on. I want a small, thin, and light lapt…

This. This 100%. I don’t think my nerd cred is in any danger. I regularly write kernel code, bare metal code, assembly, etc. I know how to computer. But the older I get, the more I…

Don’t you know that caring about other human beings means you’re just a stupid sheeple who does what they’re told? The media and the elites just want to control your mind man… just…

Until you get infected with a novel virus and your immune system freaks the fuck out trying respond to it and you wind up dying from a cytokine storm.

That’s interesting! Although maybe not surprising. I’d like to know more… do you have a source?