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ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Post by TopInvestor »

notacoward wrote: post #14
ink_13 wrote: post #6

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Yeah, but in those days we did that because there wasn't any other option. It's not like the colour scheme of the monochrome terminal was chosen for ergonomic reasons. If anything, amber terminals were easier on the eyes. Or the white on black ones. Those were nice.

Was going to say the same thing. It was well known at the time that amber was better, but manufacturers mostly continued pumping out green anyway.

When I go outside green is the color my eyes are looking for to relax. Also pixels in the white background emit the maximum energy. One reason Apple introduced the dark mode is the pixels to emit mostly the valuable information and save energy , thus saving the battery life.

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Post by webmobdev »

as-j wrote: post #8

The title seems pretty unkind to the project and I almost skipped it. “Bleh bleh yet another hex editor”. But this has some nice features! For example, it can parse the executables, and show structures: Disassembler supporting many different architectures ARM32 (ARM, Thumb, Cortex-M, aarch32) ARM64 MIPS (MIPS32, MIPS64, MIPS32R6, Micro) x86 (16 bit, 32 bit, 64 bit) Just to start, along with a ton of other file parsin…

In the screenshot, there is one for "data information" - in that, what does the byte distribution and entropy chart help in understanding?

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Post by as-j »

webmobdev wrote: post #43
as-j wrote: post #8

The title seems pretty unkind to the project and I almost skipped it. “Bleh bleh yet another hex editor”. But this has some nice features! For example, it can parse the executables, and show structures: Disassembler supporting many different architectures ARM32 (ARM, Thumb, Cortex-M, aarch32) ARM64 MIPS (MIPS32, MIPS64, MIPS32R6, Micro) x86 (16 bit, 32 bit, 64 bit) Just to start, along with a ton of other file parsin…

In the screenshot, there is one for "data information" - in that, what does the byte distribution and entropy chart help in understanding?

Not sure about byte distribution, but the entropy chart is going to be finding encryption keys.

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Post by chris_wot »

ranit wrote: post #32
awb wrote: post #31

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From their "About" section & README: > A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people that value their eye sight when working at 3 AM. Or their announcement page ( https://werwolv.net/projects ): > A Hex editor with data pattern support and many features useful for Reverse Engineers Maybe "ImHex - A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers" would be a better title?

This looks a much better title and match.

dang, any reason this can't be used?

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Post by dang »

awb wrote: post #31
dang wrote: post #30

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Submitted title ("ImHex – A Hex Editor for people that value their eye sight") seems distracting and baity, so I've shortened it for now. If there's a better (more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again.

From their "About" section & README: > A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people that value their eye sight when working at 3 AM. Or their announcement page ( https://werwolv.net/projects ): > A Hex editor with data pattern support and many features useful for Reverse Engineers Maybe "ImHex - A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers" would be a better title?

I saw that, but could not find anything that's especially for reverse engineers.

The union of "reverse engineers" and "programmers" is just "programmers", and that basically means "a hex editor for people who use hex editors". No?

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Post by naniwaduni »

dang wrote: post #49
awb wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From their "About" section & README: > A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people that value their eye sight when working at 3 AM. Or their announcement page ( https://werwolv.net/projects ): > A Hex editor with data pattern support and many features useful for Reverse Engineers Maybe "ImHex - A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers" would be a better title?

I saw that, but could not find anything that's especially for reverse engineers. The union of "reverse engineers" and "programmers" is just "programmers", and that basically means "a hex editor for people who use hex editors". No?

The union of "humans" and "animals" is just "animals". Does that make a "home for humans and animals" basically the same thing as a "home for animals"?

You should know better than to draw that equivalence, dang.

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