Signal walks the line between anarchism and pragmatism

Post by lobocinza » Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 4:23 AM UTC

unixr wrote: post #235

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This is a terrible and very un-empathetic take. The internet would be a much more enjoyable place if we strive to make it as secure, useful, and accessible as possible to as many people as possible instead of gatekeeping it to a certain group we decide are worthy because they are capable of browsing HN with curl instead of Chrome or something like that

> The internet would be a much more enjoyable place if we strive to make it as secure, useful, and accessible as possible to as many people as possible instead of gatekeeping it to a certain group we decide are worthy because they are capable of browsing HN with curl instead of Chrome or something like that

An ideal to aspire but many will use for things worst than porn.

Post by ldarby » Sat, Jul 29, 2023, 9:22 AM UTC

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georgeplusplus wrote: post #316

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Any good resources you recommend for a noob to the art who doesn't know assembly? I've reverse engineered file types. But not actual code.

You just need to understand assembly. Maybe there are books that can help, I'm not aware of any, but to get started I'd recommend taking a binary of any open source software (preferably a non-optimised build, or just your own hello world with some loops etc), run it in a debugger, and step through each assembly instruction at a time and figure out what it's doing, with the corresponding source code. Eventually you ma…

(3 days later, responding to myself).

Maybe this was bad advice, this approach is like trying to learn a spoken language by listening to a recording and looking up each word at a time. Probably it'd be better to get a deep understanding of how CPUs work in general, I can recommend the book Computer Organization and Design by Hennessy and Patterson for this. I agree with the other commenter that 15 years is more realistic so maybe just start by getting a 4 year degree in CompSci (and that book will probably be required reading).

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