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mmebane
·السنة الماضية·discuss
I've not personally used it, but there's a fork that adds NSIS decompilation back in: https://github.com/myfreeer/7z-build-nsis
mmebane
·قبل سنتين·discuss
You could try Nuitka [1], but I don't have enough experience with it to say if it's any less brittle than PyInstaller.

[1]: https://nuitka.net/
mmebane
·قبل سنتين·discuss
As someone with ADHD, being able to have an assistant with perfect memory that I can ask extremely vague questions to about things I'm pretty sure I did some time between last week and 5 years ago sounds amazing. I'm skeptical Recall will actually be able to do that. I doubt its usefulness outweighs the legal and social concerns. But I can absolutely see the use.
mmebane
·قبل سنتين·discuss
It also usually only gets one release per upstream major version (and sometimes not even that), meaning a lot of Chromium security fixes can take several weeks to show up in a Thorium release. I appreciate the author's effort, but it's definitely riskier than normal Chrome/Chromium.
mmebane
·قبل سنتين·discuss
They started deleting repos a couple of minutes ago. I checked a lot of links and they were in the Internet Archive. I'm sure there are plenty of forks of the main repo.
mmebane
·قبل سنتين·discuss
FWIW, this works for me with Python 3.12 from Homebrew, but not Python 3.12 from python.org. _sqlite3.cpython-312-darwin.so in Homebrew's Python appears to dynamically link /opt/homebrew/opt/sqlite/lib/libsqlite3.0.dylib, but the version in python.org's Python statically links the sqlite3 library.

EDIT: Python 3.9.6 from Xcode doesn't work either. It has _sqlite3.cpython-39-darwin.so which dynamically links /usr/lib/libsqlite3.dylib, but that dylib doesn't exist on my system, and I don't know enough about macOS internals to tell where it's coming from. The _sqlite3 so doesn't seem big enough to have it statically linked.

EDIT2: Xcode's Python works when launching via the real path instead of using the /usr/bin/python3 alias, I assume because /usr/bin is SIP-protected or something.
mmebane
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
Genshin Impact is (potentially) an interesting case - the iOS version has supported game controllers for almost 3 years now, but there's been no hint of support coming for Android. There's definitely some suspicion in the Genshin community that Apple has an understanding or agreement with Hoyoverse to keep iOS the premier mobile platform.
mmebane
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
I tried AoC for the first time last year, and that was pretty much my experience. A week or so of easy problems, then 1 or 2 that were still pretty straightforward but a bit more tedious, then 1 that was a lot more work because you were supposed to derive some of the rules from the example. I don't think it would've been too hard, but like you said, it was starting to feel like a chore at that point, so I stopped.
mmebane
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
It's a nice quality of life improvement. Most other languages I've used with some form of string interpolation allow quotes in nested expressions to be the same as the quotes on the top-level string, and this has IMO been a weird wart in Python. I'm happy to see it fixed.
mmebane
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
I unfortunately can't find references at the moment, but I've heard that some/most of this is done with nVidia Shield TV boxes which have the same Tegra X1 security flaws used to exploit the early Nintendo Switches.
mmebane
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
The authors of the default filter lists definitely try and block these - the biggest problems seem to be YouTube changing things faster than the default filter lists normally auto-update, or other filters/extensions conflicting. Ref: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/173jmog/youtu...
mmebane
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
They're probably referring to dynarmic: https://github.com/merryhime/dynarmic
mmebane
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
> I assume they would kill all sorts of hacks around their platforms, if they could

They've been doing exactly this with Tears of the Kingdom: patching pretty much every glitch that gets found, no matter how likely it is to affect casual players or whether it arguably makes the game more fun. I wouldn't be shocked if they had people lurking in the glitch hunting/speed running Discords just so they can learn about glitches and fix them ASAP.
mmebane
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
This one could absolutely be used in a computer science course as an intro to both PRNGs and IEEE floating point.
mmebane
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
If you enjoy talking about parallel universes, I highly, highly recommend watching the SM64 1-Key speedrun [1] and then Bismuth's explainer [2]. It's a truly amazing technical achievement based in large part in pannenkoek2012's research.

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iUt840BUOYA

[2]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wjge1bVobN0
mmebane
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
As well as roughly another $5k/month on Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/Infosec.exchange/

I'm really curious as to what the current operating costs are.
mmebane
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
Probably because it's based entirely on (non-black-box) reverse-engineered Switch binaries, and is therefore very possibly a derivative work of Nintendo's copyrighted code.
mmebane
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
The author posted on Twitter ~20 minutes ago that he shut it down early, due to some change in the API causing crashes. I presume he had been expecting to shut it down at midnight in some American time zone.

> Well, looks like Reddit pulled the plug a little early. Apollo started crashing, but I just manually revoked my token and it looks like it fixes the crashing, but no more Reddit access haha. Those folks are fun to the very end! > @ChristianSelig > 6:49 PM (CDT) · Jun 30, 2023

Source: https://twitter.com/ChristianSelig/status/167492828678112461...