I don’t understand this meme.

Such a good sweet baby.

I’ll walk before I ride in a Nazi truck.

No no no no no.

No! 🗞️

Page size involves a fundamental trade off in computer architecture. A system with the most logically minimal page size (1-byte pages) would have untenably large page tables comparable to the size of all system memory, making an MMU implementation impractical. For huge page sizes (=system memory, 1 page for the entire computer), the MMU is useless because it only recognizes permissions and virtual addresses for just a single unit, even if it would be trivially easy to implement. In between, we have practical and useful MMUs that offer some granularity in addressing and permissions for some trade off of complexity and memory to store the page tables.

Addressable memory has grown so much over the decades. It makes sense to move the trade off point in favor of not storing so much metadata.

Same I just throw it in a desk at work. It’s encrypted anyway.

Do we have a clipped ear or is it a trick of the camera where that’s a hair and the black ear fades into the background?

I think it comes down to driver support. It’s not that the hardware can’t do this, but rather it’s that you need to pass the option to control it all the way up from the lowest levels of the system eventually into user space where you can select an option in settings.

That, and it’s just not the first priority on devices that are generally low-margin.

This is the story of a cat named Stanley.

In the future, games will renders about nine pixels and it will all be upscaling.

Turns out the giant earth heater wasn’t the best business concept.

It amuses me how banks are so anal about the environment their apps run in, but I can open my bank in any browser with god-knows-what plugins installed on whatever OS of my choosing and just because I’m using a browser suddenly it’s totally fine and meets all security requirements.

True, but what I’m really talking about is the unbeatable user experience of having an application that looks and feels as if it were a native Windows application, because it is and has that first-class platform support straight from the vendor.

With that said, most new cross platform applications today are probably more like electron or Web apps.

I’ve actually found C# quite pleasant to develop with, so long as I didn’t have to worry about targeting non-Windows platforms.

By design. They don’t respect the judicial system.

I don’t like the feature bundling. If there’s a way to pick and choose the features I want, I’ll be happy. We’ll see how this gets implemented on real devices.

Twitter speed run.

I get to spend a surprising amount of time reading and writing assembly. I consider myself so lucky to be able to do this, and it’s true that after enough time you start seeing through it. The human mind is excellent at finding and seeing patterns. Code is no exception. It’s just another kind of data. Even the different compilers have their own flavor after a while.

Curious to me that you began in Basic; my experience is that people continue to see their first language in other languages for some time, and the best reverse engineers I’ve met usually start with something unusual. My hypothesis is that when you start in a weird place, it brings all others closer together so that they appear not so different from each other. The distance between the top of the mountain of code and the deepest valley of flat data doesn’t seem so great if you start with, say, Lisp and you never considered that lists weren’t both code and data.

I come from Matlab, and to this day I can’t see memory as anything but matrices.

I am often working as reverse engineer professionally and I also feel that mindset is half the battle–a willingness to see everything as data and to look inside to see what is there. Like digital spelunking.

Google can already push apps to your phone at will via their remote installation service. How does this create or open a backdoor?