@ela@infosec.exchange

· 7mo ago

"Age verification" laws are "we want to have all adults and their complete online profile in a database" laws, and that Persona, the company behind LinkedIn, Roblox, Discord ID and age verification is owned by Peter Thiel should be all you need to know.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 17mo ago

You might not like it, but this is what peak compiler performance looks like.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 5mo ago

TIL: Harman bought AKG and closed their Vienna development office. The engineers didn't appreciate, and founded their own company, called Austrian Audio. Word has it that they produce high quality, affordable gear. I'll find out soon, wife made me get closed headphones.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 6mo ago

DSP? Where we correct room audio, we don't need a DSP! 💅

https://github.com/andreasdotorg/mugge

github.com

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 7mo ago

I've had a chance to use Opus 4.6 a bit, not just for coding tasks, but for other typical corporate management activities too, like reading and writing policies, understanding bookkeeping, etc.

And I have some scary news. Sure it makes mistakes, but for a person treating it as an extended information processing tool instead of outsourcing thinking to it, not more so than your average junior developer, outsourcing partner, big four consultant below partner level. It just delivers results much, much faster.

It's not hard to imagine a world in which racking up a €1000 AI bill per day per person driving it isn't just considered normal, but cost effective.

We'll see exponential hunger for AI compute, in a world in which chip production scales linearly at best. And the implications for energy consumption are shocking.

We'll also see the market for junior developers dry up. And no one has an idea where new senior developers who actually can meaningfully manage AI dev work will come from.

We live in interesting times, and not in the best sense of this phrase.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 5mo ago

It fills my heart with joy to see that the current hype on the Interwebs is a band that combines microtonal music with odd time signatures. https://youtu.be/2lUC8Gimxz8

Angine de Poitrine - Sherpa

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 6mo ago

Peter Thiel thinks paying taxes is a sign of the Antichrist. I wish I was exaggerating or joking. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-lectures-antichrist

theguardian.com

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 7mo ago

Heraus zum Internationalen Frauenkampftag!

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 5mo ago

FX would have appreciated the irony of being buried in a place where smoking is not allowed.🕯️

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@levampyre@chaos.social Es hat so einen großartigen Klang! 🥰

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 7mo ago

HAR 2009, Geraffel tent, in which @deviantollam@defcon.social filmed an explanation of the Beernary machine, with a cameo of FX (🕯️) as an active user of said machine.

https://youtu.be/yoCIl4-S7Pg

Beernary Machine

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 17mo ago

Replying to

@viduq@mstdn.social It's not exactly brute force, but it does involve some heavy lifting in the optimizer. Tail recursion elimination turns the recursive calls into a loop. Then, induction variables of the loop are detected, and finally strength reduction, algebraic simplification finish it off.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 3mo ago

Mission nie wieder Gardena. Geka-Kupplungen sind die Anderson Power Poles des Wassers: Gender ist irrelevant.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@thedarktangent The year was 1998. First Chaos Communication Congress in Haus am Köllnischen Park, Berlin. I had just read and digested Smashing the Stack by Aleph One, and now I was on stage, explaining the concepts. In the audience, a young man was listening very carefully. It wouldn't take long for him to master this technique, soon he would surpass me, becoming one of the legends in the field. There was a vuln, but ASCII to Unicode conversion would turn every second byte of your shellcode into 0x00? He did it. But it wasn't just his mastery of IDA, it was also his skill to bring together people. PH-Neutral was known for the parties, but its real secret was bringing the right people into one place to share stories. The list of outstanding people I've met through him is endless. We were friends, occasional colleagues, on stage together, and ultimately sharing the same hacker spirit. Hearing of his health problems in 2017 came as a shock, and I was glad to see him recover ever so slowly, regaining his memory of our shenanigans bit by bit. I am devastated to hear that he lost this fight. Sit tibi terra levis, my dear old friend. You will be missed. 🕯️

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 7mo ago

Yup, saved my ass.

(Still FX mourning content. 🕯️)

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 7mo ago

So Vincenzo Iozzo denied he knew of Epstein's horrors. He didn't deny hacking phone for him. https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/hacker-linked-to-epstein-removed-from-black-hat-cyber-conference-website/

TechCrunch

Hacker linked to Epstein removed from Black Hat cyber conference website | TechCrunch

Emails published by the Justice Department revealed cybersecurity veteran Vincenzo Iozzo emailed, and arranged to meet, Jeffrey Epstein multiple times between 2014 and 2018.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@d0b@23.social I found a backup copy.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 2mo ago

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@d0b@23.social That's the plan.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@nblr Irgendwas zwischen "hear me out, what if" und "hold my beer". War dann doch überrascht, dass das geht.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 5mo ago

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@hof @rahmstorf Ja, geht uns ähnlich. In meiner Vorstellung wird es Tundra: lange, kalte Winter, und dann 3-4 Monate Trockenheit und Hitze.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 6mo ago

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@funz Oh ja, deutlich. Massiver Produktivitätsboost. Ist am Ende wie Programmieren auf einer anderen Ebene. Und man ist am Ende immer noch für das Ergebnis verantwortlich. Wenn man die Kiste einfach machen lässt, kommt Murks bei raus. Prompts sind im Repo.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 6mo ago

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@moreentropy jaja, die PTP-Features lachen mich auch an. Die Wahrheit ist leider, dass man da eine externe PLL dranstricken muss, um vernünftiges Audio zu bekommen. Habe da auch schon ein Konzept rund um einen CS2600 in der Schublade.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 17mo ago

Replying to

@loke@functional.cafe The problem here is that the compiler can't tell if something is just an idiomatic expression or bad coding. In fact, such warnings might even distract programmers from getting things right. It's very important to keep in mind that source code has a dual purpose. Yes, it instructs the computer what to do, but computers are perfectly fine with machine instructions. Much more importantly, source code exists for humans to read, understand and reason about. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. The primary goals of writing code must be correctness and readability, with correctness often being influenced by readability. Sure, some code needs to be super fast. Your interrupt handler for that 10GB network card? This code doing the task switching in your OS? Absolutely. Every cycle counts. But in order to achieve this, you need to measure. I've seen a lot of theories about performance improvements collide hard with the realities of modern CPU and compiler architecture. Always profile, always measure, always benchmark. And for that precious lines of code, modern compilers are happy to infodump on you every step they take.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 17mo ago

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@caravantraveller@social.cologne This might be an extreme case of bad code, yes. But the moral of the story is to always prefer readability, maintainability and correctness, unless you have measurements to support a case of having to optimize manually.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 6mo ago

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@mamsell Queen of nerds! 👸

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 8mo ago

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@Yehuda @Tzipporah Happy birthday! And congratulations, I see you, you are gaining visibility, what you do is not in vain, it is getting traction. I had very good reasons to run from twitter when it turned bad, but I do miss the diversity of voices from back when it was good. I just kept running across communities whose stories I was never told. Tracing back why I am here now: there was this glorious cooperation between LockpickingExtreme and BeadsByBatsheva, the "be gay, do crime" lockpicking earrings. I had my earlobes pierced just to wear them one day. And it was from Batsheva that I found Tzipporah, and from there I found out about Turtle Island. I'm here to contribute what's in my power to turn the fediverse into this magic place connecting communities again.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 4mo ago

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@jaseg@chaos.social I am impressed.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 17mo ago

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@Ehay2k@mastodon.social @viduq@mstdn.social alt text is right here: https://archive.org/details/advancedcompiler00much

Internet Archive

Advanced compiler design and implementation : Muchnick, Steven S., 1945- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Includes bibliographical references (p. 801-820) and indexes

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 6mo ago

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@G33KatWork Die Prompts für die Rollen sind alle im Repo.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 17mo ago

Replying to

@josch@floss.social This code snipped has been floating around for a while, here's a blog post from a few years ago talking about it that seems to be the original source: https://www.notion.so/mjbo/Exploring-Clang-LLVM-optimization-on-programming-horror-acd2bb52dd934d9c9a76150484f3b64f Credit them. :)

notion.so

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 7mo ago

@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange Thousands of years of hard work trying to get away from reality as far as possible, and who can blame them. And then, when discrete mathematics suddenly became relevant to practical problems, they fought back so hard that "abstract nonsense" is now a technical term.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 17mo ago

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@plusmid@chaos.social There's more than one go with llvm backend project. :)

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 16mo ago

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@nrab@hachyderm.io @porglezomp@mastodon.social LLVM extends that basic algorithm a tad bit by trying to move instructions between the call and the return to the top of the generated loop. In cases in which this isn't trivially true (like for code neither depending on the function call value nor having an influence on the return value), there is one additional trick. If the operation performed on the return value of the function call is a commutative and associative operation, it can be eliminated using accumulator recursion elimination. The code lives here: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/llvm/lib/Transforms/Scalar/TailRecursionElimination.cpp#L658

GitHub

llvm-project/llvm/lib/Transforms/Scalar/TailRecursionElimination.cpp at main · llvm/llvm-project

The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies. - llvm/llvm-project

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 17mo ago

Replying to

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @loke@functional.cafe Reading https://llvm.org/devmtg/2018-04/slides/Absar-ScalarEvolution.pdf I would say that's a pretty good guess.

llvm.org

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 17mo ago

Replying to

@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org @waldi@chaos.social To be unfathomably pedantic, that would be all of them for al.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 17mo ago

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@plusmid@chaos.social Way! Try for yourself.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 17mo ago

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@gilesgoat@toot.wales No, that's purely by analysis.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 17mo ago

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@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org @waldi@chaos.social Well, it's what the spec says.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 7mo ago

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@deviantollam Well, I am glad it is. Cherished memory of a good friend.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 3mo ago

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@levampyre@chaos.social @kathakatze@chaos.social War over under. Ich zeig dir das noch mal, ist so ein life skill, der für Kabel, Schläuche, Seile unfassbar nützlich ist. Ist wie Schnürsenkel binden: am Anfang furchtbar kompliziert, aber bald ein Automatismus.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 17mo ago

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@waldi@chaos.social @mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org Indeed.

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 5mo ago

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@zaphod It's entry level, can't splurge, but reviews are very favourable. Looking forward to them!

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Ela @ela@infosec.exchange

· 2mo ago

Components for my HVAC control have arrived. A little overvoltage issue fried my previous control setup (controme, which, let's say, sounds nice on paper), and I thought I will redo it in a way that will be maintainable by a different person in 30 years. Now unfortunately being allowed to download WAGO IO Check requires a manual step, and no one is in over the weekend to approve. I have no idea how to stay patient!

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