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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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@fraggle no attempt yet but I think it would just be a matter of writing a network driver for it on each side!
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@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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@w8l I've wanted to do wsl9x ever since I did doslinux! It just took me 6 years of turning it over in my head to figure out how to do it :) there's no direct lineage between the two projects, they take very different approaches, but I definitely took the learnings from doslinux with me
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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@w8l surprisingly not that much! Calling a few VMM services like VMMCreateThread and the memory context related ones they say are internal only and should not be called but that's about it as far as internals poking goes
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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really got this one in right under the wire before they start removing 486 support from linux
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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With Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux you can run all your favourite Windows and Linux apps side-by-side with a modern Linux kernel running cooperatively with the Windows kernel in ring 0. And unlike modern WSL, no hardware virtualisation is used so even your 486 can run it!
Please enjoy, I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time
https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x
Please enjoy, I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time
https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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posting on the fish subreddit and asking whether anyone prefers breathing water over air
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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so it cost anthropic $20k to find this openbsd crash bug which amounts to putting a negative integer in a tcp field where a negative integer was not expected by the c code which does some cavalier int cast bullshit, ie. a vuln which is totally fuzzable, and quite certainly would have been found by the fuzzers of the 2010s had anyone cared to burn that much compute on fuzzing openbsd.
The difference today is not that anybody suddenly cares about investing that much in openbsd (is the build server still a donated machine running in Theo's basement?), but that openbsd's reputation for security makes it really good marketing if you can find a bug, any bug, it doesn't matter; and that marketing value is what makes it worth spending $20k on fuzzing.
The difference today is not that anybody suddenly cares about investing that much in openbsd (is the build server still a donated machine running in Theo's basement?), but that openbsd's reputation for security makes it really good marketing if you can find a bug, any bug, it doesn't matter; and that marketing value is what makes it worth spending $20k on fuzzing.
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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There's a particular strawman response to the concerns that LLMs damage literacy, impair learning, etc that goes like "well people said the same thing about the calculator!" "Socrates said writing would make people dumb!" and the reason it's a shit take is it pretends that pedagogy just doesn't exist. We _do_ study the effect of various technologies and methods used in teaching. We _know_ that certain methods of teaching reading are ineffective and damaging, three-cueing for example.
It is in fact anti-science to believe that all concerns about new technologies and methods being damaging are automatically invalid, especially in the face of mounting evidence supporting those concerns.
It is in fact anti-science to believe that all concerns about new technologies and methods being damaging are automatically invalid, especially in the face of mounting evidence supporting those concerns.
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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Horrifying and eye-opening paper of the day: "Wait, There’s Torture in Zootopia? Examining the Prevalence of Torture in Popular Movies"
- in which the authors find that 60% of the 20 top-grossing films each year over a 10 year span (2008-2017; N=200) depict torture, including 45% of PG and 65% of PG-13 rated films; and that instrumental torture (torture used to obtain a specific outcome other than punishment) was depicted as effective 73% of the time.
https://www.erinmkearns.com/uploads/2/4/5/5/24559611/14._delehanty___kearns_2020_pop.pdf
- in which the authors find that 60% of the 20 top-grossing films each year over a 10 year span (2008-2017; N=200) depict torture, including 45% of PG and 65% of PG-13 rated films; and that instrumental torture (torture used to obtain a specific outcome other than punishment) was depicted as effective 73% of the time.
https://www.erinmkearns.com/uploads/2/4/5/5/24559611/14._delehanty___kearns_2020_pop.pdf
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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referred to something I read in the paper as kirribillogy and I wonder if I've just invented a new word 👀 zero results on google
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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If you ran an energy intensive business and made big investments in electrification already, the Australian government is now looking to erode your competitive advantage as much as possible
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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I'm hearing that the astronauts packed a shrimp curry and 2x coffee per day and have just found out the toilet's broken
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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news.com.au had that one ready to go I guess!
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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albo, huh
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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Cooked up a binaryninja plugin that knows how to disassemble VxDCall macros. This is a funky dynamic linking mechanism used in the Windows 9x kernel, it's an int 0x20 followed by an inline dword representing the 16 bit device id and service ordinal which is being called. The kernel patches these sequences with a regular call instruction directly invoking the target service the first time each is executed
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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My windows laptop told me "Please wait" when I turned it on, which is never a good sign. Then it asked me for my bitlocker recovery key, which I managed to scrounge up. Then it sat there on a "Diagnosing your PC..." screen, and eventually told me it couldn't figure out why my PC failed to start, but it did give me the option to "Exit and continue to Windows 11", so I clicked that, and it rebooted and everything was fine again. Baffling OS!
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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I am a web developer and even I have no clue what this actually means
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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omg
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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"leftists aren't excited about any new technology" wrong. I am very excited about ogg opus
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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when I worked at github 10 years ago it was a big meme to make fun of sourceforge for being comically unreliable and full of crap. how the monkey paw curls
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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Have to renew my passport and logged onto the passports.gov.au portal. Hit by a cloudflare challenge. Oh noooo
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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the g in gobject stands for glib, and the g in glib stands for gtk, and the g in gtk stands for gimp, however the g in gimp stands for gnu, so really the g in glib stands for gnu, but you shouldn't confuse it with gnulib, which is developed by the gnu project, who shouldn't be confused as the developers of glib, which is the gnome project, in which the g also stands for gnu
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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hmmmm idk about this verification method Discord is offering
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Hailey
@hailey@hails.org
woof! I am a computer tinkerer, polyglot hacker, music enjoyer, and bike rider. Also a huge nerd. Trans and queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ΘΔ pfp by https://bsky.app/profile/jankapnoc.bsky.social
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The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff. Pirate brazenly. There’s no point trying to do it the nice way - you’ll get shut down anyway. Copy, share, and archive to your heart’s content. It’s the only way we’re keeping digital media and our cultural memory intact.
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