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Icyphox

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i do security things; send mail at x@icyphox.sh

https://icyphox.sh

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Icyphox··on Voat Is Shutting Down
This is a standard strawman. OP was _not_ suggesting that obese/trans people don't deserve to live.
Icyphox··on EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1B
Ooof. Micro-transactions in F1 2021, then.
Icyphox··on Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
Yeah, this one does. Some others on the frontpage don't. Interesting.

If I were to hazard a guess -- it looks like a templating bug. Some template has a period in it.

Icyphox··on Sourcehut's Second Year in Alpha
Try mbsync or OfflineIMAP. Both great tools to sync a remote mailbox to local.
Icyphox··on PRET – Printer Exploitation Toolkit
Remember having an absolute blast in high school with this. Oh, the things we did in the computer lab!
Icyphox··on Show HN: Switch Git Users CLI
Could've been written in a 30–40 line shell script, heh.
Icyphox··on I Violated a Code of Conduct
I find it ironic that the author supports "cancel culture", and also proceeds to write this:

> One the call, I was surprised to find myself facing four people. The previous call had been with just one, and suddenly being so greatly outnumbered made me feel very intimidated.

Isn't this basically what cancel culture is too? To some extent, anyway.

Icyphox··on Guide to Notion Landing Pages
We've been using Slite for a while; it's pretty great.
Icyphox··on An open letter to India’s youth: Get off that smartphone. It can destroy you
Woah. That's a huge generalization. Why do you think all Indian youth have no prospects?
Icyphox··on Show HN: Turn your website console into a chat that connects website visitors
same
Icyphox··on Android In a Box – Run Android applications on any GNU/Linux operating system
Wonder if this runs on Sailfish OS? That'll be ideal for me, as I'm looking to switch to SFOS on my phone fulltime.
Icyphox··on The unrealized potential of federation
> No one has managed or bothered to propose viable business models for decentralized services

I think that is for the better.

Icyphox··on The unrealized potential of federation
> My issue with federation is that so far, everything still requires some centralisation. Take Matrix for instance. The most popular homeserver by a long, long shot is the one that the Matrix foundation runs themselves. This is same for Mastadon, PeerTube, etc. If you let this experiment play out long enough, you end up with a de facto centralised system.

Yeah this was Gagron's fault. Running a flagship instance was bound to result in this. I make it a point to educate people about not joining mastodon.social and finding another instance that better suits their interests.

Icyphox··on Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop
It's a terribly overused YouTube/Twitter meme.
Icyphox··on Merge tag 'inclusive-terminology' into Linux kernel
This is beyond dumb. Americans always assume the world revolves around them and their politics.
Icyphox··on Ask HN: Pitch your personal newsletter/blog with a one-liner
What's with the HUGE Discord link (with an image, no less)?
Icyphox··on Ask HN: Pitch your personal newsletter/blog with a one-liner
I write about computers, security and computer security.

https://icyphox.sh

Icyphox··on Linux Sucks 2020
I'm smhing so hard right now.
Icyphox··on Linux Sucks 2020
You clearly don't understand Linux Sucks.
Icyphox··on Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more
Arch is far from minimal. It literally ships systemd, and all kernel options enabled. Not to mention glibc, and a shitton of other crap...
Icyphox··on Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more
Possibly. If they don't rely on glibc, since KISS uses musl. Besides, why would you? They go against the fundamentals KISS.
Icyphox··on OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2
6.7 is just around the corner (19th May!) and I can't wait.
Icyphox··on Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
I mean, I can't see this lasting longer than a year until Google decides to break something on their end. And for the love of God, stop using Electron.
Icyphox··on IRC for DMs
Haha, guess I should've been more specific. We zoomers you know… :)
Icyphox··on 25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds
> He even punts on a softball question and makes it about himself

It was his interview, asking him for his opinions and takes. I feel like that’s a perfectly valid answer.

Icyphox··on Python for Reverse Engineering 1: ELF Binaries
Ah my bad. I’ll make sure to fix it. Sorry about that.
Icyphox··on Python for Reverse Engineering 1: ELF Binaries
For starters, the purpose of this post was never to build an entire framework, like the one you’ve linked, but rather a small set of scripts to try and understand what disassemblers do under the hood. These scripts can also be tossed into some kind of automation pipeline of sorts, something like a CI/CD perhaps. There's a lot you can (potentially) do.

And your second question, I'm not sure I understand what you're attempting to convey.

Icyphox··on Python for Reverse Engineering 1: ELF Binaries
Nice. I’ve been planning to rewrite `readelf(1)` in Nim, I’ll check out your code for some pointers :)
Icyphox··on Python for Reverse Engineering 1: ELF Binaries
Thanks! I’d actually figured that out a little while after publishing.
Icyphox··on Python for Reverse Engineering 1: ELF Binaries
Mind telling me which model? Could be my my piss poor CSS acting up at that resolution.
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