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koen_hendrikson Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit

Is that the context? In thinking op here might just opened a port and added the keys off the support agent and removing them after.

koen_hendrikson Xbox 'OG' Adventures

This was a great read and also a bit nostalgic. I still love my OG Xbox (crystal edition) and am still surprised by the development that is active for my first ever self owned console.

koen_hendrikson Write some software, give it away for free

You'd probably love this latest Razor1911 prod, if you haven't seen it yet: https://youtu.be/dybkLM-1eQo

koen_hendrikson Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving

You mean a VM like the one that contains a 0day that can escape the sandbox that gets found every year at pwn2own?

koen_hendrikson A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

There are frameworks that navigate like this. Laravel is the first that comes to mind. I think Django and Spring do this as well.

koen_hendrikson Building Bluesky comments for my blog

> Over the years I've found that any interaction with social media that involves me loading the feed inevitably ends up with me doomscrolling or spending way too much time scrolling stuff that doesn't add anything to my life.

Almost as if it was designed that way...

koen_hendrikson How to install Firefox on a Chromebook the easy way

Wow those ads are intrusive, could barely find the start of the article let alone read it.

koen_hendrikson My toddler still loves planes, so I upgraded her radar

I actually started trying to port it to Android after your first post. Only managed to get a compass prototype working though... might revisit the project soon!

[0] https://git.pixelfy.nl/koen_hendriks/airvoyager

koen_hendrikson Dynamic music and sound techniques for video games

I was thinking about SSX tricky and 3. How the music loops and/or fades in for example big air time or landing a trick.

There were certain layers of the playing track that would fade away when in air such as vocals. I always thought that this was done really great in these games.

koen_hendrikson Reverse Engineering the Facebook Messenger API

Sounds like app "Instander"

koen_hendrikson Learning the ropes: why Germany is building risk into its playgrounds (2021)

Don't forget the one in Noorderplantsoen ;)

koen_hendrikson Poste.io – Complete Mail Server

Looks very interesting, I'm currently looking for a replacement of Mailcow

koen_hendrikson History of Video Games (1940's – 2010's) – list of firsts

Ahoy did a great video[0] about this as well. Really nice production value and also takes on the question of 'what is considered a video game'.

[0] https://youtu.be/uHQ4WCU1WQc

koen_hendrikson Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

Cool! Brings back memories...

koen_hendrikson iOS 16.3 Is Out

It's why I prefer to use a standard like https://keepachangelog.com

koen_hendrikson About Lockdown Mode

Google has advanced protection [1] which also extends into Android [2]. Setup is easy and fast.

In no way is this 'revolutionary' by Apple.

[1] https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/

[2] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/9764949?hl=en

koen_hendrikson How I decide between many programming languages

"every PHP programmer is bad at programming, the language is designed to accommodate them with convenient footguns (or faceguns) at every step, and the ecosystem is accordingly bad. No, PHP7 doesn’t fix this. Use a real programming language, jerk."

This guy seems like a real open minded person who did his research and shared his opinion after making strong points. /s

koen_hendrikson I Quit Social Media for a Year

This makes sense to me. The distractions are easily turned of i think, but the competition the platforms generate are much worse.