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xPaw

3,202 karma · joined May 12, 2012

my website: https://xpaw.me

creator of https://steamdb.info/

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xPaw··on Remote Kernel Code Execution Via HTTP Request In IIS On Windows
Made a online tool that tests for this vuln: https://lab.xpaw.me/MS15-034/?host=bing.com
xPaw··on How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else
It is actually possible to clone/push wiki pages using git: https://help.github.com/articles/adding-and-editing-wiki-pag...
xPaw··on SteamOS: It's here
Our post was made BEFORE that page was live and any announcements by Valve were published.
xPaw··on Ensuring Randomness with Linux's Random Number Generator
Why blog.cloudflare.com is not SSL-only?
xPaw··on Better password security in GitHub for Windows
Why is "GitHub for Windows" listed under "Authorized applications" and not "GitHub applications"?
xPaw··on New GitHub Pages domain: github.io
They already have http://git.io
xPaw··on Linux game database
Also list of Linux games on Steam:

1. http://steamlinux.xpaw.ru/

2. http://steamdb.info/linux/ (automated, pulls data from Steam)

xPaw··on Why does Chrome replace 208074/maxsize: with blockquote?
2. I have a website that displays historical changes (diffs) between things, and I noticed it was displaying "blockquote" for no reason there. 3. Me too!
xPaw··on Why does Chrome replace 208074/maxsize: with blockquote?
4 different people on Chrome 27 confirmed it gets replaced by 'blockquote'
xPaw··on Show HN: my spare time project, an on-site QR image decoder
He just uses JSONP-ajax to get result from "http://www.patrick-wied.at/static/qrgen/qrdecode_widget.php?.... It's a dumb idea to sell this for 15$
xPaw··on What's up with HN?
I think arrow should be replaced with raw css, or converted to base64, since it's very small image, it won't be big as base64.
xPaw··on CloudFlare was down
Yep, any website using CloudFlare's DNS is not resolving.
xPaw··on What's my lat-lon?
Not bad, but you should get rid of jQuery, it's absolutely not needed in here.
xPaw··on YouTube's Google alike redesign (instructions in comments)
Discovered this when I visited YouTube in incognito mode.

javascript:document.cookie = "VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=u8uWhAyPa3U";

xPaw··on CloudFlare is Down
It's not really down.

Looking into an issue with one of our upstream providers, affecting multiple colos

https://twitter.com/CloudFlareSys/status/246997504950956032

xPaw··on Securing Stripe's Capture the Flag
CTF was lots of fun, but I never really bothered finishing final level :(
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