Nostr notes by iximeow

does it help if i tell you that the device which was working with ...

2026-10-26T17:47:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…23ne
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does it help if i tell you that the device which was working with a 64-bit rsa key is a switch that is now in a datacenter connected to the internet

guess who tripped over a 64-bit (not a typo) rsa key last week..

2026-10-26T17:45:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…ecwy
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guess who tripped over a 64-bit (not a typo) rsa key last week..

i feel like @npub15ht…6p08 might!

2026-06-04T06:53:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…8e0x
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i feel like Dougall (npub15ht…6p08) might!

looked at a cfp today and thought about submitting like "i ...

2025-03-17T23:42:32Z

looked at a cfp today and thought about submitting like "i don't know if i'll be welcome in your country by the time this comes, but,"

tracks

2025-03-15T21:50:48Z

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tracks

i actually dunno if you'd ever see eieio on the 360, but i ...

2025-03-15T21:44:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…n09a
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i actually dunno if you'd ever see eieio on the 360, but i assume power* interest in 2k25 means there's a 360 lurking around the corner

oh you're getting into xbox hacking now too?

2025-03-15T21:19:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…qhj3
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oh you're getting into xbox hacking now too?

> We noticed that the key from an old Zen 1 CPU was the ...

2025-03-05T23:58:13Z

> We noticed that the key from an old Zen 1 CPU was the example key of the NIST SP 800-38B publication

i would say that is.... awkward

github issues are their own kind of microblogging platform, or, ...

2024-12-27T22:06:53Z

github issues are their own kind of microblogging platform, or, "i need to write a blog" https://github.com/tosc-rs/mnemos/issues/349#issuecomment-2564053705

i wanted to fact check a baseless assertion about computers on ...

2024-12-26T22:27:29Z

i wanted to fact check a baseless assertion about computers on the internet i did not intend to be reminded that humans are interconnected with technology, that everyone's life is an infinitesimal part of humanity, that life is fleeting and so noisy as to be nearly meaningless

apt: "you don't have a java installed. consider ...

2024-12-24T20:26:22Z

apt: "you don't have a java installed. consider installing openjdk-22-jre-headless :)"
me: ok fair enough. apt install openjdk-22-jre-headless
apt: E: Unable to locate package openjdk-22-jre-headless
me: ..

top ten weird thing about the computer is that it doesn't ...

2024-12-21T07:00:50Z

top ten weird thing about the computer is that it doesn't really matter how much you know about it you'll still get randomly humbled like every few weeks by, whoops, surprise, i had a filename wrong the whole time, or i wasn't actually building what i thought i thought i was, or whatever

you get better at figuring out which way the computer has humbled you today, but overall i'd rate the experience of trying to make it do what i mean as "excruciating"

i was wondering why we're talking about bird flu today ...

2024-12-18T23:49:24Z

i was wondering why we're talking about bird flu today specifically and ah now i know

deciding i do not like being suffused in anxiety and so i will ...

2024-12-16T06:46:47Z

deciding i do not like being suffused in anxiety and so i will simply tell it : "no" and be done with it

i'd need to be able to get to the bios to set that right?

2024-12-15T08:06:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…tcek
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i'd need to be able to get to the bios to set that right?

the computer side is on an unswitchable outlet because "why ...

2024-12-15T08:00:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…m0rr
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the computer side is on an unswitchable outlet because "why would i never want to turn it off", so i have only discovered this during momentary daytime power outages. this also means i cannot reproduce on demand, right now, when i would like to

it comes back when the devices on both ends of the adapter are ...

2024-12-15T07:58:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…qdg8
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it comes back when the devices on both ends of the adapter are fully powered off and on so

i am very grumpily determining that an ftdi serial adapter a ...

2024-12-15T07:56:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…65ad
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i am very grumpily determining that an ftdi serial adapter a thousand miles away from me is dying if not dead so it is truly an evening

it occurs to me that mastodon dot social is probably a larger ...

2024-12-15T07:55:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…6cf8
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it occurs to me that mastodon dot social is probably a larger operation in terms of human coordination than bsky

big tech is when you're like 20 people and 10 servers

2024-12-15T07:54:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…mkw2
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big tech is when you're like 20 people and 10 servers

someone saying that bsky's cowardice is "big tech doing ...

2024-12-15T07:54:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…frxg
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someone saying that bsky's cowardice is "big tech doing it again"

i bet if i went to sleep i won't be exposed to the words ...

2024-12-15T07:43:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…383g
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i bet if i went to sleep i won't be exposed to the words trust and safety

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2024-12-15T07:42:51Z

big tech is when users

the worst thing about being on bsky at this current time is the ...

2024-12-07T01:05:32Z

the worst thing about being on bsky at this current time is the relatively high proportion of people roleplaying as psyops trying to do adhoc personal terrorism because they think it's fun

HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO SHIFT A REGISTER OR MEMORY LOCATION BY A ...

2024-11-22T05:47:34Z

HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO SHIFT A REGISTER OR MEMORY LOCATION BY A DYNAMIC NUMBER OF BITS, BUT YOU'RE ON AN OLD X86_64 PART THAT DOESN'T HAVE SHLX OR SHRX OR ANY OF THAT? WELL HERE IS AN INSTRUCTION THAT WILL SOLVE ALL* OF YOUR PROBLEMS !

880502000000c1e810

* terms and conditions may apply. execution of self-modifying code may result in poor icache behavior. no warranty or guarantee of correctness is offered or implied. "instruction" does not refer to a single x86_64 machine instruction. seek medical help before using writable pages of executable text

utopia image: if debuggers were real

2024-11-14T20:57:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…9n0w
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utopia image: if debuggers were real

i assume it's similar to eyeballing a snprintf or whatever, ...

2024-11-12T16:55:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…e7kq
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i assume it's similar to eyeballing a snprintf or whatever, less about Doing Something Specific and more like recognizing a song by the first few notes

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2024-11-11T18:44:02Z

monday's

luna wow lmao

2024-11-10T21:05:10Z

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luna wow lmao

last one: the "it is time to build local communities and dual ...

2024-11-06T09:57:49Z

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last one: the "it is time to build local communities and dual power and help each other weather the coming years" posts reek of the same strain of quasi-individuality that preppers cope with.

it's not wrong! it's important to do that thing! but the local communities and dual power aren't gonna outmobilize the national guard or the LRADs or whatever else. we saw that. we've already been there. my local community isn't going to outdo the NIH or FDA or NOAA or .... you need both things. you need both things. need.

but sometimes ig it's important to find something to latch on to other than being trapped in a box with an awful lot of people that wouldn't mind eating you.

only took me half an hour to figure out how to say that without being punchy and i'm not sure i made the mark. and no one i'd say that to will see it! oh well! i'm done, good night!

anyway more seriously it's just kind of jarring every time ...

2024-11-06T09:36:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…h9zu
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anyway more seriously it's just kind of jarring every time how little policy or whatever matters. or it's vibes?? to The Median Person. fucking north carolina, what!

"What If What Wins Is The Racist Vote At The Cost Of All The ...

2024-11-06T09:05:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…5ndk
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"What If What Wins Is The Racist Vote At The Cost Of All The Young Leftists Opting Out Of Elections" is a coherent take from this, right. it all sucks! but if the PSL vote is so small it's at the bottom of "other candidates", lmao, who gives a shit about the leftist turnout

thinking back to the old "democrats are going to look at this ...

2024-11-06T09:03:01Z

thinking back to the old "democrats are going to look at this and think `i've got to be more racist`" gallows humor post that went around smug-adjacent-style in lefty circles for a while

and seeing a lot of people who spent the last few months talking about how they can't in good conscience vote in this election because genocide or cop president or whatever (who are coincidentally now talking about how they may be at risk and are Building Community To Resist What Is Coming)

and kind of wishing a lot of people would shut the fuck up about what they think is or isn't a winning strategy

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2024-11-01T22:35:43Z

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2024-10-31T01:36:03Z

eeprom is when your rom can get eepy :')

also have you ever thought about how much water you're under ...

2024-10-28T21:08:19Z

also have you ever thought about how much water you're under when a cloud is above you? what if physics did a freak mistake and condensed all of that water directly on you without warning

my favorite is when the risc instruction has two immediates that ...

2024-10-19T17:59:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…8dje
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my favorite is when the risc instruction has two immediates that are fragmented into three bitfields each, which are interleaved

"beltlist" is cute but this would be an abomination unto ...

2024-10-17T22:54:06Z

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"beltlist" is cute but this would be an abomination unto the processor

see this is what actually would cause me psychic harm

2024-10-17T22:53:47Z

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see this is what actually would cause me psychic harm

i mean i want to assemble this from all the real programs so

2024-10-17T22:51:16Z

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i mean i want to assemble this from all the real programs so

> The actual problems on a power grid are almost entirely ...

2024-10-15T22:02:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…gd23
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> The actual problems on a power grid are almost entirely related to keeping any single line from carrying too much power.

yes yes yes yes yes i want power poles to catch fire

it would be cool if power lines had losses also

2024-10-15T21:54:15Z

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it would be cool if power lines had losses also

are you going to add process yield randomization to factorio can ...

2024-10-15T21:51:40Z

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are you going to add process yield randomization to factorio

can you make facilities have spinup times too

lmao she's never going to escape the legacy

2024-10-13T21:55:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…ncl6
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lmao she's never going to escape the legacy

beltlist.

2024-10-11T02:38:44Z

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beltlist.

they should invent a bash that has the `volatile` keyword. ...

2024-10-09T05:23:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…kuac
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they should invent a bash that has the `volatile` keyword. "volatile" files are files where bash buffers writes and performs them all at once or not at all, and reads are performed all at once or not at all. "volatile" files probably can't be larger than 512b or 4096b or PIPE_BUF or something

the indelible weight of understanding how wrong all the ...

2024-10-09T05:20:57Z

the indelible weight of understanding how wrong all the stackoverflow answers for whole categories of questions were until some nebulous behavior changed

maybe steam should expose an rpc server on 0.0.0.0 so you can ...

2024-10-06T17:10:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…rzce
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maybe steam should expose an rpc server on 0.0.0.0 so you can just send an http request to ask what game you're playing ,... this could not be a problem btw i am smart

it's probably really satisfying to have exactly one job to do ...

2024-10-01T04:10:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…ezap
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it's probably really satisfying to have exactly one job to do and to do it very well

self-perpetuating sales mechanism

2024-10-01T02:19:14Z

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self-perpetuating sales mechanism

if you are a company whomst maintains documentation for an isa, a ...

2024-09-22T21:40:12Z

if you are a company whomst maintains documentation for an isa, a very mean way to write your documentation would be to specify bit fields as a mix of `l` and `i` but with all letters bold so it looks like this

proposing `len(source) - len(xz(source))` as a measure of how ...

2024-09-21T19:11:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…a925
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proposing `len(source) - len(xz(source))` as a measure of how much a file of source code will make you sad when you read it

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2024-09-21T19:04:11Z

lmao love opening a .c file and realizing it is 2.2 megabytes

i wonder how James Mickens feels having joked 10 years ago that ...

2024-09-18T00:50:07Z

i wonder how James Mickens feels having joked 10 years ago that if the mossad wanted to get you they would replace your phone with phone-shaped uranium, but the only thing he was wrong about was that they'd actually do novelty sized sticks of TNT

i have been incredibly pleasantly surprised by strange new worlds ...

2024-09-17T19:37:35Z

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i have been incredibly pleasantly surprised by strange new worlds though

that much ruby parsing being necessary is probably a sign that ...

2024-09-11T03:53:00Z

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that much ruby parsing being necessary is probably a sign that there is no heaven

why did they invent vtables when we had perfectly good arrays at ...

2024-09-07T02:40:14Z

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why did they invent vtables when we had perfectly good arrays at home

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2024-08-24T19:50:40Z

[utopia meme] the world if C supported multiple return values

it you would like to read ~10k words about going from "a 12kb ...

2024-08-20T03:03:39Z

it you would like to read ~10k words about going from "a 12kb binary that fell off a truck" to "a disassembler that knows the whole instruction set except like five opcodes", all without running a single instruction, phrack 71 is up and has a treat from me to you: http://phrack.org/issues/71/3.html#article

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're ...

2024-08-10T23:33:48Z

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as AVX512, is in fact, AVX512/F+CD+VL+DQ+BW+VNNI, or a I've recently taken to calling it, "Cascade Lake". Cascade Lake is not an instruction set unto itself, but rather another proprietary component of a fully functioning x86-64 CPU made useful by the baseline amd64 instruction set, AVX extensions, and vital interconnects comprising a full personal computer as defined by IBM.

Many computers run a modified version of AVX512 every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of AVX512 which is widely used today is often called AVX512-F,

maybe if you suppose that itanium failed hard enough that amd did ...

2024-08-10T23:25:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…rt8v
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maybe if you suppose that itanium failed hard enough that amd did a better 64b isa and as a result drew away interest from everything else ... ????? maybe ???

(internet. larger storage meant you can hold more Stuff too, so ...

2024-07-30T22:15:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…dlgx
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(internet. larger storage meant you can hold more Stuff too, so you can accumulate a few important programs from the internet wherever and just... use them. but fundamentally someone else can just Give You A Program. and bigger and more complex programs.)