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I have seen this happen so often. People who evidently don't use or haven't used a Windows based machine in the last 20 years complaining more than anybody else.

There are plenty of reasons to hate on Windows(-based machines) but what would they know.

The problem with this 'it is relative' line of logic is that everything can be relative. We need terms that describe stuff regardless of how people perceive it.

Otherwise, as you said, 'bricked' can mean almost anything. So what's the point of using a word without any particular meaning?

4 hours? You are insane (in a good way), mate. Any less than 7 hours and I literally can't even wake up. If I force myself, my body will literally not respond to my commands and getting up and straight becomes as hard as deadlifting 100kg...

Why would you give minorities an "easier" time? Why not the same as everyone else?

This is wrong on so many levels it's not even funny. Original HN submission WRT that link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20799705

On Chrome, you can hit CTRL + G, which does the same as CTRL + F, but is not hookable by web sites

OP seems to never have heard of public transport.

Wait, are they American? Most likely.

The author disabled resizing (zooming) on mobile, leaving the text unreadable. Why do people do this at all? I've seen it happen so often.

Only 355687428096000 years old? Mustn't have even finished college!

You are taking things out of context. For starters, they did not do that on the iPhone 5S, only on 6 and newer [0].

[0]: https://www.apple.com/iphone-battery-and-performance/

Not really. A skilled reverse engineer does not find/replace any certificates, or anything like that. They just debug the app, stepping over all the code, instruction by instruction. There's no way you can beat that. I'm a malware reverse engineer - I work with this kind of stuff every day. And I'm pretty sure there's no 'game': once the binary is in my disassembler, it's over.

This method would be a waste of time and energy. Just reverse the app and find it out. No need to play it like a binary is a magic black box that's impossible to inspect.

Can confirm, just got a slight arrhythmia just by reading that

You don't see .jpeg because people are used to .jpg. There's nothing incompatible with long names that we care about.

Also, that Windows feature you mention is called ADS - alternate data stream.

You're comparing apples and oranges, too. OP was talking about functional facial unlocking

> The only tricky part is the message-sending routines, since they have to be written in assembly

Why? (context: never touched Objective-C)

You're talking about AMT (which runs on the Intel ME - Management Engine). The ME itself, however, is on every CPU (running Minix on Skylake and later CPUs, ThreadX on earlier models), because one of the responsibilities of the ME, apart from being a backdoor, is to manage the CPU: power it on, handle power signals, etc. The CPU wouldn't run without the ME, so it's necessary that it's on all CPUs.

That security bug you're talking about can be patched the same way it's exploited. No source code doesn't mean "all is lost". Instead of writing a payload that steals your private keys you just write one that patches out the vulnerability.

Not really. The amount of samples that check for debuggers is surprisingly high, and thus makes such red flag unusable. It'd just spam false positives.

China has around 70% [1] of the Bitcoin mining power, and the top three miners hold around 50%, which is so massive, it makes everyone else seem negligible, like an experimental error.

[1]: https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/mining/china/

Sure, but that's open source and you can disable automatic updates, meaning they can't change the code whenever they feel like doing so. And if they do, the code will be kept in the source code control history, and will eventually be caught.

It's wildly different from a JS file that's loaded every time you visit the website.

It's not like editing a value in the registry is "going out of your way", it's almost standard Windows practice by now.

> Do you honestly believe that Linus would accept core kernel changes for the sole purpose of supporting Windows on Linux? It would NEVER. HAPPEN.

Kinda off-topic, but, isn't Linus basically a Microsoft here? Does it matter if Linux's forkable and open-source, if nobody ever forks it to do what the community wants instead of what Linus wants? (e.g. stable kernel ABI, Windows support, etc)

> I've got a laptop and desktop that have been running Windows 10 since launch and they work just as well as my Mac does. I've never re-installed any of them, and never had them "go nuts". That story reads like someone who last used Windows98 and thinks it still applies.

I agree so much with this... last time I installed Windows, it was Windows 7 in 2013, haven't touched it since then, and it works perfectly. Of course it requires a bit of maintenance, but what doesn't after so many years.

So you're refusing to have a basic update installed? Let me guess, you're going to complain and say Windows is insecure because you got WannaCry'd because you didn't update your system and blame it on MS instead?

(you = whoever "doesn't care" about updates)

This^, plus, you shouldn't really have "null" or "undefined" variables which you treat as bool (if you do, then that's a bug)

You can't really write a compiler if you don't know all the "weird things" of the language.

> I haven't seen a stuck mouse cursor for a long time in linux.

That's because the only cursor you have in Linux is the terminal one.

That's so deep, it hit me in the IDT

Literature: sorry no, I didn't read anything; everything I know is from practice.

As for the tools: just IDA Pro, really, if you don't count the standard stuff: a VM to avoid getting the host infected (VirtualBox), Burp (to analyze malware HTTP traffic), etc. Nothing too fancy.