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Wladimir ๐Ÿ @orionwl@mastodon.social

Kaitai Struct reminds me of Hachoir bitbucket.org/haypo/hachoir/wi ,which was quite useful for reverse-engineering/forensics kind of stuff and included many formats, but that project went unmaintained years ago, unfortunately.

This seems interesting, "Kaitai Struct: a new way to develop parsers for binary structures" (kaitai.io/ github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_st), including a neat visualizer for browsing binary data formats. Not looking forward to crawling into the Scala rabbit hole to get it to build tho ๐Ÿ˜
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top secret command: `/usr/bin/time -l` prints the contents of the rusage struct for the process. Useful for finding max memory consumption for example :)

"Richard Stallman was right about firmware"

@Elizafox BTW it's my personal belief that putting content filtering more in the hands of communities and especially individual users isn't anti freedom of speech. I think it's dual to it: freedom to choose what you listen to.

(And I note it's much better for *people* to control these filters, as opposed to some larger centralized silo. This gives me hope we can build a better federated social web.)

@saper @kwanre @donb In a way, exploit dev is often a bit like a brainfuck programming competition, except with a new BF dialect for each attack...

Everything is ruined as soon as people get involved.

Instead of working together building a federated protocol to try to displace the tech multinationals and brands and re-conquer internet communication for ourselves, they'd rather fight over this small sliver of attention they've gained. Sheesh, that stuff is everywhere. People are shit.

Oh no. Suddenly my TL is full of culture war. Sides preparing preemptive strikes. "[person] is evil, look at how affiliated to [othergroup] they are!". Well if being here means having to swear loyalty in a "you're with us or against us" sense, delete my account please. I came here partly to flee the political drama on birdsite.

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It is 2074. Copyright is no longer extended since rich people no longer die. All librarians are unseen outlaws building archives underground. This is their story.

Dystopia 2020: the same amount of cruel schadenfreude on birdsite as for that festival, but for real wars and humanitarian crises." HAHA THE BASTERDS DESERVED IT" "oh look one lost their head, this is so much fun to watch!" ...

There's this unfortunate challenge right now whereby one politically partisan group is hugging free speech to its chest, and the other is really worried about ideological contagion. I believe everybody needs the freedom to communicate, but it's hard to explain to one side that that includes feeling safe enough to speak and having the right not to listen. And the other side that when you decide to create the right to silence others, it's not the powerless who gain that right.

@orionwl I deleted mine about three years ago, and haven't noticed any difference.

LinkedIn in useful for recruiters, and those are the same group of people who actually pay them.

Think about everyone around you... did you get them from LinkedIn, or through existing networks?

Host your CV on your blog, or even on GitHub. Unless your actively looking and not going through your regular network, I don't see the point of LinkedIn.

Delete it... you won't look back :)

@twitter @mmn Your threat-modelling is incomplete.

With self-destructing messages, your adversary isn't the recipient.

It's their future self who broke up with you and is angry - who doesn't have a time machine.

It's the guy who steals their phone or hacked their iCloud next month.

It's almost as bad as academia.edu's "Someone just searched for you on Google..." mails. Still not sure whether I should feel threatened or complimented by it, but it feels creepy, like an early warning system "...you can start running now!". Either I don't get "social" or those sites don't.

So lately I'm seriously thinking about deleting my linkedin. I don't think that site has ever done anything useful for me. In the past I've used it basically as online hosting for my CV, and it's okay for that, but all the e-mail spam to partake in it as 'social network' is annoying.

"Check out [old work contact]'s new photo". Why???