Recent Posts
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iOS Jailbreak Updates (Post-Checkm8)
This follows Lars Fröder's @opa334dev latest update about the status of the Dopamine jailbreak and the future of iOS exploitation. Lars and a few other committed developers have been working on this...
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On reading
“If you haven’t read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate. You will be incompetent because your personal experiences alone aren’t broad enough to sustain you.” — General Jim...
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
I first read The Metamorphosis because my friend said I should. That’s usually not a good reason to read something, but I’m glad I did. And I'm thinking a lot about absurdism lately. Not the...
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I hate the news
Some people turn on the radio first thing in morning. Others collapse with the evening news. While some mindlessly scroll through social media, others remain "informed" by viewing CNN and...
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Starlink vs Fibre vs 4G/5G vs Copper
I recently watched a Youtube video from a foreign tech reviewer, Joshua De Lisle, who finally ditched copper broadband and switched to Starlink because the speeds are total garbage — 17 Mbps download,...
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Ads, Dopamine Traps, and Memetic Hazards
Sometimes, things just get a little fucked up, and it seems like there’s nothing I can do and it all just weighs in. I think, personally, this is in part due three things of which we shall explore...
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Rust and C
I'm seeing too much comparison on the internet about why C is unsafe and Rust is safe. True. But they are NOT even the same class of language. C is minimal. The compiler is easy to write. Even...
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NFDs
Brian Cantwell Smith is one of the many people who are far smarter than I am. His MIT thesis Procedural Reflection in Programming Languages—which is something else—is how I first became aware of...
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Linux on External HDD
I wanted to install Linux on a portable SSD I had and make it bootable from my laptop, so it needed UEFI support. I didn’t find a nice method of doing it online, so I found my own way. Before going...
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Source Code for 2020+ Subaru Head Units and other Core Functionality
I found it a year ago, made minor modifications and compiled successfully. However, to get it deployed is another large task which I didn’t follow through with, there are probably people who have done...
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