Lightfire228

@Lightfire228@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is 100.00% decompiled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Ocarina of Twilight

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is 100.00% decompiled⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  LoZ: Twilight Majora’s Ocarina

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is 100.00% decompiled⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Source code is just text with special grammar rules, that’s easy for a human to read and think about. But it’s not possible for a computer to execute source code directly.

  So it’s run through a “compiler”, which takes the text and compiles it into binary machine code (x86 Assembly). This is what gets written to the CD and shipped

  “decompilation” is the process of starting from the raw machine code, and trying to figure out what source code text could have generated that machine code.

  Typically you use a tool that can do an initial decomp pass, but since it’s missing a lot of context, the resulting text is generally incomprehensible. Variable x123ieh48hdc could be Link’s velocity, the currently loaded map, or it could be a temporary scratch variable

  The real challenge to decomp is figuring out which incomprehensible variable and function names actually correspond to in-game

  (Note, usually “100% decomp” means they’ve fully translated machine code to source code. But there may still be large parts of the source code that remain incomprehensible. Ocarina of Time decomp still has sections like this)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Null island?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gotta poop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OwO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But it doesn’t have any built-in concept of users, write permissions, or authentication (except for commit signing)

  Hosting an unauthenticated git repo would be the equivalent to an open ssh port with no password

  Not to mention collaborative things like issue tracking, PRs, forums, etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if it’d be feasible to make a fediverse github

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  can solve that we don’t think are solvable by sufficiently large computers

  That is a really good point…hrmmm

  My conjecture is that some “super Turing” calculation is required for consciousness to arise. But that super Turing calculation might not be necessary for anything else like logic, balance, visual processing, etc

  However, if the brain is capable of something super Turing, I also don’t see why that property wouldn’t translate to super Turing “higher order” brain functions like logic…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the distinction between “arbitrarily large” memory and “infinitely large” memory here matters

  Also, Turing Completeness is measuring the “class” of problems a computer can solve (eg, the Halting Problem)

  I conjecture that whatever the brain is doing to achieve consciousness is a fundamentally different operation, one that a Turing Complete machine cannot perform, mathematically

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But… But programming is fun…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect Turing Complete machines (all computers) are not capable of producing consciousness

  If that were the case, then theoretically a game of Magic the Gathering could experience consciousness (or similar physical systems that can emulate a Turing Machine)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An argument for using plastic straws:⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not fully silicone straws?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Waydroid doesn’t intend on supporting it. It’s a piece of code that checks for evidence of “tampering” (such as an unlocked bootloader, or root access), and sends those bits of data off to Google’s servers for verification

  It’s antithetical to Waydroid and device freedom, and is used by banking apps for “security” reasons, as well as media apps for piracy reasons

  And is a massive pain for anyone who root’s their devices

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What about Play Integrity / Safetynet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨owo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OwO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ain't no one breaking in⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and no.

  If the password is stored properly (hashed and salted), then a high entropy PW will make it nearly impossible for your PW to be extracted from a database dump / data leak

  On the other end, if the PW is stored as plain-text, a high entropy PW is useless.

  In between, a weak hash algorithm or no salt, a high entropy PW still makes it much harder to extract, but it depends

  ---

  In general, 2FA is more secure, since it combines 2 different methods of authentication.

  • something you know: password
  • something you have: the 2FA token (usually on a phone)

  This protects the service (as well as the user) against a broader range of attacks. Such as

  • password reuse (which nearly everyone does)
    • this is particularly bad, because you’re increasing the chance that a weakly designed system will have it’s data stolen, your reused PW and username included
  • phising attempts
  • low entropy passwords
  • replay attacks
    • since 2FA tokens are usually time bases (TOTP), they expire after a few minutes and can’t be reused if an attacker manages to intercept one

  Among others

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  According to the article, they used human teeth from cadavers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protip: Don't lose count⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, ok

  He’s satire

  I just assumed he was another one of those McDojo idiots

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protip: Don't lose count⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
  1. If you’re in this situation, you’ve got about a 95% chance of being boned, regardless of what training you have
  2. The fuck is that dude doing wearing a coral belt
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  imo, there’s no single “cure” for cancer, because it’s not a single disease

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or two generations...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The yeast of thoughts and mind

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or two generations...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  globglogabgalab

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your last words being "Whoops", probably greatly increases the odds that someone writes about your death⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  UwUpsie daisy

  FTFY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno how viable it is, but linux phones with waydroid is a thing

  Also, I’d imagine that a small pocket of custom ROM amd root folks will still exist

  Come hell or high water, i will retain control of my phone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s the FairPhone 6, running e/OS, Which is a deGoogled port of android, running microG

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like a heart⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is adipose tissue (body fat)

  So yes, she’s American

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chhoto URL v6.3.0 is out now: A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imo, it’s nice to see tools written in a memory safe systems language

  Especially if you use a lot of them. More utility, less attack surface

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspiring. Innovating.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I said

  solar and wind are intermittent and therefore not ideal for dealing with real-time grid demand

  The grid has to meet demand in real time. You can’t make the wind start blowing within a few seconds to ramp up supply, and battery technology isn’t capable of storing enough juice to handle this either

  That’s why the grid uses different power sources, each with different response times, each serving a different purpose

  • Nuclear has slow reaction time, so is used to handle the bulk of daily power
  • Then natural gas and coal have faster reaction times, and can be used to fill in as demand varies minute to minute
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspiring. Innovating.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason i discount solar is that, (i’m assuming) carbon capture requires equivalent amounts of energy that was produced by burning the hydrocarbons

  This means, we would need to produce roughly double our current energy consumption (1x to continue current consumption, 1x to carbon capture at a rate comparable to historic carbon emissions)

  Also, solar and wind are intermittent, and therefore not ideal for dealing with real-time grid demand. However, that may make them ideal for passive carbon capture

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspiring. Innovating.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Carbon capture is the inverse of burning hydrocarbons (fossil fuels). You have to dump energy (from the grid) into a chemical processes that “refine” the air back into concentrated carbon

  The only way this thermodynamically is viable is with a surplus of carbon neutral energy

  So either nuclear, or fusion