it's impressive that every attempt by the kernel/hw team to make macOS faster/better is immediately countered by the UI/UX and swift team.
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Imagine reverse engineering nation state malware and exploiting cutting edge mobile device security mitigations, while communicating with you buddies in minecraft lol
https://infosec.exchange/@opa334/117055761069632178
OH: Am i good enough to have imposter syndrome?
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usbliter8 A13 is much more cursed than expected o.O
Feeling joy and happiness after reading my coworkers words "We no longer need boost".
Hell yea!
Friendly reminder that getting decrypted iOS components can be so simple using tihmstar's tool ;)
https://github.com/tihmstar/partialzipbrowser
https://github.com/tihmstar/img4tool
Released a tool to erase X-Gold 608 (06.15.00 iPad) baseband.
https://github.com/tihmstar/bberase_ultrasn0w
This is useful if you want to downgrade your iPhone 3G to iOS 2.0 with the matching baseband.
The exploit/payload was taken from redsn0w and some code from xerub. There isn't really anything novel here, but until now there wasn't a straightforward way to erase the baseband or to downgrade to iOS 2.0 baseband on the iPhone 3G.
Another morning, another "i can't use my Macbook without rebooting it first".
Thanks macOS Vista
Everyone working at Apple (no matter the department) should be forced to update every single work device to (at least) the latest public version within a month of its release. No butts.
MacOS samba connections are less reliable than Deutsche Bahn :(
my overnight running unit tests found a bug in code i pushed yesterday. I love unit tests, everyone should be running unit tests to save you from regressions at least
and wtf is this?
when did we forget how to unicode?
In iOS 1 and iOS 2 almost everything was arm code, but starting with iOS 3 almost everything is thumb code.
#themoreyouknow
It is offensive to (AI) auto-translate to any language other than english.
Also (AI) auto-voice-translation is offensive regardless of the source / destination language.
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The ability to make screenshots of the lockscreen specifically, was only introduced in iOS 2.2 #themoreyouknow
today's hack of the day:
#define DEREF_MISALIGNED(src) ({typeof(*(src)) dst; memcpy(&dst, (void*)(src), sizeof(dst)); dst;})
sometimes i find new feature introduced into iOS and be so confused on why that wasn't done a long time ago.
Today i found out that in iOS 26 XNU seeds its PRNG from SEP TRNG and be like "wtf why wasn't that done like 12 years ago when SEP was first introduced in iOS 7???" o.O
who designed this UI shit?
and who had the idea to replace perfectly fine UI with shit like this?
Why does it feel like one has to be a network engineer just to get IPv6 (and tunneled IPv4) working without using shitty ISP provided routers?
That's what they meant when they said AI is gonna kill us all
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@G33KatWork@infosec.exchange forget about protobuf, use this instead https://github.com/nanopb/nanopb
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@madcoder@infosec.exchange My opinion on this is: it's about who takes responsibility, blame for the code written. If you see "LLM wrote this" then whoever prompted the LLM isn't gonna take any blame for when the code is shit (only take credit when it's good). If it's shit it'll be like "go figure that out with the LLM. it probably just halucinated i'm not at fault". If a human takes responsibility (blame) for code i don't care if he used LLM or not. If it's good ok, if it's shit i'm never trusting him again
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@zhuowei@notnow.dev ngl, the info is actually incredibly useful to me as i didn't know i can sign kernel drivers just like that and it's what i needed to do today. thanks a lot!