Emma (IPG) - inactive nerd alt

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a human attacker holding a soldering iron trying to rotate herself along with the mesh using a very fast swivel chair

i mostly post on my main account at @ipg these days

Pronounsit/its she/her
GitHubhttps://github.com/InvoxiPlayGames
Websitehttps://invoxiplaygames.uk
Mehttps://wetdry.world/@ipg
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/iownfivewiis

new bio: "a human attacker holding a soldering iron trying to rotate herself along with the mesh using a very fast swivel chair."

(from "Can’t Touch This: Inertial HSMs Thwart Advanced Physical Attacks" - https://tches.iacr.org/index.php/TCHES/article/view/9290)

Can’t Touch This: Inertial HSMs Thwart Advanced Physical Attacks | IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems

a few months ago I was experimenting with sending vendor commands to Xbox 360 DVD drives via a USB SATA adapter, i was able to dump the DVD key from a Xenon's busted DVD drive but unfortunately can't do much else like flashing firmware since a lot of commands are undocumented...

what's the point in this post? I guess it's a message to would-be future modders to document your work and put it online, in a way that's easy to preserve. it might be tempting to hold things tight, obfuscate info and make a quick buck, but future generations will hate you

this took me 30 seconds and tells you a lot more than whatever some image generation model shits out from "Realistic hacker, hacker best hacker on hackstation, hacker at computer, logo of Company, Company logo, hacking at computer with Company logo"
ransomware screen
to replace the domain name being looked up by A Game in a Wii gecko code i wanted to save precious bytes so i compared part of the domain (addressed by r4) as an integer to see if it was the correct one to replace, rather than wasting cpu time on doing a full string compare. we win
learning how dyld interposing works
i needed a solution to send files on my PowerBook G4 so i made an Automator + bash script that lets me drag files onto it and upload them to my home server
#powermac
Black Ops 3 for Mac completely skips loading some sections of the Havok AI data for one Campaign map in particular. huh!
good morning fediverse!