Pwners in Paris

YouTube music is just messing with me at this point

Linus LKML beef with big-endian RISC-V? I need some popcorn! lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wg...

Systrack v0.8: S390 support and lots of small improvements github.com/mebeim/systr.... Another +118 tables at syscalls.mebeim.net for S390 v4.0-v6.17 64bit + compat 32bit. Sadly still need a workaround for broken relocs on v6.15+ RISCV 32bit builds lore.kernel.org/all/17143379....

Back from the dead with some Linux syscall news: 6.15: +open_tree_attr (all archs), 6.15: RIP NUMA and related syscalls on x86 32-bit CPUs (BIGSMP dropped) 6.16: RIP uselib (well, about time) 6.17: +file_{get,set}attr (all archs) +54 tables live at syscalls.mebeim.net 📡🐧

Turns out implementing a 50% subscription price hike is a very nice way to test the load on your servers! Seems like Microsoft's Xbox infra was not up to the test 💀

After 8 years with 100Mbps I saw they were pulling fiber cables in my neighborhood, called my ISP and they said I can upgrade to 2.5Gbps for free paying 5€ less per month than what I am paying now. LMAO.

Oh so now we just entered that weird phase where apps start gradually updating their icons to the new style and make everything look weird

Can we go back to pen and paper already lore.kernel.org/kvm/20250804...

GG WP to all the teams who played ctrl-space.gg quals. Hope you enjoyed the challs! See (some of) you in ESTEC soon. 🚩🛰️

Somebody come pwn my pypy challenge with a single bit flip come on! scoreboard.ctrl-space.gg/challenges#c...

Ok Apple: while my phone is locked I can block control center, block camera access, hide widgets, hide notification content... but somehow I can still swipe away and discard any notification? Make it make sense come on 😭

I don't think the website does a very good job at showing how bad current overall situation is, so here's a pie chart to make it clear. The fact that this is so close is alarming. If all vote, and 54/73 of the "Undecided" MEPs as per fightchatcontrol.eu vote in support, the regulation will pass.

If you are a scientist please consider signing our letter. If you are a concerned citizen (you should be!) you can find here a number of ways to make your voice heard: fightchatcontrol.eu

"In XChat, once a user clicks on “Set up now,” X prompts them to create a four-digit PIN, which will be used to encrypt the user’s private key. This key is then stored on X’s servers." Oh for fuck's sake…

Absolutely love how Stack Overflow needs to absolutely push shit like this down its users' throats while the community extensively explains why it is a bad idea and bad design meta.stackoverflow.com/q/434861/388.... What is this? The 99th enshittification iteration? I lost count.

Bursted out laughing at the accuracy of this (but also the name 😭) lmao

At this point I don't even ask how much it is when I buy a soda bottle I just close my eyes and tap my card because I know the price would just piss me off anyway.

The new frontier of shrinkflation: two sips and it's over 😭💀

My journey back from DEF CON became 12 hours longer than expected, but at least I got a £10 voucher from British Airways. That may cover as much as half a sandwich in Heathrow!

What the F is happening in ORD right now? I can see why my LAS-ORD flight was diverted to Milwaukee 😭

Wow this is dogshit

Ain't no way I managed to snatch one of these up for free! Thanks @phrack.org <3

Oh look, this is starting to explode for more people: lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/... I remember discussing it with @spender.bsky.social and ultimately concluding that's an ABI design flaw. GCC folks agree. Hopefully ABI authors can figure something out soon.

Such a nice welcome entering the UK

I've had some stupid bad experiences checking in intercontinental flights before but I don't think anything tops British Airways doing everything through a webview that tells you to download the app while you are already in the app.

Browsers really need to stop doing this shit when I paste a path to google it 😭

Guess who's got a brand new boating license? Will come in handy when I get tired of all this security stuff and decide to go live on a sailboat ⛵️

So apparently this is a thing now? LOL github.com/alex-suspici...

Amazon S3, Google Cloud, One Drive, Dropbox... why are you wasting your money I literally backup my photos into pigeons

I love how experts have been repeating this ad nauseam for almost a decade and yet here we are

QR codes are crazy how does this even scan correctly

Is there a real way to make YouTube home/trending usable again without installing 37 extensions that hide shorts and rearrange things?

Love the way that it is currently IMPOSSIBLE to discover any kind of new content on YouTube because the only thing that you see are brain melting shorts (half of which are AI generated). Couldn't ask for a better UX.

Posting this from Firefox as we speak

Looking through my iCloud backups when I found this relic :')

Whelp! Looks like we have reached the point where 32-bit Linux debug builds have too many symbols on some configurations, exceeding design limits for RELA relocations. OTOH x86 32-bit with similar config only has 135k symbols for v6.15 so something's up on RISC-V...

Been stuck on the next syscall tables releases for v6.15 for a few days because of an annoying RISCV 32-bit build error. Bisecting yields different commits depending ZSTD support. I am kind of lost. If anyone could repro it would be helpful: lkml.org/lkml/2025/6/...

Average C++ class: - Makes 78 nested heap allocations on construction - Implements impossible move/copy semantics with shared_ptr - Overloads operators you didn't know existed - Throws exceptions catched 7 functions up in the call chain - Somehow invokes side effects on itself in const methods

LOL what? First time I have been forced to upgrade to use the Desktop client.

How can I know whether the title of a YouTube video I am watching is the ORIGINAL one or has been automatically translated without any indication? I keep seeing videos with English titles where I am 99% sure the original was NOT in English and I'm going insane.

Synology turning into HP this can't be real 😭 www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

As I end-of-life my Mastodon sunrise/sunset bot, it seems an appropriate time to vent my complaints about Mastodon as a platform. v.cx/2025/04/mast...

Linux 6.14 does not bring any syscall-related news, but hey, another +19 tables live at syscalls.mebeim.net 📡🐧

TIL an empty file is a valid executable on Linux... WUT

I wrote a TempleOS pwn challenge for m0leCon CTF Finals 2025, which took place last week. Pretty fun, players really seemed to like it. Source and writeup here: github.com/mebeim/ctf-c.... Also shout out to Phillipp Mao from 0rganizers for his own writeup: philippmao.github.io/writeups/hol...

FPS games installing kernel-level antivirus modules? No problem, install cheats as UEFI drivers and run them in SMM github.com/ekknod/smm LMFAO

1 hour of no uBlock Origin and I'm already going insane

Ain't no way I can keep using Google Chrome after this