LaurieWired (@lauriewired)

This is gonna make Rust programmers angry. Reflection is one of the most powerful concepts in Computer Science. Unfortunately, not every programming language is blessed enough to have it. Timestamps: 00:00 Powerful Computers have No Security 03:07 Reverse Engineering is Program Surgery 04:55 The ...

Everyone knows the PS3 Cell processor. I bet you didn't know Toshiba had a strange, cut-down Cell as a PCI-E card…for video processing. Essentially an early form of AI upscaling, the card also implemented face detection! Emulation nerds also got *very* excited: ...

of course, this code is complete AI slop. Right off the bat, headers aren’t passed for POST/PUT/DELETE. Both the help and -v options flat out lie about what was sent. Literally half of the flags are no-ops. Oh, and it just silently drops authentication, so that’s fun. But somehow your “99 fu...

My favorite kind of tech story is when unexpected capabilities arise from something a human would never try. In the late 90s, Dr. Thompson was experimenting with genetic algorithms on FPGAs. The goal was simple; distinguish between two audio tones, 1kHz and 10kHz. He wanted novel solutions, so...

Much like humans, CPUs heal in their sleep. CPUs are *technically* replaceable / wear items. They don’t last forever. Yet, the moment stress is removed, transistor degradation (partially) reverses. It's called Bias Temperature Instability (BTI) recovery: ...

lp0 is a Linux error code that means “printer on fire.” It’s not a joke. In the 50s, computerized printing was an experimental field. At LLNL (yes, the nuclear testing site), cathode ray tubes created a xerographic printer. ...it would occasionally catch fire. ...