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Simon Aarons

@ItsSimonTime

I do programming, reverse engineering, and media preservation... also an accidental security researcher | 20 | he/him |

Melbourne, Australiasimonti.meBorn August 13Joined December 2011

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David Buchanan

@David3141593

New blog post alert: "Exploiting aCropalypse: Recovering Truncated PNGs" da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploitin

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Introducing acropalypse: a serious privacy vulnerability in the Google Pixel's inbuilt screenshot editing tool, Markup, enabling partial recovery of the original, unedited image data of a cropped and/or redacted screenshot. Huge thanks to @David3141593 for his help throughout!

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A demo is now available at

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Just realised the alt text got swallowed up when I updated the diagram in the draft tweet... Image description: A three-panel diagram. The first panel is titled "Discord message" and depicts a Discord message sent by SimonTime to Retr0id, with an attached cropped photo of a… Show more

An FAQ, demo and a technical write-up coming shortly!

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for his help throughout!

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Harry Gold

@HarryGoldArtist

Mar 16

I did OG Donkey Kong but in Donkey Kong Country

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Sabrina

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git commit -m "GPT-4 said it would work"

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Supper Mario Broth

@MarioBrothBlog

Mar 15

Despite looking much more detailed, the model for the coins in Super Mario Odyssey is actually 65% simpler than the one used in Super Mario Galaxy, due to taking advantage of modern rendering techniques. Details in image.

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Damoople

@damoople

Mar 14

Sonic Adventure 2 Animated Cover Art

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I think Zscaler wins the award for most mind-numbingly infuriating corporate software

the blue tick will be a month-long reminder not to use twitter whilst under the influence

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i can feel Musk's utter contempt in the phrasing of this

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@_CRYYM

Mar 11

instagram reels is a no man’s land. cuz what the fuck is this

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zwenergy

@zwenergy0

Mar 12

A Windows 95 key generator running on a Tiger game•com. Amazing piece of homebrew by

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ms. sophie bites

@sophiebits

Mar 11

in uncertain times, remember to focus on the important questions

photo of a storefront whose neon sign says “ARE FEET SHOES”. (I guess it actually says “BARE FEET SHOES” but the B lightbulb is burned out)

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yeah well so do I so where's my fucking danger sign

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Mar 11

when the banana isn't banana enough

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Omar Rizwan

@rsnous

Mar 10

"A number of readers of the K&R C 2nd edition book believed that pointers and arrays are the same, due to the non-optimal pagination."

One of the early goofups in typesetting is also incidentally in the K&R Book, written by Brian Kernighan, brought to my attention by my friend and colleague, Olve Maudal. A number of readers of the K&R C 2nd edition book believed that pointers and arrays are the same, due to the non-optimal pagination.

"As formal parameters in a function definition,"

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"char s[]; and char *s; are equivalent"

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Jay Brandstetter

@JayBrandstetter

Mar 4

say that to my face and not online fucker see what happens

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Lady G

@gabsmashh

Mar 2

i have questions.

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he also wears a tinfoil hat

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yeah this is basically worthless, the only thing I'd actually use is the 1080p video support

if you're sick and coughing and spluttering on a train, a) I hate you, and b) you're fucking disgusting

in my defence it is literally free and I can never pass up a freebie

using my google opinion rewards-earnt play store credit to try out twitter blue, I think I'm gonna regret this

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yonatan

@zozuar

Mar 2

vec3 p,q,d;d.zx=(FC.xy-.5*r)/r.y;d.y--;d*=rotate3D(.5,hsv(t/6.,9.,p.y+=.3));for(float i,j,e,S;i++<1e2;i>70.?e+=2e-4,d/=d,o:o+=.01/exp(e*1e4),p+=d*e*.5)for(j=e=p.y;j++<9.;e=min(e,length(q-clamp(q,-.2,.2))/S))q=p*(S=exp2(j-fract(t))),q.xz=fract(q.xz)-.5;o+=log(p.y)*.1;#つぶやきGLSL

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James Colley

@JamColley

Mar 2

Feels like you’ve tripped up on the first hurdle here

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they missed an opportunity to write "amazon pride"

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upgraded my subwoofer

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No Context Brits

@NoContextBrits

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Crazy Optical Illusions

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Feb 27

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Ethan Mollick

@emollick

Feb 25

Bing AI is proving very helpful for reasons too complicated to get into right now (but which involved a time machine)

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Fochti

@fochti

Feb 22

ADHD is so cool me [watches a twitch stream] I should become a twitch streamer me [watches two speedruns] I should become a speedrunner me [reads a newspaper article] I should become a journalist me [sees a cool artwork] I should become an artist All of this in one week ofc

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This product will greatly improve my life

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zwenergy

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Feb 22

Playing Castlevania: SotN on original game.com hardware as it's supposed to be played

. Happy that I got the Tiger game.com flash cartridge working. Funny feeling being one of very few ones to actually play this on real hardware until now

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Nic Houghton

@40PercentGerman

Feb 21

In 1997, Walmart tried to enter the German market, and became a case study in failure. My favourite story from this period was that staff were trained to be friendly to customers, which freaked out some shoppers, but made others think staff were hitting on them.

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