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Tell your network to explain itself and then some

The other day I read this blog post about using arp-scan to list every device on the network in order to keep better track of devices and that's great, but we can go even further.

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Sammy Hajhamid — Blog

ns2jb is a software-only, tethered jailbreak for the Switch 2. It allows running arbitrary native code as any ordinary sysmodule, and as the built-in fs sysmodule. This lets us run homebrew, reverse engineer and mod Switch 2 games, back up save files off...

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Three configurable prettyprinters

I gave a fifteen minute talk about this at Zurihac 2023. If you read this essay, I don't think there's much point in additionally watching the video.

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examining the macOS gcc binary

now, what is this binary? i naively assumed that it would just be shelling out to clang but it turns out the answer is more interesting than that.

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Announcing DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”

The DuckDB team is happy to announce that today we're releasing DuckDB version 2.0.0 LTS, codenamed “Cinnamon Teal” (Spatula cyanoptera). This is our biggest feature release so far, and it ships a polished version of the Quack protocol, asynchronous I/O, a...

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Using a lookup-table to correct an approximation

I often find myself writing (by which I mean generating) functions to convert enums to strings. A naïve implementation of such a function might look like: