The OFFICIAL programming thread

Kilemall

@hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Javascript is 26 years old now. It has long stopped being the new kid on the block and it never bore even the slightest resemblance to Java. Can they stop fucking doing this please?

This is what you get when you use Bing.

Gators1

@kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Javascript is 26 years old now. It has long stopped being the new kid on the block and it never bore even the slightest resemblance to Java. Can they stop fucking doing this please?

This is what you get when you use Bing.

My vaccine scar hurt when I read this post.

@kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

This is what you get when you use Bing.

Fair call I guess but it’s happened literally hundreds if not thousands of times for me using Google in past years.

Edit: just tried it in google and no Java hits so they’ve fixed it. Duck Duck Go gives me a Java hit as the third result.

Tazz

Elliptic Curve Cryptography Overview

I ported some python code to javascript once that used ECC. I understood it better after the exercise than before but I’m still not 100% up on it. It’s interesting stuff though and heavily used in Bitcoin etc.

Gators1

Pretty cool story…

How I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2 million

@gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Pretty cool story…

How I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2 million

I’m only 6 minutes in so don’t spoil it for me but he just said this:

My friend forgot the password. The irony is is that he’s a poker player with a photographic memory. He remembers everything, cards, license plate numbers etc but he forgot this password.

I’m thinking, yeah right. Your “friend” is a degenerate gambler who has sold the coins chasing losses at a casino and “forgetting” the password is the way he doesn’ have to own up to it.

Maybe I’m too harsh and cynical but that’s what it smells like to me. I’ll keep watching and find out.

I feel bad now. Good story though.

Gators1

Hack the planet!

Tazz

Ok who was it??

Rick Moran / Feb 3, 2022

Lone U.S. Hacker Brings Down Entire North Korean Internet – Twice

A lone U.S. hacker who goes by the handle “P4x” is claiming responsibility for shutting

Jam

@gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Pretty cool story…

How I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2 million

I don’t want to watch the video.

So . . .

Is it relatively easy for a smart person to steal a crypto wallet or not?

Gators1

Maybe

Jam

@gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Maybe

I had to scan-watch the video you bastage!

So The Kingpin succeeded, but Trezor would have you believe “not next time, buddy.”

The rest is fair enough but why even mention “This attack requires full physical access to the device” like that in any way mitigates it?

Today I’m proud to announce the Hog Wallet:

You write your private key on a piece of paper, fold it over twice and stick it in your pocket. My system is impenetrable in normal operation. Any attack requires full physical access to the device.

Gators1

@hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

The rest is fair enough but why even mention “This attack requires full physical access to the device” like that in any way mitigates it?

Today I’m proud to announce the Hog Wallet:

You write your private key on a piece of paper, fold it over twice and stick it in your pocket. My system is impenetrable in normal operation. Any attack requires full physical access to the device.

I want one! If someone picks my pocket and uses the paper to steal my Lithucoins then I will be left immensely richer!

Stu

@tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Ok who was it??

Rick Moran / Feb 3, 2022

Lone U.S. Hacker Brings Down Entire North Korean Internet – Twice

A lone U.S. hacker who goes by the handle “P4x” is claiming responsibility for shutting

Tens of people were angered!

Gators1

Isnt this website run on NginX too? Maybe its North Korea knocking LOT offline all the time? How do we stop this commie menace?

Jam

Did WWIIOL go down at the same time?

Kilemall

@stu said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Ok who was it??

Rick Moran / Feb 3, 2022

Lone U.S. Hacker Brings Down Entire North Korean Internet – Twice

A lone U.S. hacker who goes by the handle “P4x” is claiming responsibility for shutting

Tens of people were angered!

That’s enough to get whole industries that cave into tens of people.

Okay, I just created a variable called toBeOrNotToBe and I’m feeling rather pleased with myself.

// Validate is array / not array
const expectArray = kind === PROPERTY_ARRAY;
const isArray = Array.isArray(property);
if (expectArray !== isArray) {
    const toBeOrNotToBe = expectArray ? 'to be' : 'not to be';
    throw new Error(`Expected '${joined}' property ${toBeOrNotToBe} array.`);
}

I haven’t run the above code yet (it’s part of a bigger module) so it might be buggy.