The OFFICIAL programming thread

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.

Pakoon

Get thee to a nunnery!!!111

Kilemall

@pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Get thee to a nunnery!!!111

Woudn’t that be a nunarray?

Whoofe

@kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@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.

thats what twitter was created for

oyaji

@kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Get thee to a nunnery!!!111

Woudn’t that be a nunarray?

i thought it was a whorehouse.

Gators1

This should be useful to you all…

Jim Butterfield Commodore 64 Training Tape - FULL Length C64

Kilemall

@gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

This should be useful to you all…

Jim Butterfield Commodore 64 Training Tape - FULL Length C64

I’ve got one buried in a box somewhere.

I feel confident it will power up.

Have no confidence the floppy drive would though.

Tazz

I’ve been playing around with Gtk 3 programming and the api is a hot mess. It’s also a moving target with so much refactoring and deprecation even in between minor version changes. But while searching for answers to problems, I kept coming back to docs and examples in the Vala programming language. I’d never heard of Vala before but apparently it is:

an object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code and uses the GObject system.

So C with Objects? Sound familiar? Yeah well I’ve been learning it since yesterday and whilst I’ve never liked C++, I kind of do like what I’ve seen of Vala so far. It uses reference counting garbage collection and has a lot of syntactic sugar in the language to make programming in it quite pleasant. I don’t think it’s a replacement for C++, well probably not, but as a C#-like language that doesn’t need a run time like mono or .NET it’s kind of attractive to me.

It’s been around since 2006 and hasn’t caught the world by storm so it’s probably not going to now but it might be worth playing with if you have any new Gtk projects in your future.

Kilemall

So in looking this all up, looks like you do user interface work for apps?

@kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

So in looking this all up, looks like you do user interface work for apps?

Me? Yeah, but for work I do javascript / web front end work. Well, full stack (front end and back end) as often as not.

But this is just a throwaway personal project that I’m using Gtk for. And yeah, Gtk is a Ui widget library. Gommonly used in Gnome (Ubuntu’s standard desktop environment) but also in other stand alone applications.

What I’m actually building is my own task bar and application menu. I forget what the windows terminology is but it’s the bar along the bottom with the start button, the currently running apps and the notifications and clock on theright. Plus the Start menu.