🖋 Random Windows fact
Did you know that registry keys are case-insensitive, while values aren't? The information about the case of the key name is still stored, though. That results in a rather annoying procedure where you need to rename the key before changing the case of any of the letters in its name.
Did you know that registry keys are case-insensitive, while values aren't? The information about the case of the key name is still stored, though. That results in a rather annoying procedure where you need to rename the key before changing the case of any of the letters in its name.
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💡 Did you know?
One byte is not necessarily equal to 8 bits. A byte by definition is the smallest addressable chunk of memory, and the unit size is architecture-dependent. There are architectures utilizing variable-sized bytes, too.
An example of a 9-bit system would be OS 2200. And even way before the OS 2200, there were 9-bit, 11-bit and 6-bit systems.
At this point, they should be considered a historic remnant.
One byte is not necessarily equal to 8 bits. A byte by definition is the smallest addressable chunk of memory, and the unit size is architecture-dependent. There are architectures utilizing variable-sized bytes, too.
An example of a 9-bit system would be OS 2200. And even way before the OS 2200, there were 9-bit, 11-bit and 6-bit systems.
At this point, they should be considered a historic remnant.
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⚠️ Update your browsers ASAP
The CVE-2023-4863 exploit allows for arbitrary code execution via a heap buffer overflow. The code execution is achieved by serving a malicious WEBM image. Update your browsers immediately!
The vulnerability is fixed in:
▪️ libwebp ≥ 1.3.2
▪️ Chrome ≥ 116.0.5845.187
▪️ Firefox ≥ 117.0.1
More information here: CVE-2023-4863
The CVE-2023-4863 exploit allows for arbitrary code execution via a heap buffer overflow. The code execution is achieved by serving a malicious WEBM image. Update your browsers immediately!
The vulnerability is fixed in:
▪️ libwebp ≥ 1.3.2
▪️ Chrome ≥ 116.0.5845.187
▪️ Firefox ≥ 117.0.1
More information here: CVE-2023-4863
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⚠️ Update your browsers ASAP The CVE-2023-4863 exploit allows for arbitrary code execution via a heap buffer overflow. The code execution is achieved by serving a malicious WEBM image. Update your browsers immediately! The vulnerability is fixed in: ▪️ libwebp…
Speaking of the following, that must mean all Windows 7 users are at risk (the last major Chromium version for Windows 7 is 109).
That's unfortunate, however, to be fair, it was only a question of time for such a critical vulnerability to occur.
That's unfortunate, however, to be fair, it was only a question of time for such a critical vulnerability to occur.
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🔑 HWID Generation/Activation is now a relic of the past
Windows 7 can no longer be used to activate both Windows 10 and Windows 11. Neither can Windows 8(.1), it was all part of the same upgrade deal. Microsoft has shut down the Windows 7 Upgrade Initiative that has been running and commonly misused ever since the Windows 10 release in 2015. Eight and a half years later, they've finally pulled the plug on it, which immediately directly killed HWID Activation. But how are these phenomena tied together?
HWID Activation employs the following strategy:
▪️ Generate a hardware ID corresponding to a device that previously ran Windows 7 or 8(.1)
▪️ Tell Microsoft servers you were on Windows 7 or 8(.1) and you were already activated
▪️ Microsoft generates you a valid key and you're golden!
Now it should be rather obvious why HWID activation is not viable anymore. This must be the last actually useful remnant from Windows 7 that we've all (most of us - unknowingly) used.🫡
As a follow-up, I've decided to run the Windows 7 key test on actual hardware. It failed the Microsoft server check.
The video Can you activate Windows 11 with a Windows XP key? is now obsolete. It does feel strange to have documented that before only for Microsoft to turn that off a few months later.
Windows 7 can no longer be used to activate both Windows 10 and Windows 11. Neither can Windows 8(.1), it was all part of the same upgrade deal. Microsoft has shut down the Windows 7 Upgrade Initiative that has been running and commonly misused ever since the Windows 10 release in 2015. Eight and a half years later, they've finally pulled the plug on it, which immediately directly killed HWID Activation. But how are these phenomena tied together?
HWID Activation employs the following strategy:
▪️ Generate a hardware ID corresponding to a device that previously ran Windows 7 or 8(.1)
▪️ Tell Microsoft servers you were on Windows 7 or 8(.1) and you were already activated
▪️ Microsoft generates you a valid key and you're golden!
Now it should be rather obvious why HWID activation is not viable anymore. This must be the last actually useful remnant from Windows 7 that we've all (most of us - unknowingly) used.
As a follow-up, I've decided to run the Windows 7 key test on actual hardware. It failed the Microsoft server check.
The video Can you activate Windows 11 with a Windows XP key? is now obsolete. It does feel strange to have documented that before only for Microsoft to turn that off a few months later.
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🤖 About ChatGPT
It's funny and at the same time perplexing how just in the past year we've learned to sniff out ChatGPT-generated text with incredible efficiency and accuracy. For example, I can almost guarantee this e-mail is composed with the help of AI.
I can't explain why, but I just feel the AI-generated patterns here. It just reads like ChatGPT.
I wonder if it's possible to train AI various text-composing patterns and teach it to combine them together to speak in a more human-like format. But that's a rhetorical question that in my opinion should be reserved until the shinier quantum computing days. By that time, the computing world might become AI-centric, I imagine.
We should be careful, though, not to lose the human creativity component in the process. Might the history loop back to actual human art being embraced again?
It's funny and at the same time perplexing how just in the past year we've learned to sniff out ChatGPT-generated text with incredible efficiency and accuracy. For example, I can almost guarantee this e-mail is composed with the help of AI.
I can't explain why, but I just feel the AI-generated patterns here. It just reads like ChatGPT.
I wonder if it's possible to train AI various text-composing patterns and teach it to combine them together to speak in a more human-like format. But that's a rhetorical question that in my opinion should be reserved until the shinier quantum computing days. By that time, the computing world might become AI-centric, I imagine.
We should be careful, though, not to lose the human creativity component in the process. Might the history loop back to actual human art being embraced again?
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🧮 To all mathematicians
Professor Edward Frenkel is back on Numberphile and explains in detail the link between Number Theory and other math subjects! Glorious.
Not sponsored, I think you'd enjoy that video as much as I did. 😃
Professor Edward Frenkel is back on Numberphile and explains in detail the link between Number Theory and other math subjects! Glorious.
Not sponsored, I think you'd enjoy that video as much as I did. 😃
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The Langlands Program - Numberphile
Professor Edward Frenkel discusses the famed Langlands Program - "a kind of grand unified theory of mathematics". More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓
Edward Frenkel is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley - h…
Edward Frenkel is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley - h…
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Have you gotten the "Adblockers not allowed on YouTube" message yet? Well, unfortunately for YouTube and lucky for us, the webpages are always downloaded on the client side, which means they can't just restrict certain behavior and disable user overrides. If you're an avid Internet user, you must know uBlock Origin - the de-facto standard of ad blocking and content filtering.
So, I present to you the Anti-AntiAdblocker uBlock Origin filter to get rid of the stupid and annoying YouTube message. It works by turning off the JavaScript anti-adblock payload, which isn't by any means randomized or obfuscated by YouTube.
Here's the text version if you want to directly copy it:
youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
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Some users on Twitter have been reporting issues with context menus (not opening, acting finnicky) after applying the filter.
If you have already applied the unamended filter, please remove the following line from the beginning:
www.youtube.com##ytd-popup-container.ytd-app.style-scope
To anyone who's only now applying it, I have reuploaded the fixed version that should not break anything on YouTube asides from the Anti-Adblocker payload.
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It's not been a long time before another funny Anti-AntiAdblocker for YouTube has been found.
It's not all too serious, though. I've posted on Twitter about it and decided not to relay that to Telegram, as I use Telegram for broader and more meaningful topics than that. Besides, I thought the hype around Anti-AntiAdblockers has died down and now was the time to dance on the grave of its former glory by posting something stupid as that. Nope.
Not only that, mainstream media noticed me again. So the topic isn't dead, after all?
So, the whole idea is to spoof the user agent (the browser identifier) to represent Windows Phone 8 or lower. That completely disables not only the annoying message, but also all the ads. It does cripple the functionality a bit and is supposed to be a meme.
YouTube is quite a laughing stock nowadays. Let's see how much content we'll be able to generate from it~
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On October 22nd, 2009 Windows 7 was released to the general public.
Windows 7 chronologically was the third operating system I've ever used, coming after Windows 2000 and XP.
Here's to Windows 7!.. and our childhood.
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😞 No Man is an Island
Today I discovered VSauce's Mind Field series for the first time in my life. Or did I? (yes, I did – I always thought they were paywalled behind YouTube Premium)... Truly a blessing – my family, despite not knowing English at all, got immediately hooked just as I did. Russian subtitles are clutch and very accurate, even though I had to add my translation remarks along the way to preserve the context. That's nitpickery. Michael has been my inspiration since 2014, when I started watching his content, but Mind Field for sure is one of his best, most well-refined series. However, it's also high-budget and there's a large team behind it. I admire the scale of that project, but it must feel different to Michael – the final product is targeted at a broad audience with the final goal of maximizing the impressions. Even in his Interrogation episode he admitted to preferring VSauce over Mind Field. And I find that so relatable! While I can dump all my money back into the content, I don't really want to let anyone take part in my project, be it editing, be it recording – it feels kind of wrong. But being a swiss knife of a man is extremely exhausting. I know I can manage 20 projects at once, but it takes a lot of time. However, there's a better question to be asked: will it be too late by the time I finish all of the projects? And at that point you have no choice but to hire a team, just like Michael did. Because no man is an island.
I don't like working with people... 🫠
Today I discovered VSauce's Mind Field series for the first time in my life. Or did I? (yes, I did – I always thought they were paywalled behind YouTube Premium)... Truly a blessing – my family, despite not knowing English at all, got immediately hooked just as I did. Russian subtitles are clutch and very accurate, even though I had to add my translation remarks along the way to preserve the context. That's nitpickery. Michael has been my inspiration since 2014, when I started watching his content, but Mind Field for sure is one of his best, most well-refined series. However, it's also high-budget and there's a large team behind it. I admire the scale of that project, but it must feel different to Michael – the final product is targeted at a broad audience with the final goal of maximizing the impressions. Even in his Interrogation episode he admitted to preferring VSauce over Mind Field. And I find that so relatable! While I can dump all my money back into the content, I don't really want to let anyone take part in my project, be it editing, be it recording – it feels kind of wrong. But being a swiss knife of a man is extremely exhausting. I know I can manage 20 projects at once, but it takes a lot of time. However, there's a better question to be asked: will it be too late by the time I finish all of the projects? And at that point you have no choice but to hire a team, just like Michael did. Because no man is an island.
I don't like working with people... 🫠
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Truth Serums and False Confessions
Psychology. Neuroscience. Drugs. All can be tools of interrogation. In this episode, an expert shows me how to coerce unsuspecting subjects into signing false confessions; a police psychologist questions me about my personal life after I am injected…
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