Put Ben-Gay on your weener.
Today I will be tasting all the sope in my bathroom to see which one tastes the best.
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Have you ever reverse engineered anything?
Right now I'm in the process of digging around Petz 5 files. (mostly to learn reverse engineering and I wonder how my childhood games ran)
I'll post some findings here and invite you to do the same.
Picrelated: Ruckingenur II: The Hardware Hacking Game https://www.zachtronics.com/ruckingenur-ii/
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Interesting video reverse engineering the Yandex Browser app. I'd say this is an Android reverse engineering channel focused on Russian apps, with the intent, well to advertise VPNs. Not the worst idea.
It's not in English, so I'll write the summary here.
The tools used:
- apktool - APK reverse engineerin tool.
- jadx - Dex to Java decompiler. Dex is basically VM bytecode.
- VSCode to read the Java code.
What was found:
This is pretty much all just telemetry.
Yandex browser asks android whether you are using a VPN via API, stores GPS geolocation, ad identificators, the closest celltower, WIFI information. It seems they're using AppFlyer, an Israeli company, whose mission is apparently to protect ad owners from wasting their money on bot farms. It can scan interfaces, system files, detect Frida and emulators.
Yandex Browser asks for a lot of permissions, most notably QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES. Then, it searches for specific apps on the device. The list is quite huge:
1. Yandex Browser ecosystem related apps.
2. Other popular browsers.
3. Privacy-focused browsers, such as TOR, brave, duckduckgo.
4. Vendor browsers.
5. Smaller niche browsers.
6. Search engines.
7. VPNs and censorship bypass apps. Interestingly they only mention 2 of them in the list. (Hola and something called "com.security.xvpn.z35kb")
8. Crypto, finances. (Metamask, cryptotab, kz.homecredit)
9. Utils, launchers, other various stuff.
Yandex browser then analyses the apps for something called "Suspicious permissions" and stores this data.
Now, YB is not the only app like this, pretty much all Russian bigtech is. Delivery, music, social networking, messengers, etc.
Another interesting video:
Marcus says he spent most of his time analysing Telegram and it proved to be extremely tough, according to him. Perhaps not surprisingly, after all, they have a very generous bug bounty program - they are willing to pay 10k-100k for a bug.
In comparison, MAX had its private RSA key in its source code. Select infographics related to this attached.
What's also interesting there's a lot of server-side configs. The server can set whether you're allowed to enable the dev menu, gather chat metadata, alter VPN behavior, enable SDK logs for audio calls.
This could be the possible reason the MAX app was removed from app stores, basically it looks quite a bit like spyware. Then again pretty much everything is nowadays, so I'm not sure how much this matters.
Btw, I found this: https://github.com/user1342/Awesome-Android-Reverse-Engineering
There's even some CTF's there, wow.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190311194130/http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2015/07/best-reverser-write-up-analyzing.html
Ptsecurity seems like the Positive Technologies blog (a Russian security company)
They had a contest the goal of which was to analyze an obscure file, with lack of documentation and perhaps even support in popular decompilers. The solution is described in detail but I have a hard time understanding it for now.
What's interesting, they said there's demand for firmware analysis, which the contest was aiming to test. I wonder if this holds up, even though the post is a decade old already.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260709032114/https://beginners.re/ Seems like a good book, there's even a huge list of universities that refer to it.
I wanted to post some infosec news but I think it's better as a general
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Other IT imageboards.
https://8chan.moe/t/ - one on 8moe. Seems to be very alive and quality.
https://www.lainchan.org/%CE%BB/index.html - Lainchan is focused on tech, but also many other topics.
It’d be interesting to maybe share my posts with people who will find this useful, and learn something from them as well. Thankfully their boards seem quite alive.
The U.S. just approved a satellite that will beam light to Earth at night.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently approved a demonstration license for startup Reflect Orbital’s 'Earendil-1' satellite, which is designed to direct sunlight back to Earth at night using an orbital mirror.
Despite intense pushback from the scientific and ecological communities, the FCC declared that evaluating light pollution, telescope interference, and other non-radio environmental harms falls entirely outside its regulatory jurisdiction. This decision essentially greenlights the test without assessing its optical impacts, leaving a glaring vacancy in federal oversight as private entities look to commercialize artificial space-based lighting.
Astronomers and conservation groups are deeply concerned about the dangerous precedent this ruling sets. The American Astronomical Society has warned of 'catastrophic interference' with federally funded research, while organizations like Dark Sky International emphasize the damaging effects of artificial night light on human circadian rhythms and nocturnal wildlife. If Reflect Orbital succeeds, it plans to deploy up to 50,000 mirror satellites by 2035—a scale of deployment that critics warn would permanently brighten the planet's darkest skies and make ground-based astronomical observations virtually impossible.
source: Randolph, M. (2026). U.S. approval of giant 'space mirror' satellite alarms astronomers. Scientific American.
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If not biologically, then how should we measure age on other planets?
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Structuring age laws on other planets should rely on biological milestones, local calendar years, and cognitive development. Key factors include Earth-standard biological age, local planetary year length, and psychological maturity.Biological and Calendar FactorsEarth-Standard Equivalence: Use a standard Earth year baseline (such as 18 or 21 solar years) to ensure physical and brain development are fully complete, no matter how fast or slow the new planet orbits its star.Local Orbital Adjustments: Convert standard developmental milestones into local planetary years. For example, on a planet with a very long year, a "1-year-old" local age might equal multiple Earth years, requiring fractional or decimal age limits.Environmental Stressors: Account for lower gravity or higher radiation, which might speed up or slow down physical growth and require adjusted medical definitions for adulthood.Rights and ResponsibilitiesTiered Privileges: Separate different legal rights—such as voting, driving, contracting, and military service—based on measured hormonal and neurological markers rather than a single arbitrary number.Universal Registry: Maintain a synchronized interplanetary digital registry based on universal Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or atomic seconds to prevent confusion during space travel between planets.If you'd like, let me know:Is this for a science fiction story or a theoretical space law discussion?What is the orbital period of the target planet compared to Earth?I can help you build a more detailed legal code for your specific world.AI responses may include mistakes. Learn more
Here's a /sci/ worthy thread. Desmos is basically a math engine where you can plot graphs, but, it's also capable of something even greater.
Math art and even videogames.
They are even holding art contests! I honestly always wanted to draw something with math so maybe I'll try eventually. I should probably try posting about this on lainchan or something.
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I want to share this idea here as well
Kinda just randomly had this idea for a book.
You know how everyone says "if you were sent in time, it's not like you'd be able to transfer any useful scientific knowledge".
So I thought, what if there was a book on exactly that, documenting a bunch of useful concepts, laws, etc, that would give anyone an overview of science overall?
Most importantly it would have something like a contents page so you would be able to skim through everything.
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For example, it could be similar to videogame tech trees somewhat, but obviously more complicated.
In fact there's probably a videogame out there with a really elaborate tech tree out there.
I want to start with this first.
The most important techs (if we're transported extremely back) are:
Agriculture
Fire
Writing
Tool making
Maybe shelter building from adobe and wood
Ah yes, mathematics and basic physics too of course.
Also it'd be interesting to build a path from electricity to technology, in fact there are youtube videos on this exact subject. I sure love youtube for how it enables information exchange.
...there's actually a LOT of videos on the subject.
YouTube: HaBMAD-Dr8M this is about the logic gates for example
Animal husbandry if you want to separate it from agriculture. Canines were domesticated very early on, way before than any livestock, and I'm sure their domestication helped with other animals.
Making fabrics and clothing from fur and leather (tanning!), and from various suitable plant materials (perhaps nettle).
I wonder when they started to make cordage. They could use various plants as is, but as with fabrics, some plants can be processed into fibers, and from fibers they could make cordage/rope.
Frankly they figured out Five C of basic self-reliance:
- cutting tools
- cordage
- cover (clothing and shelter, preserving body temperature)
- combustion devices (making fire)
- containers (not necessarily clay pots and such, but stuff like hollowed tree trunks and whatnot)
Also they did agriculture as hunter gatherers: they had a travel cycle, places they visited year round, and they saw seeds at one place (without much cultivation) and when they returned there were some consumable plants, berries, leafy "vegetables", tubers, etc.
Very basic physics, chemistry and biology stuff would make a huge difference. Basics of mechanics and its mathematical handling, making magnets out of iron and electric circuits out of copper, basic hygiene to prevent the spreading of disease etc
Basic technology like the printing press, boiling wood pulp to extract cellulose etc.would an enormous difference. Eg. papermaking and the printing press would allow a very vibrant intellectual life to flourish
Ehh sci tier enough,
I want to make this thread to possibly save ripchan form extinction and increase the number of VERY high quality post. I think our image board is a good combination of both shit posting and serious discussions. However, as Plato states the world is made of ideal forms, by understanding these forms we can improve our own reality. The goal is not necessarily to spam and reply farm, the goal is to consistently create maximum quality threads to were anytime you log on you are a better person then when you came, this should be the goal for any online discussion, as the social network should bring people together instead of making them more separate.
There is a theoretical thread that could auto säge 3 many time over, and there is a Hypothetical thread that could shoot KC like a rocket. It is ip to us to discover what these threads are and how to replicate them.
STARTING QUESTIONS
Is it better to use an actual photo or a digital drawing as a caption? A gif or a video? A title or no title? How many files should be used 1-4?
Should the thread’s word length be long with lots of things to respond to or short as to not deter people from posting? Is it better to speak telegraphically so people have a tersely understanding of what to say? Or should we post with many tangents, as to increase the number of conversations.
hypothesis and theories In the replies
There is so much to say so I will post them in the comments. I encourage you to respond with your own theories, thoughts and opinions, as well as correct me or add one to what could be said. I hope you enjoy another meta discussion and psychological thread.
TEST
The funniest part of science is the testing to see if your theories are correct. Of course, our sample size is much too small, I recommend testing threads on kohlchan.net krautchan.org/int/ or krautchan.org/m there you will get much insight on the Bernd mind to help this KC.
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generals are a good way for every user to stay on track and get a shit ton of replies. We can prove this with the most replied to thread of modern KC, the Russia vs Ukrainian kohl general. While the subject matter is /pol/ tier there have been thousands of threads that had stayed on track with the theme and persisted throughout time for a while. However such threads are prone to corruption and in the worse cases make it impossible for anything new (the highest form of human creation) to be made.
Take for example ernstchan.top, it was boring in large part to the fact that it was an image board filled with generals anyone who wanted to make something new was pushed to the bottom and made room to the threads that had over 200 replies but on an image board slower than this one.
KC.org is that standard for generals, using them as containment thread instead of containing the users. Orgchan knows that while they may synthesize quality discussions they in themselves are not quality.
The reason why kohlchan threads suck is because everyone is trying to stay on page one, and the demographic of kohlchan is white older men. This is why porn and shock videos are posted all the time, and why they are so rude, they want attention and they want people to reply and click on there thread.
>Should the thread’s word length be long with lots of things to respond to or short as to not deter people from posting? Is it better to speak telegraphically so people have a tersely understanding of what to say? Or should we post with many tangents, as to increase the number of conversations.
Honestly I've been spending too much time on the Internet posting my attempts at technical writing.
I enjoy it but it takes away from me, so I'll have to cut on how much I read and process. I am not the only one like this.
I think it's best to make a strong summary in the beginning or a good structure so people can know what you're talking about by skimming. I know I don't really do that all the time, but that's cause I mostly write stuff down as a reference for myself.
>increase the number of VERY high quality post
Personally I think .rip could do well as an idea/info exchange platform or informational blogposting. I really like that old thread about China and Western propaganda for instance. This was the inspiration for my generals. In an ideal world I'd attract people who like to research, explore, and share information.
>Honestly I've been spending too much time on the Internet posting my attempts at technical writing.
I enjoy it but it takes away from me
Most of your post have better quality then maybe 69% of org threads, 87% of all KC threads, your posts help KC.rip a lot. However sometimes I struggle with what to say or if I’m even qualified to say everything at all.
>Personally I think .rip could do well as an idea/info exchange platform
This, but I don’t want KC to look like kohlchan and just become a news channel. The best threads are the silly ones that leave you happy. I like obscure topics and information, they make for really fun threads.
I like watching pop science videos, reading scientific books, and I want to share my summaries of them here. Of course everyone else is welcome to share any sort of fun fact or idea that they don't think needs a separate thread.
I have already written some, I'll crosspost them here.
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Conspiracy to murder hospital patients by hospital staff.Thousands of hospital patients are murdered by hospital staff.Poison drug pills,excess drug injections,lethal drug injections,depriving of oxygen,asphyxiation,injecting heart stopping drugs,poisoned food and drinks,poison in IV bags,witholding life saving treatment.Their evil plans.People saying and screaming call 911 are parts of the conspiracy.People driving people to hospital and callers to 911 to get the ambulance paramedics to come and get and drive the person to hospital are parts of the conspiracy.When staying in hospital the patients are killed by hospital staff.The hospital then lies and says the patients died because of their illness.Hospitals and hospices are places to kill seniors and people.
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Its called Munchausen By Proxy. Its a psychiatric condition where a person has a morbid fascination with Medicine and Health Care in general, tends to lionize doctors and nurses, and is attention-seeking. The person wants to be a "hero" and will injure or harm a patient or relative and then take steps to save them just in time or notify staff.
Other times they outright kill a patient by believing their were "ending their suffering".
They should be simply called serial killers and should be dealt with in the same way as other serial killers. They cannot be reformed because it is a severe mental health condition.
Did you know that there are places in the universe with VERY little star activity? I knew, but only recently did I realize how strange that actually is.
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About a month ago I was talking with my friend about Tachyons being imaginary mass when I thought about the idea of quaternionic mass, that lead me to like minded individuals exploring this idea as well. [I was too excited to explore too much] however By why stop there, no one is talking about octernionic mass or further.
So I encourage you to break normal boundaries and start applying things to other things to see if they can fit.
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>https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.13239
>https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0305024
>https://www.researchgate.net/profile/A-Arbab/publication/358260345_Quantum_mechanics_with_quaternionic_mass/links/62d032abb549174c84a38da6/Quantum-mechanics-with-quaternionic-mass.pdf?origin=publication_detail&_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uRG93bmxvYWQiLCJwcmV2aW91c1BhZ2UiOiJwdWJsaWNhdGlvbiJ9fQ
There are no good videos on such a subject.
