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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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https://github.com/thenickdude/PetzA Here's a mod that allows the player to do debug-level stuff in the game. I have always been fascinated by this kind of stuff. Maybe I'll recreate my own small version, just to learn.
I'll compile a small reading list on the subject also. What's interesting is how there's vastly more resources for this than for something like digital forensics. (from what I saw)
https://www.starcubelabs.com/reverse-engineering-gba/ - I'd be interested in understanding romhacking further.
https://www.starcubelabs.com/reverse-engineering-ds/ - same but for a DS game
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/y8hb6z/wrote_a_blog_post_about_work_i_did/ - Cracking the compression algorithm for a DS game. Also people seem to like OP's writing style, I should take some notes.
https://medium.com/@valeriy.krygin/reverse-engineering-a-videogame-part-1-know-your-tools-7906f9bd0e3e some article idk I want to check it later
https://github.com/kovidomi/game-reversing - general basics
https://ssno.cc/posts/reversing-tac-1-4-2025/ - CoD anticheat analysis
https://connorjaydunn.github.io/blog/posts/denuvo-analysis/ - Denuvo Analysis. There seems to be a lot on the subject
I'd also be interested in finding material for more complex and modern games, too...
Maybe I should be putting an effort to backing up all that data in a personal library or something... Could be useful.
While trying to find a reverse engineering report to imitate, I stumbled upon these lovely malware analysis writeups. They have screenshots and everything so might be good for reference.
https://github.com/itaymigdal/malware-analysis-writeups
This seems decent formatting wise. https://vaktibabat.github.io/posts/Analyzing_A_Trojan_Horse/
I wanted to post some infosec news but I think it's better as a general
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Edit 2: Law enforcement, the military and enterprise agencies often use Cellebrite for their forensics. I think their devices are mostly about extracting data from mobiles. That's a rabbithole to look into if you're ever bored.
Edit 3: Some blogs I found while reading some forums on the subject.
https://www.gpatricksec.com/francerocks/
https://wise-forensics.com/2024/11/06/trailbytes/ Some interesting stuff on this site, including LSB steganography (not sure if anyone uses this unironically btw), RegEasy, Artifact Viewer, etc.
Someone told me about cold boot attack so I'll journal it here too. It's forensics related. To summarize, it is about saving the PC's RAM until it gets erased.
What's interesting is the lower the temperature, the longer the period of time the information is available for.
I found these 2 russian articles interesting. I'd summarize, but I feel it's a bit too much effort now.
https://xakep.ru/2008/02/28/42561/
https://xakep.ru/2023/01/17/cold-boot-attack/ - this is a recent one that actually explains how to do it with a flash drive. But you need a subscription to access the full article. Maybe I will get it one day.
Also there's an announced game on steam by the same name idk.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3164740/Cold_Boot_Attack/
Interesting /osint/ challenge site. I found out about from this video: YouTube: SSLyQZ1TPSI
https://gralhix.com/
The ones in the video look more like geoguessr challenges THOUGH. Which I suppose is a subset of OSINT. Personally, I love structured challenges, so I think this is a good find.
How to people get fetishes? as in how do they arise neurologically in the brain?
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I'll answer seriously. The real question is in the first moment, why someone would like that. Let's imagine a common homosexual fetish like shit eating for example. At some point it must have seemed normal enough to just try sticking your tongue in some shit. What turns it into a fetish though is rewarding yourself with an orgasm each time you do to the point you create a path of behavior that releases chemicals needed in the brain. So what possesses someone to try in the first place? Social instruction embedded in cultural brainwash? Sadness and pain? Self loathing? The mere fact it is forbidden alone is not enough of an explanation, otherwise everyone would be doing it and it would no longer be taboo so no one would do it anymore.
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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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.
This will be like the MOND thread were I say no because I don’t like to challenge scientific beliefs.
Before I “debunk” this claim and actually do research I want to make a prediction: of course not, the symmetries are completely different, they aren’t even the same classification of particles
I might be surprised however my journey starts now, come back with Bernds in a day.
Sources
https://fondationlouisdebroglie.org/AFLB-222/MARK.TEX2.pdf
https://quicycle.com/
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Post math simulators
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/sl4ucvcaca
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/um2wwsev11
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/e9ti5bi2lr
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/eob3uhfplp
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Does ChatGPT pass the Turing test?
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the problem at the core is language isn't math.
math is a language, yes, but human language doesn't convert to pure math without mistakes.
another point is:
our current model is at it's theoretical maximum performance, when it hits the average/median of the training data; not better.
if you filter the training data heavily, you do not have a wide range of possible topics.
if you do not filter the training data, you have shit tier responses, because the average human is shit tier.
I think what "hallucination" means (at least from what I read) that when there is no data in the training set in it's "memory" then it comes up with something that likely exists irl.
The example is that it was referring to a package on github that didn't exist and listed as a dependency for some application (I think it was some aliexpress api stuff), but the name of the package he composed from relevant snippets, and it sounded likely such thing exist.
Thing is, these LLMs, chatbots, autocompletes, aren't occupied by giving an answer or checking facts, but by generating a text that sounds human, sounds believable.
>math is a language, yes, but human language doesn't convert to pure math without mistakes.
hmmm...I kinda agree, but because Math is perfect, not because language isn't. But math is just...Different kind of "perfect", it's almost divine and it replicates in the universe or quarks. "As above, so below", "Your kingdom come, your will be done".
>Theoretical maximum performance
I kind of understand what you say? there is no more room to improve AI with the CURRENT models, that's half true, we can still use this "AI Language" but do bigger datacenters, you will not have a ferrari but your car will be faster.
>aren't occupied by giving an answer or checking facts
it's relative because it depends on what outcome you want it to be. If I learn about programming and ask chatgpt "hey give me this code, hey this is a mistake, fix it, hey there is another mistake" he will just give you the code and generic text. But if you TALK to the AI and ask why something happen, it can actually teach you why something is like it is, and how can you do that.
Again, only with coding and programming, I didn't test it with anything else, but it's really good to teach how to develop your skills on coding.
