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Today I learned that a legitimate scientific unit of an object’s coldness is “gigabytes per nanojoule”. Seems very weird until you consider that entropy can be measured as information. Nah, still remains weird.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I wouldn’t know, sorry =(

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

For some reason, one of my retail PS2s has a “-2” DVD DSP chip. We have no idea what that means; retail systems’ DSPs normally don’t have a dash. “-1” DSPs are used in debug systems to allow Mechacon to override the CD key for “master discs”.

PlayStation 2 motherboard from a “D chassis” SCPH-30001 with a close up of the DSP chip, labeled “CXD1869AQ-2”.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If Democrats win the next presidency, I hope the new president revokes Elon Musk’s security clearance immediately.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

IDA Pro is going to fall victim to itself eventually: AI reverse engineering will decompile it like just happened to Photoshop.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’d love to play with one of those Spark RTX Dev Boxes, but I don’t know that I $6000 want to play with one >.<

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We have dumps already for all PS2s that lack a FireWire port. Also, all North American retail PS2s are dumped already. (Debug systems haven’t been though!)

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you have a Fat PS2 that’s marked as ❌ in this list, we could use your help in dumping its Mechacon chip! You can use “PS2Ident” to get your Mechacon version number. github.com/spc970-dumpe...

github.com

GitHub - spc970-dumper-union/spc970-dumps-public: Public index of dumpable SPC970 mechacons

Public index of dumpable SPC970 mechacons. Contribute to spc970-dumper-union/spc970-dumps-public development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The new dump technique requires burning a CD-R with a burner capable of “DAO RAW” mode. A corrupted “table of contents” is used to get the exploit able to read enough memory, and that requires raw burning mode.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thanks to an exploit found by @libby.bsky.social, we can now dump Mechacons from all versions of PS2! A new dump method was found that works on 1.x Mechacon versions, which do not work with her current SPC970 dumper. I’ll release the new dumper soon after cleaning it up and writing instructions.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think the answer might be “you don’t”, because the XPACLRI instruction has no effect if there is no PAC or the CPU doesn’t support it (reserved NOP space). So just always strip it. MSVC has an __xpaci intrinsic for XPACLRI.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Even the older ARM64 laptops?

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ARM64 Windows 11 26H1 uses pointer authentication instructions, but there is no IsProcessorFeaturePresent flag to detect whether PACs are supported on the current CPU…? How do you know whether you need to strip PACs from backtraces?

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I worry that the anti-trans ads in Texas paid for by billionaires will be effective in defeating James Talerico because of how anti-trans public opinion has gotten.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I see the “SI” abbreviation used for “super intelligence”, this is the first thing I think of.

A historical picture of a bust of Benito Mussolini’s face on the side of a building in Fascist Italy. Surrounding his face are numerous copies of the word “SI”, meaning “yes”; the Fascists held a plebiscite to confirm continued Fascist rule and were “encouraging” citizens to vote “yes”.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of those icons are under NDA

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Ann @lifeinthepnw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dear Eric Schmitt: Other places where Jack Smith was not on February 3 — Skateboarding with Tony Hawk Watching a Howard Hawks film Visiting Ethan Hawke Jamming with Hamish Hawk At a Seattle Seahawks game At a Chicago Blackhawks game Birdwatching Cooper’s hawks …but now he’s watching you like a hawk

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’d like to thank Majora’s Mask for helping me solve today’s #Wordle.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I feel like there should be a joke “Have I Been Pwned?” web site where it asks you to enter your username and password, always replying with “yes” because it just did.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Physics and biology just *have* to ruin everything fun. Mercury is fun to play around with, if you ignore the whole “extremely toxic” thing. Lead is very useful, but is also toxic. And now we’ll probably have to realize that rollercoasters cause brain damage. abc7.com/story/3-new-...

abc7.com

New lawsuits allege X2 roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain caused major brain injuries

Three riders allege they suffered catastrophic brain injuries after riding X2, as attorneys say more than 100 others have reported possible brain damage.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trump TV turning off YouTube comments ought to be illegal under the First Amendment: one of its enumerated rights is “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”. Not that Trump not his minions care about the Constitution.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If prayer worked, it would be against the rules to pray to God to win your sports game as an unfair advantage.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And we have a president who won’t help defend Europe.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It looks like the ABI doesn’t allow r16-r31 to be declared as frame pointers, so at least existing code using RtlCaptureContext + RtlVirtualUnwind to make a self stack trace should still work even if APX functions are in the trace.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Was adding two nonvolatile registers to the Windows x64 ABI for APX really worth the hassle and risk of changing the format of the .pdata table? If Windows considered r16-r31 volatile, no changes would’ve been necessary.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I hear that a lot of the newer game decompilation projects use AI for doing most of the work… There are really AI tools that can do this level of work? I have no idea which ones people use.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Disappointed, and depressed from what they saw being their future.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Texas defending citizens against police abuse?!

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I hope Metroid Ravenous is a butt-kicker like Dread was. Tough but fair.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hell, keep the spending of $1 trillion because some was necessary, but imagine if we even had spent $7 trillion toward better things.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hey I know where Trump can get the $1 trillion to give every citizen $5000: confiscate it from Elon!

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you think you are smarter than Trump, you are probably right. If you think Trump is smarter than you, you are probably right.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Were Christian politicians asked to skip memorials of the Oklahoma City bombing? Obviously not.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I liked Echoes of Wisdom and Tears of the Kingdom too. I liked the original Ocarina but prefer the 2D Zeldas.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

20 years from now, #FF7 Revelation won’t be playable from its discs, but FF7 original will still be.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Such a definition is valid even on MS-DOS, Win16 and OS/2 far pointers; 8086 segmentation is “flat enough” in all but the “huge” memory model.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It would be nice if C/C++ had a macro that means, “on this implementation, adding to a pointer that’s cast to uintptr_t is equivalent to adding to a char* pointer when such arithmetic is defined”. In other words, a “flat-enough” address space for aligning math to be valid.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It is interesting that the PS5 Linux devs actually added support for execute-only memory to the Linux kernel. If you mmap() with PROT_EXEC but not PROT_READ on PS5 Linux, it works, unlike normal x86-64.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don’t know why AMD hasn’t released support for execute-only memory on their non-Sony CPUs. Based on the PS5 Linux kernel patch, it looks like a straightforward EFER enable bit and a new PTE bit 58 “NDA: no data access”. I’m guessing that there is a CPUID bit somewhere too.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I wish x64 Windows had an ARM64 emulator for testing. It’d be a lot easier to work with ARM64 Windows development without needing a remote debugger constantly. Until there are desktop-level ARM64 Windows machines available, anyway.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

They’re accounting for that by blocking the ballots from getting to people’s houses in the first place.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Screenshots from the end of my third FF5 Four Job Fiesta run this year: monk / beastmaster / summoner / samurai. Need somewhere to upload them for proof for the web site; might as well upload here! =^-^= Omega is possible with this party, just requires a ton of luck. It didn't seem worth the time.

Endgame stats; notably, 100% treasure chests.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The Nepalese mudslide was caused by a collapsing glacier… so 160 people died to climate change.

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Myria @myria.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I wish C++ would standardize an equivalent of “#pragma pack”. It would be too complicated, though, because full correctness would require adding a third CV-qualifier (“unaligned”) and the mess that that entails all over the Standard and STL.

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