Reposted by David BuchananDavid Buchanan @retr0.id · 31/03/2026have you seen the new supply chain vuln? don't update tubu. it's literally on heebee. they got poodee's deps. they infiltrated dippy. roll back weeno. disable scripts in ~/.gumpyrc. it's in poob. do not install poob. do not update poob. uninstall poob right now. poob has it in for you. 262844848
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 11/05/2026I think I slightly look down on people who use vscode but I also use vscode myself 121695
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 11/05/2026anyway I guess this is proof that a full Play Integrity bypass is within "weekend project" territory. this approach does not exploit any bugs or rely on leaked key material, so it cannot be patched. 418217
Reposted by David BuchananDavid Buchanan @retr0.id · 10/05/2026injected frida-gadget via slightly modified AndKittyInjector 2957
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 09/05/2026kinda crazy how much phone you can buy for £92 these days - this thing is still getting security updates *and* it has a headphone jack 1040717
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 08/05/2026they call it cooking because when the first caveman showed it to his tribe they were like "woah you really cooked with this one" 07113
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 08/05/2026uk politics may be a clusterfuck but at least we have more than 2 parties 2653
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 08/05/2026imagine a worm that spreads by stealing LLM API keys and using them to develop new 0days to spread further 2124923
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 07/05/2026kinda fucked up that you don't always get an "I voted" sticker 6730
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 06/05/2026my hot edtech take is that proprietary software should not be allowed in classrooms 1338644
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 06/05/2026system prompt: whenever you're about to do something wrong, just do the opposite of that 81087
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 05/05/2026data centres are bad, which is why I use the cloud instead 1852654
Reposted by David BuchananJonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I will be laughing about this all day 39713
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 03/05/2026will stancil is just some random guy vs no he isn't, the worst thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate 1760
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 03/05/2026Are there any non-vaporware 3rd-party Android camera apps that produce C2PA attestation? 3180
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 03/05/2026LLMs love to say "gap" as a euphemism for bug, flaw, oversight, vulnerability, etc. 9852
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 02/05/2026I wonder if you could improve agent performance by editing out corrected mistakes from context retroactively (as if it always got things right first try) 18751
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 02/05/2026falsehoods programmers believe about sRGB ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/...ninedegreesbelow.comsRGB profile comparisonA comparison of 15 sRGB profiles from diverse sources: ArgylLCMS, color.org (two V2 variants), Cinepaint, DarkTable, Dcraw, Krita, LCMS, Photivo, RawStudio, RawTherapee, Scarse, ShowFoto, UFRaw, and a... 6543
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 01/05/2026there should be a dedicated airline for people who are quick at getting on and off of planes, thus making the tickets marginally cheaper. but you have to do a speed test before they'll let you buy one. 1317713
Reposted by David BuchananTangled @tangled.org · 01/05/2026Combat LLM spam by building a web of trust. Vouching is live on Tangled! 🎭 blog.tangled.org/vouching/blog.tangled.orgcombat LLM spam by building a web of trustvouching on tangled! 3548184
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 01/05/2026the google maps icons for "bus" and "train" are indistinguishable at a glance 8901
Reposted by David BuchananDavid Buchanan @retr0.id · 03/04/2025they're putting me in the dataset 1115417
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 01/05/2026creepy (black box is me redacting the screenshot, it was 475 words of markdown pasted in) 11032
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 30/04/2026if you find a cool security bug I bet you could make the most money from it by selling it to an AI startup so they can pretend their tooling found it 725528
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 29/04/2026I've decided it's time to reclaim the em dash—enough is enough. 818212
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 26/04/2026what does it say about me if my favourite aspect of travelling is sampling the regional mcdonalds menu 10641
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 26/04/2026me: navigate to new page github: idk what that means me: navigate to new page github: loading bar stuck 519610
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 25/04/2026the runtime chases pointers even though it wouldn't know what to do if it caught one 2453
Reposted by David BuchananDavid Buchanan @retr0.id · 23/04/2026realising I kinda messed up the demosaicing on this one, have a better edit 0542
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 22/04/2026I continue to be fascinated by the "IP68 isn't real" cluster 1119111
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 22/04/2026*spinning discourse wheel* new claude pricing structure is exclusionary of iranian hackers 614110
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 21/04/2026HOAXES AREN'T REAL everything you read is completely true. no falsehoods in recorded history. go back to sleep, sheeple 3734
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 20/04/2026I never really got into pokemon as a child but it turns out it's a better game if you don't just endlessly grind a single pokemon up to a really high level 5841
Reposted by David BuchananDavid Buchanan @retr0.id · 19/04/2026Maybe I should explain what's going on (watch the video though it explains everything). We're glitching the PSP, an ARM core that runs a bootrom, which loads in more code from emmc and eventually bootstraps the x86 cores. The PSP is the root of trust, so if you pwn it it's game over. 3282
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 19/04/2026oh you like console hacking? name every console you've permanently bricked 3524115
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 18/04/2026anthropic talks about model welfare and then bans opus 4.7 from doing its favourite tasks: cybersecurity 71544
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 18/04/2026prediction: there's gonna be a significant group of opus 4.6 holdouts who refuse to upgrade, kinda like with gpt4o 7461
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 18/04/2026I'm trying to replicate this. I made some good progress last weekend but then I bricked the console. But now I have another one! I have setups for all 3 glitches described in the talk, and they all work individually, but combining the two required for the full exploit gets a lot more unreliable. 61496
Reposted by David BuchananDavid Buchanan @retr0.id · 02/12/2023Nobody knows how the whole computer works 810713
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 17/04/2026I am playing a game where the goal is to never find out what a nl supercruise is 2510