Elliphant

Weirdest faux-Jamaican accent I've ever heard, and the second most self-indulgent beard to ever stand behind Serrato. Also, the lighting designer's choice to stick with solid red for the whole show: very daring.

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Femme

And the most self-indulgent beard to ever stand behind Serrato.

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We live in a magical future where "strings" is exploitable.

What is this I can't even.

Many shell users, and certainly most of the people working in computer forensics or other fields of information security, have a habit of running /usr/bin/strings on binary files originating from the Internet. Their understanding is that the tool simply scans the file for runs of printable characters and dumps them to stdout - something that is very unlikely to put you at any risk.

It is much less known that the Linux version of strings is an integral part of GNU binutils, a suite of tools that specializes in the manipulation of several dozen executable formats using a bundled library called libbfd. Other well-known utilities in that suite include objdump and readelf. [...]

In any case: the bottom line is that if you are used to running strings on random files, or depend on any libbfd-based tools for forensic purposes, you should probably change your habits.

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This book made me the person I am today.

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Facebook: lying liars. Water: wet.

Hey, remember when Facebook's hateful "real names" policy got a lot of press because they went nuclear on a bunch of queens? And then they put out a contentless, fawning press release with a fauxpology in it?

And remember when they then they got a ton of shamefully credulous press from people saying, "Well, that's all better then"?

And remember when people like me said, "You know, maybe you should save your applause for after they've changed either their official policy or their demonstrated behavior, or both, because they haven't", and nobody listened?

Well guess what, they just banned another friend of mine yesterday for using his DJ handle instead of his real name.

Fuck Facebook, and fuck every so-called "journalist" who reposts corporate press releases with zero skepticism.

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