this is one of those articles where you think you've hit rock bottom and it just keeps and keeps on getting worse
crnkovic.dev
Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims
How I breached a nonexistent database and found every private key in a 'state-of-the-art' encrypted messenger.
https://crnkovic.dev/testing-converso/ (archived)
AKA Learn You A Brainfuck For Great Good
As part of the Advent of Code, my challenge has been to try and solve several of the puzzles using Brainfuck: a minimalist esoteric programming language with only 8 instructions. I wrote at length about this process (and how i use a custom transpiler to save myself from having to having to copy and paste snippets of unreadable gibberish) in this earlier post.
Last night, i have completed what is probably going to be my last attempt of the year: part 1 of day 9. The resulting file is monstrous: 296261 instructions, that took six and a half hours to run after compiled by an optimizing compiler (bfc), and i had to tune the compiler's option for it not to segfault... Turns out bubble-sorting 11k+ elements in brainfuck is slow, who would have thought? :D
And since this was such a challenge, i thought i'd write a quick something about how i wrote this monstrosity, and how to write brainfuck programs in general.
userscript to change the colour of the user interface in cohost!!!
simply double-click anywhere on the site and a box will pop up where you can type a new hue value (the default is 333, the one used in the screenshot is 100)
(shoutout to my mate @sharky0456 for requesting this)
(oh btw make sure to run the userscript at document-start in settings; i'm new to userscripts and don't know if that was embedded in the userscript)
![Septagram Internet Hazard Catalogue Entry 44 - [One World Story]](https://staging.cohostcdn.org/attachment/8fb2e7b0-7f9c-4afa-b8dd-8a96a7f74bf5/septagram_entry44.svg "Septagram Internet Hazard Catalogue Entry 44 - [One World Story]")
Hazard type: Digital
Vector: Network
Danger: Non-lethal/Low disruption
Range: Limited
One World Story was a social media website that peaked in popularity between 2007 and 2008, eventually becoming defunct in 2014. Since approximately November 2016, the phrase "One World Story" will sometimes replace the text in the logomarks for existing social media websites during page load. Newer, virally popular websites are affected disproportionally. The mechanism of this phenomenon is not currently understood.
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