<p>it basically doesn&#39;t matter what sort of upsetting experience i&#39;ve had, delving deep enough into WinSxS is guaranteed to bring up something cursed enough it&#39;ll just completely override the emotional context</p>

<p>reverse engineering random chunks of Windows continues to be a very calming activity</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hails.org/@hailey" class="u-url mention">@<span>hailey</span></a></span> sometimes it shows a random GUID</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.nano.lgbt/@Rairii" class="u-url mention">@<span>Rairii</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pony.social/@luna" class="u-url mention">@<span>luna</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@misty" class="u-url mention">@<span>misty</span></a></span> see this subthread <a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark/112851052113618042" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@whitequark/11</span><span class="invisible">2851052113618042</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@liztai" class="u-url mention">@<span>liztai</span></a></span> given how many places get destroyed by tourist invasion, that&#39;s a wise choice</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@misty" class="u-url mention">@<span>misty</span></a></span> okay, i have procured a copy and ran diff on the two files</p><p>they&#39;re surprisingly similar (there are the same applications!) while being different in important details (the shims and most importantly RUNTIME_PLATFORM itself is different)</p><p><a href="https://gist.github.com/whitequark/151d866cf14c80254336ea967abb4d03" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gist.github.com/whitequark/151</span><span class="invisible">d866cf14c80254336ea967abb4d03</span></a></p><p>i think i&#39;m done looking into this, i could fully RE the platform comparison algorithm but i&#39;ll never fully figure out intent this way</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@bhaktishh" class="u-url mention">@<span>bhaktishh</span></a></span><br />I watched so much Brian Greene show in high school, and I just bombarded my poor college interviewer with bunch of physics-y nonsense that means absolutely nothing.</p><p>I realize I don&#39;t have any intuition about physics in college: I can only plug numbers into formula, then throw them at wolframalpha.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://60228.dev/@leo" class="u-url mention">@<span>leo</span></a></span> thank you, i was going to do the same but i didn&#39;t have an install.esd next to me :3</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JFII2IGDB5Yw1ILHRu26XmhZEx6hm2MZ/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">drive.google.com/file/d/1JFII2</span><span class="invisible">IGDB5Yw1ILHRu26XmhZEx6hm2MZ/view?usp=sharing</span></a> this was extracted from an install.esd, i assume it doesnt get modified post-installation?</p>