<p>they should just ship malware as llvm ir to save everyone involved some time</p>

<p>turns out that when your shitty antivirus spends 10 hours analyzing yet another chromium embedded framework statically linked into an electron app, it&#39;s (sometimes) lifting it back to llvm ir using symbolic execution</p><p>machine code lowered and lifted here ˙ ͜ʟ˙</p><p><a href="https://github.com/avast/retdec" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/avast/retdec</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

<p>I’m seeing a lot of people making fun of their incompetence for this, but that’s not what this is. This whole regime is a gang of bullies, headed by a bully, and like all bullies, they’re cowards. Stand up to them, and they whimper away. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/04/18/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html</span></a></p>

<p>disagree with the premise but the conclusion is spot on</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@timonsku" class="u-url mention">@<span>timonsku</span></a></span> niceeee</p>

<p>Gotta say being a consultant is in many ways very ADHD friendly.<br />One day I&#39;m working on a methane scanner, the other day on a smart ring and on the weekend I help out with a university satellite. It&#39;s very diverse, never boring.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kev" class="u-url mention">@<span>kev</span></a></span> Congrats!</p>

<p>I should add that I continued my Rust learning discipline of using no IDE, no AI, and no autocomplete. I did have to search for a few things on math functions and random numbers.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@nedbat" class="u-url mention">@<span>nedbat</span></a></span> applies to anything from the gang of four, yeah</p>