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  • Faresh@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlOf course
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    1 month ago

    Is there any situation where you’d want to remember the opcodes? Disassemblers should give you user-friendly assembly code, without any need to look at the raw numbers. Maybe it’s useful to remember which instructions are pseudo instructions (so you know stuff like jz (jump if zero) being the same as je (jump if equal) making it easier to understand the disassembly), but I don’t think you need to remember the opcode numbers for that.

    Edit: Maybe with malware analysis where the malware in question may be obfuscated in interesting ways to make the job of binary analysis harder?



  • That is something that often bothers me with many recipes. Often I’m confused why they are using a certain weird ingredient I don’t have access to or when they have a step that I don’t understand its purpose of and the recipe doesn’t explain its reasoning or its reasoning doesn’t make any sense. I then have to improvise without any idea if the changes I’m making will significantly impact the final result.

    Only very few online recipes I see explain why they are written the way they are.


  • Faresh@lemmy.mltolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldOld XKCD, still relevant
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    This one, if by unix he also means modern linux systems. Nowadays you can simply use tar xf my-file.tar.whatever and it should work on most linux systems (it worked on every modern linux system I’ve tried and every compressed tar file I’ve tried). I don’t think it is hard to remember the xf part.






  • I’ve never played it, but aren’t League of Legends servers already authoritative? Also, I’m pretty sure it would only deal with certain kinds of cheats. An authoritative server won’t be able to prevent a player from using an aimbot, for example, since nothing says that a player isn’t allowed to have super accurate aim. The server can’t tell if they are cheating or just insanely good. Nevermind I missed your sentence mentioning *-bots.

    I wonder whether, even with an omnipotent anticheat software installed, cheating would still be possible by having the router manipulate your packets on the way to the server (ie. having all the *-bot work being done on that device). I imagine TLS could maybe thwart that attempt, since the router can’t decrypt the packets, but I don’t think it’s really a problem since the client could also just provide it with the unencrypted packet and the server’s public key, so that the router may fabricate the packets. On the other hand, anticheat software would be aware of that since the client has to send those extra packets, but how could it know that those packets are being sent for nefarious purposes and not just simply some other normal software doing it’s thing?