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Comment · 6 years ago
I have seen this happen so often. People who evidently don't use or haven't used a Windows based machine in the last 20 years complaining more than anybody else.

There are plenty of reasons to hate on Windows(-based machines) but what would they know.

Comment · 6 years ago
The problem with this 'it is relative' line of logic is that everything can be relative. We need terms that describe stuff regardless of how people perceive it.

Otherwise, as you said, 'bricked' can mean almost anything. So what's the point of using a word without any particular meaning?

Comment · 6 years ago
4 hours? You are insane (in a good way), mate. Any less than 7 hours and I literally can't even wake up. If I force myself, my body will literally not respond to my commands and getting up and straight becomes as hard as deadlifting 100kg...
Comment · 6 years ago
Why would you give minorities an "easier" time? Why not the same as everyone else?
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
On Chrome, you can hit CTRL + G, which does the same as CTRL + F, but is not hookable by web sites
Comment · 7 years ago
OP seems to never have heard of public transport.

Wait, are they American? Most likely.

Comment · 7 years ago
The author disabled resizing (zooming) on mobile, leaving the text unreadable. Why do people do this at all? I've seen it happen so often.
Comment · 7 years ago
Only 355687428096000 years old? Mustn't have even finished college!
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
Not really. A skilled reverse engineer does not find/replace any certificates, or anything like that. They just debug the app, stepping over all the code, instruction by instruction. There's no way you can beat that. I'm a malware reverse engineer - I work with this kind of stuff every day. And I'm pretty sure there's no 'game': once the binary is in my disassembler, it's over.
Comment · 8 years ago
This method would be a waste of time and energy. Just reverse the app and find it out. No need to play it like a binary is a magic black box that's impossible to inspect.
Comment · 8 years ago
Can confirm, just got a slight arrhythmia just by reading that
Comment · 8 years ago
You don't see .jpeg because people are used to .jpg. There's nothing incompatible with long names that we care about.

Also, that Windows feature you mention is called ADS - alternate data stream.

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