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I had the pleasure of working with Johannes as part of Google Summer of Code in 2020 and 2021 working on LLVM. He mentored me and many students over the years.

I remember in 2020 he would meet with us at 7AM his time to accommodate every student he was working in different parts of the world (Turkey, Greece, China, Japan iirc), I was the one from Turkey.

I had Coffee with him and his wife few months back. He was so full of life despite everything.

He touched the lives of many people. What a great life lived despite being so short.

It looks like the future for laptops is ARM. I hope Lenovo makes a ThinkPad with this chip, there already is a ThinkPad with a Snapdragon SoC (ThinkPad X13s), but from what I have read it's not very good. I considered getting a MacBook to use with Asahi but some important features are still unsupported (like HDMI output support).

I did something similar for Instagram on android few years ago. The usual methods for bypassing certificate didn't work on Instagram, they were statically linking openssl into a shared library called libcoldstart.so. I Spent some time reading openssl documentation and ended up installing a hook to the function that configured the certificate verification.

In case you are curious. I used Frida for installing hooks to native functions.