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Comment · 4 months ago
Turns out it was intentional. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550425
Comment · 4 months ago
The author may well disagree.
Comment · 4 months ago
Thanks for the clarifying the situation. Something did feel a bit off but I didn't want to jump to any premature conclusions.
The author has clearly put quite some investment in writing their book, it's a shame and hard to understand that someone would self sabotage by plagiarising the work of others - Especially to someone donating their own free time to initially help out.
> But I have only myself to blame for opensourcing the code of my books/website and thinking people would use it as intended.
Even if you had not, perhaps this scenario would have still eventuated.
Keep up the good work. Any new books planned on the horizon?
Comment · 4 months ago
Understood. It's reasonable to call out potential conflict while also being unclear on intention. Something as simple in the Keen book author acknowledging the proofreader would put to rest the ambiguity central to the discussion point in contention.
Comment · 4 months ago
It's often helpful not to immediately assume bad faith without further enquiry. It appears that Fabien had reviewed the book beforehand and he has reposted John Carmack's tweet[1] linking the book.
Comment · 4 months ago
The book's source has verbatim copy and pasted TeX ripped from Fabien's books which was licensed under GPL.
Comment · 4 months ago
How do you feel about this book mirroring your prior art in both format and structure? Were you consulted beforehand?
[EDIT] - I see in the Keen book's source git commit logs that you reviewed and assisted with proof reading beforehand, so may we assume that this is all above board and sanctioned by you?
Comment · 4 months ago
It appears the author is leveraging Fabien's branding by copying not only the style of post but more importantly the formatting and style of Fabien's books. Even structurally the book appears quite similar.
If you didn't double check the author while skimming this Keen book, you may well be mistaken that it was written by Fabien.
I took a quick skim of the content, it looks great - tempted to purchase a copy to support the author for their efforts (and have it sit on the bookshelf next to two other very similar looking books...) but need to sit on this for a while.
Maybe I'm overthinking this. Would like to hear Fabien's take on the situation.
[EDIT] It looks that the Keen book author copied and pasted direct sections[1] out of Fabien's book's TeX[2].
[EDIT] The git commit history has comments that indicate that Fabien reviewed the book, e.g. "updated all chapters after feedback Fabien" and "Proofread Fabien Sanglard en hardcopy review", so perhaps this is all sanctioned.
[1] https://github.com/bsmits74/Keen_White_Papers/blob/master/sr...
[2] https://github.com/fabiensanglard/gebbdoom/blob/master/src/b...
Comment · 2 years ago
Wonderful, thank you for providing this content at no cost. Would there be a description of what new material was added in this version?
Comment · 3 years ago
This is great, although Google decided there was malware on my iPhone. False positive? After following all the steps it asked, now when logging in to any google service, google throws an error making it impossible to log in to any google service on the phone. I haven’t done a factory reset as I don’t want to loose the google auth tokens. Catch 22.
Comment · 3 years ago
Peter Attia has an interview with Robert Sapolsky that was recently “rebroadcasted” - “ The impact of stress on our physical and emotional health” [1]
Highly recommended listening.
As a neuroendocrinology researcher, much Robert Sapolsky’s life work revolves around the questions your pondering on. He has spent years studying wild baboons in Kenya, “ .. specifically, Sapolsky studies the cortisol levels between the alpha male and female and the subordinates to determine stress level.” [2]
[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-peter-attia-drive/...
Comment · 3 years ago
Sure! Will have a play and will reach out if appropriate.
Comment · 3 years ago
Can anyone recommend something similar for Java / Smali ? Specific use case is reverse engineering Android application with partially obsufcated code.
Current approach is following “xrefs” in JADX and hooking methods with dynamic instrumentation with Frida (displaying backtraces etc). Got to be a quicker way while chipping away renaming classes and methods and mapping out source/sinks.
Comment · 3 years ago
Tavis Ormandy released some patches to get WordPerfect for UNIX (terminal based) to run on Linux [1]
Alternatively, WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS running in Wine on Linux (or DOSbox) [2]
This word processor was pretty serious back in the day. I have distant memories of sitting in class and learning it in at school in the early 90s. It’s interesting how we retain such inconsequential memories that can resurface with very specific triggers (such as seeing the screenshots of ASCII text of an ancient word processor).
[1] https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/wordperfect.html
[2] https://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2020/09/finding-console-word-proc...