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Quick review: Columbus Day – Craig Alanson (Expeditionary Force)
Columbus Day doesn't quite know what it wants to be. Joe Bishop is hiding from technologically-advanced aliens, then he's a Starship Trooper, a several page description of military technologies follows, and then not much happens while Joe does farming and slice-of-lifey things with a side… »
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Bookmarklet: Switch account from Google Forms
Click and drag to bookmarks bar: Forms Switch User
window.location='https://drive.google.com/accounts?continueUrl='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href.replace('formrestricted','viewform'));void(0);Google Forms are sometimes restricted to users from a certain Google organisation,… »
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Crypto failures in the wild
Sony PlayStation 3 ECDSA random number reuse
The Sony PlayStation 3 (2006) uses Elliptic Curve DSA (ECDSA) to sign executable binaries.
ECDSA takes a private key \(d_A\) and a random number \(k\) with public parameters \(G\), \(n\) and public key \(Q_A = d_A G\), and… »
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Guide: Magisk root and (Ed)Xposed using official releases on the Xiaomi Mi A2 (Android 9.0)
This is a guide on rooting the Xiaomi Mi A2 using Magisk and installing Xposed via EdXposed for Android Pie 9.0, using the official releases.
Unlocking the bootloader
Firstly we need to unlock the bootloader to allow us to flash new images. Go to Settings… »
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Starship (Starkid) official recording songs (direct links and timestamps)
Unlike some of their other recordings, Starkid's Starship (2011) is split into multiple parts, making finding individual songs difficult. Here are links to all of them:
- I Wanna Be: A1P1 2:21
- Get Back Up: A1P5 4:40
- Life: A1P6 1:31
- Life (Reprise): A1P6 8:31
- Hideous Creatures:
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Australian Road Rules: Crossing a painted traffic island
Consider the situations in the following diagram:
Car A is attempting to turn left at an intersection with a slip lane, and drives over a painted traffic island to reach the slip lane.
Car B is attempting to turn right at an intersection, and impatiently… »