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novafacing··on Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
Pretty sure this is an AI summary of this HN post, not the other way around
novafacing··on SpaceX handed lowest possible ESG rating by MSCI
https://archive.is/2026.06.22-112959/https://www.ft.com/cont...
novafacing··on Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator
Plugins would definitely be the wrong tool for the job for actual new emulator development, but if you needed to do something easy like add an NVRAM for a router rehost you could do that with plugins e.g. by skipping an instruction and using a callback to implement the desired behavior (as long as it is something a plugin is allowed to do -- you can't access device memory yet).
novafacing··on Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator
This is actually the whole reason I wrote the patches that allow you to read and write memory and registers. I work on fuzzing, and fuzzing tools are a fragmented ecosystem of QEMU forks and patches that are outdated the moment they are published. Even PANDA from MIT LL which has great support struggled to keep their patches rebased and compatible with QEMU's actually-pretty-fast releases. Upstream or bust, it's really not that hard, it just takes a little persistence (and with LLMs learning git email is easy)!
novafacing··on Can One Disgruntled Employee Destroy Big Tech? A Chilling Truth
I got three paragraphs in before I realized. What a waste of my time
novafacing··on Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp)
I was excited about this idea until I found out it's $27k
novafacing··on Can you stop beans from making you gassy?
Your username is incredibly relevant for a food science discussion!
novafacing··on Ergo S-1 – An open-source ergonomic wireless keyboard
You may be interested in the ZSA moonlander with their "the platform" tent kit. It can go near vertical, got mine a few weeks ago and it is really nice.
novafacing··on DiyPresso: DIY Espresso Machine
The breville barista line is what you're looking for.
novafacing··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024)
Location: Portland, OR, USA Remote: Preferred, not required. Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Rust, C, C++, Python, Linux Kernel, Windows Kernel, UEFI, Ghidra/Binja/IDA Résumé/CV: https://github.com/novafacing/resumes/blob/main/main.pdf Email: rowanbhart@gmail.com

I'm a security researcher at Intel Corporation working on scalable software security, particularly fuzzing. Most recently, I created the fuzzer https://girhub.com/intel/tsffs to secure Windows and Linux kernel drivers and UEFI firmware, and have led its adoption across BUs. Previously, I have experience in vulnerability research and exploit development across userland and various OS kernels. My GitHub serves as portfolio at https://github.com/novafacing.

Looking forward to finding a new opportunity in the security space!

novafacing··on IPC in Rust – A Ping Pong Comparison
IIRC for most packets, UDS are actually faster (not by a massive amount) than named pipes: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1235958/ipc-performance-... and this advantage increases with packet size (from my own testing).
novafacing··on Ask HN: What's the best free course in your area of expertise?
pwn.college from the folks at ASU SEFCOM is by a significant margin the best comprehensive binary exploitation training you can get. There are video lessons from some of the top professors and graduate (and undergraduate) TAs, CTF players, and more alongside a massive suite of hands on practice and a community for discussion and learning.

Video training sessions: https://youtube.com/@pwncollege Challenges: pwn.college Discord: https://pwn.college/discord

novafacing··on EVEmu – An EVE Online Emulator
Anyone wanting to try this out probably will want to check out https://files.evesharp.dev/cruc/
novafacing··on Ask HN: Why is Spotify playing so many covers?
I have some suggestions. Now, I'm a bit of an audiophile and also I'm willing to deal with amounts of jank that others find intolerable. YMMV.

I use Deezer as a music service. It's $15/month for HiFi comparable to Tidal's HiFi subscription. Tidal, however, has DRM that does not allow it to play on Linux as a webapp nor does it have a Linux desktop app. Tidal's out. Now, here's the interesting thing: I never use Deezer to listen to music.

- I use Deemix Server (https://download.deemix.app/server/) to serve a webapp on my media server. This plugs into my Deezer account and I use it to download FLAC quality audio into my media server.

- My media server, of course, runs Plex (https://www.plex.tv/). I have a lifetime pass and it's totally worth it, but keep in mind it is required for this setup.

- Locally on my (phone|laptop|desktop) I use Plexamp (https://plexamp.com/). Plexamp is a beautiful high quality player with no bells and whistles but does one thing really well and that's play my music.

- Since this is all offline playing downloaded files, I use last.fm which plugs into both Deezer (https://blog.last.fm/2012/01/06/scrobble-with-deezer) and Plex (https://www.plex.tv/blog/plex-media-server-v0-9-12-5-a-tasty...) for recommendations, tracking listening, and connecting with friends. Honorable mention to MusicButler (musicbutler.io) which used to be free and simply notifies you of new releases for a "Release Radar" experience.

All this combines to be a less seamless but far better experience than using spotify.