From a Reddit comment [1]: “the repo contains two novel and different ways to run any process as the SYSTEM user. It also disables every antivirus through a novel process privilege deescalation exploit”
I don't know how one can argue (in the reddit thread) Administrator -> SYSTEM is a security vulnerability or even a privilege escalation. The Administrator can grant themselves kernel debug rights!
Thanks for the mental image. Many technologies are created for military goals and slowly find their way to civilian applications. Maybe in some years we will see a scene like that – it would be much better than the CGI-laden films of nowadays...
The official site seems correspondingly obfuscated.
* http://www.ioccc.org/status.html says: “While the IOCCC is not open now, there is a tentative opening date for the next IOCCC.”
* http://www.ioccc.org/news.html says: “The IOCCC28, the 40th anniversary of the IOCCC is now scheduled to run from 2024-12-29 23:58:13.213455 UTC to 2025-04-01 23:29:31.374143 UTC!!!.”
The linked site makes the thing even more confusing by saying in the subtitle that the compo is about C++. No thanks, otherwise some of the production code we C++ devs see could be submitted to the competition as-is. Obfuscating C needs more work.
All in all, confusing but positive news. Looking forward to the entries, though we'll still have to wait some months.
Me too, but without the followup “To clarify” self-reply (which Twitter does not show to unlogged users), one loses some context. Thankfully xcancel.com still works, but for how long?
Here the full followup:
> To clarify, I called Airbnb to request help with rebooking accommodations farther from the danger zone. As always, their policies failed to account for context. The fires keep getting worse, and unfortunately, many others are probably stuck explaining bushfires to someone in another country right about now.
Stocks are just mirroring the general state of the economy. When I grew up, my mental frame of the global wealth had the U.S. on the same tier as most Western European nations. Maybe a little ahead, but not comparable to tax havens such as Luxembourg or Switzerland. Now the U.S. is almost as rich as these two nations and is probably going to overtake them, while most of Western Europe is standing still, with scarce hopes of recovery given its bad demography.
In the Nineties and Aughts, Europe managed to keep pace with the U.S. and even reduce its gap, till the 2008 financial crisis. But since then the two zones are on totally different paths.
Stocks don't mirror the general state of the economy, at all, stocks are just another market. Look at how stocks performed during 2020-2021, where economies were struggling because people couldn't work (or in many places not even leave their houses/blocks for months at a time), the stock market follows feeling and confidence and not the economy necessarily.
Can it be a proxy to study the underlying economies? Probably, but it's never the economy.
I can't hear the stock price or GDP per capita difference over the sound of my one month yearly vacations and half year parental leave and free health care and excellent public transportation and walkable and safe cities.
Chess historian Tim Krabbé ran an analysis with a different notation, using an extended algebrical system (start and end square + kind of captured piece, if any). Here his results: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2/diary_6.htm (entry 105).
His site is a trove of information for people liking chess trivia.
No, 4.1 millions was the request (“Entr'Ouvert, appelante, demande à la cour de...”; later, “La société Entr'Ouvert soutient que...”). What was awarded is in the section “Dispositif”, the rest of the document is just the recapitulation of the case, including what was requested by both parties.
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/1icgfua...
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