condret :verified: :ancom:

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Hi, I'm condret.
I'm a lazy programmer/software reverse engineer.

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2026-08-04 06:40:49 UTC

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why facebookify fedi?

2026-07-30 05:29:32 UTC

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just download the pdf somewhere. also people could still make money from printing books, without copyright. they just could no longer create artificial scarcity by restricting others from also printing the same book.

2026-07-29 21:43:52 UTC

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i see copyright as a product of capitalism. we have machines that allow us to copy things with the press of a button. copying doesn't take the original away from someone, it just creates a copy. i don't see that as stealing. copyright is needed to make profit from art. i don't want artists to starve or or live under precarious conditions, but copyright is definitly not the solution to that. artists get money from spotify, but they struggle anyways.
i want to abolish copyright, end capitalism and collectivise data centers and all other means of production.

2026-07-29 20:10:38 UTC

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read marx, please

2026-07-29 20:03:38 UTC

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copyright, artificial scarcity, has always been the problem. there is no material need to restrict copying books, music, videos, software etc.. Copying is never stealing. For long capitalists wanted you to believe it is. Now new capitalists show up. I'm on neither side, but i want copyright to fall

2026-07-29 19:05:59 UTC

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i hate that copyright necessitates that

2026-07-29 15:15:45 UTC

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and you think the world wouldn't burn without AI?

2026-07-08 00:57:32 UTC

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it is fascinating to chat with AI about Marx' Fragment on Machines and how it relates to AI. Comrade chatgpt is radicalizing

2026-07-01 20:23:19 UTC

I'm a software developer looking for job. I can code in python (good) and java (basic), but i'm an expert at programming in C. You could also say that i can code in C++, though i really prefer doing C over C++.
I'm experienced at software reverse engineering, especially in radare2, to which i've contributed since 2013. In r2 I've co-authored ESIL (evaluable string intermediate language) for instruction emulation and analysis. I've also written most parts of the r_io API as well as a few plugins. At the moment I live in germany, but relocating within the EU for a job after the probationary would be ok for me.
Previously i've worked for an US-american business, for which i've created components of an analysis pipeline for finding potential security vulnerabilities in firmware. One of the things that I've created during that time was a program, that could automatically find code and data sections of a binary of unknown format. You could destroy the elf header of a binary, throw it at the tool, and it would give you almost perfect section boundaries. This was followed by a script that would invoke cpu_rec in order to determine the correct ISA amd create a script to load the target correctly into r2 for further analysis. I was working on an elf-builder tool, which would allow customers to load the binary into any SRE tool, when someone decided the company would go "agentic" and that they no longer need me.
I'd love to analyse malware or develop software for embedded systems, but i'm also open to other jobs, where i can make use of my experience and skills.
#getfedihired

2026-05-28 17:12:28 UTC

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that is an improvement

2026-05-15 13:32:42 UTC

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my fault. at some point i stopped actively considering operator precedence, and instead use braces all the time. that's a blind spot on my side

2026-05-14 15:48:22 UTC

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how are these expressions composed? can you detect if something is xored with itself?

2026-04-29 16:39:08 UTC

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why does it have to be a tv then?

2026-03-26 14:09:37 UTC

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vectors, points, the difference between those things is irrelevant to the code that runs on your puter, it's often the same data structure. so why care?

2026-02-04 21:53:45 UTC

this "analysis" is accurate in regards to the dangers of libertarian neofeudalism and at best mediocre in regards to AI. If you claim that thinking cannot be computed, without providing an explanation of how thinking works, you're saying thinking is magic. https://www.johannesjaeger.eu/blog/machine-metaphysics-and-the-cult-of-techno-transcendentalism

2026-01-30 16:20:00 UTC

the first step towards seizing the means of production from capitalists is to reject their push for ai, which is a vehicle to take computational power from consumers into a subscription service.

2026-01-19 10:40:48 UTC

so a while ago i started developing my own 2d platformer game engine. i recently decided, that i also want slopes and all other sorts of things that don't have a rectangle hitbox. so i need some way to created and represent different geometries for the game. yesterday i created a small tool called shapemk. shapemk is a rather simplistic tool: mouse buttons are exclusivly used to create and delete points, the keyboard is used to switch modes and quit-save the program, it must be launched with the dst-path as parameter. It is the anti-thesis to so called "user friendly" software, and it is great. it's not finished yet, but 95% done.
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2025-12-15 09:37:51 UTC

funny how all the SJWs who thought corpos were on their side in 2015, got hit with a sledgehammer in the face. If you are one of them, i'm sorry that you had to find out this way.
Google is not on your side.
Meta is not on your side.
Microsoft is not on your side.
Amazon is not on your side.
Netflix is not on your side.
Apple is not on your side.
Tesla is not on your side.
All what these corpos did, was leveraging your "activism" to place an ad so they could increase their profits. You have more in common with the sweaty xenophobe gamer, than with Jeff Bezos.

2025-12-14 07:54:52 UTC

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do they also torture people with awful chrIstmas music?

2025-11-30 16:16:44 UTC

I like where this is going https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/poets-are-now-cybersecurity-threats-researchers-used-adversarial-poetry-to-jailbreak-ai-and-it-worked-62-percent-of-the-time/
i love to see poetry as a weapon

2025-11-12 05:19:46 UTC

You may have good reasons to dislike LLMs, but i'm very happy about prompt injection attack vectors popping up. This almost feels as good as stack-smashing befor aslr, stack cookies and all that crap got common

2025-07-11 01:13:53 UTC

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do you also differentiate by the type of task? A friend uses ai to do boring things like creating a gui frontend for a cli tool. Produced a shit ton of code, and he can go back and work on things he actually likes

2025-03-20 14:30:34 UTC

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i get why they have huge problems with tech corpos making profit of other people's work through LLMs. i don't like that either, it's exploitation. But this isn't new, exploitation is and always has been fundamental to capitalism, just like automatization. To draw the line at LLMs feels dishonest to me.
I also don't think art is art, if it is created with the intention to make a living from it. I know this is a radical position, but to me only hobbyists can be true artists. Art is art, when it is not a product.

2025-03-20 14:12:42 UTC

Why can't leftists read the room to see that we can abolish copyright and ip laws if we push for LLMs hard enough

2025-02-16 07:11:06 UTC

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enjoy the pain

2025-01-10 10:49:12 UTC

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you are talking about religious books, right?

2024-12-29 03:42:24 UTC

catsitting for my gf. her cat is not amused that i don't tolerate pets in the bedroom

2024-09-04 11:56:43 UTC

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no income vs 20$ income, which would you pick. capitalism sucks, most people cannot afford 200$ on non-essential stuff