Notices by Zhuowei Zhang (zhuowei@notnow.dev)
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Zhuowei Zhang (zhuowei@notnow.dev)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 12:53:55 JST Zhuowei Zhang whelp someone found the firmware flashing mode for the Nintendo Alarmo
https://x.com/MarcelD505/status/1844751661098573942
It's an STM32H7 (running a UF2-compatible bootloader - since it shows up as a USB mass storage device)
https://x.com/MarcelD505/status/1844759042540949679
with Wi-Fi provided by an NXP (née Marvell Avastar) chip, of all things.
https://x.com/MarcelD505/status/1844759443101163895 -
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Zhuowei Zhang (zhuowei@notnow.dev)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 12:53:54 JST Zhuowei Zhang The devs just found the JTAG (SWD) debugging pins on the Nintendo Alarmo: https://x.com/MarcelD505/status/1845211647675408496
whelp. at this rate, this thing's gonna be running Doom by next week.
(I guessed wrong: It's not a standard 20-pin JTAG as used on a regular ST-Link, because Nintendo.) -
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Zhuowei Zhang (zhuowei@notnow.dev)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 12:53:53 JST Zhuowei Zhang And they're already datamining the Nintendo Alarmo: https://x.com/MarcelD505/status/1845518455950442815 -
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Zhuowei Zhang (zhuowei@notnow.dev)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 12:53:52 JST Zhuowei Zhang ... and the modders have code execution (via JTAG/SWD) on the Nintendo Alarmo:
https://x.com/_spinda/status/1845644595889066248
Whelp that's a new world record for hacking Nintendo any% -
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Zhuowei Zhang (zhuowei@notnow.dev)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 13:49:21 JST Zhuowei Zhang After breaking up AT&T, the US DOJ now plans to award Google the No-Bell Prize -
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Zhuowei Zhang (zhuowei@notnow.dev)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 02:22:16 JST Zhuowei Zhang "CrowdStrike shuts down computers worldwide"
And you thought there's no collective bargaining in tech -
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Zhuowei Zhang (zhuowei@notnow.dev)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 15:24:33 JST Zhuowei Zhang France's snap election was the final straw for this Ubuntu user to switch to Mint -
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Zhuowei Zhang (zhuowei@notnow.dev)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 16:25:38 JST Zhuowei Zhang IPv6: the Itanium of networking standards -
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Zhuowei Zhang (zhuowei@notnow.dev)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 07:00:12 JST Zhuowei Zhang You turn old on the day Ubuntu's latest codename wraps around to your childhood Ubuntu version.
If you grew up with Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal", enjoy your senior discount in a month when Canonical releases Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". -
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Zhuowei Zhang (zhuowei@notnow.dev)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 04:27:05 JST Zhuowei Zhang This is the LockPickingLawyer, and what I have for you today is a Python "Global Interpreter Lock" -
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Zhuowei Zhang (zhuowei@notnow.dev)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 10:39:19 JST Zhuowei Zhang "The Martian" is a fractured fairy tale, and Mark Watney is the princess in the tower -
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Zhuowei Zhang (zhuowei@notnow.dev)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 00:55:51 JST Zhuowei Zhang Infosec community migrates from Twitter to VirusTotal comments section of Win32.Blaster.E -
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Zhuowei Zhang (zhuowei@notnow.dev)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 06:07:57 JST Zhuowei Zhang Another day volunteering at the Mastodon server. Everyone keeps asking me if I can read their private messages. Buddy, I'm an admin: I don't even have time to read my own messages -
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Zhuowei Zhang (zhuowei@notnow.dev)'s status on Sunday, 20-Nov-2022 21:05:30 JST Zhuowei Zhang "Mastodon is just like email."
Like email? So I use Microsoft Outlook?
"Use WHAT"
(Tools -> Account Settings -> RSS Feeds -> New -> https://mastodon.social/@Gargron.rss)