Aris Koxaras

iOS Developer and more. ---- 'Defeat does not exist in this dojo'

[Stevie Graham (new account) @stevegraham]

WOW! It’s finally happened! Full offline static decryption of FairPlay encrypted AppStore apps. The broader implications of this are huge. The FairPlay components are insanely obfuscated and have been the subject of research for years. It actually might finally be completely over

[Frank @jedisct1]

"Several vulnerabilities" in the Linux kernel https://t.co/eqnwUrpF1v

[anabology @anabology]

Gave Opus 5.5 donald's prompt, Midjourney, and a moodboard

12 hours later, woke up to this:

[Benjamin De Kraker @BenjaminDEKR]

Remember when we used to argue about tabs vs spaces in our code

[Tim Sneath @timsneath]

All the good stuff in Swift 6.4, now available across all platforms:
https://t.co/oOvG9YCMi6

[Pascio @IAmPascio]

This is one of the most insane articles I've read:

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.

One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.

You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.

And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.

[Steven Irby @StevenIrby]

This is so crazy. They backed up all of Spotify.

https://t.co/49k4Eega5C

[Aris Koxaras @ariskox]

😀

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

Microservices are what happens when your organization has communication problems and you decide the architecture should have them too.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

The story of FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8.

If you're not the type to pay for your software, you probably know this key. What you might not know is that I worked on the first version of Windows Product Activation, and this was our first major "hack".

And yet, it wasn't a 'hack' at all - it was a disastrous leak.

The FCKGW key was a valid volume licensing key, so all you needed was special volume media to go with it. Eventually, they were bundled and put online by pirates.

WPA worked by generating a hardware ID from your CPU, RAM, and other components, then sending it to Microsoft alongside your product key for validation. A mismatched or suspicious key would flag the install as pirated.

But as a legitimate VLK, FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 was whitelisted in XP's activation logic—it told the system, "This is corporate volume licensing; no need to phone home." During installation, users selected the "Yes, I have a product key" option, entered the code, and WPA simply... skipped the activation prompt.

The OS booted fully functional, with no 30-day timer or watermarks. It even fooled early validation checks for updates. This loophole let pirates distribute "pre-activated" ISOs, making XP as easy to "acquire" as a free mixtape. Technically, you could still use it today on an old XP disc (if you can find one), but Microsoft's servers shut down validation years ago, and the key's long since been blacklisted.

[Vincent Pradeilles @v_pradeilles]

New in Xcode 26: projects that use Macros should no longer suffer longer build times because of the swift-syntax package!

[Douglas A. Boneparth @dougboneparth]

“Describe your childhood.”

My childhood:

[Aris Koxaras @ariskox]

🤣😂🤣😂

[Thomas Ricouard @Dimillian]

Easy #SwiftUI router in 4 screenshots

[v @iavins]

insane lore inside SQLite's source code

[Aris Koxaras @ariskox]

😱

[hagaetc @hagaetc]

So I tried to build a tech company from Norway and here’s what happened:

1. Two years of building without almost any money/funding, better part of a year without salary
2. Raise VC and become one of Norway’s first unicorns
3. Face unrealized gains wealth tax bill of many x my annual net salary. ofc the company is loss making and all the investors have preference shares so I can’t take out any money.
4. Call out publicly that this does not make sense. Independent of level, taxation needs to happen when you actually make money.
5. I move to Switzerland because no politician cares/listens.
6. I still don’t get any tangible and sensible answers to my criticism of unrealized gains tax, BUT I do get put up on the “wall of shame” at the socialist parties offices…

I’m Norwegian and I love Norway but the socialist politicians are taking the country down a dark path. It’s a real life Atlas Shrugged.

[Aris Koxaras @ariskox]

@elias_manos Το ΄δες, το' παιξες;

[Aris Koxaras @ariskox]

@jacobtechtavern Make UIKit great again

[Aris Koxaras @ariskox]

in a WWDC 10 years from now: "Today we're introducing UIKit 2 which the developers loved so much" 😀

[Jacob Bartlett @jacobtechtavern]

SwiftUI is the JavaScript of iOS

[javi @Javi]

Finally. Github Copilot for Xcode: https://t.co/QoHLokdIEo