Josh Max

Developer and security researcher. I enjoy breaking things in my spare time and making poorly-edited memes.

All thoughts/opinions are my own.

[Josh Max @joshumax]

Yo dawg, I heard you like Calculators, so I put an Android on your calculator so you could calculator on your Android

[Josh Max @joshumax]

@Iwillleavenow It starts with nonfree firmware blobs in the VideoCore but it ends with the Raspberry Pi foundation reminding us that there's a few blobs in their morals as well.

[Josh Max @joshumax]

@thatcoderiguana Treadmill of life? More like treadmill of... treadmill

[Igal Tabachnik @hmemcpy]

Twitter laid me off today. I was the guy responsible for making https://t.co/ZP5GNhftyU into a hyperlink, which is exactly what the vast majority of twitter users wanted.

[dade @0xdade]

Which AWS region makes the best boyfriend?

us-east-1, because it goes down. All. The. Time.

[Josh Max @joshumax]

me buying highly obscure specialized industrial hardware: i can't find a serial number on my omegatronix mp100

company: we literally made this completely custom it is globally unique

me: ok but can you like put one on there anyways?

company: ...

me:

company: *grabs sharpie*

[Josh Max @joshumax]

Now I can finally hide those dotfiles on Windows in the most convoluted way possible: https://t.co/QxodCexysP

[Josh Max @joshumax]

Whelp. It finally happened. After years of precautions, following CDC guidelines, etc. I finally contracted COVID. Feels like I got ran over by a bus; seriously, if any of you didn't think so before I can confirm firsthand
the symptoms are no joke.

[Josh Max @joshumax]

I just received a marketing email trying to sell me some rebranded open source software THAT I HELP MAINTAIN, lol. Wrong customer buddy.

[Josh Max @joshumax]

Huh, looks like Trident bought out their audio codec lineup back in '09 - before... filing for bankruptcy in 2012... Lovely.

[Josh Max @joshumax]

Does anyone happen to have the datasheet on the microcontroller used in the #Micronas UAC 35xx (e.g.
3576B) series USB codec? Can't seem to find it anywhere...

[Josh Max @joshumax]

How to write good code:

1: Write crap code
2: Organize a standards body
3: Use your crap code as a reference implementation of your standard
4: Wait for everyone to adopt your new standard
5: Now everyone uses your reference implementation and assumes it's good code

[Josh Max @joshumax]

@DavidBflower @patricklee6669 Currently in a bortle class 1 site and I'm seeing with my own eyes outbursts up to 10/12 per minute. Unbelievable event, although some required averted vision to notice...

[Josh Max @joshumax]

@thatcoderiguana

[Josh Max @joshumax]

@ManicFox_TV F

[Josh Max @joshumax]

#RAZER Synapse, which is automatically installed when plugging in a Razer peripheral, has a heinous memory leak which allocates fs buffers in the kernel nonpaged pool and never releases them... I just watched 64GB of RAM get eaten in 12 minutes; hooray! Thanks for that

[Josh Max @joshumax]

Why yes, I AM emulating an entire Commodore 64 within a Snapchat filter... Why do you ask? 😈

[Josh Max @joshumax]

I'm convinced you could replace most people on Facebook with bot accounts using GPT-3 and the dialogues there would actually get more intelligent.

[Josh Max @joshumax]

There's a special place in hell for people who scratch off ICs...

[Josh Max @joshumax]

@AskWorkspace Someone decided to share a Workspace drive at my old company (whom I don't have contact to) with my personal account. There's no drive manager and no way to remove myself from the shared drive. All I can do is hide it. Any ideas on what to do?