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Ace Pace
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Recovering Windows Internals researcher turned hpc architect turned Web Apps security researcher.
There is never enough time, thank you for yours.
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It's been a few years, I still don't understand why I have 3 different teams applications on my machine.

Goes without saying none of them managed to connect to a Teams call and I ended up using the browser.
A screenshot of the start menu showing 3 installations of Microsoft Teams, one tagged Personal, one classic and one "work or school"
January 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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What is despair? I have known it—hear my song. Despair is when you’re debugging a kernel driver and you look at a memory dump and you see that a pointer has a value of 7. THERE IS NO HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE THAT IS ALIGNED ON 7. Furthermore, 7 IS TOO SMALL AND ONLY EVIL CODE WOULD TRY TO ACCESS SMALL NUMBER MEMORY. Misaligned, small-number memory accesses have stolen decades from my life. The only things worse than misaligned, small-number memory accesses are accesses with aligned buffer pointers, but impossibly large buffer lengths. Nothing ruins a Friday at 5 P.M. faster than taking one last pass through the log file and discovering a word-aligned buffer address, but a buffer length of NUMBER OF ELECTRONS IN THE UNIVERSE
August 17, 2023 at 12:17 PM