oooh, the redbox uses full AES encryption!

[foone@digipres.club]

@jbaggs they were not good at programming things

[foone@digipres.club]

Foone's official list of things they never expected to implement their own multitasking programming language, yet found one anyway:

* Redbox vending machine motors
* Wheel of Fortune (2011, Wii)

[foone@digipres.club]

@Taffer thankfully this device doesn't have any github repos in it. that I've seen, at least.

this makes it a nice change from the last few things I've opened up

[mishavanmollusq@sfba.social]

@foone instead of fresh graduates could it be peeps from Poland ? Back at the Toxicology lab we had Serbian guy who was paying pennies on the dollar to Programmers in Poland to write fixes for systems he ran out of his own pay.

And of course India

[foone@digipres.club]

Redbox.HAL.IPC.Framework.ClientSessionFactory

PLEASE, NO MORE FACTORIES

MY CHILDREN ARE STARVING

[foone@digipres.club]

@MishaVanMollusq possibly it was fresh graduates from poland?

[foone@digipres.club]

oh good they implemented both an internal C# dynamic plugin loading system, as well as the ability to craft arbitrary Invoke()s over TCP/HTTP.

So you can call any C# function from anywhere on the machine, I think?

[greg@icosahedron.website]

@n1vux @foone rentals cost, what, a dollar? This machine made $2500 in 10 years, hardly seems to recoup its expenze

[gudenau@fosstodon.org]

@foone It would be amazing if you could figure out a way to create a program that empties the machine and secure wipes the drives...

[foone@digipres.club]

@MishaVanMollusq nope, disk image from one

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] (THANK YOU. I hate the factory paradigm)

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] probably not at all a security risk, no need to think twice about that one

[foone@digipres.club]

@gudenau yeah we've talked about that in the discord. We've compiled a list of places it stores PII

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] so strange they went bankrupt.

[josh_clone@lgbt.io]

@aud @foone *weeps in fifteen years of COM*

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] @[email protected] I implemented the "factory/builder" thing once just to see if I was missing something about why writing four times the amount of code with two to three times the amount of repeated variables and functions across two nearly identical objects was a good idea, and yeah, no, that's a hundred+ lines I'll never get back that could have been a fucking init function

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] @[email protected] sometimes it seems people do this in Rust and I don't know why you would do that to yourself when you could just literally not.

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@aud @foone Isn't there a very specific federal law prohibiting that for video rentals? Something about Bork (yes, *that* Bork) getting big mad after it came out that he'd rented incredibly vanilla movies?

Video Privacy Protection Act - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] @[email protected] (oh, I guess I was talking about builders instead of factories but whatever just instantiate your object already)

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] @[email protected]

"During debate over his nomination, a list of videotapes Bork had rented was leaked to the press, which led to the enactment of the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act as a response. The leak was inspired by Bork's opposition to privacy protections beyond those explicitly outlined in the constitution."

baaaaahahahaha, this fucking guy though. this is awesome.