Hi Internet, I'm an independent researcher, programmer since I was 10, hacker, and to-be artist with interests and knowledge ranging from biology, chemistry and engineering to psychology, neurology and medicine.
I am an Internet privacy and FLOSS (free/libre open-source software) a advocate and enthusiast.
I develop games, websites, and much more!
(a) "Libre software respects users' freedom, borrowing the Spanish word for free as in freedom" (GNU)
Indeed, over more than 4 years, I have researched a myriad of complex topics and fields, from AIs/ML, biochemistry and psychology through quantum mechanics, cosmology and their mathematics, through academic articles, books, and other authoritative sources.
Actually, I've been working on multiple scientific papers, such as on important, overlooked topics (e.g. bloat/software complexity) with a CS researcher; a several others with an independent researcher, good friend of mine, on groundbreaking research, such as a theory of the universe and simulations; b and some personally on speech synthesis and AI; in fact, I look forward towards similarly challenging projects.
Before you call FBI on me
a hacker is defined as someone "who delights over an intimate understanding of systems and networks' workings". 1
Certainly, I do enjoy to toy with a system or program to understand how it works and get something out of it, even aftethe pain; as Wikipedia puts, "the challenge of creatively overcoming the limitations of [systems] [...] to achieve clever outcomes". 2
In fact, I'm well-knowledgeable on cybersecurity (or if you will, hacking) and privacy over the Internet.
In practice, I have reverse engineered complex software, websites and their APIs, such as
win11-uefi(i.e. Windows UEFI bootloader), Widevine DRM (through Electron/Chromium), Roblox, and Twitter & Twitch APIs, with programs like Ghidra, IDA, Radare2 and x64dbg as well as some programming, with good amount of knowledge on assembly code, C and other languages.
I have been able to both, dynamically and statically analyze software's code flow. And thus I've reconstructed solid, functional code out of disassembly and its decompilation, and even write tools to do the job.
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