David Buchanan
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David Buchanan
@retr0.id
reverse engineering, cryptography, exploits, hardware, file formats, and generally giving computers a hard time

Fedi: @[email protected]
Macroblog: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/
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what a lovely day, I sure hope nothing bad happens
idk how to feel when I see people enjoying AI-generated media, without even realising it's AI-generated
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I use a weighted blanket to get swole in my sleep
November 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
me: I'm gonna go outside

outside: I'm gonna rain so much there's an elevated risk of flooding
November 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
ok I'm gonna need every possible sentence with "for" in it
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I hate how google shuffles around the search tabs (images, video, etc.) depending on the query, and sometimes hides them entirely, so I have to hunt for whatever I'm looking for every time.
November 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
delivery update: the driver got confused and set fire to your package
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I come home to my perfectly spherical wife. she does not greet me because her firmware is updating. we are happy.
November 8, 2025 at 4:25 AM
*registers your second hypercam*
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
how did my burger get 1.2k likes
explaining lossless compression to an american
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Our desktop application has binaries available for all 5 platforms:

- Windows (x86_64)
- Windows (aarch64)
- macOS (x86_64)
- macOS (aarch64)
- Linux (x86_64)

Any other platforms aren't real. Please stop asking about them.
November 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Reposted by David Buchanan
where do you see yourself in 5 years?

hmmm probably still waiting for GTA6
May 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
spelling it æffect so I don't have to remember which it is
November 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
just found out my AI spell checker has AI in it 🤮
November 6, 2025 at 2:26 AM
HTTP/1.1 200 Good Request 👍
November 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
adding olives to pizza is challenging because you have to stop yourself from eating them all first
November 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
the apple I'm rotating in my mind is so much tastier than the apple in your mind it's not even close
November 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
transferring hypertext with the gang
November 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Decompress DEFLATE using only HTML5 Canvas retr0.id/stuff/canvas...
November 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
claude makes me more productive because I look at its output and then I'm like "damn this sucks, I guess I gotta write it myself"
November 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
studies show that comparison has thieved more joy from 2025 than any other year
November 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
explaining lossless compression to an american
November 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
simplifying my boolean expressions for no not november
November 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
imagine if there was a language where words could convey different meanings depending on context
November 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
that's me in the corner
that's me in the float point
losing my precision
November 1, 2025 at 3:34 AM