This strange tweet got >25k retweets. The author sounds confident, and he uses lots of hex and jargon. There are red flags though... like what's up with the DEI stuff, and who says "stack trace dump"? Let's take a closer look... 馃У1/n
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Replying to @taviso
The biggest red flag was: "Oh, it's a null pointer reference. A check for null would have fixed it."

Jul 20, 2024 路 10:42 PM UTC

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Replying to @Scalibq @taviso
If it鈥檚 a null pointer referencing a field of a struct at an offset of 9c then yes a null pointer check on the pointer to the struct would have tripped
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I'm not sure you understand what 'fixed' means.
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Replying to @Scalibq @taviso
Yeah this was what made me roll my eyes. Definition of "fixed". Check for null, then what? I'm remembering porting Nova 9 from the PC to the Amiga. There were bugs that caused the game to reference low memory. The PC carried on with bad data. The Amiga would Guru Meditate.
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