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Adam Demasi

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Adam Demasi

@hbkirb

iOS developer, Windows tinkerer, flame repo guy @CharizTeam, creator of @LegacyUpdate, developer at @SeraphSecure 🛡️ bsky.app/profile/kirb.me

Adelaide 🇦🇺

Joined January 2010

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Adam Demasi
@hbkirb
Nov 15, 2024
If this tweet somehow survives the algorithm, I’m on the butterfly website as @kirb.me
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Adam Demasi
@hbkirb
May 26, 2024
Replying to @TheBobPony
Something happened
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Adam Demasi
@hbkirb
Jul 26, 2024
Replying to @BrodieOnLinux
GIF
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Adam Demasi
@hbkirb
Apr 19, 2024
The whole marketplace flow is a disaster. While AltStore seems to have tons of problems itself (mostly due to a payment system that seems incredibly rushed - hey Riley, have your people call my people? 🔥), the majority of the problems are in Apple’s implementation. App
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Adam Demasi
@hbkirb
Apr 25, 2024
I’ve never seen an iOS alert this wide
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Adam Demasi
@hbkirb
Apr 20, 2024
I’m in Australia 🇦🇺, but as far as my iPhone knows, I’m in Italy 🇮🇹. How? A bunch of people asked, so here’s how I tricked iOS into giving me EU features: In iOS 17.4, Apple introduced a new system called eligibilityd. This works with countryd (which you might have heard about
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Adam Demasi
@hbkirb
Jul 20, 2024
I started building a tool called Unstrike, which rescues PCs with the broken CrowdStrike update. It makes an .iso you copy to USB flash drives, to make it a 30 second task. Also supports unlocking BitLocker. Is this still useful to anyone? Let me know if I should finish this up!
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Adam Demasi
@hbkirb
May 9, 2024
I miss when Apple were creative with even the most mundane of things. These days, this would just be a heading typeset in SF Pro bold, black text on white background. They didn't need to care. This was just a temporary notice that was up for a few months. They did anyway.
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Adam Demasi
@hbkirb
Jun 13, 2024
The new Macintosh wallpapers in Sequoia are insanely beautiful. I caught myself just leaving my MacBook on the lock screen for a few minutes just to see all the animations it cycles through!
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Adam Demasi
@hbkirb
Jul 11, 2020
As you all know, we’re holding back checkra1n for iOS 14 purely for fun. Sorry for all those out there in the business of unlocking stolen iPhones who can’t make their millions. We’ll rush out a non-functional release just because you pinged the team and called us “stupid’s” 👍
Adam Demasi
@hbkirb
Jul 24, 2024
Did Windows NT 4 procedurally draw the Start menu watermark? Last week, Dave Plummer made a tweet and video claiming NT 4’s Start menu drew its logo procedurally, using Windows’s GDI graphics library. But I've been unable to find proof this ever happened. Investigation below ⬇️
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Adam Demasi
@hbkirb
Aug 2, 2024
Replying to @SnazzyLabs
Devs can select staged rollout, it releases over 7 days to all users rather than 100% all at once. If you manually check the App Store updates page, you bypass the staged rollout
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Adam Demasi
@hbkirb
Oct 14, 2020
Just doing my job minding my own business when the simulator decides to upgrade itself to iPhone Mini
Adam Demasi
@hbkirb
Nov 21, 2022
Found out by accident that Legacy Update also fixes Windows XP activation. Looks like the activation servers never went down. They just use an SSL certificate that XP isn’t aware of by default!