field notes from
ADHD hyperfocus.

Every post here started as a rabbit hole I couldn't leave alone — a deadlock, an undocumented protocol, a system misbehaving in a way nobody had written up. These are the write-ups from the other side.

  1. Why Windows Search Freezes for 30 Seconds After Every Reboot

    Reproduced on 4 machines. Frida instrumentation, minifilter tracing, and a Dropbox cloud files deadlock that blocks Windows Search at boot. Plus a persistent variant from orphan sync root registrations that no mitigation fully solves - and the replacement search engine being built to close it for good.

    windows internals

  2. Reverse Engineering Samsung's HD+ TVkey Cloud

    260 MB of firmware from a Samsung Smart TV, the NAGRA conditional access middleware, and why millions of German TVs periodically lose their paid HD channels.

    tizen