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Abadidea's Index of Weird Machines in Video Games

A "weird machine" is when user-supplied input is able to create an arbitrary new program running within an existing program due to Turing-completeness being exposed. Sometimes such functionality was deliberately included but it is often the result of exploitation of memory corruption. You can learn more at the langsec site. There is a good argument for weird machines being inherently dangerous, but this index is just for fun.

It is broken into two categories: intentional gameplay features which may be used as weird machines, and exploit-based machines which can be triggered by ordinary player input (tool-assisted for speed and precision is acceptable). Games with the sole purpose of programming (such as Core Wars) are not eligible and plugin APIs don't count. If you know of more, feel free to add a comment to this gist.

Intentional Gameplay Mechanics

piscisaureus

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = [email protected]:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

jpawlowski

# /etc/network/interfaces
#
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# device: eth0
iface eth0 inet manual

# IPv4 bridge
# (connect ONLY your firewall/router KVM instance here, this is the WAN device!)

rodw

#!/bin/bash 
# A simple script to backup an organization's GitHub repositories.

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# NOTES:
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# * Under the heading "CONFIG" below you'll find a number of configuration
#   parameters that must be personalized for your GitHub account and org.
#   Replace the `<CHANGE-ME>` strings with the value described in the comments
#   (or overwrite those values at run-time by providing environment variables).

marktheunissen

This playbook has been removed as it is now very outdated.

djm

(function() {
    /* Bookmarklet that displays the actual podcast feed
     * URL when ran on an iTunes store page for a podcast.
     *
     * Simply grabs the Artist ID from the URL and does
     * an iTunes Store API lookup to get the hidden (original)
     * podcast feed URL (whatever format that may be in).
     *
     * @author: Darian Moody <[email protected]>
     * @date: Working as of Sun.22.Apr.2012

pheuter

(function(d) { 
  var dl = d.createElement('a');
  dl.innerText = 'Download MP3';
  dl.href = "http://media.soundcloud.com/stream/"+d.querySelector('#main-content-inner img[class=waveform]').src.match(/\.com\/(.+)\_/)[1];
  dl.download = d.querySelector('em').innerText+".mp3";
  d.querySelector('.primary').appendChild(dl);
  dl.style.marginLeft = '10px';
  dl.style.color = 'red';
  dl.style.fontWeight = 700;
})(document);

mathiasbynens

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" -o -z "$1" ]; then cat <<EOF
appify v3.0.1 for Mac OS X - http://mths.be/appify
Creates the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script.

Appify takes a shell script as its first argument:

    `basename "$0"` my-script.sh