Do you ever feel like you have a strong connection with a guy but suddenly they ghost you? My Asus router knows how you feel.

Leopold Aschenbrenner has an essay/manifesto describing the future of AI. I came across it when it was used on hacker news as a source of why AGI is definitely going to be real and soon. It’s the most insane, self serving, evil take on AIs I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop thinking about how much I disagree that I’m writing this to hopefully get it out of my head.

So keypasses claim to be phish proof. Let’s put that to the test.

I bought a Yubico Security Key, and it’s actually not bad!

Making sure my bsides Canberra 2023 badge doesn’t end up in a drawer and forgotten.

Have solar panels but wish you sometimes didn’t? Learn this one weird trick the planet hates.

Let’s save this phone from becoming e-waste.

I can’t comprehend computer science papers so I’m just going to fumble my way through training a super resolution image model.

Let’s get some Jellyfin going. That hides in plain sight, while naked!

God damn it Microsoft.

Installing software on OmniOS is never easy.

The mystery of zombie zones

Why does the USA have it out for Huawei?

I’m getting sick of fixing my TV remotes. Universal remotes are all over priced monsters. So instead I thought I’d wack together an IR blaster from the spare parts draw.

I thought it would be easy, infrared remotes use decades old technology. I wanted to use an ESP8266 I had laying around for its WiFi. Surely its a popular project with millions of guides and examples to work off?

Standing on the shoulders of giants still requires climbing to the top of a fricken giant.