Adventurist.me: Letters into the void

I enjoyed using mdp to write slides, being able to hammer in markdown gave a satisfying sense of flow and I felt like I was able to get the slides out of my head in a straightforward manner.

It feels like work is just a constant stream of preparing, travelling for and giving presentations.

Here is an article that explains in clear simple terms why the CIA Vault7 leaks are not the end of the world.

I use Wireshark quite all the time.

My head is pretty full writing slides for FOSDEM.

I reinstalled or upgraded my c720 or something and things are a bit all over the place.

Physical access is pretty much always game over, apart from the iPhone there are not many devices that can stand up to attack.

One of the speakers asks the audience early on 'Do you think Internet Censorship should be allowed?'

Went up a hill today.

What do you do when you find a USB stick on the ground?

The CCC put together an excellent track of talks about Science and Space technology.

bunnie has a long history of doing really cool things in hardware hacking, his book Hacking the Xbox is a great read (he has another book in the works too ). bunnie and xobs presented a complete tear down and reverse engineering of sd cards at 30c3, at 33…

God damn it!

Chaos is an important part of CCC, most of the best things that happen are pranks that only a small number of people experience.

14 hours of sleep, I feel like I have woken up in another dimension.

I was hoping to write the first blog post of this year from the airport, but time conspired against me.

An abundance of particles in the air forced BA to cancel my flights home.

Presented with out comment are the books I read in 2016, ordered with the most recently read first: * All Tomorrow's Parties * Idoru * Virtual Light * Excession * Cibola Burn * Reamde * Abandon's Gate * Seveneves * ELEKTROGRAD * Ashes of Victory * Little…

Day 4 is the sad day, at a certain time this evening a switch will flip, everyone will stop what they are doing and start packing up.

Blinkenlights are really big in hacker culture, the hackcenter where our table is located is completely full of led strips, installations, projectors and a ton of other things that glow, flash or blink.

Congress is a great place to try out apps or networking things that require a lot of people involved.

Hackaday are covering 33c3 , mostly talks so far, but there may also be articles about the all the amazing projects that fill up the CCH.

Day 1 became Day 2 with the industry standard partying all night transition.

The first day and their are some excellent sessions lined up.

It starts!

I think the guy that brought my breakfast told me off for the table I was using.

Weather is getting cold, the storms have been beating the house.

For development of the RSS IRC bot I need an RSS feed that updates frequently, I could subscribe to a HN feed or something from reddit.

For a long while I have wanted a bot to sit in irc channels spitting out updates on rss feeds.

Checking the FOSDEM instance of the terrible pentabarf submission system I see that my second talk proposal to a devroom has been accepted.

pic.twitter.com/dkxJFVMZLR — Archillect (@archillect) December 20, 2016 I played with the wifi camera last night, but I couldn't get my phone to connect to it when my laptop was in monitor mode.

Okay, one CCC project done.

https://t.co/zaXVqEBQtQ pic.twitter.com/sKRhJoBvUU — Archillect (@archillect) December 18, 2016 This weekend has to be considered a weekend off.

For a thing , I want to dump the wlan traffic between an Android app and a wifi camera.

Today was a very slow start, staying in bed for an extra hour really didn't help me out at all today.

Unable to remember the name of the Wellington Suspension Bridge I came across this awesome website that documents the 'Doric Columns' .

I got the confirmation email today, I will be presenting a lightning talk about internet transport at congress.

It's getting closer.... \0/ #33c3 pic.twitter.com/NcnmFf2mwM — Edwin van Andel (@Yafsec) December 13, 2016 Okay, just 14 days to congress how is your preparation going?

It seems I will speaking at FOSDEM next year in the bsd devroom.

pic.twitter.com/ltRfxVCVQ1 — Archillect (@archillect) December 11, 2016 It is Sunday, so that makes seven days of writing .

Yesterday I finally got sick of windows 10 and installed Ubuntu 16.10 on the HP Stream 7.

Congress is coming, 18 days to go!

The most important twitter account counts down the remaining days to congress.

I looked up reverse geocoding with openstreetmap and found a keyless api.

I am still playing with other fields to stick onto the daily post.

Union Terrace Gardens has some excellent pieces that were put up as part of a street art festival .

I think the weather stuff I played with yesterday is going to be an input to a quantified self dashboard I have been toying with building for a long time.

pic.twitter.com/ds38znWfqF — Warren Ellis (@warrenellis) December 1, 2016 My good friend Warren Ellis (well complete stranger, but I read his newsletter so that is pretty the same thing) tweets pictures of where he is with the weather info overlaid.

I have felt terrible all week and haven't had energy to really do anything.

Reading: Cibola Burn, Excession Location: 57.168, -2.1055