Adventurist.me: Letters into the void

I seem to have a knack for finding the hardest problems to start with.

Today has been a very slow start, most of yesterday was spent drinking shows and playing with radios.

Weather is horrible againg, looks like we are getting the tail end of some dramatic weather.

It is raining so hard I can hear it over my music and the rumble of the bus.

I was pretty much dead yesterday, I didn't do anything interesting.

Damn, today has been a hard fucking start up sequence ( slow starts punk brother ).

On Sunday I set up some quick and dirty temperature monitoring.

It said Are you awake?

Fresh of great weekend at the RSGBConvention my good friend hibby was talking about doing point to point line of sight lines with 400MHz and up.

I ordered a handful of the cheapest nodemcu boards I could find from ebay.

I read this excellent post by Simone Margaritelli on hacking a network connected coffee machine.

The tortoise needs an improved heating setup, now have a 'night time' buld that just puts out heat.

My Cold Brew Recipe requires: 128g of Coarse ground coffee (I guess 125g is okay, if you aren't cool) 1L Vessel (I use a nalgene) 1L of potable water Fridge v60 Jug Method: Put the ground coffee in the vessel.

To win this bet I have with Ed I need a WiFi adapter that can do 80211n in the 5GHz band.

Recently StarShipSofa has been delivering podcast files to me that contain 3rd party ads.

As an aside form talking about the Electron Gnomes on the latest Embedded FM podcast Elecia and Christopher implored us to talk to people about their awesome podcast to everyone we know.

WPA IS BROKEN!!!

I read this awesome review of hackmud , it made me think of other games about hacking or games that involve actual hacking.

There are reports of Malware in the PS Vita Piracy scene.

I managed my first SO-50 pass yesterday.

The excellent newsbeuter says I have 80 rss feeds that I pay occasional attention to.

Due to a Chatham House report on the latest dangers of Satellite hacking uhf_satcom was on this weeks risky business talking about Satellite pirates and exploit possibilities on the birds.

Listening to this weeks ATP on the bus, they speak about the latest Mach OS release SomthingCali.

The news on this weeks Risky Business Podcast mentioned the record breaking DDOS against Krebs . 665 Gigabits of traffic per second is a lot of traffic, but that is probably only the start of such massive attacks.

Yesterday I wrote about the Ex Machina soundtrack, but linked to an hour long loop of one of its tracks.

I think I really enjoyed Ex Machine , it has a great mixture of near scifi and technology.

Writing blog posts and getting them out takes far too much effort.

The first step to getting my devices working for me is to set up a consistent network for them to use.

From Stevens TCP/IP Illustrated Vol 2 : We will see the comment /* XXX */ throughout Net/3.

For about as along as I have been using terminals I have had them set to a dark theme, for a while at the beginning I had my terminal set up to be green text on a black background.

I dropped my android phone at congress, I was trying to figure out which direction to walk in the compass was spinning wildly being absolutely no help.

I am making my email setup better.

I was hit pretty hard the last few weeks with the standard issue winter cold.

So yakamo and I have been managed to do it again, the most recent episode of the unreasonable podcast , episode 0x03 appeared yesterday.

It has been mentioned by a friend that my voice in the recent unreasonable podcast episodes is much higher than it is in reality.

So far yakamo and I have been consistently able to record our unreasonable podcast , the third episode, 0x02 came out on Monday.

JCS was interviewed on the latest episode of Garbage , he spoke about his app pushover .

Via the ReverseEngineering subreddit I found that vim's built in :X encryption mode can be pretty easily broken.

For some reason I have been recording a lot of audio on my desktop recently.

Yakamo and I have started a podcast , the first episode was released yesterday.

Great news today about David Miranda's Case , but I can't help but feel down with the direction of the country.

The Raspberry Pi page on the FreeBSD Wiki links to a blogpost about setting up xorg on the Pi.

ffmpeg can now make gifs in a single step, no longer do you have to generate frames then pass them into ImageMagick.

I still can't describe CCC, you have to go.

Around the December holidays I received three sets of the jyetech lcd scope kit.

We have two old Black and White CRT monitors in the hackerspace, they look really cool.

spritesmod has returned, this time making the matrix for tamogotchis

In the last post I showed an animated gif of the of the post source run through sent.

This weekends In The Other BSD's section had a link to a nycbug thread about presentation software.

For the past month or two the uboot on the FreeBSD RPI-B images has been unable to boot on most sd cards.