Adventurist.me: Letters into the void

This plane sit in a glacial outwash plain in the South of Iceland.

I use taskwarrior to manage tasks, well sort of.

python-libtrace comes highly recommended over scapy .

I wrote up a script yesterday to grab the most recent file from the super awesome toshiba flashair wifi sd card .

Reading: Cibola Burn, Excession

It seems I am submitting a lightning talk to CCC.

Q : How do I get the interface speed?

The Myth of Something Easy was a good talk, you should watch it.

This Killscreen article, The people trying to save programming , which I found via lobste.rs really caught my attention.

Again it is cold, the previous few years there really hasn't been any substantial 'winter'.

It is cold and I am hiding inside, today clearly things yesterday was far too warm.

This article on the use of bots on github made me think of a different use of the github api .

Winter is here, stepping out this morning it was -2, hopefully the start of some nice seasonal weather with a showering of snow and not the minimum temperature for the year.

Reading: Reamde

Today I've got nothing.

My Idea to use the hugin stitching software to make a panorama from some images I found on my camera seems to have hit a snag.

I tried to use hugin to stitch together a panorama I took of a glacier, but the binaries they offer will only run on the next version on MacOS.

ffmpeg by default aims for the lowest bitrate it can manage for a video when encoding webm.

I had a look through some of the pictures I have from my Iceland trip in August, but it was really painful.

As I have said already, I am trying to get control of my photo collection.

MacOS has lots of cool security features, by default the OS will only run signed code.

Politically the last few years have been really hard for me, 2014 , 2015 , and 2016 saw votes go completely against my expectations.

Last night at the hacker space I finally got around to building hardware out for my emfcamp badge powered satellite tracker .

Couldn't say it better if I tried.

Ormiret from the hacker space created a tool to encourage him to head out and take more photos.

Yesterday I came across the awesome CC0 license stock image site unsplash , both today and yesterday I have used other peoples images from that site.

This has been a hard morning, the weather is extra foul and heading into a real winter, and I sense a cold coming on.

The HN thread about nyancat on the new MacBook TouchBar is overwhelmingly negative, that's normal for HN, but the response I have seen to it other places has been just as bad.

The Starbucks I am sat in right now is the model of the modern internet cafe.

We don't have candles lying around the lab, I wasn't going to let that stop me.

gpredict is piece of software for tracking things in orbits, sometimes you want to automatically point things at stuff in orbit.

gpredict is able to signal a rotator controller over TCP.

Yesterday I posted a stupidly large gif of some pumpkins flashing different colours.

On Sunday I thought I would try to extract images from a TCP Flow with scapy .

Last night was All Hallows' Eve , I wanted to do something cool with the decorations.

While researching extracting images with scapy I found a page describing image extraction with Wireshark, I am not sure why I didn't think to try this first.

Packet capture tools are oscilloscopes to network programmers, I couldn't get anything done without near continual use of tcpdump and wireshark .

Went to a friends and carved some pumpkins last night, that means I didn't manage to do anything interesting yesterday.

pic.twitter.com/DSD8e44xZJ — Archillect (@archillect) October 29, 2016 This robot is excellent, you should follow it.

Maybe because there is an election on or maybe just because I wanted a use for my new stream 7 tablet thing, I read through all of Transmetropolitan .

I finished Hacktoberfest Last night !!!!

Osmocom can do 3G voice!

For my silly little tablet I got this awesome usb otg hub thing.

Last night, I drilled some holes in a book case and bricked a pi.

Last night I finally read this giant interview in the Paris review with William Gibson .

Yesterday featured a massive ddos attack against DynDNS.

I have to ssh proxy to get to my main machine, everything is filtered on the network my machine is on, apart from the ssh access box.

I spent last night working on the mt7610 driver and by that I mean I was reading the open linux source trying to work through it's general insanity.

I watched the latest documentary from Adam Curtis , HyperNormalisation , instead of anything of the things I planned to do last night.

I am struggling for something to write today.