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Over the summer, I’ve been playing quite a mix of console games.

Photo by Kamil Switalski I’ve previously discussed how I modified my PlayStation 4 to give me control over the hardware I own.

I haven’t been playing a whole lot of games lately.

Although I’ve bought some digital titles on PC (via Steam, GoG and other stores) and a few titles on a very old PS Vita, starting with my PlayStation 4 Pro, I decided to only purchase games on physical discs.

Slide to Unlock by Solstad This year we’ve seen cracks in Windows 11 BitLocker, VeraCrypt developers losing their ability to distribute their software on Windows, and Apple removing encryption support from the HFS+ filesystem.

I’ve talked a bit about large language models (LLMs), and I do have friends who’ve been at odds with me for my reluctance to call these predictive algorithms “artificial intelligence”.

Fables de La Fontaine - Epinal (public domain) Earlier this year, Antrhopic announced a large language model (LLM) called Mythos, a model they claimed to be so powerful for finding software exploits that it was too dangerous to release to the general publ…

Memory has become insanely expensive over just the past few months.

4x 30TB Seagate Hard Drives Over the course of my life, hard drives have continued to get denser as far as their data capacity.

In today’s world of content generated by the Weighted Random Word Generators (also known as Large Language Models (LLMs); too often incorrectly referred to as Artificial Intelligence), the vast majority of top search results are a mix of mainstream news s…

Last year, I thought 2025 would be the year of psychological operations.