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Contents The Efergy Engage Hub False Starts Fake Efergy Server Hacking the Receiver Hub Software Defined Radio OmniOS the pain Compiling Passing a USB device to a zone rtl_433 Bonus Round: Wait What is Power?

Contents The Hunt A kernel driver?!

Contents Hardware Internal Disassembly Clock Capacitor Other Capacitors Modchip SSD upgrade Fan Replacement Thermal Paste Replacement External WiFi Bridge Controller Adapter Software A brief history of Xbox hacks The Modern Era Flashing Modxo HDD Transfer…

Contents SwiftUI on MacOS for Nerds Connecting with the terminal world Compile if you’d like A real demo Alternatives I’m always using scripting languages like python or powershell to glue together existing tools and make my computer do what I want.

My Mac’s Time Machine backup disk got full.

Contents Ancient History Modernity Binary Patching with Ghidra Bonus Round: Unlimited Power Ancient History I remember back in the early broadband days, Download Accelerator Plus was required software.

Contents The Pain of Subscriptions NameCrane Getting out of Wordpress.com Installing Wordpress on NameCrane Admin Password Image Thumbnails Unicode Woes Plugins DNS Bunny CDN Performance The Pain of Subscriptions My partner has a couple of blogs of her ow…

Contents - The Struggle - WiFi Media Bridge - Signal Strength - Antennas - Results - Lessons Learnt The Struggle I live that renter life.

Contents - Building for Others - Hardware - Software - Working on Battery - WiFi Setup - Configuration - Web UI - Bin Day Grabber - Keeping Time - Tracking Bindication - Deployment - The Grand Reveal I’ve received this meme from multiple people in my life.

Contents - Active State Power Management (ASPM) - Let’s turn it on - The Result - Bonus Round: ASPM-Tool Remember when I got a new home server and found all of the temperatures to monitor?

The death of the touchbar has brought back not just a glorious escape key, but a whole row of old school mac function keys.

I got a new system to run my OmniOS NAS on.

Federal Labor have submitted the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024.

I’m a nerd so I have a computer plugged into my TV.

Pi-hole running on my little Pi 3 has been great, I use it to: Block ads Add names for my internal network services Bypass my country’s internet censorship But I want more, I want encrypted DNS.

For YEARS I’ve been having a WiFi issue.

Leopold Aschenbrenner has an essay/manifesto describing the future of AI.

Some people have been led to believe that using MFA can stop you from getting hacked.

2 Factor, a nightmare So you want to add 2 factor to your accounts, because passwords alone are limited by our meaty brains to remember them, and can be stolen/cracked.

The badge for bsides Canberra 2023 was an ode to the iPod nano.

Just my luck, I move into a house with solar panels, just when the energy market breaks.

November 2024 Update Some heroes campaigned the government to delay the 3G switch off, since a lack of VoLTE is a way bigger issue than the telcos are letting on.

It’s Futurama season, with a new series coming out on Hulu.

I wanted to host Jellyfin on my home computer to be accessible to the world wide web.

There I was installing a fresh Windows to a new drive, when suddenly it struck.

Actual Budgeting has recently gone open source.

After upgrading my NAS’s NIC to a 10Gb card, none of my zones would boot.

Way back in 2018, the Australian government decided to ban Huawei equipment for 5G mobile networks.

I’m getting sick of fixing my TV remotes.

My Corsair AX760i PSU has some extra pins that hooked up to my fan controller to show power statistics in the link desktop software.

Wasting nothing, I wanted to use the lil’ temperture sensors that my obsolete Corsair fan controller game with Such a cutie Somehow it took me way too long to determine that they are 25k NTC Thermistors.

I’ve got a whole bunch of fancy Noctua PWM fans in my PC I want to control the speed of.

Back in 2012 Corsair started making PC parts that featured LINK, that connected to your internal USB header and let you monitor and configure everything.

I’ve signed up for an electric supply retailer that charges the realtime wholesale supply price.

The Australian Department of Health released the COVIDSafe app yesterday.

My girlfriend and I almost exclusively communicate online over Facebook chat, so for our anniversary I thought it would be sweet to have some cherished moments printed into a book to keep forever.

I was recently gifted a Google Home mini and placed it on my bedside table.