The Forge — digitalgrease

Three months and three releases after launching Fauxx, the most interesting work wasn't a new feature.

Meridian is live.

Adversarial face perturbation has spent five years trying to make perturbations survive video compression.

Two research domains have been studying KV cache attacks and quantization exploitation separately.

VoIP as a covert data exfiltration channel — encoding files as mFSK audio inside legitimate SIP/RTP calls.

On CRT glow, LAN parties, and the quality of attention we lost when technology stopped being strange enough to be magic.

From rural dial-up to city tech careers to building a forge on the same kind of land I spent my adolescence aching to leave.

If you can't stop ad networks from collecting your data, make what they collect useless.

The inaugural post: what this blog is about and what to expect.