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I wanted to make a brief post about GPS and how it works; hopefully, it will increase your knowledge as it has mine.

I’ve recently been reading through Daniel Estevez’s blog because I wanted to learn more about reverse engineering signals. If your unfamiliar, Daniel Estevez is the code owner/maintainer/big boi of gr-satellites, a very popular OOT module for gnuradio that supports decoding 80+ satellites.

Have you ever been so fucked that you had to work on a box that didn’t have internet? Then this post is for you!

Here’s a quick how-to for setting up a Pihole server at home.

A few years ago, I had a project that required me to collect GPS along with the db of cell towers, so I could triangulate their location. I went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out how to configure the GPS module to output data in the format I wanted; I wasted more time than I’m willing to admit to, so I decided that this might help someone avoid raging at a piece of equipment that couldn’t possibly fight back.

For the past 4 years or so I’ve tinkered with Software Defined Radios (SDR), but until recently my knowledge of them was fairly limited. So, today I hope to impart some of my wisdom onto you.

A few years ago, I built my first homelab server; I remember it being a bit of a daunting task and decided it might be helpful to share a few insights.

Here’s a little project I’ve worked on a few weeks ago. It’s a semi-intelligent magic mirror I put together. It was relatively cheap to put together since I got the monitor for free and already had a pi lying around.

This post is me riding the coattails of the GPT-2 hype train. Now for those that don’t know, GPT-2 is a machine learning model that is very effective at text generation. It can maintain context over a long period of text making it more ‘human’ than previous algorithms.

This was pesky enough that I thought it merited a small post. I recently ran out of media on my Ubuntu VM on my ESXi v6.5 homelab. And went on a small adventure trying to figure out what to slap in the terminal to get more space. So hopefully this might save someone else more time.

Recently, my paranoia of home invasion has reached a climax; So in addition to setting up a MotionEye cam pointed at my door, I’ve also decided I need a CCTV-like capability to monitor my door at all times while I’m at my desk.

This guide is for anyone who wants to set up a MotionEye cam. You’ll need a raspberry pi (I recommend a pi 3b or better, but you can get away with a 2), a ~gb sd card, raspberry pi camera and ribbon cable, and a 5v power supply.

I know this is probably coming a little late compared to some. But that’s just who I am.