How I Also Hacked my Car 2024-01-30T22:14:07+00:00 • goncalomb • hacking,car,dacia,rpi This blog post is kind of inspired by another that I saw on HN some time ago, “How I Hacked my Car”. After praising the infotainment system of the … Read more
The other day I rode on a Class 800 train in the UK. This is the “Intercity Express” train designed to replace the venerable HST (Intercity 125 with Mark 3 coaches, a train of which I have many memories and … Read more
Playing Chess is one of the many hobbies I like to do in my spare time, apart from tinkering around with technology. However, I’m not very good at it, and after losing many games, I decided to see if I … Read more
FEARS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) have haunted humanity since the very beginning of the computer age. Hitherto these fears focused on machines using physical means to kill, enslave or replace people. But over the past couple of years new AI … Read more
I took some solace (with a pinch of guilt) that I was not alone. Battleaxe and Good Boy Ninja, two prominent After Effects developers, were in the same boat. And since they had to do the same thing, it felt … Read more
What do you think happens if your personal Facebook profile gets hacked? Until last week I naively thought it would be a simple matter of letting Meta know, and them helping me reclaim my account… The actual process has been … Read more
Not everyone is a fan of GUI interfaces. But some tasks really lend themselves to something over a bare command line. Very few people enjoy old command line text editors like edlin or ed. Debugging is another task where showing … Read more
SONOS is a brand of connected speakers that allow users on the network listen to music that they can choose using the SONOS specific Android / iOS application, or 3d party services with monthly subscription like Deezer / Spotify / … Read more
Back in college, I was very interested in Java bytecode. When I got an internship at Google in 2013, I was skeptical of the security of the Java version of Google App Engine and got permission to spend the last … Read more