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Pixie radio board
Last Thursday, while being at the radio club OH2K, I built a Pixie radio kit V3 (generously given to me by one of the regulars). The Pixie radio is a low-power (about 0.4W when we measured), morse only radio that can only operate in the 7MHz (or 40 meters) band. Its main appeal is that…
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The best watch I’ve ever had
At the start of this year, I started looking at replacements for my Apple Watch Series 6. Smartwatches offer lots of features, for instance, I loved being able to pay with my watch and receive notifications directly, however, one thing was very annoying for me: battery. I hate things with batteries, I forget to charge…
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Debugging SSL in GitLab Pages
Debugging GitLab Pages on a self-managed instance can be a hassle, especially if you’re only getting nebulous messages without any further information. Do note, for this to work, you’ll need to have an admin access to the machine hosting the main Rails app. To find out exactly why Let’s Encrypt is failing to get a…
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E11 Polish numbers station message
While listening to a WebSDR yesterday, I managed to catch a numbers station transmitting a message. This was recorded at around 19:03:00 UTC, on 7317.0kHz Looking around, this station seems to be named E11 “Oblique” and is apparently one of the most active. It is operated by an unknown agency, broadcasting from Warsaw. I didn’t…
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Fixing identity issues with Posti
Back a few years ago, my personal ID number changed. Just to sum up for people who don”t know, in Finland, the personal ID number is used for everything. It basically identifies you to government and banking services. Given the data debacle I talked about previously, I decided it would probably be good to request…
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AI still banned at Servo
About half an hour ago, Servo re-affirmed their ban of LLM tools laid out in their contribution policies: Contributions must not include content generated by large language models or other probabilistic tools, including but not limited to Copilot or ChatGPT. This policy covers code, documentation, pull requests, issues, comments, and any other contributions to the…
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Conditional Git config
A little known feature of Git is that you can have conditions, for instance, to have a work and personal name and email. First, the ~/.gitconfig file: After specifying this, you can then create two files, ~/.gitconfig.personal and ~/.gitconfig.work, containing: and Now, when you are in ~/src/personal/, the personal email and name will be used,…
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The silly mod
As I previously mentioned, I’m currently playing through Yakuza Kiwami 2 again. There’s a different way to experience the game with the Silly Mod. This mod basically adds/replaces a ton of animations, models, etc to make the game… as you might have guessed, more silly. I can definitely recommend giving it a try as it’s…
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More vulnerability databases!
Previously, I’ve shared about EUVD, the European Vulnerability Database. Turns out in the wake of the whole CVE debacle, a bunch of other initiatives were also announced! As more alternatives pile up, this paints a good outlook for the future, shall CVE go definitely down the drain.