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The Helsinki airport is more active than I thought
I live near the Helsinki airport and can spot planes arriving from the west fairly easily through my window. What I never noticed before is how many planes are arriving during the weekend. Starting from 06:00 and happening every few hours or so, there”s a whole ballet of planes landing and taking of, way more…
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Some signals I managed to receive
After playing a bit with my HackRF, I managed to receive some stuff. Every day or so, balloons called “radiosondes” are launched, and I can actually receive those. The payload you see below contains position data, battery status, altitude, and a bunch of other stuff. If you”re curious about receiving those, there is a website…
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How to use the HackRF on Linux
Just yesterday, I received my HackRF PortaPack. The HackRF is basically an SDR, or Software-Defined Radio, that allows you to plug it to a computer and have a nice spectrum view of everything (amongst other things). While the PortaPack integrates its own screen, battery and everything, I find it more convenient to connect it to…
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Let me access content dammit
I hang out quite a lot in Bellingcat‘s Discord, mainly because there’s cool research being done in there, and being in there is also a good way to stay informed. Of course, as with any Discord guild, it is inaccessible to anyone without an account, however that’s no the subject of this post. If you…
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Time to say “no”
So, why has this blog been more active than usual lately? Well, simple, as previously mentioned, I swapped blog engines to make it easier for me to write. No need to sync a Git repo any more, I can just log in and start writing. I also recently made some changes in how I use…
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Free and DRM-Free books
One of the best things I’ve ever bought is my PocketBook Touch Lux 5. It’s a small, yet quite powerful e-ink book reader. It has quite modest specs with 8Gb of internal storage, though extendable via a micro SD card. You can even make the reader itself better by replacing the default one with KoReader,…
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New OpenStarbound version
As I previously talked about, I started playing Starbound again. Well good news, OpenStarbound 0.1.9 released a few days ago with a bunch of bug fixes. I’m heavily looking into getting a server up and running at some point, though I’d need to look into transferring my own universe onto it. I usually play without…
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The Telemessage fiasco keeps getting better
If you haven’t been keeping up with the news lately, after the whole Signal fiasco, it appeared that USA government officials are using some fork called “Telemessage”. That app claims to offer backup solutions for popular messengers including Signal, to comply with government directives. Funnily enough, their website got completely wiped, a large change from…
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Free.fr wins again
Recently, the French ISP Bouygues decided to add a €5 fee to cancel your landline. Free.fr, another major ISP in France decided “well, we’re going to pay for that if you move to us”: On a dedicated page, the ISP says that “the cancelling fees of your old provider will be taken care of up…
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The IRC client I wish existed earlier
Back before discovering Matrix, I mainly used IRC to talk with friends. Those were simple times, mainly spent using either mIRC or WeeChat. Recently, I needed some help getting BIRD working on the latest version, which meant I had to go on Libera Chat, and ask there. I then searched “IRC” in my Flatpak browser…