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Your executable is a SQLite database

I have been probably obsessed with two things in the last few years: Nix as a tool to explore innovative ideas that require the capability to rebuild the world and replacing ELF with SQLite as an executable format. You might have noticed that these two...

Topics: Databases

Entities: Databases

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Everything I own, owned

Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.

Entities: Claude

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offgrid electric car

Eight months ago I came up my rocky driveway in an electric car, with the back full of solar panel mounting rails. I didn't know how I'd manage to keep it charged. I got the car earlier than planned, with my offgrid solar upgrade only beginning. There's no...

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My DIY DEF CON Choker Has a Screen On It

This year I went to my first DEF CON (I know, I'm overdue). I had a blast - saw lots of old friends, made lots of new ones, and generally just had a good time. I'm on the more introverted side though, and I wanted to give others a reason to talk to me. I...