2026-10-22
I Rooted a 5G Hotspot and Now It Runs My House
I repurposed an Inseego MiFi M2000 into my local MQTT home automation server, wrote a C gateway for the devices, and built the Bloodsucker Android companion app.
I use Linux, I like old hardware, and I keep taking vendor appliances apart until they do something more useful. I also automate tedious processes that shouldn't need someone babysitting them. This is where I write up the automation, reverse engineering, embedded crap, local services, networking, and whatever else I got distracted by.
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2026-10-21
i built a fake industrial facility and made it operate itself
A simulated industrial facility operating a real production application's workflows through Playwright, with persistent defects, maintenance, and inventory.
2026-10-05
ReBox: early alpha, because apparently the DVR needed shoes
ReBox is public as very early alpha software for the DIRECTV HR54-700. Try it if you're brave, report what breaks, and eventually write your own modules for it.
2026-10-02
ChatGPT's GitHub connector spazzed out and GitHub suspended me
GitHub suspended my account during a ChatGPT connector session, revoked the connector OAuth tokens, and several FOSS projects went 404. OpenAI support was weirdly the part that worked.
2026-09-28
i built a FIDO2 hardware key. openai says it isn't hardware enough.
I built a physical ESP32-S3 FIDO2 key for Daybreak. OpenAI registers and authenticates it but will not count it as hardware; Support cannot say what technical property it is missing, and apparently I need two physical keys anyway.
2026-09-28
I Turned a DIRECTV HR54-700 Into a Standalone Jellyfin Box
A free DIRECTV HR54-700 turned into a standalone Jellyfin box using the stock Broadcom decoder, vendor WebKit, Wi-Fi, Quick Connect, and a native MIPS backend.
2026-09-23
a friend got burned by a fake fitness tracker. then he sent me the APK.
A friend encountered a fake fitness-tracker APK through a paid study flow he accessed via Prolific, then reported $101 stolen from PayPal. Under the junk was a multistage Mirax/Cifrat-lineage Android RAT.
2026-09-15
I Turned a 2013 Google Glass Into a Claude Code Terminal
A first-generation Google Glass turned into a thin terminal for SSH, tmux, whisper.cpp, and Claude Code.
2026-09-02
rooting a fire hd 10 because apparently i have problems
A current-firmware Fire HD 10 11th gen rooted with a Binder exploit chain, Amazon's time_update service, permissive SELinux, and live Magisk without modifying boot or system.