My corner of the internet:

Mostly electronics and software, but occasionally chemistry and photography. Feel free to check out my photos of space, random programs, weird electronics projects, and atom arranging.

I have my very own (copyright respecting) nonsense generator – guaranteed to be cheaper then any LLM – and utility URLs for checking your IP address (v4) (v6) and User-Agent string.

Because search engines are increasingly terrible, here’s a list of blogs I have found useful or interesting, and can verify are not LLM generated.

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Recent posts:

Some hot rocks:

Please don't give Reflect Orbital money:

There’s this company promising to generate solar power at night using space based mirrors to bounce sunlight down to solar farms. This is the single dumbest startup I’ve ever seen… and people are actually giving them money.

Modifying a radiation meter for (radioactive) rock collecting:

The Ludlum Model 3 is quite a nice radiation meter, as long as you like analog displays and don’t mind it weighing one and a half kilograms:

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Internet ads are horrible: They waste your time, and the advertising industry makes the internet a worse place. Payouts are so small that the only way to survive is to turn your site into an ad filled hellhole with no real substance.

Spotting AI articles:

Fully LLM generated content is increasingly common on the internet. It’s not just random people copying from ChatGPT, there even companies offering fully automated AI-content-as-a-service: Just send them a list of URLs to copy and they’ll send you an “article shaped object”.

Optimized cyanotypes:

As far as I’m aware, this is the most sensitive cyanotype formula on the internet, and is just about usable for in-camera photography (ISO 0.0001):

Let's take a photo:

It’s been almost 200 years since the oldest surviving photograph was taken:

Trap bots on your server:

Here’s the code for my infinite nonsense crawler trap:

• process.py: Text preprocessor
• babble.c: Garbage server

What follows is an explanation of how to set it up…

You should feed the bots:

A week ago, I set up an infinite nonsense crawler trap – now it makes up 99% of my server’s traffic. What surprised me is that feeding scrapers garbage is the cheapest and easiest thing I could do.

Your TV can see through walls:

This is a spectogram of the signal from a local TV station, as seen by an an indoor dipole antenna:

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