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.
Excuse me, is there a problem?
Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.
What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant — Fernando Irarrázaval
I built hackmyclaw.com, where anyone could email Fiu, my OpenClaw assistant, and try to make it leak the contents of a secrets.env file.
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
My Business Card Runs Linux
In which I build a Linux computer cheap enough to give away
On-device intelligence for every product
We're building a frontier lab for on-device AI. Small, specialized models for audio, vision, and text, faster than the cloud and free.
Improving My Hardware Workflow With CI and Nix
One thing you might notice if you read my blog is that I do a lot of hardware projects. Generally, these include a board, some software, and possibly some extraneous components (like CAD design, such as a case). Software tooling is quite mature, but I find that hardware had traditionally lagged quite a bit behind. For a while, I just lived with this, but over the last few months I've put in a bunch of effort to improve my workflow.
Introducing ONCE
Once upon a time you owned what you paid for, you controlled what you depended on, and your privacy and security were your own business. We think it’s that time again.
R. S. Doiel, Software Engineer/Analyst — Robert's ramblings
Today the Web and Internet is owned and controlled by large for profit corporations and a few governments1. Corporate ownership combined with government policies has left us as tenant and product. It has given us a surveillance economy and enshittification2.
Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days
Thinking through how the conventional OSS security embargoes no longer buy us time, and what open source maintainers might do instead to respond
Exit Chat Control · Become Ungovernable
A practical field guide to escape Chat Control and reclaim your digital privacy: encrypted messaging, email, VPN, DNS, passwords, Linux, GrapheneOS, self-hosting. Free, open source, no tracking.
A programmer's loss of identity - ratfactor
This is the follow-up to last year’s I’m an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don’t speak for me. In that essay, I tried to express why I was so agonized by the leaders in my industry doing a speedrun towards dystopia and how it all felt so divorced from what technology could, and should be. Everything I wrote there is still true, but amplified.
Cyd - Claw back your data from Big Tech | Cyd
Automatically delete your data from tech platforms, except for what you want to keep
Your USB devices deserve better than lsusb(8) 🔥 🔌 usbtree — A modern USB inspector for the terminal 💯 Live device monitoring, hot-plug events, bandwidth stats, safe eject 🦀 Written in Rust & built w/ @ratatui.rs ⭐ GitHub: github.com/gnomeria/usbtree #rustlang #ratatui #tui #linux #terminal
