Rambling on Tech
Thoughts and rambles on AI tools, LLMs, and automation for people who use love tech but don't have CS degrees.
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2026 · 10
- The TV no longer spy's on us On September 6, Gamers Nexus published packet captures of LG TVs scanning home networks and buffering voice audio. The community found a root and I took advantage of freeing my TV.
- A CVE Email Turned Into a Server Cleanup Day DigitalOcean flagged a Node.js Brotli RCE on my droplet. I pointed Claude Code at the box, asked for a report before any fixes, and ended the day patched, locked down and 13 GB lighter.
- Co-Intelligence, in Practice Five rounds, twelve images and one share card: what building a brand with an agent actually looks like.
2026 · 07
- chatbox: Hermes/OpenClaw Based Voice Assistant A Pi Zero W, a 3D printer display board, and a microphone in a printed wedge: press the knob, ask out loud, and the answer streams onto a 128×64 LCD or to an Amazon Echo. Keep it it local.
- Building pi in a World of Slop Refreshing video from Mario Zechner (Pi creator) on building deterministic code generation tools in a market flooded with unreliable AI-generated "slop".
- Claude Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are back July 2nd Anthropic has received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.