Week Notes: Cyborgs, Servers, and Sending

Trash Computing

T7810A34.exe and trash computing: bifurcation woes and continued server bending on a jumped up Dell 7810. The struggles of lane splitting for multiple NVMe drives via 80G5N breakout card have been more complex than I expected.

I already modified this server to run multiple PSUs (went from ~685 watt PSU to drawing 2300 watts at full bore).

This machine’s job is split between being a BCI HID development box (interfaces with 100 channels of analog serial IO for sensors and measurement, some clocking hardware, a 9070 XT GPU to do graphics things with the goggles, a 82599ES for networking) and participating in various ridiculous network experiments.

BCI Goggles

BS2e goggles are laced up to the BCI server and my face!

I am developing against the BS2e headset in conjunction with OpenBCI Ganglion and Babble VR mouth tracking project to bring my evil plans to reality, or something. I do not play videogames.

Continued development on XoxdWM, a completely bespoke WM/DE for cyborgs inspired by Stanislav Aleksandrov’s VR development for the KDE ecosystem. Originally forked from EXWM.

Norwegian Metal in the Office

• Firestarter mixtape — a classic!
• Sirena — The 13th Floor (album)
• Immortal — Northern Chaos Gods (album)

Tuesday Evening: Indoor Rock Climbing

• Warmed up on a fun chimney climb.
• Iterated on a 5.13 top rope project.
• Rest of the evening on lead belay duty with the Petzl Neox.

tcfs

After great consternation and headbanging, my TummyCryptFileSystem (tcfs) now has native, notarized FileProvider support for Darwin targets, whoot whoot. Tcfs now graces the darned work Macs in my life, no macFUSE needed.

Dhall

Since grabbing Dhall by the bullhorns a few weeks ago, I’ve refactored down over 4 thousand lines of Ansible and Tofu code this week.

Reverse Engineering

The use of Ghidra and Frida to completely disassemble and instrument corpo products for fun will continue until morale improves.