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Exploring an Encrypted Penguin with AES-ECB

2020-04-04

We’ve seen the image of a penguin encrypted with AES-ECB on Wikipedia before, but what happens if we add a tiny bit of noise to the equation?

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An xkcd Leap-Smearing Clock

2020-02-11

Are you tired of your clock assuming that February 29 exists sometimes? Look no further, this clock is set to go 3.4% slower in Feburary during leap years, so that the 29th doesn’t exist!

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A Simple STL Viewer with Three.js

2019-04-14

Here’s a simple part that I made in Fusion 360: It’s a simple bracket to mount keystone jacks to a wall. This article isn’t about that, it’s about the viewer used to display it above. It uses WebGL to render it in your browser, and the three.js library makes it easy to implement. It’s part of my hugo template now, since I’d like to post some of the objects that I make for 3D printing.

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Doctor Who-Style Wi-Fi With Sentient Captive Portal

2013-03-31

In this week’s episode of Doctor Who, The Bells of Saint John, the enemy is sentient and living inside of the wifi - specifically, a wifi network with a name consisting of weird symbols would appear, the target would click on it, and it would infest their computer and eventually consume their soul and consciousness into the cloud.

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