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Or, removing fans and changing air flow patterns for silence.  In our last experiment, we swapped better heatsinks and thermal paste from fans and cheap, poorly applied thermal tape for a silent, fanless 10 Gigabit…

My old Synology DS918+ is powered off and collecting dust. I figured I should be able to install mainline linux on it and turn it into a shell server with a lot of disk.  iFixIt…

What do you think about when you hear "secure computing"? You could think about access controls (username/password, two factor authentication, etc), encryption (of data at rest, data in transit), air-gapped networks, physical security of the…

I bought a refurbished HTC 5G Hub to see if I could get a 5G hotspot and if it could act as a secondary internet connection if my main connection drops. The device runs Android…

History On February 5th, 1998,  the lewman.com domain name was live on the Internet. For some reason, I've saved the original email from the registrar and hosting company. In fact, I'm pretty sure the domain…

This is the raw photo from an iPhone XS taken with the stock camera. This is a raw photo from a OnePlus 6 taken with the default camera: Both picture were taken from the same…

Out of interest in learning how machine learning works at the code level, I started building a firearm detector. There are plenty of libraries which detect a firearm, for instance, this one.  I wanted to…

In case you thought cybersecurity was the death of IoT.

I started looking at various HomeKit-compatible power strips. There appear to be two on the market: And one more announced, Eve Power Strip, https://www.macrumors.com/2018/08/30/eve-announces-new-light-strip-power-strip/ A few things caught my attention: I bought the Koogeek, because…

In casual conversation with a friend, we're talking about scaling companies and the fun and challenges of growth at small companies (less than 50 employees). When he says, "Hey, our main log server is getting…