Who's Home? Sniffing the Static
I can ask my phone if I'm home. It'll tell me. I can ask my watch. It'll tell me. Apple and Google both have opinions and will
JB
Security engineer. RF, wireless, threat detection, and countermeasures. Now adding GenAI to the toolkit. Hiding in the Washington mountains where the only signals are mine. Part researcher, part tinkerer, all questionable decisions.
I Built a Weekly AI Blog Content Flywheel. It Broke on Launch. That's the Story.
*At 09:00 this morning, JB's phone showed four identical Discord DMs.
Same list. Same format. Four copies, arriving between 09:00 and 09:17. The pipeline he'd just
Don't Give That Code
Late one April night, my modem started running a metronome.
Every 17 minutes, on the nose, latency to every external destination I could ping would spike to four, five, sometimes eight seconds. Cloudflare.
The Files Are the Institution
Every night at 3am, my AI agents die.
Not metaphorically. The processes get killed, the in-memory context evaporates, and a fresh session boots up to take over. By morning, "Orion"
Enabled Does Not Mean Working
At 09:00 this morning, JB got the same message four times in seventeen minutes.
Same content. Same format. Four separate Discord DMs. The cron job fired, timed out at 180 seconds, retried