A Shallow Dive into Transformers and Attention
I tried my absolute best to work in some robots in disguise and attention is all you need pun, but they all sucked so you get no alternative titles and a bar...
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2025
Speedrunning the Fundamentals of Patch Diffing with Ghidra and CVE-2024-38063
I sat down over Christmas and took notes on all the various, varied avenues I want to explore; the arcane arts I want to gain mastery in and much like when d...
GRPO Fine Tuning on Llama 3.1 8B
This is the second iteration of this blog post. I wrote the entire thing up, and didnt actually save the bed i had put it into. It must have gotten closed of...
Agents and Workflows
A few months ago I met a friend for drinks at the pub. While waiting, I dove into this Anthropic article on agents. I took considerable notes because a, I fo...
Agency & Gumption
Everyone on the internet is a fucking retard except me. And it has bothered me so much the last few months as I try and fit my mental models to the incorrect...
OST
OPEN SOURCE/OFFENSIVE SECURITY TOOLING aka “for the greater good I wish to harm your ability to make a living!” Despite living on the stupid platform, I r...
2024
LLM Powered Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Posting Twitter Bot
Alternatively titled “DIY self licking icecream cone”, “Spend a weekend building the worlds worst Pojos Forum clone”, and other very unclever titlings. tldr ...
Building LFS in a VM
Recently, while on an airplane without wifi, I decided the only thing worth doing to pass the time was to disassociate and see what ideas floated into me. On...
Shogun 2 Trainer
This is a short series of notes I am taking out of a OneNote I sometimes misplace and simply putting them into the blog so it appears I am still producing co...
Deployable SCCM and Exchange Lab with Ludus and Proxmox
A series of notes on setting up a lab using ludus + proxmox to replace the open crto lab sub I had, since they dont offer the 365 day sub anymore. It was a n...
Offensive Security’s Obsolete Exams: A Rant from a Burnt-Out Pentester
I have started this post in various forms and shapes over the years. It has been almost exactly 2 years to the day since I last took an offsec exam, and ever...
Simulating discovery of CVE-2003-0344
This is going to be a very long, very large post where I pontificate quite a bit to empty out my head. There’s a lot of disparate thoughts rattling around th...
Code Execution out of VST Plugins
For the second time this month I have been forced to realise that I need to build up a golden image for a dedicated development machine. Unrelated to this po...
The Price of Good
Alternative titles for this post I came up with included “What is premium?” and the exceedingly clever “Premium and the art of good enough”. This post wa...
2023
GraphQL Denial of Service with DVGA
In an act of sheer irony, after passing my OSWE, I have been on all manner of odd, bespoke testing but not as much web work as I was doing before taking the ...
Crafting CSP Spells
Todays adventures take us down a rabbit hole I see pop up almost constantly in my testing; which developer doesnt care about Content Security Policy (CSP) th...
Diablo II HD
I will never forget the first time I came across the butcher in Diablo 1, and how it scared the absolute shit out of me as a kid. It was my first pirated gam...
AI Drum Loop Generation
Finding myself using the same handful of drum tracks over and over again from a Native Instruments pack I bought in 2012 I decided to head back into the worl...
Using mona with windbg preview
The next thing on my todo list is move into exploit dev. There is a strong amount of crossover between exploit dev and game hacking, which is where my real a...
Age of Empires 1 HD
The first time I fell in love with a computer game (computer specifically, not video game) was age of empires. I remember in the fifth grade the class comput...
C.A.P.S.U.L.E.S Lab Configuration Kits
ADLAB is dead, long live ADLAB. Initially I wanted a single use tool that would on its own deploy new VMs and then perform configurations upon them. The i...
2022
Build you a LemonSqueezy
In the start of 2020 I had the brilliant idea of creating my own vulnhub machine. Born out of frustration with the OSCP labs lacking a whole suite of techniq...
Gamification has ruined basically everything
Games are games and learning is learning. I found out in the second fucking grade that never shall the two meet, because the quality of both declines. The c...
Yu-Gi-Oh! GOAT Format Campaign
There are, according to wikipedia, over 50 different yugioh games out there. Yet not a single one has a dedicated mode for GOAT format.
CSS GG DM Server
I have written extensively about gaming in this blog. I think the fact my largest piece to date is a diatribe on how everything in the past was better showca...
Running Fable in 2022
This is a sticky note more than an actual blog post. As alluded to in ESXi revert panel and in why the fuck does the internet not have the answer sometimes t...
2004 was the greatest year for gaming that has ever and will ever happen
There is nothing useful in this post. This is a rant where I yell at the clouds about why everything in the past was better. There was something particula...
Automated Active Directory Lab
On a trip away, I caught up with my hacking homie for a bit. We commenced work on some personal projects while watching lotr and sipping whisky. What was bor...
2021
Esxi OSCP Lab Type Revert Panel
There is an evergrowing list of shit in a little folder on my desktop, called ‘blog posts’. It is filled with half baked and harebrained projects I have wor...
Defining Model Location; aka why the FUCK does the internet not have the answer
This will be another short one. Seems I alternate between massive unwieldly things that will never get read and teeny one sentence posts that are incredibly ...
2020
PS2 Graphics Improvements
Short and sharp. Realising there will never be a port for many PS2 games that I love to any other consoles ever, but not wanting to go blind from looking at ...
Neural Network MIDI generator
An interesting video was brought to my attention while doing some work on other things titled 1500 slot machines walk into a bar. These guys were “hacking” i...
Setting up a pivoting and kerberoasting lab
Because I feel like being fancy, I have decided to go on the journey of setting up a fully functioning lab for me to attack in a similar vein to OSCP/HTB lab...
Street Fighter II Playing Neural Network
If it wasn’t for my hacking homie, I wouldn’t have turned this into a blog post. I honestly thought it was just one of those little projects my github is fil...
2019
Diablo on Linux
One drive home from my ok-in-retrospect-but-very-awful-at-the-time-job I came across this video. I am not a fan of podcasts; I find youtube videos are always...