Links #2025-18 - Wii hosting, a boiler, and horseless carriages

Articles or videos I found last week that I actually read and watched until the end.

• This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii - blog.infected.systems

  Another exercise in minimalism. Hosting a web server on NetBSD on a Wii. From afar the Wii looks a bit like a toaster, so of course NetBSD runs on it.

• Attacking My Landlord's Boiler - blog.videah.net

  Hacking with SDRs always sounds interesting, but like the author, I find it really daunting. Reading this post hasn't changed any of that, but I'll admit, the cold can be very motivating.

• AI Horseless Carriages - koomen.dev

  This post describes my gripes about current AI software better than I can, and they even throw in working examples for readers to play with. Relatable: 'Remarkably, the Gmail team has shipped a product that perfectly captures the experience of managing an underperforming employee.'

• I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice and received the GPLv3 license - code.mendhak.com

  A wholesome story about.. well, what it says in the title.

• O(no) You Didn't - mrshiny608.github.io

  Sometimes you can find interesting results with the most ordinary experiments. As it turns out, in the real world brute-force is not always a bad idea, and Python is not always slow. Nevertheless, I remain convinced that Python always is a bad idea.