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Category Archives: Anarchism

pyrsync: A pure Python module for the rsync algorithm

Thursday, January 26, 2012

I quickly modified and packaged a pure Python implementation of the rsync algorithm today. It’s on Github and PyPi. It’s going to be used in the open-source, symmetrically-encrypted, bandwidth-efficient, cross-platform backup software that I’m writing. Because why, for fuck’s sake, would you trust *all the files* on your computer, plus your cryptographic scheme, and potentially, [...]

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Journey to the End of the Night

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

In Berlin, on New Year’s Eve, I participated in a race through the streets of Berlin, called Journey to the End of the Night — except this one, being at the end of the year, is called Journey to the End of the Year. The rules: run through six checkpoints in order, complete a challenge [...]

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xqdr: A Flying Robot That Does Things

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

I’m building a flying robot. More specifically, a friend and I are building an electric quadrocopter which flies autonomously by using the accelerometer, gyroscope, and GPS on a smart phone to tell some artificial intelligence algorithms where the robot is and how to go where it wants to go. The robot will also be trained [...]

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