The wings of a computer engineer
The wings of a computer engineer

Personal blog for Timothy D Meadows II

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The wings of a computer engineer

The wings of a computer engineer

Personal blog for Timothy D Meadows II

How To Install Gods Unchained on the Steam Deck

Steam Deck The steam deck is a powerful, by default Linux based handheld gaming system released by Valve. The price (at the time of writing) can range from $399 to $649. There is also likely a wait time before shipment as there just being released. To me, the most powerful thing about the steam deck, is the fact that SteamOS is actually…

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Facebook, and our future

I do not dislike social media as a whole. However, I do not like, and can no longer support how facebook abuses extremely powerful AI modeling formulas to locate, and market to easy to manipulate people. Facebook is a veritable giant in the AI modeling world. It has trained models to locate fringe, angry, and emotionally fragile people. T…

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Tick, Tock - Part 1

I saw a clock work bird named a Tocker in a popular video game called Team Fight Tactics. Though unrealistic of a design being in a fantasy world. More to point, a video game. The more i played, the more I realized the simplistic concept he started with, which was a ball with a beak and eyes was something i could build. Modeling the ball…

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The Pi-Top AI

I recently went to purchase a new pi-top for this project. However i was disheartened to find the original pi-top laptop was no longer sold on the pi-top website. While i have purchased the current model being sold. I found it to be much to limited in comparison to the original model. In an attempt to be more specific, i simply can't tink…

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The Curious Case of Dragon Mining Tech

A few months ago, a friend, asked me to look into a bitcoin mining company he, and, a group of others who where investing in mining contracts with. Investing in cryptocurrency is a risky business for new users, and, old users a like. Typically if you're not doing all of the work yourself you're always at risk. That being said, let's jump…

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Hi-jacking cloudflare domains due to removal

In May of 2018 i reported this issue to Cloudflare through HackerOne. Domains that have been pointed to Cloudflare by their respective owners through their registrar that have been removed from Cloudflare, can be hi-jacked by other Cloudflare users. Title: Hi-jacking cloudflare domains due to removal Weakness: Improper Acce…

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The Pi-Top Cluster

Not too long ago I had made a post about the pi-top and a child-hood dream I had of creating a modular "testing" PC for developers. With the joy, and success I had creating the previous pi-top. I decided to buy another one, this time in black! The Idea My day, to day job(s), consist of programming in JavaScript, and C# as well as managing…

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Screeps

I always have been, and I always will be an avid gamer. I've long accepted the fact it's just part of who I am. You also won't find me directly supporting too many games on my Blog. However, around the first of this year, I stumbled onto a game on the Steam platform called Screeps. The description then read, "Screeps is an open source MM…

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A view through the security looking glass

I've had an interesting view of the security industry. Being a software engineer for over 20+ years in both the application and web space. I have had the pleasure of both hacking and being hacked on many occasion. I would absolutely agree with many industry professionals that security is nothing more than a cat and mouse game. I will add…

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The Pi-Top, and, a dream!

Roughly a year ago. I found an interesting project on Indiegogo. Typically those that know me. Know I'm not a fan of Crowd-funding. While it's a very powerful tool. One I've tried to use myself. It's also can be very questionable if a project will deliver, or, if you are out the money you invested. Regardless, i took the chance. I investe…

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