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UPDATE 2025/06/21 – I’ve contacted the Pi-Hole package maintainer for Alpine Linux and it has now been fixed and updated to 6.2.3! Please disregard everything else in this post Quick PSA: I’ve just noticed Pi-Hole 6.2.2 crashing every 2-3 minutes on my Alpine Linux machine and the reason is that pihole-FTL is broken. This … Read more
Remember this previous post where I lamented the sorry state of Pi-Hole and how its developers, despite providing a Docker container which uses Alpine Linux, completely disregarded the Alpine Linux users by not giving them the option to install it on bare metal? Yeah, I thought about doing it myself because all the steps necessary … Read more
In a world that keeps going forward fueled by neural networks, LLMs (or, as many people like to call them, “AI”) and other assorted technological wizardries, I seem to keep going backwards. I wanted a small pocketable camera to always have with me and I quickly realized that I either had to spend a thousand … Read more
I’ve been a long time user of PiHole: it’s a fantastic and lightweight tool which, used in conjunction with dnscrypt-proxy, elevates the security of your browsing tenfold. All your DNS queries become encrypted, anonymized and non-traceable. And, of course, your browsing experience is also vastly improved, both in the browsing itself and the security: by … Read more
Lately I’ve scratched a personal itch of mine: writing some kind of fiction or short story. I started with a fan fiction named “IVO” (which should give you quite a big hint what it’s about) which is currently stalled and then transitioned to writing short stories which, I must say, I’m enjoying much more. One … Read more
In this last brief article, I’d like to address what made me start studying Z80 assembly and take interest in how to modify the Master System BIOS. As many of you probably know, I’m the founder and maintainer of the 16-bit Audiophile Project and while we’ve always been focused on Mega Drive, our mission has … Read more
In this second part we’re going to take a more practical approach on how to make your own custom SEGA Master System BIOS. Bear in mind that the Master System BIOS can only be as big as 32KB so we’ll only be able to fit games which are 32KB in size. The tools we need … Read more
In this series you’ll learn how to make a custom SEGA Master System BIOS so that you can change the built-in game and replace it with any game or software you like! This is going to be a long post, split into two parts. The whole ordeal started because I wanted to hack a SEGA … Read more
After losing almost another entire day due to erroneous information on the interwebz, I decided to write a small guide to help you understand (and convert) this old dinosaur known as “MIDI Sample Dump”, sometimes referred as MSD or MDSD. Now, a quick crash course/refresher about Decimals, Hexadecimal and Binary formats. Decimal is the system … Read more
I used to DJ a lot between 2009 and 2012. In 2011 I even landed a one-time job at new year’s eve in an amazing place which was excavated through big rocks underground and seemed like an ancient catacomb. Back then I used to play with a small, cheap Hercules DJ console and VirtualDJ, a … Read more