How I own a Miata R8 GTR FOR FREE with Turo™!!!1

Wow guys. Check out this non-promotional non-scam I just discovered. I just bought my 8th car (a 2018 Honda WRX GTi) and I’m going to make money owning it. Can you believe that? A depreciating asset with high operating costs purchased

How I own a Miata R8 GTR FOR FREE with Turo™!!!1

Wow guys. Check out this non-promotional non-scam I just discovered. I just bought my 8th car (a 2018 Honda WRX GTi) and I’m going to make money owning it. Can you believe that? A depreciating asset with high operating costs purchased

An Incredibly Convoluted, Excessively Unethical Scam

Welcome to The Savvy Sociopath, where every week we bring you new ways to increase the suffering of those less intelligent than ourselves. This post is going to require some basic knowledge of scam, fraud, and social engineering techniques used in the

An Incredibly Convoluted, Excessively Unethical Scam

Welcome to The Savvy Sociopath, where every week we bring you new ways to increase the suffering of those less intelligent than ourselves. This post is going to require some basic knowledge of scam, fraud, and social engineering techniques used in the

Fixing Wikipedia’s Blogspam Problem

If you read my blog (which you don’t) you’ll know that one of my berserk buttons is business misconduct, especially among startups. I wrote about this ad nauseum in Technology For Technology’s Sake, but today I’m taking a break from the big

Fixing Wikipedia’s Blogspam Problem

If you read my blog (which you don’t) you’ll know that one of my berserk buttons is business misconduct, especially among startups. I wrote about this ad nauseum in Technology For Technology’s Sake, but today I’m taking a break from the big

Bus, chapter 1

I wrote this in my last year of college, with some grander story planned around it. It was inspired by a strange out-of-body experience that matched the first 2.5 paragraphs pretty closely and never came up again. It was going

Bus, chapter 1

I wrote this in my last year of college, with some grander story planned around it. It was inspired by a strange out-of-body experience that matched the first 2.5 paragraphs pretty closely and never came up again. It was going

Crafting a Perfect Crowdfunding Campaign, Chapter 2

Structure, Padding, Content Let’s face it: When it comes to web content, everything your high school English teacher taught you was wrong. Nobody wants to read an expository essay in an ordered paragraph format with a header, body, and footer.

Crafting a Perfect Crowdfunding Campaign, Chapter 2

Structure, Padding, Content Let’s face it: When it comes to web content, everything your high school English teacher taught you was wrong. Nobody wants to read an expository essay in an ordered paragraph format with a header, body, and footer.

Crafting a Perfect Crowdfunding Campaign, Chapter 1

An Introduction to Crowdfunding Crowdfunding really took off a few years ago. When Kickstarter first appeared in 2009, it heralded a new age of investment. No longer did creative, capable people need to seek corporate investment to succeed; they could

Crafting a Perfect Crowdfunding Campaign, Chapter 1

An Introduction to Crowdfunding Crowdfunding really took off a few years ago. When Kickstarter first appeared in 2009, it heralded a new age of investment. No longer did creative, capable people need to seek corporate investment to succeed; they could

Technology For Technology’s Sake

This semester, I’ve been taking an entrepreneurship class to supplement my engineering schedule (and also to pad my credit hours). The class, taught by Gary Durack, is all about the theory and practice of entrepreneurship, especially entrepreneurship in emerging technologies. Durack uses The

Technology For Technology’s Sake

This semester, I’ve been taking an entrepreneurship class to supplement my engineering schedule (and also to pad my credit hours). The class, taught by Gary Durack, is all about the theory and practice of entrepreneurship, especially entrepreneurship in emerging technologies. Durack uses The

Electribe 2 Firmware Disassembly

Welcome back to this series on probably bricking the Korg Electribe 2! Last weekend, someone finally got up the courage to install a re-headered E2S firmware on the E2, and it worked (with some exceptions). It’s only been, I don’t

Electribe 2 Firmware Disassembly

Welcome back to this series on probably bricking the Korg Electribe 2! Last weekend, someone finally got up the courage to install a re-headered E2S firmware on the E2, and it worked (with some exceptions). It’s only been, I don’t

Extracting Bitmaps from a Firmware Binary

As a side trip within the firmware reversing project, I’ve been looking for the font and image files inside the Electribe firmware. Initially, I just thought it would be neat to grab the startup logo, but as I considered it,

Extracting Bitmaps from a Firmware Binary

As a side trip within the firmware reversing project, I’ve been looking for the font and image files inside the Electribe firmware. Initially, I just thought it would be neat to grab the startup logo, but as I considered it,

Electribe 2 Sampler Firmware Examination

After my previous post, I was excited to check out the E2s’ firmware files, and I’ve already found some interesting things. Using a linux vm and binwalk, I’ve been exploring the contents of the file. I don’t really know much

Electribe 2 Sampler Firmware Examination

After my previous post, I was excited to check out the E2s’ firmware files, and I’ve already found some interesting things. Using a linux vm and binwalk, I’ve been exploring the contents of the file. I don’t really know much