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A text adventure with dice-based RPG and multiple endings set on a space station. You are a sleeper, a robot body with a human conciousness, on the run from the corporation who made you. Landing on a space station known as the Eye, you meet unlikely friends and some enemies as you try to make a life for yourself.

Set up Pi-hole on your home network, enter custom DNS records, and save mental bandwidth by not remembering obscure IP addresses and ports.

Cutest game I've ever played. For someone who hasn't tried any other cute platforming game (Mario), this was definitely a breath of fresh air. Visual design, sound design, gameplay, all of these elements screamed fun.

In this book, the authors explore the code davinci 002 model by OpenAI. Initially they ask it to generate poems in the styles of different poets. Eventually, they ask it to generate its own poems. Most of which they found fascinating. Based on the output, they assign personality traits to the AI and draw conclusions that perhaps this AI was self-aware.

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Breathtaking visuals, an enjoyable story, fun combat and chill exploration. What more can you ask from a game?

15 minutes for some sweet and spicy "oriental-inspired" french fries.

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Dead or alive, you're coming with me. This game was such a nice breath of fresh air compared to all the recent games I've played. A simple linear game with an open world he size of a city neighbourhood. Even then some of your choices matter. But the best reason for playing this game is the gameplay. The shooting is just amazing. The weapons feel good, blood spatters just hit you in the spot and the enemy variety is decent enough. 10/10 would play again.

I finally got around to finishing this game. I played for a good 10 hours on launch and then promptly forgot about this until now. I finished the game in 24 hours (of playtime) which probably tells you that I didn't do all the side missions but the thing is that I didn't want to. I have 100% on spiderman 2, I even did most of the side missions in all the mass effects. I so far have ignored the main story entirely in ghost of tsushima. But in cyberpunk, after 10-15 hours, it felt like a slog to get through so I just went in to finish the story.

So I hate doing manual entries in my notebook or excel sheet (or even the app that I semi-built for expense tracking). And these days 99% of my transactions are digital and happen from my daily use account which is with ICICI bank. So if I could somehow get my transaction history, I can just auto add stuff to my tracker which can be edited/sorted in categories later. But of course, nothing is as easy as it seems.

The python prototype for AES took 12 seconds to encrypt a 120KB file (~0.1MB/s). I am throughly unimpressed by that and its time to try to write it in rust. Spoilers, but it was able to encrypt a 1.09GB file in 20 seconds (>50MB/s). That is more than 500x faster. And that's just on a single thread.

Now that we know the basics on AES, it's time to implement the concepts in python. By the end of this, we should be able to take in any arbitrary file as input along with a key and return an encrypted file which should be able to decrypted back to the original.

Rice, paneer, corn and chillies. It's a classic and healthy dish that can be made fully in one hour with cleanup and including the time it takes to soak the rice. The best part is you only need to be present for maybe 20 minutes of that hour. So you just set timers as needed and finish off some work in the meantime.

I was scrolling through YouTube when I came across a video by Spanning Tree where they explained the AES algorithm. And after watching it, my brain was like this seems easy enough, I can do it. But before I can code it, I need to understand it. It's time to dive into the concepts of AES and how it works.

Creating this blog, which is built upon the corpses of its predecessors took a lot longer than I originally anticipated. Considering how many times I have rebooted my blog, I should be an expert at this, but no it took me a week of procrastinating just to pick a stack and a theme.