Author: Evert
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Running an AI pair programmer locally using open source software
Earlier this week, my brand new Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070Ti Super arrived. Having tested out ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and JetBrains AI in recently, I began to wonder if I could self-host such a service locally, to address privacy concerns and of course to save a few bucks 😊. I soon discovered ollama, a tool that…
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DLL Injection and Function Hooking
For my Pandora’s Box reverse engineering project, I’m exploring methods of re-implementing the game. An interesting strategy employed by projects like OpenRCT2 (Rollercoaster Tycoon 2), re3 (GTA III, unfortunately taken down by Take-Two), and ZeldaRET (various Zelda games) involves decompiling and gradually replacing the original game’s code. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any detailed write-ups on…
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Reverse Engineering Pandora’s Box (1)
One game I have quite fond memories of is Microsofts Pandora’s Box (1999), a puzzle game for PC created by the designer of Tetris. The game consists of a total of 361 puzzles of 10 different types, spread over 7 stages with increasing difficulty. Of course, being designed for Windows 95 and 98, the game…
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Dealing with the Proxmox Subscription Notice
Over the past few weeks, I have been playing around with Proxmox in a VM. It seems to be an upgrade from my current Fedora + Cockpit based homelab, as the ‘cockpit-machines’ module has some quirks and stability issues. One thing that annoys me however is the subscription notice that is shown when logging in…