A bit about me

My name is 0x4248 and I am a software developer and cyber security enthusiast. I am currently studying Computer Science as a student.

I currently live in southern England. I have many other hobbies including radio DXing, photography. In my spare time I like to work on my own projects. I enjoy playing around with the Linux kernel and getting it to run on various devices.

I also enjoy doing 3D and VFX work in Blender. I have been using Blender for a few years and is one of my favourite pieces of software ever. I use it for everything to do with media even including video and image editing (Yes blender can do that).

Programming

I have been programming since I was 12 years old. I started with Python. I now know many languages:

• Python
• C
• C++
• Java
• JavaScript
• HTML/CSS
• Shell scripting
• Bash
• Batch
• Assembly
• x86 (Limited knowledge but can read it)
• ARM64 (Linux)
• Rust

Things I am currently learning and want to learn in the future

Programming

• Go
• x86 OS development

Linux

• Xorg (In progress)

Current and future tinkering projects

Here are some of the things I am currently tinkering around with and want to tinker with in the future:

These projects involve modifying hardware and software to do things that they were not intended to do and figuring out how they work.

• Plusnet Hub One
• Hardware analysis (In progress)
• Also have the hub two to compare
• SeaBIOS (In progress)
• OpenBIOS (Modifying and running in QEMU)
• Custom Linux for the Raspberry Pi 4 (In process)
• Custom PI Pico OS
• SerneityOS (Building from source and modifying)
• TI Nspire CX II (Trying to put Linux on it, in progress but difficult)

Hardware

I have a few devices that I use as my daily drivers and for testing. Here are some of the devices I have:

Computers

• Macbook M3 Pro 14" (MacOS, Daily driver)
• Razer blade 15 2021 (Fedora Linux, Daily driver)
• Dell XPS 13 9380 2019 (Arch linux, Testing machine)
• Surface Pro 4 (Fedora Linux, Testing machine)
• Dell Latitude D610 (Ubuntu (Dont know the version), i386 Testing machine)

Raspberry Pi's

• Raspberry Pi 5 8GB
• Raspberry Pi 4 8GB
• Raspberry Pi 4 4GB
• Raspberry Pico
• Pico display by Pimoroni

Other devices

• Arduino Uno R3
• Testing tools
• Flipper Zero
• Veepeak OBD2 scanner
• Radios
• ATS25X1
• RTL-SDR V3
• Baofeng UV-5RM Plus

Radio DXing

Just a little bit about my radio DXing hobby. I have been doing radio DXing for a few years now and I have a few radios that I use for this hobby. I mainly do amateur radio DXing and have picked many people up from around the world.

I have picked up people from

• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Spain
• England
• Finland
• Switzerland
• Canada (It even was a good signal)

I have also picked up some interesting signals such as:

• Russian buzzer
• Time stations
• Odd satellite signals passing over

I use a 2 meter dipole antenna which picks up signals very well. I mainly use the RTL-SDR V3. I also decode some signals (RTTY, Morse and FT-8). For my RTL-SDR I use SDR++ and for my decoding I use FLDIGI.

Photography

Photography has always been a hobby of mine. Nothing professional but I do enjoy taking photos of things.

Urr, so just a quick update... I lost all my pictures so I have nothing to show you. (Yeah I know, I should have backed them up. I don't expect SD cards to brick their partition table)

Update: Expect some photos soon.

Other sites

Contact

If you want to contact me you can do so by sending me an email at this email. You can also contact me on Mastodon

Privacy notice: What is the +webcontact part of the email? It is a way for me to identify where the email came from. Please don't remove it since it wont make the email stand out from the rest of the emails I get.

GPG key

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