Debugging RDP 0x609: The Protocol Bit a Proxy Should Never Touch
A CredSSP 0x609 error appearing only through a proxy but not on direct connections — traced to a single HYBRID_EX bit being silently stripped from the RDP X.224 handshake.
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Now It Talks: Open-Source Video With Sound on the Same RTX 3060
The third in our RTX 3060 series. MiniMax H3, an open-weights video model that generates its own audio, runs on the same 12GB card: a product clip with a real soundtrack, from a single photo, generated locally.
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Now It Moves: Video Generation on the Same RTX 3060
The follow-up to our image retrospective: the same RTX 3060 that struggled with a single 512px still two years ago now generates short video — including product promos animated from a single photo — with open models like Wan 2.2 and LTX-Video.
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Two Years of Open-Source Image AI on One RTX 3060
We ran open-source image generation on the same RTX 3060 we used 18 months ago. The hardware is identical; the results are unrecognisable — from 512px portraits fighting extra heads to 1024px Flux, near-perfect anatomy, readable text, and even video.
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Measurable Beats Powerful: Grounding AI in Tangible Checks
Frontier models keep getting more powerful, and they still forget, drift, and run past their context. The fix is not a bigger model; it is giving AI a tangible, quantitative ground truth to measure against. Here is how our deployment guard does exactly that.
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Shipping a native Go binary inside an Android APK: ELF linkers, 16 KB pages, and the memfd trick
Building an Android VPN app that bundles a Go binary exposes you to three traps in quick succession: compiling for Linux instead of Android, Android 16's 16 KB page-alignment requirement, and Play Store delivery no longer extracting native libraries to disk. Here's what each one looks like and how to fix it.
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Introducing TYO Reach: A Travel Companion for Your Browser
TYO Reach is a lightweight traffic proxy for a single browser — a handy travel companion for reaching the everyday sites and apps you rely on at home when they quietly stop working abroad.
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Introducing reach-dl: a Local, Private Download Manager for TYO Reach
reach-dl adds a side-panel download manager to your browser that saves the video you're watching — through your own TYO Reach gateway, with your own login, entirely on your own machine. No server, no cloud converter, no cookies leaving your computer.
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The Model That Aced Olympiad Math Can't Write a Tweet
The 4 GB series found a 3B that reasons like a giant. So surely it can write? It can't — and how it fails is the interesting part. VibeThinker-3B chokes on a 120-word story while two plain instruct models a fraction as clever nail it, and a language twist decides which one you want.
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You Don't Need to Be Bunnings to Build an AI Assistant
When Bunnings launched 'Buddy', an AI shopping assistant, it looked like something only a national retailer could pull off. We built the same kind of thing for a small networking store in about a week, out of parts most businesses already have. Here is what an AI store assistant is actually made of — and why the language model is the easy part.
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