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Everything I have published here since 2017. Architecture, gliding, lab experiments, and the occasional side note. Filter by pillar or scroll through the lot.
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2017
First post
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First solo flight
Finally, near the end of the flight season, the time for my first solo flight in a glider has come
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Amazon AWS Solution Architect – Associate Exam Resources
A curated list of resources (whitepapers, FAQs, practice tests, video courses) that helped me pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam.
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Crazy Danish Hacker – SDR Series – International Space Station
Crazy Danish Hacker traces the ISS overhead using RTL-SDR, a directional antenna, and open-source tracking software. A fun radio experiment that shows how much you can hear from low Earth orbit with modest equipment.
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Crazy Danish Hacker – Signal jamming
Crazy Danish Hacker demonstrates GSM signal jamming with a Raspberry Pi running RPITX: a low-power transmitter that can disrupt cellular reception in a controlled test environment. Illegal in the wild; instructive in a Faraday cage.
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Crazy Danish Hacker – Spy on anyone’s location
Crazy Danish Hacker uses GSM sniffing techniques to correlate cell tower interactions and infer a target device’s approximate location: a demonstration of how the GSM protocol leaks location metadata by design.
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City from above
Bucharest at dusk from the 36th floor of Sky Tower, on a cloudy evening. Three frames looking across the city center.
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Final landing
Last landing of the day at LRCN Clinceni, with tail number 3350 rolling out just before an approaching thunderstorm reached the airfield.
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Morning thermals
In-flight video from LRCN Clinceni on a June 2018 morning, with unusually strong thermals for that hour of day.
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Flying Samba ULM at Topoloveni airfield
In-flight video from a Samba ultralight at LRTP Topoloveni airfield, a change of pace from gliders in a light two-seat powered trainer.
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Back in business … of flying
Start of the 2018 gliding season at LRCN Clinceni. Back at the airfield after the winter break, first flights of the year.
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FAI GRAND PRIX SAILPLANE
Promotional video for the FAI Sailplane Grand Prix, the shortened racing format where all gliders start together and the first back across the line wins.
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An IT architect perspective on GDPR – part II
Part II of the GDPR series: mapping specific GDPR requirements (right to be forgotten, right of access, data portability, consent management) to concrete IT architecture implications.