tim sh
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tim sh
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independent privacy & security noob

https://timsh.org
Wrote a post about self hosting and why I believe you need it

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Why you should self-host your (vibecoded) app
How and why I decided to self-host all of my apps and services, and why I believe you should do the same in almost every case.
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October 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
working on a post for timsh.org about a wide variety of scams I’ve seen on Telegram recently.
Tldr: I think if we could see some official stats on the amount of people loosing their account and/or money we’d be shocked.
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thoughts, projects and research
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September 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
watched an incredible (very intuitive) lecture on markov chain basics / a few advanced things.

youtu.be/IkbkEtOOC1Y?... (1/3)

I remember studying this during my BA and failing to comprehend most of it.

this made me think of other math topics that I usually automatically skip as “too hard”
16. Markov Chains I
YouTube video by MIT OpenCourseWare
youtu.be
August 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
always had a feeling he is that kind of guy

full: pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/z...
April 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Reposted by tim sh
I did some spring cleaning on my blog and wrote up my journey to control my apartment's heating with Home Assistant

blog.videah.net/attacking-my...
Attacking My Landlord's Boiler - videah's blog
blog.videah.net
April 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
posted a new article today, continuing my research in location data sharing by mobile apps.
Check the guide, try it yourself and share the results!

timsh.org/everyone-kno...
Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results
Learn how to record and analyse your mobile device traffic, take an app from the list of "shady" apps and share the results.
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April 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
went on @malwarebytes.com Lock and code podcast to talk about my recent “Everyone knows your location” investigation

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March 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
deep learning models seem far more promising and interesting to me than LLMs

alphageometry2, for example, is actually insane: arxiv.org/abs/2502.03544

read that Ag1 was a mix of traditional algorithms and neural networks - interested if it’s the case with the new one: shorturl.at/o9FhD
Gold-medalist Performance in Solving Olympiad Geometry with AlphaGeometry2
We present AlphaGeometry2, a significantly improved version of AlphaGeometry introduced in Trinh et al. (2024), which has now surpassed an average gold medalist in solving Olympiad geometry problems. ...
arxiv.org
March 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
fascinating story about Android calculator

chadnauseam.com/coding/rando...

imo this will be more and more rare with the amount of LLM-gen code growing. there are 1000000000 calculators, but only a few The Calculators
calculator-app - Chad Nauseam Home
"A calculator app? Anyone could make that." (this was originally a https://x.com/ChadNauseam/status/1890889465322786878) Not true. A calculator should show you the result of the mathematical expressi…
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March 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM