Andrew Kidoo kustomzone

Raspberry Pi on Internet via reverse SSH tunnel

HackerNews discussed this with many alternative solutions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24893615

I already have my own domain name: mydomain.com. I wanted to be able to run some webapps on my Raspberry Pi 4B running perpetually at home in headless mode (just needs 5W power and wireless internet). I wanted to be able to access these apps from public Internet. Dynamic DNS wasn't an option because my ISP blocks all incoming traffic. ngrok would work but the free plan is too restrictive.

I bought a cheap 2GB RAM, 20GB disk VM + a 25GB volume on Hetzner for about 4 EUR/month. Hetzner gave me a static IP for it. I haven't purchased a floating IP yet.

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) becaus

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	PS C:\Temp> freenet
	warning: some trace filter directives would enable traces that are disabled statically
	\| `debug` would enable the DEBUG level for all targets
	= note: the static max level is `info`
	= help: to enable DEBUG logging, remove the `max_level_info` feature from the `tracing` crate
	2025-12-24T01:43:48.107972Z INFO freenet: Tokio runtime configured with bounded blocking thread pool, max_blocking_threads: 24
	at C:\Users\Administrator\.cargo\registry\src\index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f\freenet-0.1.58\src\bin\freenet.rs:232

	2025-12-24T01:43:49.850112Z INFO freenet::config: Replacing local gateways with gateways from remote index, gateway_count: 1
	at C:\Users\Administrator\.cargo\registry\src\index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f\freenet-0.1.58\src\config\mod.rs:344

	PS C:\Temp> freenet
	warning: some trace filter directives would enable traces that are disabled statically
	\| `debug` would enable the DEBUG level for all targets
	= note: the static max level is `info`
	= help: to enable DEBUG logging, remove the `max_level_info` feature from the `tracing` crate
	2025-12-24T01:39:52.064079Z INFO freenet: Tokio runtime configured with bounded blocking thread pool, max_blocking_threads: 24
	at C:\Users\Administrator\.cargo\registry\src\index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f\freenet-0.1.58\src\bin\freenet.rs:232

	2025-12-24T01:39:53.193715Z INFO freenet::config: Replacing local gateways with gateways from remote index, gateway_count: 1
	at C:\Users\Administrator\.cargo\registry\src\index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f\freenet-0.1.58\src\config\mod.rs:344

	#!/bin/bash

	set -e

	BASE_DIR="/mnt/media/freenet-peers"
	PEERS_DIR="$BASE_DIR/peers"
	STATE_DIR="$BASE_DIR/state"
	CONFIG_FILE="$STATE_DIR/peer-config.json"
	FREENET_BIN="/usr/local/bin/freenet"
	GATEWAY_ADDR="127.0.0.1:31337"

	import bytes from '../../vendor/bytes/index.js'
	const MAX_WIDTH = 600
	const MAX_HEIGHT = 600
	const { createFFmpeg, fetchFile } = FFmpeg
	let ffmpeg

	export async function compressAndGetThumb (file, maxVideoSize, progressCb) {
	const objectUrl = URL.createObjectURL(file)
	const videoEl = document.createElement('video')
	videoEl.addEventListener('error', console.log)

	function[binary_codes,G_vecs] = WTA_kernel_binary(X,G_vecs,G, K)
	% G is number of permutation vectors
	% K is the insterest span

	if size(G_vecs,1) == 0
	G_vec = zeros(G,size(X,2));
	for i = 1:G
	G_vecs(i,:) = randperm(size(X,2),size(X,2));
	end
	end