Work on the Capture-the-Flag orchestrated by our university.
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In my first year of university, I was the guy with the noisy old almost broken computer that we could hear in half of the amphitheater. So I decided to buy a new smaller, quieter laptop. It was pretty nice for the rest of my bachelor, but the battery was draining way too fast (about 2h of autonomy), and it was not that good when I opened both PyCharm and Chrome at the same time. I am the kind of person who doesn’t like to give up on hardware until it is totally broken. However, this time I wanted something just nice for my master, and I could give my computer to someone of my family who would have a more moderate usage. So last Christmas, I was offered a new computer from a pretty niche brand: a Framework computer.
Detecting marathon runner bib numbers with AI.
In university, we were given some old servers, and we installed some services on it. This inspired me to do the same at home: with a special small computer with an Intel N100 CPU and 2 x 1TB hard drives, it is possible to have similar services at home!
I was able to install my own git thanks to Forgejo, an open-source alternative to GitHub which allows me to store my projects with the guarantee that years of work won’t disappear because of some laws that do not concern me.
Since I was a child, I heard about phone rooting on some obscure YouTube video. It always felt like an “unofficial” and h4ck3r-y think to do, but I understood way later how useful that can be. Rooting my phone would allow me to do absolutely whatever I want with it: removing useless bloatware, system applications, gain full access to my sensors, and especially a way to back up everything, like SMS or application data, without some proprietary and incomplete transfer application.
Work on the AI server of our university.
This year, a company upgraded their server and gave the old ones to our university, which ended up being used by our classes to train on networking and on services deployment.
We thought about how we could connect them. One was going to be our main docker server to install service such as an LDAP server, a Nextcloud, a Forgejo, a Matrix server, a Nginx to link everything and some other niche service such as a Satisfactory and Minecraft server.