In December 2020, I had to work on my final project for my Internet-of-Things course. It’s not really anything special, but it’s pretty cool and if someone needed a proof-of-concept that it could work, this could serve as a page that it does. I’m going to copypasta my entire hastily-written project report cause I don’t like repeat typing things. Without further ado, de-Ranugen. de-Ranugen [Distributed Entropy Random Number Generator] Abstract Random numbers have been of significant interest for a long time especially because they are a core component in computer security applications, TCP/IP sequence numbers, TLS nonces and password salts.
Version 1.0 - Revision 1 [See Changelog Below] Created: May/31/2021 00:35 IST Last Modified: May/31/2021 00:35 IST The intent of this webpage is to serve as an immutable record of the final discussion between the server operators of MECCraft, a Minecraft server, where the decision to transfer complete administrative control was made. At the time before the transfer, the server operators, henceforth referred to as “The Previous Server Operators”, are (listed in alphabetical order):
A few weeks ago, I decided to build a Raspberry Pi 4 Computing Cluster. Why? I honestly don’t know. I won a bit of money from a Hackathon and instead of saving it up like a good kid, I decided to spend it on little green boards that whirred, purred and fizzled to life when mysterious electron juice flowed through it. After being inspired by a rather expensive hobby that I was shown on the interwebs a few years ago called homelab, I decided to set a mini-version of a homelab in my house with a few Raspberry Pi 4B’s and a network switch.
Hello, hello, hello, hello… Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me Is there anyone home? Yeah. I know. It’s been like 6 and a half months. So much for the E-Diary documenting the things I was doing. This is more like a “Yes, I’m alive” page. But, eh. It’s not like I have people on the edge of their seats eagerly waiting to hear what I say.
This summer of 2020 has been quite eventful for me. I not only worked on covindia.com, I also worked on the two points I mentioned at the top of that blog post: I got selected to be a Summer Research Intern at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester (New York) for this summer for 10 weeks under Professor Matthew Wright, The Director of The Center for Cybersecurity Research. I also got a $2,000 scholarship (OMG!
On 2020-May-31 16:00:00, covindia.com shut down after nearly 2.5 months of running. This is the email that I sent out to the team and the university management: Greetings Everyone, What started out as an idea in a meeting room in the Faculty Office on the first floor on 12th March, 2020 turned into something colossal over the past two months. 11-ish weeks of working relentlessly, persistently and non-stop have culminated into what has been the biggest and most socially impacting project that I have ever been a part of, Covindia.
Oh boy, this is a big one. A realllllly big one. So big, in fact, it may be the coolest blog post I’ve ever written. Ever. TL;DR at the bottom Note: This website looks nice on laptops. The images zoom in when you hover over them. That don’t happen on da phone, yo 🤘. Also this title is slightly click-baity. I did set up the website that touched a million views in 2 weeks, but there was a team of like 7-8 people.
Warning: This is low-key illegal. I’m very fortunate that the parties involved took it in a good manner and didn’t suspend me. Note to future self: Don’t do stupid shit. Note to the reader: I use College and University interchangably because my College is almost about to be a Uni soon, so yeah. TL;DR at the bottom Well, this is going to be a looong and glorious post. This is the story of how a young man became the most powerful person on his campus for around 8 hours.
TL;DR at the bottom On 23rd January, The Entrepreneurship & Innovation Cell (EIC) of our college conducted their annual ESummit. They had a few events out of which one was The Startup Sprint: a 30 hour long hackathon meant for students who wanted to start a company. It focused ~60% on the Business Part and ~40% on the Technology Part. The hackathon began on Thursday afternoon at 2pm and was to end on Friday evening at 8pm.
Previously, on the blog: Winter Vacation is Done Am I looking forward to next semester? I'm not sure. These are the courses I have: - Computer Networks (9 / 10 excited 🎉🎉) - Web Programming (7 / 10 excited) - Software Engineering (6 / 10 excited) - Machine Learning (6 / 10 excited) - High Performance Computing (10 / 10 excited 🎉🎉🎉) - Third Year Team Project - This is variable - Elective-1 - I still have to choose this.