AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 added to FreeBSD Home Server
AMD ROCm, AI inference and compute on FreeBSD via bhyve GPU passthrough, and reducing blower fan noise
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Upgrade to 2.5G Switch
Upgrading main home network switch to 2.5G with D-Link DMS-F106TS 6 port managed switch
Home Lab Server Build
Chip fracture for finger, scavenging for parts for home lab server build
ROCm and Vulkan on Ubuntu VM on FreeBSD with Bhyve GPU Passthrough
With FreeBSD 15 and bhyve hypervisor you can can run and serve GPU powered local AI and compute services such as llama.cpp using ROCm and Vulkan with AMD GPUs and Ubuntu Linux VM
Local AI Assisted Development with OpenCode, Qwen 3.6 and llama.cpp
With release of Qwen 3.6 35B A3B, AI assisted development is now useful on local setup with limited VRAM.
Drones for Investigative Journalism
A small drone is an invaluable tool to add to an investigative journalists toolkit
AMD GPU Hardware Accelerated FFmpeg Encoding with AMF on Ubuntu Linux
AMD Advance Media Framework (AMF) SDK provides hardware accelerated encoding and decoding with open source drivers on Ubuntu Linux with FFmpeg
SEL70350G 70-350mm Telephoto
Super-telephoto lens for Sony APS-C
Darktable AgX Camera Style for A6700
A Darktable style that matches the A6700 out of camera JPEG ST (Standard) Picture Profile
Shooting with Purpose for Events
Preparation and having a checklist of photos you need to capture helps with getting quality results
Querying Federation of Malaya Budget from 1959
Current state of VLMs allows us to query accurately printed tables from the late 1950's
Cleaning up Documents with VLMs
Cleaning up documents, this time with VLMs and AI generated one off scripts
AI and and Data Governance Workshop
AI and and Data Governance Workshop for Malaysian Civil Society, November 2025
Events
Events and Workshops
Kampung Jalan Papan, Klang
Quick site visit and photo documentation of the location of Kampung Jalan Papan, Klang protests