https://khimani.dev Security, systems, and writeups. https://khimani.dev/blog/fine-tuning-openjev-on-62695-ab-tests/ https://khimani.dev/blog/fine-tuning-openjev-on-62695-ab-tests Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Training a headline ranker on Upworthy's A/B tests, fixing the evaluation, and checking how it compares with Gemini and transfers to Reddit. https://khimani.dev/blog/googles-13-billion-in-finland/ https://khimani.dev/blog/googles-13-billion-in-finland Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A room of investors spent a morning working out where to put money in energy. They covered generation and regulation. Storage came up about twice, and the grid operator has had a moratorium on connecting it since last year. https://khimani.dev/blog/what-did-we-all-miss/ https://khimani.dev/blog/what-did-we-all-miss Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Thye done did it boys, it's jover y'all ToT https://khimani.dev/blog/plan-a-ai/ https://khimani.dev/blog/plan-a-ai Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The AI Futures Project wants the US and China to pause superintelligence until 2040. It is a good plan. Sixty days after they published it, ten thousand agents solved Navier-Stokes. https://khimani.dev/blog/rsi-emergence-and-the-pope/ https://khimani.dev/blog/rsi-emergence-and-the-pope Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Reading the Pope's AI encyclical alongside recent work on self-improvement, model behaviour, and consciousness. https://khimani.dev/blog/building-vs-creating/ https://khimani.dev/blog/building-vs-creating Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Just going over a random thought I had recently https://khimani.dev/blog/shader-journeys-part-1/ https://khimani.dev/blog/shader-journeys-part-1 Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Starting a new series on learning shaders from scratch. Fragments, vertices, and a lot of confused staring at math. https://khimani.dev/blog/chat-control-eu/ https://khimani.dev/blog/chat-control-eu Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why Chat Control bothers me, what other forms of surveillance have to do with it, and the privacy tools I want people to build. https://khimani.dev/blog/epistemic-collapse/ https://khimani.dev/blog/epistemic-collapse Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Thoughts on synthetic media, the work of checking claims, and why producing more content can overwhelm the people trying to verify it. https://khimani.dev/blog/hardware-journeys-starting-from-zero/ https://khimani.dev/blog/hardware-journeys-starting-from-zero Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Starting a hardware learning log, from loose wires and damaged components to the privacy projects I want to build. https://khimani.dev/blog/on-building-something-engrammic/ https://khimani.dev/blog/on-building-something-engrammic Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Repeated stale claims in an AI pipeline led me to work on agent memory that records evidence, tracks revisions, and handles conflicting observations. https://khimani.dev/blog/im-back-pt-2/ https://khimani.dev/blog/im-back-pt-2 Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Part two, and the hard one. Summer 2025 took everything, I nearly didn't make it, and I nearly left to fight a war. This is how I fell all the way down and clawed back up, and the people who wouldn't let me stay down. https://khimani.dev/blog/im-back-pt-1/ https://khimani.dev/blog/im-back-pt-1 Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Two years of silence, explained. Part one of how 2025 went: building a community from 5 people to 250+, learning about entrepreneurship, and one startup that taught me exactly what not to be. https://khimani.dev/blog/thm-blue-writeup/ https://khimani.dev/blog/thm-blue-writeup Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT Scanning an exposed SMB service and using the MS17-010 EternalBlue exploit to gain a foothold on TryHackMe's Blue room. https://khimani.dev/blog/what-do-i-want/ https://khimani.dev/blog/what-do-i-want Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT A rambling reflection on losing sight of why hacking and building things used to be fun, and second-guessing a career path chosen out of relevance-anxiety rather than genuine interest. https://khimani.dev/blog/linux-journeys-tiling-window-managers-and-linux-ricing/ https://khimani.dev/blog/linux-journeys-tiling-window-managers-and-linux-ricing Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT A follow-up on the ricing rabbit hole, walking through the i3, Polybar, Rofi, compton, kitty and zsh setup behind a first tiling window manager rice. https://khimani.dev/blog/university/ https://khimani.dev/blog/university Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT First impressions of moving abroad to start studies at LUT University's Lahti campus in Finland. https://khimani.dev/blog/red-writeup/ https://khimani.dev/blog/red-writeup Mon, 17 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT Exploiting an exposed service to get a foothold and using the CVE-2021-4034 pkexec bug to root TryHackMe's Red room. https://khimani.dev/blog/chocolate-factory-writeup/ https://khimani.dev/blog/chocolate-factory-writeup Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT Enumerating FTP and web services with rustscan before working through initial access and privilege escalation on TryHackMe's Chocolate Factory room. https://khimani.dev/blog/daily-bugle-writeup/ https://khimani.dev/blog/daily-bugle-writeup Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT Fingerprinting and exploiting a Joomla install with Metasploit to gain a foothold and escalate on TryHackMe's Daily Bugle room. https://khimani.dev/blog/toolsrus-writeup/ https://khimani.dev/blog/toolsrus-writeup Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT Uploading a malicious WAR file to a vulnerable Tomcat manager for a reverse shell on TryHackMe's ToolsRus room, then persisting with an SSH key. https://khimani.dev/blog/linux-journeys-customizing-the-bootsplash/ https://khimani.dev/blog/linux-journeys-customizing-the-bootsplash Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT A Tensura-inspired rabbit hole into Linux ricing that ends with installing and theming plymouth for a custom boot splash. https://khimani.dev/blog/game-zone-writeup/ https://khimani.dev/blog/game-zone-writeup Wed, 14 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT Scanning and exploiting a vulnerable web forum on TryHackMe's Game Zone room to land a shell and escalate privileges. https://khimani.dev/blog/going-forward/ https://khimani.dev/blog/going-forward Tue, 13 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT Thanking the handful of early readers and laying out an unscheduled, whenever-it-is-ready posting cadence going forward. https://khimani.dev/blog/thm-writeup-alfred/ https://khimani.dev/blog/thm-writeup-alfred Tue, 13 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT Bruteforcing a Jenkins login with Burp Intruder, then chaining a PowerShell reverse shell into a token impersonation privesc on TryHackMe's Alfred room. https://khimani.dev/blog/hello-world/ https://khimani.dev/blog/hello-world Tue, 23 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT A one-image hello post kicking off this blog with a looping animated gif.