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Subscribe via RSSLetting Strangers Trigger a Gas Leak: Safely Opening a Control Room to the Public - Part 5
Part 5 of HazShield AI. I put a "run a simulation" button on a public control room and had to solve the real problem behind it: how do you let anyone trigger an expensive, resource-hungry plume without letting them take the whole system down?
My Safety System Wrote Its First Emergency Plan. It Blamed the Wrong Hazard. - Part 3
Part 3 of HazShield AI: an async worker cluster folds thousands of alarms into incidents, hands hazard context to a local LLM, and learns the hard way that a model can write perfect JSON and still misdiagnose a methane leak.
Building a Self-Hosted OpenStack Private Cloud on a Mini PC (Behind CGNAT, No Public IP)
An end-to-end build log: a bare GMKtec mini PC to a public-facing OpenStack cloud you can SSH into, with no public IP and no port forwarding — including every wall I hit and how I got past it.
