I don’t want to hear about your Plex, your NPM, your notes application or science forbid, your budgeting application. I want to hear the most exotic thing you setup to selfhost, that probably only you and a hand full of people around the world actually use or even need. A problem that you solved in a way, that makes people go WTF. Go!
I’ll start: I live in the mountains, and there is snow, lots of snow. I often tell people “We had 3m of snow last year”, but is that really true? So, I thought to myself: Can you measure snowfall? It seems you can, so I setup a USH-9 ultra sound measuring device, connected it via IC2 to my Home Assistant and now I can tell people with confidence, that we had a total of 3.45m of snowfall last season, with max snow height of 60cm on January 5th.
Future project: I have chickens. They lay eggs. I have cameras. I want to know which hen lays how many eggs. Solution? AI image recognition of the hens (who is who) and if they have laid an egg. Any inputs welcome.
In 2016 purchased and jailbroke 20 iPhone 4, and later upgraded to 30 iPhone 5s on iOS 9.3
I wrote a custom theos tweak which injected an HTTP server into Snapchat.
A raspberry pi was running an nginx server as a load balancer across the 30 iPhones.
I developed an Android app called “Casper”, which was a 3rd party Snapchat client. It sent http requests to my load balancer server to fetch signed security tokens from a random iPhone, which spoofed that it was the official Snapchat app.
The Snapchat APIs believed my app was the real app, so it could download and view snaps without the sender knowing it was even opened.
Self hosted an iPhone farm :)
Here’s a link to my tweet with photos and videos of the setup for anyone interested!
https://twitter.com/LiamCottle/status/1406616490783117322
That is amazing! So much effort just to “hack” into Snapchats ecosystem, that’s what I’m talking about. I did or do the same with Pokémon Go to map areas. I’ve first used Android HTPC for that but now I use arm VM’s to walk around with dozens of accounts that will then report back the location of the Pokémon it detects as well as their IV’s and such, so you can just go there and catch your much needed perfect IV Pikachu.
A guys that I known did something similar: he bought lot of SMS unlimited SIMs, a bunch of cheaper chinese Android phones and he create an SMS gateway with this solution. After a while the telco start banning the phones from the network because they see an huge number of SMSs coming from the same mobile cell. Then he decide to spread the phones to friends and family, but after a while they got banned too. So he made an agreement with a friend that have a courier company and in every truck they put 20/30 phones sending SMSes all the time. Never got banned and he grow up the company until he sold it for 5 milion
Wow that’s a memory I forgot I had! Thanks for your work on Casper, used it a lot back in the day. Is there anything else someone can use an iPhone farm for these days?
I used to use Casper! Loved that app! Never realised how much effort it was to make that work. Thank you so much!
Thanks for making Casper, I remember really enjoying it. Absolutely based.