NOIZE-LABS // the blog
Lab Notes
Field reports from a Saint Louis studio that builds its own tools instead of renting them. What we tested, what broke, what it cost — and when we're guessing, we say so.
House rule — facts are dated, forecasts are labelled, and mistakes get filed next to the wins.
The sandbox was never a wall.
I thought "sandboxed" meant my files stayed home. It doesn't. What your AI's connectors really see, where it all goes, and the rules your repos, scripts and databases need before the AI starts writing to them.
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I'm not paranoid. I'm early.
You got the breach letter. You took the five bucks. You shrugged. Here's what that shrug already cost you, why nobody's fixing it, and what I built instead.
Read it →The Ghost in the Export
Your whole life is one password away, and the machine just made it cheap. A Halloween Lab Note on data brokers, location data, AI chat logs and the fifty-dollar machine that does what the safe AI won't.
Read it if you dare →
The night the dev drive died
At 2:22 AM on 15 July the workstation went dark mid-session and came back without the drive that held our code, Docker, our AI models and the first live dashboard. We rebuilt the eight minutes nothing logged from what the machines wrote down and what we said at the time. Then a probable cause, labelled as one.
Open the file →- AThe last session
- BNo bluescreen
- CThe second machine
- DThe witness
- EThe restart loop
- FDocker
- GProbable cause
- HWhat changes
Gemini owes me 163 apologies
I pulled 5,911 messages of Gemini history and counted every time I called it out and it folded: 109 sorries, 54 “you’re absolutely right”s with no sorry, and one Vite loop you can click through. Then the same count on Claude, because fair is fair.
Read the receipts →
NoizeLabs OS: the whole story
A satirical, very animated tour of the attention economy: the Fakebook feed, slot-machine design, plate-reader dragnets and rent-forever hardware. Then the local-first, buy-once platform being built instead. Every fact sourced, every parody labelled.
Enter Fakebook →
The AI hardware crisis, six months on
We checked all 51 claims from Issue 01 against what was true in October. Memory is about four times the price. A used 24GB card costs near $1,200. The $20 plans kept their price and stopped saying what it buys. Then a forecast to 2028, labelled as one.
Open the file →- AThe scorecard
- BMemory
- CThe price ladder
- DThe Sovereign Setup
- ERent or own
- FForecast to 2028
- GCheckpoints