Stark from Earth @ LS @tonyfromls@qoto.org

Did a run today and though the pain has subsided for my pinky toe, there is still sharp pain when pressure is applied to the tip.

So I have to change my running gait and because of the injury on the pinky toe, I used heel landing but quickly rolling the feet to distribute the landing pressure and not concentrate on the knee.

Only 10km for now. Slowly will increase this week until I am back on 21km runs.

Preparing today for a busy one.

I need to push more on the technical reviews on software engineering as there is a big one coming for this week.

Also need to get back on physical training as the injury on the pinky toe is healing progressively.

There is also some information on the training provider where I took my private military contracting so I sent them some message to see if I have a chance to get a job cause im not from the regions where they usually take newly hires.

At least if I can land for some operational experience setting aside revenue first, that would be awesome for me.

So today morning, I tried DiggerWasp 1, as usual with no external controller but the phone only. There is a landscape mode I just realized which widen's the FPV camera view but there are problems because the neighborhood has people outside and I don't want people noticing my drone. hence I lay low on the ground and moved to a more remote area in my backyard but the problem is the dense vegetation in my area as it's easy to get my drone collide and crash.

Maybe later afternoon for another flight to scout the area.

I got a lot of hours from flight simulators a long time ago flying the F14 Tomcat, F-16 Falcon, and the Mig-29 Fulcrum using keyboard controls and a joystick.

Flying DiggerWasp 1 is not new and even it's a phone, the skill from the flight simulator has transferred easily. The only difference between an aircraft and an FPV drone is the high agility of the latter.

Will be removing the rotor guards next time while I practice scouting my area.

Yesterday was a quick half calisthenics at the gym still cautious because of my pinky toe injury and the high knee seems can be done on full knee height without pain in my pinky toe.

Also went to buy my very first AI drone with FPV mode last night from the mountain city and at the small booth at the mall I was instructed by the sales person for the very first hover flight for testing of the drone.

Late morning today I started initial controls of the drone at inside my hut starting with the hand gestures and manual control.

First collision when I was moving forward the drone had to move backward and it was blocked by my router's LAN wire to PC and it was the first collision.

Had a hard time initially with manual controls because the drone seems to not move laterally at some areas inside the hut but then I realized later on when I was trying to find the battery icon in the phone app and stumbled on an obstacle icon and so clicked it and it turns out the settings for obstacle avoidance is initially set to break. It also has bypass but I turned it off all.

Decided to use full FPV mode control manually without obstacle management assistance and now I can take the drone out of the hut's window which was impossible earlier as the drone jus stops before it reaches the window.

Flew the drone FPV mode outside the hut via the window and hovered 2 feet above the ground moving it all around with the gimbal camera as my view I I was careful but agile enough to evade tall grasses, large twigs on the ground protruding up, manage to evade trees and branches, I hovered vertically way past my hut's roof and saw the neighbors around.

Finally pass thru the window again from the outside and landed the drone inside.

I was planning to buy soon the FPV controllers with handheld motion and headset but upon checking youtube, it was demonstrated by some blogger that this drone can actually fly the distance away from the phone at 300m which is good enough for me at the moment.

Say hello to my DJI Neo 2 Drone. I'll give her a name DiggerWasp I 😜

I rescheduled a supposed interview today because my foot pinky aches so much I was resting almost all day.

Done with the observability deep dive and now I recalled my last project's setup.

Need to cram deep dives on Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Kibana including JMeter and Oracle JVisualVM cause I already forgot the first group 😅

Deep diving into Prometheus.

Got myself in an accident at home. The heavy bolo that was sheated fell from the top of my clothing shelf it slid from a rag and then it fell with the handle base hitting my little pinky on the right foot. Grunted hard and loud and the foot pinky is swollen.

I guess no running for a week or 2 since I'm using forfoot landings as it will hurt my foot pinky.

Did a run today, 15km run. I still need a week to get back to the 21km run.

Did a gym today and worked out the muscle groups I have not worked out yesterday. Took a bit heavier weight for the biceps and the triceps workouts.

Did a run for a supposed 21km but at 3.2km I got lazy so I decided to cancel it.

Resting today and tomorrow is still on software engineering review.

Did a gym workout today around afternoon and went home and slept the rest of the afternoon 😅

Was planning for a long run tonight but I got lazy and ate a lot instead.

I been away from MIT-OCW studies and I miss it but I still need to prepare for technical interviews hence still at the software engineering particularly in Java tech stack.

What a beautiful weekend. So some updates:

- I cancelled the plan on starting up a PMC company. The outlook isn't going well because I realized, it's hard to get into the industry without a solid network of contacts as the industry is well guarded by trust, network, and strong vetting.

- Not even a chance to work as a PMC operator. The vast market of the industry is monopolized by the US and Europe and UK comes next. The remaining percentage is very small. Security clearance is needed, infantry and or special ops work is required. Europe and UK has similar requirements. I tried submitting my CVs around but it seems it only got one look and it went to the trash 😅

- I am on track on studying course 6-5, and course 8 of MIT via an equivalent MIT-OCW courses.

- Decided to continue my journey towards a second degree but with the tremendous breakthrough in AI and the upcoming Physical AI, the local BSEE has become much more obsolete and BSCpE or BS Computer Engineering has become more significant. I will get on a BSCpE program and is fully asynchronous and online, which is also ABET.

- A solution on cybersecurity and a revenue for a dual use defense tech company is in the works but sadly my initial business partner whom I tried to onboard isn't interested maybe because she isn't a technical person and didn't appreciate and see the success for this idea, hence I am still looking for a partner who is good in business.

- Going back to Software Engineering and got a series of interviews already hence been busy reviewing the backend tech stack and getting my knowledge and skills back in shape. Some gray areas I still need to work on particularly on containers, CI/CD, and cloud, cause I forgot most of the commands 😆

- Physical workout is still maintained with a bit more focus on martial arts empty hand but the long distance runs took a rest for a bit.

- Got some enemies from the profession of arms because I called them out for unethical actions and then I was put into surveillance. For quite sometime they know my movements and my internet activity. After installing VPN they suddenly became blind. Looks like either my router in my sister's house far away from me, or my ISP has been compromised but they are blind now after setting up VPN.

Got surprised the second time around regarding the progress of AI these days.

The first shock was the advent of LLM spearheaded by ChatGPT and now with the recent announcement during NVIDIA GTC Keynote 2026 which introduced a new engineering paradigm approach to developing physical devices which is now coined as Physical AI.

I need to get back to studies but not formal anymore since the BSEE and BSCpE programs are either not keeping pace with the developments in Physical AI or that they are still far from MIT-OCW approach and quality.

My plan for a defense company will have to embrace the Physical AI and surprisingly, MIT has evolved their EE curriculum closer to Cyber Physical Systems which is the nature of Physical AI.

In this regard, is a big shift and a return to STEM studies but this time self-study and using the mapped courses of MIT to MIT-OCW both in course 6-5 which is Electrical Engineering with Computing and course 8 which is Physics.

That means I will have to put to the back burner the self-study in theoretical physics for now using the books of Susskind, Morse & Feshbach, Jeffrey and Jeffreys, and that of Watler Thirring. Prioritizing engineering physics for now with course 8 from MIT mapped to MIT-OCW.

Everything is aligning specially that I have decided to pull a team from my comrades in the PMC training to start our very own PMC aligned with the modern nature of PMC these days which blurs with a defense tech company.

We are not only going to provide both tactical and technical security, together with risk management services but also logistics, and systems which includes autonomous ones.

I forgot to toot about my progress.

Already finished the International Security and Risk Management.

Gym workout today.

Alright, So I have decided to rebrand my social media accounts and that all related to my "shadow" side remains at the shadows and this account should only reflect my STEM endeavors.

Political instability, terrorism, and insurgency topic is done.

Now at Organized Crime, Kidnap, Extortion, and Piracy topics.

Active surveillance last night while I was on my way home running the 21Km.

Was able to detect with counter-surveillance and avoid with anti-surveillance. Had to deploy Surveillance Detection Route to confirm presence of surveillance and emergency route was used.

Additional security protocols activated upon reaching home, had to sweep area with possible IED, active human threat, and surveillance device.

Intelligence Analysis of the surveillance incident suggest highly likelihood that it was from a VIP PSD team that I passed by flagging me as a potential threat hence surveillance teams were deployed against me.