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Linux Privilege Escalation: The Defensive Playbook
Attackers love finding ways to go from www-data to root. Here's how they do it, and more importantly, how you harden your Linux boxes to stop them.
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EmDash: WordPress Done Right, Finally
Cloudflare rebuilt WordPress from scratch in TypeScript using AI agents. Sandboxed plugins, Astro themes, self-hostable. It's called EmDash and it's actually interesting.
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Steam on Linux: It Actually Works Now
Steam crossed 5% Linux usage in March 2026. Proton runs most Windows games without touching a config file. Here's the setup that makes Linux gaming not suck.
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Beyond RAG: When a Virtual Filesystem Works Better
RAG is the default answer for giving LLMs access to documents. But chunking, embedding, and retrieval introduce failure modes that a virtual filesystem sidesteps entirely.
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De-Googling: Self-Hosted Replacements for Google Apps
Google Drive, Gmail, Photos, Calendar, Maps, Analytics, all replaceable with self-hosted alternatives that don't report your life back to Mountain View.
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Running Gemma 4 Locally with Ollama
Google's Gemma 4 is the best open model they've shipped yet. Here's how to pull it, run it, and actually use it for real work with Ollama on your own hardware.
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1-Bit LLMs: The Quantization Endgame
1-bit models store weights as -1, 0, or 1. That sounds insane until you see them run a 100B parameter model on a laptop CPU. Here's what's actually happening.
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ctop and lazydocker: Docker Monitoring Tools
Forget docker stats. ctop and lazydocker give you real-time container insights with less friction than typing commands.
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AMD Lemonade: Local LLM Serving for AMD GPUs
AMD finally has a fast, open source local LLM server that uses both GPU and NPU. If you've been jealous of Nvidia users, Lemonade is worth your time.
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When to Use Structured Output (JSON Mode) in LLMs
JSON mode forces models to output valid JSON. When it's a lifesaver vs. when it's overkill and makes the model worse.
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Browser GPU Acceleration on Linux in 2026
Turn on GPU acceleration in Chrome and Firefox on Linux with VA-API, Wayland, and WebGPU. The flags that work in 2026 and how to verify decode is real.
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dotenv Files: The Mistakes That Leak Secrets
You committed .env.production once. Your database credentials are in git forever. Here's how to use dotenv without shooting yourself.
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