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Bash One-Liners Worth Remembering
Twenty powerful bash one-liners every sysadmin should know, file ops, process hunting, networking, text processing, disk analysis
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Compiling on Linux With Low RAM
Compile software on Raspberry Pi or cheap VPS with 512MB, 2GB RAM. Swap, parallel jobs, ccache, and swappiness tuning make it work.
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Escaping Zim: Migrate to Obsidian
Migrate your Zim Wiki notes to Obsidian using zim2obsidian, escape a dated GTK app for modern sync, mobile access, and a thriving plugin ecosystem.
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CVE-2026-31431: The 9-Year Linux Root Bug
CVE-2026-31431 (copy.fail) lets any local user become root on virtually every Linux system since 2017. Here's what it is, why it matters, and how to fix it.
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GeForce Now: Cloud Gaming Done Right
GeForce Now figured out what Stadia never did: use games you already own. A Founders tier member's deep dive into the best cloud gaming platform running in 2026.
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OpenCanary: Honeypots for Your Home Lab
A honeypot sits quietly on your network pretending to be valuable. Touch it and you've found an intruder. Deploy OpenCanary in Docker, dead simple.
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Self-Supervised Learning Explained
Self-supervised learning is the technique behind GPT, BERT, and modern LLMs. Learn how models teach themselves from unlabeled data.
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Stadia: The Cloud Gaming Dream That Died
Google Stadia had the best cloud gaming latency anyone had seen, and then Google killed it anyway. A eulogy from someone who was there from day one.
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Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home: Block Ads for Your Whole Network
Browser ad blockers miss half the ads. DNS blocking kills them everywhere, TV, phone, game console, everything. Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home: here's which one to run.
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Colima vs OrbStack vs Docker Desktop on Mac
Docker Desktop got expensive and RAM-hungry. Colima is the lean alternative. OrbStack is the one everyone's actually using now. Here's the honest breakdown for Mac developers.
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nftables: Modern Linux Firewalling
iptables is being phased out. nftables is faster, cleaner, and already the default on modern Linux. Here's how to actually use it without wanting to quit.
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Restic vs Borg vs Kopia: Backups That Actually Deduplicate
rsync is not a backup. Restic, Borg, and Kopia do deduplication, encryption, and incremental snapshots properly. Here's which one fits your home lab and why.
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