From silent serial consoles and assembly debugging to processors wiping their own registers at idle: Why the Linux bring-up on Apple's M4 is bare-metal detective work – and what sysadmins can learn from it.
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LinkedIn is annoying, yet remains parked in the management VLAN for lack of alternatives. Vutuv offers an open-source approach featuring ActivityPub and open exports. But is a technically superior profile model enough against the market power of the B2B top dog?
From hand-crafted servers to Infrastructure as Code and AI assistants: Why automation eliminates manual chores while making Linux systems engineering more demanding.
Arch-based rolling distribution with modern Plasma desktop. Lightweight, open development — with Live ISO to test and install.
A European, privacy-oriented social network powered by the AT Protocol is a phenomenal idea. When you verify government ID cards in advance and then strand the onboarding in support with QR codes from a print campaign, it becomes a masterclass in interfaces, processes, and trust.
My edge hosting ran on Debian, Ansible, OpenResty, and HTTP/3 completely unremarkably. Why I migrated the production server to NixOS 26.05 anyway — and where the difference between orchestration and true declaration lies.
Tools like tcpdump or dig don't lie — they just often answer a different question than you asked. Why you shouldn't blindly trust the first finding when troubleshooting networks on Linux.
I just wanted to listen to the radio. No 400 MB Electron monster, no app that indexes my MP3 collection first. So I just built it myself.