Proxmox on Arm64 finally works and the homelab crowd should care
Proxmox VE 9.2 for Arm64 is the announcement I have been waiting on for years. The home lab story used to come with a built-in assumption: Proxmox meant x86, full stop. Anyone…
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How to spot a link farm in 5 minutes without opening one post
I open maybe a hundred unfamiliar sites a year for research. Most of them are fine. A small number are link farms dressed up as blogs, and they share enough fingerprints that…
the linux kernel is removing a layer most of us forgot existed
Picture a building with two staircases running between every floor, both fully maintained, both lit. Tearing one down looks like nothing from the street. It is actually a quiet admission that the…
Mesa 26.2 quietly fixes the Linux graphics stack you forgot about
I almost skipped writing about Mesa 26.2. Quarterly graphics stack releases land on a predictable schedule, the changelogs are unreadable, and most of the news inside them is incremental noise. But this…
ARM64 Ubuntu servers finally skip the reboot for kernel patches
The on-call rotation got paged at 11:47pm a few months ago because a critical kernel CVE dropped. We had three hours to either patch fifty Ampere Altra boxes (a 64-bit ARM server…
GStreamer 1.28.6 closes a pile of small media pipeline landmines
Maintenance releases are easy to ignore. The version bumps, the changelog is full of words like “regression” and “edge case,” and the day-to-day impact is usually zero. I get the temptation to…
Rust just shipped the AI contribution rule other projects will steal
I read the Rust Project’s new policy on large language model contributions (LLMs, AI systems that generate text or code from a prompt) twice in one sitting, which is not something I…
YT Zero turns a Synology NAS into a Google-free YouTube inbox
Most of the public web is hostile to the idea of paying attention on purpose. The big video site in particular has spent a decade making the act of “watch one video…
Run a self-hosted game backlog manager on your Synology NAS
Every Steam owner’s library looks the same after a few years. Hundreds of titles, a handful of completed ones, and a long list of “I will play it later” purchases that keep…
Save videos from X without handing a stranger your login
Saving a video from X looks like a two-click problem until the clip comes from a private account, the download site demands notifications, or the file arrives with no audio. The safest…