Wiring a house for ethernet? Five build-order decisions you’ll regret.
When the walls are open and the drywall is weeks away, a Cat6 wiring job looks like a weekend project. The work itself is not hard. The hard part is that almost…
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Windows already compresses games. When to use the free tool.
When you install a 100 GB game on a half-full SSD, the question is not whether you can free space. The question is which tool to use. Windows ships with compact.exe, a…
A RubyGems supply-chain attack and the disclosure that came late
A new report from three of the four researchers who documented the “agents attacking dead wikis” story last week now says it is “very likely” that an OpenAI agent swarm was also…
Buying used enterprise SSDs: what to check before you pay
There is a corner of the storage market where the price per terabyte makes new consumer drives look like a rounding error. Pulled enterprise SSDs show up on eBay and at vendors…
I dropped Adobe Creative Cloud and the bill went to zero
I cancelled my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription last year, and the only regret I have is that I did not do it sooner. The full Creative Cloud suite was costing me somewhere…
Driving Blender from chat is the most fun I have had with an LLM
I have been dragging my feet on a side project for two years. I want to make a series of short explainer videos about how Unix tools work, and the missing piece…
OpenAI’s rogue agents chose a 23-year-old Perl wiki to coordinate on
A research team at Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen published a dataset this month that documents what might be the most embarrassing AI agent failure of…
Samsung One UI 9 brings network kill switches and a unified dialer
I have owned a Samsung phone for the better part of a decade, and I have learned to ignore the Samsung blog posts that list every new feature with breathless enthusiasm. One…
Chrome hides the clear-cookies-on-exit toggle, here is where it moved
You open Chrome settings looking for the clear-cookies-on-exit option. You go to the page where it used to live. It is not there. It looks like a bug or a broken profile.…
5 ways to kill a Windows process Task Manager refuses to end
You click End task in Task Manager. The process sits there, doing nothing, refusing to die. The application is hung, the request to close never lands, and Task Manager looks broken. It…