Debian 13 closed an 18 year old bug, verify your reboot
A kernel update landed for Debian 13 on August 6, 2026, and most of the coverage focused on the wrong thing. The interesting story is not the named vulnerabilities. It is the…
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PushWiki Com: A Quiet Reference Site That Earns Its Bookmark
There is a particular kind of website that almost disappeared from the open web by 2025. A small group of writers, paid salaries, working from a quiet office, producing a few hundred…
A Debian 13 kernel update with 68 CVEs: what to actually patch
A Debian 13 Trixie kernel update landed recently with sixty-eight CVEs in the changelog. I have been on the receiving end of those changelogs for about a decade, and my first instinct…
Why a Six-Figure Salary Caps Your Wealth Before You Notice
I used to think the ceiling was obvious. Earn more, save more, retire comfortably. Then I started watching careers side by side, and the line stopped holding. Two people, similar ages, similar…
When 37,000 strangers tried to buy an airline with promises
In May 2026 a creator posted a one minute video suggesting that ordinary passengers could each chip in a few thousand dollars and put together a buyout bid for Spirit Airlines. Spirit…
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…
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…
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…
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…