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Understanding the language and architecture of every piece of software is a very, very lofty goal. Taken to the extreme, I don't understand C fully. Does this mean that I shou...

Hey everyone! I am currently reviewing a server of mine, that serves as an LXC host. It runs Debian 12, and has two physical network interfaces. Both interfaces have been conf...

Recently I got this email from a business called "B2B Rocket". Did any of you receive such an email too recently? It seems to be soliciting me to chat with a sales rep from Ju...

On a different subject, I've been seeing low write performance on a laptop's secondary mechanical hard drive. This drive is a 750GB WD Black Scorpio drive, connected via SATA....

Recently I recovered a system that had failed due to a bad OS drive, by reinstalling its OS to another drive (a USB-attached SATA SSD this time), and deployed it into an initi...

A while ago I made a customized version of bash's time command, in the form of a script. Now I'd like to make every command that I run in the console run inside of that script...

Recently I saw a developer challenge from a public transit provider of my country (De Lijn). The gist of the challenge is that essentially, you have to answer as many question...

Hang on, I might've misunderstood the ethX thing.. are you referring to the .d files, or to the first two lines in those files (allow-hotplug, iface)? If the latter, aren't th...

Regarding code assistance from ChatGPT (which honestly is extremely promising, I'd consider it apprentice-like), I also have the question below. I've used its modified output ...

There's also the matter of those drives that may eventually end up as those servers' rootfs storage, not being used to their fullest extent as-is. Those servers consume only a...

It's been a while since I've built Android from source and I've never bothered much with custom kernels, but aren't changes made to the source code of those all the time? It s...

For a current project of mine, I'm looking for a CAD software of some kind that allows for 3D modeling of a physical appliance, with electronic components as what could be jus...

How does the DAC/amp circuit behind a headphone jack detect that a device is plugged in? At first I assumed that it would be the impedance of the device (e.g. 32 ohm for my Sa...

I've always wondered why Kali (or any turnkey pentesting distro) is so often recommended for security research. Sure, it's easy to setup and rather ephemeral (even with persis...

A BMS built from scratch is a very ambitious project, regardless of experience level. It combines both the thermodynamic challenges of power electronics and the fine detail of...

As for you Raptor, I have a suspicion that you want to be considered the "smartest guy in the room". Let's entertain the thought for a minute. If you're the smartest guy in th...

Same here to be honest. I still do digitally sign my emails when I can (because why not), but the whole idea of "plausible deniability" on emails that aren't signed.. how's th...

While reading this conversation, I also couldn’t help but ask myself how a microcontroller such as an Arduino could possibly belong in a medical setting. Can you really cheap ...