OpenSource software should be encouraged more…
I remember the exact moment I decided I needed proper monitoring. A service I had been running for years had stopped responding. Not sure exactly when — could have been days, could have been weeks. I only noticed because someone asked me why it was down.
More importantly, it is avoidable.
A roundup of the best open-source security tools worth running in 2026 — from SIEM and vulnerability scanning to endpoint visibility and incident response.[……]
A roundup of the best open-source security tools worth running in 2026 — from SIEM and vulnerability scanning to endpoint visibility and incident response.[……]
If you’ve got a collection of movies, TV shows, or music sitting on a hard drive, you’ve probably thought about setting up a media server. The big three names that come up are Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby. They all do roughly the same thing — organise your media and stream it to your devices — but they[……]
So you need a free image editor — you’ve heard of GIMP and Krita, both free and open source, both powerful, but you’re not sure which one to install. I’ve used both extensively and the answer really depends on what you want to do. Let me break it down.
This is t[……]
A post doing the rounds this week looks at employment data and concludes that AI has torched the market for junior programmers. The headline numbers are striking — youth employment in software down, entry-level postings shrinking — and I am sure the data is real.
But I read the article and came awa[……]
I have been using Debian for more than fifteen years now. Not exclusively — I have used Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, even some BSDs here and there — but Debian is the one I keep coming back to. It is the operating system I trust with my servers, my home lab, and increasingly my daily driver too.
Debian[……]
I’ve been upgrading my Debian 12 (bookworm) server fleet to Debian 13 (trixie).
Here is the successful process I ended up following for them all.
The process is essentially: update your package lists, switch the repository URLs from bookworm to trixie, and run the upgrade. Here is how I did it.
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware sent licensing costs through the roof. Here’s what it teaches us about open source, vendor lock-in, and why the safe choice isn’t always safe.[……]
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware sent licensing costs through the roof. Here’s what it teaches us about open source, vendor lock-in, and why the safe choice isn’t always safe.[……]
Paperclip recently caught my attention as it allows you to orchestrate teams of specialised AI agents through a beautiful self-hosted web UI, so I had to give it a try.
The concept is solid: specialized agents for different tasks, all tracked through a ticketing system. The UI[……]
Interesting article on Linux permissions. It explains how to recognise which permission system might be in use (SELinux, ACLs), the meaning of the special bits (setuid, setgid, sticky), how umask works, and more.
The basic Linux permission model — owner, group, others with read/write/execute — is ju[……]
