Teaching cybersecurity in 2026: when output is cheap, discernment is the work
For several years now, I have been teaching cybersecurity to newcomers to the field. Each cohort takes half a year to train: zero to hero.
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How do you trust output from an LLM coding tool when it produces changes faster than manual review can keep up? This article is a…
Read more →USB-C hub Ethernet on Linux: a debugging story
When I set up my current laptop with Linux, I left some rough edges to “fix later”. Some of them fixed themselves without me doing…
Read more →War stories: VPS, puppet, x86-64 revisions
Last week, we finished our semester-long “OS basics” course with a lesson on managing servers using professional DevOps tools like Puppet. I thought it might…
Read more →New phone: custom ROM, and root in 2025
After an 8 year streak, I swapped my phone. Requirements for the new model were tight: powerful for years to come, not overpriced, and the…
Read more →Linux on the desktop: what to expect
Are you considering running Linux full time on your main device? Here are a few tips from someone who's been on Linux since the 1990s.
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