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Occasionally, we folks using Linux find our selves in situations where things break; our computers do not function as intended. In my scenario, I was out on business in another country, and my WiFi device was simply not showing up after a reboot. I k...
Exploring possibilities with the power language models
Learning new things or building new things requires rapid prototyping. This is a guide on how to create a VM template using a raw image and LVM-Thin storage. We're using an ubuntu cloud image in this. get https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/noble/current...
I had a weird notion that proxmox was throttling the network throughput of guests, however today I discovered that it was only due to the CPU of the guest machine. Here's the scenario. I have a 1GBPS connection to the internet. All machines in my off...
A gentle introduction to userspace instrumentation
In this blog, we will continue with tracing. We'll aim to get a basic understanding of: How processes work Exit codes Forking of processes Exit tracepoints (of the execve() syscall) Recommended reading: If you've not read the first article, ple...
Enter God mode
I'm looking at you, Azure.
Recently, I headed to Pastebin, wanting to quickly copy-paste a script I was working on to another computer. Pastebin is notorious for breaches, leaks and password dumps. So much so that there are lots of OSINT tools supporting Pastebin. I casually l...
