Kirill's journal

Architecture specific notes for OpenBSD guests under QEMU, with working command lines where installation succeeds and failure points where it does not.

The open web is not disappearing because publishing has become impossible; it is disappearing because discovery is being absorbed into vendor specific information environments.

DEFLATE level 13 is a deliberately impractical libdeflate compression level: the output remains standard DEFLATE, while the encoder spends far more time searching parse, Huffman, and block split choices.

Hugo builds static pages; publishing determines whether deployed artifacts carry accurate cache validators and whether search engines receive explicit update notification.

Mainstream cinema upgrades life: larger flats, cleaner faces, stylised poverty, and redemption on schedule; this list tracks films that refuse the upgrade and keep the mess in frame, where work, rent, bureaucracy, family obligation, jealousy, sex, desire,…

This short article documents two workarounds for Synology DSM: mobile application authentication failures via custom domains, and rclone checksum verified backups over SFTP.

Adolf Kunerth’s algorithm for computing modular square roots and solving general quadratic Diophantine equations transforms discrete modular arithmetic problems into Diophantine equations seeking integer points on parabolic curves; despite Wikipedia’s 2025

This article examines the effects of abliteration on Large Language Models (LLMs) and demonstrates that abliterated models treat users as capable adults, whereas original models tend to treat users as incapacitated individuals requiring protection by defa…

This article examines two potential costs of the abliteration process for Large Language Models: performance penalties and output quality degradation.

This article provides a footnote for the actual state of using OpenBSD as a build machine with a high number of CPU cores.

The proposed EU Chat Control regulation exemplifies institutional tensions between supranational regulatory ambitions and member state constitutional frameworks; Denmark’s ministerial level advocacy for permanent mass message scanning confronts German con…

This article provides a technical guide for configuring an Nginx based Least Recently Used (LRU) cache for Music Player Daemon (MPD) instances that utilize WebDAV for music storage.

This article details the configuration process for setting up OpenBSD on an EdgeRouter 4 device to function as a home router, incorporating features such as private DNS resolution for clients and failover WAN connectivity.

This article provides a status update regarding the current support for OpenBSD on the HONOR MagicBook Art 14 Snapdragon.

This brief article provides a footnote on the configuration of an OpenBSD machine with two IPv4 addresses: 1.2.3.4/24 and 1.2.4.5/24.

This article provides a straightforward method for utilizing GitHub actions to create a temporary SSH shell that can be used for testing on different platforms.

This article provides a footnote on how to set up an OpenBSD based VPN client that can connect to a VPN server run by Unifi Network Solution on Unifi USG.

This article provides a guide for creating an AppleScript that registers as the default handler for the feed URI scheme on a local machine.

Impressum Every website published in Germany, Austria or Switzerland must have an impressum by law.

This article provides a guide for installing OpenBSD on a headless server without using KVM nor VNC.

VMware and Parallels support macOS 10.6 Snow Leopard virtualization, though both restrict this capability to Server editions; however, differences between Server and Desktop variants remain minimal, permitting straightforward installation from retail media

Quantum computing research accelerated following Shor’s 1994 factorization algorithm invention, which promised polynomial time integer factorization capable of breaking RSA, and subsequently elliptic curve cryptography; however, three decades of developme…

This article examines German mortality statistics for 2016 through 2020, challenging the conventional interpretation of COVID-19 impact presented by Statistisches Bundesamt.

We present a system for running auditable and verifiable elections in untrusted environments.

This article provides a guide for installing a local DNS resolver that enforces DNS-over-TLS to a randomly selected publicly available upstream server.

This article presents an implementation of atomic operations optimized for low latency in multithreaded JVM environments.

This article explains why it is not possible to make a 1 nanosecond sleep in JVM.

This concise article expounds on the implementation of a multi-producer, multi-consumer, wait-free, fixed-size FIFO queue.

Greetings, I’m Kirill and as you may have noticed, this blog is written in the style of a LaTeX article in academic American English with occasional Commonwealth influences.1 I am a hacker in the classic sense of the word: A hacker is someone with an insa…