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The ping command has a switch -a for an audible ping that rings the terminal bell with each response received, but that’s annoying.

A report from GAO reviewing the efforts of Treasury “DOGE” staff to protect BFS systems.

CVE-2026-31431 or “Copy Fail” is a bug in the Linux kernel’s implementation of the AF_ALG socket type that exposes the kernel’s crypto subsystem to unprivileged userspace.

I like to make a big stack of waffles from scratch and then freeze them for easy breakfasts.

Lately, more sites are choosing to return a 301 where a 404 would have been more appropriate.

Twitch streamer and VTuber Nyanners shares some stories from the time of the single shared family computer and early internet.

Suppose you’re an open source advocate and you’ll be testifying remotely in a court case that could set precedent to improve enforcement of the GPL if successful.

The impression one gets is of a web UI CrowdStrike's threat detection engineers use to enter new regexes which must pass some checks but which are then delivered to customers without full integration testing.

After having used iOS exclusively for many years, I kept a log of difficulties I personally encountered while migrating to Android 14.

The Security subsection of the Wikipedia page for Firefox begins like this: Firefox allowed for a sandbox security model to manage privileges accorded to JavaScript code, but that feature has since been deprecated.