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Background The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that enables AI assistants like Claude to securely connect to external data …

If you’re running ZFS on Linux and checking your system’s memory usage, you might be shocked to see that most of your RAM appears to be …

In this article, I will explain how to perform full integration tests with flakes outside nixpkgs.

For complex modules, you may sometimes struggle to understand why a test isn’t behaving properly.

No such file or directory: How I stopped worrying and started loving binaries on NixOS.

Lately, I hacked on some kernel modules to get more debug logs out of a kernel module on my NixOS machine.

Background Last week I was setting up this RISCv-based HiFive Unmatched board[1] with NixOS.

When you are trying to get Vivado Remote Connections working on Ubuntu, you might have an issue to establish the connection.

In this article I will explain how to root Intel-CPU based android Devices on Linux/Mac OS X.

Lets say you want to trigger remote the start of a python script.

When using sshd.socket to start sshd on demand, detaching from a tmux/screen session will not work.

By default Digitalocean add some custom rc.d scripts for network configuration to your droplet.

The bananapi does currently assign random mac addresses to its ethnernet nic, which is bad if you want to assign static dhcp leases.

If you are a ruby user and find it annoying to remove binding.pry by hand, you may find the following snippet useful.

The Docker daemon add his own custom rules by default to iptables.

tl;dr: How-to use ACRA and a PHP-script for getting fairly pretty crash-reports and user-feedback via email (without ugly Android …

Update: Added adhoc wlan network A guide to connect with a different machine using a ethernet cable for internet sharing or just …

Some days before I broke my raspberry pie, after pacman running out of memory, while updating my glibc.

Because my shift key got broken, I remapped Caps Lock to Shift using xmodmap: remove Lock = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Shift_L add Shift = …

For our latest iOS app we are using RestKit Framework, which is a really great and advanced library to communicate to your REST API.

date = “Nov” slug = “Nov/mongoid-use-objectid-as-created-at” One great feature of Mongodb is, that the first bytes of each ObjectID contains …

Since systemd 197 timer units support calendar time events, which makes systemd a full cron replacement.

In this article I will share my setup, I use to backup chef server.

Since my last post owncloud has added official documentation for nginx.

In this article I explain how to set up octopress with pubsubhubbub, to get push-enabled feeds.

In this article I will show my nginx configuration for the icinga web interface.

As I like the stability and raw speed of systemd, I wanted to leave debian’s init system behind and switch to systemd.

initscript to run pyload on gentoo as a service

Sometimes for whatever reason you want a secure internet connection.

updated at Do 14.