The first time I enabled auditd with the default rules on a small VPS, /var/log/audit/audit.log grew to 2 GB in eight hours and I watched the disk fill in real time. The default ruleset is built for compliance audits — …
Most production bash scripts I’ve inherited start with a comment block, then dive straight into echos and mkdirs and cps. They look fine. They run fine, most of the time. They fail mysteriously the one time it …
For about three years I ran monit on every server I owned. It watched processes, restarted them, and emailed me when something fell over. Then I hit a problem monit doesn’t really solve: how do I know when a cron …
Every “best backup tool” comparison on the internet eventually devolves into a feature-matrix between Borg, Restic, and Kopia, and concludes with “they’re all good, pick one.” That’s true, technically, but it doesn’t help when you’re staring at a 200 GB …
RSS isn’t dead — it’s the part of the open web that the algorithm-driven feeds couldn’t kill. The trade is that you have to host the reader yourself if you want the experience to be good. Two reasonable self-hosted options …
You’ve spent enough years watching iCloud quietly rewrite your contact data, randomly de-syncing one device, “merging” the same family member into three different cards. The fix is leaving iCloud and running your own CalDAV/CardDAV server. Apple’s Calendar and Contacts apps …