By Oscar Laycock Four years ago, I switched on an old PC and found a seven year old (at that time) copy of Linux on it. I still use parts of the 1998 Red Hat Linux, today. Red Hat Linux … Read more
Those of us who have spent our lives playing with computers naturally see the appeal of deploying them though the home for both data acquisition and automation. But many of us who have watched the evolution of the technology industry … Read more
The first article in this series provided an overview of Home Assistant, its community, and its capabilities. It was deliberately short on descriptions of interesting things that can be done with Home Assistant, though — the reasons why one might … Read more
2025-05-09 When dealing with disks and I/O things on Linux, you’d regularly run commands like lsblk, lsscsi, nvme list, etc. All of them tend to report a different set of information, so I ended up running multiple commands and correlating … Read more
Linux Kernel Exploitation: CVE-2025-21756 CVE-2025-21756: Attack of the Vsock What started off as casual scrolling through the KernelCTF submissions quickly spiraled into a weeks-long deep dive into a deceptively simple patch – and my first root shell from a Linux … Read more
Linux running in Excel It makes use of mini-rv32ima. The emulator is built as a seperate dll which is loaded by the VBA macro. The VBA macro calls the emulator in the dll and gets the output and writes it … Read more
Having spent a couple of decades in the Linux world, I have always had an interest in Linux desktop environments and how they are themed. I would often come across a post on /r/unixporn that inspired me to try to … Read more
Linux kernel security is a very complex topic. There are many concepts that have interesting relationships with each other: Vulnerability classes Exploitation techniques Bug detection mechanisms Defence technologies Some defence technologies are provided by the Linux kernel mainline. Others are … Read more
Mike Hill/Getty Images It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who can blow a deadline. Linux Torvalds confessed that he’d love to have had “some good excuse for why I didn’t do the 6.14 release yesterday on my … Read more
As March draws to a close and Linux 6.14 nears release, now is a good time to provide you all with our first major progress update since taking the lead on the project. Going forward, we hope to keep these … Read more