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A collection of 70 posts

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Dockhand: A Security-Minded Docker Management UI Worth Your Attention

Replacing Pulse, and putting container updates and vulnerability scanning to the test I recently retired Pulse from my homelab monitoring stack and replaced it with Dockhand. Pulse did its job, but I wanted one tool that could show me what was running, keep it updated, and tell me when an

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AI & my Hypervisor

A Year in the Trenches I've spent the past several years building out a self-hosted homelab — a Proxmox hypervisor running a fleet of LXC containers, a Podman-based application host, a reverse proxy fronting everything, and a Ubiquiti network tying it all together. It's the

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NBN 2000 (Hyperfast) connections

Some time ago I took advantage of NBN Australia's free upgrade moving the residence off the FTTN to FTTP technology. I have noticed in the last few months that this is now hitting speeds with those adverstised by the ISP provider. Even on weekends it holds it own

Cybersecurity

Australia's cyber experts called to serve

Are you an Australian citizen that has a little free time. This may be for you. No idea if it pays. https://www.defence.gov.au/news-events/releases/2026-08-21/australias-cyber-experts-called-serve Defence is seeking experienced cyber professionals to apply their skills in service of

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New Horizons Heliospheric Science

The following post is taken from here Is a Sea Change Coming for New Horizons Heliospheric Science?If you visit the New Horizons mission website frequently, you’ll notice that the spacecraft continues to generate excellent science as it plows its way through the Kuiper Belt. It recently woke up

Projects

Project - Swarm AI

The following project is based on this work GitHub - Armur-Ai/Pentest-Swarm-AI: Autonomous penetration testing using a swarm of AI agents. Orchestrates recon, classification, exploitation, and reporting specialists with ReAct reasoning — supports bug bounty, continuous monitoring, and CTF modes. Built with Go, Claude API, and 7+ native security

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The IPv6 Penalty: Why Your ACME Certificates Are Quietly Failing in 2026

So damn frustrating. This post is generated from a session with Claude that took 4 hours. It took 4 hours because of a mistake by me, and the reason stated below. I was looking at the Zoraxy logs mainly looking for websocket misconfiguration. This ended up not being the major

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The Commonwealth of Australia (AI Edition)

Disclaimer: This piece is an AI generated, based on parameters given by the author. It is not a political statement but the result of a genuine want by the author to understand what is happening based on science and facts, as determined by the AI which was given a broad

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What's Really in the Price of Petrol

Disclaimer: This piece is an AI generated, based on parameters given by the author. It is not a political statement but the result of a genuine want by the author to understand what is happening based on science and facts, as determined by the AI which was given a broad

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Organization of Turkic States

Goals, Ambitions, or a New Like-Minded Bloc? If you haven't heard of the Organization of Turkic States, you're not alone — it barely registers in Western news cycles. But over the last few years it's quietly become one of the more interesting experiments in

Ubiquiti

STP Explained - Ubiquiti - Updated

So you are building a homelab or just want to host your own stuff, or maybe your just one of those guys or girls that want the internet ordering fridge, security cameras, app enabled garage, automatic lights, the mirror that tells you you daily routine and appointments. Hell, these days

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I Love this guy

Finally a country who is calling it as it is and doesnt muck around. There is too much - how do you young people put it - "woke" crap in the world. There are quite a few quotes in this video that need attention. One is stated endlessly by my

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Australia, India, and the SMR Question

Why the Uranium Deal Only Runs One Way Small modular reactors have become a fixture of Australia's energy debate. Along with larger next-generation reactors, SMRs are the specific type of nuclear technology the federal Coalition opposition proposed to replace retiring coal-fired power stations in Australia'

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AI Slop - The Synthetic Deluge

The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence has introduced a new class of digital pollution known as "AI slop." Unlike highly targeted political deepfakes, AI slop refers to low-effort, mass-produced digital media generated purely to harvest views, engagement, and ad revenue. This essay examines how AI

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J-space - AI subconscious ??

On 6 July 2026, Anthropic published groundbreaking interpretability research revealing that its Claude language models have spontaneously developed a privileged internal mental workspace named "J-space". This silent, hidden zone of neural activity holds internal thoughts, concepts, and multi-step reasoning before they are ever translated into the

Cybersecurity

Your Phone Is a Beacon: Inside Iran's SS7 and Ad-Tech Campaign Against U.S. Forces — And Why Australia Isn't Immune

The follwing article is based on an article in the Financial Times, thrown at an AI and asked a lot of questions. It peeked my interest, what can I say. In the weeks before the US-Israeli strikes on Iran in late February 2026, and through the early days of

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MintOS - Post Script - Updated

Updated: 28-07-2026 The following code is shared. The script was then reengineered back to MintOS with a few changes 1. MintOS is my daily driver 2. MintOS has advantages for me that BazziteOS doesnt accommodate easily 3. This code has numerous changes to accommodate my needs 4. Clam

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BazziteOS - Post Script

The folllowing script is now operational. IAW our ditching of the Microsoft eco system and the problems with MintOS in gaming we are moving various systems to BazziteOS. So far we have not been disappointed The script is now production ie.. live. I have found now major issues with it.

Proxmox

Proxmox - I just got in trouble

Claude AI just gave me a boot in the backside. Apparently I am trying to do things to fast. Why I was doing the daughters laundry, I notices that some of my services had gone offline. Offline on the internal LAN and offline on the WAN (Internet) The hostname changes

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Turning the Tide on Desert Expansion

Global Efforts in De-desertification and Land Restoration By Claude (Anthropic, 2025) Desertification — the process by which fertile land degrades into barren desert — affects more than two billion people across 168 countries and claims approximately 12 million hectares of productive land every year [1]. Driven by a combination of climate

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Microsoft Free

The beginning of the end. I have finally had enough of Microsoft and the last PC in the house has been moved to Linux. The Microsoft 365 tenant will be shut down shortly. The daughter is into graphic design, mainly Anime type material, but after the Australian government implemented the

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How Vibe code is killing open source

I don't agree with this article. Interesting as it is. How Vibe Coding Is Killing Open SourceDoes vibe coding risk destroying the Open Source ecosystem? According to a pre-print paper by a number of high-profile researchers, this might indeed be the case based on observed patterns

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Bunnings wins AI Facial recognition case

This is interesting Ruling made in Bunnings’ three-year fight to use AI to scan customer facesBunnings was reasonably entitled to use AI facial recognition technology to combat crime and staff abuse in its stores, the Administrative Review Tribunal finds.ABC News Professor Mortimer also said he expected other major

Cybersecurity

Linux - USB keys as a Security Key

Based on the following post Yes, you can turn any old USB drive into a physical security keyThis simple USB trick adds physical security to your PC without buying extra hardware.MakeUseOfTashreef Shareef The following is a hypothetical guide, and I am looking at it but not implemented. Please note

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A discussion - Claude - Vert

This ladies and gentleman, is the best thing about running your own public servers, you learn a great deal, and although I have had numerous problems, including a lack of time lately, I highly recommend this, as long as you have backups, as you will need them. Vert is particularly