How I got hacked twice in one month by two different attackers — and fixed it with 3-5 AI prompts while on work calls. My personal Mythos moment.
My Personal Mythos Moment
Tag: Systems Administration
Project Bluefin is Helping Prove That Dark Factories Work for Operating Systems
Six years ago, I wrote about the good, better, best approach to Linux quality when evaluating container images. The same framework applies to desktop Linux distributions – maybe even more so, because desktops have a GUI that’s notoriously hard to test automatically. Here’s what I wrote: Good: Use a bug tracker and collect problems as
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image mode Gave Me the Confidence to Go Fully Agentic
I’ve been running Claude Code on my RHEL 10 workstation for a few months now, and I have to admit, with some embarrassment, I often run it with the ominous –dangerously-skip-permissions option. It reads and writes files, executes shell commands, installs packages, modifies system configs, all without asking permission first. I’ve been letting an AI
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The Image Mode Journey: From Your Laptop to Production
I’ve been running RHEL 10 image mode on my laptop since a few days before Red Hat Summit in May 2025, and I recently deployed it on a Linode VPS on March 4th. The whole experience has taught me something about how people actually adopt this technology, because I think the journey looks a lot
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My Print Screen Key Stopped Working….
My print screen key on my external keyboard stopped working. Not the one built into the laptop, that was working fine. The one on my external keyboard. It had worked fine, and then it randomly stopped working! Why? I have no idea. This kind of thing isn’t supposed to happen in computers, but we all
Your Blog Needs an AI-Friendly Front Door
Cloudflare announced Markdown for Agents on February 12th, and it’s one of those features that makes you stop and think about how fundamentally the web is changing. The idea is simple: when an AI agent requests your content, Cloudflare converts the HTML to clean Markdown at the edge before serving it. The result is an
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My MCP Server Setup: A Practical Guide to Wiring AI Into Everything
I’ve been building MCP servers for the last couple of months, and at this point I have over 25 of them wired into Claude Code. If you’re not familiar with MCP, it’s a protocol that lets AI assistants connect directly to external tools and data sources. Instead of copying and pasting information between applications, you
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Claude Code MCP Memory Server: SSE Transport, systemd, and the Cold Start Fix
Claude Code doesn’t remember anything between sessions. Every time you start a new session, it’s a blank slate. You can stuff context into CLAUDE.md files, but that’s static text, not searchable memory. It doesn’t learn your preferences, remember your decisions, or recall the research you did yesterday. The fix is an MCP memory server. I’ve
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Self-Hosting Postiz on RHEL 10: One Container, Six Platforms, Zero SaaS
I replaced Buffer with a self-hosted instance of Postiz running on RHEL 10. One Podman container. Six social media platforms. Full API control. This is the technical walkthrough of what I built and what broke along the way.
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I Upgraded Request Tracker with an AI Co-Pilot. Here’s What Actually Happened.
Request Tracker 4.4 reached end of life in November 2025. I’d been running RT 4.4.4 in a container on one of my Linode servers since 2020, and the upgrade to RT 6.0.2 had been sitting in my backlog for months. It’s the kind of task that’s never urgent until it is. You and I both
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