A nine-year-old bug in the Linux kernel was publicly disclosed on April 29th. A 732-byte Python script exploits it to give any unprivileged local user a root shell on essentially every Linux distribution built since 2017. It leaves no trace on disk. CISA confirmed active exploitation in the wild on May 5th and ordered US federal agencies to patch by …
It’s Not One Group. The Whole Open Source Ecosystem Is Under Attack.
Over the past few weeks I’ve published two videos about supply chain attacks on open source software. The first covered the social engineering campaign that hit Trivy, Axios, and the Linux Foundation. The second covered the 48-hour wave that simultaneously hit npm, PyPI, and Docker Hub while the Vercel breach unfolded in parallel. I kept treating these as separate stories. …
The US Router Ban Has a Dark Question Nobody Is Asking
I kept hearing about this router ban thing. And honestly, at first I kind of dismissed it — I figured it was just another TP-Link story, something about Chinese hardware, nothing that really affected me since my whole home network runs on Ubiquiti. But then I got an email from Netgear that made me stop and actually do some research. …
They Got Trivy. They Got Axios. Now They’re Coming for the Linux Foundation.
Recently I published a video about the self-hosting community’s trust problem. We talked about apps disappearing overnight. We talked about vibe-coded projects with no security practices. We talked about what happens when you depend on software maintained by a single person who has a bad day. A lot of you watched it. A lot of you shared it. And I …
Before you trust another selfhosted app read this
Your homelab is one bad day away from disaster. Think about that for a second. You go to update one of your favorite self-hosted apps and you get a 404. The GitHub repo is gone. The Discord is gone. The website is gone. No warning. No deprecation notice. No goodbye. Just nothing. Or worse – you find out that an …
I Read Your Comments About LibreOffice & Went Down a Rabbit Hole
“Sounds like OnlyOffice was not open to collaboration, so the fork makes sense. My question is why OnlyOffice and not Collabora/LibreOffice.” – @NFvidoJagg2 “No comments about Collabora/LibreOffice? Why pick one over the other? Is OnlyOffice really better? Genuinely asking because I always used Collabora with Seafile for years without a problem and I had the impression they were the good …
Euro-Office Doesn’t Need Nextcloud – And That Changes Everything
If you’ve watched this channel for any length of time, you know I’m not shy about my opinions on NextCloud. I think the setup process is unnecessarily complex, the maintenance burden is real, and there are almost always better tools for whatever specific problem you’re trying to solve. That’s not a hot take. A lot of you have said the …
Security in the Self-Hosting World – What’s Going On and What You Should Do About It
Hey everyone, welcome back. So if you’ve been paying attention to the security world lately, things have been a little… rough. And I wanted to take some time today to talk about what’s been happening, why it matters specifically to people like us in the self-hosting community, and most importantly what you can actually do about it without needing to …
I Built a Full Game in an Hour Without Writing a Single Line of Code And That’s a Problem
It started the way a lot of rabbit holes do: scrolling Reddit. I came across a now removed post about a browser game called 100 Jumps. You hold to charge, release to jump, and try to land on 100 platforms without falling. Simple concept. Instantly addictive. One of those “why is this so hard” games that eats 20 minutes before …
How to Fix Random Black Screens on Nvidia RTX 5090 Mobile (Olares One)
TL;DR – Quick Fix If you’re experiencing random black screens while gaming on your Nvidia RTX 5090 mobile GPU (especially on the Olares One), here’s the solution that worked for me: Result: My gaming sessions went from crashing within 30 minutes to running stable for 80+ minutes with zero black screens. The Problem: Random Black Screens During Gaming When I …
