A custom domain and self-hosted email are widely considered the gold standard of digital sovereignty, offering independence from tech giants. However, domain names are not purchased in perpetuity; they are merely leased for a limited duration. This article explores the …
Most people run their entire digital existence through a single email account. Banks, government portals, domain registrars, cloud storage, subscriptions — 50 to 200 services hang on one login. When that account becomes inaccessible, everything collapses simultaneously. This article maps …
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Microsoft has released Coreutils for Windows, a preview package that brings familiar Unix-style command-line tools to native Windows. After installation, commands such as cat, grep, find, xargs, ls, cp, mv, and rm are available directly from Windows shells. The package …
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Most people focus on defending their accounts from hackers, but ignore the risk of access loss due to their own inactivity. Extended illness, emergencies, or loss of connectivity can trigger a chain reaction of data deletion and domain suspension. This …
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In 1958, a computer went online in Moscow that counted in ternary — not 0 and 1, but -1, 0, and +1. Setun required 7 times fewer components than comparable binary machines of the era, ran in over 30 universities, …
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Ternary Computing has released the 5500FP — the first commercial processor with native ternary logic. This is not binary emulation or a lab prototype: every operation runs on real FPGA hardware with actual three-state electrical behavior. This article breaks down …
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Ubuntu Workshop: The Right Sandbox for Running AI Agents Canonical released Workshop in May 2026 — a tool for launching isolated development environments using LXD system containers with a single command. Its timing reflects a real problem: coding agents, local …
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Esoteric LLM is a useful experiment wrapped in an unusual domain: a 9-billion-parameter language model fine-tuned on 22 books about tarot, kabbalah, hermeticism, alchemy, the I Ching, astrology, and gnosticism. The full training run took about 11 hours, and the …
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markdown.new turns any public URL into clean Markdown by prepending one prefix: https://markdown.new/https://ravlik.com/2026/05/01/how-to-create-a-personalized-song-in-2-minutes-2. For AI coding agents, that is often more useful than a scraper, a browser automation script, or another dependency. This article explains where the trick saves context, …
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