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Python f-Strings: String Formatting in Python 3

f-strings, short for formatted string literals, are the most concise and readable way to format strings in Python. Introduced in Python 3.6, they let you embed...

kill Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core kill command forms. Command Description kill PID Send SIGTERM (graceful stop) to a process kill -9 PID Force kill a process (SIGKILL)...

Planets and Bright Stars

Replicating a Nuclear Event Detector For Fun and Probably Not Profit

Last year, we brought you a story about the BhangmeterV2, an internet-of-things nuclear war monitor. With a cold-war-era HSN-1000 nuclear event detector at its heart, it...

TrueNAS Connect Announced For Offering Enterprise Features Without The Hardware

Last year TrueNAS unified their SCALE and CORE offerings as part of solidifying their enterprise storage efforts around Linux from their prior FreeBSD base. This year...

Ubuntu’s AppArmor Hit By Several Security Issues – Can Yield Local Privilege Escalation

The AppArmor Linux kernel security module used notably by Ubuntu Linux and currently maintained by Canonical has been affected by several vulnerabilities made public today…

Customize Fedora Linux Workstation with Extension Manager

What are GNOME Shell extensions? Imagine that Fedora Workstation is your desk, and GNOME Shell extensions are small accessories you add to make it feel more...

Customize Fedora Linux Workstation with Extension Manager

What are GNOME Shell extensions? Imagine that Fedora Workstation is your desk, and GNOME Shell extensions are small accessories you add to make it feel more...

Google Chrome is finally coming to Raspberry Pi and ARM64 Linux

Google Chrome is coming to ARM64 Linux in Q2 2026, available as a DEB or RPM for Raspberry Pi, Snapdragon laptops and other Linux ARM devices....

Friday Five — March 13, 2026

vLLM Semantic Router: Signal driven decision routing for mixture-of-modality modelsAs LLMs diversify across modalities, capabilities and cost profiles, the problem of intelligent request routing—selecting the right...

The new AI stack: Choice, control, and production-ready innovation

In the next decade, AI will redraw the map of technology ecosystems. As we traverse what Forrester is calling the “seventh wave” of major technological change—driven...

Subscription watch: Managing your hybrid cloud estate

Managing a hybrid cloud environment spanning on-premise data centers, edge deployments, and multiple public clouds often results in subscription sprawl. Even in simpler environments, it can...