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A Drop Bear Before Boot: Unlocking LUKS over SSH on Ubuntu 26.04

August 3, 2026 • linux, ubuntu, ssh

My encrypted server was secure right up until it rebooted and waited for a passphrase nobody could type remotely. Dropbear gave me a tiny SSH server inside the initramfs and a safe way to unlock LUKS from elsewhere.

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Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
Look out, Claude! Another multi-trillion-parameter open-weight model from China is landing, this one geared for coding.
Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
A sharp defence of PKM: tools like Obsidian don't create knowledge; they give people a place to do it.
The Shape of Things to Come, Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome
A dizzying vision of agent swarms, self-rewriting workflows and post-human CI/CD. I found it thoroughly confusing, but there may be gold here once it clicks.
WASTE — Weight-Aware Streaming Tensor Engine
Locally hosted Kimi K3 at a blistering 0.5 tokens per second!
Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
A Microsoft Research visualization language that helps AI agents turn compact, human-editable specifications into polished charts across Vega-Lite, ECharts and Chart.js.
Because We Can
A great blog post that mirrors some of my feelings about AI export controls and how they relate to U.S. cryptographic export controls from 25 years ago.
Castle Map
Amazing map of castles located around the world.
late.sh
A cozy command-line clubhouse for computer people.
A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels
A clean, visual guide to local, remote and dynamic SSH port forwarding.
htop explained
HTOP Explained.