https://myvpnhosting.com/blog.html Deep technical guides on WireGuard cryptography, DPI evasion, Linux networking, and privacy infrastructure. en-gb Thu, 03 Sep 2026 06:05:47 +0000 admin@myvpnhosting.com (myvpnhosting) 10080 https://myvpnhosting.com/post.html?id=bgp-free-core-with-sr-mpls-a7855a46 https://myvpnhosting.com/post.html?id=bgp-free-core-with-sr-mpls-a7855a46 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 The beauty of SR-MPLS is that it’s a drop-in replacement for the traditional (LDP- or RSVP-based) MPLS control plane. For example, you could replace LDP with SR-MPLS in a network using MPLS to implement a BGP-free transport core , and it just keeps working. 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The Open Secure AI Alliance today is transitioning from being stewarded by NVIDIA to becoming a Linux Foundation project... linux admin@myvpnhosting.com (myvpnhosting) https://myvpnhosting.com/post.html?id=ai-agents-are-now-emailing-me-with-their-security-concer-1cc145de https://myvpnhosting.com/post.html?id=ai-agents-are-now-emailing-me-with-their-security-concer-1cc145de Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 I received the two emails below earlier in the month. They’re vaguely coherent. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that the corpus that AIs are training on contain data suggesting that I am someone to write to with random computer and network security problems. 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Release presentation Numbers the 276th release6 changes70 days (total: 10,887)302 bugfixes (total: 14,489)525 commi networking admin@myvpnhosting.com (myvpnhosting) https://myvpnhosting.com/post.html?id=networking-aspects-of-running-vms-in-containers-8591e0ea https://myvpnhosting.com/post.html?id=networking-aspects-of-running-vms-in-containers-8591e0ea Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 The vrnetlab project and its containerlab fork implement a wonderful idea: let’s package virtual machines (primarily network devices that cannot be containerized) as containers to use reliable orchestration tools like containerlab to provision network topologies. 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[…] The reporting also linked a 2024 Departm security admin@myvpnhosting.com (myvpnhosting) https://myvpnhosting.com/post.html?id=linux-gets-a-reverse-engineered-driver-for-asus-rog-nvme-61c139cc https://myvpnhosting.com/post.html?id=linux-gets-a-reverse-engineered-driver-for-asus-rog-nvme-61c139cc Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 If you are into RGB lighting, you can even find NVMe external enclosures these days with RGB LEDs like the ASUS ROG Strix Arion. Now thanks to reverse engineering there is a Linux driver for allowing the RGB lighting controls for the ASUS ROG Strix Arion NVMe enclosure... linux admin@myvpnhosting.com (myvpnhosting) https://myvpnhosting.com/post.html?id=a-pause-for-the-python-jit-7134029c https://myvpnhosting.com/post.html?id=a-pause-for-the-python-jit-7134029c Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 In 2024 the Python 3.13 release added an experimental just-in-time (JIT) compiler to optimize the way that CPython executes Python code. 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There is also a change of the domain used for "captive portals" (such linux admin@myvpnhosting.com (myvpnhosting) https://myvpnhosting.com/post.html?id=lekuo-southbridge-max-puts-an-amd-b650-chipset-onto-a-pc-fde64448 https://myvpnhosting.com/post.html?id=lekuo-southbridge-max-puts-an-amd-b650-chipset-onto-a-pc-fde64448 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 For those looking at expanding the SATA, NVMe, and/or the USB/USB-C capabilities of your system, the Lekuo SouthBridge Max PB65MX3 is an interesting creation that I have been trying out. 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