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8 July 2026
Local DNS proxy now preserves DNSSEC records

Cloudflare One Client for Windows now leaves DNSSEC records alone, which is exactly the sort of change I like, because it stops the client quietly meddling with answers. I have seen enough broken name resolution to know that a neat tunnel can still hide a messy DNS state.

8 July 2026
Cloudflare One Client for macOS DNS search suffixes

Cloudflare One Client for macOS can make a short hostname behave very differently, and most of the pain sits in the suffix list rather than DNS itself...

7 July 2026
Tracing acme.sh certificate handling in TLS interception

I spent too long chasing the neat version of TLS wiretapping reconstruction, then found the mess: shell parsing, token limits, and renewal timing. The...

7 July 2026
Reverse engineering game binaries with static analysis

Game binaries give up more than they should, if you know where to look. I start with binary analysis, not the folklore around the game, then use...

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Set up GPU passthrough for Ubuntu 24.4 on Proxmox with clear, practical steps. Check IOMMU in BIOS, bind your AMD Radeon to vfio-pci, attach the PCI device to the VM, and install amdgpu in the guest....

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